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As for the influenza outbreak in Southeast Asia and other places, Hua Fei also provided some medicines for free, but in terms of quantity and demand, it is simply a drop in the bucket.The reason is simple. Although the reserves in the autonomous region are very sufficient, it is better to be able to withstand the consumable medicines of other countries. The price of Chinese herbal medicines in stock is sold at more than 20 times the original price, but the supply is still limited.This is not only due to the huge actual consumption, but also because people in various countries do not know when the next flu will break out and stockpile medicines.

The reality is simple, if more Chinese medicine is supplied to Southeast Asia, then the supply of Chinese medicine to the West will decrease.In the face of the truth, people are far more willing to choose to believe news that is easier for them to accept or that is beneficial to them. As for the truth or not, it does not matter.So this accusation has since become an unsolved case, destined to never find the answer.

This incident has obviously dealt a huge blow to Japan. More than 400 million people died from the flu. For Japan, which has a population of more than 5000 million, the death rate has reached one-tenth. The damage to the vitality of the country is obviously huge. of.In particular, most of the more than 400 million deaths were young people between the ages of 20 and 40, and many of them were active soldiers. Japan's ambitious military expansion plan suffered a huge and heavy blow.Due to the huge pressure from the domestic people, the cabinet in the temple is suffering.It's not that they don't want to cooperate with Hua Fei, it's just that the price Hua Fei offered is really a big mouth for a lion.According to the information they learned in the temple, the price given to Western countries is five times higher. Isn't this clearly killing people?But there is no other way, if this continues, it will not be as simple as money being slaughtered, and even the country will be slaughtered.

After paying a large amount of gold and silver in cash, Japan finally purchased the authorized production and secret recipe of western medicine from the autonomous region.All parties are big

Hua Fei was happy, and the consuls and ministers of various countries in China were also happy. The journalists from various countries were even more happy. The Japanese representative was all smiles. At least on the surface, they smiled brighter than anyone else.

With the arrival of the cold winter, the global influenza is gradually dissipating under the comprehensive control of climate and drug prevention and control.But all countries have issued warnings that this deadly flu virus may come again at any time.President Wilson of the United States proposed that politicians from various countries send representatives to Shanghai to discuss and study future prevention and control and drug development.

For this reason, Wilson even wrote a letter to Hua Fei himself, hoping that Hua Fei's Autonomous Region College of Traditional Chinese Medicine could accept American students and learn the miraculous medical skills of the East.Hua Fei readily agreed, and wrote back that after experiencing such an unprecedented disaster, human beings should understand the truth that all prosperity and one loss all hurt, and suggested that the United States should play a greater role in mediating the European war.Wilson replied even more quickly, expressing the hope that he would meet with Huafei as soon as possible to reach an agreement for the ceasefire in the European War and make joint efforts.

Hua Fei's statement is obviously in line with Wilson's idealized diplomatic concept, and also respects the status of the United States in the world at this time.

The United States is obviously unwilling to give up such a political ally due to the pressure of some domestic consortiums. In addition, Hua Fei’s help to the United States on the flu issue makes Hua Fei have a very high influence in the United States at this moment, so Wilson Quickly decided to reach a relevant cooperation agreement with China, the most powerful figure in power, to enhance the United States' right to speak in the world.You must know that although Hua Fei's military strength and economic strength are not strong enough in his sphere of influence, his influence in various countries has risen to a level that Wilson cannot evaluate through the pandemic. This is what Wilson needs to borrow. This is the so-called soft power!

Because Huafei has greatly participated in the historical process, the impact of the 918 flu on various countries, especially European countries, was reduced to the lowest level.Germany did not die a large number of young people and soldiers because of this. Therefore, World War I, which was supposed to end at the end of 8 years in history, is still at a stalemate in Europe at the beginning of 9199. As for the end, it is even more unpredictable.

With the new annual report in 918 handed over to Hua Fei, if it wasn't for repeated confirmations, Hua Fei couldn't believe his eyes.Although it seems that after several years of development, the territory of the autonomous region is still the land of four provinces, and two of the provinces have recently been incorporated into the autonomous region. This is the essence hidden under this appearance, and earth-shattering changes have taken place.

In the past few years, the autonomous district has developed from the initial decay and backwardness, with almost no heavy industry and very sparse light industry, to the current prosperous situation. How much effort and dedication have been spent, and how many sacrifices have been made in it? And contribute!

Grain production is implementing fixed taxation and popularizing new technologies, the use of chemical fertilizers, the application of green manure, and the reclamation of wasteland, and the production has increased significantly.Although there was no exact data before, the grain output in 918 had reached more than 4000 million tons, which was at least half higher than the best harvest in previous years.In addition to meeting their own needs, they also exported a large amount of foreign exchange.

The flower output has not increased much, but it has reached a scale of [-] tons, which is at least [-]% more than before.And the fastest growing industries are iron and steel, coal, power generation, crude oil, cement, non-ferrous metal machinery, shipbuilding, chemistry, and transportation.

Among them, the iron and steel industry has developed to the Shanghai Iron and Steel Group, Hexing Iron and Steel Works, and Ma'anshan Iron and Steel Works. The output of the three major iron and steel plants has grown from the original national output of only 40 million tons to the current total steel output of the autonomous region reaching 300 million tons. The scale does not include the output of other steel plants across the country, and the growth rate is more than ten times.

Coal production is developing faster than iron and steel. With the mechanized mining of several large coal mines in northern and northern Jiangsu, coal production has grown from less than one million tons at the beginning to 2000 million tons today, a full increase of more than 20 million tons. Beida supplies the markets of various countries and meets the rapidly developing industrial needs of the autonomous region.

Electricity is also developing rapidly. Thermal power stations have sprung up all over the country. The total installed capacity of electricity has grown from less than 500 kilowatts to 100 million kilowatts today, and there are many power stations that are under construction and are about to be completed.The first large-scale power plant in Pudong was originally designed with a capacity of only [-] kilowatts, but under the guidance of Nikola Tesla, it directly built a power plant with a power generation capacity ten times higher than the design, reaching [-] million kilowatts. Large-scale thermal power stations adequately supply most of Shanghai's electricity needs, and play an incalculable role in promoting the industrial development of Shanghai as a whole.

In addition, crude oil has completely relied on imports from the beginning, and now has a large refinery and three oil wells. In 918, the annual output reached 20 tons, and this growth rate will surely follow the import of crude oil from the Middle East and the capacity of the refinery. The expansion continues to enter a faster growth rate.

In addition, industries such as cement, machinery, shipbuilding, and chemicals have grown extremely rapidly, and many fields are industries that have never existed before.Among them, the cement industry has developed rapidly due to active private capital investment and the need for large-scale construction. More than [-] large cement factories have sprung up at once, forming four or five cement brands with a very good reputation.As for the smaller local cement factories, they were not counted in the report submitted to Hua Fei.

Synthesis in the chemical industry, rubber, fuel, synthetic fiber, paint, pharmaceuticals, soda ash, etc. have all been born one after another. Automobiles, motorcycles, and bicycles in the machinery industry have brought about a huge change in the way of transportation on the street.The progress in the shipbuilding field is even more remarkable. After the acquisition of the Jesun shipyard, the Swiss shipyard of the German businessman was finally annexed by Huafei's New Century Shipyard due to operational problems.New Century Shipyard, Qiuxin Shipyard, Jiangnan Shipyard and Qingdao Shipyard, among all the military industries, the shipbuilding industry has achieved the most remarkable development achievements.The output of shipbuilding has grown from less than 918 tons per year, all of which were small-tonnage ships, to nearly 40 ships in [-], with a total tonnage of more than [-] tons. Yield.What's more valuable is that the shipyards in the autonomous region not only produce submarines with better and better performance, but also a new type of sea breeze-class thousand-ton destroyer, which has also been greatly welcomed by various countries, and the supply exceeds demand.

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In addition, the development of transportation is also gratifying. Not only is the road connecting the three cities of Jiangsu and Shanghai fully paved, but the new road construction plan has already started in Zhejiang, and the road construction mileage of the entire autonomous region has reached [-] kilometers.In terms of railways, not only the Shanghai-Nanjing line was extended to Ping An, but also the Lupu line was connected with the Jinpu line, and the new Sudong railway that connects the north and the north of Jiangsu is under construction.

Of course, the fastest and most complete development belongs to the military industry that Hua Fei has always attached great importance to.Today's autonomous region not only has the Wuhu Arms Factory and the Jiangnan Arsenal's two major arsenals, stimulated by the arms trade in World War I, the original Hefei Weapon Repair Ammunition Factory and the Jiangxi Bullet Factory have developed rapidly, not only speeding up the production of various types of bullets and shells , Also began to produce various types of ammunition such as grenades, landmines, grenades, aerial bombs, mines, bomb kits, etc. The production capacity and the quality of ammunition have been greatly improved.

In addition, the two major aircraft factories are also in operation, and the tank factory in Bengbu is producing non-stop around the clock. It can be said that in addition to the development of the navy, it needs to catch up and strengthen. The military industry system of the army and air force is basically complete. Let the real military strength of the entire autonomous region be far more than the seemingly inconspicuous 30 troops of ten armies.

In addition to the development and progress of heavy industry and military industry, although Hua Fei has neglected the light industry, it has not been completely abandoned.Galaxy Investment, which was established at the beginning, has invested heavily in a large number of factories in the autonomous region.It turned out that the light industry in the coastal areas already had a certain foundation, coupled with the bank's support for private capital and the withdrawal of the capital of the great powers during the war and the unprecedented expansion of the market, the development speed of the light industry in the autonomous region was not inferior to that of the heavy industry.The textile industry, flour industry, silk industry, cigarette industry, oil extraction industry, match industry, papermaking, knitting, sugar refining, candle making, food canning and many other light industries flourished, which not only brought countless jobs, but also made the economy The vigorous development of business vitality is an important pillar of fiscal and taxation that cannot be ignored.

In 918, the total industrial production value of the entire autonomous region had exceeded 2 million Singapore dollars, and the financial revenue was as high as 3 million new dollars. This not only allowed the autonomous region to pay off the various previous maturing bonds faster, but also continued to issue new ones. Bonds, put into comprehensive construction and development.At the same time, the National Defense Forces can also share more military expenditures from the financial expenditures for the construction of the fleet.Such figures are extremely gratifying for Hua Fei who almost started from a blank slate.However, even if [-] million, [-] million, or [-] million military expenditures can be allocated to the construction of the army, the speed of development still cannot meet Hua Fei's ideal requirements.

What really made Hua Fei eat was also the very detailed focus of that report, which was the sharp expansion of Hua Fei's private property.As we all know, since the ownership of Suzhou and Shanghai, many factories and mines that were originally public property were expanded by Huajia old people and Huafei Investment Company, and the property rights were once unclear.

Later, after the formation of the coalition government, all similar property rights in the autonomous region were negotiated and divided for a long time.Many factories and mines that were originally public property, such as Jiangnan Shipyard South Armory Factory, Jinling Armory Factory, and some coal mines, etc., were returned to the government.

However, because the investment company under Hua's name also injected capital and technical manpower successively, it also got a part of the shares.

During that economic siege, Hua Fei had fully evaluated his assets at that time, and the total assets were about 200 billion Singapore dollars, which would not exceed the scale of one billion Singapore dollars.This includes all fixed assets and cash goods such as banks, factories, investment banks, etc.But just four years later, according to the latest preliminary asset appraisal report, the total assets under Hua Fei's name have exceeded 200 billion Singapore dollars. 20 billion, a full expansion of more than [-] times.

If the autonomous region is compared to a 'country', then this 'country' is very rich compared with other provinces.But even so, the gross industrial production value of the autonomous region has barely exceeded 100 billion, and the fiscal revenue is only a mere one billion Singapore dollars.Hua Fei only now has a personal experience of what it means to be rich beyond rivals.Originally, he had been worrying about having no money, but now that he suddenly had all these assets, Hua Fei not only didn't feel it, but he didn't believe it.This is... too exaggerated.

But the data in the report is not exaggerated in the slightest. The total asset value of 200 billion is still a conservative rough estimate.If you count Huafei's investment in the education industry.The value of several research institutes and the scale of foreign investment capital.This data will inevitably be greatly improved.

The reason for such rapid expansion is not surprising.The capital operation of Hua Feidi's second major investment company can be regarded as very successful.Strong market growth and soaring values.The profits of various industries in the autonomous region have almost become violent.arms industry.iron industry.Profits in the shipping industry, etc.It's unimaginable.

In addition, Harman later blocked the capital stock market in the United States.Easily earned hundreds of millions of dollars in cash for the autonomous region.But the most unbelievable profits are in the patented production of Chinese herbal medicines and Western medicines at the end of the year.The autonomous region has stockpiled Chinese herbal medicines for several years and not only sells them in a short period of time, leaving only strategic reserve medicines.A large number of authorized production of Western medicine.It also brought continuous wealth to Huafeidi Pharmaceutical Company.They not only bought past production licenses at high prices.per tablet produced.There is also a fee to be paid in accordance with the contract.It can be said.As long as the flu doesn't go away.Their drug production will stop.This endless source of cash will not be interrupted. (Don’t think I’m exaggerating this ratio. Historically, the Asano Zaibatsu in Japan. The capital in 9166 was estimated to be between 500 and 918 million yen. It expanded to 05 yuan at the end of [-]. History is sometimes exaggerated than fiction.)

Hua Fei sighed.He has discovered what he is most opposed to bureaucratic monopoly capital.He has become the largest bureaucratic monopoly capital.And Hua Fei couldn't help but laugh.As the richest man, he himself was before that.He didn't know it at all.

Of course, Hua Fei would not be so stupid as to give all the money to the government because of his personal preferences.But he needs to let those people in the government understand.Don't monopolize an industry with power and financial resources.whatever its original intention.Regardless of the nature of its capital.When a certain industry in a country is monopolized by a single type of capital.biggest victim.It is still the consumers under the coverage of this capital monopoly entity.

Pass this report.Hua Fei discovered that the economic capital of the autonomous region has four properties.The first is the big bureaucratic capital represented by Hua Fei.This capital is driven by capital advantages and policies.Rapid expansion in the autonomous region.But outside the Autonomous Region.Their influence is very limited.In addition, those officials of the autonomous government don't want to enter the bureaucratic capitalists

According to the Anti-corruption Supervision and Disciplinary Law of Autonomous Civil Officials, even their immediate family members are subject to strict review and monitoring, and the properties of all autonomous civil servants, from Hua Fei to ordinary clerks, must be publicized according to the latest revision of the law.This is also the reason why the assets under Hua Fei's name were listed in detail in the reports of previous years.

In addition, those bureaucratic capitals outside the autonomous region also have a lot of industries in the autonomous region.For example, Zhang, the number one scholar in the former Qing Dynasty, was originally a member of the self-government coalition government, but since the revision of the new Civil Regulations Act, Zhang has resigned from his position and only retained the title of honorary consultant in the self-government.

The bureaucratic capitalists outside the autonomous region are very cautious in investing in the autonomous region. If it weren't for the booming economy and profit-driven of the autonomous region, I don't think they would be so persistent in taking risks.Fortunately, after careful testing in the early stage, they found that even Zhang's assets were not violated, and they became more courageous.Because the National Defense Forces must have sealed off the assets of many bureaucratic capitalists at the beginning of entering the autonomous region.One reality is what will happen if the National Defense Forces enter the provinces outside the autonomous region in the future.hostility?Then not only is there no hope, but the assets in the autonomous region will absolutely be lost. This is a problem.

The second type is the joint assets of the coalition government. Most of them are heavy industry, military industry, raw materials, transportation, railways and ports. Except for the assets left over from the former Qing Dynasty, such as Jinpu Railway, Shanghai-Nanjing Railway and some military factories and shipyards, Government assets hold almost no holdings in any industrial company.Even in railway companies and military factories, the government only holds 51% of the shares and does not participate in daily operations.

The third type is also the capital with the strongest vitality and the fastest development, that is, domestic national capital.Driven by favorable markets and policies, their development speed is unimaginable.Most of them are currently weak, and most of them are concentrated in light industry.Except for a few companies that have achieved scale and brand names, most national capitals are in the stage of rapid growth.

The fourth type is foreign foreign capital. This kind of capital still occupied a very large proportion in the autonomous regions before World War I, especially in the Yangtze River Basin.However, after Huafei entered the main autonomous region, although it did not discriminate against foreign capital, it placed foreign capital and national capital in a legally equal position.Although foreign capital has advantages in capital and technology, with Huafei’s financial assistance to national capital and the introduction of some encouraging policies, coupled with the withdrawal of capital from various countries after the outbreak of World War I, the weakness of national capital against foreigners was quickly eliminated. level off.

Hua Fei was originally worried that after his property announcement was made public, he would be criticized and criticized by the public.But what he didn't expect was that after the property was announced, not only few critics criticized it, but the people were even more jubilant.Perhaps in the eyes of many people, Commander Hua's property is the property of the Autonomous Region.Isn't that so?Education fund, welfare fund, national defense fund, which fund is not funded by Huasling?And it is these funds that allow many poor people to have the help of welfare relief funds when they are sick, and many children can go to school without spending money.

In many people's minds, perhaps Hua Fei has already represented the autonomous region, and the autonomous region is just like Hua Fei.Although this metaphor made many democrats feel extremely dissatisfied, they left the self-governing coalition government because they rejected Hua Fei's dictatorship trend.But now more than a year has passed, not only did they not find the public's complaints, but also more and more people's admiration and gratitude for Hua Fei revealed in their speech and behavior.

Many revolutionaries who left the self-government government began to regret it. When they wanted to return to the government, they found that it was not that simple.If you want to be a civil servant, you can, take the exam and select, then go to the grassroots level to exercise slowly, and then try to get promoted.Only then did people discover that Hua Fei had only borrowed the power of these people to complete the control and governance of the entire autonomous region as quickly as possible when forming the coalition government at first.If they hadn't left at the beginning, maybe they would have stayed in accordance with their political performance.But they chose to leave later, but Hua Fei no longer relied on them at the beginning.A large number of administrative talents have grown rapidly and gradually matured in practice, and the school of administration has cultivated more newcomers, which will greatly enrich the administrative staff of the entire autonomous region.Perhaps it can be said that they are no longer rare goods.

Seeing that the reaction on the paper was weak, Hua Fei relaxed.In terms of public opinion, Hua Fei's control is quite loose.Without this worry, he quickly threw himself into a meeting with US President Wilson.The European War must come to an end, and if the fight continues like this, we will know how many changes will occur.More importantly, if they did not withdraw their troops from the European War, how would Britain, France and other countries have the strength to intervene in the Russian Civil War.If the Russian Civil War cannot be intervened to the greatest extent, when a powerful Soviet Union emerges in China's neighboring country, not only will it be difficult to recover the lost territory, but it will also make the North face a terrifying polar bear.

President Wilson of the United States sent Secretary of State Rob Lansing to the autonomous region to have a secret meeting with Hua Fei. Shortly after Lansing returned to the United States after the talks, Wilson and Hua Fei issued a diplomatic statement almost at the same time calling for an armistice and negotiations among European countries. Solve the problem.

Britain, France and other countries responded not very positively, and China did not respond.Soon, Hua Fei visited the United States by boat, and held several days of talks with Wilson in Washington, USA. Finally, on February 9199, 2, which is the New Year's Day in the lunar calendar, the Vice President of the Republic of China and the General Secretary of the Chinese Defense Force The identity of the commander and the signing of the alliance agreement by US President Wilson formed a comprehensive alliance relationship.At the same time, China and the United States sent a final call to Germany. Germany will stop fighting and surrender within half a month, and accept peace negotiations.

The relationship between China and the United States that has formed a comprehensive alliance feels good for countries such as Britain and France, but for Japan, this stimulus is obviously very huge.The Japanese Foreign Minister issued a diplomatic statement almost the next day, saying that the alliance between China and the United States would endanger the stability of East Asia, greatly damage Japan's interests in East Asia, and even affect Japan's determination to participate in Europe.

Although Japan's participation in the European War was delayed due to the influence of Huafei.But after Hua Fei sent an army of national defense forces to Europe, the Japanese also acted aggressively, sending a naval fleet and an army corps a month later.

While the Japanese were protesting, the leaders of the Beiyang military department also stared at each other, feeling speechless and aggrieved in their hearts!Although Hua Fei greeted them before going to the United States, no one knew that you ran to sign the alliance agreement.Besides, has this alliance agreement been approved by the central government?Has it been voted by Congress?It seems that you, Hua Fei, have no intention of going through Congress at all.then why are you so majestic

What alliance agreement was signed in the name of the vice president of the country?Use your autonomous region~?

Although these big brothers of the Beiyang Army were angry, no one said publicly that we do not recognize this alliance.That would not only annoy the Americans, but I'm afraid the people in the country would not be on their side either.If Hua Fei is in a hurry, it is not impossible for Hua Fei to simply refuse to recognize the central government, form a parliament on his own, and establish a new national government.

Just when Hua Fei returned to the autonomous region with a lot of gains, and Wilson re-issued the army assembly order to continue to increase troops in Europe, Hua Fei on the ocean cruise received intelligence from Europe.A mutiny broke out among the sailors in the port of Kiel, Germany, and quickly spread to the entire navy and the country.Soon, protest marches also took place in Berlin, the capital of Germany. Kaiser Wilhelm II had to announce his abdication and fled to the Netherlands. On March 3, the German army formally sued for peace, and the headlines on the front pages of major newspapers around the world said that the First World War was over.

The end of World War I means that a new era is coming.After Hua Fei arrived in the autonomous region, the first thing he did was to start the inflation plan.Because with the reduction of market consumption in various countries and the recovery of production capacity after the war, the export of the autonomous region will inevitably be affected.If you don't take precautions at this time, the economy of the autonomous region is likely to fall into a period of exhaustion and hardship after the golden period of rapid development.

After arranging this matter, Hua Fei's main job is to form a negotiating team for the Paris Peace Conference.Hua Fei is not planning to go to Paris in person like Wilson. Although his foreign language skills are good, negotiation is not his field of expertise.According to the invitation letter sent by Paris, the Chinese delegation will have 5 representatives.Beijing also sent a telegram, hoping that Hua Fei could recommend two places, the other two places would be recommended by Beijing, and one place would be jointly recommended by the southern provinces.

Even if Hua Fei accepted this agreement, it was very consistent with his original intention.However, after the telegram, Hua Fei received two more personal letters, namely letters from Li Yuanhong and Duan Rui. The treaty matters related to the alliance of the United States, and the third is to mediate the conflict between the State Department and the presidential palace.

go to Beijing?Is this the right time?Is it legal, the alliance contract with the United States does need to be approved by Congress, should I go to Beijing in person, or send someone to go?Hua Fei felt that he couldn't make a decision and needed more advice from the staff of the Change Office.According to Hua Fei's current thinking, if he goes to Beijing, the Beiyang Army should not openly imprison him.The problem is assassination and assassination.And how to mediate the dispute between the government and court?How to get benefits?How to deal with the Beiyang military departments?How to persuade Congress to pass the alliance agreement?

Hua Fei decided to put this matter on hold for a while, and concentrate on dealing with the affairs after World War I. There are many things to do.