Beiyang reactionaries

Weng Jingtang also nominated [-] members of the Supervisory Committee, and Congress elected eight of them as members of the Supervisory Committee, and Weng Jingtang formed the leading body of the Supervisory Committee.

This one went relatively smoothly.

It's actually relatively simple.

Although it was nominated by thirteen people, but these are all particular.When Wang Chonghui and Weng Jingtang nominated thirteen of them, they usually put their preferred person first.These are the unspoken rules of nomination.

Those people in Congress are also fine people.Even if some people who have just become MPs don't understand, the older generation of MPs will tell them the rules.As long as you see their nominations, you will know their nomination intentions.

So as long as the Congress doesn't deliberately make things difficult for them, or if they really think that someone is inappropriate, otherwise there will be no problems under normal circumstances.This can be regarded as respecting the face of the newly appointed leader.

To be honest, how many of those congressmen are really familiar with those people.The justices of the Supreme Court and the members of the supervisory committee are all people in the professional field, not those famous celebrities.Unless they are people in the same field, how much do members of Congress know about them.At most, it is just to see their written information.

So this election is also very flat.

After these things are over, the next thing is the real highlight, and the highlight is all on the cabinet side.Because the cabinet is the highest administrative organ in the country, when the Chinese presidential palace has little power and the Congress has no real power, the cabinet concentrates all the power.Changes in the cabinet affect changes in China's national policy.

So what comes next is what really matters.

Soon Duan Xun drew up a list, which was actually to nominate cabinet members.The president nominates the prime minister, and the prime minister nominates the chief of the cabinet. This is a rule established when the Republic of China was founded.

Duan Xun nominated Dai Kan, Wang Yongjiang, Yang Yongtai, and Yan Huiqing as deputy prime ministers of the cabinet, and nominated Dai Kan, Wang Yongjiang, Yang Yongtai, Yan Huiqing, Jiang Hongyu, You Min, Dong Kang, Liang Hongzhi, Yu Youren, Zhang Lan , Liang Huankui, and Tang Erhe are cabinet members.

The cabinet department has had too much power these years.

Therefore, the number of major departments has also increased rapidly, and the number of cabinet members has also increased.There are currently 13 cabinet members in total.When the Republic of China was first established, the prime minister could nominate about six cabinet chiefs.

But not now.

In fact, Duan Xun wants to maintain political stability, so the cabinet members nominated this time have not changed much.The only change is that Duan Xun transferred Yan Huiqing from Shanghai.

Yan Huiqing has served as mayor of Shanghai since 1923, and it has been six years now.

During these six years, Yan Huiqing's performance was still very good.Start to stabilize Shanghai and solve a lot of problems that were left before.In the past three years, the expansion of Shanghai has been completed, and the completion has been excellent.

It has set a good example for the expansion of other cities.

Yan Huiqing, who is 52 years old, has accumulated enough experience and achievements in Shanghai.Therefore, in this nomination, Yan Huiqing became the fourth deputy prime minister candidate.

"Going into the water?"

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"Going into the water?"

On April 1929, 4, when the list of cabinet members nominated by Duan Xun had not been approved by Congress, Shen Honglie, director of the Third Bureau of the Navy, brought new news to Duan Xun.

That is, the project that Duan Xun personally invited British friends to cooperate with has achieved results.

In 1925, Duan Xun went south to attend Sun Yat-sen's funeral.When Shi Xun talked about a cooperation with two British businessmen he knew when he was the governor of Sichuan, one was Eduardo Wood who was in trade, and the other was George Swire, the boss of Swire Group.That is to ask the two of them to help China and the British Navy connect.

Duan Xun wants to build an aircraft carrier.

But for China, although there are many shipyards, it is still difficult to build an aircraft carrier.In other words, if only China's own shipyards build aircraft carriers, then we don't know what year it will be.When you don't have a good technical foundation, you can't explore this kind of thing by yourself.

I want to explore by myself, but I don't know how long it will take.So the help of those great powers is needed.

It happens that Britain is a naval power.

The United Kingdom has been the world's hegemon for a hundred years, and it is even more powerful in the world in terms of naval strength. No country can compare with the United Kingdom.Although many British admirals are still superstitious about the era of cannons, it does not mean that the United Kingdom has not developed among aircraft carriers.Because Britain has the most solid technical foundation in the shipbuilding industry.During World War II, the British used aircraft carriers in Europe very well.

The United Kingdom has dominated the sea for so many years and has built an unknown number of warships.The accumulation of these technologies alone is not comparable to that of ordinary countries.

Not to mention China.In terms of shipbuilding technology, even a fraction of the British can't compare.

That's why Duan Xun asked for cooperation with the United Kingdom.

Eduardo Wood and George Swire have a good relationship with the Chinese government and a good personal relationship with Duan Xun.We have known each other for more than ten years, and the cooperation has been very good.Because most of their business is in China.

As British businessmen, the two can even get a lot of government orders in China.Many of their factories are Sino-foreign joint ventures, which have a large number of Chinese government shares.In China, this is very rare.Because in order to support national industries, the government orders are basically handed over to national enterprises.

Just like the expansion of Shanghai in recent years.

The units used and the materials used are all taken care of by national enterprises.

But many businesses of the two of them not only have the shares of the Chinese government, but also can get orders from the Chinese government.The status of Edward Dowood and George Swire in the Chinese government can be seen.Both of them are world-class rich men with amazing net worth.And most of their wealth is due to doing business in China.

So they are very willing to handle the relationship with Duan Xun.

Only foreign businessmen who do business in China can understand the size and population of China.Like the sugar refinery that George Swire co-founded with the Sichuan government, it is the largest sugar refinery in Asia.Backed by sucrose from Sichuan and Yunnan, it occupies a large share in China's sugar product market.Annual sales can be more than 2 million.

Such a big business, who can give up.

Duan Xun's request is not a big deal.So in 1925, they immediately started contacting the British Navy and British shipyards.The situation in 1925 was not very good for Britain, the economy was not good, and there were not many orders from the shipyard.It is not a problem to help China build an aircraft carrier.Just have enough money.

Anyway, the aircraft carrier is not an important thing.

The British Navy paid more attention to large warships such as battleships.As for aircraft carriers, because the current hit rate of aircraft is too low, the Navy doesn't like these aircraft carriers very much.

Since China wants to build an aircraft carrier, as long as China gives money, let China build it.Therefore, at the end of 1925, China signed a cooperation agreement with the United Kingdom.Britain helped China build an aircraft carrier, but China did not directly buy the British aircraft carrier.Instead, Britain sent technicians to help Chinese shipyards build aircraft carriers.

It took a full three years.

Shen Honglie brought good news to Duan Xun.The Jiangnan Shipyard has built China's first aircraft carrier.Of course, this aircraft carrier was designed by the British, and many parts were imported from the UK.But anyway, it is also China's first aircraft carrier.A [-]-ton aircraft carrier.

In fact, it has been a long time.

It would take a year for such an aircraft carrier to be built by a British shipyard.However, with the help of British technicians, Jiangnan Shipyard had a complete set of design drawings and imported a lot of key equipment from the UK. It took three years.But no matter how much time it took, now that the ship is out, it is a success.

Although there are British technicians, there are their design drawings and some of their parts.But the Jiangnan Shipyard belongs to China after all, and all those involved in the construction are Chinese shipbuilders.

With this experience, it will be possible to build the next aircraft carrier.In fact, the technical content of the current aircraft carrier cannot be said to be very low, but it is actually not high, and it is far inferior to large surface ships such as battleships.

"Yes. Prime Minister, it was launched yesterday. Because the Prime Minister has been requesting that the navy should not make a big fuss, so there is no public announcement. The Jiangnan Shipyard just completed the launch quietly."

"it is good."

Duan Xun nodded.

Since signing the "Navy Restriction Treaty" with Japan, Duan Xun has been very restrictive about the navy.Even after the signing of the treaty, the tonnage of the Chinese Navy's surface ships has actually decreased.

Because Duan Xun began to streamline the size of the navy.Duan Xun doesn't like the faction of the navy.Although this is due to historical reasons, the Chinese navy now has nothing, yet there are still so many factions.

So Duan Xun almost dismembered the navy.Many of these warships were dismembered and transferred from the navy and allocated to the customs.Let the customs set up a maritime police force, which is mainly responsible for anti-smuggling.Many of the remaining troops were forcibly retired because the warships were too old and handed over to the Naval Academy.Let those students learn.

Therefore, the strength of the naval force has been declining more and more for more than a year.