Zhan Tianyou went to Sheng Xuanhuai Mansion to report on the progress of the project. After everything was over, he returned to Lanzhou on the evening of the same day. ←, on the second day of the Lunar New Year, he summoned the engineers who celebrated the New Year in Lanzhou, read out the imperial edict and introduced his adjustments to the entire project. Although the construction period was shortened by several years, the engineers who felt the urgency of the matter did not question the shortening of the new construction period, but worked together to propose many ways to save time and improve efficiency.

But this is just a trivial matter. The maximum shortening of the construction period is still due to the lines and construction standards. The standards must not be reduced, so we can only find solutions on the line. As for the economic losses caused by the entire section of the railway rarely passes through the city, it is a matter of the future. It is the determination of everyone in the entire engineering command to quickly repair and complete the construction under the premise of ensuring quality.

After communicating with the management and technical personnel, in the name of the Engineering Command, the content of the imperial edict became a common saying and spread on the construction site more than 1,000 kilometers from Baoji to Yumen. The workers did not know what the national fortune was, but when they heard that the railway was not repaired for one day, the emperor couldn't sleep well for a day, and they were all anxious. In the afternoon of that day, the workers stopped celebrating the New Year and worked on the line in the wind and snow.

Yang Rui didn't know that his words were written by Zhan Tianyou and others and changed them to the emperor, and he didn't know that this sentence caused tens of thousands of workers to scream and build roads in the fierce wind and cold. The only thing he was concerned about now was the rebellion of the white civil soldiers in Singapore. After understanding the whole story, he was even more taboo about the Baimin. The rebellious Fifth Light Infantry Regiment was a loyal lackey of the British during the Indian Anti-British Uprising in 1857, but this army with such a long history and such loyal soldiers would actually rebel because the Ottomans joined the Allies. This is undoubtedly the best example of faith being higher than blood.

The real dispatch of them to the Middle East to fight the Ottoman army was just a rumor of Germans or pro-German elements. The place they were really going to is Hong Kong, but this was the rumor that caused the entire infantry regiment to rebel. They killed officers who were always bad for themselves and swept across the entire Singapore city at night.

Sir John Anderson, the Governor of Singapore, and his group of noble men, hid on the merchant ship on the dock under the protection of more than 100 policemen. Of course, it was also possible that it was time for him to take him with many British women and children when he ran away. But that was all he could do. In addition to sending help telegrams to the outside world, he could only watch the rebels do evil on the shore, even if there were more than 200,000 residents there.

"The British are so weak in the Far East?" After hearing a more detailed report than the previous two days, Yang Rui subconsciously asked this sentence. Singapore is the throat of the entire East Asian shipping. The defense forces there should not be so relaxed.

"Sir, once the British are transferred to the west, the entire Far East waters will only be protected by the Japanese. The German attack ship Emden in the Far East was destroyed by Sydney, Australia three months ago, and Earl Spey's fleet was wiped out in the South Pacific two months ago. In the eyes of the British, the only threat to Asia is the Ottoman Empire. Singapore is thousands of miles away from West Asia, and the war in Europe is getting closer and closer. They can only completely remove troops from all over the country and go to the European war to participate in the war. Although the rebellious force is only transferred to Hong Kong, if there are a few flesh and blood mills on the European battlefield, these people will also be transferred to Europe."

The Intelligence Bureau monitors the entire world. Although the funds are limited, overseas Chinese are unlimited. Overseas Chinese around the world are happy to tell the court everything they know.

Yang Rui was always satisfied with the work of the Intelligence Bureau. However, when Zhang Shi said about the flesh-and-blood mill on the western front, his mind couldn't help but float to the European battlefield. The German army, which barely stood firm in the Marne River, could not encircle and annihilate the main force of the British and French coalition forces. He could only take Paris as the offensive target and attempt to occupy Paris to completely defeat the French will to resist. At this time, the French soldiers with red pants, under the command of the officers who advocated attack, killed them before the German army attacked.

The German General Staff, who had summarized the essence of China-Japan trench warfare, quickly made these red-pants soldiers who were still under the command of tactical ideas of the last century, and they were killed by the Paris defenders. After the attack was invalid a few days ago, General Galliedi, the commander of the Paris garrison, kicked away the interference of the General Command and took back the command power of the Paris defenders. Also using machine gun barbed wire and newly arrived Chinese mortars, under the command of Galliedi, the French army retaliated against the German army. After such casualties of 200,000 people, the desperate Moltke confessed to the German emperor that Germany had lost the war. So he was immediately dismissed by the German emperor, and General Erich von Farkinhan was appointed as the chief of the German general staff.

After taking office, General Franco-Kinghan no longer ordered the German army to attack south, but hoped to occupy northern France to cut off the ties between Britain and France, but he suffered another failure. The new aircraft purchased by Britain and France from China finally defended their airspace. After losing air superiority, the German army, which was weak in logistics, had to stop the attack. Hindenburg, the commander of the Eastern Front who had just fought a beautiful annihilation battle in Tannenburg, believed that there were too many ports and railways in northern France, and a comprehensive occupation was impossible. Germany should take advantage of Russia being restrained by China to defeat Russia as soon as possible. As for cutting off the ties between Britain and France, they could only rely on the navy.

The Western Front disappointed the German Emperor, but the Eastern Front, which had insufficient troops, fought a beautiful battle. Based on the trust of the winner, the German Emperor affirmed Hindenburg's judgment and agreed to transfer the main force of the German army to the Eastern Front in order to defeat Russia as soon as possible and eventually avoid fighting on both sides. The German army transferred eastward, and Britain and France on the Western Front finally had time to lick their wounds. However, the German army on the land adopted a defensive stance, but the asymmetric maritime war with submarines as a weapon began. The Royal Navy of the British Empire had known the dangers of submarines since the Sino-Japanese War, but there was no way to deal with these sharks lurking on the seabed.

Although the German army has not yet begun unlimited submarine warfare, there were 220 merchant ships that were sunk in the last month of last year and the first month of the new year, totaling 450,000 tons. The General Staff reported to Yang Rui that as Germany launches more and more submarines, the number of British and French merchant ships will sink more and more. The merchant ships that will be sunk throughout the four years of Shenwu will exceed 3 million tons. The British new shipbuilding is less than 1.2 million tons.

Yang Rui likes to hear the achievements of German submarines and likes that merchant ships are sunk by one by one. Now the elites in the domestic shipping industry have already felt the opportunities brought by German submarines to shipping, but everyone must admit this. It is estimated that the results of submarine warfare will be released until the end of the year.

After answering Yang Rui's question, Zhang Shi saw that he was a little distracted, so he had to wait aside. After a while, he heard Yang Rui say, "What a pity, we want to sell submarines, Germany doesn't want it." He said again, "Singapore is controlled by the rebels. Will our army suddenly run over? Will it arouse their anger? With the British's virtue, it will definitely promote the arrival of the Chinese team. It will strengthen its momentum or make the rebels surrender. What if these desperate people can't think about it and have to pull a few people to take the back before they die? Our people are in the city."

Zhang Shi didn't expect Yang Rui to think that it was this. He didn't know that Yang Rui had very distrust of the British gentlemanship and morality, so he had to say: "Then we can not inform the British that they should not promote this time."

"Well. How many British people did you just say?" Yang Rui nodded and asked another thing.

"There are less than two hundred people, and there are 150 people from the Sultan of Johor. The troops from other places have not arrived yet." Zhang Shi said.

"Then we went in the Marine Corps, plus the sailors on the Shenwu number. I'm afraid there will be a thousand people." Yang Rui said his troops and said again: "Since we account for the vast majority, then the matter of suppressing the rebellion should be led by us, at least independently commanded..."

"Sir. This matter should be negotiated by Mr. Chong'an of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the British." Zhang Shi reminded.

"Oh. Then come find Chong'an." Yang Rui said this to Li Zilong. Xie Zhangtai came soon. Although it was a New Year, he was worried that he would not touch the ground these days. As an overseas Chinese, if he could not protect overseas Chinese, then he, as a foreign minister, would have to do his best.

"Chong'an, what do the British say?" Yang Rui saw that he was a little dazed and woke him up with just one sentence.

"They thought I was joking." Xie Zhangtai smiled bitterly, "Taiwan is nearly two thousand nautical miles away from Singapore. Our people will arrive tonight, and they don't believe it at all. They also comforted me that the British team has controlled the situation..."

"What are you talking about?" Yang Rui also smiled, "Hide on the boat and ask to control the situation?"

"I don't think the British ambassador knows what's going on in Singapore. After all, family scandals should not be made public," Xie Zhangtai said. "I think it's better to go to the place to act according to the opportunity. The good news now is that the rebels just kill white people. As long as they don't meet the Chinese, they won't kill deliberately. The consulate and the overseas Chinese business chamber are temporarily safe. The bad news is... that is, Hu Wenhu's Yong'an Hall was occupied by them, saying that there were injured people among the rebels."

"Hu Wenhu?" Xie Zhangtai mentioned it. Naturally, he was a famous overseas Chinese businessman. In Singapore, Yang Rui was familiar with Chen Jiageng, Lin Wenqing, and Chen Ruojin. He would have no impression of who Hu Wenhu was.

Xie Zhangtai saw that he didn't know Hu Wenhu, and he didn't know how to explain it. "That's it, that's..." He changed his mind and suddenly changed his tone, imitating the tone in the radio advertisement, saying: "If you want to spend the winter safely, please prepare the tiger's label medicine and tiger's label panacea... Now you know."

"Oh, I remember it," Yang Rui patted his thigh, "It's the one who sells panacea, or our laboratory and helps him develop." After he woke up, he pointed at Xie Zhangtai and smiled: "Chong'an, you learn that advertising really looks like you, why don't you also get a few advertising dubbing."

Seeing that Yang Rui was still intent to make fun of him, Xie Zhangtai suddenly felt bitter. He said, "It's true, when is it still in my mind to laugh at me. I just wanted to finish the matter soon so that I could give an explanation to the overseas Chinese. Although the land reform gave the overseas Chinese a full compensation for the land price, the government's reputation, hey, I won't talk about this..."

Land reform tenants support it, but many overseas Chinese are not happy, especially those with rich people. If the matter in Singapore is handled well, the rich overseas Chinese businessmen will eventually be able to be in the same heart as the government. You should know that 80% of the bonds issued by the state are subscribed by them, and the Zhaoxin stock issued more than ten years ago by the Qing Dynasty, overseas Chinese also subscribed a lot of those. Driven by overseas Chinese MPs, the bonds of more than 20 million taels were finally recognized by the Xin Dynasty.

Morally speaking, the New Dynasty replaced the Qing Dynasty and recognized the foreign debts, so domestic debts, especially such domestic debts that are dedicated to the country, should also be recognized. As for the failure of the money obtained from Zhaoxin stocks, it was the responsibility of the Qing bureaucrats and had nothing to do with the bond holders. The reason for the overseas Chinese was like this. But Yang Rui finally approved the Ministry of Revenue to recognize Zhaoxin stocks, and the bigger focus was to win over overseas Chinese. Bonds were for this. The Shenwu attack was also for this. This was not a matter of tens of millions of taels. This was a major event of 100 million overseas remittances every year and balance of payments.

"Chong'an, don't worry. This panacea is wrong..." Yang Rui wanted to laugh again, but this time he held back, "Hu Wenhu, as long as he is alive, he will definitely be able to save him."

After Yang Rui said that, he asked Li Zilong to draft a telegram to send it to the Shenwu. After the radio waves, he arrived at the captain of the Shenwu Captain, Colonel Zhu Tiansen. At this time, the Shenwu was located near the Riau Islands. It was still three hundred nautical miles away from Singapore.

After reading the telegram, Zhu Tiansen informed the adjutant to find Li Erhu, the commander of the 2nd Marine Division who was rescued by the ship. This Northeast Bearded Division commander was originally preparing to take over the Miyako Islands in Japan, but he did not expect that the General Staff later canceled the order, which made him and his subordinates who were determined to hunt the heads of the people to become real men were extremely disappointed. This time, the Marine Command received the order from the General Staff, and he immediately recommended himself to compete with the 1st Division for the mission. Finally, with the outstanding combat skills of the soldiers of the 2nd Division, Lu Mengxiong promised that the 2nd Division would send a battalion to the ship, and the soldiers of the 1st Division would continue to celebrate the New Year.

When Zhu Tiansen asked Li Erhu to board the bridge, he was studying the map of Singapore with his subordinates in the hangar and since it was changed to a royal yacht. There were only a few reconnaissance aircraft on the aircraft carrier, and the other aircraft had all landed on the shore. Now a battalion of the 2nd Division lived here. The mountain people who were walking on flat ground in the mountains had been trained for several years and were not uncomfortable with such a large boat. Instead, they were very happy that they could hunt the heads in a few days.

"The Prime Minister called and asked you not to take care of the British. Fight whatever you want; in order not to let the rebels take revenge, don't show the military flag at the beginning." Zhu Tiansen said: "And. This man named Hu Wenhu must find a way to rescue him."

While handing the telegram to Major General Li Erhu, Zhu Tiansen told him the general content on the telegram. Like Yang Rui, Li Erhu saw Hu Wenhu's name and asked, "What is this person doing?"

"I am an overseas Chinese businessman. He was originally in Yangon, but when his business grew, he ran a school in Singapore and celebrated the New Year in Singapore." Zhu Tiansen said his understanding of Hu Wenhu, "He made the panacea that is sold on the market now."

"Oh..., panacea, I know." Li Erhu also listened to the radio.

"When will I get to the place?" Li Erhu only knew that panacea is a medicine, but unlike Yang Rui, he knew that this panacea is harmful to people. He was concerned about when his soldiers could start work and collect people.

"After darkness," Zhu Tiansen said. "We are now approaching the British Governor, otherwise they will panic and treat us as enemies."

Zhu Tiansen talked about the British Governor, and at this time, the British Governor John Andrew was "meeting" with the Chinese Consul General in Singapore Ouyang Geng on the Kademax gunboat. After the attack two days ago, the governor's troops, even if there were less than 200 sailors on the gunboat, he could no longer attack. Looking at the burning city of Singapore, which was occasionally fired, the best way for him to do it is to wait for the Japanese and French troops to come.

"Sir, the Chinese have spoken us again." The signal officer of the gunboat reported loudly. In Singapore City where several black smoke rose, on a windowsill near a Chinese-style house on one side of the harbor, someone used simple flags to speak. This was the meeting between China and the UK. If it was changed to night, then this was the light.

"What are the Chinese sayings? Are there any stupid things?" Governor Andrew was a little impatient. He didn't know whether the king and the cabinet would transfer him from Singapore to other colonies after this rebellion.

"Yes, sir. The Chinese Consul said that the Chinese Navy would arrive in six hours and he hoped we could help them enter the city to suppress the rebellion." The signal officer narrowed his eyes and read the flags on the window.

"Six hours?" The Chinese Consul said the stupid words for several days, but when he heard only six hours, the governor thought for a rare moment and said, "Ask them how many people are? We need this army, if what he said is true."

"Yes, sir." The signal officer ordered the flag bearer to ask. After a while, when the other party answered with flag words, the signal officer read the flag words without waiting for the signal officer to report, and said, "The 6th Regiment of the 3rd Brigade of the 2nd Division of the Chinese Marine Corps... Sir, the Chinese have probably come about one battalion of troops, with more than 500 people."

The signal officer started by talking about a division, a brigade, and a regiment at the end. Sir Andrew's eyes gradually darkened. "These yellow-skinned monkeys knew that they were lying, and they obviously didn't even have a regiment's strength." He cursed, "After the Chinese arrived, they reported to me and launch an attack together tomorrow."

"Sir, the Chinese also said that there are no less than 500 sailors on the warship who can participate in the battle." The signal officer saw that the other party had not finished the message, and read the flag language again.

"That's very good." Sir Andrew finally had a smile on his face, "Maybe we can take back Singapore before the Japanese and French arrived."

"But the other party asked the Chinese team to act alone," the signal officer read out the last sentence of the flag verb and looked at the governor.

"Singapore is a British colony. Even if it is occupied by rebels, it is still Britain." Andrew stood up a little as he said Britain's chest, "Tell them that the Chinese should not act without permission."

The flag slogan was played for more than half an hour, but although the result was not satisfactory, at least Andrew believed that there was a Chinese team close to him. After hearing the report of his subordinate military officer, Singapore Consul Ouyang Geng said, "Let's call the Shenwu and let them..."

Ouyang Geng looked at the restless Singaporean businessmen around him and said, "You have been here for many years. Now the British do not agree to our ** team acting alone, and they are afraid they will attack tomorrow as they did two days ago. The Prime Minister called and said that the rebels must not let the rebels know that it was our ** team coming to suppress the rebellion, so as not to retaliate against the overseas Chinese before breaking the city. If they really fight like the previous two days..."

Ouyang Geng saw the battle two days ago. The fearless British people actually lined up to rush into the fortress, while the Indian rebels hid in bunkers and tore them apart with machine guns. This was the case after attacking several times. The rebels were unscathed and the British were dead. The officer who commanded the British attack was even stupider than a pig.

"Sir, if you fight like the same as before the previous two days, you will be afraid that no matter how many people come, you will die." Lin Wenqing, the general manager of the Chinese Business Association, said. On the rebellion on the New Year, he took his family to the consulate. Of course, he could react so quickly because he lived with the consulate on Xi Street, and other overseas Chinese businessmen also lived here. Only Hu Wenhu, who came from Yangon, lived in the National Medicine Store in Yong'antang. It was too far away, otherwise he would not have been arrested by the Indians.

"Yes, sir." Singapore legislator Chen Ruojin, who was wearing a suit, stroked his glasses. "Those Indians killed white people yesterday, and now they started killing Chinese people. If they hit in one day later, they would...

Chen Ruojin suddenly thought of another thing here, that is, the British are not good, will the Revival Army be carried out? As a legislator, Chen Ruojin naturally agrees with the view of foreigners because of the large number of people, and also because he has received technical help from Germany. The Chinese team is not only not more than the rebels, but also fewer than the rebels. Can this battle be won?

"According to international law..." Song Wangxiang, a well-known local lawyer, said rigorously: "My ** team must obey Governor Andrew's command, but..." Song Wangxiang looked at others who did not agree with this, and turned around: "There are no qualified officers under Governor Andrew, so he should best grant my ** team full power. After all, Singapore is still in Britain."

Ouyang Geng was a consul of Java before. The anti-Chinese incident was resolved and transferred to Singapore. He hoped that the Chinese team would act alone, but the British disagreed, so he hoped that the overseas Chinese businessmen here could come up with a solution, and they didn't want to say it was nonsense. When Song Wangxiang finished speaking, he coughed and wanted someone to call the navy back, a young man standing outside said, "Sir, if our army can attack the city at night, there is a way to ignore Governor Anderson."

"Oh..." Everyone in the room looked over, surprised but more contempt. The young man looked at him with restraint, especially when he was only wearing Western-style waiter clothes. Ouyang Geng looked at him carefully and nodded, "Okay! Young man, tell me what can I do?" (To be continued...)
Chapter completed!