African Nationhood

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In January 1914, a major event occurred in Japan, which led to the collapse of the naval cabinet.

The cause of the incident was that the German branch of Siemens Electronics in Japan lost part of its account books. These account books recorded that Japanese navy purchasers received kickbacks when purchasing Siemens electrical components.

These account books were stolen by a spy in Germany. He just wanted to extort some money, so he extorted 2.5 Japanese coins on the grounds of demanding hush money.

Before leaving, I met a British reporter. This German mole first kept records in the ledger and sold the information for 250 pounds.

Siemens immediately contacted the headquarters, and the German headquarters acted decisively. The mole was arrested as soon as he returned to China, saying that he intended to extort money, and was imprisoned.

The British reporter, on the other hand, obtained a blackmail payment of 5 Japanese dollars on the pretext of publishing a report on bribery records, and the matter was considered over.

Who knew that Reuters in London deliberately reported the trial of a mole in Germany? The report specifically mentioned that the trial of the mole was due to the existence of a bribery record.

This report was passed back to Japan, and the situation in Japan suddenly exploded.

The Japanese Army, which was already suppressed by the Navy, seized the opportunity and actively promoted public distrust of the Navy Cabinet.

Eventually, the Navy Cabinet was forced to thoroughly investigate the kickback incident. This was the "Siemens Procurement Fraud Case."

After Nanhua learned about this incident, he immediately reported to the media that Rear Admiral Iwasaki Tatsuto asked for kickbacks during the national defense weapons exhibition.

With this incident, Japan once again caused a sensation. An investigation team formed by senior officials soon discovered that the next Navy Minister, Kazuzu Matsumoto, who was scheduled by the former Navy Procurement Minister, had accepted a bribe of 40 Japanese dollars from the British when he was in office.

In order to preserve the navy cabinet, the navy had no choice but to arrest and put Lieutenant General Matsumoto Kazu and Major General Iwasaki Tatsuto on trial. In the end, both men were imprisoned and their lives were ruined.

The Japanese Army was not satisfied and continued to mobilize public opinion to incite the people and demand the resignation of the Navy Cabinet.

In the end, the Navy Cabinet could not withstand the pressure from public opinion and senior officials, and the Prime Minister was forced to resign and apologize, and the Japanese Army made a turnaround.

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While Nan Hua was eating melon, he did not forget to warmly entertain Empress Alexandra and Crown Prince Alexei of Tsarist Russia.

Kelly and Ye Rong took turns going to socialize with the Russian Empress. Although Shiyang Shijing was a bit older, he could still hang out with the Crown Prince.

Alexei also slowly learned Go under Shi Yang's influence, and the two of them could often play back and forth.

Queen Alexandra felt a lot more relieved when she saw her son playing happily here.

The rapid development of Nanhua shocked her.

The development of Nanhua aircraft is even more rapid. The last queen witnessed the first flight of Nanhua civil aviation aircraft.

It is a four-engine aircraft with two wings and a semi-metal fuselage. The aircraft has two cabins, each carrying eight passengers, and a spare parts storage room.

After the aircraft takes off, passengers can move freely in the cabin without affecting the stability of the aircraft.

This plane flies from Hanking (Pretoria) to nearby Landfortress (Johannesburg), which takes about the same time as a car.

This is the first civil aviation aircraft in the world in this time and space, named "Wanhu".

South China Aerospace Company decided to establish civil aviation companies in the Namib region, Bechuanaland region, Lunda region and West Africa region to develop low-altitude civil air routes.

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On April 1914, 4, Chairman Shi Jintang, accompanied by a group of generals from the National Defense Commission, came to Lusa Town (now Lusaka, Zambia) for an inspection.

The General Armament Office has built a large number of military factories in this plateau city. Whether it is armored vehicles, aircraft or artillery, they all have branch factories.

Because the land around this town is fertile, it is surrounded by major production areas of wheat, corn, cotton, tobacco and other crops, as well as a large number of cattle and sheep pastures. In order to avoid the trouble of transportation back and forth, the military also set up 10 military food factories here, with an annual output of 800 million servings of military food.

In 1910, the urban construction department built a large hydropower station on the Kafue River more than 20 kilometers south of the town, with an annual power generation capacity of 60 kilowatt-hours, which was fully able to meet the electricity needs of various industrial and mining enterprises in the city.

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“The town of Lusa is not large, covering an area of ​​less than 40 square kilometers.

Because this is the capital of the Lunda Administrative Region, the population here is relatively concentrated, with 22.8 people.

Two-thirds of the town's residents were employees of various military factories, half of the remainder were farm and ranch employees, and the remainder were homesteaders and herders. "

The person who introduced the situation was Wan Hong, the commissioner of the Lunda Administrative Office. He is 32 years old this year and has been the commissioner of the Lunda Administrative Office for several years. He and Xie Wang of the East India Administrative Office are among the best of the South China generation.

"Well, your development is good. How is the prevention and control of tropical diseases in the office?"

“Since the introduction of DDT, the infection rate of tropical diseases in our area has dropped to the lowest level in history, with an average annual infection rate of only 3‰.

At the same time, the Ministry of Medicine and Health also opened a pharmaceutical branch here to produce traditional Chinese medicine preparations such as cooling oil and Zhuge Xingjun Powder.

Each new immigrant needs to undergo training in the medical department before being assigned to settle in various regions. "

After inspecting civil affairs, Shi Jintang and his party went to the military arsenal in Lusaka. Qi Lin acted as a guide and introduced the armament situation here to Chairman Shi.

"Because Lusa town is also the base camp of the Northern Military Region, our weapons reserves have never stopped.
Today, the arsenal here has stocked 30 billion rounds of bullets of various types, 20 submachine guns, 5 light machine guns, and 1.8 heavy machine guns.

88 NH-40 rifles, 1000 million hand grenades, 200 million mines of various types, 5000 mortars of various calibers, and 2000 artillery pieces of various calibers.

There are 500 armored vehicles, 1500 military vehicles, and 800 heavy-duty trucks.

In addition, we have also stocked 7000 million servings of various military rations and 4000 million boxes of various cans.

These military rations are enough to supply an army of 20 for a year. "

Hearing this, Shi Jintang nodded, "Well, these reserves are almost there. How about your endurance in the event of a battle?"

"If there is sufficient supply of explosives and primers, the military factory here will be at full capacity and can produce 10 bullets every day.

The bullet production line here has basically achieved automated production.

Because artillery shells require more manual assembly, about 200 can be produced every day.

As for the large number of man-hours consumed by armored vehicles, it is difficult to calculate this. 6000 skilled workers can produce about 2 to 3 vehicles a week. "

"Well, in this case, that's almost it."

"Chief of Staff DeWitt."

The Boer general stood upright and shouted back: "Yes, Chairman."

"I want your staff to draw up a plan to capture the German East African colonies."

Hearing what Chairman Shi said, not only De Wet, but also the other senior officials of the National Defense Commission who accompanied him panicked.

De Wet hesitated a little, and asked tentatively: "Generalissimo, do we want to be enemies of the Germans?"

Shi Jintang smiled and said, "We are just making a plan, what are we afraid of?" (End of Chapter)