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In order not to cause a mutiny among the soldiers, and not to arouse the hostility of the Peking Army, the Japanese generals had always wanted to suppress the desertion. [Baidu Search Member Login] However, the paper could not contain the fire. As time went by, the Japanese troops stationed in the Yalu River The Japanese soldiers nearby also discovered that their accomplices were disappearing, and there were many rumors circulating.
In particular, there were rumors that the deserters who crossed the river not only were not killed by the Peking Army, but also got a lot of food, and they were eating well and living a very nourishing life. At this time, the Japanese soldiers who were starving were very popular. I feel restless. But I can’t blame them. For people who are hungry and cold, there is nothing more satisfying than being well fed and clothed.
No, as time went by, more and more Japanese soldiers escaped from the military camp, sneaked across the Yalu River, and crossed Liaodong to grab food. Although the Japanese generals gave repeated orders and caught some unlucky eggs to kill chickens and monkeys, they still stopped. If they can't control the evil trend of deserters, they can't even guarantee the food and clothing of the soldiers.
The so-called emperor was not short of hungry soldiers. Seeing that his soldiers were deserting one after another, the Japanese general Bo Manchong, who was responsible for the defense of the Yalu River, repeatedly asked for help from his uncle, the Persian Yi General, who was in Hanyang, asking for more military rations, but he never got it. Satisfactory reply.
In fact, it's not that the Persian general refused to help his nephew, it was because the enemy was short of military supplies. There were more than 100,000 Japanese troops entering the DPRK. Although some military supplies were transported and a group of people were transported away on the way, the seaway is still still open. It was tightly controlled by the Peking Army and Navy, and every batch of military rations had to pay a heavy toll, so that the Japanese general Ashikaga Yoshimichi could not bear it. Therefore, the Japanese soldiers who entered the court could only tighten their belts and survive.
As the guard of North Korea, the Persian rebel general not only had to worry about the supply of military rations, but also the restoration and consolidation of control over North Korea. What worried him the most was the Peking Army stationed on the other side of the Yalu River, and the The Peking Navy warships appear and disappear on the coast of Korea.
As the Peiping Army garrisoned the border, the gloom of war always shrouded the country. The more than 100,000 Japanese soldiers in the DPRK were sent by the Persian general to guard various key places. The strength of the troops was dwarfed by comparison, and there was no manpower available for farming production. There was no race. Land, future military rations will be even less available.
The Persian general also made a lot of efforts to alleviate the current predicament. He knew that the reason why he was in such a predicament was entirely due to the Peking Army's blockade of the sea lanes. Therefore, he sent an envoy to Peking City to request the opening of the sea. On the other hand, they urged the Japanese mainland to smuggle grain quickly, whether it was smuggling or crossing over.
However, these two efforts were fruitless. The Peiping Army repeatedly insisted that the Japanese invaded the Peiping Army's territorial waters first, and the seaway would not be opened until the war indemnity of 7 million taels of silver was paid.
The Japanese side also sent many smuggling ships, but they were either sunk or robbed. No smuggling ship could get close to North Korea. It can be said that the entire North Korea is now like a big prison, and hundreds of thousands of Japanese soldiers are like Like a trapped animal in a cage, it can only struggle in pain.
The sea lanes were blocked, so there was no food. Without food, soldiers would starve. If the soldiers could not survive, they would flee. At the beginning of the first month, the Japanese troops stationed on the Yalu River only occasionally had people fleeing. By the middle of the first month, the number of people fleeing increased sharply, with hundreds or even thousands a day. People crossed the river secretly, and even some low-level generals took the lead in deserting.
Facing this "flow of deserters" surging in like hungry wolves, the Peiping Army on the other side of the river seemed completely unaware and took no action at all. They allowed these deserters to rob food roads everywhere, and even some border guards originally located on the Yalu River It was also abandoned because of the lack of supplies, and the border guards were constantly retreating.
Seeing this incredible scene, Bosi Manzhong was a little confused, so he sent his cronies to cross the river secretly to check, and found that the Peiping Army along the Yalu River had withdrawn, and those border stations had become a paradise for deserters. The deserters even looted I received a lot of military rations and lived a very comfortable life with food and shelter.
"Did the Peiping Army really retreat? Why did it retreat? Is it because the Peiping Army is strong on the outside and is weak in the middle, so it is afraid of being robbed by some deserters? Or is there an internal problem in the Peiping Army and the troops are transferred back to defense? Or is it because of other reasons?" Persian Manzhong I was confused and couldn't figure out a clue, so I had to report the matter to the Persian general and ask for instructions on the next step.
The Persian rebel general was also confused when he received the military report from his nephew. It is said that the Peiping Army has always been tough and tough, and it is impossible to give in. Now that the war has not started, he actually withdrew his troops from his own territory. This is really too much. Unreasonable.
It is said that something abnormal is a monster. For the sake of caution, the Persian general ordered the Persian general not to act rashly for the time being. He first sent more sentries across the river to check what was going on, and then made a decision after he truly understood the true situation.
Persia Manzhong naturally had to obey his uncle's orders, but this aroused strong dissatisfaction among his generals. When these generals saw the Peiping Army retreating, they all thought that the Peking Army was a paper tiger vulnerable to a single attack. They were so hungry that they wanted to cross the river and plunder like deserters in order to fill their bellies.
No matter how tough the leader's attitude was, he could not stop these hungry wolves who would do anything for food. Some generals even led their men to cross the river privately. Seeing the situation, Persia had no choice but to He compromised and agreed to send troops across the river, and also reported the matter to the Persian general.
Liaodong is located to the north of Korea. It has a high latitude and is even colder in winter. There is ice and snow everywhere. Except for the station of the Peking Army, there are no people living along the Yalu River and it is very desolate. As the Peking Army retreats, the Japanese army cannot Having robbed military supplies nearby, we could only continue to advance north.
In order to plunder food, the Japanese army continued to advance deeper and deeper, regardless of the ice and snow blockage, getting farther and farther away from the Yalu River. Along the way, apart from some abandoned military stations, they could not find even a village. Fortunately, there was still some food left in those military stations. It seemed that the Peiping Army retreated too quickly and did not take it away.
However, these grains were so small that they were not enough to distribute to the tens of thousands of Japanese troops who entered the Liao Dynasty. Every time a military station was found, Japanese soldiers would fight to grab the pitifully small amount of "leftover grains." And this The appearance of some leftover food also aroused the greed of the Japanese soldiers. Those who had not grabbed the food rushed forward frantically, and the team gradually dispersed.
While the Japanese army was scurrying around in eastern Liaodong like sparrows snatching food, a meeting was taking place in Beiping City. In the newly completed summer garden, hundreds of parliamentarians from Shuntian, Yongping, Baoding, Hejian, Liaodong and other places, as well as Representatives of the Peking Army gathered together to hold the annual enlarged meeting.
The theme of the enlarged parliamentary meeting was naturally to vote on some important laws and plans. Since there was a large agenda, Wan Lei also encouraged members to propose and comment, so the meeting was held from the 20th of the first lunar month to the first of the second lunar month. It was a ten-day meeting. , passed and revised dozens of bills involving political, economic, military, cultural, scientific research, medical and other fields.
Among them, economic and military bills accounted for the most.
In terms of economy, councilors from Hejian Yongping District in Baoding requested to increase investment in prefectures other than Shuntian Prefecture and support their accelerated construction so as to catch up with the development progress of Beiping City. According to the actual situation of the three prefectures in Hejian Yongping District, Baoding In response to the situation, members of the Standing Committee of the Parliament headed by Wan Lei also agreed to invest balancedly in each province to promote balanced development of the local economy.
In terms of military, the first is to increase the proportion of military expenditure, from 5 million silver dollars last year to 8 million silver dollars, of which 6 million silver dollars are used to pay military salaries.
There are currently about 120,000 soldiers in the Peking Army. On average, each soldier's annual salary is fifty silver dollars, which is considered low. Fortunately, Wan Lei uses various preferential policies from time to time, such as rationing of spoils and newly conquered lands. Preferential treatment, such as preferential employment and education policies for military dependents, etc. are used to compensate the soldiers, so they don't have many complaints.
Of the eight million military expenditures, two million were invested in military construction, of which 1.4 million was invested in the navy. Wan Lei planned to build a new navy and upgrade all warships to steamships. The assembly of a steamship is estimated to cost 1.2 million silver dollars. With cannons, gunpowder and other miscellaneous items, 1.4 million silver dollars is barely enough.
The military expenditure of 8 million silver dollars is still relatively low, because last year, the fiscal revenue of Beiping Parallel Province was as much as 28 million silver dollars, of which 15 million silver dollars came from Huayuan Company Huihuang Petroleum Company Of the profits of large "state-owned" companies such as railway companies and railway companies, nine million silver dollars come from commercial taxes and duties from various places, and the rest comes from various miscellaneous items, such as technology transfer fees demanded from the Ming Dynasty, and money demanded from the Japanese state. Rental fees and war reparations, privately minting copper coins to obtain silver, etc., and some were directly plundered by the Peking Army.
The fiscal revenue of more than 20 million silver dollars may be a little lower than that of the Ming Dynasty, but in terms of fiscal use, it has far exceeded the Ming Dynasty.
In fact, the taxation in the Ming Dynasty was mainly based on food in kind, and was levied in summer tax and autumn tax. Starting from the ninth year of Hongwu, it was customized: the world's tax on food, the people were asked to pay in silver banknotes, money and silk, one or two coins in silver, one thousand currency notes As always, you lose one stone of rice. For wheat, you lose two-tenths. For one piece of cotton, you lose six bushels of rice and seven bushels of wheat. For one bolt of linen, you lose four bushels of rice and five bushels of wheat...
This means that one stone of rice is equivalent to one tael of silver. In normal years, the Ming Dynasty collected about 30 million stone of rice, wheat, beans, linen, silk, cotton, velvet, tea, vitriol, iron, cinnabar, mercury and other sundries. After taking into account all the true colors of money, gold, platinum, etc., the annual income is worth about 40 million taels of silver.
Not all of the 40 million in tax revenue was sent to the capital. In fact, most of it was kept in the local area for use. Only a dozen percent of the tax revenue was actually sent to the capital. Most of the 6 to 7 million "national taxes" were used for The royal family's consumption and official salary expenditures are all consumption expenditures, and few are invested in industry.
Even the majority of local taxes collected are used to pay official salaries and pay allowances to employees. They are all consumption expenditures. They are rarely used for projects that benefit the people, such as water conservancy projects, mining and industrial development. rare.
Different from the North Parallel Province, less than half is spent on military and official salaries. The largest part of the fiscal budget is invested in mining, metallurgy, railways, reservoirs and other large-scale projects that benefit the people. They even issue road bonds to raise money from the society for railways. Construction funds, which make fiscal expenditures more reasonable and maximize social and economic development.
Although military expenditures increased by several percent, the bill was passed easily. After all, all the members present understood that the interests of the Peiping Province were protected by the Peking Army, and the additional funds were also to better protect and expand their interests.
After agreeing on the bill to increase military spending, Wan Lei distributed another bill document to another congressman. Since this bill was a temporary addition, it had not been reviewed by the congressmen in advance. The congressmen looked at the documents in their hands. , but his face became increasingly ugly, because it recorded all the misdeeds of the Japanese army when they entered Liaodong.
"Everyone, the Japanese army has been sending guerrillas across the river to plunder our army's supply lines since the beginning of the year. Our army was unable to cope with it, and due to difficulties in supplying military supplies, we had to retreat across the board. Who would have thought that the Japanese army would push forward and go deeper, even though we The army did not suffer many casualties, but many border posts were occupied and a lot of supplies were plundered."
Wan Lei paused and then said: "Our army did not want to expand the war, so we have been restrained and tolerant, thinking that the Japanese army would leave after plundering some food and grass. However, our army still underestimated the Japanese army's greedy ambitions. , instead of retreating, they kept adding troops to Liaodong, and were threatening to invade Liaodong in an all-out way. In order to defend Liaodong, I suggested launching a self-defense counterattack against the Japanese army, wiping out their main force in one fell swoop so that they could no longer provoke."
What Wan Lei said is actually right or wrong. It is a fact that the Japanese army invaded Liaodong. However, the Peking Army's initiative to retreat was not a sign of restraint and tolerance, but a deliberate move. One of the purposes was to show the enemy's weakness and let the Japanese army retreat. To invade more and more aggressively, it is said that if you want to destroy them, you must first make them crazy. The second purpose is to lengthen the front line, disperse the Japanese troops, and annihilate them one by one.
"Agree, I agree to launch a self-defense counterattack against the Japanese army."
"I second the motion."
"We also second the proposal."
Although Wan Lei's actual plan was not known, the hall was full of hands, and the motion to counterattack the Japanese army in self-defense was unanimously passed. In fact, this was the first time that the motion of whether the army should fight was proposed in the parliament, and Wan Lei did this. , in fact, it is intended to "nationalize" the military and make it appear to be under the management of parliament.
Of course, the parliament cannot actually lead the Peking Army. The real command of the Peking Army lies in the hands of the Zulong Party Committee. Wan Lei went through such a formality to create an illusion and make people think that the army is controlled by the parliament. But in fact In addition to military expenditures, the parliament cannot control other matters. Moreover, most of the members of the parliament are members of the Zulong Party, and the discussions come and go on matters that the Zulong Party deems beneficial.
Since the bill for self-defense and counterattack against the Japanese army was unanimously passed, there is nothing to discuss, because the specific deployment of troops, the formulation of strategies and tactics and other matters are the affairs of the Military Commission, and the laymen in the parliament have no right to interfere. And Wan Lei The use of troops against North Korea has been planned for a long time. Not only has a complete strategic deployment been made, but the candidate for the company commander and deputy commander has been decided before the year, and more troops have been sent to Liaodong. Now they are waiting for the order from the Military Commission.
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