When contacting these gentry merchants, Yuan Su mainly further hinted at his decision to take over Huai'an. In addition, he also more or less revealed his ideas for the future development and construction of Huai'an, which will provide more bourgeois development
space to implement policies that are more beneficial to the people.
During the conversation, he also deliberately mentioned some of his practices during his tenure in Luanzhou, such as dividing key development areas and vigorously promoting the development of advantageous industries in each district through tax exemptions, tax reductions and policy support. Not only that, but also
Strictly standardize laws and regulations and make every effort to promote the practice of common law.
These contents are naturally closely related to the local gentry, especially those of the bourgeoisie. What they fear most is nothing more than the government's arbitrary collection of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes. Once the government raises taxes, in order to protect their personal interests, they can only push the pressure on the labor force.
People, in the end, it is themselves who bear the grievances of the people.
Of course, these gentry and businessmen highly praised and were pleased with the information revealed by Yuan Su.
However, in dealing with the government for so many years, many people in power have only paid lip service to it, or only talked about it for three minutes. Whether they can stick to the implementation still has to be seen step by step. Fortunately, Yuan Su has given everyone a warning.
A good start, at least it gives everyone something to look forward to.
On June 19, Yuan Su suddenly received a telegram from Chen Wenian from Huaibei.
Chen Wennian said that he had just received a telegram from Nanjing from the Second Town Headquarters yesterday. The general town ordered the various troops that were still outside the province to be transferred back to Jiangsu Province within a time limit for reorganization. Although this was a telegram giving an order from the general town.
, but it is something that needs to be dealt with. Not only that, Hefei also sent a message that night, urging the second group to leave Huaibei as soon as possible.
In view of this, Yuan Su naturally cannot do nothing. Unfortunately, the message sent to beijing has not been responded to today. Yesterday afternoon, he sent a recommendation message delayed for two days to Nanjing, and Nanjing also received no reply.
Both Bei Jing and Nanjing are busy dealing with the aftermath, and obviously haven't been able to take care of this matter yet.
After some thought, Yuan Su decided not to do anything but to make his plan more complete first. He wanted to see if Ni Sichong and Feng Guozhang, the heads of Anhui and Jiangsu provinces, had not yet settled down.
We won't make a big fuss over two counties.
That night, he issued two orders: one was to Chen Wenian, who was in Huaibei, ordering him to immediately start rectifying the Third Regiment. This order was first conveyed by telegram, and then by the commander-in-chief of the Huaibei Police Force.
Guo Wenyuan brought the documents. Guo Wenyuan took the official road to Xuzhou in the early morning of the next day, and then took a train from Xuzhou to Huaibei.
The so-called rectification of the Third Regiment means that while retaining the designation of the Third Regiment, a part of the troops will be detached from the Third Regiment to establish the Huaibei Police Headquarters. Based on the Huaibei Police Headquarters, we will immediately begin to expand our troops on the spot. The number of troops can be
It can be recruited and integrated from local police, sailors, firefighting battalions, etc., or recruits can be recruited openly.
In short, the goal is to complete the establishment of the Huaibei Military Command in the shortest possible time. According to the preset for the first phase, a regiment of 1,200 troops will be recruited first, and when these 1,200 troops are completed and equipped with all
After the weapons and equipment are equipped, the second phase of recruitment expansion will be started one after another. The ideal situation is that the Huaibei Military Command has five full combat battalions, and then the militia system will be implemented to hide troops among the people.
Yuan Su also specially approved a 50,000 yuan banknote and gave it to Guo Wenyuan to take with him to Huaibei tomorrow morning. He also told Guo Wenyuan that if he had any financial problems during the expansion period, he would solve them by himself. If he could not solve them by himself, he would send a telegram immediately.
Ask for instructions.
The second order was the same as the first order, except that a police headquarters was set up in Huai'an. He personally organized the situation here, so the situation was naturally much better than that in Huaibei.
In terms of the establishment of the Huaibei Military Headquarters, the situation is much different than that in Huaibei. Yuan Su took into account the value of Huai'an's economic resources, which will definitely become an important source of income for his personal power in the future. In addition, there is Zhang Xun in northern Jiangsu, and there is another in the south.
With Feng Guozhang, the forces he faced were complex, so he naturally had to be more careful.
Yuan Su believed that it was time to show his tough attitude, so in terms of the troops under the jurisdiction of the Huaibei Military Command, he expected to form a brigade in one go. Of course, troop expansion is not just about having money, food and guns, but more importantly
It is the deployment of grassroots officers and the systematic construction of the military.
The reason why the First Mixed Brigade was able to be established at once was because the three regiments under its command were all already formed units. Building an army out of thin air requires a process, and it would be difficult to achieve success within a year and a half.
But he just wanted to get rid of the momentum first, so that both Zhang Xun and Feng Guozhang knew that Huai'an had a certain amount of troops, and no one wanted to gain anything from a head-on confrontation.
With these two orders drawn up, the idea of controlling Huaibei and Huai'an is obviously on the right track.
For Yuan Su, the top priority is not only to give Huaibei and Huai'an a legal name, but more importantly, the manpower and material resources that need to be consumed in the process of establishing two military headquarters. He knows that the first and second regiments have limited equipment.
, and they are all British-style equipment. This part of the separated troops can only maintain the original configuration for the time being. After the establishment is completed, it will naturally be replaced with unified equipment.
In addition, recruiting new soldiers also means replenishing weapons and equipment, and this matter cannot be delayed, otherwise, let alone the lack of guns, ammunition and uniforms during training, it will also lose its deterrent effect on Hefei and Nanjing. Soldiers without guns are still considered
Soldier?
For this reason, he discussed with Ge Jinzhang, Zhao Shanhe and others overnight about replenishing arms.
After all, the First Mixed Brigade has a batch of inventory, and it can immediately ask Luanzhou to transport all the stored Han-style rifles. However, this can only solve a small part of the shortfall. In addition to allocating and storing arms, there must be many aspects immediately
When purchasing arms, in order to avoid too fragmented procurement and to facilitate configuration, we only chose to start from Luanzhou and Jiangsu.
Luanzhou is the headquarters of the First Mixed Brigade, which has economic and social conveniences. As for Jiangsu, it is naturally close to the water.
Li Jinfu, the leader of the Third Regiment, suggested that he could quickly send people to Nanjing to purchase the guns captured by the Eighth Town at the best price through bribery and buying. Although the Eighth Town has already surrendered, for safety reasons, the Eighth Town
The Second Town and the Jiangfang Camp definitely want to control the Eighth Town's arms. It is definitely a good deal to use special relationships to purchase arms before the Eighth Town is incorporated.
Even if there is no way to purchase the arms from the Eighth Town, or if they cannot purchase enough water, there is the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau in Nanjing, and they can go directly to the arsenal to purchase a batch of new guns.
Yuan Su thought this method was feasible and decided on the spot.
After that, everyone made a rough budget for purchasing arms and supplies. The initial amount of arms required by the two military headquarters, based on the current market price of Han-style rifles, would cost about 200,000 yuan.
Yuan Su still had about 100,000 in cash after counting the money raised from Luanzhou before departure and the money collected in the port city. After all, there was some consumption during the development of the army, and the First Mixed Brigade was self-sufficient.
.Furthermore, when the army sets out to fight, most of the cash can only be converted into military rations and ammunition.
"Here, we are still one hundred thousand yuan short. Moreover, this is just the expenditure for purchasing arms. The establishment of two military headquarters requires expenditure, recruiting new soldiers also requires expenditure, and the supply of new soldiers after they enter the camp also requires expenditure.
According to my position, if you want to successfully complete the establishment of the military headquarters as soon as possible, you must have at least 400,000 start-up funds." Li Jinfu counted his fingers and calculated carefully.
"The supply of new recruits is not urgent. The logistics of our First Mixed Brigade is still very sufficient, so we can give some of it away." Yuan Su said slowly. Of course, he knew very well that his words could only solve part of the problem, so his face
He still looked worried.
"Even so, we can only save 50,000 to 60,000, or around 80,000 at most." Zhao Shanhe said seriously.
"Based on this, we are still short by more than 200,000 yuan." Ge Jinzhang sighed with some annoyance.
Yuan Su thought for a moment and sighed slightly. He said: "There is no way. Let's see if the two county magistrates of Huai'an County and Huaibei County are sold. Anyway, sooner or later, those local gentry will take this position, so they simply take the opportunity.
Make a fortune."
When everyone heard this, although everyone changed their attitudes, no one had any objections.
Yuan Su also knew that it was a good thing that He Qigong was left in Luanzhou to act as an agent for military and political affairs. If He Qigong was present now, he would not be able to tolerate such a dishonorable thing, and at the very least he would be emotional.
Li Jinfu thought about it for a while and said with some uncertainty: "Captain, you may not know something. Even if you sell the county magistrate, I'm afraid you won't get much money. I have served in the north for so many years, but I have heard of a lot of reselling x
Regarding the matter of official titles, in the most prosperous county in the north, the county magistrate only has 60,000 yuan. Of course, I dare not say for sure what the situation is in the south."
Yuan Su pondered for a while and then said: "Huai'an is a prosperous place. There are many rich people in the local area. The price is definitely more than 60,000. Of course, I don't care how much the county magistrate can sell for. What I care about is how to sell this county magistrate."
If you do everything right, you won't attract criticism from others."
As a veteran, Li Jinfu naturally knew what Yuan Su meant. He said with a smile: "Don't worry, sir, this matter will not be difficult to handle. Just send someone casually pretending to be a special envoy from the provincial government to arrange the arrangements for the local county."
When the time comes for the long-term appointment, your Excellency can just stay out of it, and all the names can be handled by the special envoy."
Zhao Shanhe said worriedly: "Is this okay? Aren't you afraid that the provincial government will investigate?"
Li Jinfu shook his head and said: "How can the provincial government bother to investigate this matter? Firstly, the provincial government will only open a case for investigation after receiving a report. Secondly, the whole world is not surprised by this kind of humanistic thing. Who knows that the provincial government
The people over there must be innocent? Even if there are ill-informed reports, Nanjing is now in such chaos that the documents cannot be drawn up. When we come here, we will see that our Governor Yuan is covering Huai'an. Where is the provincial government?
Do you still have the guts to take care of this?"
When Yuan Su heard this, he said: "This is the best. If you make arrangements for Huai'an, the two county magistrates can finally raise 150,000. I will contact Luanzhou for the remaining money.
Over there, take a loan from the Northern Bank."
After deliberation, everyone had a plan in mind and acted according to the arrangement.
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[If there is time, I will update another chapter tonight. I finally got the small letter, but I didn’t save it during the Chinese New Year. I’m really sorry. Also, I would like to ask the readers who are still reading this book. I have recently started to prepare a new book, and I am hesitant.
Should I write about the Sichuan Army or the Three Kingdoms? Of course, I usually start thinking about a new book four months in advance. This book will definitely be finished. I hope all readers will continue to support it.]dd