Chapter 216: Major General and Division Commander
Of course, it is not without opposition, for example, the deputy division commander of the 28th Army of the Sichuan Army, Ding Ming and Ding Xinggui, rose up in a loud voice, "Junzuo, I think that it should be dealt with in a decentralized manner, and it is best to set up a construction engineer brigade in each special area, and the local government and squires should assist at the expense."
The sound in the lobby stopped, and the needle fell for a while, Liu Xiang and Liu Wenhui looked at each other, stunned, Liu Yun was light and light, slowly tasting tea and drinking tea, eager to hug this guy and kiss him, it was really the Guanyin Bodhisattva who was in disaster relief, and the end of this Bodhisattva was a little miserable.
Liu Xiang's face was red first and then black, and finally returned to normal, trying to keep a smile when speaking, "Master Ding's words are quite insightful, well, everyone here, you must learn from him, well, Master Ding is a native of Dazhou, and Ding's mansion is a generation of wealthy gentry in the local area, and there are countless fields and industries."
Deputy Division Commander Ding is about thirty years old, and he may have less experience after all, so he didn't hear Chairman Liu's extraneous meaning at all, but thought that he was praising him, and hurriedly replied modestly, "Junzuo is really awarded, and his subordinates are the second in the family, and they have never touched the industry since they came back."
Everyone was dumbfounded, this guy is really enough, Liu Yun is very interested, this guy is still a returnee who studied in France, and he is also an elite in this era, and then look at the rank of this guy, an active colonel, no wonder he is so radical, he is almost about to step into the ranks of generals, and he has to work hard.
Allowing the squires to sit in on politics is also a major democratic feature of Liu Xiang's era, and the seats are not too far away, and the various speeches are very real, their faces have already darkened, I don't know how many generations of ancestors have greeted Ding, they have money, but they shouldn't be this kind of trick, don't think about pitting them.
Immediately, a squire stood up angrily and was about to speak, what kind of person is Liu Xiang, how could he allow today's political discussion to become a pot of porridge, and directly issued an appointment, "Division Commander Ding has commendable courage and can shoulder heavy responsibilities, well, then remove him from the post of deputy division commander and re-serve as the head of the Dazhou Engineering Construction Regiment."
This squire's mood was comfortable, and he almost didn't sing and dance on the spot, even the other generals were also relieved, only Commander Ding himself was like ashes, he was originally the deputy commander of the main reorganization division, and his future was like a flower, and it was only a matter of time before he was promoted to the commander of the division.
Liu Yun knew that he couldn't run away from this heavy responsibility, but he was under the roof, so he had to admit it, and sure enough, Liu Xiang announced a new appointment, "Appoint Liu Yicheng as the deputy commander of the Sichuan Army Engineering Corps, and actually be responsible for the engineering construction regiments of each prefecture, and he will be a nominal commander himself."
The officials and gentry in the audience hurriedly stood up, applauded and shouted desperately, congratulating Liu Xiang and Liu Yun on their promotion to the post of commander, Liu Yun also smiled bitterly, 300 Sichuan regiments, 200 will be cut, and the number of at least 300,000 is at least, and the eating, drinking, and Lazar of these people is an astronomical amount every day.
Liu Xiang happily announced some specific data, "After more than half a year of hard work, our Sichuan army has reorganized 103 regiments, and some units have changed their careers, and after retraining, they have become patrol policemen or garrisons in various districts and counties, but there are still nearly 200,000 troops, which have not been solved so far."
"Therefore, the construction engineering corps will accommodate 100,000 reduced troops, and Deputy Commander Liu has a long way to go, but fortunately, Commander Liu has high ambitions, not only wants to build the railway to Kunming, Baoji and Changsha, but also plans to rebuild the large and small highways in Sichuan, well, it is the kind of German highway."
Liu Yun was really dumbfounded, he really underestimated the shamelessness of politicians, who said that the railway would be repaired to Changsha, as for the rebuilding of the road in Sichuan, it was a shadowless thing, but Uncle Liu was very discerning, and he actually knew that the German highway was not simple, and it was also a new thing in Europe and the United States.
This is not over, Liu Xiang also knew that Liu Yun was not happy, so he gave a sweet date, "Well, because western Sichuan is located in a remote area, the territory is vast, and there has been a Red Army transit, so this seat has been reported to the Nanjing Military and Political Department for the record, and it was decided to establish an independent division in western Sichuan, with Liu Yicheng as the commander of the major general."
Although many people cast envious glances, Liu Yun couldn't laugh, the army under his name had already exceeded 50,000, not to mention the commander of the major general, that is, the lieutenant general, and he had no interest, and then he was in charge of 100,000 miscellaneous troops, even Jinshan Yinhai would have to be defeated, and it was really a murder without blood.
Commander Liu didn't dare to stand up to Liu Xiang, so he had to be silent, but who is Chairman Liu, how can people say that he is doing things unfairly, so he announced another decision, "Through the efforts of President Yin Changheng and Mr. Yin, 20 million silver dollars have been raised from the private sector to prepare for the construction of the railway network in Sichuan, and now all of them are allocated to Commander Liu Yicheng, and the specific withdrawal and use will be handled by him at his own discretion."
All of a sudden, all the officials and dignitaries in Sichuan were shocked, and their eyes at Liu Yun were no longer cold, but eagerly silver, and many people began to secretly wonder if there was an unmarried woman of the right age in the family, and find someone to be a matchmaker.
It turns out that Liu Xiang and Liu Wenhui are in a group, and they have long coveted the 20 million yuan of private capital, but the dog bites the turtle and has nowhere to go, and only through the construction of the railway can the funds be converted, so that the old, weak, sick and disabled who have been laid off can be settled.
Seeing that Commander Liu did not raise his voice to object, Liu Xiang also breathed a sigh of relief, followed by the training of various regular armies and more than a dozen integrated divisions, which had little to do with Liu Yun, and he didn't bother to listen to it anymore, so he had to drink tea gloomily, and just when he was drowsy, someone called his name.
Liu Yun was excited, and hurriedly stood up and said "yes", and immediately burst into laughter, it turned out that Liu Xiang asked him, the independent division of western Sichuan, is there any problem, but this guy is half asleep, and he didn't hear a word at all.
How could you blame him at this time, Liu Xiang held back his laughter and repeated the previous words, it turned out to deal with the garrison problem in Wenchuan County, due to historical reasons, there were more than 10,000 garrisons in the county seat and Yingxiu Town, and now it is useless, so it was reorganized into two brigades.
This is a big event, which will directly affect the future relations between western Sichuan and the Sichuan army, as well as the issue of the unification of government decrees in the western Sichuan Prefecture. Of course, this is also the goodwill released by Liu Xiang, but the choice of brigade commander still needs to be considered, Chairman Liu wants Liu Yun to decide by himself, can he decide, of course not, others are just polite to you, you must not take it seriously, you really dare to decide by yourself, Uncle Liu is determined to turn his face.
If the mountain pass of Yingxiu Town is really completely controlled by Liu Yun, Chairman Liu Xiang has to open one eye every night when he sleeps, it is the throat that enters the Chengdu Plain, if it is not divided into the Western Sichuan Prefecture, it will not look good, and the differences between the two forces will be made public, and it will be troublesome if it is used.
is the so-called "flower sedan chair people carry people", Liu Yun is not an interesting person, and immediately designated one, it is Colonel Ding Ming, who has just been suppressed by Liu Xiang, Liu Xiang doesn't care, if this person has nothing to do with him, how can he be the deputy commander of the reorganized division, so he agreed to let him set another person.
Commander Liu pondered for a while, and really couldn't think of any good candidates, so he respectfully asked Uncle Liu to personally appoint him, Liu Xiang seemed to be very embarrassed, and finally from Ding Ming's returnee background, he thought of a candidate, which was the son of his chief staff Zhang Sike, Colonel Zhang Zhen and Zhang Xinghua.
Zhang Xinghua graduated from the Japanese non-commissioned officer school, just 30 years old, he was a dogmatic and rigid person, and he was a Japanese army soldier at every turn, which made his subordinates and commanders very headaches.
Liu Yun doesn't care, he really doesn't want to be a warlord, these troops are said to be under his jurisdiction, but in fact they are all Liu Xiang's troops, and only the West Sichuan Teaching Brigade and the First Railway Garrison Brigade really belong to him, and the other troops are just nominal, well, don't take everything too seriously.
The whole conference finally came to the last link, the issue of armaments. No matter how the Sichuan army is reorganized, there are still 300,000 troops, and the old armaments should have entered the museum a long time ago, what old sleeves, what singles, what ponytail grenades, as for Hanyang-made or the main force, it is really jaw-dropping.
It's a pity that the Sichuan army itself is not angry, so far there is no arsenal, the only few ordnance stations, and they secretly made some earthen guns, or imitated a few Hanyang to build the sky, and the performance is not accurate, and the explosion incident also occurs from time to time, causing soldiers to prefer to use broadswords to fight.
Liu Xiang originally counted on Lao Jiang, but unfortunately the troops entrusted to the seat were as high as 600,000 troops, even if there were three major arsenals in Gongxian, Jinling and Hanyang, which produced 24 hours a day, they could not meet the needs of his troops for armaments, otherwise how could Liu Yun be allowed to provide armaments, the Fucheng Arsenal was about to be completed, but I don't know if it can really be put into production, even if it is put into production, the quality problem is a big problem.
What to do? Liu Xiang didn't have any good ideas, so he had to find ways to do it in many places, foreign smuggled goods were good, but they were more expensive, twice as expensive as the arms in western Sichuan, not to mention the domestic smuggled arms, not to mention the expensive price, and the quality was sometimes good and sometimes bad, so he didn't dare to ask for it for nothing.
It seems that the western Sichuan arms are more reliable, the problem is that others have also tried their best, and the production capacity has already caught up with the Hanyang Arsenal, if the production capacity is expanded, what should I do if the quality declines, why did Liu Xiang take the plane ceremoniously, I just want to Corporal Lixian, let Liu Yun also think of a way, the so-called brainstorming.
Does Commander Liu have a way, of course he does, but he doesn't want to start bursting production now, as long as the raw materials are enough, on the basis of the current one, doubling it is not a problem, but he faces two problems, one is afraid that alien technology will be exposed, and the other is that he is afraid that the devil will have preventive measures.
Commander Liu had no choice but to repeat the old words, and strive to complete the three major arsenals of the Sichuan Army within two years this and next year, namely the Chongqing, Fucheng and Dukou (Panzhihua) arsenals.
However, everyone is helpless, so they have to believe that they have it, if there is really no way, they have to continue to equip the old sleeve and singles, some is better than nothing, by the way, since the troops under the jurisdiction of Commander Liu are to be changed to engineering troops, it is better to hand over those weapons and equipment.
Liu Yun doesn't care, as long as the West Sichuan Teaching Brigade and other starting troops have weapons, just let the rest be, those rags, he really can't look down on them, but he can't take them for nothing, if it causes a riot in the reorganized troops, he doesn't care, everyone should give some money.
When it comes to money, it hurts my feelings, too, with the ocean of white flowers, to buy old sleeves and singles, I lose a lot of money when I think about it, forget it, just as everyone never said it's good.