According to the design of this establishment scale, the combat power of the twenty-four mixed associations is comparable to the main force of the six towns of Beiyang, and everyone is proud of their design, and threatens to replace the six towns of Beiyang Yunyun in the future. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"How much does it cost?" Xiao Xiangshan, who didn't participate in the discussion much, said a word that put everyone out of the fire. Everyone looked at each other, no one refused to speak first, and they could say it with their mouths closed, but in practice, the number of troops is a trivial matter, what about money?

What about military spending?

What about the construction funds?

For an army of 11,000 people, not to mention how much construction funds are needed, the monthly military salary and food expenses alone are 50,000 taels of silver, or 600,000 taels of silver in a year...... And that's not even counting the consumption of ammunition, training, and clothing changes.

That's 600,000 taels of silver!

They all say that the army is a gold-swallowing beast, they all say that they can't afford to fight, they all say that they can't afford to raise soldiers, and they really can't afford to raise it. Wang Yongan estimated his funds, and thought in his heart that he originally thought he had a lot of money, but found that he could only afford to support the army for ten years......

In fact, at the end of the Qing Dynasty and the period of the Beiyang Republic of China, the salary of the army soldiers was not so high to a large extent, mainly because after deducting the wear and tear of food and clothing, it was also necessary to hand over some "protection fees" to their respective commanders, and each person had a maximum of one or two taels of silver in their hands, and it was only three oceans in the Republic of China period. But can such an army fight?

At the end of the day, it's about money.

Wang Yongan then understood why the Republic of China needed to endure for 30 years, thinking that when Wang Yongan was a child, he saw the South China Sea collision incident, and he also cried bitterly for the sacrifice of Wang Wei, the pilot of the 81192 fighter, and saw the big brothers and sisters on TV running to the US Embassy to protest, and when he was young, he secretly took a car to prepare to participate in the protest march - of course, he was beaten by his parents - he just felt that he was a wreck, a national whim, a living whim. But then he gradually understood that it was not the country's pockets, it was no money, it was poverty, and people were poor and short-minded.

Fifteen years after the collision in the South China Sea, China's economy developed rapidly, and it became the world's second economic power and the world's third military power before it began to harden up, and it was only then that a group of bombers flew over the Tsushima Strait in Japan and was only a few hundred kilometers away from Tokyo.

Yes, the premise of everything is money, and only with money can we build the army and realize the strength of the country.

In later generations, the Boxer Rebellion on the Internet was powerful, shouting every day to kill this and destroy that, but unfortunately these people did not have any hair, but the small people doing business on the street made contributions to the country, the people are rich, the country is strong, the country is strong, and the country is strong. That toughness is not shouted out of the mouth, but fought with strength.

Does Wang Yongan have this strength now?

Three months ago he thought he was so strong that he could even stir up. beach, but now he realizes that he is nothing, and his little money is a drop in the bucket in terms of national army building.

Wang Yongan suddenly found that not to mention the lack of generals under his command, what is more serious is that there is no talent who understands the economy, and among the people he knows, the only one who understands the economy is Luo Shitong, but Luo Shitong only knows how to operate a shopping mall.

If anyone can make money, it can only be Wang Yongan himself, but Wang Yongan knows that he has taken advantage of history before, but it will not be easy to take advantage of this kind of advantage in the future.

I don't know how to make money, but I know how to spend money, a group of people stared at each other, and finally it was the staff member Wei Wenkang who stammered: "Yes, or do you want to grow a big cigarette?" ”

It is not uncommon for warlord troops to grow big tobacco in private, but it is not uncommon for the Beiyang army to grow big smoke, just like the Sichuan army of the Republic of China, the military salary is directly smoked and soil, and one person has a lump of opium paste, no matter if you sell it or eat it yourself, in short, this is military salary. So why is the Sichuan army tragic, because the Sichuan army is poor, there are many dead in battle, and there is not even a pension after the war is killed. During the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Sichuan army really fought with only a patriotic enthusiasm, and fought desperately with little Japan without food, food, food, or clothing.

Everyone is unanimously against planting big cigarettes, and our 24th Mixed Association will not fall to this point, and the imperial court will not allocate 100,000 taels of military salaries every year.

"In any case, our troop shelves are erected, and we can make them up later if the number of people is not enough, but the bone shelves must be built first." Wang Yongan slapped the table and said undoubtedly.

Since it was decided to build the shelves first, the commanders of the three standards and four battalions were all missing, so Wang Yongan began to reward the official position, and everyone stretched their necks to look at it, with light in their eyes.

Wang Yongan announced: "Chief of Staff Feng Heng, Adjutant General Li Yao, Adjutant General Shao Yongqin, Chief of the Military Affairs Division Wu Peng, Chief of the Military Medical Division Xiao Xiangshan, Chief of the Military Medical Division Luo Yinxian, Chief of the Military Law Section Xia Ming, First Infantry Standard Fang Xian Fifth Standard Commander, Second Infantry Standard Liu Hui as Standard Commander, Third Infantry Standard Gong Wuyuan as Standard Commander, Cavalry Battalion Chen Jian as Standard Commander, Baggage Battalion Luo Yinxian as Standard Commander, Guard Battalion Fan Wentai as Standard Commander. He didn't discuss it anymore, and directly appointed it, "As for the standard commander of the artillery battalion...... We need someone who understands artillery command, and which of you understands artillery command? ”

The crowd shook their heads.

Liu Hui then said: "Although I graduated from the artillery department, I have never actually commanded an artillery group for so many years, so I will not recommend myself, but I recommend my classmates." After graduating from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, they were assigned to command artillery in the patrol battalion of the New Army in Jiangsu Province. ”

"How do you relate to them?" Wang Yongan asked.

Liu Hui said with a smile: "The relationship is not bad, they are all classmates, but if you want to talk about familiarity, a few of my Hubei fellows are more familiar." ”

"You talk about your fellow countrymen first, since they are not familiar with each other, we might as well have a few more options." Wang Yongan said.

Liu Hui nodded and introduced: "When I was in school, I had the best relationship with the two Hubei fellows, one was called Shao Bao and the other was Liu Xieyuan. But Shao Bao actively participated in Sun Yat-sen's revolutionary party when he was in school, and he is now an artillery teacher in the Hubei Army Academy, and the reason why I don't recommend him is because I am afraid that he will mess around. Although Liu Xieyuan had a good relationship with me, he, like me, did not have very good results in artillery command, and I also switched to commanding infantry because of my poor results. However, my grades were poor because I was not good at Japanese, and this Liu Xieyuan was born in a wealthy family in Hanyang, and he was unwilling to study seriously, so his grades were not ideal. After graduating from the Japanese Army Non-commissioned Officer School, these two returned to Hubei Province as instructors in the Hubei New Army, and they have been mediocre, but they have spent their lives peacefully. is the so-called creation of people, their talented classmates, in the great era of the storm and fame of the world, in the end, few of them ended well, either died in the prime of life, or died in the warlord melee.