In fact, according to the bloodline, the Jiangbei Department and the Beiyang Department do not have a deep hatred, and the backbone of the Jiangbei Department are all from the Beiyang Department, whether from the composition of personnel or from the background, the Jiangbei Department and the Beiyang Department are the same - the vast majority of Jiangbei Department officers have the experience of studying in the Baoding Army Non-commissioned Officer School or Tianjin Military Academy, and some even have studied in the Army University. Therefore, it can be said that the Jiangbei system is a branch of the Beiyang system. However, the branches of the Jiangbei system seem to be too strong, so that the branches of the branches of the tree bend down, and the Beiyang system has to be wary of the Jiangbei system everywhere.

The most unconvincing thing about the Beiyang system is that these reserves of the Jiangbei system have stolen their limelight, and the Beiyang system itself has to be convinced that the Jiangbei system can indeed fight - because it can fight, so the Jiangbei system is fighting less and less. The Jiangbei army has changed from a peak of 200,000 troops to a current 100,000 army, and is also separated in Xikang and Yangzhou, which has a lot to do with belligerence.

Of course, the Jiangbei Department is not convinced by the Beiyang Department, the Jiangbei Department is invincible, and now it is getting worse and worse, so that everyone thinks that the culprit is Yuan Shikai and Yuan Fatzi.

Wang Yongan also laughed, he raised his glass again and drank with everyone, and he couldn't help but have some dissatisfaction and regret for the status quo in his heart.

What if you were immersed in development at the beginning?

What if you join the revolutionary party?

If......

All assumptions can only be assumptions, time is irreversible, Wang Yongan can only comfort himself, everything now seems to have been arranged in the dark. Wang Yongan once tried to change history, but history was like a tide that washed away its own obstruction, and because of his obstruction, the Manchu Qing Dynasty was overthrown six months after history, so Wang Yongan decided not to interfere too much in history to avoid becoming a sinner in history.

Throughout the banquet, Wang Yongan listened to the opinions and questions of the brothers, asked them where they had ideas, except for the need to disarm, Wang Yongan can be said to have accepted all suggestions, which made Feng Heng, Chen Jian, Li Zuzhi and other generals feel that Wang Yongan, the leader, is not a lone person who only cares about himself and does not care about others.

Wang Yong'an's rule of law is completely different from Wang Yongtai's, Wang Yongtai has more of a paternalistic system of the Beiyang system, and his subordinate officers are either beaten or scolded, Wang Yongan has some similar to the famous general Zeng Guofan in the late Qing Dynasty who generally uses the rule of law to control the army with Confucianism, Wang Yongtai compiles the army into a rope, and Wang Yongan twists the army into a rope. The reason why the Jiangbei Department has been able to achieve today's achievements is not only Wang Yongan's financial support, but also has a lot to do with his emphasis on law and discipline and the cultivation of military temperament.

After tonight's secret banquet, everyone was once again appeased by Wang Yongan, and the mood generated by disarmament a few days ago gradually calmed down, and the Jiangbei Army returned to normal again. The entire army is in an orderly manner on the issue of disarmament, and the soldiers and officers cannot be said to be satisfied with the status quo, but compared with the Beiyang Army and the Revolutionary Army, which treat soldiers as a precaution, Jiangbei can definitely be called a model in terms of the treatment of soldiers and officers.

One day, a retired soldier came to report to Wang Yongan, asking for half the ammunition of the reserve soldier's bullets, Wang Yongan was very curious about why the bullets and ammunition were halved, and the soldier said that the guns in everyone's hands now are Hanyang-made rifles, and Hanyang-made rifles are Mauser prevention rifles, so they are very powerful. When hunting with a Hanyang-made rifle, the bullet can directly break a rabbit into pieces, so the current Mauser bullet cannot hit small animals at all. If a reservist wants to defend himself, he can replace the bullet with a training bullet with an effective range of 200 meters, and there is no need to use a Mauser bullet with an effective range of 900 meters.

Wang Yongan immediately applauded this suggestion, the price of a Mauser bullet is expensive, even if it is an imitation Mauser bullet produced by Hanyang Arsenal and Jiangbei Arsenal, the price of a bullet is 0.02 taels of silver, according to the purchasing power conversion of RMB in 2017, a Mauser bullet needs 12 yuan a round, it can be said that fighting a war is a very expensive party. If you should use training bullets, it is half cheaper, and you can save half the money.

So Wang Yongan immediately proceeded to approve the purchase of training ammunition as standard ammunition for reserve soldiers, and Luo Yinxian suggested that the plan to build an arsenal in Xikang should be advanced.

Today's Jiangbei Arsenal has fallen into an embarrassing state of semi-production, and the reason for this is overcapacity. Originally, its existence was to serve the Jiangbei army, but with the merger of the Jiangbei system into the Beiyang system, the central government could completely provide sufficient ammunition for the Jiangbei army. In order to make the Jiangbei Arsenal, Wang Yongan stared at Duan Qirui's pressure and proposed that the weapons and ammunition of the Jiangbei Department must be purchased in the Jiangbei Arsenal, which caused the boss of Xu Shuzheng, secretary general of the War Department, to complain.

Later, the main force of the Jiangbei Department moved to the Kangzang area, and the ammunition of the Zhenbian Army was provided by the Hanyang Arsenal, which led to the overcapacity problem of the Jiangbei Arsenal becoming more serious, so that the military technicians and skilled workers who had been dug from all over the country had nothing to do with their salaries, and the entire arsenal became a large retirement home.

"It's easy for the workers to move from the factory, they have a lot of work experience, and if we build the assembly shop of the arsenal, we will gradually build other supporting factories. Previously, when we were in Yangzhou, we had a plan to try to produce weapons completely independently, but because of the continuous southern conquest and northern war, the Jiangbei Arsenal became a larger and larger weapon assembly factory. Now we are developing in Xikang, in fact, it seems far away from the Central Plains, but we are able to devote all our energy to industrial development. This time, we must develop and establish a complete industrial system, so as to get rid of the control of foreign powers - if it wasn't for the fact that the gringos stopped providing us with ammunition raw materials, our Jiangbei Army could really go directly to Beijing and overthrow the Manchu Qing Dynasty directly. Luo Yinxian said with regret.

Wang Yongan couldn't help but smile bitterly, the Jiangbei Army can fight, but because it can fight, it advocates using strength to solve everything, but ignores the most important industrial and economic development, so that the follow-up is weak.

Luo Yinxian turned around and took a thick dozen blank sheets of paper from the adjutant's hand, and introduced it, this is the Xikang industrial construction plan, which not only has the construction plan of the Xikang Arsenal, but also a complete set of heavy industry development plans, of which the Xikang Provincial Government has directly built more than 30 state-owned factories. The development plan also includes steel mills, coal mines, metallurgical plants, and railway companies in the early stage, integrating the resources of the entire Xikang Province, so that Xikang Province will have a complete industrial system in the future, and this complete industrial system is not only unique to Xikang Province, but also the only one in the Republic of China, which is Luo Yinxian's ambition.

Wang Yongan was very interested in this, he took Luo Yinxian to the office, and after carefully reading the plan, he realized that it was getting late.

"Come on, come on, let's eat together, talk while eating." Wang Yongan said with a smile, and Luo Yinxian smiled: "Then I'll beg for food here with you, haha." ”

While eating, Wang Yongan looked Luo Yinxian up and down, this officer from the Heavy Duty Department of the Tianjin Military Academy, actually had such strong ambitions in economic construction. According to the development of Luo Yinxian's Xikang industrial construction plan, Xikang Province will become the Detroit of the Republic of China in another ten years.

"Shuai, which part of the plan are you most interested in?" Luo Yinxian took a sip of strong wine and asked.

Wang Yongan smiled: "You can guess, but I don't think you can guess." ”

Luo Yinxian didn't believe it, and said, "I guess it's a steel factory, isn't it?" ”

Wang Yongan waved his chopsticks and smiled: "No." ”

"Metallurgical plant, it must be a metallurgical plant." Luo Yinxian said.

"It's not."

Luo Yinxian was surprised and said, "Could it be an arsenal?" This arsenal needs the construction of other supporting factories - I see, it's a hydropower station, hahahaha, no, it must be a hydropower station. ”

Wang Yongan said: "I said you can't guess, I won't sell it to you, in fact, what I care about most is the big farm farming company that is in the end." ”

Luo Yinxian was taken aback, and said half-loudly: "I thought it would be an industrial ......."

"The people take food as the sky, and the biggest contradiction between China and the Kangzang region today is the problem of having a full stomach." Wang Yongan said with a wry smile, "The Jiangbei troops have always bought food to eat, so we have not experienced hunger, and I will never allow my brothers to starve." But what about the common people, at the beginning, the Jiangbei region was a famous land of fish and rice, including Jianghuai and Anhui, Central Jiangsu, a Jiangbei that can feed 100 million people can feed 30 million people, and our Jiangbei people do not feel the danger of starvation. However, when I was doing research in the past few days, I found that nearly 1,000 Kham people starve to death every year, but you must know that the total population of Xikang is less than 1 million, and the number of people who starve to death every year has reached 0.5 per 1,000. If we can't solve the problem of the food crisis in Xikang, there will be no way to develop all your industrial plans, after all, no one wants to go to a place where people are starving, and without population, who can help you achieve industrial development? ”

After hearing this, Luo Yinxian dropped the chopsticks on the table, hurriedly picked up the chopsticks, patted his head and said with a wry smile: "I was so busy that I actually forgot about this problem, people, population, Xikang Province has no population, no people, how to develop?" ”

Wang Yongan raised his glass and said, "Come and have a drink." The two clinked glasses and drank them all, Wang Yongan suddenly asked: "Speaking of which, this big farm company is just emerging in the United States, but I see that your plan actually involves the use of tractors for deep ploughing operations, the use of tractors converted into harvesters for harvesting, and the planting of cold-tolerant and drought-tolerant crops in Xikang with a short growth period, which is conducive to planting large-scale crops and harvesting in a large area - this doesn't seem to be what you said, when did you become an agricultural talent?" ”

Luo Yinxian laughed and said: "This is indeed not my plan, this plan was proposed by a high-achieving student who came back from the United States, I saw that the industrial development plan is already very complete, but the agricultural development plan is only this one, so I added it, I didn't expect it to be so valued by you, it was really a fluke." ”