After 1883, the Gan clan entered a state of tightness on the inside and looseness on the outside, and many of the Gan children felt the tense atmosphere, but they did not know where this atmosphere came from. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

During the Chinese New Year, the high-level officials of the Yan clan gathered together and discussed for three days, and the theme of the discussion was that the Yan clan should prepare early, and the Manchu Qing Dynasty was afraid that they would attack the Yan clan in the next two years.

This Manchu Qing Dynasty wanted to attack the Yan clan not casually, but based on the analysis of the information gathered by the Ministry of Intelligence.

The Yan family spends millions of taels of silver on the Ministry of Intelligence every year, and it is impossible to get no information, basically there are people who have been bought by the Ministry of Intelligence in the mansions of important ministers of the palace, in order to buy these people, the Ministry of Intelligence has also spent a lot of thought, if you can't buy them with money, then kidnap and threaten their families, in order to achieve the goal, "do everything", even the big eunuch Li Lianying next to Cixi, the Ministry of Intelligence has a way, but it has to spend a lot of money.

Since the end of last year, there have been more Manchu magnates in the capital who want to slaughter the Yan family, but fortunately, Li Hongzhang and some other Manchu magnates who are closely related to the Yan family have opposition, and the Yan family is safe and sound, but afterwards, Yan Xueyi's third uncle Yan Daozhen came to the door with a large amount of mountain and river treasure banknotes, and Li Hongzhang is the most important one.

Although the Yan family avoided the disaster of killing the head, they were also severely cut off a handful of meat, which is also what some of the Manchu magnates thought: What is the good thing about taking the Yan family at one time, it is better to obediently earn us money.

However, avoiding a head-killing disaster does not mean that it can continue to hide, there are already such signs, the Yan family must prepare early, and cannot wait until the Manchu Qing is about to make a move before taking action, and then the loss will be great.

The main personnel of Yan's Commercial Bank, Yan's Qianzhuang, and the first floor of the world all over the country were transferred back to Siqi Province, and even Yan Daozhen could not sit in the capital, but returned to Yanjiabao, and only enough personnel were left everywhere to maintain normal business, and the rest had to be transferred back to Siqi Province, and when Yan's occupied Siqi, they would all play an important role.

If the Manchu Qing Dynasty really wanted to do something to the Yan family, the Ministry of Intelligence notified the news in advance, and asked the people left behind everywhere to bury the silver and burn the banknotes, and then hide in the countryside, and secretly return to Siqi Province under the arrangement of the Ministry of Intelligence.

Once the Manchus make a move on the Yan clan, I am afraid that it will soon affect all the people of the Yan clan, and it is already used to killing tens of thousands of people at one time, anyway, they are all Han people, and it is okay to kill them all.

But the Yan clan can't give up their subordinates, so they make arrangements in advance, and the relatives of those who stay here will all return to Siqi Province, once the people left behind are injured or killed, the Yan clan will compensate for it, so that their families can live normally, just this one, let the Yan clan's subordinates die for the Yan clan.

The affairs outside of the four provinces have basically been arranged, and even if the Manchu Qing suddenly make a move against the Yan clan, it will not cause too much damage to the Yan clan.

Next, various preparations will be arranged for the four provinces.

Siqi Province is Yan Xueyi's first goal, once the time is ripe or forced to erect a counter-flag, Yan Xueyi will occupy Siqi Province in the shortest possible time to eliminate the resistance forces.

The province is very large, with a total area of more than 500,000 square kilometers and a population of more than 40 million.

At present, Yan Xueyi's actual jurisdiction area is less than one percent of the four provinces, and the population is only one-eightieth of the four provinces.

It is necessary to confirm which targets in the province should be eliminated directly, so that the resistance can be quickly eliminated and the entire province can be quickly occupied.

It is necessary to train enough officials and policemen to be able to quickly take over the various counties and maintain law and order after Yan Xueyi's army clears the entire Siqi Province of the rebels.

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All kinds of preparations have made the Yan clan and even the entire Yuanhe City busy, who knows if the Manchu Qing will want to destroy the Yan clan tomorrow, prepare early and rest assured.

Soon, the new recruits of the garrison were trained to become real soldiers, and the garrison of more than 23,000 people was reorganized, and at the same time, the new battalion was ready to continue to recruit 5,000 people.

The garrison was reorganized into four brigades and one regiment, namely:

The First Brigade, Brigade Commander Zhao Gang, Political Commissar Wang Xinwei.

The second brigade, brigade commander Niu Dehou, political commissar Xu Guangyao.

The Third Brigade, Brigade Commander Chen Haojie, Political Commissar Lin Hao.

Fourth Brigade, Brigade Commander Sun Ran, Political Commissar Fang Jinglong.

Garrison regiment, regiment commander Yan Yongle, political commissar Yan Ying.

After the reorganization of the garrison, they will conduct run-in training separately to prepare for the war that they don't know when it will come.

The war is about logistics, especially the advanced army of the garrison, which is relative to this era, once the logistics cannot keep up, it will definitely not be able to beat the elite of the Manchu Qing Dynasty with burning sticks, and only perfect logistics, no matter where the garrison appears, it will be invincible and invincible.

Although the roads in Siqi Province are a little worse, Siqi Province is the base camp of the Gan family, and the Gan family has invested the most here, with countless oxen and carriages, and there is sufficient logistics support.

In addition, Yuanhe City has also produced a secret weapon, that is, the airship, which has been improved to the third type of airship.

Compared with the previous two types of airships, the Kunpeng-3 airship has a load of up to five tons and a maximum speed of about 40 kilometers per hour, which is more safe and reliable (filled with helium).

The Kunpeng-3 airship can even be transformed into a bombing airship, but Yan Xueyi does not plan to expose the airship so quickly, nor does he produce airships in batches, but has been researching the airship to make a better airship.

With only a logistics team of countless oxen and wagons, there is enough for the garrison to take down the four provinces, and it is better for the airship to continue to be used as a secret weapon, and it feels good to think about the airship bombing the battleship.

Now what Yan Xueyi wants to do is to build a railway through Siqi Province, so that there is really no need to worry about the logistics of the army, but unfortunately it is impossible now, only after occupying Siqi can the railway be built, but there is a small section of railway leading to the mine from the Yuanhe Iron and Steel Plant, and there is no need to spend a lot of manpower to transport iron ore.

Who would have thought that there would be such a steel mill with the world's highest steel output in the depths of the backward Manchu Dynasty?