The warriors of this era are very easy to fool, as long as the premise of serving the country and the people is added. They don't even mention the wages at all.

But it's a pity that the courage is commendable, and the sense of secrecy is too weak. Any of their moves can have a huge impact on the martial arts world, and this influence will be 100% detected by Japanese spies. The number of Japanese spies in China is not 10,000 but 8,000, and the more important thing is that many of these spies are Chinese experts, and their local dialect in Northeast China is more authentic than that of the locals. In addition, there are a large number of literati who have no sense of secrecy and casually and unintentionally tell Chinese secrets. It can be said that both the Chinese officialdom and the civilian sector have long become a sieve in the eyes of the Japanese intelligence services.

In order to prevent his secret troops from being exposed, Hu Xiaoyan had to open the letters sent by Sun and Li one by one to examine them in detail. The slightest leak may be burned by him. This attitude hurt Sun and Li very much. But for Li Jingmai's sake, they can only bear it.

Li Jingmai originally came to learn from Hu Xiaoyan about Western economic issues. But he was arrested and became the de facto deputy head of the security regiment. It was precisely with Li Jingmai that the chances of the troops were stabilized. Whether it was the officers supported by Nie Shicheng or the indigenous officers of the security regiment, they did not dare to play tricks in front of Li Jingmai. He is Li Zhongtang's youngest son! Those dog legs under Li Jingmai are not vegetarians!

Hu Xiaoyan even made it clear that the security team will eliminate 10%, and this elimination will not be eliminated. Elimination means to kill the head. At the same time, Hu Xiaoyan's payment was directly sent to every soldier, without the slightest deduction. For this reason, he also cut down three commanders who tried to eat the money of his men. The three of them thought that Hu Xiaoyan and Li Jingmai were still that outdated concept, and asked their soldiers to give them filial piety, but of course the soldiers did not dare to resist. But they were stabbed out, and they blamed their behavior for being too arrogant. took the money and went to the town to eat, drink and have fun, but was reported by someone, and then Hu Xiaoyan and Li Jingmai were regarded as typical Fa-rectification.

After dealing with the clutter in the barracks and the recruitment of special forces, Hu Xiaoyan had to return to the city of Beijing.

After Sun and Li's selection, the special forces selected 20 boys with good physical fitness who could also know a few words. These people will be the seeds of the special forces of the future.

Prince Alcohol Zaifeng and Li Lianying's housekeepers were already in a hurry, and they sent people to urge Hu Xiaoyan many times. They reached an agreement with Hu Xiaoyan. After Hu Xiaoyan takes office, he will immediately start the big farm plan.

Specifically, it was the land enclosure movement, which drove the peasants out of the land and sent them to open mines, while their land was taken over by Prince Zaifeng and Li Lianying and developed into large farms. The farm is dominated by rice, corn, potatoes and cotton. The production of these farms will also be bought by Hu Xiaoyan's factory. After all, there are at least tens of thousands of people in the factory, and the demand for food, clothing, housing and transportation for these people is still very strong.

Thanks to Li Hongzhang's blessing, Hu Xiaoyan saw the relevant excerpts of the development of Huaibei Coal Mine. Huaibei City belongs to Su County, Anhui Province and Xiao County, Jiangsu Province. The coal mines in Su County are under the jurisdiction of the General Department of Mining in Anhui Province, and as for those in Xiao County, Hu Xiaoyan is not ready to turn his face with the governor of Jiangsu.

In the end, Hu Xiaoyan took a fancy to the Lieshan Coal Mine, because it is said that the Lieshan Coal Mine has a recent development record, and it is easy to reopen the mine. And there seems to be an open-pit coal mine in the coal mine records of Lieshan. That's even better.

With the team of Prince Alcohol Zaifeng and Li Lianying, a total of almost 3,200 people, the team soon arrived near Lieshan. Hu Xiaoyan didn't say a word, and took out the holy decree to forcibly occupy the county government in Suzhou. The magistrate was embarrassed and indignant, and wrote a letter of impeachment. But it's a pity that the fold was beaten back to Hu Xiaoyan's hands as it was. There was not even a word of criticism on the excerpt, but the guards of Prince Alcohol's Mansion who sent the excerpt said: "Don't make it obvious, Master Hu can go and discuss with the county government before occupying it." ”

Hu Xiaoyan was speechless. Immediately after occupying the prefectural government, a conscription order was issued to the surrounding landlords in the name of the prefectural ordinance. Naturally, the rich people did not dare not listen.

Hu Xiaoyan didn't have time to talk nonsense with these rich people. The urban area of Suzhou is not as large as that of a town in later generations, and the population is even less comparable, and most of the land and farmers are in the countryside. And if Hu Xiaoyan wanted to call these peasants to work one by one, not to mention whether these peasants agreed to give up their land, those landlords would not necessarily be willing to give up their landless tenant farmers.

If you have the right, you have to use it, otherwise it will be invalid when it expires. The butlers of Prince Alcohol Zaifeng and Li Lianying are the best candidates for the black pot. As for whether these two housekeepers are willing or not, it is not in Hu Xiaoyan's consideration. They have to be willing if they don't want to.

Hu Xiaoyan, who mastered the largest armed forces in Suzhou, is now the largest warlord in Suzhou. It's so easy to kill someone. For example, two former Beijing battalion officers who claimed to be tough in the background were looking for trouble on the way from Beijing to Anhui, and they were killed by Hu Xiaoyan on the spot. And the other subordinates who were stuffed into the yamen of the Anhui Mining General Division, which he had not yet established, could only watch from below.

Hmph, these days, with a gun in his hand, he has become hard to speak. And the Manchu court was far from being as capable as it was when it was founded. If they dare to talk nonsense, Hu Xiaoyan will dare to raise the flag immediately. Hu Xiaoyan's 3,000 soldiers were all Nie Shicheng's retired Olympian Manlixia rifles. This gun is naturally much worse than the Mosin Nagant rifle, but it is much stronger than the bird commander of the Green Battalion. There are also two small cannons that Hu Xiaoyan can't look down on with squinted eyes. With such equipment and Hu Xiaoyan's foresight, there should be no problem in sweeping Anhui. Because the Manchu green battalion soldiers had no other ability than to run fast.

On the fifth day after all the 3,000 soldiers were released, the open-pit coal mine mentioned in the excerpt was finally found.

At the same time, those rich landowners also surrendered one after another after Hu Xiaoyan killed a big family. Countless tenants and peasants with little land were organized by the county government to drive to the Lieshan Coal Mine. At present, due to technical limitations, mining can only be carried out in the most ordinary way.

In the process, Hu Xiaoyan received the filial piety of 30,000 families, and more than 50,000 people.

The population of 50,000 was concentrated by Hu Xiaoyan to build a new town near Lieshan. For a while, the vicinity of Lieshan was bustling. The more people there are, the more right and wrong. The three thousand soldiers did not have to train at this time.

In addition to the elite of 500 people, Wang Yue, the battalion officer of Nie Shicheng, was still training. In addition, Huo Yuanjia and Li also rushed into the mountains with their special forces to conduct their secret training. Sun Lutang stayed and became Hu Xiaoyan's teacher and bodyguard.

Everyone else has changed careers to become police officers. Maintaining law and order became their top priority. For fear of causing a major conflict, the musket was collected. The weapon was replaced with a broadsword spear.

Fortunately, 50,000 people did not arrive in a day. Thanks to Hu Xiaoyan's ruthlessness, the landlords did not do anything about food. Of course, Hu Xiaoyan also paid for it.

Out of 50,000 people, Hu Xiaoyan once again expanded the miner team of 5,000 people. Nominally absenteeism, these people were trained with the 500 security regiment after they were out of work. After the construction of the town and the resettlement of the population were handed over to Li Jingmai, the armed forces of a total of 8,000 people were finally handed over to Tao Chengzhang.

The plan to build a large farm under the identity of Li Jingmai went smoothly, and Prince Alcohol and Li Lianying's housekeepers were very satisfied with the land. The only dissatisfaction is that all the population has been "kidnapped" by Hu Xiaoyan, and they have to pay a salary to hire them.

After Hu Xiaoyan paid off Lawrence's expenses, plus the filial piety of the rich people and the government, he still had 70,000 taels of silver on hand. In addition, there are a number of materials in the government treasury of the county government. This money and goods are enough to temporarily feed and drink 50,000 people. But once the mine is opened, the money will not last even a month.

So Hu Xiaoyan gathered these rich people again and issued a plan.

The rich landlords were very frustrated, and after they were frightened, they paid for peace, and they were greatly ruined. Later, he was scraped by Prince Alcohol and Li Lianying.

The land of the two bigwigs is not connected, so they find the land and ask for the land. The most important thing about their big farms is the centralized use of land. The soil wealth was powerless to resist, and almost all of the best paddy fields were replaced by barren and scattered land. The two bigwigs are very "fair" and do not do "much manipulation" in the land area.

Now that they were summoned again by Hu Xiaoyan, everyone was terrified, and several families of scholars ran to the Yamen of Anqing to complain on the spot.

Hu Xiaoyan only sneered at this, because the position of Deng Huaxi, the governor of Anhui, had already come to an end, and the prince of alcohol, Zaifeng, the head of the inner house, Li Lianying, and the former Zhongtang lord Li Hongzhang worked at the same time. The day of this guy's departure is just around the corner. The letter of Li Hongzhang, who succeeded him, was Yucuri Enming.

Yu Curry Enming, a native of Manchuria with a white flag, the son-in-law of Prince Qing Aixin Jueluo Yixuan, Prince Qing Aixin Jueluo Yixuan's official fortune is prosperous, and he is very trusted by Cixi. Such a person was supposed to serve the country, and he died with all his might, but unfortunately this person's ability to be an official is only average, but his ability to make money is even more powerful than that of Prince Zaifeng. Prince Alcohol Zaifeng at least has to take care of face, but Prince Qing Aixin Jueluo Yixuan is not. He will make money if he has money, and he will make money if he has no money to find an opportunity. The Big Farm Project also wanted to get involved. It's just that I'm still in a state of observation.

The appointment of Curry Enming is his first attempt, and if it is all right, he will follow. In addition to this big man, other Manchu Eight Banners magnates are also gearing up. Because of the suppression of Emperor Daoguang Xianfeng, the movement of the Eight Banners magnates to enclose land in the interior of the Central Plains has not been carried out, and when they arrived in Cixi, this kind of enclosure of the magnates has been suppressed to the point of none. Cixi is not stupid, now the whole country is extremely dissatisfied with the imperial court, if there is another enclosure movement, the Manchu Qing will not perish. But now Hu Xiaoyan has given them an excuse to legitimately enclose the land. No one can be unmoved. Land is not a factory, factories need costs, and if you don't do it well, there is a danger of going out of business. But the land won't. The wealth generated from the land is endless. They can't help but be unmoved. The more motivated these people are, the faster Anhui's land will be encroached upon. Without land, those peasants who lost their land had to be turned into workers. In this way, the lack of workers in Hu Xiaoyan's factory will be in place in one step, and at the same time the revolutionary ideas will spread rapidly in Anhui.

Under the vigorous development of Zhang Binglin, the Times China magazine in Shanghai now has more than five editors and 10 translators who have studied in the United States. The circulation of each issue of the newspaper has also been around 5,000. And Cai Yuanpei, Rong Hong and others are also making good progress at the university. Cai Yuanpei and Rong Hong even had the spare strength to gather a group of outstanding young people to come to Suzhou to help.

At the end of October, these talents arrived, led by Chen Ronggui and Kuang Jingyang, who had been in the United States. There are more than 20 students who have studied or studied at Peiyang University. As soon as these talents arrived, Hu Xiaoyan arranged for them to manage the landless peasants and began to organize the mining of mines. Kwong Jingyang was appointed president of the coal mine and was specifically responsible for the opening of the mine, while Chen Ronggui was assigned to find a way out of the mine. Li Jingmai still has an overview of the overall situation.

After gathering these local wealth, Hu Xiaoyan strongly "suggested" that these local wealth unite to build a large farm, and also offer all the output to sell to the factory. These people were suddenly extremely excited. Originally, I thought that I would be slaughtered again, but clinker is beneficial. These local wealth people were very "happy" to accept Hu Xiaoyan's conditions, and were "willingly" hired the 50,000 people under Hu Xiaoyan as their tenant farmers at a high price. Fifty thousand people sounds like a lot, but after removing the old and the young, there are at most 30,000 to 40,000 people left, and the big farms of the two big men and the small farms of the local wealth are diverted, and the construction of new towns is added, and only 10,000 laborers remain. Of these, 5,000 were hired by Hu Xiaoyan as part-time workers. There are only more than 5,000 people who actually use it in mining. These people are not only responsible for mining mines, but also for transporting earth, building roads, reinforcing river embankments, and so on. In this way, almost everyone has something to do. And the rest of the old and weak, Hu Xiaoyan was also arranged.

Because of the arrival of new students, Hu Xiaoyan finally has the confidence to run a school. Under his arrangement, the local treasurers "took the initiative" to contribute to Hu Xiaoyan's two primary schools and one middle school. One of the three schools was built in Suzhou, while the other two were built in the new town. The children were all accepted by the three schools, and the old people were arranged by Hu Xiaoyan to work as sanitation workers. Well, the smell on the streets of London is not necessarily better than the smell on the streets of Suzhou. Hu Xiaoyan was very disgusted at this time. After this arrangement, almost everyone began to have something to do. Including Hu Xiaoyan himself. Hu Xiaoyan's troubles have just begun, because he has no money.