The sea breeze outside Lushun blew into the war room at once, and the salty sea breeze swayed the map hanging in the war room from side to side. Even some of the papers on the table were blown to the ground by the wind.

Zhong Lin's face was incredible, he heard Liu Jun's words just now, and he knew from it that the first time he summoned the commanders of the three corps, I am afraid that it was for the purpose of reducing the army.

If the hundreds of thousands of troops are to be supplied to the people, it will obviously be very difficult, and if we want to reduce the burden on the people, there is only one way, to reduce the army.

It should be very appropriate to reduce the army now, the northeast has been pacified, and the imperial court will not attack the northeast again. Then reducing tens of thousands of troops is more than enough.

"Who told you I was going to cut the army." Liu Jun smiled slightly, picked up the pen in his hand, and drew a large circle in the northeast, and what was more prominent was that Liu Jun picked up the red pen and made key marks in the area of Sanjiang Songnen and Liaohe.

After doing all this, Liu Jun pointed to the places he had highlighted: "Do you know these places?" ”

Zhong Lin took a look at it and nodded: "I know, where there is no one and the population is sparse, there is often not a single family for more than ten miles, it is a typical wilderness." ”

Liu Jun nodded, admitting that Zhong Lin was right.

Where is it now, it is indeed wilderness, but no one knows better than Liu Jun what lies under that wilderness, the fertile black soil. This place, in his later life, was ranked among the top three in the grain producing area, but at that time, this place had been completely developed, but now, this virgin land is simply a place of ghosts.

In the past few days, Liu Jun has been thinking about a question.

The rapid expansion of the army will also increase the amount of grain and grass needed, and this will inevitably face a huge problem: where to get the grain and grass. The imperial court, this is obviously impossible, Liu Jun knew from the time he decided to turn his face that the imperial court would not give him a grain and rely on Li Hongzhang for relief, which was also far from quenching his thirst.

Increasing the tax revenue of the entire northeastern Liaodong can increase military rations, but the consequence of this is not only that his own status will decline in the eyes of the people, but that he will not be able to get over his conscience.

The food could not go up, and Liu Jun also thought of cutting the 45,000 people of the First Corps first. However, in the face of the current situation, doing so can only bring about self-destruction.

Although the struggle between the imperial court and himself has now ended for a short time, the Russian bear in the northeast that may run over and bite him at any time has to worry him. If Russia does not act rashly, it can only be suppressed in terms of military strength.

As a result, the Lushun Army did not want to reduce its troops, but also wanted to increase the strength of the two corps in order to barely control the situation.

Two corps, plus the first three corps, that is, more than 200,000 people. That's more than 10,000 people, and at the moment they can barely survive on taxes, but when it comes to a disaster year, it will be a different story.

After thinking about it carefully, Liu Jun, who had been sleepless all night, remembered the later generations, that is, the mobilization of a large army to develop the northeast in the early days of the country's establishment.

The time and place are favorable, and people occupy themselves. The northeast is now under its control, and it is entirely possible for him to mobilize the army after the deployment of defense in Heilongjiang, and according to the experience of later generations, take the lead in forming two construction corps, open up the wasteland in peacetime, and immediately restore the structure for the time being, and join the battle.

This is a matter of killing two birds with one stone, not only to develop the Northeast, but also to allow soldiers to train for free, after thinking about all this, Liu Jun immediately found Zhong Lin and issued an order. Gather a few corps to come back and convene a meeting, a meeting on the joint development of the northeast by Junmin.

"Head, I thought you were going to cut the troops?" Zhong Lin wiped the sweat on his face, he also did not agree with the current reduction of the army, on the contrary, it should be expanded.

"Well, you discuss it with Wu Hao and Wu Datong from the General Staff, and when they come back, a meeting will be held immediately to implement this matter." Throwing down the pen in his hand, Liu Jun returned to his position, took a sip of the teacup, and said lightly.

"Understood." Zhong Lin nodded and walked out of the room with joy on his face.

Zhong Lin's speed is not ordinarily fast. Zhong Lin drew up a report in the afternoon about the things he explained at noon.

In the study of Liu Jun's house, Liu Jun flipped through the report, which was only a few pages, and opened his mouth wide, he didn't expect that Zhong Lin would even consider such a thing as population migration.

The result of the discussion between Zhong Lin and Wu Datong was that the First Corps did not move and was still stationed in Pyongyang to guard against Japan, Feng Guozhang's Second and Second Corps was stationed in Shengjing and the Shanhaiguan Line to prevent the imperial court, and Duan Qirui's Third Corps was stationed in Jilin with one corps, and the other corps joined the Construction Corps and returned to the construction corps in case of war.

At the same time, Wu Datong suggested that preferential resettlement could be given to the northeast region, that is, the government would pay for resettlement fees, not to mention that after clearing the wasteland, five times the amount of land would be given to the relocated people.

Closing the report in his hand, Liu Jun was very satisfied with the plan. There are only some changes, such as the formation of the 4th and 5th Corps. As well as the question of garrisoning troops everywhere. He will present this at the meeting.

The rare good weather, Lushun is shrouded in golden sunlight, and the withered yellow leaves that are not blown off by the sea breeze are fluttering in the wind and do not emit golden light, falling to the ground, which makes people suddenly enter the world of fairy tales.

In the conference room of the Lushun Headquarters, there has not been a military meeting for a long time, and the recorders clearly found that the lowest military rank in the conference room this time is the rank of lieutenant general, and there are also Wu Datong, the second-in-command of Lushun government affairs and even the northeast government affairs of Liaodong.

Feng Guozhang is an honest man, these days on the way to the road has been thinking about why he suddenly Lushun, but he can't figure it out, he planned to return to Lushun and ask Liu Jun in person, but last night he arrived in Lushun less than two hours ago, he received a telegram from the staff of the headquarters, and he was going to arrive at the Lushun conference room at eight o'clock tomorrow to attend the meeting.

Entering the venue, he saw Ding Ruchang and Li Rong sitting on chairs, smiling slightly, Feng Guozhang walked over, he wanted to inquire, and the answer he got during the class was very surprised, and Ding Ruchang and others didn't know.

"Li Rong, he wants to kill you." Zhong Lin picked up a rolled-up map and walked in.

When several people saw that it was Zhong Lin, they all looked at Zhong Lin with puzzled expressions.

"Zhong Lin, what is the matter with the marshal summoning us?"

"Oh," Zhong Lin sighed, stretching out his hand to pick up the map, "That's what I called you here for." After speaking, Zhong Lin walked to the front and asked people to hang up the map. When a few people opened their eyes, it was actually a map of the defense area, and several people on the paper found a problem at the same time, in the wilderness area of the northeast, two never-before-seen Fourth and Fifth Corps were clearly marked.

"Are you going to form a new corps?" Feng Guozhang muttered to Ding Ruchang, who was standing in front of him, and asked in a low voice.

"I see, you see, your Second Corps is in Heilongjiang, and my First Corps is in Pyongyang."

Before Ding Ruchang finished speaking, he saw a staff officer walk in: "The big handsome has arrived." ”

Crawling, several people quickly stood up straight. Liu Jun was dressed in a military uniform and a black cloak, and when he came in, he saw these generals standing in front of the map instead of in position, and he smiled in his heart, he knew that these people who could command thousands of troops and horses did not know what to do until now.

Before coming to the position, Liu Jun sat down, and the person who was still standing in front of the map like a pen smiled: "Come and sit down." ”

"Yes" Several people replied and returned to their positions, looking at Liu Jun blankly, hoping that Liu Jun could tell them about the coming.

Liu Jun smiled slightly: "Actually, I guess you have already seen it." Yes, there is a new mission to arrange for you to come back this time. Liu Jun said this, and pulled out a document from the table: after everyone finished circulating it, they found everyone's puzzled eyes.

Liu Jun smiled and said: "Although our war with the imperial court has ended, but it is not the time for the flag to die down, Russia in the north, and Japan across the sea may suddenly attack us in the future, and even the imperial court may attack, we must have strong troops at present, so I decided to form two corps again." Liu Jun said here, signaling Zhong Lin to take a look at the situation.

Zhong Lin nodded, picked up the command cadre, and walked to the map: "The newly formed Fourth and Fifth Corps, according to the order of the head, the Fourth Corps and the Fifth Corps will currently enter the barren area of the Northeast and carry out large-scale development of the entire Northeast together with the Sixth Army of the Third Corps. That is, the Northeast Construction Corps.

Northeast Construction Corps. Although everyone said that they could command thousands of troops, they were still full of too many doubts about the unfamiliar word of the construction corps. Listening to the name, it belongs to the army, but what is going on with this construction, confused, and at the same time, the eyes of the people sitting in the conference room were full of confusion, and at the same time, they turned their eyes to Liu Jun, who was sitting at the top.

"Open up the wasteland in peacetime, and go out on the expedition in wartime." Seeing that everyone didn't understand, Liu Jun poured out the meaning in one sentence.