October 1911 was the most exciting month for the people of Fujian, when the newly inaugurated East China Provisional Political Axe announced the exemption of all miscellaneous taxes, and the autumn harvest arrived.

In this autumn harvest, Fujian once again reaped a bumper harvest, with a total grain output of 12 million tons and a total agricultural output value of 430 million silver dollars in the autumn.

However, agriculture is a consumption-oriented industry, when the grain is consumed, there will be nothing left, except for a part of the export, the rest are supplied for their own consumption, because the summer harvest in Fujian grain reserves are very sufficient, this autumn harvest 3/4 of the agricultural products for export, so it is expected that at least 300 million silver dollars will pour into Fujian.

In fact, many projects are not included in the agricultural output value, and the main force is grain production, so the agricultural output value is definitely higher than this data, and the funds absorbed are definitely more.

The arrival of this autumn harvest also gave the newly established East China Provisional Political Axe a much-needed fund, because the income from agriculture after the autumn harvest is expected to reach 40 million silver dollars, and nearly 8 million silver dollars have been collected before the turnover tax.

In addition to these incomes, the revolution also caused Xia Jun to confiscate a lot of real estate from the government, and also found a lot of silver from the coffers of various county towns.

As soon as the statistics of this amount of silver were counted, there were tens of millions of taels of silver in the coffers of the county town of Shanghai alone, while the total amount of the coffers in other regions amounted to 26 million, which is nearly 35 million yuan when converted into silver dollars.

At the same time, Xia Jun's factories are still 10 million silver dollars after the income spent during the summer harvest, and after a while, the East China Temporary Political Axe will have 93 million silver dollars.

And Xia Jun's territory is still expanding, and after the 08 Brigade rested for a long time, it invaded the boundary of Suzhou.

Just as Xia Jun was imagining to take Jiangsu and divide the three provinces of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Jiangsu, suddenly the combat command called and told him that Jiangsu had read his strength.

"What? Jiangsu reads power? Who reads the power? Xia Jun was stunned on the spot, and asked in surprise after reacting.

"It was Cheng Quande, the governor of Jiangsu, who had just announced the reading power of Jiangsu and asked our Fujian army to withdraw from Jiangsu." Chen Xuanyu reported, "Jiangsu's new army is in Suzhou City and the 08th Brigade is in a standoff, and the 08th Brigade has just called to ask for instructions on the next move. ”

Xia Jun was speechless for a long time, Jiangsu's early reading power disrupted his overall plan, if Jiangsu did not take it, then Haiyan would not be found, and the alkali industry would not be able to talk about.

"Chairman, I think we should retreat first at present, if we attack Jiangsu, we will be morally at a disadvantage, and the impact on us will be very unfavorable." Chen Xuanyu suggested to Xia Jun, "And You Zhengbin just told me that the gap in our administrative staff has reached one-half, and with our current administrative staff only enough to manage half of Zhejiang, the gap is very large. It's better to take a break and wait until we have a firm foothold before expanding outward. ”

Xia Jun thought about it for a while, what Chen Xuanyu said did make some sense, now the territory is expanding rapidly, and the territory that has been laid has not yet been consolidated, and once it expands too much, there will be chaos.

In addition, Xia Jun now has two provinces of territory, plus Jiangxi's Shangrao, Yingtan, Jingdezhen, Jiujiang and Shanghai counties, if he occupies Jiangsu again, then not only is he morally at a disadvantage, but also is likely to be regarded as a public enemy by the north and the south.

"Let the 08 Brigade retreat!" Xia Jun reluctantly gave up his plan to attack Suzhou, but this was only the temporary stop of Xia Jun's expansion, and soon Xia Jun made up his mind to first manage Fujian, Zhejiang and the northeastern region of Jiangxi, and wait for the opportunity to occupy Jiangsu again.

During the Republic of China, warlords fought in a melee, and there were many opportunities, so there was no need to rush for a while.

At present, the most important thing is to stabilize the territory already occupied, and the land has suddenly taken up so much that the shortage of administrative staff in the new territory has reached one-half.

Under various factors, the 08 Brigade received an order to retreat on this day, and soon the 08 Brigade retreated to Shanghai.

At this time, Xia Jun had captured 140,000 square kilometers of territory, of which 100,000 were in Zhejiang, and the other 40,000 square kilometers were the sum of the territories of Jiangxi and Shanghai.

All these territories are occupied, and Xia Jun will get 28 million points, which is a huge income! And Xia Jun's points soared to 170 million points.

With this investment, Xia Jun can invest in larger projects, but at present, Xia Jun still decided to move the administrative center to Hangzhou first.

Jian'an is indeed not suitable as an administrative center, as far as the cities on the occupied territory are concerned, there are only two places suitable for being an administrative center, one is Fuzhou and the other is Hangzhou.

Hangzhou is obviously more suitable than Fuzhou, because Hangzhou has more convenient transportation and is located between the north and the south.

On October 20, at the administrative meeting held in Jian'an, almost everyone agreed to move the administrative center to Hangzhou, so Xia Jun began to make adjustments.

Militarily, Xia Jun will establish five mixed brigades, the mixed brigade will have infantry and artillery, and the reading force will form a brigade, and these five mixed brigades will be responsible for local defense in peacetime.

The 1st Mixed Brigade will be deployed on the front line of southern Fujian to defend against possible attacks from the Cantonese side, but the Cantonese side is not to be concerned, and its focus will be on the defense of the coastal plains in the southern Fujian region.

The 2nd Mixed Brigade was deployed on the front line of Fuzhou, and the same defense was the coastal plain in the southeast of Fujian, which was coordinated with the 1st Mixed Brigade.

The 3rd Mixed Brigade was deployed in the Ningde area.

The Fourth Mixed Brigade was deployed in the Wenzhou area.

The Fifth Mixed Brigade was deployed in the Ningbo area.

These five mixed brigades were mainly to defend against possible invasion from the sea, and the main force fighting against this was the three divisions of the Central Army.

The 1st Division was to follow Xia Jun to Hangzhou, the 2nd Division to Fuzhou, and the 3rd Division to Quzhou, Zhejiang.

In addition, five reading regiments will be established, and these five regiments will be used to defend against the invasion of other warlords, one in Yongding, one in Changting, one in Yingtan and Jiujiang, one in Changxing County, Huzhou, and one in Shanghai County.

The five mixed brigades and five reading regiments that have been expanded this time together are the strength of three divisions and two regiments, and these troops will be used as the second-line troops to defend the localities, forming a defensive circle along the coast and inland.

Xia Jun was not worried about the area defended by the Reading Force, the power of the warlords in the surrounding provinces was not strong, and one Reading Regiment or two Reading Regiments could resist and counterattack if they worked together......

The mixed brigades along the coast temporarily blocked the landing force of Yuben when the navy could not stop it, and the real combat force was still the Central Army of the three divisions in Xia Jun's hands.

Xia Jun still has a year to train these troops, and it is very likely that a war will break out with Yuben in a year.

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