Chapter 148: A two-pronged approach

The troops were divided into four places to control Chahar Province, and the security forces were busy expanding their troops and training. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info, however, is not optimistic about the conscription.

Li Han set up conscription points in all counties of the body, counties with slightly denser populations, and even set up conscription points in towns, but in a month, the dozens of conscription points in the whole army had recruited less than 1,000 recruits.

It's not that the people of Chahar are not very enthusiastic about joining the army, it's just that the population of Chahar Province is too small, and Chahar Province is so big, and it is not an exaggeration to describe many places as uninhabited for thousands of miles.

Since it was impossible to recruit soldiers in such a regular way, Li Han simply stopped recruiting soldiers in various places.

The security forces now have more than 10,000 people, including 3,200 in the 145th Brigade, 3,000 in the 155th Brigade, and more than 2,500 in the Independent Brigade.

There are more than 1,600 artillery regiments directly under the military headquarters, only 600 guards regiments, and even more than 200 reconnaissance regiments.

Originally, according to Li Han's plan, after the security army was fully established, there would be more than 18,000 people in the three brigades, and the three regiments directly under the military department, such as reconnaissance, guard, and special service, should also reach 8,000 after the full strength.

As for the baggage regiment and the artillery regiment, two regiments with two thousand men are enough, one regiment is enough, and the reconnaissance battalion and the field hospital add up to a thousand.

In this way, the total number of the security army will reach more than 30,000, but at the current rate of conscription, if you want to make the security army full, you will have to recruit until 1936, and by that time, the daylily will be cold.

However, if he does not recruit troops from all over the country, it does not mean that Li Han will not take action, he began to rise the banner of suppressing bandits, and there are many militia groups and landlords in Chahar counties, many of whom were originally members scattered to various places after the disbandment of the allied army.

So under Li Han's order, the brigades began to unify the armed forces in their own defense areas.

On the one hand, this can help provincial government officials to eliminate the cancer that affects local public order, and this time Li Han and his crackdown are not only targeted by bandits and bandits, but also by landlords and armed groups in various places, and even militia groups are within the scope of Li Han's crackdown.

In the newly disbanded Chahar Alliance, there are nearly 20,000 people who are the powerful and powerful forces of the Chahar landlords, although they finally joined the Allied Army and went to the battlefield of Kengri together, but after Li Han took charge of Chahar, he was determined to put an end to such landlord armies.

The existence of vigilante groups means that government decrees can only reach counties and towns, and further down, provincial government decrees are no different from waste paper. In addition, after the Japanese invaders occupied the cities of our country, most of the militia groups became puppet armies and became the doglegs of the Japanese.

And now the Republic of China is constantly in turmoil, not only the oppression of foreign enemies, but also the frequent outbreak of internal contradictions, if Li Han can build Chahar into a stable place, it will also play a great role in promoting the development of commerce.

At the same time, it can also train the army, straighten out the localities, gain the support of the common people, and expand the authority of the provincial government, in short, the benefits are innumerable.

At the same time that the army began to fight, the government forces also began to move. Because of the previous battle between more than 100,000 people of the Allied Army and the Japanese army in Chahar, the already impoverished Chahar Province became even more devastation.

Moreover, the previous provincial governments have not done anything in Chahar, and over the years, the Chahar provincial government has basically been in a state of deficit, so naturally there will be no plans to benefit the people.

Now that Li Han is in charge of Chahar, of course he can't let the people of Chahar continue to live in misery

However, the development of Chahar is not as easy as a few words, although there are no mineral resources without Chahar, but Li Han has no equipment to mine. Now the provincial government is also poor and white, and can only start with the simplest light industry.

"Director Yan, you have business all over the Beijing-Hebei region, and you are the boss of the Chahar Chamber of Commerce, so you must have a lot of friends in business.

Now that the public security situation in our province has been greatly improved, and the province's gold and miscellaneous taxes have been almost reduced, it should be able to attract a businessman to come to our province to invest and set up factories. ”

Li Han said to Yan Zhonghua with a smile.

"The military seat is expected to be good, the change in Chahar has been seen by many businessmen, and many people have already looked for it.

Since the security army began to crack down on bandits, many former friends have found me, and many factories have been built in Zhangbei and Wanquan.

The most important of them are the foreign fire factory, the ash factory, the flour mill, the textile factory, the sugar factory, the candle factory and so on.

However, the businessmen who come to invest in us are basically concentrated in people's livelihood enterprises, and we do not have any other factories such as minerals, industry, machinery, and steel. ”

Yan Zhonghua said. Being able to become the Minister of Finance is something Yan Zhonghua did not expect, and he is now in his fifties. During the Republic of China, many people of his age had begun to tease their grandchildren at home and live for the rest of their lives.

Yan Zhonghua himself has no hope for officialdom, and he is satisfied with his retirement as mayor.

I don't want to make people by providence, Xuanhua almost fell a while ago, but in a blink of an eye, he became the Minister of Finance of Chahar Province, and he was able to usher in the second spring of his political career in his fifties, so Yan Zhonghua worked extremely hard.

As the Minister of Finance, he is in charge of Chahar Province's money bag, but after Yan Zhonghua took office, he found that the Finance Department was not only empty, but also owed more than 100,000 oceans of foreign debts.

However, this did not scare Yan Zhonghua, Yan Zhonghua, who was rich and wealthy, immediately filled this hole from his own pocket, but he did not directly stuff his own money to the government, but in the name of investment, he stuffed more than 500,000 oceans into the Department of Finance.

It's not that Yan Zhonghua is reluctant to make money, but that there is no good end in the end of doing this in history, and the most typical of them is Shen Wansan.

worked hard and spent money to raise troops for Zhu Yuanzhang, and when the Ming Dynasty was established, Shen Wansan did not get glory and wealth, but was ruthlessly pushed to the guillotine by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Yan Zhonghua has been immersed in officialdom for decades, how can he not understand this truth, and Yan Zhonghua does not spend money and invest purely for political achievements.

Like Shi Dingzhong, he saw Li Han's ambition, and he also saw Li Han's ability, and in his opinion, Chahar Province would be Li Han's sooner or later.

Don't look at the poverty and poverty of Chahar Province now, but with the unification of the military and government in the province, Chahar will soon usher in a period of rapid development.

And now Chahar except for a very small number of areas in Chahar, the other large areas are a piece of undeveloped virgin land, and he is now throwing 500,000 oceans down, or in a few years, he can reap at least five or ten times the profit.

In addition to investing in his own factory, he began to contact business friends to invest in Chahar.

Yan Zhonghua is not only the head of the Chaha Business Association, but also a member of the provincial capital of Beiping, so he has business friends everywhere, and Chahar is also much better than other provinces.

In addition, the environment in Chahar is much more relaxed than in other provinces, and government officials not only do not exploit businessmen, but show great enthusiasm for them to have businessmen invest in Chahar.

Chahar itself is vast and sparsely populated, so merchants often only need to invest tens of thousands of oceans to be able to acquire a large area, which other inland provinces cannot provide.

"Yan Lao has worked hard, this matter is not in a hurry, and when the financial situation is relaxed, we can build our own steel factory and plant plane trees, which will naturally attract phoenixes."

Li Han said happily that with the investment of businessmen, Chahar's economy can be revitalized, and businessmen will bring more jobs to set up factories, which is also a great blessing for the people of Chahar.

In the county seat of Kangbao County, Zhang Lingyun and a group of officers under him gathered together! However, this group of people were all full of sadness, and the reason was very simple, because in Baochang, not far from Baochang County, there were troops of the 145th Brigade.

"Commander, the surname Wang is really too deceitful, let's fight with them!"

By Zhang Lingyun's side, a young major officer said indignantly. It turned out that Wang Dazhu still remembered the order of Li Han to salute first and then the soldiers, and before attacking, he also sent people to the city to persuade him to surrender.

In order to show his respect for Zhang Lingyun, he also deliberately sent Hu Zhi, the head of the 15th Sage Regiment, to persuade him to surrender.

In Wang Dazhu's opinion, he is sincere enough, in addition to him, the 145th Brigade has the highest military ranks, and Hu Zhi and Li Yong have the highest ranks, and he has already sent out his second-in-command.

Hu Zhi's temper Wang Dazhu also knew it, so before leaving, he repeatedly told Hu Zhi to talk to others. And Hu Zhi has been an official for so long, and he has seen a lot of people and worldliness, so he nodded again and again to show that he knew what to do.

Hu Zhi did that, but people didn't buy it at all, but sneered at him. Hu Zhi was not a pillar that could be angry, and after being ridiculed by Zhang Lingyun's people, he threw down the words "If you don't surrender, just wait for the city to be destroyed", he walked out of Kangbao without looking back.

"Yes, when the commander was the commander of the army, the surname Wang was just a regimental commander, and he dared us to surrender to him, and he didn't pee on himself.

Moreover, there are 4,000 people in our Kangbao Garrison Brigade, and those surnamed Wang are only in their early 3,000s, so it is not easy for me to defeat them. ”

A stubble-faced lieutenant colonel scolded excitedly, he was stimulated by Hu Zhi's attitude just now.

Zhang Lingyun was originally the commander of the Sixth Army, and of course, the Sixth Army of the Allied Army still had a relatively large amount of water. After being absorbed by the Nationalist Government, the Sixth Army was reorganized into two regiments, with a strength of less than 4,000, but Zhang Lingyun was appointed as the commander of the guard in Kangbao.

However, he was very uncomfortable as the garrison commander, and for some reason, Song Zheyuan did not reveal the intention of including them in the 29th Army, so he became the first target of the security army.