Chapter 187: Great Development
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This time, we completely offended the Japanese miserably, and the Japanese army stationed in Shenyang had already set off, and it would reach Tongliao in the next few days.
Moreover, in addition to the Hasek United, several other wings are also moving frequently, and they are prepared to defend us strictly and prevent us from running to other places.
So I planned to divide the troops into pieces and disperse them to the great regions before the Japanese arrived, and Tongliao was connected to the steppes.
When the Japanese come, our main force can also hide in the grassland first, the devils can't stay in Tongliao all the time, and we can still get the support of the military headquarters on the grassland, even if the devils really plan to stay in Tongliao and not leave, we can afford it. ”
Risks and benefits coexist, and they have gained such great benefits from the Japanese, how can the Japanese not retaliate against them, you must know that the Japanese are the most resentful.
"Captain, we now have more than 4,000 people, more than the people in a wing of devils, and we fight directly with the little devils, why go, here is where we have developed with great difficulty."
Just mentioned the matter of promotion, this time the troops will be reduced to zero, Zhang Wu and Ma Liangpo are very reluctant.
"How can there be such a way of fighting in a war, the northeast has been occupied by devils, even if we repel the attack of Hase, the Japanese will send more people to attack us.
What's more, with our current strength, it is impossible to be the opponent of Haselen United, if we all fight with the devils, then Fengtian Province will really become the world of devils. Jin Hu said.
Not to mention that because of the focus of the Japanese care, Jinhu was forced to break the troops into pieces and go underground.
After the Chahar Arsenal obtained more than 200 technicians from the Shenyang Arsenal, it immediately solved the embarrassing situation that the arsenal could not even produce rifles.
"Gunza, now that the arsenal is able to produce rifles, and we have also stockpiled a lot of steel, the arsenal will be able to produce about a thousand rifles a month when it is fully operational."
"This production is a little low, a thousand a month, half a year is enough to equip a brigade. The anti-Japanese death squad used to equip the Golden Tiger is no problem, but for the security army, it is far from enough. Li Han said.
He bought nearly 20,000 Mauser rifles from the general offensive to Will twice, but the first batch of rifles had been almost consumed in the more than a year of war.
At present, only the 145th Division has reequipped the Mauser rifle (the same as the official rifle in China), and Yan Chihuo of the Independent Brigade has reequipped the 17th Regiment by himself, and the 16th Regiment is still generally German and half Japanese. The other units were all Japanese-made rifles, and there were even a lot of Liao-made 98 rifles.
Moreover, in Li Han's plan, before the July Seven Incident, if the Nationalist Government did not give him another division, then he would add another division to the security army himself, and he would have prepared the personnel of the division commander, that is, Wang Dazhu.
And once another division is expanded, his demand for rifles will definitely be greater, if the arsenal is still at this output, I am afraid that after the outbreak of the 77 Incident, he will not be able to complete the refitting of the security army, Chahar is not a southern province.
Once the Anti-Japanese War breaks out, Chahar will definitely be the first target to be attacked, that is, even if the arsenal can still be maintained, the output will be greatly reduced, so in Li Han's plan, the security army must complete the refitting before three or seven years.
"The output of the military seat is almost the limit of the arsenal, even if the workers are familiar with the process, they can only produce one or two hundred more rifles per month, if you want to expand production, you must continue to inject capital into the arsenal and buy a few more production lines back."
Wang Wei said that if you want to increase the production of rifles, it is not difficult to say, as long as you want to increase investment in arsenals.
The reason why Shenyang Arsenal can become the largest arsenal in China is because the old handsome Zhang Zuolin has put a lot of effort into it.
In 1923, the No. 2 Gun and Shell Factory was added, and in 1924, a steel-making plant was added to refine artillery tube steel, high-speed steel, and tool steel. Between 1926 and 1928, the gun factory and gun factory were expanded to seven or eight times the original scale, and pyrotechnic, nitric acid, and explosives factories were also added.
How luxurious this equipment is, not only the production of guns and cannons, but also the factories that have produced rifle cannons and bullets and shells for steel and gunpowder are all round, and it is no wonder that they can produce about 60,000 rifles a year, which is enough to equip the army-level troops of the three Central Armies in one year.
And this is only the production of rifles, which can also produce hundreds of light and heavy machines at the same time, in addition to artillery, 37 flat guns, 75 caliber mountain artillery and field artillery, and 105 caliber howitzers can be produced at the same time.
However, it is also very difficult to achieve this, the total value of these equipment alone is close to 100 million silver dollars, and there are also a large number of skilled craftsmen, neither of these two conditions can be met by Li Han. Especially the first one, the silver dollars alone couldn't take out Chahar.
"You're right, this matter is not urgent for the time being, besides, I only plan to use the Liaozao 98 rifle for the Death Corps, and the security army will also be equipped with Mauser rifles.
Rest assured, as long as my plan against the Japanese is successful, not only will we be able to get a lot of money, but I will also be able to secure the production line of the Mauser rifle.
This time the Golden Tiger has recaptured from the Japanese a million and a half million silver dollars worth of silver, which I intend to hand over to you, and it has been two months since we repaid the bonds we issued to the Chahar merchants last time, and with this silver, we should be able to fill this hole soon. ”
Li Han is now a little impatient and hopes that the "Silver Act" of the United States will be passed as soon as possible, although it will cause great trauma to the Nanjing government and the entire Republic of China.
But no matter what the outcome will be, there is no way for him to stop what the Americans have decided to do, and the only thing he can do at present is to maximize his interests in this silver turmoil, and at the same time sabotage the Japanese to profit from it.
The days passed day by day in Li Han's expectation, and in a blink of an eye, it was the end of May of 1934, that is, the 23rd year of the Republic of China.
In just over a month, it will be the harvest season for farmers, and from September last year to May this year, more than 600,000 new migrants have been added to Chahar.
And since March, the main force of immigration has still shifted from businessmen to government, and now the rate of immigration is getting faster and faster, basically reaching about 100,000 people every month.
However, according to Wang Wei and Shi Dingzhong's estimates, this speed can be maintained for up to eight months at most, and by that time, the displaced people in several nearby provinces are estimated to be almost absorbed by them.
After that, if you want to resettle on a large scale, you have to sign immigration contracts with the government departments of the provinces, but unless the Nanjing government issues such an edict to them, with Li Han's prestige, the other provinces will not be able to do anything to him.
In addition, the newly cultivated farmland in Chahar has reached 15 million mu, of course, only 5 or 6 million mu of these fields have been reclaimed by farmers, and the remaining nearly 10 million mu of farmland is done by tractors imported by the provincial government from abroad.
Nowadays, Western countries have entered the era of mechanization, and even the farmland they are in the mode of farms, and a few farmers can take care of hundreds or even thousands of acres of farmland by manipulating various machinery.
And they have already started to use chemical fertilizers for crops at this time, so don't look at the small population and small land area of Western countries, but they can export a lot of grain every year.
Although Li Han did not expect Chahar's grain to be exported to other places, he at least had to ensure that the people of Chahar would not have to worry about running out of food. In this kind of troubled times, grain is a hard currency, and with food, the hearts of the people will be bottomed, and the people can be stable, so that Li Han can reorganize the army and run the army in Chahar with peace of mind.
In addition, Chahar's tax tax also accounts for a large chunk, and Chahar's current fiscal revenue is far from being able to ignore the agricultural tax.
Besides, even if he could, Li Han would not dare to do this, the agricultural tax is related to the people of the whole country, if he exempts the people of Chahar from the agricultural tax, what will the people of the whole country think. Isn't this a pure intention to embarrass the Nanjing government? At this time, he offended Lao Jiang, does he still want to stay in Chahar to develop with peace of mind?
Not only that, but the other major warlords in the country also did not give Li Han a good look, because Li Han's doing so would also cause their people to be dissatisfied with the rulers.
"Junzuo, these are all farmland that has only been reclaimed this year, and the yield of rice is very low, only about 200 catties per acre.
There are also thousands of acres of government trial fields, all of which use chemical fertilizers used by farmers in powerful countries, but the output is only about 350 catties, but the price of chemical fertilizers is too high, and the price of chemical fertilizers used per mu of land is almost equal to one-third of the output.
Instead of that, we might as well cultivate more land, and anyway, Chahar has more land, and even if the yield is low, we can make up for it with quantity. ”
Wang Wei said that as chairman of the provincial government, he hopes to maximize the income of farmers, so that not only can the people's lives be better, but the provincial government's finances can also be more relaxed.
Although the effect of chemical fertilizer is good, it can increase the yield of rice by nearly half, but the price is too high, and Chahar does not have the technology to produce chemical fertilizer, not only Chahar, but even the entire Republic of China does not have this technology, and all chemical fertilizers can only be purchased from foreign powers.
This is tantamount to handing over the initiative to the great powers, including Li Han, almost all of whom have an instinctive rejection and distrust of the great powers. That's why Wang Wei would rather reclaim more land than use chemical fertilizers.