Wang Jinming stood up and focused everyone's attention on himself, and then said: "I have seen everyone's doubts, and I will also explain to you that the reason why horse bandits are difficult to clear is that they miss a blow and escape thousands of miles away, with the help of the horse's strong mobility ability, even if they encounter a blow, they will quickly flee!" ”

The Eight Great Jin Merchants nodded, they know very well the habits of the horse bandits, and their combat effectiveness is not even as good as their guards, not to mention the strictly trained militia groups, directly fight positional warfare, 100 militia groups, at least 500 horse bandits can be defeated, but all the abilities of the horse bandits are on the horse, many horse bandits have been on the horse for decades, eating and living on the horse, and they are used to being on the horse for food, clothing, housing and transportation, in this case, if they want to really escape, unless they are in the right location and ambush, otherwise, it is difficult to encircle and suppress them.

Near Baotou, is the Mongolian steppe, there is no special mountain passes and valleys in the northeast, a certain distance dù above, at a glance, the horse bandits are naturally careful, so that any ambush is in vain, even if the ambush is reluctant, the horse bandits will quickly flee under the unfavorable situation of attack, which has caused this situation.

Wang Jinming kept everyone's expressions in mind, and then said: "If the new army approves it, we can merge the militia into the new army and transfer it out of Baotou in the form of drills and training!" ”

"Transfer?" Wei Ming almost lost his voice and shouted, the role of the new army for the Wei family is very great, the Wei family every few days, will transport a batch of silver dollars to Taiyuan or Zhangjiakou, used to support the larger and larger bill of exchange business, although he will take out a large amount of money every time to reward the militia, but he knows that relative to his profits, this is insignificant, in four consecutive months, the number of silver dollars transported, hundreds of millions, there is no slightest problem, which shows that the new army is stable.

Now, if the new army is transferred, what will happen to the silver dollar transportation business, he almost stood up on the spot, asked questions, Wang Jinming said unhurriedly: "Don't worry, Brother Wen Juxian, for this plan, we have a complete arrangement!" ”

Wei Ming sat down suspiciously, and the others were also thinking about the advantages and disadvantages of the transfer of the militia group, Qiao Zhiyong of the Qiao family, who had the most flexible brain, stood up and said: "What Yang Shao means, is it to show the enemy to be weak and lead the other party to attack Baotou!" ”

"That's right, that's what it means!"

"Then attract the bandits over, and the militia will come back!"

"Back is definitely coming back, but after the war, this battle, the new army will definitely be transferred, and Baotou will only leave a small part of the Yellow River patrol battalion and some ordinary militia, and they can only rely on them!" Wang Jinming said unhurriedly, about this plan, in the past half a month, after Yang Yuanzhao put forward it, he and the staff officers, I don't know how many times they have carried out deductions, if the new army is transferred back, on the endless prairie, it will not be able to cover it at all, and there is no way to use water and land routes.

"That's a bit too risky, isn't it?" The head of the Qu family said that he was robbed of a caravan and suffered heavy losses, but there are more assets in Baotou, especially the cotton textile factory, which has become an important asset of the entire Baotou, and it is not an exaggeration to make money every day.

In the same way, there are several other honest and stable family owners, including Hou Jinsheng, a big landowner, all the foundation and capital of the Hou family are in Baotou, if this place becomes a battlefield, in case of some damage, it is absolutely unacceptable.

"I know everyone's concerns, so this battle must be early, it will be May soon, the wheat will be harvested, we can advance a little, so that we can lose part of the wheat yield and quality, but it can provide us with 15-20 days of war time, which is also the way to minimize the loss!"

Harvest in advance, you will get losses, but compared with the losses directly attacked by the horse bandits, it is simply minimal, it seems that the Baotou militia and the Chamber of Commerce, with a comprehensive consideration, many family owners have a thoughtful expression on their faces, Qiao Zhiyong stood up and asked: "Then how to lure the horse bandits over!" ”

"Of course, the shark has to smell fishy, the ticket number of the Wei family, and several other ticket numbers, in recent times, have not transported silver dollars to the outside!"

Qiao Zhiyong immediately understood, he also made the ticket number, knowing that now Baotou's industry and commerce are extremely developed, and the amount of acceptance every day is quite large, if from now on, to the beginning of May, if the silver dollars are not transported outward, just Baotou local, may have to store 50 million, or even more silver dollars, this money, I am afraid that even the Beiyang Army will know, will be upset, not to mention the horse bandits, especially the militia transferred away, only less than 1,000 people are left in the Yellow River patrol battalion and militia group, how can this resist, As long as this information leaks out, the horse bandits will rush over even if they are thousands of miles away.

"I can really resist it!" Someone asked weakly.

"Of course, everyone should have confidence in our Baotou militia, as for the method, I won't say much!" Wang Jinming didn't say how to resist, but all along, the Baotou New Army, the status among the crowd, or let many family owners calm down, if the horse bandits are introduced to Baotou and annihilate a large part, not to mention more, as long as 50 are killed, some of the stronger bandits will be defeated, and the bandit problem will definitely be solved.

Wei Ming looked at the people who were a little moved, a little panicked, and said: "But what about our Wei family, the ticket number of the Wei family, if there is no support for this money, maybe, it will fall, I can't joke with the Wei family!" ”

Wei Ming said is the truth, the whole Baotou, the Wei family ticket number is not shallow, relying on the relationship between shareholders and the Baoken company, most of the capital flow of the Baotou Chamber of Commerce, are placed in the Wei family ticket number, in this case, its daily flow is the most, if to the beginning of May, do not transport out, their Wei family, almost to leave 30 million in Baotou, this money, even if it is against the Wei family, is not easy to resist, once there is a wind and grass, he is completely finished.

"Okay, Yang Shao has a comprehensive consideration of this, and he will pass Guò Demei Foreign Bank to save 30 million US dollars in Citibank in Zhangjiakou and Taiyuan to help the Wei family and other ticket numbers circulate, think about it, there is no problem!"

30 million US dollars, that is, 60 million of the current ocean, this money is definitely a huge amount of money, with its foundation, at least the operation of the Wei family and other ticket numbers, there will be no problems, Wei Ming finally understood, Yang Yuanzhao really has a comprehensive consideration, I am afraid that this has been taken into account before, the reason why the ticket number was chosen, I am afraid it is more to make the horse bandits believe that there is such a huge amount of money, just in Baotou, otherwise they know that Yang Yuanzhao is rich, but the horse bandits do not know, but it is the ticket number, these horse bandits have been in Baotou for many days, and even hit the silver car a few times, I must have calculated, not necessarily accurate, but I know that this is a huge number that counts in the tens of millions.

The shareholders' meeting soon reached an agenda, and several companies came forward separately to jointly build momentum to build a new army in Shanxi, on the one hand, in order to suppress bandits, on the other hand, it is also to deter the northwest, and the industrial and mining development of Baotou also needs such a new army to sit in town, the militia group, the name is too small.

At this time, the center of the Qing court was a little chaotic, the regent had just come to power, and forced Yuan Shikai to return to his hometown, but he could not clear Yuan Shikai's forces in the entire Qing court, especially in the Beiyang Army, Beiyang Dragon Tiger Dog, Wang Shizhen, Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang The three of them, tightly grasped the military power, they were the most loyal to Yuan Shikai, as for the strategist Xu Shichang, the whole was regarded by the regent, replacing Yuan Shikai, controlling the entire Beiyang people, after returning from the Northeast, there has been no action, not to clear Yuan Shikai's power, but to pamper and treat the best, Self-cultivation has been cultivated.

Beiyang Cheng said that it was already too big to fall, even if Yuan Shikai was removed, it would not be possible to completely remove Yuan's influence in the Beiyang Army, and as a last resort, the regent had to build a new army in an all-round way, so as to resist Yuan's aggressiveness, as long as all localities had the ability, they approved one after another. In most of the rich provinces, the new army has already been built, and the rest, with weak hearts and strong intentions, the new army in Shanxi, at this time, through some channels, finally reached the center, the regent with a stroke of the pen, agreed.

Yang Yuanzhao did not expect that the application for the New Army was just a price to sit on the ground, to give the Qing court a relatively high goal, waiting for the center to be discounted, you know, even before and after Xinhai, a few years later, when Shanxi had a new army, it was just a battalion, with 2,500 people, which can be regarded as a relatively large scale of the new army.

No one expected that the regent waved his pen, and the 54 mixed compilation association was approved like this, and it was not determined whether it was the standard of one association and two standards, or the standard of one association and three standards, Yang Yuanzhao had planned to expand the organization, Feng Yuxiang's battalion back then, he was able to stuff 2,000 people into it, and one association did not stuff in one or two thousand people, with a name and no name, these are completely different things, relying on the regent's order, the name of the 54 mixed organization association, at most one year, with the support of arms, under the expansion of the backbone of the militia groupBy the way, some of the outstanding soldiers in the whole country will be gathered, and a new army comparable to the town, or even the third town of the Beiyang model, maybe, it will take shape, which is the biggest reliance in the troubled times.

The news went out of Beijing, and was immediately reported to Yang Yuanzhao by telegram, a day or two late, reported to Yang Yuanzhao, Yang Yuanzhao was discussing with Wang Jinming, the next plan, hearing the news, stood up excitedly, and couldn't suppress the excitement and said: "Brother Jin Ming, our business is done!" ”

"Congratulations, brother, next, are you going to do it according to the plan!"

"Of course, let these horse bandits become a celebration before our 54 mixed formation army!" Yang Yuanzhao tilted his head, looked at Wang Jinming, and said calmly. R1152