In October, the autumn tigers in Yucheng were still raging, most of the rice had been harvested in the fields, and the peasants were showing the joy of a bumper harvest on their faces that were flushed, and they knew that this year's harvest would definitely be better than in previous years, the rent had been reduced, the interest had been reduced, the newly established agricultural cooperatives had a fair price for the purchase of rice, and an endless stream of peasants carried the picks to the cooperatives and then exchanged them for the salt they urgently needed back home, and bought a few pieces of cloth to make new clothes for their children and mothers-in-law who were studying.

Guanyinqiao Town every 369 rush (called the market in the north), the shops of the four towns in the city are here to set up a platform to sell goods, the residents of the town in their own door or on the empty dam on the two benches to reach a wooden board to become a simple counter, and then rent to the shops that sell goods, this simple counter will usually be spacious street squeezed into only a seam, on both sides of the sewing are the guys who shout hard, their objects are those dark-skinned countrymen, but the attitude is unprecedentedly cordial.

Of course, there are some people who are not here to go shopping, there are always troupes to sing on stage, on the stage in the west of the town, as soon as the gongs and drums are struck, Hua Dan Xiaosheng will start chattering, but in the middle of the lift, but the patrons of the troupe are invited to put a few tables in the middle, and then put a bowl of tea, fruit snacks, melon seeds, peanuts, etc., a group of people sit there to listen to the play, of course, they are invited to stand next to listen, and no one will drive you away.

The security of Guanyin Bridge is one of the best in Chongqing, the base of the Southwest Development Team is located here, and the security work is very strict, especially after the assassination case occurred a few months ago, the uncle and the younger brother of the robe here were directly arrested and put in prison, and they were only released a few days ago.

"One more!" On the stage, several martial artists were doing somersaults, and the series of somersaults attracted bursts of cheers, and one of the immature children's voices shouted.

"Brother, take a good look." The two little girls clapped their hands and shouted.

"What's this, Uncle Wu and Uncle Song are much stronger than them." A little boy next to her sniffled disdainfully, looking well-informed.

"It's just pretty!" The little girl pouted unhappily: "Uncle Song, their somersault is ugly and dead." ”

The little girl was very happy to see it, but the little boys were not interested, and looked around. These children look like the children of the base, the children of the base are completely different from the villagers outside, even if they are very young, but they generally wear military uniforms or tunics, boys are all flat-headed, girls are all short-haired, so although these children stand here as if no one is standing here, no one dares to provoke.

At this moment, there was a slight commotion at the gate of the town in the distance, and the people who rushed to the scene dodged to both sides, and a group of more than twenty young men in military uniforms came out in the middle, but these people did not have military ranks on their shoulders and no cockades on their hats.

"Rookie!" The little boy shouted.

A few adults next to him obviously didn't know what this meant, and they were also discussing: "Recruitment started this year, why is it so early?" Wasn't it all after the rice harvest in previous years? ”

"Who knows, your three children were not selected last year, but this year?"

"I haven't heard of it, the military service center hasn't notified you."

"Then I definitely didn't choose it."

"It's not okay, isn't this bullying? I was selected last year, but I suddenly said no, and I said that if I wanted to draft soldiers this year, my son would choose them first. No, I'll have to go to them. ”

The recruits, led by the officers, marched with neat steps and pride, towards the barracks, leaving behind them a series of chatter.

"The number of conscripts this year is 35,000, and with the addition of last year and the year before that, we have 50,000, which is enough for one army." Zhuang Jihua closed the file and said to Du Yuming, Fan Hanjie, and Zhengcheng who attended the meeting: "My goal is 100,000 people, and we need at least 10,000 sergeants, but now we only have 6,000, and the number is not enough. ”

Seriously nodded to show that he understood, but Du Yuming said worriedly: "Cultural Revolution, there are two problems now, establishment and weapons, 50,000 people is already a large number, and it is no longer appropriate to still use the escort team; In addition, the weapons we have saved in more than a year can only equip more than 20,000 people, according to this establishment," Du Yuming said Yang Yang shook his head in the plan in his hand and said: "This is not enough. ”

In the plan designed by Zhuang Jihua, each squad of twelve people was equipped with one light machine gun, seven medium formal rifles, and four submachine guns; Three squads formed a platoon, and the platoon added a heavy machine gun group, equipped with a wheeled Makqin heavy machine gun, and the whole platoon had 40 people; Three platoons formed a company, and the company added a machine gun platoon, which was equipped with two 60 mortars, three wheeled Makqin heavy machine guns, plus a cooking squad, a communicator, a wireless walkie-talkie, a medical guard, and a first-aid kit, for a total of 140 people.

The third company was formed into a battalion, and the battalion added a machine gun platoon, equipped with two heavy machine guns, two 60 mortars, and 2 82 mortars; The three battalions were formed into a regiment, and the regiment added an artillery company, a special service company, a guard company, a communications company, a transport platoon, and an artillery company equipped with six 82 mortars, three battle defense guns, and three 120 mortars that had just been developed. The special service company has eighty people, and compared with ordinary companies, the number of submachine guns has been increased, and the number of medium rifles has been reduced; Pack horses and mules have been added to the transport platoon, and the reason for the lack of cars is that China's road traffic is relatively poor, and only the traffic conditions near large cities are relatively good. Three regiments into brigades, three brigades into divisions, the division's direct troops include engineer battalions, artillery battalions, air defense battalions, special service battalions, ambulance teams, communications battalions, baggage battalions, in addition to each division to increase two supplementary regiments, this supplementary regiment is Du Yuming and seriously proposed, in fact, it is also the usual practice of the [***] team now, China lacks the national surname of the reserve, the state power organization ability is poor, a battle down, the loss of soldiers can not be replenished in time, so the establishment of a supplementary regiment in the army, the supplementary regiment has no heavy weapons, Soldiers are usually a bunch of people with guns. The advantage of this is that it can be supplemented as it is fought, and the combat effectiveness of the main forces on the front line can be guaranteed. In this way, the number of the whole division is as high as 12,600, and 50,000 people can be organized into four divisions.

Such a huge establishment made Du Yuming happy and worried, happy that Zhuang Jihua obviously let him serve as his deputy, then it is likely to be the deputy army commander, and the worst is also the division commander, at present, only Hu Zongnan has been promoted to the commander of the first phase of Huangpu, and he Du Yuming will become the third army-level general. But to bring such a force well, Du Yuming couldn't help but feel a little uneasy in his heart.

"I'll go to the principal to solve the matter, weapons, I, Zaitian, Junqi and I combined, the current stock of more than 16,000 rifles, 6,000 light machine guns, 5,000 heavy machine guns, 60 guns, 82 guns, battle defense guns are enough, howitzer cannons are estimated to be put into production within two or three months, so the key is rifles. I mean equip in batches, recruit people in first, and then talk about it, didn't we also use wooden guns to train in Huangpu back then, and now we can also review it. ”

Zhuang Jihua said easily, but Du Yuming was a little dissatisfied, a few months ago he reminded Zhuang Jihua that if he wanted to expand the army on a large scale, he should pay attention to leaving some weapons, but last month, Liu Wenhui and Deng Xihou came to buy weapons at the same time, to buy 20,000 rifles, the price was 15% higher, Zhuang Jihua was a fan of wealth actually agreed, and Du Yuming was so angry that he almost scolded.

But Du Yuming didn't know that if someone was willing to pay, he could sell all the rifles in stock, because Yu Dawei informed him that the appearance of the semi-automatic rifle was going well, and the prototype gun could be produced within three months, and with the AK47, the Chinese official would go to hell.

Seeing that Du Yuming's face was wrong, he preemptively interjected: "I think it's okay to let the soldiers know that guns are not easy to come by." ”

"Okay, that's it, I'll send a telegram to the principal, at least a military number." Zhuang Jihua closed the folder and left happily.

"This Cultural Revolution, they all became fathers, but sometimes they still look like children." Seriously looked at his back and shook his head.

"He, I think he's a money fan," Du Yuming said with some contempt: "You didn't see him like that at the beginning, 15% of the profit, Guangting, that's hundreds of thousands, how can you put hundreds of thousands without earning?" Get rid of a miser's face, and one day the ocean will crush him to death. ”

Seriously looking at Du Yuming's appearance, he couldn't help laughing, since he came here, he found that his laughter was several times more than a few years ago, this group headed by Zhuang Jihua was really interesting.

But before Zhuang Jihua Min and Chiang Kai-shek could send a telegram, Mei Yuntian hurried over, and took out an official letter and handed it to Zhuang Jihua without saying anything.

This is an official letter from the Ministry of Finance, informing Mei Yuntian to go to Nanjing to participate in the preparatory meeting for the issuance of fiat currency. Currency reform has finally begun, but Zhuang Jihua frowned.

He supported the currency reform, but now he is not at ease, for no other reason, history tells him that the Kuomintang's currency depreciation is very strong, and it is said that by the forty-ninth year, when you buy something, you have to take a sack to put money (the pig's foot memory is wrong, it should be a gold dollar scroll. Pig's Feet: Damn, who said I don't know, it's the damn author who won't let me know), Sichuan's currency value is very stable now, and if the currency issuance rights are easily handed over, it will be impossible to control it in the future.

"Shaoqing, what do you think?" Zhuang Jihua felt a little embarrassed, he was clearly in favor of a unified currency at the beginning, but now he suddenly wants to oppose it, will Mei Yuntian have an opinion?

"A unified currency is a good thing, and we should support it." Mei Yuntian said calmly after drinking saliva.

"Have you thought about this question," Zhuang Jihua pondered and said: "The principal and Kong Xiangxi are not really proficient in finance, and the funds needed for the future war of resistance are almost unlimited, what if they print paper money indiscriminately?" ”

Mei Yuntian understood what Zhuang Jihua meant, if there was no money during the war, the political axe was likely to increase the issuance of funds and obtain funds in the form of inflation, although this was a way to quench his thirst, but in order to carry on the war, the political axe had to do so.

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