After making a decision in his heart, Yang Xingguo immediately decided: "Yes, just two million taels of silver." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 🔥 But I have one more condition? ”

The major general's face suddenly became happy, and he subconsciously asked, "What conditions?" ”

"As far as I know, in order to support this decisive battle, your Manchurian army captured no less than 30,000 laborers in the northeast. I am Chinese, and it is impossible to watch my compatriots being enslaved by you, and life and death are better than ......."

"Give me all the Northeast laborers in your hands, I want 40,000 people, and replace them with North Korean laborers if they are not enough. As long as I send labor and silver, more than 3,000 ordinary prisoners, nearly 2,000 artillerymen, and about 1,000 officers, I will return them all to you. ”

If there are no more laborers, they can continue to be arrested in North Korea, because anyway, North Korea has a large population, and some of them are laborers.

The major general, who had this idea in his heart, gave Yang Xingguo a positive answer just after thinking about it.

As soon as the Japanese major general left the headquarters, Yan Bing, who was very interested in Yang Xingguo's final decision, asked: "Commander, more than one million taels of silver for forty thousand laborers, from a business point of view, we have lost a lot." “

"However, I have seen those laborers who were controlled by Japan and Russia, who did the hardest and most tiring work, ate the worst food, and did not even have enough to eat. More importantly, they were often bullied and exploited by the Japanese and Russian troops, and were even mistakenly killed on the battlefield. From the perspective of saving people, if we rescue them with more than one million taels of silver, we will definitely gain a lot of people's hearts, and we will not lose anything. ”

Yang Xingguo shook his head and replied: "This is just one of the reasons? ”

"Don't look at the Liaodong Army, large and small, it controls ten county towns, including refugees, and manages nearly two million people."

"Without affecting local production and popular support, a maximum of 100,000 people can be drawn out to serve as soldiers. Now, almost 50,000 people have been drawn. The remaining 50,000 people will never be allowed to join the army unless they have to. ”

"Therefore, relying only on these populations controlled by the Liaodong Army, the size of the Liaodong Army has reached its limit. Therefore, I have to find a way from the outside, and the tens of thousands of laborers controlled by the Japanese army can solve a lot of problems for me. ”

At this time, Yan Bing asked very unexpectedly, "Commander, are you still a human being?" As far as I know, the 10 county towns controlled by the Liaodong Army already have nearly 2 million people, with an average of nearly 200,000 people in one county. ”

"Of course there is ......," Yang Xingguo replied without thinking about it.

"The five counties in Liaozhong have reached saturation because of the replenishment of a large number of refugees. However, the total population of the five county towns occupied by our port bank, including Liaoyang and Xinmin, is less than 500,000, of which more than 200,000 are concentrated in Liaoyang. ”

"The deputy commander has sent people to count that there is a large amount of wasteland in these counties that can be reclaimed into fertile land. According to preliminary estimates, there will be no problem for these counties to take over another 1 million people. “

"Besides, the territory of my Liaodong Army will not always be in front of me, this is a county seat. Maybe in half a year, ten county towns will become twenty, or even thirty......"

"We all know that the border is sparsely populated, and the population here is even smaller due to the war. Therefore, as long as there are people who are willing to come to Liaodong, I can control as many people as there are, and give them rations that can last until the autumn harvest of the first year. ”

Speaking of this, Yang Xingguo seemed to realize something, and subconsciously grabbed Yan Bing's hand beside him and asked, "Yan Bing, do you have a way to solve this problem!" “

Yan Bing, whose hands were held by Yang Xingguo, replied with a flushed face: "There is a way, but can you put my hand down, Commander, it hurts a little." ”

After Yang Xingguo let go of his hand apologetically, he quickly explained: "I'm sorry, I'm a little too excited." ”

"Yan Bing, what is your solution? As long as it can be used, I will definitely promote it! ”

Yan Bing, whose face had regained his calmness, thought about it and replied: "Commander, the most important thing in the customs is people. As long as we can give some interest to the local people, there will definitely be people rushing to send them to us, especially in some of the affected provinces. ”

"Other places are far away because of the interception of the imperial army, and it is difficult for immigrants to come over without the support of the imperial court. And if you want the imperial court to support the people in the customs to immigrate outside the customs, it will never be possible in a short time. After all, there is a war going on outside the Guanwai now, and it is not yet under the control of the imperial court. ”

"However, there is one place where even without the support of the imperial court, we can bring Xinmin to the customs safely."

"This place is the Sichuan I'm going to go to."

"Even if a foreigner's freighter is on the Yangtze River, the imperial court will not inspect it. We can lease a few more freighters from Germany and send all the people in Sichuan who are willing to emigrate outside the customs to the ......."

Yang Xingguo was stunned suddenly, and exclaimed very excitedly: "Good way, take the Yangtze River waterway to get rid of the control of the imperial court." As long as there are people, we can immigrate as many new people as we want! “

At this time, Yan Bing continued: "Commander, there is indeed no problem in terms of transportation. But how to move the people to immigrate outside the customs is a big problem? ”

Yang Xingguo frowned and said: "Everyone knows that the environment outside the customs is bad, and there is still a war. It is almost impossible to get ordinary people to take the initiative to immigrate outside the customs. ”

"Also, if the people in the customs are registered by the imperial court, the government will not allow them to immigrate outside the customs by themselves!"

didn't let Yang Xingguo wait too long, and Yan Bing replied again: "I have a way to solve this problem." It's just that you have to pay some price, Commander. ”

"Let the people take the initiative to immigrate outside the border, almost no one will be willing. Then we have only one way, through those official governments, let the government force them to have to be outside the new people! ”

"Official! How is it possible, the people are all registered, and the government has forced them away, and the court asks what to do? Could it be that those magistrates would risk their official hats for the sake of profit? Yang Xingguo asked with a look of disbelief.

Yan Bing smiled, and smiled very confidently.

Under Yang Xingguo's incomprehensible gaze, he replied: "Commander, I finally found something you don't know!" ”

"I used to follow my father to run business in Guannei often, and sometimes I would contact the government, so I must know more about them than you are!"

"The population of a county ranges from a few hundred thousand to two or three hundred thousand."

"In order to make money, it is already very good that these registered Dingkou can have eight achievements of the total population. As for the people saved, they hid them all and put the collected taxes into their own pockets. ”

"We calculate according to the 200,000 people in one county, and there are at least 60,000 people in Dingkou, which is hidden by the government. As long as we come up with enough benefits, it is entirely possible that they will give us at least 30,000 people......"

"So there's still such a thing!" Yang Xingguo said with a sudden realization.

"If I'm not mistaken, the benefits you are talking about should be the weapons and ammunition you are going to sell to Sichuan!"

"Yes!" Yan Bing replied very quickly.

In Sichuan, a rifle can be sold for forty taels of silver, and it is still priceless, not that they can buy it if they want to. I'm going to exchange a rifle for ten strong men from them, and with their families, that's at least forty civilians. ”

"If nothing else, 20,000 rifles can be exchanged for 1 million immigrants." (To be continued.) )