Chapter 64 The Whole Province
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"Take a breath, stand upright, and look to the right!" Soon after the annihilation of the Bao Nian Division, Le Fei was transferred from his original unit and came to Guangzhou to serve as a platoon leader of the recruit platoon, responsible for training. The large-scale expansion of the army led to a shortage of genetic instructors, and the War Department of the Provisional Government had to send a group of veterans to join the ranks of instructors. The deputy platoon commander of this recruit platoon is the machine gunner Dong Dashan, and even more outstanding is He Guangsha, who applied for the Haifeng Military Academy and successfully passed, and now he rolls up the bunk and goes as a student, and he has to take the initiative to salute when he sees him soon!
"Smack", Dong Dashan kicked out, this is already the fifteenth kick he kicked today, there is no way, they are all illiterate, how can they know how to be left and right? I can only deepen my impression through special means, and I have to learn the culture slowly, and I did it myself. Le Fei stood aside and shook his head, the importance of recruit training was repeatedly emphasized, but he still hoped to fight on the front line. I hadn't heard the sound of the cannon for weeks, felt the bullets flying in my head, and felt something wrong with me. The most important thing is that there are meritorious opportunities on the front line, and the subsidies are also high, for a peasant baby like himself, the salary is very important, who knows when a bullet will be taken away, and he must not leave some money for his parents to support his parents.
Le Fei's comrades-in-arms, the 1st Regiment of the 1st Brigade has now occupied Shaoguan, the northernmost part of Guangdong, and the 2nd Regiment has also reached the Huaiji line to the west. I heard from the letter that there was no war, and small-scale battles happened every day, and I couldn't envy myself and Dong Dashan and others.
In July 1901, Lüliang adjusted the size of the garrisons in various places, leaving one regiment each in Huizhou and Guangzhou, and the others were recruits, of which 20,000 recruits were trained in the Huizhou military camp and 30,000 in the Guangzhou military camp. After discussion, the War Department believed that there was no longer the main force of the enemy army in Guangdong, and the mobilization of troops in other provinces would take at least half a year, and that there was no need to station too many troops in Guangzhou and Huizhou, and that the police department had been formed (a large number of gunmen from the original major families had changed their faces and become police officers to maintain law and order, of course, this was a measure taken in an emergency, and there would definitely be changes later), and it was necessary to take advantage of the time when Guangdong was in a Manchu vacuum to decisively send troops and take the rest of the areas.
Lü Liang was as good as a stream, and soon his troops were sent out to capture major towns along the main roads. Within two months, the ministries had basically achieved their planned objectives, the Qing soldiers were crushed at the first touch, and there was hardly any decent fighting, and soon the Provisional Government completed the military occupation of Guangdong, and the whole province of Guangdong was brought under the jurisdiction of the Provisional Government. The reason why it took two months was because the rainy season in Guangdong was coming, and the biggest enemy of the battle in the subtropical rainy season was the weather, and problems such as roads being washed out and ammunition being wet kept appearing, which was a good test of the army's ability to march long distances. The Huizhou Automobile Factory can produce 500 trucks a month, but because the number of drivers cannot keep up and there are too many places to use, most soldiers still use bicycles to maneuver, and in such weather conditions, bicycles have to be pushed. In the face of this situation, Huizhou Automobile Factory is expanding the production scale of off-road vehicles, and Lvliang Zhengzi plans to build Huizhou Motorcycle Factory, and so these two off-road artifacts are popularized in the army, and the combat ability of the subtropical march will be improved several levels.
The regiments captured towns along the way, and then handed them over to the police force and the Gene Man administrators who followed. When they arrived in the occupied territories, they posted notices according to a pre-established plan, promulgated provisional government orders, abolished the Manchu administration and appointed officials, protected the transport routes, and so on. It takes a lot of manpower to do these things, and the steel base takes out nearly half of its production capacity to manufacture genetic people at this stage, and Lu Yi sets the type and quantity of manufacturing according to the demand reported from various places, and every day a hundred genetic people go out of the base, distribute guns and ammunition, and then go to various jobs. They are not combatants, but they have the necessary combat skills, which is a necessary move in Guangdong, where bandits are rampant.
After Lü Hu led a brigade and a regiment to Shaoguan, he immediately began to build fortifications. Shaoguan is the northern gate of Guangdong, and will also be the first line of defense for the Qing army to encircle and suppress the revolutionary army organized by the governors in the south. There are two places where strong fortifications need to be constructed, one is the Lechang area near Hunan to the northwest, and the other is the Nanxiong area near Jiangxi in the northeast. According to the intelligence, these two directions are likely to face the most powerful local governors of the Manchu Qing Dynasty -- Zhang Zhidong and Liu Kunyi, who are uncertain about the attitude of the revolutionary government. Liu Kun made a big fanfare, and once said, "The orthodoxy of the imperial court is unshakable, and the chaotic party going against the sky is a move to trap the people in fire and water, and its harm is no less than long hair, Lu Liang is Hong Xiuquan's second, I vow to destroy it!" Lu Liang also wondered, what kind of enmity did he have against him? Killed his son or slept with his wife?
The soldiers will block, the water will cover the earth, do your own thing, and respond to all changes with the same! Large-scale fortification construction work was soon carried out, according to the plan, multi-layer barbed wire, tunnel fortifications need a large amount of reinforced concrete, not only Shaoguan, Huaiji, Luoding, Meizhou, Chaozhou and other border areas close to other provinces need large-scale construction of fortifications. The production of materials was not a big problem, the main thing was the problem of transportation, and the construction contingent of millions of people was organized, so that there were no idlers in the countryside in the occupied areas! The construction team first leveled the road, paved the stones, and initially solved the traffic problem, and then the road construction team built the gray road along the way, and the fortification team arrived at the important places to build fortifications. In order to solve the problems of logistics supply and wage payment, Lvliang set up the Guangdong Development Bank to dissolve a large amount of seabed silver ore into standard Guangdong silver dollars. The Guangdong silver dollar adopted the minting standard of the later "Yuan Datou", and quickly became the main currency in circulation in Guangdong through a strong economic system and the payment of wages by hired workers. As for paper money, it will take some time to pass, and the people are suspicious of the provisional government and have not yet completely returned to it, so it is not a good choice to circulate paper money now.
One problem leads to another, and the Provisional Government has matured and perfected in this busyness. Large-scale infrastructure construction requires a large amount of capital and material investment, and the provisional government is not short of funds for the time being, but the materials needed for the massive workers and projects are a bottomless pit, coupled with the ongoing railway construction projects and water conservancy facility construction, the materials needed make a large number of squires smell the smell of money, and the provisional government itself is formed by the rich man in Luliang, and there is definitely no shortage of money, and now he is doing so many things, I really don't know where he got so much money. But no matter how much, how can you let go of such a simple opportunity to make money? As a result, almost all the squires in Guangdong took the initiative to invest in the construction of factories, from a small shoe and socks factory to a cement factory, and the construction of factories became the most fashionable topic among the squires in Guangdong. Guangdong Development Bank provides convenient factory construction loans, Ziqiang Group provides machinery and technical support, the factory that originally felt difficult to get to the blue sky and out of reach has become a simple matter, and even the rural rich people have built garment workshops or parts factories on their own sites, and dozens of small factories accept orders from large factories and manufacture parts according to standards, and they have made a lot of money! Lu Liang once painstakingly built the factory bit by bit, and also spent great effort to persuade the gentry to buy shares and participate in the construction of the factory. Now, attracted by profits, the squire and other upper strata of society have finally taken the initiative to invest in industrialization, and the rusty gold and silver in the cellars and bank loans have become the original capital for industrialization. According to statistics, at the end of 1901, there were 3,762 new-style factories in Guangdong, of which 2,100 were built on the initiative and independently by the leading stratum, and this was only in half a year.
Not only did the gentry benefit, but the provisional government purchased grain in large quantities in order to satisfy the food needs of millions of people, resulting in an increase in the prices of grain, vegetables, and meat in Guangdong. The forced policy of rent reduction and interest reduction was not too much rejected by those landlords and squires because of the rich benefits brought by the wave of industrialization, and then Lu Liang took out the big killer of high-yield rice seeds, and finally let the rent and interest reduction be implemented smoothly. After the implementation of the policy, the Provisional Government received the support of the peasants, the most advantageous weapon, and after such a foundation was established, the Provisional Government could be said to be invincible. Because of the high grain yield and the rising price of grain, the peasants have a lot of surplus money in their hands and are able to go to the bazaar to buy the products produced in the factory. Workers' high wages also contribute to the prosperity of the market and directly contribute to the prosperity of the service industry.