Zhangde (Anyang), as the junction of Henan and Hebei, Wang Sirui stationed the newly formed 25th Division here, and at this moment in Zhangde City, there is an integrated division as much as the army. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In fact, in the early stage, the 25th Division was stationed in Zhangde, Qi County, Linxian, and Kaizhou (Puyang), and with the completion of the six-month recruit training period, the elite personnel were selected to enter the 25th Division and become a formal field force, and the rest were organized into five battalions, which were stationed outside the above four places and Neihuang.

The soldiers who were assigned to the 25th Division needed to be immediately transferred to the Zhangde Barracks, which was their base camp and where they were stationed.

And this model, Wang Sirui shamelessly directly plagiarized later generations. The 25th Division belongs to the field troops of the regular army, and the five battalions of men and horses trained separately belong to the local garrison troops, similar to the armed police forces of later generations, although they belong to the same regular army flag, but the tasks are different, the training is different, and the equipment is different, so their main task is to assist the government in maintaining local law and order.

The 19th Division was stationed in Zheng County, which was also the place where the Pinghan Railway crossed the Yellow River, and was responsible for the entire central Henan region.

Although it was canceled on the map, it was actually not careless at all, and Wang Sirui was very strict about the east and west ends.

As the second most populous province in China, Henan has a population of 35 million, second only to Sichuan, the most populous province with 48 million.

And Wang Sirui's hands and feet were difficult to reach Sichuan for a while, so Wang Sirui could only put his mind on Henan, a province with a strong historical precipitation.

Jiangsu is in third place, and Shandong is fourth, with a population of 32 million and 30 million respectively.

If you count the two places of Zhili and Shengjing controlled by Wang Sirui, then the total population under Wang Sirui's rule has reached a terrifying 100 million people, accounting for a quarter of the country.

It can be said that the large population has brought new development to Wang Sirui, but it has also brought great confusion. But compared to development, then a little confusion is nothing.

A year passed in the blink of an eye, in this year, Wang Sirui's overall development is still relatively stable, externally, mainly to stability, relying on the United States and Germany, two potential allies, Wang Sirui will also coax the British a little unable to touch the north.

After the end of the Shengjing War, the two sides engaged in a tug-of-war for half a year, and in the end, due to the pressure of other powers, the Japanese had to give up their bottom line and reduce the indemnity to Japan stipulated in the Xinchou Treaty to 10 million taels of silver.

In other words, it was not until January 1903 that Wang Sirui handed over the first indemnity of 30 million taels of silver to Western countries in a hurry. At this time, the Qing Bank also received taxes from the southern provinces, totaling 80 million taels, which was basically equal to the annual tax revenue of the Qing court.

According to the regulations, the next repayment period should be January 1903, but because of Japan's delay and Wang Sirui's crying poverty, the repayment period was successfully delayed by Wang Sirui for a year, that is, the second indemnity should be paid in January 1904, and the amount was also 30 million taels of silver.

In terms of industry, the Germans' iron ore mines in Shandong will soon be able to start production, and the iron ore in the steel plant has been piled up, and the Germans are very unhappy.

And Wang Sirui also cooperated with the Germans, although the Germans were not willing to sell the weapons production line, but the steel equipment was still willing to sell to Wang Sirui.

As a result, Wang Sirui established an annual output of 300,000 tons of steel plants in Anshan and Zhangde in Shengjing, and the original steel plant was barely able to achieve an annual output of one million steel, which has greatly exceeded that of Japan.

However, this is only on paper, and it will take at least a year for these steel plants to actually be put into production.

In July 1903, it was another midsummer, and at this time last year, Wang Sirui was still fighting against the Japanese army in Shengjing, and quickly defeated the three divisions of the Japanese army, the third, fifth and North Koreans, which shocked the Western powers and let the governors in the south see Wang Sirui's strength.

In February, Wang Sirui transferred nearly 10,000 outstanding soldiers from the 1st Division and the 20th Division, and after a short period of training, sent these 10,000 soldiers to Shandong and Henan respectively.

There they will be responsible for training the newly formed troops, and the two most populous provinces under their own rule, with only four divisions of troops are indeed a little small, and the number of troops in the front is because they do not have enough manpower, so they have to limit the number of places.

And this time, Wang Sirui did not seek progress, but just hoped that the newly formed troops could take on the task of defending the place. In this way, just in Henan alone, Wang Sirui was able to free up three divisions.

This time, Wang Sirui also personally arrived in Zhangde, and after inspecting here, he will go to Zheng County, where the newly recruited 100,000 recruits in Henan will be reorganized.

As for weapons, although no one wants to continue to sell them to Wang Sirui's production line, the living can't let urine suffocate to death, right? Wang Sirui first moved the Tianjin Manufacturing Bureau to the empty space, renovated the production equipment, and reluctantly increased his rifle production to 200,000 a year.

After that, Wang Sirui once again went down the old path, asking Juan to first buy one production line from the United States and Britain in the name of Chile, and then asked Juan to bribe some American capitalists to get two more production lines from them.

I have to say that the money for the next two production lines is enough to buy four production lines. And the businessmen in the capitalist society, as long as you can afford it, they can even sell you the bullets you used to shoot him.

After this series of large acquisitions, Wang Sirui's arsenal has reached an annual output of 450,000 rifles, and this is enough to meet the current demand.

In addition, Wang Sirui also quietly introduced a production line of Makqin heavy machine guns from Germany, although Germany banned the sale of these equipment to Wang Sirui, but Wang Sirui could only be forced to reluctantly take the way of saving the country, first bought off the Austro-Hungarian side, and then let Austria-Hungary come forward to buy this production line.

With the introduction of assembly lines and shift systems, this machine gun production line was able to produce 2,000 heavy machine guns a year.

Although Wang Sirui armed a lot of troops this year, due to the adoption of assembly lines and shift systems, after all the troops were issued weapons, there were still more than 100,000 extra rifles in his hands.

Because most of the equipment has only been produced in the past six months, such as the heavy machine gun production line, which has just produced a hostile heavy machine gun last month, and so far more than 100 machine guns have been produced, and the number is far less than the needs of the troops.

However, seeing that there were still 250,000 recruits waiting to be distributed in Henan and Shandong, as well as Shengjing, Wang Sirui had a headache.

So the question is, how long can Wang Sirui, who is sharpening his knives in the international market, be able to hide it? The answer is obvious, and it can't be hidden for long.

In fact, now the Western powers have discovered Wang Sirui's abnormality and learned the true situation of Wang Sirui through special channels.

So, the great powers began to panic. They approached Wang Sirui one after another and asked that from January 04, the annual repayment will be changed to semi-annual repayment, and the repayment amount will remain unchanged.

In other words, the great powers hoped to squeeze the money out of Wang Sirui's hands in this way, so that he would not have the extra funds to develop his own troops and industries, so that they could continue to enslave China.

Wang Sirui directly rejected the foreigner's proposal, Wang Sirui didn't know what the consequences would be? But he had to do this, otherwise, Huaxia would not be able to raise his head for the next half century.

And Huaxia will also be overwhelmed by the war reparations of one billion taels, and those foreigners are even more ugly one by one, obviously the repayment period has been shortened, but the interest has not been reduced at all, so that it will take fourteen and a half years to repay the twenty-nine years of interest, is Wang Sirui really a fool......

So, Wang Sirui went south, he had already decided not to pay a dime in the war reparations, because he did not sign the agreement, and now he has the qualifications to argue with the foreigners, although his strength is not very hard, and it is not enough to give him 100% confidence to compete with the foreigners.

But then again, this time Wang Sirui went south, not only to arrange the reorganization of these 100,000 recruits, but more importantly, Wang Sirui came to find confidence this time.

Compared with the increase in the number of troops by hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands, it is obvious that Duan Qirui's artillery is not able to bring much confidence to Wang Sirui.

In fact, this is not to blame Duan Qirui, if you want to blame, you can only blame China's industrial strength is too weak, this year, the number of the army has doubled, the number of artillery has also doubled, but the number of artillery has only increased by fifty.

In other words, the artillery unit, which has nearly 30,000 people, now has only about 150 artillery pieces of various types, which makes Wang Sirui feel a little embarrassed after meeting Duan Qirui.

It's not that Wang Sirui didn't find a way to buy artillery production equipment, but this thing is so sensitive that no one dares to sell it at all, which also forces Wang Sirui to think of ways to engage in mortars, hoping to use mortars to supplement the vacancy of artillery firepower. (To be continued.) )