Looking at the protest letter sent by the Japanese, Yuan Shikai was directly happy. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

From the beginning of the development and growth of the Liaodong Army, Yuan Shikai regarded the Liaodong Army as his potential opponent all the time.

In Qian's reward for the Liaodong Army and Yang Xingguo in a few days, Yuan Shikai's purpose was very simple: to use the Empress Dowager Cixi's emphasis on imperial power to change Cixi's view of the Liaodong Army.

What Yuan Shikai didn't expect was that this Liaodong Army would cooperate with him so much.

As soon as he changed Cixi's impression of the Liaodong Army, they collided with each other and challenged the holy decree and imperial power for thousands of rifles.

Yuan Shikai affirmed that after the Japanese protest was sent to Cixi, the Liaodong Army's disobedience to the holy decree alone was enough for Cixi to be furious. What's more, there were nearly one million taels of silver in the Japanese protests.

You know, according to the protest letter, the reason is the weapons and ammunition left by the Japanese army by the Liaodong Army. The reason for this million taels of silver indemnity is the weapons and ammunition intercepted by the Liaodong Army.

According to the contract, these weapons and ammunition should be accompanied by the infantry to Arthur.

Now because the Liaodong Army has caused such a big loss to the Japanese because of its non-performance of the contract, the Japanese army will definitely have to find the imperial court for reimbursement.

Sure enough, as soon as Yuan Shikai sent the protest letter sent by the Japanese to Cixi, Cixi began to scold Yang Xingguo for being sorry for the court and for his high hopes for him.

After scolding, he was still angry, and directly issued an order to the minister in front of him, asking Yang Xingguo, the governor of Liaodong, to enter Beijing immediately to face the saint, and planned to teach him a good lesson after Yang Xingguo entered Beijing.

In Yuan Shikai's view, Yang Xingguo, who has a heavy army, will definitely not enter Beijing.

But for Cixi's will, Yuan Shikai not only did not object, but also praised Cixi for how wise.

Because, the Empress Dowager Cixi and Yang Xingguo were once again calculated by Yuan Shikai.

Cixi's holy decree arrived in Liaodong, and if Yang Xingguo did not enter Beijing according to the order, it would be disobeying the holy order, and if the decree was not obeyed, to put it more seriously, it would be a rebellion. When the time comes, when the news reaches the capital, Cixi will definitely be furious. If there is any more self-inflicted tricks, it is possible for Cixi to declare that the Liaodong Army is a rebel army.

At that time, he can use the power of the imperial court to eliminate the hidden opponent of the Liaodong Army.

Yang Xingguo, who returned to the headquarters of the Liaodong Army, did not know that he had fallen into Yuan Shikai's step-by-step calculations.

Just a few days after he came back, Deputy Commander Zhou Zhongju blocked Yang Xingguo in the headquarters, and his wife Yan Bing, who had just got married, came with him.

"Commander, I really don't have any money in my hands! Originally, there were more than a million taels of silver, but now all of them are used to settle immigrants. In addition, without your order, the immigrants sent by Minister Yan from Sichuan and other places are still entering Liaodong, but we have no money to settle them. Not only the silver, but also the land. ”

"The current Yingkou area has become a huge refugee camp, where at least more than two million migrants are gathered to wait for distribution!"

Yang Xingguo didn't expect that after only a month or two, there would be so many immigrants in Liaodong all of a sudden.

Shocked, Yang Xingguo hurriedly asked Yan Bing: "Yan Bing, how many people have you immigrated to Liaodong in the past few months!" ”

"Almost three million!" Yan Bing replied after thinking about it.

"So much?" Yang Xingguo couldn't help but exclaim.

"Coupled with the nearly two million people in Liaodong, the population of the entire Liaodong is not almost five million, it is almost equal to the population of an ordinary province in Guannai! Yan Bing, how did you do it! ”

Yan Bing's face turned red, and he quickly replied: "I heard that there is a big drought in Shaanxi, Henan, Hebei and other places, and there will definitely be many victims. Then he took his weapons and ammunition and went to these provinces on the Yellow River. ”

"Because there are so many victims in these places, we don't need to change weapons in many places, so the government has taken the initiative to send a large number of disaster victims to us."

"In the end, the same amount of weapons and ammunition was exchanged for twice the number of immigrants in these affected provinces."

"However, because of the severe drought in these provinces, the people from these provinces have nothing, and Deputy Commander Zhou needs to come up with a large amount of silver and food to settle them!"

Speaking of which, Yan Bing seemed to think of something? Hurriedly asked: "Commander, is it that I have too many immigrants in exchange!" ”

"Nope!" Yang Xingguo hurriedly shook his head and vetoed.

At this time, Zhou Zhongju didn't give Yang Xingguo any face, and directly interrupted: "It's not much...... Commander, now I have 300,000 taels of silver left in my hand, and in addition to the monthly salary of the Liaodong Army, I can only use 50,000 taels. Just this little bit of silver, used on nearly two million immigrants, can't even last a month! “

"Also, in this anti-encirclement and suppression operation, more than 10,000 people were killed in the whole army, and if you are injured, the pension will be at least 2.5 million taels!"

"So much silver, you can't sell it for so much silver even if you buy me!"

Seeing Zhou Zhongju's very distressed expression, Yang Xingguo's brows also furrowed.

At this moment, Yan Bing suddenly spoke: "Commander, deputy commander, I have just completed a soybean oil deal with the Germans, if I go to urge the German side, our side can get 200,000 taels of silver in ten days!" ”

"In addition, if we get together, our Liaodong Foreign Trade Company in Wuhan and Sichuan and other places can send us 200,000 taels of silver!"

"Too little, not enough!" Although Zhou Zhongju's face looked a lot better, he still shook his head and replied.

A penny is difficult to defeat a hero, and at this time, Yang Xingguo finally realized the true meaning of this sentence.

After some hesitation, he asked Zhou Zhongju: "Second uncle, how much silver do you need now to pass this cut!" ”

After thinking about it, Zhou Zhongli said to Yang Xingguo: "After the war, the compensation for the dead and the soldiers who died in the war will be at least 2.5 million taels, I have already said it just now." ”

"The replenishment and consumption of post-war rewards and other aspects will be counted as 500,000 taels!"

"In order to do a good job in this anti-encirclement and suppression, the arsenal worked overtime to produce ammunition for several months, and a total of 1.2 million taels of raw materials were used, and there was always one million taels of raw materials still owed, and payment was urgently needed!"

"The consumption of other weapons and heavy artillery shells does not count, after all, all that is used is reserves. However, I have roughly calculated it, so that you know what you know, Commander. In the whole battle, the consumption of shells and weapons was converted into silver, at least three and a half million taels! ”

"The other one, the loss of troops is so large, it costs silver to replenish the new soldiers. I roughly calculated that if all the troops reach full strength, we will have to prepare at least 800,000 taels of silver to recruit new soldiers! ”

"On the last day, if I am not mistaken, the two million immigrants around Yingkou should immediately disperse to more than a dozen county towns such as Fengcheng, which the troops have just taken. I won't talk about it in the future, let's just say that for now, just to move these immigrants there, we have to prepare a million taels of silver. ”

"All of them add up to a total of six million taels of silver, not including the Liaodong Army's monthly consumption!"

"I made a statistic during this time, and within half a year, because there were a large number of immigrants to feed, we had to prepare one million taels of silver every month. Of these, 300,000 taels were given to the army, 150,000 taels to the arsenals, 150,000 taels to the county seats, and the remaining 400,000 taels were left to feed millions of immigrants. (To be continued.) )