20,000 rifles for 1 million immigrants, and after a year, 1 million immigrants can bring themselves at least 1 million quintals of grain taxes, which if converted into silver, is three or four million taels of silver. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

More importantly, if this million immigrants are properly operated, they can bring at least 50,000 recruits to themselves, and they will not affect local production, and they will be able to join the Liaodong Army immediately.

Of course, there are also significant costs associated with receiving a million immigrants at once.

One was a large amount of benefits given to the local government, that is, 20,000 rifles.

One is the large amount of freight that transports these migrants from Sichuan to Guanwai. As for the last one, there is the substantial cost of resettling these migrants.

Three or four million taels of silver are indispensable.

However, in Yang Xingguo's view, investing so much silver at once is definitely a big business with a lot of profits.

Because, with these million immigrants, the Liaodong Army can harvest millions of taels of silver every year in taxes alone.

The only downside is that the one-time investment of immigration is too large, and it takes a long time to pay for itself. Therefore, many people know the benefits of immigration, but no one takes the initiative to immigrate, including the imperial court.

Soon, Yang Xingguo made a decision that as long as things were possible, he must seize this opportunity.

"Yan Bing, how likely is it that this matter will be done......

Hearing that Yang Xingguo had already called his name unconsciously, Yan Bing's face flushed, and he quickly replied: "I'm ninety percent sure...... The Sichuan-Shaanxi region has a population of nearly 30 million, and immigration, 1 million, has little effect. ”

"As long as the commander believes me, I promise to exchange 20,000 rifles for 1 million immigrants......"

"Of course I believe you!" Yang Xingguo affirmed without thinking about it.

"In this way, since you have more immigrants to Sichuan, the security aspect is even more important. I decided to increase the guard company protecting you into a guard battalion, and the special operations squad to expand into a special operations squadron! “

"I've been to the emergency situation, and the special effects squadron can protect you from Sichuan."

"I agree with the Commander." Zhou Zhongju, who didn't know when he walked in, suddenly spoke.

"Minister Yan, if you do this, you will be a great hero of my Liaodong Army. Also, when you go to Sichuan, you will pass through Wuchang, and when the time comes, take me with you, I will go to Wuchang to meet your parents, and invite your parents to Liaoyang. ”

Two days later, the Japanese army sent more than 2 million taels of silver, a tael of silver.

As for the 40,000 laborers requested by Yang Xingguo, the Japanese army did not think carefully at all. After all, there are laborers in North Korea, and there is no need to destroy the harmonious relationship between the Liaodong Army and itself for these laborers who can be easily obtained.

40,000 laborers, in units of 5,000, were handed over to the Liaodong Army in batches.

At this time, Yang Xingguo had already returned to Liaozhong, where the headquarters of the Liaodong Army was located.

I saw the laborer's scars, weak body, and sallow face. Yang Xingguo affirmed that these people would have to be raised for at least half a month before they could become qualified soldiers of the Liaodong Army.

Sun Liechen, who was following him, said with a satisfied face: "Although the body is a little weaker, they are all young and strong in their twenties and thirties, and they are all good seedlings to be soldiers after raising them." Commander, what are you going to do with them? ”

"Those who are willing to be soldiers join the Liaodong Army, and those who are not willing to be soldiers build roads for us, after all, these people are bought back by us with silver. Of course, regardless of whether they join the Liaodong Army or not, we must eat and drink well and not abuse them. Yang Xingguo decided without thinking about it.

Sun Liechen's eyes lit up and said, "Okay, I'll send someone to recruit troops among them." There are so many good soldiers, as long as half of them can join us, I will be satisfied......"

But it didn't take long for Sun Liechen to ask with a worried face: "But, commander, we now have five divisions. Although there were many losses in this operation, at most five or six thousand people could make up for the shortfall, and so many good soldiers could not be arranged at all. ”

"If you can't arrange it, then continue to expand the army...... Now we have no shortage of weapons, and there is no shortage of officers, so we are soldiers. As soon as the troops are in place, the troops will be able to expand by one division immediately. In addition, the Guard Brigade can also be supplemented with some new recruits and directly expanded into a Guard Division. ”

"There is also an artillery brigade, according to the number of artillery we have now, it can be expanded into a division long ago."

Sun Liechen, who opened his mouth because of shock, replied after thinking about it: "I have no opinion on the expansion of the guard brigade and the artillery brigade into divisions. But re-expanding the army by one division is not a trivial matter. Looking at the entire Liaodong Army, except for a few division commanders now, others simply do not have the ability to be division commanders. ”

"Without us, we can cultivate!" Yang Xingguo replied categorically.

"The Japanese and Russian armies are running out of time for us, and we must increase our strength as much as possible before the end of the Russo-Japanese War. Therefore, while the army is being expanded now, the time is not waiting for me. ”

Sun Liechen replied silently: "Then commander, who do you plan to let be the commander of the Fifth Division of the Liaodong Army?" ”

"Yuan Lei, Chief of Staff of the First Division and Commander of the Second Regiment. During this time, he directly commanded the troops to fight several battles, all of which were good, and I saw them all. As long as you cultivate more, you should be able to grow! ”

"As for the candidate for chief of staff, I am considering the deputy head of the special operations detachment ****. Compared with the special operation, I found that this **** is more suitable for being in the main forces. The level is sufficient, and no one will have an opinion when transferred from the special operations detachment. ”

"Let **** stay in the position of chief of staff of the main force for a while, and get familiar with it. When the time is ripe, you can transfer him out and directly serve as the commander of the main division. ”

"This is a good idea!" Sun Liechen said happily.

"It seems that your goal, Commander, is not just to expand the army by one division. The Fifth Division has not yet been formed, and the commander of the Sixth Division is thought of! ”

At this time, Sun Liechen, who suddenly thought of something, continued.

"Commander, since we want to expand the army, why don't we take this opportunity to carry out a large-scale adjustment of the whole army."

"This military operation has a lot of problems. Some commanders have adapted to their current position and are able to command their troops with great success. But a small number of commanders could not adapt to their current position. ”

"And there are many examples in the army of division commanders concurrently serving as regiment commanders, regiment commanders concurrently serving as battalion commanders, and chief of staff concurrently serving as regiment commanders and battalion commanders."

"For the sake of the future of the Liaodong Army, and in order to train more qualified officers, these part-time jobs must be cancelled."

"In accordance with the principle of those who are capable and those who are mediocre are down, we will carry out a large-scale readjustment of officers at the regimental and battalion levels."

This adjustment will inevitably lead to the demotion of non-commissioned officers because of their inability, but the benefits that may be brought to the Liaodong Army after the adjustment are many.

Therefore, Yang Xingguo only thought for half a minute before deciding: "Chief of Staff, I will give you two days to make an adjustment plan for regimental and battalion-level officers according to everyone's combat exploits, which should also include the regimental and battalion-level officers of the Fifth Division after the expansion. ”

"Yes, Commander!" Sun Liechen replied with a cheerful face.

After nodding at Sun Liechen's face with satisfaction, Yang Xingguo continued: "Also, you ask people to count the number and password of all artillery in the whole army, and I am going to expand the artillery establishment of troops at all levels. This time so many artillery pieces were captured, and they couldn't be put in the warehouse to rust! (To be continued.) )