On January 1, after a full 20-day march, the Dragon and Tiger Army finally returned to Beijing.

As early as half a month ago, the news of the great victory of the Dragon and Tiger Army had spread throughout the three provinces of Zhili, Shandong, and Henan through the "Imperial Newspaper" under the command of the military hall, the "Zhonghua Daily" under the control of the cabinet, and other propaganda methods, and the people everywhere joyfully celebrated the victorious return of the Dragon and Tiger Army.

On January 2, the Dragon and Tiger Army escorted the ashes of the fallen soldiers from [***] into Yanjing City, and more than 300,000 Yanjing people spontaneously organized themselves to escort the martyrs' loyal souls north into the built Chinese Heroes Hall on both sides of the streets and alleys where the army passed through the city.

On January 3, tens of thousands of dragon and tiger troops guarded outside the Hall of Heroes for a whole day before finally returning to Nanyuan from the Temple of Earth.

However, after only five days of rest in Nanyuan, the Third Army Corps went to Qinhuangdao to replace the Huwei Division stationed at Shanhaiguan and the naval fleet to garrison Tianjin, while the Seventh Army Corps rushed to Chengde and Zhangjiakou to change the defense of the Haw and Par Divisions stationed in Chengde and Zhangjiakou.

The 7th Legion was a cavalry corps, which was best suited for defense against the Mongol cavalry.

Wang Jundao originally thought that the Inner Mongolian cavalry would go south to invade Chengde, Zhangjiakou and other places when he attacked Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Gansu, but he still overestimated the Mongols.

Nowadays, the Mongolian cavalry, although there is no shortage of warriors who dare to fight, but they lack characters like their ancestor Genghis Khan, so the steppe is a plate of scattered sand, and even each other is still attacking each other, how can there be extra troops to invade south?

Wang Jundao regretted a little why he didn't directly let the Seventh Army move north to unite with the Tiger and Leopard Division and directly occupy Rehe, Chahar, Suiyuan and other areas.

But it doesn't matter now, just put the Seventh Army in the north to adapt to the cold of deep winter and early spring, and when the weather warms up in April and May of the next year, you can take Inner Mongolia in one fell swoop.

As of January 12, more than 125,000 people from the five divisions of the Tiger Might, the Tiger Roar, the Tiger Roar, the Tiger Lie, and the Tiger and Leopard Division had rushed back to Yanjing Nanyuan.

At this time, Nanyuan's 220,000 recruits of the original martial arts regiment had also gone through more than four months of modern military training, plus more than half a year of cold weapon military training before becoming an army, they had already been polished into the most elite soldiers.

Wang Jundao selected 3,000 female soldiers from the 20,000 female soldiers who had undergone military training in cold weapons and modern weapons and incorporated them into the Imperial City Women's Praetorian Guard, the Phoenix Guard, so that the Phoenix Guard had exactly 5,000 female soldiers, of whom 500 were trained according to the standards of female special forces.

Most of the remaining 17,000 female soldiers were assigned to the logistics team, specializing in medical and health care, cultural performances, cultural education, military quartermasters, accounting, and other military work.

In addition to the 20,000 female soldiers, Wang Jundao took the lead in selecting 5,000 elite soldiers from the five divisions of the original Tiger Ben Guard Army and 200,000 soldiers formed by the Wu Regiment, and incorporated them into the Imperial City Men's Praetorian Guard-Dragon Tiger Guard, so that the Dragon Tiger Guard had exactly 10,000 soldiers!

5,000 soldiers were selected to be assigned to the special forces directly under Wang Jundao, making the special forces exactly 10,000 full, named the special operations division, with Leng Feng as the division commander, and selected the elite of them to set up two special combat teams, namely the 'Divine Sword' special combat team and the 'Sharp Arrow' special combat team, each with 100 all-round special forces.

After that, Wang Jundao began to form the Guards Legion, with Lin Zhengnan as the commander of the Guards Corps, Qin Xiao as the deputy commander, and Long Zhan as the chief of staff.

The Guards Corps has five corps, namely the 1st Army of the Guards Corps, the 2nd Army of the Guards Corps, the 3rd Army of the Guards Corps, the 4th Army of the Guards Corps, and the 5th Army of the Guards Corps.

The commander of the 1st Army was concurrently served by Qin Xiao, the commander of the 2nd Army was served by Liu Wei, the commander of the 3rd Army was served by Guo Meng, the commander of the 4th Army was served by Zhang Lie, and the commander of the 5th Army was concurrently served by Long Zhan, with more than 40,000 people in each army.

After the five armies were organized, there were still 115,000 people left in the new army, and Wang Jundao selected 5,000 people and incorporated them into the Reading Artillery Brigade, which directly turned the artillery brigade into the Guards Corps Artillery Division.

Another 10,000 people were selected, and Wang Jundao organized them as the Guards Legion Reader Division, which will gradually be reorganized into a mechanical motorized infantry division, because Wang Jundao has developed self-propelled cannons, self-propelled howitzers and other self-propelled artillery, military cars, military trucks, military tricycles and other military vehicles have also entered the experimental stage, armored vehicles, infantry fighting vehicles, tanks, etc. have also begun to develop, Wang Jundao will take the lead in turning the Guards Legion Reading Division into a modern mechanical unit in the near future.

The remaining 100,000 people, Wang Jundao directly divided them into two parts, respectively into the Third Army stationed in the Shanhaiguan defense line and the Seventh Army stationed in Zhangjiakou and Chengde, so that the Third Army and the Seventh Army Corps both reached 100,000 soldiers.

The Sixth Army Corps stationed in Henan and the Fourth Army Corps stationed in Shandong also drew 50,000 men from each of the military regiments of the two provinces under Wang Jundao's order to form an army, bringing the strength of both corps to 100,000.

On January 20, after forming the Guards Corps, Wang Jundao finally entered the cabinet.

The first is to listen to the general report of the cabinet in the past few months, especially the year-end summary of each department.

Although there are joys and sorrows, there are wonderful points, and there are shortcomings, but for Wang Jundao, after all, there are still surprises more than worries, what is more happy than casting a country with your own hands, so that a country can move from poverty and backwardness to prosperity and strength?

Now that Wang Jundao is really upright, he clearly feels such a process, what can he not like? Even if there are difficulties, troubles, and mistakes along the way, as long as we overcome them, solve them, and correct them, then this country and this nation will get closer and closer to prosperity and strength.

Among all the departments, the report of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Commerce made Wang Jundao the most happy, under the technical leadership and industrial personnel sparing no effort to develop, although it was only four months after Wang Jundao's expedition, but today's light and heavy industry and four months ago are not the same at all, whether it is scale, output, or output quality, at least two or three times.

The development of commerce has also been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, those who lost a large area of land, got a large amount of money of the original landlords and old wealth have engaged in business, under the guidance of the new business structure and business model, the development of commerce can be described as unprecedented. All kinds of industrial and commercial taxes have also been extended to all parts of Zhili, Shandong and Henan provinces.

As for agriculture, due to the use of Wang Jundao to provide planting methods, and the use of organic fertilizer and inorganic fertilizer, so that the average yield of grain per mu in the experimental field has reached more than 800 catties, can be fully popularized planting, now the new planting method has been let local officials learn, as long as the spring planting season comes, you can to Zhili, Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu provinces to promote, new breeding will also be gradually completed, some new agricultural machinery, including cultivators, seeders, harvesters, etc. have also begun to be put on the research and development process.

The new model of forestry, animal husbandry, fishery, and sideline industry for sustainable development has also been experimented, and will be gradually implemented to all provinces in the coming year, as long as there is the first person to eat grapes, there will be tens of millions of people to follow, and under the scientific introduction and active encouragement of the political axe, in a few years, all kinds of advanced and scientific agricultural production models will be popularized to all localities.

In addition, the Ministry of Finance, due to the rapid development of industry, commerce, and agriculture, although the agricultural tax has been reduced, due to the implementation of advanced industrial and commercial taxes, the fiscal revenue has increased on the contrary, and the total fiscal revenue of the three provinces of Zhili, Shandong, and Henan has exceeded more than 170 million dragon yuan, which is one-third higher than the fiscal revenue of 25 million taels of silver in these three provinces in previous years (the tax revenue of 25 million taels of silver in the three provinces of Zhili, Shandong, and Henan in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is difficult to find). Therefore, it can only be estimated according to some data, at the end of the nineteenth century, the annual fiscal tax of the Qing political axe was 120 million to 140 million taels of silver, and Zhili Province and Shandong Province are China's major industrial and commercial provinces, Henan is a large agricultural province, and the population of the three provinces adds up to nearly 90 million, which is equivalent to one-fifth of the total population, and the tax should be more than one-fifth of the total tax revenue, so it is set at 25 million taels of silver, an increase of one-third, about 33.33 million taels, which is converted into dragon yuan, which is about 170 million. Readers are very happy to read, there is no need to take it too seriously. ）

This is almost equivalent to the total output value increased by nearly one-third compared with previous years, about 1.3 billion dragon yuan, the per capita output value is about 15 dragon yuan, and the purchasing power is about an adult buffalo, which is also unexpected by Wang Jundao, Wang Jundao believes that with the rapid development of industry, commerce, agriculture, waiters and other industries, the output value will grow faster.

In the past year or so, tens of millions of people have been infected with cholera in other countries around the world, and nearly 1.5 million people have died in cholera, of which more than one-third have been killed by cholera.

Through the sale of anti-disorder hormone and other drugs, Wang Jundao earned a net profit worth more than 800 million pounds from various countries, which was distributed, and the military hall received more than 320 million pounds, and the cabinet and Wang Jundao each received more than 240 million pounds.

About a quarter of this wealth was paid for by other countries in exchange for gold dollars, about a quarter was paid in pounds sterling, and the remaining two-quarters were exchanged for basic industrial technology and various machinery and equipment.

Because of this cholera, the industrial strength of the three provinces of Zhili, Shandong, and Henan under Wang Jundao has risen several times, and they are all about to catch up with the industrial zones of Europe and the United States, and the accumulation of wealth is terrifying.

In this era, the purchasing power of one pound is equivalent to nearly forty pounds in modern society, that is to say, the cholera artificially created by Wang Jundao has made the military hall earn at least three years of military expenditure, the cabinet has earned at least two years of financial expenditure, and Wang Jundao has easily reached the point of being rich and rivaling the country.

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After listening to the reports and summaries of each department, Wang Jundao gave replies and suggestions one by one, and then worked out a development plan for the coming year with the senior cabinet officials.

Therefore, this high-level executive meeting convened by the cabinet lasted for five days, during which solutions to some problems were proposed.

For example, on the issue of ethnic minorities, especially in Gansu and Ningxia, which are now occupied by the Dragon and Tiger Army, the Hui and other ethnic minorities add up to more than one million, and it is necessary to implement corresponding ethnic policies.

For example, the Loess Plateau is north of Shaanxi and Shanxi, due to thousands of years of development, soil erosion is serious, although the mineral resources are abundant, but also to develop the industrial economy while the environment.

Another example is the economic statistics, supervision, and accounting of the country name of various regions and departments, which need to be planned and solved in a unified manner.

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To this end, Wang Jundao decided to set up more than 20 departments, directly subordinate institutions, and offices, including the Loess Plateau Management Bureau, the Audit Department, the Quality Inspection Department, the Statistics Bureau, the Archives Bureau, the Cultural Relics Bureau, the Secrecy Bureau, the Press and Publication Bureau, the Intellectual Property Office, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

After all this was done, on January 25, Wang Jundao, under the leadership of Prime Minister Cui Jingluo, Vice Minister Bai Yuncheng and Minister of Commerce Xun Qianli, went to meet a person, a man named Nikolai. Tesla's people. (To be continued.) )