Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Tiger Army, Banking

On 15 May, at the foot of Mount Tai, the Tiger Ben military camp, the Tiger Ben Army was completely organized, and the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army were like fierce tigers, wearing new-style camouflage uniforms, standing on the school ground, listening to Wang Jundao's impassioned, popular, straightforward and profound precepts.

Under the military headquarters, Wang Jundao was divided into five combat regiments, a guard regiment, a baggage engineering regiment, a logistics regiment, a special operations battalion, a cavalry battalion, an artillery battalion, a machine gun battalion, a pistol battalion, a communications battalion, a guidance battalion, and a political officer battalion.

Wang Jundao also assigned a political officer to the troops above the battalion, because most of his current army comes from the peasants, although everyone is the best among the peasants, but the cultural level is too low, the limited surname is too strong, and the blind surname is too heavy, he needs to use the political officer to teach it, so that the soldiers know who they are serving and what they need to do, and Wang Jundao also has a consideration, that is, the political officer battalion composed of political officials can be directly transferred to the local administrative officials after conquering the city.

The five combat regiments are: the first regiment, the second regiment, the third regiment, the fourth regiment, the fifth pattern, the first regiment commander and chief of staff Yang Poyu, the second regiment commander and chief of staff Xu Jian, the third regiment commander and chief of staff Xiang Zilong, the fourth regiment commander and chief of staff Kang Dingguo, the fifth regiment commander and chief of staff Li Jinglin, each regiment has five combat battalions, a guard company, a communications platoon, a machine gun platoon, each combat battalion is full of more than 1,000 people, and each combat regiment is full of more than 5,500 people.

The guard regiment, also known as the Tiger Benwei, the regiment commander Wang Jundao, the deputy regiment commander Lei Ba, there is no chief of staff, and there are five battalions of Tiger Wei, Tiger Roar, Tiger Roar, Tiger Lie, and Tiger Leopard, with more than 1,000 people in each battalion and more than 5,000 people in the whole regiment.

The special operations battalion, the battalion commander Tang Jian, has five special operations companies, each with 100 people, a total of 500 people.

Cavalry battalion, battalion commander Yue Fengxian, formerly known as Yue Ting, the name of Fengxian was taken by Wang Jundao, the cavalry battalion has a total of five cavalry companies, each company 200 horses, a total of more than 1,000 horses.

The artillery battalion, the battalion commander Chen Jiugong, was a ship gunner in the First Sino-Japanese War, and the artillery battalion had a total of 50 artillery pieces and more than 500 people.

The machine gun battalion, battalion commander Lu Feng, has a total of more than 1,000 people, with 150 heavy machine guns, including 85 Makqin heavy machine guns, and 10 Makqin heavy machine guns in each of the machine gun platoons of the five combat regiments.

Pistol battalion, battalion commander Deng Zhengzhong, more than 1,000 people in the battalion, each equipped with two pistols, of which more than 500 were equipped with Mauser 1896 pistols.

Communication battalion, more than 300 people, battalion commander Fan Zong, he once studied in the Tianjin Telegraph School opened by Li Hongzhang, proficient in various contemporary communications, and worked in the cable telegraph branch of Dagukou for half a year, Wang Jundao is not particularly familiar with telegraphs, only know roughly, so can only design approximate things, and now he is ordering people to study, but no breakthrough has been made, he has also asked Rudolph and Thomas and others to help him buy a machine at the same time to help him buy a wireless telegraph, not for anything else, just for imitation, he believes, As long as he can recruit more scientific research talents from the West and have his technical guidance, he will soon be able to place long-range wireless telegraphs in the Tiger Army, and when the time comes, communication will be convenient, and the mobile surname of the troops will be greatly improved. Today's communications battalion is only the prototype of the communications unit in the future.

Guidance battalion, 500 people, battalion commander Wang Jundao, specially used for temporary teaching troops, assign instructors, the purpose is to improve the soldiers' cultural literacy, political literacy, military literacy, of course, the most important reason for Wang Jundao to do this is to let the guidance battalion brainwash the army, so that the army is loyal to him.

The baggage engineering regiment is a transport unit and an engineering unit, responsible for carrying ordnance, weapons, ammunition, grain and grass, clothing and other materials with the army, and is also responsible for the army's temporary food and battlefield engineering construction, the baggage engineering regiment has a total of more than 6,000 people, under the jurisdiction of six battalions, each battalion of more than 1,000 people.

The logistics regiment is mainly responsible for the army's medical care, health, intelligence, education, statistics, computing, military resources, military entertainment, copywriting and other military affairs, under the jurisdiction of six battalions, each battalion has more than 500 people, a total of more than 3,000 people.

In addition, the team that has always been named 'Divine Sword' has also stood out from the special operations company, with only thirty people, all of whom are real kings of special warfare, while their martial arts are outstanding, they are proficient in special tactics, and they are part of the special operations battalion, and only when they fight, they will turn into the army's 'Divine Sword', 'Divine Sword' Captain Tang Jian.

A team named "Divine Soldier" by Wang Jundao himself also broke away from the Tiger Army, and became a team directly under Wang Jundao, the whole army, so far, a total of ten "Divine Soldiers" have been selected, they are Wang Jundao's close bodyguards, with their own terrifying skills, a body of martial arts, all of them can tear the tiger alive, and everyone has a good marksmanship, especially two-handed pistols, left and right together, if you hold a Mauser pistol, within 100 meters, you want to hit people's eyes, and they will definitely not hit people's eyes.

The whole army of the Tiger Ben Army, together, nearly 50,000 people, except for most of the personnel of the baggage engineering regiment and the logistics regiment are not equipped with hot weapons, the rest of them are equipped with hot weapons, in order to equip the Tiger Ben Army with this batch of weapons, Wang Jundao spent more than 200 taels of silver on the purchase of weapons in Qingdao alone, which is equivalent to an average of more than 50 taels of silver for each person's weapons.

Because of the rationing of weapons, the morale of the soldiers of the Tiger Ben Army is unprecedentedly high, for the past two months, they have been training hard every day, an average of six or seven people have a gun, most of the time can only hold a wooden gun, and then tie bricks or stones to the gun for training, and now they have got the real gun, and they are all very excited, eager to go to the battlefield immediately, and do a lot with real guns.

Except for the first day when they got the gun, everyone had a good time with ten shots, and for the next ten days, they still only trained with a gun without bullets, carrying the gun, holding the gun, raising the gun, aiming, loading, prostrating, rolling, advancing, etc., the only thing they didn't have was shooting.

It's not that Wang Jundao doesn't let them shoot, but now he doesn't dare to let them shoot, tens of thousands of guns, a shot will shoot tens of thousands of bullets, his current arsenal has just been built, so he can just produce guns and ammunition, but he can't supply such a huge army in large quantities, although he has purchased a large number of ammunition now, but also one less one, he doesn't need so many sharpshooters, so there is no need to waste bullets in ordinary training, as long as the soldiers know how to cherish bullets, and then aim quietly on the battlefield, Then it is enough to calmly pull the trigger, and not let the fighters shoot blindly on the battlefield with their eyes closed with a whole bunch of bullets in their hands.

After the formation of the Tiger Benjun for 10 days, Wang Jundao personally slashed the sword, and the People's Bank of China established was also completed in Tai'an, his private shareholding exceeded 90 percent, and the official holding was less than 10 percent.

There are tiger soldiers in Tai'an City, the People's Bank of China began to discover banknotes, the banknotes are designed by Wang Jundao himself, one side engraved the totem of the Chinese nation - a golden dragon, on the other side is Wang Jundao's head and the Great Wall, such banknotes are directly named by Wang Jundao Dragon Coin, the basic unit is Yuan, the highest face value of the Dragon Coin is 1 Yuan, so the Dragon Coin is directly called Dragon Yuan by him.

Wang Jundao mandatory, 1 yuan dragon coin purchasing power is equal to 1 gram of gold, under the dragon yuan, there are dragon horns, dragon points, dragon baht, 1 dragon yuan = 10 dragon horns = 100 dragon points = 1000 dragon baht, in just five days, Wang Jundao, who has nearly two million taels of gold reserves, has issued 100,000 dragon dollars, 1 million dragon horns, 10 million dragon points, 100 million dragon baht.

At the same time, under the planning of Wang Jundao, Tai'an New Deal Axe established an official commercial bank, the full name of which is Zhonghua Commercial Bank, also known as China Industrial and Rural Commercial Bank, and Wang Jundao's Yanhuang Commercial Group also established a commercial bank, the full name of Yanhuang Commercial Bank, in addition, with the support of Wang Jundao, a group of top businessmen in Tai'an Province also partnered to establish a joint-stock commercial bank.

Wang Jundao forced that the circulation of gold, silver, silver bills, and silver dollars was prohibited on the market in Tai'an Prefecture, and dragon coins must be circulated, and all merchants and people who wanted to buy products and sell commodities must take their money and silver to three commercial banks to exchange them for dragon coins.

Although the people at the bottom are a little puzzled, but Wang Jundao has been thoroughly rooted in their hearts, for them, Wang Jundao let them do, there is nothing wrong, because a few months ago they got the land that is a living example, so they have all deposited their own money stored in the bank at home, and finally, under the vigorous publicity of the Propaganda Department of the New Deal Pavilion and the major commercial banks, the people are completely aware that real money is deposited in the bank, which is the safest, and when the time comes, not only can they take it out, but also get interest, what a cost-effective thing?

But most of the businessmen realized the seriousness of the problem, and they knew very well that their real money was put in the bank and replaced with a pile of special paper, and if Wang Jundao fell one day, wouldn't they be holding a pair of worthless waste paper? So some businessmen began to resist and resist, but unfortunately, those people were either confiscated of their property, or put in prison, and some of them were shot directly in the street. Now all the merchants are honest, obediently deposit the gold and silver in the bank, they have to do this, Wang Jundao's tens of thousands of tiger troops are sitting firmly at the foot of Mount Tai outside Tai'an City, who dares to resist? If it is violated, isn't it a joke with your net worth and surname?

A large number of gold and silver were deposited in the bank, and a large number of dragon coins were issued at an accelerated pace, because Wang Jundao implemented the gold standard, and the currency issued was far less than the gold reserved by the People's Bank of China, so it would not cause inflation at all, but accelerated the circulation of dragon coins, making the economy prosperous in a short period of time. At the same time, it also accelerated the flow of dragon coins to all parts of Tay An Province.

Even Wang Jundao did not expect such a situation, he secretly estimated that if this continues, it is estimated that it will not be long before his dragon coins will be able to sweep all over the place, of course, it will be impossible for him to develop quietly at that time, and it will inevitably attract the extreme attention of the Qing political axe, and then the real war caused by the financial industry will completely break out.

Thinking of this, Wang Jundao couldn't help but think that in the past few months, the Qing Zheng Axe has been overwhelmed by the Boxers, Zhili, Hebei, Shanxi, and northern Shandong are full of Boxers, and the Qing Zheng Axe is tired of coping, so he didn't pay attention to him, plus his news is tightly blocked, and let the original officials of various counties in Tai'an Mansion serve themselves, plus the transportation in this era is not convenient, even if the surrounding areas have heard about some of the situation in Tai'an Prefecture, but because it is just a rumor, not many people believe it.

The so-called paper can't contain the fire, Wang Jundao feels that his quiet development is estimated to be the limit now, maybe Yuan Shikai is already planning how to solve his own trouble, after all, Yuan Shikai is the governor of Shandong, the highest military and political governor in Shandong Province, and now there is a problem in Tai'an Mansion under his rule, he has to be absolutely responsible, otherwise he will definitely not be able to explain to the Qing political axe at that time.

Wang Jundao knows that his good words have come to an end!