"Commander-in-chief, the 45th Army has called, and Liu Kuilong, the governor of Henan, has sent people to the 45th Army to discuss the matter of changing banners. But there is one condition, the local officials must be replaced. After Yang Zhiping returned from the telegraph room, he directly reported the contents of the telegram to Wang Lin.

Wang Lin also happened to be idle at this time, recently the various war zones have basically been dealing with the aftermath, or have completed the aftermath of the matter, and are planning to continue the attack, this middle Wang Lin has a short period of free time, but he did not go home, but continued to stay in the office.

Hearing that Liu Kuilong, the governor of Henan, was going to change his banner, Wang Lin was a little surprised, but there was nothing to be surprised when he thought about it carefully, Liu Kuilong had just taken office at the beginning of the year, if there was no existence of the Zhengnan Army, maybe Liu Kuilong would slowly grasp the power of Henan, but there was the Zhengnan Army in the south pressing step by step, and the officials inside knew that their status was not guaranteed, which one was willing to throw away to listen to a new governor in this last time?

Although he is said to be the governor of the imperial court, what does it matter? The officials below confirmed that it was not that they did not obey Liu Kuilong's instructions, but that their abilities were limited, and they could not do Governor Liu's instructions. These officials seem to be quite respectful to Liu Kuilong, but their hearts are dark one by one.

Yin Fengyang is a trivial matter, it is not uncommon to gather people to force the palace, Liu Kuilong is just a passerby in their eyes at this time, when the time comes, everyone is finished playing together, no one is better than anyone else, the only difference is that they have caught some oil and water here, but Liu Kuilong has nothing.

Wang Lin also judged that Liu Kuilong's situation at this time must be extremely embarrassing according to the situation, not to mention that the right was set aside, and he had to come out as a shield at a critical time, and no one would be able to stand it. It's just that it is a little difficult to remove all the officials, Wang Lin's cadres are not very sufficient, although after the war has stopped, a group of training has been added, but those numbers are far from enough, and they are not even sure to completely control Guizhou, let alone control Henan, which is mixed with dragons and snakes.

Wang Lin himself is a native of Henan, he naturally hopes that his hometown can be better, but this does not prompt him to blindly develop Henan, all the manpower and material resources are used in Henan, at present, the national unification is imminent, and there are many vacancies of manpower and material resources needed, the future development can only rely on the joint efforts of the local people and the political axe, if only rely on the central appropriation to develop, even if Wang Lin now all the manpower and financial resources are thrown into it, it is not enough to develop the three provinces into a strong province.

Of course, the goals set by Wang Lin have long surpassed those of Britain, France, etc., and China has a vast land and resources, and some things are already in the country, and there is no need to compete with the foreign powers for colonies at the beginning of development. It's just that when he encounters a place like Henan, Wang Lin is really a little overwhelmed, and he feels a little overwhelmed.

The remnants of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the corrupt officials and corrupt officials everywhere must be killed, but how to kill them? How to kill? It became a big problem in Wang Lin's heart at this time, Henan's announcement of Yi Zhi was originally a good thing, and it was much easier to do it in other provinces after a start, but the officials everywhere were not so stupid, and they hurriedly followed Yi Zhi when they saw someone.

They will definitely observe how the Zhengnan Army deals with the Henan issue first, of course, the most important thing is to see how they deal with those officials, only these are related to their vital interests, if they take refuge in Wang Lin, as soon as the words of Yi Zhi are said here, Wang Lin will come to cut off his head with a knife, who dares to change his head in this way?

At present, although the problem of Henan Yizhi is a little difficult to handle, but this is also a turning point, if it is dealt with, the Qing court may collapse within a day, if it is not dealt with well, the Zhengnan army still needs to attack with great effort, of course, if this is the case, Wang Lin does not care, anyway, according to the strength and combat power of the Zhengnan army, it is only a matter of a month to unify the country, but Wang Lin is now most scarce of time.

The Russo-Russian War has come to an end, if Wang Lin can't overthrow the Qing court in the shortest possible time and establish his own regime, then when the two countries transport their troops to Korea and the Far East, I'm afraid they can't help but go to war, so the injured are still Chinese, and the two countries are not stupid, Tsarist Russia will naturally not let the battlefield in their own territory, although their governance of the Far East is far less strict than that of the West, but it is also the territory of Tsarist Russia, which swears the majesty of an empire.

As for the Sayben, they will not be willing to put the battlefield in North Korea, because the DPRK will be their bridgehead and offensive springboard, as well as a transit point for manpower and material resources, and if a battlefield with millions of troops is fought in Korea, it will only do harm but not good to the Lord. Then the best battlefield will naturally be chosen between the Far East and North Korea, the Northeast.

At present, although Wang Lin has accelerated the speed of forming a new political axe, what is the use of just forming it? The total number of troops erected by the two sides is more than 2 million, and although the Zhengnan Army claims to have nearly 900,000 regular army troops, in fact the regular army units are only more than 500,000 but less than 600,000, and the rest are military police units of one army and one armed police force of three armies and one division.

According to the speculation of the two countries, what if Wang Lin had 900,000 troops? The whole of China is so big, it needs at least 500,000 troops to stabilize the maintenance of regular defenses, not to mention that he has also divided more than 200,000 troops to form an armed police force and a military police force. In the end, only about 200,000 troops can be drawn out and put on the battlefield, what can 200,000 people do in front of a million army?

The British were defeated by Wang Lin's Hainan army, but everything can not only look at the result, but also look at the process of this matter, tens of thousands of Hainan troops surrounded and annihilated thousands of British troops, this is not a proud achievement, and winning is just a should, although the two countries also evaluated some advanced weapons in Wang Lin's Zhengnan army, but they always believed that those were just a small amount of equipment or experiments, and there was no large-scale installation.

Secondly, they believe more in the strength of their troops, and have never put the Chinese in their eyes, except for a little worry in their own hearts, the Russians seem to be much more open, the navy in Wang Lin's hands? It doesn't matter, anyway, if you want to fight, you will first fight Xiao Yueben, and it just happens to do Russia a big favor, so it can be regarded as cutting off the supply of the army, what can you do after the fight? Come to the Far East and continue the bombing? This doesn't seem to matter much, withdraw the Far Eastern Fleet, withdraw the inhabitants near the coast, leave a bunch of open space for you to bomb, you bomb my land, I will kill your people, see who suffers the most, but only if you can come here.

Wang Lin also knew that the Russians dared to transport troops to prepare for war at this time, because they must have expected that Wang Lin would not have too many troops to intervene, and they might also lease land from the Qing court through various methods to use it as a battlefield, so it would be legal for them to fight here.

At the same time, Wang Lin also knew the crisis caused by the lack of his own troops, although he was delayed for a while because of some things before the second attack, but fortunately, at that time Wang Lin made up his mind to expand the army, and the original supernumerary seemed to be beyond Wang Lin's expectations, but now it seems that this is not the case, Wang Lin hopes that it would be good to be able to supernumerary, and it will not be in the situation of vacant troops.

This is also the reason why Wang Lin did not hesitate to order the attack to be stopped at that time, the 200,000 Hainan army was indeed able to sweep the whole country, but what about after overthrowing the Qing court? The troops are all going to fight, who will maintain law and order in the area? Which country was not established to use military control? Although Wang Lin said that he did not like military control, he had to use it at this time.

As for the matter of Henan's change of banner, after considering the current predicament, Wang Lin felt that he could seriously consider it, it can be said that it can kill two birds with one stone, which can not only quickly solve the problem of Henan, but also quickly unify the whole country, and can organize the outbreak time of the Russo-Russian War to the greatest extent, giving himself more time to prepare.

"Call back Liu Wei, you can agree with Liu Kuilong's change of banner, but don't move those local officials in the early stage, let them cooperate with us to maintain local law and order, and control the bandits and displaced people as much as possible, and the other 45th Army will stay in Henan for half a month, conscript 120,000 soldiers, and strictly control the quality of the soldiers, and send them to the barracks in Hunan where they will be trained when they reach 500 people." Wang Lin made his decision clear.

Although the conscription is coming faster, and the number of recruits in the army at this time is also very large, and the rash expansion of the army will cause the army's combat effectiveness to plummet, but this is also the only way to solve the problem of bandits in Henan. On the one hand, the Zhengnan Army does need more soldiers, of course, the training of this batch of recruits Wang Lin will increase its efforts again, and they will only be reorganized after they stay in the recruit camp for a year, so that when they arrive in the army, the original Zhengnan Army will almost form a few percent of its combat effectiveness, and the impact will not be as great as it is now.

And in the face of various provinces in the future, Wang Lin plans to reduce the burden of local life on the grounds of conscription, such a large country, it does need a million troops to maintain, and this is only the central and eastern regions, and there are also remote places such as Tibet Province and Xinjiang Province in the future? There will be a need for more troops, so it is better to prepare early to avoid the embarrassment of encountering a shortage of troops.

"Congratulations, master!"

(To be continued)