On 10 December, the representatives of the southern provinces had basically arrived in Nanjing, ready to discuss the holding of the first meeting, although Huang Xing said that he was going to form the Northern Expeditionary Army to carry out the Northern Expedition, but those who knew a little about the situation knew that the current Northern Expeditionary Army was still staying near Nanjing, and there was no movement of the Northern Expedition at all. As for the people's armies from all walks of life that have gathered in Nanjing these days, although they are numerous, most of them are rabble, and there are many bandits and hooligans among them, which are no different from the people's armies in Guangzhou.

The tens of thousands of people's troops gathered in Guangzhou caused a lot of harm to Guangzhou, making Hu Hanmin hate and scold his mother, and the same people's army in Nanjing also gave Huang Xing and others a headache. In the past, Huang Xing carried out the revolution with hot-blooded men, and even in Wuchang, he only commanded the operation, and the logistics supply was solved by Li Yuanhong and others from the Wuchang military and political axe. Although he found a lot of money after searching Nanjing, Huang Xing had already distributed these belongings to the officers and soldiers of the Northern Expeditionary Army in order to collect the Northern Expeditionary Army, and there was surplus food for those people's troops.

So he can only drag it with a sad face all day long, and he doesn't even want to be this generalissimo anymore, anyway, he has already pulled the main force of the Southern Coalition Army over and turned it into the Northern Expeditionary Army, and with 20,000 people in the Northern Expeditionary Army, this generalissimo has also completed its mission.

Huang Xing and Li Yuanhong secretly negotiated, and after the latter promised to send 500,000 yuan to Nanjing, Huang Xing gave up the title of generalissimo to Li Yuanhong and became a deputy marshal himself.

In the eyes of outsiders, this kind of child's playful change of position is naturally laughed at and generous, even Chen Jingyun was dumbfounded after hearing the news, Huang Xing has not been the generalissimo for a few days, and this is transferred to Li Yuanhong?

"I don't think this temporary political axe in Nanjing is more than Er'er!" Anwarin said while drinking tea.

Gao Zeyan, who was full of red light on the side, also echoed: "Nanjing is indeed a bit chaotic!" Not to mention Nanjing, among these provinces recovered in the south, several of them are peaceful, and they are not all chaotic! ”

An Hualin said with a smile: "No, needless to say, the neighboring Guangdong and Jiangxi, now there is not even a political axe for unified orders, and Zhu Rui in Zhejiang only controls the Hangzhou government, and no one listens to what he says." Looking at the southern provinces, only our Fujian and Cai Yi's Yunnan are slightly more stable! ”

An Hualin didn't say something, that is, the chaos in Guangdong and Zhejiang has something to do with Chen Jingyun, Zhejiang, needless to say, Ma Cheng's first brigade has arrived in Shaoxing, the fifth brigade is also marching to Yiwu in central Zhejiang, and there are two garrison regiments in Ningbo and Taizhou on the southern coast, it can be said that militarily the national army has controlled most of Zhejiang, if it is not for the fact that the southern provinces are still in a state of subtle unity, Chen Jingyun has to take into account various influences, Chen Jingyun had already taken over the local political axes of the prefectures and counties in southern Zhejiang.

Chaozhou in Guangdong has long been taken by the Nationalist Army, and even the officials have been appointed by Fuzhou, and even some time ago, Hu Hanmin sent people over to ask the Nationalist Army to continue to go south to Guangzhou. Chen Jingyun also knew a little about Hu Hanmin's thoughts, and he just wanted to use his own national army to create pressure on Long Jiguang and force Long Jiguang to take the initiative to clean up the people's army near Guangzhou.

This kind of thankless and ultimately useless thing Chen Jingyun naturally didn't do, besides, even if he wanted to continue south to Guangzhou, but there was only one third brigade in the south, Long Jiguang had more than 10,000 horses and dozens of cannons. Therefore, Chen Jingyun's request to Hu Hanmin continued to shirk.

Chen Jingyun looked at An Hualin and Gao Zeyan and said this, and he also felt a little proud in his heart. Although the initial war in the province brought harm to some people, after the Nationalist Army cleared the province, it was also connected to eliminate bandits and hooligans, and the large-scale expansion of the army did not impose financial pressure on the people, but adopted the method of borrowing.

Looking at other provinces in the south, the people are already miserable, and even say that the Republic of China is not as good as the former Qing Dynasty, and the republic is not as good as the imperial system.

The policy of the early stage of Fujian's military and political axe is one word, steady!

And so far, it's been pretty good.

"Speaking of which, it's all the Governor's credit!" Gao Zeyan complimented Chen Jingyun.

Chen Jingyun naturally wouldn't accept it so generously, but said modestly: "This is all the credit of the military and political axes, I just took the lead!" ”

"Hehe, it's all overly humble!" Anwarin said: "In the past few months, the so-called governor of the capital is obvious to everyone, not only to ensure that the people in the territory have no worries, but also to expand the army by tens of thousands without disturbing the people, such means are unmatched in the entire south!" Like Jiangxi, Hunan and other places, I heard that they have already paid taxes in order to expand the army for three years! ”

Chen Jingyun shook his head when he heard this, it is true that he did not add taxes to the people, but in order to expand the army, he took out the salt administration as a mortgage, and borrowed his own money, this kind of thing is a traitorous act in the eyes of more radical people.

After laughing and laughing, Chen Jingyun changed the topic: "Gong An, how are the finances in the near future!" ”

When An Hualin heard Chen Jingyun's financial problem, he immediately put away his previous joking expression and said: "Don't worry, Governor, now our financial situation is running well!" ”

"Oh?" Although there is only a simple word, Anwarin heard the meaning of the inquiry, and immediately answered carefully: "After more than a month of tax reform, the initial results have been visible, and the taxes in various places are also being collected, and it is expected that this year's financial income can reach about 10 million, and the loan provided by me has also been put in place, in addition to the purchase of 30% of the money, and 2 million have been allocated to the arsenal, and the rest of the money is deposited in advanceAfter the tax is decompressed at the end of the year, it is expected that about 20 million will be obtained, but 20 million is just a book number, in fact, many payments have been taken away before they have been put into storage, and the actual inventory can have seven or eight million It is very good. ”

"So will next year's finances be sustainable?" Chen Jingyun asked a very crucial question, although the current fiscal situation seems to be loose, but this is because he said that his loan has been received, but it will not be there next year, and how to maintain the fiscal situation will be a big problem at that time.

When Anwarin heard this, he was also a little embarrassed: "According to the estimate made by our finance department, next year's administrative expenses and other expenses of the military and political axes will need about six million yuan to run smoothly, and the arsenal will also carry out innovations, and the future regular funds will be raised by them with ordnance products, and will not be included in the administrative expenses of the military and political axes, so that the funds of the arsenal will be counted into the military expenses every month." According to the advance submitted by the Armament Department and the Logistics Department of the Headquarters, based on the current size of the army, the annual salary cost of the National Army will be as high as 10 million, and then there is the consumption of ammunition and the purchase of equipment, but this part is expected to be at least 5 million. ”

An Hualin hadn't finished his words when he said this, but Chen Jingyun's face had already become gloomy. Everyone knows that it costs money to raise an army, but those who are not family members never know how much it will cost to raise a huge army.

However, he did not interrupt Anwarin, but motioned for him to continue.

Seeing that Chen Jingyun's face was not good, An Hualin also understood why Chen Jingyun was like this: "In this way, according to the current size of the army, and the predictable income next year, the gap is about tens of millions!" Speaking of this, An Hualin felt that it was necessary to remind Chen Jingyun: "Governor, we can still support it now, and there will not be too big financial problems even at the beginning of next year, but in the second half of next year, there may be no money to pay the army!" ”

Chen Jingyun's face was dark, and he was thinking about how to solve the dilemma in front of him.

According to the current scale of the national army, there are already six full mixed brigades, two full artillery regiments, one guard brigade, and about six regiments of local garrison troops, if you only count the number of people, the national army also has more than 50,000 people, which is more than the total number of the three towns in Beiyang, but how many of these more than 50,000 people can fight Chen Jingyun has no bottom in his heart, according to Chen Jingyun's prediction in his heart, assuming that if the national army and Beiyang have a war in the Zhejiang region and Beiyang, It is probably possible to send four brigades of troops to fight in Zhejiang, and these troops can defend against the attack of two towns in Beiyang, and if they can defeat one town in Beiyang in the offensive battle, Chen Jingyun will already snicker in his heart.

All along, Chen Jingyun's army expansion plan has been in accordance with this goal, and the core plan is naturally six mixed brigades, in addition to more important heavy firepower. For this reason, Chen Jingyun not only purchased one regiment of artillery from Germany, but also three regiments of artillery from Yueben. In order to be able to not lag behind Beiyang in heavy firepower in previous wars.

However, this method of army building is very expensive, and the 50,000-strong troops have already spent tens of millions of dollars before and after, and the future will be a bottomless pit, and Fujian Province alone will not be able to fill it in any way.

At present, Fujian's financial revenue is only about 13 million, but the military salary alone costs nearly 10 million a year, and the purchase of other equipment and ammunition consumption are not counted.

Chen Jingyun said to Gao Zeyan after a while: "How is your Funing Tobacco Company doing!" ”

In order to better accumulate wealth, the Fujian military and political axe had already ordered that no one or other person or organization in the province except for the Funing Company should not grow opium, and levy high taxes on opium, and at the same time set up a special anti-smoking department to crack down on all kinds of smuggled tobacco dealers. Taking advantage of the momentum of the military and political axes, Gao Zeyan made the Funing Company prosperous, and it has been extended to the whole province of Fujian in just one month.

In the face of Chen Jingyun's inquiry, Gao Zeyan said: "At present, the business bank is in a good situation! ”

Chen Jingyun didn't want to and didn't need to know too much detail, he just needed to know how much financial revenue he could bring in by this opium cultivation company that he had made out with his conscience, so he asked directly:

"By the end of the year, how much revenue will there be!"

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