During the period of occupation of Qingdao, the struggle of the Chinese people has not stopped, the caravans, patrols, sentry posts, and military camps are all within the scope of the attack, these attackers like to use mortars the most, and basically withdraw immediately after a shot, and they want to pursue, these people will flee without a trace, and sometimes there are fewer people sent out by the people, and they will face the danger of being annihilated. Moreover, due to the frequent attacks on the trade routes, Yueben had to mobilize materials from China and transport them to Qingdao by sea, which greatly consumed Yueben's financial resources.

Since the occupation of Qingdao in 1914, more than 3,000 soldiers have been killed in various attacks, and the number of wounded has exceeded 10,000.

At that time, when Beiyang was in power, it still had some effect, but now after the Sichuan system came to power, the attitude towards the outside world has become more and more tough, and the strength of Shandong's volunteer army has also expanded rapidly, and the equipment has become more and more exaggerated, and the traditional mines, mortars, grenadiers and the like have become obsolete, and these guerrillas can be equipped with tanks and fighting vehicles.

Relying on the tank car guerrillas, they have ambushed the grain transport team several times, which greatly shocked the top management of the company, originally said that he was relying on superior weapons to bully others, but now he is on the inferior side, how can this change not make him crazy.

Some people at the top of the political axe have already said that Shandong is a wound that will never recover, so that the empire will continue to bleed, and demand that this give up power in Shandong and withdraw from Qingdao, but this voice has not received much support in the political arena at all, and the military department is extremely opposed.

In fact, this kind of thinking is also very normal, with the peaceful transfer of power in China, the Sichuan system began to dominate China, the face of the whole country is changing rapidly, especially the increase in industrial strength is very amazing, although the industrial strength is now much stronger than China, but the company has to put a lot of energy into the navy, and most of the resources of the island country rely on imports, it can be said that the production capacity of the small island country itself has not been much different from China.

If we withdraw from China now, we will have completely lost the power to restrain China, and we absolutely do not want to lose Shandong, but there is even worse, that is, in the Far East, Kolchak has disappeared, the White Russians have no leader, and the majority of the party's troops will soon fight in the Far East.

In other words, it is necessary to exchange interests, and there are not many chips in the hands of Ben, Shandong? Northeast? Taiwan? Ben is in a state of great distress!

"Prime Minister, I think it's better not to rush into a war if you can get it through negotiations, the domestic reform has reached a critical moment, and it is really not appropriate to offend Yuben!" Zhou Ziqi, an old man from Beiyang, said: "After all, this is a great power, and the navy is proud of the Far East, so if you can't offend, you can't offend!" ”

"Minister Zhou, the territorial issue cannot be expected to be resolved through negotiations, the call and the negotiation are completely different, the fight is safer and more secure, and it can also deter the petty people, although the navy is powerful, but it is definitely not our opponent in the army and air force, we can't count on others to give alms, but we should fight for it ourselves!" Jiang Baili had been planning the offensive in Shandong for Qiao Yu, so he was very dissatisfied with Zhou Ziqi's discouraged attitude.

Han Yong is the same, he looks down on cowards like Zhou Ziqi, "If the negotiations can be negotiated, the Paris Peace Conference would have been negotiated a long time ago, and the Paris Peace Conference will tell me a truth, the world is talking about fists, and the great powers are all a bunch of bastards, only if they are hurt and disabled, they will not dare to covet China. ”

Zhou Ziqi was bombarded, and immediately stopped talking, and Qiao Yu did not continue to talk about this matter, "The next second topic is the development of the Northeast, that is, the overall immigration of the real border, including the Northeast, Mongolia, Xinjiang Province, Yunnan, Guangxi and other places need to enrich the frontier forces, the most important of which is the Northeast, the Northeast Plain is vast and the soil is fertile, especially after the Outer Northeast is taken down, the amount of land that can be cultivated in the Northeast has increased greatly, and now the population is sparse, which is the focus of our immigration. I suggest that in the next five years, 30 million people will be emigrated to the Northeast, and within 20 years, the population of the Northeast will reach more than 80 million, and the vast black soil will be turned into our granary and oil depot! ”

In the history of the Republic of China, the people's livelihood of the three eastern provinces has long been leading the country, and the unique resource advantage of the Northeast is the main reason for this, the fertile black soil makes the Northeast even if it can only grow one season of grain, but the output is also leading the country, and the Northeast has another important financial route, that is, soybeans, China in later generations will import soybeans from the United States, but in the history of the Republic of China, the export volume of soybeans in the Northeast exceeds ninety percent of the world.

In other words, China has achieved a monopoly and can raise prices at will in exchange for huge profits, but due to the economic control of the capital, the soybean exports in the Northeast are controlled by the company, so that the profits are generally occupied by the capital, of course, the people in the Northeast can also get some benefits through the oil mills everywhere.

Now Qiao Yu is ready to immigrate to the Northeast in a big way, the most important of which is to develop the agricultural potential of the Northeast, for the profits of soybeans is absolutely not to give up, and will not give this any chance, in addition to the Northeast rice is also well-known in the country in later generations, and there are rich mineral resources, enough to support the establishment of a huge heavy industry system.

For such a piece of treasure land, Qiao Yu can never let go, the cabinet members present also agree with this proposition, whether it is the southwest where land reform has been carried out, or the densely populated southeast and Central Plains, there are a large number of idle laborers, and it is a top priority to solve the problem of work and food for them, so it is a good thing to send these surplus people to the northeast to open up wasteland.

However, such large-scale immigration activities are probably rare in the world, so it is necessary to do a good job in supporting work, medical care, security, early investment, all of which must be planned in a unified manner, after discussion, Qiao Yu decided to set up a special working group, led by himself, responsible for immigration work.

Then we moved on to the third topic, which is also the thing that people are most concerned about, that is, the reorganization of the national army, Jiang Baili has been dealing with this work, and the preliminary plan has been determined at this time.

"The whole [***] team is unified and reorganized, the original armies of the provinces are all abolished, and from now on the provinces are not allowed to retain the army, only part of the national militia reserve can be retained, the newly established national defense force takes the division as the basic unit, and a total of 85 infantry divisions are organized and trained, divided into three levels, A, B, and C, of which there are 20 divisions in total, adopting a two-brigade and four-regiment system, with heavy artillery units and armored forces, as the main combat force, and the number of each division is about 15,000 people; There are a total of 20 divisions of type B, each division is still two brigades and four regiments, but it is not worthy of the armored forces, as a supplementary force to the main battle force, it is stationed in various provinces and strategic places in peacetime, and the number of each division is about 10,000; There are a total of 45 divisions of the C type, with no brigade-level establishment, three infantry regiments in each division, and some auxiliary units, which shoulder the task of local public security in peacetime and are expanded into main combat units at any time during major wars.

In addition to the infantry, three more tank divisions will be formed as the most important assault force of the whole army, and seven cavalry divisions will be set up in Mongolia and Xinjiang Province as a force for border patrol and defense, and the strength of the air force will be expanded from 300 combat planes to 500 to ensure the superior position of the air force in the Far East. ”

Jiang Baili gave a brief introduction to the main situation, and then announced the list of the main army commanders, the whole country added up to nearly a hundred divisions, especially twenty A divisions, and three tank divisions are the key key, directly related to the power comparison of various factions, so everyone paid extra attention.

Long Yun, Su Ding, Liu Cunhou, Pan Wenhua, Wang Zanxu, Deng Xihou, Tian Songyao, Wang Mingzhang and other Sichuan cadres were all selected, and Wu Peifu, Feng Yuxiang, Sun Chuanfang, Sun Liechen and other Beiyang generals also got their wish to become the division commanders of the A division, and the three tank divisions were all served by the Sichuan system, and Lu Han, Liu Wenhui, and Fan Shaozeng became the commanders of the three tank divisions.

Such as Liu Xiang, Shi Yi, Wang Huai and others have been promoted to a military governor, and those from the Sichuan system have received less than seventy percent of the entire distribution, but the main forces are all controlled by the Sichuan system, and the navy and air force are even more so, and the local forces such as Beiyang have about thirty percent, and this distribution plan is basically fair, Qiao Yu did not clean up all the Beiyang, and some of the people appointed are also recognized as capable generals in the Beiyang.

This distribution basically made all parties satisfied, the three main topics were successfully passed, and the first official meeting of the cabinet was successfully completed, but Qiao Yu did not have any leisure, he called Wang Lingji and Wang Tianhe, the two spy chiefs, to the office.

"Fang Zhou, how is the matter I asked you to check?"

"Report to the premier, after coming to Yanjing, he established the National Intelligence and Security Bureau, conducted a thorough investigation of Yanjing and its surroundings, the number of spies is extremely high, especially Yu himself is more, but some of the main spy agencies have been fully monitored, as long as the prime minister gives an order, they can all be eradicated, in addition, Yanjing does have a large number of bureaucrats, civilians have been bribed by the powers, these people attack the political axe from all angles, belittle the image of the Chinese, defend the powers, we have a rough list!"

Qiao Yu nodded, "I won't look at the list, don't move for the time being for those who are insignificant, it's just a monkey show, those who are evil and harmful must be dealt with as soon as possible, in addition, we can't just passively defend, sending spies to foreign countries is one aspect, and we also have to learn to use these miscellaneous pieces to help us deliver news!" ”

After explaining a few words to Wang Lingji, Qiao Yu said to Wang Tianhe again: "Tianhe, I asked you to investigate the Zongshe Party, as well as my own affairs, how is it now!" ”

"Prime Minister, the Zongshe Party, with the support of the Kawashima Naniwa, in 1912 and 1916, respectively, with the help of the Xinhai Revolution and Yuan Shikai's proclamation of the emperor, instigated the [***] action, but all of them ended in nothing, but the Zongshe Party has become an important card for the control of the Northeast, and the Zongshe Party itself has become a cancer and must be eradicated!"

(To be continued)