Chapter 221 Salary Draw from the Bottom of the Cauldron (I)

Emergency dispatches and training seem to be commonplace for the Wehrmacht, and the training items that will be carried out every month allow the soldiers to be orderly in the face of emergencies, so when Cai Yi boarded the Chuyu ship the next day, the first two infantry regiments of the 2nd Brigade and the 101st Brigade had slowly crossed the Jinjipo Fort in Jiangxi Province under the protection of the Hairong ship and 2 gunboats. \\9vk。 Starting\\

Outside the escort gunboats, two British Insect-class gunboats have always been accompanied by military spying, and although Britain and France have not imposed restrictions on the Wehrmacht this time, all military movements, especially those along the Yangtze River waterway, are still under full surveillance. It was also clear to everyone that this information would soon be sent to the north, and that Britain, like other countries, was waiting for the turning point of the war, but judging from their consistent relationship with Beiyang, it was normal to inform the information.

The three warships have all been filled with live ammunition, in addition to guarding against the British, more attention is focused on the two batteries, most of the batteries here are still 57 mm mountain guns, but four 120 mm shore guns and two German-made 210 mm fortress guns in the former Qing Dynasty made the Wehrmacht dare not take it lightly, especially after Jiangxi's high-profile announcement of non-cooperation, it is necessary to be more vigilant.

But in fact, it was a different story on the Jinji Mountain Fortress.

The muzzles of the thick 210-mm German-made fortress guns were stained with soldiers watching, and the four 120-mm river defense guns, although they had lost their armor, were aimed at the British gunboats, and they were not loaded with any shells.

"Brother Zihong, what do you think of the governor this time? In the past, he always said that he wanted to fight Beiyang, but now he has declared neutrality and is still working against Yang Qiu, what does it mean? On the fort, a bearded officer with a scumbag in his hand looked at the river ships passing under his nose with his gun barrel in his hand, with both envy and complicated expression.

His name is Liu Zhenxi, 28 years old, a native of Jiujiang, and a graduate of Shanghai Nanyang Naval Academy. During the Manchu Dynasty, the river defense on the Yangtze River was jointly managed by the Jiangfang Army and the Naval Division, and he was sent to Jiujiang as a member of the Navy to be mainly responsible for the Jinjipo Fort to ensure the smooth supply of coal to the Naval Division. The man named Zihong was the current representative of the Jiangxi Congress, the prime minister of the Bank of the Republic of Jiangxi, the economic adviser of the Governor's Office, and his fellow countryman Xu Xiujun.

Xu Xiujun was gifted, at the age of 20, he was sent by the government to study economics at Waseda University in Japan, and a year later he organized the Military National Education Association with his partners, and later sneaked back to Jiangxi to propagate the revolution with Lin Sen and others, and after being found wanted, he simply transferred to Hong Kong to disguise himself as a shipwright to the United Kingdom, and was admitted to George Smeadan University in London, England, with excellent results, majoring in economics and management. &*．《》． The fastest update**It happened that Wang Daxie, the minister in the UK, saw that he was smart and studious, and his good conduct was quite appreciated, so he hired him to come to the embassy to sort out the official documents and files after school, which was regarded as subsidizing his tuition.

After four years of part-time work and study, he got a degree, and went to Heilongjiang as a financial adviser under the recommendation of Wang Daxie, and later transferred to Xu Shichang to take charge of rectifying the finances, and now the finances of the three northeastern provinces are basically the foundation he laid back then.

After Xu Shichang returned to Beijing, he recommended him to go to Europe for investigation, and finally he chose to study at Leipzig Business School in Germany. After the peace between the north and the south, Xu Shichang saw him in Tianjin and immediately recommended it to Yuan Shikai, who was also invited as a financial adviser to the presidential palace, but he didn't like Yuan Shikai's twilight, saw through his fake republic and true dictatorial thoughts, and finally resigned and returned to his hometown Jiujiang.

When he graduated from the UK, he even sent an invitation letter from HSBC, but he refused because he didn't want to become a comprador for the exploitation of China by foreign powers, so he immediately invited him to appoint an adviser to the Governor's Office.

Jiangxi is a poor province, the annual tax is less than 30% of Hubei, and when he served as a consultant, it coincided with the collapse of the economy due to the revolution, so he immediately suggested opening the Jiangxi Republic of China Bank, issuing local bonds, imitating the southwest to mint money by itself, prohibiting the abolition of money merchants from pawning money bills, and stabilizing the financial market. He also asked Li Liejun to open an office to activate finance, and later personally grasped the salt tax, stopped paying the central taxes, and even secretly planned to take back the Hanyeping Coal Mine in a financial way, but later lost a good opportunity due to the toughness of the National Defense Army and did not hesitate to fight for it.

But even without the latter, Jiangxi's economy became merely orderly under his combing, not only did not decrease due to the revolutionary chaos and the abolition of a large number of centigold, but the growth rate was obvious.

It is precisely because of his efforts that Jiangxi, a poor province, can still maintain the establishment of two divisions and one brigade, even surpassing Zhejiang and Fujian, which are relatively rich, and Li Liejun himself is a good officer, so the Jiangxi army is second only to the behemoth of the national defense army in the southern forces.

However, today he regretted doing things so actively!

In fact, he knew in his heart that Li Liejun was by no means the kind of selfish person, and he did this time completely because of the repeated and retreating defeats of the KMT's top leaders, which caused his mind to be out of control, and the blow after the breakdown of faith was unimaginable, so he also hated Yang Qiu half to death. Coupled with the rapid control of the National Socialist Party in Congress and the growing armament of the Wehrmacht, it is believed that he is a thief of the country like Yuan Shikai, and sooner or later will embark on the road of dictatorship and opposition to the republic.

Xu Xiujun can also see that Yang Qiu doesn't like the republic so much, otherwise he wouldn't go around swinging around and attacking political opponents to control the Congress by all means, but after more than a year of chaos, many people actually understand in their hearts that a similar American-style republic is difficult to work, at least in the current China, and it is already good that he can keep the Congress, otherwise with his means in the southwest, he can completely wait for Beiyang and the Kuomintang to fight and sweep all the forces in the south.

The current situation in the country is very obvious, and the dominance of the National Socialist Party can hardly be contained, unless they lose this battle, but is it possible? Yang Qiu sent so many troops but there were still heavy troops stationed in the southwest, so even if he lost, it would not be the turn of the Kuomintang to get involved in the southwest, and in the end it was still a scene of separation of the three families, which was not conducive to national unity and independence, so his position should be to send troops to defeat Beiyang first, so that the country is in a unified state and then slowly resolve internal contradictions, but ().

He sighed and looked at Liu Zhenxi: "I'm afraid that the governor has really done something stupid this time." ”

Liu Zhenxi didn't think as much as him, as a navyman, he wanted to return when Sa Zhenbing returned to the mountains to take charge of the navy, after all, the navy is not an army, and what they learned was not consumed in the civil war, so he said: "Zihong, the governor usually listens to you, so you should persuade him." I won't hide it from you, but the Saharon command has sent a telegram to me that the Wehrmacht is going to form a Marine Corps, and he has already recommended me to go, so my brother can't stay here for a few days. The soldiers below have been very angry these days, anyway, this time Yang Qiu represents the central government, and it is the dream of our people to restore the integrity and unity of the country, but now that Jiangxi has declared independence, it will inevitably affect Fujian, Guangdong and Zhejiang in the south. Maybe some people are willing to spend it, but brother, I really don't want to wait, there is no unified country, there is no sea frontier, there is no sea frontier...... How can we rise in China?

Having said that, Yang Qiu is by no means a person who is easy to get along with! After he promised our navy to continue to pay the final payment for the three training cruisers, because the Fujian guys were not very obedient, he simply sent the people he selected through Wang Guangxiong to Britain and the United States to accept them, which was equivalent to taking the three warships in his arms. It is said that Yuan Shikai is a living Cao Cao, and I don't think he is bad. But there is one thing that people do well, and that is to have a country in their hearts! Unlike Yuan Shikai, who only has Beiyang in his heart, even the Sa system said that he is the kind of extreme character who will either lead us to real prosperity or defeat miserably!

So I'm willing to bet that if the Governor continues to be stubborn, within three days the Southwestern Defense Army will be aggressive! Even if he doesn't come, when he defeats Beiyang and controls the whole country, can we Jiangxi be a country within a country? What's more, if you see for yourself, what is the strength of the Wehrmacht Army? The German Krupp ten-five guns on the deck over there are not much worse than bombarding our batteries. What he is holding in his hands now is the power of the central government, with the support of the National Assembly and President Lebanon, and we can still take advantage of it! He looked at the soldier behind him and sighed: "My words are finished, I can't control others, but." ”

Although he didn't continue, Xu Xiujun knew in his heart that there were indeed a lot of complaints within the Gan army about this independence in the past few days. Especially the grassroots soldiers, they are not all people with lofty dreams, most of them are poor children in the countryside, and they only follow Li Liejun to rise up because they are not used to seeing the Manchu Qing Dynasty (). However, the military salary of 2 yuan per month is far from the minimum standard of 10 yuan for the National Defense Force.

As soon as the telegram of Yang Qiu as vice president and minister of defense concurrently as commander-in-chief of the navy and land came out, there was news in the army that he would accept the reorganization of the national defense force, and the soldiers were still very excited at that time, because in this way they could get the same standard of military salary as others, but who knew that as soon as Li Liejun came back, he sent a telegram not to cooperate, and in the past two days, he was still brewing independence, which is not the way for tens of thousands of soldiers to support their families!

Thinking of this, he was also a little anxious, Tang Jiyao and the matter in Kunming are all lessons from the past, once the soldiers mutinied and the people suffered, if the national defense army really drove in, I am afraid that the welcome will be much stronger than the resistance, so he should really persuade Li Liejun.

Liu Zhenxi saw that he was moved, and took out a telegram from his pocket: "This is what Yang Qiu asked me to hand over to you through the Sa system, he has appointed you as the president of the Southwest Bank, and many generals in the army will also be appointed at the same time, the letter of appointment will be sent to everyone tomorrow morning at the latest, Brother Zihong go back and be careful." ”

The president of the Southwestern Bank?!

Xu Xiujun guessed that Liu Zhenxi had a connection with the National Defense Army, otherwise he would never have said so much, but he never expected that Yang Qiu would suddenly appoint himself as the president of the Southwest Bank! As long as there are almost no people in the domestic industrial and commercial circles who do not know about this bank, the behemoth in the southwest has sufficient reserves, and the issuance of the southwest people's yuan alone is as much as hundreds of millions! Most importantly, it has a high probability of becoming the central bank of the Republic of China! After Shen Shukai left, no one in the country did not covet this position, who in the business community is not trying to find a way to get through these days? The resume sent to Yang Qiu's hand is estimated to be more than one person tall! Becoming the governor of the Southwest Bank means that he will become one of the three financial giants in Yang Qiu's system and become the core personnel of the National Defense Force!

Without moving, a few appointments turned Jiangxi upside down, but he was still very moved, and he couldn't even say anything if he refused.

This Yang Qiu is really a good means!