In order to cooperate with the issuance of patriotic bonds, Zhao Dongyun specially integrated the banking system under his control, and he merged the Fengtian Bank and the Beiyang Bank under his control, and then established the Bank of China

The predecessor of Fengtian Bank is Fengtian Guanyin, and the predecessor of Beiyang Bank is more complicated, his predecessor is Tianjin Guanyin and Hubu Bank, last year after the republic Wang Yingkai and these two official banks merged to establish Beiyang Bank, trying to imitate Zhao Dongyun in the northeast to issue paper money, the establishment of a central bank system, but this merger also takes time, just completed in June, before the issuance of paper money Zhao Dongyun entered the customs.

And this Beiyang Bank naturally fell into the hands of Zhao Dongyun, but this bank is actually an empty shelf, and there is not much capital, and at the same time, Zhao Dongyun has used Fengtian Bank to issue Fengyuan before, this Fengtian Bank has actually become the central bank of the Soviet Union, and now Zhao Dongyun is merging these two banks, but it is better to let Fengtian Bank swallow Beiyang Bank.

Due to the tight time, and the fact that one of the two banks was in the three eastern provinces and the other was in Zhili, there were not too many business crossovers, so the merger was simply united, and the personnel transfer was considered to be completed.

Subsequently, the Bank of China began to issue new paper banknotes and silver dollars, and the new bank did not create two characters, but printed with the head of Zhao Dongyun, engraved with the words "issued by the Bank of China" and other words, and the new version of the paper "bank" was also printed with the words "Bank of China", which was also the official end of the Fengyuan era.

With the issuance of the republican government's new silver coins and new paper money, the Ministry of Finance also introduced the 'abolition of the two and the change of yuan', announcing that the official monetary unit in the future will be the 'yuan' instead of the original 'tael'.

In general, the issuance of new silver coins and new paper money did not have a big impact, because there was already a Fengyuan as a foreshadowing, and in the late Qing Dynasty, basically various types of silver dollars were already popular, and people were used to using copper dollars and silver dollars. As long as people know that they can exchange paper money for silver coins at any time, then they will not run to exchange paper money for silver coins at any time, so as to truly complete the paper currency.

Compared with the issuance of paper money, the issuance of patriotic bonds caused a greater sensation, for the simple reason that on the one hand, the government has carried out large-scale propaganda and raised the purchase of patriotic bonds to the level of love or not.

Just as some information in the QQ group in later generations said that if you don't transfer, you won't be Chinese, the government's propaganda in the newspaper is that if you don't buy patriotic bonds, you won't be Chinese......

This propaganda led to a large number of ordinary people, especially young people with new education, who bought them, and even many students took to the streets to promote patriotic bonds.

In addition, the first batch of patriotic bonds issued are short-term bonds, with a half-year, one-year, and three-year term, and the interest rate is relatively high, so it has attracted a lot of speculators to buy, after all, even if people think that Zhao Dongyun will fall in the future, but there should be no problem in supporting it for a year and a half, and the bonds will have already recovered the principal and interest by then.

In fact, the main force of bond purchases is not ordinary people, but all kinds of money banks, banks and other financial institutions, they have a large number of depositors' funds in their hands, and these funds are all invested to earn interest, otherwise how can these banks make money.

As the largest private bank in the north in recent years, the Dingsheng Bank, which is jointly operated by Hong Xuwei and many northern capitalists, has purchased a large amount of depositors' funds at one time with a maturity of 3 million yuan, and then dozens of small and medium-sized private banks in Yingkou, Tianjin Huludao and other places have purchased tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, which adds up to 6 million yuan.

Not only the capital from the north bought it, but even those capitalists in the south, especially in Shanghai, were also moved, and many money banks and banks bought a lot of patriotic bonds to a greater or lesser extent. Among them, there is a special bank, that is, Fulong Bank, which is jointly established by Fuyuan Company and Jia Bingyun's family, which is also based in the surrounding areas of Shanghai, and its capital is not much, but it has also purchased 200,000 patriotic bonds.

Even foreign banks have bought some of them, although not much, but there are millions of dollars.

These financial institutions have purchased more than 12 million patriotic bonds, in addition to more than 4 million small patriotic bonds purchased by ordinary people.

The total amount of several kinds of bonds issued by the Soviet Union in the three eastern provinces sold by the Fengtian Bank in the previous few times was only more than 6 million, and now it is more than twice the amount of the previous issuance, and with the continuous issuance of bonds, it is necessary to be able to raise more funds, which can greatly alleviate the great financial pressure of the Soviet system at present, and at least in the next few months, there is no need to worry about not being able to pay military salaries.

In addition to patriotic propaganda, the relatively successful sales of patriotic bonds are also related to the relatively short maturity and relatively high interest rates of these bonds, and the purpose of many people, especially various financial institutions, to buy patriotic bonds is simply to make a short-term investment.

Zhao Dongyun was happy about the successful issuance of patriotic bonds, but Zhou Xuexi, who was in charge of this matter, watched the issuance of more and more patriotic bonds, and the worry in his heart became stronger and stronger.

Unless tens of millions of yuan fall from the sky, the financial situation next year will not be optimistic!

When Zhao Dongyun, Zhou Xuexi and others were running in the rear to raise funds, they were struggling to support the central government and the front-line war, but the soldiers of the Fengjun army on the front line could not feel the pressure of the civilian clique in the rear.

Because these generals who fought in the war had no artillery and no shells, they asked for the Ordnance Department and the Quartermaster Department in the rear, and when the headquarters ran out of money, they looked for Zhao Dongyun and Zhou Xuexi, and they didn't care about how the officials in the financial system raised money at the back.

At the end of August, the First Army led by Meng Enyuan conquered Anyang, Henan, and then entered Henan in a big way, and then conquered many prefectures and counties in northern Henan in just half a month, and then fought all the way to the north bank of the Yellow River, and the troops reached Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province.

Wang Ruxian was defeated again and again, and the generals chose to shrink all their forces to hold Zhengzhou, and even gave up directly without defending the ancient city of Kaifeng.

Wang Shizhen didn't care about the war in Hubei at this time, so he hurriedly sent another division north to reinforce him.

On the Shandong front, in mid-August, the Third Division of the Second Army of the Feng Army surrounded and annihilated the Second Mixed Brigade of the Shandong Provincial Army under the command of Zhang Huaizhi in the area of Gushan Town and Zhangxia Town in the south of Jinan.

However, the defenders in the direction of Jinan were more stubborn than Xu Bangjie imagined, including the 10th Brigade of the 5th Division of Zhang Huaizhi's descendants and the 1st Mixed Brigade of the Shandong Provincial Army.

The Second Army launched three general attacks before finally conquering Jinan on September 6, and in order to conquer Jinan, the 10th Division suffered very heavy losses.

Shi Yanglin read the battle report to Zhao Dongyun with an expressionless face: "As of this battle report, the losses of the Second Army in the Jinan Campaign are as follows, the Third Division has lost 227 soldiers and 480 wounded, 9 lieutenants have been killed, and Major Gao Yunqu, the commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 9th Regiment, has been killed in the Battle of Lashan, and 29 other officers have been wounded. The 10th Division lost 570 soldiers and 926 wounded, 17 lieutenants were killed, Colonel Qu Yiquan of the 18th Regiment was killed, Major Zhong Anlin, commander of the 1st Battalion of the 18th Regiment, Major Zhao Longbing, commander of the 3rd Battalion of the 18th Regiment, was seriously wounded, and Colonel Kan Quanyong of the 19th Regiment was wounded. Thirty-seven other officers were wounded."

When Zhao Dongyun heard the casualties of the soldiers, he felt that it was still acceptable, more than 700 of the more than 30,000 people in the Second Army were killed, more than 1,500 were wounded, and the casualty rate was less than 10 percent, and this casualty rate was already okay for a tough battle. As for the heavy casualties among the middle and senior officers of the 10th Division, this was purely a matter of luck, and the commander of the 19th Brigade on the front, Major General Ren Cungao, was led by a group of officers to inspect the battle line, and was discovered by the artillery observers of the Lu Army on the opposite side, and then suffered a burst of heavy shelling, which caused heavy casualties among the middle-level officers of the 19th Brigade, Colonel Qu Yiquan, commander of the 18th Regiment, and Major Zhong Anlin, commander of the 1st Battalion, were killed on the spot, and many officers of the 19th Brigade were seriously injured, and there were even more minor injuries.

"In addition, the Second Army lost 37 light machine guns, 9 heavy machine guns, 12 mortars, 4 75-mm guns, and 3,000 rifles in the battle!"

Shi Yanglin continued: "Since our army launched the Jinan Campaign, it has been ascertained that the enemy has invested the first mixed brigade, the second mixed brigade, the tenth brigade of the fifth division and a number of local troops of the Shandong Provincial Army, with a total of about 17,000 people, and our army and the second mixed brigade of the enemy army in the battle of Gushan Town, and the heavy losses in the siege of Jinan did not see the enemy's first mixed brigade and the tenth brigade, except for less than 3,000 enemy troops who fled, the rest of the army was annihilated. It is estimated that about 4,000 enemy troops were killed and wounded, and 10,000 were taken prisoner. In addition, 12,000 Fuzao, Dezao and Jiangnan-made Type 88 79 horse rifles, 4 57-mm mountain guns, 13 75-mm tube field guns and mountain guns, and 9 old-fashioned miscellaneous guns were seized. A batch of bullets and shells. ”

The casualty exchange ratio between the two sides still sounds more gratifying to Zhao Dongyun, the two sides are about two to one exchange ratio, and this is still the case of the Feng army launching an active attack, to be honest, it is quite good to be able to fight like this, you must know that in the Jinan Campaign, the three brigades under Zhang Huaizhi are miscellaneous except for the first mixed brigade of the Shandong Provincial Army, and the other two are the old Beiyang troops under Zhang Huaizhi, and the combat effectiveness is not an ordinary miscellaneous card that can be compared.

However, the exchange ratio of ordinary soldiers is okay, but the loss of officers still makes Zhao Dongyun more heartbroken, especially Qu Yiquan, this person is one of the early trainees, he still remembers that the person is tall, taciturn on weekdays, but he is a young officer with extremely high tactical literacy, this is a descendant officer who he personally taught, and it is the real descendant of his future control of the army, after this battle, it should not be a problem to regenerate a brigade commander with his qualifications, It also means that the officers and trainees of his descendants have officially stepped into the group of senior generals, which is an important group for them to control the army in the future.

But now it was folded in the Battle of Jinan, which made Zhao Dongyun feel sorry for it, but the people who served in the army already had the determination to die on the battlefield, and they didn't have to feel much sadness for him, but after his family lost this backbone, I am afraid it will not be easy in the future.

Zhao Dongyun was silent, and then said: "Posthumously awarded the title of 'Qu Yiquan Shao' general, four medals, and a three-star White Lion Medal, the family members should be appeased!" ”

After hearing this, Shi Yanglin was silent for a while, and then said in a heavy tone: "I think Brother Qu can also feel relieved if he has knowledge!" ”

According to the tradition of the Fengjun in recent years, officers are often posthumously awarded a higher rank after they are killed, but unlike the rank of major general, in order to control the generals, even if it is the number of generals who have died, the addition of officers to the rank of colonel is generally posthumously awarded to the rank of "plus major general", not directly posthumously awarded to the major general. Now Zhao Dongyun directly posthumously awarded Qu Yiquan the major general, which can be regarded as a posthumous award of two levels, which can be regarded as a grand treatment.

Speaking of these, Zhao Dongyun looked up at Shi Yanglin: "In the past few years, there have been a lot of people missing from you!" ”

Zhao Dongyun pondered as he spoke, the number of advanced students he taught from the sporadic part of the early years to the class of 1905, 1906 and the class of 1907, which just graduated this year, the total number was about 200 people, but since entering the customs, at least 20 advanced students have died on the battlefield.

Shi Yanglin said: "Of the twenty-seven colleagues in the same class as me, there are only twenty-three left!" ”