Chapter 557 Post-War Guangzhou

Before dark, the gunfire finally stopped, and the dilapidated camp, on the river beach, and on the water, were littered with corpses of various appearances, with no end in sight.

In addition to risking the removal of the corpse, Wang Feng ordered to strengthen the access control and inventory, and encouraged the people of Guangzhou to report, in short, not a single Vietnamese person will not slip through the net.

If you dare to come to China to fish in troubled waters, you will have to pay the price of your life!

In the evening of the same day, the Democratic League raided nearly 100 homes of 13 merchants and Wu Chongyao, a high-ranking official of the puppet government, and the men were shot to death, and all the women under the age of 40 were all assigned to the unmarried soldiers in the army.

This is indeed as accused by outsiders, the Democratic League army raided homes and killed people and robbed women, but as Wang Feng said himself, how can there be immortals in the revolution? It is much more labor-saving to uproot the opposition forces physically than to change them mentally, and then to say that the transformation will be successful? You know, the human heart is the most unpredictable, and under the humble appearance, who knows if there will be a heart of hatred buried?

Wang Feng is willing to bear all the sins alone, and let the merits and demerits be judged by future generations, even if the heads are rolling, he must kill a glorious tomorrow for China!

Beginning on the second day, Foshan, Zhaoqing, Jiangmen, and other counties and cities were falling in the wind one after another, and the Second Army and the Fourth Army set sail to southern Guangdong and Guangxi to receive the entire territory of the two provinces, and on the same day, Wang Feng met with tens of thousands of representatives of small and medium-sized merchants and middle- and high-level representatives of tooth merchants and employees in Guangzhou, expounded the policy, expressed their willingness to support them in all aspects, and relaxed the restrictions on foreign trade. Unlike in the past, foreign trade was monopolized by thirteen merchants, and the rest of the merchants had to obtain foreign trade rights. You have to pay an administrative fee to the dental dealer, that's all. It has received enthusiastic support, and various tax reductions and credit incentives for Guangzhou's foreign trade industry have also been announced at the same time.

After another two days, the situation in Canton returned to calm, and although the streets were not as prosperous as before the war, they were already showing vitality, and on 8 February, the British, French, and American armed men withdrew from Canton, including Bowing and the British and American troops to Singapore, and Genui withdrew with the French troops to Saigon, Vietnam. Pa Xiali and Jing Yihua remained at the consulate in Guangzhou, after all, the Democratic Alliance occupied Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Guangdong, and became the richest force in Chinese mainland, and disputes and frictions in foreign trade had to be handled by them personally.

On this day, the results of the battle losses were also counted, and the participating units of the Democratic Alliance Army suffered a total of 3,812 casualties, a total of 1,123 seriously wounded and disabled, and more than 20,000 rounds of various artillery shells were consumed. Thirty-two guns of various calibers were lost, and not a single battleship was damaged.

In addition, 14,363 Chinese defenders were killed and seriously wounded, and the 50,000 Vietnamese troops were wiped out except for more than 30 people, including diplomatic missions. The British and French forces were killed more than 50 people, and nearly 30,000 defenders stationed in Guangzhou were surrendered.

The results of the raid were also counted as scheduled, with a total of more than 50,000 hectares of fertile land confiscated. There are more than 30,000 hectares of forest orchards and more than 3,000 large, medium and small houses. Nearly 80 million taels of silver, and 250 million taels of silver. Three million taels of gold, foreign currencies such as pounds, US dollars, and francs are equivalent to about two million pounds, and there are countless jewelry, jade, antiques, calligraphy and paintings.

On 9 February, Wang Feng invited the owners of the money banks in Guangzhou to gather and used the same means in Hangzhou to put out 250 million taels of silver bills, demanding that the money bank numbers be combined into joint-stock commercial banks, and that the government use the silver bills as debts to convert them into equity, and unconditionally accept the upcoming paper money and silver dollars.

With Hangzhou's experience and long-term preparations for the establishment of a bank, it is not difficult to straighten out Guangzhou's financial order.

In post-war Guangzhou, everyone was busy, and the same was true of the Ordnance Bureau, and actual combat was the best occasion for testing weapons and equipment, and the problems exposed ten times in the exercise were probably not worth one actual battle, especially high-intensity operations.

In just 10 hours, more than 20,000 shells were fired from various types of artillery of the Democratic Alliance Army, which did expose many problems, such as in terms of shell design, will the huge weight caused by the integration of the propellant and the warhead delay the loading speed?

Another example is the shock absorption and bearing problem of the gun body structure for continuous firing, how to judge the critical point of the gun bore? Is there room for improvement in the fire door setup? And so on and so forth.

In addition, the May Fourth rifle has also exposed problems in actual combat, that is, the bullet and the cartridge case exit, each of the exposed problems have posed a new challenge to the Ordnance Bureau, on the contrary, the Minnie gun is the most stable performance, after all, his technology is mature, and the gun body structure is relatively simple.

On 11 February, Wang Feng and his entourage appeared in the Humen port area of Guangzhou, where soldiers and temporarily recruited workers were dismantling the Humen Fort.

In Wang Feng's planning, Hong Kong and Macao's main positioning is the military base of the South China Sea Fleet, which will no longer be built exclusively as a trade entrepot center, and the South China Sea is huge, so the planned South China Sea Fleet will have two bases, and the other will be built on Hainan Island.

In fact, the prosperity of Hong Kong and Macao is inseparable from the special history of Chinese mainland being blocked, after the reform and opening up, especially in the past decade, with the strong development of the inland economy, the geographical advantages of Hong Kong and Macao have become more and more weakened, and the decline is inevitable.

Now in the hands of the Democratic Alliance, Chinese mainland will not regain the fate of being blocked, and Hong Kong and Macao have also lost their role as a window to the world, in this case, why spend great efforts to build Hong Kong and Macao, Hong Kong and Macao as a naval base, blocking the mouth of the Pearl River is enough, at most develop some related industries, so the Humen Fort has ended its historical mission under the background of the big policy.

Not far from the Humen Fort is the Humen Port Area, which is the best of the several ports in Guangzhou, and is also the busiest port area, before the Anglo-Qing War, the Guangzhou Port Area was China's only foreign trade distribution center, and even today, its scale and prosperity are greater than the Ningbo Port and Shanghai Port in the same period.

With the end of the war, the Humen port area also regained its vitality, ships came and went, Vietnam's rice, Southeast Asia's rubber and iron ore, East India Company's foreign cloth, various industrial products from the United States, and many other imported goods, one by one, picked up from the ship, Chinese silk ceramics were also shipped in large quantities, and customs officials interspersed with them, estimating the amount of taxes.

"Commander Wang, look over there, it is a newly built coal wharf, dedicated to receiving coal from Vietnam and Southeast Asia, it is used to berth foreign ships, their ships are relatively large, and they occupy a large area, and the downstream is docked with Chinese ships, at present, there are more than 30,000 people begging for a living in the entire port area, and hundreds of merchants also have offices in the port."

Accompanied by Wang Feng, Huang Kaiguang enthusiastically introduced, although Wang Feng did not give him the title, but under Wang Feng's organization, he was elected as the first chairman of the Guangzhou Import and Export Trade Committee, this committee assumed part of the functions of the original thirteen banks, and played a role in connecting the relevant government departments and the import and export merchants. (To be continued......)

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