"Okay, good, Yuchen, I didn't expect this matter to really let you do it, not waste a shot or a bullet, reduce the burden of tens of millions of people, but also increase tens of millions of direct benefits for the central government, this income will soon rise sharply, it's really ashamed to say, since the founding of the country, the person who has made the greatest contribution to the country and the nation is none other than Yuchen."

When Xu Shichang finally got the exchange of letters of the new covenant between China and Japan, he was so excited that he didn't know why, his originally somewhat haggard face was red, as if he was several years younger in an instant, although the situation had gradually become clear, but until this time, the independence of the Republic of China Customs was regarded as the most critical step.

"Yes, our group is very troubled by the financial problems of the central government. If it weren't for Yu Shuai entering Beijing, I don't know who would be able to clean up such a mess. ”

Qian Nengxun sighed with emotion, the people present can more or less understand the complicated feeling in Qian Nengxun's heart at this time, and finally the hard days of the cabinet are coming to an end, but only to see a little sunshine, the position of the prime minister of the cabinet will be done, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that Tian Helin, who has already served as the chief financial officer, can form a cabinet is a matter of course.

Who called someone Qin Yu's descendant, but then again, Qian Nengxun thought that his career would be regarded as the end, but Qin Yu still arranged a position for him as the governor of Gansu Province, and it was not considered to have completely put him into the cold palace. Everyone present knew that Qin Yu planned to make adjustments to the personnel in Gansu, and gradually replaced him with the descendants of the central government, so that although he did not enter the small circle around Qin Yu, he was still in this big circle. With the support of the army in Shaanxi, he, the airborne governor of Gansu Province, will not be a good person. The party that can be in charge can be regarded as holding real power.

"It's all for the big plate of the Republic of China, talking about whose credit is big and whose credit is small. Someone has to watch every position, otherwise I can't do anything alone. Qin Yu shook his head and smiled, and said to Qian Nengxun, "Gansu is remote, Premier Qian has to take care of his body here, Gansu is too far away." I don't have any of my own people in the past, I'm really not at ease, Zhang Guangjian's guy has almost ruined the foundation of Gansu, and the shape is not much better than Shaanxi, no smoking, disaster relief, road repair, school building, there are many things. Don't tire yourself out too much. ”

"Yu Shuai rest assured, my old bones are still counting on playing a spare heat for national construction, and there are tens of thousands of troops in Shaanxi, who am I afraid of disobedient?" Qian Nengxun nodded and smiled.

"Well, Premier Qian just has to rest assured that he will do something, set up industries, and revitalize the economy, and Zhang Guangjian has also made a lot of money in the past few years. The Central Army is the solid pillar of Premier Qian. Xu Shichang said quite stiffly, and then said. Speaking of which, it still played a role in Chen Shufan's knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger before, otherwise, Zhang Guangjian would not have complied so easily. ”

"If some of the local overseers were so obedient, we wouldn't have to be so brainless, if we really managed the places in a decent way. Why bother to transfer people around so much, isn't it too much of a toss? Qin Yu shook his head and laughed.

"Now in addition to the 20 divisions and 4 cavalry brigades in the headquarters of the Northeast Army, the 9th, 13th, and 15th divisions of the Central Committee have been newly added to the regular ground forces. Henan 1st Division. Cai Chengxun was stationed in the 1st Division of Beiyang in Suiyuan. These are front-line troops that directly obey the orders of the central government, and their reliability is relatively strong, and their establishment has been filled, and many officers from the Northeast Military Academy have been replenished, and there is no big problem with loyalty, with a strength of about 65,000 troops. In addition, there are four mixed brigades in Yan Xishan in Shanxi, six brigades in Cao Kun in Zhili, three divisions of Liu Zhenhua in Shaanxi, one mixed brigade in Zhang Baolin in southern Shaanxi, and two mixed brigades in northern Shaanxi that have been converted from the original Yasukuni Army. There are two divisions in Hunan Province and one mixed brigade. Among them, the establishment of the Jin army and the Zhili army is relatively full, close to more than 73,000 people. The rest of the team was more strict than 53,000 people due to the previous empty period. In other words, the central government now has more than 350,000 regular troops and about 126,000 second-line troops. As for Wang Zhanyuan's Hubei army, there are still doubts, and the Gansu army is also useless, and can only be used to make up numbers, and it is not under the control of the central government for the time being. After the meeting with Xu Shichang and others, Lan Tianwei privately summarized with Qin Yu and said.

"That is to say, now the central government can mobilize more than 500,000 troops, if the Shaanxi army and the northern Shaanxi mixed brigade are filled, this number will exceed 600,000, if you count the Gansu and Hubei armies, it will exceed 700,000." Qin Yu also felt a little big when he heard this number, this is not counting the nearly sixty or seventy thousand people in Anhui, Zhejiang, Jiangsu also has a lot of troops, as for Sichuan, there are even more ridiculously many, and this is still a conventional army, in fact, the independent artillery regiment, tank brigade, aviation in the northeast, as well as the anti-chemical warfare troops that are being formed, as well as the expanding navy have not been counted.

"Yes, if you really want to count it, counting Fujian, Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan, Jiangxi and other provinces, the Republic of China army is only 1.7 million more. The task of reducing our troops is still very serious. Lan Tianwei sighed and said.

"Who said no, more than 1.7 million, I can directly control less than 400,000, fortunately, the central government still has some authority, otherwise it will take more than ten or twenty years to clean up this mess." Qin Yu shook his head, his eyes became resolute and said, "Serious illness still needs strong medicine, the army that should be dismantled in the future must not be tolerated, raising so many troops, except for harming the local area and confronting the central government, there is no benefit at all, it is really with the Japanese, Lao Maozi can not be counted on." ”

This is also the meaning of lowly duties, and it can be seen from the Shun lì of the central government that the local army has been eroded to a very terrible point. Eating empty nights, smoking big cigarettes, gathering crowds to gamble. Whether it is training, equipment, or mental outlook, it is far from the armies of the great powers. It is better not to have such an army. ”

"The local army is coming step by step, Brother Ji Hao, you have to be busy, the first step is to cancel the number of the current Northeast Army, and reorganize the number of the Shaanxi Army, the Henan Army, and the Beiyang Army that are now in control. The second is about the Shaanxi army. The Jin Army, the arrangement of the Zhili Army, will be recruits, officers are filled with the Central Military Academy graduates of the cadets. In short, it is necessary to centralize the army. And then there is the reorganization of the army, navy, and air force. As well as the affairs of the General Staff. Forget it, I'll let others take care of the problem of filling in new recruits, and you will be responsible for the adjustment of the number and the reorganization of the General Staff. Qin Yu thought about it for a while, and felt that the burden given to Lan Tianwei was too much, so he changed his words.

Lan Tianwei breathed a sigh of relief, "Speaking of which, it's thanks to the marshal who took back the tariffs, otherwise the rectification of national defense is just empty talk." ”

"I heard so many good things just now, you don't have to pat my ass." Qin Yu shook his head and smiled. "What are your views on the future development plan of the army?"

"I've discussed it with Dashuai before, and there is no change in general. First of all, there is the question of the unification of the whole country, and on the basis of the reunification of the whole country, he believes that the overall size of the regular army of the Wehrmacht should be controlled to no more than one million. It can even be reduced to less than 600,000, with 500,000 to 600,000 people appropriate. The funds saved can be used for standing armored forces and standing air forces. Standing artillery. As well as the update of weapons, research and development. However, the idea is too idealistic. ”

"In the future. A little farther away with the idea of the marshal to the north, sooner or later there will be a war in Outer Mongolia. The Northeast Fengtian Brigade is large, and the problem of Jiaozhou Bay in Shandong must also be resolved as soon as possible. Contradictions with France in the southwest, with Britain on the Tibetan side, and even more so on the west of Xinjiang. Lost ground in the northern strip. The recent issue of the reunification of the Republic of China will take a lot of time, so the size of the national defense force depends on the specific shape, and although the central government has improved to a certain extent because of the tariff settlement, the description is still not optimistic. Plans for lowly posts still have to be subordinated to the central government's financial expenditures. Lan Tianwei shrugged, even if he had a package of construction and plans, how much could the central government do with such a little money?

"It's really a mess of taxes, but the provinces north of the Yangtze River will no longer intercept taxes, and Hubei, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, and Jiangxi don't have the courage. On the whole, it is developing in a good direction. Although Qin Yu came to such a conclusion, he really didn't have much hope for how much the tax empowerment in the customs would do. In view of the situation in the Kansai area, it would be very good to be able to maintain a balance of payments next year with the abolition of some taxes, but as for investment in other areas, I am afraid that it is not very good to be able to count on it. However, even if it is to balance revenues and expenditures, it can be regarded as a historic breakthrough for the central government, which has been in financial corruption to the point of jaw-dropping.

"However, it is indeed very necessary to limit the size of the army, and this year has reached the end of the year, and next year we will all reduce the troops of Hubei, Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Shanghai, and Jiangxi. Six to eight divisions were retained in these six places, and if possible, the troops of Fujian Province were also reduced, and the troops of Fujian Province were also reduced, and the number of troops of more than 200,000 or nearly 300,000 was reduced at this time. Recently, the two Guangxi and Sichuan problems will be solved in the year after tomorrow, and it will be difficult for Yunnan to support it alone, and it can be solved in the year after next and the year after tomorrow. Qin Yu said the general idea in his heart.

"Next year, Hubei, Anhui and other provinces will be so drastic, on the other hand, Shaanxi alone will cover three divisions and three mixed brigades, is it a bit biased? In addition, there are Gansu and Xinjiang, where the local army commanders have not yet been counted. The cavalry of the Majia Army in Gansu has a Hui background and religious nature, and if it is one-size-fits-all, it is very easy to cause a rebellion, and they are no better than ordinary local troops. Lan Tianwei frowned and said.

"Well, one of the three divisions in Liu Zhenhua's hands will be cut, and Zhang Baolin's mixed brigade is also a target for retrenchment. As for the Yasukuni Army in northern Shaanxi, the two mixed brigades still have some combat strength and can be retained. One division was cut to Gansu, and as for the Ma Jiajun, it should not be a disadvantage to give them the establishment of two cavalry brigades. It seems that a division from Shaanxi still has to be transferred to Gansu, and there is no pressure to do things after all. Qin Yu also had a little helplessness on his face, and then said, "In addition, in order to save expenses, the division-level troops in Guannai can temporarily partially abolish the establishment of the divisional cavalry regiment and form a cavalry brigade, and then transfer a cavalry brigade from the Ma Family Army and a division from the northeast to Xinjiang to deal with the problem of the old Tsarist army breaking into Xinjiang, and at the same time form the Dihua Military Region." ”

"One division and two cavalry brigades can deal with the situation in Xinjiang, but it is too far, and the central government's control over that side is too weak." Lan Tianwei smiled bitterly, "The Northeast Army can't hit a few nails with iron, but in these cases, they have to use their old foundation." ”

"Let's take it slowly, we still have to expand the scale of aviation and armored forces, especially in Xinjiang and Outer Mongolia. The role of the air force is particularly great, and the new fighter planes are about to come out, and I plan to buy another batch of planes, and the obsolete old planes will be transferred to the south, where there is relatively little fighting, or to Jinan. Xinjiang, Mongolia must be stationed in the latest aircraft. At present, our air force in the northeast has 100 or so planes, and I think the army air force can be expanded to 200 planes. ”

Aircraft are playing an increasing role in combat, reconnaissance, and other fields, and to a large extent have replaced the role of manpower. Lan Tianwei nodded, and then said, "Now there is no need for large-scale armored troops in the Guannai for the time being, and the North Korean side is also mostly mountainous, and the Japanese army will not be able to pass for the time being. For the time being, a tank brigade can solve most of the problems, and there is no need to add new tanks until they come out. ”

"The key is the railway, Outer Mongolia is about to be repaired to Kulun, and the road is also a matter of the past two years, but the Xinjiang side has not yet skimmed the eight characters. From the west of Xi'an, it is no different from the primitive society. ”

"At least 2,000 kilometers of railways can be repaired, and if you count its branch lines, it will cost nearly 20,000 yuan to build them. With the existing financial resources of the Republic of China, it is indeed impossible to support such a huge construction task. "Out of the needs of national defense, Lan Tianwei has also studied the issue of Xinjiang, and at this time, there is a discussion topic about Xinjiang in the proposal of the General Staff.

"If you can't catch it, you have to do it, raise money, borrow money to build this railway, Tsarist Russia used to invest so much money to build the Trans-Siberian Railway, and it was time-consuming and labor-intensive, but now there is no money, and there is no time when you have money. If there is a change in the northwest and war breaks out, because the road is impassable, the price paid will be great. ”

"The same is true for the railway to Kulun, although the northeast has abundant finances, but the army has been expanded year after year, and so many industries have to be set up, large military factories, and the funds are not abundant, and the railway to Kulen is also cobbled together, and now the railway has been repaired, and the days have come." Lan Tianwei smiled knowingly, nodded and said, this is what he admires Qin Yu very much, when there are no conditions, the conditions are good and the days can be dragged over.

"Well, let's make a six-year plan first, if it doesn't work in six years, it will be seven years, and if it doesn't work in seven years, it will be eight years. When the economic conditions are good, I will repair a little more than a year. I believe that one day, this railway can go to Dihua. (To be continued......)