Chapter 149: The Arsonist
After letting the Japanese reimburse himself for the military expenses some time ago, Yang Feng went to Zhangjiakou again with satisfaction, and a feast to carve up the grassland was waiting for him to participate.
Now the Duolun front line is closed because of heavy snow, no one has the ability to attack, Sun Dianying's side is actually better, his cantonment army has a good harvest this year, Duolun City has enough food to eat for a year, ammunition is also sufficient, clean up the snow at the airport, Yang Feng's arsenal produces bullets and shells day and night, and then take Aunt Junker to transport them directly, as for the cost, it is a big deal to take the wool in the future, anyway, the raw materials for the production of these ammunition are exchanged for goods from the United States, a bottle of copper and explosives in exchange for Haifeisi, It is enough to produce thousands of bullets, and according to Yang Feng's cost in modern times, hundreds of thousands of yuan are enough to support him to fight a campaign-level battle, and this money can be exchanged for two ginseng trees.
But the Japanese puppet Mongolian coalition army opposite him is much more difficult, all their military supplies need to be supplied from Rehe, not to mention the difficulty of transportation after the heavy snowfall, but the past year is not a good year, the people are not very able to eat, only they can not loot much, it is not impossible to provoke the people who are forced to a desperate road, so their life is more difficult, the Japanese are good to say, the puppet army and the Mongols are much worse, These days, there are often deserters who run to find Sun Dianying to surrender and eat, and if it can be sealed for three or five months at this rate, I am afraid that there will not be many people left on the opposite side except for the Japanese army.
In this case, everyone naturally has nothing to worry about, Sun Dianying, Song Zheyuan, Fu Zuoyi, and Ma Hongkui, who was invited by Song Zheyuan, the four plus Yang Feng. The five giants gathered in Zhangjiakou to study the great cause of the Wool Alliance, but Song Zheyuan did not invite Yang Hucheng, and it is said that the relationship between the two is not very harmonious.
Fu Zuoyi and Yang Feng have seen it a few times, and they can be regarded as acquaintances, but as for Ma Hongkui, it is the first time. However, the two have also been friends for a long time, and Yang Feng's cordyceps was basically transferred by Song Zheyuan and obtained from him.
The Ningxia Tu Emperor, who was as fat as a pig, looked very festive, Ningma belonged to a mature horse, and he had been mixed with the Northwest Army for many years, and now Ningxia is much larger than later, and both Turghut and Erut belong to Ningxia.
"Chairman Ma, when the younger brother met for the first time, there was nothing good to get his hands on. These twenty 150 heavy mortars and 2,000 shells are a little thought. Yang Feng said with a smile at Ma Hongkui.
"Brother Yang is too polite, you and Song Mingxuan and Sun Kuiyuan are brothers, that is my Ma Hongkui's brother, don't mention the chairman or anything." Ma Hongkui was so happy that he couldn't find it.
Ma Jiajun belongs to the fringe warlords, no matter who they are with, no one will treat them as cronies. Naturally, good things don't have their share, so poor equipment is also notoriously poor. Yang Feng's twenty heavy mortars are good things for them.
A gang of bandits, warlords, and profiteers quickly pushed the cup and changed the lamp, calling the brother and brother up, and the wine was almost drunk, and Song Zheyuan led the topic to the wool.
"We don't have any outsiders. What a big business this wool is, I have told you before, Brother Kui Yuan and Brother Mingxuan of fine wool breeders have almost 10,000 after a year of development, if the two of you want to do it. Then I will provide 5,000 more for your family, in addition, my New Oriental College also provides veterinary training, and I also provide new veterinary drugs here, you can choose some people to study in Beiping, and the rest is the ranch.
The Inner Mongolia departments must be controlled in our hands, and the guys like King De who hook up with the Japanese must be cleaned up, and when the snow melts in the spring, Brother Mingxuan and Brother Kui Yuan are ready to launch a joint counterattack to completely drive the disobedient Mongols out of Chahar, then the remaining departments of Western Inner Mongolia need to be solved by the two of you. Yang Feng said to Fu Zuoyi and Ma Hongkui.
"So how do you divide it?" Fu Zuoyi said: This is an issue that everyone is concerned about, and in order to avoid conflicts in the future, this point must be settled on paper.
"The two divisions of Ningxia and Suiyuan naturally still have their own existing jurisdictions, the Chahar Department under the jurisdiction of Chahar and the Sunit Second Banner of the Xilin Gol League belong to the 29th Army, and the remaining banners of Xilin Gol belong to the 41st Army and the 63rd Army." Yang Feng said that this was the result of the discussion between Sun Dianying and Song Zheyuan.
"But there is one point, in the counteroffensive after the beginning of spring, Suiyuan and Ningxia must send troops, and you must do your best in numbers, even if you only send one company, you must also send troops." He then added.
As long as Ningxia and Suiyuan provinces send troops, it means that the alliance has been openly formed.
Fu Zuoyi and Ma Hongkui are also old foxes, naturally understand Yang Feng's intentions, if this counteroffensive participates, it means that the four families form a whole, no matter what happens in the future, they must speak with the same voice, otherwise Yang Feng will not take them to play, the current Chinese wool industry has been controlled by Yang Feng, which they are already very clear, Yang Feng said that no one dares to ask for anyone's wool.
"No problem, I'll send out a cavalry brigade." Ma Hongkui said that he had no worries, so he naturally agreed happily.
"Then I'll let Li Fu get out of a brigade!" Fu Zuoyi said that he actually came on behalf of Yan Laoxi, and naturally he couldn't come as Yan Laoxi, the military headquarters of the 35th Army and the 101st Division were on the Luanhe defense line, and Li Fuying's division stayed in Suiyuan, and the troops could only be sent from him.
This result makes Yang Feng very satisfied, interests are more useful than anything else, no matter how loud the slogan is shouted, no matter how beautiful the doctrine is, it is not as effective as the real ocean, as for how these guys will deal with the herdsmen in the future, this Yang Feng is not interested in caring.
When they really taste the sweetness of this, I am afraid that they will not need to say it themselves, they will also target those places that do not belong to them now, such as the Eastern Inner Mongolia tribes, and even Rehe.
After solving the problem of the Wool Alliance and returning to Beiping, Yang Feng airdropped a batch of materials to Tang Juwu, who was in Maodong, and also wrote a letter in detail to help the sticks.
Tang Juwu in the Changbai Mountains, using the weapons and food provided by Yang Feng to recruit troops, has formed a very large scale, the original scattered small-scale anti-Japanese armed forces, now basically all under his command, the number has rapidly swelled to tens of thousands, last year, in the east of Liaoning Daoguang County to break through five. Although they quickly retreated after a search, they caused great suffering to the Japanese and traitors.
In the east of Liaoning, in the east of Jilin, there are Tang Juwu, in the west of Liaoning, in the north of Rehe, and in Heilongjiang, there is Sun Dianying's rushing team. And the rest of the middle, all kinds of anti-Japanese armed forces have revived, and they are all well-equipped, even rare things like Thomson, the entire Northeast can be said to be full of smoke, otherwise the Japanese would not wait until winter to think of solving Sun Dianying, other times really don't have this energy, just fighting fires everywhere in the Northeast has already made them anxious.
Of course, they didn't know that the weapons in the hands of these anti-Japanese armed forces were all raised by the mother of the country and others, and Li Du contacted the good place through his own channels. Then he gave the money to Yang Feng, and he bought the weapon and then airdropped it.
This kind of thing is a trivial matter for him, just go over and throw some points every time he airdrops Tang Juwu.
"It's still not good! How can we make the Northeast really full of smoke? Five thousand meters in the air, Yang Feng looked at the pitch-black earth below, frowning and studying how to burn the fire more vigorously.
The key is the weapon, if you don't dare to resist before you have a gun in hand, you will have the courage to resist, even if it is a child, if you give him a pistol. I'm afraid it's not so easy to spank him again, what if you throw guns everywhere in the northeast? It doesn't need to be too good. It doesn't matter what model it is, first exchange the goods for hundreds of thousands of new guns from Europe and the United States, and then trade in the old for the new ones at half of the market price, and exchange them for those rifles that should have been eliminated a long time ago from the hands of these chaotic armies in China, each gun with 100 rounds of ammunition, and then throw them all over the northeast.
These guns were confiscated by the Japanese. It definitely can't be used, but if these guns fall into the hands of ordinary people, it's different, and when they are really cornered, it is enough to resist, so that they are nothing more than making a little less money. But it can make the entire Northeast full of mobs, even if the Japanese go to collect a tax, they may be shot, such a scene is worth looking forward to.
And there are still a lot of such old guns in China, Sun Dianying and Song Zheyuan have replaced a lot, and there are grandfather-level rifles like old sleeves in the hands of other warlords, especially in the hands of the Sichuan army, almost all of them are inferior old guns made in Chengdu Arsenal, and they will definitely break their heads in exchange for brand-new Mauser K98 at half price, so that they can also maximize their combat effectiveness in future wars.
Just do it, Yang Feng acted quickly, and immediately sent a telegram to President Wu after going back, asking him to contact the German Mauser company to order 500,000 K98 rifles from the Mauser company in the form of goods exchange and in the name of European gold resources, and required that they must be delivered in five batches within two years, and the first batch of 100,000 was delivered before May 35.
"Yang, what the hell do you want to do?" He couldn't care about being polite, and asked Yang Feng directly.
"Sell!" Yang Feng said with a pure face.
"Sell? I don't think that in the current China, apart from your Zhongyang government, there is any army that can eat such a huge quantity, and your Zhongyang government, which has just signed a military cooperation agreement with us, will mass-produce K98 rifles at the Hanyang Arsenal. Todman said with a frown.
"But in addition to the Zhongyang army, there are countless armies in China? As long as they are willing to pay for it, anyone can buy it from me. ”
"I don't think they'll like to buy the K98, you know they don't have a lot of money." Todman smiled and said that he came this time out of good intentions, and he didn't want Yang Feng to irritate the bald guy because of this kind of thing.
"Your Excellency, please rest assured, since I dare to spend so much money to buy it, then naturally I will not let it fall into my hands, and besides, if you Germans don't accept this order, I will definitely buy it from others, as for Chairman Chiang, I will explain it to him." Yang Feng said with a smile.
It's hard for Todman to say anything, just like Yang Feng said, the Germans don't do such a big order, and some countries rush to do it, and I'm afraid it will be inconsistent with my identity if I say anything else.
Yang Feng really doesn't care about the bald guy, the national government has already made up the payment for twenty 2C3 self-propelled guns for him, all of which are jewelry and medicinal materials, and now he is waiting for himself to transport the cannons, he will definitely not be embarrassed by himself at this time, and even Tao Deman doesn't believe that he can sell 500,000 Mauser K98s, so he doesn't believe it even more.
Yang Feng then flew to Shanghai, where his yacht was now anchored on the Huangpu River, and the British crew responsible for sending the ship had returned to China, and Yu Maoren was now recruiting crew members for him in Shanghai. In addition, he was recruited from the Navy to recruit a captain.
"This is General Li Guotang." In Yang Feng's mansion in Shanghai, Yu Maoren introduced a middle-aged man in his forties and fifties to him.
"General Lee?" Yang Feng was a little surprised, although the general was not worth much in these years, and the general of the navy was even less valuable, it was still a bit surprising that a general came to be the captain of the ship.
"It's okay not to mention the general. It makes people laugh. Li Guotang looked very depressed.
Talking about it at the wine table, Yang Feng realized that this guy is not an ordinary old qualification, graduated from the Fuzhou Shipping Bureau in 04, interned in the British Navy for two years, and he was the first mate when he sailed around the world in Haiqi, and in 19 years he was a major general of the Guangzhou Military Government, and also acted as the commander-in-chief, and then a major general of the Beiyang government, and a major general of the Northeast Army. The captain of the cruiser Haichen, but now staying on Changshan Island as the commander of the island, it can be said that the more mixed up the more regressive, but it is in line with Yang Feng's request, a former cruiser captain who sailed around the world more than 20 years ago, it is naturally more than enough to bring this yacht to himself.
"General Yuchen, the pearl of the national government is secretly invested, and you are not interesting as a general. Give the juniors to take care of this ship, and don't say anything else. The salary is absolutely high, I don't know how much the salary of the Lu Dao Navy will give you, anyway, I will give you five times as much, and your family members can just open their mouths if they need to arrange. Yang Feng stretched out his paws and said.
"Brother Yang, since you are so gracious, then I will be disrespectful. We don't need to be too polite, we can just be brothers in the future. Li Guotang said with a smile.
"Then you're welcome, I'm sure you should know about this ship, it's actually the latest British cruiser, with a maximum speed of 37 knots at sea. You have to pay attention to this, I know that the navy has never had such a fast ship.
In addition, I will equip it with weapons in the future, and they are all developed by our Yanhuang laboratory, with the latest weapons of test nature, so it still needs to be modified, after you take over, you will first familiarize yourself with half a month, when to drive the Lu, where to drive it you decide, half a month later officially set off for Hawaii, I have already contacted a dock there, they will modify the ship, and you will drive it back after the modification. Yang Feng said.
"No problem!" Li Guotang nodded and said.
After solving the captain's problem, Yang Feng was invited by the Rong family again, because of his secret loan, the Rong family was able to support it, and the Rong Zongjing brothers were naturally very grateful to him, but they never had the opportunity to express their gratitude.
"Rong Gong, how dare you make the juniors." Yang Feng looked at the small box of jewelry in front of him and said.
"It's just some gadgets, take them back to your ladies to play with." Rong Zongjing waved his hand and said.
"Then the junior is welcome." Yang Feng smiled and handed it to Margaret on the side.
"Yang Xian's nephew, the national government is ready to carry out currency reform, with the four major banks issuing fiat currency, while prohibiting the circulation of silver and currency issued by other banks, and at the same time recovering silver dollars, I don't know if you have heard of this." Rong Zongjing said.
"I've heard a little, I don't care, now Jinyuan's main business is abroad, I don't have much silver dollars, dollars, pounds do have, and this is not a bad thing, the current currency is indeed too chaotic, even the Bank of Japan can issue banknotes, which is simply incredible." Yang Feng said.
"Currency unification is indeed a good thing, but I'm afraid that when the time comes, they will issue paper money indiscriminately, and then it will be troublesome." Rong Zongjing sighed and said, it seems that he was indeed frightened by the bald guys.
"It's really hard to guarantee!" Yang Feng said casually, but secretly thought in his heart that they were not ordinary indiscriminate hair, and they were all worth as much as waste paper.
"Nephew Yang Xian, are you interested in opening a bank yourself?" Seeing that Yang Feng never went to the Tao, Rong Zongjing simply said clearly.
"Open a bank?" Yang Feng really never had this kind of thought.
"The younger generation doesn't know anything about this banking industry." He then excused himself and said that he had to be careful until he understood the old man's intentions.
"When you are the boss, you still need to know too much, you can find a few professionals in terms of management, there are golden signboards of your gold source, naturally there are a lot of people rushing to deposit and take out loans, not to mention opening a bank, even if you issue banknotes, people are welcome." Rong Zongjing said with a smile.
Yang Feng immediately understood what he meant, I am afraid that the last sentence is the real intention, indeed Jinyuan is now China's biggest credibility guarantee, more trustworthy than the bald man's national government, the reason is very simple, Yang Feng's steady stream of foreign exchange income, speaking of which he now has in his hands can not even be compared to the Bank of China, the bald man's guarantee of issuing fiat currency is the dollar he uses to sell silver to the United States in the name of the government.
Rong Jingzong's meaning is obvious, that is, to prepare a way back for himself, if there is really a day when the bald guy indiscriminately distributes banknotes, Jin Yuan can rely on his own foreign exchange reserve advantages, and issue a kind of banknote by himself, not in the name of currency, just give a name, even if he takes a blank paper Yang Feng presses a handprint, he can directly use it as a banknote.
And the wealth of the Rong family, in the future, will be transferred to Yang Feng's bank, this is probably not only his own meaning, there are many people who have the same concerns as him, it seems that the reputation of this bald guy is indeed very poor, but doing this work by himself is obviously hateful, although this is indeed a good way to deal with the depreciation of the fiat currency in the future, but at least not now.
"Elder Rong, you let the juniors think about this." Yang Feng said that if he opened a bank, then the Rong family and many businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang would transfer their wealth to their own banks, in that case, the bald guy would hate himself to death, and even if he wanted to do it, he would have to wait until he had nothing to do with himself.
"Of course, the old decay is also a word, if Yang Xian's nephew is interested, then the Rong family will naturally support it." Rong Zongjing said with a smile. (To be continued......)