"Marshal, our military budget for Xiangxi has come out, please take a look." Ma Xicheng politely handed over the account book.

Wang Zhenyu took the accounts and looked at them carefully, the treatment of the army was confirmed when he was in Wuhan, and the treatment was as follows: 180 yuan per month for the main post of the brigade, and 1,800 yuan for the wounded and disabled in battle; 120 yuan per month and 1,200 yuan for the bereavement of the regiment; 80 yuan per month and 1,000 yuan for the bereavement of the camp; 50 yuan per month and 500 yuan for the bereavement pension; 30 yuan per month for regular posts and 300 yuan for bereavement pension; 20 yuan for the main position of the class, 200 yuan for the bereavement pension; The above deputy positions shall be handled according to eighty percent of the main positions at the same level. The recruits are privates, with a monthly salary of 20 yuan and a pension of 80 yuan. A first-class soldier is a veteran who has served for one year, with a monthly salary of 15 yuan and a bereavement pension of 150 yuan.

But then a change was made when I was in Nanjing, and three subsidies were added:

Rank allowance: 5 yuan per month for non-commissioned officers, 20 yuan per month for lieutenants, 60 yuan per month for school officers, and 100 yuan per month for generals.

Family allowance: 10 yuan per month for lieutenants, 30 yuan per month for school officers, and 80 yuan for generals.

Allowance for senior officers: 10 yuan per month for regiment-level officers, 20 yuan per month for brigade-level officers, 30 yuan per month for division-level officers, and 50 yuan per month for army-level officers.

In wartime, double salaries are paid, and the disability is compensated at 12 times the monthly salary standard of the regular post at the level where the employee is located, and at the same time, the civil affairs department of the town guard embassy is responsible for making a register and paying 1 yuan per month for living expenses.

If there are children, the children are entitled to nine years of free education, and ordinary residents are entitled to six years.

According to this standard, and the subsequent expansion of Jihua, the number of field troops will reach 24,000 and that of the security force will reach 12,000. Among them, the monthly salary of the field troops will reach an astonishing 720,000 yuan, and the security troops' 50 percent salary of the field troops will also reach 180,000 yuan. In other words, not counting equipment and logistics expenses, Wang Zhenyu will spend an astonishing 900,000 yuan on military salaries alone. This is still in peacetime, and the army is really a bottomless pit.

Wang Zhenyu pinched his fingers and calculated, this industrial construction needs a long cycle, as well as transportation, model city and other infrastructure construction cycles. If you really want to create benefits for yourself, it will be a few years later, and what you can do now is to use the commercial tax in Xiangxi to maintain.

It seems that you have to rely on the bank to print bills to ease the finances, and the 100 million yuan you are raising now looks scary, and it is really not much to use.

Wang Zhenyu did not express any position on this military budget, but suddenly turned his head to Wan Yaohuang and said: "Director Wan, the military academy is divided into a non-commissioned officer department (mainly training officers below the company level, such as platoon commanders, deputy platoon commanders, division chiefs, etc., selected from middle school graduates and active soldiers), infantry command department (training officers above the infantry company level, and selecting and returning from the officers below the active company level according to combat merits and recommendations), artillery command department and staff department (training professional military staff officers), and a strategic research school is also established. Specialized in training military intelligence agents and intelligence analysts. As for this military school, I personally serve as the principal, and you serve as the dean of education. Hurry up and start the first phase first, everything is difficult at the beginning, as long as you have a good foundation, it will be easy to do later. ”

Wan Yaohuang got up and said: "Please rest assured, the humble post will do his best to live up to the trust of the marshal." ”

Wang Zhenyu pointed at Wan Yaohuang and said: "You guys, it's okay to call me handsome now, and you still have a humble position, they are all brothers who have followed me all the way, so you don't have to be so restrained." In the future, you will all be on the ruling side, and you will also need prestige, Yaohuang, especially you, where did you go with that calmness on the steamer that day? ”

Wan Yaohuang's old face turned red, and he immediately straightened his chest and said: "Yes, handsome, Yaohuang will definitely complete the task." ”

Wang Zhenyu shook his head with a wry smile and said, "You guys! ”

Then I looked at the wall clock on the wall, which was sent by the German Hans, and I don't know what this foreigner thought, but he actually gave the clock to someone if he had nothing to do, but fortunately he didn't taboo this: "Well, it's almost six o'clock, I don't care about food here, I'll go home to eat, and the meeting will be dismissed." ”

After speaking, Wang Zhenyu got up to find Ye Ziwen, and his wife was complaining this morning.

Looking at his cousin who was far away, Ma Xicheng shook helplessly, grabbed Wang Zhenbang, who was about to pack up the record book and prepare to leave, and said: "Fifth brother, you still notify the kitchen, our brothers will accompany you, please have a meal......"

The construction of the model Xin'anjiang began at the end of July, and the first to break ground was the Xiangxi Army Military Academy. Wan Yaohuang, who was in charge of the affairs of the military academy at that time, in order to start the project as soon as possible, even did not hesitate to turn into a scoundrel to find Yang Wangui to grind hard and hard, and insisted on taking the engineer battalion directly under the brigade headquarters to become a civilian worker. For this reason, many years later, the engineer system regarded the chief of education as an enemy, and it even became a common practice.

With the conclusion of a series of cooperation agreements with the Belgian Warby Bank, the German Lihe Foreign Bank, and the Luxembourg Albert Company, in mid-August, the construction of roads and commercial towns in the Jingzhou area was completely handed over to the local government and the gentry, and the labor force composed of nearly 20,000 prisoners was transported to Anjiang by water. In order to ensure the progress and quality of the construction, the town guard embassy issued an order. The 20,000 prisoners were pardoned for their crimes and, after three years of service, were repatriated and granted military status on the basis of merit, with a monthly salary of three dollars.

Although the salary was very low, there was hope, so the phenomenon of escaping disappeared, and three years of hard work here was nothing compared to being captured and executed by fierce soldiers. And even if you can escape, what can you do? Continue to be a bandit?

Both bandits and beggars are inevitable products of class rule, and the poorer and more extravagant the rulers, the greater the number of this class......

The 20,000 labor force was taken over by the Xin'an Jiang Construction General Headquarters, and although the railway also needed people, considering that the topographic survey of the route had not yet been completed, these cheap laborers were concentrated in Anjiang.

The first task was to build a wharf, and Chen Shao quickly got the planning plan designed by the German designer, and Wang Zhenyu grabbed a vote of people to study it overnight and agreed. But all the equipment needed to be transported to An Giang by water, and the construction of the wharf became a priority. Wang Zhenyu also gave a special comment: "The rails needed for railway construction in the later period also need to use wharves, so it is recommended to build modern wharves in Hongjiang and Qiancheng." ”

In less than five days, more than 3,000 of the most sturdy workers built a 600-meter-long and 300-meter-wide flat land on the edge of the Yuanjiang River, and then the pagoda cement produced by the Jingzhou Cement Factory was sent over and poured 20 centimeters of cement. The steel-framed warehouse, office building, lighthouse and four huge gantry cranes were all in place in just 15 days, a speed that surprised the German engineers.

Truckloads of cement and construction materials were then loaded and unloaded here, and the port management team under the command selected 200 sturdy laborers to be responsible for loading and unloading the wharf. In just 20 days, 300,000 tons of cement were delivered to the construction project of Anjiang Model City, and the entire Jingzhou cement plant was in full swing by using the part that had already been put into operation......

On the morning of September 10, Chen Shao, commander-in-chief of the Xin'anjiang Construction General Headquarters, Chen Quzhen, deputy commander-in-chief, and the heads of the industrial project team, administrative project team, living area project team, as well as Ye Zuwen and Liu Guojun and others, all honestly stood at the Yuanjiang Wharf that had just been put into use for a few days, as if waiting for the arrival of an important person.

With the sound of a whistle, a 30-ton steamship docked, which was a cargo ship of Yuanjiang Shipping. At present, Yuanjiang Shipping has been merged into the Xiangxi Development Company, and the boat gangs in the entire Yuanjiang River basin have to join Yuanjiang Shipping under the condition of semi-compulsory and half-consultation. With a large number of sailors who are familiar with water transportation, Ye Zuwen immediately decided to show his strength, what to do? Buy a boat. The price of a 30-ton ship in Shanghai is 10,000 yuan, that of a 50-ton ship is 20,000 yuan, and that of a 70-ton ship is 30,000 yuan. As for the big one, I won't consider it for the time being, the draft of the Yuan River is so deep, and there are many dangerous shoals and reefs. The engineer battalion soldiers bombed all the way in three ways, and the bombing was not finished until this time, and Hu Lichun, the commander of the engineer battalion, regretted it, knowing that he would shout a high price when he first negotiated the conditions, don't be an engineer regiment, and go directly to the engineer brigade. The sappers also said that in fact, being a construction worker in Anjiang is actually quite promising, at least they don't have to open their own roads with the firewood knife every day, and they don't have to sleep on the streets as a bed......

In view of the current capacity and river situation, 30-ton and 50-ton ships are the focus of procurement, of which 200 30-ton ships and 100 50-ton ships have been purchased. Most of the sailors of the boat gang have been resettled, continue to run boats on the Yuan River, although the huge profits are gone, but it is still good to have a fixed salary every month, and the company also promised to provide for the elderly, where to find this good thing? But the slendermen are unemployed, because there is no need for the steam to pull the steam when it goes upstream. But don't worry, about 3,000 slender men were eventually recruited to Xin'anjiang and became part of the labor army......

As the ship docked, the interior guard unit responsible for the outer guard duty left nervously. He first shook hands with a cadre from the construction headquarters to thank them for their hard work for more than a month, and then held the hand of his father-in-law Ye Zuwen, and said to Ye Zuwen and Liu Guojun: "You have worked hard, if it weren't for the fact that this project is related to our luck in the next ten years, I will not be willing to let my father and Brother Liu be exposed to the wind and sun here." ”

Ye Zuwen said with a smile: "My father has also done a lifetime of trade, and I can actually start an industry in this year of confusion, why do you have to work hard, I want to thank you, Wenzheng." ”

Liu Guojun was even more simply, just smirked, and didn't say anything else polite. Just kidding, without the Wang Dashuai in front of him, he must still be continuing to open his own grocery store in his hometown in Changzhou? Life is short, just a few decades, are you willing to succumb to a small shop, or are you willing to experience the big scene in front of you?

Wang Zhenyu then helped Ye Ziwen into the four-wheeled carriage, Chen Shao and Ye Zuwen were in the same car, sitting opposite Wang Zhenyu and his wife, and while walking, they introduced the construction of Xin'anjiang.

Wang Zhenyu was thinking while listening: Although this carriage is comfortable and spacious, it is still inferior to a car on the whole, and when Xin'anjiang is completed, he asked his eldest brother Liu Hongsheng to help get some American cars.

Ye Ziwen found that her husband has become more and more distracted recently, and she couldn't care about her father sitting opposite, and habitually pinched Wang Zhenyu's ear: "What bad idea are you thinking about again?" ”

After speaking, he felt that there was ambiguity in his words, and let go of Wang Zhenyu's ears with a blushing face, and put his hands on his knees crampedly.

Wang Zhenyu didn't notice his wife's embarrassment, but said to himself: "Then what kind of bad idea can you think of, by the way, our home will be here in the future, later you will go to the administrative district with me to see the design plan of the Germans, and see what our Wenlu zuihou will change?" ”

"Wenlu?" Ye Ziwen looked at her husband with a puzzled expression, her eyes blinked, very cute and cute.

Wang Zhenyu couldn't help but scratch her nose and said, "Use the word zuihou in your name to name our new home, okay?" ”

Ye Ziwen's face, which had just turned whiter, blushed again, and her pink jade cheeks were attached to Wang Zhenyu's arm and said, "You have a sweet mouth, a flamboyant tongue, and you are uneasy and kind." ”

Wang Zhenyu laughed: "How can I be uneasy and kind." ”

On the one hand, Ye Zuwen on the opposite side is very pleased with the love of his daughter and husband and wife, and lives a happy life; On the other hand, I felt a little uneasy, after all, Wang Zhenyu was already a prince: "Wenzheng, isn't this okay!?" ”

Wang Zhenyu smiled and said, "It's okay." ”

Since Lushan can have a beautiful house, An Jiang's Wenlu plan will not cause any trouble......