Before coming to Rong's house, Liu Guojun also took it upon himself to do something for Wang Zhenyu, and the students who graduated from Nanyang College this year went to Xiangxi to participate in industrial construction, which the church agreed and supported.

Through Liu Guojun's efforts, the large-scale development of Xiangxi has taken another solid step.

Hong Jiang, Zhenshou Embassy, Wang Zhenyu, Yang Wangui, Xu Yuanquan, Wan Yaohuang, Liu Xing, Zhou Bin, He Jian, and Ma Xicheng were holding a military seminar.

The meeting was held in a hurry, because Wang Zhenyu had just received a secret letter from Changsha a few hours earlier. This letter was written by Wang Zhenyu's sworn brother, Zhao Hengti, commander of the First Division of the Hunan Army, and the content was very simple, fifteen words: The intention of the Metropolitan Governor to disarm has been decided, and the younger brother should prepare as soon as possible.

The issue of disarmament has been in full swing for almost five months from April to the end of August. According to the idea of the governor of Tan Yanmin, the five divisions of the Hunan army finally left only the first division of the descendant line and the second division of Lin Xiumei, the descendant of Cheng Qian, and the rest of the army was all dismantled. But now it's not so troublesome, because Mei Xin's fifth division has become history because of Wang Zhenyu. Not only was Mei Xin killed, but most of the officers and soldiers of her unit were absorbed by the First Division. It can be said that the most solid step in disarmament was precisely accomplished by Wang Zhenyu, although his original intention was to make trouble.

Now there are still two divisions that need to be cut, one is Gan Xindian's third division, and the other is Wang Longzhong's fourth division. To say that these two divisions really represented the Hunan army and fought with the Qing army on the front line in Hubei and made meritorious contributions, it is reasonable to argue that such troops should not only not be abolished, but should also be retained with higher salaries.

But the rules of the Chinese are not like this, they will consciously or unconsciously discuss a relationship when considering anything. Since these two divisions are not descendants, they are threats, so the only fate that awaits them is dismantling and reorganization.

The Fourth Division, in particular, is the focus of the key points. Many of the officers inside had already been bribed and divided, and once the order for disarmament was ordered, Wang Longzhong estimated that he would not even be able to keep the position of Baoqing town guard. Tan Yanmin had already chosen a way out for Wang Longzhong and went to the Beiyang government in Beijing to serve as a lieutenant general and senator.

Wang Zhenyu's Ninth Brigade was also positioned and abolished without hesitation, in fact, Tan Yanmin was very dissatisfied with the status quo of Wang Zhenyu's secession of one side, but he was trapped in many reasons, so he could only acquiesce.

But acquiescence does not mean acquiescence, Tan Yanmin temporarily took Wang Zhenyu, a madman (a person who is not crazy dares to commit a mutiny in Changsha, and dares to use a brigade to fight a division, the most terrible thing is not a person who commits mud, the most terrible thing is a person who is actually fine). But it doesn't mean that he didn't make a small move, the town guard embassy was set up in Phoenix was his first move, but it was a pity that Wang Zhenyu actually met Tian Yingzhao, and easily resolved the possible crisis; So disarmament is the second action, Tan Yanmin made up his mind, it is necessary to revoke the number, even if Wang Zhenyu can still maintain the army, he will not pay him a penny of military salary. In fact, after the Tiger Brigade left Changsha, Tan Yanmin never paid the ministry a dime in military salaries.

These are all trivial matters, and the most troublesome thing for Wang Zhenyu now is that once the number of the Tiger Brigade is revoked, in what name should his unit continue to exist. In addition, there is also the issue of army expansion and standard preparation, Wang Zhenyu knows very well that the army is the foundation of everything he is doing now, so he will never be stingy on the issue of the army. But the money has to be spent in the right place, so he convened such an emergency meeting......

Before the military meeting, Wang Zhenbang, the fifth elder who had just finished three months of study in the teaching team and returned to the third brother Wang Zhenyu as a secretary, was very enthusiastically pouring tea for the chief officers attending the meeting.

Wang Zhenyu said in a rare joking: "This is Shanghaode Yuanling Guanzhuang tea, which is honored by the newly elected county magistrate, and it turns out that it is all dedicated to the emperor." But the gold is expensive, so don't drink it in vain, you have to make up your mind when you drink it! ”

Wan Yaohuang, who had just praised a good tea, almost knocked over the teacup to the ground without trembling: "I said everyone, our handsome man has lived with Hongjiang for a long time, and the businessman's spirit is getting heavier and heavier. ”

The people at the scene of "haha...... immediately turned over.

Wang Zhenyu rolled his eyes: "What's wrong with the businessman's anger, without me, who is in charge of the house, what do you eat and drink?" Don't talk nonsense, taste it quickly, and come up with an idea. ”

The crowd laughed again......

The general framework of the army has always been a big problem that has plagued Wang Zhenyu, and this time it coincided with disarmament, and it was clear that the headquarters had lost its number. In fact, it is an opportunity to completely privatize the army; If you don't use it well, you will be in great trouble.

Chief of Staff Yang Wangui was the first to speak: "Marshal, my idea is that bad things become good things, isn't it to remove our number?" We simply became a self-contained unit, and the headquarters was reorganized into the Xiangxi garrison. You are the commander-in-chief, we will set up as many formations as we want, and the first and second divisions of the garrison, anyway, we have the money now and can afford to support them. ”

After listening to Chief of Staff Yang's words, everyone felt that it was very reasonable, and nodded one after another. Just kidding, if you can get a few garrison divisions out, the worst person here is also a major general.

Wang Zhenyu knocked on the table and suppressed the increasingly loud discussion: "Does Deputy Brigade Commander Xu have any opinions?" ”

After Xu Yuanquan pondered for a while, he leaned forward and said: "In fact, it is easy to talk about the establishment problem, the key is the actual combat effectiveness of the army, and there is actually no unified standard for the current firepower configuration and equipment of our army. Although the salary is high, it is not ahead of the domestic armies in terms of equipment, and when fighting, it completely depends on the quality of individual soldiers. First of all, our supply standards and equipment standards will be unified, and then the firepower will be strengthened a little more, and the combat effectiveness will be guaranteed. ”

Everyone began to express their opinions one after another, and Zhou Li's opinion was to strengthen the training of elite troops, especially reconnaissance units. Wan Yaohuang's opinion is to put all the existing officers into the first phase of the Xiangxi Army Military Academy, which is about to open, and divide it into two types: accelerated classes and ordinary classes.

Liu Xing's opinion is that the work of the recruit base should be strengthened, the construction should be accelerated, and there is also some confusion between the ranks and ranks of the current army, which should be resolved as soon as possible.

Wang Zhenyu listened very carefully and seriously, and also made notes one by one.

After everyone expressed their opinions, Wang Zhenyu began to summarize: "What everyone said is very good, I have got some inspiration from your opinions, now I will talk about my ideas." ”

The officers opened their notebooks, took out their pens, and prepared to take notes.

"First, on the issue of the formation of the army, my meaning is very clear, as Chief of Staff Yang said, the establishment of the Xiangxi garrison. The specific structure is to form three garrison brigades and four independent regiments. The garrison brigade is organized into two regiments and three battalions, and the independent regiment is a small regiment with six reinforced companies. The number of troops in the brigade is tentatively set at 5,000 men, and the number of troops in the independent regiment is tentatively set at 1,200 men. The total number of field troops is 20,000, and in addition, the current guard regiment has been reorganized into a guard brigade, with a total number of 4,000 troops. ”

"Second, on the issue of the army's weapons allocation standards, it is still necessary to come up with a standard at present. Personally, I think that there should be an artillery battalion at the brigade level, and an artillery company at the independent regiment level. Attention should be paid to strengthening the protective equipment of the infantry's equipment, and at the same time, the style and caliber of the rifle should be unified as soon as possible. And not only the equipment, but also the military uniform, the standard of identification marks must come out. I would like to hand over this work to Deputy Brigadier Commander Xu. ”

"Third, there is the issue of the connection between the town guard and the army. The Xiangxi garrison is armed under the command of the town guard embassy, and my thinking is like this: three departments are set up under the town guard embassy, the staff office, the operations office, and the armament department, and then a bureau is set up under the department. The General Staff is responsible for military equipment and the appointment and dismissal of officers; The Operations Division is mainly responsible for daily training and operations; The Ministry of Armaments is mainly responsible for military industry and supplies; The town guard will also set up a chamberlain office, which will be responsible for connecting with the three departments. You don't have any opinions, right? If there is no opinion, I mean that Lao Yang will continue to serve as the chief of the General Staff, Lao Xu will serve as the chief of the Operations Division, and Ma Xicheng will serve as the chief of the Armaments Division. ”

All of you here are human spirits, and fools can see that Wang Zhenyu's purpose in setting up the three ministries is to firmly control the army in his own hands through the three ministries and avoid the phenomenon of small military leaders and small warlords in the army. If you think about it, what is the basis of power, finance and personnel, and now that these two pieces have been received from the commanders of the troops at all levels to the hands of the General Staff, then who can still create small groups in their own ranks? Even if you want to do it, what can you do it?

Now that the boss has thought of this step, what else can everyone do but raise their hands in favor? Do you openly oppose it and tell the boss unmistakably that you want to rebel?

Wang Zhenyu really smiled this time, from the bottom of his heart......

Wang Zhenyu then said to Yang Wangui: "In addition to the daily work, this staff office must also take care of one work. In my opinion, the staff office should also be responsible for the security forces, and this security corps has set up strongholds on some traffic arteries to serve as a guard, similar to the ancient beacon towers. ”

Yang Wangui bowed his head and recorded carefully, without expressing his personal opinion.

Wan Yaohuang asked vigilantly: "Dashuai, who are we going to focus on guarding against next?" ”

Wang Zhenyu said in a deep voice: "This is the core of our Xiangxi Group, and I won't hide it from you, Liuzhou and Changde are two directions, everyone should spend some time to understand more." Liu Xianshi's side in Guizhou is actually Cai Yi's person now, everyone should also pay attention, Cai Ye is a personal masterpiece, maybe the Dian army will enter our territory in Xiangxi that day. ”

This is definitely not a loss of nothing, in history, the Dian army and the Guizhou army Shili entered Xiangxi many times. Whether it is the Protectorate War or the Protector of the Law, it was Yuan Zuming, the marshal of the Qianjun Army, who entered Xiangxi once in the war, but the ending of this entry was not very good. Yuan Zuming was set up by Tang Shengzhi's henchman Zhou Hui to set up a Hongmen banquet and directly cooked it. Now that Zhou Wei is under Wang Zhenyu's account, it is estimated that the chance to play such a play again is gone, but in Wang Zhenyu's heart, the territory of Xiangxi must not be touched by the Dian army and the Guizhou army, and this matter is not negotiable. And if possible, if the strength allows, Wang Zhenyu still wants to fight the idea of Guizhou, grandma's, and that province is as rich as Guizhou, a huge southwest coal sea, and the richest non-ferrous metal mining area in the country. As for the fact that Guizhou and Xinjiang will become poor provinces in the future, it is entirely because of the system, and the peculiar phenomenon of sitting on the golden mountain and begging for food is probably Chinese characteristics, thanks to the eldest sons of the republic, there is no more shameless than you.

But at present, I still have to forget about my own strength. Fools know that Cai Yi's big tiger is quietly accumulating liliang and observing the situation in the country. It's better not to provoke him with this little bit of meat.

But Changde and Liuzhou are different, Li County town guard Wang Zhenya is entrenched in the Changde area, but the strength is seriously insufficient. Not to mention the fact that the armed forces are added to less than 10,000 people, what is more serious is that in its jurisdiction, there are all kinds of shili. In history, Wang Zhenya was able to sit firmly on the territory of Changde completely because he stood very accurately, although he was born as a hero of the People's Army like Wang Zhenyu, but whether it was the Second Revolution or the Protector War, he did not hesitate to stand on the side of Beiyang. Wang Zhenyu can't learn this kind of wall-grass kung fu, so he can only bow down.

As for Liuzhou, Wang Zhenyu remembered that there were two bigwigs in the old Gui family in history, one was Lu Rongting and the other was Shen Hongying. Since Lu Rongting is the overseer of Guangxi, he must be dominating Nanning. Shen Hongying should be entrenched in the northern Guizhou region, but according to the information sent back by the agents sent by He Jian to lurk in the Liuzhou area, the current boss of the northern Guibei region or Liuzhou is Liu Guxiang, the head of the Guangxi Youjiang Military and Political Branch and the commander of the Fifth Army of the Guangxi Army. This person is a hardcore alliance, this one followed Sun Dacang in 1907, participated in the famous Guangzhou Uprising, but he was not buried in Huanghuagang, and Tan Yanmin was in a hurry when the Xinhai Revolution broke out. As for Shen Hongying, he is actually a bandit, and he is still eating under Liu Guxiang. Don't look down on the profession of bandits, Lu Rongting, the current nominal ruler of Guangxi, is also a leader in this industry, and there are still bandits in the Republic of China who are the heads of state, which shows that there is still a future for the development of this profession.

Wang Zhenyu thought about it carefully, since the current boss is Liu Guxiang, but it is Shen Hongying who is at the top in history. So there is only one conclusion, black eats black, but I don't know when it was eaten?

How can this damn history textbook, weishenme can't write in detail, only the result and no process, how can it be a mirror? Taking history as a mirror, I think it's almost the same as taking as a mirror.

But it doesn't matter, Wang Zhenyu is still very satisfied with the work of He Jian of the Military Intelligence Department, and believes that with the hard work of these agents, his hegemony will eventually be realized. haha, thinking about Wang Zhenyu is happy.