Chapter 447: What Can't Be Lost

It is easy to go from thrift to luxury, and it is difficult to go from luxury to thrift, so is human nature. It has only been ten years since Pingliao, and the Liaodong army, which was able to fight well, began to show signs of decadence. This matter cannot be ignored, and it is still highly valued, even if it is a symptom, it must be taken seriously. These brothers who were born and died with themselves in the past, since they have lost the collective initiative because of their personal interests, it is better to let them leave this collective. As for whether there are other issues in it, Chen Xie does not plan to pursue it.

Not pursuing it doesn't mean that it's just a foolish matter, before sending troops to Dongying, take some time to clean up the inside, which is also for the sake of the smooth future battle.

As the supreme commander of the Liaodong Military Justice Department, Li Hunyuan's responsibility is naturally not small. It seems to be calm along the way, but in fact, it is a tide of inner tumbling. In the first year of the establishment of the new army, the Liaodong army was reorganized into a new army. It is called the new First Army, which has five infantry divisions and a total strength of about 60,000. Don't look at the fact that there are so many troops in Liaodong, in fact, Liaodong is a vast territory, and troops are needed to expand the territory to the north, and to the northwest we must keep an eye on the Guanning army and the grassland in Tongliao, and to the west, we have to guard against Shanhaiguan.

The territory guarded by one army exceeds the three modern northeastern provinces, so there are about 40,000 local troops. With more troops, there are more natural problems, and many problems can be ignored in wartime, and problems in peacetime will emerge all at once.

Chen Xie's refusal to hand over Liaodong to the Ming court was not because he was greedy for anything, but because it was his heavy industry base. This kind of industrial input with huge investment and long output time, Chen Xie will definitely not be able to develop if he does not do it. Private capital is short-sighted, and it is naturally unwilling to invest if it cannot see the benefits. This problem has been evident since the Dengzhou period. Relying on the resources of the grassland, Liaodong saw a large influx of capital into the wool textile industry, which was because of the quick results.

Liaodong was used by Chen Xie as a logistics base to come to Beijing. Naturally, I don't dare to be careless.

As the head of the military justice department, Li Hunyuan is well aware of many problems, but he does not take care of them ruthlessly. There are many problems here, and the interests involved are very large. To take a simple example, there are a lot of problems in the resettlement of immigrants. Migration to the Northeast is a long-term thing. A large amount of money and materials have been invested in resettlement. Both the Judge Advocate Advocate General's Office and the Liaodong Military Department have the responsibility of supervision, with the Judge Advocate General's Office having the greatest responsibility. The reason why I found a lot of problems, but didn't care about them, was naturally because of interests.

The garden is unexpectedly large, and there is no ability to use such a piece of land in the city to repair the garden except from the army. Standing at the gate of the garden, looking at Zhang Qing, a wealthy businessman who knelt on the ground to greet him. Chen Xie's eyes slanted, and Chang Shiren, who was following behind him, stepped forward quite shrewdly and whispered: "This person is a salt merchant in Yangzhou, and he was one of the earliest responders in the woolen textile industry after Pingliao. ”

When it came to this matter, Chen Xie reacted, and after Pingliao, he decided to develop the folk wool industry in Liaodong, because not everyone was willing to come to this matter. No matter how much publicity is told, rich people will not invest in a troubled area. This salt merchant named Zhang Qing was in Yangzhou when he was in Yangzhou. It can only be regarded as an ordinary small salt merchant. But he was bold enough, and after seeing the investment promotion in "Ming Pao", he immediately ended his business in Yangzhou and took his family to Liaodong to gamble. As a result, he naturally gambled right, and now he is the largest woolen entrepreneur in Liaodong.

Chen Xie is not a person who does not talk about human feelings, and he understands it as soon as he hears this explanation. This person is the key target of support for the Liaodong military. Sure enough, Chang Shiren continued: "Thirty percent of Zhang's woolen products are purchased by the military every year, and the price is one percent lower than that of takeaways. Chen Xie smiled when he heard this, stepped forward to help the lean businessman, and said with a smile: "You have made great contributions to Liaodong, can there be a place in the Advisory Bureau?" That's it. Chang Shiren began to break out in a cold sweat again when he heard this. Not to mention the Advisory Bureau, this guy is the speaker of the Liaodong Council. He was able to make a fortune, a typical collusion between officials and businessmen. Speaking of which, thirty percent of the woolen textiles are sold to the army at a low price every year, which is high enough. But once you want to investigate, it is not difficult to find that he is still the largest real estate developer in Liaodong, with the largest private mountain forest in Liaodong under his name, as well as coal mines, iron ores, coking, and ironworks (pig iron is sold to steel mills). And every one of his industries is related to the military and political departments.

Let's put it this way, Zhang Qing is a copy of the shopkeeper of Liu Da. His two daughters, one is Chang Shiren's concubine, and the other is Qian Qianyi's aunt's wife. The eldest son served as a captain in the logistics department of the First Army, and he did not go through formal military academy training, that is, he joined the army first and was promoted after six months in the crash course.

There are many students who have graduated from the crash course in the Liaodong Army, and the non-commissioned officers and students who graduated after half a year of study are the top to be a second lieutenant platoon commander.

Chen Xie walked all the way in, smiling all the way, as if there was nothing to do, but Chang Shiren was secretly worried, and he couldn't leave, so he could only accompany Chen Xie all the way and wait until Chen Xie settled down. Sitting on the kang, Chen Xie stretched his waist and said to Chang Shiren with a smile: "Okay, don't worry about it, sit down and have a drink with me, and call Zhang Qing too." ”

Hearing the call of the grandfather, Zhang Qing's whole person was not good, and he followed in in a daze, trembling and kneeling down again, Chen Xie raised his hand and said, "No courtesy, sit down and have a drink together." Zhang Qing looked at this situation, Chen Xie sat in the middle on the kang, Chang Shiren sat on the side and sat on half of his buttocks, hinting that he was okay with his eyes, Zhang Qing was relieved, and came over and stuck half of his butt on the kang head, and his heart was full of uneasy feelings.

"Sit down, and you're not afraid of falling. I said, you guy, what about the courage to land in Golden State back then? Take it out for me! Chen Xie's faint words, Chang Shiren's heart was hot, his rise in the army was not because of the Jinzhou Battle that landed in Dalian Bay? Grandpa remembers the past. If you think about it carefully, what you have done over the years has passed.

Both of them sat down firmly, Chen Xie picked up the wine jug, filled them with both, picked up the glass and said with a smile: "Let's go first!" ”

After three cups, Chen Xie put down his chopsticks and said with a sad face: "The brothers who were born and died together back then, promotion, wealth, glory and wealth are not a matter in my opinion, this is what they deserve." As long as it does not harm the public and private interests, it is impossible to take care of one's own people. The last thing I can tolerate is that you have lost your enterprising spirit and public spirit. Without these two hearts, you people will be like the fallen leaves and grass after autumn, and it won't be long before you turn into rotten and stinky mud. ”

Chang Shiren stood up with a swish, and said uprightly: "What the grandfather instructed." Zhang Qing was startled, reacted slowly, and then stood up, standing with his hands down, not daring to make a sound, and there was no place for him to speak here. Chen Xie looked at the two of them, sighed heavily, and said: "It's a matter of Dongying, you can still make a fortune if you go to India." But one thing to remember, I have to turn the territory over there into Chinese-speaking territory as much as possible. ”

"Please rest assured, my grandfather, I will definitely turn India into the territory of the Alliance." Chang Shiren hurriedly assured, Chen Xie smiled bitterly: "You said light, you don't know how big India is?" How many people are there? The sum of the full fight is only 100,000 people who can believe it. This is the result of many years of operation. You guys, you are living a prosperous life now, and you don't want to move, I can understand it. But do you want to be many years from now? Are you dead? What about grandchildren and great-grandchildren? This country, this nation, once it has fallen into the greed for comfort and pleasure, has begun to go to the trough. Therefore, we must constantly replenish fresh blood, especially in the army, and there must be no phenomenon of coveting comfort and pleasure. ”

At this time, Ah Xi opened the curtain at the door and came in and said, "Master, there is a man named Li Hunyuan outside." ”

Chen Xie nodded, glanced at Chang Shiren and said, "Those people on the list are allowed to take you to India." If you don't want to go, take off your military uniform and serve the people, and don't allow them to stay in Liaodong and roll into Shanhaiguan. After saying this, he motioned to Ah Xi: "Bring it in." Zhang Qing retired very interestingly, and Chen Xie also comforted him with two sentences, encouraging him to continue to contribute to the construction of the army, and hoping that he would do a good job in supervising the government, which dispelled Zhang Qing's uneasy mood.

Chang Shiren saw Zhang Qing retreat, and said in a low voice: "Grandpa, this person has a lot of belongings. "Chen Xie was happy when he heard it, look at what it means, what kind of concubine is the nature of a plaything in Chang Shiren's eyes, and he really can't take it too seriously." You, what nonsense? Without the investment of these private capitals to pursue profits, how can there be the great development of overseas development? Where did the development of industrialization come from? Don't take them as fat sheep to slaughter and eat meat, just shear the sheep. ”

What is the businessman, Chen Xie really knows it in his heart. As long as there is a profit, it is no problem to sell the rope that hangs you. For the sake of profit, there is nothing that the capitalists dare not do. The macroeconomic regulation and control of government departments was not invented by rabbits, but was introduced from US imperialism. People have long played bad tricks, otherwise where would the anti-monopoly law come from?

When Li Hunyuan came in, he found that something was wrong, and after the guards checked it once, the two female guards checked it again, and they were more careful. They are all old subordinates for many years, he started as a member of the original military law team, and is still in a high position, with the rank of lieutenant general of no more than ten people in the entire alliance, how can he be a stupid character?

Seeing Chen Xie sitting on the kang head, Chang Shiren standing on one side, not even daring to look at him, Li Hunyuan's heart suddenly sank to the bottom. "Humble Li Hunyuan, I've seen my grandfather!" He stepped forward and saluted, trying to keep his face calm. At this time, Li Hunyuan had no other choice but to resign himself to fate.

Chen Xie got down from the kang head, circled around him with his hands behind his back, and finally said lightly: "I want to use your head to rectify military discipline, what last words do you have to explain?" (To be continued......)