At the Heifengzhai base, Xu Bin accompanied Situ Baili, the principal of the military academy who is well-known in the Longhua military circles, to experience a new era of military training and military discipline brought by Xu Bin. After some experience, Situ Baili felt that the subjects that Xu Jiajun is training now, in addition to being closer to the actual combat and battlefield environment, the most important point is that Xu Bin is willing to invest money.

Aside from the costs invested in training, Xu Bin's treatment of these officers and soldiers is obviously better than that of any army in Longhua Country at present. This ability to raise the army with high salaries may not be affordable by other warlords who rely more on military aid today. It's just that Xu Bin is now implementing these regulations, and when the scale of his troops is expanded, will he still be able to support it financially?

When Situ Baili asked how Xu Bin had such financial resources when he looked at the meal at the dinner table, watching every soldier almost hear the full food of one meat and two vegetarian rice, Xu Bin gave an answer that really surprised him.

Xu Bin was puzzled by Situ Baili and said with a smile: "I believe General Situ should know that I was born in the green forest and am used to robbery. In these years, although the people's families have no money, those corrupt officials and gentry who specialize in drinking the blood of the people are not short of money. At present, in addition to the troops that have officially entered the veteran corps, the prerequisite for other recruits to officially enjoy the treatment of veterans is that they need to undergo a bloody baptism.

They will be divided into small companies by the commanders of each department, and according to the information provided by the intelligence department, they will be responsible for actual combat training and robbery. In many cases, the treatment they enjoy later is more earned by their official entry into the regular army. To be honest, I also divide the money they grab into a few months and then distribute it to them.

Perhaps General Situ would be disgusted by this kind of arson and robbery, but in my opinion, it is a matter of killing one person and saving a hundred. I'm willing to do it, not to mention that the money those people make is not clean in itself. Moreover, when our recruit troops are in action, as long as the other party is not very angry with the people, we will also give the other party some pension money, and will not do anything to kill everything.

There's no way, if you want to do something this year, you need financial support. I don't like to hug the thighs of foreign devils, so I can only find a way out to raise funds. In these two battles with the revolutionary army and the Gannan army, in addition to capturing a large number of weapons and ammunition, I also received a net income of six million.

So, a lot of times, I feel like they can provoke me. The more you provoke me, the happier I am at blackmailing. And General Situ should know better than me that in the current form of Longhua, there will be no too many good people and good people. What I hope I can do is that I am a good person in the eyes of the people under my rule. But in the eyes of those corrupt officials, I am the worst bad person. I am willing to be both a good guy and a bad guy! ”

If someone else did this kind of arson robbery, he might have something to hide, but when it came to Xu Bin, he took the initiative to make it clear. In fact, in this kind of era, how do the good guys and the bad guys evaluate? Even Situ Baili, a Confucian general, couldn't tell whether Wu Dao was right or wrong to do this.

It's just that he knows one thing very well, Xu Bin treats the people around him very carenantly and friendly, and treats these subordinates equally generously. Even the people who don't usually have much contact with him, Xu Bin will give the greatest respect. In what Zhou Dingbian said during the inspection, that is, Xu Bin hopes that the people of this year can live like people.

But even if it is robbed in the form of military training, there will always be a time when the robbery will be finished, Situ Baili said curiously: "General Xu, with all due respect, I think your current strength should be enough to defend Linzhou." But what I see here is that you are preparing for military expansion all the time. Then I want to ask you, when the number of officers and soldiers under your command reaches even more. And how can you afford such extravagant military spending? ”

Oh, yes! Now the total strength of the Xu family army is less than 20,000, and it is naturally not a problem for Xu Bin to bear the current funds. But if in the future, when his strength breaks through to 100,000 or more, where will this money come from?

In this regard, Xu Bin smiled again: "General Situ, I have never concealed my ambitions, but with my current financial resources, it will not be too much of a problem to cope with the expenditure of an army of 100,000. Funding is a problem, but people always come up with it. Moreover, more troops means that the territory is also larger, and this larger territory naturally means that the fiscal and tax revenues can also increase.

I haven't thought too far ahead for the time being, everything is to prepare for the control of Gannan. The jihua in my heart is that I will recover Gannan within a year, and I will train for three years to build a regularized army that can really sweep Longhua. Therefore, I urgently need like-minded people like General Situ to join now! ”

This is the first time that Xu Bin has been invited so far. In this regard, Situ Baili said with a smile: "I, an outdated military academy principal, really deserve such attention from General Xu?" Moreover, why does General Xu think that I would choose to join your army after I rejected the invitation of my colleagues at the head of the other factions? ”

Xu Bin smiled playfully at Situ Baili and said calmly: "General Situ is like me, a weak country that does not want to see Longhua become the fish and meat of other countries. With General Situ, like me, he has the ideal of overthrowing the unified class and allowing hundreds of millions of people in Longhua to enjoy peace. According to what General Situ said before, let Long Huayi stand in the forest of Shijie power. Are these three reasons enough? ”

Listening to Xu Bin's unhurried throwing out three reasons, Situ Baili said with a clear look in his eyes: "I admit that these three reasons are indeed my life's will." But how can I believe that you can do this? ”

Xu Bin smiled and said: "You have seen it in less than a year, with an army of less than 100 people, you can take a place." And the bandit leaders who forced the two warlords to back down? Have you ever seen a bandit who dares to spend a lot of money to build an industrial base? Have you ever seen a Longhua who can extort hundreds of millions of Longyang funds from foreign devils with just two drawings?

Don't hide it from General Situ, as I just said, at least before I take Gannan, I am not short of money. And don't you see that some of the standard equipment I am equipped with now is all Debang rifles? These rifles and ammunition, I have achieved self-replenishment.

And I dare say that it won't be long before I have the ability to sell guns and ammunition to other warlords. Do you think I'll be short of money by then? In these years, as long as I have money and the support of the people, I am not too big, who do you think can stop me?

I know very well that my biggest shortcoming at present is the training of the officer corps. Although I have opened an officer school, it is all a surprise after all. Many trained officers have no problem commanding some skirmishes. But the truth that thousands of troops are easy to obtain, and a general is difficult to find, General Situ should know better than me.

I'm a soldier from the green forest, and I'm now good at skirmishes. If I really want to lead a group of generals who will open the Tuoshi for me in the future, I urgently need General Situ to join. At least in my mind, General Situ is even more handsome than the general! ”

For Xu Bin to give himself such a high evaluation, Situ Baili seemed a little indifferent, on the contrary, he was very curious about the self-supply of weapons and ammunition that Xu Bin just said, as well as the matter of the 100 million Longyang funds. It's just that for these two things, Xu Bin smiled and didn't answer.

Because, he gave Situ Baili a sincere opinion, about the drawings and the arsenal. For the time being, it is impossible for him to completely reveal it to Situ Baili. And the most important thing is that not many people know about his sale of drawings with the Eagle Nation until now. Even if he wanted to win over Situ Baili, it was impossible for him to reveal these confidential things.

Seeing Xu Bin holding back in the middle of speaking, Situ Baili realized that today he was an outsider. has already gotten a lot of unknown things, and if you still ask Xu Bin to tell these things, it is indeed a bit difficult for a strong person. It's just that he doesn't want to act so hastily about joining the Xu family's army.

Therefore, I plan to go back to my hometown first, and then I am thinking about how to go next. In this regard, Xu Bin naturally would not refuse, and personally sent it to the county town bordering Linzhou and Anzhou, before returning to the garrison to prepare for the upcoming military war against the Gannan army.

When all the people of Longhua were looking sideways at the presidential position and the upcoming war in the Central Plains, Xu Bin was quietly making arrangements. He hoped that when the Central Plains War began, he would immediately launch an infiltration strike against the Gannan Army. As far as possible, when the Central Plains War came to an end, the territory currently occupied by the Gannan Army was completely snatched.

As for Ganzhou and Ningzhou, which are currently occupied by the revolutionary army, Xu Bin believes that the presence of guerrillas active there will be enough to hold them down. If you want to attack the Xu family army, you must also consider the consequences. Moreover, through the information that Xu Bin has gathered, the current attention of the great commander of the situation is all around the formation of the southern government of Longhua.

A mere Gannan internal war, he is afraid that he will not pay attention to it at the same time, he prefers to watch from the wall. For the timing of every war, Xu Bin can be said to have calculated to the extreme. Otherwise, with the strength of the Xu family army now, these people really have to unite to clean him up.

It's not good, he really wants to lead these subordinates to fight guerrillas in the mountains and forests of Gannan. Then the construction of the industrial zone, which he has now begun to steadily improve, will undoubtedly come to naught. For this kind of price, it can be said that Xu Bin does not want to see it. Therefore, doing more reconnaissance and speculation during the war is the key to ensuring a smooth transition for Xu Jiajun every step he takes.