Wan Yaohuang was ordered to retire, but Wang Zhenyu looked at Song Xianfu and Hao Bing with a confused face.

Wang Zhenyu looked at it for a while, and looking at his face, these two don't look like big traitors. Then tell the truth and be honest instead of bad.

"Old Song, old Hao, how many years have we known each other since I reached the 49th standard."

Song Xianfu thought for a moment: "Commander, it's been six years since I knew the commander at the humble level. ”

Wang Zhenyu waved his hand: "I will forget if the other brothers are called humble, you, Lao Hao, and Lao Yang were the first to be with me, so there is no need to be humble, you have this qualification." ”

Saying this, Song Xianfu, Hao Bing's heart was warm, and he hurriedly got up and said he didn't dare.

Seriously, these two people were rude and accustomed in Wang Zhenyu's impression, and suddenly they made people feel really uncomfortable.

"This person lives for a lifetime, it is rare to have so many acquaintances, who can be rich and prosperous together, live and die together, that is also a good fate" Wang Zhenyu suddenly became old-fashioned, and came out with such a sentence without a head, which made Song Xianfu and Hao Bing even more confused, what does the commander want to say?

As soon as Wang Zhenyu saw the expressions of these two, he knew that he was playing the piano to the cow, and immediately adjusted his thinking: "Are you satisfied with your performance in this saddle battle?" ”

This is a heart-wrenching question, how do you ask people to answer, should they say that they are very satisfied or should they say they are very dissatisfied? Song Xianfu and Hao Bing immediately became dumbshots, but soon they understood that their performance in this battle made Wang Zhenyu very dissatisfied, and their old faces suddenly turned red.

Wang Zhenyu took out the Hademen cigarettes that he had treasured for a long time and was reluctant to smoke, and threw them at Song Xianfu. Three people and one person, lit up, swallowing clouds and spitting fog.

After smoking one, Wang Zhenyu extinguished it and continued: "Lao Song, Lao Hao, the ability is still there, at least the soldiers are very good, and almost all the training outlines have been implemented by you, this is a fact, everyone can see it." ”

"But on this battlefield, good training and being able to lead troops are just the basics, and command is very important. I heard you're taking the lead this time? Wang Zhenyu is naturally not good at saying things about poor command, so he will talk about it first.

Hao Bing scratched his head embarrassedly: "Commander, my old Hao is such a problem, as soon as he hears the gunshot, his brain is hot and rushes forward, and he can't change it." ”

Wang Zhenyu smiled: "You guys, this problem has to be changed, you are not the team leader now, you are the regiment commander, you are the standard in the former Qing Dynasty, you belong to the senior officers, and your own safety is very important." What if that bullet doesn't have a long eye and hits you, and Zuihou causes the whole regiment to collapse without command? ”

The two lowered their heads embarrassedly, Wang Zhenyu wanted this effect.

"So I invite you to come today, first, to praise you, after all, in the battle of the saddle, you won more with less, and made the first contribution to our army's capture of Hongjiang (several people have made the first contribution); Second, I want to discuss with you, adjust your work, and give full play to your strengths as much as possible. ”

Song Xianfu immediately became nervous: "Commander, where are you going to transfer us?" Lao Hao and I both joined the army in our teens, and we don't have any skills except being soldiers. ”

Wang Zhenyu was happy when he heard it: "Of course I will continue to lead the troops, there are not many people around me who can be trusted, I don't use you to lead the troops, do I still want you to be a county official of Qipin!" ”

As soon as they heard that they could still lead the troops, Song Xianfu and Hao Bing also laughed, and the resistance in their hearts was not so great.

Wang Zhenyu went straight to the topic: "Field troops, don't continue to do it, in case something happens, if my sisters-in-law blame me, I can't afford it." My idea is that Lao Song and Lao Hao will first transfer a group of officers from their headquarters to first transform the 6,000 regiments in Hongjiang into security forces, and then transfer the original officers of these regiments to the local police officers. Hongjiang and Jingzhou each set up a security detachment, and on this basis, a security corps was set up, and the level was set at the brigade level, with Lao Hao as the chief of chief of staff and Lao Song as the chief of staff. What do you think? ”

Lao Song and Lao Hao looked at each other for a while, but they didn't say anything for a long time, and it seemed that they still didn't want to leave the Tiger Brigade.

Wang Zhenyu could only open his mouth and comfort: "The security force will be a local garrison force in the future, and it will also be a regular army, and I will explain that the detachment and above will be paid according to the treatment of the field army." So you don't have to worry about this being a straw chicken team, you will also be an independent system in the future, directly to me. ”

Song Xianfu and Hao Bing nodded in agreement, and Wang Zhenyu breathed a sigh of relief: "The second regiment will be handed over to the deputy head Liu Xing, and the third regiment will be handed over to the deputy head Zhou Bin." Whoever you want to transfer, as long as you want to, you can transfer it, and you can prepare a case with Lao Yang, and don't transfer battalion-level officers. In addition, you should not be in a hurry to prepare for the establishment of the corps, go down first to set up the shelves of the Hongjiang detachment and the Jingzhou detachment, and do the detachment leader first. ”

After sending Song Xianfu and Hao Bing away, Wang Zhenyu summoned Liu Xing and Zhou Wei again, first criticized the two for their average performance in this saddle battle, and then asked the two to prepare to take over as the regiment commander, and the post of deputy regiment commander was later customized, and the battalion commander of the first battalion of the regiment's combat sequence was concurrently served, with the rank of lieutenant colonel.

The next day, Song Xianfu and Hao Bing handed over the military power, and at the same time each transferred more than 40 old subordinates, and then went separately to prepare for the establishment of Jingzhou and Hongjiang detachments. Ma Xicheng also cooperated with the allocation of part of the funds, and at the same time asked for a salary after the preparation was completed.

The first step of personnel work has been completed, and in the next few days, there is still a lot of work, Wang Zhenyu breathed a sigh of relief and thought of a busy word.

There are still a lot of things to do, but Wang Zhenyu doesn't have to do it himself. The matter of the recruits was lost to Wan Yaohuang and Li Zongren, the matter of the security forces was lost to Song Xianfu and Hao Bing, Zhu Zhida came to visit him once, the guests and the host had a very happy conversation, and Zhu Cihan changed from Young Master Sun to Wang Zhenyu's adjutant.

Wang Zhenyu is very satisfied with this person, not only is he tall and athletic, but he is also rare to be able to serve tea and water, without any rich three generations, and he doesn't know how Zhu Zhida cultivated this child.

On the Hongshang side, Wang Zhenyu didn't plan to talk about anything immediately, because the Xiangxi Development Company in his hand was still just an idea, and there was nothing to talk about with the Hongshang before he finished the book. Fortunately, in just the past few days, Ye Zuwen, the old man, is about to go to Hongjiang.

On July 1, the first year of the Republic of China, Ye Zuwen and Ye Guoxuan arrived in Hongjiang, but Ye Guowei did not come under the pretext of being unwell. And it was a very coincidental fact that a group of people from Jingzhou also arrived.

The family happily ate a Hongjiang family banquet, and they all praised Hongjiang cuisine for its deliciousness.

Wang Zhenyu smiled but did not speak, he just told Song Haomin and Zhu Cihan to prepare an invitation, and tomorrow he will invite the Hongjiang Merchant Gang.

As soon as the king of Hongjiang came out, who dared not to go to the banquet?

Wang Zhenyu was indeed a little busy after dinner, Ding Wenjiang and Weng Wenhao were urgently summoned by him, there was nothing else, it was just for the construction of the railway, Ye Zuwen was naturally also here, and Song Xianfu was also called.

Wang Zhenyu has a lot of things to do tonight, and tomorrow will be a very critical day, which may determine his luck in the next few decades. Therefore, to make a long story short tonight, Wang Zhenyu told Ding Wenjiang and Weng Wenhao unmistakably that he asked his father-in-law to contact the foreign bank, and then build a railway from Hongjiang to the passage in this mountainous area of Xiangxi for one day. The aim is to further increase capacity and commercial development by facilitating transportation, which is supported by accurate geological survey data. For this reason, he decided to set up two geological exploration teams, with Song Xianfu responsible for the safety of these two teams. The deadline is half a year, because after half a year, the Yuanjiang shipping will take shape, and their capacity is enough to ensure the import of road repair materials into Xiangxi. As for the road construction workers, Wang Zhenyu was not worried, there were still more than 10,000 prisoners in his hands, and he had already sent a letter to Wan Yaohuang, asking him to inform these prisoners that as long as they worked for three years, they could be acquitted, and at the same time, their food and lodging conditions would be improved from now on, so as to avoid excessive oppression leading to their rebellion or riots.

After Ding Wenjiang and others were ordered to leave, Wang Zhenyu and his father-in-law began to discuss the preparations for the Xiangxi Development Company, and He Jian, who was familiar with Hongshang, was also summoned to the meeting. Halfway through the conversation, Wang Zhenyu asked Zhu Cihan to invite Zhu Zhida to discuss the matter.

The lights in the headquarters were on all night, and Ye Ziwen didn't see Wang Zhenyu come back to rest for a long time, so she was so angry that she stomped her feet and fell asleep by herself......

The next morning, Wang Zhenyu slept and got up at noon for lunch.

After lunch, Hong Shang came to the headquarters one after another. For Wang Zhenyu, the new master of Hongjiang, although the Hongshang merchants made great efforts in the process of capturing Hongjiang, they were still a little uneasy. No one has ever seen him, and now that he thinks about it, Zhou Zefan's bamboo bar was knocked too hard before, otherwise how could these people who have experienced ups and downs make the decision to fall to the Tiger Brigade with a letter from Chen Hongji and a few words from He Jian, a young man who has no hair?

As a result, they welcomed a new owner who was only 21 years old.

The news of Zhou Zefan's disastrous defeat and surrender was known to the whole Hongjiang, and such a rapid defeat gave the merchants the impression that Wang Zhenyu's strength was very strong and unfathomable.

In fact, China is the most powerful country in this shijie, in the late Qing Dynasty, the Shili of Hongjiang merchants has been so big that they no longer put the magistrates appointed by the imperial court in their eyes, first, these officials themselves are not right, if there is no support from them, it is a joke to do this job in peace, let alone make money. Second, these businessmen themselves also have their own political status, the court openly sells officials, and it is not uncommon for businessmen who do not donate three or five products, even the first and second grades are prominent.

But now the world is different, the merchants are no better than the literati, their sense of smell for social change is quite sensitive, and they soon know that this world is the turn of the gun.

However, even so, Zhou Zefan was appointed by the provincial military government and still failed to recruit Hongshang tycoons when he entered Hongjiang. Most of these tycoons send a butler, and a casual welcome is considered to be dismissed. This kind of faceless practice is also one of the two reasons why Zhou Zefan later "lost his heart" and distributed donations everywhere, and the other reason was the result of Changsha's backers repeatedly asking for money.

However, this legendary commander Wang is slightly different, it is said that he is the hero of the Xinhai Revolution, in the name of a general, he played a night attack in Hankou, carried out a suppression in Nanjing, returned to Hunan and played a mutiny in Changsha by the way, and a month ago I heard that this son defeated bandits in Jingzhou, and captured 10,000 people just by taking prisoners.

The name is the shadow of a person, if the above events can also be classified as word of mouth is inevitably exaggerated. So defeating Zhou Zefan's elite so easily made Hong Shang unable to sit still. For Zhou Zefan's shili, the Hong businessmen are very clear: the army of Cai Juxian and others under Zhou Zefan still has few opponents in the Xiangxi area, and all the previous bandits are overwhelming, and they are captured. But in the eyes of the people of Xiangxi, such an army that exists like a tiger and wolf only takes one day to make this Commander Wang pick up, although there are factors in the rebellion of the militia group. But to be able to eliminate Zhou Zefan's more than 2,000 elites, what a terrifying existence the monkey cubs under Commander Wang's hands should be.

The Hong merchants still know the importance of it, such a person who is not afraid of high-ranking officials in the provincial capital and has elite hands is no longer something that his group of businessmen can despise. It's better to settle down, and hurry up to the front of the house and stand honestly like a little daughter-in-law.

In these days, nothing is as hard as a fist.