Lu Shan's family affairs were mentioned by Long Qian personally, and Li Langzhong of Zhaojialou agreed, the same attitude as Chen Chao, as long as Lu Shan is good to Wenxiu, everything else will be done according to the man's opinion. Because Lushan's footmark is expected to be stationed in Yanzhou, like Long Qian, he will first set up a marriage, and then marry Li Wenxiu after Lushan arrives in Yanzhou.

The family is organizing the marriage ceremony of Long Qian and Lu Shan, and is also preparing for the distribution of shares. Long Qian took the time to go to Caozhou with Wang Mingyuan. The Jinxiang County Commander personally accompanied Long Qian and Wang Mingyuan to Wang Mingyuan's hometown Wangjiazhuang and visited Wang Mingyuan's family. To Wang Mingyuan's delight, although the family is still poor, the health of his parents is the biggest good news, and in a few years, his second sister has also married, and his parents have lived with his brother. His younger brother Wang Tongyuan is already a seventeen-year-old boy.

When Long Qian introduced Wang Mingyuan, he directly said that it was the standard of the Wasion Army, which made the Wang family overjoyed. At the beginning, Mingyuan caused trouble and fled the village, and it was more than four years since he left, and there was no news. The family only thought that he was dead, who would have thought that the second child would become the standard of the official army in the past few years, and it seems that he has a higher status than the county commander? Moreover, he is not far from Yizhou near Teng County, which is not far away.

Immediately, the royal father decided to hand over the third child to the second child to take him to be a soldier. has an elder brother who has become a big official to take care of it, and the family is very relieved.

stayed at Wang's house for one night, leaving two hundred taels of silver, Long Qian and Wang Mingyuan went to find Fei Ning's house. Long Qian only knew that Fei Ning was from Jinxiang, but he didn't know the specific location of Lu Dao. After a lot of effort, with the help of the government, he finally found Fei Ning's home. It's the same as the Wang family. Fei Ning's old father thought that his son was long gone, but who knew that he actually went to Mengshan to join the gang, accepted Zhao'an, became an officer on an expedition to Gyeonggi, and died heroically on the battlefield against foreign coalition forces. Although he lost his son, he still comforted the Fei family by telling his whereabouts and justifying his name. The two hundred taels of silver left by Long Qian were also enough to comfort his father, explaining the amount of Fei Ning's military salary, pension, and condolences to his comrades. A total of two hundred taels of silver.

Feinin's mother has passed away. The brothers had already split up and lived separately, only the old father with a sister to be married, rented three acres and four cents of land from the landlord to barely live, and had this money. It should be possible to solve the problem at hand.

Long Qian said to Fei's father. Fenning is my brother. Although he died for the country, the right wing of the Wasion Army will always be your home, and we are all your sons. If you want. You can take your little sister to Zhengjiazhuang to settle down, we want to set up a farm to settle the disabled soldiers, I see that your old body is okay, you can go there to plant some land, build three tiled houses, and take care of the elderly. Fei's father was very moved, there were soldiers in the village, and there were also those who died outside, I had never heard that the officials would come to the door to send such a generous pension, and they would have to support my old man! He's with a nobleman. I will go to you to ask for a living, and let me think about it.

Long Qian said to the Jinxiang County Order, Yizhou Caozhou lives next to each other, Lord Cao Kun and I are friends who don't know each other, the Fei family lives in poverty, for the sake of his children who sacrificed their lives for the country, take care of them as a county responsibility, at least don't let the local green-skinned villains nuisance this ruined family, okay?

Jinxiang County Commander agreed. For the style of the envoy of Longzhen, he felt that the status of this fallen officer surnamed Fei was not low among them. He is relatively clear about the affairs of the Mengshan Army, and this new army that has caused a deep headache in Cao Yan and the two states has become a new army of the imperial court, so he said that he must instruct the township to take care of it, please rest assured that Lord Long.

When Long Qian and Wang Mingyuan returned to Zhengjiazhuang, they immediately convened officers above the company commander level (Cheng Erhu's battalion was still stationed in Yixian County and had not returned, only Cheng Erhu himself had returned) to hold a secret meeting to discuss and approve the plan for establishing a joint stock fund for the officers and men of the Mengshan Army.

Program content: All officers and soldiers who participated in the Mengshan Army before the end of June of the Gengzi year are members of the Joint Stock Foundation, and those who join the army after that are not counted. The calculation of shares refers to the position, and the time of joining the army (starting time from Cao Kun's entry into Mengshan) The two main indicators are divided into two lines and converted into silver taels.

The time of joining the army is based on one year, and the calculation coefficient is 1, and those who are less than one year are calculated as one year. The increase coefficient is 0.3 for each additional year. The maximum coefficient is 1.6. The total amount of silver taels used to calculate this part of the shares is 7 million taels, and based on 2,200 people, the average distribution of silver taels per person is 3,180 taels.

The position is the lowest squad leader, with a coefficient of 1, and there are four levels: platoon, company, battalion, and standard. For each previous grade, the increase factor is 0.1, up to a maximum of 1.4. The section level is included in the battalion level, and the medical station, ordnance station, etc. are counted as the company level. Deputy and principal positions are no longer subdivided.

The silver taels used to calculate this part of the shares are 3 million taels, and the number of people eligible to participate in the distribution is 172, with an average of 1,740 taels of silver per person.

Initially, he was going to distribute about 20 million taels of silver, but Long Qian adopted the advice of several major officers to purchase weapons, pay for some secret expenses (such as bribes for court officials), ensure the expenditure of military expenses in the event that military expenses could not be secured, and the resettlement of the dead and disabled, all of which needed separate funds. So it was divided into two, half of which was used for the distribution of shares, and the other half was included in the public school.

At the meeting, Song Jinguo made an explanation of the management of shares, explaining that this part of the money belonged to individuals, but it was not distributed to everyone, and was managed by the army in a unified manner. If the beneficiary dies in action, his or her family can receive it in 10 years. What the shares are used for, Lao Song also said, that is, the army will open some factories to make money to ensure the development of the army. Therefore it cannot be given to everyone in cash. However, dividends can be received on the shares saved. Dividends are calculated annually and reported to all shareholders in the following year and included in the principal.

The beneficiary can receive the share capital in a lump sum or in installments under the following circumstances: the individual needs money to marry a wife and settle down; major difficulties in the family; Approved for decommissioning.

Because the interests of the whole army are at stake, all beneficiaries are required to sign a confidentiality agreement and promise to keep the secrecy of the share fund. In case of violation, their shares will be confiscated and they will be held accountable as appropriate, up to and including defection.

For the vast majority of officers, it was a joy to have thousands of taels of silver in their names. The vast majority of them are young people without families, and the army has taken into account the possibility of spending their shares in certain circumstances. There will be no dissatisfaction. Therefore, Lao Song's main report was unanimously approved by a show of hands.

Chief of Staff Ning Shijun was entrusted by Long Qian to make a supplementary explanation of this, the first is the calculation of shares, not based on participating in the battle of King Qin, but on the whole army, which embodies the idea of the Mengshan Army as a game of chess as a whole, and the interests of the troops have been closely linked to each of us, whether you are an officer and soldier of a combat unit, an officer of the intelligence front, or a person in charge of logistics, as long as you try your best to fulfill your duties. The troops are treated equally. Second. Whoever dares to betray the group will be the enemy of the whole army and will be punished with the severest punishment. Opposite. Just be loyal to the group. Obey orders. Everyone's birth, old age, sickness and death, the team is fully managed, completely eliminating everyone's worries.

Lian Shupeng, deputy director of the Logistics Department and commander of the baggage battalion, reported on the revised military pay regulations on the right wing of the Wasion Army. The lowest salary is for recruits who have been in the army for less than half a year, with three taels of silver per month, and the highest is for commanders, with thirty taels per month. Ten times more for recruits. The classification and grading of military salaries embodies the principle of giving priority to combat units and technical arms. The salaries of the general combat units are 1.5 times that of the logistics support arms. In addition, from this month onwards, military salaries will no longer be paid directly to individuals in the form of bookkeeping. If it is not collected due to no need, it shall be kept by the army and calculated at the rate of 3% per annum. Lian Shupeng made a special statement that because there are too many places for the troops to spend money, he hopes that everyone will maintain the current simple style, store the army's salary in logistics, and support the construction of the troops.

Long Qian said a few words after the last, emphasizing discipline and military training requirements on the change in the identity of the troops and the imminent departure to the new station. He said that we were born in Xiangma, and we were forced to go to Liangshan in desperation. But now we are officers and soldiers. However, there are always people who still see us as grass cowards and find fault with us. All of them were officers at or above the company level, and in order to ensure that they would not cause unnecessary trouble, no one was allowed to speak ill of the imperial court in public. It is necessary to heighten vigilance and not provide a handle to anyone who has ulterior motives for the Mengshan army. Second, the troops will soon leave the base areas and enter the county town and even the prefecture city, so they must strictly enforce discipline, maintain the simple style of our Mengshan army, refrain from drinking alcohol, smoking too much, engaging in prostitution, and not leave the barracks without permission. Third, a large number of new recruits will join the army, some of them will come from calf holders, some from peasant merchants, and the officers must be treated equally and must not discriminate in any way. Moreover, it is necessary to pay close attention to training and solve as soon as possible the problem of the decline in combat effectiveness brought about by the expansion of the troops. There is a shortage of weapons brought about by the expansion, and the command is trying to figure out a way. In the case of insufficient firearms, each company should be good at adjusting and striving to equip the recruits with basic combat skills.

After the meeting, Long Qian left Cheng Erhu, who had returned from Yi County, and listened to Erhu's report on the situation of the second battalion, especially about the Huade Zhongxing Coal Mine, which attracted Long Qian's attention.

After Wang Mingyuan and Cheng Erhu left one after another, Fan Deping acted as the battalion commander, and the second battalion was also a unit that did not participate in the reorganization, and the three company commanders of the second battalion: Cheng Erhu, who was also the commander of the fifth company, Fan Deping of the fourth company, and Hu Zongyu of the sixth company, all had new appointments. And Cheng Erhu has officially taken over as the battalion commander, and three new company commanders will be sent over.

Cheng Erhu didn't understand why the second battalion had been "left alone" for a long time. Long Qian explained the reason, because he later discovered that the location of Yi County was extremely important, and he was going to station a battalion-sized force for a long time. Now that Cheng Erhu is already preliminarily familiar with the situation over there, then Cheng's second battalion will be transferred to Shi Dashou's second battalion. Originally, Cheng Erhu's second battalion was incorporated into Zhou Yi's second bid, but it was Lushan's first bid that was scheduled to be stationed in Yanzhou. And Yixian was under the rule of Yanzhou, so Long Qian decided to transfer the two second battalions and still leave Cheng Erhu in Yixian.

After listening to Cheng Erhu's report on Zaozhuang Coal Mine, Long Qian became interested, "I know that there are large coalfields in Lunan Road. I didn't expect to be in Yi County for a while! On the evening of the officers' meeting, Long Qian, Wang Mingyuan, Zhou Yi, Lu Shan, Ning Shijun, Song Jinguo, Jiang Yun and other major generals listened to Cheng Erhu's detailed report. The general idea of "reaching out" to the Yixian Coal Mine was discussed.

When Long Qian left Yi County, he asked Wang Mingyuan to investigate the products in the area of Yi County. Wang Mingyuan was transferred back to the headquarters to participate in the reorganization of the "21" and left the initial investigation to the deputy battalion commander Cheng Erhu.

There are rich coal seams under Yi County, which has been mined for 300 years, and its core area is Zaozhuang in the northwest of Yi County. Zaozhuang Coal Mine was called Yixian Huade Zhongxing Coal Mine Co., Ltd. in 1899, and the general office of Huazhuang was Zhang Lianfen, who had served as Li Hongzhang's staff. The foreign general office is a German De Xuanlin. But the management is all Chinese. The foreign general office can only audit the entry and exit of money.

The reason why the Sino-German joint venture was established was entirely because of the "Shandong Mining Regulations" signed with the Manchu government after the German invasion of Jiaoao, which ceded to the Germans the right to mine and explore 30 kilometers on both sides of the railway that was under construction in Shandong and the railway that might occur in the future. Fortunately, Article 17 states: "All mines that have been opened by the Chinese within 30 kilometers on both sides of the Shandong Railway may still be renewed only in accordance with the previous methods." The Yixian coal mine has already been opened, but a major safety accident a few years ago caused a dispute and led to a shutdown for several years. After the resumption of production, it was infiltrated by the Germans and became a Sino-German joint venture. However, the 1,000,000 silver agreed upon by the Germans has not been paid. The actual control of the mine is still in Chinese hands, and the person in charge is Zhang Lianfen, a native of Zhejiang, who is now the Shandong salt transport envoy.

"They discussed building a railway to the south of the canal, but they didn't have the money__" Cheng Erhu's information made Long Qian interested.

"That's it. This Zhang Lianfen has a vision. Coal mines must consider the problem of transportation, otherwise the excavated coal will not be transported away, and it will be piled up on the mine, and it will definitely lose money. Land transport, in the current conditions is simply unimaginable. Building a railway is the only option. Fortunately, Yixian is not far from the Grand Canal. Okay, I'll meet this Zhang Lianfen! Long Qian said to Ning Shijun, "Shijun, you will leave tomorrow and go to Jinan from Yanzhou." When I arrived in Yanzhou, I asked Wu Yong to come to Yi County, and said that I had important matters to discuss with him in Yi County. (To be continued......)