After Kant's car accident, it stands to reason that he should be his deputy—————— even if it is only temporary. So in Ray? After Kopa suddenly appeared and snatched the position, there were indeed a few people in the Beijing legation who were not in a very good mood.

At this time Ray? Copa did not arrive in Beijing within the stipulated time, but stayed in Anhui and did not know what Ludao was doing, so it was reasonable that someone would send a telegram to Paris to make a small report or something.

After arriving in China, he did not immediately leave for Beijing, but went to Anhui and stayed for several days inexplicably, and the Parisian side was naturally very angry when he heard the news—————— although the French minister to China has always played the role of soy sauce in this country. But just on the Paris side is going to give Ray? When Kopa sent a strongly worded telegram, they received a telegram from Ray Murphy first. A telegram from Copa.

10 million pounds, and every year, such a large amount of orders is still rare in this era. So in from Ray? After learning many details in the telegram sent back by Copa, the Parisian side was indeed tempted.

It's just that Paris is still hesitant to finalize such an agreement.

Yes, in order to guard against the Allies, Britain did need France to side with him, but let's not forget that France also needed Britain in dealing with the Allies.

The order of 10 million pounds a year did appeal to the bureaucrats in Paris, but it was a bit of a mistake to make enemies with the British for the sake of the money...

At this time, the French were in a very contradictory position, wondering whether they should choose to trade at 10 million pounds a year. Or good relations with the British.

The former can certainly benefit France greatly, but the consequences of the latter do not seem to be easily ignored. At this time, someone needs a small push behind the scenes.

Although Ray? Kopa was 'dispatched' to China. But after all, he has a lot of contacts in France after many years of politics, and he still has a certain influence on the upper echelons of the government. What's more, in addition to him, there is such a trump card as Bertrand...

Algeria, France's most important colony in North Africa, Paris attaches great importance to it, and as the emperor of Algeria, as well as a lieutenant general in the army. Bertrand still has a certain influence in Paris, and coupled with a series of powerful people he has made in the process of being promoted to lieutenant general, Bertrand can play the role of the last straw.

After sending a telegram to the Algerian side. Bertrand soon used some of his connections in Paris to carry out his activities. And after the activities of these powerful figures, although there are still some people in Paris who still hold opposing opinions, in the end Paris decided to sign an agreement with Yan Shao...

Secret Protocol...

Although the decision has been made, if possible. The French still hoped to avoid conflict with the British.

According to the agreement. Because of the deep friendship between the two sides, the French government will enter into a special partnership with the Anhui military junta and intervene in the event of malicious acts by other powers...

This is a separate agreement, and in another 'pure' commercial agreement, the car company under the Yushi Group will transfer a part of the orders originally given to the US side to the French factory, which will initially be 5%, and gradually increase to 20% as the production capacity of the French factory increases...

In addition, some equipment required to build factories in Anhui. It will also be ordered from the French side.

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With Yan Shao and Lei? Kopa signed his name to the agreement, and the agreement was officially valid.

In fact, this is only a rough agreement. Many more agreements are in the process of being signed.

However, this kind of agreement is mainly related to some technical skills, that is, to introduce some key skills to the French side, or to send some 'trainees' to France for study, etc.

In the past, Yan Shao had always used Bertrand's relationship to let some young officers in the army go to the Foreign Legion to serve and study at the same time, but now that he has such a relationship, he can naturally go directly to the regular French military school to receive orthodox military education...

To this Ray? Naturally, Kopa didn't have any opinions, not to mention that in his opinion, this was also a way to deepen relations with each other—————— if the officers of the Anhui military government were all trained by the French, then it was obvious that these officers would have some good feelings towards the French.

Although the Zhu Erdian in Beijing is very optimistic about Yuan Shikai, after a certain period of contact, Lei? Kopa felt that Yan Shao was the man most likely to become the ruler of the country...

This is not only because of Yan Shao's existing advantages, but also because of Lei? Kopa saw a lot of changes in Anhui that the country didn't have...

Although Ray? Copa wanted to wait a little longer in Anhui, but he was the French government's newly appointed minister to China. He never went to Beijing to take over, and it was always a bad thing to stay in Anhui.

So not long after the agreement was signed, Ray? Kopa set off for Beijing.

In Tirere? After Copa had a farewell reception, Anqing returned to his original rhythm, and Yan Shao returned to his endless work.

For the junta, there are a lot of things that need to be dealt with at the moment.

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In Wangjiang County, Anhui Province, a horse-drawn carriage stopped very smoothly in front of the gate of the Civil Affairs Bureau.

"Whew, I'm finally back alive...", pushing open the door of the carriage, a tall, thin young man in his early 20s exhaled.

"Yes," and when the tall and thin young man got out of the carriage, another young man also stepped down from the carriage and rubbed his waist with his hands after his feet hit the ground. Those roads should really be repaired, and in more than an hour, they almost tore my waist upside down..."

"Build roads? I heard that the Ministry of Transportation is busy with this matter, but I don't think I can take care of it in the short term, so forget it. Let's get busy with our business first..."With that, Gu Ke turned around and moved a cardboard box from the carriage. "Let's go. Let's go back to the bureau..."

nodded, Qi Xiu on the side also moved a cardboard box from the carriage, and then followed Gu Ke into the courtyard of the Civil Affairs Bureau.

Although in later generations, generally only the central institutions can be described as ministries, and the following words can only be used as departments, bureaus, or whatever. But now the provinces that have been recovered are described by the ministry for these institutions, and Yan Shao's side naturally adopted this setting. Some institutions located in Anqing City are collectively called ministries, such as the Ministry of Military Affairs and the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and some departments are subordinate to counties and towns. It's called a bureau.

For example, the Ministry of Civil Affairs' agency in Wangjiang County is called the Civil Affairs Bureau...

But then again, in fact, the Civil Affairs Bureau of Wangjiang County was also established not long ago. That is, when Yan Shao sent troops to various counties and towns to arrest the gentry some time ago, he also took that opportunity. Yan Shao finally mastered the entire territory of Anhui substantively.

Nature. This also made many people dissatisfied with Yan Shao, and some of them even had a cooperative relationship with Yan Shao in the past.

And when Bai Wenwei rushed to Cihu River with his troops, intending to drive Yan Shao out of Anhui, this part of the people also jumped up and down, wanting to take advantage of Yan Shao's concentration of troops on Cihu River to make some moves—————— no one could have imagined that Yan Shao could win so easily, and these people were the same.

Fortunately, due to Yan Shao's extremely high reputation in Anhui. Although these people jumped up and down to encourage the common people to oppose Yan Shao, there were few who were willing to stand on their side.

When the news of the complete victory in the Battle of Cihu River came back. There is no need for Yan Shao to send people to arrest them, these people have already dispersed themselves, and then fled to other provinces with their families...

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The so-called Wangjiang County Civil Affairs Bureau is actually a small two-story western-style building, surrounded by a fence to form a courtyard. Originally, it was inhabited by a local gentry, but during the Battle of Cihu River, this gentry was arrested because of a relative in Linxian County, so he stood up against Yan Shao, and even brought some subordinates to overthrow the Wangjiang County Government...

Although Yan Shao had already transferred most of his troops to the Cihu River, there were still some militias in Wangjiang County and other local counties and towns. So the gentry's action failed, and the people were driven out of the county.

After being driven out of the county seat, the gentry was not willing to fail, and even set up a camp with people outside, intending to wait for Bai Wenwei on the other side of the Cihu River to win, and take advantage of the chaos in the county to attack it.

As a result, all he waited for was the news that the Yan army had failed and Bai Wenwei had died in the rebellion...

This guy arrived simply, just like those guys I said before, after getting the news, he left Anhui with his family very straightforwardly, and his properties in Anhui were also taken over by the local government, and these industries naturally include the current office 'building' of the Civil Affairs Bureau...

Walking into the Civil Affairs Bureau with two cardboard boxes, there were more than a dozen people busy inside, and after seeing Gu Ke and Qi Xiu walk in, two people soon greeted them.

"All the counts?"

"It's over..."Placing the cardboard box in the corner of the room, Tanoko faced the two men. It's very troublesome, and it took the whole county to count? ”

"How many are there?"

"Thirty-four..."After thinking about it, Gu Ke replied directly.

"That's it..."Jiang Meng nodded. Later you can send these lists to the county government, where the people from the Ministry of Military Affairs are waiting to ask for them..."

Stretched, Gu Kedao. "Don't worry, let's take a break and go, you don't know the way, this way will turn us upside down..."

Hearing Gu Ke's words, Qi Xiu on the side also nodded in agreement.

Looking at the appearance of the two people, Jiang Meng smiled helplessly. "What's the matter, do you want me to give you a car next time?"

"The car..."Qi Xiu grinned. Forget it, that thing is not as good as a carriage outside, at least when the wheels are broken, we can still ride the horse, if that thing is broken, there is no way to do it at all, not to mention that the road is so broken, there is not much difference between riding a carriage and making a car..."

With the technical level of this era, even the best cars of this era will have many problems, so it is not uncommon in this era to suddenly break down in the process of driving, so that the car cannot move...

If it's in the city, it's easy to solve the problem. But if it's in the middle of nowhere...

That's a complete cup...

"Okay..."Gently kicked Qi Xiu with his foot, Jiang Meng said. After resting, go to the county government as soon as possible, the people from the military and political department have been waiting for a long time..."

"10 minutes. Give us another 10 minutes, we just need to rest for another 10 minutes..."Ignoring Jiang Meng, the two of them sat down in their own seats.

Today, they were exhausted after a long day of running in a carriage.

And seeing the scoundrels of the two people, Jiang Meng was completely helpless...

After about 10 minutes, Qi Xiu and Gu Ke finally got up from their seats, and walked out of the car with the cardboard box they had just picked up from the carriage.

The county government is not very far from the Civil Affairs Bureau. It was only a few minutes of walking, and the two people had already walked in.

"Xiao Gu and Xiao Qi..."In the office building of the county government, the deputy county magistrate was walking outside. At this time, I was overjoyed when I saw Gu Ke and Qi Xiu. "You guys are back, the people from the Ministry of Military Affairs have been waiting for you for a long time, and I'm going to go to your bureau to ask..."

"We've been busy for a long time..."Although they were full of complaints, the two of them still followed the deputy county magistrate upstairs. The last was in a room on the third floor. I met a few soldiers in plain black everyday clothes...

I saw Gu Ke and Qi Xiu holding a cardboard box. The soldiers also stood up.

"It's done," Gu Ke said with a smile as he placed the cardboard box on a table beside him.

"Thank you...", looking back at the cardboard box, one of the soldiers led by him nodded with emotion. With this information, we can also blind the brothers who died in battle..."

In the battle of Cihu River, although Yan Shao won a complete victory, the casualties were not small.

In the whole battle, the Anhui Revolutionary Army probably paid more than 4,000 casualties. More than 800 soldiers were killed, and more than 500 had to retire from active duty because of their injuries.

The rest were minor injuries though. But at least half of them are still lying in the hospital.

This time, they came to take care of the aftermath of the fallen soldiers.

According to some policies issued by the military government, soldiers who are seriously injured and thus lose their labor force will not only receive compensation of 500 yuan, but will also receive a subsidy of 120 yuan per year in the future.

In addition, the junta also purchased some land and set up some invalids farms, which were specially cultivated for soldiers who were no longer able to serve, but still had a certain ability to work, and naturally, the monthly allowance would not be less...

The matter of wounded officers and soldiers is the easiest to solve, because the wounded they can't go anywhere at all, so it is easy to gather, and what to do next, it is very simple, but the dead officers and soldiers are very troublesome...

According to the policy issued by the military government, the families of the fallen officers and soldiers can receive a pension of 500 yuan, and they can also get a subsidy of 120 yuan per year, and if they have children, the cost of their children's schooling will also be borne by the military government, and the cost of going to the hospital will also be borne by the military government...

500 yuan, plus an annual subsidy of 120 yuan, is enough for the living needs of a family of three, and it is precisely because there are no worries that those soldiers of the revolutionary army can fight hard...

The problem is that the officers and soldiers of the revolutionary army come from all parts of the province, almost every county and town, and some time before the Cihuhe Battle, the military government's control over the local area was not very strong, and it did not know much about the local area.

If you don't even know where people live, then trying to send subsidies to your door is obviously an empty word, nonsense...

The problem is that the Ministry of Military Affairs does not have much influence in the local area, the population of Anhui is not large, but there are more than 20 million, if there are no clues, it is basically looking for a needle in a haystack, if you really look for it like this, no one knows that the year of the monkey can only find the whole one, and the military government can only find the Ministry of Civil Affairs...

Although the Ministry of Civil Affairs has only just been established, they have been implementing household registration and ID card policies for some time ago, and there is also a reserve system, so they still have a good understanding of the local situation.

It may be troublesome if this kind of thing is handled by the Ministry of Military Affairs itself, but if it is handed over to the Ministry of Military Affairs, then the matter is much simpler...

And it's true, Gu Ke and Qi Xiu only took one day to gather all the materials required by the Ministry of Military Affairs, so that the rest of the things were simple...

"There are a total of 32 soldiers killed in Wangjiang County, and the family information of these 32 people is all in it..."patting the cardboard box on the side, Qi Xiu said. However, there are 4 people in it who are alone, and they don't seem to have any relatives, so what to do is up to you..."

He stroked the cardboard box with his hand, and the officer at the head said solemnly. "Don't worry, we'll take care of it..."

At that time, it happened to be Bai Wenwei's troops who launched a night attack, and if it wasn't for his brother who helped him, I am afraid that he would have been completely pierced by a bayonet. Originally, both of them survived the night attack, but who knew that the person who was the most stubborn died in the other combat power.

Although he has a good relationship with that person, he doesn't know much about his family situation, only that he is from Wangjiang County, and it is because of this relationship that he will take the initiative to ask Ying to come to Wangjiang County to deal with this matter...

They didn't know this, and after nodding, Qi Xiu and Gu Ke turned around and left the room.

And after looking through the materials in the cardboard box, the officers also left the county government with the materials inside. (To be continued......)