Section 248 To be rich is to be capricious

After the independent regiment took root in Zhailong, all kinds of production were carried out in an orderly manner. And these production work of the whole regiment are naturally fully responsible for Lin Xiufeng, who is attached to the regiment. In the past two years, our Lin Tuan has devoted all his energy to the production of Liucheng County, and he has been busy in this mountain range all day with the old and young strong women of the Minfu Battalion and the soldiers of the supplementary battalion. Finally, the hard work paid off, turning the originally sparsely populated land west of the Rongjiang River into a paradise. During these two years of recuperation, the Independent Regiment showed their demeanor as a strong army, and even when they were not fighting, the style of ordering and prohibiting and forging ahead bravely allowed them to overcome one difficulty after another and solve one problem after another.

There is a more important point, that is, the strong family foundation of the independent regiment. Over the past few years, the troops under the command of Stone have been winning battles and have captured a lot. Although most of them are war materials, but in these years, the things that you can't use can still be exchanged elsewhere, and the weapons and ammunition that can no longer be used for the independent regiment are sought-after goods in other troops, and they are very happy with each other to exchange these weapons and equipment for some daily necessities and daily necessities. Moreover, in the past year or two in Yifeng, the independent regiment has completed part of the transformation, like a large number of chickens, ducks and pigs, which are the foundation of making a fortune.

Although Lin Xiufeng may not be as good as a stone in battle, in terms of civil affairs, he is much stronger than the rest of the independent regiment. Under his command and arrangement, all work is progressing very smoothly.

At the beginning, in order to rush to plant spring wheat, Lin Xiufeng strongly asked Shi to transfer the supplementary battalion to suspend training and put it under his command, while trying to find ways to hire local people from everywhere. Although Shi hesitated a little at the time, he finally agreed to Lin Xiufeng's plan, and in the following time, Lin Xiufeng used a cart of wheat to tell Shi how correct his original decision was.

And that period was also the busiest and hardest days for all units of the Independent Regiment, on the one hand, the Minfu Battalion had to open up wasteland, and on the other hand, it had to spare manpower to build a breeding farm around the mountain.

The most important thing to plant wasteland is to dig ditches and ditches, and have sufficient water sources to ensure that crops can be grown in the fields. If you encircle the mountain, it will be even more troublesome, the whole mountain must be encircled, and then divide the area to prevent the scale from being too large, it is not easy to control, and there can be no leakage, otherwise let the chickens run out, and the trouble will be greater.

This series of work made the departments of the disciplined independent regiment busy at that time, and even at the busiest time, Shi transferred half of the three battalions stationed in the county seat. The next step is to buy wheat seeds, chickens, ducks, and grain, and everything has to be bought, and everything costs money.

Fortunately, the local government cooperated and encouraged the local people and wealthy gentry to make some convenience for the independent group, and later saw that the independent group needed too many things, and even personally came forward to banquet the local gentry and wealthy households, so that they could help raise money. Because he was afraid of the strength of the independent regiment and the face of the county magistrate, and because the price offered by the independent regiment was not low, and the reputation was excellent, he really bought a lot of urgently needed goods from these people.

After surviving the difficulties, the independent regiment was out of control after a few years. The temperature in Guangxi is already high, and the climate in the south is much warmer than in the north, which also makes the hatching of these chickens and ducks relatively smooth, and even the speed of reproduction has been accelerated a lot. After a few breedings, the harvest reaches an alarming level.

With the scale of the independent regiment established here, let alone supplying an independent regiment, even a division is more than enough, Lin Xiufeng's original plan was to take this opportunity to do a big job.

In the following time, batches of eggs, chickens, ducks, fish and other things were continuously transported from the west of the Rongjiang River to the county seat and to Liuzhou, and even in order to facilitate transportation, Shi ordered people to establish a ferry port on the west bank of the Rongjiang River, which was responsible for the goods on both sides. Here in the independent regiment, the things that they can't eat are sent to the military headquarters, and they are exchanged for rice, white flour and other food, weapons and ammunition and other equipment. Of course, these are not ordinary goods, and there are more of them than cannonballs.

When Wang Yaowu first heard that Shi Shi did not focus on training here in Liucheng, but engaged in breeding like he did when he was in Yifeng, he was still a little dissatisfied. He also deliberately let Chen Yu run away and sent a stone with a sentence: "If you don't advance against the current, you will retreat." I hope that the stone will not think that the combat effectiveness of the independent regiment is good, so he will take it lightly and ignore the training of the troops. But when he went to Zhailong a year ago to see it in person, he didn't say anything more, because he saw a supplementary battalion composed of all strong men, and saw the amazing physical strength and strength of the soldiers in the supplementary battalion.

With just one supplementary battalion, there is such strength, how can the strength of the independent regiment be inferior? Just the soldiers of the supplementary battalion are all physically strong, stronger than the soldiers of the ordinary army, how can the stone ignore the improvement of the strength of the independent regiment? This kid is obviously leading the troops in a way that is difficult for ordinary troops to adopt.

Since the independent regiment doesn't need to worry about it at all, and the stone can handle everything by himself, then what else does he have to worry about? The matter of the three infantry divisions and artillery regiments under his command has already given him enough headaches.

In this way, the scale of production of the independent regiment here in Liucheng is getting bigger and bigger, and the place west of the Rongjiang River has gone from barrenness at the beginning to prosperity later, which is also a logical thing. Rich people's sense of smell for business opportunities is incomparable to ordinary people, in fact, when the stone set up the regiment headquarters in Zhailong, some people couldn't help but want to go to the west of Rongshui to organize manpower to open up wasteland. But at that time, the independent regiment had only just arrived, and they had not yet figured out the style and temperament of this unit, and another point was that they doubted how long this unit could stay here.

By the time they were sure everything was going well, it was too late. The Independent Regiment has already put a piece of territory under its control, although the civil affairs are still decided by the county magistrate, but no matter how confident County Magistrate Zhu is, he does not dare to make trouble in the place where the Independent Regiment is stationed, and besides, in the county seat, there is still a battalion of strong troops guarding their safety, how could he make such a stupid mistake? But looking at the good land west of the Rongjiang River, they couldn't help it, as long as they asked County Magistrate Zhu to discuss with the independent regiment to see if they could also get a piece of the pie.

Shi didn't have any opinion on this, after all, as long as it didn't affect the production and life of the independent regiment, he didn't bother to care about other things. As a result, the entire place west of the Rongjiang River fell into a thriving favorable situation, and the original barren land gradually became a granary-like existence.

In this case, in fact, it was less than two years before the Independent Regiment was stationed in Liucheng County, but with the experience summed up as early as Yifeng, and with the extraordinary means that other troops did not think of, or thought of but could not do, the Independent Regiment of Stone suddenly earned an amazing fortune here. Not to mention anything else, the farm, which covers an area of more than a dozen mountains, is an inexhaustible treasure trove.

Of course, Shi also knows that in such a situation, only if his own strength is strong enough, this is fundamental. Therefore, part of the money earned was used to buy artillery shells, weapons and equipment, and combat equipment. Although the artillery company still has six artillery pieces, by now, about 100 shells have been purchased and collected, of which dozens of shells have been purchased from the artillery regiment under the army.

It is not that the commander of the artillery regiment has the audacity to sell the artillery shells in reserve without permission, but the real reason is the helpless act of the army commander Wang Yaowu.

For example, the 74th Army was stationed in Liuzhou City, although all kinds of military subsidies were sent on time, but only relying on these things transferred by the Military Commission could only ensure the food and clothing of the soldiers at most. And Wang Yaowu, as a military commander, can't arrange a person to command the troops to open up wasteland and farm to earn money, if he really wants to do that, I'm afraid Shangfeng would have sent someone over earlier.

In this way, Wang Yaowu's money is also tight, not to mention anything else, the pension money for the casualties is an unbearable big expense for him. In fact, there is a lot of money issued by the Military Commission, but what age is it now? Fiat currencies have depreciated to an alarming level.

Back then, in the 26th year of the Republic of China, the soldiers' monthly allowance was 1,200 legal currency, which was enough for them to support their families. In this way, there are no worries, so that the soldiers can fight with peace of mind and work together. At the beginning, a hundred fiat currency could buy about a cow, and although it was precarious to be a soldier, the treatment was quite good.

Now it has been 32 years of the Republic of China, and 100 fiat currency can buy a pig from the 30th year of the Republic of China, but now it can only buy a chicken!

Wang Yaowu wants to live, the officers under him have to support their families, and the soldiers who died in battle have to be compensated, and they can't be less, they can't watch those orphans and widows starve to death, right? What to do? had to find a way to get money, and in such a situation, Shi had a lot of money in his hand and wanted to buy cannonballs, so he naturally had to acquiesce.

Fortunately, both units were under their own command, but they were only moved from the artillery regiment to the independent regiment, and in themselves, there was no loss of strength for their own troops. And in this way, there is still a lot of money coming in to alleviate the current crisis, which can be regarded as a way out.

In addition, what made Wang Yaowu happy was that the boy Stone also sent people to other troops to buy shells, and he really bought a lot of them, which made him like the boy Stone more and more.

However, the stone had already smelled something different from the long period of calm.