Beiyang reactionaries

"Then Lu Rongting also needs to be on guard."

Duan Xun made a thought form, thought for a while and said, "Send a telegram to Li Jishen and ask him to be the commander-in-chief of the Southern Expedition Army. Under his jurisdiction are the First Army (Army Commander Li Jishen) and the Third Army (Army Commander Fang Dingying). Liu Duanshang's special warfare brigade was expanded into the third division of the Southwest Frontier Defense Army temporarily. Liu Duanshang served as the commander of the third division, and the troops were still under the command of the first army. Fang Dingying no longer served as the commander of the No. As the commander of the No.30 Fourth Division, Li Hong served as the deputy commander of the No.30 Fourth Division. Wang Tianpei's troops were transferred from the 30th Division and expanded into the temporary fourth division, and Wang Tianpei was appointed as the temporary commander of the fourth division. Temporary fourth The division is under the command of the Third Army. These units must be reorganized within two months. Once there is any situation with Lu Rongting, Li Jishen will be fully responsible for commanding the Guangxi campaign."

"Yes."

"Minister Xiong (Xiong Kewu)."

"General."

"The reorganization of all troops must be completed within two months. Because after two months, no one can say what the situation will be."

"Yes."

212 "Traitor"

"how?"

After the military meeting, everyone was very busy.

Because a war is about to start, Duan Xun plans to expand his army by tens of thousands of troops.Due to the rush of time, Duan Xun temporarily made up the number of the temporary editor.Anyway, everyone is now expanding their armies and preparing for war, and Duan Xun must keep up.According to the current situation, it is estimated that within half a year there will be 30 million newly formed troops across the country.Everyone will be a lot of recruits by then.

As for the quality of recruits, who can compare with Duan Xun's people.

The recruits on Duan Xun's side are all recruits who have received training in the recruit camp.Most of them are recruits who have received three to five months of military training, and have undergone real-fire training.In terms of military quality, it is much better than the recruits temporarily recruited by other troops.

So now Duan Xun's troops are starting to work hard for military expansion.

Of course there is also the deployment of troops.

But just after the meeting, Han Linchun found Duan Xun not long after.As the head of the equipment department, Han Linchun has been very busy recently.After all, expanding the army to tens of thousands of people requires the equipment department to come up with weapons.

Although the equipment department has a lot of weapons in stock, it requires careful calculation and deployment to equip so many troops at once and leave some stocks as spares.So Han Linchun is also very busy, constantly contacting Chengdu and Chongqing.

Moreover, war is always uncertain, so Han Linchun increased the production speed of the Sichuan Arsenal.Originally, workers in the Sichuan Arsenal worked about nine to ten hours a year.

However, in order to prepare for the war, the daily working hours of the workers in the Sichuan Arsenal have become twelve hours.The monthly production of rifles has reached more than 8000 rods.

There is also the construction of new factories.

Originally, according to the normal steps, although Han Linchun had already built the workshop of the new factory.However, it will take at least half a year to start work after getting the equipment, installing equipment, debugging equipment, and recruiting workers.

But Han Linchun couldn't wait.

Speed ​​up the installation of equipment and start training workers while installing equipment.Moreover, what Han Linchun implemented was that part of the installation can be debugged and started.The other side is to continue to install the equipment.It is possible to facilitate installation while producing.

All because of war.

"General, there is something that needs to be decided by the general."

"Say."

"Recently, two big buyers came, and they found Taikoo Matheson through an intermediary. Taikoo Matheson has already passed the news to us. Both of these buyers are more than [-] million silver dollars at a time. They are very generous."

"1000?"

"Yes."

Duan Xun shook his head.

Sure enough, after facing the war, these people will be so anxious.I didn't see them buying arms in such a hurry before, but now that there is a war going on, everyone is in a hurry to buy arms and equip the army. 1000 million, if this is how much arms can be purchased in normal times, it can completely buy a batch of good weapons from abroad.But everyone is hiding it, and now they see a big battle, and they spend money immediately.

"Who?"

If it wasn't a difficult decision, Han Linchun would have made the decision by himself.After all, Han Linchun is in charge of the equipment department, and how many weapons are sold and how many weapons are left are under Han Linchun's control.

But since it was difficult for him to make a choice, it must be because the identity of the other party was wrong.

"General, the other party is really too bold. And they don't pay much attention to weapons, as long as they are usable weapons. Even if they are old-fashioned Hanyang-made weapons, I don't care. I think they are so bold, who can be so rich in China? So I entrusted the Shanghai side to quietly investigate the people on the buyer's side."

Duan Xun smiled.

Han Linchun was indeed very cautious.

But Han Linchun was right.In China at present, although those warlords have money in their hands, there are definitely very few who can spend 1000 million to buy weapons.After all, this is not a small amount.

At present, in most provinces in China, except for a few provinces with a good economy, few other provinces have a fiscal revenue exceeding 2000 million a year.The fiscal revenues of the provinces of Zhili and Hubei only exceeded 2000 million.Under such circumstances, there are very few forces that can easily take out 1000 million.Even in China, those who can spend 1000 million to buy arms can count on one hand.

"How? Who is so rich? Is it Premier Duan's side or Cao Kun's side?"

Duan Xun thought about it.

These two people are probably the only ones who can afford so much money and are in urgent need of arms.But Duan Xun excluded Duan Qirui.Although Duan Qirui also lacks arms, his friendship with Japan these years is not for nothing.He bought a lot of munitions from Japan and equipped a lot of troops, but he didn't completely use them up.It should be no problem to cope with the current situation.

Asking him to come up with 1000 million is probably unlikely.After all, although Duan Qirui is rich, he is also short of money.There is going to be a war soon, and Duan Qirui's military salary is estimated to be unpaid.How could he take out 1000 million at this time to buy some not-so-good weapons.

So Duan Xun mainly considered Cao Kun.

It should be Cao Kun.Cao Kun controls Zhili, and also controls Tianjin.Tianjin is currently one of the best cities in China, and it was the home of the Beiyang Army back then.A large number of industries and schools of the Beiyang Army are located in Tianjin, so Tianjin is currently the richest city in China just like Shanghai.Zhili itself has a lot of income a year, and with Tianjin, Cao Kun's annual financial income is definitely a lot.Moreover, Cao Kun is currently facing Duan Qirui's pressure. He wants to expand the army most, and he must need weapons.Moreover, Cao Kun is not as rich as Duan Qirui, so it is impossible to have too many weapons in stock.

"No."

"Oh?"

Duan Xun was taken aback.

In today's China, it is not Duan Qirui, nor Cao Kun, nor himself.So who has so much money and needs these munitions.

"I checked quietly. The two groups of businessmen who came to discuss business this time are very famous arms dealers in Shanghai. According to my investigation, one of them represents Li Chun, the governor of Jiangsu, and the other represents Zhejiang. Warlord Lu Yongxiang's."

"Li Chun and Lu Yongxiang?"

"Yes."

Duan Xun nodded.

It turned out that these two people, if they were them, would make sense.After all, Li Chun controls Jiangsu, which has always been the wealthiest province in China.At the end of the Qing Dynasty, Jiangsu's annual fiscal revenue exceeded 4000 million, let alone now.

Li Chun is rich.

Feng Guozhang's ability to lead the three governors of the Yangtze River and the direct line to fight against Duan Qirui has an absolute relationship with him as the vice president and governor of Jiangsu.Because Jiangsu is rich, Feng Guozhang can win over the various factions directly related.

With the wealth of Jiangsu, as long as Li Chun wants to, it is not a big problem to take out.Even if Li Chun has no money himself, as long as he wants to make money, so many big businessmen in the area he controls can still make tens of millions.

relaxing.

Many of the big businessmen in Jiangsu have close ties with the UK, and many have close ties with the immediate family.Now that the Zhiwan War is about to break out, it is certain that these businessmen will support Li Chun.Therefore, Li Chun will not be short of money.

The same is true for Lu Yongxiang.