A Miao never expected that her unintentional act would cause such a big misunderstanding to Chen Yan. During breakfast, Zhao Xin told her the matter and asked her to explain it to someone later.
"You said you took care of this. Don't give away the things I give you indiscriminately in the future. Ruan Fujing told me before that Boss Chen is a little man. If this matter spreads, I will be fine. I’m afraid she’s not a good person anymore.”
"Okay, I get it now."
A Miao lowered her head and stirred the porridge bowl with her spoon, just like her messy mood. After being lost in thought for a while, she suddenly stood up and walked out. Duofu, who was immersed in the food bowl, picked out the fat and thin ones. When he saw this, he hurriedly waggled his tail and followed him.
Not to mention how A Miao clarified with Chen Jue, Zhao Xin had a leisurely breakfast and returned to the office. The confidential staff officer brought a few telegrams from the telecommunications room. Among them are Liu Shengfa's, Deng Fei's and Kong Shao'an's.
The first thing Zhao Xin read was Liu Sheng's telegram. He said that the five thousand recruits recruited in Ulyasutai and Khovd last year had completed their recruit training, and the biggest problem in the southward march to the Tianshan Mountains - the shortage of soldiers - had been solved. In addition, the military platform line from Khovd south to Suzikalen has also been widened, and all eight military stations have been constructed and can be put into use immediately.
He requested that only one regiment and one new battalion be left to garrison in Ulyasoutai, and all the rest of the troops would be transferred to Khovd.
Zhao Xin pulled out the map and looked at it for a while, and then wrote on the telegram, "Agree to the troop mobilization plan. It is up to you and Fan Tong to decide when to send troops. The battle plan can be reported to the staff."
It has been a year and a half since Liu Sheng and the others captured Khalkha. The original plan to march south to Xinjiang has only begun to take shape today. The two biggest difficulties during this period are soldiers and roads.
The problem of soldiers is mainly solved through the transformation of the "Suluk system". After more than a year of unremitting efforts by Liu Zheng, Liu Sheng, Fan Tong and a large number of armed work teams, coupled with the mobile warehouse led by Beihai Trading Company, the lives of herders have been greatly improved, and the livestock economy in Mobei has also improved. There has been some development.
So when the Beihai Navy began large-scale recruitment in the spring, the young men from the Seyinnoyan tribe, the Erut Banner, the Mingate Banner, and the Dulbert Banner, who were the first to benefit from the Beihai Town policy, eagerly signed up. Several brothers There are even cases where fathers, sons, uncles and nephews join the army together.
Of course, considering the national tradition, recruits are basically cavalry troops. They have been dealing with horses since they were young, and their equestrian skills are very good. After three or four months of short-term military training, they can master the movements of shooting, fighting, charging, etc. on horseback. . This made the cavalry commander Samusu extremely happy. Now he has become the first brigade commander of the Northern Navy, and the number of cavalry under his command has reached 6,000.
The biggest hurdle in recruit training is the language barrier. The North Korean Navy never compromises on mastering Mandarin. Whether it is troop regulations or various passwords, they must be able to express themselves fluently in Mandarin to pass. The purpose of this is to break the language barrier. After these people retire from the army, they will be the main force in spreading the Beihai Town decree in Khalkha.
In Zhao Xin's view, allowing all ethnic groups to communicate in language without barriers is the cultural foundation for building a unified country. Only in this way can we avoid the estrangement between the government and the people, the separation of ethnic groups and the weak concept of the country caused by language barriers.
Then there is the issue of roads. Although the Manchu and Qing Dynasties established six station lines in Khalkha, the road conditions were not suitable for the management method of Beihai Town at all. For example, the total length from Kulun to Ulyasutai is 3,475 miles. Even if the cavalry attacked at full speed regardless of horse power, it would take more than forty days to cover one way. Therefore, the Northern Navy currently has at least one regiment of troops in Culun, Serwusutai, Uriyasudai and Khovd in order to respond to surrounding incidents at any time.
Since the Qing Dynasty took firm control of the Xinjiang region, the road maintenance at the Khovd South Line Station has become increasingly neglected, forcing Fan Tong to send troops to repair it, especially in the Altai Mountains and Baishan Mountain in the south. Some mountain passes The pass also had to be widened using large amounts of explosives. Armored vehicles are easy to talk about, but the key is that the four-wheeled carriages of the logistics troops must be able to pass smoothly.
The same is true on Liu Zheng's side. The Kulun northern line is fine, but the mountain passes on the southern line were fatal in previous battles. It's easy to go with people, horses, or camels, but it's definitely not possible to go with a cart.
Basically, Zhao Xin's role as captain of the transportation brigade will have to continue until the Northern Navy captures Dihua Prefecture and Ili.
Next is Deng Fei, whose telegram is relatively simple. In addition to mentioning the current progress of the troops going south, there is also a request to deal with the Qing troops entrenched in the six northern towns of the Li Dynasty. Zhao Xin directly approved the application with "agree" without saying anything else.
Deng Fei is still very stable. Unlike Liu Sheng who is bold and careful, he does things step by step and is neither hasty nor impatient.
After Jilin Ula was captured, he was not in a hurry to enter Jilin City, but moved his headquarters from Ninggu Pagoda to the west bank of the Lafa River. Even though Jilin City is right next to the wide Songhua River, because the city is almost entirely made of wooden buildings, it is very easy to cause fires throughout the city. Furthermore, Jilin City has just been captured. Not to mention the complex population within the city, there are still a large number of Qing prisoners who have not completed screening in the prison camp outside the city. There are many people with evil intentions!
In addition, as the troops continued to move south, the more than 10,000 soldiers and horses of Na Qitai stationed in the Li Dynasty became more and more conspicuous; because of their presence, the entire front line of the Northern Navy in the northeast became higher in the east and lower in the west. .
Deng Fei's plan was to use four battalions in mid-August or early September to launch a surprise attack from Li Fengpo in the east to Xunzhen City in the west to clear the Qing army's strongholds on the other side of the Tumen River, and then the troops quickly took up their positions. The boat sailed up the river and headed straight for Huining City and Maoshan City, catching Na Qitai and Li Chao off guard.
Now it is time to solve the problems of the six northern towns, and it is time to get back the North Hamgyong Province stolen by the Lee Dynasty. Once the Mushan magnetite with reserves of 1.5 billion tons is acquired, the problem of insufficient raw materials of the Khabarovsk Steel Plant will be completely solved.
Although there are many gold mines in Northeast Asia, the iron ore resources are not good. The iron ore mines discovered in later generations are either in Kamchatka and the Kuril Islands, or in the alpine South Yakutia region. Under the current conditions in Beihai Town, mining is very difficult and costly. Today, the main source of iron ore in Beihai Town is an iron mine 50 kilometers northwest of Suchuna Village, Hezhe, Jinqili River. It is currently excavated by the Russian army and some Eight Banners prisoners of war, and transported to Khabarovsk via waterways and railways.
Finally, there was Kong Shaoan’s telegram. Unlike Liu Sheng and Deng Fei, the content of Kong Shaoan's telegram was like a work summary. Both the military and the land reform in the four counties of Jiaodong were mentioned. It was filled with thousands of words and made Zhao Xin's brain hurt.
In terms of military operations, as of yesterday, the attack force led by Lu Shoushan had captured three cities, Dengzhoufu, Huangxian and Laiyang, and is currently advancing towards Zhaoyuan. He planned to seize Laizhou Prefecture and Jimo through this battle, and at the same time form a north-south pincer attack on the Qing army and Tuanlian troops in Pingdu Prefecture, forcing them to retreat to the Changyi, Gaomi and Jiaozhou lines.
But there is a problem with this battle. According to the telegram sent by Lu Shoushan from the front line, the Green Camp of the Qing army still couldn't help but fight and collapsed at the first touch. However, Liu Yong had organized a group of regiments in the name of "supporting the Qing and destroying Zhao", and his strong will to fight was beyond his expectation. .
This group of guys were all made up of local young men. Because their weapons were too poor, the Beihai Navy ran away as soon as they opened fire. However, when the gunfire stopped, they stuck together again, using various homemade cannons, muskets, and muskets. People raise their hands to say hello.
You say use heavy weapons to fight, because too many people will die, which will be detrimental to later management. In addition, more than half of the soldiers in the army are natives of Jiaodong, and they cannot bear to be ruthless in the first place. But if you say not to fight, these guys will follow It's like dog skin plaster, very annoying.
In addition, these guys will also secretly attack the Northern Navy soldiers and small transport teams who are responsible for delivering letters. After succeeding, the soldiers will be stripped naked from top to bottom, leaving nothing behind, and the corpses will be left in the wilderness. . As a result, Lu Shoushan had to dispatch two companies to go deep into the mountains in southern Huang County to "suppress bandits."
When he saw the words "Support the Qing Dynasty and destroy Zhao", Zhao Xin almost spit out the water without holding it in his mouth. I thought Liu Yong was quite capable, but he actually used all the tricks of the Boxer Rebellion in later generations! I just don’t know if he will mobilize the power of folk religions.
However, he thought about it and felt that Liu Yong might not do this. He should rely on the power of the landlords and gentry; especially with the promulgation of the peasant association and the land reform decree, it is estimated that more than 80% of the landlords will stand against Beihai Town.
Regarding the ongoing land reform, Kong Shaoan told
Zhao Xin, the land in the four counties of Jiaodong is too barren, and there is very little land that meets the standards of large grain land. Not only states and counties, but even within a county will have different algorithms.
The current cultivated land area in the four counties of Jiaodong is a little more than 2.7 million acres. It seems like a lot, but in fact only 750,000 acres meet the standards of large grain land, and the rest are the worst and inferior land.
The "big grain land" he refers to here is actually the tax standard acre, which is the basic land unit for calculating the revenue cost of a single acre.
Taking Rongcheng County as an example, the cultivated land is very saline and alkaline, so even the harvest from the best land is not good. Two acres of land can be converted into one acre of large-scale grain land. Even if you allocate 20 acres of land to someone, as long as it is low-grade land, it is actually only four acres if you calculate 5 acres to one acre. If only sorghum and millet are grown, and the output of three crops in two years is deducted from rent, seeds, taxes and other daily necessities, the rations will still be insufficient. Furthermore, the cost and labor required to cultivate 20 acres of land are definitely beyond the reach of a family of six.
Therefore, Kong Shaoan's idea is to adopt the approach of another time and space, to carry out soybean and peanut planting, engage in characteristic planting, and at the same time vigorously support the fishery, implement mutual assistance between fishermen and farmers, and share dividends through joint stock ownership. The Military Control Commission only levies taxes on the sale of catches.
The specific method is to set up a fishery cooperative under the leadership of the farmers' association, and the credit department can provide them with ship purchase loans, of course, leasing is also possible. Farmers from each household use their labor as shares, and a group of 4 to 5 fishermen sign a contract endorsed by the farmers' association to jointly repair boats and tools.
When fishing at sea, the method of "everyone dumps the fish in his bag" is adopted. The fish caught in the net belongs to the one who owns it, and the fish caught in his bag will be sold or processed by him. When it comes time to distribute dividends, two methods can be adopted. One is to divide the dividends according to the income from the sea, and the income from the land belongs to each person; the other is to divide the dividends according to the income from the sea and three shares from the land.
Seeing this, Zhao Xin couldn't help but applaud. It seems that Kong Shaoan has put a lot of thought into it. Putting him in Jiaodong was the right move!
At the end of the telegram, in addition to mentioning the anonymous postings that began to appear during the Ghost Festival, Kong Shaoan also said one thing, that is, the Public Security Police Department recently discovered a lot of newly released fake copper coins in the markets of four counties in Jiaodong. There are also sand dollars in hammered coins. This made Zhao Xin immediately alert.
In other matters, Zhao Xin is like a bottle that is not half full, but when it comes to economic and monetary issues, there are really not many people in Beihai Town who know more than him.
The so-called "hammer flat money" is to use a hammer to hammer two Jingdun small coins that are worth a penny to make them larger, and then add dozens of coins into each string of coins. It cannot be found without careful inspection. As for "sand money", also known as sand money, it is made of copper and lead, but its copper content is much less than that of made money, and its appearance is lighter and smaller.
In addition, there are also "cutting money" and "lead money". The copper material obtained by cutting off one penny of official money can be used to mint 2 to 3 penny of small money. The money that is cut can still be worth one penny of large money in circulation. There are many lead coins in the south. The Fujian and Guangdong areas have always had the technology to make lead coins. The lead coins used in Bacheng Plantation originated from this. Because the price of lead is only one-fifth of the price of copper, counterfeiters will later use bile alum, turmeric water, wheat bran and other substances to cast and dye it yellow to prevent others from detecting the adulteration.
Although Beihai Town occupied four counties in Jiaodong, it could not be completely isolated from the Manchus in the monetary field. A large amount of copper coins and silver were still circulating among the people, parallel to Beihai silver coins and copper coins. For example, like Guo Yu and Cao Guifu, although their salaries were paid in silver dollars, they would still exchange them for copper coins for daily consumption.
And not only in Jiaodong, there is also a large number of copper coin transactions in Anping Port on Jeju Island.
Don't think that private money is only minted by unscrupulous female businessmen. The various Baoquan bureaus under the Ministry of Household Affairs also do it secretly. Moreover, Baoquan Bureau has sufficient supply of copper materials, sophisticated equipment, and excellent craftsman skills, which makes the private casting of official and bureaus often in huge quantities. However, after a large number of private money entered circulation, it quickly corrupted the money law, and the quality of money production was poor, making it more difficult to single out private money when it was mixed and used.
Once private money overflows, it will bring great harm to the rule of Beihai Town. For example, the current price ratio of silver coins in Shandong is one tael of silver for 1,500 to 1,600 yuan, while the silver dollar in Beihai Town is five coins for one tael of silver, which means that 300 to 320 silver coins are exchanged for one Beihai dollar.
It would definitely be useless for female merchants to counterfeit Beihai silver coins, but they could obtain Beihai silver coins by privately minting copper coins, and then obtain silver. one
Once private money floods, the price of Beihai silver dollars or silver ingots will soar, and prices will also rise, especially food. You must know that the insufficient grain in the four counties of Jiaodong in the past two years has been shipped from Beihai Town by boat, and its market sales price is also anchored by Beihai silver dollars.
Because the content of this part of the telegram was unclear, Zhao Xin asked confidential staff to send telegrams to Jiaodong and Anping Port, asking the two places to find out the amount of counterfeit money found.
Zhao Xin was busy here, and when it was time to eat at noon, A Miao came back happily. Besides Duofu, she also came back with a big black leather box.
"look!"
"Huh? Why did she give it back to you?"
"Sister Chen said that the things are too expensive and she can't afford them."
"Oh, what else did she say?"
Upon hearing this, A Miao first covered her mouth and laughed softly, her face turned red, and finally she simply collapsed on the sofa and was so happy. Zhao Xin looked confused and said if you have anything funny to say, let me listen.
"She thought you were going to marry her! She was so scared all night! Hahahahaha~~"
"ah?!!"
