1928: The Rise of Giants

The performance of the General Tax Police Corps in the Battle of Shanghai was too outstanding, especially when compared with the 19th Route Army and the Gendarmerie Corps, it was like a group of tigers and wolves.

Ye Luo had expected the principal to come up with this idea.

He smiled and said, "The Tax Police Corps is mixed with a large number of Ye's Security and Sports employees. When Brother Song and I started this, it was mainly to facilitate the collection of local taxes. Many members are also locals in Shanghai. They have elderly and children at home, so I'm afraid they can't follow the National Army to fight in other places."

"That's easy. We will remove the Ye Investment employees from the organization and form a tax inspection team. We will then recruit soldiers with rich combat and military experience and reorganize them into a new unit and place them in the 19th Route Army."

The principal also knew that the composition of the Tax Police Corps was complicated. If he wanted to take over the entire corps, he didn't know who to find to replace Wen Yingxing as the head of the corps.

In his opinion, the Tax Police Corps was able to play a huge role in this battle, first of all thanks to a group of National Army generals such as Wen Yingxing, and secondly to the elite weapons and equipment they were equipped with. These were supporting facilities derived from the original Ward military cooperation project, which were much better than the equipment of other National Army troops.

Finally, there are many outstanding soldiers in the Tax Police Corps. Their individual combat capabilities are very strong, and with sophisticated weapons, they are naturally able to defeat ten enemies alone.

Among these many factors, Ye Luo's Ye's investment component is the smallest, even negligible.

He was also worried about allowing employees of Ye’s investment to be incorporated into the military system. What would that look like?
"Thank you, Party Secretary. As long as the tax inspection force is retained, I have no objection." Ye Luo nodded with a smile, "But Party Secretary, a large number of weapons and equipment equipped by the Tax Police Corps are basically produced by factories under previous cooperation projects. These costs..."

After the death of Colonel Max, the Ward military cooperation project gradually fell into the hands of some senior Kuomintang officials. Ye Luo had no intention of continuing to be involved in it, and after he withdrew from it, he never cared about it again.

However, after leaving the support of Ye’s investment capital, the arsenals under his control gradually became inferior to Ye Luo’s own arsenals in terms of productivity and other aspects.

But since the principal wanted to steal her love, he naturally had to ask for some compensation.

"Haha, you are worthy of being a businessman. You are really reluctant to give up any benefits." The principal was very happy to hear his words. He thought it would be difficult to get Ye Luo to give in, and he might even bleed a lot. He didn't expect Ye Luo to be so easy to talk to.

"Party leader, I am a businessman." Ye Luo answered with a smile, and everyone laughed too.

This time, they all wanted to get a piece of the pie from the Tax Police Corps. Seeing that Ye Luo was about to give in, several people began to get ready, hoping to take over this powerful army and replenish their troops.

"I will let the person who takes over calculate all the costs with you one by one, and then you can ask the Ministry of Finance for the money." The principal immediately passed the ball to Song Ziwen.

Song Ziwen's face suddenly turned dark, but he could do nothing about it.

He basically did not contribute anything in the Battle of Shanghai, and the principal would not let him get away with it so easily. The subsequent compensation to Ye Luo would naturally have to come from the Song family's treasury.

Song Ziwen laughed dryly and said to Ye Luo: "A Luo, please show some mercy. I'm really poor lately, brother."

Ye Luo smiled and said nothing.

Show mercy?

I’ll strip you down to your underwear!

Ye Luo knew that he would not be able to keep the Tax Police Corps after this battle, so he dispatched the most elite troops to Qing City in advance, under the personal command of Liu Fangwu. The three and a half battalions were equipped with the most sophisticated weapons and equipment, and the soldiers were carefully selected.

During the Battle of Shanghai, Ye Luo was reluctant to let them come back, and instead let Fan Haer's men take over.

Secondly, the most core resource of the Tax Police Corps is actually talent. In this regard, he has already used internal operations to attract a large number of talents to Ye’s Investment.

At first these people were not very happy about it. After all, they were originally part of the National Army, and now they were suddenly downgraded to employees of Ye Investment. Who would be willing to do that?
But what Ye Luo gave was too much.

The food and treatment of the direct troops invested by Ye Shi in the Tax Police Corps are better than those of others. If others are dissatisfied, they can be stopped by one sentence - they are employees of Ye Shi Investment, and Ye Shi Investment will pay their salaries. You are soldiers of the National Army, and your military pay comes from the Ministry of Military and Political Affairs. If you want money and treatment, you have to ask He Yingqin. It is difficult for Ye Luo to give them even if he wants to.

Therefore, although the principal seemingly incorporated the Tax Police Corps at no cost, the actual combat power is still concentrated on the newly established Tax Inspection Corps.

Ye Luo also took the opportunity to separate this Iron Lion from the National Army system.

These things seem simple, but in fact, Ye Luo has been busy all year for today. After all, it is a big project to win people's hearts quietly and separate them secretly.

The matter was settled and the principal was ready to assign the final affiliation of the Tax Police Corps.

Those present included the former regiment commander Wen Yingxing, Chen Mingshu, Jiang Guangnai, Dai Ji, Cai Tingkai and a group of other generals of the 19th Route Army, as well as several senior generals of the National Army who had specially rushed back from abroad.

Everyone was looking forward to it, but the principal waved his hand and called Huang Jie who was sitting in the corner.

Huang Jie, a graduate of the first class of Whampoa Military Academy, served as the commander of the 1930nd Brigade of the 2nd Division in 2. During the Central Plains War, he successfully protected the principal who insisted on commanding at Liuhe Station and contributed greatly to saving the emperor.

This year, he succeeded the defeated Tang Enbo as the Lieutenant General Commander of the 2nd Division and was stationed in Henan Province.

He is only three years older than Ye Luo. At the age of 29 this year, he is already a lieutenant general and a division commander. He can be said to be the principal's most trusted confidant.

But at this age, and with this position, it is a bit underappreciated in this party general office.

"I would like to appoint Huang Jie as the second head of the Tax Police Corps, and Wen Yingxing as the political commissar. What do you think?"

The principal called Huang Jie, who stood at attention and saluted with a look of delight on his face.

As everyone knows, Huang Jie is a fanatic among the principal's diehards, which means that the principal wants to take over the Tax Police Corps for himself.

After realizing this, everyone who was originally ready to make a move immediately adjusted their attitudes and agreed and congratulated Huang Jie.

Huang Jie also came over with a smile and shook hands with Ye Luo: "Second Young Master, please take the time to complete the handover with me."

"I will do my best to help you." Ye Luo looked at him with a smile.

Huang Jie is a capable person, but he is far inferior to Sun Liren, who later became the group leader.

Moreover, he was too loyal and blindly followed the principal's orders. When the Tax Police Corps was handed over to him, it eventually became an ordinary force.

fair enough.

It saves a lot of trouble.

It just so happened that at that time, many well-known figures in the regiment had not yet made a name for themselves, and Sun Liren was just a small lower-level officer, so it was not a problem to trick him into coming.

Seeing that the two of them got along quite harmoniously, the principal smiled and felt that Ye Luo was much easier to get along with than the Kong and Song families.

We can consider Deng Wenyi's suggestion. (End of this chapter)