Lin Gao Qiming

Chapter 2148
In the aftermath bureau, today's bureau directors came in full.Even if I can't come, I will send someone like Master Qing Ke to "represent".When Luo Yangming saw the situation, he understood: it was time to talk about money again.

It's spring now, when the countryside is in short supply, summer grain has not yet appeared, and autumn Fu is even more out of reach.The expenses in this city naturally fell on the merchants.This elder Xie Yuan is very happy. He has only been in the city for a month, and he has already issued more than a dozen "documents" in a row, and he wants to implement some "Australian New Deal".

To carry out the "New Deal", one must have money.Most of the original yamen servants were retained, but their names were changed, many new recruits were recruited, and various "teams" were formed.What "security team", "detective team", "propaganda team", "labor team"...

Now there are several hundred people of all kinds in the city and outside the city - it is not a big deal in the past, and there are more "white bodies" in the yamen than this, but in the past they were yamen servants for a year The service money is only a few buckets of rice and a few hundred yuan, and it all depends on their own "food". Australians do not recognize gray income, but wages must be paid in full: as long as they "eat public food", each person will be paid monthly. 200 "standard catties" of rice for workers is not a lot, and it is basically enough to maintain food and clothing for a family.Compared with the past practice of basically not paying wages in Ming Dynasty, it is quite advanced. This is also the basic confidence for Australians to demand "cleanness" of public officials.

In this way, the personnel expenses that Wuzhou City Government's finances have to support are a huge number every month.There are thousands of captives and refugees who have to feed even though they don't have to support their families.

In addition to supporting people, there are also various restoration projects, each of which requires money and food.At the beginning, the money and food apportioned by Chief Xie were consumed at a rapid rate-for this reason, the bureau director of this bureau also complained to Xie Erren many times, asking for "cutting expenses."

Unexpectedly, Xie Erren didn't care about it at all, and instead told Mr. Qiao, the after-sales bureau officer that Quguan had talked about.

"...The money and food are spent, but they are used in the right way. The money and food are out, the people get it, and then spend it. Isn't it an active market? You businessmen say every day: 'Open the door to do business, and there is no business', the people If you have money, you will naturally have business, so it’s not the businessmen who benefit from it?”

Master Qiao is really speechless for this set of fallacies, but the word "saving" is obviously too important to mention.

Since Chief Xie refuses to "reduce expenditure", the only way is to "open source".The Rehabilitation Bureau has recently been arguing about raising funds for various projects.

In the past few days, the rehabilitation bureau is discussing the reconstruction of the two pontoon bridges.Chief Xie attached great importance to these two matters, so the officials in the aftermath bureau also paid special attention to them. They discussed in the bureau every day how to raise money and food for repairs.

Technically, there is no difficulty in repairing the pontoon bridge: Although the iron chain was broken, both ends are still tied to the iron pillars on both sides. Following the iron chain, the labor team has pulled the sunken iron chain out of the river. Come out, the missing part, there are blacksmiths and pig iron in the city, as long as you have money, you can open a furnace to make it.Just reconnect it.

What makes the bureau committee members and the craftsmen in charge of repairing the bridge scratch their heads is that there is no boat.The Guijiang floating bridge requires 56 boats, and the Canglong floating bridge is the longest floating bridge in Lingnan, requiring 142 boats.Moreover, these ships must be larger ships with a boat width of more than three meters, and cannot be replaced by small boats.

The ships on the original two pontoon bridges were all destroyed or lost when the pontoon bridge was destroyed in the Battle of Wuzhou.Afterwards, the Fubo army successively recovered several stranded ships from the river beach.As for the local naval official ships and civilian ships, they either fled before the war, or were set on fire before the collapse of the official army.People from the Fubo Army and the Rehabilitation Bureau searched hard, but only found a small number of ships. Combined with the size and tonnage of the ships, there are less than [-] ships that can be used.There are not enough boats to restore the pontoon of the Guijiang River.

Of course, it is possible to build a ship. The local shipbuilder is worried about lack of work, but shipbuilding is not about hiring people to fill in the gaps in the city wall, and you don’t need to pay a few dollars for a day’s work. He can do one month's work for one year, and the water will leak for three months after entering the water.The craftsmen and gangs are also gangsters, and they are very difficult to deal with each other.The directors of the aftermath bureau frowned secretly when they counted the expenses: if there is no reasonable burden, this matter will not be able to be done.

But the big households were not happy to collect it again—it was only a month since the last time they were charged, and even Daming did not collect money like this.So everyone knew that the money had to be collected, but no one mentioned it.The whole room just sighed.

"Get up! Get up! You slobs!"

Before Yang Erdong had time to react, he kicked his leg hard, and he shuddered from the pain, and quickly stood up from the base of the wall.

"Assemble all!" With this high-pitched business, the soldiers of the various squadrons that were originally scattered under the wall of the Sanzongfu hurriedly ran to the empty field in front of the Sanzongfu—this was the first soldier of the Wuzhou National Army Brigade. A whole collection.

Yang Erdong was a little ignorant at first, but he still understood the "gathering" and hurried to follow the crowd.

When Wuzhou broke the city, Yang Erdong did not rush out of the city like other soldiers stranded in the city. Instead, he threw away his weapons, took off a suit of clothes from the dead, put them on, mixed in with the refugee crowd, and planned to escape from the city at another time.

Unexpectedly, after the Australians came, they immediately circled up the refugees, resettled them in a centralized manner, and exchanged porridge for porridge on a daily basis. Except for the local refugees who were free to go home, everyone else was treated as "labor" in exchange for food.Yang Erdong is from Guizhou, so he couldn't learn Guangzhou Mandarin, and couldn't pretend to be a local citizen, so he couldn't escape.

After working in the labor force for a few days, he was elected to the "militia" because of his strong body and family background.Standing guard every day, the patrol value is more.It's easier than being in the Labor Force.As for changing the court, he didn't care too much: he can only serve as a soldier, who should he be?Just give food and pay.

There are dozens of Kunjun leaders in the militia. Even from the perspective of an "elite" like Yang Erdong, these people are rare "strong soldiers".Among other things, just poke someone in front of your eyes, and that tall and lean body and stern eyes can tell you that "I'm not easy to mess with"-to make the big soldiers obedient.Of course, there are also those who are not very believers, who think that Australians rely on firearms to fight wars, and they insist on showing them their own kung fu—they will cry for their fathers and mothers when they are beaten.

But although they are powerful, they are easy to get along with.The first is not to put on airs, nor to order and abuse the soldiers below. The second is that everyone is equal: when it is the turn of all kinds of physical work, everyone contributes, and they also contribute. The meals are also eaten together, the same meals, there is nothing special.

This made Yang Erdong, who had been a servant for several years, quite surprised--why be an official if you want to do this?
Before he could figure out why he was a soldier, the national army came to Wuzhou.

As soon as the national army brigade arrived in Wuzhou, after allocating the garrisons and defense areas, Qian Duo started training.

Although the National Army has now expanded to four squadrons, most of the soldiers here are the product of hasty military expansion. Most of the soldiers are descendants of the Ming army.The National Army Command has issued relevant training instructions.

Qian Duo was in military uniform, standing on the wooden platform of the temporary playground, watching the mob of the three squadrons below the stage.

According to the prior arrangement, the only directly subordinate squadron composed of old naturalized people is currently taking over the defense areas of other squadrons, allowing these three squadrons time to reorganize.

The personnel of these three squadrons, in terms of physique and health, are at the upper-middle level locally, and are basically qualified as a source of troops, but Qian Duo is very clear: most of these people have not been well trained, Also lacks combat experience.Old military habits are strong.Not to mention that it is commonplace to stick to war, burn, kill and rape, but just being lazy and slippery is a common phenomenon.

The more than 300 people below are wearing uniforms of the National Army, and the clothing and equipment are brand new. Except for the absence of rifles, they are no different from the directly affiliated squadron.It's just that the team is crooked, and there are all kinds of military postures. The ones in the front know to put their chests up and fold their stomachs to make a "mighty" look, while the ones in the back can have all kinds of postures.

"You are now the National Army under the command of the Senate!" Qian Duo said loudly, "No matter what background you were from or what officers you served in the Ming Army, you are now a glorious National Army soldier! You must always remember that you are soldiers of the Senate and the people! Be proud of the soldiers of the Senate. Obey discipline and fight fearlessly. Defend the military flag with blood and life!"

After he finished speaking, he glanced at the soldiers of the national army who looked like dead fish eyes, and said loudly: "Now read out the approval of the Senate: Instructions for all soldiers of the armed forces!"

A non-commissioned officer next to him immediately stood up and shouted in a voice that was almost hoarse:

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"Rule [-]! Follow orders in all actions!"

"The second rule! Don't take people's needles and threads!"

"Article [-]! Everything captured must be returned to the public!"

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It is not the first time for those Nationalists who came from Guangzhou to hear about military discipline—they have a copy of the "Soldier's Manual" in their hands, but it is very new to soldiers who "expand on the spot" like Yang Erdong.After reading these regulations, he had a second thought: "Why do you want to be a soldier like this?!"

After the discipline was read out, Qian Duo looked at the soldiers below who were showing a little anxiety, and said loudly: "The armed forces of the Senate have been fighting north and south since the founding of the army. They have never been defeated. All enemies are like chickens and dogs. , rely on this iron-like discipline! You must always keep this in mind!"

Next update: Volume 353 - Guangzhou Governance Chapter [-]

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