Macho Wars

Xia Li tilted her head for a moment and reported two breathtaking figures to Dragon.

"The members of the alliance just exceeded one hundred thousand last week. There are not many comrades who have sworn in, only three thousand come."

"I……"

For a moment, Dragon felt a little frightened.The speed at which the Communist Party pulls the team is so fast!

You must know that the current total strength of the colonial military area is less than 100,000. When the second expansion is completed, when it reaches 150,000, how many people know the alliance back then?

of course!Dragon also knows that most of the 100,000 members of the Workers' and Peasants Alliance are attracted by the concept that the Alliance has promoted to the outside world, and come here to report its strong momentum.If you really raise the banner of rebellion, you will definitely run away in an instant.

But this is only the beginning after all. As the alliance grows, there are more and more core members, and comrades are spread across all walks of life.The alliance will eventually form a force that everyone cannot underestimate.

Dragon is worried that by then, this force will still remember its original intention when it was founded?

Chapter 257

Since the establishment of the Workers’ and Peasants Alliance, in just one and a half years, its members have exceeded 100,000. This number is equivalent to 1% of the current colony’s population. Dragon does not believe that the colonial government will grow wildly under his nose. The emerging organizations are unaware.

The reason why he hasn't done anything until now, he guessed that the people above might also hesitate.

After all, the Langley riots have only lasted for two years, and the colonial government still has fresh memories of the tragic situation at the time. I am afraid that the dead people below will be upset someday, so I will make trouble for them again.In this case, the existence of the worker-peasant alliance is very subtle to them.

On the one hand, the speed and scale of the development of this civil organization made them feel uneasy and feared their growing influence, but on the other hand, the alliance has done a lot to maintain social stability in the past year. Contribution.

Although the alliance also organizes strikes and demonstrations, each action will communicate with the government in advance, and in the end, things can always be resolved in a safe and stable manner.

Therefore, at this time, the stable colonial government has not dared to ban the alliance at will, and this is exactly the effect Dragoon expected.

It's just that once there are more people, the composition of the organization will inevitably become more complicated. When Xia Li came here several times, she had reported many situations to Dragon.

For example, some middle-level personnel of the alliance had close contacts with wealthy aristocratic businessmen in private, and lower-level management personnel arbitrarily allocated funds to the alliance members to raise funds!Similar violations of regulations and disciplines are showing a tendency to emerge wildly.

Faced with these situations, Xia Li, who had never managed so many people, was also very embarrassed at first. She was so busy that she was dizzy and almost exhausted her "semi-finished" demon warrior to sickness.

So Dragon offered her some suggestions.

First of all, the first and most important point is that there must be absolutely no tolerance for internal corrupt elements.These people are like viruses. If they are not treated in time, they will soon infect others.

The alliance had better set up a special counter-revolutionary department immediately, the number of which should not be large, but all members must be the kind of firm and ideal revolutionaries, and it is best to be innocent and not have many relatives, so that they can act without mercy.

The anti-counterfeiting department is responsible for supervising and reviewing the inside of the alliance, collecting criminal evidence from suspects, and then removing these corrupt elements from the alliance in accordance with the law.If the circumstances are serious, you may wish to send it to the relevant government departments.

Long-term supervision and regular review are the only way to prevent the alliance from corrupting internally.

The second point is the official start of collecting alliance dues.

Prior to this, the alliance has not levied any fees on the membership, as long as you write an application to join the alliance.Most of the funds for the operation of the alliance were raised by Xia Li and other former members of the revolutionary army, and a small part came from donations from alliance members and people of insight.

Therefore, after the worker-peasant alliance entered a period of rapid development, funding soon began to become tight.

Formally levying membership dues from members can first open up funding sources and ease the pressure on the operation of the alliance, and secondly institutionalize income and follow the formal process to prevent some people from cleverly establishing names and collecting money.

As for the fee, Dragon’s suggestion is five copper plates per person per month.This is exactly the price of a pack of mid-range cigarettes. For the average working class, it is no more, no less, and will not feel painful.

And there are 100,000 people in the alliance, and one month is 500,000 copper plates, which is a full 5,000 gold coins.Not only is it enough for the daily operation of the alliance, but it can also set aside some funds to set up a poverty alleviation fund, and often carry out some public welfare activities to further establish a good image of the alliance.

Although the empire is a powerful and poisonous government, after all, it has a face, and it is impossible to kill a civil organization with a good reputation simply because of the fear of the alliance.

After getting Dragon's help, Xia Li left with satisfaction.Before she left, she handed Dragoon a list of members of the alliance that have joined the colonial army, some of which are public, and some are not.

Dragon opened it, good fellow!There are more than 500 people, and the existing divisions and brigade-level units in the colony all have Union comrades, even the Marine Corps is no exception.There are more than forty in his independent regiment, and Dragon even knows some of them, they are all very good soldiers!

Xia Li took the initiative to give Dragon this list, on the one hand, out of trust in the mentor, but also a little careful thinking about "going through the back door", I hope Dragon can promote these good comrades.

After sending Xia Li away, Dragon returned to the study and kept the list properly.

At this moment, Yunlong knocked on the door and walked in, holding their daughter Irene in his arms.The little guy has just eaten milk, and he is sleepy at the moment, his round face is filled with a cute expression of contentment and ease.

Dragon hurried forward and gently scraped the tip of the little daughter's nose, and then kissed the mother and daughter on the cheeks.

"My dear, I have good news for you, our little baby, did you learn to go this afternoon?"

"Ah! Will you leave so soon?"

"Unhappy, she is thirteen months old."

"Look at my memory. A while ago, I brought recruits and opened a factory, so I was so busy that I was dizzy."

Thinking of being busy with official duties and neglecting to accompany his family, Dragun looked at Yunlong apologetically and hurriedly took his wife into his arms.

At this moment, Yunlong seemed to have thought of something, he hesitated a little, and raised his head and said to Dragon.

"My dear, when you went to the factory in the afternoon, guests came from home."

"Guest? Who?"

"It's Count Cispano."

Upon hearing this name, Dragon's face suddenly became gloomy.He just wanted to live their own lives with his wife and children, and didn't want to get involved with the Sispano family anymore.

But Urno was always concerned about the eldest son and little granddaughter, carrying his wife on his back, secretly visiting the door again and again, and also sent a lot of precious gifts and tonics, all of which were declined by Dragon.

The most annoying thing is that Dragon tried to avoid this guy, but bumped into him.

In addition to obtaining a license from the industrial and commercial department of the colonial government, the textile factory he opened often had to deal with local tax authorities, which happened to be the part Urno was currently responsible for.

When Urno saw that the textile factory was Dragon’s industry, he naturally gave a great policy leaning, and even did not hesitate to get ties to help him get tax cuts.

Although Dragon didn't want Urno's help, but he had no choice but to follow the "official process", and he had no room for rejection at all.

Chapter 258

Urno’s kindness made Dragon a little bit entangled. Fortunately, the textile factory just did it easily, not his main business. So Dragon simply asked the deputy commander Henry for help and hired him through the connections of the Martini family. An experienced manager.

It is worth mentioning that this 50-year-old woman also enlisted in the army when she was young. It is said that she is also a female sniper with a proven record. She has a calm and introverted temperament. She left it for the first time she met Dragon. I was very impressed.

Dragoon felt quite relieved to have this savvy and capable professional woman from a military background to help take care of the factory.

Back to the army, in the first month of 8895 in the Holy Calendar, Dragon, as one of the military representatives, accompanied his immediate boss, Brigadier General Kane Mountbatten, to visit the National Shipyard in the north of Port Pandora.

Seven months ago, the military placed an order with them to acquire a large cruise ship with a standard displacement of 12,000 tons and less than half of the construction progress, and then commissioned the shipyard to carry out a "military transformation."

Specific renovation projects include strengthening the armor protection of the hull, increasing the number of boilers and improving the power system so that the maximum speed can reach 28 knots, canceling the superstructure of the hull, laying a flat straight-through deck, and opening the interior of the hull to build a large double-layer warehouse, etc. wait wait wait……

To put it bluntly, an aircraft carrier is under construction!

To be honest, with the empire’s current technological level and industrial capabilities, if it were just to build a “quasi-aircraft carrier” at the early stage of World War II, it would be far less difficult than building an airplane.