Heavy Industry Empire

Everyone shook their hands quickly, and Duan Xuewen said: "Every penny allocated will be used in the local area, and no penny will be wasted. No one would dare to stretch their hands for public funds. Education, medical care, agriculture, and industry will be a year of great development. , the investment made by the head of the group this year will definitely be recovered more than this next year. With the development of agriculture and industry, we will definitely collect more taxes, "

"With more tax sources, there will definitely be more tax revenue, but I won't be so anxious. Don't worry about it. Agriculture and industry will not develop without three or two years of development. The construction of railways is also on the agenda. , next year we can start pre-planning," Liu Tianling said.

The investment in the army is basically decided by Liu Tianling. Jia Cai and other staff officers and budgeters of various departments have budgeted 500 million oceans without large-scale battles and large-scale military expansion. Of course, if the army is expanded by [-], the total If it reaches [-], this number is not enough at all, and it needs to be much more. There are still a lot of appropriations on weekdays. This appropriation is only to make up for the financial constraints in the second half of the year.

Duan Xuewen asked: "Leader, this sum of money is huge, I don't know how many batches it will be in place,"

"Haha, this time there will be no batches. After the Spring Festival, the fifth and sixth day of the Lunar New Year will be allocated immediately. Let's go and work hard. 1927 is a year of great development for us, and everything will be fine."

Jia Cai and the others were also very happy. With more troops, this batch of funds will be extremely active. Although the total number is not large, the money is only for some auxiliary equipment, etc. As for weapons, vehicles, artillery and ammunition, etc. Liu Tianling provided it all without any purchases, which saved the army's largest expenditure.

Early in the morning, the weather was cold, and there was still thick fog in the sky. Liu Tianling led the soldiers and came back after running a five-kilometer cross-country. He just called from the office, saying that Wu Hai, Sanger and others had arrived. Cattle and sheep are exactly what Liu Tianling needs, so he also attaches great importance to them.

When he came to the office, Liu Tianling was taken aback. He saw that Wu Hai, who was originally heroic and handsome, was covered in shabby clothes, and there were bloodstains on his arms.

"What's going on here," Liu Tianling asked.

Wu Hai, who was walking back and forth, saw that Liu Tianling's eye circles turned red immediately, and his voice choked up: "Leader, please avenge me and my brothers."

"What's the matter, Brother Wu Hai, if you have something to say, sit down and talk slowly, drink a glass of water first, and I will take care of you if you have any problems," Liu Tianling said.

"Okay, then I'll thank you for my brothers who died," Wu Hai said as he pushed the golden mountain down the jade pillar, plopped down on his knees in front of Liu Tianling, and kowtowed firmly twice.

Liu Tianling was also dumbfounded. It seemed that something serious had happened, and someone was dead. If the horses, cattle and sheep were robbed, with Wu Hai's personality, he would only feel a little guilty towards Liu Tianling, and his family would go bankrupt.

"Well, get up quickly, sit down and talk about something, no matter what I promised you just now, I will give you justice," Liu Tianling said.

With tears in his eyes, Wu Hai told Liu Tianling what had happened in detail, and it turned out that this was the case.

A group of horse dealers, such as Wu Hai and San Ge, did business with Liu Tianling. Although the profit was low, the quantity was also large, so they made a lot of money. After the team returned to the grassland, Wu Hai and San Ge discussed it. Expanding the scale, originally more than 50 brothers have expanded to a scale of more than 70 people. Each has a fast gun, and some weapons such as box cannons and bastard boxes, which can be regarded as a large armed force.

The weather in mid-October has already begun to cold on the grassland. The horses, cattle and sheep have eaten enough pasture with grass seeds and grow very fat and strong. It is the season of high autumn and horse fat. With his influence, he bought a thousand excellent Mongolian horses, and bought more than 2000 one- or two-year-old cattle according to Liu Tianling's request. After all this was done, it was already mid-November. Leading the caravan to go south while grazing, intending to bypass Rehe, enter Shanxi, and then enter Shandong through Henan. Normal collection of some taxes and fees will not make things difficult for others. As for Feng Yuxiang in Henan, he will not make things difficult. At present, he is still a friendly military relationship.

The most unexpected thing is that something happened to the caravan on the grassland. This morning, everyone in the caravan just boiled the buttered tea in the pot with cow dung. , followed by the strange cry of the horse bandit.

The brothers who were eating yelled: "Copy guys,"

Wu Hai turned on his horse, fired the box cannon in his hand, and knocked down two horse bandits with a bang. Excuse me, it's just that there are too many horse bandits, at least two to three hundred people, and they don't play cards according to the rules of horse bandits. Generally, when a horse bandit robs, you have to say first, I am a horse bandit, and I will let you leave as many things as you want. You passed over my land safely, but these horse bandits are not, they just eat raw rice, they don't even ask, the bullets hit randomly, bang bang, bang bang.

San Ge came to Wu Hai on horseback and shouted loudly: "There are too many enemies, abandon the animals, retreat, you go first, I will cover,"

"Okay, I'll take the brothers to withdraw first, and you also withdraw from the battlefield immediately, don't fight with them,"

After all, Wu Hai led most of the brothers to retreat, and Sanger led five brothers to the rear, delaying the horse bandits. Sanger also had a box cannon, which Liu Tianling sent, a real high-quality pistol, and the other brothers all Each person has a new gun made by Hanyang, which is much better than the equipment of the horse bandit. A group of six people fought with the horse bandit on a horse. In the process, the ten fastest running horse bandits were wounded in an instant, and the horse bandits behind were a little timid, and they got cattle and sheep again, so there was no need to take risks, so there was no need to chase them.

They retreated a long distance and counted the number of people. There were only 70 of the 40 people left, 30 were killed, and all were injured. Even Sanger and Wu Hai were shot. Fortunately, the guns of the bandits were relatively weak. The injured were not serious.

After listening to Wu Hai's narration, Liu Tianling also frowned, and cursed: "These horse thieves are really fierce, don't you know him?"

"I don't know, these guys are not horse thieves from our neighborhood. They should have come from the eastern grasslands. Who knew it was such a coincidence that they robbed all our goods as soon as they came here. Afterwards, we wandered around there for a long time. I heard that Many herdsmen in the grassland near Ordos were robbed by them. This group includes Mongols, Manchus, and Han people. The leader of the bandits is called Bai Ben, and they are called the Bai Ben Army."

"How many people are there?" Liu Tianling asked.

Wu Hai shook his head: "Some of the information I got was based on hearsay. Some herdsmen said there were 4000 to 2 people, some said there were tens of thousands of people, and some said there were more than [-] people, but they were wiped out by Zhang Zuolin. Now It's just the bandits, and the specifics haven't been investigated clearly."

Liu Tianling sighed: "I will deal with this matter. Your brother is my brother. You are doing things according to my ideas. You are also my people. If so many people die at once, we must give them money." An explanation from the family,"

"Thank you, Captain,"

"Don't say that, although you are here to make money, you are also working hard for me, Ye Feng, take them to the infirmary, treat their wounds, and change each of them into new clothes," Liu Tianling turned to arrange for Ye Feng beside him.

Ye Feng said: "There is no problem in treating injuries, but the clothes are difficult to deal with. We are all in military uniforms here,"

"It's winter, you can't let them wear ragged clothes, get forty sets of cavalry clothes for them to wear first,"

"Yes," Ye Feng said, leading people out.

Liu Tianling called Qin Yang and asked him to send someone to the northern grassland to investigate where Wuhai was robbed and find out who did it. Three thousand good horses and cattle are enough to make Liu Tianling Angry, Wu Hai's caravan can't do big business at all, and Liu Tianling pays for the livestock. They are just caravans that earn hard money, so Liu Tianling must investigate the specific situation.

After a while, Liu Tianling came to the staff office, and Jia Cai was sorting things out.

"Head, you look unhappy, what's going on,"

"Some things are always unpleasant. One thousand fine horses and two thousand cattle will be gone in one fell swoop, especially those two thousand cattle, all of which are one or two-year-old calves. They will be used as farming cattle after training. They were all lost," Liu Tianling said helplessly.

"Which bastard did it, just send someone to snatch it back."

"The horse bandits on the prairie, Wuhai and the others were robbed before they left the prairie, and 2000 brothers died, separated by more than [-] miles, and Zhang Zuolin's territory in the middle, how to go there and snatch the cattle and sheep back, "

Jia Cai touched a few sparse beards on his chin, and suddenly smiled: "Bad things can also be turned into good things. Shaoshuai Zhang occupied Jinan, and now Fengjun's power has expanded again, and has already had a direct conflict with us. If there is an army in Rehe If the vast grasslands to the north, or even to the west of Heilongjiang, come up to contain the Feng army, then the situation that is not good for us will change,"

Liu Tianling thought about it: "You mean, we sent troops into the Mongolian grassland to suppress bandits by robbing war horses this time as a trigger,"

"Yes, go to the grassland to suppress the bandits, send a strong general, and a small number of soldiers, let Wu Hai, Sanger and others serve as assistants, recruit troops on the grassland on the spot, and form a real grassland cavalry. Attack and retreat can be defended, that is, to avenge the brothers and gain a large sphere of influence on the grassland. You must know that horses, cattle and sheep are currently strategic resources," Jia Cai analyzed,