Chapter 432 Take over Jiangnan

Senior generals are mainly honored, and it is much easier to reward middle and lower-level officers. In addition to medals, a considerable number of people have been promoted, especially grassroots officers, and several excellent officers have been promoted to three levels.

In addition to the rewards for military generals, Zhao Dongyun naturally did not fall behind the civilian system. Although the whole Jiangnan strategy seems to be fought by military people, in fact, there are still a lot of contributions in the civilian system. Among other things, raising military funds alone is a great achievement.

In addition, it also cooperates with the military to organize logistics forces to provide various military supplies for the front-line troops. At the same time, it also cooperates with the military to actively carry out recruitment propaganda in the rear.

It can be said that the Feng army on the front line is fighting, but hundreds of thousands of civilian and military officials in the whole Soviet system are fighting for it!

So this credit is not only the military, but also the civilian system.

The reward for the civilian system is similar to that of the military, and also focuses on honor, that is, the title of honor.

Zhao Dongyun successively promoted or awarded medals to senior officials in the government.

At this time, Zhao Dongyun was a little grateful for Wang Yingkai's reputation system. This thing is a good thing. It doesn't cost much. Even Xun's offering is only a few thousand yuan a year, and this kind of nominal thing can be used as a major reward for meritorious people at some point. No matter how you look at it. How good is it?

However, with the establishment of the rank system, especially after the rank regulations clearly stipulate that the rank system is equal to the ancient knighthood system in Mongolia, it makes people think that the rank is a kind of title.

After the fall of the former Qing Dynasty, in order to attract Mongolia and not to intensify national contradictions and other concerns, the republican government in the era of Wang Yingkai announced the continued recognition of the title of the princes of Mongolia. Therefore, despite the current domestic republic, there are still various princes and princes in China. Of course, the republic The government absolutely does not recognize the Manchu prince of the former Qing Dynasty. However, the Southern Federation still admits it.

In the Order, the Great Order is equivalent to Prince, Prince, etc., but for the time being, there are only two people, Zhao Dongyun and Wang Yingkai. They both get this title as president, and it is unlikely to grant it to other high-level generals and officials in the future. It is estimated that only future presidents can continue to obtain this great Honored.

One is equal to the Duke, two are equal to the Marquis, three are equal to the count, four are equal to the viscount, and five are equal to the baron.

The clear provisions in the title regulations make more people directly regard the title as a title.

Zhao Dongyun's grand award this time also promoted the ranks of many civilian officials, and several others won the ranks for the first time.

In the past few days when Zhao Dongyun was awarded, smiling faces can be seen everywhere, whether on the Jiangnan front line or Beijing!

Who doesn't like to get promoted and get rich?

And promotion and wealth have always been the main means for Zhao Dongyun to win over most of the time. Of course, in the past two years, Zhao Dongyun has also been promoting national and national consciousness, calling on the majority of young people to fight for national unity and rise. Well, this is also an excuse. Zhao Dongyun said that the purpose is to let these young people be themselves. Fight by yourself.

No matter what era, many high-end slogans are just tools for rulers.

With the capture of a series of important cities in the south of the Yangtze River, such as Jinling, Zhenjiang and Shanghai, it was announced that the Soviet system had taken control of most of the Jiangnan areas. After controlling these areas militarily, the Soviet system also took over these areas in time.

The cabinet sent a large number of officials to Jiangnan to take over the administrative vacuum after the withdrawal of the Anhui system, but it is also limited to high-level officials. For ordinary middle- and lower-level officials, like other provinces, as long as they are willing to turn to the Soviet system, they will basically continue to retain them. This does not mean that Zhao Dongyun does not care about the past. It is because it is impossible for the Soviet system to find tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of basic civil servants to directly fill these gaps.

This is a kind of helplessness in reality.

The Soviet system has sent a large number of senior officials to Jinling, Zhenjiang, Shanghai, Suzhou and other cities, and also rectified several state-owned factories originally controlled by Anhui. The most obvious example is the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau. In order to integrate the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau into the Soviet defense industrial system as soon as possible, the Soviet system Led by Huatong Industrial Bank, a large number of effective industrial and commercial managers were dispatched to rectification.

The first step is to split the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and establish Jiangnan Arsenal and Jiangnan Shipyard. At the same time, in order to expand the output of Jiangnan Arsenal and improve technical capabilities as soon as possible, Huatong Industrial Bank also announced an additional investment of 5 million yuan in Jiangnan Arsenal, which will be used to purchase equipment. , introducing advanced technology to expand the existing production line of Type 88 rifles, bullets, shells, machine guns and artillery.

As for the Jiangnan Shipyard, Huatong Industrial Bank did not make much investment, but the Navy placed an order for an 800-ton gunboat to Jiangnan Shipyard in order to build a ship, using the funds designated for the development of the navy in the aftermath of the United States, which amount was as high as one million yuan.

With this order, coupled with the order of Jiangnan Shipyard to repair warships and manufacturers' ships, it is enough to make Jiangnan Shipyard live in the next two years.

Huatong Industrial Bank controlled the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau and split it, while the Industrial and Commercial Bank of the Middle East, another state-owned bank controlled by the Soviet system, also followed closely. The bank took over another arsenal of the original Anhui, that is, the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau.

Although the bureau suffered certain losses in the war, the main machinery and equipment are still there, and after accepting the bureau, the Middle East Industrial Bank, which intends to compete with Huatong Industrial Bank and Fuyuan Machinery Factory in the defense industry, also invested 3 million yuan in the maintenance of equipment and the purchase of new equipment. Prepare, build a new factory, etc., and the Industrial and Commercial Bank of the Middle East has not spread the stall as big as Huatong Industrial Bank.

After Huatong Industrial Bank took over the Jiangnan Manufacturing Bureau, although the bureau was split, it still retained and tried to expand many of the original businesses, including rifles, ammunition, artillery, mortars, etc.

However, after the Industrial and Commercial Bank of the Middle East took over the Jinling Manufacturing Bureau and changed its name to Jinling Arsenal, it still put its main business on heavy machine guns and light machine guns.

Jinling Manufacturing Bureau has already had the ability to manufacture Maxim heavy machine guns. In the past two years, it has also produced a lot of heavy machine guns. Now the Industrial and Commercial Bank of the Middle East just wants Jinling Arsenal to strengthen its machine gun business.

and invested heavily in the introduction of equipment and patented technology for manufacturing MG08 heavy machine guns, which is expected to become the second manufacturer in China that can produce this machine gun after Fuyuan Machinery Factory in the future.

Jiangnan is an important agricultural and industrial land. It is very difficult to rectify and provide the driving force for war for the Soviets. It will take some time for this region to contribute huge military spending and a large number of industrial products to the Soviets.

After all, Zhao Dongyun is different from Wang Zhanyuan. After Wang Zhanyuan arrived in northern Zhejiang, he just left with the mentality of making as much money as he could, but he did not consider any development or anything.

However, Zhao Dongyun intends to build the Jiangnan area into his important tax contribution place. What he collects is taxes, but it can't be said that he will make a lot of money after arriving in the south of the Yangtze River like Wang Zhanyuan, and he doesn't have to worry about anything else.

When the Soviet civilian system was working hard to integrate the Jiangnan region into the Soviet system, the military generals were naturally not idle.

First of all, they pursued the remaining enemies of the Anhui army. After capturing Jinling, the troops of the Feng army went south to Jurong and Lishui one after another, and then quickly marched south to Liyang and Huzhou.

However, when it was outside Huzhou, because the Fourth Division of the Anhui Army led by Duan Qirui and other troops were also in Huzhou, the Feng army on the front line did not act rashly, but rested on the spot.

By May, the Feng army had completely controlled the southern Jiangsu region, and finally it can be said that the whole Jiangsu had been included in the rule of the Soviet system.

and Wang Zhanyuan and Duan Qirui are held in Huzhou, Jiaxing and other northern Zhejiang.

At this time, the Feng army also stopped the large-scale offensive that lasted for several months. After the previous months of operations, the Anhui army suffered great losses, but the Feng army itself could not go there.

The 4th Mixed Brigade was almost completely annihilated, and the 9th Division suffered great losses, especially the 33rd Regiment was completely disabled. Although the 14th Division won a series of victories, it was the same as the 9th Division, leaving only about 10,000 people left before the loss of its personnel. Other 3rd Division, 10th Division, 15th Division and 1st Mixed Brigade also suffered a lot.

In order to supplement the above-mentioned troops, the Ministry of Education needs to provide at least 20,000 new recruits.

Not to mention, the Feng army is still implementing the ideal establishment in 1908. At present, the army has decided to expand the 3rd Division, 9th Division, 10th Division, 14th Division, 15th Division and 1st Mixed Brigade to 1908, which has more requirements for new recruits.

Just after the end of the Jiangnan War, a large number of new recruits took ships south to Shanghai from Tianjin, Huludao and many other northern ports, and then used them to supplement the troops fighting south.

In order to supplement the shortage of soldiers, it is naturally impossible for the Feng army to give up many Anhui prisoners.

For the handling of prisoners, Feng Jun has already had a complete set of plans. Unless the senior generals take the initiative to surrender, they will be sent to Beijing for house arrest. In the future, if they have a good attitude, they will be supported by a false position such as a consultant. If they have a bad attitude, they will always be under house arrest. If they want to see the sun again, they will have to wait for the domestic unification. .

For school-level officers, those who are unwilling to surrender are also taken to Beijing for house arrest. Those who are willing to surrender are directly sent to Fengtian Military Academy for re-study, observation, and then assigned to various troops in the future. For the lieutenants, those who are unwilling to surrender are also imprisoned, while those who are willing to surrender are directly assigned to other troops to serve directly to supplement the huge gap of officers in the Feng Army.