Chapter 650 Picking up ready-made
At this time, Yang Xingguo already knew what Huang Xing was going to say next.
He said to Huang Xing with a thoughtful look: "Then you will encourage merchants to purchase plowing oxen from Mongolia with the government guarantee, and then provide them to immigrants. When the immigrants collect the food, they will pay off the debts they owe to purchase plowing oxen bit by bit."
"The commander is wise!" Huang Xing answered very affirmatively.
Speaking of this, Huang Xing seemed to have thought of something and continued: "There is another benefit to doing this, which is something we didn't expect at the beginning."
"In more than half a year, every businessman in the country has forgotten to invest a lot of money in immigration. The few dozen taels, hundreds taels, the more than a thousand taels, or even tens of thousands taels. In order to recover these investments, these merchants can only spare no effort to support our Liaodong army. Because once our Liaodong army is finished, their previous investment will also be wasted."
"Bundled interests, we have tied more than 100,000 merchants in Liaodong to the huge chariot of our Liaodong Army, and they all prosper and lose together." Yang Xingguo said in one sentence the relationship between the Liaodong Army and the merchants in the territory.
Huang Xing nodded and affirmed: "Yes, commander! All prosper and all loss are. Not only merchants, but also tens of thousands of workers and millions of immigrants in Liaodong are like this. Without the Liaodong army, they would lose their good days now."
This result is something that Yang Xingguo is happy to see.
In this case, no matter what difficulties the Liaodong Army encounters, there are millions of people behind it as support. The army only needs to fight a good war in front and have no worries at all.
Thinking of this, Yang Xingguo was even more satisfied with Huang Xing.
However, when he thought of the next action the Liaodong Army was going to carry out, he still frowned and reminded: "I am not worried at all if you are in Chunfen. But Governor Huang, you must also be prepared. In the latest two months, my Liaodong Army will have a large-scale military operation!"
Seeing Huang Xing's brows subconsciously, Yang Xingguo quickly reminded: "Don't worry, even if you fight, you will not be in Liaodong. If nothing unexpected happens, our territory will at least double after the operation. The reason why you are prepared is to prepare enough government personnel to follow the troops and take over the territory sent by the army, so as not to cause trouble at that time. If the territory is defeated, no one will manage it."
Huang Xing's eyes lit up and he immediately said: "Don't worry, commander, although the government talents in my hands are not as rich as talents, it is still okay to draw some from Liaodong."
"I learned from the army a few months ago, and each official has arranged one or two deputy to study. As long as the commander wants people, I can immediately transfer the experienced official positions to the newly built territory, so that their deputy can take over the old county town that has already been on track. Either I am arrogant or the territory has doubled, I have people here."
Speaking of this, Huang Xing asked tentatively: "Commander, you want to fight Fengtian."
Seeing Yang Xingguo nodding and admitting, Huang Xing immediately became excited, and then affirmed to Yang Xingguo: "Commander, you must take Fengtian down!"
Seeing that Huang Xing was also so interested in Fengtian, Yang Xingguo couldn't help asking: "Why is Fengtian? It's not anywhere else."
Huang Xing quickly explained: "I have two reasons. Fengtian is the largest city outside the pass. There are hundreds of thousands of people in Fengtian City alone. The prosperity is comparable to several counties in Liaodong."
"I'm sure that as long as we can win Fengtian, our business development will definitely make a big move forward."
"There is another advantage. I heard that Xu Shichang, the governor of the three eastern provinces who had just taken office in the imperial court, immigrated from the pass and placed it around Fengtian to reclaim fertile land and carry out construction. Not to mention anything else, five or six million mu of fertile land alone. If we take Fengtian after spring plowing, the taxes and one million mu of fertile land will be our Liaodong Army."
Yang Xingguo, who suddenly understood Huang Xing's thoughts, couldn't help but smile bitterly: "It turns out that Governor Huang, you want to eat ready-made food!"
"But there is one thing you are right. If we can completely digest Fengtian, it will definitely be a huge improvement for our Liaodong Army as a whole."
"In addition, the millions of immigrants you just mentioned are just one aspect. As far as I know, in addition to immigration, there are millions of people in Fengtian. In addition, as the Longxing land of the imperial court, Fengtian still lives in the city."
"I won't say much about ordinary people. What I am most interested in are the royal relatives."
"They rose up with the court and bullied the people outside the pass for hundreds of years. The various wealth they have accumulated over the past few hundred years must be astronomical. Although our current financial pressure is not that great, I must slaughter it well in front of us."
Yang Xingguo chose to attack Fengtian at this time. In addition to what Huang Xing said just now, he wanted to pick up the ready-made ones, and that is, the Beiyang Army.
After Xu Shichang took office as the three eastern provinces, the Beiyang Army, who had gone out with him, directly had two towns arranged in Fengtian to guard against his Liaodong Army. Then he began to expand the army on a large scale, and once it expanded, the troops of the three towns were intensified.
Now, Xu Shichang has reached the full state of the expansion of the three towns of Beiyang Army. If he is allowed to form combat effectiveness, the Liaodong Army will definitely pay a great price if he wants to take Fengtian.
Therefore, if the Liaodong Army wants to take Fengtian at the lowest possible price, it can only launch an attack before the new army of the three towns of Beiyang has formed combat effectiveness. Eat all the Beiyang Army troops stationed in Fengtian in one bite, cut off the connection between the court and outside the pass, and then erode Jilin and Heilongjiang provinces step by step, seize the entire three eastern provinces, and cultivate internal strength.
In addition, there is another reason why Yang Xingguo decided to send troops within two months.
According to the information, in order to arm the newly expanded new army of the three towns to the teeth, Yuan Shikai bought three million taels of silver weapons and ammunition. As expected, these weapons and ammunition will be released from customs and equipped with the army in the next two months.
If the Liaodong Army launched an attack at this time, the weapons and ammunition that Yuan Shikai bought for a lot of money would make him get a big advantage.
For ordinary rifles, because Germany has provided a large amount of equipment, the Liaodong Army can already produce small-scale mass production, and Yang Xingguo looks down on them.
However, the Liaodong Army can still use the light and heavy machine guns and artillery from several towns.
When he was unable to produce these heavy weapons, purchasing and seizing them were also the only two ways for Yang Xingguo to obtain these weapons. Now there are so many heavy weapons that can be obtained without spending money in front of Yang Xingguo, so Yang Xingguo certainly had to seize them and equip his own Liaodong army.
After all, if the troops take down Fengtian Queen, as long as nothing unexpected happens, they will usher in a new round of military expansion. At that time, even Yang Xingguo, who was once filled with various weapons and ammunition, would not dislike the number of weapons.
Chapter completed!