"Zi Ren!" Yu Liangzhen's brows frowned, "This is different from what you said at the beginning."

In Changsha, Zhong Yi painted a big cake for Yu Liangzhen and proposed a two-step plan. He spent about a year to build the Zhejiang East China Sea Defense Corps into a model force, and then used this model force as a template to transform the troops of various counties under the Zhejiang Anti-Enemy Self-Defense Regiment, and finally build it into a battle-capable division.

But now, Zhong Yi suddenly changed his mind and said that he did not want the civilian armed forces of Yinjiang, but wanted to directly recruit troops and build the Zhejiang East Coast Defense Corps into a regular army!

It is of course excellent to be able to directly build the Zhejiang East Coast Defense Corps into a regular army. Yu Liangzhen also welcomes both hands, but building a regular army is not just a word, but requires a huge amount of real money and silver! Anyway, Yu Liangzhen will definitely not be able to give this money, and Zhong Yi may not be able to give it.

Zhong Yi said: "Commander-in-Chief, that's because I lacked understanding of the civil self-defense armed forces in Zhejiang Province, especially Yinjiang, that's why I thought so. But now, I have had all-round contact with the four most typical civil self-defense armed forces in Yinjiang. After contacting, I found that our initial idea might not work."

Yu Liangzhen said: "What do you mean is that these civil self-defense armed forces are useless?"

"If you say it is useless, you will be polite to them." Zhong Yi nodded, "First talk about the personnel, the old ones, the young ones are very small, and the young and middle-aged people are very small; and then the equipment, there are very few modern rifles like Hanyang made, and there are not many old sleeves. Most of them are shotguns and muskets, and even a considerable number of big swords and spears."

Xuan Tiewu said: "Isn't this the case with civil armed forces? Do you still expect them to equip all-colored rifles?"

Zhong Yi said: "But with such weapons and equipment, it is impossible to fight a tough battle with the Japanese, so we have to spend a lot of money to buy weapons and equipment to arm them! The cost is probably not less than reorganizing a regular army."

After pausing, Zhong Yi said again: "This is not the worst. The worst thing is that these civil self-defense armed forces are firmly controlled by the patriarchs of all ethnic groups, towns, and even gentry. The patriarchs of these patriarchs have very weak national concepts. They only want to guard the country, but never think about defending the country."

Yu Liangzhen said: "Then what you said just now means?"

Zhong Yi said: "What I just said is to bypass the gentry and tribe leader, go directly to each village to recruit militia, then form militia squads in various towns or townships, form militia brigades in each county, and finally gather the county brigades of each county, which is the Zhejiang East Coast Defense Corps."

Zhong Yi's move was to follow our party's approach in the base areas behind enemy lines.

But to be honest, this move is difficult to work without a strict party organization and strong organizational mobilization capabilities, so Zhong Yi only said it was a try because he knew that it was basically impossible to accomplish this.

Yu Liangzhen shook his head repeatedly after hearing this: "This method will definitely not work."

"Then there is no other way." Zhong Yi said, "Commander-in-Chief, just train the regular army."

"I also want to train a regular army." Yu Liangzhen smiled bitterly, "The question is, where does the money come from?"

Zhong Yi said: "There are always more solutions than difficulties. As long as you determine the goal, you can always find a way to solve it."

Yu Liangzhen's heart moved when he heard this and asked, "Zi Ren, to be honest, how much money did you get in this cleaning operation?"

"Not much," Zhong Yi replied, "Including the properties that have not been processed, there are about two million legal tenders in total."

"Two million legal currency! It's already a lot." Yu Liangzhen sighed, "But if you want to build a division-level organization, the equipment fee alone is far from enough, let alone military pay."

If it were a few years ago, the equipment fee of a division of the Central Army was about two million French currency, and the military pay was about four hundred thousand French currency per month. But now, with the rapid depreciation of the legal currency, the equipment fee of a division has increased to more than five million, but the military pay has not increased, but it also costs nearly five million French currency a year.

Zhong Yi shook his head and said, "If you can't train a teacher at once, then you can train a team first."

After a moment of pause, Zhong Yi said again: "At this stage, we must first prepare the reduced Yinjiang Guard Corps. When the funds are in place in the future, we will use the Yinjiang Guard Corps as the base and expand it into the Zhejiang East Coast Defense Corps."

"This is a good idea." After Yu Liangzhen said that, he said to Xuan Tiewu, "Tiewu, just listen to Zi Ren, reduce the Yinjiang Guard Division into the Yinjiang Guard Corps. There are only more than 2,000 people left. What's the point of leaving a division number? There is no need to send people here, just let Zi Ren serve as the commander of the Yinjiang Guard Corps."

Xuan Tiewu smiled bitterly and said, "You have said so, what else do I have to say?"

"Then let's say that." Yu Liangzhen slapped his thigh and said to Zhong Yi, "Zi Ren, I'll hand it over to you, but you also know what the situation is like now, so don't count on me for funds and grassroots officers. You can find a way to solve it yourself. I'll give you all the authority!"

Zhong Yixin said, I am waiting for this sentence for you.

At that moment, Zhong Yi said: "Don't worry, commander-in-chief, and ensure that the task is completed."

Even if the business talks are over here, Yu Liangzhen smiled and said, "Zi Ren, I heard that you are still the same person now? Do you want me to introduce you to a girl?"

"No need for this." Zhong Yi declined, "I already have a fiancée."

On the surface, Zhong Yi remained silent, but he was already alert.

Zhong Yi knew very well that Yu Liangzhen would never raise this for no reason. If he had guessed correctly, this matter should have been instructed by President Chang, and Dai Li, director of the Military Affairs Bureau, must also participate. In other words, the girl Yu Liangzhen wanted to introduce him was mostly the eyeliner of the Military Affairs Bureau, who specifically monitored him.

This is a routine operation in the military and political circles of the Kuomintang.

"Barring, can I not know that you have a fiancée?" Yu Liangzhen said, "But isn't your fiancée not around? You are not good for physical and mental health. Do you know? There must be a woman taking care of your life. Only by setting your personal life together can you devote yourself to your work, do you know?"

"Commander-in-Chief, it's really no need." Zhong Yi declined, "My father-in-law has sent a telegram and is about to bring my fiancée to Yinjiang. Man Yi and I are about to get married."

"That's it." Yu Liangzhen didn't insist too much, and nodded and said, "That's it."

After pausing, Yu Liangzhen said earnestly again: "Zi Ren, please ask you about the matter of Zhejiang East Sea Defense Corps."
Chapter completed!