When the Dongdi Kingdom was about to come to an end, Wang Laoer had already started working in Nandong Province.
This guy has been busy since he occupied the concession. The first thing he did was to hold a public trial.
This is also the custom of the suppressive army. If we first arrive in a place and want to build a good relationship with the local people, then this public trial meeting is definitely a powerful measure to break the deadlock.
Foreigners everywhere do not bully others. As long as they bully others, there will be resentment in the hearts of the people. It is useless if you expect the local government to do so. Therefore, the resentment of the people can only get deeper and deeper. Nowadays, the suppressing army When we come, the first thing to do is to retaliate against injustice and repay injustice.
As long as you can find more than twenty witnesses, the Suppression Army will immediately arrest the person and start collecting evidence. Of course, for some heinous people who have been accused by hundreds of people, there is no need to collect evidence at all. Yes, such a person should have no deviation. Even if he wronged you, it is your own fault for being unlucky.
According to what Wang Laoer said, the Duke of our country has made it very clear that in this era, there are probably not many foreigners in the territory of the Daqian Empire who have clean hands. They would rather kill the wrong ones than let them go. This is to suppress the captives. The policy of the military, who told you to come here to die when you are so full that you don’t stay in your own country!
The consulates of various countries kept protesting to Dashuai Zhang. They believed that Wang Laoer's actions had seriously trampled on the original consular jurisdiction, but Dashuai Zhang also pushed back.
We in the capital city can't control it. What's the use of talking about this in my place? Haven't you seen the concessions of the Rakshasa Empire and the Dongdi Kingdom? They were all conquered in two days. We are a local government here. , the most we can do is to take your protest documents. As for other things, we really can’t control it.
When the foreign consulates saw that Zhang Dashuai was not working, they could only restrain the people of their own countries and ask them not to leave the concession area and stay within the concession area honestly. If there was anything they could do, they could ask the compradors to do it.
For a time, the atmosphere in Nanzhou City was much better than before.
Ordinary people don’t have to be afraid when they go out. In the past, when they saw these foreigners on the street, most of them stayed far away to avoid bringing disaster to themselves. Even if it was the foreigners’ fault, the government would not care about us. Yes, now the streets are full of our own people. Even if we don’t buy anything, we feel happy just walking around on the streets. All of this was brought by the suppressing army.
After a week of investigation, the people in Nandong Province all know what the Suppression Army does. They are specifically looking for trouble for foreigners to vent their anger on our own people. During this period, whether they were killed or captured , are numbers that were unimaginable before.
On the first day of occupying the Dongdi Concession alone, the Suppression Army arrested more than 700 people and shot more than 200 people at intersections.
Of course, in addition to arresting people and killing people, Wang Laoer was also merciless with these people's property. All of it was confiscated. Anyway, your money didn't come from a legitimate source. It happened to be used as military expenses for us people. Up and down. Everyone still remembers the cost issue mentioned by Mr. Guo.
"I asked you two if you could calculate it, so I asked some accountants to do it. You two have to say that you can calculate it, and most of the morning has passed."
Wang Laoer looked at Wang Huaili and Luo Yuzhang in front of him in the headquarters. These two people had been calculating all morning and couldn't calculate anything.
"Don't worry, old man. Aren't these accounts a bunch of black accounts? If they can be taken outside, do you think we two brothers are willing to mess with this? These accounts cannot be brought to the table, so the Duke ordered us
Calculate it yourself.”
Luo Yuzhang said without raising his head. Although most of the accounts have been calculated to a total, they still need to be summarized. For these two people who have not studied much, this is indeed a difficult thing, but as he said
It's the same thing. You want to steal money but you still have to go to the accountant openly. This is a bit ugly.
"I've seen a lot of things. We are coming from the north this time, so we must not lose money."
Wang Laoer said with some worry, now more than 50,000 people from a reinforced brigade have arrived. According to Gao Shaoyi's plan, they have already been reorganized into the 9th Division of the Suppression Army. The total number of people is about 70,000. The main ones are
Because they were stationed alone in the south, various establishments were relaxed.
"It's impossible to lose money. We came from the north and spent a total of 1.9 million silver coins..."
Hearing Wang Huaili's words, Wang Laoer was also stunned. Just one infantry division's motorized advance had already spent 1.9 million silver coins in half a month.
Of course, when the army calculated costs, it included all expenses. The actual expenses were not that large. After all, most of the things were exchanged by Gao Shaoyi. The actual expenses were about 20 to 30%.
about.
“What is the cost of our military presence in South East Province?”
Wang Laoer thought of another thing. After our expansion is completed, 70,000 to 80,000 people will be eating, drinking and eating every day. This is definitely not a small number. Although the warehouse can supply part of it, we still need to buy part from the society.
"About 100,000 silver coins per day."
Luo Yuzhang has known this number for a long time. Although the prices here are relatively high, we are purchasing for the military and the purchase volume is relatively large, so it does not cost much. Of course, this number sounds very large, but about 60,000 silver coins are
Procurement of ammunition.
Gao Shaoyi did not tell these people that the purchase of weapons and equipment was free of charge. He also hoped that they could allocate all this into the cost. Therefore, every time they went to a place, these people had to hand over all confiscated property to the public.
If calculated this way, it would be three million silver coins per month and more than thirty million silver coins per year. Wang Laoer shuddered himself.
It is obvious that it is difficult to maintain the tax revenue of the two concessions occupied.
But Wang Laoer is also thinking about another thing. Our troops are not just protecting these two concessions. If we take the entire Nandong Province as our own, the annual garrison expenses will be only
It’s nothing…
"We've figured it out, we've figured it out. We people are really powerful. We robbed two concessions completely. I didn't expect the money to be so huge..."