Chapter 809 The will of the people cannot be violated
Gao Shaoyi did not expect that the negotiation with General Long would go so smoothly. According to Gao Shaoyi's idea, it would take at least half a month before he could talk about this step. Gao Shaoyi himself wanted to remind Zhang Dashuai of his rashness. Since it has already happened
Once the result is achieved, there is nothing more to say.
In order to successfully take over the governments of the three southwestern provinces, Gao Shaoyi took the lead in giving General Long five million silver coins as settling-in allowance. Because the original government was too bloated, some of them had no choice but to leave, and this group of people also
He is not a good official. He usually takes bribes and bends the law and does all kinds of evil. Now he doesn't hold them accountable and lets them go home. There is also a settlement allowance for them. This is already quite good.
According to Gao Shaoyi's original temper, he would not give them a dime, and would even hold them accountable for their previous mistakes. However, it is now a troubled time. Both Dongdi Kingdom and the capital have involved too much of Gao Shaoyi's energy. Now the three southwest provinces
Nothing new can happen here, so we can only choose to settle the matter. What's more, the three southwestern provinces will be our territory in the future. If some people do too many wrong things, we can find them at any time.
The second step is to dispatch government officials to the three southwest provinces. Zhang Dashuai has selected more than 300 government officials. Their task is to arrive at their work stations within fifteen days and start promulgating new policies to allow the original staff to adapt.
The policy of suppressing the captive army and organizing them to study government affairs for three months. If they fail the assessment, they must leave their current positions.
The third step is about military matters. General Long still has more than 200,000 troops, and they have all arrived in his military camp. According to the order issued by the Suppression Army, more than 2,000 grassroots officers have already arrived.
In the three southwestern provinces, their task is to select personnel from the more than 200,000 troops, from which nearly 100,000 troops will be selected to form the basis of the Southwest Front Army.
Regarding some of the strategies put forward by Marshal Zhang and General Long, Gao Shaoyi made some modifications. Originally, he wanted General Long to go north. Later, Gao Shaoyi prepared to form the Southwest Front Army, so he simply let General Long stay in the three southwest provinces. From the beginning, these
Judging from the actions, General Long has no intention of going back on his word, so there is no need to let General Long's men go north. After all, what they are best at is fighting in the mountains. After leaving the three southwestern provinces, the north is basically the Great Plains. There is no way
Show their strength.
Therefore, under this situation, Gao Shaoyi appointed General Long as the commander-in-chief of the Southwest Front Army, under his jurisdiction one army and two independent brigades.
General Long did not expect that Gao Shaoyi would be so bold. Even if he is a soldier now, he is a soldier in a different place. It is impossible for people to serve as soldiers in the same place. The purpose is that after some emergencies occur, these soldiers can listen to the orders from above. But Gao Shaoyi actually
Being so bold, General Long continued to reorganize the army in the three southwestern provinces.
Of course, there is another point that he does not understand, that is, no large warehouses have been built in the three southwestern provinces.
If the troops of the Suppression Army choose to station in a certain place, the first thing they have to do is not to find a military camp, but to find a suitable location in this area to build a large warehouse, whether it is for weapons, ammunition or various types of energy.
They must be stored for more than half a year to be used by the army. This is also an unchanging tradition of the Suppression Army.
But now there are no large warehouses built in the three southwestern provinces, just to ensure their consumption for two weeks. Marshal Zhang naturally understands what Gao Shaoyi means, and letting General Long continue to lead troops in the three southwestern provinces is already a taboo.
So we have to be a little on guard. After two or three years, if General Long doesn’t have that idea, it won’t be too late to build warehouses. Anyway, the three southern provinces and the three southwestern provinces are very close to each other.
The warehouse is large enough and can be used for their training in normal times, not to mention that there is no war in the three southwestern provinces.
General Long naturally had nothing to say about Gao Shaoyi's arrangement. It was already quite difficult to make his troops undergo modern modifications. Of course, he also saw Gao Shaoyi's precautions against him. For example,
The security corps in the three southwestern provinces are all newly built, and the security corps and their equipment are all the same.
General Long is also an old man who has mixed up in the political arena. He naturally knows why Gao Shaoyi did this. Who told us that we were not his direct descendants in the past? After Marshal Zhang joined the Suppression Army, he did not have so many precautions.
That's because Marshal Zhang didn't touch a gun and fully devoted himself to the management of the government, so Gao Shaoyi didn't have that much precaution against him. He had more than 200,000 troops under his command, so Gao Shaoyi should also be on guard against him.
General Long once thought about it from his perspective. If he were in Gao Shaoyi's position and an outside warlord came to defect to him, he would never be able to let the other party continue to control more than 200,000 troops. Gao Shaoyi could achieve this step.
This is already the first of its kind, so we can’t ask for too much, and people can’t be infinitely broad-minded.
The people in the three southwestern provinces are very quick to accept what happened. From this, we can see the benefits of the last disaster relief. Many people are thinking about the suppression of the enemy, although the suppression of the enemy has not been here for a long time.
It's relatively short, but they don't waste any time when they come. They distribute food and money immediately after arriving at the place, which is much better than other officials in the three southwestern provinces.
So when they saw the government's Yamen raising the flag of suppressing the rebels, many people cheered. Some people originally thought they might resist, but when they saw the cheering people on the street, these people knew what the people's support was.
Including General Long, when he saw that the people in the provincial capital were so happy, General Long could only shake his head helplessly. He thought that he had managed the three southwestern provinces well, but who knew that the people's hearts had already gone to the suppression of the captives.
went.
Fortunately, I changed quickly, and now I have led a group of people under my command to become the suppressing army. If the change is slow, when the two armies confront each other in the future, there may be traitors in our team. The common people will fight every day.
Thinking of the good of suppressing the captive army, the brothers in our army are also the sons of ordinary people. Over time, this evolution will be uncontrollable. Therefore, the current General Long is very fortunate that he has not reached the point where the whole army has rebelled.