However, this time, Liu Lang issued the order not as the leader of the independent regiment, but as the commissioner of the 14th Administrative Supervision District of Sichuan Province.
Liu Lang announced the re-establishment of security corps in 11 counties in northern Sichuan.
Eleven counties, eleven security groups, this big move is not something that Liu Lang can decide alone. This is of course the intention of Chairman Liu Xiang and Liu, and it was Liu Lang who had been "reluctant" for a long time and finally "reluctantly"
"The reason for its establishment is very simple. This security group requires him to find a way to raise money, and the provincial government is left with nothing.
So what exactly is the organization of this security team?
This is a military establishment with Chinese characteristics. If we talk about the role of this security group, its function is quite similar to the armed police force of the later Republic. It is mainly responsible for assisting local governments to maintain local security and suppress bandits. However, it will not be used in the future.
The difference between the internal security forces of the Republic of China and the Armed Police is that the security corps, which is called the provincial defense force, does not have military status, that is, it is not registered with the Ministry of Military Affairs. In other words, the security corps does not belong to the military.
The country's army is established by each province, so military expenditures naturally do not come from the national treasury.
Not to mention taking it from the national treasury, even the provincial government generally does not pay. Instead, local governments raise their own funds, but a part of the tax can be deducted from the provincial government as military expenses for the security group. Liu Xiang asked Liu Lang to set up a security group
That's the same meaning, but the taxes of the counties in northern Sichuan have long been collected by those warlords who want to fight in Guizhou. There is also a tax on wool, which Liu Tuanzuo can only pay for himself.
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For example, Zhan Chengfang from Guangyuan County is nominally the security commander of Guangyuan County. To put it bluntly, he is the head of a security regiment. However, he was directly appointed by the provincial government and also held the rank of major awarded by the Sichuan provincial government.
However, as a major, he is not worthy of publicity. His name as a major does not exist in the Ministry of Military Affairs.
Liu Wenhui defeated Xikang. Originally, he, the leader of the major security regiment, was about to collapse, but he sized up the situation from the beginning and hugged Liu Tuanzuo's thick legs. When Liu Xiang took over Sichuan, for the sake of Liu Lang, he
The leader of the security group has only been retained since then. If it had been someone else, he would have gone home and farmed long ago.
The reason why Liu Lang talked about re-establishing security corps in the counties in northern Sichuan is because the Red Army's Fourth Front Army occupied all the counties in northern Sichuan except Guangyuan in the first half of the year. The gang held an old-fashioned rifle in one hand and a pipe in the other.
The security regiment soldiers fled and fled, and basically disappeared. After the red troops went west, the county governments resumed operations, but the superiors did not give orders, and the security regiment has never been restored. Public security has always relied on a bunch of robbers.
The police maintained that the common people were scared when they encountered bandits on the street.
This is because Liu Lang used the bandits in northern Sichuan to train for a while, scaring most of the bandits in northern Sichuan into moving away. In addition, the red troops stayed in various counties for two months, and even some of the remaining bandits in northern Sichuan were sent to the army.
It must be suppressed completely. Otherwise, it is unimaginable what kind of chaos the public security will be in those mountainous counties located deep in the mountains.
Tang Yongming's security regiment and a regiment under Zhang Yan's new 61st Brigade are regular troops, and they are also border guards defending the entire northern Sichuan. They are not security forces. Not to mention that Liu Xiang had ordered Liu Lang to establish security groups in various counties as soon as possible from the beginning, which is northern Sichuan.
In today's public security situation, Liu Lang, who has nominally become the top chief executive of the counties in northern Sichuan, must also set up a security team. Otherwise, it won't be long before the security cases reported every day will blow the head of Liu Tuan, who wears many hats.
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What's more, what is Liu Lang's intention to control northern Sichuan? Is it the tax revenue of these dozen poor mountainous counties? Old man Liu Cunhou will collect all the agricultural taxes for the next century. Unless Liu Lang has the spirit to scrape the ground,
Otherwise, the 11 million yuan he invested may not be able to be recovered in a few more decades, let alone ten years. Liu Lang is eyeing the millions of people in northern Sichuan.
Yes, Sichuan has become the most populous province in the country at the end of the Qing Dynasty, with a population of more than 50 million. If it were not for the Sichuan warlords' wars for many years, the population of Sichuan Province might not be more than the 52 million before the all-out war with the Japanese invaders. And the tenth population in northern Sichuan
Among the two counties, except for the mountainous counties of Cangxi, Guangyuan, Jiange, Beichuan and Qingchuan, the other counties are all in the hilly areas of the Sichuan Basin and are considered densely populated.
In fact, even mountainous counties have a large population. Not to mention Guangyuan, which has a population of nearly 300,000. For example, mountainous counties such as Cangxi near Guangyuan had a registered population of 260,000 in 1935. Once in time and space,
After the outbreak of all-out war, the government prepared to recruit soldiers. In Cangxi County alone, a total of 14,300 men aged 18 to 45 were organized to train and prepare for war.
It is no lie that the policy of "drawing one out of three and two out of five" allowed three million young Sichuan people to come out of Sichuan to fight against Japan. This does not include Xikang Province, which is actually part of Sichuan, and the young trainees recruited by various military academies.
Population is Sichuan's greatest advantage in this era. It is also one of the outstanding contributions Sichuan has made to the entire Chinese nation.
Liu Lang wanted to use the sufficient population in northern Sichuan to become the reserve force of the independent regiment. As long as there is still one person in the independent regiment, he can quickly raise the second and third independent regiments. It sounds extremely sad, but this is what happened in the past.
China's countermeasures against this powerful enemy in time and space.
In the Battle of Songhu, China exchanged 300,000 casualties for more than 40,000 Japanese casualties; in the Xuzhou Battle, China suffered 65,000 casualties in exchange for more than 20,000 Japanese casualties; in the Wuhan Battle, China exchanged more than 400,000 casualties for 20 Japanese casualties.
More than 10,000 people, and later 22 large-scale battles including the four Changsha battles, and tens of thousands of small and medium-sized battles. The Chinese casualties were more than 3 million in exchange for more than 800,000 Japanese invaders.
The Chinese used their lives to drag the Japanese aggressors' steel torrent on the battlefield of China until the Japanese aggressors finally surrendered.
This was Liu Lang's worst-case scenario. Even if all the elite members of the regiment died for the country, it did not mean that the independent regiment was doomed. As long as one person was still alive, he had used the abundant population reserves in northern Sichuan in the past two years as a backup.
The source of troops will become a new independent regiment. As long as the will to resist is still there, the name of the independent regiment will never be erased.
The way he reserves his troops is to use the security corps that exists in all provinces. Each county sets up a security corps with a level of 1,000 people. All the members of the security corps are selected from the young and strong in each county, and each person earns ten yuan per month.
His military pay and benefits were already extremely high in Sichuan at this time.
Excluding the existing security group in Guangyuan, the other eleven counties in Beichuan have added eleven new security groups, with 1,000 people in each county, that is, 11,000 people. The military salary expenditure alone is around 110,000 per month.
, plus the daily expenses of guns and ammunition, etc., the monthly expenditure is at least 200,000, which is almost equivalent to the current expenditure of the Independent Regiment. In addition, the newly established North Sichuan Security Regiment has almost the same number of people as the Independent Regiment and has no source of military expenditures. The Independent Regiment
Liang Yongzhong, director of the regiment's munitions department, said he was under a lot of pressure.
Indeed, the total monthly expenditure of 600,000 silver dollars is an astronomical figure for a regiment-level munitions director. You must know that two years ago, he was ecstatic that he had not captured hundreds of thousands of silver dollars from bandits. He thought this was at least
It can be guaranteed that the independent group's expenses for one or two years will be no problem, but now, it is used up in less than a month.
The "Half City" who has done well and has now become the general accountant of the Military Supplies Department of the Independent Regiment almost took off his goatee. Two years ago, he saw with his own eyes that Lang Tuan Zuo robbed tens of thousands of taels of gold from the little devil.
Nearly one million yuan, which is a huge sum of money that he has never seen in his life. However, the annual budget expenditure before him now is as high as more than 7 million yuan. I am afraid that robbing a bank in Sichuan Province is nothing more than that.
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The layout of "half a city" is still a bit small. The newly established bank in Rongcheng, the provincial capital, has more than 30 million yuan in silver in its vault, which is enough for him to use for several years.
Faced with the sad faces of the two capable men in charge of finance, Liu Lang just said lightly and left it to him to solve the problem and said nothing further.
Liang Yongzhong only knew that the Independent Group owned 20% of the dividends of Huashang Group, but he had no idea how much wealth Huashang Group had accumulated in the past two years by relying on the sales of sulfonamides in overseas branches. To be honest, Liu Tuanzuo himself didn’t even know
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Just waiting for him to personally send a telegram to Fan Xudong, the independent group needed a huge sum of money. Without saying a word, Fan Xudong went to the Chengdu branch of HSBC Bank newly established in Chengdu six months ago to withdraw cash, which amounted to 6 million yuan. The foreign Chinese business company used nearly 300 armed guards.
They were escorted from the bank to the head office of Huashang Group with ten large vehicles, and were finally transported quietly to the Independent Group in batches.
And this is just a quarterly dividend. Mainly because Fan Xudong is afraid that withdrawing too much cash will cause financial turmoil in Sichuan Province.
Once you have money, it’s mainly a human problem.
The security team not only needs people for formal training, but also needs people for leadership.
As for the Independent Regiment, nearly 1,000 people have been drawn out to form a security regiment, and hundreds more have been drawn out to form a garrison battalion. The number of veterans has been reduced by half, and the combat effectiveness has also been reduced by half. Drawing more people will reduce the combat effectiveness of the Independent Regiment to
A dangerous value.
Liu Lang thought of an excellent solution. That is, the commanders and battalion company commanders of the security regiment were all officers and non-commissioned officers of the company and platoon squads of the independent regiment. However, Liu Lang thought of serving as training instructors and squad leaders.
Zhang Yan and his newly formed 61st Brigade were idle on the edge of Chengdu.
So, Liu Lang rushed to Chengdu with a full battalion of equipment that had been replaced and eliminated by the independent regiment.