After the situation in Beijing was settled, Prince Yang could just wait peacefully and wait to become emperor. He was not worried about Yi Kuang playing tricks. Prince Qing was a smart man who knew how to measure. The tens of thousands of people in his hands were not enough to drown Yang Feng in spitting.
dead.
After becoming the Minister of the Navy, Yang Feng rearranged the fleet in his hands. He settled at Qiyuan and Zhuyuan at a slow pace. Songdao moved northward to Lushun and Weihai under the designation of the Northern Fleet. Fleet Commander Ding Ruchang also attacked the original coastal defense forces.
Reorganization was carried out and expanded into two division-level fortress garrison with the transfer of a large number of his cronies. In addition, the original Qinhuangdao garrison took over Dagukou and established the Bohai Defense Command, with Chen Zhong as the commander, stationed in Lushunkou and concurrently in charge of Lushun Fortress.
Commander, Li Hongzhang's nephew Zhang Wenxuan was appointed as the commander of Weihai Fortress. Luo Rongguang, the former Dagukou garrison, and his men moved south to Wusong Fortress.
In addition, the Oriental Fleet was formed, with the newly added Haiqi as the flagship, plus five ships, Haitian, Haichen, Marauder, Naniwa, and Takachiho, with Liu Buchan as the fleet commander and commander of the Dinghai Fortress. The base was the newly built Dinghai Port. The Yangtze River was established
The mouth defense headquarters, with Hunan Army veteran Chen Shi as the commander and commander of Wusong Fortress, also formed the division-level Wusong and Dinghai Fortress garrison. In addition, Chen Shi was also equipped with a separate Jiang Defense Fleet, replacing the original Zhang Zhidong and Liu Kun.
The small warships in one hand were all concentrated at the mouth of the Yangtze River, and four destroyers were given to him. At the same time, the Jiangnan Shipyard was renovated, and while high-speed destroyers were being built, a large number of torpedo boats and gunboats were built.
The remaining two cruisers Canglong and Fengxiang plus ten destroyers form the Nanyang Fleet, with his own confidant Wang Song as the commander. This fleet of course also includes all landing ships. Although it is currently the weakest, and it is also divided into
They will be stationed in Mawei, Dagou and Guangzhou, but it won’t take long for four Soryu-class armored cruisers to join, and the 10,000-ton battleship under construction will also belong to this fleet. In this way, the three major fleets of the Royal Navy will be completed in the future.
Once there is a large-scale war, the main forces of these three fleets will be organized into a combined fleet. The northern operations will be based at Lushunkou and Weihaiwei, and the southern operations will be based at Dinghai Port to form the Pearl River Estuary Defense Command. Li Hongzhang's Nie Shi will become
The commander is also the commander of Humen Fortress and is also in charge of Mawei Fortress.
While the navy was being reorganized, the army was also reorganizing, combining the two town self-strengthening armies in Zhang Zhidong's hands, the town chief's Jie army in one hand of Liu Kun, the two tranquilizing armies in Li Hongzhang's hands, and the Zhongyong army of five divisions.
The new army was recruited according to military standards and reorganized into eleven army divisions according to Zhongyong Army standards. The names were simply named after the Army's 1st to 12th divisions. Then the Wuhan Military Region was established, with Li Yuncong as the commander of the Wuhan Military Region, leading three divisions to garrison.
Wuhan, nominally only responsible for the defense of the two lakes, is actually preparing to enter Sichuan in the future.
The Nanjing Military Region was established. It was responsible for the defense of Liangjiang and Zhejiang. The commander was Xu Bangdao, with the same three divisions under him, two of which were in Jiangbei. This created an equal push for Anhui, Henan, Zhili, and Shandong, which were not affiliated with Yang Feng, and then
Coupled with the armies of the Bohai Defense Command, the whole of North China is staring at the top of Mount Tai.
The remaining five divisions, one stationed in Taiwan, one in Guangdong, and one in Guangxi, are under the command of Liu Mingchuan, the commander of the Guangzhou Military Region, while the other two divisions are under the direct jurisdiction of the Army Headquarters in Fujian. The commander-in-chief is naturally Prince Yang. Considering this
The guy's whereabouts are uncertain. The person actually in charge is the original General Staff of the Zhongyong Army. The chief of the General Staff is Lin Luoke's uncle, retired Swedish Army Major General Hall. Yangfeng's General Staff still has almost half foreigners. Almost half of them are foreigners.
They are available in various countries, because the first batch of students from his military academy will only graduate at the end of the year, and even if they graduate, it is impossible to replace all the foreigners' positions at once. The staff officers are not non-commissioned officers. They can take up their posts after one year of assault training. This requires real work.
A modern system of military education.
As for the adjustment of government affairs, this is not what Prince Yang needs to be concerned about. The Government Affairs Arrangement Committee, headed by Xue Fu, has gradually transformed the administrative and judicial institutions of the six provinces of Guangdong, Guangxi, Liangjiang, and Lianghu into those of Fujian, Zhejiang, and Taiwan.
The officials who were replaced have also received reasonable compensation. Of course, this is what Prince Yang thinks is reasonable. Those greedy guys are directly handed over to the court to investigate whether they have committed corruption. How can an official be free of corruption these days?
Yes, if you want to check, you can't check it accurately. Since corruption must be punished according to the law, after arresting a few people like this, no one dares to argue about the compensation standards anymore, but these are no longer completely determined by
Yang Feng paid for it.
A fiscal and tax consolidation committee composed almost entirely of employees of the Yang Group is also unifying the finance and taxation of nine provinces. As a supporting tool for government reform, one of the most important supports is the exemption of all agricultural taxes. As for the fiscal shortfall after the exemption of agricultural taxes, this is due to
The People's Bank of China provides interest-free loans. To put it bluntly, Yang Feng borrows them temporarily and repays them slowly when the tax revenue is sufficient. As compensation for Li Hongzhang, Zhang Zhidong, Liu Kunyi, and those under them who can no longer make money,
The People's Bank of China will provide interest-free loans to buy out those enterprises that were originally run by the government and turn them into their own private enterprises. Those important figures can also receive low-interest loans and obtain technical support to start new enterprises. Although this means that Yang Feng will spend a lot of money.
He spent a lot of money, but he took over the power of the provinces in the most stable way. This is much more cost-effective than using a war to unify the provinces. Military expenses, pensions for casualties, and reconstruction expenses after being destroyed are all money!
By spending 100 million taels of silver like this, six provinces have completely become his own territory, and it's not for nothing. In the end, when he ascends the throne, I'm afraid no one will dare to refuse to repay the loan from the People's Bank of China.
"I am a businessman, so I like to solve problems in a businessman's way. There is nothing in this world that cannot be exchanged. Money is not the most precious, life is the most precious. Use the things that can be exchanged for money as much as possible.
In exchange for money, the cost of exchanging life is too high." Yang Feng talked eloquently to Ye Zi.
"How much does a life cost now?" Ye Zi obviously disagreed with this point.
"You are wrong. Human life is indeed worthless now, but this worthless life will be worth a lot of money at the right time. For example, the coolie outside may not earn enough money in his lifetime to buy you an earring. In this sense
His life is indeed worthless. If someone asked him to sign a deed of betrayal for a thousand taels of silver, I think he would sign it without hesitation. But if on the battlefield, when a bullet flies towards the commander, he suddenly rushes
He went up and used his own body to block the bullet for the commander, thereby avoiding the defeat of a battle, and victory in this battle avoided the destruction of a country. In this sense, his life is worth a country."
Yang Feng said.
Speaking of which, his men really didn't understand the way this guy used money to buy political power, especially the young officers. In their opinion, these places could be solved by conquering them by force. Anyway, with the strength of the Zhongyong Army, at this time they
It's all in vain, which is understandable. Young people like to be more passionate, but if they are more passionate, they have to pay for the trauma afterwards. However, the mature subordinates strongly agree with this method.
"Zhang Xianggong sent a telegram saying that Prince Chun's three sons escaped from Beijing and came to him to ask for shelter. He also said that their family was killed by Yikuang. Zhang Xianggong wanted to ask you how to deal with it." Ye Zi stopped.
Discussing this issue with him, I told him a more interesting news.
"How did they escape?" Prince Yang asked curiously. Yikuang sent him a telegram but said that all of Yixuan's family had been killed. Unexpectedly, there were still some fish that slipped through the net.
"It seems that he was hiding in some secret room. He took advantage of the opportunity when the guards outside were transferred to attack Xi'an Gate. Because the belongings he brought were robbed by the mob, old housekeeper Yixuan took them all the way to beg for food.
Walk to Wuchang." Ye Zi said with a smile.
"I heard it's quite pitiful to go there, so let's ask Zhang Xianggong to send them here and throw them into our recycling bin, just in case they are of use in the future." Yang Feng said, the recycling bin he called was Western Australia.
The land where the British used to exile prisoners has now become his exclusive land for exiled bannermen. Tens of thousands of bannermen work as free labor for him in the iron ore mines of the Pilbara.
This was just a trivial matter, but it was the three brothers Zaifeng who suddenly reminded Yang Feng of Shengheng Kang and Brother Pao who had also disappeared.
"Sun Wen is in Singapore. The British sent him there. As for Kang Youwei and Liang Qichao, it seems they have really disappeared. Our business networks around the world have been notified and they were arrested immediately when we saw them, but there is no trace of them yet.
, but it is said that Timothy Richard, who was in Beijing at the time, left China under the protection of the U.S. Embassy, and there were several Chinese entourage with him when he left. Because the embassy was under relatively tight protection, the details cannot be determined," Ye Zi said.
"Timothy Li, where has this old guy gone?" Yang Feng asked with a sneer.
"The United States, the American merchant ship boarded in Tianjin, but boarded the American cruiser Olympia on the way. This is what the captain personally told our manager in Nagasaki when the merchant ship was loading coal in Nagasaki." Ye Zi said.
"It seems that these great powers have officially started to hinder us. The British are raising Pao Ge and the Americans are raising Kangliang. It seems that we should also keep a few pets." Yang Feng said sinisterly.
However, it is difficult to find people among the British and Americans. The British are also the problem of Ireland. However, the Irish are quite honest at this time. Although more than one million people were killed by the British just a few decades ago, and more than one million others were killed.
They went to the United States and became the main anti-China force, but the remaining ones seemed to be quite honest. Even if they were not honest, it was after World War I. Now Britain is teasing them with autonomy as the grass tied in front of the donkey.
As for the United States, it is also difficult to deal with. The country's separatist power has just been released, and there is no such big demand for the time being. That is, it can support the respected Comrade Vladimir to create obstacles for Nikolai.