However, this time, Liu Lang did not issue the order as the head of the independent regiment, but as the commissioner of the 14th Administrative Supervision District of Sichuan Province.

Liu Lang announced the re-establishment of the 11 county security regiments in northern Sichuan.

Eleven counties, eleven security regiments, this big move is not something that Liu Lang can decide alone, this is of course what Chairman Liu Xiang and Chairman Liu meant, and it was finally "reluctantly" established by Liu Lang after a long time. The reason is very simple, this security regiment has to find a way to raise money, and the provincial government is a dime.

So what exactly is this security corps?

If we say that the role of this security regiment is quite similar to that of the armed police force of the later republic, it is mainly responsible for assisting local governments in maintaining local law and order and suppressing bandits. However, unlike the internal security forces of the armed police of the future Republic, the establishment of the security regiment, which is called the provincial defense army, is not included in the military registration, that is, it is not registered and not included in the Ministry of Military Affairs. In other words, the security regiment does not belong to the country's army, it is established by the provinces themselves, and the military expenses naturally do not want to take a penny from the state treasury.

Not even from the state treasury, even the provincial government, generally does not pay for it, but is raised by the local governments themselves, but they can deduct part of the tax from the provincial government as the military expenses of the security regiment. Liu Xiang asked Liu Lang to set up a security regiment in the same way, but the taxes of the counties in northern Sichuan have long been received by the warlords who are poor soldiers and martial arts in the future of New China, and there is still a woolen tax, so Liu Tuanzuo can only pay out of his own pocket.

Like Zhan Chengfang of Guangyuan County, nominally he is the commander of the Guangyuan County garrison, but to put it bluntly, he is the head of a security regiment. It's just that he was directly appointed by the provincial government, and he also had the rank of major awarded by the Sichuan Provincial Government, but he was not allowed to be on the stage as a major, and the Ministry of Military Affairs did not have his name as a major at all.

Liu Wenhui was defeated in Xikang, and he was about to fall as the head of the major security regiment, but he was still the one who judged the situation and hugged Liu Tuanzuo's thick legs at the beginning, and when Liu Xiang entered Sichuan, for the sake of Liu Lang's face, he kept the head of the security regiment, and if someone else had gone home to farm, he would have gone home to farm.

The reason why Liu Lang said that the security regiment should be rebuilt in all counties in northern Sichuan was because the four front armies of the Red Army occupied all the county towns in northern Sichuan except Guangyuan in the first half of the year, and the soldiers of the two-gun security regiment with old-fashioned rifles in one hand and cigarette guns in the other basically disappeared. After the Red Army went west, the county governments resumed operation, but Shangfeng did not give an order, and the security regiment was never restored, and law and order was maintained by a gang of police who robbed the common people and encountered bandits.

This is also that Liu Lang used the bandits in northern Sichuan to train soldiers for a while, and most of the bandits in northern Sichuan were so scared that they moved, plus the red troops stayed in various counties for two months, and some of the remaining bandits in northern Sichuan were wiped out. Otherwise, it is unimaginable what kind of chaos will be seen in those mountainous counties located deep in the mountains.

Tang Yongming's security regiment and a regiment under Zhang Yanxin's 61st Brigade were regular troops, and they were also border guards defending the entire northern Sichuan, not public security forces. Not to mention that Liu Xiang had already ordered Liu Lang to prepare for the establishment of security regiments in various counties as soon as possible, that is, the current public security situation in northern Sichuan, Liu Lang, who has nominally become the highest chief executive of various counties in northern Sichuan, must also set up a security regiment, otherwise, it will not be long before the public security cases reported every day can make Liu Tuanzuo, who wears many hats, have a bigger head.

What's more, what is Liu Lang's intention to control northern Sichuan? Is it the tax revenue of these dozen or so poor mountain counties? Uncle Liu Cunhou received all the agricultural taxes in the next century, unless Liu Lang has the spirit of scraping the ground, otherwise, the 11 million oceans he invested, let alone ten years, may not be able to return to the original in a few more decades. Liu Lang has taken a fancy to the millions of people in northern Sichuan.

That's right, Sichuan had become the most populous province in the country by the end of the Qing Dynasty, with a population of more than 50 million, and if it weren't for the years of warlords in Sichuan, the population of Sichuan Province might have been more than 52 million before the full-scale war with the Japanese invaders. The twelve counties in northern Sichuan, except for the mountainous counties of Cangxi, Guangyuan, Jiange, Beichuan and Qingchuan, the rest of the counties are in the hilly areas of the Sichuan Basin, and the population is dense.

In fact, even the population of a mountainous county is quite a lot, not to mention Guangyuan, which has a population of nearly 300,000, such as Cangxi, which is close to Guangyuan, in this period of 1935, the registered population reached 260,000 people.

It is not a lie that the policy of "one out of three and two out of five" allowed 3 million Sichuan people to go out of Sichuan to resist Japan, and this does not include the young cadets recruited by Xikang Province, which is actually part of Sichuan, and various military academies.

Population is the biggest advantage of Sichuan in this era. It is also one of the outstanding contributions made by the whole Sichuan to the entire Chinese nation.

Liu Lang wants to use the sufficient population of northern Sichuan to become the reserve source of the independent regiment, as long as there is one person in the independent regiment, he can quickly pull up the second and third independent regiments. It sounds extremely sad, but this is how China dealt with this formidable enemy in the past time and space.

In the Battle of Songhu, China exchanged 300,000 casualties for more than 40,000 Japanese casualties, 65,000 casualties in the Battle of Xuzhou in exchange for more than 20,000 Japanese casualties, and more than 200,000 casualties in the Battle of Wuhan at the cost of more than 400,000 casualties for more than 200,000 Japanese casualties, and 22 large-scale battles such as the Battle of Changsha later, tens of thousands of small and medium-sized battles, and more than 300,000 casualties on the Chinese side in exchange for more than 800,000 Japanese casualties.

The Chinese, with their lives, dragged the steel torrent of the Japanese invaders to death on the battlefield of China until the Japanese invaders surrendered.

This is also Liu Lang's worst plan to take precautions, even if a group of elites sacrificed their lives for the country, but that does not mean that the independent regiment is finished, as long as there is one person alive, he will become a new independent regiment with the reserve of sufficient population reserves in northern Sichuan in the past two years, as long as the will to resist is still there, the number of the independent regiment will never be extinguished.

And his method of reserving troops is to use this security regiment that exists in all provinces and localities, and each county has set up a thousand-person security regiment, and all the personnel of the security regiment are selected from the young and strong people in each county, and the military salary of ten yuan per person per month is already extremely high in Sichuan at this time.

In addition to the existing security regiment in Guangyuan, the other 11 counties in Beichuan are adding 11 new security regiments, with 1,000 people in each county, that is, 11,000 people, and the military salary expenditure alone is about 110,000 yuan per month, plus the daily expenses of guns and ammunition, etc., the monthly expenditure is at least 200,000 yuan, which is almost equivalent to the current expenditure of the independent regiment.

Indeed, the total expenditure of 600,000 silver oceans in a month is like an astronomical amount for a regiment-level quartermaster, you must know that two years ago he was still ecstatic when he did not capture hundreds of thousands of silver oceans of bandits, thinking that this could at least ensure that the expenses of the independent regiment for one or two years were fine, but now, it was used up in less than a month.

Two years ago, he saw with his own eyes that Langtuanzuo had snatched up tens of thousands of taels of gold from the little devil, which was a huge amount of money that he had never seen in his life, but now in front of him, the annual budget was as high as more than 700,000 silver oceans. I'm afraid, it's just like robbing the banks in Sichuan Province!

The pattern of "counting half a city" is still a little small, and the newly established bank in Rongcheng, the provincial capital, has more than 30 million silver in its treasury, which is enough for him to use for several years.

Faced with the bitter faces of the two capable generals in charge of finance, Liu Lang just handed him a light sentence and didn't do anything.

Liang Yongzhong only knew that the independent group owned 20% of the dividends of the Huashang Group, but he did not know how much wealth the Huashang Group had accumulated in the past two years by relying on the sales of sulfonamides by overseas branches. To be honest, in fact, Liu Tuanzuo himself doesn't know.

Just waiting for him to personally send a telegram to Fan Xudong that the independent group needed a huge amount of money, Fan Xudong went to the newly established HSBC Rongcheng branch in Rongcheng half a year ago to withdraw cash without saying a word, and it took nearly 300 armed guards and ten carts to escort the Chinese business company from the bank to the head office of the Chinese business group, and finally quietly transported to the independent group in batches.

And this is just a quarterly dividend. The main reason is that Fan Xudong is afraid that too much cash will cause financial turmoil in Sichuan Province.

Money is available, and it's mostly a matter of people.

The security regiment not only needs people to be regularized and trained, but also needs people to lead.

The independent regiment has drawn nearly 1,000 people to form a security regiment, and hundreds of people have been drawn to form a garrison battalion, the number of veterans has been reduced by half, and the combat effectiveness has been reduced by half compared with before.

Liu Lang thought of an excellent solution. That is, the regiment commander and battalion company commander of the security regiment are all officers and non-commissioned officers of the grass-roots company and platoon squad of the independent regiment, but as the instructor and grass-roots squad leader of the training, Liu Lang thought of Zhang Yan and his new 61st Brigade, who had nothing to do on the edge of Chengdu.

So, Liu Lang brought a full battalion of independent regiments to replace the equipment that had been eliminated and rushed to Chengdu.