Liu Xiang's plan was invalidated, Deng Xihou and Tian Songyao's plan was also invalidated, Yang Sen, Li Jiayu, and Luo Zezhou had no plan at all, so everyone's eyes were focused on Zhuang Jihua.

Seeing that his wishful thinking had failed, Liu Xiang was very angry, but there was nothing he could do, and he also wanted to see how Zhuang Jihua solved this problem.

"Cultural Revolution, then tell me how this Sichuan government should be unified, and how the army should be organized?"

"I have a question and I want to ask you," Zhuang Jihua said while thinking about it and looking at the people on the table one by one: "Why did you set up a defense zone system in the first place, and why are you unwilling to give up today?" ”

This is a very easy answer, but it is also very difficult to answer, everyone wants to save face, so no one answers.

"It seems that everyone is reluctant to pierce this layer of window paper, so let me tell you." Zhuang Jihua said calmly: "It's just raising soldiers, there's nothing unclear about this, since that's the case, the problem is simple." ”

"What's the easy way?" Liu Xiang had a smile on his face, but he was sneering in his heart, all the armies and factions in central Sichuan have been fighting for 20 years, for what, isn't it just the defense area, with the defense area, there is a military salary, with a military salary, you can recruit more soldiers, buy more weapons, and then occupy more defense areas, what has not been clear for 20 years, it's as simple as that?

"I don't know much about the armies," Zhuang Jihua smiled again: "You are all at the helm of the armies, so I want to ask you, how many of you are there?" ”

After Zhuang Jihua finished speaking, he looked at Liu Xiang, Deng Xihou and Tian Songyao, Deng Xihou has always been cunning, and he can't figure out what medicine Zhuang Jihua sells in his gourd, does he want to find out how many of us are first, and then disarm? Then let's report, we want to report blindly, what can you do? No, I'm afraid it's not okay to report blindly, he said he didn't understand, did he really not understand. No, absolutely not, there must be a conspiracy in this.

Tian Songyao's heart was empty, he only had more than 43,000 people under his command now, and the 50,000 people Liu Xiang set for him, he still needed to recruit people to be in full, so he also made up his mind not to speak first.

"Cultural Revolution, what does that mean?" Liu Xiang couldn't guess what Zhuang Jihua was going to do, so he frowned and asked in wonder.

"I don't mean anything, I just want to know how many soldiers you have, Fu Gong, you don't know, do you?" Zhuang Jihua smiled and took a sip of tea from the teacup.

"One hundred and ninety-three thousand six hundred and eighty-four." Liu Xiang said coldly, he didn't want to go around in circles, and said bluntly, but he also set up an ambush, and there were 30,000 more than 10,000 words.

Zhuang Jihua didn't say anything, just took out a notebook and wrote down the number of Liu Xiangbao, and then looked up at Deng Xihou.

"Sixty-one thousand seven hundred." Deng Xihou was helpless and also reported a number.

"Sixty-eight thousand, three hundred." Tian Songyao saw Zhuang Jihua looking at him again, so he also reported a number.

"Forty-two thousand." Janssen's number doubled.

"Thirty-four thousand." Li Jiayu is not ambiguous, Liu Xiang's eyes are rolling, do you have so many people.

"Twenty-six thousand." Roze, of course, is not a fool.

"Twenty-three thousand." Liu Cunhou's representative followed closely.

"The total strength is sixty thousand, one hundred thousand, one hundred and twenty thousand, and the total is forty-four thousand six hundred and eighty-four." Zhuang Jihua finished the addition, and then put away the pen in his hand.

"According to the calculation of each soldier's monthly salary of 10 yuan, it will cost more than 50 million yuan a year, so the difference in financial revenue is more than 20 million yuan." Zhuang Jihua raised his head and said calmly.

Liu Xiang almost went crazy, nagging for a long time was this nonsense, he suppressed the anger in his heart, and said coldly: "Yes, it's as simple as that." ”

"So we want to disarm, but how? I'm afraid everyone won't be convinced when they say this, but soldiers must be cut, and I support Fu Gong on this. ”

"How do you cut that?" Liu Xiang began to be happy in his heart, Zhuang Jihua was about to fall into his trap.

"Cut according to combat effectiveness, whoever has poor combat effectiveness will be the first to be cut. The purpose of disarmament is to reduce financial expenditures, not to weaken the combat effectiveness of the Sichuan army, and the country is in an eventful period, and there are many places where the Sichuan army needs to be used, so it cannot be disarmed in proportion, but should be disarmed according to its combat effectiveness. ”

"Then how do you measure combat effectiveness?" Tian Songyao asked, and Deng Xihou began to feel faintly uneasy in his heart.

"Nature is measured by war." Zhuang Jihua said calmly: "We have a common enemy, that is, the Red Army, and they are in northern Sichuan. We measure our combat effectiveness by suppressing bandits, so how can we suppress them? ”

Zhuang Jihua's face changed and his tone was solemn: "I have drawn up a plan, a plan to encircle and suppress the Red Army, all the generals will send troops, General Jin Kang will leave 11,000 people to guard the defense area, send 50,000 troops, and ask Fu Gong to send 20,000 people to form an army of 70,000 to attack the Red Army from the west." General Tian also left 18,000 troops and sent 50,000 troops, and asked Fu Gong to send another 50,000 troops to form an army of 100,000 to attack Bazhong and Tongjiang from Langzhong and Cangxi in the south, and on the eastern front, General Yang Sen sent 30,000 troops and left 12,000 people, General Li Jiayu sent 24,000 troops and left 10,000 people, General Luo Zezhou left 6,000 people with 20,000 people, General Liu Cunhou left 3,000 troops from 20,000 people, and asked Fu Gong to also send 30,000 troops to form an army of 100,000 to attack from the eastern front, and all military expenses were paid by the Southwest Development Task Force, with 300,000 oceans per 10,000 people per month. Within three months, the Red Army in northern Sichuan was exterminated. ”

Zhuang Jihua sneered in his heart when he said this, since you want to lie about the number, then don't blame me for being rude: "But I said ugly things in front, money, I came out, but you can't hide it, you must have enough guns, and the Southwest Development Task Force and the provincial party department will jointly send people to supervise them, these people will not go to the battlefield and will not take your credit." In this offensive and suppression, all the troops that lost the battle were reduced by 50 percent, and those who won the battle were all rewarded heavily, and any one of Jiang Xianyun, Xu Xiangqian, and Zhang Guotao was captured, and the troops were expanded by 50,000 people, and another 2 million oceans were rewarded, and those who captured or killed division-level cadres were rewarded with 100,000 oceans, and regimental-level cadres were rewarded with 20,000 oceans. I wonder what you think? ”

Everyone was dumbfounded, there was a lot of money, the Sichuan army had never been so rich in the war, but there were not so many soldiers, that was to have enough guns.

"In addition, I would like to add that if you do not participate in the suppression of bandits, or if you are hypocritical and reckless, it is useless to raise such troops, and I will report to Nanjing and revoke its establishment. Anyway, the total strength of the Sichuan army only needs to retain 300,000. If you cut it to this extent, you don't need to cut it. Zhuang Jihua reacted quickly and immediately plugged the loopholes.

Amazing, too powerful, Deng Xihou gasped, the last sentence blocked all their retreats, you don't participate, okay, others will raise their hands to hug you, thank you, and then easily incorporate or dismiss your troops, and it is justifiable. With two or three such companies, after deducting the number of false reports made by various ministries, the target of 300,000 yuan has been achieved.

And more importantly, Zhuang Jihua is not afraid that these people will form a group and not send troops, first of all, Tian Songyao and his Deng Xihou must fight against the Red Army, and the Red Army is on or on their turf. Liu Xiang will inevitably send troops to support it out of the need to maintain the three alliances, so that the other families will not send troops? What is the reason not to send troops?

At the venue, everyone was silent, Liu Xiang was in a good mood, since you don't approve of me, okay, then implement Zhuang Jihua's plan, I'm not worried, I only reported 30,000 more, I actually sent 100,000 troops, there is no problem at all.

Yang Sen was silent and said, "Cultural Revolution, what do you really think?" I'll tell you the truth, I overreported the troops, I actually have 28,000 soldiers, even if I pull more than 1,000 temporarily, it's not impossible, but I know that some people are impossible. And you're not going to execute this plan either, so I'm wondering what the hell you're going to do? ”

Except for Liu Xiang, everyone else breathed a sigh of relief, and Deng Xihou also smiled and played a round: "The future is terrifying, the Cultural Revolution, you can tell me what you think." ”

Zhuang Jihua saw that Yang Sen looked rough, but he was actually very shrewd, and smiled slightly: "To be honest, I have an idea, and it is good for all of you, but I can't be the wrongdoer, so the first thing is to ask everyone to report the actual number of your troops." Don't come to the vain. ”

So everyone had no choice but to report the troop numbers again, and this time it was more reliable. Zhuang Jihua will no longer delve into it.

"The total strength of the army is 380,000, and 45.6 million is needed every year, or the shortfall is 15.6 million, and with other expenses, I estimate that the deficit will reach 25.6 million. It's still a big hole. Zhuang Jihua stood up and said: "A penny is difficult for heroes, and everyone here is a hero, but they are all stumped by money." ”

Speaking of this, Zhuang Jihua let out a long sigh: "Sichuan, the country of abundance, has always been rich, but after so many years of the Republic of China, Sichuan's fiscal revenue has not increased much, why?" The reason is very simple, Sichuan's industry is very weak, except for salt mines, other mineral deposits are very little developed, but Sichuan has a lot of mineral deposits. In order to fight the war, you desperately collect taxes, this year's collection is used up, you will collect next year's, next year's use, you will collect the year after tomorrow, year after year, the most received by the Republic of China for 70 years, the people's money has been collected, so they can't afford to consume, there is no money to buy things, so business is sluggish, and commercial taxes are also declining. Then the people's grievances gathered, rent and tax resistance rose one after another, social unrest intensified, and the communist bandits took the opportunity to cause chaos,..., so we had to find other ways to increase fiscal revenue. ”

Zhuang Jihua looked at everyone, and then said decisively: "The way to increase fiscal revenue can be boiled down to one sentence, that is, development, the development of industry and commerce, only the development of industry and commerce, all kinds of taxes can be increased, but how to develop industry and commerce?" Your defense areas are different, some defense areas have mines, some defense areas are natural commercial ports with convenient transportation, some defense areas are grain production areas, grain is the main income, in addition, the development of these resources will only form a scale of income will be the largest, this investment is also a lot of money, whether it is disarmament to 300,000, Sichuan finance can not take out so much money, so my idea is to set up a company, by this company to develop Sichuan, yes, there are also Xikang resources, we share dividends. ”

Zhuang Jihua was shocked by his words, and used the company to replace the financial expenditure of the political axe, which is really whimsical and the first in the world. Everyone couldn't accept it for a while, and they were all stunned and stupid.

"Cultural Revolution, your idea is very good, but how much does it cost? I'm a poor bastard. Li Jiayu said lightly.

"Everyone, you don't have to pay, you don't have to pay a penny," Zhuang Jihua surprised everyone again, everyone began to be confused, no money, only dividends, is he stupid? But Zhuang Jihua immediately made them understand that they also have to pay.

(To be continued)