"What Kou is worried about is our threat to the Jinpu line! The west side is not easy to grasp, then you can go to the east side! Pharmacist Tang didn't say anything, and said directly.

"But the passage to the south after the devil landed is also over there!" Meng Xiang couldn't help but say that the memories of later generations made him wait for the division that the army landed in Shandong to go south. After there was a vacancy in the rear of the devil, it would be convenient for him to counterattack and take back Jiaodong.

"Jiaonan, Yuezhao, Junan, Linyi." Pharmacist Tang said these four places unhurriedly, and Meng Xiang, who often looked at the map and compared them, knew that this could also allow the devil to go south smoothly.

"Shouwei County?" Meng Xiang calculated the gains and losses, and after occupying Weixian, Meng Xiang planned to give up after a search, and continued to rely on the mountains of Qingzhou to defend it. In this way, the devil could not move, and he had no choice but to go south. And you can also get more time to develop your base.

"The Wei River is the boundary, and it is guarded according to the river!"

"Guarding the river again?" Meng Xiang suddenly thought of the constraints of guarding the Yellow River.

"At this time, it is different from the past, since I did not take the opportunity to attack in an all-out attack when Kunisaki Deng came to attack, and sent an envoy at this time, it means that they have decided that we are going to protect ourselves! As long as it does not pass the Weihe River, there is not much security problem on the eastern front. As we expand to the east and quiet down in the west, our pressure will be greatly reduced. There is already intelligence that the 1st Army and the Kwantung Army are showing signs of mobilizing towards Shandong. The 16th Division and the 114th Division may have been assigned to the North China Front! If there is no central army in the south to attract and divert the diversion, our pressure will be a little greater. "It's rare for Pharmacist Tang to be so direct.

"I am in favor of eastward expansion, the 41st Division has been completed and trained, with the help of tank troops, a division will never be left behind in a plain positional battle." Fan Chong continued, since he saw the power of the tank force, he has been pondering the tactical arrangement, in a plain area like Weifang, it is suitable for the attack of the tank force. At that time, there is no need to defend the river defense, even if you let the devils in, and use the gradually expanding tank force to make an impact, the devils will definitely not be pleased.

"I am also in favor of recovering Weixian, it is close to spring ploughing, if Weixian is in our hands and organized, we will not have to worry about food for the time being after the summer grain!" Zhou Bai is naturally willing to regain the lost land. The participation in several core meetings also made him a new core member, "Tobacco in Weichang can also provide us with a lot of taxes!" ”

When he mentioned this, Meng Xiang immediately remembered the windfall profits of tobacco. Unfortunately, most of the tobacco producing areas are around Weixian, and there is no stable environment, so it is difficult to do a good job. However, the British and American companies were not affected and continued to monopolize the tobacco trade, which disappointed Meng Xiang, who had planned to take the opportunity to make a fortune.

"Good! Expand eastward! Defend the Wei River! Meng Xiang thought about it in his heart for a long time, and finally decided. Although the Weihe River has exceeded the direct jurisdiction of the main base, with more and more armored tanks, it is not a problem to hold Weixian. The Fifth Division had been crippled, and it was not known when reinforcements from the local area would arrive. Moreover, there are more political points for holding Weixian, which also directly refutes the constant rumors in the territory that the vanguard army is passively resisting.

He looked at Pharmacist Tang again, and Pharmacist Tang immediately knew what he meant.

"As for the Central Army, we still need to hand over Kunizaki to Noboru and let them deal with it. Even if I knew, I wouldn't have attacked us before the Xuzhou affair was over! We have little meat and hard bones, and they can't afford it! ”

Meng Xiang smiled: "Okay, get that devil envoy out first!" "Now that you have put on a posture, you have to do a little more in your posture.

"As for the first battalion of tanks, it will be temporarily stationed near Weixian!"

Since the tanks were continuously produced every day, the original establishment of the tank regiment there was no longer enough, so the establishment was readjusted, and it was still called a tank regiment to the outside world.

Now a tank squad has three tanks, a squadron of nine, a brigade of 27 tanks, a tank battalion of 81 tanks, and now the tank regiment has 165 tanks.

"Since you plan to guard Weixian for a long time, then it's time to clean up the territory of Weixian!" Meng Xiang stretched out his finger and nodded two points in the void.

Before the devil came in Wei County, Li Wenli, the magistrate of Wei County, ran away in advance. Of course, some arrangements were made before the run, and they were told to Weixian gentlemen Mao Jichen, Chen Qizhi, Kang Zizhou, Li Baozhai, Ding Xianzhi, Zhang Yangtian, Mao Caichen, and Guo Yuruo to maintain local law and order.

As soon as the devils came, these people became the first batch of Han annihilation in Weixian. The liquidation of the vanguard army fell first on their heads.

Every time he amassed money, it was a big gain, but Meng Xiang also heard that there were rumors of the expansion of following the trend in some other places, so he couldn't help but restrain a lot, and this time he didn't fill in the fishing list again. However, these real Han annihilations did have to be judged.

This time, only a dozen or so Han annihilation leaders were shot to death, and the others were confiscated and confiscated. In order to save his life, rich people wore a lot of hats in Han Jian, so the money collected suddenly amounted to more than three million. The vanguard army also made it very clear that it would be used for the compulsory education fund, and the funds would be earmarked for special purposes and should not be diverted for other purposes. Every payment is open to the public, which makes the people also benefit, and naturally there are many fewer arguments.

There were no large-scale battles for several days in a row, which made it rare for the territory of the vanguard army to be quiet. But all kinds of people's livelihood matters have kept Meng Xiang busy.

Matches, thermoses, electric lights, soap, fabrics and other items are in short supply, but these inconspicuous things are Meng Xiang's constant head. Without waiting for him to finish Zhou Bai's instructions on resuming production of various livelihood products and building new factories, He Siyuan found Meng Xiang with the education budget for the coming year prepared according to the compulsory education fund.

"So much money?" Meng Xiang was taken aback. No wonder no one invests in education, which does seem like a bottomless pit when it comes to spending money.

"Old Han, I'm still quite willing to invest in education!" Seeing the education investment in previous years in the budget, Meng Xiang couldn't help but sigh.

During the reign of Han Fuyu, with the assistance of He Siyuan, director of the Department of Education, the education cause of Shandong Province has made great progress. Lao Han once said: "Recently, China's society has been getting worse and worse, and the biggest reason is that education is backward and not popular, and everything is not known. Therefore, he made it a priority to popularize education.

During his tenure, Shandong Province's education funds were not only never in arrears, but also increased year by year. Before 1932, it was more than 2 million per year, but after 1935 it had increased to more than 5 million.

Lao Han encouraged all districts and counties to run schools, and regarded the quality of education work as one of the main contents of evaluating the performance of county magistrates. He also formulated the Measures for Compulsory Enrolment of Children in Counties of Shandong Province, which ordered school-age children to attend school and punished those who did not listen after being advised. The number of junior primary school students increased from more than 500,000 in 1929 to more than 100,000 in 1933.

Seeing this, Meng Xiang couldn't help but smack his tongue. Lao Han is really working hard in education.

Han Fuyu and He Siyuan also began to implement compulsory education early. However, this so-called compulsory education only opened more than 2,000 short-term primary schools in 108 counties of the province, with an annual expenditure of 2 to 3 million yuan, and it was opened for more than two years since 1935.

On this basis, Meng Xiang, who shouted to strengthen education, couldn't help but increase investment.

Now there are four major cities in the territory of the vanguard army, Jinan, Qidu, Laiwu and the newly added Mengxiang renamed Weifang. In preliminary population estimates, the population on the site has exceeded three million. This number will be even higher as the number of refugees moves in.

If it is an all-round development of education, the amount of 3 million proposed by He Siyuan is not much. The National Shandong University alone has an investment of 500,000 yuan a year, and Meng Xiang has built a new university in Qidu, with an investment of no less than 1 million.

Meng Xiang had already taken a good look at all kinds of big bulls and hundreds of thousands of college students at this time. Without a name, it is obviously impossible to retain people, and the university is undoubtedly the plane tree that allows these people to keep. As long as the security of the territory of the vanguard army is not very bad, these scholars who still retain their bones do not care about the danger of the front line of the Anti-Japanese War.

National Shandong University, originally in Qingdao, ran to the territory of the vanguard army with the advent of the army, but was intercepted by Meng Xiang in advance and did not evacuate to the southwest. In addition, taking advantage of this opportunity, it is also proposed to build a new comprehensive university to accommodate the big bulls attracted from all over the world and the enthusiastic young people who have come over.

There is also a medical college and a merged normal school, and the combined cost of the two must be at least 500,000 yuan. The other million for primary education is not much.

Such three million is just the minimum standard proposed by He Siyuan considering the tension of the Anti-Japanese War and the lack of funds at this time. This made Meng Xiang, who had planned to shout out the six-year compulsory education, swallow the big words back.

Even when the Anti-Japanese War was the most difficult, the old Jiang Zhengaxe of later generations did not stop supporting education, but at that time, his ability was indeed limited and the support was insufficient. This point made Meng Xiang also deeply admired, and there were many masters in that era, which supported the sky of Chinese culture and science and technology later.

"Let's adjust it to five million! First of all, it should be formulated according to the compulsory education of the third year of primary school, and strive to make every child afford to go to school, know his own name, and count his or her own wages. No matter how poor you are, you can't be poor in education! Meng Xiang gritted his teeth and said. It's a big deal, buy more arms, and copy more of Han Annihilation's floating wealth.

As soon as Laiwu's base car was settled, Meng Xiang immediately began to build a mining plant, which would greatly alleviate the base's demand for gold and silver. The extra money and next year's taxes are enough to embolden Meng to say such things. In addition, the new base car has been in production for three days.

Because, Maichi has already made contact with the Germans. The door to international arms deals has been opened, and it is time to consider opening another sub-base.