readx; On 24 March, Zhou Xuexi, the chief minister of the Ministry of Finance, and representatives of the banking group of the five countries jointly announced that the large-scale loan for the aftermath was officially signed, and a considerable part of the contents were announced, the main content of which was that the total amount of the loan was as high as 25 million pounds, with an annual interest rate of 5%, to be repaid in 47 years, and the total repayment of principal and interest was as high as 67 million pounds. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info to salt policy, tariff also mortgage.

However, Yuan Shikai can't get all the money, because he has to deduct all kinds of handling fees of the bank group, and in fact, he only pays eighty percent of the money, so the actual interest is six percent. And after deducting the various due arrears of the previous settlement, in fact, Yuan Shikai can get less than half, about 10 million pounds.

And the 10 million pounds sterling was about 100 million silver dollars according to the exchange rate at the time. This is much higher than the annual income of the Beiyang political axe in those years, and even more than the financial revenue of the national army after integrating several provinces. Such a large amount of money is all activity funds, and Yuan Shikai can completely use it to invest in military spending.

Although the big loan for the aftermath has been talked about before, it has not been negotiated, although the major warlords are concerned, but after learning that Yuan Shikai can actually reach hundreds of millions of funds, their faces are green.

Yunnan Tang Jiyao had a gloomy face: "One hundred million!" How many troops can be trained here, even according to the standards of the Beiyang Army in the former Qing Dynasty, more than a dozen divisions can be trained, even if Beiyang wants to support so many current troops, but there is absolutely spare power to train about five divisions! When these armies are trained, will they still be able to stop them from moving south? ”

The adjutant next to him was also worried: "It seems that Beiyang is determined to go south, otherwise he will not spend so much money to borrow." The repayment of principal and interest is high, and the tariffs and salt policies are taken out, and the financial revenues of the four northern provinces are also used as collateral! ”

Tang Jiyao said: "What news is there from the National Army?" ”

The adjutant said: "Not yet, but the news has just been announced, presumably the national army is also stunned, and now it is estimated that it is also a mess." You must know that if the Beiyang Army wants to go south, they will bear the brunt, and they will be the first to hit Beiyang! ”

Tang Jiyao said: "Chaos will not be, but panic must be panicked!" ”

The adjutant said: "Marshal, do you think if this Beiyang really goes south, can this national army stop it?" ”

For this question, Tang Jiyao couldn't answer it for a while, he had never seen how strong the combat effectiveness of the Nationalist Army was, but from the results of the war in southern Jiangsu, the Nationalist Army was obviously not bad, and the Nationalist Army's ability to block Beiyang at that time had proved that the Nationalist Army's combat effectiveness was at least stronger than that of the Dian Army, anyway, Tang Jiyao was not sure that he could block the attack of the Beiyang Army with the same number of troops, and he had to double the strength of the troops.

But this time is different from the last war in southern Jiangsu, the last time the Beiyang Army was only three divisions in the early stage, although one division and one brigade were reinforced one after another, but it was a gradual increase in troops, and it was very different from a single investment in the same period. And this time, if the Beiyang Army wants to go south, the Beiyang Army, which has learned the previous lesson, will at least invest more than four divisions in the early stage, after all, the Beiyang Army was short of money before, and there were empty troops but could not be transferred to the battlefield, and now Yuan Shikai got so much money, not only can he mobilize all the troops, but also train a few new divisions.

Tang Jiyao already knew that Yuan Shikai's latest training of the Ninth Division of the Central Army and the Tenth Division of the Central Army had become an army, and the commander of the Ninth Division was the upstart of the Beiyang Army, known as the most talented Xu Shuzheng of the new generation in Beiyang, Xu Shuzheng, who had served as the General Staff of the First Army, the Director of the Military Department, and the principal of the Baoding Military Academy, although he was young, but he was talented, not only won Duan Qirui's appreciation, during the Xinhai Revolution, when his deputy was the General Staff of the First Army on the Jinghan Line, and after Xinhai, he fell into the War Department. Later, Yuan Shikai valued him and transferred him to the post of principal of Baoding Military Academy, and within a few months, he asked him to prepare for the formation of the Ninth Division, and after the Ninth Division was organized and trained, he immediately became the commander of the Ninth Division, becoming the youngest lieutenant general and division commander in the Beiyang system, only 33 years old.

You must know that the Beiyang Army is different from the Nationalist Army and other southern warlord troops, Beiyang has long been formed, and the promotion of officers, especially senior generals, is extremely difficult, and almost every high-ranking and powerful general has gone through many years to get up, and there has never been an example of a general like Xu Shuzheng, who is young and has no experience as the commander of the army, directly serving as the commander of a division.

In contrast to Xu Shuzheng, Tang Tianxi, the commander of the 10th Division, is much more formal, Tang Tianxi is a traditional Beiyang officer, step by step from the grassroots level, he has served as the brigade commander of the Fifth Brigade of the Third Division in the late Qing Dynasty, and then shined in the first battle of southern Jiangsu, in the overall defeat of the Beiyang Army, the Fifth Brigade led by him has achieved outstanding results, and in the early stage of the war in southern Jiangsu, he defeated the first division known as the ace of the National Army with a small number of troops of the first brigade, so that the first division of the National Army fled in embarrassment and suffered heavy losses, and it has not been able to relieve its breath for several monthsIn the middle of the term, he commanded the troops to hold on to Dazhuo Town, blocked a whole division of the Nationalist Army for seven or eight days with inferior troops, and successfully covered the main forces of the Third Division and the Eighth Division to withdraw westward to Nanjing.

In the later defense of Nanjing, his Fifth Brigade took on the task of covering the retreat of the whole army after the collapse of Zhang Xun's Eighth Division, and at the last moment of the battle, successfully resisted the joint attack of the three divisions of the Nationalist Army, ensured the retreat of the main force of the Third Division, and in the last step he himself successfully crossed the river and fled north under the command of Cao Kun. Although the Fifth Brigade suffered heavy losses in the end, this could not hide Tang Tianxi's achievements, which made him the only general to be promoted in the war in southern Jiangsu, not only promoted to the rank of major general and lieutenant general, Yuan Shikai also generously awarded him five medals.

With this capital, coupled with Cao Kun's activities for him, he was finally appointed as the commander of the 10th Division when it was organized and trained, and his military rank was further promoted to lieutenant general.

Tang Tianxi and Xu Shuzheng's promotion paths are very different, one relies on fame and talent, and the other takes real achievements.

Now that these two armies of the Beiyang Army have been formed, they have now received a large loan for the aftermath, and they are bound to continue to expand the army.

In the face of the Beiyang Army, which has soared in strength and momentum, can the Nationalist Army still block the southward pace of the Beiyang Army like last time?

Tang Jiyao looked out the window, didn't speak for a long time, but let out several sighs, he sighed why he couldn't be the same as the National Army and the Beiyang Army, with so much money to expand the army, he sighed even more that he could win by sending troops everywhere for the National Army, and he couldn't win Sichuan until now, he has invested three divisions in Sichuan one after another, plus the total strength of some of the Sichuan Army has been as high as fifty or sixty thousand, but in the face of the small warlords in Sichuan, he still can't win, Those little warlords all took Yuan Shikai's military expenses and name one by one, and they were determined to fight Tang Jiyao to the end, and proposed to take care of the affairs of Sichuan and let Tang Jiyao, an outsider, get out. As a result, part of the main force of the Dian army is now trapped in the bottomless pit of Sichuan, and it cannot be attacked, and it cannot retreat, so it can only continue to be in such a stalemate.

At the same time, he also sighed, if this time the national army failed to stop the Beiyang Army from moving south, what should he do? Joining forces with the National Army, the problem is that the National Army itself can't stop it, and even if it wants to send troops, it can't help, and it may even be burned at that time. But if the Nationalist Army is defeated, no one in the country will be able to stop the force of Beiyang from going south, and when the time comes, will he really bow his head and give up all his previous efforts and bow down?

Then what he is in front of is Huaxia Kyushu! If he didn't have the ambition to fight for hegemony, what would he do if he worked hard to develop the Dian army, it would be better to be a rich man, how could this ambition for hegemony let him go.

After a long time, Tang Jiyao said: "I hope the national army can block it!" ”

Tang Jiyao was worried that Hui Junning would go south after the Beiyang Army gained prestige, and he was also worried about what he would do if the National Army couldn't stop it?

What was different from what he expected was that the top level of the Nationalist Army did not panic because of the news of the aftermath of the big loan, because the Nationalist Army, especially under the instruction of Chen Jingyun, had already begun to prepare for the current situation, and basically expected that the Beiyang Army would take the next step after the big loan was completed, so the Nationalist Army had begun to prepare for the next war with the Beiyang Army since the end of the war in southern Jiangsu.

While the Beiyang Army was expanding its armaments, the Nationalist Army was not idle, and while reorganizing the troops, the Eighth and Ninth Divisions were formed one after another, and the newly formed Eleventh Division was also prepared for the current situation.

However, although this situation had been expected for a long time, the Nationalist Army still had corresponding moves, and the day after Beiyang announced the aftermath of the big loan, Chen Jingyun summoned many senior generals of the Nationalist Army in Fuzhou to attend a military meeting.

"There hasn't been any chaos in the front-line troops during this time!" Chen Jingyun sat on the main seat, tapping his fingers on the table as he spoke.

Yuan Fang said: "Commander, rest assured, the troops are as stable as Mount Tai." The General Staff has ordered the First Army and the Second Army in southern Jiangsu to be placed in a state of first-class combat readiness, the leave of officers and soldiers has been canceled, and the servicemen who are on leave in the field have been strictly ordered to rush back to their units immediately! ”

Chen Jingyun said: "Now the situation is tense, don't relax too much, and the state of combat readiness is required, but don't make too much, the strings are too tight and easy to break!" ”

"In addition, the recruitment work should be intensified! Be prepared for just in case! Chen Jingyun said this, and Yuan Fang naturally nodded yes: "I understand, the training department under the General Staff Department has set up four new battalions in Guangdong and Zhejiang, and has increased its recruitment efforts, and in addition to supplementing the divisions, the subordinate troops are also replenishing personnel for the newly established 11th Division!" ”

At this time, Yuan Fang thought for a while and then said: "Commander, the strength of our army is still too small, and now the two newly trained divisions of the Beiyang Army have been formed into an army, and the intelligence has been discovered, and the Beiyang Army is still preparing to continue to train the two divisions." With the existing strength of our army, it will become more and more tense, and you will see if a new division will be formed! ”

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