Ouyang Tian naturally knew these figures clearly: "Due to the refitting of the Fifth Division and the Sixth Division, all the Type 88 rifles in the previous inventory have been distributed, and now there are more than 2,000 Type 88 rifles replaced from the Guard Division in the warehouse!" There are 3,000 pieces of Manlixia and 3,000 pieces of equipment that have been recovered from the previous equipment. Twenty new heavy machine guns have not yet been distributed, and more than fifty light machine guns have been distributed. ”

I heard that there are still Type 88 rifles in storage, and in the future, the Type 12 rifles will continue to be produced, and the rifles of each main division will be gradually replaced. Chen Jingyun thought for a while and immediately said: "Your armament department has prepared ordnance, and I have decided to expand the Fifth Division from a garrison division to an infantry division, expand the three infantry regiments to a complete three-battalion system, and make up for the lack of auxiliary troops. ”

Immediately, he turned to Sun Guangliang and said, "Your logistics department has also prepared the relevant logistics ammunition supply!" ”

Hearing that Chen Jingyun was going to change the Fifth Division from a garrison division to an infantry division, the faces of several people present changed slightly, and you must know that the garrison division was also a division on the surface, but there were only two battalions of the infantry regiment under it, and they were not worthy of heavy machine guns and light machine guns, and the whole division was equipped with only one two-battalion artillery regiment and 24 60-mm rapid-fire mountain guns in addition to rifles and pistols. At present, Chen Jingyun is talking about expanding the Fifth Division to an infantry division, even if the artillery regiment is not expanded for the time being, it means that the Fifth Division needs to be replenished with thousands of rifles, 18 heavy machine guns, 27 light machine guns, and dozens of mortars.

Fortunately, there is no shortage of rifles in these equipment needed, and the original five main divisions are all ready for light and heavy machine guns, and the new imitation of the arsenal can just be supplemented to the fifth division, but the mortars cannot be supplied for the time being, because the production of mortars is limited, and the two types of 80 mm and 60 mm a month add up to only a few dozen, and a few main divisions are not enough at all, and the first division far away in Shaoxing is now only divided into more than ten guns, and it is stipulated that eighteen 80 mm mortars are needed to prepare a division, 36 60-mm mortars, but judging from the output of the Fuzhou Arsenal, at least in the next six months or even a year, they will not be able to meet the requirements of the divisions, at least each division is equipped in small quantities.

At the same time, the ordnance situation is not optimistic, and it is not easy to handle personnel, especially military salaries; if you want to recruit soldiers, you have to pay military salaries, and you have to pay settling-in allowances, and if you expand the number of 5,000 people, you will have to pay nearly 100,000 yuan for settling-in expenses, and then you will have to pay as much as 60,000 or 70,000 yuan a month. And then the cost of ordnance and ammunition is nearly a million, to say the least. And that's not counting the artillery regiments that are standard in infantry divisions.

If that artillery regiment had to be replaced with 75mm guns and fully equipped, the cost would be about the same as directly building a new division. Without two or three million, you can't take it at all.

The people present are all soldiers, and they all understand the issue of 'the price of ordnance and military salary, and after a little thought, you can know that this time Chen Jingyun will have to spend about one million when he opens his mouth.

It doesn't matter how much money you spend, the question is why does Chen Jingyun spend money?

Lin Zhaomin, who usually doesn't talk much, opened his mouth and said: "Governor, if you expand the Fifth Division, are you going to be in Zhejiang?" ”

Chen Jingyun shook his head: "Expanding the army, I think the same as all of you, I have always thought about it." Previously it was just a lack of time, plus financial problems. Now that you have more money, you can simply bring it up! ”

In fact, although Fujian's financial situation has improved slightly over the past six months or so, it is still the same as before, and it is estimated that the total tax payment in the province this year will only be more than 14 million yuan, some of which will be contributed by the Fuzhou Arsenal. But Chen Jingyun has other ways of making money, like the previous loan and the British loan, the two of which add up to 25 million, and these loans are under the management of Anwarin of the Ministry of Finance.

In addition, Chen Jingyun also has an anti-smoking department, which handed over more than 3 million yuan of income at the end of last year, and now basically provides Chen Jingyun with about 1 million yuan every month.

In addition, there is also the assistance fee collected in the southern region of Zhejiang, which has nothing to do with Fujian's finances but directly belongs to the special salary collection department of the national army, and a group of assistant salary commissioners have gone around Zhejiang and probably made about seven or eight million yuan, and it is estimated that the annual income can reach more than 10 million yuan.

In this way, Chen Jingyun now has a lot of spare money in hand, and the total amount adds up to more than 20 million. However, Chen Jingyun has three financial systems under his hands, the Finance Department, the Anti-Smoking Department, and the Special Funding Department. For a while, it was difficult for outsiders to figure out how much money Chen Jingyun had, and even An Hualin, the head of the finance department, didn't know.

Just don't look at Chen Jingyun's current hand of more than 20 million, but the annual cost of the national army is not small, if the current scale is maintained, not large-scale purchases, not large-scale redressing, the annual maintenance cost of a division is about 2.5 million, the five main divisions of the national army plus two empty shell garrison divisions, the cost of military salaries and other personnel alone is about 13 million, but in fact, the national army is now in a period of construction and expansion, and the main divisions are still constantly enriching mortars, light and heavy machine guns, A large number of bullets and shells are being hoarded, and the purchase of these ordnance alone will cost several million, not to mention that Chen Jingyun plans to continue to import medium and large-caliber artillery from foreign countries, which is another batch of big expenses.

This is still talking about peacetime, and if it is wartime, it is a bottomless pit, and it cannot be calculated at all.

Whether it was before, now or in the future, Chen Jingyun's financial situation has always been not optimistic. Despite this, it did not affect Chen Jingyun's plan to expand the Fifth Division into an infantry division. For the time being, 60-mm mountain guns and mortars were used for the time being, but light weapons had to be equipped first.

While Chen Jingyun was preparing to expand the Fifth Division to prevent trouble, the turmoil in Zhejiang continued to intensify.

In the Hangzhou Governor's Mansion, Jiang Zunwei stood in front of the window, looking at the slight rain outside the window moistening the branches and leaves, it was already May, the spring cold had already passed, and it was already early summer, and Zhejiang, which was in the south of the Yangtze River, was already a little stuffy.

At this time, footsteps slowly came from behind him, and soon a person appeared behind him: "Brother Boqi!" ”

Jiang Zunwei didn't look back, but said directly: "Baili! Look, it's raining today! ”

Jiang Fangzhen behind him was wearing a straight military uniform, but his face was equally sad: "Those dozen or so rebels have been arrested!" ”

Jiang Zunwei turned around at this time and said: "What's this, this is already the third batch, even if they are arrested, they can still send the fourth batch and the fifth batch." Wasn't Chen Yi assassinated yesterday, he was also killed, but he just injured his leg, otherwise he would have died in the revolution like Mr. Tao some time ago! ”

Jiang Fangzhen sighed: "I went to see Brother Chen just now, and he said that he was preparing to resign!" ”

"He's leaving, and I don't blame him! After all, I promised him at the beginning, saying that I would reform the military system in Zhejiang, but nothing has been achieved in the past few months since I took office! Jiang Zunwei actually felt a sense of loneliness: "Don't talk about him, Baili, if you continue to stay in Zhejiang, I'm afraid it will be delayed, so it's better to resign with Chen Yi!" ”

Jiang Fangzhen looked at Jiang Zunwei, but said for a while: "Brother Boqi, are you willing to give up the position of governor, and that Zhu Rui, on the surface, he is a revolutionary soldier, but if you look at all these things he has done at these times, which one of them was done by a revolutionary soldier, not only connived at his bandits to harm the locality, but also ignored the judiciary and directly collected centime in his own territory, and forcibly distributed military salaries to the gentry and merchants." If he is made the governor, will the people of Zhejiang still have a way to live? ”

Jiang Zunwei smiled bitterly and said: "So what, people are now outside Hangzhou City with 30,000 troops, and even those people in the Alliance support him as the governor." Although there is a first division in Hangzhou, you also know this army, there are not even a few cannons, and it is not that it will not be able to withstand even a quarter of an hour if it is really going to be pulled out. Moreover, Zhou Chenghua of the 25th Division did not reply to my persuasion. In this case, Baili, tell me what I can do? ”

Jiang Fangzhen was speechless about this.

And at this time, a limping young officer came in outside the door, Jiang Fangzhen hurriedly stepped forward to help: "Brother Chen, why are you still going out if your leg is injured and you can't move!" ”

The person who came was Chen Yi, who was injured in the leg because of the assassination a few days ago: "It's not in the way, it's good to take out the bullets and raise them for a while, not to the point where you can't walk!" ”

Jiang Zunwei also walked over at this time and said: "What did the doctor say, this injury will not leave any aftermath in the future!" ”

Hearing the inquiry, Chen Yi smiled bitterly and said, "The bullet was taken out, but the foreign doctor said that it would be better in the future!" ”

Hearing this, Jiang Fangzhen and Jiang Zunwei both sighed psychologically.

Chen Yi continued to smile bitterly: "What are you afraid of, isn't it just lame!" ”

After Jiang Fangzhen helped Chen Yi sit down, Chen Yi said: "Don't look at me, this injury won't kill me, I came here today mainly to tell you about other things."

"Oh, what's the matter!" Jiang Zunwei asked.

Chen Yi said: "Now those people outside don't all say that I am a non-commissioned officer and a student who is a guest officer, and I am a product of Bolai, and you are even more Han Jian in Baili!" ”

Hearing this, Jiang Fangzhen frowned, and the people of the Alliance Association recently scolded Jiang Zunzhen for appointing Han Zhan in order to attack Jiang Zunwei, and this Han Zhan refers to him Jiang Baili. Even Jiang Baili proposed to resign at that time, and Jiang Zunwei personally persuaded Jiang Fangzhen to suppress the anger in his heart. Now that Chen Yi is talking about this again, Jiang Fangzhen's face is not very good-looking.

Chen Yi continued: "I have a good classmate in Lushi, who is a toddler! ”

Jiang Baili heard Chen Yi talk about his classmates in Lu Shili, and he didn't quite understand what he wanted to say, so he immediately asked, "What classmate?" ”

"Now everyone knows that there are many Lushi graduates in my [***] world, but the three that are really worth paying attention to, one is Yunnan Cai Yi, one is Shanxi Yan Xishan, and the remaining one is Fujian Chen Jingyun!" Chen Yi continued: "Chen Jingyun and I were friends back then, and we lived in the same dormitory, so we had a slight friendship! ”

Jiang Zunwei heard Chen Yi talk about Chen Jingyun, and he was a little confused. In this year, there were many graduates of Lu Shi in the [***] world, and they were basically classmates, and there was no one when it came to classmates, but the warlord melee in the early years of the Republic of China was fought between these classmates.

"What does Brother Chen mean?" Jiang Fangzhen had already guessed what Chen Yi wanted to say,

Chen Yi said ruthlessly: "Zhejiang can't be handed over to a reckless man like Zhu Rui, if we lose Zhejiang, it's better to fight." Chen Jingyun's first division of the National Army is in Shaoxing, and his second division is not far away. ”