Chen Jingyun also understands the current financial situation, so he was not surprised by An Hualin's reaction: "This purchase of equipment is to expand the arsenal, and you also know that the price is too expensive if you buy it from outside, and if you make it yourself, it will cost fifteen yuan or twenty yuan to buy it outside!" ”

Anwarin didn't agree with Chen Jingyun's words: "Governor, although I don't know much about military affairs, but I also understand the important surname of making arms, but this depends on the timing, if I have tens of millions of stocks in the treasury, then it is naturally feasible to take out millions to expand the arsenal, but the inventory of my treasury is only more than four million, and the expenditure of the army and military and political axes is not a small amount!" And you have to prepare the recent ordnance money, not to mention taking out 3.8 million, even if it is 380,000, there is none! ”

Chen Jingyun was not annoyed by his words: "Don't worry, I'm just showing you the list, and I didn't ask you to take out the money now!" I called you, on the one hand, to remind you to allocate the funds of the arsenal, and on the other hand, it is to plan a way for us to borrow money together! ”

"They came to me for the funds of the arsenal, I didn't refuse to give them back, but I was busy a few days ago and couldn't leave, and I will give them money when I go back!" Anwarin continued: "As for the governor you said about borrowing money, is it about patriotic bonds? ”

Chen Jingyun nodded: "This is also counted!" ”

An Hualin said: "The patriotic bonds have been sold two days ago, but the results are not ideal, and a total of less than 500,000 yuan was bought in two days, most of which were purchased by the princes who served in our military and political axe!" ”

"So it will take the Year of the Monkey to sell the first batch of five million?" Chen Jingyun was a little shocked.

"The main reason is that our Fujian has not yet been completely reunified, and now the war on the front line between Hubei and Jiangsu is unfavorable, and many people are worried about the Beiyang Army going south!" Anwarin named the main reason.

Whether the patriotic bond can be sold can be combined with the achievements of the Fujian National Army and the situation in the entire south, if the south wins, the Fujian military and political axe will naturally not collapse, and then the patriotic bond can also be sold.

"Well, if they don't sell, we can't force others! The main reason for this visit is to tell you that I am going to take out Yanzheng as a mortgage to borrow money! Chen Jingyun opened his mouth, and Yan Zheng startled Anwarin again.

"Governor, this is absolutely unacceptable! Yan Zheng is the bulk of my current financial income, if there is a ...... in case of mortgaging Yan Zheng, "An Hualin doesn't know what to say, Yan Zheng's important surname is clear to anyone, the imperial court has been confused for so many years and has not given Yan Zheng to foreigners for loans, how can he, the governor, put his mind on Yan Zheng.

Chen Jingyun disagreed: "Let me ask you, if there is no loan, how long can the military and political axe last with the current financial revenue?" ”

Anwarin said after a silent calculation in his heart: "Although the political axe funds add up to a lot, but the bulk is still military spending, according to the current inventory and estimated income, the finance can still last for four to five months, and then the financial rectification will be almost over, and the tax revenue for the new year will also come up, although it is unsatisfactory, but it can barely be supported!" ”

"Don't forget that we still have an arms purchase contract, and there are still more than two million unpaid!" Chen Jingyun reminded him

When An Hualin heard this, his face also sank, if he gave the more than two million ordnance money, then let alone support it for four or five months, it would not even be able to support it for two months.

At this time, Chen Jingyun continued: "I will tell you the truth, when that batch of ordnance arrives, I plan to continue to expand and organize into at least six brigades and two regiments of field troops, and then build three to five regiments of local garrison troops. ”

An Hualin listened to Chen Jingyun while calculating the possible increase in costs, and before Chen Jingyun finished speaking, he had already stopped calculating, because when he heard that the six brigades and two regiments were said, he knew that Fujian would definitely not be able to support so many additional troops. At that time, the annual financial gap will not be a matter of tens of millions, but a gap of tens of millions.

However, when I thought about it, Chen Jingyun was the governor, and he was able to control a province in Fujian at such a young age, with tens of thousands of troops, he was definitely not a stupid person who was stunned! So he asked, "Governor, what can you do?" ”

Chen Jingyun said: "It's still the same sentence, borrow!" ”

An Hualin said: "How do you pay it back if you borrow it?" Relying on Fujian Province is definitely a fiscal deficit, where is the money to pay? ”

Chen Jingyun said: "I didn't say that I would rely on Fujian Province to pay it back!" ”

Hearing this, a big idea popped up in An Hualin's mind, but he didn't ask directly, but glanced at Chen Jingyun and said, "Please also ask the governor to pluck it?" ”

Chen Jingyun smiled, stood up and walked to the door, looking up at the sky: "In this era, if you want to strengthen the country and enrich the people, you must develop industry and commerce, and only with steel machines can you have warships and cannons, so as not to be bullied by outsiders." But Fujian is mountainous and has few fields, the land of a province is not as good as a large county in the south of the Yangtze River, the transportation is inconvenient and there is no important mineral resources, can only rely on the traditional tea, wood, papermaking to maintain the local economy, and it is too difficult to develop industry and commerce here, the decline of the Mawei shipyard is the most obvious example, the Qing court invested nearly tens of millions of taels before and after, but in the end what was obtained was just a piece of barren grass. ”

Due to Fujian's geographical environment and lack of mineral resources, it is determined that it is difficult for him to develop industry. In this year, a place needs to develop economically, the first is to have convenient transportation to spread goods to vast areas such as Shanghai and Guangzhou, the second is to have important mineral resources, such as the Northeast region, and there is a region that combines the advantages of the two, such as Hubei. However, Fujian has nothing, no large-scale mineral resources have been explored, and there are no major rivers such as the Yangtze River and the Pearl River, and there are no railways. The inland traffic of the whole province only relies on the Minjiang River that can only pass small boats, and more importantly, several tributaries north of Nanping in the middle and upper reaches of the Minjiang River are small rivers, and they can only take bamboo rafts and the like.

Without important resources, there will be no investment in railways, and without railways and no big rivers to make transportation inconvenient, the goods in Fuzhou's coastal areas can only be covered in the province. Far inferior to the goods produced in Guangzhou, which can rely on several large tributaries of the Pearl River to cover the entire southern region as far as Guangxi, and Shanghai, needless to say, the Yangtze River is the lifeblood of China's economy, and the products produced in Shanghai can be sold all the way to Chongqing.

If a few decades ago, Fujian could still rely on tea exports to become an economically strong province, then now that Indian tea is crowding out the global market, Fujian can only rely on a few traditional industries such as papermaking, tea, and timber to maintain a weak economic system.

This is the fundamental reason why there was nothing to do in Fujian in the warlord melee years after Xinhai!

Since Chen Jingyun has a comprehensive understanding of Fujian's economic system during this time, he has abandoned the previous strategy of steady and slow, and now the only thing he wants is to expand the army, and then go south or north, Guangdong in the south is China's financial powerhouse, and the status is comparable to Jiangsu, and the economy of Zhejiang in the north is not bad, although it is not as good as Guangdong, but it is much stronger than Fujian.

If you don't expand the army and go out, you will be waiting for death, and in a few years, Chen Jingyun will have to be like other defeated warlords, and he will be pitifully fleeing into the lease as a duke.

Chen Jingyun doesn't want to be a public servant, although he doesn't have the feeling that he will be disgusted and bloody for the sake of the country and the nation, but for himself, for the power that he is unwilling to let go once he has it, Chen Jingyun is never willing to fail.

"Does the governor mean south or north?" Anwarin suddenly felt as if he had returned to the Three Kingdoms era, and in front of him stood a lord, and he assisted this lord to create a hegemony.

Chen Jingyun said: "Whether it is going south or north, it depends on the specific situation!" ”

To be honest, Chen Jingyun has not yet decided, originally his plan was to first rectify the Fujian Province, and then expand the army to find opportunities to expand outward, but according to his original timetable, it has to be next year, or even the year after that, at least not now. But now it seems that the original idea is no longer suitable for the present! The reason is simple, he found that Fujian simply did not have that much money to maintain a large army for a long time, so he had to act early!

After a full hour, Anwarin said goodbye and went back, and when he learned that Chen Jingyun was determined to expand, Anwarin did not object to Chen Jingyun taking Yanzheng as a mortgage, but who to borrow from, and how the specific articles of association would have to be planned and arranged in detail.

Seeing that the time was already more than six o'clock in the evening, and when he was about to leave, Ouyang Tian from the equipment department came, and he was not the only one who came, as well as Chen Kui and Chen Weihua.

"Why are you all here?" Chen Jingyun asked.

Chen Weihua and Chen Kui both wanted to speak, but Chen Weihua took the lead: "Governor, the lowly rank is here for that batch of ordnance!" ”

Ouyang Tian also showed a wry smile at this time: "I didn't say it, they ran over after hearing the news!" ”

This batch of newly arrived ordnance was too important, Ouyang Tian naturally couldn't decide for himself, and Chen Kui and Chen Weihua pestered him and refused to leave, so he simply took these two people to the Governor's Mansion and directly let Chen Jingyun decide.

"Ordnance? How many personnel are there in the 8th Regiment now! Chen Jingyun asked first.

Chen Weihua said: "It's close to full capacity now!" It's just ordnance! ”

Chen Jingyun nodded: "Since it is full, Ouyang Tian, you will pull out a regiment's spears and pistols from this batch of ordnance and give them to the Eighth Regiment!" ”

Chen Kui's face darkened when he heard this, although his troops were fully loaded, only one battalion of troops was equipped with Hanyang-made, and the others were old and soon-to-be scrapped Manlixia! And he knew that there were only 6,000 guns in the new batch of guns, which means that after giving 4,000 to the 8th Regiment, there were only 2,000 left, and 2,000 was not enough to equip a regiment.

Seeing Chen Kui like this, Chen Jingyun also knew what he was thinking, and immediately said: "Chen Kui, don't show me your face, the remaining 2,000 guns will be brought to you!" ”