Anwarin is not stupid, and has served as the chief of finance in the military and political axe for more than half a year, and his political sense is already very sensitive, when Chen Jingyun said that he would concurrently serve as the director of the fundraising department, Anwarin almost guessed Chen Jingyun's intentions.

On the surface, it is to use the fund-raising office to unify the finances of Fujian and Zhejiang provinces, but behind the unification of finances is a deeper political attempt. That is, it wants to completely integrate Zhejiang into the national army system.

Anwarin knows Chen Jingyun's ambitions, and Anwarin has always supported Chen Jingyun's ambitions. The stronger Chen Jingyun is and the more territory he controls, the more benefits An Hualin will have as the first person in Chen Jingyun's subordinate civil official group. And today it seems to be an example.

"I mean, transplant your main team in the finance department to the fundraising department, and then you leave some people in the finance department in Fujian. In the future, the financial system of the National Army will be led by the Salary Raising Department, and the Finance Department of the following two provinces will cooperate in the implementation! After Chen Jingyun said what he thought, Anwarin knew what to say.

"Rest assured, with my Anhualin, there will be no financial problems in Fujian and Zhejiang provinces!" Anwarin assured.

Chen Jingyun also nodded and said: "Okay, I will issue the relevant notice, and you will take office from tomorrow!" ”

After confirming this, the time was already more than two o'clock, and before Chen Jingyun had time to rest, Yu Shifeng reported that Yu Wentao, the director of the Navy Department, and Feng Qin, the other three commanders, had arrived, and Chen Jingyun immediately said: "Then let them in!" ”

Feng Qin, Ouyang Tian, and Sun Guangliang walked into Chen Jingyun's office one after another, and behind these three was Yu Wentao, director of the Navy Department. After seeing these four people come in, Chen Jingyun walked over and said, "Sit down!" ”

After the five of them sat on the sofa, Chen Jingyun spoke: "Because the Navy Department is coming to report, I thought that this matter has something to do with a few of you, so I let you come!" ”

Chen Jingyun said these words to Feng Qin, Ouyang Tian and Sun Guangliang, since the Nationalist Army took control of Fujian, in addition to the reorganization of the Sixth Brigade, it also took over various coastal defense and a small part of the naval forces, at that time there were thousands of troops in various parts of Fujian and coastal defense units, and some of these troops joined the Sixth Brigade of the National Army and several local garrison regiments, and then the troops of each coastal defense battery were reorganized into a coastal defense regiment, and each battalion was stationed in various coastal defense batteries along the coast of Fujian, with a total of about 3,000 people. The regimental headquarters was set up with a horsetail.

In addition to this coastal defense regiment, it also took over a small number of gunboats and related ships from the former Qing and Fujian local naval divisions, among which the three main gunboats were only a few hundred tons, and they were all old ships built more than 20 years ago.

It can be said that Fujian's coastal defense forces are extremely weak, and surface ships are even worse.

Based on this situation, Chen Jingyun naturally did not go out of a special naval department, but set up a naval department under the headquarters to deal with coastal defense affairs, and those old gunboats also got a Fuzhou fleet out, and then basically did not take care of it.

Later, in the various expansions of the national army, there was basically nothing to do with this navy, and it can be said that the navy has been in a remote position in the national army system so far. Then, some time ago, when the Nationalist Army mobilized a large number of ships to transport two reinforced regiments to Hangzhou, the Navy Department could be said to have taken out all the belongings, and even the three old gunboats were escorted all the way, and then a lot of civilian ships were recruited and many foreign ships were rented before this task was completed.

After having such an experience, Yu Wentao, who was the head of the Navy Division, continued to report upwards and applied for funds to overhaul a few poor gunboats, and since the Navy Department was directly under the command of the headquarters, this report was naturally sent to Chen Jingyun. Chen Jingyun didn't pay much attention to it at the time, but just took a cursory look at the money he needed, but it was only more than 10,000 yuan, so he immediately approved it.

But without waiting for three days, Yu Wentao handed Chen Jingyun another report, not to mention the content, but the title of the report made Chen Jingyun panic: 'The shipbuilding plan from the first year of the Republic of China to the fifth year of the Republic of China and the letter of reasons'.

After looking at the stack of heavy reports, the front was about the important role of the navy in the war in Hangzhou, and talked about the important surname of the first regiment of the guard division that was transported at that time for the situation in Zhejiang, and then the conversation changed to say that there were only three old small gunboats in the Fuzhou fleet under the jurisdiction of the Navy Department, and if the coastal area of Fujian could not be guaranteed when it was threatened, in short, how difficult it was, and then a paragraph came at the end, in view of the predicament of our army, the Navy Department specially planned a plan to purchase warships, but it was limited to the financial difficulties of the military and political axes. The Navy Department has made a major reduction plan, and finally said that it expects to add two cruisers of the first class, four cruisers of the second class, four cruisers of the third class, and eight destroyers within five years.

In fact, the above does not have any specific meaning for Chen Jingyun, and the key point is the total amount of funds attached to the report.

In the plan made by Yu Wentao, the funds applied for are not tens of thousands, nor hundreds of thousands, but tens of millions! Even if Chen Jingyun sold the entire National Army to Cai Yi or Yuan Shikai, he couldn't make up this number.

Faced with Yu Wentao's utopian plan, Chen Jingyun didn't have to look carefully, and directly retreated.

However, after receiving the report from Chen Jingyun, Yu Wentao was not disappointed, he had expected the report to be rejected, after all, he also knew that the military and political axes had no money left over to expand the navy and the like, not to mention the Fujian military and political axes, and even Yuan Shikai had no money for the navy.

Yu Wentao's old boss, a group of bigwigs in the Admiralty beg grandpa and grandma every day, in order to ask for the navy's military expenses, not only the maintenance costs of the navy's warships, but also the military salaries of naval personnel, and more importantly, the arrears of the ships purchased by the previous Qing Dynasty, which is not a small amount, but a sum of up to 10 million. For this money, the bigwigs of the navy asked for money almost every day, especially after Yuan Shikai's Beiyang political axe was officially formed, Liu Guanxiong urged Yuan Shikai to ask for naval funds almost every day, but Yuan Shikai almost always replied in the same way: 'It has been submitted and read, and it will be transferred to the Ministry of Finance for verification!' What this means is, I know what you said, let the Ministry of Finance verify it and give the money. As for when it will be verified, don't ask me Lao Yuan, ask God. So much so that the main warships of the navy stayed in Shanghai and other ports, and even the coal could not be burned.

In contrast, the "Fuzhou Fleet," a local fleet on the Fujian side, was still very happy, because there were few people and few ships, and it was not possible to spend a few dollars on training and other expenses, and it was enough to squeeze a little from the huge funds of the Nationalist Army and the Army. But since the war in Hangzhou transported the two regiments to Shaoxing, Yu Wentao felt that he had a little confidence in speaking, so he wondered if he could add some ships to the Fuzhou fleet. He thought that if he could, he would try to buy a destroyer and then get a few gunboats, and in the future, he would have some strength to defend the mouth of the Minjiang River, so that he would not be afraid of capsizing when he went to sea like now!

So after the five-year plan, which was full of nonsense, was rejected, Yu Wentao got a new report for Chen Jingyun. This time it was much more realistic, just two cruisers of the third rank, four destroyers and a number of gunboats. Chen Jingyun was naturally not satisfied after reading it, not to mention a cruiser now, he didn't plan to buy a destroyer, he originally wanted to send the report back to Yu Wentao, but thinking that it would be troublesome for Yu Wentao and the people in the Navy Department to continue to report, so he simply sent a letter and asked Yu Wentao to come directly.

After receiving the letter, Yu Wentao was pleasantly surprised, and thought that Chen Jingyun was going to agree to him to purchase the warship needed for the plan, so he immediately came in a hurry. Just now, he found out that Chen Jingyun not only called him himself, but also called Feng Qin, Sun Guangliang and Ouyang Tian over, which made him excited again!

Chen Jingyun said: "In the previous war in Hangzhou, shipping played a great role, and everyone knows this, and this time I asked you to come, mainly to discuss the follow-up development of the navy!" ”

Immediately, Chen Jingyun glanced at Yuwentao and said, "Director Yuwen, you first talk about the plan of the Navy Department!" ”

Yu Wentao immediately stood up, then took out the plan in his hand and distributed it to the three commanders, and explained in person: "At present, our army has controlled the two provinces of Fujian and Zhejiang, and the coastline is thousands of miles long, and such a long coastline cannot be effectively maintained without a competent fleet. According to the actual needs of our army and the financial department, our Navy Department has made a general plan! It is expected that within five years one 3,000-ton cruiser, four 1,000-ton destroyers, and 10 gunboats will be added......"

As Yu Wentao continued to explain, Feng Qin's face was fine, but Ouyang Tian, who was in charge of the equipment department, had an increasingly ugly face, and Sun Guangliang, who was in charge of logistics, also had a darker complexion.

"After the plan is implemented, in five years, our Fuzhou fleet will have one cruiser, four destroyers, and a considerable number of coastal gunboats, and then it will be able to effectively support the land force to move at sea speed, and the fortress batteries on the coast will also be able to effectively block the enemy's coastal landing!" ……”

Before Yu Wentao finished speaking, Ouyang Tian over there had already interjected: "Although I don't know too much about the prices of various warships, I know that the Yingrui training cruiser ordered by the former Qing Dynasty in Britain costs as much as 210,000 pounds, and the German-built 500-ton torpedo hunting ship (another name for destroyer) also costs nearly 60,000 pounds. This 10 million yuan is enough to equip the army's three full-fledged divisions! ”

On the other hand, Sun Guangliang also nodded and said: "If it really follows the plan, the follow-up annual maintenance funds and personnel salaries are probably not a small amount!" ”