Suiyuan in Hand.
Suiyuan Province didn't have much of an advantage over Chahar in all aspects. It only had a larger population and more mineral resources, but there was no oil there. However, its relatively important geographical location made Ji Yun decide to occupy this place first.
This place was currently under the jurisdiction of the Jin army, at least in name. However, Yan Laoxi began to gradually withdraw the Jin army stationed in Suiyuan before the new year. By March 1929, the remaining Jin army in Suiyuan was only less than 5,000 people.
Yan Laoxi only wanted to save some face for himself. Attacking the Suiyuan region from Chahar was basically a flat stretch of land. From Ulan, Chabu, and other places, relying on the motorised troops, they could reach Baotou in less than half a month. In such a situation, Yan Laoxi couldn't fight!
However, even if he handed Suiyuan over to Ji Yun, Yan Laoxi wouldn't be too worried about the Chahar People's Government for the time being. Suiyuan and Chahar added together had a total population of only five million people, and this was an increase from the refugees they had received last year.
Just Jin Province alone had a population of more than ten million. Give Ji Yun 30 years and see if he can come up with something. The population is always the most important part of the country's development. After entering the 21st century, a real big country in the world would have a large population. Just think about it. There are more than 300 million people in the Bald Eagle Country.
Although after entering modern technology, the role of population in war was not as great as the role of cold weapons in the feudal era, if you wanted to develop industry, the population was too small. How could it work? During the Cold War, polar bears and bald eagles were both playing with industrial systems with hundreds of millions of people. Without enough educated people, could they play?
Because of the lack of population, the polar bear had developed in many aspects without caring about the end. The bald eagles were backed by the entire Europa world. In terms of population, they far surpassed the polar bears. Naturally, they had more spare power to develop, so the polar bears were dragged to death.
Take the current road construction in the Chahar region for example. Due to the lack of population, the construction speed was still relatively slow. If not for the existence of the base and the investment of a large amount of machinery and equipment, it would be very impressive if it could be one-tenth of the current speed.
There was also the importance of population to the army. Even if you recruited an army according to the largest ratio of ten to one, five million people would only be an army of 500,000. If you really did this, the country would basically be paralyzed, and there would not be enough young people to organize production. Internal production could only be done by the elderly, children, and women. If this was done, the efficiency of the industry would naturally decrease a lot.
Originally, Chahar had a population of about two million. Ever since the establishment of the Chahar People's Government, the population growth rate had increased, and the death rate had also decreased. Among the two million people, there were about 400,000 young adults between the ages of 18 and 40.
Among the 400,000 people, there were more than 100,000 people working on the construction site, responsible for the construction. There were also about 100,000 people farming at home. Most of these people were over 30 years old. In this era, those in their 30s were basically grandfathers. It was already good enough to live to 50 or 60 years old, so those above 35 years old were basically not considered to be in their prime.
Because they were usually undernourished and tired, they could not do many jobs. If it were not for the large production of tractors in the base, they would not be able to farm. However, with the help of machinery in the past, their work efficiency could be improved a lot.
Therefore, the farm work at home was now done by them. As for the other 200,000 people, they entered various factories. Not only were there some machinery factories, but there were also many workers in a few farms. Most of them were now in the factory and could only work as apprentices.
However, he could earn at least a dozen yuan a month, and he worked very hard.
However, the most serious problem that Ji Yun was facing now was still the lack of population, especially the lack of young and middle-aged labor force. Beihe Province could not be touched yet. If he took it down, there would definitely be some trouble.
Ji Yun knew that he couldn't crush the entire country with his strength, so he decided to develop quietly. Therefore, he turned his attention to Suiyuan.
Yan Laoxi really wanted to cry but had no tears. He had already realized that the Chahar People's Government was ambitious in Suiyuan when Ji Yun suggested building a factory in Baobao.
However, he really did not expect it to be so fast. Although the Jin army had a total of 200,000 troops, they had to guard many places.
His strength was equivalent to the Chahar Army, so he might be able to put up a fight. However, in Yan Laoxi's eyes, Ji Yun might be a threat.
However, the most important people in his eyes were Baldy Jiang from Jinling, Feng Yuxiang from the Northwest Army, and Zhang Xiaoliu from the Northeast Army. Li and Bai of the Gui army. These people were the ones who had the ability to compete with him for the world. When Yan Laoxi went to Baobao Steel Plant last year, he realized that he might have underestimated this young man.
March 21st, 1929. The atmosphere in Gui Sui City was very depressing. The people in the city and the people in the Governor's Mansion knew that the situation was going to change. The Jin army had to leave. Those who had a certain relationship with the Jin army were naturally very reluctant to leave.
Those commoners who worked hard but had a very difficult life were in a different situation. They had heard that the Chahar people's government would give land to those who did not have land. Those who had less land did not even have to pay imperial food!
This was a good thing. As for the ordinary gentry, they didn't have much of a reaction. Although the land was sold to the Chahar People's Government, it wasn't like they didn't pay.
They had never done anything to bully the good, so what was there to be afraid of? What was there to be afraid of? They had never done anything wrong.
However, for those rich and heartless gentry, there was probably no worse news than this.
Some time ago, after Ji Yun and the others took over the Chahar region, some people still planned to do as they pleased in the countryside. In the end, many people were directly beaten to death and hung on trees. There were also some people who were usually rich and heartless. They were sentenced to whatever punishment they should be given. Those judges were all impartial.
Some people tried to bribe them, but they were severely punished. Those local tyrants and evil gentry who usually caused trouble were basically shot. It was impossible to beg for mercy. The money at home had to be taken out to compensate those poor people.
How could these local tyrants and evil gentry not be afraid? The Chahar People's Government wanted to take over Suiyuan's affairs, but there was a sign just now. Some people were very confident and did not run away, but some timid ones really did.
There was a middle-aged man in a military uniform standing on the top of the city wall. Beside him stood two other people who looked dignified. One was the police chief of Gui Sui City, and the other was the provincial head of Suiyuan City.
The head of the province was quite old and wore a Chinese tunic suit. He was the chief of the police and wore a black police uniform.
The three of them had very gloomy expressions on their faces. Today, they received a telegram from Taiyuan, telling them to hand over the territory to the Chahar People's Army.
Although their decrees in Suiyuan had become a bit unreasonable since last year, they were used to being vassals. Who would like to go back? There were so many high-ranking officials there. How could they still be local emperors like here? Therefore, the three people were a bit unhappy.
At this moment, the middle-aged man in military uniform who was standing on the city wall with a telescope suddenly said,"Coming, let's get ready to go!”
His tone was filled with helplessness. After joining the Jinsui Army for so many years, this kind of thing had happened before. Although the order came from Taiyuan, who knew what the final outcome would be?
The middle-aged man thought,"Perhaps there's some deal between Taiyuan and Chahar!"”
The middle-aged man was right. At this time, the Taiyuan Munitions Factory had not been completed.
Most of the weapons and equipment of the Jinsui Army were purchased from foreign countries. Yan Laoxi was a businessman. A rifle that he produced himself might only cost 50 silver dollars. Although the performance might be a little worse, it was cheap!
A German Mauser K98 rifle, not to mention whether it would be imported to China, just the price of a hundred silver dollars, not many people would equip it in large quantities.
Ji Yun had an arsenal, and Yan Laoxi's request was to buy weapons from Chahar at a lower price.
An arms dealer who didn't sell weapons to the enemy wasn't a good arms dealer. Ji Yun continued to sell them, but they were all outdated weapons that were still in existence. The Chahar People's Army was determined not to sell their own weapons!
There was also a commercial trade contract between the Chahar People's Government and the Jin Provincial Government. Furthermore, Yan Laoxi felt that there was no way he could stop them, so he might as well sell them for a good price.
However, it was all thanks to the recent war that Yan Laoxi had witnessed the combat power of the Chahar people's army. Thus, he planned to use space to exchange for time.
The middle-aged man looked at the 1st Armored Division's tank regiment and mechanized infantry regiment. He looked at the hundreds of tanks and many armored personnel carriers. He seemed to understand why Yan Laoxi had given the order to give up Suiyuan.
Shamelessly begging for everything…
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