Chapter 102: The Central Hubei Revolutionary Military Sub-government

Li Han had to admit that compared to the means of handling government affairs and attracting people's hearts, he was too much younger than Zhang Meisheng who had been in the officialdom for many years. After convinced Zhang Meisheng, who had no place to stay, it took only half a day to accumulate government affairs in De'an Mansion for eight or ninety years, and then volunteered to help him recruit several gentry and others who were quite popular in Yingcheng County, which stabilized the safety of the county to a certain extent.

Although Li Han still dared not believe him too much for the time being, he still gave him power. After breaking away from the cumbersome government affairs, the speed of military expansion in the past few days has undoubtedly been much faster. Because there are too many idle labor in society, the first target is only two days. Now it should be called the first town. The first town has over-recruited 22,000 new recruits who meet the conditions from De'an Mansion, and even the standards are much higher than what he had set before, which made him happy.

After recalling the Third Battalion and Fourth Battalion stationed in Anlu and Xiaogan, Li Han spent a day making a major adjustment to the Third Battalion, which involved almost 60% of the soldiers and officers of the Third Battalion. The Artillery Battalion had not yet been adjusted due to its special nature. In order not to achieve the combat effectiveness of the other third battalions, he only formed the second, third and fourth battalions for each battalion. The proportion of new and veterans was reduced to 1:2, and he completely planned to organize new and veterans, and adopted the experience of leading new and veterans in the Republic Army most commonly used by the Republican Army in later generations. Although it slightly affected some of the combat effectiveness to a certain extent, it did not decrease too much!

In the past few days, Li Han divided into three classes to gather more than 200 new and old officers, and gave them a detailed non-commissioned officer course, combining the training methods of the Republic Army in later generations, as well as the functions and command methods of some modern army officers. After all, he had served in the army for a period of time, so he had taken such courses several times, so he was familiar with it.

Five days, five days slipped away inadvertently. Li Han spent the most relaxed but tense period of time after he came to this era. The imperial court had already launched a blockade of salt in Hubei. Duan Fang, the governor of Sichuan, had ordered that the salt produced in Zigong of the salt capital should not enter Chu, let alone the salt well in Lianghuai. In the first few days, the people in the province could still boil it for a while by storing salt, but no one dared to be sure when the war would end.

Therefore, on the third day after he captured Yingcheng County, he hired more idle social labor. With the hard work of the original official uniform, the salt wells in the county started to practice salt again. Because he issued a dead order to seal all the paste mines and water storage to salt training, and recruited a large number of workers at a salary of 100 cents a day. As a result, more than 200 dan of salt was produced on the first day after resuming work. In the following days, the output of 350 dans was exceeded, and finally stabilized at 300 dans per day.

With the load and the output of the rest of the county, nearly 100 tons of salt were produced in the county in a few days. After being transported to the county in central Hubei, they were rushed to buy it, which made the salt merchants who had purchased some mines from him and made a big profit. After being stimulated, many merchants from De'an Prefecture rushed to Yingcheng. Even after he raised the price slightly, more than 40 mines were sold in just three days. It is estimated that in a while, the salt production in the county will be increased.

The betrayal of the mine also caused Zhang Meisheng and others to be confused. However, Li Han did not explain much to them, and the matter could not be explained clearly. He could not tell them that the real treasure of Yingcheng was not these poor salt mines, but several desolate lands in the county after he ordered people to circle them. Even if he really told them that tens of billions of tons of high-quality rock salt buried hundreds of meters underground, the consumption of more than one billion people in the future could also last for 4,000 years (a complaint, isn't it true that the salt wasteland in China some time ago?

Understand that the national annual salt production is more than twice the consumption, and even the local reserves are sufficient to support for about three months. Poor Chinese people were deceived by experts and wasted a lot of money to buy sky-high salt. It was both pitiful and sad. At that time, the salt price of ours soared to 18 yuan... a huge profit of more than 2,000%...). Therefore, he did not pay much attention to the paste mines in his hands. It would be better to sell them as soon as possible, and use foreigners to buy advanced Western drilling rigs and other machinery to mine the salt-rich mines he occupied as soon as possible.

However, because this action was too big, not only did the "deputy governor" who became impatient because of his "disobedience" notice him, but Wuchang even sent a special telegram to inquire about it, and then ordered him to transport salt south as soon as possible within a day. It can be seen that the demand for salt in eastern Hubei was temporarily suppressed by him.

The establishment of the Hubei-Chinese military government is imminent. Liu Ying, whom he is not familiar with, has been pointing at him for a while. Even the Wuchang military government's tone of his treatment has become increasingly tougher recently.

Because of the sufficient preparations in the early stage, the revolutionary army has blocked the attacking army in the past few days, and even defeated the elite Beiyang forces several times. No wonder many military governments with sufficient confidence will do this. Li Han understood in his heart that, judging from the historical performance of the military government, once the siege of the Qing army is lifted, the next step will probably be his turn, a revolutionary who has rashly entered the wrong direction but does not obey discipline, will suffer!

After many inquiries in the past few days, Li Donglai got detailed information from Liu Ying in Jingshan. It turned out that this revolutionary from a wealthy family was not an ordinary person. Not only was he rich in his family, he also prepared to form a veteran and important minister of the Communist Party. He also had a good relationship with most of the gentry in Jingshan County. He not only had a lot of talents, but also had a thousand-man armed force before the Wuchang Uprising. Before the Wuchang Uprising, he was the strongest force of the revolutionary party in the city. It is also said that he had a close relationship with the giant Huang Xing of the Tongmenghui. It is no wonder that he was responsible for controlling the entire Han River basin before the Wuchang Uprising. If there were no Li Han, he would have been able to master the central Hubei region for at most ten days. No wonder he was so arrogant.

Li Han, the military government's banner, does not want to give up for the time being. Although he doesn't care much about Liu Ying, who is adjacent to him, he still ordered the second target that had just completed the reorganization and immediately sent troops to occupy the Tianmen, Xiantao, Qianjiang and other places that had long been fictional. He ordered the third town that had just returned to Anlu to capture Suizhou. After Guangshui, he set up defense on the spot. The troops stopped 50 miles away in front of Wusheng Pass. Not only did he swallow most of the central Hubei, but he also extended his tentacles to western Hubei and northern Hubei.

It was to open up the water transportation channel that was urgently needed at the moment. Taking this opportunity, after Zhang Meisheng's guidance, the First Town officially launched the name of "European Revolutionary Military Branch Government", with him himself serving as the commander-in-chief of the military government and serving as the commander-in-chief of the First Town. With the arrival of the second batch of cargo ships that Carl promised to have a division of equipment, Li Han entrusted him to take away a hundred dan of salt for Wuchang when he returned to the voyage, and sent several eloquent people to follow him. I guess he could temporarily stabilize Wuchang.
Chapter completed!