People in the Republic of China: Rising from the Fall

Chapter 248: The Su Family Army’s Strength is Too Terrifying! The green gang tycoon panicked! Su Zheng’s financial strength is terrible [third change, please subscribe].

Su Zheng’s strength and background are really powerful.

It was precisely because of this that Jin Rong and Du Yuesheng naturally did not dare to act rashly, and they did not want to become enemy opponents with Su Zheng. It is necessary to turn enemies into friends.

Since we want to turn enemies into friends, we naturally want to know ourselves and others.

Therefore, Jin Rong and Du Yuesheng arranged for Yan Yuhua to investigate Su Zheng’s background and related circumstances in more depth. Although they had investigated Su Zheng before, they always felt that Su Zheng was not as simple as he seemed. Really…… Now it’s finally time to investigate the exciting information.

Private armed forces?

Hearing this, Huang Jin Rong and Du Yuesheng were immediately shocked, their expressions were surprised, and they looked at Yan Yuhua incredulously. To raise a private armed forces… It’s not an easy task.

Although the Qing Gang and the three tycoons are very rich, there are many gangs of the Qing Gang. But until now, there are no private armed forces.

But now Su Zheng has a private armed force? It’s incredible.

The 1 million silver dollars in the Republic of China period was a huge amount of money for ordinary people, and it was no problem to use this money to feed tens of thousands of ordinary people for a year.

But if you use it to raise the army, then it is a little stretched, after all, the army is a gold-swallowing beast, and if you don’t have some financial support, you really can’t afford it!

Jin Rong couldn’t help but gasp and looked at Yan Yuhua, “What? Su Zheng has a private armament? Are you sure? ”

Yan Yuhua nodded and said, “Hmm….. 23. The Big Boss… This is certain. ”

“According to the information we have so far… This private army of Su Zheng is on Hengxing Island! ”

Du Yuesheng came back from his shocked look and muttered in his mouth, “No wonder… No wonder…… No wonder we have not found out that Su Zheng has a private arm, it turns out that this force is on Hengxing Island! ”

“Hengxing Island is Su Zheng’s territory, and outsiders can’t enter it… This is a good cover for private armed forces! ”

There are no impermeable walls under the sky.

In particular, Su Zheng’s personal armed Su Family Army has developed to its current scale, and it is not strange to be investigated and found. After all, it is almost impossible for such a large force to achieve no trace at all.

The Green Gang is the number one gang in Shanghai… This is undoubted, so their intelligence network and personnel are very large, so if they want to investigate Su Jiajun, they can still investigate the clues.

Because the people who work on Hengxing Island may be people from the Qingbang, or people related to the Qingbang.

Under such circumstances, as long as the Qingbang spends some time and energy investigating, it will definitely be able to investigate relevant clues and information.

Du Yuesheng looked at Yan Yuhua and asked, “How many people are in this private army of Su Zheng?” You know? ”

Yan Yuhua shook his head slightly, “I don’t know… Now it is known that Su Zheng has a private army, this private armed force is called Su Family Army, located in the southeast direction of Hengxing Island! ”

“But because the area where the Su Family Army is located on Hengxing Island is a military restricted area, outsiders can’t get close at all, so how many people there are in the entire Su Family Army, the equipment situation and combat effectiveness, and so on are unknown!”

“It takes time to investigate… It can take a bit long though! ”

Su Jiajun’s concealment has only been discovered by the Qing Gang until now, which shows that Su Jiajun’s concealment is still very good. Low-key lewd development.

Even now, the Qing Gang knows about the existence of Su Jiajun, but they don’t know anything about the specific situation of Su Jiajun.

Jin Rong’s brows furrowed, and his face was solemn: “It costs a lot of money to raise a troop… How terrifying is Su Zheng’s financial power? You can actually afford to raise a troop! ”

“A million oceans can’t feed many people!”

Since Yuan Datou began to issue and circulate, people’s daily consumption was traded in this currency for a while, and the government’s foreign trade exports were also carried out using Yuan Datou.

Yuan’s large head silver dollar was still quite valuable in the early Republic of China, and its purchasing power was very high, in this 1924… Yuan Datou’s purchasing power is still quite good, in the early Republic of China, the social environment at that time was relatively chaotic, living materials were quite scarce, so the people’s living standards were relatively low, basically at the subsistence line, and the price level was not too high.

The price of 1 kilogram of pork is about 3 cents a dime, the price of 1 kilogram of rice is 4 cents, and the price of 1 kilogram of oil is about 8 cents.

4 cents for salt. And if you go down to the restaurant, like eating in a restaurant outside, you can actually eat a fairly hearty and delicious meal for a silver dollar.

Like some famous literati with a monthly salary of hundreds of oceans. In the government, bank officials earn 40-50 yuan a month, while ordinary employees and workers only have a dozen or twenty yuan.

Generally speaking, the higher the rank in the army, the higher the natural salary, ordinary first and second class soldiers earn about 10 yuan a month, and when you become a sergeant, you can get 20 yuan. And among the officers there are 32 warrant officers, 135 majors, and 320 major generals.

Taking a regiment of 1,500 people, the monthly salary of ordinary soldiers is 20 yuan, the officer is 50 yuan, and the number of officers is 5%, then the annual salary of a regiment alone is 387,000 yuan. Then eating and the military uniform worn by the military personnel also costs money, the meal is calculated at 5 yuan per person per month, and the complete set of military uniforms also costs 2 yuan, then the military also costs 93,000 yuan a year to eat and wear this piece.

Of course, the most important thing for an army is in equipment, so the expenditure on equipment cannot be ignored.

In the case of a Mauser, for example, a Mauser rifle is about 15 oceans, and this does not include bullets. At that time, the price of bullets was about 500 rounds and 20 oceans, and if a soldier consumed 500 rounds of ammunition a year, then even the gun with ammunition cost 52,500 yuan.

A regiment of light weapons is available, and heavy weapons also need to be purchased. Aircraft, tanks, these are basically unlikely, and it is not realistic for the Republic of China army to equip them.

But light machine guns, heavy machine guns, howitzers, mortars, grenades, these still need equipment.

In this 1924, a machine gun cost about 1000 oceans, and a regiment with 10 was considered the most basic……. So even if you roughly calculate it, it will cost fifty or sixty thousand to say that a regiment with heavy weapons is equipped.

The cost of the above regiment is basically 600,000 yuan, and if you add some war loss pensions, marching transfers and other expenses, then the annual expenditure of a regiment is close to 1 million yuan.

Therefore, 1 million silver dollars during the Republic of China period can basically support an ordinary army of about the size of a regiment. This is also what Jin Rong said, more than a million oceans can not support many people.

A million oceans is at most to raise the strength of a regiment, and it will not last long. Therefore, it is very expensive to raise troops.

The reason why the Qing Gang and the three tycoons do not have private armed forces is that it costs too much money to raise the army. A unit and a gang are not the same.

The cost is also different.

The three tycoons made a lot of money by selling opium, and if they insisted on raising a regiment of troops, it was okay. But the three tycoons felt that there was no need for this.

The strength of a regiment can still be a snake in a small place, but in larger cities, such as Yangcheng, Modu, etc., it may not be able to speak.

Although Ye Kai is also a regiment leader, his status is not low.

On the one hand, 713 because Ye Kai’s guard regiment is well-equipped and has strong combat effectiveness, it cannot be ignored.

On the other hand, Ye Kai is a direct warlord, and his guard regiment is not only one guard regiment, but also a huge direct warlord behind him.

It is precisely because of this that Ye Kai is also very prestigious in the magic capital.

If Ye Kai is just the leader of an ordinary regiment, without any background backers, he can’t say anything at all.

Therefore, if the three tycoons only raise the strength of a regiment, it will not have much effect in a place like the magic capital. To deal with gang organizations on the road, it is enough to have green gangs, and regular troops are not needed at all.

Furthermore.

No matter how arrogant and powerful the three tycoons are, they are just in the French Concession… The French Concession was their stronghold. Once out of the French Concession, the whole situation is different.

The foreigners in the French Concession will definitely not allow the three tycoons and the Qing Gang to raise troops in the French Concession… Isn’t this a problem with raising tigers?

Therefore, for all reasons, Jin Rong and Du Yuesheng now have many disciples and disciples of the Green Gang in their hands, but they are also not privately armed.

However, now Su Zheng has a private armed Su Family Army… What a horrible thing this is. The appearance of the private armed Su Family Army represents that Su Zheng’s financial resources are very terrifying.

Du Yuesheng also said with a solemn face: “Yes… It costs a lot of money to raise regular troops, and even if he Su Zheng has a lot of money, it is impossible to raise too many troops! ”

“Therefore, according to my calculations, Su Zheng’s Su family army is only a few hundred people!”

A few hundred people?

The pattern is small! A little underestimated Su Zheng.

Du Yuesheng thought that Su Zheng’s Su family army only had a few hundred people, but he didn’t expect that the Su family army was a 10,000-person army… PS: The third change, an automatic subscription and a tip plus change, is there a 100 VIP broken egg tip?.

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