Black Flag Army

Tian Mengxue walked into Di Xiong's office and said with a smile, "Brother Xiong, do you have anything good to talk to me about?"

Di Xiong took out a stack of brand new green yarn tickets from the drawer, handed them to Tian Mengxue and said with a smile, "What a good news! Feng Ru has proposed to me and wants to marry you. This is the 5,000 US dollars betrothal gift he sent. It is said that it is all his savings in the United States. Please count it."

Tian Mengxue's face changed, her smile disappeared, and she said coldly: "What do you mean? You sold me, and I still have to help you count the money?"

Di Xiong smiled and said, "Don't say such harsh words, okay? Didn't you agree to marry Feng Ru?"

Tian Mengxue shed tears and sobbed, "I thought it was just like a date to watch a play, just a play to please him, so I agreed casually, but who knew you actually took it seriously."

Di Xiong said seriously, "This kind of thing can't be a joke. Since you have agreed, you must marry him. Otherwise, if Feng Ru is angered, the consequences will be serious."

Tian Mengxue said sternly: "If you anger him, the consequences will be serious. If you anger me, won't the consequences be serious? Who is the person I like in my heart? You are not blind, don't you know? Why should I marry a man I don't like?"

Di Xiong said: "Feng Ru is an important talent in China's aircraft manufacturing industry. Letting him start a family in Beitang City is related to national interests. National interests are above all else!"

Tian Mengxue cursed: "Bullshit national interests, why can you sleep with Bai Xiuling and marry Lan Jinchun, but I have to sacrifice my marriage for the national interest? Just because you are a tycoon and I am just a deputy section chief?"

Di Xiong said: "My marriage with Lan Jinchun is fake, you know this..."

Tian Mengxue interrupted him harshly and said, "You are kidding me. Even Young Master Yuan wanted to marry Lan Jinchun, a talented and beautiful woman. How dare you say you didn't want to marry her? Then why didn't you pursue Yuan Shikai's daughters? With your conspiracy and tricks, none of Yuan Shikai's daughters could escape your clutches. If you became Yuan Shikai's son-in-law, you might become the next president. At that time, leading hundreds of thousands of Beiyang troops to recover lost territory would be much easier than it is now. You didn't do this because you are a selfish guy. You are unwilling to sacrifice your marriage for the benefit of the country!"

The more she spoke, the angrier she became. She picked up the teacup on the table and threw it hard on the ground. With a "bang", the cup shattered into pieces. Almost at the same time, the door was pushed open and four guards including Di Chun and Liu Zhennan rushed in with guns in their hands. They came in after hearing the noise and were stunned when they saw the scene inside.

Tian Mengxue shouted at them, "I was the one who broke the cup. Shoot me! Just shoot me to death."

Di Xiong waved his hand to signal the four of them to go out, and Liu Zhennan closed the door when he left. Di Xiong saw that there were still tears on Tian Mengxue's face, so he took out a handkerchief and handed it to her, but Tian Mengxue pushed him away, and she took out a handkerchief to wipe her tears herself.

Di Xiong sighed, "A year ago, Feng Ru broke a teacup in my office, and now you broke my teacup again. You two are probably the only ones who dare to break teacups in my office. If you really don't want to marry Feng Ru, forget it. I won't force you. After all, I was really sorry for what happened in the past!"

Tian Mengxue was actually the first woman Di Xiong met after he traveled through time. When Di Xiong recovered from his illness, he ran into Tian Mengxue being beaten by several hooligans on the street on his first day of work. At that time, Tian Mengxue was pale and thin, and her clothes were torn and dirty. Di Xiong certainly could not fancy her, and he saved her only out of sympathy for the weak. Later, Tian Mengxue opened a flower shop, had money in her hands, and her nutrition gradually replenished. Her skin became whiter, her clothes became more and more beautiful, and she also learned to put on makeup. When she finally appeared in front of Di Xiong as a beautiful woman, Di Xiong was already inseparable from Bai Xiuling. She had no chance and became an unfortunate unrequited love. Di Xiong was of course not blind, he could see it clearly, and he was also trying his best to compensate her. She was the highest-ranking of the four informants, the first to become the intelligence team leader, and became the deputy chief of the intelligence department very early. If she had not been humble, she should have been the chief. In fact, her ability was not as good as the experienced Li Laoshi.

After wiping away her tears, Tian Mengxue calmed down and said, "I was too impulsive just now and shouldn't have lost my temper. I have decided to marry Feng Ru. I am a woman and I cannot be single all my life. Since I cannot marry the man I like, I will marry a man who likes me. However, it is not for the benefit of the country, but for your benefit, because I am your admirer and should not go against the opinion of my idol!"

Di Xiong said sincerely: "I have made many mistakes. You just scolded me so much that I am not worthy of being your idol!"

Tian Mengxue put away the US dollars on the table and asked, "Feng Ru wants to marry me, why should I give you the betrothal gift?"

Di Xiong said, "Because you have no relatives, and you always call me Brother Xiong, he regarded me as your family member, so he gave me the money. Of course, I just passed it on, and the money is still yours."

Tian Mengxue's parents died in a famine. They left the last bit of food in their home to her and starved to death themselves.

Tian Mengxue put the money in her arms and said, "Since you are from the mother's family and have received the betrothal gift, you have to pay for the dowry, right?"

Di Xiong quickly took out a check and a pen and said, "That's no problem. How much do you want me to pay?"

Tian Mengxue said: "One hundred thousand dollars!"

When Di Xiong heard this, the hand holding the pen trembled and the pen almost fell to the ground. However, he still gritted his teeth and filled out a check for one hundred thousand yuan and handed it to Tian Mengxue. Tian Mengxue took it and actually tore it up.

Tian Mengxue sneered, "I was just testing you, and you really gave it to me. This is the last bit of your capital, right? After arriving in Beitang City, you opened more than a dozen factories, but they haven't produced any benefits yet. You also opened oil wells and spent money like water. Why would you spend 100,000 yuan for Feng Ru's dowry? I am heartbroken even if you are not."

Di Xiong said: "I always try my best to meet your requests."

After Tian Mengxue left, Di Xiong walked out of the office and went to the door of the guard room next to it. As expected, four guards were discussing his relationship with Tian Mengxue.

Huo Qingtong said angrily: "This woman is too presumptuous. She actually lost her temper in the chairman's office and dared to smash a teacup. If everyone follows her example, where will the chairman's prestige and dignity be?"

Yang Lushuang said: "What's strange is that the chairman didn't punish her and let her go crazy. Could it be that they had previously..."

Liu Zhennan said, "They were probably lovers before, otherwise the boss wouldn't have given in to her in everything. For example, the secretary Ai Yun she recommended to the boss was far worse than Lan Jinchun and was not suitable to be a secretary at all, but the boss still agreed. She let her confidant Shi Lan be the director of the massage center. As a result, due to poor management, the Dong Xuechun case occurred, the deputy director of the aircraft factory lost his life in vain, and the Xian Yuji case occurred in the intelligence school she was in charge of. She had an unshirkable responsibility in these two cases, but she was not punished at all."

Di Xiong pushed open the door and shouted, "Liu Zhennan, don't talk nonsense! Chief Tian and I are innocent. I haven't even touched her."

The four people inside were startled and all stood up. Di Chun reacted quickly. He immediately punched Liu Zhennan and shouted, "Zhennan, you are out of your mind. You actually said bad things about the boss behind his back and you still don't apologize!"

Liu Zhennan quickly apologized: "Sorry, boss, I lost my mind and said nonsense!" He slapped himself several times.

"Stop talking nonsense if you have nothing to do. Go to the playground in front and run ten laps!" Di Xiong said sternly.

Liu Zhennan ran away obediently. Di Xiong said to the other three guards, "I said it has nothing to do with Section Chief Tian. Do you believe me?"

The three of them said in unison: "We believe it!"

Di Xiong knew from their expressions that they didn't believe him. He couldn't help but sigh, knowing that he had been blamed. This was too unfair. Di Xiong even regretted why he had rejected Tian Mengxue's temptations. Now, the cat didn't get the fish, but got into trouble. Di Xiong knew that Tian Mengxue's anger this time was the reason why he had indulged her all along. He himself couldn't figure out why he had indulged Tian Mengxue all along.

When Zhu Zhaohuai sent the wedding invitation of Feng Ru and Tian Mengxue, Di Xiong wanted not to go. But then he thought that if he didn't go, it would seem that he had something to hide, so he had to go anyway.

Feng Ru and Tian Mengxue had a grand wedding ceremony. Feng Ru wore a black suit, and the bride Tian Mengxue was stunningly beautiful after putting on makeup and wearing a white wedding dress. To show off, Feng Ru took his bride to the aircraft factory and boarded a plane together. The plane circled over Beitang City. Many Mongolians who had never seen an airplane were so scared that they knelt down and kowtowed, thinking that the Eternal Heaven had sent down a disaster.

The territory that Beihai Company took over from Xian Yuji included not only Beitang City, but also six counties under its jurisdiction, covering an area of ​​more than 50,000 square kilometers and a population of more than 15,000 people, half of them Mongolian and half Han. With the addition of the more than 6,000 people brought here, the population has exceeded 20,000. In terms of animal husbandry, there are more than 2,000 horses, more than 3,000 cattle, and more than 10,000 sheep. The food gap is very large. If the business is not good, many people will starve to death this winter.

Beihai Company issued a notice in the name of Prince Erdenet's Palace, announcing that all pastures under its jurisdiction would be owned by the palace, and there would be no more private pastures. The pastures would then be rented out to herders for use. Users had to pay rent, and the way to raise cattle, horses and sheep had to be done according to the methods of Beihai Company's technicians. The previous practice was to raise them in a free-range manner, following the water and grass, and the cattle and sheep would graze at will, and as a result, they would eat the grass roots. In the second year, no grass grew here, and it became sandy land. The grassland became smaller and smaller, and the herders fought each other to compete for the dwindling grassland. Without fodder, the cattle and sheep died in large numbers, and the number of them became smaller and smaller. The Beihai Company built pastures and kept cattle and sheep in the pastures, not allowing them to run around. The herders used sickles to cut grass, leaving grass roots, and fed the cattle and sheep with the cut grass. If they could not finish eating, they would store it in a sealed cellar. When the grass withered in winter, the grass in the cellar was still green, and they continued to feed the cattle and sheep. In this way, the cattle and sheep would be raised more and more. Of course, this would be harder for the herders than before, but most of these herders were slaves in the palace and dared not resist. A few nobles had already been killed by Xian Yuji. Xian Yuji also promised in the name of the Prince's Palace that as long as they were raised according to the new method, they would be free people from slaves in three years. For those herders who were already civilians, Xian Yuji used the method of exempting rent for three years and subsidizing goods to appease them.

Of course, cattle and sheep are raised mainly for meat, but horses are not. Horses are used as war horses and pack horses, and they will be ruined if they are kept in captivity. However, horse breeders also need to control the horses, so that they develop the habit of not eating grass roots, and feed them beans as much as possible. At the same time, grass seeds are sown in the spring in areas that have become sandy land to try to restore them to grassland.

In the past, before Di Xiong traveled through time, 70 percent of Mongolia had turned into desert due to blind grazing.

In terms of agriculture, Xian Yuji had previously organized people to reclaim more than 10,000 mu of fertile land, mainly planting wheat, soybeans and potatoes. After the Beihai Company came, Di Xiong organized company employees and herdsmen to reclaim another 100,000 mu of fertile land, mostly planting potatoes, and a small amount of vegetables and cotton. Compared with wheat and soybeans, potatoes have a much higher yield. Although the food they make is not as delicious as wheat, for the current Outer Mongolian herdsmen, being able to eat enough is a blessing.

After a careful investigation of Lake Khuvsgul, Wu Zhong said to Di Xiong, "If we divert the water from Lake Khuvsgul to the Beitangcheng area to irrigate the fertile fields, we can only irrigate one million acres at most. If we want to develop more fields, we must take over the Beihai Lake, which is what the Russians call Lake Baikal."

Di Xiong knew that Beihai Lake was the largest lake in Asia and the deepest freshwater lake in the world, with a total volume of 23.6 trillion cubic meters. If he could own Beihai Lake, he could turn all the deserts in Outer Mongolia into oases and reclaim at least million mu of fertile land. But there were still four years before , when the Russian Empire was in complete chaos, so he couldn't rush.

Di Xiong said: "One million acres of good farmland, plus cattle and sheep, can only support a population of two million at most. It is already the limit to produce an army of 100,000 people from it. It is not enough at all! We must also vigorously develop industry to supplement agriculture."

Since 1912, due to wars, droughts and floods, China has produced millions of refugees every year. The worst was in 1920, when a severe drought hit the five northern provinces, producing 30 million refugees in the five northern provinces alone. Due to the incompetence of the Beiyang government, most of these refugees died on the way of escape due to hunger, cold and disease. Only a few young and strong men survived. The men became soldiers, bandits or servants of powerful families, while the young women were sold to brothels or powerful families as slaves. Di Xiong believed that if these refugees could be attracted to Outer Mongolia, even if only one-third of them came, it would undoubtedly be a strong reserve of soldiers and industrial and agricultural human resources.

The Justice Party also abolished the Lamaist rules in Beitang City. When the Qing government controlled Outer Mongolia, in order to reduce the Mongolian population, it implemented the Lamaist system on the Mongolian population. If a Mongolian family had five brothers, only the eldest son could marry and have children. The other four could only go to the temple to become lamas, where they had free food, accommodation and salary, but could not marry. When they had physical needs, they could only go to brothels. As a result, more and more people contracted syphilis and other venereal diseases, and the number of fertility decreased, resulting in a significant population decline. The population of Outer Mongolia has dropped from more than 10 million to more than 3 million now, of which only more than 1 million are Mongolians.

The Justice Party issued a notice in the name of the Erdenet Prince's Palace, taking over the lama temple and abolishing the Lamaism system. Lamas no longer enjoyed salaries, young people who did not want to be lamas could go home and marry, and old lamas who did not want to leave would be supported by the prince's palace with food. However, donations collected from believers in the temple had to be reviewed and audited by accountants sent by the prince's palace to prevent them from embezzling money.

In addition, each factory and ranch under the Beihai Company set up literacy classes. Workers and herdsmen had to learn the most basic Chinese at night. Those who passed the test were rewarded with mutton, canned fruit and other prizes, while those who failed would be whipped, imprisoned or starved. Princess Xian Yuji of Xuelian used brutal methods to force the Mongolians to learn Chinese.

With the propaganda of the Justice Party, some people in Outer Mongolia began to believe in Mohist doctrine and gave up their faith in Lamaism. Di Xiong attached great importance to the public opinion front. After the publication of the Justice Daily, with Lin Yishui as the editor-in-chief, all teahouses, restaurants and inns in Beitang City had readers reading the Mohist doctrine and news in the Justice Daily.