The main leaders of the Northwest First Army, Northwest Second Army (Northern Luzon Army), Nanjie Locke Army, and Tengger Army also officially announced their appointments. Liang Chongxin, He Lianbo, Kang Jianguo, and Cui Wenxiu respectively served as the four The commander of the Grand Army, and also made relatively large adjustments in the defense area. The main troops of the Northwest First Army were mobilized to the Bonan-Longdong-Tianshui line, including Yinchuan, Taixuan, and Moling. The northern defense zone including Dunton was handed over to the newly established Nanjerok Army, and the Second Guards Division was also assigned to this area to strengthen the defense of the north, especially the Kaman people.
After Cui Wenxiu received Wu Feng's approval, he set up the headquarters of the Tengger Army in Loulan City. The First Cavalry Division was stationed here, echoing the Western Region United Army that had its headquarters in Wusun City, guarding the entire Western Region. , and Shenei also completed the cleanup mission in Xikang Prefecture, leaving only the newly formed guard regiment mainly composed of local Gaoyue people to garrison Xikang Prefecture City. These are also two regiments that have been specially approved by the War Readiness Administration to be oversubscribed. According to regulations, a prefecture and county can only form one regiment of security forces. However, since most of the militia forces in Xikang Prefecture come from the Gaoyue people in the mountainous area, and they participated in the battle against the Lang family at night and have certain combat experience, they made an exception and agreed to form one. There are two regiments of security forces, and Xikang Prefecture no longer has regular army garrison. The Second Division of the Tengger Army in the house was ordered to move westward and stationed in the heartland of the Mote people - Huohuoji on the shore of Boyue Lake. Together with the Mote Autonomous Defense Force, it assumed the defense responsibility of the Mote Autonomous Territory.
The largest adjustment should be made by the Northwest Second Army. Except for the Second Division led by Yan Tong, which continues to be stationed in Shuangdui, the remaining four divisions, led by Army Commander He Lianbo, marched eastward and entered Qingyang in the northwest. In Qingyang, he and the First Guards Division were stationed in the military camp outside Qingyang City. This is also the general reserve force that Wufeng is preparing to enter the battlefield on the Eastern Front. Once the situation in the Central Plains on the Eastern Front changes, the First Northwest Army will naturally be the vanguard and main force, and the four divisions of the Second Northwest Army and the First Guards Division The regiment will also be put into the battlefield as a follow-up force and reserve force. These more than 200,000 troops are also Wufeng's biggest capital in fighting for hegemony in the Central Plains. With the backing of these ten divisions, Wufeng has the confidence to fight any force. Now it is also Just wait for the conditions to mature.
At the end of April, the first financial and economic conference of the northwest region was held in Qingyang. Not only the six northwest prefectures, but also the two prefectures of Northern Luzon, the Western Region Alliance, the Mote Autonomous Territory, and the city guards and responsible persons of the three prefectures of Lulong, Xikang, and Longdong Economic officials came to the scene one after another. Xiao Tang, Su Qin, James, Yang Zhengbin, and Su Minshun all participated in the meeting. The meeting was chaired by James, the new director of northwest finance. The meeting discussed the unification of tariffs in various regions, the promotion of industrial and commercial investment, mining development, and road transportation. Construction, farmland water conservancy facilities construction and many other economic issues were consulted and discussed. Problems existing in various regions were also analyzed and studied, and a package of solutions was proposed. For example, the issue of internal goods circulation tax among the countries in the Western Region Alliance, the issue of goods circulation tariff between the Southern Jeroke region and the northwest regions, the issue of the Indian Kingdom and the northwest tariff, the development issue of the border area between southern North Luzon and the Grand Duchy of Luzon, A series of issues involving all aspects including promoting the development of the Green Sea swamp area, increasing the development of the Hengduan Mountains, mineral development of gold, silver, iron ore, and coal mines, and the construction of the northwest highway network, etc. was brought up by many officials.
Financial issues were raised as an important topic, and the role of the Northwest Bank was also concerned by many officials. As a temporary monopoly bank for the Western countries and the Mott Dominion, officials from both regions expressed their hopes. The financial market can be opened as soon as possible, especially the Western Region Alliance officials headed by Sai Bo, who strongly requested the Northwest Administrative Office to open the financial market and introduce foreign financial departments to set up branches in the Western Region countries to promote the economic recovery of the Western Region countries as soon as possible. The Northwest Finance Agency was even asked to independently provide interest-free loans for the alliance's infrastructure, so as to improve the conditions of the countries in the western region and relieve the pressure of ordinary people on the newly appointed alliance institutions. Luman and Mu Haoran also jointly made the same request for the issuance of a charter, allowing several other banks and banks to enter the two provinces of Northern Luzon to meet the growing funding needs for the development of the southern region.
James, the director of finance, dedicated half a day to give a special lecture on tariffs, finance and financial issues, and gave a speech to the administrative chiefs of each region on the current taxation system, fiscal revenue and expenditure items, and the purpose and operation methods of the Northwest Bank. After the introduction, in response to the Western Region Alliance's doubts, James naturally could not say that it was in order to better control the economies of the Western Region countries. He could only follow the agreed arrangements to prevent possible financial risks and review external financial departments. The opening of financial markets in China and the Mote Dominion will be placed in the last batch, but no later than one and a half years after the Northwest Bank establishes institutions in the Western Region countries, and it is guaranteed that the Northwest Bank will give priority to meeting the funds of the Western Region countries. Yes, after receiving these replies, the Western Region Alliance reluctantly accepted this statement. Afterwards, Saibo still found Xiao Tang and James and asked to shorten the opening hours of the Western Region financial market. However, after Xiao Tang and James' patient persuasion, Finally a consensus was reached.
The issue of transportation construction has also been listed as an important issue, especially in the two provinces of Northern Luzon. At present, whether it is Shuangdui or Vito, their main transportation channels can only rely on the east-west railway. The large commercial road from Zijingguan to Qingyang, especially with the continuous development of the southern areas of the two prefectures, road traffic has become a bottleneck restricting the economic development of the two prefectures. The tobacco plantations and coffee plantations in the south of Shuangdui and Vito and sugarcane plantations continue to expand in size, but plantation owners and businessmen are deeply troubled by the poor road conditions. They continue to make suggestions to the autonomous government in the name of the chambers of commerce of the two provinces, requesting the repair of the road from Vito to Manlong in the Grand Duchy of Luzon. Two roads were built from Shuangdui City and Shuangdui City to Zhaipu Crossing City in Pancha people, and a new road was built from Shuangdui City to Dasonglin City in the Grand Duchy of Luzon to promote the economic development and market expansion in the south.
In particular, Shuangdui City Keeper Lu Man took advantage of the news that Northwest had obtained a large amount of funds from the Panzha people. He not only took the opportunity to delay and waste the mine auction money that should have been handed over to the Northwest Finance Bureau, but also continued to use various means to make big profits. The article on Green Sea Marsh requested the Northwest Administrative Office to allocate funds to develop the area around Green Sea Marsh to strengthen border preparedness, fulfill the promise made by Wu Feng when he inspected Green Sea Marsh, and preemptively carry out propaganda and incitement through the "Northern Luzon Express", Praise for Li Wufeng, the Military and Political Envoy of the Northwest and Governor of Northern Luzon, for caring about the border and paying attention to the development of the Green Sea Swamp minority. This made Wu Feng unable to dismount, and he had to ask Xiao Tang to include the development of the Green Sea Swamp area in Shuangdui Prefecture in the construction of the Northwest. An important task of the Department.
During this meeting, he repeated his old tricks and bribed the editor-in-chief of the "Northwestern Star". The front-page headline of the "Northwestern Star" highly praised Jiedushi for attaching great importance to the trade between Northern Luzon and the countries in the Western Regions. communication, and prepared to build a road from Shuangdui to Wusun City, and generously stated that the Shuangdui Autonomous Government was willing to bear the road construction funds in Shuangdui Prefecture. However, this time Luman’s beautiful idea seemed to have shot himself in the foot. On behalf of the Northwest Administrative Office, Xiao Tang made it clear that the Northwest firmly supports the construction of the strategic road from Shuangdui to Wusun. In view that the road from Shuangdui Fucheng to the Wusun border has been completed due to the development of the northern iron mines, the road from the border to Wusun This road in Suncheng was funded by the Northwest Finance Bureau, but the Shuangdui Autonomous Government used the mine auction money that should have been turned over to the Northwest Administrative Bureau to build this road, and set a mandatory completion time requirement. This dull stick beat Lu Man almost crazy, and he lost a handful of rice after stealing the chicken. In addition to repeatedly pestering Xiao Tang, Lu Man even did not hesitate to guard Wu Feng's house, asking Wu Feng to deal with this matter fairly. incident, but Wu Feng happened to go to Tianshui for inspection, which made Lu Man depressed to death.
The two prefectures of Northern Luzon also proposed a tobacco monopoly bill. In view of the rapid expansion and increase in the scale and number of tobacco plantations in the southern areas of Vito Shuangdui Prefecture, the tobacco growing and processing industry has an increasing economic status in the two prefectures of Northern Luzon. It has surpassed the traditional rice planting and wood processing industries and has become the three pillar industries with the most distinctive characteristics of Northern Luzon along with coffee planting and processing, sugar cane planting and cane sugar production. In order to increase tax revenue and protect the investment of large tobacco planting and processing companies, With enthusiasm, the Shuangdui Chamber of Commerce and the Vito Chamber of Commerce made this request to the Northern Luzon Governor's Office, but this bill triggered controversy among high-level officials in the northwest.
The group headed by James supports this motion, believing that the implementation of a tobacco monopoly can not only stabilize fiscal and tax revenue, but also effectively regulate the market and prevent excessive investment from pouring into the industry, causing overheating of the industry, and ultimately leading to vicious competition in the industry, which is not conducive to this. The development of the industry; the group headed by Yang Zhengbin firmly opposed this bill, believing that this bill is very unfavorable to the tobacco industry, which is still booming. There is still a large amount of wasteland for cultivation in southern North Luzon, especially many wastelands because The water and heat conditions are not suitable for growing sugar cane and coffee, but growing tobacco is a top-quality land. This bill will hinder the development of the tobacco industry and will gradually form an industry monopoly, which is not conducive to the free development of the economy, especially the economic development momentum in the northwest. At this time, this precedent will greatly dampen the investment enthusiasm of small and medium-sized industrial and commercial enterprises. The two sides launched a fierce debate on this, but neither one could convince the other.