Liu Xia gave the Navy three fleets, namely the North Sea Fleet, the East China Sea Fleet, and the South China Sea Fleet. The Navy now has only one North Sea Fleet, and as for the East China Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet, they are still all fantasies at present.

Not a single North Sea Fleet has now been reorganized, and there are not a few ships, let alone the East China Sea Fleet, the South China Sea Fleet. Therefore, Yu Mingjun nominally seems to have jurisdiction over a large territory of soldiers and horses, but in fact there is only a small sea area in Jiaozhou.

Liu Xia didn't plan to give all the other generals a promotion right now. The purpose of giving Yu Mingjun a promotion of rank and power is to let Yu Mingjun build a naval army. And the promotion of Liu Dazhuang is because the northwest is too far away, and it is impossible for Liu Xia to be remote controlled in Luoyang, thousands of miles away, after all, it takes many days for the news to spread from the Western Regions to Luoyang. If those two legions are distributed in the northwest, the commanders of their legions are all at the same level, so no one can command anyone, but it is definitely impossible for one legion to control such a large area. Both clans must work together. Speaking of collaboration, the problem arises again.

Who listens to whom? Therefore, Liu Xia had to set up the Northwest Capital Division in advance, and let Liu Dazhuang have full authority to manage the military affairs of the Western Regions, as for government affairs, it was not something that Liu Dazhuang could involve. Liu Xia has always been able to exclude military and political personnel from involving civil affairs, and civil affairs officials from involving the military. Previously, due to the lack of manpower, Chen Liu, the chief of the Military Affairs Department, was appointed as the chief judge, and Wang En, the chief of the Logistics Department, was appointed as the chief financial secretary. But now that Liu Xia is no longer short of people, Chen Liu has also stepped down from the position of chief of the military department, and Wang En has also stepped down from the position of chief of the financial department. Civil affairs officials, on the other hand, are not allowed to meddle in military and political affairs in the slightest.

Perhaps in other dynasties, those officials and ministers were able to control military and political affairs, dictate the army, and even eunuchs could command the army. But in Liu Xia, this is not possible. The military and the government and the civil affairs are completely separated, and if any official wants to eat the civil affairs and the military affairs, it will definitely be the target of Liu Xia's attack.

So now, after entering the army, a family member will generally not enter the official ranking. They all know Liu Xia's taboos. Generally, military planning will not be discussed with civil affairs officials, but Liu Xia will hold a small meeting to discuss the personnel of the Military Division, the Logistics Department, and the Supervision Department.

As a result, the officials of those state capitals did not have the right to transfer troops and use soldiers and horses. It's not majestic. Under normal circumstances, the prefect of a prefecture cannot mobilize the local garrison defending the city.

Except for the establishment of a Northwest Traveling Capital Division by Liu Xia in the Northwest, Liu Xia did not move to other places. In the direction of Beijing, Liu Xia arranged the strength of two legions, and as for the White Tiger Corps, it had been secretly transferred to Jiaozhou before, preparing to cross the sea into Liaodong. The Blue Dragon Legion and the Vermilion Bird Legion in Beijing were led by Zhang Liang and Wang Shishi respectively, and the special thing about the Vermilion Bird Legion compared to other legions was that this legion was composed of a deputy commander, and the deputy commander of the Vermilion Bird Legion was Zhang Yang and Feng Xiangwei was the commander. Other regiments do not have deputies.

If there is no deputy to help, then the commander of the legion who commands more than 20,000 people must be very busy, and at the same time the power is too great.

"Order the headquarters of each corps to confer the commander of the first brigade in each corps as the deputy commander of the corps. The deputy commander of the Northwest Army Corps was concurrently served by Niu Chao. The deputy governor of the navy is Bai Menghu, the commander of the North Sea Fleet, and the deputy commander of the North Sea Fleet is to be determined. ”

The North Sea Fleet is now composed of two guards, one is the White Shark Guard, all of whom are selected from other armies and the other is Nu Haiwei, which is served by Li Dazhui, the big boss of Hammer Island, who surrendered to him, because Li Dazhui's identity is special, and his merits for the Pingbei Army are not high, Liu Xia cannot let him serve as the deputy commander of the North Sea Fleet for the time being.

"Lord Wang, news from the North Sea Fleet. General Yu Mingjun found some ship construction techniques and drawings in a pirate's den, and after analysis, it should be the drawings of the ships built in the Western Ocean that year. Meng Yudao, Inspector Division. Now Meng Yu is no longer the commander of the dragon group, and his power has been partially weakened. However, the power of the Supervision Department is also very large, Liu Xia not only asked him to supervise the army and sort out the discipline of the army, but also set up a political department, which is responsible for brainwashing the soldiers.

"Zheng He went to the West?" Liu Xia naturally remembered this feat, the largest seafaring fleet in the world at that time. There were tens of thousands of people when he was dispatched, although Liu Xia had not seen it with his own eyes, but he could imagine it by the records in the book.

"If this king has a fleet, is he worried that he can't send soldiers to Liaodong?"

"You go and tell Yu Mingjun that he will make a copy of those drawings and hand them over to Jiaozhou Shipyard, and escort the original drawings to Luoyang."

This is a centuries-old thing, so it naturally needs to be preserved, although the shipbuilding technology of Zheng He's fleet was hundreds of years ago, but it is still very advanced for now. After handing over those drawings to the shipyard, the shipyard will make some improvements, equip the ships with steam engines, no longer driven by sailboats, but by steam, with hundreds of guns on both sides, and the hull wrapped in iron armor, and an 'aircraft carrier' with a length of forty or fifty feet will be able to sweep the world. Even if it is not used as a warship, but only as a transport ship, then Liu Xia wants to send more than 20,000 soldiers of the White Tiger Legion to Liaodong.

Jiaozhou

Now Jiaozhou Bay has basically become a military base in the real sense, which was originally close to the coast, and the seaside is closed to the sea because of pirates, so that there is no one within dozens of kilometers from the coast. This makes what is done on the shores of Jiaozhou Bay a secret.

The White Tiger Legion has now entered the North Sea Fleet barracks. Every day, some soldiers of the White Tiger Legion are brought on board to familiarize themselves with life on the ship, and they will make a day's boat to reach the Liaodong Peninsula in a while.

The commander of the White Tiger Legion, Zhang Yuan and Yu Mingjun, have been old friends for many years, both of them are military generals, and naturally they have more common language. When they sit down to eat together, they will talk about their days in Yangzhou back then.

In addition, the railway from Luoyang to Jiaozhou was built, and the Luojiao Railway not only extended from Hugaoguan to Jiaozhou, but also sent a group of people to build a railway in the direction of Luoyang in order to complete Liu Xia's task faster, so that the process could be faster. The local people are more curious about the new thing of the railway, but there is an army stationed next to each section of the railway, and it is difficult for the people to get forward.

Now that there are wars, the safety of the railway is of paramount importance, and once a certain section of the railway track is stolen by some people with interests, or other warlords send people to deliberately destroy the hard-built railway, it will be meaningless. Trains will be scrap metal.

A train without train tracks is a bunch of boxes that can seat people.

Yu Mingjun got the news from Luoyang, and asked him to make a copy of the map in his hand and hand it to the shipyard, and then send the original manuscript to Luoyang. Even if Liu Xia didn't say it, Yu Mingjun would make a few copies of those drawings. This is safer, and once a copy is damaged, there is no fear. Because there are also backups.

Except for Liu Xia and Zheng Zhilong in Fujian, who paid more attention to the development of the navy, the other warlords did not pay attention to the situation, and they would not have thought of the important use of the navy in the future.

The Qing court simply did not see the infinite wealth of the sea, or even if they did, they did not want it. So much so that the country was closed to the outside world and issued a ban on the sea.

The Jiaozhou shipyard is not far from the North Sea Fleet barracks, and when Yu Mingjun got the drawing, he had already copied it and prepared to send it to the shipyard, but he didn't dare to make his own decisions without Liu Xia's order.

Now that he had Liu Xia's order, he had the bottom in his heart, so he asked a few soldiers to go to the shipyard with the drawings.

The shipyard is part of the Logistics Division and, like the recruit battalions, is directly under the Logistics Division and is not under the control of other localities. As for iron and steel mills, glass factories, etc., they are under the management of the Department of Industry and Commerce. The shipbuilding of the shipyard needs to be carried out by the navy, and it is built only after giving money. Otherwise, they would not have the money to go to the steel mills to buy steel, and they would not have the money to pay the workers. After all, workers cannot be allowed to work for free.