In the spring of the eighth year of Tongzhi, Ya County, Qiongzhou, Liangjiajun Sanya Naval Base.

Master Liang has been in Sanya for two days, the staffing of the naval fleet has just been completed, six ironclad battleships, four gunboats and six wooden sail warships have also been named Chinese, in order to commemorate Qiongzhou Island, the birthplace of the Liang family's army, the largest ironclad battleship was named Qiongzhou, and the remaining five ironclad battleships were named: Sanya, Haikou, Xisha, Dongsha, Nansha; Four gunboats were named: Changjiang, Wanquan, Nandu, Boao; Six sail warships were named: Ding'an, Wenchang, Chengmai, Qionghai, Baisha, Wanning.

The naval commander of the Liang family army is concurrently served by Young Master Liang, the naval instructor is concurrently served by Liang Haowen, the deputy commander is served by Liang Jianjian, and the deputy instructor is served by Liang Changgen; Three months later, each warship elected a Chinese officer to serve as the deputy captain, and the first officer, second officer, and third officer of the battleship, the chief officer, pilot, gun, loading, observation, signal, deck, sailor, maintenance, damage management, and other posts are all held by British instructors at this stage, and all the Chinese personnel are cadets and assistants.

Young Master Liang is still very grateful for the careful help of Brother Yang, these 226 British instructors are not only sufficient, but also cover all positions of the battleship, they are all grassroots officers and soldiers of the British Navy with a considerable level of ability, it seems that Robin is still very well connected in the British Royal Navy; In fact, Robin has become a banner for these junior officers and soldiers in the British navy, a commoner son went to the Far East for a few years, and actually became a member of the nobility, and was promoted to lieutenant commander by leap rank, which is a legend in the hierarchical Royal Navy itself.

Due to the abundant number of instructors in the UK, Young Master Liang had an idea: to set up a naval school. The cadets are divided into two groups, one group receives course education in schools, and the other group receives practical training on warships; in this way, the education and training received by the cadets will be more systematic and comprehensive, which will be conducive to their growth, and another advantage is that the number of cadets can be doubled, and a large number of outstanding naval personnel can be quickly trained, which will be of great benefit to the navy in increasing the number of warships and expanding its naval strength in the future.

As a result, these 226 British naval instructors also wore two hats, both as teachers at the naval school and as officers of the naval fleet. Young Master Liang himself served as the principal of the Naval School, British Navy Captains Haydn and Blake served as the Dean of Education of the Naval School, and Navy Captains Joel and Handel served as the Provost. Young Master Liang gave the British instructors who held two positions additional job allowances, as well as additional rewards such as teaching achievement assessment awards, and the enthusiasm of these British instructors was immediately mobilized, and they found that as long as they worked here for a few years, they could earn enough money to buy an industry in Britain and become a middle class, and it seemed that the Far East was really a blessed land for making money.

After the affairs of the navy were properly arranged, Young Master Liang rushed to the army training base non-stop. The establishment of the army has long been in the belly, although there are too many recruits this time, but it is still a bit basic, so there is not much trouble, but because there are too many personnel, the base has become too crowded. The new army base can be built on both sides of the estuary of the Changhua River, where the land is relatively flat and not far from here, and the transportation by the Changhua River is also very convenient.

However, due to the increase in the number of recruits, the original establishment plan had to be adjusted. In the twelve cottages scattered on the borders of Guangdong-Fujian, Guangdong-Jiangxi, Guangdong-Hunan, and Guangdong-Guangxi, Young Master Liang decided that Huang Qiying would be in charge of setting up a mountain brigade with a total number of 15,000 people, and the additional 15,000 people would be transported over after the construction of the new base here was completed. This mountain brigade will recruit recruits for another brigade after half a year of training, and another brigade after a year, and then a mountain division can be formed. Because it is easier to recruit soldiers in those mountainous areas, and the source of soldiers is young people in mountainous areas, the ability to cross mountains and mountains will be learned from an early age, which is too suitable for being a mountain soldier. After the specific training plan of the mountain soldiers is completed, Master Liang will hand it over to Huang Qiying, and with Master Huang's seriousness and solidity, I believe it will be done very well.

Then the number of troops on the Qiongzhou base will reach nearly 60,000, and according to the original plan, two infantry brigades will be set up, plus the guard regiment, the military police regiment, the heavy artillery regiment, the special service regiment, the assault regiment, the engineer regiment, the baggage regiment, the cavalry regiment, the reconnaissance battalion, the special combat team, and other directly subordinate units, and the military department will set up a staff office, a political work office, an equipment office, a logistics office, a discipline inspection office, a statistics office, an examination office, an organization office, a propaganda office, a communications office, and an adjutant's office.

As soon as the structure of the unit is completed, the training of recruits begins. Young Master Liang continued to set up the Xindu Teaching Battalion, and he personally led the training of the training camp, and the battalion commander of the training battalion was served by Liang Qiang, although Liang Qiang was not very old, he was very talented as a soldier, and promoting him was also in line with the rules of the army, because the shortage of officers was too large, the original battalion commander became the brigade commander, the original company commander became the regiment commander, Liang Qiang was originally the platoon commander, and now the battalion commander is also a normal promotion, not to mention that he expressed his intention to promote him at the last meeting, so let him serve as the most important battalion commander - the commander of the teaching battalion.

The training battalion selects clever and intelligent recruits with a little cultural foundation from among the recruits for training, and the training cycle is two months, after which these recruits will be sent to various units as squad leaders, and the better ones will be appointed as platoon leaders. In fact, the training camp is a small military school, and it is a fast-track military school, and there is no way to solve the shortage of grassroots officers with this method.

Because Young Master Liang only has more than a dozen American grassroots officers under his command, there is no shortage of manpower to form an army academy, so he can only use the method of setting up a training battalion. Moreover, the training and operational concepts of the army in the world are too backward now, and Young Master Liang does not want to use foreign instructors to train a group of dull and dogmatic grassroots officers, and all the training plans of Liang Jiajun are formulated by himself, and the dozen or so American instructors are only serving as training instructors for specific arms.

In the office of the military department, Young Master Liang saw Master Tieqiaosan, who he hadn't seen for a long time: "Master, now the situation has changed, there are too many recruits, I asked Master Huang to stay in the mountains and set up a new mountain brigade, then the second brigade here will be hard for you to concurrently serve, and the military police regiment, special service regiment, and cavalry regiment directly under the military department are also in charge of you, I don't know how the construction of the intelligence bureau is going?" ”

Tieqiao San was very happy when he heard it, the apprentice trusted him to let him bring so many troops, but this hero is a master of art and bold, and he didn't feel that the task was too heavy, and he immediately responded with a smile: "When I saw so many good seedlings when I was recruiting, I was really reluctant to give up, although it is a little squeezed now, but it will always be useful in the future, the Intelligence Bureau is now following the business network of the Liang family, I still let this stall out, I think that Taurus is good, it is definitely a good material to do this, In just a few months, the intelligence network on the Vietnamese side has been well arranged, and I recommend to you that the Golden Bull be in charge of the intelligence bureau."

Although the apprentice trusts him very much, some things are still consciously better, such as the Intelligence Bureau, which is similar to Jinyiwei, it is better to let it out, otherwise even Tieqiao San himself feels that his power is too great, as a master of the rivers and lakes, he still knows how to advance and retreat.

"Okay! Since Master, you think he can do it, then Jin Niu will take over as the director of the intelligence bureau" Young Master Liang is now more and more able to speak, and in this way, Tieqiao San also feels that he has a lot of face when he hears it.