Young Master Liang is working hard and starting a business in the military industry; The fifth uncle, Liang Haowen, completed his first command of the army.

In fact, there was no fighting, but a heavily armed company and a guard platoon at the regimental headquarters occupied the county seat of Yazhou; At this time, Yazhou County was a small town - Yacheng Town, which was also the southernmost county seat in China; The Liang family army occupied it to build a naval base, and the old British warship that Robin helped buy will arrive here next month.

Young Master Liang ordered them to pretend to be bandits to occupy Yazhou County, and the bandit banner was: Nanbatian!

It's just that what these bandits who are known as the southern tyrants do in Yazhou County are incomprehensible, they don't steal, they don't rob, they don't bully men and women, they don't impose taxes, they don't levy taxes, and they don't levy forced labor; What he does is more benevolent, righteous and moral than the government, and he is really blind to Nan Batian's domineering banner!

Liang Haowen just put a cadre of officials in Yazhou County in prison, leaving only one master to deal with the official documents; What is the name of this master, a native of Fujian, although he is not the legendary master of Shaoxing, but he is also very well-behaved, he is not a court official, to put it bluntly, he is hired by the county order to help, an ancient worker, naturally it is important to save his life; These bandits will do whatever they tell him to do, and most of the official correspondence of this government is handled by him on weekdays, and he is very familiar with it, so the official correspondence with the local government is still the same, so that Qiongzhou Mansion does not know that Yazhou County has been occupied by bandits.

After Liang Haowen occupied Yazhou County, he immediately ordered the engineer battalion to start building a naval base with more than 1,000 Vietnamese laborers; I have to say that Sanya Military Port is indeed a good natural port, and it is more convenient to build a wharf here than the previous Changhua Jiangkou Wharf; After Liang Haowen mobilized a large amount of manpower and material resources, in just a few days of more than 10 days, the military port wharf was successfully built, and the naval barracks, warehouses, and other facilities began to take shape.

At this time, the entire southwest corner of Hainan Island had been occupied by the Liang army; Due to the lack of military strength, Liang Haowen only set up a checkpoint in Nanbatian at the junction of official roads in Changhua Town and Danzhou County, and at the junction of official roads in Yazhou County and Lingshui County to check on passing business travelers; Since the southern part of Hainan Island is mostly mountainous, and the passage with the outside world depends on the official roads along the coast, after the establishment of these two checkpoints, these territories are basically controlled.

The other two of the four giants of the Liang family, Huang Qiying and Tieqiao San, each led a group of men and horses to travel through the various trade routes between Guangdong and Fujian, Jiangxi, Hunan, and Guangxi, while recruiting troops and horses, while investigating the bandit cottage nests in various places.

Sure enough, as expected by Master Liang, on the trade routes at the junction of these two provinces, there are a large number of coolies who make a living by carrying goods, especially in the Nanling area at the junction of Hunan and Guangdong, where there are more than 300,000 coolies; It's just that now the volume of goods transported on the trade routes has dropped sharply, and most people have lost their jobs; So as soon as Huang Qiying and Tieqiao San's recruitment banner was brightened, many people immediately came to inquire, and when they learned that they could get four taels of silver a month in full when they entered the escort team, the news immediately spread among the crowd, and more and more young people poured over; In the Nanling area alone, more than 20,000 people have signed up, far more than planned, and if it weren't for Liang Jiajun's age requirement of 16 to 25 years old, more people would come.

Looking at so many young and strong guys, Huang Qiying was difficult to choose for a while; Since it has been decided to rebel, the more this army is naturally the better, and there are so many good soldiers at the moment, it is a pity to abandon them; Huang Qiying immediately contacted Tieqiao San on the border of Guangdong and Jiangxi, and after discussing with them, the two decided to send someone to Guangzhou to send a telegram to Liang Sihan to report the recruitment situation and ask for instructions on whether the scale of recruitment should be expanded.

At this time, Young Master Liang was leading European technicians to improve the production mode of military factories, the original model was designed by these Europeans, and it was naturally the same as the production of factories in European countries; Young Master Liang quoted the assembly line model of later generations, which greatly increased the output, improved the labor efficiency of workers, and reduced the scrap rate, which naturally improved the quality of the product a lot.

This assembly line operation mode, which is refreshing for European technicians, appeared 50 years earlier; Now these Europeans have admired him so much, not only is the technical level much higher than them, but even the management level is much better than them, God knows how much new knowledge can be learned with him? It seems that it is better not to leave here, and such learning opportunities are certainly not available in Europe.

The original expansion of the army by Young Master Liang to 10,000 was based on the fact that there were only 10,000 rifles; Now the military factory has been successfully put into production, and guns and ammunition are being produced in a steady stream; Silver, another condition needed for recruitment, was also being brought in from Prussia in a steady stream; The current Young Master Liang is naturally Han Xin's soldiers-the more the merrier.

So he readily agreed to Huang Qiying and Tieqiaosan's request, and let them recruit people freely, now Hainan's territory has expanded a lot, and the navy that is about to be established also needs a lot of soldiers, even if it recruits hundreds of thousands.

Thinking that in the near future, he would be able to command tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of troops to fight, and he would no longer have to be overstretched like in Vietnam, and he was almost overturned by others because of the crisis, Young Master Liang was so excited that he couldn't sleep, so he simply got up and practiced the basic skills again, until he was sweating and exhausted, and then rinsed before going to bed.

After everything in the military factory was on normal track, Young Master Liang began to consider his plan to expand the army; According to Huang Qiying and Tieqiao San's report, they had recruited nearly 40,000 recruits before, and after receiving the order of the eldest young master to let go of their hands and feet to recruit people, it is estimated that the number of recruits will definitely exceed 50,000, so that the Liang family army will really become a military-level army.

However, will the hasty promotion to a military-level unit have the consequence of pulling out seedlings and encouraging them? The original escort regiment was only more than 3,000 people, and it was indeed very troublesome to expand the army to more than 50,000 at once, first of all, there was not enough officers at all, and not everyone of these more than 3,000 veterans was suitable to be officers; Do you want to promote officers from among the recruits as you did at the beginning?

At the beginning, these recruits were all trained by Young Master Liang and taught them single-handedly, but now there are more than 50,000 recruits, and he can't keep himself busy even if he has three heads and six arms. Wait, teach, teach the camp, there you have it! The teaching camp that was set up at the beginning can now be continued!

At the beginning, the training battalion set up one and two deputy company and platoon-level officers, and now these grassroots officers can definitely be used, and then select some outstanding ones from the veterans to be promoted, so as to meet the needs of some officers; After three months, the training camp could select a large number of people to serve as grass-roots officers, and then a new training camp would be formed, and so on, and one year later, there would be four batches of grass-roots officers trained in the training camp, and this number would almost meet the needs of the officers.

Young Master Liang, who thought of a way, came to the regiment headquarters to draw up a detailed plan for the expansion of the army, as well as how to arrange the existing officers and personnel, and also to make a detailed list, these things will be enough for him to be busy for a while.

The next day, however, he received two telegrams, which made him even more hurried and surprised.

The first telegram was sent by Robin from Singapore, and the fleet he led would arrive in Hainan in a week, but this fleet was not familiar with the specific route to Hainan, and hoped that he would send a ship to Da Nang, Vietnam, to meet and lead the way.

The second telegram was from Mr. Liang, reminding him and his fifth uncle Liang Haowen that there were still ten days to celebrate the New Year, and the five people sent out by the Liang family to the construction branch would also go home for the New Year.

Young Master Liang has been busy for a year, and is about to usher in a new year; Liang Jiajun will usher in new development, and history will also usher in a new page and turn a new chapter.