Chapter 103: Ship Building

Two days later, Tan Xiucai came over with his publicity plan to report.

Young Master Liang took a hasty look at it first, and found that this show still had two strokes, although Young Master Liang didn't give him any general outline, but his propaganda plan also had a theme idea - highlighting the leader of Young Master Liang! Although this leader is a little younger, now the Liang family army has accepted this from top to bottom.

In other words, Tan Xiucai's propaganda idea is to completely build the Liang family army into the private army of Master Liang.

This Young Master Liang naturally did not object, but he felt that it was still too narrow-minded: "Brother Jin, your plan is good, but I think it is necessary to add some content, so that the entire propaganda idea can be more complete; Like, what is the mission and purpose of our army? It is to overthrow the corrupt and ignorant Manchu rule, to defend our country and compatriots from bullying and aggression by foreigners, to establish and build a Han empire, and to enable all the Han people in the world to live a good life.

Tan Xiucai couldn't help but be in awe when he heard this, like them, who are scholars who are influenced by Confucianism, they all have the feelings of self-cultivation and family to govern the country and level the world, don't you want the ideas put forward by this young boss to seem to be even higher than this?

"Humble duty understands!"

"Okay, you can take the propaganda office and do it well."

During this time, the training of the training camp has been on the right track, and Liang Qiang, the battalion commander, and those American instructors are still very competent, so the focus of Young Master Liang's work does not need to be placed on it all the time, and places such as military factories and naval schools can also spend more time to care; With the arrival of heavy hydraulic presses and large boring machines purchased by Prussia, and there were two sets of each, the strength of the military factory has risen a big step, with these two big guys, can make large-caliber heavy artillery, can make warship armor, and he, a military expert in the previous life, also has a greater use.

He decided to open another shipbuilding plant in the naval base, specializing in the construction of naval warships, and at the same time to do maintenance and repair for naval warships.

The British and French will have some restrictions and reservations about the best and most high-end machinery and technology, but Prussia is now in an awkward position, has not yet become famous after the Franco-Prussian War, and although it is now considered a European power, they are indeed poor; So, for the sake of silver, you can have anything!

So Liang Haowen, who had just been busy for a while, was busy again.

Watching the shipyard slowly start from scratch and gradually build up little by little, Master Liang's mood became more and more stable; He knew in his heart that it would only be a dream to have a mouthful of soup and a piece of meat in this colonial era, without a strong navy; With a strong army, you can only be guaranteed that you will not be bullied and invaded by outsiders; And only with a strong navy can you break out of the ocean and into the world.

A strong navy of course includes the ability to build powerful warships on its own. I have never heard of a strong navy just by buying warships from others.

In Britain and France, there were already many warship manufacturing companies, which was the foundation for Britain and France to finally build large colonies. Young Master Liang thought to himself that our China is not short of deep-water harbors, as long as China completes the initial personnel training, it will be able to replicate a large number of ship manufacturing enterprises, and when the time comes, it will dare to compete with Britain and France and other countries to build giant ships and cannons, who is afraid of whom!

It's July, the hottest season of the year.

The reconnaissance mission of the intelligence bureau and the special combat team was initially completed, and Young Master Liang prepared to hold an operational meeting.

The staff office of the military department, the political work office, the equipment office, the logistics office, the propaganda office, and officers above the regimental level all attended the meeting, as well as the only battalion-level officer, Liang Qiang, the commander of the teaching battalion, and, of course, the intelligence bureau and the special combat team.

At the beginning of the meeting, Young Master Liang first announced a reform of the troop establishment: instructors above the regimental level were renamed political commissars, referred to as political commissars, and instructors at the battalion level were still called instructors, and instructors were called at the training level; Liang Haowen, the military political commissar, is in charge of the Political Work Office, the Logistics Department, the Statistics Department, the Propaganda Office, the Special Service Regiment, the Engineer Corps, and the Baggage Regiment of the troops directly under him.

Tieqiao Sanliang Kun, deputy army commander and commander of the 2nd Brigade, was also in charge of the military police regiment and cavalry regiment, and Huang Qiying, deputy army commander and commander of the mountain brigade, was in charge of the affairs of the cottage base, not the affairs of the military department.

The two special organs, the Intelligence Bureau and the Special Operations Team, are established at the regimental level, and the training battalion is also established at the regimental level.

Liang Jiajun has only been established for one year, and all the officers present are the first batch of members of Liang Jiajun except Tan Xiucai, and everyone is promoted in a rocket manner in this short period of time, and everyone's salary has also risen again and again, all of them are very excited, and they are not afraid of war, and even have some yearning.

Young Master Liang asked the intelligence chief, Jin Niu, to introduce the reconnaissance situation first. Due to the importance of intelligence gathering and reconnaissance this time, Jin Niu and Li Zishan both personally led the team.

Taurus picked up the wooden stick, pointed to the map and said: "We have established a base in the Yilan area of Taiwan Island, this base is not far from the Ryukyu Kingdom where we are going to fight, of course, there is an ocean in between, fortunately we already have a navy, otherwise this battle will not be fought at all."

The intelligence chief's words were a bit verbose, but these officers were all newcomers, and none of them came out of the regular military academy, so no one cared. They all listened to him with great interest.

"The territory of the Ryukyu Kingdom is a long list of islands in the ocean, these islands are not big, the capital of the kingdom is built on the main island of the Ryukyus, which is also the largest island of the Ryukyu Kingdom, the area is not large, it is estimated that even the size of Qiongzhou Island is less than 10%, their kingdom army is not more than a thousand people in total, and the weapons and equipment are very backward, all bows, arrows, swords and spears, we did not find guns in our reconnaissance, but we can't enter the royal city, and the army inside the royal city may have rifles and other weapons; There is a port on Ryukyu Island, and there is no coastal defense fort in the port, and this port should be open to the outside world, because we have seen many foreign merchant ships docked in the port, and foreign merchant ships do business with the Ryukyu Kingdom, and also replenish supplies in the port, so this port should be a very important port in this sea area."

After listening to the introduction of the intelligence chief, everyone sighed, and the atmosphere became relaxed; Such a small country, with a total of less than 1,000 troops, and no good weapons and equipment, with the current strength of the Liang family's army, it is definitely three fingers pinching a snail - nine out of ten!

Young Master Liang understood everyone's mentality when he saw their expressions, he shook his head and said: "The main purpose of our war this time is not to attack the Ryukyu Kingdom, the occupation of Ryukyu is just an appetizer, and the main dish is Japan in the north of Ryukyu; Japan is also an island country, and now the Japanese are mainly concentrated on three islands, the northernmost island of Hokkaido has a small population due to its cold climate; Japan's largest island is called Honshu Island, with an area of 220,000 square kilometers according to the calculation method of foreigners, and two other islands are Kyushu Island and Shikoku Island, which are more than 30,000 square kilometers and nearly 20,000 square kilometers respectively. This kilometer is our two miles, and one square kilometer is the size of a square with a length and width of one kilometer; Our Qiongzhou Island is also more than 30,000 square kilometers, which is slightly smaller than Japan's Kyushu Island, and the main island of Ryukyu is only 1,200 square kilometers, which is actually only one-thirtieth the size of Qiongzhou Island.

This combat meeting is held, and we must first help these subordinates to teach science popularization.