Colt smiled bitterly and replied, "General Guo, is it necessary for the two of us to be so angry?" You have also seen my physical condition, but I am afraid that my body can no longer support it for two years, I originally planned to work with you to build a super military industrial complex in the world, but now it seems that my dream is only afraid that it will be disappointed......"

Guo Ye frowned and replied, "Okay, Colt, the future is a matter of the future, how much can your body be wrong?" If there is a problem, then it is good to cultivate, I believe that with the musket we put into production, it is enough to seize the entire European and American market, what we have to do now is to stabilize the development trend of the Colt Military Industry Company, take advantage of the opportunity of the civil war, and accumulate more abundant capital, as for the things behind you, it is a matter of the future, no one can predict, you said that your life is not much, then what about me, I fight on the battlefield, even a day in the future, even an hour can not be predicted......"

Colt was shocked and silent, and replied: "You don't need to comfort me, I know my own situation, my biggest dream is to build a military industrial empire, it is my greatest luck to find you as a partner, you can master the Chinese market, I can control the American market, you have enough advanced weapons technology concepts, I have a huge sales network, a match made in heaven, but unfortunately the sky is not a holiday, as for me, whether it is my wife or my son, they do not have enough ability and vision to run an arms company." It would be nice to be able to maintain the status quo, but the world is changing rapidly, new technologies are emerging one after another, and if we don't make progress, it is equivalent to regression......"

Guo Ye could feel the true feelings in Colt's heart. But. Guo Ye didn't dare to promise them anything. For Colt, he trusts and understands enough, but what about the shareholders of other future companies? He was not so relieved, if Colt died, it would be a sure thing to part ways, which was why Guo Ye was anxious.

Guo Ye and Colt decided on the matter of Chinese laborers, the same. Lincoln and Grant, who returned to Washington, also acted quickly.

On the third day after returning to Washington, Lincoln forcibly passed the "Emancipation Proclamation" in Congress by virtue of his presidential power, officially declaring that all slave owners, all black slaves and yellow slaves raised by capitalists in the southern states and northern states were granted personal freedom, and called on the slaves who had been granted personal freedom to respond to the federal government's conscription order and take up arms to defend their hard-won freedom!

The slaves who learned of the order were naturally excited, and for a while, the federal government recruitment point was surrounded by black slaves!

At the same time, Lincoln went on to sign a presidential decree. The Fifth and Sixth Armies of the Federal Government were formed, with the Fifth Army being the White Army. There was the Union Army general Belloc as commander; The Sixth Army is a mixed corps composed of whites, yellows and blacks, which is a federal mercenary corps, with Guo Ye as the commander of the mercenary corps;

With the order given, convoys of recruits were transported from the northeastern United States toward Richmond, and not only that, but they entered the mercenary corps along with the recruits recruited near Richmond. As the name suggests, this army does not completely belong to the federal army sequence, but is hired by the federal government in an emergency, which can also avoid the problems caused by the identity of Guo Ye and his army.

In more than half a month, before a month, the federal government formed an army for Guo Ye, and the three divisions were all full, and the strength reached 45,000 people!

It's just that with such a large number of troops, it is not so easy to generate combat effectiveness, after all, Guo Ye has brought over more than 1,000 people in total, even if you add the remaining three or four thousand people under the original McMullen, the strength is only 5,000 people, and some of them are also recruits who have just fought one or two battles!

Now Guo Ye can't care so much, there must be an army that can fight well, so that he can occupy a certain advantage in the civil war, the combat effectiveness of the southern army is far better than that of the northern army, this is not to say that you can catch up in one or two days, if you want to change the situation, you must concentrate all the elites in the limited army, not scattered in various departments!

Guo Ye immediately ordered that all the artillery, the first battalion, and the cavalry battalion he brought were included in the first division, and at the same time, the 3,000 Chinese laborers and 6,000 black slaves recruited, and 2,000 of McMullen's troops were included in the first division, and at the same time, the most advanced rifled running and rear-loading repeating guns were all equipped to the first division. Not only that, the First Division not only concentrated the original artillery battalions, but in order to strengthen the strength of the First Division, Guo Ye also armed two artillery battalions, three artillery battalions, and sixty or seventy artillery pieces at the same time, which is not such a strong firepower in any division in the United States!

As for the second division and the third division, they were all handed over to Gao Qi and Luo Bicheng, and the two of them took less than 300 veterans of Baoding Town and McMullen's army of 1,000 people to train the strength of the two divisions, Gao Qi and Luo Bicheng are about to go crazy, how can there be such an eccentric eldest brother, all the good things are left to the first division, and the second and third divisions are now an empty shelf, when can they have strong combat effectiveness?

However, after all, the arms couldn't twist the thighs, and under Guo Ye's scolding and iron fist, the two of them had to succumb to Guo Ye's obscenity and aggrieved to train their own army.

Guo Ye had just arranged the military training deployment of the Sixth Army, and Xue Fucheng, who was far away in Philadelphia, also sent a telegram, he had found Gatling in Philadelphia, and was negotiating hard with Gatling, wanting to win the patent of the Gatling heavy machine gun, it was not so easy, the two sides had a huge disagreement on the price, the price difference was 200,000 US dollars, this is not a small amount, Xue Fucheng of course would not give such a huge fortune to Gatling out of thin air, so he had to ask Guo Ye for instructions to see how Guo Ye decided.

Guo Ye looked at Xue Fucheng's telegram, and his heart was angry and funny, it turned out that Xue Fucheng would also be a guy who picked the door, 200,000 US dollars, the difference is indeed not low, but Gatling has completed the modification of the Gatling heavy machine gun, and also completed the patent application for all its technologies, for him, this is a cornucopia, of course Gatling is unwilling to let go.

Gatling's asking price was $500,000, and Xue Fucheng's initial price was only $150,000, how could Gatling accept such a price, and finally Xue Fucheng raised the price to $300,000, and the angry Gatlin still didn't buy it! (To be continued.) )