China's land is too big, and there are too many backward places, it can be said that there are holes everywhere, and Yang Yuanzhao doesn't know what the five countries are discussing together, whether to have another eight-nation alliance and directly attack the northwest with the help of a huge military force and fleet, or directly cut off China's exports and give the northwest a heavy blow economically, or simply directly support the Beiyang Army and the ** party, and disrupt the whole of China, these are all possible.

This time period is actually very strange, and many unbelievable things in later generations feel completely impossible, but they are very common at this time, such as the Empress Dowager Cixi in 1900 declared war on all countries, and for example, the Boer War, a small land, actually cost the British hundreds of millions of wealth, if it were not for South Africa's huge gold and diamond resources, maybe Britain would not continue to fight.

There is such a strange example, there is not enough intelligence support, even Yang Yuanzhao, who has the vision of future generations, cannot get more judgments, there are too many possibilities, and the wings of the butterfly have been fanned, the current China, the current northwest, and the past history, are completely different.

Since I can't figure it out, I just don't think too much about it, put this aside first, for Yang Yuanzhao, striking iron also needs its own hardness, when there are no flaws in itself, and under the premise of having enough strong strength, the necessary preparations are necessary.

Since the confrontation with the Beiyang Army, especially after occupying most of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Mongolia, Baotou has never stopped expanding its armaments, and before there was only one place in Baotou, even if it is as much as possible to recruit, it is only a few million people, and it is not easy to gather tens of thousands of people from the middle, but now Baotou is completely different from before, sitting on the land of 3 provinces, and has a population base of 100 million, and the population of young and middle-aged people is also huge, these people are a natural source of arms.

Baotou's technical schools, has been opened throughout the northwest, Shanxi, Shaanxi and Mongolia, there are a large number of technical schools, the original Baotou and the northwest here education tradition, but also created a large number of teachers, although from the perspective of later generations, not very qualified, Yang Yuanzhao does not intend to train everyone in one fell swoop, as long as they have basic skills, most of the workers after three months or half a year of training, basically mastered the primary technology, can become Baotou production line workers, as for the future, Baotou has a perfect promotion system and training system, and they can learn and continue to improve in the future.

Not everyone is willing to train like this, or rather, young people have nowhere to vent their energy, they will choose to be soldiers, a population base of 100 million, such people are not many, but there are one or two million, enough for Baotou to screen out suitable soldiers, of course, a good salary and can be a soldier immediately, this is the biggest temptation.

Baotou has three major arms factories, plus the gradual expansion, the monthly production volume, enough to arm 200,000 troops, in addition to external sales, earn a lot of money, the rest, are placed in Baotou itself, with Baotou as the center, the formation of several huge military camps, intense training is underway, the number of soldiers is increasing rapidly. Soldiers are not equal to troops, and for the time being, for Baotou, the number of troops cannot be greatly expanded.

There are too few officers, that's right, officers, that is, the number of officers is insufficient, during this time, because of the war between the north and the south, both the north and the south attach great importance to the army, in addition to the officers who were poached before, the remaining ones, no matter what the strength is, have been improved, for these officers who have just been promoted, the attraction of Baotou has been greatly weakened, and there are very few people in Baotou who can get their hands on it, as for Baotou locally, because of the continuous expansion, the Northwest Military Academy has almost been hollowed out, and the newly expanded soldiers have been turned into troops. There are a lot of officers in need, and the tentacles of the military are beginning to touch the military academy, even if it has only been trained for less than a year, but it is stronger than mud legs.

Originally, this was a good thing, in the eyes of the military, the conditions were relaxed so that military cadets could be employed in advance, but now Jiang Baili was angry and directly stopped the military's practice.

Jiang Baili was appointed by Yang Yuanzhao as the principal of the military academy, and received Yang Yuanzhao's strong support, and almost spared no effort to build a huge military academy.

This purpose is very far, there are many things to be taught, even the most basic things, it will take at least 1-2 years to penetrate into their bones, in his opinion, the cadets who were rushed to the horse and supplemented into the army before, in a sense, are only half-finished products, and there will even be a great danger.

But last year, this was no way, because of the approach of the Beiyang Army, at the juncture of life and death, we couldn't watch the northwest perish, so I had to give in, during this time, when the war calmed down, in order to make up for the previous practice, we also continued to carry out short-term training classes, and this group of officers, as well as a group of soldiers who emerged in the war, carried out a surprise attack, in order to prevent the flow of hard work in vain, so that he could receive more systematic training as much as possible.

The sequelae of the last batch have not been completely made up, and now, the military has to reach into the military academy, which is absolutely not allowed, these students who have just entered the school since last year, full of calculations, have received less than a year of education, and the difference between the previous ones, most of these students have no military experience, a blank sheet of paper is good to paint, the reason why these young people who have a certain foundation in Western studies and are strong in blood are to realize his ideals.

As long as the training is successful, the Northwest Military Academy will form a tradition, and there will be a steady stream of officers in the future to supplement the system of the Northwest Army.

Jiang Baili's ideal, and the current stage of military expansion has formed a certain contradiction, Jiang Baili's hardness and the military's demands, the two sides are irreconcilable, and finally to Yang Yuanzhao here, Yang Yuanzhao has no choice, both sides are very reasonable, think about it, the northwest military expansion is not as urgent as before, and it also needs to be continued, otherwise, once the students of the Northwest Military Academy come out, thousands of qualified officers will be added at once, and there will be enough troops to settle ah, compromise the ideas of both sides, Tiyì asked Jiang Baili to separate the levels, some of the faster progress and better talent can graduate early, as long as he can complete his own credits, he can be allowed to graduate, and he does not have to stay in the military academy for three years.

Jiang Baili also knows that among the students, there are talented and outstanding, from the tens of millions of bases, select talents suitable for the military, the best of the best, some of them are one out of a thousand or even one out of ten thousand, these people are different from ordinary people, and it can be said that such people graduate early.

As the executive vice president of the military academy, that is, under Yang Yuanzhao, the direct person in charge of the military academy, according to his understanding, there are very few people at this level, and the most people who have graduated after one year of study are less than 100, and those who have graduated in one and a half to two years may have 500, and the remaining seventy or eighty percent will be able to graduate two years later, or even about three years.

In this way, after coordination, both sides are relatively satisfied, within a month or two, you can get 100 officers, although the few are the top in the military academy, this group of people as long as a little training, they can go to the post, I don't know how high to go, but normal development, a few months, or a year or two later, a regiment commander can not run, plus 500 people in 1 year and about four or five thousand people in 2 years, these are enough, batch and continuity are also available, after the army has undergone a substantial expansion, For military needs are not so important, newly recruited soldiers, except for a part of the army to supplement the army, the rest can be trained as regular soldiers, transferred to the internal guard or garrison force.

The affairs of the army were solved by Yang Yuanzhao like mud, to be honest, not very good, but the problem was solved, and then, Yang Yuanzhao focused on the adjustment of Baotou.

Thanks to the establishment of the Baotou government, Baotou has more than a year, cultivated a large number of government talents, these talents successfully took over the role of Manchu officials, the model of Baotou copied to various places, the poor late Qing people, are extremely difficult days, otherwise, knowing a little bit of Baotou, have come to Baotou.

For the development of the city, Yang Yuanzhao does not have a systematic development idea, but one thing is certain: as long as you are willing to invest money, as long as you are willing to invest in the construction of technical facilities and industrial investment, you can improve it from the most practical aspects.

Money, there is, whether it is foreign income, or from the extraction of gold ore, 500 tons of gold, enough to support a large amount of investment, first from municipal construction, urban planning, road transportation, railway construction, this time to absorb tens of millions of people, plus agriculture and other discerning investors, according to the Baotou model to establish a foothold in the region and the city of some enterprises, the entire scope of the three provinces, began to flourish.

The military aspect remains stable, other aspects of crazy investment, strong accumulation and vision from later generations, so that the development of the northwest is very steady, from light industry to heavy industry, not only did not appear the so-called pains, but took root, with the help of the arms industry, steel industry and manufacturing industry and a series of upgrading and development, gradually became the foundation of Baotou, relying on heavy industry, Baotou's development is more stable, it seems that all aspects are very smooth, nothing can be used. R1152