"My lord, what do you mean......" Sun Shijie felt that his heartbeat suddenly increased a lot, and his originally tanned face was a little red and black, revealing a trace of excitement. 【Reading.com】

Liang Pengfei's gaze swept over the confidants and staff officers in the conference hall, looking at the eager and expectant faces, thinking of the Chinese compatriots who are now in dire straits, Liang Pengfei really had the urge to shoot the case, but reason told him that it was not enough.

Liang Pengfei now has ships, soldiers, resources, factories and mines, it can be said that his current strength does have the capital to confront the Qing court, but the problem is that Liang Pengfei's strength is not enough to use the devastating combat method to end the Manchu rule over this land in the shortest time and with the fastest speed, and in the shortest possible time, so that the people living in this land that have suffered countless hardships can live in peace, and will not be swept into the whirlpool of war for a long time.

This is the reason why Liang Pengfei has not made up his mind for a long time, because the Chinese nation has suffered enough and for a long time, and he does not want to let countless innocent people die and their wives be separated because of his actions. At the very least, he had to do his best to try to reduce the suffering of ordinary people in the event of the overthrow of the Manchus.

"If you can help me to be more prepared and stronger, I will consider launching it in advance, but I want you to remember what to do and how to do it after we overthrow the Manchus, have you thought about it?" Liang Pengfei's words made the hot beating hearts stop instantly, and then cooled, as if their somewhat hot minds had regained their clarity.

"Your lord's words are very good, it should be so, it seems that we are indeed too anxious." After Ni Ming took a deep breath, he gave Liang Pengfei a deep salute: "It is indeed a blessing for the people of the world to be able to think about the people of the world like this, and it is a blessing for us to be able to think about the people of the world like this. ”

"Okay, okay, don't be a sycophant, to be serious, although our strength seems to be strong now, it is far from the standard I expected, so whether it is armament or other aspects, we must speed up again." Liang Pengfei smiled and waved his hand before saying in a deep voice.

Ni Ming raised his eyebrows and said loudly: "Don't worry, my lord, but in terms of armaments, is there too much power invested in R&D on King Crab Island?" A large number of excellent technicians and craftsmen are concentrated in those research institutes, and if they can also devote themselves to the production of armaments, I believe that the output will not be doubled, but at least by three to fifty percent. ”

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Ni Ming and the others know very well that Liang Pengfei invests a huge amount of money in the intensive research institute on King Crab Island every year, and the craftsmen and technicians in the research institute are definitely outstanding spire talents. And the number is very large, and the number of research institutes with strange research directions is so large that even Ni Ming, who often travels back and forth between King Crab Island and the mainland, feels a little numb.

There are research institutes that study the alloys of artillery and musket tubes, research institutes that manufacture and improve existing large-scale machine tools, research institutes that develop medicines, research institutes that study how to improve the efficiency of steam engines, research institutes that study how to make steam engines larger, research institutes that study how to make the fuses of artillery shells safer so that they do not explode when fired, and research institutes that study the improvement of rice hybridization, and there are also research institutes that study the production of rubber vulcanization...... In short, Ni Ming felt that if he really had to count it, he was afraid that he couldn't count it with his hands and feet.

However, it has to be said that those research institutes did allow Ni Ming and many others to see many benefits, such as mortars and revolvers, such as rifles that have just been assembled with two divisions, and the kind of high-powered rapid-fire artillery with anti-recoil devices composed of liquid pneumatic brakes and reentry machines, which is said to be close to success.

Of course, there are also small soldiers' helmets, front-covered armor, hand shovels, water bottles, and magazines, although these things may seem inconspicuous, but when you go to the battlefield, you realize that these things come in handy and are unimaginable. And a lot of equipment was developed at Liang Pengfei's suggestion or even participation in and guidance of design.

This made Ni Ming and others, who knew the inside story, sincerely admired Liang Pengfei's armament talent, but they also didn't understand that Liang Pengfei had always regarded those messy research institutes as even more important than the arsenal.

"Impossible, every work in the institute must not be delayed in any way, let alone pull people out of the institute for these things, I absolutely do not allow this." After Liang Pengfei heard Ni Ming's suggestion, he immediately rejected his suggestion without thinking about it.

Hearing Liang Pengfei's answer, Ni Ming, who was not surprised, could only shake his head: "Then, we can only transfer people from the technical school, but although those apprentices can also join the factory for production, the probability of scrap will definitely be very high." ”

"If you transfer people from a technical school, I have no opinion, but the teacher can't be transferred, after all, I still have to open the school, as for the increase in the scrap rate, it's nothing, as long as it takes a month or two, as long as they are not stupid, they will definitely become journeymen." Liang Pengfei let out a long sigh.

His army does not dare to say much, but there are definitely a lot, but the problem is that the armament cannot keep up, and now, the army under Liang Pengfei's command, excluding the navy, has 70,000 troops recruited and trained in the Indochina Peninsula, that is, Annam, port countries and other places, and there are 15,000 garrisons in India, and nearly 100,000 troops are distributed on the main islands of the South Seas, and there are nearly 25,000 garrisons in northern Australia.

On Hong Kong Island, there are 30,000 elite army units. There are also those soldiers who have become the training of the Guangdong and Fujian regiments, and these add up to more than 250,000 people, but the problem is that only the 30,000 elite and marines stationed in Hong Kong are actually equipped with repeating firearms.

India's 15,000 troops, one-third of the 70,000 troops in Indochina, nearly half of the 100,000 troops in the South Seas, and Australia's 25,000 garrisons used flintlock muskets, of course, their guns were of better quality than Western flintlock muskets, and the failure rate of firearms was lower.

Many of the remaining soldiers are still wielding broadswords and spears, and although they often take over weapons from armed robes to train firearms for combat, the problem is that armament production is still a bottleneck, so Liang Pengfei had to stop the idea of continuing to expand the army at the beginning of last year. Efforts were made to expand the production capacity of armaments, and the funding and personnel of technical schools were repeatedly increased.

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There are many things studied in those institutes, and only Liang Pengfei knows what kind of progress and change they will bring if they are successful. For example, the repair dock on King Crab Island has been turned into a ship research institute for engineers and craftsmen who use steel to build ships, or how to use steam engines as power to enable warships to sail at extremely high speeds when there is no wind. Moreover, it is already getting closer and closer to success.

After the steam engine was large-scale, the production of artillery could be made faster, and now in King Crab Island, trial production of rails and trains have begun. You know, in a few years, an Englishman will use the Watt steam engine to build the first train that can run on rails, and the emergence of trains will greatly change the world's transportation pattern and business pattern.

The other is electricity, Liang Pengfei knows how the hand-cranked generator is made, and with the steam engine and the river, the production of electricity will be possible. However, how to use this electric energy, this is not Liang Pengfei, who knows what it is, does not know why it is the second pole can understand, however, Liang Pengfei is not worried, because there is a group of scientists who are crazy about this new energy, and are working day and night to find a way to use electricity to decompose and smelt metals, or find other uses as Liang Pengfei said.

In short, Liang Pengfei is now determined to build King Crab Island into an island of science and technology, an island of research, at present, on the island, there are no less than 200 scientists with a reputation, and a number of thousands of technicians.

The inhabitants of King Crab Island have completely moved out of here, leaving only those scientific and technological workers and, of course, a large number of soldiers vigilantly protecting the island at all times.

"Compared to Lao Tzu's King of Crab Island, Oxford is a bird." Liang Pengfei thought darkly. Thinking that it only took him a few years to develop so many things relying on the scientific research strength of King Crab Island, which greatly improved the combat effectiveness of his army, which made Liang Pengfei feel extremely fulfilled and relieved.

Science and technology is the primary productive force, Liang Pengfei has always kept in mind, and this sentence has been taken as the motto of the technical school, and Liang Pengfei has been telling the people around him that if you want to overthrow all the heavy pressure that dares to bully our heads, and sweep away all the obstacles that hinder our progress, in addition to a firm will and the spirit of dedication, it is necessary to have better weapons and better equipment than the enemy. In order to be able to preserve their vitality to the greatest extent, they can destroy more enemies and opponents.

Although these people haven't fully understood Liang Pengfei's intentions, he is not in a hurry, Rome is not built in a day, and beautiful girls are not soaked in a day, so patience is required. "I still have time to wait for them to wake up." Liang Pengfei said to himself.

(To be continued)