Chapter 32: Prelude to the Great Military Training

Talking about loans will not be so fast for the time being, Xia Jun is not too worried about economic problems, Fujian's sugarcane has been harvested, a bumper harvest has been obtained, and there is another income from sugar production.

The banknotes are being printed again, and Xia Jun has issued nearly 20 million yuan banknotes so far, mainly because the raw materials of cotton paper cannot keep up for a while, and there is no way to increase the amount of printing.

KFC branches have begun to open everywhere, and the Ministry of Trade has begun to march into major cities in the United States and Europe, arranging the opening of KFC in various places.

The bicycle factory has also made BMW brand bicycles, which have perfect technology, and the bicycles produced are much smaller than those in Europe and the United States, and the weight of the bicycles is at least half lighter.

Whether it is fast or slow and effort-saving is not the size of the bicycle, and the ultra-small BMX of later generations can also run fast.

Labor-saving and fast is the ratio of the crankset and the flywheel, the ratio of the front and back, if the ratio is the same surname, the big is faster, one is labor-saving and time-consuming, the other is time-saving and laborious, and the mountain bike can adjust the crankset and flywheel.

Reducing the size of the bicycle means reducing the cost, and if it is used for transportation, it is completely unnecessary to use such a large bicycle, and it is so heavy and laborious to ride.

However, the big advantage is that you can carry more things, so BMW bicycles also have larger bicycles, which are rationed to postmen and the military.

BMW bicycles have been welcomed in the domestic market as soon as they are launched, but not everyone can afford them, and the price of a bicycle is six yuan, which is equivalent to three months' wages for ordinary workers.

The domestic market is not very prosperous for a while because of the relatively low labor cost, but it is slightly better in Fujian, and the largest market is in Shanghai and other big cities.

BMW brand bicycles were soon exported to the Americas, Europe, Southeast Asia, and even Ben, and many foreign businessmen even came to Fujian to place orders.

Because Xia Jun organized personnel to participate in the Berlin exhibition a few months ago, some foreign businessmen often come to Fujian.

In addition to those foreign businessmen who ordered, Tana became a seller of BMW bicycles in the United States, and this time Tana returned to the United States, already planning to do a big job, she successfully obtained the production authorization of sulfonamides from Xia Jun, and began to build her trust system.

Among the trusts that Tana can build, lighters, cigarettes, sanitary napkins, bras, etc. are all available, but because the threshold is relatively low, they may not be able to be successfully built.

Some goods can't be made into trusts, such as sanitary napkins, if your price is raised, other manufacturers will naturally rise, and Xia Jun is also exporting these products to the United States, so in low-threshold goods such as sanitary napkins, Tana has turned to indulgent sales channels.

Things like lighters and cigarettes can be used to form trusts, because Xia Jun has superior technology, so the company can quickly achieve hegemony in the market.

There is no risk in setting up trusts in the United States, because trusts in the United States are too common, and the country wants to rectify supergiants like Mobil Corporation, so naturally they will not target the Abrot Group, which has just been formed.

The trademark of BMW bicycles is also shamelessly plagiarized from the German BMW company, which has not yet appeared.

This kind of bicycle has been sold well as soon as it is manufactured, and the bicycle factory has submitted an application to expand its production capacity, and those equipment manufactured in other countries will have to wait for a while if they are ready, so Xia Jun has exchanged a batch of new equipment for the East China Communications Manufacturing Company.

And Xia Jun only has 30 million points left in his hand, which he keeps for the construction of the Air Force and Army, so he buys factories on a large scale every time.

According to Matlet's law, Xia Jun feels that the most important thing to solve at present is education, resources, and funds.

Resources are resources for development, various minerals, etc., and capital is to prevent capital outflow, that is, China is faced with the problem of a large number of commodities that need to be imported and cannot be self-sufficient.

The so-called Matelet rule is 80/20, the law believes that the core of many things lies in the 20%, as long as you grasp the 20%, you can grasp the other 80%, and also believes that 80% of the profit is created by the 20%.

The first thing to do is agricultural self-sufficiency, which is no problem, and the second is the self-sufficiency of light industry, of which China imports cotton cloth, matches, soda (soap) and other supplies, under the premise that tariffs cannot be controlled, Xia Jun should provide sufficient competitiveness for those private enterprises.

At present, Xia Jun is investing everywhere, most of which are in basic industries, that is, electricity, transportation, raw materials, etc., and those private enterprises can gain a foothold after the formation of these basic industries, coupled with low labor costs, they can use the same equipment to compete with foreign goods.

The group of capitalists who initially followed Xia Jun's development are currently accumulating relatively fast, and this time the pattern is large, and these capitalists have started the upsurge of expansion again.

At the same time, more people joined the boom in setting up industries, and Xia Jun's trade department ordered machinery and equipment for them in foreign countries one by one.

And on some equipment that can't be bought, Xia Jun will exchange it for them.

Usually only those industrialists who follow Xia Jun in the first batch can get this kind of treatment, because they are successful, Xia Jun is more at ease with them, and those new entrants, Xia Jun does not know how their business ability is, and the ghost knows if it will fall as soon as it opens, so these people must also make some achievements to show their business ability Xia Jun will give them such treatment.

Running factories under the rule of the Provisional Political Axe in East China made it easy for some capitalists who were accustomed to surviving in the cracks, and people said that capitalists were not so easy to be in this era.

Indeed, they not only have to open factories in the case of backward technology, but also face all kinds of ruffians, gangs, and even official oppression, and it is indeed not easy to survive in the cracks.

But it would be much simpler to open a factory under the management of the East China Provisional Political Axe, and technically the political axe package would order advanced equipment for them. There is no need to be afraid of being harassed by ruffians and gangs, and the political axe will encourage them to expand and try to reduce the cost of raw materials for them.

In this era when domestic capital is basically blank and there is strong support from the political axe, it is easy to run any factory, and many businessmen have been extremely active since the establishment of the Provisional Political Axe in East China.

All kinds of factories related to people's livelihood began to be built, and Xia Jun had nothing to do for the time being, Xia Jun turned to the construction of the army.

Of the more than 500 young people from Nanyang, about 300 who were physically qualified were transferred to the East China Military Academy by Xia Jun, and those who were not physically qualified were sent to East China University for further study.

These young people who have returned from Nanyang will become the backbone of the armed forces that will form the Nanyang Chinese military and political axes in the future, and they will be sent back to Nanyang and Australia after receiving training, and Xia Jun will continue to migrate to Nanyang and Australia to strengthen the people's base.

A grand plan is being woven in Xia Jun's hands, and in the future, China's forces will control Southeast Asia, Australia, the world's most important rubber producing areas, and mineral-rich Australia, and swallow the land of these Chinese.

These young men from Nanyang were extremely excited when they entered the East China Military Academy, and they found that the East China Provisional Political Axe was indeed a political system with a goal and a lofty goal, including the goal of protecting the interests of the Chinese in Nanyang, and they also came into contact with the most advanced army in the world, and they also received the most comprehensive ideological indoctrination.

Xia Jun then set up the Air Force, the East China Military Academy has trained the first batch of Air Force pilots, since the establishment of the Air Force Academy last year, Xia Jun has bought two relatively advanced training planes, the German Fokker E-1 fighter, this kind of aircraft in the First World War caused the Allied countries to cause the 'Fokker disaster', this group of officers is the only one in the whole army who has been exposed to the concept of aircraft and air combat.

The number of officers in this batch has reached 30, Xia Jun's next step is to recruit pilots, and in terms of equipment, Xia Jun chose a mature fighter such as a Fokker fighter, which can also be used as a reconnaissance aircraft.

Fokker fighter: wingspan: 9.41 m, length: 7.30 m, height: 2.79 m, maximum take-off mass: 610 kg, maximum flight speed: 140 km / h, practical ceiling: 3500 m, endurance: 1.5 hours.

The price of a Fokker fighter is 10,000 points, and Xia Jun bought 100 of them.

In addition to the Fokker fighters, Xia Jun was also equipped with a small number of 10 Junker strike aircraft from the late stage of World War I, which made its first test flight on December 5, 1915. It was a biplane equipped with an aluminum alloy skin and protective armor, and it was also the first all-metal aircraft. Machine guns were installed on the plane, carrying a small number of bombs, which could strafe and bomb ground targets at low altitudes, and later Junkers developed a more advanced CLI-IV attack aircraft, which was changed from a double wing to a lower single wing, and the speed and maneuverability were also improved, and the aircraft was equipped with 2-3 machine guns. They are performing dangerous low-altitude close-range fire, showing good performance and combat effectiveness.

Armed with belly machine guns, cluster grenades and hand-thrown light bombs, these aircraft are made of aluminium alloy and equipped with protective armor.

This kind of aircraft is relatively expensive, one requires 200,000 points, Xia Jun only bought 10 of them, while using them first, and then trying to imitate them after the aircraft factory is built.

In the army, Xia Jun added another light machine gun - MG08/15 7.92mm Makqin light machine gun, the internal parts of the gun are exactly the same as MG08, but the receiver has been lightweight. MG08/15 retains MG08's cooling water cylinder, thus retaining the basic characteristics of MG08's original thermal continuity - but the volume of the water tank has been reduced from the original 4 liters to 3 liters. MG08/15 eliminates the spade handle swing grip of MG08 and installs a rifle-style stock, pistol small grip and index finger trigger; The bulky sled gun carriage was also eliminated and replaced with a bipod weighing only 1.5 pounds (0.68 kg). The MG08's original delicate rear sight has also been replaced with a relatively simple but more robust component. With the side-mounted magazine (one 100-round cartridge belt built-in) and the cooling water tank fully watered, the MG08/15 weighs about 43 pounds (19.5 kg) - a figure equivalent to only one-third of the MG08.

The MG08/15 has higher requirements for shooters in shooting, and compared to the BZ-26 light machine gun, which can be used with casual training, the technical surname is more stringent. At the same time, because of the weight, it can't be used as a class, so Xia Jun equipped MG08/15 in the company level.

Each company is equipped with 6 MG08/15 guns to form a machine gun platoon, two per squad, mounted on three rotten motorcycles, which can also be removed for use. Although the Maxim heavy machine gun can be used on a tricycle, it is relatively reluctant and inconvenient to use.

In terms of heavy machine guns, they are equipped at the battalion level and are used to defend fixed points. The MG08/15 can follow the infantry advance, after capturing the position, in response to the enemy's counterattack.

The reason why it is equipped with MG08/15 is mainly due to the continuous lack of firepower of the BZ-26, after all, there are only 20 rounds, although it is said that it is 12 rounds more than the M1 Garand, and the power is also more fierce, but as a firepower unit that has been defined as a light machine gun, the bullets are still too few.

In terms of weapons, Xia Jun added another machine gun, and at the same time, the air force began to be formed, and then it was time to practice tactics.

The big training is about to begin!

(To be continued)