Not to mention that Xiong Bingkun and others were ordered to garrison Yingshan County, and Sun Wei began his recruitment and training again. Sun Wei sent people to set up recruitment offices in various parts of Hubei, preparing to recruit two more divisions to deal with the pressure of the Beiyang Army.

Sun Wei also asked Wang Hu to select a battalion of literate and hyphenated recruits from among the newly recruited soldiers, and let them train them individually to prepare for use as military police. For these gendarmes, Sun Wei plans to participate in the training himself, mainly to train their sense of discipline and on-the-spot judgment ability, so that they can quickly detect soldiers who violate discipline and make correct treatments.

Sun Wei's energy to participate in the training of the military police was mainly due to his good secretary Yang Yi, who was worthy of being the master of the former governor of Huguang for many years, and had a strong ability to handle political affairs, properly sorted out the documents sent from various ministries, and separated the priority documents very well, saving Sun Wei a lot of trouble.

Moreover, Yang Yi also recommended many of his classmates and friends to Sun Wei, and gave important responsibilities to those capable Sun Wei. Without the fetters of political affairs, Sun Wei devoted himself to the military.

Sun Wei's guard battalion has long been dilapidated because of the repeated transfer of manpower, and the original guard battalion of more than 1,000 people now has less than 500 people left, but it has become a real guard battalion, and it only has the ability to protect Sun Wei's safety.

Sun Wei took out the remaining 240 people to form two pistol companies, mainly to protect Sun Wei's travel. In this era, not to mention automatic rifles, even semi-automatic rifles have just been invented and have not yet become popular, and the army's largest weapon of destruction is only heavy machine guns.

In fact, most of the current Chinese troops are not even equipped with heavy machine guns, and the original Hubei New Army has only a few guns, and only the six towns in Beiyang are equipped with eight or nine in each town, and now the only ones with the greatest lethality at close range are pistols.

The rest of the soldiers of the guard battalion were sent by Sun Wei to various provinces in Hubei to recruit new soldiers, and Sun Wei planned to recruit a security regiment in each province in Hubei to use it to suppress the localities, and these soldiers were the officers of the security regiment.

Sun Wei brought two AK-47s from Hyundai to ask for them from Wang Hu and Liu Fei, originally Sun Wei wanted Hanyang Arsenal as a reference to see if it could be imitated, but Liu Xilin told him that the structure of the gun was too complicated, and the steel used to make the barrel could not find a suitable one at present, so there was no way to start. Sun Wei had no choice but to put the baby at home and let them copy the Maxim machine gun and the Haqi Kaisi light machine gun, hoping to copy the AK-47 on this basis.

In 1911, there were very few steel plants in China, and China's annual steel production was less than a fraction of that of Japan, which was a small matter for a China with a population of 450 million, and in an era when steel production determined comprehensive national strength, this steel production made China a country to be bullied.

There is a steel plant in Hubei, called Hanyang Tiechang, which belongs to Hanyeping Company. This is the earliest iron and steel complex in China, consisting of three parts: Hanyang Iron Works, Daye Iron Mine and Jiangxi Pingxiang Coal Mine, and is the first generation of new iron and steel conglomerates in China. In 1908, Sheng Xuanhuai asked the Qing government to approve the merger of Hanyang Iron Works, Daye Iron Mine, and Pingxiang Coal Mine. At the same time, it was changed from an official supervision and commercial office to a fully commercial office. On the eve of the Xinhai Revolution, the company produced nearly 70,000 tons of steel, 500,000 tons of iron ore and 600,000 tons of coal annually, accounting for more than 90% of the annual steel output of the Qing government.

In fact, the Han Yeping Company had long had trade contacts with Japanese merchants and had borrowed a large amount of money, and the Japanese imperialists had long been interested in annexing the company.

In 1895, due to financial constraints, the Qing government allowed the factory and mine officials to supervise the commercial office, Sheng Xuanhuai took over the Hanyang Iron Works, and was expected to recruit 15 million yuan of commercial shares, but only 1 million yuan was raised, so he relied on borrowing foreign debts to maintain and expand. Sheng Xuanhuai borrowed the most from Japanese businessmen, borrowing for the first time in 1896, opening the Pingxiang Coal Mine in 1898 and borrowing from Japanese businessmen, and from 1902 to 1906, he borrowed about 3 million taels of silver (4.25 million yen) from Japanese businessmen.

After the merger of the three factories in 1908, it was difficult to recruit merchant shares, so they had to borrow money from Japanese merchants. Japan demanded a part of the management rights, but Yuan Shikai wanted to nationalize the company, but the agreement could not be reached.

From 1908 to the eve of the Xinhai Revolution, the Hanyeping Company borrowed foreign debts 12 times, of which 6 were borrowed from the Japanese. By 1911. The company used a total of 32 million taels of silver, and in addition to the principal of 10 million taels, the remaining 22 million taels were loans, and Japanese businessmen accounted for the majority, and the borrowings of Japanese businessmen later turned into investments.

The Japanese businessman had very strict conditions in the loan contract with Hanyeping Company: the loan was guaranteed by the factory's mineral property and iron sand; The term is 30 years; In addition to the Hanyang Iron Works' own use, iron sand should be sold to the Japanese as much as possible; The price of iron sand is negotiated by both parties and is not affected by the international market; Pre-orders are available at the Yawata Steel Works in Japan.

In the original history, Japanese businessmen transported 6~70,000 tons of iron sand from Daye Iron Mine every year from 1908 to 1915, so that Hanyeping Company was actually subject to Japanese businessmen in 1911.

Due to the close ties between the Hanyeping Company and Japanese businessmen, the situation in which the company was controlled by Japanese businessmen did not change, despite the strong demand of the Chinese for the abolition of the 21st Article. Now that Sun Wei has occupied Hubei, although there is no binding force on the Pingxiang Coal Mine, Sun Wei does not intend to return the heavy industries in Hubei such as the Hanyang Iron Works and Daye Iron Mine, let alone to the Japanese.

Hanyeping's company owed too much debt, and Sun Wei did not intend to repay these debts when he took over Hanyang Iron Works and Daye Iron Mine. The Japanese have not yet reached the point of unscrupulousness in China, although Sun Wei does not yet have the capital to turn his face with the Japanese, but Sun Wei decided to use the procrastination trick and the push trick to push the debt to Sheng Xuanhuai's head, and if he can't push it off, he will have a fight with the Japanese, anyway, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River are the sphere of influence of the British.

Sun Wei tried to strengthen himself before World War I, so that he could have the strength to resist the Japanese after the fall of Britain in the future.

In Sun Wei's mind, the iron factory in Hanyang was not an ideal place. Hanyang has no coal mines and no iron mines, and they all have to be transported from other places, which makes the cost very high, which is not conducive to future development. In Sun Wei's mind, the ideal steel plant should be located in Daye, where there is abundant iron ore, and there is a coal mine in Xianning next to it, which is very suitable for the development of heavy industry.

Sun Wei then asked Han Dong to take some professional and technical personnel to Daye to inspect Daye's environment and find the location of the new iron factory.

Sun Wei brought a lot of advanced technology from later generations, but with the current level of science and technology in China, the only thing that can be built is mortar.

The mortar is easy to operate, the trajectory is curved, it can shoot close to the target, there is almost no shooting dead angle, and it is mainly equipped with anti-personnel blasting shells to annihilate and suppress the enemy's living forces and technical weapons, and destroy obstacles such as barbed wire.

The world's first real mortar was created during the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 and was invented by Russian artillery captain Nikolayevich.

At that time, Tsarist Russia and Japan were engaged in a fierce battle for the Port of Arthur in China. The Russian army occupied the fortress of Arthur Pass, and the Japanese dug trenches and approached only a few dozen meters away from the Russian position, and it was difficult for the Russian army to kill and injure the Japanese army with ordinary artillery and machine guns.

So Nikolayevich tried to convert an old 47mm naval mortar gun on a gun carriage with wheels and fire a long-tail shell at a large elevation angle, which turned out to be effective in killing and wounding the Japanese troops in the trenches and repelling many Japanese attacks.

This gun uses a long super-caliber mortar shell with a full weight of 11.5kg, a firing range of 50~400m, and a firing angle of 45°~65°. This kind of artillery, which was born in an emergency on the battlefield, was called "lightning cannon" at the time, and it was the world's first mortar.

In the First World War, due to the development of trench warfare, countries began to pay attention to the role of mortars, and on the basis of "lightning artillery", a variety of special mortars were developed. In 1927, the Stokes-Brontë 81mm mortar developed by France adopted a buffer, which overcame the shortcomings of the rigid connection between the gun body and the gun mount, and the structure was more perfect, and it basically had the characteristics of a modern mortar.

By the time of World War II, mortars were the basic equipment of infantry, such as the establishment of Company E of the 506th Regiment of the 101st Airborne Division of the United States at that time was 140 people, divided into 3 platoons and 1 company headquarters. Each platoon has 3 infantry squads of 12 men and 1 mortar squad of 6 men, each infantry squad is equipped with 1 machine gun and each mortar squad is equipped with 1 60mm mortar. At this time, the structure of the mortar was quite mature, and it fully possessed all the advantages of modern mortars, such as high rate of fire, high power, light weight, simple structure, easy operation, etc., especially the characteristics of being able to enter battle without preparation made it shine in World War II. According to statistics, more than 50% of the casualties of the ground forces during World War II were caused by artillery.

The mortars brought by Sun Wei were all mortars with modern characteristics, which were one or two decades ahead of this era.

Liu Xilin still didn't understand the drawings of the mortar, others were imitation cannons, but our Xu Dudu made this kind of small cannon. After all, Sun Wei is his boss and is in charge of his food and clothing, so Liu Xilin has to do what Sun Wei says. Sun Wei was greatly disappointed when he saw Liu Xilin's performance, it was too reluctant to be the general manager of the Hanyang Arsenal with Liu Xilin's talent, his ability was average, and his vision was even more average. Sun Wei is now unavailable, so he can only let Liu Xilin do it first, but fortunately, Liu Xilin is very obedient.

This time, Liu Xilin came to see Sun Wei and brought a very bad message, the foreign technicians of the Hanyang Arsenal resigned for fear of being persecuted by the rebels, which has seriously affected the normal operation of the arsenal.

This is a very nerve-wracking question, technicians are not important people in Western countries, but they are rare animals in China, where the level of science and technology is very backward, and most of these technicians are from studying abroad, and the number is very small.

Sun Wei had no choice but to ask Liu Xilin to keep the production of bullets and the maintenance of old guns as much as possible, and to stop the production of guns first.

After Liu Xilin left, Sun Wei lay on the sofa and couldn't stop sighing that talents were hard to find.

When Sun Wei saw the three of them, he immediately hugged his fists and said: "Contemptible Sun Wei, I have admired the three gentlemen for a long time, and it is really a blessing to be able to meet the three gentlemen now." "Sanwu" was very surprised to see Sun Wei so young, Sun Wu said: "Xu Dudu has won the award, what fame can we have, all we heard on the way here is Xu Dudu's great achievements, but it makes me envious." I thought that Du Du was an elegant elder, but I didn't expect Xu Du Du to be so young. Sun Wei hugged his fists and said: "Where, where, it's just a fluke." This is not the place to speak, three gentlemen, please come inside. Sun Wei invited the three of them to sit in the hall of the Governor's Mansion, and the guards went out after serving tea.

After they sat down, Sun Wei said: "At the time of the uprising, many people mentioned the three gentlemen, and Sun Wei learned that the uprising could be so smooth thanks to the work of the three people, but the providence of the people, Mr. Sun was injured at a critical moment, and let the brother who had no merit become the governor of the Hubei military government." The brother wants to abdicate and let Mr. Sun be the governor, but I don't know what Mr. Sun wants. Sun Wei knew that Sun Wu would not dare to be the governor, otherwise he would definitely fall into the infamy of taking merit and being jealous of the virtuous.

Sun Wu hurriedly said: "Xu Dudu thinks that I Sun Wu is what to recognize, Hubei was laid down by Xu Dudu, and Xu Dudu should be the governor of this capital, and I, Sun Wu, came to the governor today just to do something for the revolution." Sun Wei said: "I merged Wuchang, Hanyang, and Hankou into Wuhan City, why don't you let Mr. Sun be the mayor of Wuhan City?" Sun Wu said: "Since Governor Xu looks up to me Sun Wu, I am the mayor of Wuhan." ”

Sun Wei said again: "Mr. Zhang Zhenwu is the Minister of Justice, and Mr. Jiang Yiwu is the Minister of Staff, how about it?" Zhang Zhenwu and Jiang Yiwu both said: "Thank you Xu Dudu." After sending Sun Wu away, Sun Wei thought that although he was still threatened by the Qing army, there should be no problem in blocking the Qing army from going south with the current military in Hubei, and the main energy now should be to rectify the interior of Hubei.

Thinking of this, Sun Wei called Tan Lin and asked Tan Lin to give the officials of all ministries and the commanders above the military management belt to the Governor's Mansion at eight o'clock tomorrow morning for a meeting. After Tan Lin left, Sun Wei returned to his office, preparing to sort out the contents of tomorrow's meeting, the appointments of various departments, and the reorganization of the army.

Early the next morning, the personnel of the various departments who received the notice gathered at the Governor's Mansion and were led to the conference room by the guards. A large group of people in the conference room were obviously divided into three factions, Tang Hualong, Li Yuanhong and other members of the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the National Assembly, Sun Wu and Xiong Bingkun and other revolutionary parties, and Yang Yi and Guo Da. It didn't take long for Sun Wei to lead Wang Hu and Liu Fei into the conference hall, and everyone came over to salute them.

After Sun Wei sat them down, he began to speak: "It has been a while since the establishment of the Hubei Military Government, and there has been no time to establish a standardized administrative system. (To be continued.) )