Chapter 387: The German Expedition

"Ladies and gentlemen, the business opportunities of millions of taels of silver every year, even if you are here, it is very difficult to come across. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info As long as you go to Liaodong, this silver is your ......" After Huang Xing finished introducing, he used a sentence full of temptation, and finally encouraged.

For businessmen, the pursuit of profit is always put first by them.

Therefore, after Huang Xing's words were finished, some red-eyed businessmen were eager to go to Liaodong immediately to take a look.

At this time, a businessman couldn't help but ask, while being cautious: "Mr. Huang, what you said about Guanwai is completely different from what we have learned about Guanwai. In our minds, the gate is not only desolate, but also uninhabited, how can we believe that what you say is true? ”

Huang Xing replied calmly: "I don't ask everyone to believe me right away. In two days, there will be a fleet going to Liaodong, and you can send someone to Liaodong with me to have a look. Of course, if anyone wants to, you can do it yourself......"

"In addition, after our Liaodong Army opened the Liaodong Foreign Trade Company here, on the first and fifteenth of each month, a fleet will depart from Liaodong Yingkou and Hanyang Wharf to ensure the connection between the two places through waterways......"

What made Huang Xing excited was that when he was about to leave Hanyang two days later, more than 50 merchants sent representatives to accompany him to Liaozhong. In addition, Huang Xing's technicians and their families in exchange for the arsenal, plus the talents recruited by the Liaodong Foreign Trade Company itself, there were as many as 1,000 people.

With so many people, plus some supplies he bought from Hanyang, the five big ships that were originally prepared were obviously not enough.

As a last resort, Huang Xing could only be cheeky to find Zhang Zhidong, and let Zhang Zhidong allocate five more big ships for himself.

As a result, ten large ships loaded with a large number of talents and materials, under the command of Huang Xing, left the wharf, entered the Yangtze River waterway, and finally entered the offshore sea and went north to Liaodong Yingkou Wharf......

At this time, after nearly a month of training and development. The five counties in central Liaoning controlled by the Liaodong Army have changed greatly.

After replenishing nearly 20,000 recruits, the four main divisions of the Liaodong Army all reached full strength and began training.

Five counties in central Liaoning controlled by the Liaodong Army. Millions of acres of fertile land have also reached the harvest season.

Everywhere there are golden waves of ripe rice, and corn groves are formed by the collection of mature corn stalks.

Of course, what satisfied Yang Xingguo the most was the Liaodong Military Academy.

After more than half a month of adaptation, the studies of hundreds of officers have been completely on the right track.

Thereinto. Most of the officers, who didn't know much about even the characters, rushed to night school every night to learn to read and write in order to learn more military knowledge.

With the officers so motivated, Yang Xingguo was confident that after three months of short rotation training, these hundreds of officers would definitely undergo earth-shaking changes.

At this moment, another piece of good news was sent to Yang Xingguo.

"Commander, the German Wilhelm has come, and he asked me to convey to you that the equipment from Germany is already outside the Yingkou wharf. Ready to dock ......"

"It's finally here, immediately notify the deputy commander, and go to the dock with me to inspect the goods...... In addition, bring all the remaining technicians from the arsenal, they are more experienced than us in terms of equipment......" Yang Xingguo, who was excited, ordered without thinking about it.

When it took more than half a day to get to the wharf, three freighters from Germany were already docked at the wharf.

Wilhelm, who arrived at the dock one step ahead of time, was chatting with dozens of Germans.

Judging from William's attitude towards one of the Germans, Yang Xingguo affirmed that he was Colonel Johann, the head of the German delegation.

Really. As soon as he walked in front of William and his party with Zhou Zhongju, William introduced their identities to each other. As Yang Xingguo guessed, the German who was always complimented by William was Colonel Johan.

Maybe it's because more than half a month of sea sailing is too tiring. Before he could say a few words, John had a tired look on his face. Yang Xingguo, who had been thinking about taking time to go to the dock to see the equipment, happened to borrow the donkey from the slope and arranged for them to go to Yingkou County to rest.

After seeing off Colonel John and his entourage of dozens of people, Yang Xingguo, who was both excited and looking forward to it, boarded the freighter under the leadership of William.

Look at the past at a glance. On the wide deck of the freighter, except for the boxes and boxes.

Just when Yang Xingguo was shocked, William next to him immediately introduced: "Commander Yang, this freighter transports all the equipment of the ironworks and steelworks, and in order to facilitate transportation, all the equipment is disassembled into parts and packed in boxes. ”

"The largest of them weighs a ton and has to be transported by a cart ......"

"In order to ensure the normal assembly and operation of all equipment, four engineers have been sent to guide you to install the equipment......"

After satisfying all the equipment on the decks of the three freighters, Yang Xingguo did not drag the slightest bit of mud and water, and directly handed over the remaining hundreds of thousands of taels of silver to William.

Subsequently, Yang Xingguo ordered the troops to start unloading the ships, and through the more than 200 carts prepared, like ants moving, they were transported to the county seat of Liaozhong little by little.

After a busy day, three freighters unloaded one of them.

It is impossible for Yang Xingguo, who has been staying here, to hand over this matter to Deputy Commander Zhou Zhongju. With his guards, he went to Yingkou County to have a meeting with Colonel John.

"Commander Yang, you should know the purpose of our coming...... If you want to cooperate further with Germany, you must come up with a reason that can impress Germany...... "John was not polite to Yang Xingguo, and said his purpose bluntly.

John's cheerfulness was very much in line with Yang Xingguo's appetite, and he replied to John without thinking about it: "I am confident that you Germany is in the Far East, and you will definitely cooperate with me in principle......

"If Mr. Colonel has a good rest here, he can go to Liaozhong with me. Only there can you see what you want to see......"

"Yes......" John replied very cheerfully.

As a military man, John was most interested in, without a doubt, the military.

Therefore, as soon as he entered Liaozhong, John went into the garrison of the guard brigade under the leadership of Yang Xingguo.

At this time, thousands of officers and men of the Guard Brigade were undergoing regular training.

Faced with many regular training moves in the Guard Brigade that he had never seen before, at first, John didn't take them to heart.

In John's opinion, backward China simply does not have a better way of training its troops than the West.

However, John, who has a cautious personality, still tried every move in order to make the investigation more rigorous.

Soon, the look of contempt on John's face was overshadowed by seriousness.

After completing the whole series of movements, John, who thought he could be relaxed, was sweating profusely and panting.

For John at the moment, tiredness is only a small gain for him here.

The biggest gain was shock, after experiencing those training movements firsthand, Johann, as a colonel officer, had to admit a fact that these training movements of the Liaodong Army were more effective than the training methods of the German army, which allowed a recruit to strengthen his physique and learn various tactical movements in the shortest possible time.

What's more, some of these seemingly meaningless cohort trainings are, in John's view, definitely the best way to enhance the cohesion and coordination of the troops. (To be continued.) )