"I have always supported President Yuan Da in forming an army. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 infoIf there had been 3 million Beiyang troops, where would there be so many things in China. I support President Yuan Da to destroy those thieves in Yungui and Liangguang! ”

Arming Yuan Shikai at this time seems not so wise, but Yang Chao is not worried at all.

Although the Beiyang Army is a regular army, it is not half a mile worse than the rabble under Brother Artillery, and it is not half a mile worse than Yang Chao's Northeast Army.

And the Beiyang Army is no longer the Beiyang Army of the past, it has long been warlordized, Yuan Shikai still uses the traditional Chinese set of power techniques, rather than the national army of the modern government to form the Beiyang Army, Feng Guozhang and other generals under him have been sent to the local area to supervise the army, holding military and political power, even they rarely pay local taxes to Yuan Shikai, and they always intercept it under various excuses.

Feng Guozhang is still good, Zhang Jingyao's kind of goods that loot Hunan, Zhang Xun's pigtail army, what combat effectiveness can such an army have?

Not to mention that he now has an army of 2 million in his hands, that is, 1 million, it is easy to destroy the Beiyang warlords.

"It's not the Beiyang Army, it's a model army!"

Yuan Keding corrected.

"Yes, yes, it's a model army."

Yang Chao said with a smile.

He couldn't help laughing, Yuan Shikai's group still collapsed, he couldn't trust Duan Qirui and Feng Guozhang's henchmen anymore, it wasn't that he was suspicious, but these two people were in power, and now they all had their own ideas, and Yuan Shikai's control was not as strong as in the past.

In fact, when Yuan Shikai gave up Zhao Bingjun, there would inevitably be a rift between him and his subordinates, and a boss who couldn't protect his subordinates would inevitably be abandoned by his subordinates.

In the past two years, Duan Qirui, Feng Guozhang and others have had many conflicts with Yuan Shikai for the sake of their own interests, and these people are dissatisfied with Yuan Shikai on the issue of local taxation and the establishment of the army.

Therefore, Yuan Shikai wanted to re-form a model army just like he had when he formed the Beiyang Army, and to form an army loyal to him again like he did back then, and to have the power to completely make these people succumb while he could barely suppress Duan Qirui and others.

Yuan Shikai's power is collapsing, Yang Chao is happy to see them fighting, because he has completely died to Yuan Shikai, as early as after signing a treaty with the Russians, Yuan Shikai did not have the courage to take back the power such as customs and extraterritoriality, Yang Chao has already given up this tyrant from the heart.

It seems that bringing China to modern politics cannot be relied on by relying on the heroes.

After finalizing the business with Yuan Keding, and then talking for a long time, Yuan Keding, intentionally or unintentionally, attributed China's current government decrees to the presidential system and the constitutionalism to the problem of excessive local power.

"Yes, it's better when there was an emperor."

Yang Chao also took the opportunity to sigh, it would be good if he could encourage Yuan Shikai to be the emperor, and when the time comes, the whole world will be against him, and he can defeat Yuan Shikai without directly clashing with the Beiyang Army.

"Governor Yang is really in a word."

Yuan Keding glanced at Yang Chao with complicated eyes, as if he wanted to find out how much sincerity he had.

Yang Chao sighed: "It's a pity that Zaifeng is not Han, if it was an emperor of the Ming Dynasty, I don't think there would be so many people who objected." It is only natural that we have a constitutional monarchy. ”

Yuan Keding: "It's a pity." ”

Although Yuan Keding was sighing, he couldn't hold it back in his heart, Zaifeng was a Manchu emperor, but his father Yuan Shikai was Han.

Yuan Keding also explained the matter of the warship to Yang Chao intentionally or unintentionally.

The warship was indeed sold by Yuan Shikai, and as Yang Chao guessed, it was sold to the British.

But it was not sold directly, because the ship was bought by Yang Chao, although the warship nominally belonged to the navy, and Yuan Shikai, as the president, sold the navy's warship, and still had a certain amount of power.

However, Yuan Shikai did not want to offend Yang Chao at this time out of a scheming consideration, so what he sold was not the warship itself, but the right to transfer the warship, that is, the liquidated damages paid by the Americans to Yang Chao, worth 500 million US dollars, as for the cost of the warship, the Americans are willing to return the full amount to Yang Chao, which is also 500 million US dollars.

In other words, Yuan Shikai sold the right to purchase warships, and he transferred the warships to the British, thus getting a huge transfer money from the British.

This is a transfer fee of 500 million yuan, which makes it difficult for Yuan Shikai to refuse, and even confronts Yang Chao for a short time, and begins to change his tough attitude towards Japan and change to cooperate with Japan.

The Japanese were allowed to capture Qingdao and the British were allowed to occupy Yantai during the war.

But for Yang Chao, this is obviously a betrayal, and Yuan Shikai betrayed the cooperation with him during this time.

made Yang Chao feel betrayed.

At the same time, he felt that he seemed to have made another political mistake, politics needs checks and balances, when Zaifeng coerced Yuan Shikai to step down, Yang Chao did not stop it, and even as an accomplice, in the end, Kang Liang dared to move Yang Chao; And when Brother Yuan Shikai disbanded the GM Party, Yang Chao did not stop it, and now Yuan Shikai, who has no opponent, also began to regard Yang Chao as a confidant.

This is the case at home, not to mention abroad, if Yang Chao defeats Japan at this time, then the Germans will have no opponents in the East, and the British will also reconsider the status of China and move the whole body.

Thinking that Japan still had use value, Yang Chao temporarily stopped bombing Japan, calmed down in the northeast, and the two sides did not attack each other, and did not declare war anyway, so it was better to treat the past battles as if they had not happened.

After sending Yuan Keding away, Yang Chao immediately handed over the order to Li Sidi and asked him to arrange industrial output to be produced.

"The construction of a large assembly plant. It does not require much equipment, and the assembly efficiency can be greatly improved. ”

For Shandong industry, there is no shortage of machine tools, can manufacture metal parts of the factory, but the assembly plant has always been only Qingdao Arsenal and Laiwu Arsenal two, assembly capacity greatly affected the production efficiency, a large number of parts piled up in the arsenal.

Although the arsenal also recruited new workers for assembly training, it was not so easy for a person who had never touched a gun to learn to install dozens of parts of a gun together, and it was impossible to wait for them to become proficient, without a year.

"By the way, didn't the engineers in our arsenal go to see Ford's assembly line and build the assembly plant according to that assembly method. I've heard that there aren't many skilled workers in Ford's factories, and each of them only installs one step, so it's very easy to train! ”

Yang Chao said.

Before the war, Yang Chao sent a huge team of engineers to the Ford Motor Factory and visited their highland factory, among which the Laiwu Arsenal also had a team of engineers, led by Engineer Wang Fugui to visit, and now he has come back and taken a lot of photos and even video film for research.

With the support of Yang Chao, Laiwu Arsenal immediately set up an assembly method research team, which is actually not so mysterious, the key point is still Yang Chao said, a person is responsible for an installation process, and the professional division of labor improves efficiency.

Soon their first small pilot line modeled after the Ford plant was built.

Yang Chao also went to visit, and found that they made a conveyor belt, workers stood on both sides of the conveyor belt, and batches of parts were sent on the conveyor belt, and the workers took the parts off the conveyor belt, and then continuously assembled them into a rifle.

But this is still a person assembling a complete rifle, the difference is that the conveyor belt constantly transports parts over, reducing the trouble of carrying back and forth, and the speed does increase, but the improvement is extremely limited.

"Why don't you put the rifle on the conveyor belt and send it to everybody, where they only have one part installed, and the rifle has only one stock from one end of the belt, and then it comes off the other end of the conveyor belt and it becomes a rifle all the time?"

Yang Chao suggested after combining the production models of some assembly plants he had seen in the past.

Wang Fugui, who looked stunned, suddenly came to inspiration when he heard it: "What the adults say is very true, what they say is very true." ”

Seeing Wang Fugui's submissive appearance, Yang Chao immediately said, "Go for it." ”

Wang Fugui's production model is the simplest imitation of Ford's production line, Ford does use the method of assembling cars in one place and transporting parts, because for cars, it is impossible to put the whole car on the conveyor belt, but a rifle can.

According to Yang Chao's idea, Wang Fugui quickly changed the assembly method, and the efficiency was greatly improved.

The most important thing is that after a worker is only responsible for installing one part, the worker training is much simpler, making it a reality to train a large number of qualified workers in a short period of time.

Immediately after the first, second, and third production lines were set up, and it took only two months for Yuan Shikai's order for 2 million rifles to be delivered, and at this time Wang Fugui built ten large production lines, and after his adjustments, the speed was higher than in the past.

It's just that the piled up parts are not in supply, and at their production rate, it is not a problem to produce 10 million rifles a year, but the production of parts and components has become a problem, because a large number of factories have not yet been put into production after all.

However, with the maturity of the assembly plant, Yang Chao felt that the adjustment of industry to wartime had begun to bear fruit, and this preparation would give Shandong Heavy Industry an absolute advantage in the competition with the United States, and thus it would be possible to cut a bigger piece of the cake than the United States.

After handing over this arms to Yuan Shikai, Yuan Shikai had a huge amount of 500 million US dollars in hand, and he could rest assured that he could boldly form a model army, and it was easy to recruit two million people, and the reason why the southern part of the country could pull up hundreds of thousands or hundreds of thousands of troops without moving the revolutionary party was because there were too many idle laborers, and Yuan Shikai's recruitment order, with a military salary of ten oceans a month, it was easy to recruit two million young men from Sichuan, Huguang, and Liangjiang.

With the addition of the Beiyang Army, after supporting 3 million troops, Yuan Shikai's fear of the 2 million people in Yang Chao's hands became smaller.

At this time, the Japanese had attacked Qingdao for more than two months, although the number of troops had increased to 50,000, but 10,000 German troops with the help of complete fortifications were still blocking, and the two sides were currently engaged in a fierce tug-of-war on the periphery of Qingdao, and finally the Germans could not support it, because the number was too small. (To be continued.) )