Chapter 41 Military Reform

Because each "Gentleman" brand special cigarette is only mixed with a small amount of "blue powder" at the beginning, it is only slightly more expensive than ordinary cigarettes in terms of price.

But what's worse is that when you start smoking the first special cigarette with ingredients, you will not be able to do without this "noble cigarette" from now on. To say that the price is not expensive, it is only for the elite above the middle class, for ordinary workers, ordinary cigarettes are something they can't afford to smoke, let alone cigarettes with ingredients.

One can only imagine how many lower-income families in British territory will eventually be ruined, and the focus of this is India.

In order to speed up the spread of special cigarettes in India, the intelligence services of the Republic specially reduced the "blue powder" content of such cigarettes and produced another "Joy" brand of cigarettes from relatively inferior tobacco.

This "considerate" initiative allows ordinary farmers in India to enjoy the taste of specialty cigarettes once in a while.

In this way, the most important British colony gradually changed, and while the British Empress and her political axe were still rejoicing in how much gold and grain they received from it every year, the people of this land gradually became the objects of indirect oppression by Chen Zeyu.

"Let India become the world's super golden triangle." Looking at the country below the Himalayas on the map, Chen Zeyu muttered.

As Chen Zeyu has more and more funds on his books, the vault reserves in the Cerris Bank under his name are also becoming more and more sufficient.

In contrast to the Seris currency, which is issued as a guarantee of credibility, the Seris RMB is also becoming more and more secure.

Nowadays, in the territory of the Republic, the common people have gradually regarded the Serisian renminbi as a hard currency that can be exchanged for gold at any time after the British pound.

Several original gold and silver mines in the territory of the Republic are also being mined, except for gold and some of the silver that are still stored by Chen Zeyu.

The rest of the silver was sent to the Central Bank Mint in Seris, as planned.

According to the redemption rules, every 0. 732238 grams of thousand-foot gold are exchanged for 1 Chinese dollar in Seris Renminbi (RMB). For every 1 Chinese dollar RMB, it can be exchanged for 10 jiao RMB, and 100 cents RMB will be exchanged. Among them, each unit of Chinese dollars, jiao, and cents has a corresponding silver coin. Among them, for every 1 Chinese yuan banknote, 1 silver coin with the highest silver content is exchanged, and the unit is still measured in yuan. The proportion of silver and other precious metals in the corresponding silver coins is also reduced in turn.

By minting these silver dollar coins with different silver contents, the Republic gradually formed a relatively stable currency exchange system.

During this period, the British currency was worth 7 pounds per 1 pound. 32,238 grams of pure gold, the value of which is exactly ten times that of 1 yuan Seris currency. In this regard, Seris's renminbi system is completely readable, and in the future, the exchange of the pound and the Seris currency will still have to be through gold, and who knows what will happen if the British's financial system will collapse one day by him Chen Zeyu.

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In December 1893, the Republic of Seris

Taking advantage of the graduation of the new batch of cadets, Chen Zeyu visited Avalanche Airlines and inspected the Sizhejiang Army Military Academy, which had been established for five years.

Chen Zeyu was very disappointed by the line of the airline under Avalanche just now, and he thought that with the help of Avalanche Power Company, the airline should produce results as soon as possible.

But reality told Chen Zeyu that the development of science and technology cannot be achieved overnight. The gasoline internal combustion engine provided by Power Company still did not meet the minimum design requirements, and the test biplane was only able to fly at low altitude for a few tens of minutes before having to rush back to the ground.

Seeing such results, Chen Zeyu was of course not satisfied, so he could only ask the group to increase investment in the research and development of internal combustion engines.

However, another airship project, which was not originally cared about by Chen Zeyu, gradually made progress after a large number of tests by another project team of the airline. Nowadays, several Avalanche companies' newly rolled hard airships have floated over several port cities in Seris, which can be regarded as strengthening the reconnaissance and alert systems of several fortresses.

In addition, in order to ensure the safety of the personnel on board, Chen Zeyu asked various domestic chemical groups to start developing various parachute facilities, and the design drawings were ready-made, and the parachutes were quickly developed. However, because a large amount of silk is used in the umbrella material, the cost is very high.

Chen Zeyu knows that in the future, this aspect should be gradually replaced by nylon chemical fiber, and the development of this aspect is originally inseparable from the petrochemical industry.

Shaking his head and shaking off the thoughts in his head, with the sound of the horses kicking, several official carriages in which Chen Zeyu and his entourage rode drove into the army military academy on the outskirts of Sizhejiang City in turn.

This closed military academy, located in the northwest of the suburbs of Sizhejiang City, pinned too many hopes on Chen Zeyu. He has the military qualities that he can be proud of in this era, and he took up the position of principal of this military school from the beginning.

In the early days, the three former German army officers, Karl, Jürgen, and Similien, conducted successive military rotation training for veterans of the armed forces of the Chinese League, and later a large number of junior officers who were recommended to enter this school began to receive military crash courses ranging from six months to one year.

Although there were three retired German officers in the school before, the number was too small after all, and the communication was not as convenient as the locals, so the school's teaching, especially the training of senior officers, has always been unsatisfactory, and it took several years to intermittently send a battalion-level officer to the troops.

Chen Zeyu's own military qualities can teach these students, but he is only one person after all, and with his identity, he is destined to only be here. In the early days, military schools have been embarrassed to play the role of "boot camp" because of the lack of teachers.

It was not until a large number of Luzon students returned from studying at the Berlin Military Academy in Germany that the situation of the school improved. In addition to Chen Zeyu, who sent some of them to serve in the army, most of the rest was thrown into this army military academy as a military academy instructor.

With the addition of this group of professional officers, the "hematopoietic" function of Chen Zeyu's military school has begun to gradually get on the right track.

As the principal, Chen Zeyu himself occasionally took advantage of the inspection to go to the lecture hall to teach a lesson to a group of quasi-officers, and even ate directly in the school cafeteria when he was busy.

This time when he came to the class, Chen Zeyu discussed with the students the use of various infantry tactics in modern times.

“…… With the increase in individual firepower of various countries, if the army still insists on fighting in the array line charge as in the past, then the losses of the attacking side will be predictable......"

“…… In order to seize the enemy's position, the attacker will launch a crowd charge to seize the position, but in such a scenario, due to the appearance of machine guns, the cost of the infantry to launch a dense charge will be too great to bear......"

“…… According to our calculations, with an integrated infantry brigade of our country defending a two-kilometer defensive line, the attacker would have to pay at least tens of thousands of men to break through this defensive line if he had adopted the tactics of the past, and this is not counting the opponent's in-depth defense......"

“…… What should I do, according to my idea, is to convert the original dense front into a skirmish assault line composed of elite squads, and do a good job of reconnaissance before the battle......"

“…… With the squad and platoon as a unit, under the cover of the barrage of artillery fire in depth in the rear, they stepped on the explosion point and launched an attack in the form of a ricochet crater like a weak fortification of the enemy...... I call it the Squad Infiltration Tactical ......"

“…… This tactic relied on the precise follow-up of artillery fire from the rear to escort the stragglers on the front line, reducing the time our front-line soldiers were exposed to enemy fire. Rely on this tactic to reduce the impact distance of our infantry, and when these spearheads occupy important passes, the large force will continue to destroy the enemy and break through the line in one blow......"

In the eyes of these students, what Chen Zeyu said was his new type of battlefield communication and infantry artillery coordination.

Thanks to the fact that the Republic is still a unique radio communication technology, after the decentralization of this communication equipment to the squad and platoon level, the original domestic land combat thinking will inevitably change.

Because of this change, small-scale precision contact battles on a fixed battlefield on a large scale have become possible. With this new mode of communication, combat groups of small units are able to carry out relatively precise combat missions at relatively precise times and places under the command of their superiors. These were unthinkable in the past, and the small units that had previously lost contact with each other meant annihilation for the higher military commanders.

Now, this change in the situation of battlefield communications means that the troops of the large front, which were originally destined to perform only simple tasks, have been gradually endowed with limbs, limbs, and through the reasonable command of their superiors, they will be able to inflict more complex military strikes on the enemy's troops.

The development of technology gradually allowed the military of the republic to stand at the forefront of this era for the first time.

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