Li Hongzhang happily accepted the heavy gift given to him by Wang Chenhao, patted his ass and left the next day, and Lushun went to inspect the defense.

The affairs of the iron and steel company have come to an end, and under the command and management of Cao Fuzhen, the company's construction is carried out in an orderly manner.

The company's stock price has been rising, because the rich businessmen who came from all over the country planned to dig iron ore near Qian'an to make a fortune, but because the iron ore belt from Qian'an to Luanxian County was all circled by Wang Chenhao, they could not dig iron ore at all in the periphery, so they bought shares of steel companies one after another, causing the stock price to rise.

Wang Chenhao originally planned to issue another batch of shares, but considering that more shares would also cause depreciation, once the depreciation was not conducive to the development of the company, he gave up this idea for the time being, and waited until the company was officially put into operation.

Hannagan's teacher, General Sped-Steinier, known as the iron-blooded instructor at the Berlin Military Academy, has arrived in Tianjin to help Hannagan formulate the next training plan for the New Army.

Hannagan was only a lieutenant after all, and the regimental synthesis drill had reached the limit of his maximum ability, so General Spade's timely addition made up for this shortcoming.

General Spade is worthy of being an iron-blooded instructor, and as soon as he took over the training, he developed a more severe training plan, which can even be said to be cruel.

In terms of infantry training, Spader demanded confrontation training between companies and soldiers in various units. For example, the assassination practice of infantry has changed from the previous method of collective practice of the whole company to the practice of assassination against each other. Of course, instead of bayonets, wooden fake guns were used, the same length as real guns with bayonets, and the soldiers were covered with protective gear. In this way, the soldiers practiced the technical essentials of bayonet fighting directly through confrontation, which was far more advanced than collective training.

This kind of training will inevitably produce damage, but it will not be fatal, and the soldiers know how to attack the opponent's vital points and how to defend and dodge through close to the actual combat damage, which greatly improves the combat effectiveness.

After a period of individual confrontation training, confrontation training between companies and platoons begins, at this time, the assassination technique of individual soldiers is important, but the combat power of the whole collective requires the mutual cooperation between soldiers and soldiers. In order to maintain the overall combat effectiveness, the officers intensified the training of soldiers' combined combat skills, trained soldiers to cooperate with each other, alternately cover the charge and retreat, and played the minimum combat casualties on the battlefield to obtain the maximum combat results.

In terms of artillery training, because Duan Qirui, the commander of the artillery regiment, graduated from the artillery department of the Berlin Military Academy and was familiar with the German artillery training process, plus he had an internship at the Krupp Gun Factory, he had a good understanding of the German Krupp artillery surname, so the artillery training had already reached the German standard, and General Speder did not change Duan Qirui's training plan.

However, Speder had to show his skills in front of the students, so he taught some artillery combat experience to everyone. For example, how to lure the enemy into firing, how to arrange false targets, how to carry out artillery diffraction, fire coverage, artillery fire extension strikes, blocking artillery bombardment, and so on, many of which are experiences that cannot be learned in textbooks, have greatly benefited all the officers and men of Duan Qirui's artillery regiment.

For cavalry, Spade's idea was to raid, attack, and break the battle, and let the cavalry be used as an auxiliary arm of the infantry. Spader fought in the Franco-Prussian War, and the German cavalry was trained against the French army. However, for the Zhili New Army, Wang Chenhao's requirement was that the cavalry had the ability to fight head-on, because the land enemies that China faced in the short term were Yuben and Russia, and Russia had an astonishing number of powerful Cossack cavalry in Siberia, and fighting them required the cavalry regiment of the Zhili New Army to have the ability to fight head-on.

After Wang Chenhao's explanation, Speder expressed his understanding, so without coming up with effective tactical money against the Russian cavalry, Speder would not change the existing cavalry training subjects, and still trained according to Jiang Gui's cavalry tactics.

For the training of the engineer unit and the baggage unit, Speder asked for the strengthening of physical strength and efficiency, and the former can be done, that is, manual work. But the latter is not easy, because the level of education of the sappers is very low, almost none, and the high-tech sappers are very slow to learn.

Wang Chenhao humbly accepted this, so for the training of engineers, Wang Chenhao hired additional engineer instructors from the Beiyang Military Academy to teach all the officers and soldiers of the engineer battalion, and increased the teaching time.

In short, under the guidance of General Sped, the new corps-level composite exercise plan was smoothly carried out, and the officers at all levels of the new army received more advanced tactical guidance in a timely manner, trained the army more easily, and rapidly improved the combat strength of the army.

On the other hand, the foreign instructors in the self-improvement army of Zhangzhidong in Nanyang were restrained by the old officers and veteran oilers everywhere in the training, and many training subjects were reduced due to the laziness of the old officers and the deliberate difficulties of the veterans, and many items were so-so and even did not meet the standards.

Zhang Zhidong used the old officers and green battalion soldiers for training, surpassing the Beiyang New Army in the early stage, but in the middle and late periods, the side effects began to become prominent, the bureaucratic style and thinking were serious, the officers and men of the self-improvement army were proud and complacent, the old habits and vices were rampant, and the overall training effect was close to zero growth, and many foreign instructors had even lost their patience, and their positive teaching surnames were also greatly reduced, and they began to talk about it.

As a result, starting from the fifth month of the large-scale training of the Nanyang New Army, the Nanyang New Army has been in a state of stagnation, while the Beiyang New Army has made rapid progress under the strict supervision of iron-blooded instructors.

By comparing the situation of the new army in the north and the south, many people of insight in China gradually shifted their attention and hope from Nanyang to Beiyang, and public opinion at home and abroad gradually tended to be optimistic about the new army in Beiyang.

Every once in a while, Wang Chenhao drove the Jiaolong to explore the Bohai Sea, and after discovering the remains of the shipwreck, he ordered the scientific expedition team to excavate. No matter how much each excavation, there will always be some gains, but there is too little real money and silver on the bottom of the Bohai Sea, most of them are antique utensils, the market for these things is not too big, only some antique dealers and foreigners are interested, although the profits are considerable, but far less than the enclosure mining factory to issue stocks to make money.

Of course, Wang Chenhao also knows a lot of underground mineral deposits, and he can draw gourds to "raise funds" a few more times. However, he knows that the ability to protect himself is still lacking at the moment, and he is still surviving under Li Hongzhang's wings, and he has not yet reached the point of self-reliance and self-improvement, so he can't be too public.

If you can't make a show at home, what about abroad?

Wang Chenhao suddenly thought that although foreign stock market laws have been established a long time ago, there are still many loopholes.

Wang Chenhao tasted the sweetness of this Zhili Iron and Steel Company, and a lot of ideas suddenly came to his mind.

Looking for a map, Wang Chenhao made a comparison, there is a fat sheep on the other side of the ocean, when will it not be slaughtered at this time?