After a long journey of more than a month, Wang Guorui finally led his group from Europe through the North Atlantic Ocean into the Mediterranean, then through the Suez Canal all the way through the Strait of Malacca, and then back to Taiwan. Now it is June 1898, and Wang Guorui's visit to Europe has taken more than half a year. The leaders of this country and region visited foreign countries for more than half a year at a time, which was obviously rare in ancient times. In particular, Taiwan is still a separatist force, and if its leader goes out for half a year, this will easily cause a power vacuum on the island, and then cause a struggle for power and profit. However, Wang Guorui didn't worry, because he had the power of the army in his hands, and he didn't have to worry about what they would cause too many things. And even if some people want to fan the flames, it is simply impossible, because Wang Guorui not only has Zheng Hong's leader in the political work system, but also Red Alert soldiers to act as most of the low-level non-commissioned officers, which is enough for them to ensure that there will be no problems.

"Welcome back!" Ouyang Xuan took the initiative to say.

"Ouyang, thanks to you during this time, if it weren't for you, I wouldn't have been able to stay stable for more than half a year!" Wang Guorui said.

Ouyang Xuan immediately said modestly: "This is thanks to Lord Wang, everyone respects Lord Wang, so that I can be a fox and a fake tiger!" And, congratulations to Lord Wang on getting married again, and the woman is still the Queen of the Netherlands! ”

Ouyang Xuan said very modestly, he must say that he is a "fox and a fake tiger", if he is not modest, then I am afraid that Wang Guorui will suspect him of any ambitions next. Therefore, as a courtier, you must be humble, and if you have merit, the leader's, and if you make a mistake, you must take the initiative to carry the black pot, so that you can be an excellent courtier. As long as this is done, any leader will like it.

And the island of Taiwan for Wang Guorui's visit to Europe. I felt very shocked, because Wang Guorui not only forced the Spaniards to cede the Philippines, but also took the queen of the Netherlands, and ceded such a large piece of land as a dowry, which is simply refreshing. Since ancient times, it has been sent out by the Central Plains countries to make peace, but now Wang Guorui not only forced the other queen to marry. And it was also able to make them all cede so much land as a dowry, which was simply too refreshing. And many people think that the Dutch can't beat it, so they are forced to let the queen marry, so that Taiwan's military people also feel a little glorious, after all, it is of course a good thing to be able to let a foreign queen marry.

"Okay, tell me about what happened in Taiwan in the six months since I left?" Wang Guorui asked.

Soon, Wang Guorui was also preparing in the Governor's Palace, listening to the reports of the military and political officials. After all, he left for half a year. Where Taiwan controls will definitely change. And in this era, communication is not very good, and the telegraph is not suitable for transmitting too much news, the telegraph is only used to deliver important news, and the general news is not returned. Therefore, Wang Guorui also has to listen to everyone's reports, and then he can know what changes he has made to let himself know.

"Lord Wang, since we attacked and conquered the major islands in the South Sea, we have successfully developed and utilized these islands gradually. Our first development was the island of Kalimantan, which is now dominated by agriculture. The industry in Kalimantan is still relatively poor. Because Kalimantan has relatively few resources, we have not yet developed it on a large scale. And according to what you said, Lord Wang. Our strategy is to develop the rich ore first and then keep the poor ore so that we can get the resources as quickly as possible. Ouyang Xuan said.

Wang Guorui nodded and said: "Yes, we must first develop the rich ore, the rich ore mining is easy, and the technology required is not so complicated." So we develop the bonanza first. As for those poor ores that can be left to our descendants, in the future, the technology will become more and more advanced, and then they can develop the means to mine poor ore, so that they can continue to mine poor ore. ”

Of course, Wang Guorui knew that his generation must be the first to develop rich mines, and leave poor mines to future generations to develop. This is also a method that is used all over the world. Science and technology are developing more and more, so they will definitely be able to get a lot of scientific and technological development in the future, so that they can gradually obtain high technology to develop those poor mines. And Wang Guorui knows that Kalimantan Island has relatively few mineral resources, and there are many poor mines, so there is no need to mine Kalimantan Island so quickly.

"At present, the first batch of development we have is the Philippines, which not only has a lot of copper mines, but also a lot of gold mines, and even many other non-ferrous metals. Even there are a lot of oil resources, through which we can obtain and develop Taiwan's economy. And now we can get a steady stream of development, our island enterprises no longer want to import resources from foreign countries at high prices, and many factories have taken the opportunity to expand a lot of production scale. A large number of workers have also started to work, and technical schools have been opened. With the three years of construction, the technical school has entered the formalization, and the original technicians who are not good at teaching students have been assigned to their jobs, and the remaining technical teachers are selected from their students. ”

Of course, Wang Guorui knew what kind of goods the Red Police engineers used as training technicians back then, and those guys could do things, but once they were allowed to teach, there would be a big problem. But fortunately, now that they have finally survived, there is finally a group of technicians who can serve as teachers in technical schools, which can be regarded as a successful solution to the problem of teacher resources. And those red police engineers will also be sent to work again, so that they can give full play to their abilities, so that they will not go to those things that educate students, which is simply misleading people's children.

"Also, when we mine, we can give priority to the use of indigenous people. In particular, jobs that are unskilled and require a lot of physical strength and are dangerous can be left to the natives. Of course, those technical jobs, and some of them are relatively easy, so we can try to arrange us Chinese. We have just arrived in Nanyang, and those immigrants are in dire need of a job, so if they have a stable job, they can also settle down. ”

And then, when it comes to the army's report, and the army's report is relatively simple.

"Lord Wang, according to the report of the military affairs department of our General Staff, we have now recruited all the soldiers, and our 200,000 troops have been completed. Ordinary infantry is easy to solve, but many technical non-commissioned officers are not. We lack a large number of technical non-commissioned officers, and we have asked the people below to form some non-commissioned officer schools, so that we can train technical non-commissioned officers as soon as possible. Hu Wei said.

Wang Guorui also nodded, because the non-commissioned officer really had to train himself. In the past, soldiers from the Red Alert system were relied upon to serve as technical non-commissioned officers, which was definitely not possible. The reason why there was no training before was because the training cycle of a technical non-commissioned officer was several years, otherwise it would not be possible to master the use and maintenance of various weapons. In the past few years, we have been fighting wars, and naturally it is impossible to gain too much experience in training non-commissioned officers, who are mainly recruited from the Red Police system. However, as long as you can start training non-commissioned officers now, you will definitely be able to obtain a large number of technical non-commissioned officers in the future, so that you can gradually enrich your own troops. In the future, engineering troops, artillery troops, automobile troops, and so on will gradually have their own technical non-commissioned officers, and the types of non-commissioned officers will inevitably become more and more complete in the future.

"Lord Wang, our current naval strength is already relatively weak. And the chief of staff of the Navy, Ye Zuqi, and I have complained many times, and he has often come to complain during this time, complaining that Lord Wang has sent our ace warships as dowry gifts, which makes the Navy very depressed. Moreover, some people say behind their backs......" Hu Wei said with some slurring.

"Say what?" Wang Guorui asked.

"Said Lord Wang, you love beauty but don't love the country, and you actually gave our important weapons to others for the sake of a Dutch queen. And, say you're fascinated by the vixen of the Queen of the Netherlands, so ......," Hu Wei said in a slurred.

Wang Guorui was speechless, and he actually began to convey his own rumors, obviously this must be crooked by many people. Because of himself, this battleship was given to the Netherlands as a dowry, which naturally must have made many people uncomfortable, after all, such an important thing naturally cannot prevent the army from crooking its mouth. Especially in the navy, warships are their weapons, and in the past, they had to regard weapons as their brothers, so now these navies are obviously very dissatisfied with Wang Guorui taking a warship as a dowry.

"Immediately let the political officials of the navy do their ideological work, let them know that there is a popular trend in the world to sell warships to each other. Moreover, we can also have more advanced warships to use in the future, and we can have the most advanced ones when the time comes. And this Sovereign-class battleship is no longer the most advanced, we will have more advanced battleships for us to use in the future, one can top many Sovereign-class battleships. We even have to sell all our battleships so that we can get enough money to purchase new warships! Wang Guorui said.

Wang Guorui knew that the battleship business was very profitable, especially if he could build it at a tenth of the price, it would be even more profitable. However, battleships in this era are not easy to sell, because battleships are completely equivalent to the nuclear weapons of later generations, and will the nuclear weapons of later generations be sold casually? Therefore, it is easy for battleships to lose their shipbuilding strength, and it can be seen from the shipbuilding competition provoked by Wang Guorui in Europe that this battleship is very sensitive and can easily cause problems due to imbalance. Wang Guorui could only choose to be patient, and chose not to sell the battleship easily in exchange for funds. However, in order to build that new sword-class battleship, so that they can sell the old battleship. (To be continued......)