Because he came in secret, Li Yongji, who arrived at the governor's palace, quickly issued a gag order, strictly prohibiting revealing his identity.

In other words, except for a small group of insiders who greeted him at the docks, the entire Chinese settlement in Los Angeles, or the Red Fort, did not know about the presence of His Majesty the Emperor in person.

As a matter of fact, Li Yongji came this time in the capacity of the chief inspector of the Oriental Group, which is ostensibly a joint-stock company established by private fund-raising, mainly engaged in large-scale foreign trade, including the export of weapons, grain, labor services, and other items, similar to the British East India Company, but in fact, this is a royal enterprise controlled by the four major families.

The so-called four major families are actually the Li family, the Wang family, the Shen family, and the Qi family, almost all of whom were in the team when Li Yongji started, and they all have a close in-law relationship with each other, and they are famous families that grew up with the empire.

The Li family is naturally Li Yongji's family, that is, the royal family; The Wang family is Li Yongji's grandfather's line and belongs to relatives; The Shen family is a family of Shen Jingbai and Shen Shiming, because Shen Jingbai's daughter is related to Li Yongchang by marriage, she is Li Yongchang's princess, and she is also a relative; The Qi family is Qi Hongkui's lineage, and he also helped Li Yongji at the beginning, and Qi Hongkui's daughter is Li Yongchang's concubine, no, now it should be said that she is a side concubine, so it can also be said to be a relative of the royal family.

With the passage of time, these four families have become entangled with each other and have their own strengths, which can be said to be interdependent.

Among them, the Li family is naturally the strongest, not only monopolizing the trade of all weapons, special medicines, cultured pearls, precious metals and other unique items, but also extending in other aspects such as grain, silk, and porcelain. Among them, China CITIC Bank, Dai Mengde Group, and China Pharmaceutical Group (although Bayer Pharmaceutical, which manufactures Zuò Halokine, is a foreign company, it is actually an overseas holding subsidiary of Zhonghua Pharmaceutical, and the patent right is in Zhonghua Pharmaceutical, and Bayer Pharmaceuticals only has the right to sell).

The Wang family is the second big cattle in the domestic transportation and manufacturing industry, and at the same time as the Li family, it has obtained grain production and animal husbandry. Salt production, mining and other operations, the overall scale ranks second among the four major families, mainly in the manufacturing industry, the main economic support point at present, is salt production, coal and iron sales.

The Shen family used to be mainly engaged in finance, and later continued to concentrate on banking, and now it is the second largest banker in addition to the Li family, and the Minsheng Bank controlled by it is the third largest commercial bank in China. After China CITIC Bank and Imperial Bank, in terms of cash flow, it can be said to be the second largest family after the Li family.

The foundation of the Qi family is relatively thin, but the Qi family has the largest family population, all over the south of the Yangtze River, and business is blooming everywhere. Today, relying on the support of the royal family, the Qi family, which is numerous and very united, has monopolized the tea market, oil market, cotton market and other bulk living and trade goods in Jiangnan, in addition to grain, coal, timber and other large households. A veritable all-rounder in the trade.

Of course, although the businesses of these four families have their own strengths, they actually have many infiltrations with each other, such as China CITIC Bank. Later, after the reform, it was actually a four-company joint stock, but the Li family had the most shares, and the other groups were the same, most of them were interpenetrated.

After the unification of China with the Empire. Consortiums from other places also began to rise, such as the Jin merchants in Shanxi and the Hui merchants. Zhejiang merchants and others have also risen, but in the end they are one head worse than the four major families.

Therefore, the so-called royal enterprises actually refer to the enterprises controlled by the four major families, and the royal enterprises control the majority of clothing, food, housing and transportation, and are veritable monopoly groups.

However, this monopoly group must be controlled and supervised by the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and it must not blindly pursue profits unscrupulously, but must plan to invest most of its profits in reproduction and stabilize the prices of domestic bulk goods.

The Ministry of Internal Affairs has an independent Central Development and Reform Commission, referred to as the National Development and Reform Commission, which currently has two main tasks, the first is to regulate prices, and the second is to regulate investment.

Price regulation refers to the comprehensive detection and regulation of national prices and the circulation of bulk goods, in other words, under the premise of market behavior, the price of domestic bulk goods is adjusted according to the situation, so as to balance the level of domestic economic development to the greatest extent.

Regulating and controlling investment refers to selectively investing in some large projects according to domestic needs, or in other words, according to Li Yongji's needs. For example, at present, the main investment project is infrastructure, and the first road in infrastructure is reconstruction.

In other words, although the four families make a lot of money, most of the profits are used for investment, at least half of which is invested in the infrastructure sector, and the rest is invested in the expansion of production, and there is very little wealth that can really be used to enjoy.

In terms of private enjoyment, the members of the four major families were strictly controlled, and any extravagant behavior other than the emperor himself was severely punished by the National Development and Reform Commission. Including Li Yongchang, their personal expenses, such as wedding celebrations, can only be earned from their own legal salaries.

That is to say, the use of the funds of the four major families is strictly controlled, and the members of the four major families only have the right to own shares, but in terms of management rights, they must be controlled by the National Development and Reform Commission, and they cannot be used indiscriminately, and the National Development and Reform Commission basically implements the will of Emperor Li Yongji, so it is not too much to say that the four families are royal enterprises.

In fact, this model is a planned economy in disguise, or state monopoly capitalism, that is, a planned monopoly and control of the production and circulation of the country's bulk materials, and then planned investment and reproduction to avoid waste, so that we can concentrate on doing great things in a short period of time and implement Li Yongji's will to the greatest extent.

In China's current poor and white situation, only this way can develop the lifting industry and modern agriculture in the fastest time, if left unchecked, with the tradition and characteristics of the Chinese, I am afraid it will cause a lot of waste.

To get back to the point, the Eastern Group is actually a general trading company established by private fund-raising, which is currently mainly engaged in foreign trade in China, but also in mining and other businesses abroad. More precisely, the Eastern Bloc was created primarily for the Los Angeles settlement, in order to facilitate colonization.

There are many shareholders of the Oriental Group, the majority of which are the four major families and the Ministry of Commerce of the State Council, as well as the Jin merchants of Shanxi and the Hui merchants of Anhui. Zhejiang's Zhejiang businessmen, as well as Hunan Zeng Guofan, Hubei Hu Linyi and others also invested, so it was a business group that represented the interests of most of the elite in the Chinese Empire.

Although in terms of equity distribution, this is a joint-stock company invested by the whole people, it is the National Development and Reform Commission of the Ministry of Internal Affairs that really leads the operation of this group, and the composition of the shares is not announced to the public, so it is not wrong to say that this company is a royal enterprise.

At present, the Qiē of the Los Angeles settlement is nominally owned by the Eastern Bloc. That is to say, including the land, personnel and various materials here, are all provided by the Eastern Bloc, and the 200,000 people in the Red Fort are also nominally employees of the Eastern Bloc, so they are in the nature of a company and have no national attributes, therefore. Li Yongji came here as the chief inspector of the Oriental Group abroad, and there was no problem at all.

In addition, although Li Yongji has also appeared in public many times, it is the development period after all. There is still a lot of change in appearance, and most of the people who can usually get in close contact with Li Yongji are either rich or expensive, so as long as it is not specifically pointed out, few people in the Los Angeles settlement can recognize this as the emperor.

In fact. When the senior management of the Red Fort went to the port of Los Angeles to receive Li Yongji, if it weren't for Wu Tingfang who was surprised and shouted out His Majesty and immediately knelt down. Others did not know that this was the emperor himself.

You must know that even if these people have seen Li Yongji in the past, they have only met from afar, such as the military parade.

However, at that time, Li Yongji's figure was still relatively small, and his face was relatively tender, but now Li Yongji is sixteen years old, and he has grown a lot taller in just one year, and his appearance has changed a lot, plus he is wearing civilian clothes, so if he sees it up close, if it is not specially explained, he will not think that it is the emperor himself.

But even if you know it now, it doesn't matter, because these people have been given a gag order, and their travel is also restricted, and once they travel, they will be accompanied by a CIA agent, so in terms of secrecy, Li Yongji is still confident.

In short, Li Yongji's arrival, due to the strict blockade of news, so most of the Chinese in the Los Angeles settlement did not fluctuate, and the secret agents sent by the California government were not abnormal, only thinking that this was a normal transfer of the company's upper echelons, and what should be done in normal times.

In order to maintain maximum secrecy and confuse others, after Li Yongji came to Los Angeles, he personally drafted an order, sent his subordinates to go through the motions, and appointed Wu Tingfang as the acting general manager of Hollywood City in public, while Li Yongji remained hidden behind the scenes, still only acting in the capacity of the chief inspector of the Oriental Bloc abroad.

It should be pointed out here that Los Angeles is the English name of the United States, and Hollywood is the Chinese name of the Chinese settlement in Los Angeles, so the Red Fort is also the common name of the city of Hollywood, and the Port of Los Angeles is also called the Port of Hollywood.

In addition, since Hollywood City was developed and operated by the corporate Oriental Bloc, the name of the administrator in charge of the overseas colonies was also different from that of ordinary public officials, such as the chief person in charge of the military and political power of Hollywood City, who was called the general manager, which had a distinct commercial atmosphere when heard of it.

As for the identity of the chief inspector on Li Yongjiming's face, it is also an internal position in the company, similar to the Qincha or the central commissioner, which can also be called the governor, but in terms of status and power, he is under the general manager, and according to the rules, the chief inspector must be controlled by the general manager.

Of course, that's just from the perspective of job division, in fact, Li Yongji's identity is there, where he is, where he is, he has the final say.

Let's say that after Li Yongji came to Hollywood City, he used Li Yuanzheng's pseudonym to enter the barracks of the pioneer army as the chief inspector and took charge of the command of this army.

After that, Li Yongji's first step after assuming military power was to first expand the number of standing armies, so that the number of standing troops in the pioneer army reached 30,000, and two divisions were formed, namely the first pioneer division and the second pioneer division, with an average of 15,000 men in each division.

Originally, most of the Chinese in Hollywood were soldiers, and only 10,000 standing troops were retained for economic reasons, and now it is not difficult to re-recruit.

The second step was to use the space-time trading system to quickly upgrade the weapons and equipment of the pioneer army, and carry out adaptive training as much as possible.

In the past, the pioneer corps that immigrated to Los Angeles were all Wehrmacht, and the weapons they used were all Sharps rifles, or Hua 1 rifles, why? Naturally, it was inconvenient to replenish, in order to save ammunition.

But now that Li Yongji is here, there is no problem of insufficient supplies.

In particular, before Li Yongji rushed to Los Angeles, that is, when his child was born, I don't know if it was to celebrate that Li Yongji had offspring, or if the accumulation was finally enough, the space-time trading system was upgraded again, but this upgrade was mainly to upgrade Zhang Xinda's teleportation tonnage.

After the third upgrade, Zhang Xinda's daily transmission tonnage reached 200 tons. It can accumulate tonnage for 60 days in a row, that is to say, Zhang Xinda can send up to 12,000 tons of materials at one time.

As for Li Yongji himself, there was also a small upgrade, but this upgrade did not upgrade the total number of teleportations, and still only 500 tons of materials could be sent to another time and space every day, but the accumulation days were upgraded, from the original 60-day accumulation period to 90 days. Other words. Li Yongji can accumulate continuously, and then transfer 45,000 tons of materials to modern society at one time.

In addition, Li Yongji's personal storage space has also become larger, becoming 1,500 tons. This is an increase of 500 tons from the original 1,000 tons.

After this small upgrade, Li Yongji has a stronger ability to carry space-time transactions, so he can let go of his hands and feet to the greatest extent in terms of material use.

In short, due to the arrival of Li Yongji himself. There is no shortage of material supplies, and there are still too few Chinese in Los Angeles, in order to make full use of manpower. Therefore, Li Yongji modernized and upgraded all the 30,000 people of the pioneer army.

In terms of weapons, the Hua 1 rifle was completely eliminated and changed to 56 semi-automatic, 56 submachine gun and 81-1 automatic rifle, and the heavy weapons were also completely eliminated Hua 1 artillery, which was replaced by the PP89 60 mm mortar, PP87 82 mm mortar, 78 82 mm recoilless gun, W86 120 mm mortar and 63 107mm towed rocket launcher purchased by Zhang Xinda in modern society.

It can be seen that in terms of weapons, Li Yongji continues to continue the previous style, not pursuing tallness, but only cost-effectiveness.

Not to mention the 56 and a half and 56 submachine guns, which are basic small arms, of which the 56 and a half will replace the Sharps rifle and become the basic rifle of the soldier, and the 56 submachine gun will be used as a squad machine gun.

In terms of heavy weapons, the PP89 60mm mortar will be a company-level support gun due to its extremely light weight (5.25 kg gun), the PP87 82mm mortar and the Type 78 82mm recoilless gun will be a battalion support artillery, the W86 120mm mortar will be a regimental support artillery, and the Type 63 107mm towed rocket launcher will be used as a divisional support artillery.

In addition, in order to maintain effective mobility, Li Yongji organized the 30,000 men of the pioneer army into two infantry divisions.

Among them, the second pioneering division is a garrison army, which is still a bicycle-based division, and its weapons are mainly 56 semi-automatic and 56 submachine guns, and it continues to hold the Red Fort in peacetime.

The 1st Pioneer Division will be used as a mobile strike corps, and it will also be the own army led by Li Yongji himself, and the whole division will be built into a motorized infantry division, and the basic weapon is the Type 81-1 assault rifle.

In order to adapt to the new weapons, especially motorized equipment, the pioneer army has implemented a completely new organization. Specifically, it is compiled as follows:

A combat group of 5 people, armed with a LYT2021 ultralight wheeled paratrooper assault vehicle, all armed with Type 81-1 assault rifles.

A squad of 3 groups of 15 people, equipped with 3 assault vehicles.

A platoon has 4 squads of 60 people and is equipped with 12 assault vehicles, three of which are ordinary combat squads, and the last one is a sniper squad equipped with Type 85 sniper rifles.

A company of 3 platoons, plus a fire squad equipped with 60 mortars, plus a communicator, a cooking squad, a total of 220 people, 40 assault vehicles plus a four-wheeled off-road supply truck.

A battalion of 3 companies, plus a baggage platoon, a guard platoon, a communications squad, an artillery platoon equipped with 82 mm mortars and 82 mm recoilless guns, plus a field medical squad, a total of 900 people. Among them, there are 160 combat assault vehicles and 20 off-road supply trucks.

A regiment consisted of 3 battalions, plus an artillery company, a sanitary company, a logistics company, etc., armed with 120-mm mortars, with a total of 3,600 people, a total of 680 combat assault vehicles, 80 trucks.

One division and three field regiments, plus a separate artillery battalion equipped with Type 63 107 mm rocket artillery, as well as a guard battalion, a logistics battalion, a field hospital (300 medical workers), an engineer battalion, staff civilian personnel, etc. Fifteen thousand people in total.

The First Division of Motorized Development has a total of 2,500 combat vehicles LYT2021 ultra-light wheeled paratrooper assault vehicles and 500 Jiefang Type 141 trucks, which basically ensures the motorization of the entire division.

The whole division uniformly changed into the Type 07 desert camouflage combat uniform of another time and space modern China, wore a QGF02 aramid helmet, and the officers were equipped with a Type 92 9mm pistol as standard, and the radio walkie-talkie was popularized to the five-person group, and basically every vehicle had a radio communication system to ensure that the command headquarters could directly command the group.

For a division with a total of only fifteen thousand men, so many vehicles are somewhat redundant. The main consideration is the issue of repair and damage.

Since the vehicles are all military products, the quality can be guaranteed, even the terrain in California can be unimpeded, and once it is damaged, there is no need to repair it, it is directly gathered together, and then Li Yongji will be transmitted back to the modern society, so that Zhang Xinda's people in the modern society can repair and maintain.

Other words. All vehicles don't have to worry about maintenance at all, they just need to learn to drive and then slam down.

The motorization of the whole division was also formulated by Li Yongji in response to the characteristics of California's vast land and sparsely populated area. Because if you use horses, it is laborious and thankless, and it is far less worry-free than using a vehicle. Anyway, there is no shortage of fuel. It can be procured from modern society at any time, so the supply aspect is not a problem at all.

The 1st Pioneer Division, so to speak, used exclusively modern weapons. In the middle of the nineteenth century, it was a complete fantasy army.

Originally, Li Yongji wanted to get some tanks, but Zhang Xinda persuaded him that tanks consume too much fuel, and the wear and tear of parts and components is also stricter, and the cost performance is too low, and to deal with the Yankees in the 19th century, it is too much to use tanks, and it is completely enough to use motorized infantry.

In fact, the 120mm mortar was enough to torture the Americans, and the Type 63 rocket artillery was mainly used to deal with the Americans' cluster charge, and in this era, the Americans' tactics were still line charges, so rocket artillery and mortars were the most appropriate.

As for the problem of fortifications, the level of fortifications of this era was completely more than enough with recoilless guns.

In fact, Li Yongji originally didn't think of building this fantasy army, he originally intended to get a 56 and a half and 56 submachine guns, at least he didn't think about using all motor vehicles and building a motorized unit.

However, Zhang Xinda's words reminded him, that is, California is vast and sparsely populated, and it has only been more than ten years since it was taken over by the United States, and the total number of people in the entire Upper California and Lower California combined is only 380,000, of which Upper California is the territory of the United States, and Lower California still belongs to Mexico.

At present, California belongs to the United States, with less than 300,000 people in the state, of which 80% of the population is mainly concentrated in San Francisco and Sacramento.

In other words, as long as San Francisco and Sacramento are occupied, the entire California of the United States is under Li Yongji's control, and the California region of this era is not like the California of later generations, people have a high consciousness, on the contrary, they do not have much resistance to changing the master.

In other words, if Li Yongji used the method of quick attack to conquer these two cities, gather these people as slaves or laborers, and then use his own 200,000 Chinese to take care of them, there would be no problem at all.

And, most importantly, although the population of California at this time is small, it is rich in gold, and it is currently the highest gold production place in the United States and the world.

According to incomplete statistics, by 2012, about 118 million ounces of gold (about 3,670 tons) were obtained from California, and about one-third of the gold was collected during the gold rush in the 19th century.

In other words, at this time, California was a veritable place rich in gold, and it was quite easy to collect, the earliest collection was to pick up gold, and later began to dig three feet into the ground to play mining.

In addition, in 1862, there were many people in California who were very rich, at least they kept a large amount of gold, once the two cities of San Francisco and Sacramento were brought down, and the people inside became their slaves, then their property could be plundered without scruples.

The main thing is that this is a foreign country in the nineteenth century, and there is no need to consider other moral factors at all, only bloody colonization, and then use the way of plunder, using the labor and resources of the natives, to quickly establish colonies.

Anyway, they are ready to tear their faces with the United States, so there is no need to hide it, and the most important point in front of Li Yongji at present is time and speed, in other words, Li Yongji has no time to play construction bit by bit, but must play fast attack, must play plundering flow.

Zhang Xinda's plan is to start troops early, colonize California as soon as possible, and then fight California as soon as possible, attack Oregon and Arizona, and ask for nothing else, just rob people, money, and materials, and after the robbery, they will all be escorted back to Upper California, concentrate on building Hollywood and San Francisco, and also have a bloody colony, making full use of local manpower.

Once the upper california is completely occupied, then both from the military strategy and from the economic point of view, it will occupy an unparalleled advantage, and then Li Yongji can continue to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, sit and watch the north and south of the United States continue to tear apart, and have the kung fu to help the French bully Lower California in Mexico, and even have time to deal with the Panama Canal!

When the United States is exhausted from fighting in the north and south, Li Yongji will make the last attack, so as to maximize the benefits.

In other words, at present, the best way for Li Yongji is not to intervene in the American Civil War prematurely, but to take this opportunity to occupy the territory of the western United States, and then seize the time to play colonization.

Since the white people can play iron-blooded against the Indians, their fists are harder, why can't they continue to play iron-blooded colonization?

Therefore, in order to maintain the iron-blooded colony, it is necessary to maintain an undefeated army that is so strong that it is too strong, and this is the reason for the formation of the Dream Army. (To be continued......)