"Triple the number of places in the military academy?" Lan Tianwei's expression froze when she heard Qin Yu say this.

"Well, triple the enrollment." Qin Yu nodded, once again affirming the authenticity.

"Division, with the current scale of cadets in the military academy, it is enough to complete the rebuilding of the grassroots officers of the Fengjun Army in three or four years. If we triple the number of recruits, we will almost be able to achieve this goal in a year or two. After a year or two, how will the division seat place the graduates behind the military school. Lan Tianwei asked.

"In the case that the army has not expanded its recruitment, it will be promoted in rank and salary. The position will not be increased for the time being. Qin Yudao, a major who was supposed to be the battalion commander, directly became the company commander, or the battalion staff officer, "This is also conducive to improving the quality of grassroots officers in the army and cultivating the combat effectiveness of the army." ”

"This?" Lan Tianwei didn't expect Qin Yu to solve it like this, just raising the rank and raising the salary was not enough for many aspiring young officers. "The division is doing this to prepare for the future expansion of the army?"

"Yes, look at what this is." Qin Yu handed the latest telegram he received in his hand to Lan Tianwei. Originally, as the chief of staff, Lan Tianwei should not have been slower than him in getting the news, but today Qin Yu happened to be there, and Lan Tianwei came to look for him again, so he missed the time when the news was sent.

"The Japanese army mobilized the 18th Division, the 7th Division, and the 11th Division, each with nearly 50,000 troops and hundreds of artillery pieces of various types to land in Longkou, and the Japanese army is going to forcibly occupy Qingdao!" Lan Tianwei glanced at the telegram.

"Well, there was also a punishment order, one person who obstructed the actions of the Japanese army, the whole village was beheaded, and where the army marched, the people all fled. lest it touch the majesty of the Japanese army. In comparison, the chickens, ducks, cattle and sheep who rob the people for nothing are nothing. Qin Yu sneered.

Lan Tianwei said indignantly, "The president has done something wrong, Britain and France want to deal with Germany, and there is no need to compromise too much about the rudeness of the Japanese in Shandong." ”

"There is no diplomacy for a weak country. It is also difficult to be in the position of the president, the government of the Republic of China has handled this matter a little weakly, but without the financial support of Britain and France, the Republic of China cannot afford to fight this battle at all. Yuan Shikai thought that delaying the start of the war for a year would give him one more chance, which was not without the same as the thoughts of the old Jiang in later generations, after all, Japan was indeed too powerful at this time.

Qin Yu touched his head and said, "Tell me something from the heart." Now Fengtian is in a period of rapid growth, and I don't want to start a war with the Japanese army, but if I really can't force it, training these officers in advance can be regarded as a trick to make a move, and the Japanese army can't fight over. Shandong's problem is not to be fought by the president. However, if the Japanese army wants to come with me in Mukden, it will be unpleasant. I'm not Jin Yunpeng, the Taiwu general of Shandong. ”

In Qin Yu's opinion, it is one thing for the Japanese army to be strong, but no matter how strong the other party is, there are some things that belong to him, and he has to fight for them, the weaker you are. The more unscrupulous the character of the Japanese army is.

"Now the great powers are too busy to take care of themselves, and when the German army in Shandong is solved, I am afraid that the life of the division seat will not be easy." Qin Yu fought fiercely in Fengtian and defeated Zhang Zuolin and Feng Delin. held the military power of Fengtian, and then pressed Zhang Xiluan. The step valve of the private expansion of the army is not small. The first division, three brigades, and one regiment in their hands are all solid establishments, and even mixed into two brigades is still a large establishment of one brigade and three regiments. To say that there is no selfishness, Lan Tianwei does not believe it. Lan Tianwei stayed under Qin Yu for two years, and he could see that Qin Yu was by no means willing to surrender to others, at least in his opinion, he was very ambitious.

Just saw Qin Yu's ambitions, Lan Tianwei also felt that Qin Yu did have the ability to govern the country and secure the country, he went to Fengtian in 1910 to serve as the second mixed association leader, and it has been six years now, and he has traveled to many places in Fengtian, and he is clear about the predicament of Fengtian before. At present, Fengtian can have such a situation, thanks to Qin Yu's single-handedness.

"No matter how bad life is, you have to go on, and you can't just leave with your burden." Qin Yu said with a smile, "That's right, Brother Ji Hao, the Fengtian police system is not perfect now, the previous patrols are too old-fashioned, and the personnel are uneven, eat and take buckles, people have problems, no matter how strict the system is, it is useless, I plan to completely rectify the police system in Fengtian, the province plans to recruit about 30,000 policemen, each county is equipped with 20 guns, and others are equipped with batons." ”

"Isn't it too expensive to recruit so many police officers at once?" Lan Tianwei frowned, and then said, "Shizuo wants to use these policemen as reserve soldiers?" ”

"Those who know me, Brother Ji Hao." Qin Yu smiled, "Yes, these policemen are usually responsible for local security, and in wartime, they can be transformed into soldiers at any time." The police are all trained in boot camps, and in addition to some local police training regulations, they are paramilitarized. ”

Not everyone can be called a soldier when they pick up a gun, and they must go through a certain amount of training and be able to carry out the officer's orders before they can be called a recruit. During the Anti-Japanese War in later generations, the army was expanded by hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands, and there were not many people who could really fight, even if they had a mortal heart, they might not be able to achieve much better results on the battlefield. Qin Yu controlled an army of 30,000 in his hands, but for Japan, it was far from enough.

"It is also necessary to implement paramilitary management, in addition to equipment, the consumption is not much different from ordinary soldiers, how does the military budget division plan to solve it, and it is no different from pulling teeth from the tiger's mouth to ask for money from Director Tian." Lan Tianwei joked.

"You don't have to worry about money, I've already solved it." Qin Yu waved his hand, and historically said that the European war was the catalyst for the economy of the Republic of China, and this sentence was not wrong at all. As soon as the European war started, as the pillar industries of Taonan, wool spinning, leather goods, wool spinning, wool spinning, Qin Yu directly controlled the factory from the original 4.47 million orders soared from the original 4.47 million orders to 7.79 million yuan. In addition, there are more than a dozen large and small woolen mills in Taonan. Leather goods are not much different from wool spinning.

At this time, European factories were greatly affected by the war, the production of raw materials, and transportation, and many factories began to shut down, and the demand for wool textiles and leather goods was surging. With the power of the great powers, they entered the Republic of China. The Republic of China did not agree with woolen textiles from the original, but now it is gradually affected and begins to accept such textiles. 7.79 million yuan seems to be quite a lot, but in fact, counting the factors of price increases, the output has not doubled, and these increased output cannot meet the gradually expanding domestic demand. Not to mention the markets of the West. In recent years, with the efforts of Zhang Shun, wool spinning, leather goods and other factories have successively brought dozens of foreign technicians, and the quality of the production has been almost the same as that of foreign goods, and the advantages of labor costs have been completely revealed. In the domestic demand market of the Republic of China, the transportation cost is also slightly superior, and this is still under the control of the Japanese. After making a breakthrough in quality, Taonan is already invincible, and Qin Yu no longer has the same worries as before.

Wool. The two major leather goods factories are now paying taxes and dividends from other shares, and they can provide Qin Yu with a profit of at least about 6 million a year. The Benxi Iron and Steel Works paid 30% of the transaction amount in taxes because it mined the mineral deposits of Benxi, but for the belligerents, the price of steel as a strategic material skyrocketed, and the profits generated were after paying huge taxes. Still comparable to the sum of wool and leather goods. With the development of the Great War, it was only a matter of time before the latter came to the top. At this time, Qin Yu couldn't help but rejoice, and a set of steel smelting equipment with a production capacity of up to 150,000 tons was added later. It is a safe thing to put into production next year.

In the case of the large-scale withdrawal of European sauce from the Republic of China, the vigorous vitality of Fengtian industry is surprising, and it can be expected that Fengtian's financial revenue will increase a lot this year.

Of course, these gains still seem to be only a small amount, and the nearly 10 large and medium-sized gunpowder factories invested in the construction and acquisition of the United States have been in the last few months of the three years of the Republic of China. The profits are in the millions of dollars. Nearly 10 million yuan of investment can be fully recovered in the next four or five months after the outbreak of the European war. The profits from the production of drugs No. 1 and No. 2 through some secret channels have also heated up as quickly as the artillery fire in Europe. In contrast, the large casino in Shanghai, which claims to be the No. 1 in the Far East, does not have a very outstanding annual income of one or two million.

Unconsciously, Lao Tzu's Blackjack Consortium already had the momentum to become a first-class consortium in the world at this time. This accumulation of a few years is enough to be compared with the big conglomerates at the bottom of the US rankings.

Of course. The Black Jack Consortium can only be regarded as Qin Yu's private wealth, but it has always been Qin Yu's original intention to use the consortium's funds to continuously transfuse Fengtian, without Fengtian's resources, there would be no Benxi Iron and Steel and Taonan's industrial clusters. Moreover, Huaxing Bank, which officially changed its name to Huaxia Bank at the beginning of the year, is also a strong backing of the Blackjack consortium.

"Now that everything is ready, all we need is the east wind. The affairs of the recruit training camp will be arranged, but for 30,000 recruits, the division seat must be guarded against so that those who have a heart will listen to it, and it will not be a good thing to spread it to the central government after all. "Lan Tianwei said, Qin Yu has already controlled more than 30,000 troops, which is in the entire Republic of China, I am afraid it is only a little worse than Yuan Shikai, and now with an increase of 30,000, Yuan Shikai is no matter how generous he is, I am afraid he will not let Qin Yu do it.

"It's in the name of the Police Agency, and besides, there are no guns, and a county is only equipped with 20 training guns, and there is no ordnance, let alone 30,000 people, what is 300,000?" Qin Yu shrugged.

"Master, don't forget, there are still tens of thousands of old-fashioned firearms piled up in the armory in Mukden." Lan Tianwei reminded that after defeating Zhang Zuolin and Feng Delin, he snatched thousands of rifles in the hands of the Japanese, and later captured thousands of guns from the Mongolian bandits. A little further away, even the gun used to kill Tauktahu is still here. Yuan Shikai is not blind, even if he can't estimate how much inventory Qin Yu has, one or two hundred thousand rod people will not be undercounted.

"Isn't Tsarist Russia a great military expansion? These guys are going to sell them all when the time comes. Qin Yu said with a smile.

"What will Tsarist Russia want this kind of?"

"Do you want to treat Tsarist Russia too much, in fact, most of the wealth of Tsarist Russia is in the hands of the imperial family, and the industrial base is also very weak, with the national strength of Tsarist Russia, mixed into this kind of world-level battle, it will soon be unable to bear it, and he will rush to the hospital in a hurry, and besides, isn't there that kid Chasayev, who sold him tens of thousands of guns, and then turned it into the army, I am afraid that the mind of making money is more ruthless than me."

Regarding Chasayev's thoughts, Qin Yu also told Lan Tianwei that the General Staff had already investigated some of the existing techniques of Tsarist Russia.

"How's it going on Chasayev's side?" Those military technical techniques, for ordinary people. It is no different from ordinary toilet paper, but for a professional soldier like Lan Tianwei, it is a more precious thing than gold and silver wealth, which is related to the future national defense of the Republic of China, and Lan Tianwei can't help but be a little concerned.

"Chasayev returned to St. Petersburg and sent me a telegram saying that he would come to Mukden in two months. When the time comes, there will be a group of people coming, and I want not only goods, but also technicians in Tsarist Russia, technicians are more valuable than drawings. Qin Yu's eyes flashed, of course Chasayev didn't miss Fengtian, or missed Qin Yu before he came, after the No. 1 drug was almost used, he deliberately delayed the transaction here, presumably this gentleman can already imagine the painful taste after not having drugs.

"Master's seat. He Yingdong has already assembled the plane. Wang Yuhai reported at the door.

"Let's go, Brother Ji Hao, let's take a look, in this European war, the great powers have all used aircraft to participate in the war, and the results are very great, and our Republic of China has no experience in this regard." Qin Yu stood up, unlike the Southern District, which only bought more than a dozen Gao Delong trainer planes. This time, Qin Yu bought ten Ca30 bombers and fifteen Gao Delong trainers.

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"I said Chen Wu, Feng Tianzhen has more than two dozen planes? You're not lying to us. Du Baoming once again approached Chen Rulin. The other five had the same question. A local province, according to their ideas, can have a few planes is already considered good, nearly twice as many as the central government, what is this concept? If it weren't for the fact that the salaries offered on the Fengtian side were higher than those on the Nanyuan side, these people would not be willing to come to Fengtian. Even if Qin Yu's reputation has always been good, it doesn't work.

"This is Mukden City?" Du Baoming was waiting to ask again. Suddenly, I heard several sounds of astonishment.

"That's right, this is Fengtian City." He Yingdong had already arrived in Fengtian City one step in advance, Chen Rulin was a few days behind, and he had been away from Fengtian City for more than a year, and Fengtian at this time was a little different. From the train, you can see the cement road not far away, and horse-drawn carriages are transporting goods back and forth.

"Tsk, look, trucks, and cars, there are quite a few of them." Zhao Yunpeng exclaimed, even in Beijing at this time, trucks and cars are rare, and a few people saw several cars through the window.

Compared with a year ago, Fengtian City at this time has changed a lot, and the outside of the city has expanded a lot to the suburbs.

"Look, it's such a tall building, I've never seen such a tall building!" With the exclamation of another flight student, Du Baoming and Zhao Yunpeng couldn't help but gasp when they saw the building standing tall in the air. Looking at the past from such a distance, there is no too intuitive understanding, but from the comparison of the small western-style building with three or four floors next to it, the high-rise building is at least twenty floors or more.

"That's the headquarters of the newly established Huaxing Bank, Huaxing Building, last year when I went to Beijing to repair more than half, no phase house has not been repaired yet, I heard that it is a British designer, this building alone costs hundreds of thousands." At this time, the main construction of Huaxing Building has been completed, only the decoration of the outside is left, and the eyesight is good, and you can even see the ant-sized construction workers working on the body surface.

"Good guy, why didn't you say that Mukden was so prosperous earlier!" There are no good positions arranged in Nanyuan, Zhao Yunpeng's family background is good, and he doesn't look down on that side, so he came to Fengtian purely with the mentality of seeing.

"You didn't ask." Chen Rulin spread his hands innocently.

"Tsk, the streets here in Mukden are not much worse than those in Beijing." When I got off the train and walked out of the platform, I saw the shops on both sides of the street and a dazzling array of small goods. Many people ride bicycles, and they can't help but be amazed. Almost everything in Beijing can be seen in Fengtian City, if it is in Tianjin, it is not surprising, Fengtian is a city outside the Guan, for Guanwai, in most people's understanding, it is synonymous with vast land and sparsely populated land, fertile land. I didn't expect that there would be such a rich city outside the Guan, and the number of trucks and cars alone was even higher than that of Beijing, which is simply incredible.

"These are nothing, what is really interesting in Fengtian is the boxing championship, I heard that there are still some boxers from the powers, the annual boxing championship, the winner of the title of boxing champion can get a bonus of 100,000 oceans, then I went to watch the game once, it was really shocking."

"Really, Champion Fight? Is there a game today, do you want to check it out? Zhao Yunpeng suddenly became interested.

"Zhao Dashao, we are all poor, we just came to Fengtian, we have to rush to report and see Fengtian's plane." Du Baoming said.

"To put it bluntly, it's more important to play and get down to business." Zhao Yunpeng nodded, "If Fengtian is so rich, maybe it can really build more than 20 planes, according to this situation, Fengtian will catch up with Beijing and Tianjin in the future, and Shanghai may also be possible." ”

"It's unlikely that we can catch up with Beijing and Shanghai, right? Those are the two largest cities in our Republic of China. Ma Tianhua was a little skeptical.

"What's impossible, Fengtian City was an ordinary small city before, if you really want to talk about development, you have to start from the time when the master seat entered Fengtian City, and almost all the western-style buildings with more than five floors were built after the master seat came." Chen Rulin said, "It's only been two or three years, and I haven't seen a car or truck before, and there is only one kind of car on this road, and you must not have seen another kind of car introduced by Shizuo from foreigners." ”

"What car?"

"Opened in the field, pulled by oxen, specially used to harvest wheat, what is called a rocker harvester, a machine can withstand dozens of people a day to cut wheat, this is not counted, the cut wheat was threshed at that time, faster than manual I don't know how many times the road is called."

"A cart drawn by oxen in the field?" Du Baoming, Zhao Yunpeng glanced at each other, although the animal-powered rocker harvester is not a precious thing, but as a kind of agricultural tool, it is a rare commodity in the entire Republic of China. There is almost no semicolon except Mukden. Naturally, a few people have never seen a harvester that can withstand dozens of people working at the same time. (To be continued......)