Expanding the army is a very simple thing for Yang Feng, but before that, the existing army must be unified and reorganized first, Song Qing, Xu Bangdao, Jiang Zikang, Yuan Shikai are now carrying more than 8,000 people, although these people have not undergone real modern military training, but they already have enough actual combat experience, only need a little training, they will become an elite, but the command of this army must belong to themselves.

"Brother made it clear here, we are now grasshoppers on a rope, and now the court can't help us, and we will definitely find an opportunity to start in the future, so now we can count it as a rebellion, or divide the territory, in short, we must go down the road of this chaotic minister and thief, otherwise, let alone keep your current millions of family fortunes, you can't even save your lives." Yang Feng said with a smile.

A group of loyal ministers and good generals who were trapped by him on the thief ship looked at each other, and they all smiled bitterly.

Song Qing couldn't help but sigh and said: "The old man is seventy-five years old this year, and he has fought for the court on the battlefield for a lifetime, from flat long hair to twisting, it can be said that there is no service and no fighting, I originally thought that I would live like this for a lifetime, and then I would close my eyes when I earned a seal for my children and grandchildren, but I didn't expect that this wind and candle in his last years was coerced by you on this road, and now I have no other thoughts, as long as I can keep my children from being raided and destroyed, I don't have to die in the court."

"Old General Song, you are serious about this, now our strength is here, as long as we don't go out of our territory, then who dares to touch us? To tell the truth, Xia Guan took all his relatives this time, and he is ready to take root here in the future. Yuan Shikai said with a smile, this is his relaxed face, especially after experiencing the trip to the palace, this guy has already seen through the so-called imperial power, as long as he has the strength, he is not still forcing the queen mother and kicking the concubine. Take the emperor's hand to cover the jade seal?

"Brother Weiting is right, General Song doesn't have to worry, what is the final say in this world? Gun barrels. Where did the barrel of the gun come from? Money. And brother, what I don't lack the most is money, I can tell you clearly, don't think that the little money I robbed Japan is called money, for me it is just picking grass and beating rabbits, carrying it, my real income is in foreign factories, and the annual income of our imperial court is probably not much as I alone earn.

Here's a copy of last year's operating income statement that my finance staff has just completed, so you can take a look at it. Of course, this does not include the proceeds of plunder in Japan. Yang Feng smiled and handed a financial statement to Song Qing.

Although the first time I looked at this thing, I couldn't understand the dazzling company names, main trade names and various data, but the figure of the year-end after-tax profit of 25 million pounds was still very clear, and not only him, but even Yuan Shikai was stupid.

"Lord Yang, do you earn 150,000,000 taels of silver a year?" Xu Bangdao asked in a trembling voice almost in a trembling voice, this number is really terrifying, you must know that Lu Dao at this time the imperial court has only tens of millions of taels a year.

"How big a business I do. You can't imagine it, and you can't imagine my influence on the Western countries, for example, my destroyers, which are so fast only because they use the latest diesel engines. Now England, Germany, France, Italy. Austria, the United States, and even Russia are using this kind of thing. But it's a pity that the most important part of them is not capable of making it. It can only be bought from me, and the price I give them for a set of core components of such a machine is now 30,000 pounds, and last year I sold 300 sets a year, and the cost of this thing is not worth mentioning, it is nothing more than a metal machine, weighing dozens of tons, probably only a few hundred pounds. Boss Yang said reservedly.

"And what if you don't sell it to them?" Yuan Shikai immediately grasped the point.

"It's very simple, they can't build the latest warships, but their enemies can, so once they fight, their enemies can easily defeat them and destroy their country, which is why I speak in front of them so useful, because their necks are in my hands." Yang Feng said with a cruel smile.

The bunch gasped.

"Lord Yang is not only the rope around the neck of foreigners, he also has a hospital in London, England, using the magic medicine he doesn't know where Lu Dao got from, it is not an exaggeration to say that many terminal diseases can be brought back to life, Liu Xingsan, you know the Tao, but a few tubes of injections, a small bottle of pills, the person who was originally dying on the hospital bed waiting for death is now alive and well, the hospital is using this kind of medicine to treat the princes and ministers of various countries, and it is all up to Lord Yang to treat who or not. There is no card specially given by Lord Yang, no matter how high the identity is, no one cares, who do you say dares to offend him?

If our imperial court really dares to make a move against Lord Yang, I am afraid that all the great powers will come to the door the next day, this is why when you entered Beijing, even Li Zhongtang hurriedly avoided it, because he knew Lord Yang's energy better than the imperial court. Xue Fucheng added on the side.

"Telling you this, in fact, I want you to understand, follow me, don't worry about the future." Yang Feng said with a smile.

"Okay, then I will be open and honest, first of all, I want to expand the army, according to the Western military system to expand three divisions, the backbone of these three divisions is our existing army, so these armies must be integrated together, and then divided into three parts, the division commanders of these three divisions are currently my arrangement is General Jiang, General Xu and Li Yuncong, General Song will stay at the headquarters as a commander when he is old, of course, this is only our own internal position, and you will continue to be your commander externally.

Brother Weiting needs to serve as the governor of Zhejiang, so don't worry about the affairs of the army, but you also have an important task, I want to build a large military port in Dinghai, a military port that can berth 10,000-ton battleships, and I will invite engineers from abroad for the specific construction, and you will be responsible for this work. Yang Feng continued.

"Lord Yang, do you want to buy a big ironclad like Dingzhen?" Yuan Shikai said in surprise.

"No, no, it's not buying, it's making your own!" Yang Feng said with a smile.

These words stunned everyone, even Xue Fucheng stunned him.

"You're going to build a 10,000-ton ironclad ship in Mawei?" Lao Xue Tou said in disbelief, it does sound crazy, and it is too whimsical to let a shipyard that has only built a 2,000-ton warship build a 10,000-ton one at once.

"Is it hard? If the facilities are not good, we will expand, if there are not enough workers, we will go abroad to recruit, if the machine is not good, we will buy new ones, don't worry about these small problems, as long as we want to do it, we can do it. Yang Feng said in a tone of how bold and prolific a person is.

The goal of this cargo is to build a large armored cruiser, with a tonnage of more than 10,000 points, using eight diesel engines to estimate the speed of 27 knots, and to get a knapsack turret and a 280 mm main gun.

In addition, this thing is also a kind of strategic inducement, leading the European powers to this road of miniature dreadnoughts, and at the same time they can also exercise a modern shipyard in the true sense, and then they can build genuine dreadnoughts with steam turbines, with the manufacturing capacity of beautiful women's avatars, it is estimated that even if one step crosses over to the era of super dreadnoughts, it is very easy, when the powers make a bunch of wolves, they will directly ride the Siberian tiger out of the world, and then it will really be called the overlord of the world!

In fact, some people in various countries have now begun to study steam turbines, but the problem is that whether impulsive or reactionary patents are stuck in the hands of the Young's company, and other types of steam turbines can not meet the practical standards, and now the best steam turbine is only under the auspices of Laval, the impulse produced by the Young's company, with a power of 2,000 horsepower, is very popular with some small merchant ships, but the performance is very unstable, and the most suitable large-scale design scheme has been shelved by the Young's company after Parsons' death. Even the scientific community is fading into oblivion.

What's more, now everyone thinks that the diesel engine is the king, although so far all the countries that have introduced technology at a high price, none of them can produce a diesel engine that really meets the standards of Yang's company, but this can only say that they have not yet eaten the technology, since the Yang company can be built, there is no reason why the real technology of Britain, Germany and France can not be made, under the organization of various governments, countless scientists have devoted themselves to the development of diesel engines, although some progress has been made, but the distance is still far away, As soon as he thought of this, Yang Feng couldn't help but want to laugh, and the feeling of fooling the world made him feel very cool.

Of course, Xue Fucheng and the others didn't know that Lu Dao was waiting there with great ambitions to continue to plague the whole world, although he was surprised by his imagination, but to put it bluntly, this thing was a matter of capital investment, since he had an income of more than 100 million taels a year to support, then this investment would not matter to him.

As for how the army is reorganized, this is very simple, the same two-brigade system is adopted, but the difference is that the three-regiment system is adopted, two infantry regiments plus an artillery regiment, the artillery regiment is equipped with an eighty-two mortar battalion, plus two seventy-five artillery battalions, a 105-mm cannon regiment under the division headquarters, a cavalry regiment, an engineer regiment, and there are also communications, medical, transportation and other detachments, but in this way a division is very large, and the configuration of heavy firepower has extremely high logistical requirements, Fortunately, this problem can be solved by the heavy use of trucks, and Young's trucks are now extremely popular. (To be continued......)