Chapter 102: The First Expansion of the Army

Although Xiaofeng's research speed is not slow, after all, the research area that needs to be studied is too wide, and there are not many research points to be shared, and the research of many scientists can greatly speed up Xiaofeng's progress. What's more, Fang Xiaoyu has always thought about returning to Earth in the future, and it is also very necessary to develop a relatively independent scientific research institution for his territory before that.

With Tesla's generator set, Fang Xiaoyu asked Huadong Bank to arrange manpower for several assistants of Tesla, so that they could train workers in advance and prepare to set up their own electrical company, and at the same time build dams and reservoirs on the Songjiang River and several tributaries in advance, and wait until the generator set is in place and the installation is completed, the hydropower station can officially generate electricity, so that while generating electricity, it also solves part of the problem of hydraulic irrigation, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

For power generation, Fang Xiaoyu originally wanted to build a thermal power station, and the construction technology of the thermal power station has the lowest technical requirements, but now that the heavy industrial zone has started construction one after another, and many steam engines have begun to be used in the Chinese territory, the coal supply has begun to be tight, so it is impossible for Fang Xiaoyu to build a thermal power station that consumes extremely coal.

Fortunately, although Tongshan County is mountainous, there are many rivers, and there are extremely rich small hydropower resources here, although the construction period of hydropower stations is long, but these hydropower stations are not as big as those of the Three Gorges, and the delay will not be too long. What's more, Fang Xiaoyu has a foresight to start construction in advance, first in the name of the reservoir early construction, the construction period is barely bearable, in addition to the shortcomings of the long construction period, the hydropower station also has many advantages, mainly no pollution, low cost after operation, easy maintenance, these are quite important.

Electricity supply is not a problem, but appliances that do not use electricity are useless to generate more electricity, and not all electrical appliances that can be used need to be studied. Fang Xiaoyu first launched a set of equipment for electrolysis of salt water in the chemical plant. The staff training of the chemical plant has ended, and several products have started trial operation, and the results are very good.

With electrolyzed brine, caustic soda and chlorine, which are very useful chemical raw materials, are available. He used hydrogen as a fuel, and the successful production of oxygen allowed Fang Xiaoyu to finally realize the application of the oxygen blowing converter, and he immediately asked Li Zhonggong to transform a set of converters for testing, after all, a new technology needs a large number of tests before it can be used in batches, and the electrolysis of salt water in the chemical plant has just begun, and there is not so much oxygen to supply.

The successful start of the chemical plant has allowed several downstream industries to have enough raw materials, first of all, safety matches and filter cigarettes can finally be manufactured in batches. In addition, the sulfonation reaction in the preparation of sulfonamides requires a large amount of sulfuric acid, and with sufficient sulfuric acid, Fang Xiaoyu began to establish the first pharmaceutical factory. In addition, Fang Xiaoyu began to let Xiaofeng turn to research the method of using high-voltage electric arc furnaces to make calcium carbide and steelmaking.

The development of the Chinese collar is rapid, and so is the development of the northern subcontinent. The hundreds of thousands of residents of the elves have moved out of the mountains and settled in a modern city that has just been established in the plains at the foot of the mountain.

However, since the elves had no life skills other than hunting, Fang Xiaoyu could only let them carry out some animal husbandry operations, and in addition, he decided to open a school there, so that this ancient race, which had no culture for thousands of years, began to popularize education.

For education, Fang Xiaoyu is very concerned, he decided to spend a lot of money every year to build new schools and improve the teaching environment, and began to set up night schools and technical schools in the territory to serve adults, so that they can learn a skill, become a powerful supplement to Fang Xiaoyu's major factories.

As for the teachers of these two schools, it is very easy to find, many students who are good at learning in full-time middle schools can become night school teachers, and the teachers in the technical school are almost all dwarves except for the old craftsmen under Fang Xiaoyu.

Due to its proximity to the Northern Subcontinent, there are not many traces of subhumans here, and it has not caused panic among human beings, not to mention that Fang Xiaoyu has announced that Asian humans and humans in the Chinese Territory enjoy the same rights and interests, which has made these subhumans more numerous, so the dwarf teachers of the technical school are not only not ostracized, but they have impressed many students with their natural exquisite skills, and the relationship between subhumans and humans has slowly become harmonious in the Chinese Territory.

The industry of the Savage Continent is also under construction, and the Barren Hill Dwarves led by the Beretta Hammer have become the backbone of industrial construction, and with the hundreds of thousands of immigrants who have moved to the Savage Continent, the northern region centered on Moore Harbor has also prospered.

Tobul was sent to the Savage Continent by Fang Xiaoyu to manage it with several of Sun Huaizong's former lieutenants. The development of the Savage Continent surprised Fang Xiaoyu to find that Tobul was still an all-rounder, he not only had keen military observation, but also a shrewd construction mind.

Tobul vigorously developed agriculture and heavy industry in the Wild Continent, and soon got rid of the situation that the Wild Continent relied on external imports for food, and even had a surplus. At the same time, he also listened to Fang Xiaoyu's advice and began to use cement to build forts on dangerous terrain near Moore Harbor, and Beretta Giant Hammer also created several types of rear-loading guns with a caliber of less than 200 mm for Tobul's placement, and the coastal defense capability of the Wild Continent began to increase rapidly.

Thanks to the efforts of the goblins and dwarves, the railroad in the goblin tribe was finally completed, and the railroad there started from the new port to the edge of the dwarven territory, and the railroad in the Chinese territory was also built to the edge of the dwarven territory.

Since these two railways were built in the plain area, the difficulty is not high, so the construction is very fast, but it is different in the dwarf territory, which belongs to the hilly area, and the railway needs to go back and forth, but now the engineering teams of the goblins, dwarves and Chinese leaders are concentrating on building the railway there, according to Qian Huiqiang, who presided over the work there, it is estimated that the whole line will be completed in another year.

In terms of military affairs, Fang Xiaoyu decided to carry out an expansion of the Chinese army, and now the entire Tongshan County is under Fang Xiaoyu's control, and the troops of a division, even if a division of the Iron and Blood Army are added, the strength is a little stretched, not to mention that Fang Xiaoyu also intends to bring the entire northern subcontinent into his control.

Through the uninterrupted immigration work, the population of the Chinese Territory has exceeded two million, this is mainly because the construction of the territory has been on the track, due to the lack of labor, the main energy of the territorial government is concentrated on the immigrants, plus the early arrival of the immigrants have been quickly resettled, they will naturally write to their relatives and friends, such spontaneous propaganda, the effect is huge, the Chinese Territorial Government to give housing and land resettlement, and to ensure the supply of minimum rations, such a policy, is unique in the whole world.

In this world where there is a shortage of food, it can be said that having enough to eat is a goal, and because of the various high-quality seeds provided by Xiaofeng, the Chinese collar can be easily achieved. With a large amount of food as the backing, Fang Xiaoyu has implemented the policy of regularly distributing food rations to the elderly and children, how attractive this is, even Fang Xiaoyu didn't expect it.

After this policy spread through word of mouth, not only the victims of the Hunhe area, but also the people of other counties who were not affected by the disaster, began to migrate to the Chinese territory. The East China Trip was also happy to accept more labor, anyway, there was a shortage of personnel, and there was a lot of land, and Fang Xiaoyu's secret slave workshop concentrated the transportation of slaves to the Wild Continent, and no longer took care of the territory of the Eastern Continent.

With more and more population base, Fang Xiaoyu had the basic guarantee of expanding the army, so he decided to expand the first division of the Chinese Leader by six times to the size of two armies, and at the same time establish an army staff. The Zhonghua Territorial Unit was renamed the Zhonghua Territorial Defense Army, and there were two armies under it, with Lin Yangchun and Su Zhizhen serving as commanders respectively, Zhang Mingzhong and Zhang Zhonglin being promoted to deputy commanders of the two armies because of their merits, and Sun Zhonglian, Wei Lihui, Qiu Yu'an, Du Guangting, Li Delin, and Xue Boling serving as division commanders of six divisions.

Feng Shichang was transferred to the General Staff as Deputy Chief of Staff because he was good at overall scheduling, and was generally responsible for the military planning of the Chinese Territory, while the Chief of General Staff was Tobul, who was mainly responsible for the Wild Continent. Liao Jianchu was transferred by Fang Xiaoyu, he had the most ghost ideas, and he liked Yin people very much when he was fighting, and he was nicknamed 'poisonous snake' by his opponents. Fang Xiaoyu believed that this was a necessary quality for a special operations commander, so he appointed Liao Jianchu as the commander of the special operations division.

This special operations division is a new unit, except for some elite veterans who have been transferred, Fang Xiaoyu has filled this force with a large number of elves, and appointed Al as the deputy commander of this division. Since the elves had no work expertise, Fang Xiaoyu decided to use their jungle hunter abilities, which were similar to special forces, and with a little training of them, they would be able to become very good special forces.

Because Fang Xiaoyu paid his army a very high salary, and basically solved the living problems of the elves, the income of being a soldier was much higher than that obtained from animal husbandry and selling hunting furs to merchants, and for the increase in danger, these hunters who roamed the mountains all year round did not care.

Xiao Jun's artillery brigade has also been reorganized into an independent artillery division, although the artillery has not yet increased, but the gunners still have to train more, otherwise it will be too tragic to wait for the new artillery to be built, but there will be no gunners available, and Zhang Hui is working hard to develop, and it is estimated that the manufacture of new artillery will not be far off.

As soon as Fang Xiaoyu's recruitment notice came out, the immigrants all signed up enthusiastically, after all, Fang Xiaoyu's troops had good food and high salaries, which was still very attractive to many poor people. After a month of selection like a draft, the list of recruits was finally determined, so that Fang Xiaoyu's territory was equipped with two infantry corps, an artillery division, a special division and an iron-blooded division, with a total number of nearly 100,000, which was barely enough.