Wang Yue dared to speak, naturally he had his own reason, listening to Ding Yi's words, he cleared his throat and arched his hand: "Mr. Mingjian, this is not the homeland of China, it is difficult to find Xiucai to teach the sergeants of the army." If you want to train the new army, this literacy item is really difficult to implement! ”

This is indeed difficult, but Ding Yi did not delve into this issue, and said with a slight smile: "Shichang doesn't need to talk about him left and right, this matter will be postponed and then discussed, let's talk about the dissolution of Rong Yishi first." You see that Yuzhi is in a hurry, so don't hang your appetite anymore. ”

"Yes, sir, please forgive the disciple for saying bluntly, Rong Yishi's combat strength is excessive." This is the question that Wang Yue said next, he took out Wen Jiàn from his sleeve pocket and handed it to Ding Yi, "It is enough to run rampant in the world, but the enemy of my Ximing is not in one place and one place, so the first division of Zhirong is assembled to prepare for war, and it is really useless to use the status quo." ”

Ding Yi nodded slowly when he heard this, what Wang Yue said made sense. That's right, when all the members of the Rong 1st Division are assembled, the 3rd Brigade and 9th Regiment plus the team directly under the division and brigade have about 20,000 people, and with the current firepower, even in the face of 100,000 people, or even hundreds of thousands, there is really nothing that cannot be defeated in a field battle.

Even if the other side is less than 200,000 people, it is completely possible to use the heavy artillery battalion under the division, which is enough to solve the problem.

However, whether it is the Ottomans or the Native Americans, after suffering a loss, who will have the brains to gather hundreds of thousands of troops to torture Rong Yishi? Not to mention the Rong 1st Division, the two regiments that went to the Americas with Wan An and Liu Tie, or the guard regiment that defended Ding Yi, are basically without a battle now.

Unless you take the initiative to attack the city, well, what if you take it? Divide your forces. More than 20,000 people, how many places can be divided?

A place so big in Guangdong. There are only a dozen or so prefectures, and there are seven or eight counties under each prefecture.

America is such a vast place. To control zhì, the state capital is a must, or how to control zhì? Okay, what is the difference between a place as big as Guangdong and Guangxi, divided into nearly 200 county-level units, and 20,000 people are dismantled, and there are only 100 people in each place? The stakes of fighting a war can't be prepared all year round and there is no need to rotate, right?

What's more, where does the Americas stop at Guangdong, Guangxi is so big?

Centralize. If there is no place to use it, even the Ottomans will no longer gather a large army to let the guards abuse, let alone the Native Americans, who are already in a tribal state? Lay down the turf, but can't defend it. Therefore, Wang Yue thinks that Rong Yishi does not have much meaning.

"The soldiers have not been in battle for a long time, and they have military exploits in the old days, so it is inevitable that they will become more and more arrogant." Wang Yue even raised the difficulties in ideological work.

"Gather but not fight, and the field warriors will be reduced to the army defending the land, and it is inevitable that there will be grievances after a long time."

"Therefore. The disciple thought that if it was better to take it apart and use it as a new army, it would be able to make the best use of it. Make the best use of your talents. ”

Ding Yi looked at the text, the two regiments that went to the Americas, in fact, in the past few years. It has been refilled. At present, the 1st Rong Division is still the establishment of the 3rd Brigade and 9th Regiment. Wang Yue meant that Thessaloniki and Athens each had a regiment. And then pull out a regiment to Du Ziteng's side. The other six regiments were all scattered. The more than 10,000 Greek heirs "recruits" who snatched Chen San back, the more than 30,000 young men who volunteered to sign up for the army in Smyrna, the two Egyptian divisions trained by Yu Qian on the Egyptian side, and then a supplementary division from Israel, a cavalry division from Mamluk, etc., were organized into ten C-class divisions, that is, there was no Zài brigade under the division, and it directly governed four regiments, which was equivalent to a reinforced brigade.

"With the crowd of ten divisions, sweep through Asia Minor?" Ding Yi frowned and asked Wang Yue, "Such military expenses, equipment, etc., but it is not possible to form an army immediately if you have manpower." How do you think about this? ”

Wang Yue did not panic: "The First Division of the Praetorian Guard and the First Division of Rong should be regarded as a super-level establishment in my Taixi Daming; In the future, all divisions will be formed into armies according to this scale, and mortars below the regiment level will not be equipped with machine guns. It is divided into three classes, A, B, and C, and for each subtracted class, it has one regiment less, and the C-class division only has jurisdiction over two regiments of soldiers. ”

Ding Yi rubbed his temples, and only after a long time did he raise his head and say to Wang Yue: "Hand this file to the Ministry of Finance first, if it's okay, I'll give you a year to try." ”

"The disciple will live up to the trust of Mr." Wang Yue was overjoyed when he heard this, he himself didn't expect that Ding Yi would agree to his proposal.

Because he was basically setting up the army structure before overthrowing Ding Yi, Wang Yue believed that there were too many soldiers in the first division at present, too sophisticated, and completely unnecessary. Because to build ten divisions, this requires money, whether it is food, military uniforms, weapons, etc., including salaries, pensions, and so on. So he thought that Ding Yi might let him try two divisions first.

But I didn't expect Ding Yi to be so happy.

That's because Ding Yi knows very well that when Rong Yi raises him, it's all money.

Those who are in China are used to getting used to their salaries and grains, and it is impossible to come overseas, but reduce their military salaries, right?

And as Wang Yue said, whether it is the First Division of the Praetorian Guard or the First Division of Rong, you can't find the enemy to fight! This large amount of military spending has not had the desired effect.

If it is distributed according to Wang Yue, then it will not cost a lot of money.

Guns, the Ximing Empire has never been lacking, because after the barrel steel came out, the Rong 1st Division, the 1st Janissary Division, and the Guard Regiment were replaced with naval guns, and they were reequipped in the past few years. Then the eliminated rifles that use the old-fashioned black fire * powder as the propellant * charge have tens of thousands of shots.

Before that, the predecessor of the First Janissary Division, the Fourth Division of the Ming Dynasty, was equipped with a rear-loading rifle with a cartridge-like bolt, and it was also a firearm calculated in tens of thousands. What's more, before Guinea developed the barrel steel, there was still a large number of old-fashioned black powder rifles produced in stock.

Of course, these guns were not worried about nowhere to go, whether it was the republican organization in France, the republican organization in England, or the aristocratic armed forces of Castile, they were all ecstatic to be able to get the kind of rear-loading rifles with cartridges and bolts to fire the guns. Of course, they can bring benefits, but they can also bring more benefits when they are used to equip their own troops. For the main mortars and machine guns, the regiment has a mortar platoon, and the battalion has a machine-gun squad, so that the demand for ammunition and new weapons is not too great.

Ding Yi also saw this and nodded.

However, after Wang Yue happily retreated, Ding Yi said to Liu Ji: "Youzhi is going to ask Yiyi to come over, and there is also a text to go down and run a short-term intensive training class, Rong Yi Division, officers above the platoon, participate in the course in batches, and the number of people in each batch is less than eighty." The training camp was held in Ephesus. ”

Liu Yiyi is not in charge of Ding Yi's finances now, but this is her own request: "The talent of the concubine is not enough to hold a country." "Running Dingjiadian pù is her limit, to be the country's finance minister or household secretary, Liu Yiyi is after trying, she found that she is really too busy, there is no feeling of ease.

She is not a person with good powers, so she took the initiative to quit this errand to Ding Yi;

She is a powerful person, so she took the initiative to resign from this errand to Ding Yi.

The finance minister of a country, listening to the huge power, but if she messes up, something big will happen, she is Ding Yizheng's wife, why do you need to get involved in this matter? So she doesn't have the right at all; Dingjiadian pù, a chain of world-class trading houses, she can completely control it, she can decide anything in a word, this is where her authority lies, she is very clear, so she puts her energy on this side.

"The husband summoned the concubine over, is he going to withdraw money and food?" Liu Yiyi is not joking, as soon as Ding looks for her, many times he asks the Ding family's shop to help, "Now that Yang Zongqi is the Minister of Finance, a major national event, can An rely on the merchant Jia Le to lose?" This is not a long-term plan, and I hope that the husband will observe it. ”

Zongqi is the character of Yang Ding, that is, the current Minister of Finance of the Ximing Empire, he is the leader of the orthodox four years, and he is a supporter of the Thunder School in Jingtainian. This person is honest and honest, but his personality is stubborn and dull, after the restoration of Yingzong, he also went to prison for something, and said that "accompany the mausoleum not to go to prison", and later Ding opened his mouth to teach him to be reinstated, and then he has become a diehard loyalist of the Thunder School. This time, the spring official Yao Kui came to return to Ximing, and Yang Ding also received a letter from Ding Yi, and finally crossed the sea after Yao Kui.

"Zongqi? The sect is solemn and upright, and there is no loss in private morality, but to be honest, it is not a talent of the world. Ding Yi listened to Liu Yiyi's words and smiled bitterly. Yang Ding's level, Ding Yi is not an expert in Ming history, and naturally he doesn't know that in history, Yang Ding's household department is almost like this. However, from the practical disposal arrangement, Ding Yi can still see some eyebrows.

Of course, he is not a genius in the world, but this is the best finance minister that Ding Yi can find at the moment. Because one is not greedy, and the other is that this person is a die-hard supporter of the Thunder School.

Liu Yiyi sighed: "If Yang Zong's weapons are not good, the concubine will be even more unbearable." Husband, if you want to withdraw money and silver, the Ding family's shop should have two million taels available, or for the purchase of materials, or a little more. If you ask Ji Guo yes, or Mr. Xunzongqi summons it! ”

Ding Yi listened to it like a slap in the face, got up and stretched out his hand to Liu Yiyi, kissed it lightly on the cheek, and said with a smile: "If you are not a lady, you don't know what is wrong with being a husband!" ”

Yang Ding can't do it? It depends on who you compare yourself to! Compared with Chen Xun and Nianfu, it's about worse, but it's better than Liu Yiyi! Liu Yiyi knows in her heart, this is about her Ding family, but she knows that she can't brag about it.

But before he went to Xuan Yang Ding to enter this Kunpeng City, Liu Ji cried with a sad face, ran inside with a robe, and when he saw Ding Yi and Liu Yiyi, he bowed his head: "Sir, master, please pity the disciple, save the disciple!" ”

Later, I heard Wang Yue call eagerly: "Youzhi, what are you running?" Today's matter, if you don't give an explanation for your brother, it's absolutely impossible! (To be continued......)