"Are these people..." After looking at the 15 young Chinese standing in front of him, Bertrand nodded slightly. From today onwards, they will be handed over to you..."

"Please rest assured," said an officer with the rank of lieutenant colonel humbly. I'll train them well..."

"Well, do it well, when I leave here, the position of the regiment commander will be yours..." said Bertrand patted the officer on the shoulder, with Yan Shao's funding, plus his connections in the military circles, Bertrand has basically been determined to be the next commander of the Foreign Legion.

The officer naturally understood this truth, so he did not dare to slack off at all, after all, it would not be long before Bertrand became the head of the Foreign Legion.

Bertrand only stayed in the camp for a while before leaving with a few guards, although Bertrand was already sure about the promotion, but no one dared to guarantee that there would be no accidents, so now was not the time for him to relax.

This time he came over only because this matter was entrusted to him by his daughter—————— until now he still doesn't want to admit that Yan Shao is his son-in-law, although the two of them are indeed not married or anything...

When Bertrand departed, the officer's humble expression was gone, replaced by a more 'sophisticated' look.

"From today on, I am your commander, I don't care where you come from, and I don't plan to know what you have to do with the Dao, I just need you to know the Dao, there is only one thing that must be followed here, and that is to obey orders..."

As he spoke, he glanced at the 15 people on the field. There was also undisguised disgust in his eyes.

As a perennial army in the colonies, the Foreign Legion was far more discriminatory against people of color than the average French army, and so was he. In addition, these people are stuffed in by the top boss. Naturally, it added a little to his unhappiness.

It's just that he's already been instructed by Bertrand, so it's not good to trouble these people directly—————— unless he doesn't plan to do it in the Foreign Legion...

But since Bertrand wants him to give these people the best training, then he has many ways to teach them a lesson, and to use reasonable 'methods'...

Of course, he didn't know what to do, and his thoughts were already in Bertrand's expectations.

Bertrand would stuff these 15 men even though he knew that he, the battalion commander, was discriminating against people of color, just so that these 15 people could receive the most severe training.

"In business, no matter how you look at that kid, it's not pleasing to the eye. I still have this work ethic, and it's for my daughter's sake—" said Bertrand to himself as he drove out of the camp.

The other side. After hearing the officer's words, the 15 men also replied in French. "Understood." The neat answer somewhat softened the officer's ugly face.

Before coming to France, Yan Shao specially hired a Chinese who knew French to teach them French throughout the process. The last month is more than a month in Wuhu. Plus more than a month on the way to France. After almost three months, they finally learned some French and French.

Of course, it's only a little bit of understanding, and at most it's only for everyday communication, but even that's enough. As for the rest, it will be up to them themselves to learn slowly in France ...

The whip was lightly slapped on the palm of his left hand, and the officer's face looked a little better, but even so, he still planned to give these people a dismount first. "Now, run ten laps around the playground. If you don't finish your run, you're not allowed to eat! ”

The length of the entire playground is about 500 meters, and ten laps are 5 kilometers. He originally thought that this was already a pretty good dismount, but he didn't expect that after the 15 people answered 'yes', they didn't even change their expressions and ran up on the playground.

Soon after, 15 people stood in front of him in unison, and there was not even a single pant except for their faces that were red-eyed...

Of course, he didn't know that the training standard for the patrol and guard was 5 100 plus 1000 meters a day, and even a 5-kilometer armed cross-country every week. What he asked them to do today was nothing more than an exercise they had to do every day...

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When those 15 people were training in France, everything was going very smoothly on Yan Shao's side. Whether it's on the innovation side or on the company side.

The Innovation Association has begun to recruit some young students to join the Martial Arts Academy, and the scale of the company's ash factory and shipping company has also expanded, as well as a new razor factory, although this thing is a new thing for most Chinese people, but after some advertising, the sales are actually very good.

After many months of preparation, three other textile mills were put into operation, and the cotton textiles produced by more than 330,000 spindles brought huge profits to the company.

It's just that the cotton needed by the textile mill still needs to be imported from the United States, which makes Yan Shao very unhappy. Fortunately, after entering April, the more than 500,000 acres of arable land have begun to be planted with cotton, and it only takes a few more months for Yan Shao to worry about the supply of raw materials.

After the textile mill became profitable, almost all of it, except for the necessary depreciation, was turned into a provident fund in preparation for the company's further expansion. To put it simply, in addition to the original 4 factories, Yan Shao also plans to build a fifth textile factory, for which Yan Shao needs to leave at least one year of net income...

"At present, our company's main markets are Anhui, Huguang, Yunnan-Guizhou, Jiangxi and Sichuan, which have a total population of more than 170 million people, and if you want to meet the needs of these people, more than 300,000 spindles alone are simply not enough..." With more than 170 million people, this market is so big that anyone can covet it, and if we don't occupy it first, it won't be long before foreigners break in, and then it's too late to expand our business..."

Anyway, Yan Shao is not short of money now, and the little money earned by the textile factory is less than one-tenth of what Yan Shao earned from the Mexican oil fields, or even less than one-thirtieth.

Since Yan Shao is not short of this money at all, why not use him to expand his business?

You must know that the market of these seven provinces in the Yangtze River basin is very large, so large that it cannot be satisfied without three to five million spindles. If 80,000 spindles are used as a factory, Yan Shao needs to build at least 50 factories...

However, if we really want to build 50 factories, I am afraid that the more than 500,000 acres of land on the Jianghuai Plain will become insufficient...

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The smooth development of the company made Yan Shao think a lot less, and the efforts of the special affairs department also made Yan Shao no longer need to worry about problems from the alliance.

In this case, Yan Shao began to think about another problem.

Steel...

The second, third and fourth textile factories took more than half a year from the start of construction to the official production. In the past six months, Yan Shao has trained a large number of workers and management based on the experience he gained from the first factory, so the 'people' problem that once plagued him can now be said to have been completely solved.

Even from a certain point of view, the people under Yan Shao are quite wealthy.

In this case, it is also possible to reconsider the work that could not have been carried out due to manpower problems. For example, the iron factory problem that Yan Shao is most concerned about...

"I don't object to building an iron plant, the question is where to build it..."Hearing that Yan Shao was going to build an iron plant, Elaline frowned and said.

Because Yan Shao once said that she wanted to build an iron plant, she also consulted a lot of information in this regard. If you want to build an iron plant, the most important thing is that you need to have abundant iron ore, and the problem is...

"Is there an iron mine in Anhui?"

"Of course there is..."Yan Shao is still very confident in this, if it weren't for this, he would not have chosen Anhui as his starting place in the first place." At least as far as I know, there are quite a few iron mines near Dangtu County..."

In any case, Ma'anshan is one of the most famous iron ore mining areas in China, with more than 2 billion tons of iron ore enough to build an industrial base with an annual output of 10 million tons of steel.

In 1905, Japan produced only 107,000 tons of crude steel, while France and Russia produced just over 2 million tons. As long as it can be built into an industrial base with an annual output of 10 million, it can be comparable to most of the major powers—————— even 20 years later, Britain's crude steel production has not reached 10 million tons.

"Originally, because of the lack of manpower, I haven't been working on this for a long time, but now I don't need to worry about manpower..."

"And what are you going to do?"

"Of course, it's a trip to Anqing, and by the way, I'll have a good relationship with the new governor of Anhui, Lord Enming..." Because this benevolent brother is also relatively famous in history, and his fame is not because of anything else, it is entirely because he was assassinated by Xu Xilin and eventually caused Qiu Jin to be unlucky...

It was probably at the beginning of 06 that Enming was transferred to Anhui to replace the original Anhui governor Chengxun and became the new governor of Anhui. And when Yan Shao went to see him off, the former governor of Anhui was still in tears—————— leaving the position of governor of Anhui, his income dropped a lot...

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Iron Factory, Iron Factory, Heavy Industry, Heavy Industry~ (To be continued......)