Chapter 12 Spending money is like water

"Hehe, the old slave that the young master said knows that if the young master buys another machine, the old slave will immediately send a telegram to Huo Yu and the two of them!"

Looking at Fu Bo's smiling face, Huo Shan was sincerely happy in his heart, and he couldn't wait to take out the prepared manuscript in his heart.

"We have enough steel equipment temporarily, but there is still a shortage of mining equipment, I want to buy another two million tons of mining equipment for use in our iron ore mines in Hainan and coal mines in Taiwan, and the mining needs not many senior workers, and iron ore and coal can also make money." There is less shipbuilding equipment, and I plan to buy another 50,000 tons of shipbuilding equipment, and then build a 100,000-ton shipyard in Keelung. Well, the oil refinery! The refinery will be counted first, and the oil-fired boilers used for internal combustion engines and warships will be very early from practical application, so let's forget first! There will be 20 sets of various industrial machine tools, although they are not good goods, but they are also good to transform, and they are much faster than their own production! Well, this time we also have to buy chemical equipment, three acids and two alkalis are very important for industrial development, and they can also make explosives, and by the way, we must also buy experimental equipment, and we must not forget about optical instruments!

Watching Huo Shan write and draw, muttering out numbers and factories from time to time, Fu Bo's face couldn't help but show a wry smile, and he lamented in his heart: "It's going to cost money again! Alas, the young master is good at everything, even the speed of spending money is too fast!"

Sure enough, as the old man expected, half an hour later, a large number of mechanical equipment including mining equipment, shipbuilding equipment, chemical equipment, industrial machine tools, experimental equipment, etc., and tens of millions of purchase documents were placed in front of the old man.

"Young master, after this 10 million taels of silver is spent, our Huo family's silver deposit is not much, and the young master also has to build a railway, this is another expense, although the Huo family is now a big business, but the cost is also a lot, so the young master should be cautious in spending money in the future!" the old man said earnestly.

"Don't worry, Fu Bo! After these equipment are bought, it will be enough for us to digest for a while! Moreover, we will not have such a big expense in half a year! Don't worry!" He also knew that he had spent money too quickly during this time, and nearly 20 million taels of silver had been spent in a month, and the Huo family's family wealth in the past 20 years had been used by him for two-thirds. Without using that huge amount of treasure, he really didn't have much money! But as a traverser, there were still many ways to get money.

"It seems that the time to go to the United States is going to be advanced!" Huo Shan thought secretly in his heart.

After returning home, Fu Bo left in a hurry, he still had too many things to do, and the purchase of machinery and equipment for Young Master Huo was still pressed on the old man, and even the time to eat and sleep, the old man was eager to save it.

Looking at Fu Bo's old back, Huo Shan's heart was not very comfortable, but now there are too few talents available in his hands, and the Huo family talents who can be trusted have their own tasks, and there is no way now.

"It's good to survive these two years!" Huo Shan muttered to himself.

"Young Master, where are we going now?" asked the honest young man who had been standing behind Huo Shan.

"Let's go, Leizi, let's go to the back mountain!"

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"One-two, one-two-three-four!"

The high shout, far away, had already reached Huo Shan's ears with the wind.

The wide cāo field, the dense barracks, and the soldiers who shouted slogans to train were both familiar and unfamiliar, and the blood boiled all over his body. This is like a scene of military training in later generations, and it can't help but give him the illusion of reversing time and space.

Seeing them coming, there were already soldiers with Type 71 rifles on their backs, and they were spotted by the soldiers who were outside the jǐng ring, but after seeing that it was Huo Shan, the soldiers of the jǐng ring class all had reverence on their faces, and they saluted and said, "Soldier Han Muyun has seen the instructor!"

After Huo Shanmian returned the salute with a serious backhand, he asked kindly, "Is your chief here?"

"The chief is in the war room!"

"Okay, I see, you go on patrol!"

"Yes, Instructor!"

Looking at the soldiers who ran away, Huo Shan couldn't help but smile and said to the honest young man beside him: "Leizi, it seems that these guys have trained the troops well!"

Hearing the young master's words, Huo Lei also smiled and nodded, he and Huo Long and Huo Hu grew up together since they were children, and they were trained by the family together, as one of the eighteen iron guards of the Huo family, he still had a full understanding of the abilities of his companions.

"Let's go, now let's go see what these guys are doing?"

Because there were too many people recruited for the second time, the training base here had been expanded many times, so Huo Shan, who was on foot, also walked for more than ten minutes to find the war room located in the military camp zhōngyāng! However, before the familiar Young Master Huo reached the door, he heard a fierce argument coming from inside.

"Crimean War!"

After waving his hand to interrupt the two soldiers on duty who wanted to salute, Huo Shan stood at the door and paused for a while, then said with a smile.

"It seems that these guys are also working hard! War games are very much in line with their appetite!" Huo Shan said secretly in his heart.

Pushing open the door and walking in, I saw more than 20 young men in camouflage uniforms arguing fiercely around a map, and only stopped to salute collectively when they saw him enter.

"Hello instructor!"

Because he often teaches everyone, all the soldiers here know him, and most of the officers are also his disciples, although Huo Shan is only six years old now, but I don't know if it's because of the crossing, his height has grown in the past two months, and with sufficient nutrition, he now looks no different from the average twelve or thirteen-year-old child. Therefore, it is not so abrupt to be called an 'instructor' by so many people who are more than 20 years older than him!

"Hello everyone, sit down! When I came here just now, I had already stood outside and listened for a while, and your analysis was very good! It seems that the military class during this period of time has not been in vain, and everyone's level has improved rapidly!" After motioning for everyone to sit down around him, Huo Shan said with a smile.

"Hehe, isn't this the credit of the young master's high-level military teaching materials! However, the young master is training every day now, when will we be the head, or I will lead them out to find a bandit to fight, so as to increase the combat experience of the troops!" Huo Shi is a descendant of the Huo family since childhood, trained by German instructors, and he used to control the Huo family's militia. However, after Huo Shan merged the militia group, he also moved to this secret military training base located in the mountains behind Huo's manor, and because of his good military foundation, he quickly accepted Huo Shan's new military thinking! Therefore, he was naturally appointed as the supreme commander of this military base! Moreover, in the military reorganization of Huo's army that had just been completed, he was even appointed as a division commander. Therefore, regardless of prestige or seniority, his status is undoubtedly the highest in the Huo Jiajun Army system!

Looking at the eager and reverent eyes around him, Huo Shan knew that this was not his idea alone, "I understand everyone's mood now, but our team has not been trained yet, and they are just farmers who have just learned to hold a gun, so we have to give them enough time to grow into a real warrior." Moreover, our army has just completed its reorganization and is not very familiar with it. So, your task at this stage is to train, train, train!

"Yes, Instructor!"

"Jīng is good, but I don't like to play tricks, you still have two months, and in two months I will see that our first batch of more than 20,000 troops is a steel army that cannot be dragged down and defeated, and takes the liberation of the people of the whole country and the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation as its own responsibility!"

"Wow!"

All the officers present stood up suddenly, stood solemnly, and said in a solemn voice: "We will uphold the will of the instructors, take it as our responsibility to overthrow the Qing Dynasty and liberate the people of the whole country, and vow to become the Great Wall of Steel guarding the Chinese nation!"