Chapter 191: The Army Doesn't Need Mercy

The news of the expansion of the army that came out of Huo Shan's mouth made Huo Long, who had been unhappy in his heart some time ago, full of excitement and excitement after cutting 70,000 troops at one time!

"Yes, young master, the military department guarantees to complete the expansion of the troops within three months and arrive at the designated defense area within half a year!" Huo Long agreed in a loud voice full of excitement.

"Don't be too happy too early, we are short of people in the northwest, so in the future, we will transfer troops to you from the base areas in Guannai, and your military department must do a good job in the ideological education of the soldiers, and mobilize them to stay in the northwest!" Huo Shan then said. With the beginning of the migration of the Zhenhuo family's army, the personnel in the northwest are becoming more and more complicated, and it is easy to have problems if you don't pay attention, after all, bandits and criminals are unruly characters, and it is easy to breed chaos, so Huo Shan transferred so many troops at once for the stability of these places, which is not only to garrison the frontier, but also to increase the influence of the Huojia army here, after all, the loyalty of the soldiers can still be guaranteed!

"Young master, I'm afraid I won't be able to do it well! So many troops are strong young men, usually trained in the army, and it is not a problem to be stationed for two or three years, but if you want them to stay in the northwest, the best way is to let them start a family and have a job in the local area!"

"You don't have to worry about work, we have a lot of job opportunities in the northwest!" Huo Shan said with a wave of his hand.

"What about women, young master? There aren't many people in the northwest at all, and the place where we are stationed is a poor country, and there are no women. How can you start a family! If you can't start a family, how can you leave the heart of a soldier in the northwest!" Huo Long couldn't help but smile bitterly! I didn't expect him to be a head of the military department. In the end, the general and officer had to talk about the matchmaker for the soldiers of his troops, which really made him a little uncomfortable!

"Why are you so stupid?" Huo Shan said with some hatred for iron and steel.

"What are the places where I have you stationed, and they are all frontiers? What is a frontier? It means that when you cross the border, you are the place where people are going to be! What are your 80,000 troops doing there, except for training, are you just waiting for your rifles to slowly rust? Ah? You have two legs under your buttocks, and there are so many horses in the northwest, won't you rob them without women? Six or seven countries in Central Asia and West Asia, tens of millions of people. And xīzàng is still next to India, won't you go to rob it? Huo Long, how many times have I told you, what our troops need now is not benevolence, not forgiveness, and not TMD to repay grievances with virtue! What we need is naked power, do you understand? If there is anything in the future, don't always think about finding a way through the inside, and always keep your eyes on foreign countries, do you understand?" Huo Shan's voice gradually lowered and was full of solemn explanation.

"Yes. I remembered!" Huo Long said with a little shame on his face.

"Alas!" Huo Shan sighed heavily in his heart! Since the Song Dynasty, China has completely lost the martial and tolerant jīng god that has been passed down from the Qin Dynasty to the Han and Tang dynasties! The kind of jīng god that is a big country, mixed with the whole world, the people are self-confident but not too arrogant, and has the courage to open up, but not too conservative!

"Huo Long, you are now the head of the military department. Every word and deed represents the military, and all the soldiers of the Chinese People's Army set an example! We must always maintain a rational and sober mind, be merciful internally, be tolerant of our own people, but externally we want iron and blood. Obey or be swept away by us, there is no second choice! Do you understand?"

"Understood. Young Master!" Huo Longshen solemnly agreed.

"Well! There is another thing, when Zuo Zongtang put down the rebellion in the northwest, many remnants of the rebellion fled into Tajikistan, Kazakhstan and other five Central Asian countries, and your task is to cooperate with the cheetah and the dragon tooth special brigade that arrived there to exterminate all the remnants of the rebellion!" Huo Shan said with a murderous face. He will never allow this people, who will be called Dungan in later generations, and who have repeatedly instigated xīn rebellions and carried out terrorist activities, to remain in the world!

With the military order signed by Huo Shan himself, several regiment-level troops of the Huo Family Army were expanded very quickly, and in almost a week, the 40,000 troops of the four divisions had been fully recruited and began to train, but the anxious Huo Long obviously did not wait for another three months, so after two months of basic tactical and queue training, they began to rush to xīn and xīzàng, and the rest of the training they will complete on the road! Of course, the army's westward march was accompanied by a group of forced emigrants from the provinces north of the Yangtze River!

Because of Huo Shan's guidance, coupled with the fact that Huo Jiajun is also a centralized institution, the construction of the entire Huo Jiajun is very fast, and the efficiency is also very high, of course, this economic development model similar to the planned economy, there are indeed some disadvantages such as duplicate construction and low economic vitality, but when Huo Jiajun's industry is still poor and white, the first thing he has to solve is whether there are problems, and then solve some problems in the development process!

It is based on this consideration that he has been frantically hoarding machines for more than two years, even if there are not enough workers for the time being, but he also does not want workers to wait for machines, because the purchase of equipment from a new 100,000-ton steel heavy industry factory, and then loading and shipping back to China, and then to the installation and commissioning of equipment to start production, this process will take at least three to five years, this process is too long, Huo Shan is not willing to wait for such a long time! Of course, if you can prepare the machine in advance, then at least you can save more than half of the time! Officially under the influence of this kind of thinking, the development speed of Huo Jiajun's internal industry, especially heavy industry, has always been the highest investment and the fastest development!

"I can't believe it, this is the East Paradise! God, can these Orientals do magic?" Matt Prak couldn't help but exclaim in disbelief as he looked at the Marzen City Harbor Terminal, which was under construction but no longer had to be much smaller than the Amsterdam Seaport in the Netherlands.

Hearing his words, Xue Fucheng, vice minister of foreign affairs and who was in charge of receiving the Dutch-Portuguese negotiating envoys, could not help but smile proudly! People who have not really been to the islands in the South Seas under the jurisdiction of Huo Jiajun will absolutely not be able to appreciate the earth-shaking changes that are taking place here! Moreover, the construction of harbors and wharves, municipal administration, road construction, bridges, and so on does not require very advanced technology, but only sufficient manpower, a large amount of steel, cement, and so on. The infrastructure that can be built in large quantities with sand and other building materials is the fastest in the construction of the Huojia Army! And after Ma Chen was designated as the temporary economic and political center of the Chinese People's Army, this trend of great development became even more obvious! At the same time, the envoys of various European countries who had never seen such a fiery large-scale construction scene stretching for several kilometers and nearly half a million people were working became a little dumbfounded!

Because all the countries in the world are very unfamiliar with this Chinese country that suddenly rose in the South Seas and defeated the Dutch and the Portuguese, they are also even more curious! Therefore, after receiving the news that the three sides were holding war talks, the envoys of almost every country in the world sent their own diplomatic envoys to observe the diplomatic talks! Of course, after Huo Jiajun was exposed to the eyes of all countries in the world, Huo Shan did not stop it! After all, it was not a few hundred years ago, and with the development of transportation and communications, the countries of the world are more closely connected, and economic development also needs a market! Being able to establish good diplomatic relations with these European countries will also be conducive to the future development of Huo Jiajun!

Unlike the envoys of the Netherlands, Portugal, France, and other European countries who were full of surprise, Gviner, as the British representative participating in the negotiations, was surprised and worried at the same time! As a diplomat, he understood the importance of the Strait of Malacca to Britain, and as long as he controlled this narrow strait, then Britain would be the controller of the Far East! In addition, he also understood the importance of the Netherlands' 'equilibrium policy' to Britain, but now these two things are almost threatened by the same force! The Chinese People's Army, a force that does not yet know the roots, has become a big problem for the British Empire in the Far East, and if the Netherlands cannot get back their East Indies colonies and many prisoners in negotiations, then the Dutch, who are not willing to give up this rich archipelago like this, will definitely ask the Empire to send troops! At that time, Britain must have a fierce confrontation with this Chinese power, whether in order to appease the Netherlands or to ensure the safety of the Malacca waterway! Therefore, the strength of the Chinese people's army will become extremely important to Britain! Because if the losses in the war are too great, then it will undoubtedly be unacceptable to the British Empire!

Now, Gwina, who is responsible for observing the post-war negotiation process of the three parties and secretly observing the strength of the Chinese People's Army, has learned from the neatly dressed guards around him, the rapid economic development of the East Indies islands, and the construction of various infrastructure that can be clearly seen with the naked eye that this Chinese power, which has risen for less than three years, may not be as fragile as the country thinks!

"That's not a good result!" Gwener sighed inwardly. Although the navy of the British Empire is indeed invincible, it is always the army that wants to force the enemy to submit and finally solve the problem!