E: Today's meeting is finally over, and tomorrow there will be wood.

April 3, 19o9, Anhui Province, Fengyang Prefecture, Bengbu set.

Bengbu set is the Bengbu city of the original time and space, but it still belongs to Fengyang Mansion at this time. Legend has it that when Dayu went south to Huaisi, he passed by Tushan in Bengbu, married the daughter of Tushan, and gave birth to the establishment of the Xia Dynasty here.

At this time, Bengbu Ji was the station of the 16th Town of the Beiyang 6th Army. There was no such town in the original time and space, it was one of the six towns that Yuan Shikai planned to build after the Ding Wei Revolution, and later the big head completely controlled the Qing court and looted a lot of property from the magnates, and the big head increased the expansion quota of the Beiyang Army to 18, namely: the 1st town of the Guards Army, the 6th town of the 6th Army, and the 2nd to 37th towns.

Datou is now much wider than the original time and space, and has in his hand B billion taels of silver scraped from the magnates of the capital, as well as the floating wealth worth more than 100 million taels confiscated from the palace, palace, Huangzhuang and other places after the abdication of the Qing court, which is equivalent to more than 1.4 billion silver dollars. After a part of the reward for his subordinates, there is still 200 million yuan, plus the 260,000 pounds of aid loans provided by the United Kingdom, the big head now has no less than 1.4 billion yuan in his hands. Compared to the dilemma of not even being able to afford the wages of his subordinates in the original time and space, it is completely different.

However, although the big head is not short of money now, there is a big shortage of talents. As the saying goes, "a thousand armies are easy to get, and one is hard to find", this army can not be built with only soldiers and weapons, and without a sufficient number of qualified officers, it is in vain.

But now Beiyang is not attractive to those qualified officers at all. The turtle officers who returned from studying abroad have a good vision, where can they see this group of turtles in Beiyang, eight out of ten are running south, and the rest are also apes. Not to mention that it can't attract new blood, even those who were originally in Beiyang have run a lot. For example, the Baoding Military Academy, a school in Beiyang that trains officers for itself, took advantage of an opportunity to train and ran more than two-thirds of the way at once.

In particular, after the news spread that the southern government had ordered six large warships from the United States, almost all of those students studying navy went to the south. It made Beiyang and the bigwigs all have relatives and are unspeakably sad.

What's the use of having money now? People don't like you at all, and no matter how rich you are, you can't buy so many officers.

What's more, even if there is really more money than money, the south is completely full of Beiyang I don't know how many streets, which is not comparable at all. The most important thing is that people in the south make money from their own products, and more and more every year, which is a stable income. However, Beiyang relied on eating large households, torture salaries, and raiding homes, etc., and it was a one-shot deal, and it would not be possible to find so many large households to loot in the future.

Because of the lack of qualified officers, Yuan Shikai had to lower his requirements, take the original patrol battalion and other old army officers to fill the number, and add equipment on the basis of these old armies, and reorganize them into a new army. Although compared to the officers who came out of the regular military academy, these guys are basically indiscriminate, but they are always officers.

But even so, the eighteen new towns were not enough to make up the numbers, and so far only ten new towns had been established.

Anhui is directly facing the south here, the location is important, so there are 2 towns. One is the -1st town, which was expanded from the provisional 31st mixed association. Almost half of the people in the original 31 mixed association participated in the uprising, basically all of them were middle and lower-level officers, and senior officers such as co-commander Yu Dahong did not participate.

The 1st town was still stationed in Anqing as the first line of defense against the People's Liberation Army in the south. The other town is the 16th town stationed in Bengbu. This town was adapted on the basis of the original Anhui patrol battalion, and the command was Ni Sichong.

Ni Sichong's evaluation in the original time and space is a "sky high and three feet" level character, his father Ni Hong was originally Yuan Shikai's father Yuan Baoqing shogunate, Ni Sichong met Yuan Shikai when he studied with his father. In the nineteenth year of Guangxu (1893), Ni Sichong donated a class to a county in Shandong Province. In February of the twenty-fifth year of Guangxu (1899), Yuan Shikai was ordered to act as the governor of Shandong, and Ni Sichong submitted a post to meet him, officially recognized Yuan Shikai as the boss, and soon ensured that he was promoted to the prefect.

In November of the twenty-seventh year of Guangxu (19o1), Li Hongzhang died of illness, and Datou was changed to acting governor of Zhili and minister of Beiyang. The new governor of Shandong, Yang Sixiang, was very unpleasant to the Ni prefect and gave small shoes everywhere, so Brother Ni, who couldn't get along, went to Tianjin to continue to defect to Yuan Boss. In April 19o7, Xu Shichang served as the governor of the three eastern provinces, and was recommended by the old Yuan, and Xu Shangzuo approved Ni Sichong to sign the Heilongjiang Provincial Domain.

But it didn't take long for this guy to be involved in corruption and bribery, and he was convicted by the Criminal Department. Originally, in the late Qing Dynasty, corruption and bribery were a fart crime, but because he was a big-headed person, the Zongshe Party was looking for big-headed pigtails everywhere. So Ni Sichong was unlucky and was condemned to death. In order to save his life, Ni Sichong immediately instigated his nephew Ni Daoyin to admit that he was guilty, and sent huge bribes to Prince Qing and other Manchu relatives, coupled with Yuan Shikai's activities, he finally saved his life, but he was dismissed.

After Lao Yuan mastered the government, he remembered this little brother who was almost hanging on his own, so he immediately promoted him to serve as the commander of the new 6th town and stationed in Bengbu.

Some people may ask, Ni Sichong is not from the military, how can he be the commander of a town? But the big head can't help it, and there is no one in his hands. To tell the truth, the big head really can't trust those officers who are not from Beiyang now, and even those non-descendant officers in Beiyang who did not defect to him when he was training at a small station, he can't trust it very much.

Although Ni Sichong is not familiar with military affairs, he is a loyal senior junior brother, although he is reluctant to be in charge, it is better than letting unreliable people be in charge.

After the abdication of the Qing court, Ni Sichong, who was the "own person" of the big head, was appointed as the governor of Anhui and the border envoy of Henan and Anhui. However, the governor of Anhui did not work in Anqing, but stayed in Bengbu.

This is because the big man really has no confidence in his military ability, and if he is put on the front line, if the People's Liberation Army fights, won't it be a food delivery? So he let him be stationed in the Bengbu area as the second line of defense, if the People's Liberation Army really attacks Anhui, the sixth town can go up to support or hold on. At the same time, the geographical location of Bengbu is good, and it can also support the 6th and 11th towns in northern Jiangsu, and can also control the south of the river. Once there is something in the north, it can immediately rely on the Tianjin-Pudong Railway to quickly mobilize reinforcements.

Such an important position, of course, can only be held by a trusted henchman, although Ni Sichong has no ability, but he is a confidant of the big head.

To be honest, Yuan Datou's arrangement has no problems at all, and it can even be said to be very clever, but he has missed a little bit by calculating everything. It's just that Ni Sichong is too cheating, ah, no, the big head is not his father, it's his boss. It should be said that it is the "pit boss".

Ni Sichong is too big a boss, and not long after, Yuan Shikai regretted his decision.

Neijiang, the headquarters of the Science and Technology Socialist Party.

"Mr. Wen, we have arranged it this way, after the United States has built the main body of the warship, it only needs to install the main guns and install the necessary navigation control system. Secondary guns, small-caliber guns, as well as classified equipment such as fire control systems, radars, and computers are all installed after returning home, and propellers must be replaced after returning home. Gu Xiaoqing, deputy secretary-general in charge of industrial affairs, reported.

With the scientific and technological strength in the hands of Wen Dehe, of course, all the six capital ships built in the United States will not use the technology of this time, and to be honest, if there were no shipyards capable of manufacturing large warships now, and there was a lack of sufficient skilled workers, he would not have chosen to build such a high-tech thing abroad at all.

Although it is impossible to build the entire capital ship now, some of the equipment on it can still be manufactured, such as secondary guns, small-caliber guns, as well as fire control systems, radars, computers, etc., as well as propellers.

In this era, there was no concept of fluid science, and the study of propellers was basically based on feeling, as was the case with the major powers. The worst of them is Germany, whose propellers are the worst. A warship of the same size, with more power, is slower, which is caused by the propeller design. The propellers of later generations have been demonstrated by fluid science, and the utilization rate of power is more than half higher than that at this time.

"Well, that's fine. Wen Deji nodded in approval. "Will our shipyard be able to catch up, though?"

Gu Xiaoqing replied: "There is no problem, according to our technical guidance in the United States, those six capital ships will not be able to sea trials until at least January 1911, and our several large dockyards in Guangzhou, Fangcheng, and Shanghai will be completed in the second half of 191o at the latest......"

"And what about the naval guns, will the main guns we ordered in Austria-Hungary be completed on time?" asked Wen Desi again.

"There is no problem, with the technical information and experts we provide as consultants, the progress of the Skoda company is very fast, the O gun and the 2O gun they originally had this technology, neither of these two is a problem - the 1O gun is not a big problem, they originally had 36 guns, make a little change according to our requirements, the problem is not big, and the sample gun will be available by the end of this month at the latest. With our technical support, the most difficult 3O cannon can also be sampled by the end of this year......"

“...... But ......" Gu Xiaoqing paused and said: "Germany is very interested in our -1O artillery and 3O artillery, and they have already asked Skoda for cooperation, and Skoda is not good at refusing, so ask us what we mean now......"

Wen Desi smiled: "It doesn't matter, as long as the Germans are willing to pay, they can also join." Hehe, I thought they would continue to hold Krupp

"Isn't that too cheap for them?" Gu Xiaoqing looked at Mr. Wen's smiling face, immediately reacted, and hurriedly said: "Oh, I understand what you mean, then I'll give Skoda an answer like this." ”

"Hehe, even if the Germans don't pay for it, I want to give them this technology, and before I can find a chance, they will come to the door themselves. It also saves me from making excuses everywhere. By the way, you can ask the Germans ⊥ our representatives in Skoda if they are interested in torpedoes. A new torpedo that can run 4o knots and has a range of more than 2 km, if you are interested, you can also cooperate...... They can sue the Germans, I am a German fan, and I am from the five marks. Well, they don't understand this, so they just say that I have always had a very, very warm affection for Germany. That's right, that's ......" Wen Deji smiled harmlessly again.

"Mr. Wen, you are so insidious..."Gu Xiaoqing froze for a moment. She couldn't help but mourn for Niu Niu for a second.

As he was talking about the pit, he heard a commotion outside.

"Mr. Wen, something happened, something happened."

Gu Xiaoyuan, the military secretary, and Gu Xiaojing, the secretary in charge of the East China Region, hurriedly ran into Wen Desi's office.

As soon as they came in, they shouted: "Mr. Wen, Shouzhou has revolted, Shouzhou has revolted."

Gu Xiaoyuan, a militant who was so excited that her face turned red, and she said excitedly: "Yuan Jiasheng and Wang Qingyun of the former League revolted in Shouzhou and invited us to send troops to northern Anhui to liberate Anhui."

"We have an excuse to send troops, Mr. Wen ......" Gu Xiaojing was also excited.

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