Expanding the army is a very simple matter for Yang Feng, but before that, the existing army must be unified and reorganized first. Song Qing, Xu Bangdao, Jiang Zikang, and Yuan Shikai currently have more than 8,000 people in their hands.

Although these people have not received real modern military training, they already have enough actual combat experience. They only need a little training to become an elite force, but the command of this army must belong to themselves.

"Brother, I have made it clear here that we are now grasshoppers on a rope. The court can't do anything to us now, but they will definitely find opportunities to attack us in the future. Therefore, whether we are rebelling or separatist, we must all be united.

If you continue on the path of this rebellious official and traitor, you will not even be able to save your life, not to mention your current millions of wealth." Yang Feng said with a smile.

A group of loyal ministers and generals who had been tricked into a pirate ship by him looked at each other with wry smiles on their faces.

Song Qing couldn't help but sigh and said: "I am seventy-five years old this year. I have spent my whole life fighting for the imperial court on the battlefield. From flat hair to twisting, it can be said that I have never fought without fighting. I originally thought that I would live like this for the rest of my life.

Then I closed my eyes after earning a title for my descendants. But I didn’t expect that you would drag me down this road in my dying years. Now I have no other thoughts. As long as I can protect my children from being confiscated and exterminated, I don’t have to die violently.

That’s fine.”

"Old General Song, what you said is serious. Now that our strength is here, as long as we don't leave our territory, who dares to touch us? To be honest, I have brought all my relatives here this time.

, I am going to take root here in the future." Yuan Shikai said with a smile, he looked relaxed here, especially after experiencing the trip to the palace, this guy has already seen through the so-called imperial power, as long as he has the strength, it is not the same

Forcing the queen mother, kicking the concubine, using the emperor's hand to cover the jade seal?

"Brother Weiting is right. There is no need to worry, Old General Song. What has the final say in this world? Gun barrels. Where do gun barrels come from? Money. And brother, what I am most in need of is money. I can tell you clearly.

, don’t think that the little money I plundered from Japan is called money. To me, it’s just hunting rabbits and taking it with me. My real income comes from factories abroad. I’m afraid the annual income of our court is not as much as mine alone.

Much more.

Here is a business income statement for last year that my financial staff just completed. You can take a look at it. Of course, it does not include the plundered income in Japan." Yang Feng smiled and handed a financial statement to Song Qing.

Although the first time I saw this thing, I couldn't understand the dazzling company names, main product names and various data, but the final figure of the year-end after-tax profit of 25 million pounds was still clear. Not only did he understand

, even Yuan Shikai and the others were dumbfounded.

"Master Yang, do you earn 150 million taels of silver a year?" Xu Bangdao asked almost in a trembling voice. This number is really terrifying. You must know that the annual income of the imperial court at this time was only tens of millions of taels.

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"You can't imagine how big my business is. You can't even imagine my influence on Western countries. For example, my destroyer is so fast because it uses the latest diesel engine.

Now Britain, Germany, France, Italy, Austria, the United States, and even Russia are using this kind of thing. But unfortunately they don’t have the ability to make the most important part. They can only buy it from me. A set of core components of such a machine now

The price I gave them was 30,000 pounds. Last year, I sold 300 sets a year. As for the cost of this thing, it is not worth mentioning. It is just made of metal and weighs only a few dozen tons. It is probably

Just a few hundred pounds." Boss Yang said reservedly.

"Then what if you don't sell it to them?" Yuan Shikai immediately grasped the point.

"It's very simple. They can't build the latest warships, but their enemies can. Then once they start fighting, their enemies can easily defeat them and destroy their country. That's why I speak in front of them.

It works, because their necks are in my hands." Yang Feng said with a grin.

A group of people took a breath of air.

"This is not the only rope Mr. Yang puts around the necks of foreigners. He also has a hospital in London, England. He uses magic medicine that he got from nowhere. It is not an exaggeration to say that many terminal diseases can be brought back to life. Liu Shengsan

As you know, it's just a few tubes of injections and a small bottle of pills. People who were dying on the hospital bed waiting to die are now alive and well. That hospital uses such medicines to treat kings, princes and ministers of various countries. No matter who they are treated or not.

Who will be governed depends entirely on Mr. Yang's words. Without the card specially given by Mr. Yang, no matter how high his status is, no one will pay attention. Who do you think dares to offend him?

If our court really dares to take action against Mr. Yang, I'm afraid all the great powers will come knocking on the door the next day. That's why when you entered Beijing, even Li Zhongtang hurriedly avoided it, because he knows Mr. Yang's energy better than the court." Xue

Fucheng added from the side.

"I tell you this, I just want you to understand that if you follow me, don't worry about the future." Yang Feng said with a smile.

"Okay, let me be honest. First, I want to expand the army. According to the Western military system, we will expand three divisions. The backbone of these three divisions is our existing army, so these armies must be integrated together and then divided into

Sanfen, my current arrangements for the division commanders of these three divisions are General Jiang, General Xu, and Li Yuncong. When General Song gets older, he will stay at the headquarters as the commander. Of course, this is only our internal position. Externally, you

I'll continue to be your admiral.

Brother Weiting needs to be the governor of Zhejiang, so don't worry about the army. But you also have an important task. I want to build a large military port in Dinghai that can accommodate 10,000-ton battleships. I will hire engineers from abroad for the specific construction.

, this work is your responsibility." Yang Feng continued.

"Master Yang, do you want to buy a large armored ship like Dingzhen?" Yuan Shikai said in surprise.

"No, no, not buying it, but making it yourself!" Yang Feng said with a smile.

This statement shocked everyone, even Xue Fucheng.

"You want to build a 10,000-ton ironclad ship in Mawei?" Old Xue Tou said in disbelief. It did sound crazy. It would be too fanciful to ask a shipyard that has only built a 2,000-ton warship to build a 10,000-ton warship all at once.

Quite a bit.

"Is it difficult? If the facilities are not good, we will expand them. If there are not enough workers, we will go abroad to recruit them. If the machines are not good, we will buy new ones. Don't worry about these small problems. As long as we want to do it, we can do it." Yang Feng showed how bold he is.

He said in a prolific tone.

The goal of this product is to build a large armored cruiser with a tonnage of more than 10,000. It uses eight diesel engines and is estimated to reach a speed of 27 knots. It has backpack turrets at the front and rear, and a 280mm main gun. Such a small Dreadnought.

The warship came out. Although this is a bit too sci-fi for Mawei Shipyard at this stage, it is nothing more than the investment. Two ships will be built here, and two more will be built in Sweden. This kind of warship will be used to lead countries to quickly enter the country.

In the era of dreadnoughts, those battleships now look awkward.

In addition, this thing is also a strategic inducement, leading the European powers to the path of this reduced version of the dreadnought. At the same time, you can also build a truly modern shipyard, and then you can build genuine dreadnoughts with steam turbines.

Well, with the ability to create beautiful women's avatars, it is estimated that it will be very easy to leap into the super-dreadnought era in one step. When the great powers create a bunch of wolves, you can directly ride out on the Siberian tiger. At that time, you will really be called a world hegemon!

In fact, some people in various countries have begun to study steam turbines, but the problem is that the patent rights for both impulse and reaction types are stuck in the hands of Yang's company, while other types cannot meet practical standards. The best steam turbines now only have

Under the auspices of Laval, the impulse type produced by Young's company, with a power of 2,000 horsepower, is very popular with some small merchant ships, but the performance becomes very unstable when it is larger, and the most suitable design for large-scale is in Parsons

After Si's death, he was shelved by Yang's company, and even the scientific community has almost gradually forgotten about it.

What's more, everyone now thinks that diesel engines are king. Although no country that has introduced technology at a high price so far has been able to produce a diesel engine that truly meets Yang's company standards, it can only be said that they have not fully understood the technology. Since Yang

If our company can build it, there is no reason why real technological powers such as Britain, Germany and France cannot. Under the organization of governments of various countries, countless scientists have devoted themselves to the development of diesel engines. Although some progress has been made, there is still a long way to go.

Wu Qi, when he thought of this, Yang Feng couldn't help but want to laugh. The feeling of fooling the world made him feel very happy.

Of course Xue Fucheng and others didn't know that this guy was full of ambitions and waiting to continue to harm the world. Although they were surprised by his imagination, this thing was just a matter of capital investment. Since he had more than 100 million taels a year,

With the income support of silver, this investment does not matter to him.

As for how to reorganize the army, this is very simple. It also adopts a two-brigade system, but the difference is that it adopts a three-regiment brigade, two infantry regiments plus an artillery regiment. The artillery regiment is equipped with an 82nd mortar battalion, and another

In addition to the two 75th artillery battalions, the division headquarters has a 105mm cannon regiment, a cavalry regiment, and an engineering regiment, as well as communication, medical, transportation and other detachments, but this makes the division very large.
Chapter completed!