While Yang Fan was busy building his own infantry army, he received a report from Ali.
The remaining Mahdi army surrendered and he was captured.
Ali, with a total of 300 tribal fighters, has taken over the entire Mahdi territory. That is, a large desert area in the southern part of South Juba State, a dozen towns along the coast, and a small fishing port.
Ali offered twice the salary and in just ten days, he recruited two thousand mercenaries. Most of these people were from Kenya and Ethiopia. A few were recruited locally.
Nowadays, famine is serious in Africa. With the epidemic of diseases and reduction of food production in recent years, war in Europe and many other reasons, there is not enough food in Africa.
In addition to paying wages in US dollars, Ali also provided each soldier with an additional 100 kilograms of flour per month.
This treatment immediately made many veterans in East Africa excited. U.S. dollars, how can any boss be willing to pay wages in U.S. dollars? This is hard currency, not local shillings used in bundles. If you don’t sleep, you may only get
The kind of toilet paper you use to wipe your butt.
Ali quickly pulled up the team. He has now started working in Mahdi's office. The civil servants of Mahdi's civil affairs agency quickly recognized the reality and directly regarded Ali as the new leader.
In order to support Ali and gain a foothold as soon as possible, the scammer quickly handed over the arms in stock to Ali.
An international mercenary army of two thousand people equipped with heavy firepower is worthy of everyone's awe.
Other surrounding forces immediately expressed their desire for peaceful coexistence. Even Major General Moody, the actual controller of Lower Juba State, sent people to win over and recruit people aggressively. Ali was awarded the rank of colonel. This was equivalent to recognition of Ali's replacement of Mahdi.
Yang Fan instructed Ali that he could submit to Moody as long as he could hold on to this territory.
What Ali lacked was a piece of territory. As long as he stood firm, no one could get rid of him.
Because, in modern times, Yang Fan has an astronomical amount of money. He can recruit mercenaries at will. Africa has no money to eat, but there are too many veterans who have fought for a lifetime, everywhere from North Africa to South Africa.
Even if Yang Fan is a violent soldier, he can kill those rotten garlics in the Horn of Africa.
But it's not necessary. Rabbits don't eat grass on the edge of their nests. With Major General Moody on top, they can hide deeper and not be noticed. How can those old Europeans and big countries pay attention to the most barren southern border of the Horn of Africa?
, a small warlord with only two thousand people.
The scammer finally has a protective circle of local people around him, and he feels more at ease.
From the moment he sent away the little girls who were having fun, he was still worried until Ali won the battle.
Now that the situation has stabilized, the scammers have begun to recruit people near their hometown in China to raise donkeys in Africa. They have negotiated cooperation with several important domestic manufacturers to establish donkey hide gelatin factories. Xinghe Group has invested in city slaughtering and donkey meat processing plants.
You also need to hire several well-drilling teams to dig wells on your property all year round, pump water for irrigation, and plant pasture. It is impossible to raise donkeys on a large scale without enough water and alfalfa.
I have always heard that there are rich mineral resources here, but they cannot be developed because of the war. However, we can hire people from China to explore them.
The scammers began to buy camels from Ali on a large scale and drove these camels into the dock. Every night, these camels would disappear without a trace. No one knew when the ship came to transport them away.
Ali's camel and donkey business is getting bigger and bigger. In this era, there are few places that need camels, and there is basically no market for them.
Now Ali has released the purchase of camels, which immediately attracted the attention of various warlords. This is a good opportunity to turn waste into treasure. Sell the excess camels and exchange them for money, which can be used to buy weapons and expand the army.
With the arrival of camels in batches, a large number of camels went to the grassland to form the new camel artillery regiment of the cavalry division. The remaining camels will form a transport team for logistical transportation when the team deploys troops in the northwest.
A new infantry army has begun to be formed in the new city. A large number of militia backbones have been recruited into the military camp and become regular soldiers. Officers have been transferred from the Jia Ding Regiment. At the same time, the Jia Ding Regiment has added new personnel.
Now the Jia Ding Regiment has actually become the teaching team and training base for Army officers. Army officers of all levels come from here. Now everyone in Yang Fan’s system understands that as long as you join the Jia Ding Regiment and train with the master for a period of time,
When you come out, you will be an officer at the level of Xiaoqi.
The Dragoon Regiment actually became a cavalry teaching regiment, and all levels of cavalry officers came from here. The first batch of thirty trainees were now regiment-level officers, and some even reached the division level.
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The difference between the Dragoon Regiment and the Jia Ding Regiment is that it absorbs Mongolian warriors. In other words, there will be a certain number of Mongolian officers in the cavalry.
The Jia Ding Regiment and the Dragoon Regiment are Yang Fan's main security forces. They mainly follow Yang Fan and are responsible for protecting the safety of Yang Fan and his family.
Xinghe Tuanlian is the garrison team of Yang Fan's hometown. They are responsible for important places, such as Yang Fan's mansion, arsenal, scientific research institutions, important factories, and the city defense of the new city.
The total strength of these three regiments is just over 10,000, which is Yang Fan's actual garrison strength in the Ming Dynasty.
This troop strength is not too large and is within Chongzhen's tolerance. It is also the lowest level of security.
From now on, the infantry corps, the cavalry corps, and the fleet will serve as the three field mobile forces, the main forces fighting in the northwest and the Mongolian region, Liaodong region, and overseas countries. They will not appear in the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty without special reasons.
Until now, the imperial court does not know any information about the cavalry army. Outsiders are also prohibited from entering Duolun. They are only allowed in but not out. Duolun is isolated in the depths of the grassland and is only connected by ships. The surrounding area has become a no man's land.
.The news is cut off from the mainland.
While Yang Fan was busy setting up an infantry army, the Jingyan of the first year of Chongzhen in the Wenhua Palace began.
The Ming Dynasty stipulated that in order to avoid cold and heat, two periods of economic extension were organized every year, which were called "spring lectures" and "autumn lectures". Each period lasted about three months. The spring lectures usually started in February and ended in May.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Autumn lectures generally start in August and end in October. During the extension period, they are organized three times a month, on the second, twelfth, and twenty-second of each month, especially
The first lecture ceremony in spring and autumn lectures is the most solemn.
Regarding the location of the extension, in principle it will be held in the main hall of Wenhua Hall.
There were many affairs this autumn, and the meeting was postponed and interrupted several times, so it could not be held as scheduled. Chongzhen specially issued an order to hold an additional meeting this month. This time, the meeting was postponed for one day. In the morning, "Extensions of the University", "Zhenguan Politicians" and "Emperor's Illustrations" were lectured.
"Tongjian Compendium". In the afternoon, special lectures were given on the situation in Mongolia and Qinghai-Tibet in the northwest since the establishment of the Ming Dynasty.
Because troops were about to be deployed in the northwest, it was particularly sensitive for Jingyan to summon his civil and military ministers to discuss the situation in the northwest.
Especially three days ago, Chongzhen summoned 500 military generals of third rank or above from Northern Zhili and young men from noble families at the Guande Hall in Jingshan to form the Jingwei Martial Arts Camp, designated to be led by the British Duke Zhang Shize. They went to the Nanyuan Military Camp for training.
, and at the same time, will follow this army's western expedition.
Jingwei martial arts existed intermittently during the Ming Dynasty. It was a way for the emperor to train his own junior officers and thereby control the army. This action of the emperor immediately attracted great attention from the cabinet and civil servants.
There were rumors in the palace that His Majesty intended to warn more than a thousand military attaché families across the country that one male from each family would go to the capital to study martial arts. This aroused a lot of discussion among civil servants.
The news spread that the Jingshan rear school grounds would be converted into a school for the Jingwei Martial Arts School. His Majesty intended to appoint the British Prince Zhang Zhiji to offer wine to the Jingwei Martial Arts School.
Yang Fan also heard the news. He was about to go on an expedition, and the emperor transferred the Changping army to the North City for defense. Now he was restarting the Jingwei martial arts. He felt that a new struggle in the court had begun to surge. I was afraid of a storm.
It's coming again.
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