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Wu Peifu had a gentle smile on his face, and the presence of twenty elite soldiers with live ammunition allowed him to maintain the majesty of a superior. His arrival dispelled the concerns of the NPC students. One student said hopefully: "Master Wu, let's go
Can the Yingkou army really serve as a helper?"
Wu Peifu smiled slightly and said: "Guandai Chen has made it very clear just now. After you go to Yingkou, you will take up your positions according to your grades in the school. There are nine battalions in Yingkou. I can confirm that nine people will serve as assistants. Other students do not need to
I’m discouraged, my position is not that high for now, but I can be promoted as long as I make great achievements.”
After Wu Peifu explained, the students no longer had doubts and signed up one after another to express their willingness to go to Yingkou. Wu Peifu and Chen Hao looked at each other and smiled. Most of the officers in Yingkou were served by horse bandits. These horse bandits were only barely qualified and had not received systematic military training.
, no growth potential.
Students from the Kaiping Military Academy serve as deputy positions. After they accumulate experience, if they are willing to be loyal to Chen Hao, they will be promoted to join the private army. Those who are unwilling to be loyal will stay in the imperial army and slowly polish their skills. Affected by the surrounding environment, no matter how stubborn they are,
Students will one day choose to join the army, after all, it is impossible to join the imperial army without a background.
If the trainees serving in Yingkou do not choose to be loyal to Chen Hao, they can only be loyal to Wu Peifu, which makes no difference to Chen Hao. Many of these officers have stayed in the academy for three years. They will become the backbone of the army and can greatly improve the army.
of combat effectiveness.
Wu Peifu waved his hand to signal the students to quiet down. He said loudly: "Students can think carefully. If you are willing to go to Yingkou, my clerk will come to register for you later, and then we will take a bus to Yingkou."
Chen Hao handed the list provided by Yang Du to Wu Peifu and asked Wu Peifu to recruit according to the list and not to accept unlimited students. As long as the NPCs in the school were worthy of recruiting, Yang Du had already marked them, and some NPCs without talent were recruited.
Yingkou will not play much role. If it cannot satisfy its desire for promotion and wealth, it may lead to betrayal.
It was impossible for Chen Hao, an NPC with little potential, to get promoted and make a fortune, and everyone was unhappy after the recruitment. After Wu Peifu's documents arrived and registration began, the students discovered that not everyone could go to Yingkou, and there was a quota for the number of people recruited in Yingkou.
After discovering this, the NPC students were not disgusted. After all, there is no limit to the number of military officers. We can recruit as many as we can accommodate. After learning that Yingkou already had a recruitment list, the students stopped signing up and gathered together. They listened to the document and read out a sentence.
The name of a student. Even students who don’t want to go to Yingkou are very happy to hear their name on the list.
Chen Hao has tried his best, but not all the NPCs on the list are willing to go to Yingkou, and many people have other plans. For example, some NPCs have rural sentiments and want to return to their hometown to join the army, and do not want to go to the distant Yingkou;
There are also some NPCs who already have careers and can develop very well after graduation. There is no need to go to Yingkou to work.
Chen Hao has little chance of wooing the failed NPC Ying Yu and others. Unless there are special reasons, these NPCs would definitely prefer to go to Yingkou instead of going to Lingnan or other places in Ying Yu. Seeing that most NPCs signed up to go to Yingkou, Ying Yu
He was so angry that his eyes almost popped out, while the other players looked disappointed.
The co-president of Yingkou Zhili Hall is Wu Peifu. NPCs all think so, but players don't think so. Wu Peifu has been conquered by Chen Baxian for a long time. Many players have guessed it. Now it seems that Cheng Zihao must have a close relationship with Chen Baxian, and he came to Kaiping Military Academy.
In order to win over a group of officers.
Chen Hao had no intention of paying attention to people like Ying Yu. After successfully recruiting 224 NPC officers, he and Wu Peifu sent these officers back to Yingkou. In the past six months, Yingkou has been managed by Yang Du, because Yingkou was destroyed during Zengqi's rebellion.
, Yang Du did not touch the interests on the Liao River, and the base area could only rely on the funds obtained from the stables to maintain it.
The nine battalions in Yingkou are all officially established by the imperial court. The imperial court allocates military pay on time. Only three thousand private troops need Chen Hao to support them at his own expense. The biggest surprise to Chen Hao during this period was Huo Biao, who had smokeless gunpowder.
Formula, the arsenal's technicians have been able to produce smokeless gunpowder, which can not only supply the arsenal's own ammunition, but also sell some of it.
All three thousand private troops in Yingkou were equipped with standard Mosingana rifles. The nine battalions belonging to the imperial court were also upgraded, but they were purchased from the Yingkou Arsenal with the imperial military funds. Doing so was suspected of making money from the imperial court, but
Because Wu Peifu established a good relationship with General Jinchang of Shengjing during the war, the general turned a blind eye to the matters in Yingkou and did not embarrass Yingkou.
The most abundant thing in Yingkou now is ammunition. A lot of bullets and cannonballs are stored, which is enough to support an army of 10,000 to fight two major battles. When Chen Hao left, he told Yang Du that the firearms produced by the arsenal can be sold, but the cannonballs and bullets absolutely cannot
Sell. In addition, Chen Hao asked the technicians at the arsenal to research and produce large-caliber naval gun shells. With the technical foundation for producing shells, after Yang Du spent 50,000 yuan to purchase parts and improve production equipment, a lot of naval gun shells were also stored.
Yang Du never knew why Chen Hao focused on the production of naval gun shells, and many of the shells could only be used by the large-caliber artillery of cruisers or battleships. Although the Yingkou base area is right on the seaside and the docks have been repaired, let alone large cruisers.
There aren't even mosquito ships, so producing cannonballs is a complete waste.
Yang Du also raised objections to the pier that cost 80,000 yuan to build. The navy is not something that ordinary warlords can afford, at least Yingkou does not have such qualifications. The only function of spending so much money to build the pier is to make Yingkou base area
The business index has increased by 5 points, which is completely outweighed by the gains.
What's even more annoying is that besides replenishing supplies at Luda, Russian, Japanese and British warships now have another option. These foreign warships dock at Yingkou Pier, and the soldiers go ashore to rest. The foreigners always show off their power because they won the battle.
Not to mention that the dock was of no benefit to Yingkou, Yang Du had to spend a lot of energy to deal with disputes on the dock, and sometimes he had to spend money to treat foreigners to dinner with a smile on his face.
When Chen Hao returned to Yingkou, Yang Du kept complaining about Yingkou Wharf. After hearing his complaints, Chen Hao burst out laughing. He said seriously: "Brother Xizi, I did not build the wharf without purpose. Now it seems that it is a loss-making business."
, maybe there is a chance to get it back."
Yang Du said angrily: "The small area of Yingkou cannot support us in raising a navy. Even if you become General Shengjing, you won't be able to support it. Forgive me for being ignorant, I really don't see the benefit of building a dock, and you have to spend so much money on it."
We spent so much unjust money to build a naval academy. The instructors’ salaries and the students’ living supplies are a huge expense, and I don’t know what the use is.”
Wang Donglai hired more than 20 instructors from Fuzhou Shipping School three months ago, and the Naval Academy in Yingkou officially opened. There are no celebrities among these 20 or so instructors, and the reason why Wang Donglai was able to recruit them to Yingkou is because
They were promised a high salary of 200 oceans a month, but the twenty-four instructors spent 4,800 oceans a month.
According to Chen Hao's request, the Naval Academy recruited 500 people in the first phase. The living allowance for each student is the same as that of Yingkou's private army. The monthly cost for 500 students is 2,500 oceans, plus other expenses in the school.
Expenses, a month's expenses are almost 9,000 oceans, and Yingkou's income cannot even support the operation of the Naval Academy.
Chen Hao earned one million taels of silver when the Eight-Power Allied Forces entered Beijing, and spent 300,000 taels on various buildings in the base area. The rest of the money was in Yang Du's hands. In the past six months, he generally spent 200,000 taels on turnover.
The ocean gave Yang Du a sense of danger, so it's no wonder he complained.
As the inheritor of the emperor's mental skills, Yang Du had long seen that Chen Hao developed the naval academy and built the dock for the navy, but he thought it was completely impossible. The navy was the most expensive, with a battleship costing millions of taels of silver, and a battlecruiser
It is also close to one million taels, and the Yingkou base area cannot support it at all.
Although Yang Du was more cunning, Chen Hao could not ensure that he was 100% loyal, so he decided to tell him the plan. Yang Du did not understand the dock and the Naval Academy, and not explaining it to him would lead to misunderstandings. He whispered
: "I know that Yingkou cannot support a navy, and I cannot afford to buy warships, but I have a way to acquire a few advanced warships, and then I will abandon Yingkou and go to other places for development."
Yang Du said in surprise: "Abandon Yingkou and go to other places? So my lord, you only established a temporary base in Yingkou. Isn't it a pity to spend so much money to establish a base and then give it up?"
Chen Hao smiled and said: "I can't bear to let the child trap the wolf, so I just told my brother the plan to help me with the details. Yingkou is close to the Bohai Sea, and Japan and Russia are eyeing the Northeast Tigers. Sooner or later, there will be a war. We are caught in the middle and are in a dilemma. This is fair.
Senior brother has also said before that I insisted on developing the base area in Yingkou just to seize foreign warships. Yingkou is a small area. The foreign devils will definitely not think that we dare to attack the warships. When they dock at Yingkou Pier, we will find a way to paralyze them and then control them.
Leave after the warship..."
Yang Du suddenly realized: "Sir, you established the Naval Academy to prepare for controlling warships, right? But after robbing foreign warships, the world is so big that there will be no place for you, right?"
Chen Hao chuckled and said: "There are pirates everywhere in the South China Sea. No matter how powerful the fleets of the great powers are, they can't wipe them all out. After robbing the warships, they will go to the South China Sea to develop. I know a few excellent ports that have not been discovered by foreigners. They only need to control and build simple docks."
, you can plunder foreign merchant ships in the South China Sea and accumulate funds for future development."
Yang Du's face suddenly turned ugly. He sneered and said, "Your Majesty, what you mean is that we will all be pirates at sea from now on, right?"
