Chapter 131 The brutal and belligerent Daheng people
Lin Ziran was puzzled by Jian Liangyu's sudden visit and said these words, and at the same time he was also looking forward to it.
He guessed that the Jian family wanted to further expand their influence in the military, especially to expand Jian Liangzhi's voice in the Third Division.
Now Jian Liangzhi serves as the temporary brigade of the Third Division, with nearly 3,000 men under his command, half of whom are cavalry troops.
But in fact, those two cavalry regiments were only organized into temporary brigades for combat operations, and were not considered units that Jian Liangzhi or the Jian family could control. The only thing Jian Liangzhi could really control now was the 7th Infantry Regiment.
If the Jian family can operate and turn the Qingshan Patrol Battalion into an infantry regiment and integrate it into the temporary brigade, Jian Liangzhi will have greater control over the temporary brigade, and he may not be able to use the two cavalrymen in the future.
The regiment was also roped in, and finally took complete control of the temporary brigade.
This is Lin Ziran's initial guess.
It's just that Jian Liangyu didn't say it clearly, and he didn't have to ask Lin Ziran to make any decision. He just asked a few questions as a routine matter.
It was more about expressing the Jian family's importance and appreciation for him.
But nothing more in-depth was said.
After Jian Liangyu left, Lin Ziran thought for a moment and felt that the Jian family's purpose of wooing him was probably not simple.
Moreover, they did not offer a clear price easily, which made Lin Ziran even more suspicious.
In the following days, Qingshan Town remained calm!
The military affairs of Qingshan Patrol Camp are mainly training. Nowadays, we don’t even need to escort the baggage, so there is nothing else to do except training on weekdays.
Qingshan Petroleum Company is also undergoing steady expansion and development. Oil wells continue to be surveyed and drilled, but the progress is not as great as before.
The main reason is that today's crude oil production is already too large, and the refinery cannot refine it in time, forcing the large amount of crude oil produced to be stored.
The expansion of the refinery is also progressing steadily. The current refining capacity has reached 300 barrels of crude oil per day, and more equipment is being continuously transported to the refinery in Qingshan Town for installation and commissioning.
It is expected that the design output of 600 barrels per day will be fully reached within two months to consume existing crude oil production.
If the refining capacity of 600 barrels of crude oil per day can be achieved, based on a 35% refining ratio, 210 barrels of kerosene can be produced per day.
If the price of kerosene is sold wholesale at 60 yuan per barrel, the daily sales can reach an astonishing 12,600 yuan.
This is every day!
In one month, that's 378,000 yuan.
Putting aside various operating costs, the profit is at least around 300,000 yuan.
Even though there is only a refining capacity of 300 barrels of crude oil, Lin Ziran can still earn 5,000 to 6,000 yuan in profit from the oil company every day.
To be honest, such a large amount of money is more than enough to maintain the existing Qingshan Patrol Camp, which costs more than a thousand dollars. Otherwise, Lin Ziran would not continue to recruit new soldiers and continue to expand the army.
Not only expanding the ordinary infantry, Lin Ziran also focused on the expansion of the artillery unit. He planned to increase the number of artillery units in the artillery unit to sixteen. Otherwise, there would not be enough artillery to attack the existing infantry.
Troops provided fire support.
The expansion of cavalry units also needs to be carried out, although the expansion of cavalry units is more difficult than that of artillery. Qualified riding horses are difficult to obtain, sometimes even if you have money, and cavalry is not easy to train.
However, even so, Lin Ziran spent a lot of effort to expand the cavalry, searched for war horses everywhere, recruited cavalry who knew how to ride, and increased the training of the existing cavalry.
Because in Dahengli, cavalry is relatively common. Even a vassal town can pull out thousands of cavalry. If you don't have it, you will fall behind and be beaten!
There is no shortage of horses in Daheng, and cavalry is prevalent. This is also related to Daheng’s terrain and warlike tradition.
In the eyes of outsiders, Daheng people are actually very warlike and cruel!
Daheng has a vast area. The thirteen states have a total of more than 7.5 million square kilometers of land. However, the territory of Daheng people a thousand years ago was only a few hundred thousand square kilometers.
Why is it now 7.5 million square kilometers of land? Naturally, it is because the Daheng people have successively conquered it over thousands of years.
In the past thousand years, the people of Daheng basically had to fight wars with neighboring countries every once in a while, and they were big wars.
In the past few hundred years, countless wars in the central continent were fought between Daheng and other countries. During this period, the Daheng people destroyed countless countries.
Many countries in the central continent have organized at least ten anti-Heng wars over the past millennium. The most serious one was two hundred years ago, in the face of the rise and rapid expansion of the Daheng Ji dynasty.
Other countries in the central continent have united and formed a coalition of more than four million people to fight against Daheng, trying to completely wipe out the Daheng people who have been expanding for hundreds of years.
But that was an army of four million. Considering the logistical conditions of various countries at that time, it was almost unimaginable!
The multinational coalition launched the war with full confidence, but it turned out to be a failure. In this battle, Daheng formed an army of more than two million people. After several years of war, it annihilated the four million multinational coalition forces in one fell swoop at the cost of one million casualties.
The Daheng people used a great victory to tell the world that when it comes to war, we Daheng people are not afraid of anyone!
This battle allowed Daheng to completely wipe out the four neighboring medium-sized countries, leaving no one behind!
It also forced other defeated countries to cede large areas of territory, successfully expanded more than two million square kilometers of land, and completely established its dominance in the central continent.
This is basically how the Daheng people's land of 7.5 million square kilometers came from.
Looking at the thousand-year history of this planet, you will find that the Daheng people are the most warlike, expansion-loving, aggressive, and brutal race on the planet.
Otherwise, during the Heng-Ao War decades ago, the Orissa Empire would not have received support from other continental countries to resist Daheng's invasion. The reason was that the Daheng people were too cruel.
Yes, the Hengao War decades ago, no matter what the cause was, was actually a war in which Daheng invaded the Orissa Empire.
The essence of the war was that Daheng was trying to expand to the southern continent, trying to completely control the strait between the central continent and the southern continent, and seize a large area of the Orissa Empire.
Judging from the strength of the two empires at that time, without the support of other southern continent countries and other countries, it would be difficult for the Orissa Empire to stop Daheng's invasion.
It's a pity that in the end both sides ended up with a bloody blow!
After this battle, Daheng internally collapsed, and the Orissa Empire was not much better. Although they blocked Daheng's invasion, they did not gain much in return from the war.
Moreover, it also greatly damaged the national strength. Just after the Heng'ao War, the three central and southern countries of the southern continent that originally supported them immediately turned against the Orissa Empire and directly launched a war.
As a result, the Orissa Empire was defeated and was forced to cede more than 20% of its territory. Now the Orissa Empire still has a small war with several countries in the central and southern parts of the country every three years and a big war every ten years, and it still loses a lot.