After the military parade was completed, Liu Hai reorganized the current Hunan Army.
The original organizational structure of the Hunan Army was somewhat loose and could no longer keep up with the trend of historical development.
During Liu Hai's reorganization, the Hunan Army abolished the original military units such as sheds and sentries, and then reorganized the army into platoons, companies, battalions, regiments, brigades, and divisions in accordance with the popular army organization in the modern world.
A company usually consists of three platoons, and a platoon usually consists of three squads. There are usually about ten people in a squad, so calculated this way, a platoon has about 30 people, plus the cooking squad, correspondent, division chief, and three platoons.
Commander, deputy company commander, company commander, approximately 120 people.
A battalion is equipped with about four companies, with a strength of about 500 people. A regiment is equipped with three battalions. A standard regiment has about 1,500 men. A division includes five to six regiments, plus the second line affiliated to the division's logistics office.
Non-combat units, special reconnaissance companies affiliated with the division reconnaissance office, independent artillery units, etc., plus division headquarters and other units, so the number of troops in a division is about 10,000, and the strength of a standard division is also 10,000
A brigade is about one regiment smaller than a division, and a standard division has 10,000 men, so the brigade has about 7,000 men.
However, Liu Hai has no plans to set up an independent brigade now, so the current Hunan Army has been organized into five divisions by Liu Hai.
After the army's reorganization was completed, Liu Hai took out the weapons he had stored for a long time and gave the Hunan Army a major makeover.
Now everyone in the Hunan Army has a semi-automatic rifle, each division has 60 60mm mortars, 82mm mortars, 20 122mm caliber howitzers, and each division is also equipped with 100 heavy machine guns.
The people who control these technical weapons are all biochemical people specially prepared by Liu Hai. If they use natural people, not only will they not be able to keep up with their knowledge, but even the reluctant operation will take a long time to cultivate. Liu Hai does not have that now.
time, so we might as well use cyborgs for everything.
After being organized in this way, Liu Hai's firepower configuration has exceeded that of the Western troops. Coupled with the training during this period, even if he encounters an equal number of Western troops, Liu Hai believes that he can defeat them.
After the Hunan Army's Grand Review was completed, Liu Hai stationed five divisions in various places. Of course, one of the three provincial capitals was stationed. The other two divisions were stationed near Shanghai.
Although these two divisions did not enter the boundaries of Shanghai, as long as Liu Hai gave the order, they could capture the entire Shanghai within one day.
The reason why Liu Hai did not allow these two divisions to enter Shanghai was because he was afraid of foreign interference. Although Liu Hai was not very afraid, Liu Hai believed that his strength was still weak. If he went into full-scale war with the foreigners, he might not be able to achieve complete victory, so he might as well
Be patient for now and wait until your wings are full before making a decision.
On the other side of the court, they already knew almost everything about Liu Hai's military parade of Hunan.
The military ministers in the imperial court, on the one hand, felt that Liu Hai's expansion of power was a bit unacceptable, but on the other hand, they also felt a little secretly happy in their hearts.
Because the imperial court has been bullied miserably by foreigners over the years, and now there are Li Hongzhang's Huai Army in the north and Liu Hai's Hunan Army in the south. With these two elites, foreigners do not dare to underestimate the Qing Dynasty.
In addition, the Beiyang Navy and the Nanyang Navy can be considered as an army. The combined tonnage of these two navy is more than 50,000 tons. With two navy, if the foreigners want to come from the sea, they have to think about it.
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When Liu Hai returned to the Wusongkou Division station in Shanghai, the people below informed him of good news.
It turned out that in the past few days when Liu Hai was away, his wife Zeng Yuying kept vomiting and felt unwell, so she asked a doctor to see her. The doctor immediately said it was a happy pulse.
Zeng Yuying was overjoyed when she got the news. She and Liu Hai had been married for many years, but they had never gotten pregnant, which earned her a lot of criticism.
This means that Liu Hai's parents are dead and there are no elders in the hall. Otherwise, Zeng Yuying would have endured many difficulties.
Although Zeng Yuying herself believed that she was in good health and was young, and that pregnancy would be a matter of time, it was impossible to say that she didn't feel a little uneasy.
Now that the doctor had said it, Zeng Yuying finally breathed a sigh of relief and let go of the pressure in her heart. Regardless of whether the baby was a boy or a girl, this meant that she was in good health and had the ability to have children.
After Liu Hai learned that Zeng Yuying was pregnant, he hurriedly came to Zeng Yuying's room in the inner house.
As soon as Liu Hai saw Zeng Yuying, he hurriedly asked: "I heard people say you have it, but it's true."
Seeing Liu Hai looking so anxious, Zeng Yuying felt a little uncomfortable. Originally, Liu Hai told herself that she didn't care, but looking at his anxious look now, it was obvious that he had lied to herself.
But pregnancy is a happy event after all, so Zeng Yuying smiled slightly and said: "The doctor just saw me two days ago. It's been two months."
Liu Hai hurriedly walked to Zeng Yuying, took her hand, looked up and down, and found that Zeng Yuying was now much plumper than when he left, and then he felt relieved.
Next, Liu Hai ordered the maids and wives beside Zeng Yuying to keep an eye on Zeng Yuying and not let Zeng Yuying run around from today on.
Liu Hai knew that Zeng Yuying had a short temper, and she couldn't sit still for a while.
After arranging these things, Liu Hai began to get tired of being together with Zeng Yuying again, making Zeng Yuying smile again.
After Liu Hai comforted Zeng Yuying, I quickly wrote a letter in the study and sent it to Zeng Guoquan in the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion to report the good news to this old father-in-law.
A few days later, Zeng Guoquan's reply arrived. Along with the letter, there were a lot of rewards.
After Liu Hai took care of his family affairs, he returned to his intense work.
Liu Hai first sent the 50,000 pieces of cloth used in modern times to Neptune Trading Company, and asked Neptune Trading Company to be responsible for the sales.
Due to its stable quality and wide range of colors, this batch of cloth was quickly sold out, and even Westerners bought in large quantities.
Although the profit of this batch of cloth is far worse than that of a panacea, it can still be regarded as a small profit but quick turnover, which has given Liu Hai a new way of making money.
However, with the sales of cloth, those sales merchants gave Liu Hai a piece of feedback, that is, transportation in the Liangjiang area is very inconvenient. Selling from Shanghai to various places in Liangjiang requires a lot of travel and travel, and the newly imported cloth will be difficult to deal with.
A big part will be lost.
After Liu Hai got the feedback, he thought about building a railway in his own territory of Liangjiang, which could connect all the provincial capital cities in Liangjiang.
In this way, not only will the economy be greatly boosted, but once a war breaks out, troops transported from east to west can also arrive quickly.
However, he could not make the decision for the time being, so he could only discuss it with Zeng Guoquan, the governor of Liangjiang.
So at the end of 1888, Liu Hai left Zeng Yuying, who was already pregnant for a long time, and took a transport ship to Nanjing.
Regarding the Liangjiang Governor's Mansion in Nanjing, Liu Hai is now just like entering his own home, and the soldiers at the gate of the Governor's Mansion are extremely polite to Liu Hai and do not dare to stop him in any way.
When Liu Hai arrived outside the second door, he walked further inside to find the inner house. Liu Hai stopped here and ordered the doorkeeper to go in and report to Zeng Guoquan.
Zeng Guoquan was also surprised by Liu Hai's arrival. There was nothing important during this period, so why did this son-in-law come to the house? He knew that this son-in-law would come to the Three Treasures Hall for nothing.
But since he was his son-in-law after all, Zeng Guoquan could only send someone to invite Liu Hai to the inner study.
Liu Hai arrived at the study room of the inner house with ease. When he entered the door, he saw Zeng Guoquan holding a book and looking at it happily.
Liu Hai quickly went over and saluted Zeng Guoquan, then stood aside and waited for Zeng Guoquan to lecture.
After waiting for a long time, Zeng Guoquan put down his book, glanced at Liu Hai, and then asked: "If you don't stay in Shanghai, what do you want to do with me?"
Liu Hai hurried forward and poured Zeng Guoquan a cup of hot tea. Then he said carefully: "Old father-in-law, this is not because I saw that other provinces have built railways, so I thought we should also build a railway connecting the three provinces."
After hearing this, Zeng Guoquan frowned and said unhappily: "Do you know how much this railway costs? Now a large part of our finances and taxes in Liangjiang has to be handed over to the court, and the rest has to go to the officials' salaries and other things.
There is no spare money to build the railway."
In Zeng Guoquan's opinion, water transportation in the Liangjiang area is now very developed, so it is not very urgent for railways.
What's more, his son-in-law has always wanted to do something. He has never stopped since he arrived in Liangjiang, causing something to happen every few months.
Some time ago, there was a large-scale review of the Hunan Army in Nanjing. If he hadn't successively given memorials to explain to the court, I don't know what would have happened now.
"Old father-in-law, although water transportation is very convenient in our south, it is mainly close to the Yangtze River. The roads connecting the provinces are not very smooth. If this railway is built, our east-west connection will be closer. If something happens,
Our soldiers arrive at dawn and dusk, and the most important thing is that the people will enjoy much more convenient transportation and faster logistics due to this railway, which is very beneficial to the economic development of the two rivers."
Zeng Guoquan also knew this truth, but he really had no money and what could he do.
"What you said is fine, but if you don't have money, even if you tell me how to spend it, it won't be of any use."
Liu Hai was a little sad when he heard that he had no money. The economy of the Qing Dynasty was also one of the top in the world. It was impossible to say that he had no money, but most of it went into the pockets of corrupt officials in the court.
Just treat it as a hardcore crop to support those idle bannermen.
However, Liu Hai is still very concerned about this railway, because with this railway, his 50,000 troops can quickly gather in one place, and no matter where he needs to go, he can reach them in one day.
So Liu Hai asked tentatively: "Father-in-law, when my son-in-law went to the West, he found that a large part of the railways were built and operated by private parties. Do you think we in the Qing Dynasty can build a railway privately and run it by private parties?"
As soon as Zeng Guoquan heard this, he knew what his son-in-law wanted to do.
"Don't even think about this matter. Those people in the imperial court are very conservative. How could they agree to private ownership of railways? Where will the imperial court be placed?"
But Liu Hai didn't think there was anything wrong. Didn't foreigners build enough railways in Qing Dynasty? If foreigners could do it, why couldn't I, a Qing native?