When Lin Zefan led all kinds of cheat-like design drawings and a rough understanding of the future history, the development speed of Xinghua County was really like a volcano that had suddenly erupted. Schools, factories, roads, water transport, scientific research, government affairs, one after another, were being carried out in an orderly manner. This five-year plan involved all kinds of industries, big and small. They needed to start from scratch. There was no other way. The entire industrial foundation of the Dragon Country... It was really too bad!
He wanted industry, but he didn't have any!
He wanted education, but he didn't!
If they couldn't establish a comprehensive education system and industrial system, how could there be qualified people to take up those positions in the future? For example, the government system and the military system would require educated young people. For example, the artillery. In the future, if one couldn't read, they wouldn't even be able to calculate the trajectory of some infantry cannons and howitzers. As for high-tech weapons like tanks, warships, and fighter jets, they probably wouldn't be able to use them without a good education…
"Regiment commander, we just intercepted a Jinling telegram!!”
Outside the door, Nie Song, the battalion commander of the 1st Infantry Battalion, had set up a communication center for the militia. They had four telegram machines for receiving and sending. Most of these telegram machines were old machines from the original county. Of course, the Development Institute was also preparing to conquer the production technology of the telegram machine…However, it would take some time. The production of the telegram machine was not difficult. They only needed to set up a route. In 1876, Li Hongzhang officially built a military telegram line. The number of domestic telegram lines also increased explosively like bamboo shoots after a spring rain!!!
Originally, Xinghua only had a telegram line to Guangling County. However, with the help of the telegram line from Guangling to Jinling, it could be said that it was connected to the national telegram network. In the past month, Lin Zefan had also trained the original telegram operators to intercept the telegrams of the major forces. Through the combination of Morse code, they had deciphered a telegram from Beijing to Jinling!
That was why Nie Song came to Lin Zefan's office excitedly. He even changed the way he addressed him. The militia's current assets were much bigger than when they entered the city…
Lin Zefan opened the telegram. The first line of words he saw were the words 'X' and 'Duan Qirui.' Then, he quickly scanned through it. In the end, the corners of his mouth couldn't help but curl up slightly...
"Guild Leader, you mean to say?”
Nie Song asked anxiously. To those young people who hated the Manchu Empire for ruining the country, the imperial system was the reverse scale. It was fine to become an emperor as long as the people of the country supported it. However, once Yuan Kai became an emperor, so many people opposed it. What was the use of becoming an emperor? They had worked so hard for so long, and in the end, they had even caused the situation to dissipate…
What Lin Zefan thought about was that Yuan Kai's death date was March 23rd. Yuan Kai seemed to have died in June. He was seriously ill and died without treatment...
In other words, there were less than three months before the Dragon Country entered a chaotic era…At that time, the various forces would fight for territory every day…If he could seize this opportunity, he would soar to the sky. He had to take advantage of the time when Yuan Kai was dead to expand his territory. It would be best if he could occupy the eastern sea mouth!!
To the east of Xinghua was the Dongtai area. There was a sea outlet, and the surrounding area was almost undeveloped. This way, although they had to start from scratch, they could build a modern port according to Lin Zefan's plan. Moreover, there would be no invasion from external forces. Compared to the sea outlet in Tianhai, once the sea outlet in Dongtai was completed, the industrial products here would be able to enter the Tianhai area in a week. That was the richest area in the entire Dragon Country. With such a huge consumer market, Lin Zefan had long wanted to enter!!
"Song Zhen, you, Chen Cheng, and Bo Dong continue to recruit soldiers in the county. Try to expand the size of the militia to an infantry brigade in three months. The strength of the infantry brigade should be around 6000 people!!”
Nie Song was shocked. The scale of the infantry brigade was 6,000 people. An infantry division in Beiyang had about 12,000 people. Because of the land army reform, Yuan Kai had expanded the original six towns of Beiyang to the current sixteen infantry divisions of the Beiyang land army…
Now, three months later, the regiment commander actually wanted to expand the militia into an infantry brigade. Although it was not a problem to recruit so many people with the population of Xinghua County, the military training and weapons were the things that needed to be considered later on. Lower-level officers, middle-level officers…To put it bluntly, even the militia was in dire need of these. If the militia were to expand into an infantry brigade, they might just be a bunch of people who did not know how to fight and were just sitting around doing nothing…
As if he could see Nie Song's hesitation, this fellow's expression was a little hesitant. Immediately, Lin Zefan also signaled him to be honest with the worry in his heart!!
"Regiment Commander, I'm afraid that it's difficult to implement the infantry brigade. Even if we recruit all of them, there won't be so many low-level officers to manage them!!”
" Also, if we recruit so many soldiers at once, Guangling will definitely notice…"
Lin Zefan continued. Of course, these worries were necessary, but…
" Song Zhen, in the next three months, I'm going to organize a military officer lecture hall to train officers. Of course, these people are all the soldiers of the militia. Currently, there are nearly 1,600 people in the militia. With these grassroots backbones, we don't have to worry about the future officers of the infantry brigade!!”
" As for Guangling, Song Zhen, have you forgotten? I said that I would organize reserve forces in various places and secretly carry out the operation in units of villages and towns. The smaller villages would form platoons, the larger villages would form companies, and the towns would form battalions. Who would know if they were secretly organized?!”
Just like how Lin Family Village had secretly formed three patrol companies…Now, it was the same!!!
Nie Song looked at Lin Zefan's smile and couldn't help but laugh as well. However, this smile was becoming more and more cunning.
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