In November of the year 1690, the land of Guangyi County was filled with all kinds of construction sites. Li Yao, who used to be a rascal, seemed to have magic. He first suppressed the infantry regiment from Chengdu with lightning speed. Until now, Wang Lei was still under Li Yao's control. From time to time, he would send some fake telegrams to Chengdu. Maybe Chengdu did not know, but Guangyi County had changed owners a long time ago.
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Last month, the Zheng family, the Wu family, and the Xu family in the city also supported Li Yao and the Li family with unprecedented strength.
The number of soldiers in the city also increased. There were probably more than 2,000 people recruited from the various towns in Guangyi County. They were all young people. Not far away, deep gunshots could be heard from the depths of the forest.
Could it be that this Li Family father and son were really going to rebel?
Then, there were all kinds of factories outside the county town. They towered into the sky and attracted everyone's curiosity.
What were these factories for?？
Tang Shan Town, First Armory.
Li Yao did not change the address of the armory. Mount Tang was the border of two states. Few people came here normally. Besides, the armory was built deep inside the mountain, which was more hidden. As long as the armory was under his control, Guangyi would be under his control.
"Regiment Commander, the newly formed 2nd, 3rd, and 4th Infantry Battalions have all been allocated weapons and equipment. The second phase of the Hanyang rifle production line in the Armory has been completed ahead of schedule. That's why we were able to produce 2,000 rifles in such a short time!”
In the office of the armory, the independent battalion had been expanded. All the veterans had been scattered and distributed to the four infantry battalions to guide the new recruits. The four infantry battalions had more than 2,000 soldiers. Once the training period was over, they would definitely be a force to be reckoned with.
The original independent battalion was also renamed the independent regiment. Li Yao was still the regiment commander and Liu Zhang was the deputy regiment commander…
" Let's put aside the matter of armaments for now. Liu Zhang, after three months, I hope that this group of new recruits will be reborn. At the very least, they can be pulled into the battlefield to fight, especially in the direction of southern Yunnan. Recently, the Yunnan army has been a little dishonest.”
There was a huge military map on the table. Currently, Guangyi County had twelve towns under its jurisdiction. It had a land area of nearly 3,000 square kilometers and a total population of nearly 300,000. It had many mines and water resources.
"The 1st Battalion will continue to be stationed at Mount Tang.”
" The 2nd Battalion will be stationed in the northern district!"
"The 3rd Battalion is stationed in the western region of Pan County!”
"The 4th Battalion is stationed in the eastern Green Mountain region!!”
"There is only one goal. In the next period of time, train your troops well and train to the death. The salary, food standards, and weapons that I give are the best in Western Sichuan. If you don't train well, all of you can get lost!”
After the meeting ended, the middle and high-ranking officers of the Independent Regiment also accepted their tasks. In the next few months, their lives would be very boring, but they were a little excited to be able to train those new recruits.
At this moment, Cao Ming, the person-in-charge of the Armory, could be considered a top student. Li Yao had spent a lot of money to finally get the information he had obtained after much difficulty. As expected, he was not disappointed. This kid managed the Armory very well.
"Regiment commander, it still won't work. Using the method of making steel from earth simply can't meet the firing requirements of the barrel. Almost all of them are disposable barrels, and some even explode when fired directly.”
"Captain, if we continue to purchase these raw materials every time, the scale of the independent regiment will continue to expand in the future. It will be too passive if the military raw materials are controlled by others.”
Cao Ming was also worried. There was no other way. In the entire Da Qian, only a few big cities had qualified steel factories. Qianjing, Song Jiang, Jinling, Jiangcheng, Chengdu...
Moreover, even those large-scale steel factories, such as the steel factories in Jiang City, had a low annual output.
"Let's wait for next year. In the first half of next year, Guangyi's first steel factory should be completed and put into production. At that time, we can produce qualified steel!”
This kind of thing couldn't be rushed. Food had to be eaten one bite at a time, especially for the lifeline of the industry like steel. It needed to be down-to-earth. The annual steel production of the few strong countries in Xi Yuan Continent was an astronomical figure. Even the Cherry Blossom Country on the other side had an annual steel production that the current Da Qian Dynasty couldn't imagine.
"How is it? Did the laboratory manage to acquire the 75mm rapid-fire mountain cannon technology?”
After all, the 50mm grenade launcher was a support weapon for small-scale battles. If it really wanted to have a deterrent effect on the army, it still needed a larger caliber cannon. Therefore, the 75mm mountain cannon was the next equipment for the armory.
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" We still need some time. The researchers in the laboratory aren't real artillery experts after all…"
Of course, Li Yao knew about it, but he had no choice. There were only a few real artillery experts in the entire Great Qian Dynasty. Perhaps he should go to the coastal cities to find some foreigners. Now that the war had broken out in the Xi Yuan Continent, many highly educated people would probably lose their jobs.
There was no other way. The education system in Xi Yuan Continent was much better than that of Da Qian.
Nowadays, it was much easier to find an illiterate person than someone who was not illiterate.
"It seems that we still need to recruit more people. Cao Ming, next week, find a few people to go to Song Jiang, Yangcheng, and a few big cities to recruit foreign technical experts with high salaries. Whether they are students who have returned from studying abroad or some foreigners, they are fine as long as they can get Guangyi!”
"It's fine to spend more money. We must buy talents!”
Cao Ming was still a little touched. When this young man in front of him first came to find him, he did not believe that someone in a small Guangyi would want to develop an industry, a military industry.
"That's good. I'll ask a few of my classmates. Guangyi has a lot of things to do. If the salary is high, they might be willing to come.”
"That's even better. If there are more top students from Guang Hua University, the more the better.”
A few days later, Li Yao returned to the county town. The Zheng family, the Wu family, and the Xu family had sent news that the Guangyi Industrial Zone, which they had built together, was about to officially open for business. They hoped that Li Yao would attend.
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