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Chapter 412 Reorganization and Expansion of the Army
After the establishment of Muwu Commercial Bank, Li Mu quickly sold a batch of goods, accounting for about a quarter of the total, and recovered 230 million French currency.

The rest of the goods are all stored in the warehouse, guarded by guards day and night.The next task for Muwu Commercial Bank is to ship goods in batches through small commercial firms all over the country in a slow and steady manner, and sell these goods one by one.

As the thoroughfare of the nine provinces, the traffic extends in all directions, and small businesses from all over the country come to buy goods everywhere, and the goods are so in short supply, I believe it won't take long.

a month?or two months?

At the same time, Muwu Trading Company still has two tasks. One is to entrust these small merchants to purchase bristles from all over the country, so as to save him from running away one by one, which is troublesome!

Another task is to send people to the southwest region to purchase tung oil.

During the period of the Republic of China, in addition to pig bristles, tung oil was the material that China monopolized overseas markets.

As a raw material that has been used on a large scale in my country during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, tung oil is still of great use in modern society.

In our country, ancient tung oil was often used to paint furniture, doors and windows for protection.In fact, tung oil is also an indispensable machine maintenance agent in the modern military industry.

With its fast drying, strong adhesion, heat resistance, acid resistance, alkali resistance, anti-corrosion, anti-rust and conductive properties, tung oil became the most in-demand military supplies during the war.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, transportation was difficult, and tung oil was scarce in the international market. In 38, China and the United States reached a "tung oil loan" with an amount of up to 2500 million US dollars.According to the content of the treaty, China needs to use 22 tons of tung oil as repayment.

After this cooperation experience, China and the United States reached loan agreements twice in 1939 and 1940. China received a total of 4500 million US dollars in loans from the United States.

However, the tung oil business will not last long for Li Mu.Next year, that is, in [-], in order to ensure the continuous supply of this important strategic material.After reaching a loan agreement with the United States, the government will adopt centralized management of tung oil through unified purchase and sales.

At that time, private firms will not be able to intervene unless they are relatives of the emperor.For Li Mu, the business of selling tung oil is over.

However, there is still half a year left for him to make a lot of money.

In fact, tung oil can not only earn extra money, but also has another important function.You must know that domestic resources are currently in short supply, and gasoline, diesel and kerosene cannot be effectively replenished.

Therefore, the smart Chinese used their brains to further refine tung oil and produce a large number of alternative energy products.

It is reported that for every 3000 tons of tung oil, more than 2000 tons of oil can be extracted to replace gasoline, kerosene and diesel.These alternative energy sources can also be of great use at critical moments.

Naturally, as a unique crop in China, the United States has also introduced tung trees that produce tung oil and planted them on a large scale.But until now, compared with the domestic planting scale, it is not worth mentioning.

At present, China can indeed monopolize the world's tung oil production.

The war in the past two months has had a great impact on the export of copper oil, which is scarce overseas and the price has soared.But domestic stockpiling is increasing, and only a small number of well-connected businessmen can sell some of them for huge profits.

Li Mu obviously wants to join these people who are making huge profits.

Next, Li Mu stayed at the firm for a few more days, and when everything was on the right track, he left 100 Facoins in the account of the firm, and took the remaining 130 million French coins, and returned in an airboat under the guard of the guards. Nanyang.

This time, he wants to expand and reorganize the army.

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Yu Province has been plagued by natural and man-made disasters since the Republic of China.Let’s not talk about man-made disasters next year and natural disasters five years later.In an ordinary year, many people fled to other places.

The Nanyang Basin has fertile land and is in the province. It is one of the popular places to flee from famine.

For these fleeing famines, being able to eat and survive, or not starve to death, is their only hope.

Therefore, when Li Mu brought people to recruit soldiers from these fleeing famine groups, when everyone heard that not only was there enough food, but also five ocean dollars a month, it was almost overwhelmed.

Not to mention being able to eat enough, if you flee famine together with your family, with a monthly salary of five oceans, the whole family will not starve to death.

However, Li Mu's recruitment was still very strict. He picked and selected, and after screening, he recruited a total of 500 people.Next, we plan to recruit another 1000 people in Nanyang, and expand the size of the security team to 3000.

Looking at the eager and desperate eyes of the rest of the people, Li Mu sighed. This world... has pointed out a way for them to survive. Next, he will start a series of projects, such as the construction of the new military barracks of the security regiment, and the roads near the station. The flattening of some docks and warehouses along the Baihe River was rebuilt.

These projects will use a lot of labor, which can be regarded as a way of life for these people. If they do well, they can save a fortune.

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Subsequently, the local recruiting operation in Nanyang went smoothly.The domestic situation is not very good recently, and it obviously has an impact on ordinary people, and it is even more difficult.The first thing Li Mu did when he came back from Wuhan was to increase the monthly salary of the security team from three silver dollars to five silver dollars.

Li Mu is recruiting and reorganizing at the same time, and Wuhan Muwu Trading Co., Ltd. is also fully cooperating to recruit some military talents with high salaries for the security regiment.

After so many years of fighting and chaos in the country, there is no shortage of military talents.

In the early period of the Republic of China, there were four major military academies, and the number one was naturally the Whampoa Military Academy, which is now the Central Military Academy.

Next, there are Baoding Army Officer School, Northeast Army Lecture Hall, and Yunnan Army Officer Lecture Hall.

These four military academies have trained many military talents for the country.

It's just that the Whampoa Military Academy, which was established the latest, suddenly rose to become the Central Military Academy, and it was even the direct descendant of the bald head. All good things are here.

Several other military academies gradually began to decline, and now they have even disappeared.Some of the original teachers and students were doing well, and some were junior officers in the grassroots of the miscellaneous army.

There are also some who left the army, some did well, and some did poorly.

Among these people, a group was recruited with high salaries, and it was still possible to serve as instructors of the security regiment.

As time went by, 20 recruits were recruited, and the instructors invited more than [-] recruits one after another through Muwu Trading Company.

There are more than 20 instructors, the infantry instructors are the most, the engineering instructors are next, there are three, and the artillery instructors are two.

Li Mu didn't care if there were talents among these people, nor did he ask how well they could train soldiers or how high their military literacy was.As long as they can be trained to be qualified soldiers.

While training recruits, Li Mu's adjustment and reorganization of the security regiment is also going on.

He plans to reorganize the security regiment into a strengthened regiment with up to 3000 people.

The first is the infantry battalion, which has been expanded from the current three infantry battalions to five infantry battalions.

Then, under the regiment headquarters, set up seven directly subordinate companies: guard company, health company, machine gun company, cavalry company, engineer company, communication company, and investigation company.

Needless to say, the guard company, as Li Mu's bodyguard, is responsible for protecting his safety.Next, the original guards will be removed from the chaff to save the essence, and after investigating the origins of their backgrounds, the vacancies will be filled.

Sanitation Company: Mainly the medical staff of the army, responsible for the medical and health safety of the whole regiment.However, this is relatively professional. At present, Li Mu has asked Muwu Trading Company to recruit personnel in Wuhan, trying to recruit and train a group of people, so as to establish the medical system of the army.

Machine gun company: This was established by Li Mu to strengthen the firepower.A machine gun needs a shooter and an ammunition man to operate it.A machine gun company requires a total of 45 machine guns.

This time, Li Mu purchased a total of 180 Czech-style light machine guns, leaving 130 and five.Each infantry battalion can be divided into 27 machine guns.On average, each infantry company has nine Czech light machine guns.

On average, each infantry platoon can be divided into three, and each infantry squad can be divided into one.

An infantry squad is equipped with a Czech-style light machine gun. In terms of firepower, it is no less than the bald direct line.

Next is the cavalry company: with the current level of domestic transportation, especially in the inland areas, there is no train, and the cavalry still plays a big role.

However, cavalry is also a professional arm and requires horses.At present, Li Mu has asked Muwu Trading Company to look for cavalry instructors. As for horses, he has also entrusted special merchants to go to the grassland to purchase them.

I believe that building a cavalry company is not a problem.

Then there is the engineering company: Engineers are still very important, and they are indispensable in wars now. Li Mu established the engineering company because he wanted to train a group of corresponding talents first to lay the foundation for future expansion.

It just so happens that there are engineer instructors, and it is not a problem to form an engineer company.

There is also a communication company: the main thing is to upload and deliver Li Mu's orders, and also to be able to use the radio, which is the main way to transmit information.

In addition, in the future, we will have to learn how to arrange telephones in the wild, which requires more professionalism. At present, Muwu Trading Company is vigorously recruiting, and it can recruit as many as possible. Li Mu does not expect the communication company to be fully staffed now, so take it slowly.

As for the reconnaissance company, needless to say.

In addition, for the 34 German-made Grw [-] medium-sized mortars purchased this time, Li Mu plans to divide each of the five infantry battalions into six mortars and deploy them directly to the company level.

Each company is specially equipped with a mortar squad directly under it, equipped with two Grw 34 medium mortars.

In this way, the firepower of the infantry battalion is quite strong, each squad has a light machine gun, and each company has two medium mortars.What's more, it's not the knock-offs that are of poor quality in China, they are all original foreign products with excellent quality.

In the domestic army, this configuration is also considered rare.

According to this plan, five infantry battalions, seven directly subordinate companies, plus the professional talents recruited next, if fully staffed, the number of the entire security regiment can reach more than 3000 to [-] people.

After initially clarifying the structure of the army, Li Mu put part of his energy on construction. First of all, the barracks. With so many troops and different types of arms, it is impossible to station them all in one place.

Now with a radius of tens of miles, apart from the headquarters, which is where the regiment headquarters is located, six or seven barracks have been successively built in other places.

In order to make it easier for the army and the common people, so that those fleeing from the famine could have a bite to eat, Li Mu hired a large number of people to repair the nearby roads.

In addition, if you want to manage Nanyang well, the waterway of Baihe River is also very important, whether it is transporting materials or troops, it is very convenient.

Moreover, both sides of the Baihe River are also distribution centers for materials hundreds of miles away, and can even radiate to Shaanxi and Shanxi in the north, and the commercial value is not small.

Li Mu hired a large number of people to renovate the pier and build a lot of warehouses. In the future, some of the materials purchased from Singapore will be sold here.

In this way, with the security regiment station as the center, with a radius of tens of miles, it became a huge construction site and training ground.

Countless migrant workers are busy here, and teams of recruits are being drilled tirelessly.

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Things in Nanyang were straightened out, and all aspects were on the right track. Li Mu came to Wuhan again by motorboat.

More than half a month has passed, and thanks to the efforts of small commercial firms and merchants gathered in Wuhan from all over the country, half of the goods in the warehouse have been sold.

The recovered funds are all used to purchase bristles and tung oil, and a large number of them have been hoarded.

After sitting in Wuhan for a few days, Li Mu read the newspaper that day, and besides the Songhu battle, a new hot spot appeared, the relocation of universities.

After the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War, Peking University, Tsinghua University and Nankai University were the first to migrate.

Before the July [-]th Incident, the situation in Beiping became increasingly critical. In order to prevent unexpected adverse situations, Tsinghua University secretly prepared to transfer the school to Changsha.The school allocated a huge sum of money to build a whole set of school buildings in Zuojialong under the Yuelu Mountain in Changsha, which is today's Central South University, in preparation for the relocation.

After the July [-]th Incident, Beiping and Tianjin fell one after another. Zhang Boling, president of Nankai University, Mei Yiqi, president of Tsinghua University, and Jiang Menglin, president of Peking University, merged in Changsha to form Changsha Temporary University.

After the fall of Nanjing, in February [-], the school moved west again to Kunming, which is the well-known Southwest Associated University.

Under the leadership of these three top schools, in the next two years, all major universities in the country, as long as they have the ability, began to move westward one after another.

There are also many colleges and universities and private universities, because of weak financial resources, they are unable to move westward, and they cannot find a suitable foothold.The school couldn't continue, and many of them had no choice but to disband.

Li Mu sat there thinking for a long time, talent has always been the first driving force for development.The westward migration of colleges and universities is a good opportunity. Those famous schools in China do not count on it, and there is no shortage of places to accept it.For those who are unable to move westward, can you help them move to Nanyang?

If there is no money, he can allocate funds; if there is no school building, he can build it.

Arranging Muwu Firm to help him find several suitable universities, Li Mu recruited a group of designers and architects in Wuhan, and returned to Nanyang again.

Plant plane trees and attract golden phoenixes.Li Mu has read the information, and those universities moving to the west are really miserable along the way. They just moved to a place, and within two months, the booklet called, and they had to find another place to stay in a hurry.

Many colleges and universities have moved several times before finding a suitable foothold.Not to mention the conditions. Looking at Fang Hongjian in the besieged city, he often didn't have enough to eat, and the school building was dilapidated, so he made do with it.

Nanyang is not short of manpower, nor is he short of money.When Li Mu returns this time, he needs to find a suitable place in Nanyang and build a suitable school building first.

(End of this chapter)