Jagged Warlord

"You don't need to think about things, you just need to think about how to do what I ordered well."

"Whoever comes with me will not worry about glory and wealth. Whoever doesn't come with me, I will let him go with Su Xiangsheng."

The audience is silent

"Since everyone is willing to follow me, let's start practicing." Li Mohan waved the whip in his hand, and began to polish the team composed of veterans, farmers, petty citizens, absenteeism and hooligans.

Long-distance running with heavy loads, leapfrogs, push-ups, crawling forward, climbing over walls, walking on single-plank bridges, standing in a military posture that is so boring, etc., and even crawling across the ground full of feces, Li Mohan always has various ways to toss people.The subordinates must also obey unconditionally, and anyone who does not obey orders will be punished.

The content of the penalty is also simple, double the training or pack up and get out.In just a few days, more than [-] people could not bear the hardship and quit.But as the training time increased, fewer and fewer people were punished. One was because the training time had been long and their quality had improved, and the other was because they were afraid of Li Mohan’s punishment. They all knew that Li Mohan had to listen to what Li Mohan said. Otherwise, there will be no good fruit to eat. As for why should you listen to Li Mohan?Is what Li Mohan said reasonable?These are not their considerations, all they have to do is obey.

Due to the composition of this team, Li Mohan thought it was useless to talk to them about the righteousness of the nation.Only with generous material rewards and unquestionable authority and coercion can this team be honed into a murderous blade.

Therefore, Li Mohan implements a one-management system in the army. The upper and lower ranks in the army are strict, there is no military democracy, and the subordinates are absolutely obeyed.Although this kind of thinking restricts the subjective initiative of subordinates, it can still resolutely implement the command of superiors when the combat experience is not too rich, the proportion of combat backbones is relatively small, the combat experience is insufficient, and the actual command ability of officers at all levels is insufficient. Due to the role of will, soldiers are often extremely brave in battle, and they will never retreat in deadly battles.This rigid method is very easy to complete training, combined with the military system of hierarchical thinking, it can just create an army that executes orders resolutely and is easy to control.

What Li Mohan needs now is an army that executes orders rigidly but is foolishly loyal and capable of fighting to the death to faithfully and absolutely execute his orders and obey his will unconditionally, rather than a "civilized army".Things like civilization and democracy will be discussed later when I have time.

In the blink of an eye, 1913 came, and several major events happened at the beginning of this year.

The first was the death of the brilliant German strategist Alfred von Schlieffen.

The second is that the peasant army headed by Bai Lang developed into an army of 700 people, galloping back and forth in the western part of Henan Province, and gained a great reputation.

The third is that Li Mohan and Gao Xiang successfully cracked Su Xiangsheng's account password, and obtained Su Xiangsheng's deposits for many years from Jardine Matheson in Tianjin, with a total of more than 40 yuan including principal and interest.This made Li Mohan very happy, and he immediately opened an account with Jardine Matheson under the names of Ma Qian'an and Gao Xiang.The accounts of Ma Qian'an and Gao Xiang deposited 3000 and [-] oceans respectively, and the rest were naturally deposited into Li Mohan's account.In addition, Li Mohan also took [-] oceans in cash, preparing to return to Jiaozuo to distribute the first "wealth" to his subordinates.

Leaving Zizhulin Yihe Co., Ltd., Li Mohan called a carriage, which was a European box-style four-wheeled carriage with two calcium carbide lamps on the front. The driver was a Chinese man wearing a Western-style coat and hat.

"Sir, where are you going?" The coachman took off his hat to Li Mohan and opened the door for him

"Lihe Foreign Firm in the German Concession." Li Mohan got into the car in a grand manner, and then called Gao Xiang to get in the car together.Gao Xiang was flattered to ride in the same car with his boss.

The German Concession was next to the British Concession, so after a while, the carriage appeared at the entrance of Lihe Yangxing, a German firm on Dagu Road.

Seeing Li Mohan getting off the carriage in a neat suit, they immediately greeted him, and politely led Li Mohan into the reception room.

"Sir, would you like coffee or tea?" A waiter smiled professionally

"Coffee." Li Mohan said

"Oh~ no need." Gao Xiang waved his hand

"Okay." The waiter went out, and a cup of coffee was delivered to Li Mohan after a while.

Not long after, a blond, blue-eyed, 1.8-meter-tall middle-aged man came in and greeted Li Mohan politely, "Dear sir, I am Lübeck, the manager of Lihe Yangxing. Our Lihe Yangxing is a German Krupp company. The general agent of Steel Plant, Hamburg Steamship Company, Zeiss Optical Equipment Factory, Imek Chemical Raw Materials, Yede Syrah Medical Equipment, Swedish Bofors Cannon Factory, American Guthrie Automobile Company, and British Stony Oil Factory. What can I do for you?" His Chinese has a strong European accent.

Li Mohan picked up the coffee gracefully and sniffed it lightly, then said with a smile: "My name is Li, and I heard that your company is very famous for its arms."

Lübeck loosened his neckline, sat down on the sofa opposite Li Mohan, and said with a smile: "Germany's arms are world-class, not as flashy as those of the British and the French." The Chinese waiter brought a folder and handed it to Li Mohan with both hands.

Lübeck said: "Here is the quotation."

Li Mohan didn't pick it up, Gao Xiang on the side hurriedly took the folder, and then handed it to Li Mohan

Li Mohan looked around, then shook his head, and said, "I'm not here to buy arms, I'm here to buy machines."

"Oh." Lubeck was a little disappointed. You must know that the arms business is the most profitable business.

Modern China can be regarded as a big country that imports arms. From the end of the Qing Dynasty to the first half of the 20th century, due to the fall of the Qing Dynasty and the congenital deficiencies of the Republic of China, the domestic political situation continued to be turbulent, and local regimes and warlords quickly formed vicious forces. The trend of expansion, the chaotic society of warlords and strife, inevitably made China the largest arms importer in the world at that time, just like the countries with frequent wars in Asia and Africa today, they almost became the most important arms of Western powers at that time. The arms dumping market.

According to historical records, the total amount of China's net arms imports in the three years of Xuantong in the Qing Dynasty was 3 million customs taels.Germany used to be the number one country exporting arms to China. From 272 to 1911, arms from Germany exceeded 1913% of the total value of arms imported from China.In addition, due to domestic reasons such as revolution and civil war in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, there was an increasing demand for imported arms. A comparable number of imported firearms are imported.

In modern China, the trading firms engaged in importing arms were mainly concentrated in Shanghai and Tianjin.According to historical records, between 1843 and 1846 in Shanghai, the number of foreign firms increased from 11 to 25.Among them, the foreign firms that sell imported arms mainly include Dias, Maddens, Xintailai, Naneng, Madelong, Qiongji, Swire, Tailai, Desheng, Hong Kong Nanli, New York "Lammington" manufacturing plant, and so on.