Chapter 41 Preparations

Wang Maoru knew in his heart that this must be Yuan Shikai's preparation for the next step, especially the recent recent statements of the eldest prince Yuan Keding to make Yuan Shikai the emperor, especially after seeing the president's legal adviser, after not a "Republican Monarchy" by Columbia University professor Goodnow, the idea of becoming emperor is even more urgent in his heart.

President Yuan Da desperately wanted to be the emperor, and Wang Maoru desperately hoped to have a territory of his own, but after thinking about it, he couldn't think of a way to send it abroad. However, when the military training was in the third month, the War Department sent people, and it turned out that the Bailang bandit army had now flowed to Zhili Province, which shocked Beiyang. The War Department immediately planned to send Lu Jianzhang's Division of the Seventh Division of the Beiyang Army and Wang Ruxian's Division of the Eighth Division of the Beiyang Army to the south to exterminate the Bailang bandits.

After the task of exterminating the Bailang bandit army was issued, Wang Maoru was very surprised at first, how could he have the work of suppressing bandits? Doesn't the War Department have airplanes? Why did you send out the Ministry of Transportation's flying team? It was really strange, and he didn't know who to ask, so he found Niu Delu and asked.

Niu Delu said that it is not that Vice Minister Xu wants to kill your prestige, your garrison brigade earns better than the Beiyang Army, you look at your garrison brigade, all big scalp shoes, and black army coats, and then look at the army, which one is as rich as you? It's all because of your poor weapons, so that you have to suffer, I can tell you the truth, if you lose any of your battles this time, you are attacked by Bai Lang and lose the face of the War Department, but there are people waiting to take you in.

"He's the best, it turned out to be this idea." Wang Maoru airway. Niu Delu was busy comforting, the two talked and laughed, and after eating, Wang Maoru gave Niu Delu a check in private, and Niu Delu accepted it without hesitation. When Wang Maoru returned to the aircraft factory, he encountered another troublesome thing, those hired Guangdong flight technicians came to resign, it turned out that they were unwilling to work for Yuan Shikai's government and wanted to go to Japan to follow Sun Yat-sen. It seems that in this era, Sun Yat-sen's charm is still not small, and when the provisional government was in the first place, he didn't treat these few people who were engaged in airplanes, but they were still followed. Wang Maoru said that everyone is good to gather and disperse, and it is not difficult for me to be for everyone, but now that the country has just been reunified and is in need of talents, it is indeed a loss for the nation that you have given up your skills at this time. A few people were a little ashamed, Wang Maoru asked people to bring 800 yuan Yingyang said that 200 yuan per person should be used as the travel fee, and I am not embarrassed for you, but it is a pity, your skills. Two people led Yingyang away, and the other two thought about it and decided to stay. Going to Japan is indeed a place where you don't play your skills, it is better to stay here, so I asked if I could bring my family from Guangdong here, Wang Maoru happily said that it was natural, so he took the technician's family north to Beijing.

After dealing with these few people, Ouyang Peng came again and said, "Chairman, the plane has broken through, and there is a breakthrough." Wang Maoru was very happy and asked, "How?" Ouyang Peng took him to the aircraft manufacturing room, pointed to an airplane, and said: "This is the second-generation aircraft we made, it has not yet been named, and the engine uses the 0 horsepower American Star engine you mentioned earlier, and the flight altitude can reach 500 meters to 1,000 meters, and the flight distance can theoretically fly for 4 hours." ”

Wang Maoru was taken aback, he almost jumped up, and said, "What? You're right? Four hours? How can it be? I used to be able to fly for half an hour, but now how can I leapfrog so much at once? Ouyang Peng couldn't help but laugh and said: "After replacing the engine, the aircraft's load capacity is greater, so the fuel load is also more. Wang Maoru shook his head again and again, and said: "I can't imagine that I can fly for four hours, which completely surpasses Feng Ru No. 2 and No. 3, what is its cost?" Ouyang Peng said: "The price of its engine is three times that of the original 72-horsepower engine, so the entire aircraft is 2.5 times that of the original aircraft." ”

Wang Maoru smiled: "It's worth it, it's worth it." By the way, you only need to build one or two of this kind of aircraft, and don't hand it over to the War Department for the record, and the information must be kept. ”

Ouyang Peng hurriedly said: "Yes, I understand." ”

Wang Maoru nodded, and suddenly smiled: "I heard that you recently got a girlfriend?" ”

Ouyang Peng's face immediately blushed, this girl is a female student in the women's public school, they met in Baihuilou, only Luo Haiquan knows, it must be his big mouth who said it, damn it, you must scold him when you go back. Wang Maoru smiled and said, "Pursue it hard, boy, haha." Ouyang Peng was speechless in shame, he was indeed a teenager engaged in science and engineering, and he was full of reverence for his first love as if he was facing a god.

Leaving the flight room, Wang Maoru came to the garrison again, and now the garrison is training queues and shooting, after several months of continuous training, most of the recruits have retreated from the smell of youth, and there is some military smell on their bodies. Several squad leaders came over to say hello, Wang Maoru nodded at them one by one, walked to the rostrum, and looked at the nine hundred soldiers who were silently training under the stage and were silent. After a while, when they were resting, Li Delin and Zhao Zengfu came over and said, "Captain, what are your orders?" Zhao Zengfu also locked his eyes and blinked. Since the beginning of the recruit training of the flight garrison team, the captain of the original factory protection team, Suo and Ergen, have been completely handed over, but they have retained more than 20 people recruited from Cangzhou, Hebei Province, and established Wang Maoru's personal guard.

Wang Maoru naturally saw his movements, smiled, his face suddenly became stern, and said, "Inform all the squad leaders to have a meeting in the large conference room after dinner." ”

"What's wrong?" Zhao Zengfu and Li Delin asked involuntarily.

Wang Maoru said: "We want to suppress bandits." ”

The two of them were taken aback, and then they became happy, what the soldiers are asking for is their military merits, and the garrison is now a squad leader, and if there are no military merits in the future such positions as deputy captains and squadron leaders, how can they be able to do it? Just by the final assessment? The two hurriedly informed all the officers, and after dinner, they ran to the large conference room, and when they saw that Wang Maoru had already sat down, they immediately sat up one by one and waited for the lecture.

Wang Maoru saw that everyone was here, nodded at everyone, and said, "Everyone knows what happened this time, right?" That's right, we're going to crack down on bandits. Moreover, we are not ordinary bandits, it is Henan bandit Bai Lang. ”

Everyone took a breath after hearing it, it was actually Bai Lang? This is not an ordinary bandit, it is said that tens of thousands of people under his command made Zhang Zhenfang, the overseer of Henan, lose his position as governor.

Wang Maoru saw that the people below were talking a lot, and said: "Although we are also the army, but we are not going to suppress bandits this time. "Everyone was surprised. It's not a bandit, so why did you go? Wang Maoru said with a smile: "Our flight team is going to do reconnaissance, let's go ahead to recruit migrant workers to build the airport, check the safety of the airport, directly under the Ministry of War, under the command of Duan Qirui, the pacification envoy." Therefore, you don't have to worry about clashing with the main force of the Bai Lang Army, we only have a few hundred recruits, and we have encountered tens of thousands of bandits, I dare to say that the first thing everyone does is to throw down the gun and don't know where to go. ”

An officer below said: "Captain, in fact, it's not so strict, if we have one person in our hands, a box cannon, and we're afraid of ball bandits." But we all have one single in our hands, and we have to shoot one bullet for one bullet, and before we can fire the second shot, we have to be rushed up. Besides, we don't just have guns, no guns, no machine guns, just military uniforms look good. ”

"Yes, the weapon is too bad, captain, this gun training is not complete, the rifles are gone, and I can't touch the target even if I shoot a shot." Another officer said.

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