Wang Yue dared to speak, and naturally he had his own reasons. After listening to Ding Yi's words, he cleared his throat and said with his hands: "Sir, you know that this is not the homeland of China, and it is difficult to find talents to teach the army's sergeants. ↘↙ If we want to train a new army, literacy is really difficult to implement!"

This is indeed difficult, but Ding Yi did not go into detail on this issue. He smiled slightly and said: "Shichang doesn't need to talk about him. This matter will be postponed for later. Let's talk about the disbandment of Rong Yi Division first. You see You are extremely anxious around here, so don’t try to whet your appetite any more."

"Yes, sir, please forgive me for speaking frankly, Rong Yi Division has excess combat strength." This is what Wang Yue said next. He took out the document from his sleeve pocket and handed it to Ding Yi, "It is enough to run rampant." In this world, however, our enemies of the Western Ming Dynasty are not in one place, so the Rong Yi Division gathering to prepare for war will not help the current situation."

Ding Yi nodded slowly as he listened. What Wang Yue said makes sense. Yes, when all members of the Rong 1st Division are assembled, the 3rd brigade and 9th regiment, plus the division and brigade directly affiliated teams, total about 20,000 people. Based on the current situation, With the configured firepower, even if faced with hundreds of thousands of people, or even hundreds of thousands of people, there is really nothing that cannot be defeated in a field battle.

Even if the opponent has less than 200,000 people, there is no need to use the division's heavy artillery battalion, which is enough to solve the problem.

However, whether it is the Ottomans or the Native Americans, after suffering losses, who would have the brains to assemble hundreds of thousands of troops to torture the Rong First Division? Let alone the Rong First Division, just go with Wan An and Liu Tie The two regiments in America, or the guard regiment protecting Ding Yi, basically have no battles now.

Unless we take the initiative to attack the city, well, what should we do if we capture it? Let’s divide our troops to defend them. With more than 20,000 people, how many places can we divide them into?

In a place as big as Guangdong, there are only about ten prefectures, and each prefecture has seven or eight counties.

If we want to control such a vast place in America, we must turn it into state capitals. How else can we control it? Well, then, if a place as big as Guangdong and Guangxi is divided into nearly 200 county-level units and 20,000 people, it will be What's the point of having hundreds of people in each place? The stakes of war are high and low. You can't prepare for war around the clock all year round and don't need to rotate, right?

What's more, where in the Americas is it just as big as Guangdong and Guangxi?

They gathered together but couldn't find a place to use them. Even the Ottomans would not assemble a large army to let the guard regiments abuse them. What about the Native Americans who were originally in a tribal state? They had established a territory and couldn't defend it. So Wang Yue thought that Rong Yi The teacher does not have much meaning in existence.

"Soldiers who have not been in battle for a long time and who have made military exploits in the past will inevitably become increasingly arrogant." Wang Yue even raised the difficulties in ideological work.

"Gathering together without fighting means that the warriors fighting in the field are reduced to an army defending the territory. Over time, it is inevitable that they will have grudges."

"Therefore, my disciples believe that only by splitting them up to build a new army can we make the best use of materials and make full use of people's talents."

Ding Yi turned over the document and saw that the two regiments going to America had actually been replenished in the past few years. The Rongyi Division is still composed of three brigades and nine regiments. Wang Yue meant that Thessaloniki and Athens each stationed a regiment, and then assigned another regiment to Du Ziteng. The other six regiments were all dispersed, and the more than 10,000 Greek heirs "new soldiers" that Chen San had snatched back were sent to Smyrna on their own initiative. More than 30,000 young men signed up to join the army, and on the Egyptian side, Yu Qian asked Zhao Fu to train two Egyptian divisions. Then they recruited a supplementary division from Israel, the Mamluks recruited a cavalry division, and so on, forming ten C-class divisions. That is, there is no brigade structure below the division. It directly governs four regiments, which is equivalent to a reinforced brigade.

"Sweeping across Asia Minor with these ten divisions?" Ding Yi frowned and asked Wang Yue, "With such military expenses, equipment, etc., it is not possible to form an army immediately with the manpower. In this regard, what do you think?

How did you think about it?”

Wang Yue did not panic: "The first division of the Imperial Guard, Rong Yi Division, should be regarded as a super-structure among our Taixi Ming Dynasty. In the future, all divisions will form armies according to this scale, and there will be no mortars below the regiment."

, there are no machine guns below the battalion level. It is divided into three levels: A, B, and C. Each time one level is reduced, one less regiment will be under its jurisdiction, and the C-level division will only have two regiments of soldiers under its jurisdiction."

Ding Yi rubbed his temples, and after a long time he raised his head and said to Wang Yue: "Send this file to the Ministry of Finance for review first. If there is no problem, I will give you one year to try it."

"Disciple will live up to your teacher's trust!" Wang Yue was overjoyed when he heard this. He himself did not expect that Ding Yi would agree to his proposal.

Because he was basically overthrowing the military structure established before Ding Yi, Wang Yue believed that the current one division had too many soldiers, too sophisticated, and completely unnecessary. Because establishing ten divisions requires money, whether it is food

, military uniforms, weapons, etc., including salary, pensions, etc. So he thought Ding Yi might let him try out two divisions first.

But I didn't expect that Ding Yi would be so happy.

That's because Ding Yi knows very well that it takes money to support Rong Yishi.

People in China are used to getting several times their pay, right? It's impossible to go overseas and get a reduction in military pay, right?

And as Wang Yue said, neither the First Guards Division nor the First Rong Division could find an enemy to fight! This large military expenditure did not have the desired effect.

If Wang Yue allocates it this way, it won't actually cost a lot of money.

The Ximing Empire has never been short of guns, because after the advent of gun barrel steel, the First Wing Division, the First Guards Division, and the Guard Regiment completed the replacement of naval guns in the past few years. So they were eliminated

There are tens of thousands of rifles that use old-fashioned black powder as the propellant.

Before that, the predecessor of the First Guards Division, the Fourth Division of the Ming Dynasty, was equipped with a bullet-shaped bolt-loaded breech-loading gun, which was also replaced with firearms calculated in units of thousands. Not to mention Guinea.

Before the development of barrel steel, there were still a large number of old black powder rifles produced.

Of course, these guns have nowhere to go. Whether it is the French republican organization, the British republican organization, or the aristocratic armed forces of Castile, if they can get the kind of breech-loaded rifled gun with a cartridge case and a bolt, it will be a good idea.

I was overjoyed. Of course they can bring profits, but if they are used to equip their own troops, they will naturally bring more profits. The main mortars and machine guns are only the mortar platoon in the regiment, and the machine gun squad in the battalion.

This way the demand for ammunition and new weapons is not too great.

It was precisely when Ding Yi saw this that he nodded.

However, when Wang Yue retired happily, Ding Yi said to Liu Ji: "You are going to ask Yiyi to come over. The other thing is to write down and hold a short-term training class. For the first division, officers of the platoon and above will participate in the courses in batches."

, the number of each group is less than eighty. The training location is Ephesus."

Liu Yiyi is no longer in charge of Ding Yi's finances. This is her own request: "I am not talented enough to run a country." Running the Ding family shop is her limit, and she has to serve as the finance minister of a country.

Or the Minister of the Ministry of Finance. After Liu Yiyi tried it, he found that he was really too busy and did not have the feeling of ease.

She was not a person who liked power, so she took the initiative to resign from this job to Ding Yi;

She was a powerful person, so she took the initiative to resign from this job to Ding Yi.

The finance minister of a country sounds like he has great power, but if he fails, big trouble will happen. She is Ding Yi's wife, why should she get involved in this matter? So she is not good at this power at all; the chain of Ding's stores is

She is completely in control of the world-class trading company. She can decide everything with a single word. This is where her authority lies. She clearly distinguishes it, so she puts her energy here.

"My husband called me here to allocate money and food again?" Liu Yiyi was not joking. When Ding came to her, he often asked for help from the Ding family shop. "Now that Yang Zongqi has become the finance minister, national affairs will be settled."

Can you rely on merchants to lose? This is not a long-term plan. I hope you will find out."

Zongqi is the name of Yang Ding, who is currently the Finance Minister of the Western Ming Empire. He was the second in the orthodox four-year rankings and was a supporter of the Thunder School in Jingtai. This man was honest but stubborn in character. After the restoration of Yingzong,

He was also imprisoned for some reasons,

Speaking of "someone who attends the mausoleum and is imprisoned", it was Ding Yi who finally spoke up and was able to reinstate him, and he became a die-hard loyalist of the Thunder School. This time, Yao Kui, the spring official, came back to the Western Ming Dynasty, and Yang Ding also received a letter from Ding Yi.

Finally, after Yao Kui, he crossed the sea.

"Zongqi? Zongqi is strict and has good personal ethics, but to be honest, he is not a man of world affairs." Ding Yi listened to Liu Yiyi's words and smiled bitterly. Ding Yi was not an expert on Ming history, so he naturally didn't know about Yang Ding's level.

In history, Yang Ding's position as Minister of Household Affairs was almost like this. However, Ding Yi can still see some clues from the practical arrangements.

Of course, he is not a wise man, but this is the best finance minister that Ding Yi can find at the moment. Because one is not greedy, and the other is that he is a die-hard supporter of the Thunder School.

Liu Yiyi let out a long sigh: "If Yang Zong's weapon is not enough, I will be even worse. Husband, if you want to allocate money, the Ding family store should have two million taels available, or it can be used to purchase supplies, and a little more can be used

If you want to ask Ji Guo, you should call Mr. Zongqi, right?"

Ding Yi heard this like a wake-up call. He stood up, stretched out his arms to Liu Yiyi, kissed her cheek gently, and said with a smile: "If you are not a wife, you are a husband who doesn't know what he is doing wrong!"

Yang Ding can't do it? It depends on who you compare with! Compared with people like Chen Xun and Nianfu, it's probably worse, but it's still better than Liu Yiyi! Liu Yiyi knows it in her heart. This has something to do with her Ding family.

Although she has great power, she knows that there is nothing to brag about.

But before he went to announce that Yang Ding had entered Kunpeng City, Liu Ji ran in with a mournful face, carrying his robe. When he saw Ding Yi and Liu Yiyi, he bowed his head and said: "Sir, Master, please give me a pity for this disciple."

,Save this disciple!"
Chapter completed!