Now, the British and French families have come to ask for help from Dong Shuheng. Then he will definitely take a heavy blow from these two families, because the covenant between them does not include the Huai Navy sending troops to Crete.
Mia's terms.
It is impossible for the Huai Navy to swim across such a long distance. Then these ships must either be provided by Britain and France, or they can be sold to the Huai Navy at a low price.
Huaihai Navy's current shipbuilding capabilities are only a fraction of others, and its transportation capacity is seriously insufficient.
Dong Shuheng has opened up so many routes, all of which require ships. Therefore, the Huai Navy cannot free up the transportation capacity in its own hands.
If Dong Shuheng buys a boat, he should be able to get the best price at this time.
Dong Shuheng knew that if these two envoys succeeded in persuading the Huai Navy to send troops, they would definitely add to his list of achievements.
So, how could Dong Shuheng waste this opportunity? There are not many things that can make Ying and France come to his door.
After Dong Shuheng arrived in Yangzhou, he went to meet with Wei Yuan, mainly to persuade him to stop taking the oracle bone inscriptions seriously and go back to being his own dean. Even after studying the oracle bone inscriptions for a lifetime, Sage Kong could not recognize 70% of them.
He should still devote himself to education in such a dying age. Wei Yuan also knew that he still had a few years to live, just because oracle bone inscriptions were too attractive to traditional literati.
It is up to him to control the general direction of the academy's talent training, so as not to create a group of people who will not only oppose the Qing Dynasty but also oppose the Huaihai Navy, which will cause trouble.
Dong Shuheng has discovered that the previous series of measures in the academy have made the students in the academy somewhat radical in their thinking and become restless.
So Dong Shuheng discussed the matter with Wei Yuan, and finally decided that Wei Yuan would take the initiative to let those students calm down first.
Starting next year, the academy will arrange internships for senior students. They will initially enter the Huaihai Navy system.
Several women spent a day playing in Yangzhou and were very happy. After the fun, Duji followed Shuyun and Shumei back to Gaoyou.
Wei Yuzhen and Yang Ximei returned to Jiangning with Dong Shuheng.
Wei Yuzhen returned to Jiangning this time to help Dong Shuheng set up a women's normal college to provide female teachers to primary schools in various places.
As the president of the Women's Federation, Yang Ximei naturally had to help.
It is relatively easy for people to accept women as primary school teachers to educate children.
Besides, there is a huge shortage of primary school teachers now.
Dong Shuheng wanted to use this method to open the door for women to enter the Huaihai Navy. Because in the Huaihai Navy’s system, teachers are also regarded as regular military and political personnel.
This plan received strong support from the two daughters, and to train female normal college students, high-level teaching was not required. The two did not have to worry about not having enough teachers for the normal college.
Wei Yuzhen resigned from her position as a journalism teacher at the academy.
Dong Shuheng, who returned to Jiangning, immediately put himself into preparations for negotiations with Britain and France. If troops were to be sent to the Crimean Peninsula, the Huai Navy must make sufficient preparations.
There are also some details that Dong Shuheng must discuss with his subordinates.
Just after the war, Dong Shuheng had to make a series of adjustments to the Huai Navy.
In the presidential palace, Dong Shuheng was holding an enlarged military meeting.
More than half a year has passed since the last expansion of the Huaihai Navy.
At present, the Huaihai Navy has a total of five divisions of field troops.
The teaching division is now stationed near Jiangning. The first division is stationed in Luzhou, Anhui. The second division is stationed in Nanchang, Jiangxi. The third division is in Shandong. The fourth division is stationed in the Heilongjiang Military Region.
There is also a garrison brigade and 14 garrison regiments. There are currently four garrison regiments stationed in Jiangsu, and five garrison regiments stationed in Anhui and Jiangxi.
In some important strategic areas, there is only one garrison regiment of regular troops guarding them, which seems a bit weak.
So this time, not only Dong Shuheng, but also his generals and the military government made demands for military expansion.
There is no problem in expanding the army, but raising a regular army is not like a militia. It costs money. Dong Shuheng feels that now more money should be spent on improving the basic strength of the Huai Navy, such as transportation facilities, education, and scientific research...
Dong Shuheng always felt that Huai Haijun's foundation was not enough, which is why he never overthrew the Manchu Qing Dynasty and unified the country.
Forcibly overthrowing the Manchu Qing Dynasty now will not necessarily bring benefits from expanding the territory.
On the contrary, it will create countless hidden dangers and bring a lot of burden to Dong Shuheng, because the vast inland areas are not necessarily a help in Dong Shuheng's view, but may be a burden.
At least now he feels that he cannot bear such a burden.
So this time we want to expand the army, but we have to control the speed.
After discussions with high-level military officials present at the meeting, it was finally decided to reorganize Lin Wei's garrison brigade in the Far East into the Huaihai Navy's Fifth Division, with Wang Xiao as the division commander and Lin Wei as the commander of the Fourth Division and concurrently as the commander of the Heilongjiang Military Region.
It turned out that the cavalry regiment of the garrison brigade was transferred to the upper reaches of Heilongjiang Province, and together with the cavalry regiment transferred from the Third Division, a cavalry brigade was formed and placed under the command of the Heilongjiang Military Region.
This cavalry brigade will be the tentacles of the Huai Navy extending to Outer Mongolia and Siberia in the future.
The Anhui Military Region was established. Wang Congzhi, commander of the First Division, served as the commander of the military region. The number of garrison regiments in Anhui was increased to six regiments plus one garrison brigade. This strengthened garrison brigade will be placed in Yingzhou to defend against the Taiping Army that fled into Henan.
And the Qing army in Henan.
The Jiangxi Military Region was established, and Yang Bingchun, commander of the Second Division, served as the commander of the Jiangxi Military Region. A new garrison brigade was established in Ganzhou to defend Fujian and Guangdong.
Establish a garrison brigade in Ji'an Prefecture to defend Henan. In this way, Jiangxi will have five garrison regiments and two garrison brigades.
The Jiangsu Military Region was established, with teaching divisions under its jurisdiction and the Sixth Huaihai Navy Division in Xuzhou. The Sixth Division was led by Gu Keli, the former commander of the 204th Regiment.
The Jiangsu Military Region is equivalent to the Central Military Region of the Huaihai Navy. It has the largest number of troops and is the most important. Liu Qingnan should have been the commander.
But at today's meeting, Liu Qingnan proposed to serve as the commander of the Crimean Expeditionary Force.
Therefore, Dong Shuheng is planning to let Peng Yulin take the position of commander of the Jiangsu Military Region. He will no longer serve as commander of the Yangtze River Navy.
Anyway, Dong Shuheng is not prepared to serve as the commander concurrently. He feels that this behavior is meaningless. His current military position is the commander-in-chief of the Huai Navy.
Like the policemen of later generations, who held so many official posts and didn't care about anything, in the end the soldiers underneath rebelled when they should have.
During this expansion of the army, Dong Shuheng released Wang Yan beside him to serve as the commander of Jiangning's garrison.
Pan Qiliang, the bully of the security company, naturally became the commander of the security company.
In this way, the Huaihai Navy was divided into five military regions, integrating field troops and garrison troops.
Although the power of the military region commander has been strengthened, he is still subject to the control of the deputy commander, chief of staff and supervisory committee.
Moreover, except for the two military regions in the Far East, the Huaihai Navy now has telegrams, so the military can keep abreast of what's going on underneath.
Besides, there is also a regular rotation system for military region commanders.
As for the two northern military regions, they have a relationship of mutual supervision and support, and they are also subject to logistical supply constraints.
The military planning has been completed for the time being, and the next step is to discuss the issue of sending troops this time.
Chief of Staff Yan Shikun suggested: "President, if we go to the war this time, we probably won't be able to send field troops to participate. Our rifles and tactics are still kept secret from Britain and France."
"Although the Russians already know some of the situation, they will not spread it to Britain and France so quickly. Therefore, I suggest that you still carry front-loading rifles on the expedition. This will also make it easier to obtain supplies from Britain and France."
"If you bring us the Huaihai Type 53 rifle, it will not only expose this gun and our tactics, but supply will also be a big problem."
"Well, what Lao Yan said makes sense. Qingnan, you have to remember that the main purpose of our trip to Crimea this time is to familiarize ourselves with the tactics and combat power of Britain and France, not to stand out."
"Of course, don't be timid when it's our turn, but we must pay attention to controlling the casualties of our soldiers. We are not there to be cannon fodder for them."
"Yes, President, I understand. Aren't we going to bring a field hospital? At that time, I will put the large troops behind to protect the field hospital, and I will take our officer observation group to the front line." Liu Qingnan made a rare appearance this time.
It dawned on him once. In the past, he was always the one who would rush forward when he saw a battle coming.
"As for the field hospital, the General Logistics Department and the Ministry of Health will jointly mobilize a group of people. As for the medicine, we will wait until I negotiate with the British and French ministers to decide. We can provide the people, but they have to pay real money for the medicine.
Buy!" Dong Shuheng said to the Minister of General Logistics and the Minister of Health.
"Yes, President." They both replied in unison.
There won't be any major wars at the Huaihai Navy Headquarters for the time being, so the military doctors can take out some of them.
Even so, Dong Shuheng was still in great pain. There is still a serious shortage of doctors in the Huaihai Navy system.
The medical school even opened a crash course for those former wild doctors to teach them the diagnosis and treatment of some common diseases.
Then let them learn how to use some Chinese patent medicines produced by Huaihai Pharmaceutical, and then they can go to work in grassroots township health centers.
Although such doctors may make mistakes from time to time, they are better than ordinary people who have nowhere to be treated.
This method was also used in later generations. The barefoot doctor in Dong Shuheng's previous life was trained in this way.
With such a village doctor here, people in the village don't need to travel far to a big hospital if they have a cold or fever.
In terms of medical treatment, Dong Shuheng was not allowed to be hidden. He wanted to show Huai Haijun's highest medical technology to the West. They could not learn this all at once.
Those soldiers who were treated by Huai Haijun became living advertisements for Chinese medicine after returning to Europe.
As for medicines, they are even more unable to learn from them and will have to buy them from China in the future.
Traditional Chinese medicine is not only a medical skill, but also a knowledge, which is not easy for Westerners to understand. Moreover, many of the raw materials of Chinese patent medicines are unique to China.
Since it has been said above that we cannot bring regular troops with us this time, we must reconsider the issue of the source of troops for this trip abroad.
"Chief of Staff, how do you think you will choose the sources of troops for this overseas trip?" Dong Shuheng asked.
"Back to the president, how about selecting from the militia? The militia's code of conduct is similar to that of the British and French. And this time we can select elites from all the militia to form this team, so that the combat effectiveness is still guaranteed." Yan Shikun said.
"President, I think there is no problem with the chief of staff's proposal. I have confidence in our militia. As long as they are selected and trained for a period of time, they will definitely be able to form combat effectiveness." Training Minister Ma Zongwu added.
"Okay, let's do as you suggested and select people according to the establishment of a division. But we only have light infantry. There is no need for cavalry and artillery in this division."
Dong Shuheng was prepared to pay attention to the soy sauce. The cavalry was not convenient for sea transportation. As for the artillery, he did not have many old-fashioned artillery here.