Fan Kai took the five characters "Greater China Bank" written by Liu Taiping and left. After returning, he quickly framed the five characters.
Half a month later, the office space of the Greater China Bank was built.
The bank is located in the center of Guangzhou, not far from the Heroes Memorial Field.
According to Fan Kai's design, the bank has two buildings. The second floor is for big customers and businessmen to negotiate business, and is the office location of the bank's management staff. The first floor is the main office area, and the lobby is for ordinary people. Fan Kai was a decisive person in starting a business. He had foreseen that his bank would be affected when the bank started operating, so he directly dissolved the bank and brought the bank's experienced people into the bank.
For the former clerks, entering the bank was undoubtedly a transformation from a local chicken to a phoenix, and all of them were extremely enthusiastic.
When the Great China Bank opened, Li Zhen personally participated.
At the same time, Liu Taiping, Wang Xiaoyang, Li Xiaotong, Huang Shihai, Qi Zhenhai, Dai Yuanhua, Bo Jia and others came to participate. It was very lively. Under the witness of Li Zhen, the plaque of the Greater China Bank was displayed in front of countless letters. After the opening ceremony, Fan Kai invited the lion dancer to perform, and he also invited Li Zhen, the opera singer, and the military generals and businessmen watched the opera and listened to music. It was a lively whole day.
After the bank opened, Guangzhou gradually calmed down again.
Hospitals and banks are booming, and Guangzhou's business is even more prosperous, all moving in a better direction.
During this period, there was no response from Japan.
After Li Zhen killed Kento Yagyu and the Japanese samurai who attacked Guangzhou, he had been on guard. He believed that it was impossible for the Yagyu family not to avenge Kento Yagyu, so he did not dare to take it lightly.
After Taiken Miyamoto contacted Li Zhen, Li Zhen learned the reason. Two consecutive losses had a great impact on the shogunate. The Tokugawa shogunate and the Yagyu family wanted to resist the reformists who fell. They had no experience in dealing with Li Zhen for the time being, but they still wanted to To purchase weapons, Li Zhen agreed to Miyamoto Taiken's request and sold the first batch of weapons, three thousand guns and one hundred thousand rounds of ammunition.
Although it is not much, the selling price is ridiculously high. Each gun is fifty taels of silver. Three thousand guns are equivalent to 150,000 taels of silver. In addition, there are 100,000 rounds of ammunition and 50,000 taels of silver, a total of 20 taels of silver. Ten thousand taels of silver.
Although the money was not much, it started the transformation of Dai Yuanhua's arsenal.
The weapons Dai Yuanhua sells are inferior guns, but he can earn huge profits.
In addition to the development of the arsenal, Sister Alice's underwear factory and perfume factory have also made great progress. They have monopolized the entire Guangzhou and began to spread rapidly to the surrounding areas. It is almost irresistible. Gulina's business is also quite successful. , sold arms with Blair and began to make money for Li Zhen.
Everything is in order.
In late October, the number of army soldiers ushered in another opportunity to expand.
This time it is not a promotion, but an expansion of the 5,000-man brigade into a 10,000-man strengthened brigade.
The five regiments led by Huang Shihai each expanded to 2,000 men. In this way, the five regiments totaled 10,000 soldiers. This kind of force was already the maximum that Li Zhen could support at present. After all, 10,000 soldiers were not For ordinary soldiers, if the soldiers only need swords, guns and food, even if there are 30,000 to 40,000 troops, Li Zhen can afford them.
However, the 10,000 people under Li Zhen's command had to be trained to shoot guns, which required consuming bullets, wearing out weapons, and consuming countless amounts of money every day. Li Zhen had to bear a huge burden by supporting 10,000 elites.
During this period, Li Zhen went to the military camp from time to time to check on the training situation in the military camp. In early November, the weather began to get cold. Li Zhen found that the military training did not slow down at all. Instead, it became more intense and the training became more rigorous.
The former recruits have gradually adapted to military life.
In mid-to-late November, military training gradually weakened.
On November 18, six generals, Huang Shihai, Qi Zhenhai, Yang Banhou, Lu Shaochuan, Smith, and Zhou Xiuying, came to the Admiral's Mansion together. In the study, Li Zhen looked at the six generals and asked: "All of you We’re all here, what’s the big deal?”
Huang Shihai said: "Sir, do you still remember what you said when you formed the five corps?"
"What did I say?" Li Zhen asked.
Huang Shihai said: "When we formed the five regiments, we were going to compete. Whoever you said won would be rewarded with a cannon. At first, it was delayed due to various things, but now the time is ripe. I and the five regiments After a long discussion, we decided to hold a military competition, what do you think?"
"OK."
Li Zhen stood up and said seriously: "The more you train in peacetime, the less blood will be shed in wartime. It is a good thing for the army to hold a competition. I agree. When the time comes, I will personally watch it. In addition to the cannons as rewards, I will award them separately." The team that wins first place is the ace team.”
After Zhou Xiuying, Lu Shaochuan and others heard this, they all became excited and their eyes shone.
Honor is the greatest face of a soldier and the most exciting thing.
Li Zhen asked again: "Now that we are preparing for the competition, are the contents of the competition ready?"
Huang Shihai said unhurriedly: "The content has been decided. It is divided into two rounds of competition. The first round of competition has the most content. Each regiment will select the most elite company to perform shooting, climbing, and wading. , long-distance running and other events are compared, all are pair-wise confrontations, five groups compete against each other one by one, after the game is over, the two worst groups are eliminated, and the remaining three groups compete with each other to determine the most powerful one. A group."
After a pause, Huang Shihai said in a deep voice: "The second round of confrontation is no longer a separate competition. It is conducted outside the city. The three regiments each form a camp and attack each other. Only the victorious regiment can be called. For the ace team, what do you think, Commander-in-Chief?"
"Pah, pah,."
Li Zhen nodded and praised: "Very good. The second round of confrontation is the most suitable and best tests the school's ability. I believe it will be exciting."
Li Zhen is full of expectations for this competition.
The five regiments all sent their most elite soldiers to form a company, and it was all a confrontational competition, especially Zhou Xiuying's female regiment. With such a special existence, I believe the soldiers of the other regiments did not dare to relax.
At this moment, Li Zhen couldn't wait any longer.
Li Zhen asked: "When is the time set?"
Huang Shihai said: "Report to the commander, we can start at any time, just wait for the commander to confirm the time."
Li Zhen thought about it carefully and said: "Today is November 18th. I will give you two more days to prepare. The competition will be held on November 20th. When the competition is over, it will be almost December." Getting ready for the New Year."
"yes."
Huang Shihai and others saluted in unison, their eyes full of expectation.
Huang Shihai is the brigade commander in the army and the highest military officer. He does not need to participate in the military competition. However, there are five commanders of the regiment below. The commanders of these five regiments look at the others with eyes full of gunpowder. Son, as the only female regiment leader, Zhou Xiuying was even more motivated and secretly encouraged herself. As the saying goes, women should not give way to men, and she wanted to prove that female soldiers are not weaker than male soldiers.
Everyone stood up to say goodbye and go get ready.
Li Zhen looked at the backs of everyone leaving, feeling secretly excited in his heart.
ps: Fifth update, call it a day; I will pay back the 1 update I owe, I've been a little busy these past two days, sorry.