Song Yi, the commander of the Third Regiment of the Pinglu Army, was crawling forward. The thorny vines on his head gave him a sense of oppression, which forced him to "lift his head slightly, put his elbows on the ground, and kicked forward in accordance with the regulations."

Of course, there are not many people like him. Song Yi was very happy to see a big man's buttocks being torn apart, revealing his white buttocks. After running after a 500-meter obstacle, Song Yi felt chest tightness, his heart pounding, and his whole body was drained.

Gently moving his body, the feeling of fatigue disappeared, and his body became flexible again. Song Yi started climbing 50 meters in mountain rocks like a big monkey, and some people fell down from time to time. Although there were thick meadows as buffers, it was not pleasant to fall from a height of dozens of meters.

After a pleasant grenade throw and far, Song Yi started the most difficult 8-kilometer cross-country running.

This is the training of the Pinglu Army for a day. Under the leadership of Song Yi, the combat effectiveness of the Third Regiment grew very rapidly. In the military five-game match last week, the representative of the Third Regiment actually defeated the representative of the Fifth Regiment of the Pingkou Army and entered the top five historic progress. This result shocked Zhao Gang and was promoted to the commander of the Pinglu Army on the spot.

On that day, Song Yi received a notice to attend a military meeting at the regiment and above. As soon as he arrived at the venue, Song Yi found that Zhao Gang, Max Hoffmann, Reinhardt Scher, Retov-Folbeck, and von Rudendolf had arrived and hurried to the final seat. Zhao Gang saw everyone and cleared his throat:

"Today I'm asking everyone to discuss the merger of Pingkou Army and Pinglu Army."

"Everyone knows that the Pingko Army was a group of five small groups (fifth company) at the time, and the Pingru Army was a group of ten small groups so that it could be expanded quickly during wartime and could be a division."

After all, it was not long since I arrived in the Pinglu Army. Song Yi heard about the organization of the Pinglu Army for the first time and couldn't help but ask:

"Magistrate Zhao, why did I have only three thousand people when I arrived at the Pinglu Army? I asked them that they were hesitant and refused to say it."

Zhao Gang's face became gloomy, his fists were clenched tightly, and his sharp eyes shot directly on Song Yi's face. He also wanted to stare into Song Yi's face with a hole. The officer next to him leaned back slightly to avoid being hit by the mercerized beam.

Song Yi had not been punched a hole, but he was also at a loss, so he had to lower his head and wait for the upcoming storm.

"This is my wound, but I still want to tell you that the Pinglu Army was very combative half a year ago. Although it was a little worse than the Pingkou Army, the gap was not big. The total combat effectiveness of the 10,000 Pingkou Army was even better than the 5,000 Pingkou Army."

Zhao Gang paused and suppressed his excitement.

"A few days before you came, the Pinglu Army was taken away. The current backbone of the Pinglu Army is just the poorest part of the Lao Pinglu Army. In short, the Pinglu Army has been greatly weakened. Although the number of new recruits is large, the combat effectiveness is very low, and there is no experienced non-commissioned officer as the backbone of the battle."

Song Yi finally understood, but in his feelings, Zhao Gang didn't seem to hate anyone, which was very strange.

Seeing that Song Yi understood, Zhao Gang continued:

"And the veterans in the Pingkou Army can play this role, so I am going to abolish the title of Pingkou Army and mix the Pingkou Army with the Pingkou Army. The preliminary plan is to upgrade the Pingkou Army officers and demote the Pingkou Army officers to one level. After the expansion, they are temporarily designated as the First Division of the Pingkou Army. The personnel are 16,000 people. Let's see if there is any problem?"

After seeing it, Song Yi had no objection. Although it seemed that he had been demoted from division commander to regiment commander, the Pinglu Army, which had a combat power of 5,000 people after the mix, was actually very cheap.

Max Hoffmann, Retov-Folbeck were promoted to commander, and Von Rudendolf was promoted to commander, and neither had any objection.

Only Reinhardt Schell was full of resentment. The admiral in history was an ambitious and capable commander, diligent and firm in will. But this does not mean that he could successfully serve as an army officer. He was ranked among Sun Shan in several assessments. If Zhao Gang had not remembered his name, he would have been demoted to company commander.

Scher stood up and said a long line to the translator, waving his hands constantly, which showed that he was very excited.

There was a difficult expression on the translation side, Zhao Gang shouted:

"Translation is quick to tell me."

"He said he was a naval officer, not an army officer. If he couldn't give him a ship and let him leave, he wouldn't want to be an army for a minute!"

Zhao Gang patted his head regretfully, how could Jutland's hero be forgotten in a corner by himself?

Turning his head to face Sher in the corner, Zhao Gang expressed his apology in very poor English

"It is my negligence to let an excellent naval officer like you spend his youth. Now there is a 2,000-ton warship that needs a captain. Can you give in? If possible, I will continue to build sixteen warships of the same type. You will be the commander of this fleet at that time."

Max Hoffmann, Retov-Folbeck, von Rudendolf all looked at Scher with happy eyes. Scher's face turned red and he replied stutteringly: "No, God O, why don't I accept it?"

The people on the side laughed when they saw him. Seeing that the matter was done successfully, Zhao Gang also joked a few times. At this moment, Hei Niu walked in.

The Black Bull walked to Zhao Gang in a mysterious way and whispered:

"Inspector Zhao, that thing has been made."

Zhao Gang was stunned when he heard this, then remembered the task he had assigned to Hei Niu a few months ago. He grabbed Hei Niu's hand and shouted happily:

"That's great, take me there."

The two of them quickly walked out of the room. Hei Niu rode in front of the road and stopped at a large manor outside the city. The two entered the gate and passed through the hall and the corridor. On the way, they passed three open cards and one secret card. Finally, they walked into a bedroom. Hei Niu knocked on a wall in the bedroom a few times, and the walls of the bedroom suddenly separated. There was a spacious hall inside, and there was a row of rooms behind. Zhao Gang hesitated for a moment.

"Hei Niu, have you developed the No. 4 now?"

“Yes, we’ve researched it.”

After saying that, Hei Niu took out a test tube from a room with white powder inside.

"The powder in this tube is dozens of times more effective than Fushou Paste."

Zhao Gang nodded with satisfaction

"Don't use these things first. Remember to send all the seized things here and distillate them into No. 4. You did a good job, but do you know why I did this?"

Black bull shook his head:

"I only know that Inspection Officer Zhao asked me to do it, so I did it."

Zhao Gang smiled and found a chair to sit down

"Since the Daoguang period, Britain smuggled a large amount of opium into China, poisoning the Chinese people. Later, the imperial court sent Lin Zexu as an imperial commissioner to Guangzhou to investigate the ban on opium. Lord Lin ordered the public destruction of more than 2.3 million kilograms of opium seized from illegal businessmen in Britain, the United States and other countries in Humen.

Later, Britain defeated our Qing army under the pretext of protecting trade, and forced the Qing government to agree to the legal sale of opium. It has been fifty years since then, and the number of people in our country has increased, and the country is poor and the people are sick."

Hei Niu was very angry when he heard this:

“So can opium be sold publicly in the UK?”

"Hei Niu, you asked well!" Zhao Gang patted the Hei Niu

"In the UK, selling 1/10 pound of opium will be put into prison, and selling 1 pound of opium will be beheaded. In the UK, no one is allowed to sell opium. They know that opium will destroy a country and a nation."

Zhao Gang clenched his fist and smashed it hard on the chair

"But these barbarians kept transporting these things to our country and even claimed that they were civilized people."

Zhao Gang looked at Hei Niu:

"Hei Niu, remember, don't be kind to other countries. We are Chinese and can only ensure the safety and happiness of our own people."

Hei Niu looked at Zhao Gang, his eyes filled with tears, and he was so excited that he couldn't speak for a moment. After a long time, he said:

"Inspector Zhao, don't worry, I must ask those foreigners to make a living."

A book published decades later, "The Summoning of the Devil" detailed the changes in the number of drug users in Britain between 1840 and 1912. The book specifically pointed out that between 1895 and 1912, the number of drug users in Britain increased by 150,000 each year, and the total amount of money lost reached 360 million pounds.
Chapter completed!