Thunder Emperor

After a preliminary understanding of the baggage regiment stationed in the suburbs of Paris, Liu Qiang decided that it was a place to feed scum. From these drunkards and gambling addicts, Liu Qiang saw that the combat effectiveness of this army was basically zero. , Letting them go to the battlefield is simply a waste of the enemy's bullets, and finding such an army by yourself is simply a godsend.

Sending off those officers with their own hearts, Liu Qiang, led by his three subordinates, came to the soldiers' dormitory of the front-line transportation team. The place was dark, dirty, smelly, filled with mosquitoes and flies, and it was not as clean as a military camp should be. And vigor, some are old, weak, sick, and mice running around!

Liu Qiang asked all the soldiers to gather in the open space in front of the dormitory. After counting, a total of 260 five people were counted, including 50 people over the age of 40, 45 people over the age of 76, 40 people under the age of 30, 35 people under the age of 41, and most of them were under the age of 30. There are 94 people, eight of the remaining 14 are under 30 years old, and one of the last seven people is under 23 years old.

Liu Qiang was very disappointed by such an army, but considering the current situation in France, Liu Qiang felt that such an army was suitable, and Liu Qiang would feel strange if all the soldiers were strong and strong!After disbanding the team, Liu Qiang returned to his office, drinking the black tea that Brant made for him, while thinking about how he could change the status quo.

At ten o'clock the next morning, Brant came back and told Liu Qiang that the commander, Lieutenant Colonel Baptiste, had finally returned to the regiment headquarters. Mr. Lieutenant Colonel, have a good talk.

He politely knocked on the door of the regimental commander's office, and after receiving the consent, Liu Qiang pushed open the door and walked in. At this time, Lieutenant Colonel Baptiste was sitting behind the desk in the room, and the vice regiment was sitting opposite him. Nagamoto Shaming. "Oh! Dear Donnie, I was reporting your situation to the team leader just now! I didn't expect you to come so soon. It seems that our new transportation team leader is very competent!"

"Commander! It's the first time we meet, please take care of me in the future!" Liu Qiang saluted a standard military salute, stood up straight, and said hello to Commander Baptiste!

"Young man! It looks like he has received a good education. Come, sit here and tell me what you think of your transport team! If you need anything, just say, we will be brothers in the future, and it is me who takes care of each other What a team leader should do!" Baptiste said to Liu Qiang with a smile while stroking his beautiful mustache, but there was a sly look in his eyes, Liu Qiang knew that Ben Shaming didn't say anything good just now .

Of course Ben Shamin can't say anything good!Liu Qiang's heroic attack yesterday made him, in Ben Shaming's eyes, a rich man with fantasies about joining the army. His evaluation of Liu Qiang was based on being stupid and rich, so he waited in the office early this morning for the return of the regiment leader. Fortunately, before Liu Qiang came, he told the group leader that he had found a rich man for the supply group.

"I have something to report to you!" Liu Qiang said directly after sitting down. He understood the thoughts of these two people. If people are stupid and have more money, they will have more money. Liu Qiang doesn't care what the other party is thinking now. His main task now is, Reorganize your own transport team to improve the combat effectiveness and battlefield survivability of the transport team, because his second mission has been announced. To form a team of his own, the requirement is that the number of people should not be less than 260, and survive the first battle The number of people is not less than two hundred.

"I want to remove those over 40 years old from the convoy and re-recruit some young soldiers, so as to ensure the transport capacity of the convoy, and replace those old and broken cars, let alone go to the battlefield, Even driving down the streets of London is murder!"

"Hehe! Young sir! Do you know that your request is simply impossible? Let alone recruiting new soldiers, we can't even afford the severance pay of those veterans, let alone replacing those old trucks !” Baptiste still kept smiling, speaking in that slow speed, with a trace of mockery in his tone, he felt that the newly recruited transportation captain had a brain problem.

"Let's do this! Mr. Commander, I will pay the severance pay, and I will also purchase the trucks. Before the staff is full, you will still report the military salary according to the full staff. All the excess will be arranged by the regiment headquarters. In the end, I will only recruit There are 290 people, and the rest belong to the regiment headquarters. As for those old cars, you can deal with them. Anyway, the new cars will directly offset them when they arrive. What do you think of my method?"

What Liu Qiang said directly shocked Baptiste and Ben Shaming. They knew that Captain Downey was rich, but being rich was not such a fluff. Now they wondered if this Downey was the son of that big family, and they were fine. Come to the army to experience life! "Okay! Since Captain Downey thinks that the transportation team should be strengthened, then you will be fully responsible for this matter. Just report the list after it is done. I don't care about the rest, but you must understand the difficulties in the regiment. How many recruits is up to you, and the regiment is not responsible for paying the army if there are too many people!"

Baptiste and Ben Shamin don't care how many people you recruit if you have the money or not!I only give you the military salary of 290 people, and you, a rich man, are willing to recruit you to take care of the rest!After Liu Qiang left, these two guys began to find homes for the old trucks of the transport team. After calculation, there were as many as [-] trucks, and as long as the price was right, it would be a lot of money to sell them.

Then Liu Qiang returned to the office and asked Brandt to call the three team leaders for a meeting. When Liu Qiang announced that the soldiers over the age of 40 would be fired, the reactions of the three were all in disbelief. "Captain, are you not sick? You know how we will explain to the regimental commander if we do this! Let me tell you the truth, we are not fully staffed now, but the military salary of those places is to honor the regimental commander and deputy commander. !"

After listening to Liu Qiang's words, Kai Li said the above words directly. He didn't know what happened to the new chief, but he felt that it was necessary for him to explain the truth clearly to him. "This proposal has been agreed by the head and deputy head of the regiment. This time, the soldiers over 40 years old will be dismissed, and those old trucks will be handed over to the regiment for disposal. The severance pay for the dismissed soldiers and the money for buying new cars will be paid. I will do it, this time I plan to recruit 290 people and increase the number of trucks to [-]!"

After hearing Liu Qiang's words, the three sub-captains immediately felt dizzy. They had seen a lot of money, but they had never seen a lot of money spent like this. Let alone how much money it would cost to fire those soldiers. Just a hundred trucks would be enough. It seems that the new captain has a lot of money beyond imagination. Otherwise, who would spend such unjust money for these things!

Liu Qiang didn't care what they thought. On the third day after the incident was explained, 140 veterans over the age of 40 (including 40 years old) came to Liu Qiang's office in frustration. Many of these people planned to There will be a big fuss in a while, to see if there is any hope to stay and continue to spend the military salary. (The following figures about French francs are all expressed in modern French francs, in order to avoid the trouble of conversion, and also for the sake of brevity and ease of reading)

Everyone's severance pay of [-] francs made all those who planned to make trouble consciously shut their mouths. At this time, [-] francs is a lot of wealth. This money is enough for a family of three to buy food for ten years. and meat.Five thousand francs is far more than dozens of times the army's severance pay, which makes these veterans who are no longer adapted to life in the army unable to resist the temptation of this huge severance pay.

160 The four veterans over the age of 40 were all successfully demobilized. Liu Qiang ordered the remaining soldiers to start cleaning the barracks, repairing and purchasing some suitable furniture and daily necessities, such as washbasins, towels, soap, toothbrush and toothbrush and other daily necessities. Liu Qiang handed over [-] francs to Captain Brian, who took Carey to the Renault Automobile Company in the West End of Paris.

Renault Motor Company founder Louis Renault is also a person who is full of interest in machinery.As early as 1898, Louis Reynolds, who was only 21 years old, founded Foneaux in Biancourt, a suburb of Paris.At that time, the factory had only 6 workers and produced only 6 cars a year.But Louis Renault gave full play to his mechanical talents in the process of starting a business, inventing the direct drive system and the turbocharger. In 1900, Renault became famous after successive victories in Paris-Berlin and other car races, and the company began to develop. In 1907, taxis produced by Renault appeared on the streets of London and New York. In 1914 Renault formed a large-scale production.