In this era, except for Li Mu, it is estimated that no one else has realized the value of the sports industry, even if the National Automobile Rally and the Professional Football League have begun to show a strong ability to attract money, many people will not regard sports as a career.
Li Mu must know the value of the sports industry, or the value of the cultural and entertainment industry, compared with the hard work in the manufacturing industry, the money of culture and entertainment is not too easy to make, look at the current scale of the Spring Field Company, you know how fast the culture and entertainment make money.
Of course, this money is not easy to earn, Situ Lei and Chu Wushuang used to be poor in San Francisco, with Li Mu's protection, this can show their strengths, if there is no support from Li Mu, even if the Springfield Company can open the situation, it will not be able to hold it, and there will be no scum left that will be swallowed by Rockefeller.
With the scale of the National Automobile Rally and the Professional Football League getting bigger and bigger, Li Mu also needs someone to keep an eye on this stall, the previous National Automobile Rally and the Professional Football League implemented a professional manager system, this system is not bad, but not intimate enough, Li Mu wants to see if Mason can develop in the direction of management, if it can, it is the best, it doesn't matter, it's just an attempt.
Jimmy's movements were still very fast, and when they first entered the territory of the Qing Kingdom, Jimmy and the others were still cautious, treating the Qing border guards as equal opponents.
Soon Jimmy and the others found that there was no need for this, and to put it bluntly, although the mercenaries could not be on the stage, but in terms of personal technical and tactical ability, even the regular army of the United States was not as skilled as the mercenaries, not to mention the border guards of the Qing State, according to Jimmy's words, it was not even as good as the colonial army formed by the French in Annam.
This should be regarded as an act of retaliation by the Pacific Company, so Jimmy and the others started from the outposts that launched the attack on the migrant teams, and began to clear them one by one from west to east, and in just twenty days, Jimmy and they breached seven outposts, most of which were used to hurry, and the real battle was not even five hours.
"The soldiers of the Qing State are very poorly trained, and the will to fight is not good, when we launched an attack, only a small number of people dared to resist, most of them were scattered in a hurry, or surrendered on the spot, their weapons and equipment were also very poor, only a small number of people were equipped with single-shot rifles, most of the people's weapons and equipment were extremely backward, we even found some spears in their warehouses, as far as I can see, I suspect that they are not regular troops, if the regular army equipment of the Qing State is also at this level, Then give me an army of 10,000 people, and I have the confidence to break through the capital of the Qing State in one go.
Jimmy was very disdainful of the Qing army, and combined with what he saw, Jimmy was very suspicious of how his father was defeated by those Qing troops.
Strictly speaking, Jimmy is a second-generation Chinese, his father participated in the Taiping Rebellion thirty years ago, and after the defeat of the Taiping Rebellion, Jimmy's father was sold as a "piglet" to South America, and Jimmy was born in South America.
Although he had never been to the Qing Kingdom, Jimmy had heard his father mention the Qing army, and although the Qing army in his father's mouth was not very strong, it was obvious that it had not fallen to the extent that Jimmy had seen.
This is born in sorrow and died in peace, another time and space Qing Empire has Japan as a comparison, the arms race made the Japanese government almost bankrupt, don't care how strong the combat effectiveness of the Qing army is, at least at the beginning of the First Sino-Japanese War, the equipment level of the Qing army is still very good, at that time Japan used a single-shot rifle, the Qing army has been equipped with repeating rifles, and even Makqin, but despite the premise of equipment superiority, the Qing army is still losing on the battlefield, so equipment has never been a problem.
At least not the main problem.
"This is just the green battalion troops of the Qing State, that is, the Chinese troops formed by the Qing government, of course, their equipment cannot be very good, because the rulers of the Qing government are afraid that these troops will be used, and the reason why they have no will to resist is because they are all guest troops, although they also have the obligation to fight for the country, but they have not yet realized this."
Li Mu knew what was the reason why the Qing army's combat effectiveness was not strong, which was a good thing, the weaker the combat effectiveness, the better.
At present, the strongest combat effectiveness of the Qing army is the Beiyang Fleet formed by Lord Zhongtang, the Hunan army, which was famous in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, has been rapidly corrupted with the fall of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the speed of corruption is much faster than Lord Zhongtang imagined, perhaps the Qing government still has some troops with relatively strong combat effectiveness, but the Qing government is definitely reluctant to send those troops to the frontier, for the rulers of the Qing Kingdom, protecting Gyeonggi is more important than guarding the frontier.
As for the obligation, well, it is more difficult for the green battalion troops of the Qing State to understand this, in countries that have not opened the wisdom of the people, the most common behavior of the people is blind obedience, which Li Mu has seen a lot in this era.
Not only the Qing Dynasty, but also the degree of education popularization in the United States is not high, so many people have all kinds of envy and jealousy for the educational resources that the Horse Affiliated School and Springfield Institute of Technology have, and it is for this reason.
The situation in the Qing Dynasty is not the same as that in the United States, the popularity of education in the United States is not high, because the United States is currently in a period of rapid expansion, and the U.S. government has no ability to popularize education even if it wants to, and this will change rapidly in the future, and with the economic development of the United States, it will not be long before the education in the United States will have a earth-shaking change.
The Qing country is willing to fall, and even the Qing government is deliberately suppressing the development of Qing education, the current Qing country has not suffered a large area of war, if the Qing government is willing, to say that the universal education is estimated to be not enough, but the expansion of the current scale of education is definitely possible, Li Mu did not spend much money, he built the Junma Affiliated School and Springfield Institute of Technology, Lafayette took out the money to repair the circle and put it into education, it does not take many years, the education level of the Qing country can also have a earth-shaking change.
It's just speculation, will Lafayette use the money from the cultivation of the circle to invest in education?
No Therefore, it is necessary to overthrow the Qing government.
It's a very simple argumentation process.
"Compared with the equipment and the will to fight, the Qing army's organizational ability is also not good, their troops lack due vigilance, we attacked seven posts in a row in twenty days, all the posts were completely defenseless, it is understandable to say that they were defenseless when attacking the first outpost, but until we attacked the seventh post, they were still unprepared, for an army, this is almost unimaginable."
Jimmy paid attention to the collection of information, Jimmy had been training mercenaries before, and knew what Li Mu was going to do next.
Although the Qing government was forced to open the border ban to the Han people, the land of Longxing is still vast and sparsely populated, and the border of Vladivostok is deserted within dozens of kilometers, and the communication between the Qing outposts has brought the greatest difficulty, and the Qing army does not have the ability to equip every outpost with a radio station, and the cable telegraph is still very rare.
Of course, this also has something to do with Jimmy's ability to fight, raiding seven outposts before and after, Jimmy and they fought all of them in a war of annihilation, except for the first outpost, the mercenaries didn't even have the interest in killing people in the next few battles.
Of course, the robbery still has to be robbed, all the property of the seven outposts has been looted, according to Li Mu's understanding of the Qing army, even the chief officer of the outpost will not report to the higher authorities at all, of course, they should not attack the immigrants in the future, this time the lesson is already very profound.
"Don't treat them as a real army, except for a few elites, the green battalions of the Qing Kingdom are farmers who live in the barracks, and they are not used to fight."
This is not a disparagement, if it weren't for the defeat of the Qing State in the First Sino-Japanese War, the Qing State would not have established a new army, and because of Li Mu, the First Sino-Japanese War would not have happened, so this is a dead cycle.
As the saying goes, "eat a trench, grow a wisdom", the trench is always before wisdom, and if the Qing government does not suffer, they will not change, and Li Mu will not give them a chance to change at all.
"Let's rest for a while, and there will be a big action in the spring."
Li Mu did not plan to expand the war in Vladivostok, as Li Mu said, it was just a warning, as long as the Qing government did not interfere with Li Mu's immigration, Li Mu could let the Qing government survive for a while.
Since it was only a warning, it was enough to do this, and this time Prime Minister Yamen reacted quickly and protested to the US Embassy in Qing as quickly as possible, demanding that the US minister explain the attack on Vladivostok.
Look, the government is like this, it's already an attack, and it's just a matter of explaining.
The U.S. minister's response was also very simple, and it was okay to explain, but it would have to wait for the U.S. government to investigate.
This is prevarication, Vladivostok is 10,000 miles away from Washington, and the US minister must first report to Washington, and then Washington will send someone to investigate, and after the results are obtained, he will inform the US minister that this circle is estimated to be able to circle the earth several times, and it would be good to have a result next spring.
Li Mu was not in the mood to watch the U.S. government and the Qing government arguing, nor did he stay in Vladivostok to wait for the long-distance race, and after Christmas, Li Mu went to the Ryukyus to prepare to return to the United States.
"Don't you wait until you break through the capital of the Qing State before leaving" Yan Shun thought that Li Mu would wait until everything was settled before returning to the United States.
"There's no point, I'm going to avoid suspicion now, Chester sent me a telegram, asking me to explain the attack on the Qing country, some words are not clear in the telegram, just go back to the United States to talk face-to-face, this time you also know the combat effectiveness of the Qing army, there should be no problem, just maintain the relationship with the local governor."
Li Mu has nothing to worry about, the most combat-effective troops of the Qing State have been transferred to Jiangnan, if the mercenaries can't even defeat those green battalion troops and the Eight Banners, let alone overthrow the Qing government, and return to the United States as soon as possible to be Henry's successor.
In another time and space, the First Sino-Japanese War was ten years later, the Qing country was forced out of the sense of distress by the Japanese up and down, and the performance of the Qing army was still a mess, now the Qing country has no Japanese threat, and the Ryukyus did not show hostility to the Qing country, the environment of the Qing country is more comfortable than another time and space, and the ongoing Sino-French war has also given the Qing country more confidence, Li Mu has no problem with Yan Shun's strategy, and the victory is not to say that it is almost the same as exploring the bag, at this time Li Mu is not the same in the Far East
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