No matter what happens, Zhang Meng has always been a person who can do it as he says.

The urban planning model of Wawawu Island has just been completed, and Zhang Meng started his urban construction action.

In his words, if you want to govern a country, you have to start with a poor and deserted city.

Fortunately, Wawawu Island is located in the Central Pacific region. It was a barren land in the 1920s. Few ships from any country would pass there, so Zhang Meng's actions did not attract any attention from the international community.

Of course, Zhang Meng was still cautious and did not neglect and be vigilant.

In order not to attract attention, all transactions were made separately in the name of merchants from other countries, Zhang Meng sent people to purchase required urban construction materials and engineering machinery and equipment from different countries and merchants in batches.

Urban construction materials and equipment can be purchased directly from abroad, and it will take several months to arrive at Wawawu Island. During this period, Zhang Meng sent people back to Shanghai to recruit various professional and technical workers required for urban construction.

Zhang Meng was not worried about the manpower issue, because he knew that the land of China was at the time of warlords' miserable life. As long as food was given, hundreds of thousands of hard-working and simple young and strong workers could be recruited. With a little money, he could poach people from the territory of the major warlords and recruit all kinds of engineering and technical personnel in need.

Zhang Meng had already handed over this work to Uncle Fu, and Zhang Cheng was transferred from Tonga, and ordered him to return to China to assist Uncle Fu to recruit young and strong workers and elite talents from all walks of life for Zhang Meng.

Although Zhang Cheng did not pass the test of loyalty set by Zhang Meng in the end, Zhang Meng could still trust him for the time being. Besides, Zhang Meng was relieved to see Uncle Fu looked at him.

After Uncle Fu and Zhang Cheng returned to Shanghai, they immediately began to recruit workers.

As an important city for China's opening up to the outside world, most companies from all over the world have offices to recruit Chinese workers. Because compared with the salary of Western workers, Chinese workers are less than one-twentieth of theirs and are hardworking. During World War I, more than 100,000 Chinese workers in Europe won their praise.

In order to reduce the attention of the outside world as much as possible, Fu Bo chose the recruitment office of more than a dozen foreign companies to recruit workers, and promised them an additional three oceans of handling fees for each laborer. For these foreign companies, one sheep is also driven and a group of sheep is also put down, so he happily agreed. As their extra income, they obviously would not tell their company boss, so there was a legal recruitment site, and it was impossible for outside to find out that Zhang Meng was recruiting people, killing multiple goals at one stroke.

The old man of the Zhang family naturally often asked what Zhang Meng and Zhang Wei were doing. According to Zhang Meng's explanation, Uncle Fu did not dare to tell the old man the truth. He only lied that Zhang Meng needed manpower to open a company and run a factory abroad.

Uncle Fu is old and not suitable for long-distance travel, so he sits in Shanghai to recruit workers on site and arranges special ships to send workers to Wawawu Island in batches.

Zhang Cheng was traveling around the country, taking the name of Zhang Xinhai, and poaching people and widowed the territories of major warlords.

Because he was willing to spend money, a large number of elites from all walks of life on the territory of the major warlords were poached. According to Zhang Meng's instructions, the Wawawu Island Fortress, air force base, naval base, outer island submarine base, and the Inner Yafu Public Security Police Force, the future Marine Corps, etc., would require at least 30,000 troops to be responsible for garrisoning and logistics maintenance work, so Zhang Cheng needed to poach people from the warlords in various places.

Since Zhang Meng knew the temperament of the major warlords, their old ideas were difficult to change, so Zhang Meng, their soldiers, asked Zhang Cheng to choose well, both capable and easy to control. This time, there were no officers, only 30,000 young soldiers who had fought on the battlefield, because Zhang Meng planned to let the trained Zhang family security group serve as middle and grassroots officers, and let the Blue Fox Special Service team serve as senior officers, so that the 30,000 people can be trained into Zhang Meng's private troops in a short time.

At this time, the major warlords were fighting openly and secretly, with more than 4 million troops and security groups across the country. The government began to mass decommission the national army. Basically, the major warlords reduced their troops and eliminated them by millions. The major warlords were dissatisfied with the central government of the State Government. They conspired to rebel, and their generals recruited sponsors to buy weapons everywhere.

With the greed of the warlord generals, Zhang Cheng knew that they were short of money and weapons at the moment, so he spent money to provide them with weapons and "borrow some soldiers" from them.

Just as Liu Bei asked Cao Cao to borrow troops, there were naturally borrowing but not returning them. The generals of the major warlords also knew in their hearts that they did not intend to repay the money, so it was impossible for Zhang Meng to return it.

Fortunately, Zhang Cheng was smart enough to deal with officers at the level of the warlords' brigade. Each family only borrowed a few hundred people, and the excuse was that the Zhang family wanted to build a security guard group to protect the house, so it would not attract the attention of the officers.

Of course, the most important reason is that Zhang Meng is worried that the future of the troops will easily form local factions, affecting their management, and even causing hidden dangers. Therefore, each place will pick hundreds of soldiers, mixing them together, and there will be anywhere in the world, which will prevent such hidden dangers from occurring.

"I haven't lived in a building, have you? As long as you follow our Commander Zhang, your whole family will live in a foreign building!"

"When will you get married with your wife with that little military salary? Follow us Commander Zhang, you will get married with ten yuan a month, and you can get married in two years!"

"Sir, my family is all farmers. What are you doing there?"

"Don't worry, as long as you are willing to work and make money, arrange your work immediately and receive good treatment!"

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In the era of warlords fighting in which people are living in miserable lives, where can we find such work and treatment?

Zhang Cheng hired a group of professional propaganda teams. With their strong publicity, the number of applicants has surged, and more than 100,000 active-duty soldiers have registered in just one month.

According to Zhang Meng's request, Zhang Cheng quickly screened out the recruitment indicators for 30,000 elite soldiers.

After receiving the telegram, Zhang Meng called back and praised Zhang Cheng.

According to Zhang Cheng's report, in fact, more than 30,000 soldiers were eager to go to Wawawu Island, and they also met the minimum standards set by Zhang Meng.

Youdao's plan cannot keep up with the changes. Zhang Meng considered that the 30,000 elite soldiers who had been recruited had to undergo rigorous training and a large number of people might be eliminated during this period, so he had to leave enough reserve personnel. In addition, large-scale urban construction on Wawawu Island is about to begin. Even if these people do not meet Zhang Meng's standards, it would be quite good for them to stay on Wawawu Island as a worker. So he ordered Zhang Cheng to take the remaining 30,000 soldiers who meet the standards to Wawawu Island.

In order not to disturb the Republic of China government, 60,000 elite soldiers and more than 50,000 technical workers of various types went to Wawawu Island in batches within two months. For this reason, Zhang Meng hired more than 100 ships and transport ships from abroad.

In the past two months, Zhang Meng led the Zhang family security team and the indigenous people of Wawawu Island to temporarily build staff dormitories near the scheduled construction site. Fortunately, the climate on Wawawu Island is warm and there is no need to worry about cold problems. However, Zhang Meng still prepared two thousand boxes of medical products to prevent the occurrence of transmitted diseases.

When these people arrived at Wawawu Island one after another, they were a little disappointed because the island was apart from the tropical jungle and a cave. They even thought that they should not be fooled, but when Zhang Meng paid them the first month's salary in advance, their hearts became stable.

"Those who are willing to become Tongan nationality and live permanently on Wawau Island will receive their own building!"

Of course, the building had to be built by itself. Zhang Meng only provided them with equipment and materials. Whether they were working or serving in the army, they were not rich people. The house was too tempting to them, and they had no reason to reject this huge temptation.

Fifty thousand workers were assigned to various construction sites according to their professional skills. They received wages and were tempted by houses, so they worked very hard to do their work, which enabled the construction of urban and military facilities on Wawawu Island to be carried out in an orderly manner with quality and quantity.

As for the 60,000 soldiers, Zhang Meng immediately gave them a warning, pulled out the Zhang family security regiment, and conducted a military exercise in live ammunition.

These soldiers are from domestic warlords. It would be nice to have Hanyang Made and three bullets in their hands. Those who can afford the Mauser rifle are all elite troops. What they saw in front of them were all Thomson submachine guns, and their powerful individual firepower made them envious.

The infantry artillery and mortars they had seen had rarely seen M2 heavy machine guns. The powerful firing rate and destructive power were knocked into ruins in the blink of an eye, which surprised them even more.

In order to shock them, Zhang Meng deliberately spent a lot of money to buy twenty SRA medium-sized tanks from the French Snyder Renault Company. The tank was successfully developed in 1925 with 4 members, a maximum thickness of armor, a maximum engine power of 180 horsepower, a speed of 20 kilometers per hour, and a maximum range of 257 kilometers. A 75mm L18 howitzer was installed in the front of the vehicle body, and two 7.5mm machine guns were installed in the single-person turret, with a total combat weight of 18 tons.

For these 60,000 soldiers from domestic warlords, they had never seen any tanks. Seeing that the big iron boxes launched fierce attacks with a scattered sea of ​​force, they broke through the bunkers, trenches and high walls that they thought could not be broken through, and even waded through a small river with a water depth of less than one meter.

"This is called a tank! Invincible!"

"Next, you will participate in a six-month intensive military training. Those who meet the standards will become members of the Zhang family army. Think about it, in the Zhang family army, if you have these tanks to protect your life, your safety will be guaranteed."

This sentence really touched the hearts of 60,000 soldiers. They fought with the previous warlords, and everyone knew that most of the time they were cannon fodders. If they could join the Zhang family army and have these tanks protected, their lives would be saved.
Chapter completed!