My Apprenticeship to Uncle Jiu: I Was a Warlord in the Republic of China

He thought that this period of time had indeed been delayed long enough, so he simply used this as an excuse to take some people and go back.

As for investigating the entire Guangxi, it was handed over to the newly formed Supernatural Bureau.

The first thing Jiang Li did when he returned to Guangdong was not to go and see any planes, but to invite all the family members of the 500 or so people who had followed him to Guangxi.

After I explained the situation to them in person, promised to take care of their family, and gave them a large sum of money, I felt a little relieved.

But then he thought of the treatment of other soldiers, which should be the same, so that they would dare and be willing to fight to the death.

So he waved his hand and ordered the Infrastructure Bureau to build several orphanages, nursing homes, and martyrs' cemeteries, and also formulated a complete set of regulations for death compensation.

This includes supporting the wives, children, and parents of martyrs. It is precisely because of this pension regulation that Jiang Li’s soldiers became more brave and fearless in subsequent wars.

It was several days later when he finished all these things. Finally, he had time to come to Nanxi County Airport to check these training planes.

After he followed the administrator into the airport hall, he saw eight training planes in training and six model planes parked nearby.

Among them were two fighters, two bombers and two reconnaissance planes.

According to a supervisor from the logistics department, this trainer aircraft is the Boyne NB-1, which was produced and finalized by Boyne Company in 1924. Although it is not the latest and most advanced level, it is sufficient for teaching.

Although the other six aircraft are all models, they are also equipped with weapons in order to introduce them to customers.

The fighter was equipped with two Browning M1919 air-cooled heavy machine guns, which were air-cooled heavy machine guns produced in the United States.

Therefore, the bullets used are similar to those used by the British. They can also use 303 British ammunition, which saves Jiang Li the effort of buying several bullet production lines.

Although the reconnaissance plane is not used for combat, it is also equipped with a heavy machine gun. As for the bomber, it is not so crazy and is not equipped with large bombs.

As for why these planes are at the airport in Nanxi County, it is because it is close to the Minjiang River and has well-developed water transportation.

Large machines such as airplanes and tanks can be unloaded directly from the ship, avoiding long-distance transportation.

So Jiang Li spent a lot of money to renovate Nanxi County, not only expanding the wharf three times.

The roads throughout the county were widened and thickened, an airport and an apron were built, and then warehouses were overhauled and military barracks were expanded.

It is precisely because of the support of these things that the entire Nanxi County has expanded significantly, and even the population has increased by tens of thousands, becoming the largest county in the vicinity.

After seeing the trainer plane, he met with several flight instructors Han Yong invited from Guangzhou and several people in charge of training logistics, and let them continue their training.

After completing these, he suddenly remembered that most of his Taoist soldiers seemed to have died, and he had to train a new group of Taoist soldiers as his guards as soon as possible.

So in the following days, he selected reliable personnel to train as Taoist soldiers, and this time he no longer planned to let them only train their physical bodies.

Instead, he planned to take out all the cultivation techniques he had collected over the years, compile a set of cultivation paths suitable for large-scale promotion, and train some high-level combat forces to serve as guards.

After finishing this task, he began to formulate the rules and regulations for the Supernatural Bureau, and used the ghost cultivation techniques he got from the Black Mountain Ghost King to try out his plan of becoming a god.

That's right, it was the Conferred God Ceremony. He planned to clear out all the evil gods and false gods everywhere, and then let the Five Immortals move in. He then used the ghost cultivation method to cultivate a group of mountain gods and land gods as subordinate agencies of the Supernatural Bureau.

Helping him monitor the world to prevent anyone from doing evil, but he has no idea.

But at this moment, Zhao Hong, the newly appointed head of the intelligence team by Jiang Li, suddenly came to report, "Commander, there are a few people outside, claiming to be from the British Foreign Office, and they want you to go and greet them in person!"

When Jiang Li heard this, he frowned and thought for a while, then agreed to this request.

There is no way. Now the enemy is strong and I am weak. It would be best to avoid a head-on conflict. If it is unavoidable, it is not too late to fight again. I can just put on a smile.

When I brought my men to the dock, I saw two ironclad ships forty to fifty meters long. Judging from the cannons on them, they were undoubtedly warships.

Seeing this situation, he didn't plan to go over to greet them. If he just smiled, it wouldn't matter, but they had cannons on the ship. If those guys were really crazy and fired a cannon at him, that would be bad.

After turning back to the county government office, he told Zhao Hong, "Have someone invite those diplomats over. Be respectful and don't annoy them!"

But Zhao Hong did look bitter. "Commander, you don't know, these foreigners are too arrogant. If you don't go, they won't get off the ship!"

Jiang Li frowned upon hearing this. "It's none of my business whether they get off the boat or not. It's not me who asked them to do so. I don't want them to say anything for me!"

Zhao Hong reacted immediately after hearing this and was about to turn around and leave.

Jiang Li, however, said behind him, neither lightly nor seriously, "Don't teach me how to do things in the future!"

Zhao Hong bowed deeply upon hearing this, and Jiang Li then said leisurely, "Go and do your work. I don't want this to happen again!"

Watching Zhao Hong leave, he sat down at the table and carefully dealt with the government affairs that had accumulated during this period.

Nearly half an hour later, Zhao Hong finally arrived at the Nanxi County Government Affairs Hall with a few British people with unfriendly faces.

The leader saw Jiang Li sitting at the desk processing documents and had no intention of getting up to greet them, so he said a lot of gibberish in an unfriendly tone.

After he finished speaking, the translator beside him also translated in a bad tone, "County Magistrate Jiang, we are diplomats from the British Empire. Why don't you come to greet us? Isn't this too uncultured?"

Jiang Li was very unhappy when he heard this. He knew that this guy called him the county magistrate, saying that his identity was not legitimate. He now had a large territory, but did not have a legal identity.

It was obvious that this was a way to intimidate himself, but who was Jiang Li? How could he lose his mind because of such a trick?

So he simply kept silent, continued to deal with the government affairs at hand, and left them aside.

The leader became furious upon seeing this and was about to step forward to question Jiang Li, but was stopped by Zhao Hong and his men.

The British man immediately became furious upon seeing this, and kept talking and venting his dissatisfaction, but Jiang Li remained unmoved and continued to handle government affairs with his head down.

After an unknown amount of time, the diplomat either got tired of scolding or realized that he couldn't attract Jiang Li's attention, so he simply stopped scolding and found a chair to sit down.