Great Warlord: The Second Ancestor of the Empire

"Your Majesty, my subordinate is willing!" Ding Yi said without hesitation.

His answer surprised Lin Yi.

Generally speaking, people like Ding Yi, who have already reached the position of commander of the first division, are not willing to change their positions.

Especially going to a military branch that doesn't even have a shadow. He needs to take care of this.

If you do well, that's what you should do; if you don't do well, you still need to take responsibility.

But Ding Yi agreed without even thinking about it. This somewhat surprised Lin Yi and made him think highly of Ding Yi.

"Ding Yi, let me make it clear first that the Air Force is still in the confidentiality stage. You and those who are about to join the Air Force will remain anonymous and will not appear in the public eye for a long time."

"At the same time, for the sake of confidentiality, your base will be arranged in remote areas of the northwest, where living conditions are difficult."

"You have to consider these things."

"Don't worry, Your Majesty. Since my subordinate has said that he is willing to go, even if there are mountains of swords and seas of fire ahead, I will not frown."

"Isn't it just that life is hard? No matter how hard it is, can we survive the days when the empire was oppressed by foreign powers?"

"Although my subordinates are short-sighted, they can still see that this air force will become the empire's trump card in the future."

"If you can contribute your own strength to the prosperity of the empire, I will never regret it!" Ding Yi said firmly.

When Lin Yi heard Ding Yi's words, he reached out and patted him on the shoulder.

"Well said! The empire needs people like you."

"Let's do this. You can select the first batch of pilots from within the entire Longxiang Army. The first batch of pilots will be five hundred."

"But I allow you to recruit three thousand people from the Eighth Division. In addition to pilots, these people also have ground crew training."

"At the same time, I will transfer the Eighth Division to the northwest near Dunhuang to be responsible for your security. Your base will also be nearby, and the Aircraft Research Institute will also be there."

"From now on, this air force will be handed over to you. I hope that in one year, you will be able to train a group of qualified pilots for the empire!"

Lin Yi looked at Ding Yi and said.

It was decided long ago to relocate the Aircraft Research Institute to the northwest.

I heard from Fang Xiao that due to the non-stop test flights during this period, this place has attracted the attention of others, and many spies lurking within the empire want to sneak in here.

But they were all solved secretly by Fang Xiao.

Therefore, Lin Yicai wanted to move the research institute and the air force training base to Dunhuang in the northwest.

Today's Dunhuang is not a tourist attraction. There is only endless Gobi desert. A lot of no-man's land is scattered among them.

If people are not fully prepared, they will not be able to get out after entering.

And the weather conditions there are good, and there may be sandstorms further west.

That sand can seriously affect an aircraft's engine, causing mechanical failure.

Although Dunhuang also has Gobi Desert, there are few sandstorms. The climate is dry and the visibility is very good, which is very suitable for the Air Force to train here.

Ding Yi was not surprised when he heard that Lin Yi wanted to arrange for them to stay in Dunhuang.

When he was preparing to join the Air Force, he briefly thought about where his future base would be.

Compared with the crowded Jiangnan region, he also felt that the northwest region was more suitable for them.

Therefore, when he heard that Lin Yi was planning to arrange for him to go to Dunhuang, he was prepared.

But what he didn't expect was that Lin Yi directly sent the [-]th Division to protect the Air Force.

This allowed Ding Yi to once again see how much Lin Yi valued this air force.

You know, the Eighth Division of the Long Xiang Army is the main division, the elite among the elite.

Letting such a division and 1.6 people collectively go to Dunhuang to serve as bodyguards for them made Ding Yi feel a bit luxurious.

But Ding Yi did not refuse. He was now thinking about how to train this newly born air force.

After Lin Yi talked with Ding Yi, he asked him to stay in the capital for a few more days, which was regarded as Lin Yi giving Ding Yi a holiday.

When he arrived in Dunhuang in the northwest, he would no longer see such prosperity at all.

Ding Yi did not refuse because he also wanted to stay here for a few more days and see how the pilots here train and maintain the aircraft.

It would be best to find a way to recruit a few talents from the research institute and bring them to the Air Force. Let them serve as instructors. Presumably, the Air Force will become an army faster.

As for Lin Yi, he needed to find Zhao Xu to finalize the establishment and location of the air force.

When Lin Yi came to Zhao Xu's study, he saw Zhao Xu chatting with Pan Chengzhang from the military department.

"Yi'er is here, come here quickly." When Zhao Xu saw Lin Yi, he quickly waved him over.

"Uncle, what are you talking about with Mr. Pan?" Lin Yi walked over with the same smile.

Over the years, he has become accustomed to Lin Yi calling him Uncle Zhao Xu unless it is a formal occasion.

"I'm not talking about you yet." Zhao Xu said with a smile.

"Me? What's wrong with me?" Lin Yi was a little confused. He didn't know why Pan Chengzhang was talking to Zhao Xu about him.

"Your Majesty, what can you ask me to say? I think our military department treats your Majesty well." At this time, Pan Chengzhang suddenly spoke.

When Lin Yi heard this, he nodded subconsciously, but he couldn't help but roll his eyes in his heart.

Over the years, the Imperial Military Department has indeed taken good care of his Long Xiang Army.

It basically depends on which unit Lin Yi likes. If you tell Pan Chengzhang and the others, that division will be directly assigned to the Longxiang Army the next day.

Although the military seems to take good care of Lin Yi, the military can also obtain weapons and equipment from Lin Yi.

One thing must be mentioned here.

Under Lin Yi's intervention, the Daxia Empire now actually has two military systems.

One is the original Imperial Military Department, which governs the Imperial Army and the Imperial Navy.

The other one is Longxiang Army and Yinglong Fleet.

These people are under the command of the military department and only follow Lin Yi's orders.

This is a bit like the difference between Mustache's DW Army and the National Defense Force. Although both belong to the battle order of the Daxia Empire, they are not subordinate to each other.

Moreover, under Lin Yi's promotion, the empire's military industry made great discoveries, and adopted competitive bidding to obtain orders from the military.

When we saw it, the Military Department, as Party A, put forward its own requirements, and then asked various weapons design bureaus to produce sample guns and submit them to the Military Department for acceptance.

Whoever's products are good will get orders from the military. It is no longer like before, what these research institutes can produce, the imperial army can only purchase.

The advantage of this is that it can greatly stimulate the development of the empire's military industry.

After all, the technology you produce is old and hard to use. Why would the military place an order for you?

This is entirely about forcing the people in these weapons research institutes to innovate and improve their products.

Lin Yi's Long Xiangjun also adopted this method, but Lin Yi was more unique. He directly established several weapons research institutes in the name of Long Xiangjun, and then often went to give them some guidance.

This makes the weapons produced by the weapons research institute under the Longxiang Army better than the weapons developed by other research institutes.

If the military wanted to purchase these weapons, it had to get Lin Yi's approval.