Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 539 Concerning the European Conference
Duanmuwen's telegram captured the capital, and Bai Mingxiu received the news.In the afternoon, Bai Mingxiu was invited to attend the cabinet meeting.

Bai Mingxiu is an idler emperor, the kind who doesn't go to work every day, but when he goes to work occasionally, he is quite anxious.

"Is there a traffic jam on the road today?" Bai Mingxiu asked Xu Renshu, the assistant and confidential secretary of his supervisor.

Xu Renshu is very young, 27-10 years old, from Shaanxi, with thick eyebrows and big eyes. It is said that he is very popular with young girls.Xiao Xu, the confidential secretary who was driving the car, responded to the emperor's words: "Your Majesty, let's see what you said. We drive from the Taiping Palace to the Political Council, which is less than [-] minutes' drive. There may be congestion in the core business circle, and It's not commuting right now, is it?"

Bai Mingxiu snorted, and said: "The last time I went out with my wife, I was frightened by the traffic jam in the capital, and I was a little scared."

The last time Bai Mingxiu participated in a charity event with Su Wanxi, it happened to be going to Chaoyang, but it was blocked when he got on the elevated highway, Bai Mingxiu didn't go out very much, and when he saw the cars all over the street, there were all of them for a while The illusion of returning to another plane.

In just two or three years since Daming started manufacturing cars, Daming cars, which adopt assembly line operations and modern management, have become something that everyday families can afford.A relatively good middle-class family basically saves money for two or three years, which is enough to buy a car.

Although Bai Mingxiu had already made a lot of preparations in advance when the capital began to make urban planning, for example, the width of the main road was expanded to eight or even ten lanes, and a large number of diversion lines were designed, and even apartment buildings were The garage was designed. Before, people didn't know why the government made such a design, but now, everything proves that Bai Mingxiu's advance planning is completely reliable, and even not enough.

"It would be a lot of fun if there was a limited number of people traveling in the capital in the 17th century." Bai Mingxiu thought to himself.

The capital is already a huge city with a population of about 200 million, and there is basically no concept of outside the fifth ring in this capital. Everyone lives relatively close to the imperial city.Now Jingshi also has about 20 motor vehicles, which can be said to be terrible.

Secretary Xiao Xu dragged the emperor's uncle to the Lizhengyuan, and the brother soldier standing guard outside the Lizhengyuan saw the emperor's special car and saluted.Xiao Xu also said hello, and dragged the emperor inside.Probably the emperor uncle was the only one who was able to drive the car to the main gate of the Lizhengyuan building and get off, and the privileged class did not run away.

Bai Mingxiu is still dressed in standard formal attire. Although he is also his uncle's age, he still looks very temperamental.The older he gets, the less majestic he was when he was young. He probably looks like the good-looking uncle in the office who has no sense of presence.

The staff who came and went to the Lizhengyuan would bow slightly when they saw Bai Mingxiu, and this was the treatment of Bai Mingxiu as the emperor.He took Xiao Xu to the twelfth floor by elevator, a conference room in the Lizhengyuan, which was already full of cabinet ministers.

The emperor is here, and everyone still has to stand up.

Bai Mingxiu sat down and said "sit" to everyone.

Zhang Huangyan is the current Prime Minister. Although he is 67 years old, he is still very energetic.However, the Lizhengyuan under Zhang Huangyan's administration faced greater challenges than the previous Lizhengyuan in Tang Beilu.Tang Beilu has been in the cabinet for three terms, and has served for more than ten years, with outstanding achievements.As soon as Zhang Huangyan came up, his grades were also good, but in the past year, more and more domestic economic problems have gradually emerged in Daming.

This time I called Bai Mingxiu to attend the meeting, and I still want to talk about international affairs.

"Your Majesty, we have just received a letter from Jin Yiwei, saying that Prussia is likely to launch a war in North Germany in Europe. Through our research and judgment, it is very likely that the situation in Europe this time will trigger the whole body and cause comprehensive turmoil. "

Bai Mingxiu coughed and said, "That's what you said when France beat the Netherlands before."

Unexpectedly, being slandered by the emperor, Ge Kui of the Lizheng Yuan responded very freely: "It's better to prevent problems before they happen."

Bai Mingxiu asked: "Why, are you going to take precautions and participate in this European war?"

Zhang Huangyan said with a smile: "I'm afraid even if we want to do this, it will be very difficult for a while. European countries are not Wu Xia Amon now, and they have gradually built modern armies. Our military strength in Europe It is limited, and if it is temporarily transferred, it may not be capable enough."

Bai Mingxiu knew that in fact, during the 20 years of development of Ming Dynasty, some of them neglected military development.Although it cannot be said that the army made way for economic development, the army was equipped with planes and tanks, but this kind of development was out of proportion to the economic development of Ming Dynasty itself.The territory of the Ming Dynasty has increased and expanded, and the Ming Dynasty controls several continents, but the proportion of the troops of the Ming Dynasty has actually decreased.

Since the establishment of the Morocco Consolation Division, Ming Dynasty stationed a European division in Morocco and formed three divisions of the Moroccan Fan Army, with a total strength of about 5 troops. The Gibraltar Consolation Division stationed a Marine Corps brigade, about 5000 There are many people, and the strength of the troops has not increased for so many years.

This is because the status of Europe is a little bit special, and Ming Dynasty still takes care of it. Other colonies of Ming Dynasty, such as India, Mengmeng, South America and Africa, have no regular troops stationed in Ming Dynasty, and they are all formed on the spot.

Another area where regular troops are stationed is the Middle East. After all, oil is the lifeblood of Ming Dynasty, so in Egypt and Iraq, Daming stationed two divisions of regular troops and one division of vassal troops, with a total strength of more than 3 people.

North America and Australia can be regarded as the self-reserved land of Ming immigrants, especially in some of the more important areas, or deployed a small number of regular troops. After 1675, Ming established the United Territory of North American Overseas Provinces of Ming Dynasty, the United Territory of Overseas Provinces of South America and the United Territory of Overseas Provinces of Daming Australia. Three special level 1.5 administrative units (level 1 country, level 2 provincial propaganda department, level 3 government, level 4 counties, and level 5 townships) each stationed regular troops, but the scale is not large, There are more than 2 regular troops in North America, more than 1 in South America, and more than 1 in Australia.

North American Overseas Territory, South American Overseas Territory and Australian Overseas Territory do not have feudal armies, just like the mainland province of Ming Dynasty does not have feudal armies.The three overseas territories are more active in the flexible paramilitary organization of the dart regiment, and then there is the local militia organization.

In fact, a conclusion can also be drawn from another angle, that is, Daming has a very strong control over its Colonial Propaganda Division, and with few challenges encountered, it is mainly tasks such as maintaining stability and suppressing restless aliens. That's enough.

The Ming Dynasty currently has more than 86 regular troops in the army, more than 20 in the navy, 15 in the marine corps, and more than 8 in the air force.In addition, the Xuanfu Sifan army of each Xuanfu Division has a scale of more than 50 people. The largest troops are the Mengmen Fan Army (13 people), the Dongying Fan Army (12 people), and the Java Fan Army. (8 people).

With the size of a country as large as Ming Dynasty, these armies are really not that many.

(End of this chapter)