Lord of Ming Dynasty

The castles in our various places will be completed next month, and the defense measures in various places will be completed as early as last month. We have built enough trenches and fortresses to meet the garrison needs of 5 troops.

Powder Kegs We produced some homemade powder kegs ourselves, [-] barrels in all, which, together with our seized and surplus about [-] barrels, would suffice for two more naval battles with the French and the English.

We felled 150 logs, enough to build 120 sailing merchant ships of [-] tons, [-] sailing merchant ships of [-] tons, [-] merchant ships of [-] tons, [-] ships of [-] tons, and [-] tons. Fifty ships, [-] ships for [-] tons, and about [-] ships for [-] tons. By the beginning of spring, we can still have two hundred.

However, such logs are rare. Basically, 80.00 logs is the upper limit of our neighboring peninsula. It may take hundreds of years for a log to grow. We basically harvested 20.00% of the entire island, and the remaining [-]% of logs , I think it should be kept, the emperor once told us about the topic of ecological development, I think for the future of our new Qin Empire, we should try not to mine such logs.

In other words, if we want to build ships in the future, we may need to import them, or go to the Avalan Peninsula and the main island for logging. Of course, that is impossible, because there are many primitive tribes and Inuit People, Newfoundlanders, and mighty Brits.

We can now produce the 1705-style Huaxia rifles. Currently, we are producing five barrels per month and assembling eight Huaxia 1705-style rifles in one and a half months.

Our artillery can now produce the 75mm field artillery in the Chinese Empire, but the output is a bit low, two per month. To produce a 128mm cannon that we copied before, we need one in half a year. Now we need One barrel for three months and one cannon for five months. At present, we have produced two more. According to Li Ya's suggestion, these two cannons are equipped with cannon carts and ammunition carts to be used as mobile army artillery.

In addition, the 34-pound siege gun mentioned by the leader of Morin, this old-style solid bullet artillery, we can produce three guns every month, and we must refit all warships over [-] tons, including [-] tons. We need five months. In addition, it takes two and a half months to assemble and produce solid ammunition and refit on the ship.

That is to say, by this summer, we will be able to refit ten warships of more than [-] tons, while leaving five artillery pieces as spares, and then we will continue production, trying to produce one or two spare artillery pieces for each ship, and then stop production .

Because this kind of artillery may not be very useful, and its time limit is limited, it will greatly damage our fleet's future combat methods. Our former Chinese Empire generally did not advocate rushing to the enemy's fire range to duel with the enemy.

So my opinion is that our artillery can only be used when the fleet cannot beat the enemy and needs to pay a certain price to defeat the enemy. Therefore, prepare 25 to [-] such guns The artillery should be sufficient, and at the same time, we must be mentally prepared for the huge loss of five to eight of our main battleships in the next naval battle. "

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"Crack," Mo Lin couldn't help it anymore, "Old Tang, what do you mean, you say I don't understand naval warfare?" Mo Lin slapped the table angrily and shouted at Tang Yaweng.

Tang Yaweng looked at him with a smile, and was about to speak when Li Ya coughed and said to Mo Lin in a serious tone: "Commander Mo, why are you talking to Mr. Tang? He just pointed out your mistakes in work. , do you just repay your caring compatriots like this?"

Li Ya still has absolute authority here, so Mo Lin could only calm down and sit down again. However, everyone knows that with Mo Lin's young personality, or his somewhat fiery personality, this enmity is written down. up.

This enmity starts with Tang Yaweng being able to intervene in various productions, captive supervision, and at the same time mobilizing the supervisory brigade and the cavalry squadron. Tang Yaweng is generally responsible for the logistics of the empire, mainly military and political logistics, but he can also intervene in civil affairs logistics in many cases, such as the transfer of grain seeds. , the distribution of food, the distribution of meat produced in various places, and the distribution of firewood, all of which are closely related to civil affairs, and the New Qin Empire is generally a small country with a military-controlled mercenary regiment model, which reflects the will of the army and never reflects the will of the army. The will of the civil affairs, so many things are the same in Tang Yaweng.

The two quarreled many times because of overlapping functions. Mo Lin was in charge of the fleet and the shipyard, and built the ship according to his wishes, but he had to ask Tang Yaweng for instructions on material distribution, manpower deployment at the shipyard, and the overall strategic direction. Now Tang Yaweng Faintly became the third or fourth leader of the New Qin Empire after the death of Sara, because there was one in front who didn't seem to have made outstanding achievements, but actually blocked the attack of the British land forces, and was the army commander in the early stage. Sweeper.

"Old Tang, continue talking."

Li Ya looked at the somewhat calm Tang Yaweng. He knew that Tang Yaweng, who was over 50 years old, had seen many such things. Now the New Qin Empire is not a formal country, but a small country with a country name, or a mercenary To strengthen the body, the personnel and functions are still very chaotic. Everyone relies on their personal abilities to maintain this group. Sometimes friction and dissatisfaction are normal things, just like Li Ya's majesty and identity now, what should it be? Tang Yaweng For Old Tang.

Tang Yaweng lowered his head and continued to read the manuscript, while polishing and supplementing it with what he knew. A pure manuscript cannot make everyone understand, because it is dry and has no nutrition. You can fall asleep, which is why official articles are boring. If you can't read some meaning from these boring articles, you are not worthy of being an official.

"The bacon we stored this winter is enough to eat next winter. We have a way to save the bacon until next winter. We have built ten large underground cold storages on the cliffs by the sea, all of which are natural caves formed by the impact of sea water. The temperature inside Under the immersion of seawater, the infiltration of humid temperature, the cold sea breeze, and our climate where the summer is not too hot and the winter is not too cold, we can maintain a similar temperature. With additional ventilation and drying measures, bacon or other stored food can be preserved for at least one and a half years, and it lasts for two years."

"There are [-] tons of bacon now, that is to say, it fills the capacity of a large refrigerated cave, but we separate them and store them in two caves. The extra space is used to store other food, such as grain, forage, salt Fish, and some fruit, and some wine left over from the French, and rum and brandy from the English."

"Speaking of food, we talk about horses. We have close to [-] horses. This is because whether it is the Iliad, the Indians, or the Inuit or the Newfoundlanders, they all like to use horses as food. They are a necessary tool for traveling, and at the same time serve as war horses for fighting against the enemy. In fact, these horses are not tall, only about a slap taller than our domestic Mongolian pony, but they are very suitable for the cold climate here.

Among them were [-] pack horses, [-] war horses, and some mares and foals.We have opened up some pastures for these horses, and there are about [-] war horses in them, and [-] leather war horses are owned by Indians and Iliad tribes, and they also have a lot of pack horses, about [-] We have [-] pack horses in our ranch, and the remaining [-] pack horses are kept in various strongholds and front lines. "

"After talking about horses, we have to talk about carriages. Everyone knows that the carriages of our Chinese Empire are the best, most luxurious and trustworthy in the world. We now have a total of 180 carriages, of which The number of carriages is 110, because we need to transfer a lot of materials. Among these carriages, [-] are small carriages that we originally made. The carriages we built in a hurry can only be said to be usable, but the cargo capacity is not enough. They are large, and they are all people’s carriages, as well as farm carriages, only [-] belong to our army, and [-] of them belong to the navy.”

He glanced at Mo Lin, who was still annoyed, "I think we need to deploy [-] vehicles for the inland strongholds and the army. The army needs to transport supplies, guns and other supplies, and also needs to load soldiers for at least [-] kilometers. At present, the Army only has thirty carriages, and the rest belong to factories in various places and our town of Xinxianju.”

Mo Lin didn't counter Tang Yaweng's words, and continued to bow his head and get angry.

The others didn't say anything. The current situation is that silence is golden. No one wants to continue to provoke the struggle between the two pillars of the country. There is no need for Tang Yaweng's Sweeping Thunder to suppress his little brother Mo Lin, the newly-emerged new leader, while he is benefiting from it.

"After talking about the carriage, let's talk about our quarry. I think the stone in the quarry is enough, and we don't need to mine any more. We have already stockpiled almost all kinds of stone, and it has reached the size that can rebuild a city of Istanbul. The extent of the city, well, everyone doesn’t understand, so let’s talk about Jinling City, we can build five more Jinling City by mining stones.

Of course, this has a lot to do with our large number of slaves. After completing the construction of all the fortifications and the expansion of the city, many of our slaves except 3000 skilled workers were transferred to various mines, and the remaining 5000 slaves Slaves, about [-] slaves are on the front line, and [-] slaves are building four small island forts, ports, and docks.

There are 1 slaves who are reclaiming new wasteland and spending the winter in various strongholds. There are more than [-] slaves working in the quarry. We almost dug five mountains, four lakes, and mined ten hundred thousand Tons of reserve cold storage under the cliff, these mined stones are transported to the open warehouse for storage. "

Wait, Wu Kejing reached out to stop Tang Yaweng from continuing to report, and asked: "We have a total of more than 2 slaves. Even if we throw away 2000 captives of skilled workers, we still have more than [-] slaves. Where have they all gone?"

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Tang Yaweng smiled, "After a long winter and hard work, those people basically died, and there are still 1000 people who didn't die. They barely survived. Maybe when this winter is over, the slaves in our hands There may only be 1 left.

In the later stage, we may have more than 2000 captives and less than 8000 slaves. There is no way, they have to be responsible for resisting us.

Especially the Inuit, their rebellion in the neighboring town almost made us lose the neighboring town and the French town of St. So far, the Inuit are almost dead and wounded. "

After Li Ya tapped his finger on the table and attracted everyone's attention, he said in a deep voice: "We have to control the death of slaves and captives, or if we only leave more than 3000 Han Chinese and more than 1000 foreign mercenaries, even if we establish This country is also very dangerous, because we don't have a large population to build, and we still produce a large number of commodities.

The Inuit are very disgusted and hostile to us. We can focus on these people, but we should treat the Newfoundlanders slightly better. Maybe there are only [-] to [-] British immigrants on this island, but there are definitely more than [-] Newfoundlanders. Finns, no matter how we consume them, they are not a population that we can completely exterminate now or in the future. We need to give them a little space and a little miss. as disgusted and hostile to us, although they now treat us as enemies almost as much as the Inuit. "

"Does that mean we have to change some of our policies towards the aborigines?" Wu Kejing asked cautiously.

"Yes, we can't consume these slaves excessively, but we can consume some captives. Slaves are our property, and captives, we may release them in the future, or turn them into our civilians, based on our main body of Han people. From the perspective of national policy, even if we treat these captives very carefully, we cannot curb their increase, because we are in the west, sometimes we have to release some captives and let these people become our people, this is not the east Our Chinese Empire.

No matter how many Han Chinese there are, there cannot be unlimited numbers, so it is our basic national policy to maintain a certain amount of Westerners among the people. "

Li Ya raised this question very seriously.

Everyone thought silently for a while, knowing that this problem was unavoidable.

Because there are also foreign officers sitting here, that is, some mercenary regiment officers from Russia, Turkey, Africa, and Eastern Europe who followed here. Although these are all later, they are also the main force of this country.

"Okay, let's keep the slaves at about 1 and the captives at about 3000 for the time being. There can be no less. No matter how few, do we Han Chinese go to produce materials? To dig river mud and fill them with unpleasant smells Swamp, logging and quarrying, mining coal?" Li Yadao.

"How about the people we sent?" Li Ya asked Wu Kejing.

"We have sent three ships in total, two are for us to continue to recruit citizens and soldiers, I am responsible for this, and the other is a liaison ship sent by Chief Zhao Shuai, they will provide us with telegram relay services , Our Chinese Empire has developed a telegraph that can communicate without burying poles, without wires, and without wires on land.

At present, a ship may not be able to cross the strait to build a relay service station for us to communicate with China, but after the liaison office returns to Turkey, it will contact people sent from China in Turkey. Outer Mongolia, to the Altai Mountains, to wireless telegraph stations in various cities in Central Asia, and then set up several wireless telegraph stations in Turkey.

Afterwards, the equipment will go out to sea through sea ships, floating on the sea to continue relaying telegrams for us, but Mr. Zhao means that we need to occupy a few small islands in the Atlantic Ocean, and then station troops, where to set up some telegraph stations. A relay station adrift at sea is much safer.

My suggestion is that we send the fleet to find and occupy some small islands now, and find some suitable places for the future establishment of wireless telegraph stations. "

"This seems to be difficult. We are facing the United Kingdom, and diagonally below are Prussia, France, and Spain. If this is the case, our voyage to Africa will increase by several thousand kilometers. How many relay stations will be useful if we build thousands of kilometers of sea? One thousand kilometers, we also need to build at least five, and go through Africa, Africa is now a tribe, in such a land, we need to build a land telegraph relay station, at least three, and then reach Turkey, at least two in Turkey , but through the Caspian Sea, we also need at least three, and the Turkish-Russian border is not safe.

The two sides are still fighting, so we have to build on the Mediterranean Sea, then set up a relay station on the Caspian Sea, and return to the Central Asian Governor's District, so we don't have to worry about it. "

Li Ya is very worried, this is almost an impossible problem.

At this time Zhao Shuai walked in, "You don't have to worry about this. We started relaying in Central Asia. We have ships in the Caspian Sea, ships in the Mediterranean Sea, and ships in the Atlantic Ocean. In addition, we have a stronghold in Morocco. Our telegrams go through There are 34 ships in transit, and there are about seven land base stations in the middle. In order to successfully cross the Atlantic Ocean for nearly [-] nautical miles, you only need to have at least two or three small islands in the Atlantic Ocean to shelter these ships from wind and waves, and to replenish , as well as the ports that take turns to go to sea to relay."

Li Ya looked at Zhao Shuai, the two of them glanced at each other, and did not communicate much. After Zhao Shuai sat down, Li Ya asked again: "I want to know the size of this telegram. How big is the wireless telegram?"

"At least as big as a ninety-ton sailing ship, we'd need a thousand-ton sailing ship to be able to secure it."

Zhao Shuai said.

After he finished speaking, nearly a hundred military officers in the meeting in the hall widened their eyes and opened their mouths. It would be enough to throw two eggs into their mouths, because some people had never seen a telegraph before, but such a large size, for seeing For the soldiers or officers of the original Huaxia Empire who used the [-]-ton Huaxia Empire communication ship, they were shocked. Such a large volume, it is the volume of a house, can it be moved to the ship?

Zhao Shuai explained with a smile: "You are also a senior officer of the Chinese Empire. Obviously, you have entered the wired telegraph stations on the land of the Chinese Empire. Where is it bigger? In the beginning, with the improvement of our technology, it is only reduced now. To the point of a house.

As for the wireless telegraph station, because it has just started to be developed, it will be even bigger with the addition of some auxiliary equipment in more than ten years.