Chapter 346 The reason for the emperors neglect of government!
Zhu Hongyu opened the report and started reading it.
The report is formatted from top to bottom and then from right to left.
At the beginning, Zhu Hongyu was not used to the writing format of this era, but after reading it more, he got used to it.
However, at Zhu Hongyu's request, all work reports and various memorials from the top and bottom of the Liberation Army were required to be written in simplified Chinese characters, and punctuation marks were also added.
More importantly, Zhu Hongyu also wanted data and required the description to be as concise and clear as possible.
If anyone dares to make long remarks to Zhu Hongyu and show off his literary talents, Zhu Hongyu will not show mercy when he comes to deal with them.
After Zhu Hongyu's order was issued, many people did insist on the original writing method at first.
But after Zhu Hongyu dismissed him from office in one fell swoop and sent a large number of people away.
The rest of the people will be honest!
When writing various reports and memorials, start to be as concise and clear as possible, go straight to the topic, use plain language, simplified Chinese, never use uncommon words, and quote data for explanation.
As a result, when Zhu Hongyu handled government affairs, his workload was cut by more than half.
During the period when the military government was first established, looking at those work reports, Zhu Hongyu had a profound understanding of the reasons why ancient emperors liked to neglect government affairs.
A memorial is a long paragraph, densely packed, without punctuation, and not divided into paragraphs.
Those ministers also like to add a few sentences from rare ancient prose from time to time, or use a few rare words to show off their literary talents.
Who can watch this without getting a headache?
Zhu Hongyu was really tortured by these memorials and reports, so he decided to rectify it.
At this time, the report in Zhu Hongyu's hand was, to put it bluntly, a statistical report on the current total strength of the Liberation Army.
The total strength of the Liberation Army currently reaches 45,000.
During this period of time, all the new military camps have been overloaded.
A large number of people joined the army, and after three months of basic recruit training, they were integrated into different organizations and then underwent more intense adaptive training.
The total strength of the Army of Liberation has risen rapidly, and has now successfully exceeded the 30,000 mark, reaching an astonishing 35,000.
The remaining 10,000 people are all navy masters!
After reading the troop strength report, Zhu Hongyu spoke.
"Give the entire army a combat readiness order and be ready to fight at any time!"
"Ask the Logistics Department to prepare grain, grass, weapons and other supplies for the army in advance, and the Staff Department will formulate a battle plan for the Northern Expedition to Guangdong."
Shi Yongxin agreed and then withdrew.
Immediately afterwards, Wang An, the head of the institute, asked to see him.
Wang An brought good news to Zhu Hongyu. The research institute had finally overcome the problem of mass production of steam engines more than half a year after the successful development of steam engines.
Large-scale mass production is still impossible, but small-batch manufacturing is suitable for machine tools and can be used to meet the needs of arsenals.
"Your Highness, the production method we use is to use machine tools driven by steam engines to process the rough blanks of the parts required for steam engine assembly."
"Then it will be polished and processed by hand by masters with superb craftsmanship!"
"Because the machine tool still has some flaws in terms of finishing, the steam engine parts produced are not precise enough and need to be polished before they can be used."
Zhu Hongyu was extremely surprised by this good news and immediately ordered a generous reward to everyone inside and outside the institute.
After Wang An retreated, Zhu Hongyu summoned Old Liu Tou, the head of the arsenal.
Old Liu Tou also brought good news to Zhu Hongyu. After the institute overcame the difficulties in mass production of steam engines, the first place to use steam engines was the arsenal.
In the arsenal, all manual, animal-powered, and hydraulic machine tools were replaced by steam power.
With the advent of steam engines to power machine tools, the arsenal's production capacity of various armors, muskets, artillery, shells, bullets and other materials has reached a new level.
Especially in terms of muskets and artillery, arsenals began rifling newly produced artillery in large quantities.
The number of rifled guns and rifled cannon produced during this period was enough to equip Zhu Hongyu's Guards Brigade.
With the great expansion of the Liberation Army, Zhu Hongyu has also expanded his Guards Regiment into a brigade!
Originally, Zhu Hongyu was still worried about whether if he took out rifled guns and Mini bullets, it would lead to technical leaks and make the Qing Dynasty's military strength increase by leaps and bounds.
But now he thinks about it!
Let the secrets be leaked. The Qing government did not have steam engines, industrial machine tools, or a large-scale military production system like the Liberation Army.
Even if they get a prototype of a rifled gun, at most they can have skilled craftsmen make small batch copies.
He, Zhu Hongyu, owns the world's largest arsenal with the most advanced technology and the largest number of craftsmen, and he can manufacture rifled guns in large quantities.
He can produce in large quantities, so why should he be afraid of pure handmade imitation by small workshops in the Qing Dynasty?
If a rifled gun could bring the Manchu Qing Dynasty into the age of firearms, Zhu Hongyu would laugh out of his dreams.
The Manchurian and Mongolian cavalry no longer play cavalry and shooting, but have started to queue up and shoot like the Ming army. So what threat do they still have?
As we all know, musketeers are the least valuable unit.
In the age of firearms, the casualty rate of troops in combat would have been wiped out in three to five large-scale battles, and the population of the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia would have been wiped out.
As for the Manchu Qing Dynasty distributing firearms to the Green Camp and letting the Green Camp fight with their lives against the Ming army, they sat back and enjoyed the results.
After the Manchus and Qing Dynasties saw the power of rifled guns on the battlefield, they did not believe that the Manchus and Qing Dynasties dared to equip the Green Camp with rifled guns.
Manchu Qing Dynasty, no matter how much he preached, the color of alien rule in the Qing court could not be erased.
I have always been wary of the Han people in the world!
Besides, to promote the Manchu-Han family, you have to be in the Yongzheng and Qianlong dynasties.
Before this, what the Manchus and Qing Dynasties preached were all from the Manchu and Mongolian family, and the Han people were just slaves!
If any of the coated slaves dared to stand up and speak out against the Man-Han family, they would be dragged out and executed by their master!
You are just a slave, but you dare to claim to be one of the same family as your master?
Who do you think you are?!
Given the current intensity of ethnic conflicts under Manchu rule, Zhu Hongyu did not believe that the Qing government would dare to equip the Green Camp with rifled guns.
Zhu Hongyu opened his mouth and gave instructions.
"Send the order and ask the Guards Brigade to change their uniforms as soon as possible!"
"In this Northern Expedition, the Guards Brigade will be the vanguard!"
Old Liu bowed and agreed, then withdrew.
Zhu Hongyu's Guards Brigade is not that easy to mess with. It uses the best equipment, gets the most military pay, undergoes the hardest training, and fights the toughest battles!
That's them!
After Lao Liutou left, Chen Wenbin came to ask for an audience.
Zhu Hongyu was given a report on the development of all state capitals in Qiongzhou, Luzon under the military government in the past six months.
These include the development of industry and commerce, the reclamation of farmland, the promotion of literacy education, the construction of infrastructure, etc., especially the most important issue of taxation.
Looking at the report submitted by the cabinet, Zhu Hongyu smiled happily again today.
All he can say is that everything went as he wished!
As time goes by, the potential for industrial and commercial development is gradually revealed.
It might not be intuitive to say otherwise.
To give the simplest example, the tax revenue of the Liberation Army military government in the first half of this year is equal to the tax revenue of the entire last year.
In terms of food, with a large amount of farmland being reclaimed on Luzon Island, more and more food is being put into storage!