Among them, the first division has three regiments under its jurisdiction, covering the northern part of Nanhai Island.
The Second Division has three regiments under its jurisdiction, covering the southern border of Nanhai Island.
The Third Division has two regiments under its jurisdiction, covering the Jiaozhi Hongji Coal Mine area.
The Fourth Division has three regiments under its jurisdiction and is temporarily stationed in Xinghai City.
In addition, the navy has two major fleets, the Northern Fleet and the Southern Fleet.
It's just that these two fleets are still on paper.
According to the plan, any fleet should be composed of one first-class battleship, three second-class battleships, five frigates and several patrol boats.
But at this time, only a second-class battleship Lingao and a large group of lucky ships and clippers were launched.
The Breaker, which is a converted steel fishing boat, is now more often used by immigration working groups.
However, increasing naval construction was a resolution unanimously agreed upon by the Senate at its meeting.
After all, given the current situation of Xinghai Kingdom, without a strong navy, it is simply impossible to expand.
Therefore, after the first shipyard in Xinghai City got on track, the construction of the second shipyard selected by the Ministry of Industrial Affairs in the Sanya area also began.
To be honest, compared to Xinghai City, the Sanya area is more suitable for building shipyards.
Not to mention that there are extremely lush and high-quality forests nearby, but the climate is relatively dry, which is very good.
In addition, a new shipyard was also built at Changjiangkou.
However, the technical level of Changjiangkou Shipyard is lower than that of the other two major shipyards.
The two major shipyards in Xinghai City and Sanya are both used to build battleship-level ships, while the dry docks of Changjiangkou Shipyard are much smaller and are only used to build frigates and merchant ships.
That's right, Xinghai Kingdom's shipbuilding industry is not only preparing to build warships, but also preparing to acquire merchant ships.
The reason is very simple. First, Xinghai Kingdom itself has a huge demand for merchant ships.
Secondly, with the continuous invasion of the Qing army, the original major shipyards of the Ming Dynasty could be said to have been completely wiped out. Therefore, it was almost impossible to buy new ships. Many maritime merchants could not find a way out with their money.
The last point is that many elders of the Xinghai Kingdom's Department of Transportation want to build faster merchant ships.
No way, most of the current Fuchuan boats are 5-6 knots downwind and 2-3 knots crosswind, which is too slow.
Compared with Xinghai Kingdom's current expanding import and export trade, input of raw materials, etc., this speed is too slow.
It is basically impossible for Xinghai Shipyard to build commercial ships.
All dry docks have been laid with steel keels.
Only half of the shipyards in the Sanya area have been built.
Therefore, at the suggestion of some elders, Changjiang Estuary, as a water conservancy and transportation hub, became the location for the new shipyard.
Fang Xiaoyue is very busy during this time.
Due to the rapid expansion of Xinghai Kingdom's industrial scale, the issue of power shortage was once again put on the agenda of the Senate.
Although the scale of coal power plants continues to expand, there is always an upper limit to the scale of coal power before a breakthrough is made in technology.
The most terrible thing is that coal-fired power pollutes the environment too much.
Since the scale of the coal power plant has expanded to more than twenty times that of when it was built, people in Xinghai City can see dark smoke drifting over every day.
Anywhere close to the coal power plant is full of coal ash residue, and even the Senate Hall was covered in black ash.
It is obvious that coal power plants cannot continue to expand.
At least it cannot continue to expand near Xinghai City.
Those elders don't want to get pneumoconiosis before they can enjoy it. In that case, given the current medical level of Xinghai Kingdom, the quality of life will basically be poor.
Since the senators unanimously agreed to build a hydropower station, and this matter was not something ordinary people could do, the preparation work related to the hydropower station was directly entrusted to Fang Xiaoyue by the Senate.
Okay, Fang Xiaoyue feels a little headache. Let alone the difference between hydroelectric generators and coal-fired power. The manpower required to build hydropower alone is a huge number!
Due to the large gap in Changjiang River, there are many places where hydropower stations can be built. However, human resources near Changjiang River are very scarce, and it was not practical to move people from other places.
After all, the entire South China Sea Island is originally lacking in human resources, and the human resources in other places have been sucked dry by industry, agriculture, etc.
It’s impossible to recruit a bunch of old men to repair a hydropower station, right?
Faced with this difficult question raised by Fang Xiaoyue, the elders were also speechless for a while.
Although immigrants are still migrating here, various departments have already locked in the future destinations of many immigrants, especially the Navy, which is submitting a bill to continue to recruit new recruits and requires that sufficient navy sailors be reserved in advance. Otherwise, they will have to wait until the second-level battleships are launched one after another.
Afterwards, if the Navy does not have enough operating sailors, it will be a disaster.
However, at this time, veteran Feikeshi of the immigration working group sent an extremely important message through the PHS.
There is something strange happening in the Qing army!
To be precise, it was Hu Jianqing's army opposite Chaozhou that made some changes.
Perhaps it was the establishment of the refugee point and the bustling scene of numerous merchant ships that made the Qing troops stationed in Hu Jian salivate.
After all, although Chaozhou is close to the coast at this time, it is not the main battlefield.
The main battlefield between the Zhaowu regime and the Qing army in the Southern Ming Dynasty was on the Ganzhou line. Opposite Chaozhou was just a partial division of tens of thousands of Qing troops, commanded by a certain Zhenguo general.
Well, there are a total of twelve levels of royal titles in the Qing court.
Prince Heshuo, Prince Duoluo, Duoluo Beile, Gushan Beizi, all the way to the Duke of Zhen Guo and the Duke of Fu Guo...
General Zhenguo is only the 9th level in the clan title and belongs to a very remote clan.
To be honest, with the title of General Zhenguo, he is considered very lucky to be able to become the commander of an army of ten thousand people.
You know, in the Qing court, there were still many such princes and generals who did not have the power to lead troops.
However, as the Qing army was temporarily on strategic defense, as the commander-in-chief of a Qing army of ten thousand people, the general who ruled the country did not actually have many opportunities to make meritorious deeds.
All previous opportunities to make meritorious deeds were taken away by Baylor, who had a higher status.
Now, General Zhenguo suddenly received intelligence and learned that someone had actually set up a refugee camp outside the city of Chaozhou. In the refugee camp, food was piled up like a mountain. Every day, merchant ships of all sizes would bring food in and transport the refugees away.
This made General Zhenguo's mind active.
Obviously, if this refugee point can be captured and all the food is wiped out, it will undoubtedly greatly enrich the Qing army's military food reserves.
You must know that the reason why the Qing army suspended its offensive was that, in addition to Duduo's excessive contribution to prevent the high-achieving leader from being recalled, the Qing army did not have enough military rations and needed to wait until the military ration reserves increased before they could continue the attack.