The new town divisions will be trained in Haeju, and they will wait until the storm season has passed before crossing the sea to go to Goryeo to join the war.
However, Luo Wenhu and other dozens of staff generals of the new town division rushed to Haidong with Chen Enze and others before the storm season to familiarize themselves with all aspects of the Goryeo battlefield so that they could prepare for the new town division more quickly after the new town division was transferred.
, better adapted to the battlefield.
The staff department plays an increasingly important role in assisting the general in military mobilization and command. It shares the responsibilities and burdens of the general, reduces the rate of decision-making errors, and also limits the general's specialization in military power. What should I say?
The negative effect is the large-scale increase in the number of middle and high-level general officers. At the same time, there must be a complete system of the Army and Navy Command School to be responsible for the training of staff officers and chief officers.
Lin Fu rose from Jianghuai and spent more than ten years, step by step, to establish a military and political system that completely overturned the traditional understanding of surrendered generals such as Luo Wenhu.
The last time they adapted to sea navigation, the warship formation only stayed in Jeju for half a day. Luo Wenhu and others did not have time to disembark and enter Jeju City. Therefore, they waited until this time to have a chance to take a good look at this most central place on the Haidong Trade Road.
Transit port city.
It is hard for anyone to imagine that Jeju City was just a deserted beach facing mountains and sea ten years ago.
Even in the early days, they only rented more than 300 acres of deserted beach from the Danluo Kingdom to build a small village near the water, using the small promontory bay surrounded by promontory mountains as a harbor, and only built stone walls on the land for defense.
The real development of Jeju City came after the decisive victory in the Seogwipo War in the 11th year of Chongkan.
Not only was the area surrounded by stone walls outside the original Jeju Village officially designated as Jeju's port and urban area, but the surrounding hills and plains covering tens of thousands of acres were also leased to serve as the outer extension of Jeju.
After Jeju's status as a core transit port on the Haedong Trade Road was established, more than two hundred large-scale merchant ships would berth in Jeju every year. The berthing fees for the ships accumulated over the years amounted to hundreds of thousands of silver dollars.
The docking and trading of a large number of merchant ships caused the population of Jeju City to expand rapidly.
From less than 2,000 people in the early days, it quickly increased to 40,000 settled people in less than seven or eight years. At the same time, a similar number of seafarers, sailors and migrant workers lived in the city.
In terms of population alone, it is already a rare prosperity in the world. Numerous Dingkou and emerging industries, trade and other industries have rapidly prospered, providing sufficient tax revenue for Jeju City.
Chongzhou was the core place of Huaidong's early operations. In order to operate Chongzhou, Lin Fu's cumulative investment in the construction of cities and ports was only a few million silver dollars. However, Jeju's investment in the construction of cities and ports in recent years has increased significantly.
Beyond this amount, most of it comes from revenue from ship berthing fees and city commercial taxes.
The prosperous maritime trade and the gathering of groups were probably the most civilized and most receptive to new things at the time.
In addition to the lighthouse on Beiya Cape, which is more spectacular than Chongju, it is the landmark building of Jeju City. After getting off the ship and taking a carriage from the port to enter Jeju City, it was already sunset. Only then did Luo Wenhu and other generals discover the paved streets on both sides of Jeju City.
Every five or six steps, there is a cast-iron column and glazed street lamp. At this time, the lamplighter is asked to light it. The long street of nearly two thousand steps looks like a river of stars at night, turning Jeju City into a city that never shines.
The prosperous atmosphere that hit their faces made Luo Wenhu and other generals feel like they were in a new world.
One of the most important tasks of the staff generals is the arrangement of logistics, money and food.
Looking at the three to four hundred glazed lamps on both sides of the long street, regardless of the cost of the glazed lamps, just how much lamp oil these glazed lamps burn in one night and how much lamp oil they burn in a year is an extremely terrifying figure.
; Without the input of extremely cheap Borno oil, no matter how wealthy Jeju City is, it cannot afford such consumption.
Both Chongju and Jiangning were strongly influenced by tradition. The completely new Jeju City, with its prosperity and completely different appearance from the old world, is the core and concentrated expression of Lin Fu's New Deal thinking.
After Lin Fu took charge of the government, he transferred Lin Jingzhong back from Jeju and served as the prefect of Jiangning, becoming the highest chief executive of the capital. In the eyes of many people, Lin Jingzhong had an old relationship with Lin Fu and was the first to follow Lin Fu.
Luo Wenhu had heard these words a lot in Jiangning and was doubtful: Lin Fu wanted to completely oust Yuan Yue and take control of the military and political power. Naturally, such a key official position as the governor of Jiangning cannot fall into the hands of outsiders. It is only natural to appoint close relatives.
But.
At this time, Luo Wenhu was standing on the long street of Jeju City with everyone, and he could deeply feel that Lin Fu's appointment of Lin Jingzhong as the governor of Jiangning was not entirely due to old age.
Jeju City has gone through several officials. In the early days, Zhao Hu was the commander of the forbidden camp army. At that time, he mainly focused on military defense, combating pirate forces, and protecting the Haidong trade route. After Lin Jingzhong was appointed as the inspection envoy to Jeju, Jeju began to separate military and political affairs.
, Jeju City has just officially begun large-scale construction. At this time, Jeju City, which was unfolding in front of Luo Wenhu and others, was actually formed in the hands of Lin Jingzhong; it was less than half a year before Chen Enze, on behalf of Lin Jingzhong, took charge of the Jeju Governor's Office.
"The camp city is to the north of Qiyi Mountain, but my lord wants you to come and stay in Jeju City for a few days first," Chen Enze said with a smile to Luo Wenhu and others in the carriage, "feel the atmosphere of Jeju City.
, but don’t indulge in it; in three days there will be a patrol boat to take you and Academician Song to Fujiang. When you come back from Fujiang, you will live in the camp city..."
Chen Enze also held the title of staff military officer of the Haidong Camp Division. Lin Fu implemented a dual leadership system for the staff department. Luo Wenhu and other staff generals of the newly formed town division were not only under the jurisdiction of the chief general of the new town division, but also under the military staff department.
Jurisdiction.
Luo Wenhu and other staff generals have been under the control of the old and the new during this period. The impact of the old and the new has been particularly severe. It is also because they have been thoroughly baptized by the thinking of the New Deal and the new world that they can truly master the Huaidong Army's different tactics and strategies.
thinking.
The Jeju Governor's Mansion is also very different from traditional government buildings. The main body of the heavily guarded courtyard is a single-family, huge palace-style plastered brick building. The overall height is more than three feet high. The bright windows are all made of colored glass, and there are several windows.
It can be seen that this brick building is actually divided into three floors.
Jeju officials are divided into two lines. The first is recruited from people who have settled in Jeju to manage civil affairs. However, the main officials of the Governor's Office are directly dispatched by the Privy Council's Selection Department, and most of them do not have homes in Jeju.
In addition to the governor's official residence, dispatched officials and generals have a post house specially equipped for them behind the main building of the governor's house; Luo Wenhu and others temporarily live in the post house.
Not only did Chen Enze personally accompany everyone to settle down in the post house, but Ma Yigong, the commander of the Haidong camp, also led Pan Wenshu and other generals to come over to help Luo Wenhu and others.
Of course, in addition to Luo Wenhu and other new town division staff officers, there was another person who came to Jeju with the ship. This was the main reason why Ma Yigong had to come forward to host the banquet. That person was Lin Fuqidian, and Jiang Yue,
Ge Siyu and Song Shixian, a bachelor of Chongxueguan.
Song Shixian served as the Ordnance Supervisor. This time he put aside his research work and went to Jeju with his troops, just to observe the solar eclipse in half a month.
Solar eclipse, that is, solar eclipse, has been recorded dozens of times in history books. Although there are many opinions, Song Shixian, Jiang Yue, Ge Siyu and others who are proficient in astronomical calendars have long regarded it as a normal astronomical phenomenon.
Already have the ability to calculate the solar eclipse cycle from the ancient calendar and existing astronomical knowledge.
Because the phenomenon of solar eclipse has many connotations, it is usually regarded as a bad omen by people at that time.
When Jiang Yue was serving in the Tianjing Si Tianjian earlier, he calculated that the latest solar eclipse would occur in the near future.
Lin Fu was worried that the solar eclipse would create negative psychology in the world and harm the promotion of the New Deal, so he asked Song Shixian, Jiang Yue and others to calculate the accurate time of the solar eclipse and publish it in advance through the Di newspaper to eliminate all kinds of omens.
said.
Song Shixian and Jiang Yue separately calculated the solar eclipse on their own, and both came up with a specific time, but their conclusions differed by nearly half an hour.
Who among the figures like Song Shixian and Jiang Yue would admit that they were incompetent, and they couldn't argue, so they had no choice but to take the case to Lin Fu.
Lin Fu asked Ge Siyu to put down his affairs and review the matter. Finally, it was discovered that Song Shixian's speculation about the solar eclipse was based on the records of the former Si Tianjian, and the observation point was in Luoyang, the capital of the former dynasty. And Jiang Yue had served as the Yuan Yue Si Tianjian.
Shao Jian, but the calendar data in his hand are from this dynasty, and the observation location is Yanjing - the deviation in the estimated time of the solar eclipse directly points to the difference in the location of the astronomical observation.
Later, Jiang Yue and Song Shixian organized people to find all the solar eclipse records in history and calculated them. They found that the time difference of the solar eclipse was directly related to the east-west position difference of the same latitude of the observation point.
After coming to this conclusion, Lin Fu instructed Jiang Yue and Song Shixian to put down other matters at hand and immediately organized troops to set up operations in different regions including Jingzhou, Hanjin, Luzhou, Chongzhou, Changshan Island, Jeju Island, and Fujiang.
Dozens of observation points will be used to independently observe the solar eclipse that is expected to occur in one month.
This matter is not a top secret. It was even announced through the Dibao controlled by the Xuanzheng Secretary and the specific date of the upcoming solar eclipse. Song Shixian and Luo Wenhu spent several days together on the boat day and night, and they also frankly told them the purpose of coming to Haidong. This
The matter itself requires strong cooperation from the military.
Luo Wenhu and the others couldn't understand why Lin Fu paid so much attention to such a matter. The resources used were almost equivalent to the mobilization of troops and horses on the scale of a town division.
Of course, Lin Fu didn't think so, and was even extremely excited: the solar eclipse time deviation independently calculated by Jiang Yue and Song Shixian was actually the longitude time difference that later generations were accustomed to.
Lin Fu had never thought before that people could calculate the time difference from the astronomical calendar, but this point is extremely important. The solar eclipse time difference actually overturns the geocentric theory and proves that the earth is a round body that rotates around the sun. It will also provide a basis for longitude in the future.
The determination of the latitude and longitude method will lay the most solid theoretical foundation for navigation. It will also open the eyes of contemporary people, correctly understand the world, and open a new window.
Even now, the most outstanding figures in miscellany such as Jiang Yue and Song Shixian, their understanding of the world is still limited to the traditional geocentric theory of "the sky is round and the place is centered, with the earth as the center, and the stars revolve around it." If Lin Fu directly told
Who among them would believe their conclusion that the earth is round and the sun is centered?
Only by asking these most outstanding academic figures at the moment to draw the conclusion of "the Earth is round and heliocentric" from their own theoretical calculations and practical observations can they be truly convinced. And then through them and those around them
Only a group of craftsmen and scholars can spread new doctrines and take root.
Although this matter was not directly related to the current war, Lin Fu paid no less attention to it than the Northern Expedition. In the name of the Duke's Office, he directly issued an order to Zhuji Division, requiring them to fully cooperate with the solar eclipse observation. Therefore,
Ma Yigong, Chen Enze and other officials paid great attention to Song Shixian's arrival.
Jiang Yue, Song Shixian and others who participated in this observation were also extremely excited and excited. Only people at the level of Jiang Yue and Song Shixian can know how important this observation will be: once the actual observation results are confirmed,
Their calculations are consistent, which will completely break the previous theories of sages and yin and yang, and establish the true theoretical basis for miscellaneous studies.
At the cleansing banquet held for Song Shixian, there were two other figures. One was Zhang Yubo, who had recently been sent to Jeju by the Metropolitan Procuratorate as an envoy, and the other was Zhao Shuhan, who came to Jeju with Zhang Yubo on the ship.