.Going north from Guanyun is Haizhou, which is the headquarters of the Northern Command and the headquarters of the Northern Eastern Front Army composed of Fengli Army, Denghai Zhenshi, and Jinghai Division. Chinese website
The core of the strategy formulated by the Military Advisory Department for the Northern Expedition lies in the words "Eastern by East", so the Northern Eastern Front Army is the top priority for future military construction.
The Fengli Army included the four divisions Liu Xilin, Zhang Gou, Chu Zheng, and Han Caizhi, plus Chen Zhi's independent Denghai Division and the Jinghai Division. Before large-scale expansion began, the Northern Eastern Front Army
The total military strength exceeds 120,000 people.
One hundred and twenty thousand soldiers and horses were arranged in a clear order on the Yihai defense ground stretching from Yishan to the north and Huai River to the south. Haizhou City was more importantly used as a logistics support base.
A large number of logistics personnel have gathered. Even after the port was closed, only chartered ships were able to enter Haizhou, and the city of Haizhou was still lively.
After Guanyun accepted the idleness of old bureaucrats like Zhou Wenyun and entered Haizhou City, Lin Fu could truly feel that there were still such a large group of people in the world who were deeply concerned about the New Deal and Huaidong's unconventional military and political system.
Approval and support.
Behind Huaidong, in addition to the pragmatic Jianghuai merchant gentry and maritime merchant forces, the more solid foundation is the generals and their families who originally had nothing but gathered under the Huaidong battle flag, as well as the Huaidong army.
A huge logistics group was derived.
Under the old system, they were hungry, cold, homeless, and even had to sell their children to survive; outside the old system, they had no dignity to survive and were constantly facing threats to their survival. How could they possibly maintain the old system?
What are the traditional motivations and motivations? Most of them want to further destroy the old system and the old tradition.
The new system provides them and their families with a guarantee of survival, and gives them the honor of being rich in life and glorious in death. They may not think about it too much or deeply enough, but their support for the new system is sincere from the bottom of their hearts.
In Guanyun, Lin Fu felt that the world was difficult, and there was still a huge veto force hidden under the water; even in Jiangning, Lin Fu had to always consider balancing Huaidong's internal interests, but after arriving in Haizhou, he felt that the world was going to be difficult.
He is very innocent, and feels that the world is still firmly under his control, and that there is no resistance at all to the implementation of the New Deal.
According to the tradition of "the skin and hair of one's body, one receives from one's parents", dissecting a corpse in this world was a heinous crime, a serious crime that could lead to execution by beheading.
Huaidong medical officer Zhang Ji and others, who were born as quacks, had long proposed dissecting cadavers in Huaidong to study the structure of the human body in order to better develop surgical medicine.
This kind of courage to resist tradition and develop new learning is quite common in Huaidong. However, regarding the autopsy of the corpse, even Lin Fu was worried that it would cause an uproar if the matter was leaked, and eventually classified this matter as the highest level in Huaidong.
The military secrets were kept secret, and Zhang Ji and other medical officers were secretly allowed to carry out the operation in secret.
The rapid development of Huaidong's surgical treatment level in the past ten years is not actually due to the superficial first-aid surgery taught by Lin Fu, but to the courage of a group of medical officers such as Zhang Ji to break the tradition and the painstaking research of the past ten years.
Jiangning's execution of war criminals and the use of dissection of corpses instead of mutilation was actually a roundabout method proposed by Zhang Ji and others to break the traditional obstacles to the new medical science of anatomy.
Zhang Ji, who eventually received a bachelor's degree from Chongxueguan together with Wu Jiye, was worried that the development of anatomical medicine in Jiangning would be hindered by the secular world, so he requested to go to Haizhou to preside over the Haizhou Military Medical Bureau.
Haizhou was originally a small coastal town with a dilapidated city and a sparse population. However, as it became the core logistics support base of the Northern Army, many affairs were controlled by the military. As a result, it had a completely new atmosphere and became the center for the development of new learning and craftsmanship in the Central Plains.
A prosperous place.
Even Chongju, where Linfu has the deepest roots, has developed new learning and new craftsmanship due to the inertia of tradition, which is not as complete as Jeju and Haeju, which are almost completely new towns.
In fact, the military is not only the strongest supporter of new learning and new craftsmanship, but also the largest purchaser of new learning and new craftsmanship.
Developing new technologies without demand and without knowing the needs for creation is equivalent to making false accusations out of thin air, and the new technologies that are grown have no vitality - Lin Fu is very clear about this, and he knows even better that he must not force ordinary people to
People went to purchase new cloth, iron materials and other items from Huaidong, but the procurement targets of the entire military were always under his tight control.
The traditional center maintains armaments, and the silver is mainly used for money, soldiers, armor, uniforms and other materials, which are mainly recruited directly from government-run workshops or from low-class craftsmen.
There are fundamental differences in the way Huaidong maintains its armaments. The Huaidong Army's military supplies, armor, and war equipment are only a small aspect. Even if they come from internal factories controlled by Huaidong, they are purchased through procurement.
Settlement.
At present, many government-run factories, except for a few manufacturing ordnance factories, are all under the jurisdiction of departments and bureaus under the Privy Council.
All funds appropriated by the Privy Council to the Military Department are settled in silver, so the Military Department will naturally not be required to occupy additional resources of the government-run factories under its jurisdiction.
Lin Fu mainly ensures the procurement direction of the military, which has always been focused on emerging factories, industrial and mining, maritime trade and other industries. Only the military supplies that emerging factories, industrial and mining, maritime trade and other industries are not allowed to provide, Lin Fu
Only then will they consider purchasing from traditional industries.
What the military studies is the method of killing. The most fundamental purpose is to destroy the enemy more effectively and preserve itself. It can be said that it is the most practical and pragmatic group in the world. Whether it is traditional or non-traditional, it does not matter. The key is
It is practical, durable and low cost.
Even without a war, the Privy Council's funding for the military this year still reached 12 million silver dollars, which was only slightly less than last year's military consumption.
Due to the increasing development and improvement of military control areas, for example, the grain fields in Haizhou Military Area have grown to 3 million acres and more than 70,000 people are stationed there. These areas can directly provide the military with relatively abundant food, making the traditional meaning of
The food and salary accounted for only 20% of the military budget.
Other military expenditures are mainly used for the procurement of war equipment, the construction of defense lines, permanent camps and temporary fortresses, and the construction of military control areas and other logistics maintenance.
A large proportion of military procurement directly or indirectly supports the growth of new technologies, providing fundamental driving force for the continued growth of new technologies.
It is important to measure how large the military's direct or indirect procurement of new technology products is. This year it will exceed six million silver dollars.
If we include the military assistance to the Zhen family, the Saga family and the Kongo family, including the military loans from the Huaidong Bank and the Settlers Bank to these three families - these military aids and loans are mainly to ensure that these three families provide money to the Huaihe River.
Otherwise, silver dollars would not be so easy to lend out. The military’s total direct or indirect purchases of new technology products this year will reach almost 10 million silver dollars.
Perhaps in later generations, a purchase amount of 10 million silver dollars would be nothing at all; the cost of an entry-level armored battleship would exceed this amount.
But in this day and age, before the war, Yanjing controlled a population of hundreds of millions, and its central annual income was only about 10 million silver dollars. It was quite shocking to use 10 million silver dollars per year for military procurement to support the growth of new technologies and new industries.
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Since the profit margin of military procurement is relatively small, an annual military procurement of 10 million silver dollars can directly support an emerging industrial cluster with a scale of about 300,000 to 400,000 people, not to mention Lin Fu's sometimes blatant behavior.
Directly use military resources to support the growth of new technologies.
Historically, lighthouses were built hundreds of years ago to guide navigation in ports and precipitous fjords at night. The first lighthouse in the Jianghuai region was built by Lin Fu at the mouth of the Jinchuan River outside Jiangning City to guide ships.
Dock at the Jianggang pier at night to double the utilization efficiency of the pier.
Although building a lighthouse is not cheap, the investment in the lighthouse is still very cost-effective compared to doubling the dock expansion.
Merchant ships arriving at the port at night would rather pay an additional lighthouse navigation fee than stay overnight outside the port where the waves are unpredictable.
In the past ten years, the Huaidong Army has built and controlled more than 30 large lighthouses; some lighthouses have now begun to be handed over to private operations or construction and maintenance.
The need for cheap and high-quality fuel for lighthouses directly prompted the Borneo fire oil to be transported across the ocean to the Jianghuai and Haidong areas.
Transparent glass covers and other new technologies used for lighting are directly related to lighthouses.
The mixed slurry of Borneo ash and lime, fine sand and gravel or fine cinder is used for construction, and currently it is mainly used by the military.
The development of Huaidong's shipbuilding technology is most directly related to Lin Fu's determination to develop maritime combat power, followed by the rapid development of sail weaving, large castings and other industries. Although Lin Fu required these shipyards to use capital
The military supplies warships to the military at a reasonable price, but the military pays for the additional costs incurred in developing new technologies and never shows mercy.
The nearly 800,000 sets of military uniforms purchased by the military this year are all made of new Huaidong cloth; this alone is enough to support an emerging weaving, dyeing and garment industry with a workforce of 20,000 to 30,000 people.
The Huaidong Army consumed more than 20 million kilograms of meat this year, nearly half of which was purchased from the offshore fishing industry growing in Haizhou, Hecheng, Shengsi and other places.
In his early years, Lin Fu developed iron smelting in Chongzhou. The largest purchaser was also the military, followed by civilian supplies such as farm tools. Even at this time, the military spent nearly 2,000 yuan a year on the construction of war equipment, forts and defense lines.
Thousands of pounds of iron.
The rapid growth of iron smelting and lime industries in Chongzhou and the gathering of industrial workers directly increased coal consumption. Coal slag was used for road construction and fine grinding for construction, and it was also the first to be used on a large scale by the military.
The military is also the largest purchaser of the most advanced vehicle-making technology; almost one-half of the four-wheeled carriages are directly purchased by the military as baggage vehicles.
Nearly two-thirds of the iron wire and wire rope produced in the iron industry are currently purchased and digested by the military.
Just before entering Guanyun, Xiaoman saw the Iron Pear Chariot. The first six thousand units built were all purchased and digested by the military-controlled farms.
Not to mention the brutal war, which made the injured soldiers rely on the new medicine of dissection. Dissection of corpses is still taboo in society, but in the eyes of military generals, it is really not mentioned.
The military's large-scale purchases enable new learning, new technologies, and new assets to obtain a basic demand market in the early stages of their growth.
Nowadays, Haizhou has become the core logistics support base of the Northern Army. Except for a few limited items such as the Military Medical Bureau, Ordnance Bureau, ports and shipyards, which will be directly constructed and managed by the military, almost all areas of materials that can be outsourced are
Factories such as new cloth, dyes, iron materials, clothing, car-making, lime, tung oil, bristles, kerosene, coal, wood, masonry, Borneo ash and other factories, industrial and mining owners and merchants have all applied to be included in the sea.
Among the procurement targets of the state logistics support base; almost all factories that can be built directly in Haeju have applied for it or are already implementing it. The newly established factories, including the military logistics department, all employ soldiers from the Northern Army or Haeju Tun.
The family members of the district generals are working.
Lin Fu originally decided to locate the general logistics base of the Northern Expedition in Haizhou instead of Xuzhou or Shanyang. This was because he was considering using the huge military procurement to create a new seaport city that was different from the traditional one.
Lin Fu would rather live in Haizhou than Jiangning.
On the one hand, the thinking of the army is relatively pure, and there are not so many additional conditions for supporting Lin Fu; on the other hand, Haizhou City is almost a brand-new construction, and the huge military procurement attracts almost all civilized factories.
, industrial and mining owners and maritime trade merchants.
Although it is traditional for women to "never leave the first door and never step forward from the second door", for ordinary soldiers of the Huaidong Army who came from poor backgrounds, it is not an unacceptable thing for their families to work. Employing female workers is a common practice in Chongzhou City.
It is already a common phenomenon, and Lin Fu had to use it to make up for the shortage of labor force in the early days; it is not a strange phenomenon in Haizhou.