Many struggles between the army and the navy will ultimately be reflected in the distribution of military spending.
Because both the army and the navy attach great importance to military expenditures, because military expenditures directly represent establishment, war funding, and merit.
A large number of soldiers below are watching, and the big bosses above will naturally fight for it with all their strength.
As for Army Admiral Lei Wan, Director of the Operations Department of the Army Privy Council and Minister on Duty in the Imperial Study Room; and Admiral Bao Yifen, Director of the Naval Command Department and Minister on Duty in the Imperial Study Room, why did these two people not actually participate in any large-scale battles? What’s more,
Without outstanding achievements, strictly speaking, the two of them are not even commanders. They can only be said to be civilian generals. In the end, they were able to enter the imperial study room, and even became among the great heroes at the end of the eighth year of Xuanping.
The general and other generals were not dissatisfied.
Because they are all representatives of the army and navy in the imperial study room!
Their mission is to serve as a communication bridge between the Holy Emperor and the army and navy, and at the same time to compete for the greatest interests of their respective military services in the imperial study room.
And they have done a great job over the years!
Therefore, the other generals have no dissatisfaction with them.
In the army, in addition to senior generals like Hao Bainian who can command large armies in combat, they also need Lei Wan who can deal with the cabinet and the navy to safeguard the interests of the army in Jinling!
Bao Yifen in the navy has the same role as Lei Wan.
So on this occasion today, they were the most active in speaking. Hao Bainian started, and the navy followed up. Then Admiral Lei Wan began to quote scriptures and join the battle group, explaining the necessity of marching to Annan.
When Leiwan said this, he was not just considering the issue from a military perspective, although he also said that marching into Annan could protect the interests of the southwestern part of the empire and directly threaten Malacca on land.
But he also said that there is a large-scale high-quality coal field in northern Annan. The Ministry of Commerce has noticed that in the past two years, many businessmen have imported coal from northern Annan.
According to the Ministry of Commerce, the coal produced in the northern coalfields of Annan is the highest quality anthracite, and large coalfields that can produce large quantities of high-quality anthracite coal have not yet been discovered within the empire.
What is coal used for?
The simplest one is to use it as fuel. In recent years, with the large-scale development of coal fields in the empire, and after promotion, briquettes made from coal fields have been used as fuel for cooking, cooking and heating in many cities.
Speaking of which, the briquettes thing was invented by the Royal Institute of Technology under the guidance of Li Xuan!
But more importantly, coal fields are also important industrial raw materials!
Because as the Royal Institute of Technology continues to improve steam engines, steam engines have now begun to be widely used in industry. The earliest application, and the largest application at present, is to serve as water pumps in major mines.
But it is also gradually being used in other industries. For example, Jiangnan Textile Company has installed steam engines as the power for textile machines in its Songjiang Textile Factory.
Although the current steam engine power is more expensive than water power, it has been reduced from more than ten times in the early years to four or five times. Although the cost is high, it also brings another advantage, that is stability!
Hydropower is subject to too many external influences, and the power output is not stable enough. However, steam engines are not so troubled. As long as the machine is not broken and the coal is sufficient, it can continue to output power continuously.
Based on the demand for civilian fires for heating and the gradually expanding industrial application of steam engines, the Ministry of Commerce has listed coal as a strategic import material and has significantly reduced import tariffs.
At the same time, major enterprises under the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises are currently actively developing coal mines. To this end, the Ministry of State-owned Enterprises has even specially prepared a Northern Coal Company to develop the coal fields discovered in Tangshan, Hebei.
In addition to coal resources, General Lewan also highlighted the fertile land in Annan and other Southeast Asian peninsulas, which are the most suitable places for growing rice, and also cited Champa rice as an example.
Champa rice is an introduced multi-season rice that is currently cultivated in Guangdong, Guangxi, Yunnan and other areas of the empire.
With Champa Rice as an example, it makes people feel that the Southeast Asian peninsula is a granary with fertile land!
But the naval generals are well-informed, and they exposed the Army's tricks, saying that although the Southeast Asian peninsula has abundant rain, it is too abundant. Floods occur every rainy season, and it is almost a swamp.
Or simply the vast ocean, what kind of field can I plant?
Moreover, all kinds of poisonous insects are everywhere, and the climate is quite harsh. Some areas are even worse than the Luzon Islands and the Banten Islands. There have been over a thousand immigrants here, and half of them are lucky to survive.
In this regard, the Army's superiority refuted, saying that the flooding was because the local indigenous people did not understand water conservancy construction. After the empire occupied the Southeast Asian peninsula, it would definitely have to build a large number of water conservancy facilities. By then, who would dare to say that there would be abundant rain.
Isn’t the Southeast Asian peninsula a granary?
As for the problem of disease, it is a difficult problem, but should we be afraid to move forward if there is a difficult problem?
Moreover, it is said that the Department of Medicine at the Royal Institute of Technology has compiled a complete set of methods to prevent and treat immigrant diseases. According to this set of methods, when experiments were conducted on Taiyuan Island, the invasion of the disease was successfully and effectively controlled.
The mortality rate of immigrants within one year has been reduced from 30% to 15%!
By then, this method can be completely replicated in the Southeast Asian peninsula.
When Lei Wan from the Army said that the mortality rate of new immigrants had dropped from 30% to 15%, Li Xuan, who was sitting on top, sighed!
Outsiders really don’t know, but the mortality rate of immigrants these days is quite high!
It's okay for immigrants from mainland China. Although they may have problems acclimatizing to the local environment, they can still overcome it.
But immigrating overseas is much more difficult!
For example, take Dajuan Island, which was developed by the Tang Empire for many years. Although this island is called the mainland, it has always been sparsely populated and has been extremely difficult to develop.
So much so that in the past few years the place has been a major penal colony for criminals.
Why, because it is necessary to exile criminals to replenish the population of Taiyuan Island!
Due to the impact of acclimatization, the mortality rate of immigrants to Taiyuan Island has remained high in recent years!
In the early years, after a thousand immigrants had immigrated, it would be good if there were still six to seven hundred people left alive after a year. The rest died for various reasons.
This is the case on Damuan Island, and even more so on Luzon and Banten. The only better situation is in Ryukyu Prefecture, because the climate here is similar to that of the mainland of the empire, and the acclimatization situation is not as serious.
Later, Li Xuan instructed the Department of Medicine at the Royal Institute of Technology to spare some time while studying corpses to study some methods of preventing and treating immigrant diseases.
In particular, the prevention and control of various pests such as mosquitoes and flies is a top priority!
Those crazy people from the Department of Medicine at the Royal Institute of Technology naturally took this task very seriously. After some research, they summarized some methods to prevent and treat immigrant diseases.
But it is said to be a method specifically used to prevent and treat immigrant diseases, but in fact it is just a method to prevent and treat infectious diseases, and the focus is not on treatment, but on prevention.
Because the current medical level of the Department of Medicine at the Royal Institute of Technology is only limited to anatomy, it is not very reliable to rely on them to treat diseases. In order to treat diseases these days, the more reliable method is traditional Chinese medicine, but even traditional Chinese medicine
, and I am also helpless against this so-called acclimatization, which is actually various infectious diseases, such as dengue fever, filariasis, etc.
If these viral diseases can be solved, Chinese medicine will no longer be Chinese medicine!
Not to mention traditional Chinese medicine, even modern medicine in the 21st century can only focus on prevention for diseases like dengue fever, and treatment can only treat symptoms, such as bed rest, replenishing body fluids, lowering body temperature, etc.
As an auxiliary method, as for directly killing pathogens, I'm sorry, I can't do it.
Dengue fever is just one of many diseases. With different geographical environments and climates, there are many infectious diseases, especially in tropical areas.
Therefore, the prevention and treatment methods of the Department of Medicine of the Royal Institute of Technology are actually general methods for preventing common infectious diseases. The focus is to isolate the source of pollution, including isolating sick people, cutting off transmission routes, maintaining hygiene, doing good disinfection, and protecting people who are susceptible to infection.
This method also matches the neat city appearance that the Tang Dynasty has always pursued.
In his early years, Li Xuan hated being dirty and messy, and was even more afraid of death, so he strictly required every city to do a good job in sanitation. If that city becomes dirty, no matter how good other aspects of work are, then
They will all inevitably end up being demoted and dismissed from office.
Therefore, in today's Tang Empire, city appearance work is one of the most important tasks for almost every city's officials.
And this habit also extended to overseas colonies.
But even so, the mortality rate of immigrants is still too high.
After all, in the absence of various antibiotics and drugs that can prescribe the right medicine, it is still quite difficult to fight against various infectious diseases.
But this does not mean that the empire will stop the pace of overseas immigration!
The overseas immigrants of the empire are paved with bones!
Not only the corpses of local indigenous people were used, but also the corpses of our own soldiers and immigrants!
Seeing the direction of the quarrel between the army and the navy ranging from Malacca to Annan, and then to the entire Southeast Asian peninsula, it then extended to overseas colonization, maritime transportation and other messy issues.
Li Xuan finally couldn't help it and stretched out his hand slightly!
As soon as he made this move, the noisy army and navy generals all shut up, and then each sat down and raised their chests, because they all knew that the time for the two sides to argue had come, and it was the Holy Emperor who spoke next.
It's time.
If you are disrespectful, you are seeking death!
Watch the ministers sit down and shut up!
Li Xuan slowly looked around!
Then he slowly said: "The peninsula issue will be discussed later. Today we are talking about the Portuguese issue!"
With this sentence, you can see that the generals of the army and navy all breathed a sigh of relief and postponed the discussion, which means that they still have a chance!
"As for the Portuguese problem!" Li Xuan paused at this point!