Since the Huangzhushan period, when the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty was established and took charge of ordnance production, the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty has never been able to meet the various ordnance production needs of the military.
This is not because the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty does not want to make progress and improve its products. In fact, the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty is the most struggling department in the Tang Dynasty. Many officials from top to bottom are trying every means to continuously expand production.
From manufacturing only a few dozen muskets and a few artillery pieces a month in the past to now producing nearly 2,000 muskets a month, the Ministry of Industry of Datang has made tremendous efforts!
Moreover, as the construction project of the planned Foshan Steel Plant slowly enters the final stage, after the completion of the steel plant, Datang Dynasty's steel output will be able to increase by at least one-third in a short period of time, and the steel output of state-owned factories is expected to increase directly.
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Foshan Iron and Steel Plant, this and Foshan Iron and Steel Plant are two completely different factories. Although the latter is also under the Ministry of Industry, its goal is to produce civilian products, ranging from ironmaking to the production of various farm tools and other iron products.
Its steel output is relatively limited, but Foshan Iron and Steel Plant, although it is only one word different, is a large-scale steel plant that uses a large number of modern machinery and adopts new technologies to prepare for large-scale iron making.
The most direct impact of the substantial increase in steel production is that it can effectively alleviate the Tang Dynasty's current urgent demand for steel, and it can also effectively reduce costs.
These are also important factors affecting the output of firearms and other ordnance products.
In order to support it, the Ministry of Industry has specially expanded the scale of Foshan Arsenal in Foshan area, preparing to increase the production of muskets, iron artillery and other products that have a very high demand for steel.
By this time next year, Foshan will replace Zhaoqing as the largest heavy industrial base of the Tang Dynasty!
However, even though the Ministry of Industry worked so hard, the Tang military's demand for guns was almost endless.
The current production of more than two thousand muskets a month is still unable to meet the huge demand of the Tang Army!
There is no way, who made the main force of the Tang Army reorganize and expand the number of musketeers, and at the same time, it is also expanding the army on a large scale.
Whether it is the main force, the supplementary brigades or even the new barracks, a large number of muskets are needed. Not only the reorganization and expansion of the troops require muskets, but the existing troops also need a continuous supply of muskets, because the muskets are used during combat and training.
, will be damaged, and the damage rate is not low.
After a big battle, there are many muskets that need to be replaced and supplemented.
During last year's autumn and winter offensive, the First Army and the Second Army conducted frequent high-intensity battles, and a large number of guns and artillery were damaged. In order to ensure the combat effectiveness of the troops, the soldiers had enough muskets to use. The Logistics Department successively shipped enough muskets to Huguang and Jiangxi.
There are more than 6,000 muskets, and these more than 6,000 muskets are specially used for supplementation.
As for the muskets required for troop reorganization, they have not been included yet!
This is because the frontline troops used a large number of muskets captured from the Ming Army on the spot. Otherwise, the number that needs to be replenished would be even greater!
This is even more true for the production of artillery, because the military's demand is so great that almost every arsenal in the Ministry of Industry produces iron five-pound field guns and two-pound shotguns, which has led to the above-mentioned
The production of these two types of artillery actually accounted for more than two-thirds of all artillery production in the Tang Dynasty.
But the more we produce, the more we consume. During last year's autumn and winter offensive, the First Army and the Second Army lost hundreds of artillery pieces of various sizes and types due to various reasons such as being destroyed and their barrels scrapped, including just iron.
The loss of making five-pound field guns was more than twenty, enough to equip an artillery battalion.
And these lost guns need to be replenished!
Where can the additional guns come from? They don’t need to be produced by the arsenal of the Ministry of Industry of the Tang Dynasty!
The production tasks of the Datang Ministry of Industry were already extremely heavy. They had not finished producing the equipment required for the previous reorganization plan of the existing main divisions. Now that one division and two mixed regiments have arrived, the production tasks are even more severe.
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However, the officials of the Ministry of Industry are also suffering and happy, especially those in charge of arsenals. As long as they can increase the output of the arsenals they are responsible for, promotion is a piece of cake.
Moreover, in the Tang Dynasty, the Minister of Industry and the Ministry of Taxation were also listed as the two most powerful ministers in the Tang Dynasty.
Because among the dozen ministers in the cabinet, only these two ministers can enter the imperial study room and become the ministers on duty in the imperial study room just by virtue of their titles.
As for the other two ministers on duty in the imperial study room of the cabinet civil servants, namely Liu Bagou and Qian Mengjiu, they were appointed as ministers on duty in the imperial study room as bachelors and founding heroes. As their respective ministers of the Ministry of Household Affairs,
The title of Minister of the Ministry of War actually does not allow him to enter the imperial study room.
The number of ministers on duty in the imperial study room has been maintained at seven for more than a year. They are Zeng Ziwen, the director of the Privy Council's Operations Department, and Bao Yifen, the director of the Military Order Department of the Naval Command. They are two representatives of the army and navy, and then the president of the Inspectorate.
, the four ministers of the cabinet.
The above-mentioned seven people constitute the seven ministers on duty in the Imperial Study Room, and there are also more than a dozen walking ministers on duty, ranging from the ministers and deputy ministers of the military ministries, the ministers of the cabinet ministries, the ministers, the supervisory council and other responsible persons.
The power of the walking ministers who are on duty is much lower and cannot be compared with the ministers on duty, and these people are also frequently changed.
Of course, the difficulties in the Ministry of Industry and the power struggle in the imperial study had nothing to do with Qin Zhifu, an anti-Ming fighter. He was awarded the title of Viscount, Brigadier General of the Army, and served as the deputy commander of the 7th Infantry Division.
He soon integrated into the life of the big Tang Dynasty family. First, he brought his family members from Nan'ao Island to Zhaoqing. There was no need to buy this house by himself. Li Xuan directly gave him a mansion, which was not large in scale.
But it was located among the mansions of many nobles and important ministers of the Tang Dynasty.
This greatly satisfied Qin Zhifu's vanity. After settling down with his family, he also wanted to take office as soon as possible and start his military career in the Tang Army.
However, the first commander of the 7th Infantry Division, the former Chief of Staff of the First Army, Major General Wang Chaohong, gave him an order to temporarily stay in Zhaoqing, and gave Qin Zhifu an extremely important task, which was to 'run away'
Department', strive for better and faster recruitment of new recruits and gunnery for the 7th Infantry Division.
Before Major General Wang Chaohong left Zhaoqing and went to Jiangxi, he patted Qin Zhifu on the shoulder and said: "Old Qin, this is an important task assigned to you by the division headquarters. You must do it well. We have more than 10,000 brothers in the Seventh Infantry Division.
Whether you can be popular and drink spicy food depends on your dealing with the rear!"
Qin Zhifu was very moved when he heard this, and felt lucky to have met an enlightened boss.
There is no need to go to Jiangxi and there is no need to fight. To be honest, his several years as a general in Nan'ao Island have already made him have a certain sense of crisis about going to the front line. Even though the Tang Army is extremely powerful, the guns and artillery on the battlefield are not good enough.
A long-sighted person would not specifically avoid high-ranking generals. In fact, the Tang Dynasty King's division did not distinguish between sea and land, and the casualty ratio of middle- and high-ranking officers was not low. This was mainly because of the low communication methods these days. Many senior generals
They all need to go to the front line in person and command the troops in combat.
It happens from time to time that officers of the rank of regiment commander or battalion commander are killed or injured.
How wonderful it would be to stay in Zhaoqing and live in prosperity and wealth!
As for building relationships with the running department, he was good at this, so Qin Zhifu accepted it with a smile.
As for his happy acceptance, Wang Chaohong breathed a sigh of relief!
Are you kidding? He fought life and death on the front line to gain the position of division commander. Naturally, he values the 7th Infantry Division very highly. How could he tolerate a general like Qin Zhifu who has no skills at all?
, a man who couldn’t even understand line combat served as his deputy division commander.
So he specifically went to Li Xuan to complain, and finally got Li Xuan's tacit approval to leave Qin Zhifu in Zhaoqing. After leaving Qin Zhifu in Zhaoqing, although a lot of the affairs of the 7th Infantry Division would be
It puts a lot of hard work on his own shoulders, but Wang Chaohong doesn't care about it.
No matter how tired you are, it can be compared to having a pig next to you. If you are injured on the front line or have other accidents and cannot command, this pig will directly take over the command of the entire 7th Infantry Division!
So Qin Zhifu must roll as far as he can!
In this way, both parties were happy. Qin Zhifu could stay in Zhaoqing and enjoy the colorful world, and Wang Chaohong finally kicked aside the deputy division commander who was forced on him by his superiors.
After receiving the important task of staying in Zhaoqing, he started visiting the ministers and deputy ministers of the Privy Council one after another the next day. In fact, many people didn't have a good impression of him, but they couldn't resist Qin Zhifu's shameless request to see him again and again.
When he met someone, Qin Zhifu would not be foolish enough to use bribery or other means. He was now in the Tang Dynasty and there was such a thing as Hantong, and the military was regarded as the basic base by Li Xuan, and Hantong was monitored by eagles and dogs.
It's very strict. In addition, all the current generals are rushing to be the founding heroes and want to win higher titles or even hereditary titles. There will be some petty profits there. He is playing
It's about doing what you like.
It has to be said that Qin Zhifu's methods of building relationships are really powerful. After deliberately flattering, they all became Zeng Ziwen's guests. It is said that Zeng Ziwen thought highly of him.
After building a good relationship, it would be much easier to recruit new soldiers for the 7th Infantry Division. With his hard lobbying, Qin Zhifu was already Johnson and Johnson before Wang Chaohong arrived in Nanchang to take over his 7th Infantry Division.
Shengtong grabbed the quota of two thousand muskets from other troops, and then shipped them to Jiangxi for distribution to the Seventh Infantry Division.
After Wang Chaohong of Jiangxi got the news, he was overjoyed. It seemed that Qin Zhifu was not incompetent at all. He was actually able to win these two thousand troops for his 7th Infantry Division under the attack of many troops.
Quota of muskets.
It seems that I did the right thing by leaving him in Zhaoqing!