Regardless of whether it is the Six-Nation Alliance in the North, the Cassi Kingdom in the south, the Kingdom of Dana or even the Orissa Empire in the southern continent, although they are extremely afraid of the unified Daheng Empire, they do not have the guts to strike first.
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They can only passively strengthen their armaments and try to dispel the Daheng people's idea of invasion.
As for the Daheng Empire itself, although the people and even many military generals are clamoring for expansion after unification, in fact the upper echelons of the empire have no such plans for the time being.
After all, the empire has been in civil strife in recent decades. Now that it has finally been unified, it naturally needs to restore people's livelihood. It is impossible to launch a foreign war in a hurry.
Furthermore, there is actually no good direction for expansion. Most of the good places in the central continent have been occupied by the Daheng people.
The Northern Six Nations Alliance is a tough place to fight.
The two southern countries are also high mountains and tropical rainforests. Apart from controlling the endless straits, it actually doesn't make much sense to occupy this place. The Daheng people themselves don't like this place. As for directly invading the Orissa Empire, the Orissa Empire is good or bad.
It is also one of the powerful countries, but not easy to fight.
Another very important point is!
In the early years, the main driving force for the empire's external expansion was to seize land, and the core driving force was the large number of peasants in the empire!
The empire's small and medium-sized farmers have a very strong demand for land. This is the core driving force for the empire's continued expansion and land grabbing.
However, since the Industrial Revolution, the interests of industry and commerce have gradually exceeded agricultural income. In the past decade or two, the expansion of many large countries has not been based on direct land expansion, but on commercial expansion.
To put it simply, it means that we will no longer continue to plunder land, but use powerful force to pry open the borders of other countries and allow other countries to become their own suppliers of industrial raw materials and dumping grounds for industrial products.
A typical example of this is the Kingdom of Krul in recent decades. Their expansion model does not mean directly conquering much land. In fact, they are in expansion mode. It is more about conquering and supporting puppet countries, acquiring colonies, and opening up other countries.
market, thereby plundering a large amount of economic benefits.
In other words, as productivity changes, the world situation also changes.
This can be seen from the trade protection system adopted within the Daheng Empire. After the reunification, the Daheng Empire still adopted a strict trade protection system and adopted ultra-high restrictions on industrial products exported to the Daheng Empire, especially civilian consumer goods.
High tariffs prevent consumer goods from other countries from entering the Daheng market.
Let the civil industry within Daheng have a space for development.
Therefore, even though the civilian industrial technology within the Daheng Empire is very backward, it can still survive and the scale is not small.
Don’t expect other countries to count on Daheng’s internal market. They probably don’t have the guts to pry open the Daheng Empire’s door. Even the Kingdom of Krul, the world’s most powerful country, doesn’t have the guts!
As for exports, Daheng Empire's industrial products have little market, their technical content is too low, and their prices are not cheap. Even if they open the door to other countries, they are unlikely to be able to compete with other countries' products.
As for agricultural and livestock products, there is no need for competition. Other countries are begging the Daheng Empire to sell them food, but Daheng itself is not willing to sell food cheaply...
Therefore, for a long time to come, the international trade of the Daheng Empire is expected to be very small.
This also resulted in the empire lacking motivation for external expansion at the industrial and commercial level.
The combination of many factors led to the fact that although they expressed joy in words, in fact the upper echelons of the empire had no plans to expand externally in the short term.
When one day industry and commerce develops and exports can compete, then we can use the army to support industrial and commercial products to go abroad!
As for now, let’s start with farming and development first.
In June of the second year of Qian Sheng, after about half a year of preparation, the empire officially announced a comprehensive economic development plan!
This comprehensive development plan covers a wide range of areas.
Including large-scale agricultural development plans, various types of construction including transportation, the development of heavy industries such as steel, machinery and chemicals, the development of light industries such as textiles, and the development of the financial and securities industries.
Covers all aspects.
This is a master plan!
There are three core items!
The first major project is transportation construction, which aims to establish a national railway network, dredge some inland river sections, and develop and construct some ports.
The second major item is to promote the development of agriculture and animal husbandry and related processing industries, including promoting large-scale agriculture using steam engine tractors and developing various food processing industries such as brewing and canning.
The third major item is the industrial plan, which selects to support or build the first batch of 300 key enterprises to promote technological innovation, expand scale, and enhance their competitiveness.
The goal of the entire plan is to develop the grain processing industry in response to Daheng's abundant grain.
At the same time, it would be great to gradually change the crop planting structure and appropriately expand the planting area of economic crops, such as expanding cotton planting and processing it into cloth for export.
What is more important is industrial development. The entire plan proposes to concentrate on important basic industrial products, such as steel and coal, to expand production capacity. The empire is rich in mineral resources such as coal mines and iron ores. Among them, if the coal and steel products If production capacity cannot grow explosively, it will be impossible to meet the railway construction plan that has kicked off a major expansion.
There is also the oil industry. We will conduct careful surveys across the country to see if we can find a few more large oil fields. Although the production capacity of the Qingshan Oilfield is gradually increasing, its output is still low. There is not enough supply domestically, let alone exports. Earned foreign exchange.
At the same time, surrounding the large-scale agricultural plan and the large-scale industrial plan is transportation construction. After all, only with a mature railway network and river transportation network can we maintain the development of large-scale agriculture and industry.
Under Lin Ziran's personal guidance, the empire formally formulated a comprehensive economic development plan and quickly launched it.
The implementation of this comprehensive economic plan actually means that Daheng will not expand externally at all in the future.
However, once the comprehensive economic plan of the Daheng Empire is successfully implemented and industry and commerce develop, the domestic market will no longer be able to satisfy the demand. In order to compete for foreign markets, distance competition with other countries will inevitably occur. Once there are interests With conflict and competition, war is not far away.
In August, Lin Ziran led a group of ministers to inspect the resumption of production and construction work of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau on the outskirts of Dongcheng, the capital.
The Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, which has been undergoing reconstruction and resumption of production since last year, is under the jurisdiction of the newly established Jingzhou Arms Company.
In fact, not only the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, the Zishengzhou First Machinery Bureau, which has been rebuilt and resumed production, has also been spun off from Daheng Weapons Company.
In order to avoid the lack of internal competition within the same company, which would lead to a lack of ambition, Lin Ziran officially divided Daheng Weapon Company into three at the beginning of the year.
Nanzhou Arms Company with Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, Fuyuan Ordnance Factory, and Luohai Shipyard as the core were established respectively.
Jingzhou Arms Company, with Jingzhou Machinery Bureau and Jingzhou Shipyard as its core.
The Central Weapons Company with Zisheng Prefecture First Machinery Bureau and Qingde Arsenal as its core,
These three weapons companies are all independent comprehensive large-scale weapons research and development and production enterprises. Each of them has shipyards, artillery factories, rifle factories, ammunition factories and other professional factories.
At the same time, it was clarified that military weapons and equipment adopt a bidding model, and the three major weapons companies are invited to bid at the same time, aiming to allow the three major weapons companies to compete with each other to develop and produce better weapons.
Not only in the weapons industry, Lin Ziran also split up the steel, chemical, machinery and other industries that were previously under unified management. During the previous Unification War, in order to more conveniently coordinate production, he ignored all related industries and concentrated on them.
It is integrated into an industry headquarters for management.
However, it was soon discovered that this model was not very reliable, especially after the end of the Unification War and the dismantling of the National Defense Production Commission, the efficiency of various industry headquarter companies instantly dropped, and there were some unenterprising people.
phenomenon, so Lin Ziran immediately reformed them.
The weapons companies were all pretty good, but they were split into three companies. The split in other industries was more serious. The steel industry was split on a large scale. Twenty-six steel companies were established with a large steel plant as the core.
company.
The same is true for the mining industry.
At the same time, the above-mentioned enterprises will be subject to commercial management and de-administration. Officials will no longer serve as managers of the above-mentioned enterprises. The State-owned Assets Management Committee will only hold a controlling stake to ensure that assets are not lost. As for how to operate, they will be allowed to show their talents.
This series of reforms is actually part of the comprehensive economic development plan, but it is just implemented one step ahead of schedule.
This visit to Jingzhou Machinery Bureau was also to see the achievements of the reformed Jingzhou Machinery Bureau in resuming production.
It has to be said that the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau was able to rebuild so quickly because of reform factors. In order to compete for a large number of new orders from the military reorganization, the above-mentioned Jingzhou Arms Company, especially orders for rifles and artillery, hastened its reconstruction and resumption of production.
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In this way, the preliminary reconstruction was completed and small-scale trial production began in less than a year.
This was not the first time Lin Ziran came to Jingzhou Machinery Bureau. When he first came to the capital, he had already seen Jingzhou Machinery Bureau. However, at that time, Jingzhou Machinery Bureau was still in the process of reconstruction, and many factories were still preserved.
There are traces of the original bombing.
But things are different now. The Jingzhou Machinery Bureau that we see is already a complete factory building.
Entering one of the huge branch factories, the person in charge introduced to Lin Ziran their trial production of the Luoan Type IV rifle.
This rifle was identified as a new generation standard rifle for the army and navy last year. It has multiple sub-models, including the army standard version, the army cavalry version with a shortened barrel, and the navy version with anti-corrosion and other processes. In addition, it also has high-precision
A sniper version with a scope installed, etc.
The three major arms companies all have production patent authorizations and can produce them.
Lin Ziran is naturally very familiar with this rifle. It has an 11mm caliber and fires 11mm standard black powder rifle bullets. It uses a tubular magazine and can load eight bullets at a time, plus one bullet in the chamber.
, it can actually load nine bullets at a time, has a total length of 1.3 meters without bayonet and weighs 4.6 kilograms.
The effective range of this thing is very far, the range of the ruler is 1,500 meters...
Of course, it is impossible to fight at such a long distance in actual combat. Regardless of the nominal effective range of one thousand meters or one thousand five hundred meters, in actual combat, the effective range is generally only three to four hundred meters.
It's impossible to aim at all.
Since October last year, the Army has been gradually replacing the Luoan IV rifles, but they have only participated in actual combat on a small scale because the Unification War ended not long after.
Before the end of the Unification War, a total of just over 10,000 were equipped.
After the end of the Unification War, the rifle continued to be produced, but it no longer started working overtime day and night. Instead, it adopted the normal production mode. It currently maintains a production capacity of about 10,000 units a month, mainly by Zisheng, a subsidiary of the Central Arms Company.
It is produced by two arsenals, namely the Prefecture No. 1 Machinery Bureau and the Dongding Prefecture No. 1 Arsenal, which is affiliated to the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau.
As for the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, the designed production capacity after reconstruction is, under normal circumstances, a monthly production of approximately 8,000 Luoan IV rifles without overtime work.
Lin Ziran took a look at the Luoan Type 4 rifle produced by Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, and then tried a few shots with his own hands. This gun was good, much better than the Luoan Type 3 rifle.
Compared with the Luoan III rifle, the recoil is smaller, the shooting is more stable, and the accuracy is higher.
After seeing the Luoan Type IV rifle, Lin Ziran continued to look at another flagship product of the Jingzhou Machinery Bureau, the 2-year-old 105mm 15x caliber howitzer. The gun weighs more than one ton and has an effective range of 5,500
100 meters.
When this artillery prototype was first produced at the beginning of the year, due to its superior performance, it was already identified by the Army as a new generation of divisional howitzer firepower, used to comprehensively replace the 75mm divisional howitzer.
The army attaches great importance to this artillery. With this artillery, the Daheng Empire's army will be able to greatly increase its divisional firepower. Therefore, it has not yet been officially put into production, and the military has already ordered 300 guns in advance.
Door orders.
Now the gun has passed the preliminary research and development stage and entered the stage of small-scale trial production and large-scale testing at the same time. It is not far away from large-scale equipment.
Subsequently, Lin Ziran also personally watched the test firing of the gun. However, although this artillery is very important, it is still a howitzer in the end, and the scene during the test firing is often the same.
It is far more shocking than watching the test firing of several other large-caliber artillery!
During Lin Ziran's inspection this time, Jingzhou Arms Company took out all the property they could get away with.
Regardless of whether the artillery was practical or not, they were all brought out for test firing one by one. They even took out a 300mm 30x cannon that was still under development for test firing.
It's just that the technology of this artillery is not yet mature. Although I fired a few test shots, they were all test fires with a reduced charge, which was just a sound. If I really need to test fire with a standard charge, the chamber will explode 100%!
It seems advanced, but in terms of overall technology, it is actually not as powerful as the 300 mm 25-caliber naval gun from the Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, which seems to have inferior performance.
caliber naval gun, but it has undergone live-fire testing and is ready to be installed on the new generation battleship Yonglin battleship.
However, being able to produce such a product in such a short period of time also proves the strength of Jingzhou Machinery Bureau.divdiv