Chapter 345: Daming Telegraph Company
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The result of this discussion in the imperial meeting was to increase military strength and consolidate border defense to avoid the sudden difficulty and rush of the Mongols.&1t;/p>
And before the completion of the northern reform, try to stabilize the situation and no longer engage in large-scale wars from outside, but the external colonial war will continue.&1t;/p>
The court's focus in the next few years will still be on internal reform, so a stable situation is needed to ensure that the reform can be completed smoothly.&1t;/p>
Especially at present, those old interest classes are already full of vigilance about reform and may jump out and cause trouble at any time. At this critical moment, it is indeed not advisable to engage in wars everywhere.&1t;/p>
In order to meet the needs of the situation, after the imperial meeting, Zhu Youxiao held a meeting of the command department to make new changes to the military.&1t;/p>
This change mainly increased the organization of the Ming Dynasty National Defense Forces. The scale of the National Defense Forces was set at 10,000 people, mainly production corps, and the troops were conscripts.&1t;/p>
In addition, the scale of the Ming Field Army will be increased to 40,000 yuan, and will be organized into 25 infantry divisions, 20 cavalry divisions, and 3 artillery divisions.&1t;/p>
The scale of the 6 Navy team was expanded to 10,000 people and formed 10 infantry divisions.&1t;/p>
The garrison army trained 50 garrison brigades with a force of 250,000.&1t;/p>
The size of the local armed police force is set at 10,000, and it is distributed in various new policy areas. It is a military force that local governments can directly call.&1t;/p>
The total force is 1.85 million, the number of professional soldiers is small, most of them are conscripts. At the same time, most of them are production corps, and local garrison brigades will carry out production.&1t;/p>
There is only the field army, the 50,000 troops of the Navy Team are not required to be engaged in production. These troops either fight or train. Local armed police are used to maintain public order and also require regular training.&1t;/p>
The production corps of the National Defense Force will be distributed on the national defense line, with the focus still being distributed on the border with Mongolia. Although these production corps are not used for training, they are firearms troops after all, and can go to the battlefield after training for a few months, let alone serve for five years. Training can be carried out during the slack farming period.&1t;/p>
Although these production corpses are not as elite as the field army, their combat effectiveness will not be too poor. With a large number of reliable firearms, they are more than enough to deal with the Mongols. They are fully capable of supporting the border. Once a large-scale war occurs, these national defense forces can be drawn out to fight.&1t;/p>
These troops are divided into the Northeast Military Region, the Northwest Military Region, the Central Military Region, and the Nanyang Military Region.&1t;/p>
The center of the Northeast Military Region is located in Shenyang, the center of the Northwest Military Region is located in Urumqi in later generations, the center of the Central Military Region is located in Baoding, and the center of the Nanyang Military Region is located in Manila, Luzon.&1t;/p>
Each military region allocates troops according to the situation and the field army is under the Central Military Region. It is directly commanded by Zhu Youxiao. At the same time, due to the increase in the number of war horses, Zhu Youxiao decided to equip the field army infantry with transportation horses to enhance the mobility of the field army. In addition, the continuous construction of highways, the field army can quickly reach the war zone in the future.&1t;/p>
The Northwest War Zone, the Northeast War Zone, and the Nanyang Military Region all use national defense as their main purpose and cannot pose too much threat to the central government.&1t;/p>
In terms of the Navy, the Central Fleet, Beiyang Fleet and Nanyang Fleet were established. The Central Fleet had the strongest strength and was responsible for overseas naval battles. The Beiyang Fleet and Nanyang Fleet were responsible for assisting customs, clearing up pirates, and rescuing merchant ships and fishing boats. Exploring various sea areas, assisting the 6th Navy to suppress the riots indigenous people, etc.&1t;/p>
The Beiyang Fleet and the Nanyang Fleet will mainly be equipped with cruisers and frigates.&1t;/p>
The Central Fleet will be equipped with 2o 2ooo ton battleships, which will be equipped with large-caliber heavy artillery. After these battleships are built, these battleships can serve at least 30 years, which is a relatively cost-effective military investment.&1t;/p>
Some small-tonnage battleships will be retired, while others will be incorporated into the Beiyang Fleet and the Nanyang Fleet.&1t;/p>
After this restructuring, the military system has been officially improved.&1t;/p>
The old border troops could complete abolishment by the eighth year of the Apocalypse, and local garrisons in the new policy areas have also been completely abolished.&1t;/p>
In the military aspect, Zhu Youxiao has completely grasped it.&1t;/p>
This military power is also the capital for Zhu Youxiao to travel to this era and settle down.&1t;/p>
This restructuring will be roughly completed within three years. By then, it will be ten years when Zhu Youxiao ascended the throne. It can be said that it will be a ten-year sharpening of his sword.&1t;/p>
The generals who followed Zhu Youxiao to establish a new army. At this time, they were all promoted. After the reform, eight commanders emerged, all of them were old subordinates who had trained the new army.&1t;/p>
The commander-in-chief of the military region is a civil servant, Sun Chuanting serves as the commander-in-chief of the Northeast Military Region, and Lu Xiangsheng is promoted by Zhu Youxiao to the commander-in-chief of the Northwest Military Region. The commander-in-chief of the Nanyang Military Region is a civil servant.&1t;/p>
These appointments went out one by one, and the fastest rise was Lu Xiangsheng, who was also at the level of rockets. However, Lu Xiangsheng had just commanded the army to recover the Western Regions, and his contribution was great enough. Although he was younger, he could not find any problem in promoting the commander-in-chief of the Northwest Military Region.&1t;/p>
However, the ministers are no longer surprised by the emperor's behavior. Sun Chuanting also rushed up like a rocket.&1t;/p>
Others can only look at these guys who are riding on rockets, but not many people can catch the emperor's eyes. However, all of these people who are soon promoted have very good abilities. Many ministers admire the emperor's talent for understanding people.&1t;/p>
In fact, Zhu Youxiao’s talent for identifying people can only be said to be average, but time travelers can naturally distinguish some loyalty and treacherous.&1t;/p>
The personnel changes did not end. Sun Chengzong and Yuan Keli were transferred back to the capital by Zhu Youxiao, Yuan Keli served as the Minister of War, and Sun Chengzong served as the Chief of Staff of the Command.&1t;/p>
Jiannu has been wiped out, and the Northeast region has now stabilized. The two old ministers, Sun Chengzong and Yuan Keli, naturally, will be transferred back.&1t;/p>
And Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng are just young and strong, and it is time to put them in the local area to take charge of military affairs.&1t;/p>
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After receiving the transfer order, Sun Chengzong breathed a sigh of relief. As soon as Sun Chuanting arrived, he handed over his position to Sun Chuanting and rushed to the capital.&1t;/p>
Previously, Sun Chengzong held high power in the Northeast for many years and was worried that the emperor would be suspicious. This time the emperor transferred him back to the capital to serve, so he naturally felt relieved.&1t;/p>
As the imperial teacher, the possibility of Sun Chengzong rebelling was very low. At this time, the Northeast region was pacified and the field army 6 continued to withdraw from the Northeast region. The military power in Sun Chengzong's hands had been greatly weakened, and Zhu Youxiao was not worried.&1t;/p>
Sun Chengzong, who was transferred back to the capital, served as the chief of staff of the Supreme Command, second only to Zhu Youxiao, but his military power was captured by Zhu Youxiao, so there were no hidden dangers for this.&1t;/p>
Sun Chengzong and Yuan Keli, who were transferred back to the capital, quickly took over the work.&1t;/p>
At this time, the Ministry of War was equivalent to the Ministry of National Defense. The Supreme Command was a specific military command department, which was the product of Zhu Youxiao's military centralization.&1t;/p>
Reforms are continuing, and military and administrative reforms are being done.&1t;/p>
After the three provinces of Shandong, Shanxi and Henan were included in the scope of reform, the new policy area became wider, no longer only one northern Zhili and the three eastern provinces, as well as those overseas regions.&1t;/p>
After these three provinces were included in the reform, the newly expropriated areas increased by more than 60000 people, while the population of northern Zhili reached more than 30000, and the population in the Northeast region also exceeded 10000. The total number of Han people in the New Deal area has exceeded 1000 million.&1t;/p>
The reform has been fully supported by the interest group of the state-owned capital consortium, and has also supported by the private-owned factory owners in the newly recruited areas.&1t;/p>
This new policy reform means that more people will be included in this system and the market will become larger. And it will not grow a little bit, but will grow exponentially.&1t;/p>
When the market is big, the money you make will naturally be more.&1t;/p>
The investment and construction of the official and state-owned capital consortiums have allowed the people to have jobs and wealth continues to penetrate into the grassroots people. The grassroots people have purchasing power and the demand for goods can further increase.&1t;/p>
Moreover, after the land enclosure movement begins, the level of urbanization will continue to increase. The population is concentrated in cities and towns. The rural natural economy will be quickly replaced by the commodity economy.&1t;/p>
At that time, industries such as food, clothing, housing, transportation, etc. will be driven.&1t;/p>
For state-owned capital consortiums, the reform of the new policy is definitely a process of large amounts of assets. The mining industries in the newly acquired areas will be monopolized by state-owned capital consortiums, and all private minerals will be nationalized and private mining is prohibited.&1t;/p>
The metallurgy industry is also an industry monopolized by state-owned capital consortiums. Private capital such as metal processing can enter.&1t;/p>
State-owned banks will also lay out their deposits in administrative areas, absorb deposits, and close local bankers and pawn shops.&1t;/p>
Those Shanxi merchants were about to vomit blood this time. They were also the most opposed to reform among the northern merchants, but King Fu failed to rebellion. They did not dare to jump out and fight the court now.&1t;/p>
Shanxi merchants, who really had no choice, have closed the ticket accounts for 6 consecutively, and the business was really impossible to continue. The network of Shanxi ticket accounts has been broken. With the rise of state-owned banks, these ticket accounts have gradually lost their competitiveness.&1t;/p>
In addition, highways are also the assets of state-owned capital consortiums. These highways are built by enterprises under the state-owned capital consortium, but they also accept private investment.&1t;/p>
State-owned capital consortiums are also enclosing land in the new policy areas. The main force of the land enclosure movement is still these state-owned capital consortiums. In any case, there are more and more land in their hands. Excellent assets are basically only in and out of state-owned capital consortiums.&1t;/p>
These lands are many sources, some are bought with money, some are obtained by merchants' mortgage loans after bankruptcy, and some are obtained by house search.&1t;/p>
State-owned capital consortiums will naturally not let go of real estate or something, and these are all of them have interests. Of course, in some areas, state-owned capital consortiums will compete with private capital.&1t;/p>
However, the most profitable thing these days is industry. In terms of industry, state-owned capital consortiums currently monopolize mining and metallurgy. At the same time, relying on patent laws, they rely on those technical patents to monopolize the production of many commodities.&1t;/p>
Especially those emerging industries are basically monopolized by state-owned capital consortiums. For example, mechanical manufacturing, chemical industry, etc.&1t;/p>
Once reforms are made, too many new interests have emerged, and under the promotion of a group of emerging capital forces, traditional interest groups have been suppressed.&1t;/p>
While Zhu Youxiao was focusing on internal reforms, technical knowledge was constantly emerging and improving.&1t;/p>
The first telegram route was finally completed. Although it was not very far from the capital to Tianjin, the telegram route was immediately successful after it was put into operation. The communication level from the capital to Tianjin was so fast that people of this era felt unimaginable.&1t;/p>
The emergence of telegrams has made the business operation of state-owned capital consortiums very easy.&1t;/p>
What is the point of making money these days?&1t;/p>
It is just relying on faster communication than others, so it is too easy to make money.&1t;/p>
In this era of under-communication, it is actually hard for everyone to understand whether the market demand and production scale can match. Therefore, commodity price fluctuations are very normal, and sometimes they fluctuate relatively largely.&1t;/p>
Just like what tea or vegetable trafficking business is done in later generations. When the phone was not popularized in rural areas, the business was very easy to do, and the seller could take the initiative in price. However, when the phone was popular in rural areas, the sales business gradually became difficult to do.&1t;/p>
Therefore, the degree of information acquisition is the key to commercial profitability. In later generations, most valuable information is monopolized and ordinary people cannot access much.&1t;/p>
Wherever there is demand, wherever there is goods nearest, telegraph is definitely a powerful tool for commercial operations. With this thing, it will be very convenient to coordinate goods in the future.&1t;/p>
The first step is the magical artifact, and the next step behind is ****. Therefore, although telegraph cannot match the communication tools of later generations, its value in this era is extremely huge.&1t;/p>
And the key is that this technology is in the hands of the court. When laying lines and starting a telegraph company, it requires the court to nod private capital to enter. Obviously, the telegraph industry is also something that will be monopolized.&1t;/p>
After the first telegraph line was successfully put into internal operation, a plan to lay telegraphs on a large scale was formed. Yang Guorui suggested establishing a telegraph company and laying the telegraphs in various areas of the new policy first.&1t;/p>
"The telegraph company is indeed going to set up, but it should not be opened to civilian use first. It will be used for a few years within the court." Zhu Youchao ordered Yang Guorui.&1t;/p>
"Yes, Your Majesty." Yang Guorui recorded it and immediately went to ask someone to prepare to start a telegraph company.&1t;/p>
In July of the seventh year of the Tianqi period, the "Daming Telegraph Company" was officially established. The emergence of the new technology of telegraph has led to another thing that can be built, and an industry emerged. The economy is driven by the new demand generated by these new technologies.&1t;/p>
However, these telegrams are not open to civilian use for the time being. This thing is a commercial weapon. With this thing, the state-owned capital consortium can kill many private businessmen. Capital is a game where big fish eat small fish. The state-owned capital consortium has now become big fish, so naturally it eats small fish everywhere.&1t;/p>
In the following years, the civilian use will not be opened. Opening civil use will also be gradually opened. For example, only areas where state-owned capital consortiums have absolute advantages will be opened to telegram civil use.&1t;/p>
At the same time, telegraphs will also change the imperial court's control over the local situation. As long as the military and administrative systems use telegraphs, the imperial court's control over the local situation will be greatly enhanced.&1t;/p>
In addition to the maturity of telegraph technology, new spinning machines have also made breakthroughs. The number of spindles driven by a hydraulic spinning machine has continued to increase, and finally it has even reached the level of driving 1 ooo spindles at the same time. The productivity of the textile industry has begun to expand rapidly.&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!