At the end of the autumn of the 12th year of the Tianqi revelation, the Ming Dynasty officially declared war on Mongolia, issued a declaration of war, and cursed Mongolia. The reason for declaring war was that Mongolia colluded with Jiannu.&1t;/p>

The next day, the major newspapers published this news, which became the headline news of various newspapers.&1t;/p>

"Selling newspapers, selling newspapers, Mongolia colluded with the remnants of Jiannu's tribe, and the Ming Dynasty declared war on Mongolia." As soon as the people selling newspapers shouted, the newspapers were quickly bought out.&1t;/p>

The Ming Dynasty has not fought any major wars in recent years, and the declaration of war against Mongolia has naturally become a news that people pay attention to. In particular, hasn’t Mongolia’s relationship with the Ming Dynasty improved before? Why did it suddenly start to fight?&1t;/p>

After buying the newspaper and reading it, people realized that the remnants of Jiannu ran to the lower reaches of the Volga River west of the Western Regions and annexed Tumot Mongolia. The previously defeated Mongolia colluded with the remnants of Jiannu at this time, and rejected the reasonable requests made by the Ming Dynasty and tried their best to protect the remnants of Jiannu.&1t;/p>

"The Ming Dynasty will win if it defeats Mongolia."&1t;/p>

"That Lin Danhan is so bad, he still wants to go against the Ming Dynasty."&1t;/p>

After reading the newspaper, the people were indignant. The atmosphere of war has been mobilized. The official naturally increased propaganda before the war started, so that the people could support the war.&1t;/p>

Judging from the effect, it is still very good.&1t;/p>

Most people support attacking Mongolia, believing that a wolf-ambitious guy like Lin Danhan of Mongolia would not deal with it, the threat to the Ming Dynasty was too great.&1t;/p>

Only a small number of groups believe that the gains from the expedition of Mongolia are not worth the cost, and expressed their objections in the newspaper.&1t;/p>

"Mongolia relies on the vast grasslands. Once it is weak, it will avoid fighting. The soldiers in the Central Plains often have no choice but to waste the people and damage their wealth, and there is no one to gain. If they conquer Mongolia this time, it will definitely be like this."&1t;/p>

Some people made predictions in newspapers and were completely unfavorable about this war. Some people also believed that Mongolia had nothing to grab, and that the war would have too much damage to the people's power. This was a completely unnecessary war.&1t;/p>

These oppositions have also been recognized by some people, believing that the imperial court declared war on Mongolia this time would cause the Ming Dynasty to waste the people and lose nothing in the end.&1t;/p>

After seeing the newspaper, the great chaebols and the great gentry in the south of the Yangtze River were overjoyed. The emperor ran to attack Mongolia. It is estimated that reforms would be impossible for the southern provinces to carry out within a few years.&1t;/p>

If the emperor focused on reforming the southern provinces, the last lasso would be tied to their necks, and the emperor decided to conquer Mongolia, which means they would likely have a chance to breathe in this war. So they all hoped that Zhu Youxiao would be defeated this time. If you were to waste the people and lose money, and you would be very angry.&1t;/p>

But for each army, I was very excited. Those who have been in the army for so long, aren’t they just looking forward to fighting? Now the opportunity has come, and the time has come to make achievements.&1t;/p>

People from different classes of Ming Dynasty showed different attitudes towards this war, and in general, they still supported more.&1t;/p>

But whether it is support or opposition, the war has begun.&1t;/p>

The order to mobilize the Supreme Command of the Ming Dynasty has reached various military regions, and some troops have begun to mobilize to border areas.&1t;/p>

This includes a large number of production corps.&1t;/p>

This will be a huge war. The combat plan agreed by the Supreme Command is to draw 20 infantry divisions from the Central Army. 20 cavalry divisions and 4 artillery divisions to participate in the battle, and then 20 production corps will be drawn to invest in the battle.&1t;/p>

These troops have begun to gather, with a total force of more than 700,000. With so many troops being drawn, it was naturally unimaginable to use the financial resources of the Ming Dynasty in the past. But now it seems very easy, because there is no large consumption in supply transportation, and the train can directly transport combat supplies to the front line. This saves a lot of manpower and material resources. At the same time, with the current productivity of the Ming Dynasty, there are tens of millions of workers engaged in non-agricultural labor, and a mere 700,000 troops can still be used.&1t;/p>

With so many troops being transferred to the front line, the railway construction can be accelerated.&1t;/p>

"The strategy of this battle is also relatively simple. It is to build the railway into the grassland, so that our Ming Dynasty can gain a foothold on the grassland for a long time, and then form a strategic division, and then carry out large-scale sweeps. While building the railway, we will also send five infantry divisions to carry heavy machine guns to the enemy's territory to carry out sweeps. In order to gain the initiative on the battlefield, Lin Danhan does not have so much spare time to harass us to build the railway." Zhu Youxiao formulated a combat strategy at the combat meeting of the Supreme Command.&1t;/p>

"At the same time, other troops will build railways and carry out continuous sweeping and cleaning of the divided grassland areas. This task will be completed by me personally leading the troops."&1t;/p>

"I think it's safer for Your Majesty to stay in the rear to supervise the construction of the railway. Isn't it..." Sun Chengzong said. He was the only one who said this.&1t;/p>

"It's so boring. I'm going to relax. It's boring to stay behind." Zhu Youxiao refused directly. A group of staff from the Supreme Command were so funny after hearing this.&1t;/p>

The emperor actually wanted to go to the grassland to relax, which is too much!&1t;/p>

However, since the emperor had to relax, of course he could not object. Although he led the army to mobilize, although he did not stay at the railway construction site, it was actually not much dangerous. The Ming Dynasty was already under an absolute force crushing against Mongolia. Moreover, such a mobilization may not necessarily encounter the main force of Mongolia.&1t;/p>

The other five cavalry divisions are responsible for finding Mongolia's main force. These five infantry divisions will ride horses and transport them all, equipped with new rifles and heavy machine guns, maintaining a certain distance between each other to sweep Mongolia. They can move quickly and at the same time echo each other.&1t;/p>

In the past, the Ming Dynasty could not have done this against Mongolia. The army was basically concentrated.&1t;/p>

Five divisions were divided at the same time, and they were scattered. Even if the grassland was large, the railway line was divided and the key sweeping areas were divided, it was equivalent to seven troops siegeing and blocking Mongolia. The difficulty of hiding and seeking increased exponentially! And if you accidentally hide outside the Mongolian grassland, the purpose of the Ming Dynasty will be achieved by then.&1t;/p>

In general, this is a relatively large-scale military operation and construction operation, but it can still be supported by the national finances of the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

In addition, there is indeed not much risk. The overall strategy is relatively reliable and stable. It is a step-by-step approach, plus some radical tactics.&1t;/p>

The five infantry divisions scattered on the grassland are more radical fighting styles. Even if they fail, they cannot be defeated. Even if they are defeated, the result will be acceptable, because the main force has not lost it and is still as stable as Mount Tai.&1t;/p>

The only problem is to control the cost of war. Although machine guns can kill all sides, the cost of bullets is still relatively high.&1t;/p>

Now the bullet production line of the Ming Dynasty has just been established, and its production technology is still relatively low, and it is full of a large number of manual assembly links.&1t;/p>

So this war is not something that can use machine guns indefinitely.&1t;/p>

Once the bullet consumption is not properly controlled, it is spending money. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty still has certain challenges when dealing with this war.&1t;/p>

The Supreme Command immediately mobilized and adjusted its troops according to this strategy.&1t;/p>

In terms of railway construction, it is directly built from the Ming-Terminal District on the grassland to Ulaanbaatar in later Mongolia. Then the Mongolian style is turned into two parts, and then the eastern part of the railway is swept away, and then the troops are turned to sweep the grassland in the west of the railway.&1t;/p>

Basically, the railway can be built in one year.&1t;/p>

After all, this time it is a militarization operation. Every soldier is a labor force, and the railway will be laid very quickly. While building this trunk line, a railway will be built to the eastern region and then connected to the northeast railway. In this way, the eastern region of the railway trunk line that was swept through in the 13th year of the Tianqi period will be divided into two parts, north and south. The Ming army will first sweep the south part, and then sweep the north part.&1t;/p>

The combat mission for the entire weather for thirteen years is to sweep the eastern grasslands of Mongolia in northern desert and to clearly capture it and include it in the scope of the Ming Dynasty's rule.&1t;/p>

While building the railway, they then build cities and forts along the railway line. Once these cities and fortresses are built, the Mongolians will be confused. They have no ability to attack cities at all. The Ming Dynasty wants to stay in the grassland for a long time, and they cannot drive them away.&1t;/p>

This winter, military factories began to work overtime to produce combat materials. The military factories in Beijing have now opened branches in Tianjin, Shandong and other provinces, and the arms production capacity has been greatly improved.&1t;/p>

Such production capacity improvement has accelerated the update of the military equipment in the Ming Dynasty. Among them, the one that has increased faster is the bullet production capacity.&1t;/p>

In order to improve the efficiency of the factory, Zhu Youxiao also proposed the concept of assembly line.&1t;/p>

The assembly line is based on parallel industrial production, using a steam engine to drive the conveyor belt, and send the parts that need to be assembled directly to the workers.&1t;/p>

In this way, workers save time in handling materials themselves, and their production efficiency will be improved quickly.&1t;/p>

Assembly line production was unrealistic before the steam engine appeared because there was no reliable power to drive the operation of the assembly line.&1t;/p>

Now that we have a steam engine, this can be achieved.&1t;/p>

The machinery manufacturing plants have begun to research and manufacture such production line equipment. After all, the Ming Dynasty has just begun a few years of industrial revolution, but military technology has made rapid progress. Bullet manufacturing capabilities are the biggest shortcoming of the current second-generation new military model.&1t;/p>

Bullet production capacity needs to be further improved. If assembly line equipment can appear and steam engines are widely used in the bullet production process, then bullet production capacity will be greatly improved. With sufficient bullet production capacity, there is no need to worry about insufficient bullets in the future.&1t;/p>

In this situation, the Mongolians were unaware of the danger approaching and thought that their hide-and-seek could be successfully avoided.&1t;/p>

The Mongols were still prepared for the upcoming war after winter and planned to transfer according to the movements of the Ming army after winter.&1t;/p>

Winter is coming, and snow is beginning to fall everywhere. It is impossible to have any war in this winter, so the border seems relatively calm.&1t;/p>

However, at the railway station on the border, the combat material reserve warehouse is still being built, and trains are constantly driving here with a large amount of materials.&1t;/p>

There are military rations, medicines, and bullets.&1t;/p>

There are also a large number of sleepers, rails, sand and gravel, cement, and explosives. The double-regulated railway built before immediately played a huge role. The train transfer of the double-track railway is more convenient. After the train is on the road, no train comes from the opposite side, and there is no need to stop and wait for adjustment and dispatch.&1t;/p>

Unless the train in front fails and stops, it will affect the train behind. After the train in the wrong, you only need to send a signal to the train behind and stop the train behind, and there will be no train rear-end accident.&1t;/p>

The Mongol spies soon discovered this phenomenon, but they only understood the scope of their understanding. Moreover, it is difficult to further spy on intelligence. They are not very clear about what the Ming people are doing. Their understanding of productivity is obviously not very good. If they do not understand that productivity has reached a certain level, there will be crushing results.&1t;/p>

By the end of the year, various departments are busy doing financial statistics. On the one hand, they look at how much money they have been spent this year and how much money they will be spent next year.&1t;/p>

The Ministry of Revenue also counted the data at the end of the year.&1t;/p>

In the 12th year of the revelation of the Ming Dynasty, the total fiscal revenue reached 900 million, and the fiscal revenue showed another large increase. This is not consistent with the economic regulation policies.&1t;/p>

"Your Majesty, the growth of fiscal revenue this year is mainly due to the significant increase in overseas revenue. First, the scale of trade with the Spaniards and the Portuguese continued to rise, and at the same time, commodity exports in North Korea, Japan, the Indochina Peninsula and India also saw a large increase. Internally, due to the increase in commodity sales to the south, factory profits and trade profits increased." Jiang Dejing, Secretary of the Ministry of Revenue, explained the situation.&1t;/p>

It turns out that the main growth of central fiscal revenue is due to the increase in the scale of dividend remittance of state-owned enterprises, which is the main factor in growth.&1t;/p>

Although the monetary tightening policy was implemented in the new policy areas and no longer issued large amounts of loans to private capital, resulting in a slowdown in the development of private capital enterprises. However, the scale of factory construction in the Ming Dynasty did not decline, and state-owned enterprises were still building factories in large quantities. The growth of commodity production capacity increased the amount of goods that could be exported on a large scale, and the export volume of commodity naturally increased a large amount.&1t;/p>

Therefore, the ability to plunder foreign countries was greatly enhanced, especially after the war against India, India's huge market opened its doors to the Ming Dynasty.&1t;/p>

Internal fiscal taxation did not decline due to monetary tightening, but only slowed down its growth. However, external trade was not disturbed by this factor. The expansion of external market led to the increase in the scale of commercial plunder in the Ming Dynasty and a large number of precious metals were plundered back.&1t;/p>

State-owned enterprises have made a lot of money because of overseas trade. In the context of private capital being excluded from the threshold of ocean trade, only state-owned capital enjoys most of the huge benefits of ocean trade, and private capital only participates in it indirectly, such as the production of exported goods, etc.&1t;/p>

The dividends of state-owned enterprises reached nearly 350 million yuan.&1t;/p>

The policy of restricting financial rights has already harvested rich fruits at this time, and the scale of state-owned enterprises will continue to grow in the future. At this time, a large number of investments are being carried out.&1t;/p>

With 900 million fiscal revenue, and the scale of foreign trade will continue to grow next year with the opening of the Indian market. This makes Zhu Youchao's confidence in proofreading the Mengdong war, and once the war breaks out, there will be a lot of funds to use on the bank.&1t;/p>

The Ming Dynasty was not a Western country in the future, and banks were still private.&1t;/p>

Every time Western countries in later generations have wars, they will fall into the war fiscal trap and owe banks a lot of debts. The banks in the Ming Dynasty are state-owned. Although the money has to be paid back, banks cannot use their financial power to provoke wars everywhere and encourage the government to increase unnecessary military expenditures. (To be continued.)&1t;/p>
Chapter completed!