Cold and diarrhea, my head was a little dizzy, and I was very depressed! So it was nearly two hours late tonight, but I still wrote it out. I just wanted to get some manuscripts to break ruthlessly... Military reform and expansion of enrollment soon began. In mid-February, Zhao Yan promulgated the "Shandong Compulsory Military Service Law". The Military Service Law stipulates that as a people in Shandong, they enjoy the blessing of peace and peace in Shandong, but they did not fulfill their obligations. Today, my compatriots suffered from water and fire. A young man over the age of 17 in Shandong should join the army for three years and fulfill his obligations... How many troops have been expanded, they are in a confidential state, and several brigades are trained, and they are also in a confidential state.

But the publicity for recruitment this time was extremely huge. Recruitment slogans were released everywhere in Shandong and notices were posted everywhere.

What is "one person joins the army, the whole family will be glorious"; "You can be discharged from the army for three years, and you will have a future in learning and recognizing words"... 300,000 conscripts will be converted into professional soldiers in three years. There are only about 90,000 professional soldiers now, and 38,000 soldiers in the Americas are not yet in the adapted sequence.

Although it is very hard to promote, it is not just publicity, but also a means of forcing the surname.

All young and strong laborers engaged in agricultural production in Shandong will undergo physical examinations and then select qualified young and strong soldiers to join the army.

There are about 1.2 million young and strong people aged 17 to 25 in Shandong who are engaged in agricultural production, so it is easy to recruit 300,000.

Due to publicity, young people from all over Shandong cooperate very well. Anyway, they can only be discharged from the army for three years. In these three years, there is a Japanese slave to do the farm work in the fields. They can also train in the army for three years, and there are also teachers in the army to teach them to recognize words.

If you make a contribution, you can become a professional soldier.

Although the treatment is not as good as before, it is still a very good choice.

For these young people who work in rural areas and have no education, joining the army is one of the few ways they can walk out of the countryside.

Of course, you can also do business by relying on your brain, but many people are not educated enough, but the military will teach them to learn literature and recognize words. After they have culture, there will be more opportunities in the future... Registration is still very enthusiastic, although it is a compulsory military service system.

Shandong Army won every battle, and usually won at a very small price. Disabled soldiers received high pensions, which has already relieved the concerns of those young people.

Without any worries, and with the benefits of joining the army, I naturally feel very enthusiastic about saving my life.

But not everyone can pass.

Good physical fitness, good performance during exercise is preferred!

The recruitment was very smooth, but the problems in adaptation and training were not that simple.

The Cavalry Brigade will be adapted in Liaodong, and the changes to the Cavalry Brigade are relatively simple. The Infantry Brigade will be located in Shandong for changes and training.

Therefore, all infantry in Liaodong will be withdrawn to Shandong, and Liaodong will be handed over to the 4 cavalry brigades of the First Division and a small number of infantry to defend.

The fleet that had just transported a large number of Japanese slaves back began to busy dispatch troops in the Bohai Bay.

Currently, Shandong has 168 large merchant ships, and its transportation capacity has reached a relatively large level. In addition, 20 more than 800 tons of fly-scissors were launched not long ago. There are more than 200 ships less than 800 tons and more than 300 tons.

The maritime transportation power is absolutely strong at this time.

As for the navy, thirty frigates were also launched, all of which were ‘parallel goods’ made by Paulownia, but they were equipped with long-range artillery and had good combat effectiveness.

The First Fleet currently has 36 warships, 45 frigates, and 12 500-ton fly-scissors (reconnaissance type), requiring 20,000 sailors.

Such power can sweep across Asia.

It only takes some time to integrate this force. The eleven warships dragged back by the Nanyang team were seriously damaged. It is estimated that they will be renovated and released from the factory in May. There are still ten warships staying in Palembang.

Zhao Yan also reorganized the fleets.

The offshore fleet led by Yan Shiliang will expand its range of activities to the north and south coasts (end to Zhejiang in the south), and the surrounding waters of Japan.

The warships will be used to wipe out bandits from the north and south coasts, and at the same time, twenty-five frigates will be dispatched to escort the merchant ships heading to Japan.

The First Fleet will have 36 warships and 20 frigates, and the focus of the activity will begin to shift southward. After the First Fleet reorganizes its forces, the next one to deal with is Zheng Zhilong.

But it is not that fast, and it will take some time for the fleet to integrate its power, but it is OK to deal with the Dutch people on Taiwan Island.

Then, the two locations Palembang and Taiwan will be used as bases to conduct a comprehensive "sweeping" of merchant ships in the south. If you do not register in Shandong, you will be fined if you catch them. If you are fined half of a ship of cargo, are you happy?

Under the transportation of merchant ships, Shandong soldiers began to be frequently dispatched.

Ten thousand professional soldiers were drawn out from the various battalions of the Shandong Army and all sent to the armed police force to serve as officers and non-commissioned officers.

At present, only ten provinces have been established. Fujian is Zheng Zhilong's territory and cannot enter for the moment. At least it cannot enter Fujian before actually taking action against him.

The markets in Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou and Yunnan are not very big. Besides, you won’t be a big fat man in one breath. I will reach out to these provinces in the south next year.

The First Fleet is also speeding up the integration of its forces and striving to integrate the fleet within three months.

...Immigration has also begun. North Korea needs 150,000 people and Liaodong needs 250,000 people, and 400,000 immigrants are expected.

For the average of four people per household, it is about 1.6 million.

As for the specific calculation of how much arable land there is in Liaodong, it is too complicated.

The Northeast Plain is so big that it can’t be seen for a while. So I measured it briefly, and it was about 1,000 kilometers long from north to south, and more than 400 kilometers wide from east to west, with a total area of ​​350,000 square kilometers.

The Northeast Plain is divided into three major pieces: Liaohe Plain, Songnen Plain and Sanjiang Plain. The Little Xing'an Mountains are bounded as the boundary in the north, and half of them can be used as arable land.

In other words, nearly 300 million mu of arable land can be developed, and the swamp land in the Sanjiang Plain can be eliminated, with 200 million mu of the smallest mu.

250,000 households immigrated to Liaodong, plus 300,000 Han residents in Liaodong, each household is 300, which is 165 million mu. Together with the 150 million mu of farms owned by the military headquarters, it is almost 200 million mu.

According to ideal conditions, the potential of the two major plains in the Northeast can be fully developed, and Zhao Yan does not intend to develop the wetlands of the Sanjiang Plain.

The population pressure is not high now, so why are wetlands destroyed?

The three major ecosystems on the earth are forests, oceans, and wetlands. Among them, wetlands only account for 6% of the land area, but provide living space for 20% of organisms and are called "bird paradise". The habitats of many birds are inseparable from wetlands.

Wetlands are ecosystems with many unique functions on the earth. They can provide humans with a large amount of food, raw materials and water resources. They also play an important role in maintaining ecological balance, maintaining biodiversity and rare species resources, conserving water sources, storing floods and droughts, degrading pollution and regulating climate, replenishing groundwater, and controlling soil erosion.

Wetlands are richest in biological diversity. There are more than 2,760 wetland plants recorded in later generations in China, including 156 families, 437 genera, and more than 1,380 higher wetland plants. From the perspective of growth environment, wetland plants can be divided into three categories: aquatic, marsh, and wetland; from the perspective of plant life types, there are water-like, floating leaf type, submerged and floating type, etc.; from the perspective of plant species, some are thin and weak grass, some are thick herbs, some are short shrubs, and some are tall.

The species of large trees and wetland animals are also extremely rich. There are about 1,500 species of wetland animals recorded in China (excluding insects, invertebrates, fungi and microorganisms), including about 250 species of water and about 1,040 species of fish. There are about 500 species of freshwater fish among fish, accounting for more than 80% of the total number of freshwater fish in the world. Therefore, from an economic or ecological perspective, wetlands are the most valuable and productive ecosystems.

Wetlands are a multifunctional and biodiverse ecosystem on the earth. They are one of the most important living environments for human beings. Anyway, after the Liaodong was built, there was little pressure on cultivated land, and there was no need to covet the wetlands of the Sanjiang Plain.

It is really unknown how much population is in the Ming Dynasty.

Judging from the sales volume of salt recently, there should be about 200 million people, not only 100 million.

The population growth rate of the Ming Dynasty was far less than that of the Qing Dynasty, nor even more so than that of China after liberation.

This can reflect a problem, that is, people have a high standard of living, so the population growth rate will not be so fast.

The high and low population growth rate are generally the richer countries grow slowly and the poorer countries grow faster.

In addition to Mao’s encouraging childbirth, poverty was the main reason for the 1.3 billion people in later generations. The developed Western countries also encourage childbirth all day long, but the population did not appear to be overwhelmed.

What's even more ridiculous is that the mastermind who created this phenomenon actually kept saying that China has such a large population, it is impossible for everyone to enjoy any resources. It means that there are too many grass-roots people, and it is impossible for everyone to be rich.

In such a deformed society, people can do anything dirty for money.

The population of 200 million is still very small.

But if 200 million people come to share this earth, each person can get a lot of things.

The Northeast Plain is the first step in dividing land.

Of course, 550,000 households are just an ideal state to divide the land in the Northeast Plain. Liaodong still needs to develop many industries, and workers are indispensable. At most, only 400,000 households are assigned to agricultural production, which is 120 million mu (city acre).

The inspection teams of various provinces continued to carry out tasks in various provinces before the armed police forces were trained. Their main task at the beginning of the year was to recruit people to immigrate to Northeast and North Korea.

The settlement fee of ten taels of silver per household is still very abundant.

At the same time, Zhao Quan also began to plan a monopoly operation of local specialties in Northeast China and North Korea.

The local specialties of Northeast China and North Korea, namely herbs (ginseng), wood, fur (mink, fox, otter), must first have enough cheap wood to supply Shandong. The profits after those luxury goods monopolize the Beijing camp are very high, and it should be no problem to make a few million taels.

The Ministry of Engineering began to start mining in Handan, Liaodong and North Korea. This year, there were 6 million taels of railway construction costs, but the rails were not in place.

As a steam engine application research team that cooperates with rail production, it is undoubtedly the busiest, and is constantly adapting to how to use steam engines to stamp flat furnace steel to directly build rails.

If you use simple manpower to build a railway, the cost will undoubtedly be very high, but after improving the technology, the cost will naturally be reduced.

The task of iron making and steel making is very heavy.

Except for 400,000 Japanese slaves who stayed in Shandong, the other 500,000 Japanese slaves were all thrown into Liaodong. The 780,000 slaves were not transported back because they were too troublesome to transport them back.

There is really nothing good to build in Shandong.

Shandong's infrastructure is basically almost built, and there are not so many mines to dig in mining, and Shandong has a relatively sufficient labor force, so transporting the slaves back is not conducive to the employment of the people.

So all the 780,000 slaves stayed in Liaodong to mine.

The iron ore developed in Liaodong is Anshan iron ore, while the iron ore developed in North Korea is Maoshan iron ore. In comparison, the development of Maoshan iron ore is much easier.

Those Japanese slaves were used to reclaim arable land, build roads, water conservancy and other infrastructure, and then transferred 100,000 Japanese slaves to run the military farms.

It is expected to establish a production base of 10 million tons of pig iron in Handan, that is, a 20,000 cubic meters of blast furnace, which can produce about 20 million tons of pig iron a year.

Anshan has established a pig iron production base for producing 5 million tons of iron per year. Anshan has large ore reserves, but the ore grade is too poor, and it almost crosses the standard line. The economic benefits are not very good, so there is no need to develop large-scale areas. After all, with Maoshan Iron Ore now, it is not very urgent to develop Anshan Iron Ore.

Maoshan Iron Mine will establish a base that produces 15 million tons of iron every year, with the easiest development and the highest economic benefits.

In terms of steel production, 8 million tons of steel is almost enough. Therefore, among the three large steel production bases, the output just now is allocated according to the pig iron production.

After the flat furnace steel is put into production on a large scale, the rail production line will be researched and the rails can be laid.

Before laying the rails, the railway line is planned and the railway subgrade construction work is carried out.

Shandong's railway line will be in a tic-tac shape.

For railways leading to other provinces, Zhao Yan first chose to build a railway from Shandong to Shanxi.

Shanxi has a lot of coal. Once the steam engine is put into use in large quantities, it requires a lot of coal, and steel smelting also requires a lot of coal, and power generation in the north also requires a lot of coal.

Railway workers started recruiting at the beginning of the year, giving 1.5 taels of silver a month. Such wages are common in developed cities in the south, but they appear to be very high in the north.

Since a large amount of free labor is concentrated in Liaodong and North Korea, Shandong has to spend money to build railways. Zhao Yan has more money and can afford it.

If money is spent, it can expand employment.
To be continued...