Chapter 702 On the construction site of the city of Welfare for Soldiers, a large number of workers, shouting trumpets, began to carry the heavy railroad tracks, working hard, of course, there were also some workers walking like flying, pouring bags of cement into the steam mixer.Farther away, a small stony hill, sounded with the sound of a trumpet: "Prepare to detonate, everyone evacuate!"
”With the sound of a roar, a large cloud of dust and smoke was lifted, and this small area of stony hill became a large amount of rubble, and only the dust and smoke dissipated, and a large number of workers began to step forward, loading the crushed material in the carriage of the rails, and as the carriage was filled, the steam engine carried the full load of stones, and went to the processing plant yard.It is processed by a steam-type ball mill and crusher, turned into building materials, and transported to the construction site.Due to the inconvenience of land transportation, it is inefficient.Most of the materials transported by the Shang State to the territory of Beizhen Province were various machinery and equipment.Other people may not know very well, as a person of later generations, Quan Xu knows very well that in Beizhenfu, which is also Hulunbuir and parts of the Far East in later generations, there are a lot of resources here, and the development of industrial coal, oil, natural gas, steel, gold and copper all occupy rich reserves.This time, Quanxu mobilized the entire Shang State to attack Jiannu is actually a task on the way, and the real purpose is not a large-scale infrastructure construction?
Because of the use of troops, the Jinbei Railway was divided into 44 sections and began to be constructed at the same time, and the progress was also quite gratifying, and a distance of several kilometers or even more than 10 kilometers could be built every day, and 44 sections could be built at least two or three hundred kilometers a day.At present, the whole railway line has not been built, only primitive land transport can be adopted, and now the largest is not the carriage convoy, but the camel convoy, the Mongolian horse is very short, although the endurance is good, but the strength is not great, and the number of Shire horses purchased from the British is too small.For the merchant army to attack the Qing military material consumption is very huge, in this case, can only take camel four-wheeled carts, the current camel four-wheeled carts can transport almost forty stone of grain, if it is cotton clothes, clothing and the like, directly by horse-drawn carriage transportation.With the construction of Beizhen Zezhou, the demand for reinforced concrete has increased greatly, and now the exploration industry of Shangguo has begun to take shape, and some private exploration teams can purchase exploration qualification licenses from the government to search for mining resources in the territory of Beizhen Prefecture.Don't look at the sparsely populated Beizhen Mansion now, most of the land is dominated by grassland, the area of grassland alone is as high as 380 million mu, accounting for one-third of Beizhen Mansion, and the arable land area is about 120 million mu, and it is dominated by black soil, dark brown soil, chernozem and meadow soil, with fertile soil and high natural fertility.The development of Beizhen Province was also put on the agenda with this war that did not start, and more than 1.5 million militiamen, plus a large number of businessmen and exploration team members, poured into the territory of Beizhen Province.With the mobilization of Quanxu, the manpower of the Shang Kingdom alone flocked to Beizhen Mansion exceeded two million, although the mobilization of Quanxu was not an army, and the mobilization power that the Shang Kingdom could show was really surprising.During World War II, Germany, which has more than 70 million people, took more than half a year to complete the national mobilization and organize more than 7 million troops, and as for France, it took four months from the beginning of the war to the fall of Paris, France, and France did not complete the mobilization at all.Of course, the least efficient country was the Russian Empire during the First World War, and until the fall of the Russian Empire, it was able to complete a complete general mobilization.Compared with the Ming Dynasty, the speed of the Shang State is simply dizzying, Quan Xu just published the mobilization plan in the newspaper ten days ago, and in the next ten days, 1.5 million auxiliary soldiers have begun to finish.Even the militia and auxiliaries of the Shang State were only stronger than the regular troops of the Ming army, and with the advantage of equipment, it was more than enough to attack the capital.This mobilization is also a rehearsal for the future full mobilization, Quan Xu once read an online novel, which is "Tang Cavalry" written by Ah Bo, in which there is a plot that Quan Xu remembers vividly.Zhang Mai, the protagonist of the book, is ready to unify the world and attack Luoyang, at that time, with Zhang Mai's army, in fact, one of the three major legions, you can easily take Luoyang City, however, if you want to be bloodless, you need to organize an army of 500,000.This is from the consideration of human nature, if the whole family sends more than 100,000 horsemen to divide into three ways, then it will definitely give the Ming civil and military officials a false impression that they can fight to the death, they will think that there is still the possibility of winning in a desperate fight, if Quan Xu directly mobilizes two million, or three million men and horses, in that case, there is no need to fight at all, and wherever the army passes, it will be surrendered.Quanxu's mobilization of 1.5 million young and strong militia was based on this consideration, and it was based on this consideration that the militia was gathered and began to transport supplies while conducting recovery training.Truckloads of materials are unloaded on the construction site in Zezhou, and the huge temporary warehouse is actually a prefabricated house, which can now be produced by the merchant country, but the internal filling is not polyurethane foam material, but broken rice husk and wheat bran, which can play a role in preventing cold and moisture in addition to being flammable.The temporary cement floor was soon piled up into hills, which were canned food, dry food, shells, bullets, explosives, raincoats, shoes and socks...... and so on.In May, even in Golden State, the daytime temperature is already very high, however, here in Zezhou, the climate is very cool, and the most important thing is that the temperature difference between day and night is very large.At this time, the logistics department of the merchant army took the lead in establishing the 11th Division Division Field Hospital here, which was about the same size as the tertiary hospital in later generations, with 1,500 beds and could accommodate more than 1,500 patients.War is already the norm for the people of the Shang country, and if there is no need to fight for a year, they will feel that something is missing.As early as March of the third year of Chongzhen, when Quan Xu led the whole family army to arrive in the four states of southern Liaoning, he immigrated while tuntian, and then expanded the army.After the whole family army was trained, he immediately ran to Shenyang to cut people, first occupied the surrounding areas of Shenyang, and then fought the Battle of Guangning, and then attacked Taiwan, fought Taiwan, and then went to fight Kyushu, Japan, without waiting for Kyushu to be subdued, and then turned back and took Luzon, and then after the Battle of Qiongzhou Mansion and the pacification of Zheng Zhilong, he organized the southward corps to attack the Indochina Peninsula......
War has become a part of the lives of the people in the areas controlled by Quanxu, and it is fought almost every year, and there is no time to stop.After being in a state of war for a long time, the character of the people in the Shang region has naturally been affected and has become very wild, even if it is a militia unit, when they go out and encounter various small tribes, they also come forward to participate in the taming work.Of course, it can't be called taming in name, it can only be called assimilation, if those tribes are stubborn and can't be indoctrinated, then they will be eliminated directly, the corpses will be burned, and the tribes will be leveled, or it won't be long before nature will be overgrown with weeds in the original tribes, and everything will be gone.As for those tribes who accepted assimilation, they followed the militia transport troops and began to step up the construction of roads, and the transportation of Beizhen, Hoeryong, Huanglong, including Heishui was not perfect.Among the best transportation is part of Liaoyang Province, the railway project wants to be perfected, forming a comprehensive coverage of the transportation network, without decades of time is absolutely impossible to complete, can only step by step.With the beginning of Beizhenfu, Quanxu did not continue to immigrate to Beizhenfu, although there are more and more applications for immigration from the commercial country, and now the immigration from the commercial country can only take the way of application, each business newspaper will print an application form on the supplement page, and fill it out, write down their resume, origin, skills, and strengths clearly, if it is a job that is needed in the commercial country, in order to complete the immigration work.However, for the fertile fields, pastures, and even large areas of forests in Beizhen Prefecture, Quan Xu decided to distribute these resources to the soldiers of the merchant army as benefits.In the name of the king of Shang, he ordered: "All the soldiers of the whole family can pay for the purchase of cultivated land, grassland, and natural forest farms in Beizhen Prefecture, and as for the price, it is simply like giving it away for nothing." ”Here, arable land is no longer measured in acres, but like in Luzon, it is measured in inclination, and one dump of land is one hundred acres, and the price is about the same as the price of one acre in Golden State, which is equivalent to spending one percent of the price of Golden State, and getting 100 acres of land, as for pasture, that price is lower.The forest is based on the same 100 acres as a unit, and the annual income of ordinary soldiers in the merchant army can be enough to buy three tilts of land, or five tilts of grassland, or ten tilts of forests.Of course, when the forest is cut down, you need to pay taxes, and the tax rate is not low.This benefit is not only for the regular soldiers of the merchant army, including retired soldiers, disabled and meritorious soldiers, are eligible to buy, but also the merchant bank can provide low-interest loans for soldiers, this low-interest loan is not 20% of the interest per year, but the unique enjoyment of the military 10% of the interest, that is, borrowing 100 taels of silver, after a year, need to repay 110 taels of silver.At a merchant forward post on the lower reaches of the Harkha River, an officer with two bronze stars on his shoulders was holding a telescope and observing across the river.Two stars and a bar, such a clear military rank, represents the lieutenant of the merchant army, if it is a young soldier doll, it is likely to be the general manager of the lieutenant bureau, but this lieutenant looks more than thirty years old, and the military position is not easy to judge.This is because the level of education restricts the promotion of military ranks, and some commercial army officers do not have enough education, and although they are brave in combat and have made countless meritorious contributions, they can only serve as the general secretary or the general of the flag in the form of high allocation.Within the merchant army, the flag of the highest military rank was always the captain, and the military rank represented military merit and seniority, but not military rank."
Mr.
Qiu Si (company commander), do you think we should buy that farm?"
PS: Happy National Day, I wish the soldiers, doctors, and firefighters who stick to their posts, happy holidays, and good health, I have a suite at the end of the Ming Dynasty