Chapter 831 The system of the Ming army is actually the compulsory military system of later generations, because of the huge population base, it is not like those small countries in Europe, which requires the people of the whole country to serve in the army after reaching the appropriate age.Usually, the national conditions of each country are different, and the service is different for three or five years, and then transferred to the reserve.As soon as the war is needed, the state can quickly mobilize strategically at the imperial court, and then start a violent army.Of course, Daming's is also taking this situation.Ordinary soldiers enter the general service for three years, then transfer to the reserve, leave the reserve system after the age of thirty-five, transfer to the militia system, and will no longer be on active duty after the age of forty-five.However, as far as the technical arms are concerned, three years can barely train an ordinary person into a qualified soldier, especially when the quality of the whole people is not high.For example, artillery, under the existing conditions, the method adopted by artillery to visually measure the distance is the eye-jumping method, in fact, the human eye is a natural measuring instrument.To put it simply, even if you don't use a ruler to measure, you can visually measure a short distance, but if you exceed a certain range, you need a certain formula to measure.The jumping eye method calculates the approximate distance of the measured object from us by estimating the width of the ground seen by the jumping eye, combined with the similarity triangle principle and the straight-line propagation principle of light.In this method, the distance from the standing point to the target is obtained by multiplying the width of the measured object by 10 based on the distance between the two pupils about one-tenth of the length of one's own arm.To use the jumping eye method, you must be familiar with the dimensions of common objects, such as the length of the car, the height of the person, the height of the building, etc., otherwise you cannot use the jumping eye method to estimate the distance.Of course, this measurement method has a certain amount of error and is very experience-oriented.A well-trained artilleryman can measure the distance from himself to the target with just one hand.In this case, the difficulty of training technical classes will increase exponentially.According to incomplete statistics, Daming now has 138 railway infrastructure brigades, 73 engineering infrastructure brigades, and 55 reclamation construction brigades.For example, the railway infrastructure brigade, as the name suggests, is mainly responsible for the construction of railway construction, while the engineering infrastructure brigade is responsible for urban construction and highways.The reclamation construction brigade is like the guard post in the Zhu Ming period, mainly reclaiming wasteland and reclaiming land, although these construction units are not part of the field troops, during their service, although they also carry out necessary military training, most of the time they are working.However, no matter what the nature of the troops, they need to be allocated from the national treasury.In addition to the fact that the reclamation and construction troops do not need much state financial investment, they only undertake the work of developing wasteland, and once the raw land is developed into mature fields, these fields are either distributed by the government to the landless people, or sold to the outside world, in short, this is a profitable army.Of course, the Ming Royal Navy needs to cooperate with the government in combating smuggling and piracy, and can also obtain a lot of revenue, which can reduce the revenue of the national treasury.Zhu Zhaoyi said with some embarrassment: "But, Your Majesty, the Royal Army does not have so many unique conditions!"
”"Why not?"
Jeon Wook stretched out his hand and pointed to a corner of the map."
Tianzhu?"
Tianzhu is India, and India is Tianzhu.When you think of India, what is the first thing that comes to mind?
Gold, Buddhism?
Ganges water or divine oil?
Everyone has a different answer, but if you read the history of India carefully, I am afraid that most people have the same impression, that is, India is easy to bully!
Among the four ancient civilizations, ancient India, like China, was plagued by foreign invasion, and in Chinese history, there were five chaotic Chinese countries, clothes moved south, and Shenzhou land sank, and these dark historical periods have become the pain in the heart of every Chinese.However, India is different.India has suffered more than 300 foreign invasions in history, but except for a draw during the Mauryan Dynasty, Alexander the Great automatically canceled the invasion war because of the war-weariness of the soldiers in the army and the rampant plague.Except for this one, every foreign invasion can successfully rule India.When China was still cultivating slash-and-burn culture, they had already entered a fairly prosperous era of city-states, and had made brilliant achievements in architecture, art, astronomy, religion and other aspects.The hot, rainy, flat and fertile Ganges plains gave birth to the glorious ancient Indian civilization, but they were not given the blood and tenacity to protect this glorious civilization, and the disaster began.When China was struggling to make the transition from the Stone Age to the Bronze Age, the ancient Indo-Europeans who migrated from the shores of the Black Sea swept across Eurasia like a stormy wind, and ancient Egypt, ancient Babylon, and ancient Greece, these glorious civilizations were swallowed up by this terrible wave and never recovered.China was fortunate that the army of the Shang Dynasty, under the command of Queen Nuhao, completely annihilated the ancient Indo-European army on the Mongolian Plateau, and the Chinese civilization was inherited.India was not so lucky, they did not have an invincible army to beat the surrounding area, an ancient Indo-European invaded the heart of South Asia, conquered it almost effortlessly, and the indigenous people were driven to the wilderness, and we can still find the descendants of these indigenous peoples.That's right, they are the famous Indian untouchables.The original masters of the South Asian subcontinent actually became untouchables, and they have been untouchables for thousands of years, and they have not changed in the slightest, I really don't know if it's sad or ridiculous.But the Indo-Europeans who came into control of the subcontinent did not seem to be much better than the indigenous peoples, and when the Persians invaded, they surrendered with little resistance, and then Macedonia invaded.Then the masters of South Asia changed one after another, the Afghans, the Serbs, the Parthians, the Yueshi, the White Huns, the Turks, the Tibetans, the Mongols, the Portuguese, the Dutch, the British, these countries or ethnic groups have ruled India, or invaded India, the history of India can be said to be a ravaged history of blood and tears!
The most bizarre thing is that most of the invaders easily overturned India, then happily ruled India, and then were easily overturned by the next wave of conquerors.The miraculous children born of the water of the Ganges really make people not know what to say!
In what is now the Wumor dynasty, it is actually Babur, a descendant of the Mongol Timur, Babur, the sixth grandson of Timur, who inherited the throne and was then defeated by the Uzbeks and became a homeless wandering tribe, and he later fled to Kabul.He did not intend to invade India, but when he regained some strength, he returned to his hometown of Ferghana in Central Asia, but he was beaten back after returning and fled to Kabul again, where he began to migrate to northern India in order to make a living.This made Babur discover a very unexpected thing, he was originally beaten into a lost dog, but when dealing with the Indian army, it was like a chicken blood, he was only 12,000 men and horses, when attacking the Punjab region in northern India, he met the Lodi Emperor Ibrahim Lodi personally led an army of 40,000 horses, and then in just eight months he destroyed the Lodi dynasty that ruled India for 320 years.If the Manchu whale swallowed the Ming Dynasty to complete the typical snake swallowing elephant, then Babur is the snake swallowing whale, he wiped out the Lodi Dynasty, the Bengal Sultanate, Afghanistan, and the West Indies with 12,000 people in a row, which can be called crazy.Zhu Zhaoyi naturally knows some things about Tianzhu, in fact, with the strength of the Ming Royal Navy, the whole Ming is not like the Zhu Ming who is closed to the country, with the Ming Navy entering the Red Sea in the west, South America in the east, and Australia in the south, it can be said that the vision of the Ming people has been placed outside.For India, a very good neighbor to bully, but has rich resources, but this country is still very strange, everyone loves gold, even if the poorest people, there are a few gold jewelry, for fear that others will know that they are poor.Quan Xu is not interested in India's gold and spices now, the most valuable place in India is actually the Ganges Plain, that rich arable land, no matter how much gold is spent, it will be spent one day, but the land can support generations of people, for the ruler, this is more valuable than gold.More than 700 years ago, the Tibetan people conquered the Ganges Delta in India, and it was with the grain and high-quality iron ore produced by the Ganges Delta that this dynasty on the roof of the world competed with the Tang Dynasty for hundreds of years, and the Tang Dynasty was never able to completely defeat it.The Tibetans had become so powerful just by occupying the Ganges Delta that what would happen if they had brought the entire subcontinent under their control?
The answer is to look at the British Empire.After World War II, the British Empire contracted strategically, abandoning Australia, which is more than 7.7 million square kilometers, and Canada, which is more than 9.9 million square kilometers, but it is reluctant to give up India.The general staff of the Ming Dynasty are all knowledgeable and pragmatic, they are very familiar with this period of history, and the current domestic situation has stabilized, and large-scale development has consumed a lot of money and steel, cement and other materials.However, there is no end to the construction of the railway, and when the construction of the Longhai Railway is just a third of the way, the Beijing-Kowloon Railway is on the planning agenda.The Far Eastern Railway, in particular, is a bottomless pit.It just so happens that India has huge resources and also has a huge population.In response to the old saying, the husband is not guilty of his crimes.Of course, the persimmon picks up the soft pinch.The strategy formulated by the General Staff was quite conservative, that is, with the Eighth Division of the Royal Army of the Ming Dynasty, in cooperation with the First Fleet and the Fourth Strike Fleet of the Royal Navy, an expeditionary force of 15,000 men and horses with an infantry brigade and naval units was formed to prepare for a strike on the Tamil region on the southern coast of India!