Chapter 214: Rapid Development
Maybe it's because he received a perfect vaccine injection in the old time and space, maybe it's Xiao Tianjian's own perennial martial arts, and even after becoming an emperor, he still practices diligently, and for women, Xiao Tianjian is also quite self-controlled, Emperor Xiao's health is quite good, although he has been in power for more than ten years, he is already in his forties, but his physical condition is still quite good.
However, over the years, the cabinet ministers have aged one by one, and a new group of officials have begun to be replaced, replacing these earliest cabinet ministers and beginning to take charge of state affairs.
Lu Xiangsheng, the first prime minister of the cabinet, after serving as the prime minister for eight years, also because of the accumulation of work and illness, his health is not as good as day by day, in the eleventh year of Tianyuan, he submitted his resignation to Xiao Tianjian, resigned from the post of prime minister, and after officially getting the approval of Emperor Xiao, he stepped down and returned to his hometown to recuperate.
With the assistance of the first batch of cabinet ministers, the various government affairs of the DPRK were carried out quite smoothly, and although they also made some wrong decisions, on the whole they made far more achievements than their faults, so that the whole country and the DPRK presented a prosperous scene.
However, since there is politics, it is impossible to put an end to party strife, and because of some differences in political views, the government and the opposition have gradually begun to form parties.
This is not what Xiao Tianjian expected, because this is an inevitable thing, but in his opinion, it is better to loosen the blockage, and instead of banning party struggle, it is better to guide this kind of party struggle to be open and take the right way.
So in the 11th year of the Tianyuan Dynasty, Xiao Tianjian, in the name of the emperor, officially issued two political party licenses, one was the Labor Party headed by the more radical new Minister of Industry Ma Xiaotian, who represented the interests of the new national capitalism in China, China and North Korea, advocated opening up the market and developing the economy, and were very supportive of Xiao Tianjian's overseas colonial policy, and they mostly represented the interests of the new bourgeoisie.
The other faction, which was relatively conservative and was named the People's Party, was headed by the new ministers, and they sought to be more conservative in their political views, paying more attention to mainland affairs and not being too active in territorial expansion.
In essence, Xiao Tianjian does not like the conservative Kuomintang, but after all, they also represent the political views of a considerable number of people, so their existence is still necessary, and to a certain extent, it can limit the Labour Party from being too radical.
Therefore, after the eleventh year of Tianyuan, the government and the opposition began to divide into two parties, but Xiao Tianjian only received the license of two parties, and did not add more other political parties.
However, Xiao Tianjian did not implement any method of forming a cabinet for the time being, but adopted the method of forming a joint cabinet in the cabinet, temporarily letting the two parties contain each other, and he presided over the government affairs.
The two parties can use newspapers to publicize their governing philosophy, and gradually guide the people in the future to decide who will preside over government affairs, but sooner or later, he will still have to implement a constitutional monarchy, which is just planning for the future in advance, and his physical condition is quite good, Xiao Tianjian is confident that he will work for another 20 years, so some things are just making preliminary preparations.
The openness and regularization of party struggles have also eliminated many of the drawbacks of previous party struggles, and there has been more restraint and supervision between the two parties, which is more conducive to the honesty of officials in the future; although it was not mature at the beginning, it was imperceptibly under the deliberate guidance and supervision of Xiao Tianjian, and the two-party system could be determined to become the political system of the two major countries and the DPRK in the future.
With the gradual retirement of Lu Xiangsheng's generation of old ministers, a large number of new officials trained by the Dazhong Dynasty began to appear in the official system of the Great China Dynasty.
In particular, these new generation of officials have long since lost their sights to Chinese mainland, and many officials, under the guidance of early propaganda and education, have begun to cast more and more eyes on the wider world and to other parts of the world.
In addition, the successive military victories have made the territory of the Great China and North Korea continue to expand, and the class contradictions have also been vented to a certain extent through such expansion, making the domestic situation more and more stable.
What the army is most afraid of is a long period of peace, if it is too long, it will be quite detrimental to the development of the army, so Xiao Tianjian deliberately did not take the method of exterminating some tribes that did not obey the decrees of the Dazhong Imperial Court when dealing with this aspect of affairs.
On the contrary, he adopted more modest means, but at the same time adopted militarily repressive means, so that such small-scale conflicts were limited to a certain extent, and then ordered the military to constantly rotate troops and horses, first, to maintain the training of the armies, and second, to test new tactics from these small-scale conflicts.
With the deliberate guidance of industrial development in the Great Middle and Northern Dynasties, the development of machinery and metallurgy and various light industries in the Greater Chinese Dynasty for more than ten years, and in the Tianyuan Ten Years, after a long period of accumulation, the industrial development of the Great and Chinese Dynasty began to burst out with great energy.
By the thirteenth year of the Tianyuan Dynasty, the overall iron output of the Dazhong Dynasty had already exceeded the iron output of all dynasties in Chinese history, and even increased many times compared with the iron output of the peak era in history.
In addition to the soaring production of raw and wrought iron, under the leadership of Xiao Tianjian, a steelmaking converter that seemed very simple and even primitive in the old time and space began to be put into production gradually.
The development of many science and technology, in fact, is a layer of window paper, a poke that breaks, there is Xiao Tianjian, a cheater of the super era, many things in fact, he only needs to put forward a general idea, and then it can be handed over to the following people to explore, as long as the investment in its funds is maintained, let it continue to experiment, the problem of the steelmaking furnace can still be solved.
And this process of exploration can not be less, we must let this aspect of the personnel, from the very basic exploration, and then continue to improve, for the principle can not only know what it is but do not know why, but to thoroughly understand why, so although the steelmaking furnace is very primitive, but for the future once the principle of steelmaking is mastered, improvement is a matter of course.
With the commissioning of steelmaking converters, the industrial development of China, North Korea also has a more solid foundation, in addition to the quality of military products is getting higher and higher, the quality of various mechanical products is also getting better and better.
Under the guarantee of these premises, the level of weapon manufacturing in the Great Middle and Northern Dynasties was also developing by leaps and bounds, and in the thirteenth year of the Tianyuan Dynasty, the first flintlock front-loading rifled rifle was finally developed.
Moreover, before the establishment of the chemical industry, Xiao Tianjian was temporarily unable to produce fire caps, so he first designed and produced the first generation of Minne rifles, using Minne bullets to replace the old round bullets.
As soon as the Migne gun was tested, it immediately caused a shock in the military, and the officers were immediately shocked when the testers showed the new rifled rifle to the generals.
They personally test-fired the new Mingne rifle, and immediately began to submit a request for the military to be reequipped with this new flintlock rifled gun.
So after that, Xiao Tianjian personally named this new rifled rifle as the Dazhong 13 rifle, and ordered to start mass production, the first batch of production of the Migne rifle according to Xiao Tianjian's meaning, the first to be reloaded into the navy, and then began from the outside to the inside, the Dazhong Army Army Division gradually reloaded.
Considering the problem of the killing distance and accuracy of this new rifle, Xiao Tianjian ordered on the one hand to block the spread of the production process of this new rifle, and on the other hand, strictly ordered the people not to imitate rifled guns, lest this thing be in the hands of some lawless people and become a sharp weapon for them to fight against China and the government of China.
Only the old musket flintlock pistol was allowed to be produced and used as hunting and militia equipment, and only the military could replace it with this new rifled rifle.
In addition, with the continuous improvement of steel production and quality, the artillery production of Dazhongchao has become much more powerful, and a new type of steel cannon has begun to be produced, which has some characteristics of the artillery of the old time and later generations.
First of all, this kind of steel cannon began to be manufactured into breech loading, although it is still based on the fire door and flintlock device as the initiation device, but the bolt of the gun tail has been designed, the ammunition can be directly loaded into the gun chamber from the tail of the gun, and the gun tail is closed with the bolt, and the most important thing is in the gun chamber, because of the application of various machinery, it has also been drawn out of the rifling, and the shell has also been replaced by a conical cylindrical pointed bullet, replacing the original round shell.
Although this new type of pointed bullet could not be used to make explosive shells filled with gunpowder due to the seal letter, the range and power were greatly improved.
After the military experimented with the new artillery, it was even more overjoyed and once again asked for the new artillery.
However, Xiao Tianjian personally tested this new rear-loading rifled gun, but it is a little regrettable, although the range and power and accuracy of this gun have improved a lot, but for the land division, it is not very practical, especially before the grenade was not successfully developed, this kind of cannon can only use solid shells, on the contrary, because after its launch, the stability is very good when flying in the air, and it is directly inserted into the soil layer when it lands, on the contrary, it is not necessarily better than the old round cannonball after landing and bounces up to kill people.
Therefore, after discussing with the officers of various armies, he decided that this new type of rear-loading rifled gun would not be equipped with the army division for the time being until the grenade was successfully developed, and the army division would continue to use the old front-loading smoothbore gun, but in the future, the barrel manufacturing would be replaced with steel, so as to strengthen the barrel strength and reduce the weight of the gun body.
However, this new type of rear-loading rifled gun is very practical for the navy as a ship-based gun, especially when it is used to fight against enemy ships, even if there is no grenade, only solid shells are used, the armor-piercing ability is greatly increased by more than ten times, and the accuracy and range are far beyond that of the front-loading smoothbore gun, and the rate of fire is also faster.
This thing is really a weapon of naval warfare, once a large number of naval weapons are equipped, those warships of Western countries, under the bombardment of this kind of artillery, can only be regarded as scum, outside their firing distance, the naval guns of the large and Chinese army can easily hit their ships accurately, and they can be penetrated very easily, even if the ships of the Great China and North Korea are smaller than the enemy ships, the ships of the Great China and North Korea can easily win the victory of the naval battle.
Originally, Xiao Tianjian also wanted to design and develop a tube annealer, but unfortunately the steel quality and mechanical manufacturing process of this era could not meet the requirements, even with the simplest spring-type tube retreat device, the spring is not easy to meet the requirements for the time being, so it can only be given up for the time being, continue to use the frame retreat artillery, but even so, for the development of artillery, the DPRK is still far ahead of the world, and it also makes the navy of the DPRK invincible at sea for a long time in the future.
So with the finalization of this rear-loading rifled gun, the navy began to gradually reequip the ships, at this point, the officers of the land division were a little dissatisfied, but there was no way! Who makes this kind of new guy more suitable for the use of the navy, but for the land division, it is still a kind of chicken ribs for the time being.
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