The guests Li Zicheng summoned at the SF Building were Xu Renlong, commander of the North Sea Fleet, Zhang Shijie, commander of the Navy, and Huang Yinen, commander of the Marine Corps.

The three of them rushed to Tianjin the day before and received a message from Li Zicheng that it was already after dark.

They really couldn't understand why the emperor summoned them in the SF Building, if it was for safety, wouldn't it be safer for the government to have guards?

Xu Renlong, escorted by his own soldiers, came to the living room, saw Li Zicheng, turned over and knelt on the ground, "Wait for the ministers to see Your Majesty!"

"Get up and sit!" Li Zicheng stretched out his hand and pointed to the opposite side, and when the three of them sat down, Fang turned around and said, "Millet, serve!"

"Obey the order!"

After a while, the soldiers sent a table of exquisite dishes like willows and flowers, in addition to the bowls and chopsticks for four people, there was also a jar of two catties of distilled spirit.

Xu Renlong was stunned, "Your Majesty, this is ......"

"It's already dinner time, I can't let you just work and not eat," Li Zicheng said with a smile: "Millet, pour wine!"

He Xiaomi slapped open the sealing mud of the wine jar and poured half a glass for everyone, Li Zicheng raised his glass and said: "This glass of wine can be regarded as a blessing to celebrate the official entry of the North Sea Fleet, and I really can't pull away from the last celebration!"

"The minister didn't dare to ......" Xu Renlong still raised the wine cup and glanced at Zhang Shijie and Huang Yinen, the two of them also raised their glasses, but they didn't dare to approach their mouths.

"I don't like to drink, but the navy is my treasure, you don't have to be restrained," Li Zicheng motioned to the three of them, "Come, do it!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Xu Renlong and the three of them also did it.

He Xiaomi hurriedly poured wine, but Li Zicheng no longer raised his glass, but looked at Xu Renlong, "Xu Aiqing, the officers and men of the North Sea Fleet, how are they training now?" ”

"Back to the emperor, according to the emperor's requirements, the minister has been training soldiers in the open sea," Xu Renlong was a little apprehensive in his heart, "but...... However, the ships of the North Sea Fleet are basically old-fashioned transport ships, and they are not loaded with artillery, and they have only accepted a 'Chengdu'-class battleship 'Tianjin'......

"The key now is to train the soldiers, and as for the warships, they will gradually increase in the future," Li Zicheng said: "According to the existing conditions, the soldiers will be trained to a high level, and that is the way to generals!"

"Shame on ......"

Li Zicheng said with a smile: "These old-fashioned ships were originally going around in the Bohai Sea, but now they are older, and they can go to the open sea for training, which is already very good!"

"Thank you for your compassion!"

"Actually, in the final analysis, the navy is used for war, not for training," Li Zicheng changed his words and said: "The officers and men of the North Sea Fleet, can they go to the battlefield now?" ”

"Back to the emperor, the battleship 'Tianjin', the soldiers have not fully understood the performance, and they cannot go to the battlefield for the time being, and it is still the original ship...... Xu Renlong said this, his heart suddenly moved, do you want to fight, there is no hostile navy around......

Li Zicheng nodded, the time for the North Sea Fleet to accept new warships is too short, and it is understandable that it has not yet fully understood the performance of the "Tianjin", "The real strong army is not drilled and trained, but fought on the battlefield!"

"The emperor is right," Xu Renlong said: "As long as the emperor gives an order, the ministers will hit the enemy ......ship with a ship, and they will also sink the enemy ship."

"Soldiers, you must not only have the domineering spirit of others, but also have the courage to dedicate yourself to the country," Li Zicheng laughed, "The South China Sea Fleet has been formed for much longer than the North Sea Fleet, but the South China Sea Fleet always runs in the rivers, and the time of entering the sea is much later than that of the North Sea Fleet. ”

Xu Renlong said cautiously: "Your Majesty, do you need the North Sea Fleet to participate in the war?" ”

"I don't want you to hit the enemy with ships and bite with your teeth," Li Zicheng rolled his eyes and said, "However, the North Sea Fleet, as a transport ship, should be no problem, right?" ”

"The emperor can rest assured, there is absolutely no problem," Xu Renlong said: "In the hands of the minister, there are navigation charts of the Ming Dynasty, and the inner shipping lanes of the Bohai Sea are very familiar, and the ministers are collecting navigation charts of the open sea......

"Huang Aiqing, how is your Marine Army's drills, can you go to the battlefield?" Li Zicheng nodded, but looked at Huang Yinen and said, "The Marine Corps of the North Sea Fleet is the first naval officer to be equipped with rifles!"

"Yes!" Huang Yinen said categorically, "The Marine Army has completely mastered the basic tactics of the rifle, and it is waiting to be tested on the battlefield, and the minister will definitely not disappoint the emperor!"

"Okay, good," Li Zicheng said with a smile: "Continue to strengthen the drill training, I will send you a combat mission at any time!"

"The minister is ready, and he will obey the emperor's dispatch at any time!"

Li Zicheng looked at Zhang Shijie and said, "Zhang Aiqing, is there a real combat exercise for naval officers and soldiers?" ”

"Yes!" Zhang Shijie said: "The soldiers are training at sea, in addition to training professional soldiers, the most important training is the actual combat exercise, the soldiers use wooden sticks instead of knives and guns, but they are all real fights, the soldiers are injured, every time is inevitable, and there are soldiers who are forced to retire due to serious injuries......?" ”

"It is necessary to settle this kind of wounded soldiers, they are injured for the strength of the North Sea Fleet, which is equivalent to being injured on the battlefield!"

"The minister understands!"

Li Zicheng said again: "If all the transport ships and ships of the North Sea Fleet are concentrated, how many soldiers can be transported at one time?" ”

"Back to the emperor, if it is in the Bohai Sea, it can transport seven thousand soldiers at a time, together with simple equipment, if it is in the open sea, the waves are high and the wind is strong, and the maximum number of soldiers can be transported is five thousand!"

Li Zicheng said happily: "In other words, you can transport all the soldiers of the Marine Army at one time?" ”

"As long as it's not rainy season or typhoon season, it should be fine."

"I'm not asking about shoulds, but absolutely!"

"The emperor can rest assured, the minister guarantees with his head, as long as the ships used are assembled, they will be able to transport all the soldiers of the Marine Army at one time!"

Li Zicheng grabbed a piece of pig's trotters, bit off the leather band, chewed a few bites, swallowed it violently, and said: "Three Aiqing, I have given you three tasks: first, within two months, you must be completely familiar with the performance of the 'Tianjin' and reach the combat level; second, to find a suitable landing site in southern Liaoning in the Bohai Sea; third, to find an island in southern Liaoning, which can store a large amount of grain, and when the Bohai Sea thaws, transport 10,000 people to the island for three months' worth of grain!"

Xu Renlong thought for a moment, and felt that it was not too difficult to achieve the first two, that is, in the cold winter season, the open sea would not be frozen, and the "Tianjin" could go to the open sea for training, but the third condition, he had a headache, "Back to the emperor, this grain ......"

"Don't worry, after the spring thaws, I will transport enough grain to the Tianjin Dagu wharf, you just need to take the transport ship to the wharf to pick it up," Li Zicheng paused, and said: "This is a top-secret mission, only the three of you know, and you must not leak secrets!"

"Obey the order!" The three of them are fools, and they also know that the emperor is going to attack Liaonan with the navy, but they don't know the specific scale and strategy, and the emperor doesn't say it, and they don't dare to ask.

After Xu Renlong and the three left, Li Zicheng lay on the bed alone, thinking for a long time before he was sinking into who to go.

Although it was about to reach the new yuan, Li Zicheng was not in a hurry to return to Beijing, and wandered around the city of Tianjin for two days, and there were a lot of goods in the market, but there were not many people who bought the goods, and he could not see the crowded situation in Beijing, Nanjing, and Hangzhou.

After lunch, he lay on the kang to rest for a while, but Li Zicheng's heart couldn't calm down.

Beijing's population is too large to be suitable for large-scale industrial development, Tianjin will be the core city of the Beijing-Tianjin industrial plate, but now Tianjin, not only is far less than Nanjing, Hangzhou, even Xining, Lanzhou can not compare.

The population of Tianjin Fucheng is too small!

Today's Tianjin, which is like the capital of a province, is at most the level of a county seat.

What can be done to increase the population of Tianjin? In other words, what is the method to get the people in the vicinity to voluntarily move over?

He regretted that in order to feed all the people, the land was distributed equally among the local people, so that the people were confined to the land.

With the plot of the Han nation on the land, if it is not life and death, who is willing to leave their homeland and give up their land?

The natural increase of the population, unlike the factories that can work overtime to produce goods, will not be able to increase the number of young and strong people on a large scale without twenty years.

In addition to natural growth, we can only rely on immigration.

What to do?

Li Zicheng thought of the displaced people, what is the largest group of displaced people in China now?

Beggars?

Not to mention whether the beggar gang really exists, and even if it exists, how much effort does it take to train this kind of people, who are accustomed to freedom, into law-abiding industrial workers in a short period of time? ‘

Maybe the Cao Gang is the number one gang of homeless people!

"Grain transportation from the south to the north", on both sides of the Grand Canal, gave birth to a large "gang", at least 100,000 young people rely on Cao Yun to make a living, but after the founding of China, Cao Yun will be abolished, and the Cao Gang will no longer exist.

Even if it transports grain, Huaxia will not rely on Cao Yun!

Huaxia will advocate shipping, package the transported goods and hand them over to transportation companies, and take the road of socialization and commercialization, rather than monopolizing the transportation industry by the Cao Gang.

There are two advantages of taking sea transportation, one is that the imperial court does not need to dredge the canal channel on a large scale, and there is no need to raise 100,000 young people and countless officials; Instead, let businesses enter the sea and broaden their horizons, not just staring at the mainland.

The workers of Caoyun are all poor people, and having food to eat and marrying a mother-in-law is the highest goal of life, and it is certainly much easier to train them as industrial workers than to train people from the beggars.

Li Zicheng smiled proudly.

It not only dissolves the transportation workers, but also adds 100,000 cheap industrial workers to Tianjin, and promotes the development and prosperity of Tianjin......

Maybe Tianjin's industry is faster than imagined!

Li Zicheng suddenly thought of the Mongolian woman captured in the Qingshan Governor's Mansion.

Excluding the fruit buildings in Yunzhong Mansion and Liaodong, there are still 2,000 young women left, right?

Are these women going to marry the Caoyun workers who moved to Tianjin, or are they going to set up a fruit building in Tianjin?

Which way can better promote the great development of Tianjin?

The corners of Li Zicheng's mouth showed a faint smile, this time when he came to Tianjin, the last thing was done, and it was time to go back to Beijing for the New Yuan......