Now the population of the kingdom has exceeded five million people, and the relevant personnel of the Ming Dynasty have infiltrated through various means, and the news that there is a place to recruit displaced people to open up the wasteland continues to spread throughout the Ming Dynasty.

As long as all kinds of natural disasters and man-made disasters continue in the Ming Dynasty, there will still be displaced people in the future.

During this kind of long-distance migration, many people with poor physical strength may not go far to the places in China to arrange for the homeless people.

Therefore, among the new immigrants to the kingdom, the number of young and strong people accounts for the vast majority.

The kingdom's professional army system allows soldiers to get along with each other for a long time, train together, and live together, so that its cohesion will not be lower than that of villages and communities.

Therefore, several members of the Cabinet agreed that the present kingdom could indeed make some adjustments to the mobilization of the reserve and militia.

Chen Xin asked the person in charge of the military department: "What other units like the 1st Mixed Brigade Mounted Infantry Battalion recruit troops together in townships and towns?" ”

The person in charge of the military department immediately opened a small notebook he carried with him, looked at it, and then said, "Your Majesty, there are still many similar troops, all of which were formed at the beginning of the Xuan Army period. The situation is most serious in the 2nd Infantry Regiment and the 3rd Infantry Regiment.

As for the other infantry regiments, because our army has carried out many reorganizations and reorganizations in the past few years, the other infantry regiments that were formed subsequently have basically been reorganized, and in the same battalion and company, there will not be too many soldiers from the same township and township.

In addition, cavalry, artillery, engineers, and other types of troops require longer and more specialized training than infantry, and they need to be selected, so this situation basically does not exist in the relevant units. ”

"A reshuffle of the battalions of the 2nd and 3rd Infantry Regiments, especially the Mounted Infantry Battalion of the 1st Mixed Brigade, which was reorganized from one of the battalions of the old 2nd Infantry Regiment, and as a few loyal veterans of the Kingdom, they are the treasures of the Kingdom.

They are now in the frontier area of Jinzhou in eastern Liaodong, and they should not be overwhelmed. Some of the older soldiers, or veterans who already have families, can be properly cared for and let them retire from the army to work in the local area.

A group of soldiers with the best quality will be selected from the reserve forces and added to the relevant units; of course, non-commissioned officers who guarantee the combat effectiveness of the army must absolutely not be discharged from the army at this stage.

As for the officers, they can talk to some of the officers who have families, and if they wish, they can also retire a few and serve as mounted infantry instructors in the Showutang Infantry Section. ”

Several officials and secretaries of the Ministry of War are quickly recording that this matter involves several departments and bureaus under the Ministry of War, Chen Xin just moved his mouth casually, and the units below are really going to break their legs.

The army units are still carrying out a large-scale expansion operation, and this major matter has not yet been completed, and the various units of the 1st Mixed Brigade that have suffered losses after the Fuzhou Campaign have not yet finished replenishing their troops.

Moreover, there is still a lot of work to be done in this matter. You must know that in this day and age, there are no computers that can access information. Therefore, generally speaking, the townships and towns first report the family situation of the soldiers, and then the military headquarters sends people to check them one by one, and during this period, they also have to check and verify them, and the various documents and rosters of the Second Infantry Regiment and the Third Infantry Regiment must also be recompiled.

After the veterans were discharged, they had to be transferred to make up for the new recruits, which involved the transportation work to Lushun, and the training plan after supplementing the losses of the battalions······

Several responsible persons of the Ministry of War felt an extreme headache when they thought about it, and immediately, the person in charge of the transportation system of the civil affairs department seemed to think of something and raised his hand to signal that he needed to speak.

After the moderator of the meeting called his name, he looked at the cabinet members present, and then said to Chen Xin, "Your Majesty, the minister suddenly remembered, it has been a while since the autumn harvest, and according to the weather conditions in the past few years, the coastal areas of Liaohai may be frozen in the near future."

Moreover, when it first froze, it was not like after all the offshore waters were frozen. If all the coastal waters are frozen, our army can send icebreakers to open the way and break up a transport line.

However, in the early stage of freezing, only local signs of freezing appear, and large pieces of ice will move irregularly with the undulations of the waves. Once encountering a large block of rapidly moving ice, it is easy to cause the tragedy of the ship's destruction and death.

In this case, the kingdom's all-steel warships at this stage are not easy to use, let alone mere icebreakers.

According to the general replenishment plan, it may be difficult for this batch of replenished troops to arrive at the port of Arthur on time. ”

"That's a big problem!" Chen Xin pondered for a moment, and immediately thought, can we change the order of related work?

However, Chen Xin was cautious and would not make a decision at will, and he first consulted the opinions of several professionals in the Ministry of War, and after everyone discussed and believed that this kind of operation was feasible, he continued to speak.

Chen Xin said: "Then send a thousand reserve fighters to the port of Arthur first." When the reinforcements arrive, they will carry out the discharge plan and then replenish the troops.

As for the step of going to the townships and towns for verification, we can skip it for the time being, and wait until our front-line soldiers are replenished and then conduct a collective spot check. ”

In fact, Chen Xin originally wanted to make an adjustment to the soldiers of the old army for a long time, and the old soldiers in some of the old units that had been established before had begun to have families and children one after another with the passage of time.

Once these veterans are killed, it will have a great impact on all work in the country.

To put it mildly, the pension pressure of veterans who have families and children after they die in battle is much greater than that of recruits who do not have a family.

Ever since the huge meat grinder of World War I almost brought down several old powers, the mobilization systems of countries around the world have believed that the best soldiers are the kind of unmarried single soldiers.

From the utilitarian point of view of the state and capital, single fighters are also the most economical. Even if a young bachelor dies in battle, he has less burden and concern for his family than a married soldier.

"Alright, that's it. Do you have any different opinions? If there are no objections, then Chen Xin is ready to end the discussion on the ninth agenda item and move on to the next one.

Glancing at all the cabinet members, and seeing that no one raised their hands, Chen Xin nodded to the moderator of today's meeting, "Let's move on to the next topic." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty." The moderator agreed, and then opened the outline of the meeting in front of him, and after looking at it for a while, he raised his head and said, "The next topic, document number 10, is about the textbooks used in educational work, and the topic is submitted by the Ministry of Education, the Textbook Examination and Approval Committee. ”