People have reason to rejoice!

Whether it is the old shopkeeper or the third uncle Zhang Xuezeng, or Li Yuchun, who has been running around, or Sun Jingting and Tian Jitang, who are in charge of the financial support, or Li Shenming, who presides over Qingcheng and military orders, or the people of the Agricultural Administration Department who have been rolling in the fields with Kong Minxing, or Wang Changfu, Liang Xing and others, everyone sees the changes in He Yusheng's strength, and for many people, they are full of doubts from the time when Zhang Han decided to manage the grassland during the Apocalypse...... The shadow of the many invasions of Alta decades ago still exists in the hearts of the elderly, and the young adults have also grown up in the shadow of the hateful but terrible old legends of the Mongols. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoNo one believed that Zhang Han could really do all this in front of him, advancing with the military fort, from using firearms to defend the castle without fighting, to going out to fight in the field, and then to repeatedly defeating the northern captives, the enemy army did not taste a victory, all this, if it wasn't for everyone sitting in this green city, who would dare to believe it?

In addition to the military victory, the financial solution was also to solve the deficit problem that had been plaguing everyone for a year, and the war with the Northern Capture in the previous two years had led to the rapid expansion of the military and the entire Heyusheng system...... Many people may not know, but Wang Debang and others who stayed in Li Zhuang with Li Dongxue are quite clear that from the second to the fourth year of the Apocalypse, the scale of the Firearms Bureau has expanded tenfold in more than two years, and there are more than 1,000 craftsmen and more than 100 machines. From arquebuses to combiners, and then to flintlock smoothbore guns, this process is also quite long, and the production after finalization needs to work overtime to provide the soldiers in front of us, and by the fourth year of the Apocalypse, Zhang Han decided to strengthen the self-protection ability of the musketeers, or to use the musketeers as a separate combat unit...... This was a decision made with the change in the performance of the musket. After the emergence of firearms in the West, it was also transformed from the same role as the bow and arrow, to the core of the fire output of the phalanx, and then to the elimination of archers, but it was still an auxiliary role of auxiliary pikemen and halberdiers, and later became a pure musket phalanx, and then finally completely eliminated cold weapons, the whole process was at least more than two hundred years, this change is passive, is to explore the potential of firearms in various wars, gradually recognize, and then passively change.

Zhang Han is familiar with the entire historical process, and has chosen the most correct path from the very beginning, and the development of firearms has also taken less than ten years to complete the road of the West for 200 years, so the formation of the army and the composition of the phalanx may not necessarily have to stick to the rules, of course, it will also change with the change of the phalanx.

At the very least, the emergence of the new branch of dragoons is entirely due to the fact that the Firearms Bureau has produced qualified muskets and can provide enough qualified casing bayonets, otherwise, the idea of dragoons can only stay in the stage of imagination, and cannot be transformed into reality.

In addition to the Firearms Bureau, the Weapons and Armor Bureau, and the Miscellaneous Bureau, the scale has been greatly improved and changed.

If it were not for the support of these logistical efforts, how could the efforts and cooperation of the various departments of the Military Administration Department, the Agricultural Administration Department and the Quartermaster Department be able to support a war of this scale that almost wiped out the country?

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, Li Jing exterminated the Turks, and he was only tens of thousands of elite soldiers, but they were all cavalry, and he used the method of surprise attack to be fierce and sweaty, which was successful, but Zhang Han's approach was steady and steady, and he swallowed a piece of land when he occupied a place, which was completely different from the fighting style of the early Tang Dynasty and the early Ming Dynasty, so to speak, three points of military and seven points of logistics!

The people here have reason to be proud and unreservedly happy!

"Next year's focus will be on defense or in the war?" Sun Jingting said softly: "Is the focus of our career to continue to accumulate strength? ”

Li Shenming continued: "Next year's goal is two simple words: make money. ”

Everyone laughed, even Zhang Han smiled.

For the time being, the internal and external conditions of Heyusheng allow everyone to relax for two years. The interior has been pushed all the way to Mobei, and the Chahar people have been blocked back, and the sleeve side is not an opponent at all. It can be said that next year, if the economic conditions allow, the most important thing to do is to subdue some unconvinced tribes in Mobei, conquer Ordos and other departments, and push the defense line to the Hetao area, which was originally the tun field of the Han people, and it is a pity to use it for the Beiyu to graze sheep.

Kong Minxing smiled: "If this is the case, next year should be a relatively easy year." ”

"It should be."

"I feel the same."

Everyone nodded and smiled, and everyone was in a relaxed and happy mood.

Wang Yan has not seen these high-level officials with Yusheng for a long time, when he was ordered to go on an envoy with Chang Wei, he was only a military attache at the level of a hundred generals, at that time, the merchant army was still established by the Ming army, team officers, flag captains, hundred generals, division generals, thousand generals, now he is already a regiment-level staff officer, among the officers is considered a middle and high-level officer, and has not yet entered the sequence of the regiment-level commander this senior officer, at this moment he can't help but be a little nervous, but thinking of the worries and entrustment of Dezhnev and others when he came, Wang Yan still stubbornly said: "Report to your lord, Next year, on the Taiwan side, it may be very risky. ”

Zhang Han was silent, he also had some doubts, and he didn't know much about the specific historical nodes, but he only remembered that the Dutch did have a decades-long colonial history in Taiwan, and later fought with the Zheng family twice, and both times they lost.

However, the war did not affect the exchanges and trade routes between the two sides, but after the Zheng family defeated the Dutch, the Dutch gave the heavy profits of Japanese trade to the Zheng family, and they mainly bought raw silk and deer skins from Taiwan, Taiwan was a transit station and trade point for them to buy mainland products, a large number of goods entered the Nanyang Islands, and then there were considerable goods transferred to Europe, the profits were very high, and there was no need to fight to the death.

It wasn't until Zheng Chenggong felt that the Kinmen Xiamen area was too small, the threat of facing the Qing troops was too great, and the siege of Nanjing from the entrance of the Yangtze River failed, and the Zheng family needed a more stable foundation.

Now the merchant army has a regiment on the island of Taiwan, Zhang Han remembers that the Dutch did not have more than 2,000 people in Taiwan at the most, and there were quite a lot of civilian personnel, and the Dutch have always tried to maintain relatively good relations with the Chinese, and they were extremely vicious to the natives when they colonized Taiwan, and they were still quite polite to Chinese, especially the merchants......

Will there be changes that you didn't expect?

Zhang Han didn't say anything, Li Shenming shook his head and smiled: "Wang Yan, you are still in too much of a hurry, and you will build that 600-ton ship next year, I feel that the pace is too fast." ”

Wang Yan said: "The strong enemy is on the side, don't dare to wait." ”

Sun Jingting frowned and said, "The Dutch didn't just be defeated by the Fujian sailors, and they didn't have many warships in total." I read your last report, there are only six main ships, and the sea is so big, and the place they have to take care of is also big, I think you are still a little too worried. ”

"Sun Zhengshi." Wang Yan arched his hand and said helplessly: "His big ship, one can reach all of us." ”

"Ridiculous!" Li Shenming showed displeasure on his face and said: "How can there be such a truth, I will never believe such a statement." ”

Wang Yan didn't know how to say it for a while, these people in front of him are all inland people from Datong, most of them have not even seen the big rivers, from the grassland of the north to Datong, so many rivers can not be compared with the magnificent Yangtze River, not to mention that there are so many rivers and lakes in the south, there is only one Yellow River here in the north, and the Yellow River can not be compared with the Yangtze River even if it is in the rising time, not to mention that it is often a dry season now, even if the Yellow River looks similar to the ordinary southern rivers, There isn't much special about it.

And above the sea, a big river like the Yangtze River is nothing, and above the sea, what does a large warship mean, just based on the report, you don't have the same feeling.

Wang Yan could only say: "This time, my subordinates went north, entrusted by the Standing Affairs of the Military Department and colleagues, and repeatedly emphasized that no matter how difficult it is, I hope that the Military Department will give Taiwan support in next year's shipbuilding matters." In fact, the cost of shipbuilding is almost enough, but the amount of wood, cloth, linen, and all kinds of iron tools needed for us, including iron nails, is very high, and the requirements for wood are also very high, which requires the vigorous cooperation of the military department. ”

As soon as they heard that they didn't ask for money, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, Li Shenming smiled and said: "How many things do you want, especially iron tools, that's not a matter of one sentence, it's so serious, I thought how much silver I had to ask for, Wang Yan, you really begged for it." ”

Wang Yan took a deep breath......

Zhang Han said with a smile: "Wang Yan said, I estimate that I want a lot of things, say it to scare them." ”

Wang Yan said: "All kinds of iron nails of different lengths need 600,000 pieces, bolts need 100,000, and the rest of the axes, chisels, hammers and other things add up to more than 10,000." ”

Everyone was dumbfounded, first the man at one table was silent, and then the room fell silent.

Li Shenming frowned and said, "Do you need so many iron nails for shipbuilding? ”

"Yes." Wang Yan said: "It's not an ordinary nail, it must be made with fine iron, the length is one, we have calculated, the fine iron utensils needed by a ship add up to more than 20,000 catties of fine iron, and the number of iron nails that we are talking about is the total number of ships we plan to build next year." In addition to nails, there is also a large amount of hemp rope that needs to be soaked in oil, a large number of cloth sails, and the largest side is estimated to require dozens of skilled tailors to sew with various needles for dozens of days to sew, we have calculated, a sail, just the eye of the needle will cost more than 100,000 ......."

"And wood." Zhang Han had already remembered it and said: "Each boat needs more than 1,000 pieces of wood, especially oak wood is rare, it must be five feet above the ground, and five people need to hug it." ”

"Yes......" Wang Yan looked around and felt the stagnant air, but he still agreed to come down.