"Executive Committee Du, please remember to bring the scale record document of the northbound brigade next time, I want to take a look." Yang Minghuan said as he threw his note-taking pen on the table, leaning back on the back chair that had just been covered with sponge and soft leather not long ago.

"What's the matter?" Du Yande looked at Yang Minghuan a little helplessly, and the latter nodded seriously, "I think as the chairman of the executive committee, I still have the right to take a look, right?" ”

"Of course there is," Xiao Jing hurriedly added next to him, "Just remember to bring it when Executive Committee Du has the next executive committee meeting." ”

"I'm asking you what kind of information you need, if it's just the situation of personnel allocation, I can tell you now, you don't need to read the document, if you really want to read the document," Du Yande pointed behind him, "The Joint Chiefs of Staff is over there, less than two hundred meters, and it can be done by calling a liaison officer to send it over." ”

"Isn't that too informal?" Yang Minghuan's face was a little unhappy, and his eyes glared at Du Yande and said, "We are the most advanced political system in the world, but ......"

"What else do you want if you don't?" Du Yande's face was not much better, "Do you want to build a projector like the old world and connect the entire network?" As far as our existing conditions are concerned, we can only choose to record mainly paper documents, and we can basically rely on human power to find documents. Unless we have a dedicated archive building next to the Executive Committee Building, we will have to pick up whatever documents we need. ”

"Then tell me about the staffing situation, and I'll take a look." Yang Minghuan picked up the record pen again as he spoke, and reopened the record book on the table.

"Okay," Du Yande opened the record book in front of him and turned a few pages, but found that the record book in front of him did not record these things, so he had to close the record book again, squinted his eyes slightly and pondered for a moment, and then said, "First of all, the troops used in this northward operation are composed of multiple arms of the four services, namely the special reconnaissance team, the army artillery, the infantry of the Foreign Legion, the air force, and the army's logistics and transportation brigade. ”

"The main body of the special investigation team is the combat mission carried out by the Yang Muqin detachment, which is composed of two reconnaissance groups, four combat groups, a sniper group and a fire support group, with a total of 30 people, and the commander is Yang Muqin." Du Yande said and thought for a moment, "There are three infantry guns and three mortars in the army artillery, each carrying 600 shells, a total of 160 artillerymen, and the commander is Hong Jie. ”

"Oh, it turned out to be a mountain cannon," Xiao Jing laughed next to him, and several elders in the room immediately laughed too.

Du Yande grinned twice and continued, "The Foreign Legion is the main combat force this time, mainly by the first battalion of the Foreign Legion, which is the first, second and third companies of the first battalion, but due to the need to ensure the safety and construction of the Qingdao base in Shandong, the Foreign Legion recommends that the troops of the second battalion be mobilized to Qingdao for garrison, and at the same time, it is necessary to ensure that there are enough troops to rotate with the front-line combat troops. ”

"I've heard about this," Zhang Yuan interjected beside him, "but this proposal was rejected by the Joint Staff Committee, and both the Marine Corps and the Army want to send troops over, and they are still arguing over this matter there." ”

"Regardless of the Army and Marine Corps, how many people are there outside the Foreign Legion? Why is there a gap in my report that there are hundreds of people in addition to the hundreds of people you mentioned? Now the report sent from the logistics department requires that in addition to military supplies, there is also a large demand for fast food, which is civilian, why was it sent to Shandong? Yang Minghuan said as he picked up a few thick documents from under the table and put them on the table, "Look, this is a list sent by the logistics department, starch, rice, flour, canned ham...... These are all civilian food, not military, and were they sent to Shandong with the intention of raising refugees there? While speaking, Yang Minghuan spread out another document, "This is the record of the telegram sent from Qingdao yesterday afternoon, the Dongfang Port has departed from Qingdao and is heading south, which means that there will be no other refugees over there except for the troops responsible for garrisoning the Qingdao base, what are you doing with so many supplies at this time?" ”

"It's hard to say this," Du Yande said, waving his hand, "The refugees are not us, they will not move closer to our people according to the plan, and all the things related to the refugees may only further exceed our expectations, so in the spirit of leniency for the enemy, this list of food allocations submitted by the Planning Commission is reasonable in quantity, and may even be less." ”

"Isn't it possible for the northbound brigade to raise food locally in Shandong? Could it be that when the ancient people were fighting, they used to directly transfer food from the General Logistics Department like us? Yang Minghuan said and looked left and right in front of the conference table, "As far as I know, although the ancient art of war has always said that soldiers and horses go first before the grain and grass are moved, in fact, the grain and grass used by their army are directly stored in various places and allocated when needed. ”

"This is true," Xiao Jing said on the side, "just like the grain that An Yunzhen has collected in recent years should have been sent to Beihai City, if something happens in Guangxi, Guangdong or Yunnan, you can directly transfer grain from the official warehouse in Beihai for local use, including but not limited to disaster relief and counterinsurgency and foreign wars......

"Although that's the case," Sun Wenbin interjected on the side, "but the grain in the official warehouse is unreliable, first, if we need to prepare grain from Shandong, we must get official permission, our battlefield is not in Shandong, but in Shanxi, without the authorization of the emperor and the permission of the cabinet, we will definitely not be able to get the official grain from Shandong, and in Shanxi it is even less likely, because Shanxi already has more than 100,000 troops to quell the rebellion, and at the same time, there are rebels who are wreaking havoc in Shanxi. Therefore, the method of raising grain in Shanxi cannot be considered, and the official warehouses of several nearby provinces and large cities are to be used to keep the refugees and defend the city in the event that the rebels may besiege the city, and it is impossible to hand it over to us for use—our appetite is very large, and they cannot satisfy it, so they can only transport it out of Dongfang Port; Second, the grain in the official warehouse is only real grain, either rice and millet or flour sorghum or something, which is not enough for us, and there is a serious lack of protein needed, that is, meat, meat is very scarce, poultry eggs may be available, but the quantity is also very small, and it cannot meet our needs. ”

"There's another situation that we have to think about, and that's transportation." Du Yande said with his hands spread, "It is the middle of winter in the north now, although it is not three or nine days now, but it is still the cold season, the Yellow River has not been frozen until now, so the current official roads are basically covered by ice and snow, in order to adapt to the battle in the north, we specially developed a rhinoceros amphibious vehicle to undertake the transportation task." However, the Wu Dynasty in the north did not have such means of transportation, nor did they have trains and automobiles, and they only had oxen, horses and carts, which could only be transported by manpower and animal power. The large amount of grain we need must be solved by ourselves, and they cannot solve the problem of grain transportation by relying on them, let alone transport it from Shandong to Shanxi. Even if local food resources can be mobilized, they will have to wait until spring arrives before they can be transported. ”

"You talk about the arrival of spring," Zhang Yuan hurriedly interrupted Du Yande's words, "I have something I have to remind you, although spring is still a while away, it is not a long time, and we will soon face a very embarrassing matter." ”

"What's the matter?" Several members of the executive committee turned their heads to look at Zhang Yuan at the same time, "What embarrassing thing are you talking about?" ”

"Thaw!" Zhang Yuan said with a wry smile, "Now North China is still covered in heavy snow, and that's countless tons of water!" Once the freeze is over, the snow seeps into the mud of northern China, and you've all seen the local official road conditions, what happens if you get soaked in the water? It must be that the road is muddy, although our rhinoceros car will not be affected at this time, but the local caravan post road will definitely be congested on the road, our rhinoceros car itself is relatively wide, and it will definitely be blocked in the case of narrow official roads, so it will seriously affect our transportation strength. ”

"Can't you switch to air freight?" As soon as Du Yande's words fell, he was interrupted by Yang Minghuan, "Is our northbound brigade going to fight until next winter?" It was also converted to air freight, how can this be? I disagree! Yang Minghuan said and waved his hand at Du Yande quite strongly, "The combat mission of the Beishang Brigade is to divide and eliminate the main force of the rebels, and bring back as many prisoners as labor as possible, and at the same time bring back as much labor as possible from the military disaster area to supplement the labor shortage in Dongfang Port." Now that the northbound brigade has just arrived in Shanxi, and we have already consumed several tons of grain before the battle has begun, if the battle lasts for a long time, will the construction of our Dongfang Port still be carried out? Don't forget that our Oriental Port is still a standard planned economy! Our food is still rationed! If we extend the period of counterinsurgency in the north, and consume all the important food in the counterinsurgency in the north, which is of little significance to us, even if we bring back a large number of prisoners and refugees, how much food can we have to feed them? Could it be that if they were transported all the way here, they would have to wait for them to starve to death before rebelling? So why do we waste so many things in vain? Just sit here and slowly fish people from the neighborhood. ”

"This ......" Several members of the executive committee were also silent at the moment, although Yang Minghuan's words were not good, but they were reasonable.

Sun Wenbin didn't speak, turned over a page of his notebook, wrote and drew on it with a pencil for a while, and then said, "Our Committee of Agriculture can still provide some output this year, Dongfang Port has a population of about 40,000 people, we don't know how many people can be brought back from Shanxi, Shandong, but it is estimated that it will not exceed 10,000 people......

"We can't eat 10,000 people," Du Yande corrected on the side, "10,000 people is too much for our existing 40,000 people, and the knowledge training and purification alone is already seriously exceeded, and there is no way to break them up and resettle them. This is very unfavorable for us, and according to Yu Sha's suggestion, it is better to receive a maximum of about 3,000 to 4,000 refugees before 1630, otherwise it will have very unfavorable consequences for us if the number of people seriously exceeds our capacity. ”

"Okay," Sun Wenbin nodded, "That is, according to the plan, the number of people in Dongfang Port in 1630 will not exceed 50,000," he said as he lowered his head and scribbled a few words in his notebook, then raised his head and said, "According to the calculation that a person consumes fifteen kilograms of grain per month, fifty thousand people will consume seven hundred and fifty tons of grain a month, and in addition, it is best for each person to ensure about 100 grams of protein intake per day, otherwise food consumption will increase." But the feed conversion rate of meat is relatively high, taking pork as an example, basically a kilogram of pork needs about five kilograms of feed, although it can be replaced by roughage, but the consumption of grain is also relatively high, so calculated, a month's intake into grain is also 750 tons, of course, this can be replaced by roughage, and sea fishing can also obtain a lot of protein, in fact, the maximum is about 1670 tons per month, we even count 200 tons. That adds up to 950 tons, and in a year, it's 11,400 tons. Although this amount seems high, the grain production of our Oriental Farm can reach such a value, that is to say, we can meet the consumption of 50,000 people with the grain production of Oriental Farm alone. Of course, the premise was that there would be no major catastrophe in 1630 that would reduce production. ”

"You're saying it well," Yang Minghuan said as he stared into Sun Wenbin's eyes, "who can guarantee that there won't be a disaster?" In addition, the Medenor people have been cruising around us, eyeing us, and who knows if they will suddenly attack or blockade us? If they do that, we will suffer a lot of damage. ”

"You don't have to worry too much about this," Du Yande said, "According to the report of the Army Intelligence Bureau, our field agents have penetrated the north and south of Annan, and they know their situation very well, according to the intelligence of the north, the northern army is preparing a large-scale battle, and strive to completely defeat the new army formed by the Medeno people, so I propose to provide weapons and food aid to the northern army at the same time, if possible, armed intervention is not impossible, as long as the battle between the north and the south of Annam does not stop, The Medenor people won't be able to pull their hands against us, and the worse they fight, the safer we will be! ”