Chapter 170: The Great Move 2
Standing on the throne of the emperor of the Jinluan Palace, Zhu Youxiao looked down on the world.
The Tianjin shipyard is in full swing, and all ten dry docks have been put up to build Galen ships and clippers. The combination of the advantages of these two ships took a long time to experiment, but Zhu Youxiao did not have so much effort to wait, and he himself was not a major in ship design, so he could not give any advice to the shipbuilders.
So start with your time-proven Galen and clippers, ten dry docks, seven Galens, and three clippers. The largest of them, the Galen ship, had 3,000 materials, which was 1,500 tons when converted into a displacement, which was also a large warship in the West at this time, with three decks alone, and according to the design, 75 guns could be erected on one side of the ship.
Ten warships, from the largest 3,000 materials to the smallest 1,000 materials, there are all levels, this is the shipyard is accumulating shipbuilding experience, if this large-scale shipbuilding activity is successful, Zhu Youxiao can obtain a world-class shipyard.
At this time, industrialization had not yet begun, and the sea was still the era of sail battleships, and there was not much gap between the East and the West in terms of technology, but there was a slight difference in thinking, so as long as the thinking was slightly corrected, with the technology of the Ming Dynasty, anything that the West had could be made.
The port of Tientsin is also under construction, and in addition to the berthing location, there is also the construction of a fort and a naval base, which will be the main base of the Imperial Navy. At this time, it was Luo Qing who was in charge of the construction here, a fugitive from a dart background, because he had followed Zhu Youxiao very early, although he had not yet obtained any official status or anything like that, Yu Zhigao was also more polite and valued by him.
As for the salt works here, they are all handed over to the management of Lao Zhoutou, the regulations of the salt works have been completed, and the main supply is also the Beijing Division, which does not need any major changes, as long as the city is maintained and defended, this old Zhoutou, the old salt worker, is still capable.
As for Liu Bin, he took a group of young backbones of the salt field to follow Wang Wenyan to Changlu, and they were ready to take it as the center, integrate the entire Changlu salt field, divide the salt drying area, and standardize the sales of the salt industry.
On the side of the Tiangong workshop, the textile factory began to start, and the pedal sewing machine was cruel to the speed of making clothes in this era, and an assembly line could produce fifty pieces of clothes a day, which was nothing for the output of three or four hundred in later generations, and it was amazing in this era of manual sewing.
There are about 50 people on an assembly line, and there are almost 5,000 eunuchs sent by Zhu Youxiao, not to mention the nearly 1,000 female workers recruited later.
Of course, even now, the military uniforms of the Yulin Army in all seasons are the first to be fully equipped, from training uniforms to regular uniforms, and even socks and shoes, etc., made of high-quality cotton cloth, and after sending it down, those recruits who have never seen good things are reluctant to wear it when they touch it.
The current Tiangong workshop is a large construction site, and in this place thirty miles away from Beijing, there are about 100,000 people, and they are working day and night. Iron and steel making, horse-drawn carriages, stamping iron armor, forging muskets, casting artillery, making glassware, printing newspapers and books, making wine, making perfumes, preparing gunpowder, making lead.
This meritorious base has already exerted its strength at this time, and between the roar and collision of machines, it has begun to produce all kinds of meritorious products with all its might. After vigorously recruiting manpower and training apprentices, it has reached a monthly production capacity of 5,000 muskets, 50,000 projectiles, 10 tons of black powder, and hundreds of artillery pieces at a time.
At this time, the first finalized iron-cast guns had been shipped to the Tianjin shipyard, intended to be loaded on the first small Galen ship and the large splash ship.
After Xu Guangqi was on the side of the Tiangong Workshop, Zhu Youxiao had always been very relieved, especially after capturing Song Yingxing and recruiting Sun Yuanhua, he didn't care, the technology had all been lost to them, and the rest was up to them to study.
In addition to the regular training of the phalanx, the training of the Yulin Army was also carried out in a step-by-step manner, and in addition to the regular training of the phalanx, great efforts were also made to ideological education and the design of muskets, and some artillery pieces were also assembled. The division of artillery Zhu Youxiao did not use the Western, but divided it by the number of catties of cannonballs cast in the Tiangong workshop, which is currently temporarily divided into four types: three-catty cannons, six-catty cannons, twelve-catty cannons, and eighteen-catty cannons.
The Yulin Army is mainly equipped with the first two kinds, three-catty guns and six-catty guns, although they are cast with iron, but the technology is not skilled enough, relatively rudimentary, the weight of the cast artillery is still very large, it is inconvenient to carry, for the sake of mobility, at present only equipped with smaller caliber artillery.
For this new type of iron-cast artillery, Zhu Youxiao directly went to the gun carriage as a big killer, the gun carriage can't help but have wheels, which can ensure the engine power, and there is also a lifting frame that can be raised and lowered to adjust the angle of the cannon's escalation, and the scale of the angle and firing range is also marked on it, so that people can understand it at a glance, and they don't have to bother to calculate it themselves.
In this way, all it takes is a good artillery commander for the artillery to truly exert its power and become the king of war.
The Yulin Army was on the right track, pulling artillery wagons and carrying muskets to the suburbs for training every day, and the Jingshi City Defense Army was not idle. After a major election in the first three months of the year, the remaining 30,000 people can be called elite. They were all the leaders of the previous three battalions or the guards around the Beijing Division.
The physique is strong, the martial arts are exquisite, and the people are also young and full of sharp spirit, if it weren't for the deep habits of their old military system, Zhu Youxiao really wanted to transfer these people to the Yulin Army.
Under the command of Qi Jin, the Jingshi City Defense Army also practiced day and night, lining up in a phalanx, shooting with bows and arrows, and even cavalry assaults.
Zhu Youxiao still attaches great importance to this army, and when Qi Jin finishes training, he will begin to carry out his own military reform plan for the guard. Of course, the first is to implement it in Hebei Province.
In Zhu Youxiao's plan, the city defense army is equivalent to the armed police of later generations, and each county should be set up, and then the head of the city defense army of each provincial city is the commander-in-chief of the entire provincial city defense army, and the head of the city defense army of each province is the commander of the entire city defense army.
Below is the city defense army of each county, which is divided into three levels in total. Its function is to maintain local stability, eliminate local bandits, and serve as a reserve force to support the local government and the main field army.
The field army refers to the military force of the Yulin Army, which is different from the city defense army, each field army will have its own unique name, and is responsible for the defense and attack of different border places, or as a mobile force, mobilized throughout the country.
The Yulin Army is now considered to have been prepared, with a military system of 30,000 people, a spear and iron party formation, muskets, artillery cavalry, short-range and long-range and pursuit charging forces, and only running-in training is left. After the training is completed, after a certain amount of actual combat tempering, some officers can be split and another field army can be formed, so as to blossom and expand in an all-round way.
The city defense army and the field army, the central government is under the control of the metropolitan governor's office, which is the military system of the future Ming Empire in Zhu Youxiao's heart.
The formation of the army, the manufacture of equipment, and the sources of finance were all gradually on the right track, so Zhu Youxiao's attention was all focused on the reform of the political system.
There are no specific candidates for the top leaders of the Metropolitan Procuratorate, Zuo Du Yushi and Dali Siqing, and the affairs of these two departments are temporarily managed by Sun Chengzong, a scholar of Dongge University.
Today's Tokaku University Fellows are different from the past, ranking second in the cabinet in order, and they are essentially secondary, and they are no longer the titles at the bottom of the previous ranks, but are truly high-ranking and powerful. He had full authority over the affairs of the two departments, and that was something that no one could say.
Under his supervision, the two departments continued to send personnel to various county governments in Hebei Province to form the local Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple. This kind of organization and simplicity, a supervisor with a few documents, in the search for a place to hang a sign is completed, specific their own responsibilities and tasks, they do not know, wait for the assignment above.
As for the police department being built, it is just a shelf for the time being, and only a few documents are in the office, and the real demonstration role is still the police station under the Shuntian Mansion, which is a high-ranking official who is set at the fourth grade, and is in charge of the security of the entire Jingshi.
The first year of the Apocalypse, March 1.
Today is the first day of the new year, and it happens to be the new ten-day day set by the Emperor of the Apocalypse. As soon as this emperor took office, he showed his character through many things, and liked to overthrow the system of his predecessors and formulate a new system himself.
This is the case with the Metropolitan Procuratorate, the Dali Temple, and the newly established police station.
At about half past eight in the morning, at the Qianqing Gate, Zhu Youxiao was already sitting on the throne, listening to the government at the imperial gate, and below were rows of officials who were qualified to participate in the court meeting. It's just that looking around, almost all of the following officials are civilian officials, and there is no one of the military generals who were full of scenes in the past.
The new emperor's sweep was too ruthless, the Red Pill coup d'état caught a wave, and the guard was abolished one less wave, and now the military is all under the Dadu Governor's Office, and all the governors of the five military governors in the past were dismissed, and the new Dadu Governor's Mansion is just a shelf, there is no organization in it, where will there be any military attachés to participate in the court meeting.
Unlike the early dynasties of the past, the time is much later now. At half past eight o'clock, they gathered at the noon gate, and rushed to the Qianqing gate at half past eight, and in the main hall, there were many more chairs with backrests, one for an official, and sat for a meeting. The conditions are much better than those of the previous early dynasties.
For this point, although the officials have some objections, they are actually very comfortable, and no one wants to get up early to go to the court. And this change in regulation has also received the least opposition in recent months, except for a few more pedantic imperial history opponents, everyone else has gladly accepted it.
As the trial of the Red Pill case came to an end, the emboldened officials gradually grew, and their opposition to Zhu Youxiao's restructuring also grew stronger day by day.
But it's a pity that at this time, Zhu Youxiao has completed many important parts, such as the change of the Metropolitan Procuratorate and Dali Temple, the dismissal of the matter, and the setting of the police department.
These things are a foregone conclusion, and they are being unswervingly pursued under the auspices of the now highly authoritative cabinet.
[Author's digression]: The rest has been canceled, my head is starting to get confused, and the back is more cumbersome, a little messy, everyone Haihan.