On the first day of the meeting, the focus of the discussion was on the construction, research and development, and production of the defense industry.

"According to the needs of our troops, our current production capacity is enough and even rich, but we have recently received a large number of export orders, mainly orders from the Orr Kingdom, and we have received orders for more than 300,000 Luo'an III rifles, in addition to more than 500,000 intent orders!"

"In terms of army artillery, we have also received orders for more than 800 army field artillery pieces of various calibers, and there are still more than 2,000 intended orders!"

"In terms of naval weapons, we have orders for four foreign trade warships, and the weapons on these four foreign trade warships will also be updated, and the afterloading naval guns will be uniformly replaced according to the needs of customers, and we are negotiating orders for two cruisers with the Orr Kingdom!"

"The orders for these foreign trade weapons are very large, enough to make our defense industry run at full capacity for many years!"

"And it is worth noting that the army and navy of our Southern Navy will not be limited to the current scale in the future, the current scale of the army and navy seems to be enough, but once we really start the war of unification, the number of our troops will definitely increase exponentially, even if we control the surrounding states, our strength will swell to more than one million!"

"At that time, our defense industry capacity will not be able to ensure our own rapid expansion, but also smoothly deliver a large number of foreign trade orders!"

At this time, there is a humanitarian: "When our troops are expanding, can't we suspend foreign trade orders and give priority to our own needs?" ”

The reporter immediately replied: "Of course, and this is inevitable, our own needs are in the highest priority, and foreign trade orders can only be deployed for production and delivery after our needs are met!" ”

"However, it must be noted that our foreign trade orders are all high-priced orders, and the profits are extremely high, just the orders from the Orr Kingdom are enough to bring us more than 20 million Hengyuan profits, these profits are not only used to pay the salaries of the workers in our defense industry system, but also when the defense industry expands in the future, it is expected to use this part of the profits, and more importantly, these profits will also be able to be used as our military expenses in turn!"

When Lin Ziran listened to the million-strong army that these people said, he always felt weird.

This group of subordinates, the confidence seems to be more than their own, this South China Navy is still nesting in Nanhai Prefecture, and even strictly speaking, the complete reunification of Nanhai State has not yet been completed, and these people have begun to consider the expansion task of maintaining a million troops.

But it has to be said that what they say also makes sense.

The Great Heng Empire was not a small country, but a huge country with a vast territory of 7.5 million square kilometers and a population of more than 200 million.

Even if it is divided internally now, the troops under the command of many big feudal towns are hundreds of thousands and hundreds of thousands, even if it is the royal family, they still control hundreds of thousands of troops.

If you want to unify Daheng, it is impossible without a million troops.

Considering the future, it is inevitable to further increase the production capacity of the defense industry in Nanhai Prefecture.

If there is no large-scale expansion now, then in the coming year, it will be impossible for the existing defense industry in Nanhai Prefecture to meet the large-scale expansion of the army while meeting foreign trade orders.

However, considering that the expansion of the defense industry requires a lot of manpower and material resources, the expansion cannot be a simple and crude direct expansion, and a sound plan is required.

For example, it is impossible and unnecessary to directly build a new large arsenal, and the construction of a new arsenal will take a long time and will cost a huge amount of money, which is not in line with the current situation in Nanhai Prefecture.

Therefore, the improvement of the production capacity of the national defense industry will be improved according to the existing national defense industry, and it is not even simply the expansion of scale, but more through the upgrading of equipment, with more advanced equipment and better technology, to reduce costs and improve productivity at the same time.

According to simple calculations, the equipment of the three major arsenals of Nanzhou Machinery Bureau, Fuyuan Ordnance Factory, and Luo'an Arsenal can be upgraded to improve production technology and optimize production processes, so as to increase production capacity by another 20 percentage points without increasing the scale.

If some production lines are added to these arsenals in the future, the final production capacity of the defense industry is expected to more than double within two years.

However, it is useless to upgrade the arsenal alone, and other industrial sectors need to cooperate with it, such as steel mills, machinery factories and other supporting enterprises, all of which need to upgrade their production capacity accordingly.

The increase in production capacity of the defense industry was quickly determined, and other supporting heavy industries were adjusted accordingly.

And at the end of the day, there's another issue, and that's railroads.

The state government plans to build a railway, that is, the railway from Luohai City to Qingyuan County, which is called: Luoqing Railway

The reason why railways are being built here and not elsewhere is because other parts of Nanhai Prefecture don't really need railways in a short period of time, and relying on the Luohe network, the river transport system can barely meet the current needs without railways.

However, in the area of Qingyuan County, west of Luohai County, there are no rivers in this area, and transportation can only rely on pure land transportation.

Now that the Southern Navy has stationed a large army in Qingyuan County, it is used to prepare for Ningyu Prefecture, and the adjustment of the troops is more troublesome for the transfer of materials, but if there is a railway, then the follow-up adjustment will be much simpler.

In addition to its military role, the railway, which is expected to be 250 kilometers long, can also effectively drive the development of Qingyuan County and further boost the economic development of Nanhai Prefecture.

In addition, the construction of the railway itself is also a huge demand, which will employ a large number of workers, and a large number of sleepers and rails are needed, which will greatly solve the current employment problem in Nanhai Prefecture.

After the war, the current situation in Nanhai Prefecture is still relatively complicated, there are a large number of bandits, militia groups and other informal armed forces, and at the same time, there are a large number of prisoners from other feudal towns who surrendered and surrendered.

At present, there are already more than a dozen engineer divisions alone!

These engineer divisions are not paid for by the military, and they also need engineering to survive.

It is a point to solve the employment needs of a part of the young and strong, especially veterans.

In addition, through the construction of the Qingyuan County Railway, the enterprises under his command will accumulate the technology and experience of building the railway, and lay the foundation for the subsequent expansion of the transformation of the foreign state railway and the construction of temporary military railways.

In other states, there is no river transportation system as developed as Nanhai Prefecture, and the railway is the main transportation force, and more importantly, the railway standards in many states are different, and they are not compatible with each other!

In the future, if the Southern Navy wants to make effective use of the railway systems of the states, it is necessary to renovate the local railway system and build some temporary railways to connect these railways.

For this reason, the industrial system of Nanhai Prefecture must now make a good reserve of technology and experience, so as not to be blinded by a bunch of railways with different tracks and not connected to each other.