"Didn't I say that if there is a shortage of coal, we will send barges to transport it." Ma Qianzhu said impatiently at the meeting, "The carrying capacity of 1,500 tons is enough to burn for a few months even if it is brought back from Vietnam, right?" ”

"It's easy to say, Vietnam also has a court."

"Hou Li Dynasty."

"Mu Monkey and Crown—" Xi Ya said with contempt, "just send an expeditionary force to destroy it." ”

"Don't say that, the monkey is still ruthless enough at this time. It's a bit tiring for us to do it. "In places where stable institutions of power have been established, we can't mess around like the Europeans do in Black Africa, we have to trade with them." ”

"It has to be unequal trade, too—" said Xi Ya, who suddenly became full of nationalist fervor, "where there is artillery, there is trade." ”

"Okay, okay, don't go too far," Ma Qianzhuo interrupted Xi Yaya's lyricism, "Now I'll talk about the army." ”

After the first victory against encirclement and suppression, and then the extermination of the Gou family, the traversers opened up the situation in Lingao and won a period of peaceful construction. But it should be clearly realized that as the days of their landing get longer and their actions get bigger and bigger, the eyes of all sides will eventually pay attention to the traversers. Both the pirates and the Ming are expected to take action against the traverser in the near future. Therefore, he demanded to the committee and all the traversers: to create a new army as soon as possible. and form a perfect training-combat system.

In the medium and long term, the backbone of the traverser's operation, Liliang, must be a new army dominated by the aborigines of this time and space, whether it is called a "new army" or a "native army", its core idea is the same. The traverser is extremely weak in human resources, and even if all of them are administrative officials and jishu personnel, they are unable to do so, let alone go to war as soldiers.

The existing army, with the traverser as the main force, must be disbanded and formed into a new army. At present, more than 10% of the total number of crossers have served in the military group for a long time. These people, who have mastered modern jishu and ideas, are engaged in a lot of patrols, guards, and skirmishes, which is a serious waste of human resources.

It is expected that the newly formed army - Ma Qianzhuo proposed to call it a "new army" rather than some "indigenous army" to distinguish it from the lower-ranking army of the future - the soldiers and non-commissioned officers are all from the Ming Dynasty. With the expansion of the size of the army, the future officer corps will also be dominated by Ming Dynasty people

The new army will be composed mainly of peasants and from the old army, especially ordinary military households under the guard system. They will serve as the main non-commissioned officers after training. In the initial stage, the officers of the new army were mainly crossers, and gradually supplemented the cadets of the military academy, so the military academy of the Volunteer Army should be established as soon as possible. In the early days of the military academy, the cadets were mainly local children and literate soldiers. In the early days, military schools could be considered to be co-organized with administrative officer schools and technician schools. If this condition is not available, the training of officers in the form of a training team can also be considered.

The new army has a system of responsibility of the chief, but at all levels there are soldiers' councils, which have the right to oppose officers' orders outside of combat and should obey if the commander-in-chief insists on it, but the soldiers' council has the power to appeal to the military department of the commander-in-chief and even the crosser. Soldiers' councillors may not be executed until they have been reviewed by the military department, even if they are in the line of fire. Mistreatment of soldiers will be punished severely.

The New Army has a professional soldier system. Officers and enlisted men are treated as employees, have preferential housing and self-reserved land, and use new varieties of crops free of charge (other farmers who use new varieties of crops have an additional tax in the second year). In fact, the source of manpower for the Forces nouvelles is the manpower saved by the new crops.

"This, I'll give you my opinion." He Ming said, "I don't know the situation of the Ming army. However, if the army does not fight for a long time, there will often be many bad practices, and there are many problems in our troops before we fought Vietnam in 79. Is the quality of the soldiers in the typical old-style army of the Ming Dynasty good, and won't it attract a lot of soldiers? ”

"You're still from the People's Liberation Army," Zhang Bolin interjected, "and you've forgotten your invincible political work?" The liberation fighters of that year were not all from the old army like GMD, they were also transformed. ”

"Do you know how to do political work?" He Ming was skeptical of Zhang Bolin's words.

"Don't worry, I'll get it done." Zhang Bolin is full of confidence.

Ma Qianzhu said: "He Ming has a point. We don't have much time, not much time for them to change their minds. More screening should be done for the personnel of the old army. ”

"We have sent people to serve as grass-roots officers, and we have opened our heads well, and as soon as we pay attention to the three major disciplines and eight points, we will naturally have a correct atmosphere." Xi Yaya recalled the process of training the militia in Yanchang Village, "...... The chief officer himself behaves rightly and sets an example in everything, and the small leaders below don't dare to mess around, how can the old saying come about? One is the pressure of all evils. ”

"I'm afraid it's unreliable to recruit soldiers from military households." Yu Eshui said, "The military households in the late Ming Dynasty were not much different from the common people, they were basically the tenants of officers, and most of them were old, weak, sick and disabled. ”

"But they have a lot of bitterness." Ma Qianzhu said, "As far as Lingao is concerned, military households are much more miserable than ordinary people. The common people here are much better off as tenants and long-term laborers. ”

"Recruit soldiers from the Lebanese. They are all in the mountains and can form mountain infantry. Wei Aiwen began to advocate the idea of his Li troops again—lately he had been trading in the Lebanese area and had established a certain relationship with the locals, for which he had consumed a lot of lighters on his own.

"Instead of recruiting Li people, it is better to recruit Miao people." Yu Eshui reminded, "The Li people and the Han people here have deep ethnic contradictions, we can only resolve them slowly, and we can't easily arm them. In case something happens to this Li armed group, we are Zhu Bajie looking in the mirror. ”

The Miao people in Hainan were left behind after the Miao army that came to Hainan to fight with the Ming army from Guangxi during the Li riot. Because they came late, they could only settle in the high mountains, and most of them worked as long-term laborers or tenants for the Li and Han landlords, and some of them lived purely by hunting. Life is harder than that of the Lebanese. In the history of Hainan, the relationship between the Miao people and the Han people was relatively good.

"Are there any Hmong people in the area?"

"Yes, yes," Wei Aiwen hurriedly said, "Then the lord of Zhu Tong in Nantong said that there is a Miao village not far from them. There are hundreds of households. If we need to, we can go there once and explore the way. ”

"The matter of recruiting Li and Miao people can be considered." Ma Qianzhu thought about it, only recruiting a few dozen people to form a reconnaissance team or something can still be controlled.

"Now I'm going to talk about the control of the army." Ma Qianzhu continued.

The army is a tool of the traverser, and the tool cannot be used against the master, so it is necessary to change the current way in which the military department operates independently. Once the Forces nouvelles are established, a new military structure must be put on the agenda. And when the Forces nouvelles outnumbered the traversers in more than 500 people, they had to be controlled in an effective way. Therefore, he makes the following recommendations.

At the beginning of the establishment of the new army, the original personnel of the military group had to be preserved. As a trainer and watcher of the Forces nouvelles. Officers were needed to build the new army, so the method of halving the size was adopted, retaining 20 people as internal security troops equipped with modern weapons, and another 30 people entered the new army as officers to establish a training battalion.

Once the structure of the Forces nouvelles was perfected, the mission of the armed forces under the direct control of the Ministry of Military Affairs came to an end, and all the others, except for the internal guard troops, were subsumed into the sequence of the new army. All subsequent military operations were carried out by the Forces nouvelles.

The Forces nouvelles mainly used 19th-century weapons and cold weapons. Initially, it was decided to use a front-loading rifled rifle and a spear with Mini rounds. The ratio of guns to spears is tentatively set at 1:1. The size of the first new army was 500 men, consisting of a battalion, an artillery company, and 9 smoothbore guns. If new weapons are needed in combat, they may apply to the Commission for the issuance of them by the Internal Guard.

Under the Military Commission, the General Staff will be established, under which there will be two systems: the army and the navy. The General Staff has the authority to command the Navy and Army. But the General Staff did not have the right to command the Internal Guard Forces. The Military Commission is responsible for the training and supply of the internal security forces, but it has no jurisdiction and command power, and is under the direct control of the Executive Committee.

The army cannot be used in internal conflicts. The main tasks of the internal security forces are to maintain order, protect government offices and keep important supplies. At the same time, it is responsible for the control of modern weapons.

An independent military intelligence department has been established under the General Staff to be responsible for military intelligence gathering and reconnaissance activities.

For the time being, independent departments will not be established for military logistics, and the Executive Committee will entrust various specialized departments to supply them, and the specific allocation will be controlled by the Planning Commission.

The militia programme already in Damei and Yanchang villages should be continued, not only in these two villages, but also in Bairen commune. In the early days, the basic militia system was adopted, and the traversers went down to each village to conduct rotation training for the basic militia. The militia is currently armed with captured cold weapons, old guns, carrying guns and standard 6-pounder smoothbore guns (used for village fortifications), and when they have a certain industrial capacity, they can equip the basic militia with mini rifles.

There was no formal maritime operation at sea, only fishing vessels for patrolling - limited by fuel and accessories, and the use of these modern fishing vessels had to be controlled as much as possible. In view of the fact that the pirates of this era are the most powerful combat liliang in the southeast, and it seems difficult to cooperate with them at present, the fortification should be completed in the short term by building a naval base in Bopu. The Army should support the construction of naval fortified artillery and station a defensive unit at the naval base. The navy set up a battery at Lingaojiao to cover the construction of the port and dock.

Zhang Bolin blinked when he heard this, which means that what are you dragging, you have to come to Lao Tzu to ask for a cannon in a low voice.

After the establishment of the Navy, the former Fisheries Production Group was abolished and merged into the Navy. Fishery production remains one of the main tasks of the Navy at this stage. As a result, the Navy was under the dual leadership of the General Staff and the Committee of Agriculture, and the Bopu Fish Processing Plant continued to be owned by the Committee of Agriculture. The army is responsible for recruiting and training the navy's soldiers, and then it will be independent into a system later.

In order to unify the sea in the early stage and avoid multiple management, the system of "everything floating on the sea belongs to the navy" was implemented, and all ships brought from another time and space or purchased from local seizures, regardless of their current use, were all under the management of the navy.