Chapter 117: The Second Arsenal
"Huguang, Jiangxi, and Fujian have all mobilized the Ming army, how many Ming troops will join the army in the end, 50,000? Or 100,000? Looking at the intelligence from the Ming Dynasty's ruling area, Fang Nan had a headache.
The Ming Dynasty is very powerful, millions of square kilometers of territory, hundreds of millions of people, millions of troops, more than twice as powerful as the People's Army, if the Ming Dynasty attaches importance to the People's Army and sends hundreds of thousands of troops, even if the People's Army firearms force is powerful, it will be swallowed up by hundreds of thousands of Ming troops.
Now Fang Nan can only hope that the Ming Dynasty will not pay much attention to the People's Army that only occupies one place, and will not send too many troops to encircle and suppress the People's Army, so that the People's Army can resist the Ming Army and gain more time to develop itself.
As for this intelligence from the Ming Dynasty's ruling areas, the People's Army sent quite a number of scouts into the Ming Dynasty's ruled areas, and at present these scouts no longer belong to the combat unit establishment, but belong to the newly established Military Intelligence Department, the full name of which is the Military Intelligence Office of the People's Army, which is specifically responsible for collecting intelligence on the Ming Dynasty's ruled areas.
Li Zhen is the second batch of three-year education graduates, the age of Fang Nan is the same, this year is 20 years old, originally Li Zhen served as the deputy head of the cold weapons unit, was favored by Fang Nan, and was transferred to the head of the Military Intelligence Department.
The MI was basically set up by Li Zhen, and the MI personnel were mainly scouts who had infiltrated the Ming Dynasty's ruling areas, and these scouts should now be called agents.
Li Zhen has already begun to select more personnel among the recruits, conduct special training, and become a barely qualified agent in Fang Nan's eyes.
With the establishment of the central government of the People's Army, Fang Nan was busy, not busy with government affairs, most of the things were handled by Secretary-General Zhou Lei and other five ministers, and Fang Nan was mainly responsible for major affairs and military affairs.
In terms of government affairs, it is not a little, but Fang Nan's physical fitness is far beyond that of mortals, he only sleeps a few hours a day, and there is no problem in insisting on five or six days, and he has enough time to deal with government affairs.
Although the People's Army only has one territory and a population of only more than 800,000 people, the People's Army is different from the Ming Dynasty, the People's Army cannot always use the laws of the Ming Dynasty, and the People's Army needs its own laws.
It is not possible to let one person come to the matter of formulating the law, Fang Nan himself mainly formulates a general framework, and the new law is very different from the law of the Ming Dynasty, and then it can be handed over to various departments to fill in this framework.
However, just the framework also requires a lot of time from Fang Nan, and you must know that the scope of the law is very large, about paying taxes, about commerce, about criminals, and so on.
In his previous life, Fang Nan did not study law, so he could only learn from the laws of the Ming Dynasty according to some simple content related to the law in his memory, and finally formulate laws belonging to the People's Army according to his own ideas.
There are no rules, there is no circle, the importance of the law Fang Nan is very clear, with the right law to stipulate everyone, in order to make a country long-term peace and stability.
The laws of the Ming Dynasty are relatively okay, the key is that there are too many people who break the law, or those who violate the law but are not punished, justice is gone, chaos ensues, if it were not for the millions of Ming troops there, the Ming Dynasty would have been reduced to ashes long ago.
With the establishment of the central government of the People's Army, the counties under the rule of the People's Army are rapidly integrating into a single unit, effectively improving the foundation of the People's Army.
In a single county, it is difficult for its own output to meet everyone's food, clothing, housing and transportation, but the combination of eleven counties, a prefecture, can barely meet everyone's food, clothing, housing and transportation, and the output of each county is rapidly passing through all parts of the People's Army.
This is one of the roles of the central government of the KPA.
Zhou Lei, Zhao Hong, Ding Wei, Cheng Xinyuan and others have the experience of serving as officials in various counties for a period of time, and after becoming the secretary general and ministers of various departments, they are not much flustered, and they can handle things one by one in an orderly manner.
With only Fang Nan alone, how could it be impossible to deal with everything.
Fang Nan thought of the emperors of various dynasties who were diligent in government affairs, an emperor who was diligent in government affairs was a good thing for ministers and ordinary people on the surface, but the real situation was not so.
Many emperors who were diligent in government affairs wanted to have a comprehensive understanding of the country because they could not fully trust their ministers, so they learned about various things by being diligent in government affairs and approving the decrees.
If this continues, it is most likely that the emperor died young and died of exhaustion.
If the emperor is slack in government affairs, it is easy to be overshadowed by the ministers, and there is a world inside the palace walls and a world outside the palace walls.
It can be said that the emperor has a problem, and the courtiers also have a problem, if the courtiers follow the rules, then the emperor will not have many problems delegating power to the courtiers, and the emperor can be much easier.
Now Fang Nan is not very tired in dealing with government affairs, and with the expansion of the territory of the People's Army, this situation will continue, but Fang Nan is still worried about the next big battle between the People's Army and the Ming Army.
The People's Army is too weak, Fang Nan doesn't need to go to the founding of the country to be an emperor or something like that, Fang Nan thinks about how the People's Army should survive the most.
Jingle Bell! Jingle Bell!
In the past few days, the sound of striking iron suddenly sounded in a certain area of Yongan County.
Hearing the sound of "clanging" iron, many people who have been to Hutou Village will ring Hutou Village for the first time, everyone knows the importance of Hutou Village, it is because of the tiger head gun created by Hutou Village, the People's Army can occupy a place in a short period of time, and slightly has the qualification to overthrow the Ming Dynasty.
Originally, the blacksmiths and carpenters in Yongan County were all recruited by the People's Army and sent to Hutou Village, and now the sound of striking iron has reappeared in Yongan County, for the simple reason that Fang Nan established a second arsenal in Yongan County.
Hutou Village is located in the mountains, the mountains and forests restrict the development of Hutou Village, as the People's Army captured five more counties, there are a group of blacksmiths and carpenters, and the second arsenal began to be established.
Half of the blacksmiths and carpenters recruited from the new five counties stayed in the Second Arsenal and half were sent to Hutou Village, which also mobilized a number of skilled blacksmiths and carpenters to the Second Arsenal.
Before Fang Nan came to Yong'an County from Guishan County, he stayed in Hutou Village for a day to set up the second arsenal, and before the establishment of the second arsenal, Hutou Village had prepared some machine tools used in the second arsenal.
Hutou Village needs to make iron and steel, and there is no iron mine in Yongan County, so there is no need to make iron and steel, and the steel is transported from Hutou Village.
There is not much steel used to build the tiger head gun, and there will not be much manpower used to transport the steel, you must know that the People's Army has a large number of coolies in its hands, from the captured Ming army bandits and robbers.
With the second arsenal put into production, in a few months, the monthly output of the two arsenals is expected to increase to more than 200 pieces.