In all the projects of the navy, population always comes first, and there have been countless examples in later generations to prove that if a country wants to be strong, the first important thing is the population, and the second most important thing is the national territory.

Population gives the country the basis for producing more products, and even in times of war, under the premise of one out of ten, population is also an important basis for the number of troops, and the size of the country, not only will bring great strategic depth, but most importantly, these can provide sufficient resources.

On the premise of not putting the target on the mainland, the first thing to consider is not the land area, there is no enemy around, the biggest enemy is the Northern Song Dynasty itself, there is no need to have a huge strategic depth, but the population cannot be ignored.

If there is not enough population, it will not be possible to produce enough products, and if there are not enough products, how to develop, climb the scientific and technological line, unless it is the era of fully intelligent robots, otherwise, under the premise of scientific and technological development, population is indispensable.

In the era when science and technology do not have enough support and computing is not leading, China even relies on countless abacus and the collective efforts of countless scientists to finally complete the manufacture of mushroom bombs.

Dingjun, compared with the Northern Song Dynasty, has many advantages, whether it is for the attraction of the population, or for the attention to the population, in the Northern Song Dynasty, those who can't survive, as long as they have hands and feet, are willing to accept the transformation and training of the Dinghai Navy, in the end, it is still possible to live and work in peace and contentment in the Dinghai Navy.

The more and more developed non-staple food of the Dinghai Navy, as well as a variety of abundant supplies and new products, so that the comfort of life in the Dinghai Navy has been significantly improved, not only one, more short-sighted, after the Dinghai Navy made money, thinking of going home to be a small landlord, living a life that could not be dreamed of before, but after really going back, I found that the life of the small landlord was more difficult than that of the workers of the Dinghai Navy, and at most three or four months, and some even came back in one or two months.

Dinghai has not only high treatment, but also equality and freedom, in Dinghai, there is no oppression of the powerful and superiors, everything is forward-looking, even if it is a worker, there is enough respect, not to mention skilled workers, slightly better skilled workers, or the kind with unique skills, their wages are very high, and their status is even higher.

Such an attraction, as long as it comes, I don't want to leave, not to mention, the Dinghai Navy has used various methods to start the attraction project, and a steady stream of people have been attracted to the Dinghai Navy.

Under such unremitting efforts, even in the face of the whole country, under the premise that some people show up to say, the chain reaction is very large, and in the seventh year of Qingli, the population of Dinghai has exceeded 25 million.

The sheer size of the population brought with it terrible productivity, and likewise, it created considerable problems, forcing the Dinghai to stop the mass migration and instead dig deeper into the interior.

In persistence, the population is likely to exceed 50 million, and the welfare and investment environment of the Navy will be greatly attracted, not to mention the small people in Shengdou, and households below the first class will have a huge attraction, not to mention 50 million, more are possible.

In this way, the population of the Dinghai Navy has increased, but a distinct problem has immediately appeared, the problem of labor, no matter how much production is improved, unless there is a large-scale automatic combine harvester, and a cultivator, otherwise, relying on the plough of oxen and horses, there is a huge improvement from before, but it is impossible to reduce the labor force in place, and it is almost inevitable that there will be problems.

The problem that didn't arise at 10 million started to sharpen up at 25 million, and after discovering the problem, some adjustments to the response began.

The flow of personnel has basically stopped, and the Dinghai Navy has also begun to review the extent of personnel, and even to a certain extent, there has been a return of personnel.

Of course, this return is still in the name of the Dinghai Navy, and even the people are still Dinghai, but they only chose agricultural parks and other cooperation methods to help the Northern Song Dynasty that had problems due to the problems caused by labor, and to teach the advanced planting methods to the Northern Song Dynasty.

Similarly, because of the contradictions caused by the population, it was necessary to win over some local officials, and at this time, it also became the adjustment of the naval industry, and took advantage of this opportunity to begin to send these industries to the Northern Song Dynasty.

Some industries that are not so important, or whose profits have begun to decrease, have turned to cooperate with those local forces, so that on the one hand, it is to eliminate backward production capacity, and the navy no longer needs these products to provide production capacity, and instead chooses higher and better profits.

On the other hand, they also have other ideas, first take away the basic plate of these populations, and then let these labor-intensive industries blossom in all directions, and to a certain extent, they will ignore the earlier ones, which are no longer in front of them, and pay attention to these things that are in front of them, and the competition between industry and agriculture for labor will be staged, and then it will depend on how they fight.

The construction of a large number of factories and mines further increased the requirements for labor, but because of the combination with the local magnates, some large machinery began to appear.

For example, the eight-horse plow, a huge plough pulled by 8 horses, has a simple width of more than 40 meters, and for large pieces of concentrated land, the efficiency is hundreds or thousands of times that of ordinary plows, as well as some tools for sowing and harvesting, and some large-scale farms have become possible, further reducing the demand for land for the population and releasing a large number of people.

This release was supposed to be a good opportunity for the Dinghai Navy to harvest the population, but the Dinghai Navy suppressed the desire in his heart and instead guided these local magnates to invest in labor-intensive enterprises.

The huge benefits have attracted a lot of people, and they have also attracted a lot of people by relying on local forces, and taking advantage of this opportunity, Dingjun began to export customized services.

For example, if you customize a certain factory, be responsible for everything from machinery and equipment, to personnel training, and even the construction of a normalized enterprise, the powerful people only need to come up with money and land.

In the process of this training, it is not a lie, but a comprehensive provision, almost the Dinghai Navy once copied the factory, although compared to the Dingjun Navy when it was first involved, the profit margin has been a lot lower, but three years, or five years back to the capital, such a total profit, or to the satisfaction of these elites, when five years back to the capital, the rest is the net profit.

In the gradual exchange of products, turning to machinery and other aspects, the Dinghai also shrank the immigration, 25 million people, this population, can not be compared with the huge population of the Northern Song Dynasty, but it is enough.

In the process of concentrating on development, because of manpower and the smooth development, the scientific and technological line of the Dinghai Navy has climbed very fast, large-scale investment, and the correct development direction, including Zhao Xin's forward-looking vision, whether it is civilian or military, the improvement is very obvious.

In the middle, we have to mention battleships, from the day of the appearance of large warships, battleships are the most crystallized embodiment of human creation, and in the Northern Song Dynasty in the 11th century, this situation is even more obvious.

Big ships, has never been a problem, from the completion of the canal construction, in the scientific and technological research, after climbing the scientific and technological line, the scale of the warship has expanded very large, at the beginning, under the intervention of Zhao Xin, almost most of the ships are placed on the fishing boats, large-scale fishing, to supplement the navy's non-staple food.

However, after that, the industrial replication of the Dinghai Navy was very large, with a model factory, other factories, it was logical to copy, the output was very high from the beginning, and then continued to expand, and finally reached a very high level.

With sufficient production, after satisfying the needs of fishing boats, transport ships, and other needs, it is natural to build warships, islands, islands, fixed defenses are useless, only attack, warships are the most important sea Great Wall of the islands.

As early as the sixth year of Qingli, a large first-class battleship was launched, and a total of 154 guns were installed, and the overall power was very terrifying.

Although these cannons are still bronze cannons, they have not only improved in technology, especially in the improvement of ignition powder, but the power of firepower has exceeded that of the Spanish fleet and the British fleet, and the quality and range are far exceeded, and the power is very great.

The huge all-gunpowder warships, each of which is a mobile battery, are extremely powerful when fully exerted, and have a huge lethal effect on fixed targets in ports near the sea.

It has such a terrible lethal effect on land targets, and even more so for sea targets, except for the Dinghai Navy, there is no kind of ship in the whole world, including the Northern Song Dynasty, that can confront such a weapon, let alone a salvo, even if it is a scattered shot, it is not an opponent.

In a sea experiment of the Dinghai Navy, a 1,000-material sea ship was used as a target ship to conduct an attack experiment at sea, when 56 guns, aimed at the ship, carried out three rounds of firing, and finally hit 20 heavy shells and 12 armor-piercing shells, almost after three rounds of firing, the ship was dismembered.

In historical records, around the 19th century, Western naval guns were about a minute, or even more than a minute, because the gunpowder they used was black powder, and after the shooting, it had to be cooled and cleared.

Cooling should not be too urgent, which will destroy the structure of the artillery, natural cooling with appropriate means, this alone, it will take a considerable amount of time, let alone cleaning, which will take more time.

However, the Dinghai Navy jumped directly from black powder to the era of nitrocellulose, and there was no need to clean it up, in this case, as long as the temperature of the artillery did not rise to a certain level, there was no need to stop, 3 shells, that is, about a minute.

For people, a minute of time can make a person run a long way, but for a ship, especially a large ship with more than a thousand materials, this cannonball can't go far at all, 3 shells, in the form of coverage, no wooden boat can block, as long as one of the shells, can hit the key place, you can hit a ship, if multiple shots hit together, you can directly sink a ship.

The battleship of the first rank, from the day it was launched, has become the symbol of the Dinghai Navy, the most powerful and powerful of the Dinghai Navy, and it is also the flagship.

However, soon, this flagship was replaced by a more powerful fleet, and with the launch of such a ship, it seemed that the entire Dinghai Navy had broken through certain restrictions on thermal weapons, and its development began to accelerate.

This point, not only happened to the navy, the same, also appeared in the army, more than a month later, the appearance of the fixed paper shell bullet, the power of the musket was further improved, after that, there was a preliminary metal shell bullet, only on the large shotgun, but it is a progress, in the era of the power of the musket is not obvious, the large shotgun, still has the value of his existence.

With the large-scale emergence of thermal weapons, to the point of maturity and hunting, the military system of the navy has changed, and the longbow has begun to withdraw from the stage of history and become an insignificant object, not only withdrawing from the first line on the battlefield, but also the second- and third-line troops, and even the militia reserves, but also beginning to reduce the equipment and training of the longbow.

Weapons such as muskets may have some gaps with longbows in terms of range, but they have begun to surpass them in terms of usability and flexibility in various tactics.

If ordinary guns, perhaps in terms of range, are not the opponent of the longbow, but some idiosyncratic, heavier smoothbore guns, their range is farther than the longbow, and the most important thing is his power.

Longbows, even if they are longbows with some special characteristics such as armor-piercing, they are very easy, blocked by various heavy armor and shields, and the power of the longbow is more unarmored, or the armor of cavalry like Liao.

Really like now, the Dingjun Navy continues to develop armor manufacturing and steel, in the sixth year of Qingli, the Dingjun Navy has completed a large stamping machine, maybe it can't hand you a few tons, dozens of tons of steel, but dozens of kilograms of this is no problem.

Large-scale stamping disposable plate armor, this thing, has become the nemesis of the bow and arrow, in addition to the material, as long as it is in front of the large stamping machine, one-time molding, extremely fast, very small consumption, is the source of natural armor.

Such armor, even if it is placed in the future generations, can even resist hot weapons, has a strong ability to defend against arrows, and it is difficult to break through in front of the longbow, even if it is an armor-piercing bow.

This is also from the kinetic energy of the arrow, although the initial velocity and maintenance are somewhat good, but at a long distance, his kinetic energy is not very high,

But for muskets, not to mention scattered bullets, these are heavy smoothbore guns that kill and injure unarmored objects, they have a very obvious effect on such plate armor under the premise of close range, and to put it bluntly, this is a big killer for armor, and the power is absolutely strong.

After the reform of the military system, the army of the Dinghai Navy has changed from the army of the old era of cold weapons to the army of the new era of hot weapons, and this change has directly laid the foundation for the development of the Dinghai Navy.