The defeat of the Huaxia Army's naval division, Zhang Qiang's cruise caused a large-scale naval victory in the history of the Huaxia Kingdom, and also caused the beginning of the reform of the Huaxia naval division, and at the same time, it also allowed the control of the Huaxia Ocean to further extend and expand, and the maritime domain became broader, which almost included the seas in all the sea areas of the inner islands of the first island chain that were blocked in later generations.

Although it has not yet reached a breakthrough, it has also made the sea of the first island chain towards the coastline of the Huaxia Kingdom almost become the inland sea of the Huaxia Kingdom.

A series of intelligence shows that the surrounding environment of the Huaxia Kingdom is basically good, and the domestic environment is also good.

Why do you say Shanke?

Because the Kingdom of China still can't get rid of the image of being an agricultural country, everything revolves around agriculture, and the first thing to solve is the problem of agriculture, that is, the problem of eating.

Under Zhang Qiang's previous suppression, the rest of the Huaxia Kingdom was very depressed, and agriculture became the foundation and became the top priority, opening up wasteland, farming, and constantly solving the problem of feeding the population.

In the first five years, the population continued to die due to war, and in the next five years, the population died due to malnutrition and overwork, but in the third five years, when there was enough land, the population became stable, and people basically did not starve to death.

Each family was given five acres of basic land, two acres of fertile land, and three acres of barren or wasteland, and were guaranteed to buy and sell up to five acres of land if they had the money.

At the beginning, it was calculated on a per capita basis, as long as you reached the age of 16 and had the ability to work, you could basically get five acres of basic land, so a family of a few people could own dozens of acres of land.

Basically, it can solve their eating use.

At this time, they did not have to do the great and dangerous work, and a large number of millions of captives were sent to do what work, their purpose was to farm and pay for food.

With the development of agriculture, water conservancy regained its vitality, and various craftsmen participated in the construction and formulation of various agricultural rules, so that the agriculture of the Huaxia Army improved rapidly, basically met the people's food and clothing, and allowed many people to have nothing to do after eating, so they encouraged the development of light industry and joined the army.

In the fourth and fifth years, with the improvement and addition of guano and various fertilizers, agricultural food has become redundant, and the rapid development of light industry has produced many farmers who have become rich because of the development of light industry, while maintaining this small light industry, the Huaxia Kingdom has relaxed the restrictions of the merchants, so that they can have larger workshops, due to the smooth roads, so that the goods they pull to various places are very rich, and the Huaxia Kingdom began to become rich and stable.

At least in this agricultural age, it has become rich.

Intemperate fertility and encouragement of fertility have left the surplus population filling many of the voids in the newly occupied places.

The Kingdom of China has basically restored most of the territory before the Ming Dynasty, and the actual area has increased, because it has occupied Southeast Asia, which was the former territory of the Chinese nation, and later became a vassal state, the territory of those white-eyed wolf small states, and through ten years of efforts, most of the population there has been replaced by Han Chinese.

Now Zhang Qiang is thinking about developing heavy industry, coal and coke, cement, steel and ironmaking, from the things that only the kingdom army and the royal family would do in the past, were delegated to the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, so that the Ministry of Industry and Commerce can open up to those large and medium-sized businessmen who have become rich in tens of millions of Huaxia yuan.

Of course, what they are doing is also supporting services for the army's factories, and they can't open them all at once.

Shipyards, sailors officially withdrew from the manufacture of merchant ships, small fishing boats, some sampans, etc., selling small and medium-sized shipyards to those merchants.

So in fact, the Huaxia Kingdom did not lack ships, but only lacked advanced warships and warships, and those warships and warships that were sold were transformed into merchant ships.

Don't look at the fact that there were more than 6,000 large and small warships and warships in the peak period of the Huaxia Army and Naval Division, in fact, there were 2,000 large merchant ships of nearly 1,000 tons, 3,700 merchant ships of 600 tons, and nearly 18,000 of 300 to 180 tons.

There are nearly 30,000 fishing boats under 180 tons, and nearly 800 large fishing boats, ranging from 300 tons to 500 tons, which provide a lot of seafood for the Huaxia Kingdom, and at the same time transport goods from all parts of the Huaxia Kingdom to the whole country by sea.

As far as Zhang Qiang knows, there are seventeen famous maritime merchants, and each of them owns at least 170 ships.

There are also special fishing fleets, the smallest has three, the largest has fifty-eight, it can be said that the Huaxia Kingdom has made a lot of progress over the years.

The population, as well as agriculture and commerce, have developed considerably. However, these are all things that people can have with their current level of technology, and some heavy industry and high-tech things are still somewhat lacking, and at present only some businessmen of the royal family are engaged in it, and there are also military factories in the country that are engaged in it, and the development is extremely slow.

This is not possible, Zhang Qiang decided that after this battle, he must vigorously develop heavy industry and improve the scientific and technological level of the Huaxia Kingdom.

Wang Yuqun had already received the news of Zhang Qiang's imminent arrival, and immediately called a meeting of officers of various departments and brigades, and then ordered a regiment of a field brigade to quickly return along the road to respond.

Three days later, Zhang Qiang's large army changed from a regiment to a brigade, from a brigade to a division, and the strength of the entire army was as high as 23,000 people, which was almost the same as the strength of a division of the Japanese army during World War II.

They are all soldiers and horses escorted on the road, as well as soldiers and horses who are picked up along the road.

Although this is a bit of a waste of money and labor, Zhang Qiang is still very happy, first, these people still respect him, and they know that there is a king like him, and second, there are quite a few soldiers and horses in his mainland, as long as they are gathered, the soldiers and horses quickly gathered, and the soldiers and horses in the core area do not seem to be so empty.

After meeting Wang Yuqun in the capital city of Zhengzhou, Zhang Qiang began to learn about the recent battles.

On the Baghyalu side, they formulated a plan to lure the enemy into depth, with the militia company and the self-defense force resisting the enemy, and the militia elite brigade was responsible for acting as the main force to resist the enemy, pulling Yao Qisheng's 500,000 soldiers and horses away step by step, and penetrating nearly 200 kilometers into the interior of Shaanxi and Gansu.

On this side, Wang Yuqun's soldiers and horses have not moved, guarding the south bank of the Yellow River.

He sent an elite militia brigade to Wan Douni on the north bank of the Yellow River, and then replenished the strength of the three garrison regiments, and at the same time replenished the troops of Wan Douni's temporary field regiment, and then did nothing, but transported the prisoners back and imprisoned them at the headquarters of the punishment camp in Henan Prefecture.

Zhang Qiang looked at the map and asked casually: "Since there are only 20,000 soldiers and horses left in Shang Kexi, and nearly 50,000 enemy troops have lost here, why don't you seize the opportunity to advance inland?" At least occupy some cities, occupy more territory, an elite militia brigade, their combat power is already higher than the combat power of the general combat troops of the Qing army, there are three garrison regiments of 4,500 people, and a field regiment, 2,500 soldiers and horses, and two disabled militia units, so many troops, what have they done these days? ”

Wang Yuqun immediately fell countless beads of sweat on his forehead, and stammered: "Your Majesty, I also want to lead the Eighth Division to advance towards the enemy's hinterland, but I was afraid that if I broke through, the enemy would have hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, and I would not be able to resist the enemy's hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses, and then be surrounded, then our Huaxia Kingdom will lose at least one formed division, which is not in the history of our Huaxia Kingdom." ”

Zhang Qiang looked back at him, he didn't seize such a good opportunity? This guy is also too timid and thinks too much. He didn't put forward his idea to Merlin Fish, it seems that Wang Yuqun has lost his fighting spirit for so long and is content with the status quo.

(End of chapter)