After the rubber tree can be tapped, the performance of the steam engine can be greatly improved, two years later, Gao Junshan will use the steam engine in the factory in an all-round way, it is to enter the era of industrial mass production, and now the main task of the factory is to train new workers.

At present, 35 factories of the Ministry of Military Industry have been opened, and there are as many as 13 factories of the Ministry of Industry, and the new workers recruited by these 48 factories have already reached 300,000, which is 50,000 or 60,000 more than the recruits who have joined the army in the past few years.

And Huaxia still has a lot of potential that has not been tapped, that is, the use of female workers, when the steam engine is used in large quantities, there must be a female textile worker first, and the workers in the textile industry have not yet begun to train, because Gao Junshan is promoting the first military industry, and the factory exists for the production of guns and warships.

In order to allow the cut raw rubber to be put into production and application as soon as possible, Chongwen College has begun to study how to vulcanize rubber, which is inelastic without vulcanization.

Rubber factories have also begun to recruit people and are stepping up the production of the first batch of open mills.

Open mixer is the abbreviation of open rubber mixer. A rubber mixing machine with exposed rollers used in rubber factories to prepare plastic rubber, rubber compounds or hot mixing and molding.

If there is rubber, then the problem of insulators will be solved, and the wire factory in Huaxia will also be built, and if electricity can be used in the factory, then the subsequent hydroelectric power station will also be built, and then the discovered oil fields will be developed, and with oil, diesel generators can also be put into production.

In this way, trains, cars should appear.

This is Gao Junshan's grand plan, this plan has no lofty pavilions, and has been handed over to the disciples of Chongwen to explore step by step.

The three major shipyards of Huaxia are Xiangyang Shipyard, Wuchang Shipyard and Jinling Longjiang Shipyard.

The Xiangyang Shipyard has stopped building Xiangyang-class warships, instead concentrating on building small and medium-sized wooden ships suitable for inland river navigation;

Wuchang Shipyard is stepping up the construction of Wuchang-class warships, and there is already one waiting to be launched, Gao Junshan instructed that after the Wuchang-class battleship is launched, no more such warships will be built, and they will start to build the second-generation Wuchang-class warships, because with the emergence of cement, glass, rubber, and steel, the construction of warships will have a leap, and the current first-generation steam engine is about to be eliminated;

Gao Junshan halted the Jinling Longjiang Shipyard's plan to build Zheng He-class warships, and asked them to enter the stage of scientific experiments and wait for the construction of a new generation of steam engines.

After the last first-generation Wuchang-class warship is launched, Gao Junshan will form the Seventh Fleet, which will be sent to the Mediterranean Sea to rely on the ports of the Kingdom of Persia to protect our trading fleet into Europe.

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Due to the signing of the "Treaty of Nebuchu" between Huaxia and Rakshasa State, the two sides officially stopped fighting, and Huaxia State returned more than 10,000 prisoners of war, and the Rakshasa Kingdom quickly rearmed these captured soldiers and sent them to the northern front to fight against the Swedish army.

After the end of the war, the troops of the Huaxia Kingdom did not withdraw from the occupied areas, because these places already belonged to the Huaxia Kingdom, but all the troops of the Rakshasa Kingdom were transferred to the northern front.

Gao Junshan had no intention of participating in European affairs, so he ordered Cao Wenzhao's Western Expeditionary Army to switch from offensive to defensive, and revoked the number of the Western Expeditionary Army and restored the number of Cao Wenzhao's corps.

In winter, the whole army entered the stage of rest, and the 30,000 reinforcements sent by the Mongolian Liu Da Army also returned to Mongolia. After completing its mission in Persia, the Kazakh regiment voluntarily withdrew from Persia and returned to Yuz Province.

In the summer of 1648, the coastal towns of Western Xinjiang Province and Sakhalin Island, with the cooperation of the Fifth Fleet of the Navy, were all occupied by the Herenlong Army, and the plan to occupy the entire western Xinjiang was initially completed.

By 1649, the navy and army had reached 500,000, including 300,000 in the army and 200,000 in the navy.

The front-line troops include the Cao Wenzhao Corps, the He Renlong Corps, and the Ma Yuanli Corps, as well as the First Marine Brigade and the Fifth Fleet of the Navy, with about 100,000 men, accounting for only 20 percent of the country's troops, and 80 percent of the troops are undergoing intense training and recuperation.

In particular, the 10 newly formed divisions and brigades have conducted arduous training in full accordance with the training program issued by the Ministry of Military Affairs.

Of these ten newly created divisions and brigades, two are Marine Brigades, namely the 2nd Marine Brigade and the 3rd Marine Brigade of the Navy.

In addition to all the training items required by the army, the two brigades also have additional training necessary for special operations units, such as field survival and combat.

The 2nd Marine Brigade was stationed in Fujian, and one of the regiments followed Erbao to the Ryukyus garrison; The 3rd Marine Brigade was stationed on Hainan Island.

One-third of the 10 new divisions and brigades are cadets, and the proportion of marines is even higher.

Huaxia attaches great importance to the cultivation of military talents, and there are three military academies in the capital, cultivating military talents at the middle and low levels, and there are 12 branch schools in Jinling, Wuchang, Xiangyang, Nanchang, and Chengdu, with a total of 100,000 students. If the war requires it, they can be immediately formed into ten divisions.

In the villages there are second-level military units - militias.

The basic strength of this organization is young peasants between the ages of 18 and 24, and it also exists according to the structure of the army, which has 400,000 militia divisions and nearly 3 million people, and these people are the reserve force of the regular army.

In the land reform, the peasants benefited the most, and the vast number of peasants were willing to obey the emperor's orders. Therefore, Huaxia is not afraid of war, if anyone dares to provoke Huaxia Kingdom, it is more than enough to destroy his ancestor twenty times.

After the Spring Festival in 1649, in order to stabilize the economy, the Huaxia Kingdom began to rectify the salt merchants.

Salt merchants have a monopoly on salt sales across the country, and they can arbitrarily lower the buying price and raise the selling price to make huge profits. They used the money they earned to buy land or donate official positions, rather than expanding reproduction. In addition, they will invest a lot of money in luxury consumption, especially the Lianghuai salt merchants living in Yangzhou.

According to the report of the General Affairs Bureau, these salt merchants all had a lot of money and lived a very leisurely life, they built buildings and pavilions, raised opera troupes and opened theaters, pondered exquisite dishes, visited brothels to raise "thin horses", adjusted fat and powder, "wrapped in water in the morning, and covered in water in the evening", and lingered between teahouses and bathhouses.

The salt merchants lived a very luxurious life, and eating a bowl of egg fried rice also cost fifty taels of silver. What does this fifty-tael bowl of egg fried rice look like? It's staggering to say.

This bowl of egg fried rice must ensure that each grain of rice is complete, and the grains must be separated, each grain of rice must be soaked in egg juice, fried out of the golden outside, snow white inside. Accompanying this bowl of rice is the 100-fish soup, which includes crucian carp tongue, silver carp brain, carp white, grouper liver, yellow croaker fat, shark fin, turtle skirt, eel blood, bream paddling, and mullet fillet. And this egg is not from ordinary chickens, it is from chickens that have eaten ginseng, atractylodes and other medicines, and the taste of it is only known to those who have eaten it.

Gao Junshan strictly ordered the Metropolitan Procuratorate to thoroughly investigate and deal with these corrupt and degenerate salt merchants.