After all, the military is an important cornerstone of a country, and if this cornerstone goes wrong and changes, then it will be a big trouble.

The initial development of the Dinghai Navy started from weakness, but it was backed by the huge Great Song Dynasty, and it was in a period of peace, even Jingkang was more than a hundred years later, as a military state of the Northern Song Dynasty, it was still on this side near the ocean, and it was almost impossible to attack.

At the beginning, the Dinghai Navy was just a garrison force, and if there was a large number of pirates coming over at that time, it would really be in big trouble, that is, after Zhao Xin gradually used the card system to build a few fortresses, it was stabilized.

Because of the existence of the fortress, the earliest army of the Dinghai Navy was similar to the escort team, and their task was to attack on the fortress with the help of the defense of the fortress.

At that time, it was still the Northern Song Dynasty generals like Xue Yu and Sun Ji who commanded the army, but with the large-scale investment of the longbow, and even when Zhao Xin was free to interfere with the military system in addition to construction, the military system of the Dinghai Navy changed.

In order to avoid some problems, Zhao Xin almost rebuilt this unit, from the very beginning, he paid attention to the soft things, and the weapons and equipment used by the navy were not much compared with the later Northern Song Dynasty forbidden army, at most they were a little more elite and of better quality, but if they were from the soft side, it was completely different.

The biggest difference between the modern army and the feudal army is that first of all, there is a strictly trained officer corps, and there are peasant soldiers who have undergone preliminary training.

As expendables, peasants and soldiers are the main force of the whole army, but without a strictly trained officer corps as the backbone, it is absolutely impossible.

The Dinghai Navy, on this basis, has gone one step further, and itself, the entire Dinghai Navy's army, is based on the backbone of the original Miaojiazhuang.

The Miao family is not a very big family, almost relying on Renzong to start, but these pure white families still cultivated a group of loyal servants, who stood out from the defense of Miaojiazhuang, and then went through long-term training, especially, after Zhao Xinxin's modern methods to train.

Let them understand what to fight for, the same, strict discipline, from the very beginning, is established, in the face of military law, there is no humanity.

This is the most difficult, in history, all the military with outstanding achievements and outstanding achievements are strict military discipline, whether it is the Xiliu Battalion or the Tiance Mansion, the rewards and punishments are clear and the military discipline is strict, this is all certain.

If it was replaced by the Northern Song Dynasty, maybe there would be such a strong army in the time of Taizu, but with the continuation of the dynasty, the powerful people with vested interests would definitely not be willing to abide by such strict military discipline, and when a gap appeared, it collapsed.

Perhaps, Sun Ji and Xue Yu are old soldiers, but they are also the elite of the elite, the equipment in front of the palace, they are the best of the best, and they are more pure in character, as for those Miao family's family members, they are even more loyal to Zhao Xin.

The biggest problem, as soon as the problem of discipline is solved, in assisting some later generations of training methods, although Zhao Xin understands that it is only a student's military training, but this is also summed up in countless experiences, the most suitable method, may not be as good as the real recruit training, but it is also higher than this era.

Emphasize discipline, strengthen military training, and at the same time, increase some skill training; if you replace it with someone else's army, you will not be able to do it in the area of military spending alone.

Who doesn't know that a well-cultivated army, his combat effectiveness is strong, which army leader in the late Ming Dynasty did not rely on family members, these family members are actually the prototype of the professional officer corps, but the number is too small.

In the troubled times and wars, of course these military leaders know that the number of family members must be as much as possible, but the cost of family members is too great.

The first is money, there is not enough money, who do you let give you your life, the family not only has to fight bravely on the battlefield, but also to protect the safety of the general in the face of strong enemies and desperate situations, many times, it is to take life, why, isn't it because the family is raised in peacetime?

If it is just this money, it may be able to raise a lot of military heads, but the money is not enough to solve it, and it is necessary to strengthen training, increase nutrition, and even in some cases, kill people to train courage, which together consumes a lot of money.

All this, for Zhao Xin, is not a problem at all, a steamed bun, almost a little shot, will make a lot of money, not to mention the subsequent project, to the Daimyo blacksmith workshop, and even with the Privy Council.

No matter how bad the Northern Song Dynasty is, it is also a huge empire, a simple privy council, can get millions, or even tens of millions of dollars every year, these money may be ordinary people, even if it is like Jia Chaochang, it is only a hundred thousand, but for Zhao Xin, who reformed the iron-smelting technology, the profit is almost doubled, or even more.

Even if it is the initial improvement, the price of iron smelting has been reduced to less than 15 wen per catty, and even if it is sold according to about 40 wen, it can earn more than half.

Compared with other aspects, money is the most important thing for Zhao Xin, perhaps at the beginning of the establishment of the Dinghai Navy, more attention was paid to production, once the hands were freed, the focus was immediately placed on the army, which was almost the standard for the comprehensive training of the officer corps, and the Dinghai Army was cultivated.

Rational training methods from later generations, adequate nutrition and strict discipline have created the foundation of the navy, which is also the foundation of the navy that can be expanded.

The army of the Dinghai Navy, from the moment it was established, was already close to the modern army, although the longbow had the posture of a thermal weapon, it was not a thermal weapon, and he was still very different from a thermal weapon, at most it was similar.

If it is said that with modern army thinking, there are weapons similar to thermal weapons such as longbows, and the armed forces equipped with them, their combat effectiveness is above that of the Northern Song Dynasty Forbidden Army, but not much higher, but once they are equipped with thermal weapons, their combat effectiveness is higher than that of ordinary forbidden troops.

These mature thermal weapons, after beginning to enter the army, even if it is just the simplest paper shell bullet, his power is much more powerful than the general thermal weapons, coupled with modern management, it can be said that the standard modern army, even if there are only a few thousand, tens of thousands, their combat effectiveness, not ordinary troops, can be compared, the same number, even one to two, one to three premise, can also be defeated.

Thermal weapons completely changed the army of the Northern Song Dynasty, giving the army the feeling of a modern army, tens of thousands of troops, and even hundreds of thousands of enemy troops, but the army is not the fastest developing, the navy is.

Dinghai only relied on transportation to accumulate strength and had a considerable number of sailors, but these are somewhat different from the navy, although it is said that the navy was built from the very beginning, but even the battle with Pirate Island exposed many problems.

If Zhao Xin is a professional navy, or even a professional soldier, this problem can be solved, but unfortunately Zhao Xin is only a historian at best, plus a pseudo-military fan on the Internet, he really doesn't know much about a professional military branch like the navy.

According to the fixed trajectory, the Dinghai Navy can only grope in non-stop operations and gradually sum up experience; historically, those naval powers have been like this, and it took several decades, or even a hundred years, to gradually explore a set of plans, and even to suffer a big loss on the battlefield to know.

Of course, Zhao Xin didn't want to see such a thing, he thought of the whaling that was mentioned in the military text, anyway, the navy lacked all kinds of meat, and whaling was also an entry.

The initial attempt had an effect at once, and the meat obtained from whaling was more suitable for the consumption of the navy than the meat of fish, and the most important thing was that whaling was a relatively peaceful method of cultivating discipline and naval skills.

When the whaling operation is gradually normalized, in the face of huge whales, it is necessary for the catchers to cooperate with each other, this cooperation is similar to the cooperation of the navy, the attack of the ballista, and the shooting of the cannon is also similar, maybe it cannot be replaced all, but it can be partially replaced, with this action, the training effect of the navy can be greatly strengthened.

Since the first harvest, whaling has become a normal behavior, not only led by Xue Yu, but also by a large number of navies, and the scale has become larger and larger.

In order to increase the efficiency of whaling, you can't go to Hokkaido every time, where it is too far away, at least thousands of miles away in logistics, which is almost an insurmountable distance on land.

At the beginning, where did Xue Yu encounter a whale in the Korean Strait, it was an accident, but what if this was the norm?

Zhao Xin didn't know the trajectory of whales, but such a big guy always couldn't hide it, and he didn't find it before, because in this era, whale food is not lacking, whales will not venture to the near sea, they are all in the open sea, even if there are few opportunities to enter China's inland sea.

But what if it's in the open sea? Zhao Xin seems to remember that whales are active, what is this route, as long as they find it, they should be able to find the pattern.

At present, there is not much else, that is, there are many ships, and even some clippers can be made quickly, maybe they can be used to transport supplies, or if they can't fight, they will scout around, improve the charts and islands, and investigate some whales, that is a matter of duty.

The target of the whale is obvious, as long as it enters the range of more than ten miles, or even twenty or thirty miles, as long as the whale is on the surface of the sea, it can be seen through the telescope without spraying water, and if it is spraying water, it can be seen farther.

When hundreds of small boats of all kinds carried out dragnet searches, they not only accurately determined the comprehensive nautical charts of 1,000 to 1,500 miles around the Dinghai Navy, found many islands and reefs, but also discovered the trajectory of whales.

At this time, Ding Haijun knew that it turned out that along the entire island coast of the Northern Song Dynasty, the number of whales was very large, almost in groups.

In the same way, some patterns have been summarized, whales generally cruise to the tropical seas in the winter to survive the harsh winter, and in the summer, they will return to the northern seas to give birth and reproduce in a fixed location.

This forms a complete system, and once you master this system, you can find a way to catch whales.

This required a series of adjustments, but by the beginning of the seventh year of Qingli, the navy had at least 400 fleets active on the sea, of which more than 100 were full-time whaling, and nine times out of ten these fleets were navy or naval reserves.

The huge whale catch has enriched the carnivorous environment of the entire Dinghai Navy, and whales may not be able to replace ordinary beef and mutton, but they are much better than other fish.

The huge fish and whale meat not only supported the non-staple food of the Dinghai Navy, but also was widely sold to the Northern Song Dynasty.

Even if it is the development of the northwest today, the meat of the Northern Song Dynasty is not very sufficient, the price of beef and mutton has decreased, but most people still can't afford it, but a large number of fish products from the Dinghai Navy, from pickled fish to dried fish, and then to various fish products, began to be popular in the entire Northern Song Dynasty, and some prices are quite low, and even ordinary people can buy them.

Although these quantities have not reached the level that everyone has meat to eat, they have enriched the food of the common people, and a little bit of protein has been improved, which has a lot of improvement in the quality of people.

If it is said that in the Northern Song Dynasty, it is only a slight increase, and the overall improvement is not enough, but for the Dinghai Navy, it is a comprehensive improvement, whether it is whaling, or fishing, it is a large-scale increase in the number of meat, after the same railway is through, a large number of meat enters from the northwest, these Northern Song Dynasty is more about the labor force of cattle and horses, for a larger amount of mutton, just taste it.

However, for the Ding Navy, no effort was spared to increase the quantity of meat food, and these excess mutton, basically, were purchased by the Ding Navy.

Enough meat, the combination of cattle, sheep and pigs, plus a variety of seafood, from the meat, the meat supply of the Dinghai Navy has been almost improved several times in the seventh year of Qingli, and the quality of the human body has also been greatly improved.

Under the premise of slowing down the population growth of the Dinghai Navy, the improvement of human quality is also a huge help for the Dinghai Navy, first of all, the working time has been extended, the intensity has also increased, and on the other hand, the support for the army has been greater.

In itself, because of the large population and small number of troops, the quality of the army is quite high, from one or two hundred million, select tens of thousands of people, that is definitely one in a hundred, one in a thousand, plus the support of food, even the physical fitness of ordinary people has a significant improvement, let alone the army.

In modern training, physical exertion is huge, if there is not enough food supplements, strong training, not only will not be fruitful, but will produce problems, from the very beginning, in the most tense time, the navy is ensuring their intake, now, it is even more so, the meat is full, the food is full, the quality of the army is very high, the strength of the navy, is also rising.