Chapter 178: The Naval Conference

Wang Binghan put down his chopsticks and replied: "At present, there are more than 800 households, and if all the areas demarcated by adults are bought, there may be more than 2,000 households to be demolished." In addition, the coastal defense battalion in Zhigu is also in the port area where we will get in the future. I don't know how adults should deal with it? ”

This coastal defense battalion was set up during the Jiajing period to prevent the invasion of the Japanese invaders. They also set up several forts at the mouth of Dagu to guard the mouth of the Haihe River and serve as the first line of defense for the Gong Guard Beijing Division.

However, with the unification of the whole of Japan and the implementation of the policy of closing the country to the outside world, there were fewer and fewer Japanese soldiers, the coastal defense was becoming more and more relaxed, the lack of maintenance of artillery was no longer sufficient, and the soldiers of the coastal defense battalion had long been reduced to military households in the tuntian, and there was not much combat power.

Until the year of the Apocalypse, with the rise of Jiannu in Liaodong, in order to prevent Jiannu from entering the Kou, the coastal defense battalion was re-established to be responsible for maritime defense tasks.

The commander of the coastal defense battalion is a garrison named Liu Benshen. It was not far from the pontoon dock of the Zhouqiao Battalion, and Wang Yue had already ordered Li Zixiong to go and say hello.

Wang Yue asked Li Zixiong: "Zixiong, how is that coastal defense battalion?" How did they react? ”

He only asked now, also because he really didn't care about the coastal defense battalion.

Li Zixiong said: "Liu Shoubei heard that we are from the Tiance Army, and he is quite polite. He has no say in the construction of a wharf or a sea trip here, which is under the jurisdiction of the governor of Tianjin. ”

Wang Yue nodded and said, "I'll visit the governor of Tianjin in a few days and say hello." ”

Then he said to Wang Binghan: "Director Wang, we have a lot of projects here, and we need a lot of labor to absorb all the demolished households. ”

The starting point city is making such a big scene in Zhigu, and it is necessary to communicate with the local government. After all, their projects are still a big project of tens of thousands of people, which is an incredible and incomprehensible thing in such a low-productivity environment in ancient times.

Especially when such a giant ship is about to be presented in front of the world, I don't know how many eyeballs will be shocked.

Modern people still call Tianjin City "Tianjin Wei". In fact, the name of Tianjin Wei is derived from the Ming Dynasty, and the current Tianjin City belongs to the nature of a military castle. The Ming Dynasty set up three guards around Tianjin, namely Tianjin Wei, Tianjin Left Guard and Tianjin Right Guard, and the command organ of the three guards was located in the city. Its main functions were to build city walls, defend the city, supervise and protect the transportation, build and defend the granary, as well as tuntian and military training. After the Ming Dynasty moved its capital to Beijing, Tianjin became the gateway to the capital of Gongwei.

After the Qing army entered the customs, the three guards were merged and called Tianjin Wei, and they were upgraded to the government during the Yongzheng period.

Therefore, now the supreme governor of Tianjin is the governor of Tianjin, and there is also a town general army, that is, the Tianjin general army. The original Tianjin chief soldier Chao Pichang, when he went to aid Changping, he was disposed of by the imperial court, and the current Tianjin chief soldier is called Ding Chengheng.

The population of the Tianjin Acropolis is mainly composed of merchants, Caoding, and military households, plus ordinary people who migrated from other places, and there are about 100,000 people in the urban area.

In addition to the construction of the port and the infrastructure of the Dagang oilfield, there are also oil refineries and salt pans.

Salt was a civil necessity for ancient society, and in fact, industrial salt was also very important, so it was imperative to build salt farms.

It is very simple to build a salt farm, and it is enough to build large and small layered cement pools with cement.

The tide is used to pour seawater into the evaporation zone, and then the regulating plate (also known as the regulating grid) and the crystallization plate (also known as the crystallization grid) are pumped into the water tank by the pumping machine, and finally into the brine pond. The salt brine is clarified by the brine pond and poured into the crystallization pool, and it only takes 12 hours on a sunny day for the brine in the crystal pond to condense into coarse salt.

After dissolving, it is industrially filtered to obtain exquisite edible salt.

However, the location of the construction should be slightly chosen to ensure that there is enough seawater to fill the reservoir at high tide, and the salt flats themselves cannot be affected by tides or storms.

Once the salt works were built, their output was huge, and they were not at all comparable to the stoves of this era. The refined salt produced by modern technology will surpass all the salt in this time and space in terms of taste, appearance and price. Therefore, once mass production, large and small salt farms along the coast may close their doors.

The salt and iron of the Ming Dynasty was monopolized by the government, and it was impossible to care whether the court would be anxious with Wang Yue at that time. The industrial use of sodium chloride is very large, and relying on the production methods of the Ming Dynasty to provide raw materials can only be a joke.

The salt method of beach drying seems simple and can be imitated with cement, but only in the starting point city can there be pumping machines and industrial filtration machines.

After dinner, Wang Yue organized a meeting of all the officers of the naval detachment in the conference room of the landing ship.

"Xiaoliang, have all the weapons of our battleship been installed?" Wang Yue first said for Wei Xiaoliang.

Wei Xiaoliang said: "Report to the commander, three ships have been installed, and they will all be completed tomorrow." ”

"Then tomorrow you officers will start learning how to steer a battleship, and then you will teach others after you have learned." Then Wang Yue asked again: "Coming by boat from Tongzhou today, are there any soldiers who are seasick?" ”

Zhu Youxue, an instructor in charge of the soldiers' thinking and life, replied: "Commander, all the soldiers of our naval detachment have been on the boat, but none of them are seasick. It's the brothers of the Boat Bridge Battalion, who seem to be a little uncomfortable. ”

Li Guangheng, the commander of the Zhouqiao Battalion, said with some embarrassment: "Most of our Zhouqiao Battalion are landlubbers, and this is their first time on a boat. ”

Wang Yue said: "The officers and men of the Zhouqiao Battalion will learn to swim in the future, because in the future, you will build bridges over the river and build floating docks on the seaside, and you will deal with water." ”

Li Guangheng said hesitantly: "Division, commander, I want to go to the combat unit." "He now knows that the Zhouqiao battalion is a sapper, and it is too enjoyable to not participate in the war.

Wang Yue glared at him and said, "Do you know the importance of the Zhouqiao Battalion? Without you, how would our army trek through mountains and rivers like walking on flat ground! Don't look at you as the Boat Bridge Battalion, you also have a share of the credit for the victory in the battle. ”

"You are now in the first place, so you have only been given the establishment of one battalion. Soon you will be expanded to regiments, because each of our regiments will have a bridge unit, and you will be the commander-in-chief in the future. Do you understand? ”

In this time and space, the Tiance Army is going to go to the whole country, and the importance of sappers exceeds that of later generations, after all, the transportation situation in ancient times was too bad. The Tiance Army is an army that relies on logistics, and all kinds of vehicles will inevitably accompany it.

Li Guangheng said uprightly: "Yes, I understand the humble position." ”

The reason why Wang Yue put him in charge of the Zhouqiao Battalion was mainly because he not only had good driving skills, but also had strong organizational and coordination skills. The erection of pontoon bridges, personnel arrangement, overall management, and response capabilities are very good. Under his command, manpower and time were used very well.