Chapter 614: Sea and Land Meeting

In the end, only a few hundred Liao soldiers escaped, this is still a deterrent released by the Qi State, and before a solution is found, the Liao State will not dare to enter the territory of the Qi State, and after the northern defense line is stabilized, after the Qi Land leaves a standing army of 300,000, the remaining 200,000 will be transferred back to the station.

At this point, the war against the Song Dynasty was completely over, and Ryukyu entered a new stage, and a month later, Zhang San would be crowned King of Qi in Jinan City, and marry Princess Yiguo as a concubine, and this time there was a major announcement.

The first is the reform of the navy and army, and the second is to give fiefs to meritorious heroes, these two things can be regarded as a compliment to those who have always followed them.

And before the ceremony, Zhang San needed to convene a plenary meeting of the navy and army, because the dispute between sea and land has now appeared again, and the reason is very simple, after the naval battle of the Chola Kingdom, the extension of the waterway, the expansion of the territory, and the rapid increase in the demand for ships in the navy.

For this reason, Zhang San deliberately gave preference to military spending, and the navy also formulated a new round of shipbuilding plans, intending to build second-generation gunboats, that is, gunboats that can defeat gunboats as mentioned at the last annual meeting.

The new ships are divided into cruisers, destroyers, and battleships according to their functions, and this time the navy plans to build 300 ships in one go, doubling the number of warships, which was originally planned to be built in three years.

Later, the plan was reported to Zhang San, Zhang San was worried that the steam era was coming, and it was a waste of resources to build so many outdated warships, and at that time it also entered the preparatory stage for the war against the Song Dynasty, and the resources began to tilt towards the army, so Zhang San cut the number by one-third, and the time was extended by two years.

Then the navy's shipbuilding plan became 200 ships in five years, and only 20 ships were built in one year in the first three years, 60 ships in the fourth year, and 80 ships in the fifth year. Although the speed and quantity did not meet the expectations of the Navy, at least the number was good.

The military expenditure of the Ryukyus has remained at a high level of 15 to 20 percent in recent years, so it is impossible to increase military spending.

After the start of the war against the Song Dynasty this year, the navy had little use except escort, and the army was indeed rapidly consuming reserve resources and a large amount of armaments, which inevitably made the navy feel a little uncomfortable.

However, the policy was formulated by the General Staff Headquarters, so although everyone was uncomfortable, they did not show much performance, but with the acquisition of Shandong Hebei, Zhang San began to spend a lot of money to repair the infrastructure of Shandong Hebei, and invested a lot of money in some roads, education, medical care, factories, etc.

When the money is not enough, there is only open source and throttling, and open source takes time, so it needs to be throttled to get it, so where does the money come from? Zhang San could only reduce part of his military spending to strengthen infrastructure construction.

In the next three to five years, Qi will focus on construction, and the threat of foreign enemies is small, so Zhang San demanded that the overall military expenditure be maintained below 12 percent, and considering that the enemy mainly comes from the land, the military expenditure is mainly tilted towards the army.

In this way, the Navy's original shipbuilding plan was stopped, and after the completion of the slipway, the new ships will not be under construction until five years later, and the first generation of Donghai type warships will all be phased out, the first batch of 50 initial gunboats will be mothballed, and the total size of the Navy will remain unchanged at 300 ships.

And the army is indeed expanding the army by 200,000 on the existing basis, and will also increase the size of the reserve and cavalry, this huge policy change will be announced at the ceremony of King Qi, but the news has been revealed, so the following is the anger of the crowd.

This made Zhang San have to hold a plenary meeting to appease the emotions of his subordinates, and if you think about it carefully, this is also because Zhang San walked too fast and took too big a step, and now the problem is here, and it is the egg.

The meeting was held in Jinan Prefecture, why not in the yamen? Because the yamen could not sit down, the head of the regiment and above had to attend the meeting, and there were now more than 300 regiment commanders in the Ryukyus, and in addition to the necessary defenders, more than 200 came.

There are also the heads of the four general departments, the directors of various weapons R&D and manufacturing plants, and the directors of the four major shipyards, and the total number of generals participating in the meeting is more than 500 people, and only the state school has such a large venue.

On the first day of the conference, the various weapons research institutes reported on the progress of the Ryukyus, which is now in a bottleneck period, that is, on the eve of the steam age, and various theoretical trends and research results are accumulating, but it will take time to reach the steam age.

For example, the fire cap of the musket, that is, the research of thundermercury has not made progress, only the production of the fire cap, the musket can transition from the pre-loading era to the rear-loading era, and there is steel, high temperature, high pressure and wear-resistant steel has not broken through, which makes the service life and rifling of muskets and artillery have not been solved.

Today's machine tools can engrave rifling, but after rifling is engraved, it can generally only be used more than ten times before it will be smoothed, and it is not even enough for a fierce battle, which is why the chemical industry cannot keep up.

Not only these, the steam engine has not been able to solve the problem of air leakage for a long time, and the heat conversion rate is super low, not to mention the commercial application value is that it cannot be done smoothly, and the longest time record is now less than an hour.

The rubber trees have been shipped, and the natural rubber has also been delivered, but the rubber mats have not been studied, and the problem of steam engine leakage cannot be solved, and Central and South America are too far away, and the rubber trees are too scattered, and the rubber cut deep into the primeval forest is only enough for research and use.

If you want to obtain rubber on a large scale, you will have to wait at least ten years, it can be said that Zhang San's current weapons and equipment have achieved the ultimate in current science and technology, but Zhang San's army is still not invincible.

In the face of the enemy's large-scale cavalry impact, Zhang San still has no particularly good way, and now he can only rely on cavalry against cavalry, but this style of play does not conform to Zhang San's character, Zhang San is the kind of person who likes to crush.

It's a person who likes to hold back his big move when playing games, likes to open invincible plug-ins, and likes to gain a crushing advantage, when he used to play Red Police, he liked to play with low-level computers, and then create an apocalypse full of screens to surround the enemy to death, and he won't hit you, he just likes the thrill of crushing.

Throughout the ten years since the founding of Zhang San's country, he still used this tactic, holding back his big moves, and crushing others with absolute superiority, but now in the face of cavalry, he found that he couldn't deal with it, so Zhang San was now desperate to get rid of the light and heavy machine guns, and the enemy cavalry came to give him a surprise directly.

But technology is not allowed, although Zhang San has been developing science and technology by leaps and bounds, but it is only a low-end thing, and now when the low-end is too high-end, Zhang San is not competent.

Just like a gun, the low-end musket is very simple, it is an iron cylinder, plus an arquebus or flint, anyone who knows the principle can do it, it is nothing more than the difference between good and bad results, but a simple Mauser single-shot backyard gun, how many people say they can make it?