Chapter 626: The Age of Firearms
In the end, Da Song placed an order of 100,000 rifles at a time, for which Zhang San was still very happy, with this money, this year's year was much better, in order to stabilize the big customer of Da Song, Zhang San decided to provide the other party with perfect after-sales service.
Zhang San sent a corps of 200 officers to guide the use of the Song army's muskets, striving to let the Great Song Dynasty see the effect of the muskets in a short time, and then buy a larger batch.
And Zhang San really wanted to arm a firearms army that could fight for the Great Song Dynasty, in addition to selling weapons, it was also for the sake of the Han people, the Great Song Dynasty must be weaker than Zhang San, but not necessarily weaker than all enemies.
After all, if you want the Great Song Dynasty to go south smoothly, you have to eliminate Dali all the way, eliminate the indigenous people in Myanmar, and face those countries in the Indian subcontinent, and a weak Great Song Dynasty can't do it.
This New Year, Zhang San spent in Jinan, Jinan's Qi Palace was rebuilt by the merger of four adjacent mansions, and everyone also saw that Zhang San would not set the capital of Jinan, so there was no large-scale construction of Jinan.
Even the construction of Jinan City is not as big as the mud estimation village, which has designed ten 10,000-ton berths and 100 5,000-ton berths.
In addition, Nigu Village was renamed Jinnan City, and on the basis of retaining the old city wall, detailed planning was carried out on infrastructure such as roads, and the scale of the new city will be designed according to millions.
This made many people speculate whether Zhang San was going to be in this Jinnan City, but then Zhang San successively planned Qingdao City and Shanghai City, two million-level cities, to dispel everyone's speculation.
In fact, Zhang San himself was also hesitating, at first Zhang San of course wanted to set the capital of Beiping City, but then he thought about it, in fact, Xi'an and Xianyang are also a good place, the old capital of the Han Dynasty. Later, it was not bad to look at Wuhan, the thoroughfare of the nine provinces, and the heart of the world. But these places are close to the interior.
In Zhang San's view, the next few hundred years will be the era of sea power, and the capital must be close to the sea in order to show the country's importance to the sea, so that the court officials will never forget coastal defense, so Zhang San wants to choose a city as the capital in Shanghai and Beiping.
But a new problem came, it was too close to the sea, far from the inland, and Zhang San wanted to bring the whole of Central Asia under his rule, so the capital was far away from the Central Asia-Pacific region, which was not conducive to the rule of the Western Regions.
In the end, Zhang San decided to adopt the model of one capital and four deputy capitals to stabilize his rule, and only then did he dispel his doubts and finally set the capital in Beiping, a city by the Yellow River.
Zhang San and the Great Song Dynasty did fight a big battle, but for Shandong Hebei, it was a little happier than in previous years, because no one collected taxes this year, and in order to get the hearts of the people, Zhang San announced a three-year tax exemption.
Not only the national tax, but also all kinds of local taxes and miscellaneous taxes and all kinds of forced labor were exempted, and on the basis of the division of land in Liangshan, Zhang San also provided them with an overseas immigration plan for areas with less land and more people.
The construction of various roads, schools, hospitals, etc., has benefited the people, and the overhaul of the Yellow River has made Hebei this year not flooded by the Yellow River, and the people do not know how to live a happy life suddenly.
For Zhang San, a large amount of infrastructure construction allowed the excess production capacity to be released, and the Qi State entered a time of rapid development, giving the people three years of recuperation, and then Zhang San began the plan to seize the sixteen states of Yanyun.
This is not only a barrier against the north, but also the capital of Zhang San's plan in the future, so the sooner you get it, the sooner you can start construction, the current Liao State seems to be strong, but it is just a big tree full of holes, and it will fall down with a light push.
Therefore, Zhang San planned to take the Yanyun region within three years, and take the entire Mongolian steppe within three years, drive the Khitans to Liaodong and the Jurchens to do it, and finally the two forces were wiped out together.
Because according to the plan, next year the Jurchen will fight Liaoyang, once the war between the Jurchens and the Liao State starts, then the main force of the Liao State will inevitably go to Liaodong, if the Liao State has another big defeat, or a stalemate in Liaodong, then it will clear the way for Zhang San to seize the Yanyun region and the Mongolian steppe.
Now the biggest problem for Zhang San is the logistics problem, Zhang San did not expect the northern Baixin Qi pot pulp to welcome Wang Shi, so all the logistical preparations of the attacking troops must be completed in advance.
It is expected that at least thirty troops will be invested to take Yanyun Zhang San, and the war time is expected to be less than three months, so the first two years are to plan the logistics and prepare to implement the logistics support plan.
The cavalry force also intends to expand to 80,000 in three years to deal with the possible large-scale Liao cavalry, and these cavalry are all lancers, so that even if the main force of the Liao State returns, it can be dealt with.
Zhang San has always liked to plan for the worst, and deliberately asked the General Staff to draw up a plan for how to deal with it if the Liao State built an army of 700,000 to deal with him, and drew up such a battle plan.
After the year, Zhang San went to various construction sites to supervise and deal with the documents submitted everywhere, and after the arrival of the first batch of 30,000 muskets on the Song side, he had stepped up training for three months.
Therefore, the army of 50,000 marched to the northwest, why did there be 50,000 soldiers in 30,000 guns? This is also according to the establishment of the Qi State, and the heavy shield and pikemen are all the same configuration, so there are 50,000 troops for 30,000 muskets.
In order to maximize the strength of the troops, the officer corps of Qi also went to the Western Xia front, by the way, to observe this army that had a headache for the Song Dynasty, the musketeers formed an army alone, and as soon as they arrived in Yan'an Mansion, they were sent to the Suizhou front, where there were 30,000 Western Xia cavalry from Xiazhou, intending to outflank Yan'an Mansion from the north road.
The war between the two countries was on the verge of breaking out, and two hundred officers were equivalent to four officers for every thousand people, one for each company, and these officers not only guided the training of the Song army's musketeers, but also brought everyone the knowledge of Qi and publicized the policies of Qi and so on.
Therefore, this army has a very strong favorable impression of Qi State, and Qi State is the only country with firearms combat experience, and everyone is willing to listen to Qi State's opinions on firearms matters.
So this time, the commander of this army was still willing to listen to the suggestion of the Qi State Officer Corps, but when the Qi State Officer Corps suggested a field battle with the Western Xia cavalry, the officers of the Great Song Dynasty did not agree to anything.