In the "Second Five-Year Plan", the development of shipbuilding industry is an important project, the development of shipbuilding industry can improve the shipbuilding capacity of the empire, indirectly improve the strength of the navy, if necessary, civilian shipyards can also build warships. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

At present, there are only five shipyards in the empire, three self-built military shipyards, two German-aided civilian shipyards, and the military shipyards are barely enough, but the orders for civilian shipyards have been lined up to five years later, and businessmen who conduct international trade want to buy cargo ships, and the orders for the two civilian shipyards are already full, so they have no choice but to buy ships from other countries.

In the next five years, the Royal Commercial Bank will establish at least 10 more large and medium-sized shipyards, two of which will be used as military shipyards, and the rest will be used as civilian shipyards to specialize in the construction of civilian ships and ease market pressure.

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At the beginning of the "Second Five-Year Plan", everyone who knew the "China Star Plan" was working silently to complete this incomparably huge plan, and if it wanted to complete the "China Star Plan", the empire must establish a huge military force with more than 10 million people.

Now the military strength of the empire is only one million, and when the "Second Five-Year Plan" is successfully completed, the military strength of the empire will reach two million at most, which is still far from the figure of 10 million, even if the military strength of the empire really reaches 10 million, the annual military expenditure of the empire will be a very large expenditure, and even the royal family can hardly bear it.

If there is not enough military force, how should the "China Star Project" be completed?

Yan Xueyi has a solution, in fact, Yan Xueyi took this problem into account when formulating the "China Star Plan", and the best way to solve it is for the empire to establish a reserve.

The reserve refers to the armed forces of the empire that can be quickly transformed into active forces in wartime based on retired soldiers and militia and formed with active soldiers as the backbone.

From the Escort to the Han Army, and now to the "Empire. Army", its composition is all professional soldiers who have signed a contract, and professional soldiers are people who take military personnel as their lifelong profession and can only retire after a certain age, and the empire did not establish a law and regulation that male citizens must serve in the military.

Every time the empire recruits, the recruitment points all over the country are crowded with young men, they all want to become soldiers, there are many advantages to being a soldier, many people who have never met the talent want to join the army to make a contribution, as long as they are promoted to lieutenants, they can become a member of the warrior family, and there is also a point of military treatment.

A recruit who joins the army, the first year is a private, a monthly salary of 30 Chinese dollars, the second year is promoted to a first-class private, a monthly salary of 35 Chinese dollars, the third year is promoted to a senior private, a monthly salary of 40 Chinese dollars, all those who are conscripted into the army, at least to stay in the army for three years, the fourth year only has a chance, you can consider whether to retire or continue to stay in the army, since the establishment of Yan Xueyi's military force, there are very few people who leave the army in the fourth year, and most of the people who are discharged from the army are because important things have happened to them, and they must be discharged.

Soldiers continue to stay in the army, the fourth year will be promoted to corporal, a monthly salary of 50 Chinese dollars, this is at present, is already a relatively high income among ordinary people, some factory ordinary workers, the monthly salary is only 20 Chinese dollars, you can imagine how high the treatment of soldiers, just for this treatment, there are countless people want to become soldiers, if luck is better to be promoted to become a lieutenant, it is really glorious.

In this year, that is, the sixth year of Xinghua, the empire will formally establish a military service system and begin to establish a reserve force, male citizens aged 18 to 30 years old who are in good health need to spare a month of military training every year, which is the largest component of the reserve force, and the retired soldiers are also one of the components of the reserve force, and the veterans are basically officers who serve as reserve forces.

At present, there are relatively few soldiers who are discharged from the empire, and most of the soldiers who are discharged after the fourth year are because of injuries and illnesses. The army developed more standardized, and at the same time created a sufficiently large reserve force, the empire. The military will issue military regulations, and all soldiers in the army who have not been promoted to lieutenant officer at the age of 30 will be discharged from the army and transferred to another job, and the empire will arrange a job with good benefits.

In the army, it is relatively easy for ordinary soldiers to be promoted to non-commissioned officers, as long as the number of years is enough, they are automatically promoted to non-commissioned officers, and non-commissioned officers mostly hold the position of squad leader or deputy squad leader, but it is much more troublesome for non-commissioned officers to be promoted to lieutenants.

Soldiers also need to learn, basically soldiers stay in the army for three years, and their level of knowledge is comparable to that of a primary school graduate.

A soldier is promoted from corporal to sergeant and then to sergeant, as long as he has enough military merit, he can be promoted, but if a sergeant wants to be promoted to second lieutenant, he must undergo a knowledge assessment, and only after passing the assessment can he be promoted to second lieutenant.

There are only about ten people in a squad, and there are very few actions that use the squad as a combat unit, and the squad leader does not need to know much military tactical knowledge, as long as he obeys the orders of his superiors.

The rank of second lieutenant holds the position of platoon commander in the army, and there are 30 to 40 people in a platoon, which is quite a lot, and the platoon level sometimes needs to perform tasks alone, which requires the second lieutenant to master a certain knowledge of military tactics.

The promotion of a sergeant to a second lieutenant is a hurdle, and the promotion of a captain to a major and the promotion of a colonel to a major general are all hurdles that require examinations or assessments.

However, there are a large number of soldiers in the army of the empire, they have enough military exploits, but they can't learn more knowledge, and they can't be promoted to second lieutenant, and even those who enlist in the army at the same time have been promoted to school officers and they are still non-commissioned officers, even if they are only non-commissioned officers, the welfare of the army is much better than that of the outside world, not to mention that they have condensed a belief in their hearts, they want to fight for the emperor and firmly protect the empire.

There are many "old people" in the army, and their ranks are relatively low, but they are old qualifications, and young people with higher ranks will not speak to them with a commanding posture, which can easily cause chaos within the army.

Therefore, when the empire established the reserve force this time, the military decided to let those "old people" retire from the army, find them a job with good benefits, and promote the military rank in the reserve force by one level, and when needed, the reserve can be quickly transformed into an active force.

The biggest advantage of establishing a reserve is that military expenditure is relatively low, although the reserve force is dozens of times that of the active army, the reserve force will not be equipped with too many heavy weapons, and the military training time of the reserve soldiers is only one month a year, which leads to the cost of the reserve force being much less than that of the active army.

The establishment of reserve forces is suitable for the current situation of the Chinese Empire, once the war breaks out, the empire can mobilize tens of millions of armed forces in a very short time, which country dares to confront the Chinese Empire with such a huge armed force.