Just when Wu Yong led the army of Eight Towns to sweep the Russian army in the Far East, Li Weiguo's holy car had already returned to the Forbidden City in Beijing.

As soon as he returned, a large group of civil and military officials came to meet him and handed over a large number of recitals waiting for Li Weiguo's decision.

If you want to be a good emperor, you must be mentally prepared to be tired into a dog.

However, Li Weiguo didn't seem to be ready, he quickly sent the civil and military officials, and asked them to send their recitals to the imperial study, but he himself did not go directly to the imperial study to work, but was ready to take a hot bath with his four women, and by the way, train the two former queen mother's maids to discuss the wonderful life.

Empress Fu Shanxiang blocked Li Weiguo's outstretched magic grasp, and said coquettishly: "Your Majesty, as long as you finish reading the recital of the imperial study, the concubines will agree to serve you together tonight, how about it?" ”

"Really?" Li Weiguo was stunned for a moment, feeling that Fu Shanxiang came out of the west of the sun today, and she had always opposed sleeping with her.

"As long as you don't joke, the concubines will not regret it!" Fu Shanxiang took the lead and said, Shen Ziyan, Su Sanniang and Yilan beside him all nodded, all of them were extremely shy and very attractive.

"You have no jokes!" Li Weiguo immediately agreed.

"You can't review it for speed!" Shen Ziyan added, blinking, smiling smartly.

Li Weiguo suddenly said: "That's nature!" ”

"Then the concubines won't disturb Your Majesty's office, we will wait for you in the harem!" Fu Shanxiang's daughters left suddenly, and their giggles could not be heard until they were far away.

Li Weiguo smiled, secretly asking several daughters-in-law to be trained by him to become more and more open, it used to take a lot of effort to beg them to sleep together.

However, when Li Weiguo returned to the imperial study, he was dumbfounded.

I saw that the imperial study was full of folds, and there were five or six hundred books.

That's not all, because there are constantly maids holding stacks of folds and sending them to the imperial study.

This Nima is going to be tired into the rhythm of a dog!

Fooled Birds!

Li Weiguo suddenly recalled the expressions of Fu Shanxiang, Shen Ziyan, Su Sanniang and Yilan just now. When he saw Shen Ziyan winking at him, he thought he wanted him to give her more rain and dew at night, but now he always understands.

Li Weiguo smiled bitterly and promised the four girls to finish reading the folds, but they couldn't go back.

If you don't read the fold, you can write a reading on it casually, but it's a pity that Li Weiguo is not that kind of person, especially when dealing with state affairs, if he is not careful, it will cause a big disaster, harm the country and the people, so he really doesn't dare to read it indiscriminately.

Sigh. Li Weiguo shook his head with a wry smile, picked up the red pen, and began to seriously review the recital.

The twists and turns were all squeezed down during Li Weiguo's recent imperial expedition, and as an emperor with a monopoly on power, he was destined to be tired into a dog.

Of course, Li Weiguo is already thinking about how to improve office efficiency and reduce office pressure, so that he can be a generation of Ming Jun without being tired into a dog.

Among the setbacks, economic construction is the most cumbersome. All of them are local projects played in various places, and they are requested to be allocated by the central government of the imperial court.

Economic construction has always been the top priority of Li Weiguo since he ascended the throne, and the overall economic development model of Shanghai has been copied, but there are differences in different places. In some places, transportation is convenient, and it is natural that industry and trade can be greatly developed. However, in some places, transportation is underdeveloped, and in the absence of railways, it is a waste to rashly develop industry.

Overall. Based on his own memories, Li Weiguo divided the country into six major industrial bases. They are Liaoning Central and South Industrial Base, Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Industrial Base, Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou Industrial Base, Pearl River Delta Industrial Base, Yangtze River Middle and Upper Reaches Industrial Base, and Mongolia Industrial Base.

So far, only the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou Industrial Base has been completed among the six major industrial bases. With Shanghai, Jinling and Hangzhou as the center, it is also a comprehensive industrial base with the largest and most complete industrial categories, and even industries that are not available in other major industrial countries in the world, such as petrochemical industry, internal combustion engine, automobile industry, etc., are all pioneered in China and unique in the world. For the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou Industrial Base, Li Weiguo has only one requirement, which is to constantly bring forth the new, lead the world industrial trend, build China's world brand, and cultivate and reserve talents and technologies.

Next is the Pearl River Delta Industrial Base, which is too far behind the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou Industrial Base. At present, only some national capitalists in Guangzhou are engaged in some light industries such as textiles, garments, and food, because they are close to Hong Kong, Macao, and Southeast Asia, and are the first to come into contact with the industrial technology of Western powers.

For the industrial base of the Pearl River Delta, Li Weiguo's requirements are still dominated by the textile, garment and food industries, which are the advantages of the south, and the grain in the south is the most important in the era when hybrid rice has not come out. In addition, mulberry silk breeding in the south is the most developed, which can provide cheap raw materials for the textile industry, and then promote the garment manufacturing industry and form China's world clothing brand and food brand.

The remaining four industrial bases are almost nothing, especially the Mongolian industrial base and the Liaoning central and southern industrial base, which are still deserts and primeval forests.

However, this did not hinder Li Weiguo's interest, on the contrary, the construction of these two industrial bases must start immediately, and they must be built into China's largest heavy industry bases.

This is because the central and southern Liaoning industrial base has rich mineral advantages, among which Fengtian iron ore is the most abundant, which was previously closed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty and could not be developed, and now the new China has been established, and the high-quality iron ore in Anshan can be quickly mined. Then, with Anshan iron ore as raw materials, a steel smelting plant and a mechanical processing plant were established on the spot to quickly support heavy industries such as steel and machinery in New China, which is one of the basic standards of an industrial power. At the same time, Jinzhou Bay was changed to Dalian Bay, and the largest port and shipyard in the north will be built, connecting Anshan, Mukden and their surroundings by rail, and quickly converting steel into capital and defense resources.

Similarly, Mongolia's industrial base has been set up because of its mineral resources, and the neighboring Shaanxi and Shanxi regions have the world's largest, best quality and most easily exploitable coal resources, which can be continuously transported to all parts of the country as long as the railway is completed, ensuring the coal demand of other industrial bases in China. It was also one of the important indicators of an industrial power, and at least in the nineteenth century, it would not have been possible to become an industrial power without coal.

Next is the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Industrial Base, because of the relationship between the Qing Dynasty capital here, the Zhili area still has some advantages, such as population advantages, which can provide a large number of labor. The key to supporting industrial development. In addition, it is a huge consumer market. Geographical advantages, the entire North China Plain, developed transportation. Rich in mineral resources, steel, coal, oil and other resources are available, in the future will form steel, machinery, chemical, textile and other industries, because of the relationship between the imperial capital, here will become the second largest comprehensive industrial base.

Finally, there is the industrial base in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River, which is mainly considered from the aspect of national defense, once the coastal industrial base is attacked, at least to ensure that there is a complete industrial base inland. Defense consumption can be replenished at any time.

At the same time, in order to allow all parts of the country to develop at the same time, and not to have the situation of the later generations in which the coastal areas were developed and rich first, and then the central and western regions, which would cause a serious gap between the rich and the poor, and it was impossible to expect the first rich to lead the latter to become rich, Li Weiguo decided to develop at the same time and become rich at the same time, so as to control the regional gap between the rich and the poor to the greatest extent. Public order will be effectively controlled.

No matter which industrial base is developed, Li Weiguo always has one characteristic, that is, to get rich before building roads. If you want to become an industrial power, you must at least have a large coverage of the national railway network. Because the Western world from 1840. By 1900, almost all of its domestic construction was under railroad, and in 60 years, the United States had built 370,000 kilometers. France built 60,000 kilometers, Germany built 50,000 kilometers, and Britain built 30,000 kilometers. Tsarist Russia built 25,000 kilometers, of which the first four countries achieved national railway network coverage, and the economy took off, directly throwing the last Tsarist Russia a few streets, resulting in a growing gap in economic strength between Tsarist Russia and the first four countries, resulting in the First World War being dragged down only halfway through.

Li Weiguo attaches great importance to the railway, especially when he thinks of the scene when it is difficult to get a ticket for the Spring Festival, he will wave his pen and write the word quasi-song on the railway construction plan submitted by various places.

In terms of road construction, Li Weiguo did not hesitate and vigorously supported it.

In addition to the construction of industrial bases and railways, Li Weiguo's most painful approval was military construction.

New China has now completed reunification, of which the mainland covers an area of 13 million square kilometers, plus more than 1.71 million square kilometers of Alaska, a total of more than 14.71 million square kilometers. The land area of the Tsarist Russian Empire is currently 15.7 million square kilometers, although it is one million square kilometers more than China, but Li Weiguo has already launched a war against Tsarist Russia in the Far East, believing that it will soon be able to annex the Far East, kick Tsarist Russia off the throne of the world's largest country, and then make China the world's first.

Of course, if you count the land area of more than a dozen vassal states in China, it is now the largest in the world. However, Li Weiguo did not like such self-deceptive algorithms, and the vassal states were only nominally subordinate to China, but in fact they did not listen to orders and could not count.

Since it has such a huge land area, the building of military strength must of course be the most important thing.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Weiguo divided the country into 11 theaters, namely the Eastern Theater, the Southeast Theater, the Southern Theater, the Southwest Theater, the Western Theater, the Northwest Theater, the Northern Theater, and the Northeast Theater, followed by the Central Theater and the Overseas Theater.

Among them, the central theater is the Gyeonggi Zhili area, and the overseas theater is Alaska.

China's Shence Army was expanded with the original Nanyang Army as the core, expanding from 54 towns to 100 towns in the Nanyang Army era, and the first to tenth towns of the army were respectively used as the core trump card troops of the ten major theaters, and then each theater retained eight towns of the army, about 100,000 people, and one million people in the ten major theaters of the country, from the first town to the eightieth town.

As for the later twenty town numbers, they are reserved for the garrisons of the various feudal states, because there is no plan to garrison the feudal states for the time being, so the troops of these twenty towns have not been recruited, but the number is retained.

This is a hundred towns is the scale of the standing army, and it is also a front-line combat unit, which is called the Chinese Shence Army to the outside world, implements the professional military system, and can be pulled out at any time to fight with the enemy's elite troops.

In addition to this, there are the Patriotic Forces, which belong to the second-line troops and are responsible only for the country. The Patriotic Forces are stationed in only one town in each state and province, and the size of the troops varies from 12,500 to 15,000 according to the population and area of the province.

With the founding of the People's Republic of China, the Navy has successively established four fleets, namely the North Ocean Fleet, the East Ocean Fleet, the South Ocean Fleet and the Seven Continents Ocean Fleet, of which the North Ocean Fleet has jurisdiction over the North Ocean Sea (now known as the Sea of Japan) between the Tatar Strait and the Korean Strait, and the naval bases Vladivostok (now Vladivostok, Russia) and Miaotun (now Nikolaevsk, Russia); The area under the jurisdiction of the Eastern Ocean Fleet is from the Bohai Sea to the East Ocean (now known as the Yellow Sea), and is stationed in Lushun, Weihaiwei and Shanghai; The jurisdiction of the Southern Ocean Fleet included the entire Southern Ocean (now known as the East China Sea and the northern part of the South China Sea), and was stationed in Hangzhou, Zhoushan, Penghu, and Keelung; The jurisdiction of the Qizhou Ocean Fleet included the entire Qizhou Ocean (now the South China Sea), and was stationed in Guangzhou, Zhanjiang, Hong Kong and Sanya.

In peacetime, the four major fleets will be divided into sea borders, and in wartime, they will be jointly organized and named the Pacific Fleet.

The navy is a money-burning machine, but Li Weiguo still approved the five-year naval development plan submitted by Lin Jiyun, Minister of the Admiralty.

During this five-year period, the plan is to build nine new steam-powered ironclad battleships with a displacement of 10,000 tons as the main warships of the navy, and build nine new steam-powered cruisers with a displacement of 5,000 tons for combat readiness duty and ocean-going patrols, as an auxiliary and supplement to the ironclad battleships. Thirty corvettes with a displacement of from a thousand tons to two thousand tons were built for alert and offshore patrols.

Among them, the design of ironclad battleships and cruisers has been completed, and Xu Shou, Hua Yufang, and others from Jiangnan Shipyard have completed the overall theoretical development and actual combat test of the 305-mm main gun and all-ironclad hull on the basis of the Weiyuan-class shallow water heavy artillery ironclad ship. The newly designed ironclad battleship has an improved freeboard and can withstand eighth-level winds and waves at sea. The state-of-the-art steam engine will be used to boost the power, the turret main gun, the ship's waist secondary gun, the slipway rapid-fire gun will be mixed, and the all-iron armor will be built.

After reading it, Li Weiguo immediately smiled bitterly, is this clearly a former dreadnought-type battleship!

Of course, there is still a key point missing, that is, the difference between all-steel battleships and ironclad battleships, ironclad ships, to put it bluntly, are a lump of large iron welded together, too bulky, and all-steel battleships use high-performance steel, which also protects against 305 mm armor-piercing bullets in the mid-19th century, and ironclad ships have to use iron armor at least 350 mm thick, while all-steel battleships only need 200 mm to be enough.

Li Weiguo also wanted to build all-steel battleships, but unfortunately the steel output in the Jiangwan Industrial Zone was still too small, and the cost was high. Even if it was as strong as Britain's industrial manufacturing capabilities, it was not until 1891 that all-steel battleships were built, and they were expensive.

"All-steel battleships are not considered first, but ironclad battleships can be built, and the sea power in East Asia in five years will be supported by ironclad ships!"

Thinking of this, Li Weiguo glanced at the large list of numbers behind the estimated cost, and was a little reluctant, but in the end, he gritted his teeth and wrote down the quasi-recital with a big stroke of the pen.

Since then, China's ironclad battleships have been built, which has opened the prelude to the construction of 10,000-ton ironclad ships in modern world history, and at the same time, butterfly wings have also forced Britain and France and other powers to upgrade their ironclad ships, and have also started to build 10,000-ton ironclad ships, or even higher tonnage, and a large-scale naval arms race around the world has quietly kicked off. (To be continued.) )