What Chen Zhaoming did not say to Zhang Shiyang is that the new tank armored division quota manual is already being drawn up, and the new armored division is rated to have 360 tanks of various types, and the Ming Empire plans to form 10 such new armored divisions. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

The new armored division is planned to be equipped with 300 new No. 2 tanks and No. 2 assault guns, and the remaining tanks will be supplemented by the current No. 1 tank as reconnaissance vehicles, which means that in the next year, the Ming Empire will have to produce at least 3,000 No. 2 tanks to complete the formation of armored forces.

At the same time, it is necessary to equip these armored divisions with 10 armored infantry divisions that can keep up with the operation, and it is estimated that a full 3,000 armored vehicles and motorcycles of various types will be procured, so that the armored infantry divisions will have the style to accompany the tank units in combat and fight alone when necessary.

This new type of armored infantry division should be equipped with 45 assault guns, that is, a battalion of No. 2 assault guns, and as far as possible, it will be equipped with vehicle-towed 150 mm guns, and already 150 mm self-propelled howitzers. There are also separate anti-tank artillery units, as well as anti-aircraft units, which, together with tank units, can launch an offensive against enemy positions.

In order to accomplish such a huge project, the industrial sector of the Ming Empire had to work at full capacity, and in the next year, produce a full 5,000 chassis of tank No. 2, as well as 3,000 armored vehicles of other models. Counting some messy small projects, the Ming Empire has a shortage of almost 10,000 armored vehicles alone, and all this is just the beginning.

Because, the Ming Empire had a standing strength of 150 divisions, and turning 20 of them into armored divisions and infantry armored divisions only reached a ratio of 13%. It is still said that after investing a full 10,000 armored vehicles, the Ming Empire only turned more than one-tenth of all its troops into a modern mechanical army.

And for this one-tenth of the army, the price that the Ming Empire has to pay can be described as a sea of gold and silver. The equipment of the army is never as simple as a hammer deal, these equipment need to be maintained and maintained, updated and replaced, and it needs to be eliminated and supplemented, so in order to maintain the armored forces of the Ming Empire at a scale of about 3,500 tanks, it is necessary to invest almost 4,000 or even 4,500 tanks.

After all, some tanks will be scrapped due to use, and some engines or gearboxes will be damaged - in the Liaodong battlefield, in several battles of the Ming Empire, almost 500 tanks and armored vehicles of various kinds were damaged and scrapped, and only some of them could be repaired and returned to the equipment sequence.

In the future, the expansion of the armored division of the infantry is not the only project that the Ming Empire has invested money in: the naval battleship project has also started, and more than half of the new battleships have been built; At the same time, there is also the air force equipment of the Ming Empire that needs to be improved.

Compared with the investment of the navy's fixed battleships, the upgrading of the air force equipment is more desperate, and the advent of the new TY-3 engine has made all the air-breaking fighters equipped in the hands of the Ming Empire obsolete all at once, and even the air-breaking 2 fighter that has just been tested for a long time has also become chicken ribs.

Under the impetus of several far-sighted people in the Air Force, a report was submitted to the Gyeonggi Security Department of the Ming Empire, which demonstrated the possibility of a new high-speed bomber attacking Gyeonggi, because after all, the Anyun 1 transport aircraft does have the ability to be converted into a bomb-carrying bomber, and its speed is enough to throw off the Ming Empire's Kong-breaking 1 fighter and safely enter the airspace of Gyeonggi.

Therefore, when Zhu Mu didn't know it, the air force of the Ming Empire submitted a report requesting the purchase of updated fighters, and the Ministry of War also agreed to this report, supported and funded the redevelopment of the Breaking Air 2 fighter.

The cost of this plan is no less than that of the army, and even far more than outsiders can imagine. Because of the birth of the new power, the original almost finalized Sky Breaking 2 fighter should be redesigned, on the basis of retaining the all-metal skin, the load-bearing structure of the fuselage should be comprehensively strengthened, and the center of gravity and maneuverability of the aircraft should be redesigned.

In the era when there were no computers and the design of airplanes could only rely on designers to draw by hand and manually measure and calculate the structure of the aircraft, changing the weight and structure of an airplane was almost redesigning a new type of aircraft. Therefore, the aviation research institute of the Ming Empire scolded the street and excitedly began the redesign of the new aircraft.

The reason for scolding the street is that all their previous designs have been in vain, and all their efforts for ten months in a row have come to naught. And the excitement is that their new power system, that is, the TY-3 power system that made them change all the designs, has a terrifying power output of 1100 horsepower.

With the addition of this powerful engine of 1100 horsepower, the fighter of the new Ming Empire can fly at a speed of more than 500 kilometers per hour, which can be said to be a definite thing. And if the aircraft is properly designed, even reaching more than 550 km, it is not a problem.

Under these circumstances, the air force units of the Ming Empire even began to fantasize about their own independent operations, and they even put forward in one breath the "strategic plan of the air force" for the production of twin-engine high-speed bombers to bomb enemy countries. However, this plan was quickly vetoed by the military department of the Ming Empire, with only one very desperate word: "No money!" ”

Yes, the Ming Empire does not have money, even with the huge support and investment of the capitalists, even with the full support of the emperor, but the military weapons and equipment that the Ming Empire needs to produce in the next two years are too much. Although the new army has amazing combat effectiveness, it seems to be a golden beast, which is consuming the treasury of the Ming Empire every moment, and the same is true for the navy and air force, the whole army is blowing a whirlwind of applying for new equipment, and the core of this whirlwind is nothing more than the word money.

The training of the new army, the ammunition to be consumed, and the salary to be paid more than the traditional Ming army are all one level higher than that of the traditional Ming army, and at the same time, the consumption of depreciated weapons and equipment is also innumerable. Combined with a lot of equipment that had never been invested before, millions of gold coins were evaporated overnight.

It seems that millions of gold coins are indeed a lot, but when you think of Sima Mingwei equipping his new 2nd Army with 100 improved No. 1 tanks, you find that these millions of gold coins are actually not tossed at all. The construction of several battleships in the Navy is also a huge sum of money in the hundreds of millions. And the air force has not yet reached the time to spend money, and when the new fighter is mass-produced, hundreds of millions of gold coins will be spent, and it is only a matter of time.

In Liaodong, the money and food for the victims are also the top priority, and Zhu Mu even suspended the repair work of the Qianqing Palace in the Forbidden City for this money. However, this is still a drop in the bucket, and it will not be able to alleviate the actual situation of the Ming Empire not making ends meet next year.

The economic situation is too sluggish, which is also one of the reasons why Zhu Mu is worried now. The war has caused fluctuations in the economy of the Ming Empire, and even affected the investment and development of some regions, and now the Ming Empire is still being secretly boycotted and sanctioned by various countries, and exports have been declining and shrinking for two consecutive years.

Running a country is much more complicated than playing games to make ends meet. The investment in infrastructure has given the Ming Empire a taste of sweetness, and it has also saddled the country with a huge amount of maintenance costs, such as roads, which are not once and for all projects that are repaired, and they have to be maintained and maintained every year.

In the same way, roads need money to support them, power grids need money to maintain, urban sewer systems, postal services, transportation systems, water systems, ...... Everything is a one-time big investment, and there are endless small investments. People have become accustomed to the convenience of modern life, and none of them can be stopped.

Zhu Mu suddenly discovered that it was not his own wisdom and martial arts, but his father or grandfather who was short-sighted and mediocre. But even a small change in this country can shake off a shock and retreat to countless dominoes. He vainly tried to build a new army and develop the country's military strength, but in the end he found himself setting off a storm of innovation, and all political, economic, military, and cultural changes and developments had to be made. And to promote the development of these things, all of them need a huge amount of money as support.

"In the coming year, the matter of training and education in the army cannot be put down! You must not let go of ......" Zhu Mu, who was sitting at the conference table, retracted his thoughts, looked at the first assistant Wang Jianfeng, the second assistant Ma Siyuan, and the six cabinet ministers Huang Yao, Ge Tianzhang, Zhang Huai, and Bai Fei, and said: "This fund is not much, so the cabinet will recognize it, right?" ”

"Your Majesty!" Ge Tianzhang sat in his place and slowly admonished: "Although this expenditure is not much, it is also a new policy that a few subordinates think can be postponed. His Majesty also said that he could not move several other projects, so he had to postpone the training for a year. ”

Zhu Mu waved his hand and vetoed: "How is this possible? A large part of the reason why the new army is called a new army is that the system is new and the equipment is new! How can the soldiers of the new army master the new equipment without additional training and reinforcement? Doesn't this make my new army discounted? ”

"Your Majesty! This can't be discounted, that can't be discounted, this next year's military spending has been doubled, on the one hand, it is too much pressure on the country, on the other hand, it is difficult for us to explain to other countries, what we want to do by doing this. Wang Jianfeng was originally a cabinet minister who was in charge of internal affairs rather than the military, and he was not thinking about military matters, but about the impact of increased funding on the entire country. (To be continued.) )