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A twenty-five or sixteen-year-old red-robed official was walking around behind the butt of Li Hongzhang, the prime minister of the Kazakh Khanate, holding a stack of official documents. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info. ybdu。 In Li Hongzhang's signing room in the prime minister's mansion in the new capital of the Khanate, there were still a bunch of people, listening to the assignment of tasks by the Ming leader's leader in Central Asia.

"Have the conscription orders been issued in all provinces? 200,000 people must be fully in place within a month, this is a military order, there is no room for negotiation, let's play a little more wide, 210,000 people must be mobilized in 25 days! ”

"The army's food and grass must be ready, enough for 500,000 troops to eat for a year! There are also military horses, camels, cattle and sheep to start raising, and the military horses must pick the most majestic! The price can't be too high...... Tell the following, now is the head of the national disaster, whoever wants to only think about getting rich, don't blame me Li Er turned his face and didn't recognize people......"

"The steel mills and coal mines in North Harbin Province want to transport machinery? What's the mess at this time? It's almost a war, let's talk about running a factory after the war! Now everything is for the front, and everything else has to be postponed! ”

"What? Several large companies in the Kazakh Khanate were unable to function because of the conscription and mobilization order? Even trade with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and the Western Qing Dynasty stopped? How is the conscription mobilization program worked? Why didn't you think of this? Wars are wars, and this day still has to be lived! ”

Now the situation in the Kazakh Khanate is that the mouth is moved at the top, and the leg is broken at the bottom. Emperor Zhu ordered a military mobilization to go down to the entire khanate, up to Prime Minister Li Hongzhang. Down to the common people. It's all going to get moving.

And what's even more of a headache is. Since the Warring States period, the concept of national mobilization has become weaker and weaker, and by the collapse of the military system of the Tang Dynasty, there was basically no mobilization of the people to participate in the war. Otherwise, with the huge population base of the Chinese nation, we must be able to mobilize the strength of the whole country to fight like the heroes of the Warring States Period, and there will be no tragedy in the world! Even if the Southern Song Dynasty was as weak, it was a large country with tens of millions of people. There are always seven or eight Qin states in terms of population and national strength. If you can exert the power of seven or eight strong Qin, how many Temujin and Kublai Khan will also stop cooking.

And our returnee Emperor Zhu, although he did not think about restoring the Qin system, brought with him the national mobilization system of Prussia, France and the United States. It is necessary to give full play to the advantages of the large number of Chinese people -- in this era, there are actually more wars than people! As long as there is a European-style army's organization and training system, similar foreign guns and cannons, and strictly trained officers, the number of officers is several times larger, and it is inevitable that the battle will be won!

Of course, the Qing Dynasty, which allowed imperialism to be bullied without a temper in history, is really a miracle, and Zhu Jishi can't learn it if he wants to. After suffering the hardships of the two opium wars, they did not know how to organize and train a new army according to Western methods. I didn't think of this until after the First Sino-Japanese War, and this reaction speed is probably about the same as that of the American Indians.

But. It is unlikely that a nation, which has been leisurely for more than a thousand years, will return to the state of its emerging years overnight. This thing. It can only be done step by step. Nor can we expect the poor middle peasants of the Han land to suddenly have the consciousness to defend the reactionary dynasty. Therefore, Zhu Jishi adopted a step-by-step approach, linking land with military service, encouraging those nationals who had emigrated to the frontier to become wealthy yeoman peasants to serve as soldiers with tangible benefits, and using the method of collective farms to organize scattered yeoman peasants -- the effect of these two tactics was of course very good.

Therefore, the first step in rebuilding the army's national mobilization system was basically successful in the 16th year of the Ming Dynasty's recovery. However, the fact that there are enough citizens willing to serve as soldiers and fight for their country is only one component of the national mobilization system. How to turn an entire country into a powerful war machine is the final sign of success. This system, according to the historical German scholar Ludendorff, is a "total war", which is an extremely complex system project involving all aspects of a country. It is a great test of the Government's ability to lead and organize. The new Ming Dynasty, which was born in the late Qing Dynasty, was of course unable to establish a highly organized society that could conduct general warfare in just 16 years.

Even new provinces with collective farm systems in the Northeast, Siberia, the Kazakh Khanate, Mongolia, Xinjiang, Lanfang, and Jiaozhou, with small populations and basically "equal wealth", could barely establish a similar system.

And now, for the first time, this "total warfare system" is working, and the result, of course, is a mess.

The prime minister of the Kazakh Khanate, who was actually Li Hongzhang, the governor of the Ming Empire in Kazakhstan, was even more busy as one of the two protagonists of this general war practice (the other was Peng Yulin, the general manager of the East Siberian Company). All kinds of problems, which had been thought of before or that were not expected at all, poured out in one fell swoop, causing the entire bureaucracy of the Kazakh Khanate to be uncomfortable, and the top and bottom were complaining about it.

Li Hongzhang was finally busy for a while, and when he was sitting there gasping for breath, he saw his secretary general, Zhou Fu, holding the post of General Liu Jiong, the current commander of the grassland group army, coming up. Liu Jiong was the backbone who first followed Zhu Jishi, and now although he is only a general and a county duke, he is a figure who has served as the chief of the general staff and the minister of the army, and is a military minister alongside Zheng Hong, Han Si, and Luo Junqi. This time I came to the Western Regions to estimate that it was for meritorious service and to be appointed commander as soon as possible. Of course, Li Hongzhang did not dare to offend this hot figure. Hurriedly took the post and looked at it, it turned out that he was invited to the headquarters of the Prairie Legion to receive the order!

It was Zhu Jishi's telegram, an order issued in the name of the supreme commander of the Ming army: Establish the Central Asian Theater General Command -- this means that the regions including the Kazakh Khanate, Qihe Province, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, and the Western Qing Dynasty have entered wartime! In wartime, it also means that civil affairs must be subordinated to military administration. Li Hongzhang, the civil governor of the Kazakh Khanate, is now a subordinate of General Liu Jiong, commander-in-chief of the Central Asian Theater. With such things as Wen Yuwu, there is no such thing as the new Ming Dynasty at the moment.

"Brother Mulin, do you really want to fight?" After Liu Jiong announced the emperor's edict, Li Hongzhang hurriedly asked.

"The final decision on whether to fight or not is up to the emperor, but we must base ourselves on fighting!" Liu Jiong, of course, knew that it was a bluff now, in order to attract Russia's attention and reduce the pressure on the Polish side. However, this matter is a top secret and cannot be told to Li Hongzhang.

He paused for a moment and said: "Now not only the Central Asian theater has been established, but even the Siberian side has also established a theater, and General Luo Xuan has become the commander-in-chief. The Navy has also issued martial law and is ready to go to sea to intercept Russian merchant warships. ”

"That's to really fight!" Li Hongzhang took a breath and shook his head slightly, "It's still early, if it were ten years late, the coal mines and iron factories in Beifu will be put into operation in five years, and then there will be enough rails to build a railway, and in another five years, all the key points in the Western Regions will be connected by rail, so that the transportation of troops and logistics materials will be much easier." And in ten years, the population of the Khanate should exceed 5 million! It would be much easier to mobilize another 500,000 troops. ”

"Ten years, even fifteen years from now, there will be a war to be fought!" Liu Jiong shook his head and said, "We are getting stronger, and the Russians are also trying to become stronger!" Alexander II was the emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and now the chaos in Russia is temporary, as long as the abolition of serfdom and reform is passed, the country of Russia still has great potential. ”

The general, who had reached middle age and looked quite majestic on the outside, said lightly: "Brother Shaoquan, our mobilization this time is very chaotic!" The emperor already knew, but he did not blame us, but asked the Central Asian theater and the Kazakh Khanate to carefully sum up their experience and then come up with ways to improve it. Next time, we can't mess around like this again! Now, let's discuss what the shortcomings are and how to improve them. (To be continued.) )