It's just that although Makqin came out, the production of nitrocellulose was too prone to accidents, so large-scale production was not carried out, and only 500,000 rounds of ammunition were ordered. However, the Makqin machine gun joined the production ranks of the Ordnance Bureau under the order of Zhao Yan.

"With this machine gun, our overseas colonial strongholds can be impregnable." Zhao Yan said proudly, the Ordnance Bureau knows the important surname, and pays close attention to the safe nitrification fiber research, and at the same time carries out research on yellow gunpowder and explosives.

…… Shandong's immigration work is still unfolding, a large number of people from other provinces poured into Shandong, began to pour into North Korea, the northeast, with the arrival of the autumn harvest, the northeast region as a commercial grain base area, although and contribute much grain, but still some export.

The DPRK and the Northeast region have become self-sufficient in their food problems, and some of them have been exported, showing relatively great potential.

At the same time, the construction of infrastructure in North Korea and Northeast China is also continuous, and many of them are built with Japanese slaves with low labor costs, and the cost is relatively low.

This kind of construction cost belonged to the incognito tax in the original forced labor system, but Zhao Yan didn't play this set anymore, but threw a lot of silver outward, but what could be saved was still good, so the Japanese slaves were an important labor force.

The industrial development of the northern part of the DPRK is very fast, and the mining of various minerals has led to the emergence of industrial cities in the northern part of the DPRK, while the industrial cities in the northeast have also developed very rapidly, and the development of agriculture has been more rapid, and a large amount of fertile land, with the increase of immigration, has gradually formed a commercial grain base.

And in Sakhalin and Hokkaido, there are currently some immigrants. Two settlement bases were built on Sakhalin Island, and five settlement bases were built in Hokkaido by August, each with about 1,000 households. The industry in Dinh Dong Province is not very developed, mainly developing animal husbandry and fishing, which is still in its infancy.

By August, the number of immigrants in the Northeast and North Korea and Dingdong provinces had been completed, and the number of immigrants was still increasing due to the development of industry, and the agricultural population was still increasing, because the land had not yet been divided.

There is so much land in the northeast that two or three hundred thousand households can divide it all? Moreover, Nurgandus in turn carved out vast lands in southern Siberia.

For immigrants from the north, Zhao Yan can be said to have spared no effort.

By the end of August, 13 resettlement bases had been built in southern Siberia, and with the call of the Recruitment Bureau, there were 15,000 families in the country.

The reason why Zhao Yan attaches so much importance to the immigration of Nurgandus is naturally to be able to expand westward smoothly.

Tsarist Russia had already begun to expand eastward in this year, and the two sides were bound to conflict in Siberia, so it was necessary to strengthen the supply of supplies, which had to rely on emigration. At the same time, there are immigrants who really occupy a certain area, and if there are no immigrants, it is all false.

At the same time, the migration of Monan, Mobei, Moxi and Tufan also began.

The settlements in Monan, Mobei and Moxi are all carefully selected pastures, and detailed grassland management plans have been formulated.

For those sandy areas and deserts, the Ministry of Agriculture is developing a management plan to prevent the spread of desertified areas. At the same time, according to Zhao Yan's request, three ecological reserves were established in Mongolia.

This is the savannah of Asia.

There are savannahs in Africa, savannahs in the Americas, and there are basically no wild animals in other areas except the African savannah, but there are still some protected areas in the central prairies of the United States, and there are basically no decent protected areas in Mongolia. With the development of productive forces, the living space of wild animals will inevitably be reduced, so the reserve should be established as soon as possible.

The population of the settlement base in Monan is the largest, reaching 100,000 people, and the entire Mongols in Monan have been relocated to Moxi.

20,000 people immigrated from Mobei, 20,000 people from Moxi, and 10,000 people from Tufan.

There are still Mongol tribes in Mobei and Moxi, but they have all been incorporated into the jurisdiction, and most of the young and strong people have been transferred to Tufan to fight. At the same time, all weapons were confiscated, and each tribe was guarded by hundreds of heavily armed soldiers, and if the Mongols moved, they could be suppressed immediately, and the Fourth Cavalry Brigade was still in the southwest of Mobei, which could be divided into troops to suppress it.

Within three to five years, all the Mongol tribes in Mobei and Moxi will move out, and they will continue to move westward, serving as cannon fodder for westward expansion along the way.

On the Tufan side, a comprehensive purge was carried out with the intention of completely eradicating the Yellow Sect, and this area was not suitable for agricultural production, so it was only to develop animal husbandry.

The immigrants who went to Tufan were allocated 2,000 acres of land, and at the same time there were a large number of undeveloped public grazing areas, and a group of graduates from the Department of Animal Husbandry of Denglai University were also transferred to guide the immigrants to develop animal husbandry.

There are not too many immigrants in Tufan, after all, the transportation is not developed and not very developed, and too many immigrants will cause poverty in the past, so the number of immigrants cannot be too much, and at the same time occupy the most elite areas of Tufan.

The immigration work of the recruitment bureau in charge of Zhao Quan asked Zhao Yan about Taiwan's immigration plan: "Taiwan's population has been counted, there are a total of 180,000 people, of which 50% are ethnic minorities. ”

Attention is paid to the surname of the immigrant population in each region, for example, Mongolia and Tufan mainly immigrate people with certain experience in animal husbandry.

"Taiwan is a place where rice is grown, and immigrants who are familiar with rice cultivation are recruited from the south." Zhao Yan said that for immigrants from Taiwan, it is natural that they cannot give immigrants who grow wheat to them.

"Taiwan is also a relatively potential commercial grain base, so let the Ministry of Agriculture send people to Taichung to inspect the plan for building irrigation canals, and develop Taiwan into a place that can export grain as soon as possible." Zhao Yan continued.

"The old slave knows." Zhao Quan responded, and quickly asked Tang Zhengze of the Ministry of Agriculture to send someone to Taiwan to inspect the water conservancy construction plan.

Zhao Yan feels that the most important thing at present is grain production, and according to the reports of informants from the armed police forces in various provinces, many people are still nibbling on sweet potatoes.

It has to be said that this is an era of huge disparity between the rich and the poor, and it is also an era of deterioration of water conservancy facilities. The rise and fall of an agricultural country depends to a large extent on water conservancy facilities, and the corruption of water conservancy facilities is mostly caused by the breeding of [***], which is the root cause of the demise of any country.

For such a large country and such a large gap between the rich and the poor, how to eliminate this phenomenon is indeed a headache.

However, it is obviously not the time to consider this issue, and a bigger problem is in front of Zhao Yan, that is, how to calm the turmoil in Fujian.

The civil war resulted in nearly 40,000 casualties.

Many of the provinces of the Ming Dynasty did not support Zhao Yan's attack on Fujian, and many people believed that Zheng Zhilong had paid taxes to the royal family.

However, Zhao Yan's reason for going to war was the issue of taxes.

"Now public opinion believes that the lord took control of the city only last year, and the amount of tax evasion before should be the royal family's, not our Shandong's." Mao Yuanyi said to Zhao Yan.

"The raw rice is already cooked, so whatever they say! The best thing to do is to deal with the aftermath. Zhao Yan said, "The 40,000 Fujian officers and soldiers who were killed or injured were all given compensation for the casualties in Shandong." ”

"That's it...... Tens of millions of taels ......" Mao Yuanyi was very speechless, Zhao Yan heard this number, and couldn't help but be stunned, in terms of 300 taels of Shandong pension, 40,000 casualties, of which 26,000 were killed and 14,000 were injured, these 14,000 people are estimated not to die much, with the careful care of the field hospital, the death will not exceed 15%, but if all the dead are issued 300 taels, it is nearly 10 million taels of bereavement pension.

"Halving!" Zhao Yan said helplessly, such a pension is completely bearable for the Shandong army, which implements the elite soldier policy, but the officers and soldiers of Fujian are different, so many people have died, Zhao Yan does not want to, but the officers and soldiers of Fujian belong to the army under the old model, and their combat effectiveness is relatively weak.

Mao Yuanyi calculated with the staff for a long time according to the plan of halving, and finally determined that the pension was still as high as nearly 7 million taels, and Zhao Yan approved the pension plan.

The next day, the Daming newspaper reported on the pension plan.

Some other newspapers in Shandong also followed up on the matter, among which Shandong's "Damin Daily" reported, "A mere seven million taels is only a small part of Zheng Zhilong's family wealth, but the general can come up with so much silver, which is extremely benevolent." ”

Some other Shandong newspapers are paying more attention to what Shandong's fiscal revenue will be invested in this year.

According to the revelations of an official of the Ministry of Finance in the "Damin Daily", Shandong's fiscal revenue this year has exceeded 100 million taels of silver, and local taxes, overseas revenues, and precious metal mining of gold troops have not yet been counted.

According to the income from the seizure of the house, it has reached 130 million taels this year, plus real estate and even more, and the income from commercial tax, salt tax, income from the Ministry of Commerce, overseas income, and income from the mining of precious metals has not been counted at all.

How to use such a high fiscal revenue is indeed a matter of great concern to the people under Zhao Yan's rule, especially for the literati who have undergone a relatively comprehensive ideological transformation, they have a strong sense of supervising the state finances, but more often, they supervise the local finances.

This time, due to the instigation of "Damin Bao" in Shandong, people are very concerned about how to distribute next year's fiscal revenue, and there is not much concern in terms of supervision, after all, the people trust Zhao Yan very much.

Outside of Shandong, there is not much criticism of Zhao Yan's pension plan, and it is indeed benevolent and righteous to be able to do this.

Since ancient times, there has never been an army that loves the people to such an extent as Zhao Yan's Shandong Army, and in all the civil wars, there have been pensions for the dead of the other side.

Zhao Yan's move was still widely praised.

After the First Division settled the Zheng Group, it began to withdraw from Fujian one after another, and the Fujian Armed Police Force also went to Fujian to take charge of public security work in Fujian.

The number of armed police forces entering Fujian this time was not 5,000, but 15,000.

Five thousand is too little for a province.

In the absence of any other troops in a province, 5,000 people were indeed too little, and in the case of a sharp increase in financial revenue, Zhao Yan began to increase troops to the provinces.

The number of armed police forces in each province will be increased to 15,000, and that in individual provinces there will be 20,000 people, such as Guizhou, Yunnan, and Guangxi, which are areas with a large number of ethnic minorities, as well as in larger provinces such as Huguang, and 30,000 in the northeast, which will be mainly responsible for purging the remnants of the Manchu Dynasty.

In the process of advancing westward, Nurkandus encountered several times the troops of Duoduo, who fled all the way west to the direction of Tsarist Russia. At the same time, there is also a remnant of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, mainly hiding in the mountains of the northeast, and is constantly fleeing to the coastal zone in the northeast, so they may flee to the Bering Strait.

However, those who fled do not need to be taken care of, those Manchu remnants hiding in the mountains must be cleaned up, and there have been several incidents of Han people being attacked in Liaodong.

The 02nd Infantry Brigade of the 2nd Division, which was guarding Liaodong and North Korea, was transferred by Zhao Yan to the Nurgan Division, which would have the strength of the 01st and 02nd Infantry Brigades and the Cavalry Brigade of the 2nd Division.

The 03 and 04 Infantry Brigades of the Second Division are currently stationed in Shaanxi, one in Hanzhong and the other in Yulin, and cannot be transferred to other areas.

However, the Western Front needed troops to garrison it.

Therefore, Zhao Yan sent the 05, 06, and 07 infantry brigades in Shandong, one to Mobei, one to Moxi, and one to Tufan.

The American Infantry Brigade was sent to the Americas by Zhao Yan, and the 30,000 young men who were transferred to the Americas were going to take them back.

The defense system in the north was basically formed under the mobilization, of which 15,000 armed police troops in the south of the country were not garrisoned. Because of the small number of Han people in Mobei and Moxi, there are only 5,000 armed police troops, while the Mongolian tribes still exist, and all of them have a brigade stationed. In addition to having 5,000 armed police units, Tufan also has a brigade stationed.

This is the defense of the northwestern front, and the defense force of the northeastern front is only the armed police force.

The difference between the armed police force and the combat force is that the combat force focuses on dealing with aliens and riots, while the armed police force focuses on suppressing bandits, detecting, providing relief, and recruiting immigrants.

Therefore, combat troops are stationed in the northwest, and armed police forces are used to maintain law and order in the northeast.

As for the defense of Shandong itself, it is temporarily in charge of the first division, and after the first division has fought Mongolia and Fujian, it needs to be repaired, and the next target is Chongzhen.

In early September, a large fleet was assembled in Qingdao.

This fleet has hundreds of large merchant ships and 30 large clippers, as well as 10 Paulownia frigates that have just been launched.

The American Infantry Brigade and its families boarded clippers, and the merchant ships were immigrants to California, totaling more than 80,000 people, and with the families of the soldiers who went to California, the total number of immigrants and 14,000 soldiers was 130,000.

In addition to the emigrants, the flotilla was loaded with a large number of supplies and some goods, and the flying clippers were loaded with shells.

Under the clear sky, the moon flag on the ship fluttered with the sea breeze, and the people who had emigrated to California had finished boarding the ship, and the Marines had already boarded the ship.

"When you go to the Americas, remember to protect the people and not let them be in danger." Zhao Yan explained to Xue Qing on the dock, and Xue Qing, the commander of the American Infantry Brigade, saluted Zhao Yan and said loudly: "The subordinates must live up to the general's expectations, work hard, and open up space for the nation." ”

"Go ahead! Test our new weapons with the Xiyi. Zhao Yan said.

"Yes."

(To be continued)