Cold and diarrhea, a little dizzy, very depressed! So today it was nearly two hours late, but it was still written, but the intention to get some manuscript was ruthlessly shattered............ In mid-February, Zhao Yan promulgated the "Shandong Compulsory Military Service Law", which stipulates that as a citizen of Shandong, he enjoys the blessing of peace and tranquility in Shandong, but he has not fulfilled his obligations...... The number of troops to be recruited is in a state of secrecy, and the formation and training of several brigades is also in a state of secrecy.

However, the propaganda of this recruitment is extremely huge, and recruitment slogans have been swiped everywhere in Shandong, and notices have been posted everywhere.

What is 'one person joins the army, the whole family is glorious';'After three years in the army, you can be discharged from the army, and you can learn to read and write and have a future'...... Of the 300,000 conscripts, 80,000 will be converted into professional soldiers in three years, and the current professional soldiers are about 90,000, while the 38,000 soldiers in the Americas are not yet in the sequence of reorganization.

Although it is very publicity, it is not only propaganda, but also the means of coercing surnames.

All young and strong laborers engaged in agricultural production in Shandong will undergo a physical examination, and then select qualified young and strong laborers to join the army.

There are about 1.2 million young people aged 17~25 who are engaged in agricultural production in Shandong, and it is still very easy to recruit 300,000.

As a result of the propaganda, young people from all over Shandong were very cooperative, and anyway, they could be discharged from the army after only three years of joining the army, and within these three years, there was still a Japanese slave to do the farm work in the fields. You can also train in the army for three years, and there are also gentlemen in the army to teach literacy.

If you have made meritorious service, you can become a professional soldier.

Although the treatment is not as good as before, it is still a very good choice.

For these young people who work in the countryside and have little education themselves, joining the army is one of the few roads they can get out of the countryside.

Of course, you can also rely on your mind to do business, but many people are not educated enough, but the army will teach them to learn to read and write, and after they have culture, there will be more opportunities in the future...... Registration is still very enthusiastic, although it is a compulsory military service system.

The Shandong army won all battles, and often at a very small cost, and the wounded soldiers had a high pension, which had dispelled the concerns of the young people.

Without any worries, coupled with the various benefits of joining the army, it is natural to be very enthusiastic about saving your life.

But not everyone can get through.

Those with good physical fitness are preferred!

Recruitment is very smooth, but the problems of adaptation and training are not so simple.

The cavalry brigade will be reorganized in Liaodong, and the change of the cavalry brigade will be relatively simple. And the infantry brigade was placed in Shandong for change and training.

Therefore, the infantry of Liaodong will be withdrawn to Shandong, and Liaodong will be defended by 4 cavalry brigades and a small number of infantry of the 1st Division.

The fleet, which had just returned from transporting a large number of Japanese slaves, began to busily dispatch troops and horses in Bohai Bay.

At present, Shandong has 168 large merchant ships, and its transportation capacity has reached a relatively large level, plus 20 clippers have been launched not long ago. There are also more than 200 ships of less than 800 tons and more than 300 tons.

The power of maritime transport at this time was absolutely strong.

As for the navy, thirty frigates have also been launched, all of which are 'parallel goods' made of paulownia, but they are equipped with long-range artillery, and their combat effectiveness is also very good.

The First Fleet currently has 36 warships, 45 frigates, 12 500-ton clippers (reconnaissance type), and 20,000 sailors.

Such a force can sweep across the whole of Asia.

It's just that it will take some time to integrate this force, and the eleven warships towed back by the Nanyang detachment are seriously damaged, and it is estimated that they will be able to refurbish and leave the factory in May, and ten warships will stay in Palembang.

Zhao Yan also reorganized the fleets.

The scope of activities of the offshore fleet led by Yan Shiliang will be extended to the north and south coasts (south to Zhejiang) and the surrounding waters.

The warships will be used to exterminate the bandits along the north and south coasts, and at the same time, 25 frigates will be dispatched to escort the merchant ships heading to Yuben.

The First Fleet will have 36 warships and 20 frigates, and the focus of activities will begin to shift to the south.

However, it is not so fast, and it will take some time for the forces of the fleet to be integrated, but it is possible to deal with the Dutch on the island of Taiwan.

Then the two locations of Palembang and Taiwan will be used as bases to carry out a comprehensive 'sweep' of merchant ships in the south, and if they do not register in Shandong, they will be fined if they are caught, and half of the goods will be fined.

Under the transportation of merchant ships, Shandong soldiers and horses began to be dispatched frequently.

10,000 professional soldiers were drawn from the battalions of the Shandong Army and all of them were sent to serve as officers and non-commissioned officers in the armed police force.

At present, only 10 provincial armed police forces have been established, and Fujian is Zheng Zhilong's territory, and he will not be able to enter Fujian for a while, at least until he is really attacked.

The markets in Guangdong, Guangxi, Guizhou, and Yunnan are not very large, and they can't eat big fat people in one breath, and they will reach out in these more southern provinces next year.

The First Fleet is also stepping up efforts to integrate its forces and strive to integrate the fleet within three months.

…… Migration has also begun, North Korea needs 150,000 households, Liaodong needs 250,000 households, and 400,000 households are expected to emigrate.

For an average of four people per household, it is about 1.6 million.

As for the calculation of how much arable land there is in Liaodong, it is too complicated.

The Northeast Plain is so big, where can I see it for a while. So I measured it superficially, it is about 1,000 kilometers long from north to south, more than 400 kilometers wide from east to west, and the total area reaches 350,000 square kilometers.

The Northeast Plain is divided into three major blocks: the Liaohe Plain, the Songnen Plain and the Sanjiang Plain, and the north is bounded by the Xiaoxing'an Mountains, half of which can be used as cultivated land.

That is to say, nearly 300 million mu of cultivated land can be developed, excluding the swamp land of the Sanjiang Plain, 200 million mu is the minimum.

250,000 households immigrated to Liaodong, plus 300,000 Han households in Liaodong, each household is 300, which is 165 million mu, plus the 15000000 mu of farms owned by the military department, that is, almost 200 million mu.

According to the ideal state, the potential of the two major plains in the northeast can be fully developed, and the wetlands of the Sanjiang Plain, Zhao Yan does not plan to develop.

Now that the population pressure is not great, why destroy those wetlands!

The three major ecosystems on the earth are forests, oceans, and wetlands, of which wetlands only account for 6% of the land area, but provide living space for 20% of the creatures, and are known as 'bird paradise', and many bird habitats are inseparable from wetlands.

Wetlands are ecosystems with a variety of unique functions on the earth, which can provide a large amount of food, raw materials and water resources for human beings, and play an important role in maintaining ecological balance, maintaining biodiversity and rare species resources, conserving water sources, storing floods and preventing droughts, degrading pollution and regulating climate, replenishing groundwater, and controlling soil erosion.

There are more than 2,760 species of wetland plants recorded in China in later generations, including 156 families, 437 genera and more than 1,380 species of wetland higher plants. From the perspective of growth environment, wetland plants can be divided into three categories: aquatic, swampy and wet. From the perspective of plant life types, there are water type, floating leaf type, submersible type and floating type. From the perspective of plant species, some are thin grasses, some are coarse herbs, some are dwarf shrubs, and some are tall trees. There are about 1,500 species of wetland animals (excluding insects, invertebrates, fungi and microorganisms) recorded in China, including about 250 species of water and about 1,040 species of fish. There are about 500 species of freshwater fish, accounting for more than 80% of the total number of freshwater fish in the world. Therefore, wetlands are the most valuable and productive ecosystems from both an economic and ecological point of view.

Wetlands are multifunctional and biodiverse ecosystems on the earth, and they are one of the most important living environments for human beings.

It is really unknown how much the population of Daming is now.

Recently, judging from the sales volume of salt, there should be about 200 million people, not only 100 million.

The population growth rate of the Ming Dynasty was far less than that of the Qing Dynasty, let alone that of China after liberation.

From this point, a problem can be reflected, that is, the living standard of the people is higher, so the population growth rate will not be so fast.

The rate of population growth is generally higher or lower in terms of the slower the growth of the richer countries and the faster the growth of the poorer countries.

In the 1.3 billion people of later generations, in addition to Lao Mao's encouragement of childbearing, poverty is still the main reason, and those developed countries in the West also encourage childbearing day and night, but the result is that the population is not bursting.

What is even more ridiculous is that the mastermind of this phenomenon has repeatedly said that with such a large number of Chinese people, it is impossible for everyone to enjoy any resources. This means that there are too many grass people, and it is impossible to make everyone rich.

In such a deformed society, people can do any dirty thing for money.

With a population of 200 million, it is still very small.

But if 200 million people come to share this earth, each person will get a lot of things.

The Northeast Plain is the first step in the division of land.

Of course, 550,000 households are divided into the land of the Northeast Plain is only an ideal state, and Liaodong still needs to develop many industries, and workers are indispensable, and at most only 400,000 households are classified into agricultural production, which is 120 million mu (city mu).

The inspection teams of the various provinces continued to carry out their tasks in the provinces before the armed police force was completed, and their main task at the beginning of the year was to recruit civilians to emigrate to the northeast and the DPRK.

The settling-in allowance of ten taels of silver per household is still very abundant.

At the same time, Zhao Quan also began to plan a monopoly on local products from Northeast China and North Korea.

The native products of Northeast China and North Korea, that is, medicinal herbs (mountain ginseng), timber, and furs (mink, fox, otter), must first have enough cheap timber to supply Shandong, and the profits of those luxury goods after monopolizing Beijing are very high, and there should be no problem in making a few million taels.

The engineering department began to open mines in Handan, Liaodong, and North Korea, and this year there were 6 million taels of railway construction costs, but the rails were not in place.

The steam engine application research group, which is used to produce rails, is undoubtedly the busiest, and is constantly adapting to how to use steam engines to stamping open-hearth steel and directly make rails.

If the railway is built with simple manpower, the cost is undoubtedly very large, but after the technology is improved, the cost will naturally be reduced.

The task of iron-making, steel-making is heavy.

Except for the 400,000 Japanese slaves who stayed in Shandong, the other 500,000 Japanese slaves were all thrown to Liaodong, and the 780,000 Manchu slaves were not transported back to Shandong because it was too troublesome to transport them back.

Shandong really doesn't have anything to build.

Shandong's infrastructure is basically about to be built, mining or something, Shandong does not have so many mines to dig, plus Shandong's labor force is relatively sufficient, and then transport the Manchu slaves back, which is not conducive to the employment of the people.

Therefore, the 780,000 Manchu slaves were all left in Liaodong to mine.

The iron ore developed in Liaodong is Anshan Iron Mine, while the iron ore developed in North Korea is Maoshan Iron Mine, which is much easier to develop in comparison.

Those Japanese slaves were used to reclaim arable land, build roads, water conservancy and other infrastructure, and transfer 100,000 Japanese slaves to run the farms of the military headquarters.

It is expected to establish a production base with an annual output of 10 million tons of pig iron in Handan, that is, to build a 20,000 cubic meter blast furnace, which will probably produce more than 20 million tons of pig iron a year.

Anshan to establish an annual production of 5 million tons of iron pig iron production base, Anshan ore reserves are large, but the ore grade is too poor, are almost over the standard line, the economic benefits are not very good, so there is no need for large-scale development, after all, there is now Maoshan iron ore top, is not very urgent to develop Anshan iron ore.

The Maoshan Iron Mine will establish a base with an annual output of 15 million tons of iron, which is the easiest to develop and the most economical.

In terms of steel production, the output of 8 million tons of steel is almost enough, so among the three large steel production bases, according to the output of pig iron, the output just now is allocated.

After the open-hearth steel is put into large-scale production, the rail production line is studied, and the rail can be laid.

Before the rails are laid, the railway line is planned and the railway subgrade is built.

Shandong's railway line will take a tic-tac-toe shape.

For the railway to other provinces, Zhao Yan first chose to build the railway from Shandong to Shanxi.

Shanxi has a lot of coal, once the steam engine is put into use in large quantities, it needs a lot of coal, and a lot of coal is also needed for steel smelting, and a lot of coal is also needed for power generation in the north.

Railway workers began to be recruited at the beginning of the year, and they were paid 1.5 taels of silver a month, which was common in developed cities in the south, but it was very high in the north.

Since a large number of free laborers are concentrated in Liaodong and North Korea, Shandong relies on spending money to build railways, and Zhao Yan has a lot of money and can afford it.

If money is thrown down, it can expand employment.

However, they all recruited laborers in Shanxi, Shaanxi, and northern Huguang (Hubei), after all, these places have entered the tax-free status, and they belong to the severely affected and relatively poor areas.

In other provinces that are still collecting taxes, Zhao Yan is worried that the silver will be smashed down, and he will be squeezed dry twice.

As for Shandong, it is obviously not good, after Shandong put down the 10 million taels of interest-free loans, factories are now everywhere, plus 300,000 recruits, the labor force is already very extreme.

It is estimated that 300,000 laborers will be recruited, and 50,000 people will be transferred from the 400,000 Japanese slaves in Shandong, and 350,000 railway construction troops will spend about 4.5 million taels of wages a year, plus 700,000 taels of food, exactly 5.2 million taels, which is about the same, after all, no rails were laid in advance.

There is no problem in repairing the railway subgrade network from Shandong to Shanxi, and Shanxi and Shandong provinces within one year, and at the same time, it is also possible to build railways from Shandong to Beijing, from Beijing to Shenyang, and from Pukou (Nanjing) to Beijing.

In the northeast, 300,000 Japanese slaves were used to build railways, mainly a railway embankment from North Korea to Shenyang, plus the railway network of some important towns, and the cost of tools and food for 800,000 taels was about the same.

After all, the roadbed is still very easy to repair, the roadbed network in Shandong and Northeast China, and the roadbed of Pukou-Shandong-Jingshi-Shenyang line is also very easy to repair, because they are all in the plain area, the most time-saving and labor-saving, is the preferred route for laying railways at present.

The railway between Shanxi and North Korea has to pass through mountainous and hilly areas, and it will be slower to dig tunnels, but Shanxi and North Korea are not the kind of rugged to the point of headaches, most of Shanxi is still relatively flat, and the western part of North Korea is also relatively flat, so Zhao Yan naturally cannot be stupid enough to dig a railway of the level of Qinghai-Tibet under the condition of low productivity.

Shanxi and North Korea are due to mineral resources, so they need to be repaired. On the other hand, Pukou-Shandong-Shanxi-Jingshi-Shenyang-North Korea is an inter-provincial railway line, and once it is connected, it will be much more convenient.

In the first year, the roadbed was repaired, and then the rails and sleepers were laid after the technology of using open-hearth furnaces and steam engines to make rails matured.

It is the fastest and most cost-effective solution.

After all, the technology of laying railways is not yet mature, and the trains have not yet been made, and the telegraph has not been made, and the railways cannot be paved too early without trains, and if there is no telegraph, the trains are prone to crashing and rear-end collisions.

The engineering team is now divided into three types, one is the highway engineering team, the other is the railway engineering team, and the other is the water conservancy engineering team.

This year, dozens of large and small engineering teams will be set up one after another, and the project funds are very abundant.

After Zhao Yan became married, he went to Shanxi, Liaodong, Liaoxi, Nurgandus, Korea, and Kuyi (Sakhalin, Hokkaido) to explore minerals, survey and map maps, and look for gold, silver, and copper mines.

Several exploration teams drilled directly into the cold Great Khing'an Mountains to explore the Siberian region further north and west, where to mainly look for precious metal minerals such as gold, silver and copper.

Wherever they went, Nuergandusi would expand and set up mining bases in one mining site after another, and there were many tribes living there in the north, and the number of daughters among them was very considerable, and there were people who opened mines.

Due to the existence of the Siberian cold current, the Siberian region is too cold to be inhabited on a large scale, but Siberia is very rich in resources, there are a lot of forests, a lot of freshwater fish and gold, and there are many oil and gas fields.

Therefore, wherever the Nurgandus expands, it will also be destroyed, and all those tribes will be pulled to mine until they are wiped out.

Tsarist Russia relied on massacres to occupy this territory, because they could not have emigrated too many people in Siberia, and if they kept the aborigines, it would be difficult to control.

Zhao Yan naturally couldn't immigrate too many people to a cold region like Siberia, so he would have to use the same means of killing all the way through, and at the same time, he would also build the railway all the way in the future.

The forests, fish, gold and oil fields of Siberia will make the nation stronger.

(To be continued)