At the end of the autumn of the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, the Ming Dynasty officially declared war on Mongolia and issued a declaration of war, scolding Mongolia, and the reason for declaring war was that Mongolia colluded with Jiannu.

The next day, the news was published in major newspapers and made headlines.

"Selling newspapers, selling newspapers, Mongolia colluded with the remnants of the slaves, and the Ming Dynasty declared war on Mongolia." As soon as the street newspaper sellers shouted, the newspapers were quickly bought.

In recent years, the Ming Dynasty has not fought any major wars, and the declaration of war on Mongolia has naturally become news that people pay attention to. In particular, didn't Mongolia improve its relations with the Ming Dynasty before? Why did the fight start all of a sudden?

After people bought the newspaper and read it, they learned that the remnants of the Jiannu had fled to the lower reaches of the Volga River west of the Western Regions and annexed the Tumut Mongols, and the previously defeated Mongolia had colluded with the remnants of the Jiannu at this time, and rejected the reasonable demands put forward by the Ming Dynasty and tried their best to protect the remnants of the Jiannu.

"Down with Mongolia, the Ming Dynasty will win."

"That Lin Dan Khan is too much of a thing, and he still wants to go against Daming."

After reading the newspaper, the people were indignant. The atmosphere of war has been mobilized, and the official propaganda has naturally increased before the start of the war, so that the people can support the war.

In terms of effect, it is still very good.

Most of the people supported the attack on Mongolia, believing that a wolf with ambition like the Mongolian Lin Dan Khan would pose too much of a threat to the Ming Dynasty if he did not clean it up.

Only a small number of groups felt that the benefits of the conquest of Mongolia outweighed the losses and expressed their opposition in the newspapers.

"Mongolia relies on the vast steppe, and once it is weak, it will avoid fighting. The soldiers of the Central Plains were often helpless, and they also worked hard and lost money, and none of them were gained. If Mongolia is conquered this time, it will inevitably be the same. ”

Some made prophecies in newspapers. There is no optimism about this war. There are also some people who believe that Mongolia has nothing to grab, and the war together will cause too much loss of people's power, and this is a completely unnecessary war.

These objections were also endorsed by some who believed that the imperial court had declared war on Mongolia this time. will make Daming work hard and lose money, and in the end he will get nothing.

After seeing the newspaper, the big chaebols and the Dashi clan in Jiangnan were overjoyed. The emperor went to fight the Mongols, and it was estimated that it would be impossible for the southern provinces to carry out reforms within a few years.

If the Emperor had focused on reforming the southern provinces, the last noose would have been around their necks, and the Emperor's decision to conquer the Mongols meant that they were likely to have a respite from the war. Therefore, everyone hopes that Zhu Youxiao's defeat this time will hurt the people and money, and the vitality will be greatly damaged.

But for the various troops, it was excitement. It took so long to be a soldier. Aren't you just looking forward to war? Now the opportunity has come, and the time has come to make a difference.

For this war, people of different classes in the Ming Dynasty showed different attitudes, but on the whole they still supported more.

But for or against, the war has already begun.

The transfer order of the Ming Supreme Command has been issued to all military regions, and some troops have begun to move to the border areas.

This includes a large number of production corps.

It would be a war of enormous proportions, and the operational plan agreed upon by the Supreme High Command was to transfer 20 infantry divisions from the Central Army. While 20 cavalry divisions and 4 artillery divisions participated in the operation, 20 production corps were transferred to the operation.

These forces have already begun to assemble. The total number of troops reached more than 700,000. With so many troops, it was naturally unimaginable with the financial resources of the Ming Dynasty in the past. But now it is very easy, because there is not much consumption in supply transportation, and the train can directly transport combat supplies to the front line. This saves a lot of manpower and material resources, and at the same time, with the productivity of the Ming Dynasty today, there are tens of millions of workers engaged in non-agricultural labor. A mere 700,000 troops can still afford it.

With so many troops being transferred to the front, the speed of railway construction can be accelerated.

"The strategy of this operation is also relatively simple, that is, to build the railway into the grassland, so that our Ming can gain a foothold on the grassland for a long time, and then form a strategic division. And then a large-scale sweep was launched. While building the railroad, we will also send five infantry divisions with heavy machine guns to sweep deep into enemy territory. So as to gain the initiative on the battlefield, so that Lin Dan Khan does not have so much spare time to harass us to build a railway. "Zhu Youxiao formulated an operational strategy at an operational meeting of the Supreme Command.

At the same time, other forces are building railways and carrying out continuous sweeping and clearing of the divided grassland areas. This task was to be completed by me personally leading the troops. ”

"The minister thinks that it is safer for His Majesty to stay in the rear to supervise the construction of the railway, isn't it ......" Sun Chengzong opened his mouth and said, and he was the only one who just said this.

"It's so boring, I'm here to relax, it's not interesting to stay behind." Zhu Youxiao directly refused, and a group of staff officers of the Supreme Command couldn't cry or laugh after hearing this.

The emperor is going to go to the grassland to relax, this is too jumping!

However, since the emperor wants to be distracted, of course he can't object. Although the sweep led by himself did not stay safe at the railway construction site, it was actually not dangerous. The Ming Dynasty was already crushing Mongolia with absolute power. What's more, such a sweep may not necessarily run into the main Mongol forces.

In charge of finding the main Mongol force were the other five cavalry divisions, all of which were to ride on horseback, all armed with new rifles and heavy machine guns, and to sweep the Mongols at a certain distance from each other. Able to maneuver quickly and at the same time echo each other from afar.

In the past, when the Ming Dynasty dealt with Mongolia, it was impossible to do so, and the army was basically concentrated.

At the same time, five divisions were divided, and they were dispersed, even if the steppe was large. Coupled with the division of the railway line for the construction of the railway, as well as the division of the key sweeping areas, it is equivalent to seven troops encircling and intercepting Mongolia. The difficulty of this peek-a-boo has increased exponentially! And he accidentally hid outside the Mongolian steppe, and then the goal of the Ming Dynasty was achieved.

In general, this is a relatively large-scale military operation plus construction operation, but it can still be supported by the state finances of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition, there is indeed not much risk, and the overall strategy is more reliable and stable. It belongs to the step-by-step camp, plus some radical tactics.

The five infantry divisions scattered on the steppe belonged to a more radical style of fighting. Even if it fails, it is impossible to lose big. Even if it is a big defeat, the result is acceptable, because the main force has not been lost, and it is still as stable as Mount Tai.

The only problem is to control the cost of war, although the machine gun can kill all sides, but the cost of bullets is still relatively high.

Now Daming's bullet production line has just been established. Its production technology is still relatively low, and it is full of a large number of manual assembly links.

So this war is not able to use machine guns unlimitedly.

Once the bullet consumption is not properly controlled, it is like spending money. Therefore, when dealing with this war, Daming still has certain challenges.

The Supreme High Command immediately carried out troop movements and adjustments in accordance with this strategy.

In terms of railway construction, it was built directly from the Ming region on the steppe to Ulaanbaatar in later Mongolia, and then the Mongolian style was divided into east and west, and then the eastern part of the railway was swept away. Then turn the front and sweep the grasslands west of the railway.

Basically, in a year, the railway can be built.

After all, this is a militarized operation, every soldier is a labor force, and the speed of railway laying will be very fast. The construction of this trunk line will be accompanied by the construction of a railway to the eastern region and then to the northeast railway. In this way, the eastern part of the railway trunk line swept in the thirteenth year of the Apocalypse was divided into two parts, north and south, and the Ming army first swept the southern part, and then swept the northern part.

Thirteen years of combat duty throughout the weather. It is to sweep away the eastern steppe area of Mobei Mongolia clearly, and at the same time occupy it and include it under the rule of the Ming Dynasty.

At the same time as the construction of the railway. Then along the railway line to build cities and forts, once these cities and fortresses were built, the Mongols could only look confused. They don't have any ability to attack the city at all, and if the Ming wants to stay in the grassland for a long time, they can't drive it out at all.

This winter, military factories began to work overtime to produce war materials. The military factories in Beijing have now opened branches in Tianjin, Shandong and other provinces, and the production capacity of munitions has been greatly increased.

Such an increase in production capacity has accelerated the update of Daming's military equipment. Among them, the fastest increase is still the production capacity of bullets.

In order to improve the efficiency of the factory, Zhu Youxiao also proposed the concept of assembly line.

The assembly line is based on the parallel industrial production, and the conveyor belt is driven by a steam engine. The parts that need to be assembled are delivered directly to the workers.

In this way, workers will save time on their own handling materials, and production efficiency will increase rapidly.

Assembly line production was unrealistic before the advent of the steam engine, because there was no reliable power to drive the operation of the assembly line.

Now with the steam engine, this can be achieved.

After all, the Ming Dynasty has only just started a few years of industrial revolution, and the military technology is progressing rapidly, and the bullet manufacturing capacity is the biggest shortcoming of the current second-generation new army model.

Bullet production capacity needs to be further improved, if assembly line equipment can appear, and at the same time a large number of steam engines are used in the bullet production process, then the bullet production capacity will be greatly improved. With enough bullet production capacity, you don't have to worry about running out of bullets in future battles.

In such a situation, the Mongols were unaware of the approaching danger and thought that they would be able to hide successfully.

For the upcoming war after winter, the Mongols were still prepared, and planned to transfer according to the movements of the Ming army after winter.

Winter is upon us, and snow is beginning to fall everywhere. There is no possibility of any war this winter, so the border is still relatively calm.

However, at the railway station on the border, the war material reserve warehouse is still being built, and trains are constantly pulling large quantities of supplies here.

There are military rations, there are medicines, there are bullets.

There are also a large number of sleepers, steel rails, sand, cement, and explosives, and the previously built Shuanggui railway immediately played a huge role. The double-track railway is more convenient for train transfer, and there are no trains coming from the opposite side after the train is on the road, so there is no need to stop and wait for the adjustment of scheduling.

Unless the train in front of it breaks down and stops, it will affect the train behind it. In the event of a breakdown, you only need to send a signal to the train behind you, and the train behind you will not be rear-ended.

Mongol spies soon discovered this phenomenon as well, but beyond their comprehension. Moreover, it is more difficult to further spy on intelligence, and it is not very clear what the Ming people are doing, and their understanding of the productive forces is obviously not very in place, and they do not understand that when the productive forces develop to a certain extent, there will be crushing results.

At the end of the year, various departments are busy making financial statistics, on the one hand, to see how much money has been spent this year and how much money will be spent next year.

At the end of the year, the household department also counted the data.

In the twelfth year of the Apocalypse, the total fiscal revenue of the Ming Dynasty reached 900 million, and the fiscal revenue showed another large growth. This is not in line with economic regulation and control policies.

"Your Majesty, the increase in fiscal revenue this year is mainly due to the substantial increase in overseas revenue. The first was the continued increase in trade with the Spaniards and Portuguese, as well as in Korea, Japan, Indochina and India. Internally, the increase in the scale of commodity sales to the south led to an increase in factory profits and an increase in trade profits. Jiang Dejing, the head of the household, explained the situation.

Originally, the main increase in the central government's fiscal revenue was caused by the increase in the scale of state-owned enterprises' dividend payments, which was the main factor in the growth.

Despite the monetary tightening policy in the New Deal area, a large number of loans are no longer issued to private capital, resulting in a slowdown in the development of private enterprises. However, the scale of factory construction in Daming has not declined, state-owned enterprises are still building a large number of factories, and the growth of commodity production capacity has increased the number of commodities that can be exported on a large scale, and the export volume of commodities has naturally increased significantly.

As a result, the ability to plunder foreign countries was greatly enhanced, especially after the war with India, India, with its huge market, opened its door to the Ming Dynasty.

Internal fiscal revenues have not fallen because of monetary austerity, but have only slowed down the rate of growth. However, external trade was not disturbed by this factor, and the expansion of the external market led to an increase in the scale of commercial plundering in the Ming Dynasty, and a large number of precious metals were plundered back.

State-owned enterprises make a lot of money because of overseas trade, and in the context of private capital being excluded from the threshold of ocean trade, the huge benefits of ocean trade are only enjoyed by state-owned capital, and private capital is only indirectly involved in it, such as the production of export commodities and so on.

The dividends paid by state-owned enterprises reached nearly 350 million yuan.

The policy of restricting financial rights has already reaped rich fruits at this time, and the scale of state-owned enterprises will continue to grow in the future, and a large amount of investment is being carried out at this time.

With a fiscal revenue of 900 million yuan, and the scale of foreign trade will continue to grow next year with the opening of the Indian market. This made Zhu Youxiao more confident in waging war against Meng, and once the war broke out, there would still be a lot of funds in the bank to use.

The Ming Dynasty is not the Western country of the future, and the banks are still private.

Every time a war broke out in the Western countries of later generations, they would fall into the financial trap of war and owe a lot of debts to the banks. The banks of the Ming Dynasty were state-owned, and although the money had to be repaid, it was impossible for the banks to use their power to provoke wars everywhere and instigate the government to increase unnecessary military spending. (To be continued.) )