Xiao Lang gave him a sullen look:

"Why do you say such cool words, if I have the ability to drag the armed forces of the mechanical group out of the army alone, where can I still use it to touch the light of your three regiments!"

-- Again, the big collective of the Qiong Navy is composed of a number of relatively independent small teams. Today, these teams are not just the tricks made by three or five friends at the beginning of the landing at the Red Card Port. Rather, it is a political system naturally formed by these modern people from a society with little political power, in order to ensure that they will not be dictated by others, and balance each other's strength with group power. In addition, the old man's teaching of "power comes out of the barrel of a gun" has always been firmly remembered by this group of people, so these small teams formed together and jointly held the power of the Joan Navy almost all held the barrel of the gun in their hands.

Among them, the first and second regiments were originally created as the military pillars of the large collective, and they were the earliest and the strongest at that time. However, Tang Jian and Wang Haiyang are both very self-disciplined people, and they always insist on being responsible only for the military and nothing else. This is also the most basic factor that the group has been able to maintain internal unity so far.

However, the third regiment formed by Xie Xi and Pang Yu later developed from the urban management team of Qiongzhou Mansion, and from the very beginning, it brought a strong military-political integration situation. Later, after the alliance with Julie's commercial department, they paid equal attention to military and political affairs and economic and trade, and as the vanguard of the Qiong Navy, which was mainly responsible for foreign expansion, they really had to use military, political and economic means together in many cases in order to stand in the complicated environment outside. To be able to keep pace with the original two regiments to this day is also the result of years of hard work by Xie Xi and others.

In addition to these three full-fledged infantry regiments, the navy also had considerable armament. In the current military project expenditure of the Qiong Navy, the budget of the Navy is far greater than that of the Army, and of course, there are sea ships that are big guys, and each of them is of great value. One of the reasons is that the escort soldiers on each ship, whose equipment training and logistical support are not inferior to those of the three infantry regiments, are also one of the reasons.

Therefore, when the navy was divided into two parts, the north and the south, and Wen Desi, Ling Ning and others felt the need to regularize the naval forces, they only needed to gather the armed escorts that had been scattered on various ships, and easily formed the fourth regiment, and still had the spare strength to establish the fifth regiment -- both regiments were given the title of "marines" in front, which clearly showed that this was an armed force belonging to the navy. It can also be seen from this that the Qiong Navy will continue to pay equal attention to land and sea in the future, and the situation of walking on two legs will not change.

In addition, there is also the reconnaissance brigade of the northern latitude, Ye Mengyan's guard battalion...... Of course, the latter can't actually be regarded as Xiao Ye's private soldiers, which are armed forces directly under the management committee. If Ye Mengyan gave an order to the guard battalion without going through the committee, the consequences would be similar to the outcome of a certain chairman and secretary general in later generations who privately transferred the Central Garrison Corps to deal with his son's car accident - and it may not be able to be moved, and in that battalion, I am afraid that even Wei Aiwen's authority is a little higher than Xiao Yezi.

-- These are the regular military organizations in the Qiong Navy. But most of the other "technical" teams have their own armed forces, and none of them are bad. Except for the Women's Federation led by Hu Wen, other units basically have security sections, armed forces departments, or departments with similar functions.

For example, the iron and steel group led by Huang Jiancheng has set up a militia mine protection team because it wants to protect the mineral resources scattered everywhere and most of them are located in the deep mountains. Except that they are mainly miners and iron and steel workers, who are usually busy with production and have less time for intensive training, their weapons and equipment are no different from those of the regular army, and they even have more experience in using explosives -- after all, there are not many opportunities for the army to use real people for training, and people use explosives to open mines every day, so they have long been familiar with it.

And Xiao Lang's mechanical group is also one of the most powerful armed groups. To a certain extent, the equipment of the mechanical group is even better than that of the regular army, because many new weapons are preferentially equipped with the gun battalions under the command of the mechanical group in the name of testing, so Pang Yucai said that as long as the armed forces of the mechanical group are pulled out and slightly expanded, they can be organized into a sixth regiment in minutes, and it is also a heavy regiment - they are equipped with more heavy weapons than the regular army!

There is only one point - Xiao Lang is an important figure in the mechanical group, but he does not represent the entire mechanical group. There are too many bigwigs in the mechanical group, and a considerable number of them do not support Xiao Lang's idea of breaking away from the technical mouth and taking the road of military and politics like a dismissal. For example, the female doctor Feng Yufei, she wrote a long letter with sincere words not long ago, and asked someone to bring it to Lushun to give it to Xiao Lang. Although it was not transmitted by telegram, the contents of it spread - they had no secrets from each other after a winter in this small place.

"Hehe, it seems that Dr. Feng's persuasion still has a certain effect on you."

Pang Yu immediately noticed Xiao Lang's hesitation, and the latter sighed:

"Indeed, some of the words in her letter cannot be said to be unreasonable......"

In that letter, Feng Yufei first highly praised Xiao Lang's outstanding contribution to the steam engine project, and even said that he was the chief hero who led the Qiong Navy and the whole world to truly enter the era of the industrial revolution - you must know that with Dr. Feng's arrogant character, Ping Suli will never say good things about people. But this time, Xiao Lang was held to such a high position, which really made Xiao a little fluttery.

Xie Xi and the others were a little jealous at first, but after reading the analysis in Dr. Feng's letter, they had to admit that her praise was not too much, because Xiao Lang solved a problem that had always plagued Qiong's navy for a long time, and that was the driving force!

-- In the past, the power system of the Qionghai Navy mainly relied on a few machine tools carried by the Qionghai. It is powered by the electric energy generated by the Baiyantan Hydropower Station. It is very technologically advanced, but it cannot be replicated in this world, including maintenance is a problem. And the most important point is that the number is too small, and it is not yet possible to leave the main base of Baiyantan.

As the Qiong Navy grew stronger and controlled more and more, their need for industrial scale would of course expand, but they were unable to establish a similar production system outside of the main base at Baiyantan - because there was no power source. Outside of Baiyantan, they can only use simple equipment such as water, wind, or animal power in the Middle Ages to provide power. No matter how ingenious the conception is, no matter how precise the assembly is, in terms of efficiency, output or ease of use, it is still far from being comparable with modern machinery.

However, under the leadership of Xiao Lang, the success of the steam engine project team completely changed all this - although there is still a gap between it and modern electric machine tools in terms of sophistication and ease of use, the steam engine is not limited by any natural conditions, and as long as there is coal and water, it can always maintain a working condition, which is eight streets better than any waterwheel, windmill, cow, horse, horse, and animal power. Not to mention that this is a machine that can be produced on its own with completely modern technology, and its number can be expanded indefinitely!

So far, the newly produced steam engines are still preferentially satisfied with military production, so the military production department under the leadership of Feng Yufei is the first group of people to feel the benefits of steam engine power. The reason why Feng Yufei suddenly proposed to completely upgrade the active equipment of the Qionghai Navy some time ago is precisely because the production capacity has been greatly increased -- taking the Qionghai rifle as an example: from the completion of the design and finalization in 1630 to the beginning of large-scale production in early 1634, in less than four years, the military industry department has produced more than 10,000 guns before and after, and 20,000 is insufficient. It was divided up by the three infantry regiments of the Qiong Navy, the navy and various departments, and it was still tight. Therefore, the size of their troops has always been small, and the most important thing is that the supply of weapons cannot keep up, and they can't play the flow of violent soldiers.

But now, with the large-scale entry of steam engines into the field of military production, as long as the supply of raw materials is available, Feng Yufei estimates that the output in the first year will reach this number, and then it will increase exponentially - the scale of modern large-scale industrial production and traditional handicraft workshops are definitely two different concepts. If such a huge production capacity is only used to produce Qionghai rifles with a low level of technology, it will be a great waste when changing equipment in the future. That's why she didn't hesitate to "******" in technology, and she also took advantage of the opportunity to start the stove again in one step.

-- This is also the main reason why the navy is in a hurry to set up two new regiments: they know that the supply of weapons and equipment will soon improve greatly, and at this time, they will be squeezed into the regular army sequence, and in the future, they will have to give priority to the distribution of new equipment. Applying for a new weapon in the name of the Marine Corps is, after all, more justified and more important than the warship's appendages. In the past, it didn't matter when the regular army was small, but now that the problem of tight supply of weapons has been alleviated, the next step may be to expand the army on a large scale.

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This is the case with the application of the steam engine to the military industrial system, and it will inevitably be the same result when it enters the field of civilian production in the future. The resulting material products are greatly abundant, and the output of industrial products has increased dramatically. The Qiong navy, on the other hand, had been careful to maintain good relations with the Ming Empire, and although it had waged war with the Western countries, it had not been wise to cut off economic and trade exchanges, which would bring them the greatest benefit when the time came—these places would become dumping markets for their products and raw material suppliers. As the first on the earth in this time and space, and will be the only force that will take the lead in entering the quasi-industrial era for a long time, the Qiong Navy does not need guns, guns, cannons, no cheating, no robbing, relying on a large number of industrial products alone, it is enough to reap unprecedented huge profits for them in human history!

-- Feng Yufei is worthy of being the most talented person in the Qiong Navy, although she does not specialize in political history like Professor Li, nor does she have a rich business experience or professional economics background like Julie Lin Feng, but the bright prospects she describes in her letter are extremely real and clear. After reading the contents of the letter, Pang Yu immediately realized that the committee would be influenced by the letter to a large extent when formulating its future strategic direction.

Of course, Feng Yufei's original intention in writing this letter was to persuade Xiao Lang - you can play such a huge role in technology, why do you have to force it into the military and political system? Do you think you are stronger than Tang Jian and Wang Haiyang in terms of commanding troops? Or can he beat Zhao Lide or Pang Yu in terms of strategizing and speculating on people's hearts? You stay in the technical mouth, and with your current achievements alone, you are already a well-deserved chief power expert and authority in the Joan Navy. And this road is far from the end, and there are more difficulties waiting for you to overcome in the future - there are diesel engines, gasoline engines, and electric motors under the steam engine. The Qionghai was loaded with a batch of motorcycles, and in recent years, a lot of them have been scrapped, and the reverse mapping and imitation of its power system is about to be carried out on a large scale.

And if you enter the military and political system, the future is at best nothing more than a local military and political head, and eventually become a member of the national bureaucracy, maybe you will be a big official who holds real power and calls for everything, but is this kind of life really what you want? An expert in power machinery who single-handedly promoted the development of the entire human society, and one of the many outstanding politicians and bureaucrats - what kind of evaluation would you like to leave in the history books in the future?

After all, it is difficult to change his nature, after Feng Yufei praised Xiao Lang at the beginning of the letter, he still couldn't hide his bitterness and sarcasm, only to see Xiao break out in a cold sweat. But no matter how unhappy he was in his heart, he still had to pinch his nose and say "I can't say it's unreasonable......

At the end of the letter, Dr. Fung wrote:

"On the premise that the artillery and firearms technology are basically in place to meet the needs of the future for a long time to come, we are recently trying the possibility of applying mechanical power to ships and large armored vehicles. The current situation is different from our original time, there is no enemy of the same level, and there is no need for anti-armor or high speed. Some designs that were considered impractical in the original era may find a place in this era. For example, a large tracked combat vehicle equipped with multiple small and medium-sized turrets, riveted armor, steam as a marching power and a rigid suspension system may not be impossible to actually appear on the battlefield. ”

"It's just that there is no prototype of this vehicle in history, and it is not possible for one or two people to complete the overall design in a short period of time, and I am eager to work with experts in this field and hope to get the work done soon......" (To be continued. )