The reserve force of the three military regions has reached 1.7 million, and it is planned to complete all relevant training within three years.

Under normal circumstances, 300,000 military personnel are discharged from active duty every year, and they are part of the reserve base. In view of the huge gap between the number of new armies and the Tsarist Russian Army, the Ministry of Defense has specially allowed the three military regions to increase the annual quota of 100,000 new recruits so that the three military regions can complete their plan to source 1.7 million reservists.

The three major military regions have set up theater commands, the Yanjing Military Region has established the First Theater Command, the Fengtian Military Region has established the Second Theater Command, and the Lanzhou Military Region has established the Third Theater Command. The officers of the three major theater commands are directly subordinate to the General Staff, nominated by the General Staff, and signed by Premier Wang Chenhao, and the appointment takes effect, and is rotated every three years.

The establishment of the three major theaters is mainly responsible for the strategic defense of Russia.

War is nothing more than the right time, the right place, and the right people, Wang Chenhao and his Beiyang political axe choose strategic defense, which means that the Chinese [***] team will occupy the right place, people.

The rest is the time of day, which will be desperately controlled by the two [***] teams of China and Russia. For war, the time of day is divided into two parts.

The first is the strategic timing. Choosing the right time to launch a war is the first step to victory. Both Napoleon and Hitler were defeated by Moscow, and other issues aside, fighting on Russian soil in winter was a strategic defeat of the time.

Wang Chenhao had already made a judgment on the strategic day, and it was impossible for Tsarist Russia to launch a war against China in winter and spring, because the icy and snowy northern part of China would become a nightmare for the attacking side in terms of operations and logistics. Tsarist Russia strategically chose to wage war only between late April and early November.

The second is tactical timing. After the war began, aside from the strategic constraints of time, tactical time became the first element in the battle. For example, heavy rain, hurricanes, fog, and other bad weather conditions that are not conducive to fighting during battle, as well as the collateral effects of flash floods, traffic blockages, weapon system failures, and supply difficulties caused by bad weather, are all factors that tactical commanders need to consider.

Unlike the strategic time, the strategic commander can make a judgment based on the constant surname of the strategic time, because the time of day in an area is basically constant throughout the year. Tactical timing can change from day to day, and tactical commanders need accurate timing intelligence in addition to making judgments based on previous climate change laws.

In ancient times, tactical timing basically relied on experience, the subjective judgment of the tactical commander and the perception of the local people, but it would be good to be accurate once out of ten. The uncertainties brought about by such subjective assumptions often become turning points in wars. The Cao army in the Battle of Chibi is an example of a typical tactical failure.

In modern times, this is gradually changing. As the Western celestials successively developed a series of instruments for measuring the weather, successively established astronomical stations, weather stations, observation stations and other facilities for measuring the weather, and the emergence of weather forecasting and other institutions, it brought more accurate tactical judgment to tactical commanders, helped tactical commanders adopt more reasonable tactical arrangements, improved the probability of tactical victory, and reduced the risk of tactical failure.

After the establishment of the three theaters, the most influential weather station plan for tactical days was also submitted to the Ministry of Defense for consideration.

Wang Chenhao strongly supported the Ministry of National Defense's proposal to set up military weather stations nationwide, and ordered the Ministry of National Defense to formulate a specific implementation plan and the Ministry of Finance to provide financial support on this issue. China's weather station program was thus implemented.

Weather stations and weather forecasts are not uncommon for Chinese nationals.

At this time, China already had three weather stations, namely the Yanjing Geomagnetic Weather Station, the Shanghai Xujiahui Observatory, and the Hong Kong Observatory.

Although there are already three meteorological stations, they are not owned by China. Basically, it does not serve Chinese, only foreigners in China.

Among them, the Yanjing Geomagnetic Meteorological Observatory was established by the Church of Tsarist Russia in 1849, the meteorological observatory is a Russian institution for studying the climate of northern China, and actually serves the Tsarist military to help the Tsarist military collect weather data in northern China in order to prepare for the Tsarist Russia's Asian plan. To put it bluntly, it is a Tsarist spy structure that specializes in reporting China's weather changes to the Tsarist Far Eastern Military District and providing tactical support for the Tsarist Far Eastern Military District.

The Xujiahui Observatory in Shanghai was established in 1872 by the French Church to collect information on the climate of the Yangtze River Delta region in China. During the Sino-French War, France failed to invade the Chinese mainland as expected, and the fleet collapsed before it reached Shanghai, and the observatory was useless. Since then, it has been changed to civilian use, providing weather forecasts for the people of the French concession, and the French Concession is far more prosperous and developed than the public concession, and this observatory is also one of the heroes.

The third is the Hong Kong Observatory, which was established by the United Kingdom to collect climatic information about Hong Kong and the surrounding areas. Since the British had occupied Hong Kong, the climatic information obtained by the observatory could only be used for the defense needs of the British army, and the Qing government did not have the power to recover Hong Kong Island, so the observatory became a civilian observatory to provide weather forecasts for Hong Kong citizens.

The Chinese's own meteorological station set up its first weather station in the western suburbs of Yanjing in March 1899, which was subordinate to the Ministry of National Defense. Round-the-clock on-site monitoring of meteorological elements such as wind direction, wind speed, rainfall, temperature, relative humidity, and air pressure around Yanjing, and provide weather change forecasts for the next 24 hours.

Subsequently, the Ministry of National Defense set up 20 weather stations in the Yanjing Military Region to ensure accurate and reference surnames for weather forecasts.

At the same time, more than 100 meteorological stations have been set up in the vicinity of major strategic cities and strongholds of the other two major military regions to collect local climate and weather data, some of which are kept strictly confidential and are only available to army commanders.

In order to protect the national meteorological and climatic data on a larger scale, Wang Chenhao convened a meeting of prime ministers to prohibit foreign countries from setting up meteorological stations in China by restricting meteorological stations in various countries, and also prohibiting foreigners from surveying, mapping and prospecting resources in China.

The Yanjing Geomagnetic Weather Station and the Shanghai Xujiahui Weather Station were revoked after the Chinese National Police Agency accused them of espionage, which made the Russian and French political axes extremely dissatisfied. They claimed that the weather station was not used for military espionage, but only to serve the people, and demanded that the Beiyang political axe take back its fate.

Beiyang political axe naturally will not compromise, so with the benefit of Wang Chenhao, the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Communications jointly applied for special funds to set up the National Meteorological Administration of China, specializing in civil weather forecasting.

Subsequently, Yanjing, Tianjin, Jinan, Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Wuchang, Nanjing and other major cities in China successively set up weather stations to report the weather to the people, thus blocking the mouths of the Russian and French political axes.

After the establishment of China's own meteorological bureau, on the one hand, it provides weather forecasts for the people and makes it easier for them to travel safely. On the other hand, the [***] team has since had a more accurate weather forecast as a reference for the tactical time, which is tantamount to a huge help to the tactical commanders of the [***] team. Commanders can make timely tactical adjustments according to weather conditions, so that tactical maneuvers and arrangements will not fail or be forced to cancel due to weather conditions.

At present, the biggest difficulty in the war against Russia in the three major theaters is the problem of supply and transportation. At present, the major cities and strategic points of the three northeastern provinces have been connected to the railways, and the Songhua River, the Nenjiang River, the Heilongjiang River, the Yalu River and the Ussuri River have set up perfect waterway communication lines. The supply flotilla escorted by the Northeast River Defense Fleet can quickly reach strategic points.

The railways and highways of the Yanjing Military Region are very developed, but they are limited to the areas around Gyeonggi and Zhili Province, and Mongolia is still blank, because Yanjing and Inner Mongolia are separated by the towering and steep Great Wall and mountains, and the construction of the railway to Inner Mongolia is slow.

For the Lanzhou Military Region, not only is there no railway, but the highway with three carriages parallel is rare in the northwest.

Although the national rail network plan has already begun, it is unlikely that a railway connecting the northwest will be built within a few years. Out of consideration for the strategic needs of national defense, the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Communications proposed the construction of combat-ready highways between strategic points and important cities that have not yet built railways, so as to meet the immediate needs of Russia's defense.

If the large-scale construction of railways by the state is to stimulate domestic demand for steel forging, wood processing and other industries, then the construction of war-ready highways is to stimulate heavy industry projects mainly in cement production and quarrying and processing industries. The two are essentially the same purpose.

At present, the majority of China's population lives in rural areas and is engaged in agricultural activities. Wang Chenhao did not reform the landlords and land, in addition to the fact that he did not want to offend China's powerful landlord class for the time being, the more important factor was that China's industrial development needed a large number of cheap workers, and if land reform was carried out, judging from the traditional concept of the Chinese people, they would be immersed in the interest of farming, let alone have the labor force to participate in industrial production.

Britain used the blood and tears of the enclosure movement to complete the drive of agricultural population into the cities, thus providing a large number of labor for the development of British industry, resulting in a large number of urban working classes, laying the foundation for Britain to become an industrial power. The United States abolished serfdom through the Civil War, so that a large number of plantation farmers and black slaves entered the American factories in the north, bringing cheap labor to the industrial development of the United States, and in less than 30 years, the number of workers in the United States increased from 1.12 million before the Civil War, less than half of Britain, to 20 million workers at the end of the 19th century, making the United States the world's first industrial power at the end of the 19th century, leaving Germany in the second and Britain in the third far behind. The development of Germany was achieved through the plundering of the old bourgeoisie by the Junkers new bourgeoisie, and the reunification of Germany was completed through dynastic wars, and the original property of the old bourgeoisie was deprived by the Junkers estate owners, thus creating the Junkers new bourgeoisie. And after the Franco-Prussian War, Germany occupied Texas and Lorraine, the most industrially developed areas in France, which was equivalent to picking up ready-made ones.

Today, when Wang Chenhao reformed China's industry, there were no predatory industrial powers around him, and he could not take the road of Germany's predatory rapid industrial rise. It is also impossible to be like the American Civil War, because China does not have the relaxed international environment of the United States, China is currently facing a military threat from Tsarist Russia and the United States, and although Britain has temporarily made overtures to China, its ambition to invade China remains unchanged. After China fights Tsarist Russia, Britain will make a comeback. There are even more people who are watching from the sidelines, so Wang Chenhao tried his best to avoid a civil war and give these powers a chance to take advantage of the situation. Therefore, the path of industrial development in the American Civil War was also vetoed by Wang Chenhao.

In the end, there was the British enclosure movement, which was a long-term process, and Wang Chenhao couldn't wait for that long time. Fortunately, Wang Chenhao, the core of the British enclosure movement, was clear, so Wang Chenhao chose a method similar to the British enclosure movement on the issue of building a large number of workers according to the British industrial development mode.

The wars of dynastic change in China throughout the ages were caused by serious land annexation, and land was crucial to the stability of the feudal state, because land was the foundation of the feudal economy. But for the capitalist economy, the negative impact of land on the capitalist system is much less important, because the capitalist economy is dominated by industry and commerce, and the competition for land is no longer so fierce.

At present, China's land annexation is serious, the landlord class controls more than 90% of the country's cultivated land, and more than half of the country's 80% agricultural population is in dire straits, they have lost their land, become tenants, and are exploited by landlords. In addition, the peasants who owned land also lived in poverty without clothes and food.

This situation is just similar to the enclosure movement in Britain, Wang Chenhao absorbed these landless peasants into the ranks of workers through the construction of national industrial projects, so that they could directly give up their peasant status and join the working class to contribute to the country's industrial construction. At the same time, in industrial production, the wages of workers are much higher than those of the Chinese peasants at the present stage, so those peasants who have some land but cannot afford to make ends meet are recruited into the factories, and their starting point is higher than that of other landless workers, and they become a middle class with a certain amount of assets.

As for the original landlord class, because of the continuous departure of tenants in their hands, resulting in a large loss of labor, some of them will sell their land, invest in business, and become the petty bourgeoisie. Some landlords will improve the treatment of tenants and develop a large plantation economy, so as to become a wealthy peasant class in the Chinese style.

For the peasant class in China, the idle peasants were transformed into workers and there was a way out. The remaining peasants have been given a boost in their salaries and have a way out. In this way, Wang Chenhao did not have to offend the most powerful landlord class in China, but also solved the peasant problem and achieved a smooth transition of state power, which was of great importance to Wang Chenhao's rule.

Through the construction of huge projects such as industrial bases, military bases, railway networks, and highway networks, Beiyang political axe has absorbed more than 100 million rural people into the ranks of the working class, so that the most basic conditions for the industrial revolution have been met. Although the quality of these working classes, which evolved from peasants, is far inferior to that of foreign working classes, they can meet the needs of China's industrial revolution construction and development at the present stage.

Through this bloodless method, Wang Chenhao and his Beiyang political axe not only ensured the construction and development of various industrial projects and strategic projects of the state, but also successfully resolved the biggest contradiction left over from feudal society, and cleared the biggest obstacle to the smooth development of China's capitalist industry.

Similarly, the country's large-scale industrial construction projects have solved the problem of the livelihood of idle farmers in the country, and in turn, a large number of hard-working and hard-working farmers have joined the country's various engineering construction projects, bringing cheap labor to these projects, and the construction of various industrial projects has also accelerated a lot faster than expected. It is directly said that China's railway construction speed will be based on the speed of railway development in the United States, which will hit the world record of 20,000 kilometers of railways built by the United States in 1887, and the annual mileage of highways built will hit the highest record of 32,000 kilometers in France in 1876.

Although Wang Chenhao and his Beiyang political axe did not carry out land reform, they still carried out some reform of the country's agriculture.

China is still an agricultural country, after all, the biggest problem for the 400 million people is the problem of food, that is, the problem of food.

At this time, China had the largest arable land area in the world, but it was inefficient and yielding. In 1897, the total grain output of the Qing Empire was about 100 million tons, with an average per capita of less than 230 kilograms, which was barely enough to survive or wear. China imports more than 2 million tons of rice, wheat, and corn from the United States and Britain every year, and at an average of 30 million yuan per ton of grain, it costs $60 million in foreign exchange for grain alone.

Beginning in 1897, when Wang Chenhao was the governor of Zhili, he began to implement agricultural reform in Zhili Province, providing low-interest and interest-free loans to farmers, requiring farmers to apply chemical fertilizers to their fields to increase grain production.

After two years of experiments, the grain output in Zhili Province has doubled, and the peasants have received a tremendous grain harvest, and in addition to paying the national tax and the landlord's rent tax, the net surplus grain not only meets their own needs for food and clothing, but can also be sold in the market for money. Of course, their grain was sold to the political axe as soon as possible, because the political axe had been hoarding grain, and when the agreement was signed with the peasants, it was clearly stipulated that the grain produced by the peasants would be sold to the political axe first.

The agricultural reform in Zhili Province was successful, and then it was quickly spread in the surrounding provinces, and in the northern provinces, it quickly won the unanimous support of the common people.

With Wang Chenhao becoming a minister of the imperial cabinet, the successful experience of agricultural reform in Zhili Province was quickly spread in all provinces of the country, and was deeply welcomed by the common people throughout the country. The landlord class was even more supportive, and the more grain the tenants frew, the more they receive.

Wang Chenhao did not confiscate the land from the landlords, which enabled his national agricultural reform to be carried out smoothly in all provinces and regions without any obstacles.

In his report to Congress, the Minister of Agriculture said that within two years, China will bid farewell to importing foreign grain, which will save the country $60 million in foreign exchange spending and reduce China's huge trade deficit with the United States and Britain.

At the same time, Zhang Jian, Minister of Industry, pointed out that the success of the national agricultural reform has made China's fertilizer industry develop rapidly, that is, after the Beiyang Fertilizer Plant, more than 100 fertilizer factories have been established by businessmen throughout the country, making the national fertilizer production scale reach more than 20 million tons, second only to the United States' 50 million tons and Germany's 40 million tons, ranking third in the world.

(To be continued)