The 3,600-ton Pingbo-class cruiser is currently the most mature warship that the Baath shipyard can mass-produce. 【Reading.com】

Flying clipper type, Chinese-style hard sail and steam hybrid, 7 120mm caliber main naval guns in the front and four in the rear, 120 75mm land and sea dual-purpose guns on the left and 10 on the right, and 48 new large-caliber Gatling naval machine guns in the front and four in the rear. In terms of firepower, the whole ship is a mobile arsenal.

In addition to this, each Pingbo-class cruiser had two platoons of about 100 armed sailors armed with bazooka repeating rifles and shotguns. In this plane, whether it's melee or long-range, no one wants to bargain for the slightest advantage in front of the revived navy.

In the past eight years, the shipbuilding technology of the Baath Party has continued to mature in the process of large-scale training and practice at any cost. Although this kind of wooden-hulled iron-ribbed ship of less than 4,000 tons is still not much different from toys in the eyes of modern people, for the Baath Party, this is an achievement that has been achieved through countless hardships and sacrifices full of hardships and blood and tears.

As a modern person, Wang Shuhui will never feel the beauty of the so-called sailing ships. In his opinion, any ship that uses wood and sails is a backward and inevitable obsolescence. Although it is said that wooden sailing ships in China have existed until the sixties and seventies, Wang Shuhui, who was born in the eighties, has never seen any serious boats made of wood and powered by sails.

Therefore, even in terms of speed, Wang Shuhui felt that the products of the Baath Party had surpassed the kind of passenger ship he had taken in modern times, but psychologically, he still felt that the shipbuilding industry of the Baath Party must develop and develop, and progress and progress.

Later, the high-level Jin Jurchen fell into civil strife, and the news of the tension between the two groups of Daishan and Dolgon, Wang Shuhui had already grasped through the intelligence department.

For Wang Shuhui, the purpose of his visit to Ludong and southern Liaoning was, on the one hand, to stabilize people's hearts and support the construction of the base area through the time and space gate, and on the other hand, to eliminate the feudalization process of the Jin Jurchen after Huang Taiji interrupted it. Although the first phase of the Terminator program had just been completed, he felt that he was not working much in the Liaonan base area with 50,000 regular renaissance troops and 120,000 production and construction soldiers.

As far as the southern Liaoning base areas are concerned, in the next two to three years, their main task will be to carry out the construction of the base areas and carry out the work of building farms and industries for the resettlement work in a step-by-step manner.

There are 50,000 regular troops and 60,000 or 70,000 trained and fully armed production and construction troops in the southern Liaoning base area, and no matter whether Wang Shuhui is in charge of the local area or not, there is only a reason for the revival army to fight the Jurchens, and there is no reason for the Jurchens to threaten the base area in southern Liaoning.

In Wang Shuhui's view, if the problem of insufficient human resources in the southern Liaoning base area is not solved, and the southern Liaoning base area cannot be built into a self-sufficient industrial and agricultural base, the revival army will directly push the Later Jin Jurchen regime, and it will only cheapen the warlord power of the Ming Dynasty in the eastern Liaodong region in vain.

It is beneficial for the Baath Party to let the Later Jin Jurchen and the Liaodong warlord clique consume each other, and let the Later Jin Jurchen, who is helpless against the Fuxing Army, focus on bleeding and weakening the Mongol tribes and the Ming Dynasty. It is precisely for this reason that before leaving the base area in southern Liaoning, he formulated the basic military policy of "general defense, sweeping and destroying the strength of the Jurchens, capturing and transforming the Mongols as laborers, and liberating and transforming the Han compatriots".

As for the Ludong base area, Wang Shuhui's request was: Militarily, there were not many government troops of the Ming Dynasty in Shandong, and the comprehensive purging of the public security environment in the region was mainly aimed at bandits.

In the economic aspect, in addition to the construction of state-owned farms, mutual aid cooperatives for local characteristic industries should be organized and supported in accordance with local conditions, and special industries should be developed in eastern Ludong.

In terms of industry, in addition to vigorously building five small industries and striving to achieve self-sufficiency in the region, the focus is on gold mining in the Zhaoyuan area and vigorously developing the cotton textile industry in the region. In the period of three to five years, the Ludong base area will not only be self-sufficient in supplying Shandong and Beizhili regions in terms of light industry, but also achieve comprehensive coverage of light industrial products in the DPRK region.

Of course, at the present stage, the sales of light industrial products to the DPRK are mainly the responsibility of the Hubei base area. The Weihai and Qingdao areas of the Ludong base area have built relatively complete ports and storage facilities, which serve as transit stations for various commodities in the Hubei base area in Shandong.

In the past year, in addition to the population "conscription" of the Japanese and North Koreans, the Baath Party's product sales have also been carried out in an all-round way for the North Korea and the northern part of the country. However, with the authority of the governor of Denglai, the Baath Party has already raised three or five Korean nobles in the Korean region who are "heart-to-heaven" to serve as compradors and agents of the Baath Party in the Korean region.

The "cooperation" between the two parties in business was very pleasant. So much so that the "recruitment" of the Ba'ath Party in the North Korean region of the female population of childbearing age is becoming more and more smooth. The Ludong base areas have all begun to benefit from this.

After inspecting the work of the Ludong base area, inspecting the pastures and ports of the Ba'ath Party's military base on Jeju Island and the construction of Jeju Island farms, and attending a week's class at the Jeju Island Cadet Barracks, Wang Shuhui returned to Wuchang, Hubei, the central headquarters of the Ba'ath Party, on the cruiser Pingbo 106 of the Third Fleet of the Ba'ath Navy.

After the establishment of the Ludong Base Area, the Central Committee of the Baath Party was separated from the Party Committee and Government of the Hubei Base Area. The Central Committee of the Baxing Party moved to Wuchang, and the Party Committee and Government of the Hubei Base Area remained stationed in Fuxing City in the Zhijiang area.

Because of the application of wireless telegraphy, Wang Shuhui has a general understanding of the situation of the Central Committee of the Rejuvenation Party even if he is in southern Liaoning. So when he returned to Wuchang and took a day to listen to the work reports of the Party Committee, the Government Council and the Military Commission, Wang Shuhui packed up and went to the local area for investigation.

The place he chose to investigate this time was Hanchuan Farm, not far from Wuchang. Because Hanchuan Farm is on the edge of the Han River, Wang Shuhui did not travel by car, but took a passenger and cargo boat in Wuchang bound for Xiangyang.

The 300-ton steamship was actually mainly cargo. There is only a small passenger area on board. More than twenty passengers sat in this area, which was not too crowded. In a relatively enclosed space, the passengers quickly began to talk.

Wang Shuhui has been in Hubei for so many years, although he is not very good at speaking, but he can clearly understand most of the dialects in Hubei. Quietly listening to the conversation of the passengers, one of them, known as Daddy Zhang, attracted Wang Shuhui's attention.

Daddy Zhang looks like he should be around sixty years old. However, Wang Shuhui is not sure in this regard. Ancient people are different from modern people, they generally seem older, and Daddy Zhang may also be forty or fifty years old.

Unlike most young people in Hubei who prefer to wear Ba'ath uniform-style shorts, Daddy Zhang, like most locals of some age, wears the simplistic Ming Dynasty clothes produced by the Baath Party garment factory. On the outside is a light blue tunic with a right collar, and on the inside is a modern style pullover shirt with a round neckline. The pants are the kind of pants with a modern style and a nose, with a leather waistband.

Judging from Daddy Zhang's black gauze hat, leather trouser belt and clean cloth shoes, this old man's family conditions should be good. But what attracted Wang Shuhui was not what Daddy Zhang was wearing, but what he said