"Your Majesty, are you really going to the United States?" Yin Susu on the side didn't listen to anything else, but he heard Li Yongji's last words that he was going to the United States, "Do you have to go in person?" Isn't it okay for someone else to go? ”

"Someone else goes?" Li Yongji touched Yin Susu's hand, "I don't feel at ease when others go, and California is a barren place, without me, the colonial army will have a hard time there." ”

Indeed, Li Yongji's biggest advantage is the space-time trading system, it can be said that when he is there, the space-time trading door is there.

After all, the western part of the United States is separated from China by the Pacific Ocean, and with the means of transportation and transportation efficiency in this era, it would be time-consuming and labor-intensive if it relied solely on sea transportation, but if Li Yongji went to California in person, the situation would be different.

Once Li Yongji went to San Francisco and Los Angeles, which he bought, then he could give full play to the characteristics of time and space transactions and have a great advantage in the supply of materials, so that China only needs a strong transport of people to the past, and most of the logistics materials can be omitted, so that China's shipping power can be fully utilized.

In fact, the emigration to California had already begun two months earlier, but due to China's current transportation strength, the first batch of colonial troops to pass there were only 20,000 people, all of whom were well-minded Wehrmacht soldiers. However, in order to transport 20,000 people and the corresponding supplies, more than 60 ships were used, and almost all the sea ships in Jiangsu and Zhejiang that could go to the ocean were collected.

It can be seen that in the short term, if you want to quickly immigrate to California and form a numerical advantage in California, China's strength is still slightly insufficient, and you need your own golden finger to help.

Moreover, California is rich in resources, not to mention that the gold mines in San Francisco are only developed because of the primitive mining methods, and there are still a large number of gold mines that have not been developed. Even if there are other interests, even if you farm locally, you can easily sell them to modern society for money and materials, so it is quite convenient.

Regarding Li Yongji's words, Yin Susu, as a close person, also knows a little, and she also knows that Li Yongji can conjure up a lot of strange things. In the past, she suspected that it was magic or something, but then Li Yongji fooled her and told her the story of the Human Innovation Alliance again, and she believed it.

"But. Even if you want to go, can't you wait for the child to be born before leaving? Yin Susu asked again.

"Don't worry, my good wife." Li Yongji smiled, "If you want to give birth, there will be at least five months, and even if I go to the United States, I can still call you to understand the situation on your side, once you want to give birth." I can come back anytime, you forget, I have a speedboat. ”

Indeed, although large quantities of passenger and freight are still transported by traditional sailing ships. However, in consideration of China's special situation, in order to strengthen ties and just in case, in addition to increasing the construction of radio stations in the China-Hawaii-Los Angeles area, Li Yongji's other important measure was to build a rapid reaction fleet. to facilitate travel between China and San Francisco.

The so-called rapid response fleet is, in fact, a force of speedboats, the components of which are three modern yachts.

All three modern yachts are superyachts with a length of more than 50 meters. There are three Rolls-Royce gas turbines and two diesel engines, which can reach an economic speed of 28 knots and a top speed of 65 knots, which is 120.38 kilometers per hour.

In order to adapt to this era, these three yachts have all been refitted, mainly for three points: first, the fuel tank has been enlarged to adapt to ocean voyages, and in the case of full speed sailing, it can be achieved from Shanghai to San Francisco; Second, two 12.7 mm machine guns have been fully equipped to meet unforeseen needs, and thirdly, electronic navigation has been installed to cope with a world without satellite navigation.

At present, one of the ships in this fleet has been secretly tested, and if it departs from Shanghai Port to Los Angeles, if it sails at full speed, even if all kinds of delays are added, it will only take 7 days!

However, after arriving in Los Angeles, the test yacht with special fuel consumption was almost exhausted, and could no longer rely on its own fuel to return to the sea, and Los Angeles could not produce high-quality fuel for yachts, so it was still moored in the port of Los Angeles and hidden.

But this is not a matter for Li Yongji, once Li Yongji uses the yacht, because of the time and space trading system, he will not have a situation of running out of fuel.

In other words, Li Yongji still has two yachts of the same type at hand, since the previous test ship takes 7 days to arrive in Los Angeles, so if Li Yongji takes a boat and sails at full speed, it is estimated that it will be this number of days, or even shorter.

Yin Susu also knew about this matter, but because she did not have a specific concept of California, she was not as excited as Li Yongji when she heard that the test ship had arrived in Los Angeles within 7 days.

In fact, the high-speed fleet plan is Li Yongji's plan to select the best of the best according to the actual situation, and before that, he actually had other choices.

For example, at the beginning, Li Yongji once thought of using an airship to fly directly to the United States, but Zhang Xinda told him that the climate in the Pacific Ocean is not very good, and at present, the airship at hand by Li Yongji can only fly in the low-altitude troposphere, and it is greatly affected by the wind speed, and if he takes an airship, it will be too dangerous.

The airship is not good, Li Yongji has thought about the plane again, and wants to buy some planes to come over, not to mention the training of pilots, let's talk about the maintenance and repair of the aircraft, that is not what can be done in this era, even the easiest propeller aircraft is not good, and the safety of the aircraft actually depends on strict inspection, maintenance and maintenance, if there are no qualified ground staff, it is better to take an airship.

After thinking about it, it was no longer possible to go in the air, so I finally chose the speedboat as a means of transportation.

San Francisco is about 11,000 kilometers away from Shanghai, most of which is the Pacific Ocean, which can be reached in less than 10 days by speedboat.

In modern society, ordinary cruise ships depart from Shanghai to San Francisco, it is only about half a month, if it is a speedboat, an average of 4 days can arrive, this speed, in this era is enough to make people's jaws drop.

"But Your Majesty, this ocean is thousands of miles, the wind is high and the waves are strong, you are running back and forth like this, not to mention the danger, it is too hard." Yin Susu continued.

"Dangerous, hard work or something. That's not a problem. Li Yongji said with a smile, "The facilities of the yacht are very luxurious, with everything you need to eat, drink and play, and I won't suffer on it." As for the danger, don't worry, not to mention that the yachts have been specially modified, even if there is a case, I have a foolproof plan. ”

Although sea navigation is dangerous, especially in this era when there are no meteorological satellites, the danger is especially great. For example, hitting a rock, a typhoon, or something.

In fact, there is little chance of encountering a typhoon in ocean navigation, especially a mega typhoon, and as long as it is not a mega typhoon, modern yachts can actually cope with the past.

Conversely, in the nineteenth century, running aground was the greatest threat to navigation, but modern yachts have sonar systems. Once it is found that something is wrong, it will automatically alarm, which can effectively prevent it from hitting the rocks.

What's more, Li Yongji also has modern nautical charts. It is all an accurate chart of the sea shape made by modern society, and it has been pre-installed in the yacht's navigation system, so their routes are more accurate than ordinary routes, and they basically do not encounter the danger of running aground.

The test yacht was able to arrive in Los Angeles within seven days of its first voyage. A lot of the credit is due to the yacht's navigation system, which can even achieve automatic navigation.

In short, the words of using a modern yacht. The only threat is the extremely typhoon weather, but even if you are unlucky, you are really unfortunate to encounter a major typhoon, and you can't run away, then Li Yongji can also use the golden finger to get a submarine over in time, and then everyone quickly get on the submarine and sink directly to the bottom of the sea to avoid the typhoon.

Seeing that Li Yongji didn't listen to persuasion, Yin Susu didn't say more, because he knew that it was useless to say, so he just nodded: "Then when are you going to leave?" ”

"There's no hurry." Li Yongji smiled, "I have a high-speed yacht, I can leave at any time if I want to go, I always have to deal with the things here before leaving, at the very least, I have to do a good job in the military service law before leaving, and there are some other things, how can it be a month later, so you can raise the baby with peace of mind." ”

"Hmm." Yin Susu nodded, and then her eyelids fought a little, and she seemed a little tired.

"I see you're tired too, so let's go sleep for a while." Li Yongji said softly, "It's good for the child." ”

It seems that the latter words worked, and Yin Susu still wanted to forcibly support it, but for the sake of the child, she still nodded.

Seeing that she agreed, Li Yongji beckoned, and four guards came over, and they came over carrying a delicate small sedan chair, and then gently put it down, and bowed ninety degrees without saying a word.

This sedan chair is specially prepared for Yin Susu, because this garden area is very large, if you are tired of walking and can't walk, you can use the sedan chair to carry Yin Susu back.

In fact, this sedan chair was not made by Li Yongji, but by the Queen Mother's old man, that is, Li Yongji's mother, in order to allow Yin Susu to move around properly during pregnancy without being too tired.

When it comes to Li Yongji's status, even if he doesn't pay attention to many things, there are a lot of people to help worry about them, especially these things that serve people, there are relevant people to help plan.

It's just that in the past, Li Yongji advocated simplicity and often ran around, so the rules of these palaces were very simple, but since Li Yongji named Yin Susu, and after Yin Susu became pregnant, everything has changed.

Li Yongji's mother, that is, the Queen Mother, used to have her own residence and did not live in Yonghua Palace, but since she knew that her daughter-in-law was pregnant, she moved to Yonghua Palace to live.

After the Queen Mother settled in Yonghua Palace, Yonghua Palace became lively, and the rules became bigger, especially when it came to Yin Susu, which was even more varied.

To put it simply, no matter where Yin Susu goes now, there are a bunch of maids and experienced midwives around her, no matter where she goes, what snacks, paper towels, maza, and even spittoons and the like are held and waited by someone to serve, if you go out, such as walking in the garden like this, you will follow the sedan chair man at any time, in case you are tired of carrying people back.

It can be said that the current Yonghua Palace has a little royal style, especially Yin Susu, who is the queen, and there are a large number of people everywhere she goes.

Although Li Yongji doesn't like to move the crowd like this, this is the insistence of the cheap mother, and it is indeed very convenient, so he acquiesces.

After Yin Susu got into the sedan chair and was carried away, Li Yongji patted the side of the bench and asked Yin Xiuxiu to come and sit.

"Your Majesty, I don't dare to sit down." Yin Xiuxiu hurriedly shook her head.

"What's not to dare to do here?" Li Yongji said strangely, "Didn't you often sit and chat with me like this before?" ”

"That was before." Yin Xiuxiu lowered her head and said, "The Queen Mother said." There is a difference between master and servant, you can't mess up your identity, the slave and maid are subordinates, and you must not sit side by side with your master, even if it's me, I'm ...... was favored by you, and even was named a concubine, and it is said that she is not allowed to be on an equal footing with you, which is a treatment that only a queen can have. That is, only my sister can enjoy it. ”

"What, I said you can sit down." Li Yongji shook his head, "How can there be so many rules, my words are rules." ”

"Don't, your majesty!" Yin Xiuxiu simply knelt down and hugged Li Yongji's calf, "Your Majesty, don't embarrass the slaves, you are fine, but the Queen Mother is in charge of Yonghua Palace." The words of the Queen Mother, I, the slave and maid, also want to listen, and beg Your Majesty not to embarrass the slave and maid. Besides, it's actually on an equal footing with you. The slave and maid are also under great pressure, and even more uncomfortable, if you really cherish the slave and the maid, don't let the slave and the maid be equal to you. ”

"That's right." looked at Yin Xiuxiu's anxious appearance and was about to cry. Li Yongji nodded, knowing that the gap in identity had become more and more obvious, and it was no longer easy to force it. "Okay, then you stand up, stand up and talk, I still have something to ask you."

"Yes." Yin Xiuxiu stood up again, and then stood aside in a proper manner, "I don't know what Your Majesty commands?" ”

"Well, I'll think about it." Li Yongji frowned, "By the way, how is the new military service reform doing?" How's the Selective Service Act done? ”

"The Military Service Law has been revised, and the text is here, please take a look at it." Yin Xiuxiu took out a booklet and bowed her head and handed it away.

"Oh? So fast? Li Yongji took the pamphlet and said.

"Ever since His Majesty proposed to revise the military service system, His Excellency the Prime Minister has assigned personnel to deal with this matter as a matter of priority." Yin Xiuxiu said, "For this reason, they have collected a lot of civil affairs information, combined with His Majesty's will, and according to our actual situation, they finally compiled this military service law, and they are waiting for His Majesty to take a look." Lord Shen said that if His Majesty agreed, they would implement this military service law throughout the country as quickly as possible. ”

"Oh, then I'll have to take a closer look." After Li Yongji finished speaking, he opened the booklet and began to look at it little by little.

The contents of the booklet are all classified according to Li Yongji's requirements, so although there is a lot of content, it is actually not complicated, and you can understand it at a glance.

After reading it for less than half an hour, Li Yongji basically finished reading this new version of the Chinese Imperial Military Service Law, and the overall feeling was quite satisfying.

The so-called military service law is a law that was specially required to be promulgated after Li Yongji basically unified China (the Manchu Qing Dynasty still existed), in order to make better use of China's manpower and form a powerful armed force.

This Military Service Law of the Chinese Empire is roughly divided into a number of articles, such as general provisions, conscription in peacetime, active duty and reserve of soldiers, active duty and reserve of officers, military training of military personnel, military training of ordinary schools of higher learning and ordinary secondary school students, mobilization of soldiers in wartime, treatment of servicemen on active duty and placement of retired servicemen, legal liability, supplementary provisions, and other articles, which formally regulate the composition of all armed forces in the Chinese Empire in legal form.

According to the provisions of the new Military Service Law, as long as they are citizens of the Chinese Empire, regardless of ethnicity, race, sex, occupation, religious belief, educational process, status, and income level, they must perform military service in accordance with the law.

At present, in terms of the composition of the armed forces, the Chinese Empire is divided into two situations: regular army and irregular army, and according to the service situation, it is divided into two situations: active duty and reserve army.

Let's talk about the regular army first, the regular army is a completely non-productive army, and it is the backbone of the armed forces of the Chinese Empire.

The so-called compulsory soldiers are conscripts and mobilized soldiers, and this kind of military system is also called conscription.

This military system refers to the use of law by the state to stipulate that citizens must serve a certain period of military service within a certain age, which is compulsory.

According to the provisions of the Military Service Law, as long as you are a male citizen of the Chinese Empire, as long as you are at least 18 years old, no matter what your status, whether you are a man or a woman, you must be recruited by the local armed forces to serve in the military, if the number of soldiers in that year is sufficient, you are not called up by the local armed forces department for military service, then you can continue to serve in the compulsory military before you are 24 years old.

Once you have completed your military service. You must be a compulsory soldier for at least three years, and if you do not become a volunteer after three years, you will be forcibly discharged, but your military service record will be left and automatically transferred to the reserve, and if you need to call up the reserve, you still have to continue to join the army unconditionally.

Those who have served in the military will have a series of rights, such as some corresponding tax exemptions and tax deductions, etc., and their status will also be deliberately elevated. It is possible to enter some departments that only those who are in the military service, and even some jobs will give preference to military service personnel, etc.

As for volunteers, they are actually mercenaries, also called conscription, which refers to the professional army.

There are two types of professional armies, one is the Imperial Praetorian Guard, that is, the personal guard troops directly under the command of the emperor, which are not subject to state control in terms of training and operations, and are actually a kind of private army; The other is called the Wehrmacht. It is a unit under the command of the Ministry of National Defense, a real national army.

The composition of volunteers is more complicated, as the name suggests, you volunteer to be a soldier. The relevant departments are willing to accept you, so that you can make a career as a soldier and become a professional soldier.

Volunteers can be conscripted or recruited directly from society. It is even possible to recruit from abroad, which is characterized by good pay and a long period of service. Retirement is usually based on your personal status, your personal aspirations, and the needs of your department.

Usually, as long as the compulsory soldier has been in service for three years, if the performance is excellent, and he applies again, after being passed, he can be transferred to the volunteer soldier sequence and become a professional mercenary, and there will be relevant volunteer treatment.

Generally speaking, there is a huge difference between the treatment of volunteers and that of compulsory soldiers, whether it is the normal salary, allowance, or other aspects such as disability insurance, death benefits, etc., which are not the same.

Moreover, conscripts can only be nationals of their own country, and volunteers are not limited to their own nationals, foreigners can also be volunteers, and as long as they have served for a certain number of years, usually five years, they can obtain the nationality of the Chinese Empire, become a citizen of the Chinese Empire, enjoy the rights of the Chinese Empire, and fulfill the obligations of the citizens of the Chinese Empire.

For example, the White Dawn International Column, which is an international volunteer organization affiliated to the Praetorian Guard, whose members are all white people from all over the world, as long as they serve here for a certain period of time, they can obtain the nationality of the Chinese Empire, and even obtain honorary titles and become a nobleman.

As for the irregular army, it mainly includes the National Guard, the militia self-defense force, the armed police force, the Young Pioneer Corps and other irregular combat units.

The National Guard, more precisely the Municipal Guard, generally refers to the troops composed of urban residents living in cities and who do not have agricultural household registration. For example, the production and construction corps, which is dominated by construction workers, and other such as the armed team of iron and steel workers, the textile workers' guard, etc., all belong to the National Guard sequence.

The militia self-defense force, which is an agricultural household registration, or a force composed of rural peasants who do not live in the cities, is more like the township militia organization in the past. The militia self-defense forces are characterized by poor weapons and a large number of people, and basically every village can form a militia self-defense force according to its own capabilities.

Since the Chinese Empire is still dominated by peasants, almost ninety percent of whom are peasants, the militia self-defense forces are the real militia from a certain point of view.

The armed police force is an armed police force, but unlike the armed police of red China in later generations, the armed police here only recruit a group of young and strong personnel from the police force to carry out a series of armed police training, equipped with heavy firepower, such as artillery, etc., to deal with such vicious incidents as turmoil, demonstrations, demonstrations, etc., so as to have the ability to suppress the local area with armed force.

In other words, the armed police are still police, not the so-called internal security forces, they are police professions, and their treatment and upgrading system all belong to the police system. When they are old and unsuitable to be armed police, they will go back to other police departments to continue to be policemen, unlike the armed police of Red China in later generations, who belong to the military sequence and play the retired set.

The advantages of this are, of course, self-evident, in that it makes full use of police resources, reduces staff waste, and also facilitates the development of an experienced police force.

Not to mention the Young Pioneer Corps, the student organization has more symbolic significance than practical significance, but because the Young Pioneer Corps is a high intellectual, once they choose to join the army in the future, if it is a wartime mobilization, they can directly become non-commissioned officers.

Regardless of whether it is a compulsory soldier or a volunteer soldier, there is a retirement period, as long as they retire, they will automatically enter the reserve, and they can regularly participate in the reserve training organized by the local government. Of course, you can also skip the course. But whether you usually participate in reserve training or not, once the country needs it, when you call up the reserves, you must unconditionally rejoin the army.

These retired soldiers are all first-level reserves, and there are second-level reserves, and second-level reserves refer to the irregular army, including the National Guard, and if there is a need, if you want to call up the second-level reserves, you must also call up these National Guards.

There are also three levels of reserve. The Level 3 Reserve refers to all men and women between the ages of 16 and 40, regardless of whether you have received military training or not, and must join the army unconditionally when they receive a Level 3 mobilization order.

In other words, when it comes to the third-level reserve, it will almost be regarded as a soldier for the whole people, and it is a moment of life and death, which is similar to the Chinese National War of Resistance during World War II in later generations, of course. As far as the mobilization mechanism is concerned, this three-level mobilization order is more efficient.

In the Praetorian Guard, there were no conscripts, only in the Wehrmacht. And the conscripts are usually large, which also explains the difference between the Praetorian Guard and the Wehrmacht.

Therefore, the Praetorian Guard organized by Li Yongji is actually a rapid reaction force with fewer restrictions. After all, this force is nominally a private army, so it is not as restricted as the Wehrmacht.

As for the backbone of the real defense of the country, it has to be the Wehrmacht. After all, the scale is there.

For the time being, all these military service systems are only implemented in the central administrative regions, and the so-called central administrative regions, that is, the territory of the Chinese Empire before the peaceful reunification negotiations, including Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Anhui, Shandong, Hebei, Beijing-Tianjin, and other places, and other so-called autonomous provinces, do not implement this system for the time being.

According to the speculation of the State Council, if this system is fully implemented, without the mobilization of reserves and without the wanton recruitment of volunteers, the compulsory military will be carried out, and if it is really fully conscripted, the number of compulsory soldiers in the directly administered areas alone will exceed 4 million!

This is not nonsense, the territory of the territory directly under the jurisdiction of the Chinese Empire is almost the essence of China, the preliminary statistics of the population, reached 200 million people, and because China in this era is an era of high birth rate and high mortality rate, there are many strong men, so it is not difficult for more than 4 million men over the age of 18.

In fact, this number is likely to be more, because even if you become a compulsory soldier, it is also a very good career for poor Chinese in this era, especially people in northern Jiangsu, Hebei, Shandong, and Anhui, at least they can eat enough, so most of them are willing to become soldiers, so many people deliberately modify their age.

For example, those who are less than eighteen say that they are eighteen, and those who are more than eighteen also say that they are eighteen, there are 4 million people, which is really not much at all, in fact, this is also because the civil affairs system of the Chinese Empire is still too primitive, and the statistics are not smooth.

Although the pay for conscripts is very low, with an average of only two yuan (equivalent to two taels of silver) per person per month, this is still a huge expense, so the plan of the Ministry of Defense is that only 500,000 conscripts will be recruited in the initial period.

Now it is basically considered national peace and security, even if you have to deal with the Manchu Qing, 500,000 conscripts are enough.

It should be pointed out here that the salaries of conscripts are all paid by the State Council, and relatively speaking, although the production and construction corps belonging to the National Guard is larger in number and has higher salaries, they are not regular troops, and they do not need to be paid by the National Defense Forces, and the salaries they receive are actually paid by Li Yongji himself, so it does not matter how many people there are.

To put it simply, only the regular Wehrmacht, the state pays salaries, and the State Department does not pay irregular troops and the Praetorian Guard.

Not to mention the Praetorian Guard, because the irregular army is not out of production, the salary is paid by the original unit, at most, it is still paid according to the original situation during the military training. For the time being, no private company has been able to do this, except for the Imperial Corporation.

Finally, after the implementation of the Military Service Law, in addition to the Praetorian Guard and the irregular army, the regular army under the National Defense Force will have 300,000 volunteers, 500,000 conscripts, and weapons and equipment will be purchased from their own Ma'anshan Arsenal.

If there is no accident, relying only on the Wehrmacht, it can easily crush the Manchu Qing who are still breathing.

The purpose of this is naturally to reduce the financial pressure, as far as the current China is concerned, except for the Manchu Qing Dynasty externally, except for some minor internal turmoil, there is not much need to send troops for the time being, so the State Council has come up with this plan to streamline the administration of the army.

According to Shen Shiming, the current situation is mainly based on recuperation and recuperation, and in the case of later generations, it is centered on economic construction.

If there is really a special situation, once mobilization begins, then with the current financial situation, the government can recruit another 1 million troops in one month, three million in two months, and five million in three months.

Of course, in fact, due to the current domestic transport capacity, five million is impossible, but three million can still be done, so three million is the warning line set by the Ministry of Defense.

With China's population base, as long as industrial production keeps up with it, and then gives full play to its own manpower advantages, it is not enough to say that it will dominate the world, but it is only easy to say that it will dominate East Asia. (To be continued......)