From Guanyun to the north, it is Haizhou, which is the headquarters of the Northern Command, and the headquarters of the Northern Eastern Front Corps composed of the Fengli Army, the Denghai Town Division, and the Jinghai Water Division.

The core of the strategy formulated by the Military Staff for the Northern Expedition lies in the four words "the eastern front is eastward," so the corps of the Eastern Front in the north is the most important thing in future military construction.

The Fengli Army included the four town divisions of Liu Xilin, Zhang Gou, Chu Zheng, and Han Caizhi, plus the independent Denghai Town Division and the Jinghai Division of Chen Yansuo, and the total strength of the Northern Eastern Front Army exceeded 120,000 before the large-scale expansion began.

120,000 soldiers and horses, clearly deployed in the north to Yishan, south to Huaishui on the Yihai defense line, Haizhou City is more mainly used as a logistics support base.

A large number of logistics personnel have gathered, and even after the closure of the port, only licensed ships can be stationed in Haizhou, Haizhou City is still lively.

After Guanyun suffered the idleness of old bureaucrats like Zhou Wenyun and entered Haizhou City, Lin Jian could really feel that there were still such a large number of people in the world, who praised and supported the new policy and the different traditional military and political systems in Huaidong.

Behind Huaidong, in addition to the Jianghuai merchant gentry and maritime forces with a strong pragmatic style, the more solid foundation is those generals and their families who originally had nothing and gathered under the Huaidong battle flag, as well as the huge logistics group derived from the Huaidong Army.

Under the old system, they were hungry, cold, displaced, and even had to sell their sons and daughters to survive. Outside the old system, they have no dignity to live, and they have to face constant threats to their survival, how can they have the idea and motivation to maintain the old traditions? The vast majority of them are eager to further shatter the old system and old traditions.

They may not have thought enough about it and not deep enough to give them the guarantee of survival and their families under the new system, and the glory of being rich in life and glorifying in death, but their support for the new system is sincere from the bottom of their hearts.

In Guanyun, Lin Jian felt that the world was difficult, and there was still great opposition hidden under the water; Even Jiangning and Lin Jian had to always consider balancing the interests within Huaidong, but after arriving in Haizhou, he felt that the world was much simpler, that the world was still firmly under his control, and that there was no resistance to the implementation of the new policy.

In the tradition of "the body is the skin of the body, and the parents are the recipients", the dissection of a corpse in the world is a heinous crime, serious enough to be punished by beheading.

Zhang Xian, a Huaidong medical officer from Jianghu Langzhong, and others proposed to dissect corpses in Huaidong very early on to study the structure of the human body in order to better develop surgical medicine.

This kind of courage to rebel against tradition and develop new learning is quite common within Huaidong. However, when it came to the autopsy, Lin Jian was worried that the matter would cause an uproar if it leaked out, and finally listed this matter as the highest military secret in Huaidong, and secretly allowed Zhang Xi and other medical officials to carry it out secretly.

The rapid development of Huaidong's surgical treatment in the past ten years is not due to the first aid skills taught by Lin Tie, but the courage of a group of medical officials such as Zhang Sai to break the tradition and the painstaking study of nearly ten years.

Jiangning's execution of the criminals in the decisive battle and the dissection of corpses instead of the punishment of the deceased were actually a roundabout method proposed by Zhang Sai and others to break the traditional obstacles to the new medicine of dissection.

In the end, Zhang Xi, who received the bachelor's degree of Chongxue Hall with Wu Jiye, was worried that the development of anatomical medicine in Jiangning would be hindered by the world, and asked to come to Haizhou to preside over the Haizhou Military Medical Bureau.

Haizhou was originally a small coastal city, the city was dilapidated, and the population was sparse, but because it became the core logistics support base of the Northern Army, many affairs were controlled by the military, so the atmosphere was new, and it became the most prosperous place for the Central Plains to develop new learning and new craftsmanship.

Even Chongju, where Lin Lian has the deepest roots, has also developed new learning and new craftsmanship from the inertia of tradition, which is not as thorough as Jeju and Haeju, which are almost newly built.

In fact, the military is not only the staunchest supporter of new learning and new craftsmanship, but also the largest purchaser of new learning and new craftsmanship.

The development of new technologies without demand and without knowing how to create demand is equivalent to making new technologies behind closed doors, and the new technologies developed are also lifeless - Lin Jian is very clear about this, and he knows even more that he cannot force ordinary people to purchase Huaidong new cloth, iron and other things, but the procurement direction of the entire military has always been under his strict control.

The traditional center maintained armaments, and the silver was mainly used for money, armor, clothing and other materials, and was mainly requisitioned directly from government-run workshops or lowly artisan households.

There is a fundamental difference in the way Huaidong maintains its armaments. The Huaidong Army's military supplies, armor, and armaments are only a very small aspect, even if they come from the internal workshops controlled by Huaidong, they are also settled by procurement.

At present, many government-run workshops, with the exception of a few that manufacture weapons, are under the jurisdiction of the Privy Council.

The Privy Council's appropriation of funds to the military department was all settled in silver, and naturally the military department would no longer be asked to occupy additional resources from the government-run workshops under its jurisdiction.

Lin Jian mainly ensured the direction of the military's procurement, and consistently focused on emerging factories, industrial and mining, and maritime trade. Only the military supplies that cannot be provided by the emerging factories, industrial and mining, maritime trade and other industries will Lin Jian consider requisitioning them from traditional industries.

The military is studying the method of killing, and the most fundamental purpose is to more effectively destroy the enemy and preserve itself. It doesn't matter whether it's traditional or non-traditional, it's practical, durable and affordable.

Even if there is no big war, this year's Privy Council's appropriation of funds to the military department still reaches 12 million silver dollars, which is only slightly less than last year's military consumption.

Due to the increasing development and improvement of the military-controlled tuntun area, for example, the grain fields in the Juntun area of Haizhou have grown to 3 million mu and more than 70,000 tunding; These cantonment areas can directly provide the military with relatively sufficient food, so that the traditional sense of food and salary only accounts for 20 percent of the military department's allocation.

The rest of the military expenditure will be mainly used for the procurement of combat weapons, the construction of defensive lines, permanent camps and temporary barracks, and the construction of military control cantonment areas.

A large proportion of military procurement has directly or indirectly supported the development of new technologies and provided a fundamental source of power for the sustainable development of new technologies.

It is necessary to measure the huge volume of direct or indirect purchases of new technology products by the military, which will almost exceed 6 million silver dollars this year.

If the military aid to the Zhen, Saga, and Kongo clans is included, including the military loans made by the Huaidong Qianzhuang and the Colonist Yinzhuang to these three companies, the main purpose of which is to ensure that these three companies purchase military supplies and weapons from the Huaidong region, otherwise the silver dollars will not be so easy to lend out -- the total amount of new technology products purchased by the military, either directly or indirectly, this year will be about 10 million silver dollars.

Perhaps in later generations, the purchase of ten million silver dollars is nothing at all; An entry-level ironclad battleship costs more than that.

However, in the current world, before the war, Yanjing controlled hundreds of millions of people, and the annual revenue of the center was only about 10 million silver dollars, and it was quite surprising to use 10 million silver dollars a year to purchase military supplies to support the development of new technologies and industries.

Because the profit margin of military procurement is relatively small, the annual military procurement of 10 million silver dollars can directly support a new industrial cluster with a scale of about 300,000 or 400,000 people, not to mention that Lin Jian sometimes blatantly directly uses military funds to support the development of new technologies.

Historically, hundreds of years ago, lighthouses were built to guide the harbor and the steep fjords at night. The first lighthouse in the Jianghuai area was built at the mouth of the Jinchuan River outside Jiangning City, which was used to guide ships to dock at the Jianggang wharf at night, doubling the utilization efficiency of the wharf.

Although the cost of building a lighthouse is not low, it is still very cost-effective to invest in a lighthouse compared to doubling the expansion of the wharf.

Merchant ships arriving at night would rather pay an additional lighthouse navigation fee than stay overnight outside the harbour in unpredictable seas.

In the past ten years, the Huaidong Army has built and controlled more than 30 large-scale lighthouses; At present, some lighthouses have begun to be transferred to private management or construction and maintenance.

The need for cheap and high-quality fuel for the lighthouse directly prompted Borneo to travel to Jianghuai and Haidong by sea.

Transparent glass covers, as well as other new technologies used for lighting, are directly related to lighthouses.

Borneo ash is mixed with lime, fine sand or fine cinder for construction, and is currently mainly used by the military.

The development of Huaidong shipbuilding technology has the most direct relationship with Lin Tie's determination to develop maritime combat power, followed by the rapid development of weaving sails and large castings. Although Lin Jian asked these shipyards to supply warships to the military at cost price, the military paid for the additional cost of developing new technologies, and never relented.

The nearly 800,000 sets of military uniforms purchased by the military this year are all made of Huaidong new cloth; This alone is enough to support a new weaving, dyeing and garment industry with an employment scale of 20,000 or 30,000 people.

Nearly half of the more than 20 million catties of meat consumed by the Huaidong Army this year were purchased from the offshore fishing industry developed in Haizhou, Hecheng, Shengsi, and other places.

In the early years, Lin Jian developed iron smelting in Chongzhou, and the largest purchaser was also the military, followed by civilian supplies such as agricultural tools. Even at this time, the military consumes nearly 20 million catties of iron every year in the construction of war weapons, barracks and defense lines.

The development of iron smelting and lime industries in Chongzhou and the gathering of industrial workers directly contributed to the significant increase in coal consumption. Cinders were used to build roads and ground fine slurry for construction, and they were also the first to be used on a large scale by the military.

The most advanced car-making technology, the military is also the largest purchaser; Almost half of the four-wheeled carriages were purchased directly by the military as baggage wagons.

At present, nearly two-thirds of the iron wire and wire rope produced in the iron field are purchased and digested by the military.

Before entering Guanyun, the iron pear car that Xiaoman saw, the first 6,000 units were also purchased and digested by the military management Tuntian.

Not to mention the brutal war, which made the wounded soldiers rely heavily on the new medicine of dissection. Dissecting corpses is still taboo in society, but in the eyes of military generals, it is really not mentioned.

The military's large-scale purchases have enabled new learning, new technologies, and new industries to obtain a market for the most basic needs in the early stage of development.

Nowadays, Haizhou has become the most core logistics support base of the Northern Army, except for a limited number of items such as the Military Medical Bureau, the Ordnance Bureau, the port and the shipbuilding repair dock, which will be directly responsible for the construction and management by the military, almost all the material fields that can be purchased, such as new cloth, dyes, iron, clothing, car manufacturing, lime, tung oil, hair, oil, coal and stone, timber, masonry, Borneo ash and other workshops, industrial and mining owners and merchants, have applied to be included in the list of procurement objects of the Haizhou Logistics Support Base; Almost all of the applications for the construction of factories in Haizhou can be applied for or have been implemented. The newly established workshops, including the military's logistics department, all hired the generals of the Northern Army or the families of the generals of the Haizhou Tun District to work.

Lin Jian decided to set up the logistics base of the Northern Expedition in Haizhou instead of Xuzhou or Shanyang, that is, to consider using the huge military procurement to give birth to a new seaport city that was different from the traditional one.

Compared with Jiangning, Lin Jian prefers to live in Haizhou.

On the one hand, the thinking of the army is still relatively simple, and there are not so many additional conditions for the support of Lin Bin; Another is that Haizhou City is almost completely new, and the huge military procurement attracts almost all of the civilized workshops, industrial and mining owners, and maritime trade merchants.

Although women traditionally pay attention to a "door does not go out, the second door does not step", but for the ordinary generals of the Huaidong Army who were born in poverty, the work of family members is really not an unacceptable thing. The employment of female workers was already a common phenomenon in Chongzhou, and Lin Jian had to use it to supplement the shortage of labor at the beginning; It's not even a strange phenomenon in Haizhou.