The military's military budget is undoubtedly the highlight of this year-end meeting, because the Changhua Shilu Heavy Industrial Zone, which accounted for the majority of Haihan's financial expenditure in the previous two years, has been gradually put into operation and has a relatively stable output, which makes Haihan's financial budget a little relaxed. If this were not the case, it would be difficult for the military, if any, to snatch the share of the budget that was destined to be allocated to the industrial sector.

However, because of the large amount of external capital, materials and labor injections brought about by the newly opened overseas colonies such as the port of Kaohsiung, the burden on Haihan itself is not particularly large, and there is no need to arrange too much budget expenditure for it in the financial planning for the coming year.

At present, there are no other projects that will take up a large budget and must be implemented as much as possible to compete with the military's proposals, which also greatly reduces the difficulty of obtaining a military proposal. However, this did not mean that the military would be able to get the steam fleet of their dreams in the coming year, as the shipbuilding would take longer than that of its sail-powered counterparts due to the large number of hull structural changes involved, and would be greatly affected by the efficiency of the industrial sector that produced the steam engines. It also took a long time to launch the ship, to train the mechanics who would operate and maintain the steam engine, and to get the sailors accustomed to the tactical improvements of the new ship.

According to military estimates, it would be relatively smooth to be able to launch all the ships in the new fleet in 1634, and the real combat effectiveness may have to wait until all these warships have been put into service for a period of time. If the military intends to expand the control zone northward as quickly as possible, then this fleet can probably not be expected to come in handy in time. At that time, most of the ships of other fleets will need to be transferred to the Fujian Strait, and the new ships in service will be stationed in relatively safe areas for them. Of course, the military will not take the initiative to announce this to everyone, so as not to tell the opposition the truth.

"A whole fleet, this is already the best condition I can get for the navy, you shouldn't have anything to be picky, right?" Returning to the office of the Military Commission, Yan Chujie asked Tom Wang in a high-spirited manner. This is probably the largest amount of military budget that the Central Military Commission has requested for the Navy from the Executive Committee since the establishment of the Navy. The figures on the accounts are almost enough to build two sail fleets of the same size, and from a pessimistic point of view, it will probably be more °C≡dǐng°C≡diǎn°C≡ small °C in the next year or two≡ say, .▼.▲os_(); For a long time, the Navy will not be able to apply for such a large amount of military spending at one time.

Tom Wang shrugged his shoulders and said, "Who would have expected things to go so smoothly? I was originally ready to compromise with the Executive Committee, first build half or a third of the fleet, and then build the rest when I have military funds. Knowing this, we could have made the budget more relaxed. ”

"It's too big, and the Executive Committee won't approve it. Yan Chujie shook his head and vetoed Tom Wang's idea, as a member of the Executive Committee, he has a relatively clear understanding of the value orientation of the Executive Committee: "For the Executive Committee, the recovery benefit of allocating funds to the military to form an army is not obvious, and the recovery cycle of investment costs will be very long." If the number of applications is too large, the Executive Committee will probably review the fees in batches, and it is unlikely that they will be reviewed all at once. ”

Yan Chujie slowly leaned his body back on the chair, found a relatively comfortable position, and continued: "But this year, I have helped the navy win so much military spending, and the army will definitely have to tighten the expenditure." When Gu Wei and Qian Tiandun learned the news, they would inevitably complain about me again. ”

Since the separation of the arms, the military's land-sea struggle has never ceased. Of course, this competition for resources is more often confined to the military system, and is not publicized to the outside world, nor is it as-for-tat as the military and the opposition at the year-end convention. It's just that when the total military budget is limited, if one side takes too much, the other side will naturally be compressed. Obviously, the Central Military Commission attaches more importance to the development of the Navy in the coming year, and this kind of "favoritism" may be regarded as an expression of the unfairness of the Central Military Commission's handling of affairs in the eyes of army generals.

Tom Wang replied: "This is also something that cannot be helped, after all, there are no major land combat missions in the near future, and the army only needs to maintain the current establishment scale." ”

In fact, after the end of the civil war in Annam, except for the use of a large number of army forces in the attack on the northern part of Hainan Island, the Haihan militia basically did not carry out large-scale combat missions on the mainland. The vast majority of the battlefields were on the islands, and the number of troops invested was very limited. Even when Penghu was attacked in May this year, the army only took over the simple task of cleaning up the battlefield and clearing out the remnants of the enemy in the final stage of the war. Before the end of the year, Qian Tiandun led his troops to land on the island of Taiwan twice to carry out reconnaissance missions, and basically did not encounter any major troubles and needed to dispatch large army units.

When it cannot be of more use for the time being, the army will inevitably "cede" more resources to the navy, which is now in the red sky. Even if the generals of the army were dissatisfied with this diǎn, they really couldn't find any reason to refute it.

In addition to the guards stationed in Sanya, the relatively well-paid units in the army are probably the island defense troops of Anbuna Island in the South China Sea on the edge of the Haihan Territory and the mountain special operations units currently stationed in Penghu. These two armies, one guarding the southern gate of Haihan and the other guarding the important waterway in the north, are an important bridgehead for Haihan's future development strategy from the south to the north. Because they are too far away from the base camp, once a war breaks out in these two places, they will not be able to obtain the assistance of the base camp in a short time, so there are relatively high requirements for the independent combat capability of the troops stationed there. The Central Military Commission has almost always responded to the needs of the troops in these two places, and the allocation of weapons and equipment and commanders and fighters is basically the best.

Of course, the most supportive policy still gives the two places the right to recruit and train on their own. On the premise of reporting to the base camp for approval, the garrison can be conscripted from the immigrants who have moved into the local area, and after completing the training, they can be directly added to the local army to serve. This eliminates the need to replenish troops from the base camp, and the recruits will be much better able to adapt to the ground than those who have been transferred from elsewhere. In addition, the garrison can also recruit military training trainees, of course, this kind of training is a paid service, and the price is very high, and the garrison can use this to subsidize the expenses required for daily operation.

Because the training cycle of army recruits is much shorter than that of the navy, and it does not rely on transportation to function like the navy, if necessary, the army's explosive rate will be several times that of the navy, so neither the executive committee nor the military commission wants to keep a large number of useless troops in peacetime. Although the establishment of the army has been expanding in recent years, the size of the army has basically remained at a relatively low level in terms of the population of the areas under the rule of Haihan.

Unless Haihan is determined to start a campaign on the mainland, or if he wants to set up a new large colony in a region further away from his base camp, there is a real need for the size of the army, and then it is possible to accelerate the expansion of the army.

At Magong Port in Penghu, 1,200 kilometers from Sanya, the militia troops stationed there have not yet received the content of the resolution on military affairs at the year-end congress this year. The soldiers' attention is on another thing, that is, the first batch of locally trained recruits have completed their initial training, and the recruits who have passed the examination are now about to officially enter the establishment and service.

Sun Zhen swayed his left hand lightly, clutched the belt of the gun tightly with his right hand, kept the rifle close to his back shoulder blades, looked up at the front, followed the drum diǎn in his ears, and walked with his companions in front of the rostrum with neat steps. He had completed this kind of procession countless times in the past three months, and the distance he had traveled was two or three hundred miles, and every movement had formed a conditioned reflex in his body. As long as he heard the familiar sound of the drum, he didn't even have to look sideways at his companions to maintain the same pace as the entire procession. Compared with the embarrassment of occasionally sharing hands and feet when he first trained, his current walking course is at least a passing level.

Sun Zhen arrived at Magong Port on September 11, and after listening to the policy propaganda of the Haihan militia on that day, he decided to enlist in the army. Over the next three months, he was exposed to a whole new world, where he was trained to redefine what he knew about the military. Before coming to Penghu, Sun Zhen thought that the armies in the world were probably the same as the Ming army, chaotic and low-performance, and could only bully and bully the common people who were powerless to resist, but the Haihan militia was obviously different.

This army, which was loyal to the Haihan Executive Committee rather than a certain big man, had strict and perfect military discipline, and although the daily training was very difficult, the treatment in the army was simply heaven compared to his days as a refugee and displacement, and this kind of collective life in the army was also an atmosphere that Sun Zhen liked very much. Although he was often "bullied" by the veteran instructors under various pretexts, every time the training was over, Sun Zhen would feel his blood boiling and he would be able to participate in those battles with the veterans whenever he sat around and listened to the instructors talk about their previous combat experiences.

Sun Zhen didn't know that the stories of veterans were not told casually, although these stories were true, but this practice was one of the targeted propaganda methods of the political department in the army. This is the same as studying military discipline and receiving literacy education at the internal affairs meeting every night, which is a subtle transformation of the recruits' three views. Through these means, the recruits will gradually develop a unified understanding of their own identity and mission in their minds, develop a sense of identity and belonging to the Haihan group, and then slowly cultivate a loyal mentality.

According to the operational experience of the past few years, three months of recruit training is enough for the vast majority of people to integrate into the collective of the Haihan militia and be proud of this invincible force. Perhaps this period of time is not enough for them to master their personal combat skills alone, but the sense of identity will enable them to have a more active attitude of participation in the process of training and carrying out tasks in the future, and the most important thing is that when they set foot on the battlefield, they will better carry out the combat orders issued by the commander under the combined effect of conditioned reflex, sense of honor, obedience and blood.

This kind of comprehensive effect achieved by various means is difficult for the traditional feudal army to fully imitate. Although the Haihan Association assisted the Ming Army's friendly department or some private armed forces in training soldiers, due to institutional differences, even if these imitators could adopt the Haihan militia formation, equip Haihan weapons, carry out Haihan's training methods, and even some combat tactics, the gap between the two sides in actual combat effectiveness would still be insurmountable.

Sun Zhen personally witnessed this process, his group of recruits almost began training at the same time as the commission trainees sent to Penghu from the outside world, the recruits are almost all ordinary people with no military experience, and many of those commission trainees are from martial arts training, and even are active soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, in terms of personal combat effectiveness far beyond rookies like Sun Zhen, and the acceptance of various military training subjects is much faster.

But after a few months of training, Sun Zhen found that the gap between the two sides was narrowing at a rapid pace, especially the ability to fight collectively, and the Haihan militia was not on the same level as the opponent at all. In the combat exercise of the final assessment, Sun Zhen's recruit company defeated the coalition army composed of commissioned trainees by a 2-0 advantage, whether it was playing the attacking side or the defending side, the recruit company's performance was even better, and even Qian Tiandun, who was present to watch the battle, also praised the recruit company.

However, the veteran instructors were very indifferent to this, in their words, if they couldn't even do a bunch of stragglers, then all of these recruits were not qualified to join the special operations battalion service, and they could go to other militia units to be ordinary soldiers.

Although it is not clear what the situation of the other militia units is, Sun Zhen and the others are eager to stay and serve in this legendary unit. Of course, this is not only an invincible sense of collective honor, but also because the recruits have heard that this unit has the most opportunities for meritorious service, the fastest promotion, and if they are lucky, they can be promoted to company commander in two or three years. If he is good enough, he may be able to be promoted to the position of battalion commander in less than five years, just like Takahashi's predecessors. Although that position was unattainable for the recruits, everyone remembered the education they received on the day they entered the camp - a soldier who did not want to be a general was not a good soldier. Reasonable ambition is allowed here, and as long as you are willing to fight for it, everyone will get the opportunity to become a senior commander.