Chapter 54: The Dream of the Sea
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The relocation of the administrative center was completed, and the entire power began to function non-stop.
The school takes classes to cultivate a talent reserve, the base research and support technology is leading, the civilian workshop produces various commodities and sells them to other parties, providing a source of funding for the entire force, and the military workshop manufactures weapons and ammunition to ensure the supply of the army, and the administrative and military personnel start a new round of investigation and practice, and then work out a new plan.
In the new plan, the administrators followed the experience of the past in education, law, land reform, and other policies of the year in the newly occupied areas.
Due to the nearly four-fold expansion of the site, the situation is different in different places, and it is necessary to conduct research and formulate a new policy plan based on the actual situation on the ground.
In the military aspect, in the same way, with the expansion of territory, the original army can no longer effectively maintain local law and order, and military expansion is imperative.
In view of the stability of the borders, the security of the jurisdictions, the reserve forces, etc., the military is preparing to expand the army to four corps and twelve divisions at a time, and these divisions are all ready to be fully manned, and the brigades that have not been deployed before will be re-added.
According to this plan, the combat troops of the entire force group will reach about 120,000 in this expansion, and the number of combat troops in addition to engineering units and food squads is expected to reach about 150,000 to 160,000.
Because the number of troops expanding was too large, in order to prevent excessive consumption of grain, etc., Bai Ye suggested that the military tuntian method should be adopted, and the army would try to grow a little food by themselves while training and cultivating the wilderness.
These are the big administrative and military arrangements, as far as scientific research and future goals are planned.
Bai Ye is waiting for the graduation of the first batch of junior high school students and even high school students, although there are now thousands of research teams in the seven research bases, but the number is still too small, and most of them are craftsmen and craftsmen, and their education level is not high, and after education, they can only study the profession they were engaged in.
The actual essence of the research base is still the group of students who have been in the white night since childhood.
Therefore, under the education mode of Bai Ye, waiting for him, the first ripe fruit fell. It is expected that with these hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of junior high and high school students joining, the scientific research base of Baiye will show a blowout development.
For the future goal planning, Bai Ye decided to collect shipbuilding data and set up an eighth research base, which will be used for ship research and development.
The sea is not only wider than the land, but also rich in resources, and there are many kinds of products.
And on the other side of the sea, there are crops that Bai Ye wants very much, such as rubber, cotton, corn, potatoes, sweet potatoes, and so on. These species are of great significance to the development of the White Night's forces, and White Night wants to go to the other side of the sea immediately and find these species one by one.
Whether it is potatoes, sweet potatoes, or corn, they are all high-yielding crops, at least stronger than wheat and rice in this era. With them, White Nights can keep the people in the jurisdiction as well fed as possible.
Since ancient times, there has been a saying that when you are full, you must dress warmly. Whether it is coarse linen or silk satin, the actual thermal insulation effect is not as good as cotton.
Speaking of which, there was also cotton in this era, but it was different from what Bai Ye thought, these cotton came from Africa and India, which was not carefully cultivated, the plants were low, the cotton bolls were small, and although they were widely cultivated in the coastal areas, the yield was not high, and the quality was too poor.
Although a base is working on the cultivation of improved cotton seeds, he still wants to find cotton from the Americas.
The role of cotton is not just for weaving clothes, but also for many purposes. For example, in the military, nitrocellulose can be made, thus completing the advancement of the gunpowder age to the explosives age.
Gunpowder and explosives may sound like a word, but they are actually not the same power. For example, it is used for medical treatment, and threads made of cotton are used to sew wounds, and can also be made into cotton balls. There are many uses, and the prospects are great.
Similar to cotton, rubber is something that White Night would love to get. This species is no more native to cotton than cotton, and it is still honestly found in the jungles of the Americas, and even more so in the jungles of South America.
Needless to say, the usefulness of rubber is that it is the top material of this era, just because of its flexibility and wear-resistance. With it, the manufacture of steam engines, as well as military production, will achieve great development.
In light of the above, the central goal of the Second Five-Year Plan set by the White Nights was to march east within five years and occupy at least one place that could be used as a port.
Then, a port city will be built there, a shipyard will be established, the first naval force of the force will be formed, and the eighth base will be placed there.
Before developing these, he would gather experienced artisan sailors and offer a course in the school devoted to navigation and ships, and those who might not know a single word were teachers.
Of course, this is only a theoretical promotion, in order to provide more security for future navigation, he will also introduce a series of policies, so that students can experience the surrounding rivers first. The river is no better than the sea, but can also play a role in the initial exercise. From the land to the river, from the river to the ocean, and then from the ocean to the star universe, the road is step by step, and the buildings are built layer by layer.
White Night has made a lot of drawings lately, there are maps, there are plants, there are animals. He placed these pictures in a hall in the courtyard of the administrative center, and people who came and went could come and go to see them.
Even, some drawings were sent to the Warrior Guild and made into a search mission, as long as you find the things on the pictures and bring them back, there will be a heavy reward.
These things are very common things to modern people, but they are things that have never been seen before for people of this era.
The memory of the white night is very good, and the memory of his previous life is firmly fixed in his mind, which is the biggest golden finger in his life.
He sketched rubber trees, potatoes and corn, and tomatoes and sweet potatoes.
In the end, it was not the high-yielding species he drew that caused a huge sensation, but the two things he made, a map of the world and a globe.
The map of the world is the most widely circulated, and soon after he drew it, it was spread out, and he did not deliberately hide it, so from Mongolia to the Southern Song Dynasty, from Mingjiao to some Western Regions forces, they all got this particularly detailed map.
Except for a few rivers that go in different directions, there are other things on the map that have shocked the world.
Genghis Khan of the Mongol Empire once wanted to make the whole world his ranch, and his children and grandchildren also carried on his dream ambitions. Their current territory spanning Europe and Asia, and they thought they were boundless, but when they saw this map, they realized that they occupied less than half of the world. Their desire for land and pasture in their hearts was ignited, and they wanted to immediately get on their horses and wave their soldiers to achieve greater feats than a generation of Tianjiao.
The rulers of the Southern Song Dynasty got this map, but it did not cause much of a sensation in the court, but caused a storm among the people of the Southern Song Dynasty.
Some people went to sea according to the map, and they really went to Ryukyu, Japan, Luzon and other regions, and they became more and more convinced of this map, and even the no-man's land marked by the map's author, which made them salivate.
Mingjiao was also shocked when they got this map, as a ******** force, they moved very quickly, they integrated an army and began to fight for world domination. But their goal was to the southwest, to the Indian side.
In the White Night jurisdiction, it was not the map that caused a sensation, but the globe that did not circulate. Originally, the purpose of Bai Ye's globe was to make navigation easier and easier to determine the direction with the presence of the globe, and he added lines to the globe that were not available on the map, that is, longitude and latitude.
This time, the zero degree longitude does not pass through the Greenwich Observatory in the United Kingdom, but passes through Luoyang City, and the white night redivides the longitude, but the latitude does not need to change, and the equator cannot be moved, right?
The first time the globe appeared was in the school in the White Nights Territory, where he gave the students a geography lesson for the first time, showing them the planet, introducing the main climates and endemic flora and fauna around the world, which aroused the children's imagination of these places.
They had learned some natural science knowledge and knew that they were on top of a sphere, but they still had a strong curiosity about the blue wooden ball that was actually made.
Somehow, the matter of this globe was known to the outsiders, and it sparked a national debate in the White Night Realm, where the young students firmly believed that there was a ball under their feet, and the older people believed that the sky was round and that the heavenly gods lived above the clouds.
This controversy was harmless, but some stubborn scholars and Confucian scholars who had been rectified in secret stood up and said that this was a method that did not respect the ancestors and did not believe what the sages said. This time, not only Confucianism, but also Taoism and Buddhism, the three schools stood together.
Bai Ye sneered, and it was difficult to use strong means, so he had to imitate the rising and setting of the sun and the rotation of the earth through experiments to show that the earth is a sphere. He also called in sailors who had sailed on the sea, told the crowd how the ship emerged from the sea and disappeared from the sea, and did the same experimental simulation.
The experiment was successful and convincing, but those who should believe it will naturally believe it, and those who do not believe it insist on their own opinions, believing that this is a fallacy, which is a denial of the ancestors and sages.
Those who are stubborn and fierce, in order to maintain their true intentions, some people do not hesitate to commit suicide to preach.
Subsequently, the globe was mass-produced in the White Nights area, but for ordinary people, it was just to show off and watch the excitement.
Even the army, at the moment, this thing has reference value only in the big strategy, and for the troops that are still running on land, the air force is still far away.
Our goal now is the sea, followed by the sky.