703 Expansion of the army
The Thousand Hills City in the distance already has the temperament of a generation of famous cities.
However, it is difficult to determine what the city will develop into in the future.
Because cities are expanding all the time and their populations are increasing all the time, it's hard to say how big a city will be.
Yang Yinuan's gaze, a road stretched out from the Thousand Mountains City.
Out of the city, all the way to the south, to the edge of the Deer River, and all the way to the west.
Soon he came to the foot of Qianshan West Road, where his villa was located, and here, a huge industrial area was already taking shape.
At the foot of the hill is the steel mill, which now has an annual production capacity of 300,000 tons.
And this data will continue to climb in the future, but to what extent.
It depends on Yang Yuanqing's plan, but 300,000 tons of steel can already guarantee that they will become the number one male city on the Aurora Continent at present!
And next to the steel mill, there is also a forging factory, here, there is a second-hand forging press brought back by Yang Yinuan from the modern world.
Although it is only at the level of 50,000 tons, in this world, it is already a great weapon.
All kinds of steel armor and weapons can be easily produced under this forging press.
Especially the kind of breastplate with good protection can be mass-produced here.
Behind the steel plant is the vehicle factory.
Now this vehicle factory is producing a large number of horse-drawn carriages every day.
And now the carriage of Qianshan City has become the most popular tool for marketing background.
Not only did Gao Xin of Iron City buy thousands of carriages in one go, but even the Sixteen Kingdoms of Yanyun at the southern foot of Yunmeng Mountain also bought a large number of carriages from them.
Now the four-wheeled carriage of Qianshan City has become their signature.
Although there are also some city-states on the side of the Sixteen Cities of Yanyun, they are copying their carriages.
But that's also a cat and a tiger, this seemingly simple four-wheeled carriage, they can't it.
Because this thing seems simple, but in fact, if you really want to build it, just some of the parts used in the chassis are not low in this era.
For example, the steel wheels and the steering mechanism in front of the car are not something that cats and dogs can imitate.
Therefore, although there are many people who are angry with them, there are very few who can successfully imitate them, and it can even be said that there are no at all.
Therefore, the current carriage factory is one of the most popular factories in Qianshan City.
At present, there are more than 3,000 masters and apprentices in the whole factory.
It is capable of producing hundreds of carriages per day.
Behind the wagon mill were the flour mills and the oil mills.
These two factories are also very popular, and the snowflake powder produced in this Qianshan City is now a hard currency for marketing in the north.
There are also a series of new factories in the vicinity, such as canneries, dairies, meat factories and so on.
And now there is a long queue at the door of almost every factory.
These long dragons are all foreign merchants who come to Qianshan City to buy goods.
Now a large number of goods are produced here every day, and then transported from here to the freight yard at the southern foot of the Luhe River.
There, the convoys will be refurbished and then wait until the owners return from the Thousand Mountains City before meeting and departing.
Out of Qianshan City, all the way to the south, or all the way to the west, to transport these goods produced in Qianshan City to various places.
Yang Yinuan had only been in Qianshan City for one day, and briefly listened to Yang Yuanqing's report on the current development of Qianshan City.
Then he was ready to set off again, and the place he was going to was Qixingzhai.
It is the outpost of Thousand Hills City and the military fortress of Thousand Hills City.
He had arranged for Grande to train there before, and listened to Yang Yuanqing.
Qixingzhai has also been built now, and because of the surge in the population of Qianshan City.
As a result, the number of troops on Grande's side is also a strong expansion.
Previously, because of the large number of foreign populations pouring into Qianshan City, Yang Yuanqing discussed the issue of city management with Grande many times.
Earlier, there were 2,000 soldiers stationed in the pass fortress of Thousand Mountains City.
Because it was the plan formulated by Yang Yinuan and Yang Yuanqing at the earliest, as well as Grande.
They only plan to raise 5,000 soldiers at most.
You must know that at that time, their assumption was that after the completion of Qianshan City, the population would exceed 100,000, which was already a big mark.
And a population of 100,000 is actually struggling to feed 50,000 soldiers.
You must know that these are the real off-duty soldiers.
It is completely different from the ancient history of Blue Star, which claimed to be hundreds of thousands of troops at every turn.
In fact, 90 percent of those armies of hundreds of thousands at every turn in ancient times were homeless.
The remaining tens of thousands of people are also half-soldiers and half-peasants, peasants in peacetime and soldiers in war.
Speaking of combat effectiveness, it is really hard to describe.
And he, the 5,000 soldiers, is a real off-duty soldier.
In peacetime, except for the upper body fighting, it is training, and it is not important to do any labor production at all, and it is a real war machine.
Therefore, feeding such 5,000 soldiers is actually quite stressful for a small city of his size.
If it weren't for Yang Yinuan, the city lord who could continuously get supplies from the modern blue star.
If you change to someone else, you want to raise such an army, it is definitely impossible.
However, it is precisely because Qianshan City has its own advantages that they can afford to raise such a completely demobilized army.
Especially with the modern industry of Qianshan City, after gradually taking shape, making money has soared.
Feeding five thousand people is naturally not a problem, and with the influx of more and more people into Thousand Mountain City.
Yang Yuanqing also discussed with Grande before, and finally decided to increase the number of troops to 10,000.
In addition, 10,000 reservists are being raised, that is, semi-full-time soldiers.
With the development and growth of Qianshan City, Yang Yuanqing's sense of crisis is also getting stronger and stronger.
Especially after Yang Yinuan came back from visiting Yanyun Sixteen Cities last time.
This visit seems to have been successful and connected with the sixteen cities of Yanyun, and Yang Yinuan was also invited to participate in the western expedition of the coalition army.
But Yang Yuanqing always felt that something was wrong here.
What if this expedition to the west fails?
Let's participate in the Western Expedition, it is not safe for Yang Yinuan to bring fewer people, bring more people to go, with their current strength in Qianshan City, it is not enough to ensure logistics.
And if Yang Yinuan takes the large army away, won't their Thousand Mountain City be very empty?
So after thinking about it again, he discussed it with Grande and finally decided to expand the army!
So now the number of regular troops on the Qixingzhai side has soared to 10,000, and 10,000 reserves have also been prepared.
This time, Yang Yinuan went to Qixingzhai, and he also had some meaning of review, he really wanted to see how Grande trained these soldiers during this time!