In the palace of diligent government

The General Staff Headquarters of the Army is making a report on the current situation in North America, which involves the military's combat readiness arrangements, mobilization and cooperation with the Kingdom's immigration policy, etc., which is quite rich in content and has a lot of dry materials.

“……

The general offensive of the Northern Army did not achieve the expected results, which more than stimulated the sensitive nerves of the American Federation, and they invested too much for this civil war, and the South could not afford to lose, and the North could not afford to lose.

So from November 2nd

The U.S. Senate and House of Representatives passed the Third National Military Mobilization Bill, which President James Buchanan formally signed, intending to double the strength of the Northern Army from the current 700,000 to 1.5 million.

The corresponding governments of the Confederate States responded by adopting a new round of national military mobilization orders at a rapid pace, in an effort to increase the number of troops to 1.1 million in a short period of time, and to respond with a tough stance to the pressure of the North to expand the war.

In view of the fact that the current situation in North America is spiraling out of control, the Army General Staff Headquarters has drafted a targeted military expansion plan to deal with the current crisis in North America.

The plan was approved by the Council and sent to His Majesty.

The Army Expansion Plan will be implemented in two steps;

First, the 186,000 mainland recruits currently being trained at the Salt Lake City military base will gradually enter the field forces in various places to strengthen their strength from this month, which will bring the total number of land forces in the kingdom to 300,000.

The specific distribution is as follows;

All 12 first-class divisions in the country have been expanded, with 6,300~6,500 people in the three-regiment system, and further expanded to five regiments, and each division will retain an additional recruit supplementary regiment and training battalion, and the total strength of the expanded first-class field division will be about 12,000.

At present, all 16 B-level divisions in the country have been replenished, and the scale of 6,500 personnel must be fully equipped, and wartime training will be strengthened.

At present, there are 7 C-level fortress garrison divisions in the country, and all the shortfall in the number of soldiers has been filled, reaching the scale of 4,200 people and strengthening training.

The Royal Janissary Army has added three new first-class field cavalry divisions, namely the Royal Oregon Cavalry Division, the Royal Colorado Cavalry Division, and the Royal Omaha Cavalry Division, with a total of 12,000 personnel in each division.

Through the above initiatives

It will be able to absorb the existing 186,000 mainland recruits, and the new establishment of each division will be completed by the end of the year, and through combined training, it is expected that they will have full combat effectiveness by March next year.

The second step was to further increase the investment in training new soldiers on the mainland, and to intensify the efforts to transport troops across the ocean, with the intention of reaching the goal of sending 25,000 troops to North America every month by the end of 1858.

So

By the end of June next year, the kingdom will be able to muster some 180,000 well-trained troops, plus the 50,000 mobilized militia on Paradise Island, bringing the number of troops ready to use at any time to 230,000.

Combined, the total size of the two troops can reach 530,000, which is enough to deal with the current chaos in North America.

...... at this stage"

The Chief of Staff, Lord Dai Changfu, read at length the military's mobilization plan, and from his calm tone, he could hear the storm that was about to sweep through North America.

This plan took into account the basic policy of the Tang Kingdom to focus on economic construction, and tried to recruit soldiers from the increase in immigrants as much as possible, and could not disrupt the plan to introduce more than 1.35 million immigrants in 1859.

The new round of large-scale construction boom of the royal government requires more labor from the mainland to maintain the momentum of rapid economic development and achieve an overall jump in the scale of the economy.

Taking advantage of the current North American Civil War, we will surpass and further widen the gap between the total economic output of the United States and the northern United States, and move towards a higher goal.

The military aims to send 25,000 new recruits to the North American continent every month, or 300,000 a year, which places higher demands on the current ability to migrate across oceans.

The extra 300,000 mainland recruits this year will be realized by the 10,000-ton migrant ships that are working day and night in the dockyard, and these behemoths of the world's oceans can comfortably transport 4,200 immigrants at a time, providing enough spacious personal space.

If you squeeze it a little, you can fit 6,000 people, but the living environment is much worse.

According to the calculation that each ship runs 6 voyages per year, only more than 10 10,000-ton migrant ships are needed to complete the average annual transportation task of 300,000 migrants, which is amazing and can greatly reduce the cost of shipping companies.

There are more than 370 steam freighters, 53 professional immigration ships and 11 cruise ships running on the two golden migration routes across the Pacific North Line and the Central Line, all of which are medium and large iron steam ships of more than 3,000 tons to more than 6,000 tons, and they are also the most powerful transoceanic capacity in the world today.

Now

There are 21 10,000-ton migrant ships and large cargo ships under construction in major shipyards along the coast, of which 5 are migrant ships, four of which are ordered by the Royal Pacific Steamship Company, the largest ocean shipping company controlled by the royal family, and will be put into the Pacific migration route.

According to the Royal Pacific Steamship Company plan;

Some migrant ships and cruise ships with smaller tonnage will be put into operation on the route from the southern provinces of the mainland to New Xi'an, or the route from Paradise Island New Xi'an to Donggang, Hawaii to Los Angeles, and Los Angeles to Central America or South America coastal routes, so as to rationally allocate capacity.

The 10,000-ton large migrant ship is used for the direct route of New Xi'an or Donggang to Los Angeles, so that the utilization rate of large migrant ships will increase linearly, and it can achieve one round trip per month and 12 voyages per year.

Richard sat on the throne, and after Lord Dai Changfu's tirade report, he gently tapped the eucalyptus with his hand to remind some distracted cabinet officials to concentrate, and then said;

"As the military said, the current civil war situation in North America has rapidly slipped out of control, with a larger and larger scale and wider battlefields, and it is not surprising that it has affected the Tang Kingdom.

In this case

It is necessary to strengthen armaments, defend the country, and convey a clear message to the vast number of subjects and our neighbors that the Tang Kingdom is sacred and inviolable, and it is imperative to expand the army.

The military's plan for military expansion is rigorously demonstrated and highly feasible, and if there is no objection to it, then it will be promulgated and implemented immediately.

If there are different opinions, put them forward now and have a targeted discussion, what do you think? ”

The hall was silent for a while, and a group of cabinet officials began to whisper in private, and the Prime Minister Earl Gu Yan and the Minister of Finance Viscount Huang Yuanqing met silently, and Viscount Huang Yuanqing walked out hard-headed and said after giving a salute;

"Your Majesty;

Wei Chen still has a trace of concern, mainly related to the military appropriation in 1859, as well as a series of issues such as the military's wanton squandering of military expenditures, and the need for the emperor to question Chief Dai in person? ”

No way

The expansion of the army is always unable to bypass the word "money", and as the Minister of Finance, Viscount Huang Yuanqing has an unshirkable responsibility, so he can only start the cannon.

was named, and Lord Dai Changfu could only stand up, but his face was not very good-looking, and he glanced at Viscount Huang Yuanqing fiercely with his eyes, and Viscount Huang Yuanqing didn't see it.

Joke, everyone's position is different, and I'm not obligated to wipe your ass for the War Department.

Richard's gaze swept over the two people who stood up from His Highness, and said in a surging tone; "In that case, let's ask the Imperial Front."

In the Imperial Council

Proposals agreed upon by the Cabinet are generally passed smoothly, signed by His Majesty, stamped with the jade seal by the Minister in charge of the Seals, and then implemented by the whole country.

If there is still any doubt, it will be resolved through the royal inquiry, and His Majesty will sign the decree after the final decision, and the minister in charge of the seal will affix the jade seal, and then order the whole country to implement it as a whole.

There is one more procedure, but there are many more swords and swords in the dark court, and there is an internal battle.

Viscount Huang Yuanqing didn't look at Lord Dai Changfu who was standing beside him, since he stood up, he was ready to wipe off his face with the military.

Therefore, after saluting respectfully, he said;

"Your Majesty;

Wechen questioned whether he was suspected of wantonly squandering military expenditures and increasing the financial burden.

as everyone knows

Mainland recruit training is made up of two parts, one for mainland refugees and one for the Salt Lake City military base.

Of this year's 197,000 mainland recruits, there is a great deal of waste and unreasonable expenditure.

The Ministry of Finance found that it was audited;

As of November 20 this year, 83,000 of the 197,000 mainland recruits had been trained for more than one year, 51,200 had been trained for more than 10 months, 43,300 had been trained for more than eight months, and the rest had been trained for more than six months.

I would like to ask Lord Dai Changfu, even if the training target is a peasant who has never held a gun, does it really take so long to train?

If the military spends an additional 9.3 million yuan on this aspect alone, is there any suspicion of over-training?

Question 2;

Recruit training on the mainland is less expensive, so why do you have to get military training for a long time at the Salt Lake City military base, can't you do it all on the mainland?

According to the calculations of the Ministry of Finance, if a recruit who has completed all four months of military training on the mainland arrives in North America and is directly dispatched to the field unit after no more than one month of adaptive training and transition, each recruit will spend at least 67 yuan less.

If you count 300,000 people, this amount is as high as more than 2,000,000 yuan, and this is almost equivalent to 29% of the kingdom's financial revenue in 1858, which is not a small amount!

Moreover, in the Salt Lake City military base, the military has put forward extremely high requirements for the army food that participates in field training, with high-end food including cattle, sheep and canned fish, and the cavalry troops even have to use the reserve of field beef jerky, is this kind of lavish squandering really necessary?

The chaos of the military's various expenditures, which increases by several million dollars a year, must be ruthlessly killed in this vice of extravagance and waste, and it is simply a crooked tendency.

Also, nepotism is prevalent in the military, and now there are military people who have reached out to procure materials......"

It's really not that I don't know, but I'm shocked.

Viscount Huang Yuanqing couldn't stop the car once he started spraying, and Dai Changfu, the chief of staff who sprayed, had cold sweat on his forehead, and his face was as black as the bottom of a pot, so he almost opened his mouth to curse.

But this is an interrogation in front of the emperor, and if you give him two more dares, you won't dare to mess around, Your Majesty is a god-like figure in the Tang Kingdom, suppressing the Quartet, and no one dares to jump around.

Is there a problem with the military?

There must be, Lian Zhan Lianjie brings blind confidence and arrogance, and his temper is a lot bigger.

When I was out in the war, I robbed and robbed smoothly, and it was difficult to stop my hands and feet for a while when I returned to China, and there were cases of stretching out my hands everywhere, but it was not common.

As for the use of canned meat and field dry food for field training, that is a practice that is on par with actual combat, and this situation is not common, but it is indeed a bit excessive.

What age is it?

The Russian soldiers also ate black bread mixed with sawdust and rice bran, and the American soldiers in the north were hungry and full of battles when they could not be supplied.

When Viscount Huang Yuanqing finished spraying, everyone's eyes fell on Lord Dai Changfu, which gave him great pressure.

But all the pressure of everyone added up, and it was not half of the sharp gaze from the throne, which seemed to penetrate the bottom of his heart, and for no reason Lord Dai Changfu had a layer of white sweat on his back, and his legs and stomach were a little tendoned.

He hurriedly thought about what to do, and replied after saluting respectfully to the throne;

"Your Majesty;

Wechen believes that the statement of the Ministry of Finance is untrue and exaggerated, and even smears the Royal Army with partial generalizations, and implores His Majesty to learn from it.

Article 1 Matters of military training;

Originally, it was divided into two parts, the mainland and the Salt Lake City military base, but due to the huge number of personnel involved and the limited ability of the kingdom to migrate across the ocean, it had to be transported to North America in batches, and then unified into the Salt Lake City military base for the joint training of the whole battalion and the whole regiment.

From a military point of view

This kind of joint training is very necessary, and it will help to condense the scattered soldiers into an iron fist and greatly improve the combat effectiveness of the battalion and regiment.

As for the argument of over-training, it is purely unjust, the military must obey the military and political plans of the kingdom, obey the situation in North America, and be able to immediately come up with an army full of high morale when needed.

If the kingdom enters into an alliance with the South this year, the military will have enough strength to send troops at the right time to deal a heavy blow to the Chicago area from the north.

The political interaction at the upper echelons of the kingdom is a quantitative amount that the military cannot accurately grasp, and to accuse the military of overtraining with this is unfair to Wechen, and implore His Majesty to learn from it.

Looking back now

When formulating the plan, the military department really did not take into account the problem of wasting military expenditures, and the ministers and the staff headquarters were willing to take responsibility for this.

The military ministry can guarantee that the vast majority of military training will be completed on the mainland in the future, and that the relevant expenses will be reduced as much as possible, and it is hoped that it will be able to have in-depth discussions with the Ministry of Finance on this issue and reach a plan that is satisfactory to both sides.

In addition, in 1858, the military had trained and received a total of 197,000 continental recruits to land in North America, a figure that is beyond doubt.

However, the Ministry of Finance's statistics are often calculated at 300,000 yuan, which exaggerates the scale of expenditure, which is an unfair fact.

In the military training in Salt Lake City, some troops did carry out severe desert training, which was the closest to actual combat field training, which required 20 days to walk through the 720-kilometer Gobi Desert and mountains, fighting while walking, and breaking through the encirclement all the way, which greatly tested the fighting spirit and morale of the soldiers.

In order to maximize the amount of food carried by individual soldiers, there have been cases where canned meat and field beef jerky have been used, but I can assure Your Majesty that this is by no means universal.

In future training

The military department will strictly control expenditures, strictly prohibit the use of reserve food under non-actual combat conditions, severely deal with a group of officers involved, and beg His Majesty to learn from it. ”

Lord Dai Changfu, chief of staff of the army, has not been an official in vain over the years, and the general successive fights have made people feel that it is not a big problem, and the Ministry of Finance is suspected of making a big fuss.

But under the sharp gaze of His Majesty, Lord Dai Changfu still lowered his head a little ashamedly.

It's not easy for these arrogant soldiers of the military to have so many hills, and he has to balance when he sits in the position of chief of staff.

Although the situation is not as serious as the Ministry of Finance said, it does expose many problems, such as the fact that there is a problem of indiscriminate hand, and there is a tendency to proliferate.

However, as the head of the military department, Lord Dai Changfu did not want to expose these problems to other ministers, and after he went back, the military department closed the door and solved it by himself to deal with these dark scars and sores.

For the soldiers of the Tang Empire, honor is more important than life.

If you really want to be invited to drink coffee by the Independent Commission Against Corruption, which has just become independent, then it is better to die clean, and lose all the dead.

Lord Dai Changfu wanted to cover the lid, but Viscount Huang Yuanqing didn't like him, and directly took out the data from the Ministry of Finance's investigation, and refuted it reasonably.

Since the fire has been fired, the troops will not be withdrawn unless they are victorious.

This is not an action of the Ministry of Finance alone, but an action with the acquiescence and support of the Prime Minister Gu Yan, and some government departments are not accustomed to the power of the military, but the Ministry of Finance is the leader.

After some rhetoric in the court, Lord Dai Changfu could only admit that the military was indeed guilty of poor scheduling, flawed planning and extravagance, and said that he would severely purge the lawless officers and cut off their outstretched hands.

Until the end, Lord Dai Changfu adhered to the bottom line of being investigated and handled by the military internally.

The soldier's dedication to honor is difficult for outsiders to understand.

"Okay, now that the debate has been clear, the next step is for the military, the Ministry of Finance and the Ministry of the Interior to form a joint review team to conduct a financial review of the corresponding military expenditures and deal with the relevant officials." Richard, who sat on the throne, listened for a long time, and finally made a decision.

His gaze looked directly at Lord Dai Changfu, and he said coldly with great pressure; "The 1859 recruit and training plan of the military department is passable, but if you are allowed to sit in this position, you must arrange things properly, and not put the blame on someone else.

There will be a next time, and I will not be spared. ”

The tone of these words was so stern that Lord Dai Changfu's legs were so weak that he almost sat down, and he curtsied, and replied in a cold sweat; "Weichen should die, he will never dare to live a chaotic life anymore, he must follow the holy precepts, and make drastic moves to eliminate the scum in the army, and be optimistic about this army for His Majesty."

"Well, it's not early today, this king is tired, so let's stop here for the imperial meeting."

After Richard finished speaking, he stood up, turned around with a flick of his sleeves and left, leaving only a group of whispering cabinet ministers and Lord Dai Changfu with a bitter face.

No need to ask

After this duke returns, it will definitely be a thunderbolt method, venting the suffering suffered in front of the emperor today ten times and a hundred times on his subordinates, and many officers who stretch out their hands indiscriminately will be unlucky.

The tiger is not powerful, is it really a sick cat to be the chief of staff?

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