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Due to the two years of war in the Shikoku Prefecture, many Japanese died, fled, and were thrown into prison camps, immigrated to Qiongdao Prefecture, Sichuan Prefecture, and even recently sold out a population of several 10. There are only 110 million people. Compared with the previous base of 400 million, this is already very small. Based on the previous population of nearly 200 million, many places have been vacated, and the follow-up additions are militias and troops, and The natives of Southeast Asia and Nanyang cannot make up for the population gap.

Therefore, the cabinet decided where to immigrate 30 Han people. Of course, these people are Han people who were naturalized from ethnic minorities, and some family members of prisoners.

After these people immigrate, Xinlu Prefecture will also immigrate 50 people. At the same time, the 200 million Japanese people in Xinlu Prefecture will immigrate 20 people. , Southeast Asia has a population of 20 plus 5 family members. These populations will form militia troops to strengthen the troops there.

It is mainly the three conquered small countries in Southeast Asia, with vast land and sparse population, high mountains and dense forests, and a large number of people must be filled in. The original indigenous population was 2000 million, but now nearly a million people have died, 30 million people have disappeared, and nearly 500 people have been immigrated to the mainland. 10 million, and hundreds of thousands immigrated to Treasure Island. The specifics are unclear, and hundreds of thousands immigrated to Amami Island of the third prince, Xinlu Prefecture, and Shikoku Island have a population of several 800, and a population of nearly [-] million.

They were captured as captives to build roads, dig mountains, and dig rivers, and nearly 500 million people died. In this way, there are still a few million people left. The population of the generation is more than 800 million, but it is still not enough to cover the territory where they are located, forming an absolute majority, because some places are too difficult, and it is impossible for the population who immigrated to the deep mountains and forests to reach them. They died of illness and were killed, so the population of immigrants in the past was concentrated in big cities, big towns, and remote areas were actually captives plus militias, and a small number of people who had adapted for several years lived here.

Now the speed of immigration is much faster. A state road leads from the original central Jinhua to the locations of various state capitals, and then the government roads lead to the locations of various county towns. The carriages of the Huaxia Army, one car with four horses, if they run at full speed , you can reach the next stop quickly, and run nearly a hundred miles at a time. The wide road is flat and unobstructed, which improves the travel speed.

A convoy can transport tens of thousands of people to the border between a small Southeast Asian country and Yunnan Prefecture in a month, and then change into a smaller horse-drawn carriage to drive on narrower and poor-quality roads. At most, it will take three months. It can transport 1 people from Jinling Prefecture to any place in the country of various small Southeast Asian countries.

The construction of state roads and government roads makes troop transport very fast. A troop can quickly travel from one state capital to another state capital. It can pass through two or three state capitals in ten days and reach any nearby state capital for a battle. local reinforcements.

There is only one garrison brigade in each state capital, but through state highways, other state capitals can quickly send a regiment of troops to reinforce another state capital.

The time is only three to seven days.

It takes three days to go to the state capital of the opponent, two days to the capital where the incident happened, two days to reach the county capital where the battle took place, and then a few hours to reach the battle site.

These roads and horse-drawn carriages are used to transport immigrants, and the speed is still very fast. Basically, the immigrants are transported in a little more than three months, and the fourth month is when the local people arrange for the immigrants to go to the place where they will live.

For the cabinet, the decision on this matter does not take as long to consider and prepare as it did in the past. It takes one or two years to complete. Now it only takes four to five months from decision to completion.

Zhang Qiang quickly approved these application documents and approved the implementation.

Then look at the battle in Sishan Prefecture. He Tengjiao has been determined to be captured and is on his way to Jinling. It will take about a month to arrive, and then the cabinet will deal with him.

The Fengwuyu Corps of Sishan Prefecture has already occupied more than half of Sishan Prefecture, and there are still 300 million people there. These people have to be transported to the nearby Yungui Prefecture for education for a period of time, and then screened. An estimated 100 million returned home, disrupted and redistributed to places where Japanese immigrants and indigenous Southeast Asian immigrants had been resettled, as well as Chinese captives elsewhere.

The territory of the rest of the Dashun Army has been completely occupied. Xiao Fei's regiment dispatched a field brigade to take over the guard there, freeing up the troops of Feng Wuyu's regiment to attack Shang Kexi's entrenched area near Kangding and place in Yunnan Province.

Chongqing Prefecture has basically stabilized. In addition to Chengdu Prefecture, which has been recovered and resettled some Han population, the total population is more than 900 million.

All immigrants and captives.

The cabinet has mobilized nearly 200 million Han Chinese from Shandong, Anhui, and Hubei, where they are the second and third generations of Huaxia youths.

Up to now, the second and third generations in the country have basically used up the population that must be left behind. If you want to immigrate, you have to immigrate the population of the ethnic groups that were immigrated. This is the cabinet's last resort. of.

Zhang Qiang’s suggestion is to immigrate the first-generation population. They immigrated from other places. The second and third generations have already got used to the life there, so there is no need to worry about it. They will be the real Han population in the future, but the first generation How can a generation forget the hatred of destroying the family, let them go to a new place to fend for themselves.

Soon the birth of the second and third generations of the Han people will re-cover the place after their death and fill the air. Now they are just used to occupy the territory.

Of course, for those first-generation people who really returned, the Huaxia Kingdom did not move them after screening. Only those people who appeared slimmer were moved. This will take a period of monitoring and screening.

After solving these matters, Zhang Qiang went to the Jinling Artillery Factory one month later to study with the people there how to equip the new warship with more powerful artillery.

The new ship and new guns are faster and more powerful than the enemy, suitable for long-term sea voyages, and easy to chase and fight with the enemy for a long time. This is what Zhang Qiang wants.

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I came to the Artillery Shipyard. As the Artillery Shipyard near the capital, it has become the top artillery research institution of the Huaxia Kingdom because it has brought in researchers, top craftsmen and chief planners from Xianju County.

This institution is also equipped with an artillery production factory. This model is similar to the top research department of the 80s in the later generations of China. There are many research institutes in a research base, and each research institute is equipped with a workshop, but each base is one aspect. For example, tank manufacturing is equipped with a tank-related research institute, and then there is a huge factory, the research institute is responsible for theoretical research, the research institute workshop is responsible for making samples, and the factory is responsible for transforming the production line for production.

So this artillery research institution is also equipped with a factory.

The top artillery developed by the Huaxia Army's research institute is also a front-mounted rapid artillery.There is no room for improvement in quality, it has reached the top level, and the gun mount can no longer be improved, and it will become a modern artillery, so the current research direction is rear loading, although there are some The sample was installed in the troops, but it still couldn't escape the style of the Portuguese's Franc cannon.

That is to say, Zhang Qiang's steelmaking has reached a certain level before, so the quality of some artillery can be improved on the basis of the iron mold casting method. When the chamber pressure is sufficient, the artillery can be fired farther. Thanks to the help of granular gunpowder, The rate of fire has increased a bit, and the number of shells fired by one artillery is higher. Others fired [-] shells and they were seriously worn out. They only fired [-] shells to show serious wear and tear. At the same time, the total number of shells fired was more than others. But [-], the barrel must be scrapped, and they can still use [-].

However, when it reaches 100 pieces of artillery, it will be replaced, and then sold to some Nanyang businessmen at a low price, and they will fire more than [-] pieces. If you still want to use it, you have to worry about exploding the chamber.

Of course, the officials under Zhang Qiang would not tell them that at such a low price, sometimes people in the Huaxia Kingdom would rather remake it than sell it for a higher price.

But this time Zhang Qiang came and heard the good news, that is, a craftsman mixed some other metals, which improved the quality of the cannon by more than 50 pieces, which made Zhang Qiang very happy, and immediately ordered him to reward him, and raised his craftsman level , originally he was only a second-level craftsman, this time he was promoted to a third-level craftsman, so he didn't need to take the exam.

However, this does not increase the attack power of the artillery.

It’s useless not to hit the ship, Zhang Qiang still thinks about how to improve the accuracy of the artillery. He needs to use rifling, but the rifling and the round solid shell can’t match, so he can only paint a layer of paint on it to achieve the sealing effect. At this time, the artillery is actually still front-mounted.

Zhang Qiang was a little depressed.

He took people to the ironworks. The ironworks had already refined a lot of high-quality gun iron, and they were casting a small amount of artillery in the most economical way.

Build guns for the front-line army, because many of the navy's artillery are new, and because Zhang Qiang sold a lot of ships, many artillery from previous years have been dismantled and sealed, and the navy does not need new ones to replace the old ones, anyway, there are not so many In war, the most intense movement of thousands of warships is a patrol at sea for several months.

On the way to patrol, fire a few shots so that recruits and veterans will not forget the sound of the cannons, just to get acquainted with the craft, how many old cannons will be worn out?

Only the First Fleet has a lot of battles and needs a lot of guns, but this time it sold a lot of warships, warships, and dismantled a lot of artillery. The warships and warships sold to Zheng Chenggong, of course, cannot be used by the navy of the Huaxia Army. The battleship looks the same as the warship, and he has to dismantle a few cannons, and some cannons are also dismantled in some less critical positions.

Originally, the first-class battleship had 110 artillery pieces, which was a battleship of more than 300 tons. After several modifications, many places added a lot of artillery pieces. This time, after dismantling, the entire battleship actually only had 68 pieces of artillery pieces. , and replaced the heavy guns at the bow and stern, and the bottom layer with [-]-pounder guns, and the top ones were replaced with nine-pounder guns and six-pounder guns. The largest gun installed on the bow was an [-]-pounder gun.

As for artillery above [-] pounders, the Huaxia Kingdom would not sell it to Zheng Chenggong. If he dismantled it and used it to attack a seaside garrison on Treasure Island, wouldn't the Huaxia Kingdom seek death by itself?

The dismantled heavy guns were placed in the successively completed harbor forts to serve as coastal artillery.

The accuracy of the artillery on the ship is something that Zhang Qiang has been worried about, and the range of the artillery is also something that Zhang Qiang is very embarrassed about.

With Du Ge's rebellion, the old artillerymen who were retired from Xianju County he recruited have copied artillery in Siam that is similar to that of the Huaxia Army. A recent document shows that it is not as good as the Huaxia Kingdom except in terms of quality. In addition, the artillery equipped on Dutch and British ships today is actually very close to the artillery of the Chinese Army five years ago.

But five years ago, now, in fact, the artillery research of the Huaxia Army has not progressed, only some small details have been changed, the gun mount has been changed, the improvement is not big, the rate of fire of a shell, the accuracy rate has increased by 5.00%, which is more accurate than before The Huaxia Army's artillery, which has a rate of almost 12.00%, will not be able to change the situation of the battle if it encounters a large-scale naval battle.

海上火炮对轰一般是200多米到300米距离上，如果是西方人的乙级战列舰过来，24磅重炮的射程能达到两千400米远，直射也能达到350米到400米远。

The actual distance of bombardment at sea is 300 meters to 400 meters, the direct distance.

The general combat distance is about 300 meters. This is for the British, the Spaniards are only 180 meters away, and the Dutch are similar. If you don’t use larger guns with more than 180 pounds of artillery, then the general combat distance is 200 meters. At a distance of [-] meters, this is the farthest distance between the British, the Dutch, and the Spaniards.

But after the emergence of the Huaxia Kingdom, the technology of the Huaxia Army flowed out, and the technology of the enemy also improved, and it must have improved faster than that of the Ming Dynasty. Now the Qing Dynasty cannot produce the advanced artillery of the Huaxia Army, and can only be upgraded to the Ming Dynasty. The technical level at the time of its demise, and the weapons and equipment imitating the Huaxia Kingdom, were only raised to the level of the early Qing Dynasty.

So the Qing army is actually not the main opponent of the Huaxia Kingdom whether it is on sea or on land. The main opponents of the Huaxia Kingdom are now traitors and Thais. Trade with Southeast Asian countries, the British, and the Dutch, and accept some Nanyang smugglers from the Huaxia Kingdom. Others basically do not come head-to-head with the Huaxia Kingdom.

This is directly related to their decline in the West. Now that it is almost the eighteenth century, they are basically busy fighting with the British, fighting with the French, playing with the Holy Roman Empire, and the 30 Years War.

With the decline of Spain, the British began to rule the world, and their footsteps were getting closer and closer to the Kingdom of China.

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Zhang Qiang is very disgusted with these Thai and Western people, and he is also disgusted with the decadent Ming Dynasty, not to mention the Qing Dynasty. With some brotherhood, he didn't want to have much to do with him, just to restrain him, at this moment he thought of killing him immediately.

At the same time, he feels disgusted by those traitors who use the technology of later generations and the technology he knows without any scheming and immediately show it off for those greedy officials and businessmen to use. He is only willing to use it. These technologies improve the living and fighting standards of Han people or those kind-hearted Han people, and we don’t want to let these technologies fall into the hands of other Han people or aliens who think about calculating you all day long. Good technology must be for present or future generations Emerged from the rise of China.

So he has been suppressing the emergence of some technologies. Once the technologies are lost, they must be tracked down, wiped out, and retrieve those technologies. But he also knows that there are some things that cannot be completely covered up. , and slowly let the enemy get some backward technology, Zhang Qiang felt comfortable.

Ironworks steel is still good.