Aspirations for Nation and Beauty Chapter 2: Iron Horse Glacier Section 46 New Economy…

Although it is determined that the policy of the empire in 701 will focus on economic development and adjustment, it does not mean that all military operations that can bring benefits to the empire must be stopped. Wufeng is not so narrow, which is why he Why did he use a sentence full of ambiguities as the arrangement for the garrison plan in the Central Mainland, so many officials of the Government Affairs Council thought that His Majesty the Emperor was simply telling Cui Wenxiu that he could act freely.

Economic development is the mainstream, but the necessary military operations still have to continue, at best, the scale is controlled. Leaving aside the Central Continent, Wufeng on the Eastern Continent alone is not prepared to let it go. The Japanese pretended to be deaf to the demands of the empire but still hoped that the empire would lift the ban. This made Wufeng very angry. The imperial navy construction plan is in full swing Advance, the marine division has also expanded to a considerable scale, relying on training alone will never be able to create a strong navy, Wufeng has long warned Lei Cangpu, don't begrudge a battle, even if necessary, even lose half of it The belongings of the entire fleet are not spared.

The Imperial Great Eastern Navy once had a very good opportunity, which was to use Wufeng to attract pirates who colluded with the Japanese Navy. The mysterious whereabouts of the pirates and whether the Japanese navy will fall into this trap is not sure, so this plan was abolished. It only used an ambush to destroy part of the strength of the Japanese pirates, but it was not able to communicate with the Japanese navy. get started.

Nowadays, the Japanese still control Baodao, Kamchatka Island and Shuqiu Islands, especially the Japanese people in Baodao and Kamchatka Islands are stepping up immigration and colonization. There are not many Tang people in the two islands, but now Under the full-scale immigration management of the Japanese people, there have been signs of Japaneseization. Wufeng is very worried that if this situation continues, it may become more and more serious. And if the Imperial Navy continues to sit back and watch, it will undoubtedly make the battle for recovery in the future more difficult.

The five divisions of the Marine Corps are all deployed in the eastern coastal area. High-intensity and targeted landing combat training is underway. The Imperial Navy and the War Readiness Department are actively building large transport ships along the long coastline from Okhotsk in the north to Quanzhou in the south. At this time, it can show the strong economy of the Empire. The benefits brought by strength, with an order, Dengzhou Sailing, Jiangnan Shipyard, Southeast Shipyard and the restructured Nanyang Shipyard have all begun to build large-scale transport ships that do not have as high technical requirements as large military ships. Almost every month there are more than Twelve transport ships were launched into the Imperial War Preparedness Department, and the Logistics Department under the Privy Council was also actively recruiting sailors and crew members who were familiar with the situation in the Atlantic Ocean. Various reconnaissance fleets also began to be active in various waters of the Atlantic Ocean. Its purpose is self-evident, which makes the Japanese side also panic, and the grass and trees are all soldiers.

The Navy has also come up with two preliminary plans. The first plan is to take back the Shuqiu Islands, where the Japanese anti-dumping force is weakest, cut off the connection between the Crescent Peninsula and Kamchatka Island and Treasure Island, then Xu Tu Kamchatka Island and the Crescent Peninsula, and finally seize Treasure Island.

The difficulty of this plan is relatively small in the early stage, and the imperial navy of the Shuqiu Islands is already quite sure. , as long as the implementation of surprise landing. It should be expected to win the Shuqiu Islands. Taking the Shuqiu Islands actually controls the Cook Islands in a disguised form. The defense force of the Cook Islands is even weaker than that of the Shuqiu Islands. It can be won in one go, but after controlling Shuqiu and Cook Islands, the connection between the Crescent Peninsula and the mainland of Japan will be cut off, and the empire can flexibly choose the Crescent Peninsula and Kamchatka Island as landing targets. However, the implementation of this plan is not difficult in the early stage, but it may make the Japanese people more vigilant. It is quite difficult to launch a surprise attack on Kamchatka Island and the Crescent Peninsula, especially Treasure Island, where there are many Japanese garrisons. The Japanese who are prepared will definitely strengthen the defenses of these places, and the later attack is quite difficult.

The second plan is centered on recovering Treasure Island, attracting the attention of the Japanese through feints in the early stage, and then implementing a large-scale forced landing operation on Treasure Island. This plan is more complicated and demanding. Now the Japanese have more than 80,000 troops stationed in Baodao, second only to the troops stationed on the Crescent Peninsula. To carry out landing operations here, one needs to prevent the Japanese from realizing the intention of landing operations and carry out cross-sea landings. It is necessary to avoid the interception of the Japanese navy. Third, the landing army needs to support tenaciously with inferior forces for a long time after landing until the arrival of the second wave of landing forces. Therefore, the risk of this plan is quite high. Of course, if it succeeds, the effect will be quite obvious. Recapturing Treasure Island will not only allow the Great Eastern Navy to gain an important base in the hinterland of the Great Eastern Ocean, directly threatening the Japanese mainland, but more importantly, it can increase the morale of the country and build the confidence of the Imperial Navy.

The battle plan of the Imperial Navy was submitted to the Imperial Privy Council Staff Department for research, and finally it was handed over to Wufeng. From the bottom of Wufeng's heart, he certainly hoped to take back the treasure island that the people of the empire paid the most attention to first, but The problem before us is that if the Imperial Navy’s landing operation on Treasure Island fails, it will be an unprecedented blow to the entire Imperial Navy and the Empire’s future recovery of the islands in the eastern sea. This is a war that cannot be lost. Wufeng is more embarrassing than anyone else, and failure may even cause the people to lose confidence in the navy and become a conservative land power again.

It is precisely because he knows the key to this point that Wufeng hopes to adopt the second plan, but he would rather let the navy do more preparation time to perfect this plan than blindly implement it.

Through the imperial capital and local news media, the empire has successively announced the construction of infrastructure and agricultural and water conservancy facilities that the empire will carry out within one to three years, which has won thunderous applause from all walks of life in the empire.

The business community is gratified that the empire has invested heavily in improving transportation infrastructure, which indicates that the empire will fulfill the promise made by Wufeng, unswervingly encourage the development of industry and commerce, and use practical measures to prove this point.

The construction of two deep-water ports on the Baltic Sea will greatly improve the import and export channels of goods and materials in the Indian region and even the entire Mid-Continent region, and the southern passage across the Indian region will make Indian The southern region and Northern Luzon are more closely connected, and the channel between Northern Luzon and the Northwest has already been built as a traffic artery with the best road conditions in the empire. It only takes 20 days for a carriage from the imperial capital to reach Shuangwei. This passage across the southern part of India was completed, and it only took about forty days to reach the coastal area from the imperial capital.

The expansion and reconstruction of the traffic road network running through Main County and Central South County is also an important measure for the empire to consolidate the empire's rule over the peninsula and the southwestern region and develop the economies of these two regions. Due to historical reasons and closed traffic conditions in the ethnic minority areas, the economic development was seriously restricted. Even though a strategic road was built from a military point of view after it was incorporated into the jurisdiction of Western Xinjiang at that time, the wet and rainy weather made the road condition deteriorate rapidly. Second, due to the need for construction speed, the quality of this road has not been guaranteed, making the use of this road worse and worse. This time, Wufeng and the Ministry of Empire Construction also made up their minds. This strategic road to Eastern Samoa will be built as the first-class road in the empire, and the branch roads extending to various counties will also be built according to the same conditions to ensure that this road will maintain a very high standard within ten years .

The two most important road projects since the founding of the Empire, the two most important road projects that run through the southern Indian Passage and through the Mid-South County of Main County to the South China Sea, are mainly due to an important achievement of the Imperial Science and Technology Development Department, that is, the Imperial A new product developed by the Ministry of Science and Technology Development that can be used in large-scale road construction - mortar powder (cement) and mixed soil. The prototype of this mortar powder came from the research results of the Xijiang Science and Technology Department at that time. The original inspiration came from the volcanic ash of the Volcanic Mansion in North Luzon County. How this volcanic ash is mixed with basalt stone powder can immediately form a solid concrete. It is very effective to pave the road~IndoMTL.com~So the road from Shuangwei to the northwest has used this kind of mixed soil from the volcano mansion in large quantities, and even many road reconstruction projects in the imperial capital have been transported from the volcano mansion A large amount of mixed soil was used for paving, and good results were achieved.

After carefully studying the composition of the volcanic ash, the Science and Technology Development Department found that the reason why the volcanic ash can react with stone powder and become hard is that its main component is limestone, which is abundant in various parts of the empire. Limestone can be processed into a soft building material as long as it is soaked in water and matured, combined with lime powder and added with water, and it will become hard when the building material dries.

The invention of this kind of building material was called by Wufeng as an epoch-making revolution in architecture. For the sake of confidentiality, this kind of building material was officially listed as a building material after many experiments to verify its stability. The empire vigorously supported the development of the industry, and the imperial finance department even allocated special funds to secretly build the first batch of seven mortar yards in Jinhua, Qinghe, Hanzhong, Jinzhong, Yushan, Yada, and Yanshan. The formula was also kept strictly confidential. However, the Ministry of Science and Technology Development also stated that this kind of large-scale production may not be able to play a good role in keeping secrets. The best way is to preemptively marketize and occupy the market as much as possible. Longitudinal roads in the Peninsula and Maine County also became the first trial sites to use this building material. Jiangshan Beauty Chronicle, Chapter 3, Sweeping Liuhe, Chapter 2, Iron Horse and Glacier, Section 46, New Economic Power (1)