Chapter 342 Drawings

Liu Xia gave the three fleets of the navy, namely the North Sea Fleet, the East China Sea Fleet and the South China Sea Fleet. The navy now has only one North Sea Fleet. As for the East China Sea Fleet, the South China Sea Fleet is still an illusion at present.

A North Sea Fleet has not been reorganized, and there are few ships, not to mention the South China Sea Fleet of the East China Sea Fleet. Therefore, Yu Mingjun nominally seems to have a large jurisdiction over the bingma territory, but in fact, there is only a small area of the sea area of Jiaozhou.

Liu Xia does not intend to upgrade the ranks of all other generals now. The purpose of raising the military rank and power for Yu Mingjun is to make it easy for Yu Mingjun to build a navy. The reason why Liu Dazhuang was promoted to his military rank was that the northwest was too far away, and it was impossible for Liu Xia to remotely control Luoyang thousands of miles away. After all, it took many days for the news to spread from the Western Regions to Luoyang. If the two legions are distributed in the northwest, the commanders of their corps are at the same level, so no one can command anyone, but it is definitely impossible for a legion to control such a large place. The two legions must work together. Speaking of collaboration, the problem comes again.

Who on earth listens to whom? Therefore, Liu Xia had to set up a northwest capital department in advance to let Liu Dazhuang fully manage the military affairs of the Western Regions. As for government affairs, it is not something that Liu Dazhuang can deal with. Liu Xia has always been able to exclude military and political personnel from being involved in civil affairs, and civil affairs officials are involved in the military. Previously, due to the lack of manpower, Chen Liu, the chief of the Military Department, was appointed as the chief judge, and Wang En, the chief of the Logistics Department, was appointed as the chief of the Financial Secretary. But now that Liu Xia is not short of people, Chen Liu has also stepped down from the position of chief of the Military Department, and Wang En has also stepped down from the position of Chief of the Financial Secretary. At present, no military and political person holds the position of civil affairs. And civil affairs officials can't interfere in military and political affairs at all.

Perhaps in other dynasties, those officials and ministers can control military and political affairs, point fingers at the army, and even eunuchs can command the army. But this is impossible for Liu Xia. The military and political affairs are completely separated. If any official wants to eat civil affairs, military and political affairs, it must be the target of Liu Xia's attack.

So now, after a family enters the army, it will generally not enter the ranks of officials. They all know Liu Xia's taboos. Generally, military planning will not be discussed with civil affairs officials, but Liu Xia will hold a small meeting to discuss with the Military Department, the Logistics Department, the Inspection Department and other personnel.

This leaves those state officials without the right to transfer troops and use them. I can't be dignified either. Under normal circumstances, the magistrate of a government cannot mobilize the garrison that defends the city.

Except for Liu Xia in the northwest who established a northwest capital, Liu Xia did not move in other places. In the direction of Beijing, Liu Xia arranged the troops of two legions. As for the White Tiger Corps, it had secretly moved to Jiaozhou and prepared to cross the sea into Liaodong. The Qinglong Legion and the Rosefinch Legion in Beijing are led by Zhang Liang and Wang Stone respectively. The place where the Rosefinch Legion is special than other legions is that this legion is composed of a deputy commander, and the deputy commander of the Rosefinch Legion is Zhang Yang and Feng Xiangwei. Other legions have no deputy positions.

If there is no deputy help, the commander of the legion who commands more than 20,000 people must be very busy and has too much power.

"Order the command of each legion, and grant the commander of the first brigade in each legion as the deputy commander of the legion. The deputy commander of the Northwest Army was concurrently served by Niu Chao. The deputy governor of the navy is Bai Menghu, the commander of the North Sea Fleet, and the deputy commander of the North Sea Fleet is to be determined.

The North Sea Fleet is now composed of two guards, one is the White Shark Guard, all of whom are hundreds of soldiers selected from other armies, and the other is the Nu Haiwei. This is Li Dachui, the head of Hammer Island, who has been subdued. Due to Li Dachui's special identity, his meritorious service to the Pingbei Army is not high. Liu Xia will not He can serve as the deputy commander of the North Sea Fleet.

"Your Majesty, there is news from the North Sea Fleet. General Yu Mingjun found the construction technology and drawings of some ships in a pirate's den. After analysis, it should be the drawings of ships built in the West that year. Inspector Meng Yudao. Now Meng Yu is no longer the commander of the Dragon Group, and his power has been partially weakened. However, the power of the Inspector Department is also very large. Liu Xia not only asked him to supervise the army to sort out military discipline, but also set up a political department to brainwash the soldiers.

"Zheng He went to the West?" Liu Xia naturally remembers this feat, the world's largest sailing fleet at that time. As soon as he came out, there were tens of thousands of people. Although Liu Xia had never seen it with his own eyes, he could imagine it with the records in the book.

"If I have a fleet, are you still worried that I can't send the soldiers to Liaodong?"

"Go and tell Yu Mingjun to make a copy of those drawings and give them to Jiaozhou Shipyard, and escort the original drawings to Luoyang."

This is an ancient thing of hundreds of years. Naturally, it needs to be preserved. Although the shipbuilding technology of Zheng He's fleet is hundreds of years ago, it is still very advanced for now. After handing over those drawings to the shipyard, let the shipyard make some improvements and install steam engines on the ship. Instead of being driven by sailboats, they are driven by steam. Hundreds of guns are installed on both sides, and the hull is wrapped in iron armor. An 'aircraft carrier' 40 to 50 feet long will be able to sweep the world. Even if it is not used as a warship, but only as a transport ship, it is very fast for Liu Xia to send more than 20,000 soldiers of the White Tiger Corps to Liaodong.

Jiaozhou

Now Jiaozhou Bay has basically become a military base in a real sense. It was originally close to the coast, but the seaside is empty within tens of kilometers from the coast because of the Japanese pirates and the sea ban. This makes it confidential to do anything on the coast of Jiaozhou Bay.

The White Tiger Corps has now entered the North Sea Fleet barracks. Every day, some soldiers of the White Tiger Army are allowed to get on the boat to familiarize themselves with the life on the ship. After a while, they will take a day's boat to reach the Liaodong Peninsula.

Zhang Yuan and Yu Mingjun, the commanders of the White Tiger Army, have been friends for many years. Both of them are military generals, and naturally they have more common languages. When we sit and eat together, we will always talk about the days in Yangzhou.

In addition, the railway from Luoyang to Jiaozhou is not only extended from Hulao guan to Jiaozhou. In order to complete Liu Xia's task faster, the railway department also sent a group of people to build a railway in the direction of Luoyang, so that the process can be faster. The local people are curious about the new thing about the railway, but there is an army stationed next to each section of the railway, and it is difficult for the people to move forward.

Now that the war is raging, the safety of the railway is crucial. Once a certain section of the railway track is stolen by some interested people, or other warlords send people to deliberately destroy the hard-built railway, it will be meaningless. The train will become scrap metal.

A train without a train track is a pile of boxes that can seat people.

Yu Mingjun got the news from Luoyang, asked him to copy a copy of the map in his hand and give it to the shipyard, and then send the manuscript to Luoyang. Even if Liu Xia doesn't say it, Yu Mingjun will copy a few copies of those drawings. This is safer. Once one part is damaged, you won't be afraid. Because there is also a backup.

Those warlords on China, except for Liu Xia and Zheng Zhilong in Fujian, who pay more attention to the development of the navy, other warlords do not pay attention to the situation. They will not think of the important use of the navy in the future.

The Qing court could not see the infinite wealth of the sea at all, or they didn't want it even if they saw it. So much so that the closed country issued a sea ban.

Jiaozhou Shipyard is not far from the North Sea Fleet Barracks. When Yu Mingjun got the drawing, he had copied it and prepared to give it to the shipyard, but he did not dare to make a decision without Liu Xia's order.

Now with Liu Xia's order, he had a bottom in his heart, so he asked several soldiers to take the drawings to the shipyard.

The shipyard belongs to the logistics department, and like the new barracks, it directly belongs to the logistics department and is not under the management of other places. As for the steel mill, the glass factory is under the jurisdiction of the Department of Industry and Commerce. The shipyard's shipbuilding needs to be ordered by the navy and paid before construction. Otherwise, they have no money to go to the steel mill to buy steel, and they have no money to pay the workers. After all, workers cannot be allowed to work for free.