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After Luo Zhixue briefly inspected the South China Sea Fleet, Luo Zhixue met with the army and navy generals stationed in various parts of the south. In addition to talking about some trivial issues, Luo Zhixue also focused on the army's new round of military reforms and the navy's use of the sea to dominate the land. question.

Regarding the Army's new round of military reform, Luo Zhixue proposed that we should not only find ways to further reduce unnecessary military expenditures and use limited funds wisely, but also pay attention to the training of personnel in the regular army. The regular army cannot be replaced by foreign legions. Just letting the horse go to Nanshan will lead to the situation of relying on foreign legions in the future, and the battles that need to be fought will still have to be fought.

He also proposed that foreign legions should be established, and on a large scale, but the role of foreign legions must be made clear, and they must be used but used with caution.

The new round of military reform of the regular army mainly focuses on reducing the number of regular troops and investing military expenditures on first-class combat readiness troops. At the same time, the foreign legions are expanded to maintain a large army size to carry out low-intensity or high-casualty combat missions.

Well, just like the current continuous expansion operations in Africa, due to the harsh natural environment, there are too many non-combat attrition, so the main combat tasks in Africa are undertaken by the foreign legions.

However, large-scale expansion and intensive use of foreign legions will also bring about some problems. For example, the regular army has not fought for a long time and lacks combat experience; after the frequent use of foreign legions, the military may be more inclined to use foreign legions and further arm them, so that Will make the empire dependent on the Foreign Legion.

And these are unacceptable!

Therefore, Luo Zhixue proposed that the Foreign Legion should use it, but it should be used with caution.

Luo Zhixue's point of view has always been very clear, that is, the military deterrence of the Chu Empire can only be based on the strength of its own regular army, and cannot be based on the strength of foreign legions!

Otherwise, all kinds of troubles may easily occur...

Luo Zhixue has said these views on many occasions before, and now he just emphasizes them again... The main reason is that the many combat reports Luo Zhixue has seen recently are almost all combat reports of foreign legions and regular army combat reports. There are very few reports, and those that do exist are small-scale operations that are ineffective.

If we keep going like this for a few more years, it is estimated that there will not be many non-commissioned officers and junior officers with combat experience in the regular army...

This phenomenon is not a good thing in Luo Zhixue's opinion, so he used this meeting to once again hit the Army's side to prevent them from being confused by the cheap and easy-to-use Foreign Legion.

That thing is just a foreign cannon fodder... Who the hell would build the security cornerstone of a huge empire on an army of foreign cannon fodder!

After talking about the army, Luo Zhixue focused on the navy's strategy of using the sea to dominate the land in recent years.

Luo Zhixue told a group of naval generals that the strategic direction of using the sea to control the land was correct. Now that there are no enemies at sea, the navy must give full play to its powerful firepower and flexible coastal and river mobility advantages to serve the empire's overseas operations. Contribute your own interests.

Under this premise, the navy can take greater steps. It has been using the sea to control the land for five or six years, but it has always remained on the slogan. The next step for the navy is to deepen reforms, not only in warship design and strategic and tactical changes, but also in systems. For example, can local fleets be integrated into the strategy of using the sea to dominate the land? Another example is how to modify the river fleet in the navy so that it can better adapt to future strategic changes?

Luo Zhixue emphasized that while using the sea to control the land, the navy should not forget its old profession. If it uses the sea to control the land, it will forget the navy's main job: to compete for sea control.

Ensuring sea control in global waters remains the most core mission of the navy in the future, and this cannot be ignored at any time.

The prerequisite for using the sea to control the land is to first gain control of the sea.

Finally, Luo Zhixue once again emphasized that although the empire's military power has dominated the world, this is only now, and many changes may occur in the future. If you are not careful, challengers to the empire may appear...

Therefore, the military must attach great importance to the defense industry and military development around the world to prevent and strike in advance against any possible defense challengers.

To control the world and colonize the world... the best way is not to wait for the enemy to build a large number of rifled guns or even battleships, and then build a large number of more advanced rifled guns or even battleships to defeat them... One more sentence The so-called: You barbarians are nothing more than me...

But when a potential challenger has the idea of ​​developing modern industry, developing steam engines, heavy industry, rifled guns, and battleships, and takes the first step, we must take action immediately and use the most decisive and toughest military force. Means to carry out a devastating blow!

To ensure the global security of the empire, we must prevent the emergence of industrial countries other than the second empire in advance!

Therefore... the military's intelligence department must attach great importance to relevant issues. When it discovers that any indigenous country is trying to engage in modern industry and manufacture steam engines, do not hesitate or doubt, immediately mount the horse, and then directly send troops to destroy it!

The technological blockade of the Great Chu Empire is not simply a ban on the export of advanced technologies and equipment... The Great Chu Empire also does not allow those indigenous countries to study, research and develop on their own!

Any indigenous country can just farm and mine for me. At most, it can engage in light industry with little impact. As for heavy industry... If you dare to engage in it, I will directly send troops to destroy you.

The important thing is to treat everyone equally!

The Great Chu Empire at the end of the 17th century, for its own global hegemony, was much more domineering than the British and American empires in the original time and space... Of course, this also has a preliminary stage, that is, the Great Chu Empire was compared to other indigenous countries. The overall strength is also far stronger than any other big country in the original time and space, much stronger...

Although Britain and the United States were very good in history, they could not dominate the world with one finger.

But the Chu Empire can!

With this kind of absolute strength, the Chu Empire would naturally not consider too many things when doing things, but everything would be guided by its own interests.

In order to avoid the possibility of a challenger appearing in the future, the Da Chu Empire will strangle any challenger from the source... If an indigenous country wants to engage in heavy industry, it will directly attract the strongest military attack from the empire.

This extremely tough repressive policy may not last long. After all, with the continuous development and proliferation of technology, and the earth is so big, it is impossible for the intelligence agencies of the Da Chu Empire to monitor all corners without blind spots. There will be continued leaks of technology, smuggling and leaks of equipment and even weapons, and eventually an indigenous country will secretly build an arsenal...

As technology continues to spread, rifled weapons may not be able to be controlled on a large scale in a few decades... Let alone the future, in fact, even many rifled weapons in the Dachu Empire have flowed into various countries through various illegal channels. in the hands of indigenous nations.

When this technology spreads and weapons spread to a certain extent, those indigenous countries may have a lot of rifled weapons... Even if they only have some single-shot rifled weapons, they can still give the Chu army a lot of power in some areas with complex terrain. Trouble.

When that time comes, if we continue to maintain this tough repressive policy, military expenditures will rise rapidly... When military expenditures rise to a certain level, perhaps the future senior leaders of the empire will consider whether it is worth it.

Once it is deemed that it is not cost-effective to continue to maintain this tough suppression, then after a little more liberalization, a second industrial country may appear after a period of time... If this happens a few times, then a challenger to the empire may appear. .

In terms of historical inertia, this kind of thing is actually unavoidable... As long as all these natives are not killed, people will stand up and resist sooner or later... Black people who were slaves in the original time and space, after entering the late twentieth century, Instead of killing the white people in South Africa and then seizing the country founded by the white people, after entering the 21st century, they blackened Paris... and they were invited by the French... This is very funny. In addition, the United States, the last country with large-scale slavery in the world, has only abolished slavery for more than a hundred years, and has only abolished some segregation policies for a few decades. Now it is already doing zero-dollar shopping every day. It will develop according to this situation. In a few decades, I am afraid that the United States will become a black country.

The indigenous people...as long as you don't kill them all, just eradicate them all, like how the United States exterminated the Indians...sooner or later they will be counterattacked, even if you turn them all into slaves.

This is almost an inevitable law of the development of human history... Throughout ancient and modern times, there are almost no exceptions!

And the Dachu Empire cannot be an exception... The empire has left behind hundreds of millions of indigenous people from various countries. If you want to enjoy the benefits of the support of hundreds of millions of indigenous people, you will have to bear the consequences of being backlashed by these indigenous people in the future!

In fact, Luo Zhixue is also very clear about this... It's just that those things happened hundreds of years later. We can't just kill hundreds of millions of indigenous people for the possible threats that will exist more than a hundred years later, and then let the Chu people work hard all over the world. Mining and farming are not.

However, Luo Zhixue has also taken some preventive measures. The purpose is not to prevent the emergence of threats, but to delay the emergence of threats.

And use this time to develop the empire as much as possible and gain greater all-round advantages.

If some indigenous countries inevitably possess a large number of rifled weapons fifty years later, then the Da Chu Empire has entered the age of motorization and even mechanization and even the information age. A long period of dominance, enjoying the treatment of being the overlord of the earth for hundreds of years.

As for a few hundred years from now... Who knows what the empire and even humanity will look like in a few hundred years... Maybe there will be some alien kid passing by the solar system at that time who doesn't like the people on earth and casually makes a move. The Star Destroyer Cannon blew up the entire solar system...

Luo Zhixue cannot imagine a future that is too far away, nor can he worry so much about it. All he can do is to lay a better foundation for the empire as much as possible while he is still alive, so that future generations will have more trump cards to deal with it. Get up more calmly.

In terms of military affairs, Luo Zhixue mainly focused on beating, so as to prevent the army and navy from wandering and doing some confusing things. However, in terms of specific development, Luo Zhixue actually did not give any goals or instructions.

Even Luo Zhixue did not interfere in the development of some new warships in the navy, and would not tell the naval generals what warships were useful.

Otherwise, the navy would not have produced a large number of frigates and cruisers with high attack power, low defense, and low speed... If these battleships were placed in the original time and space of the late 19th century, they would have been ridiculed. Life... For example, the Huaiqing-class cruiser and the Anton-class frigate built in the late 1930s. These two warships were low-cost warships built at that time. Both of them had a speed of only fifteen knots... not even most of them could run. Passenger ships are fast, but not as fast as cruisers or frigates of the previous generation.

You must know that the previous generation, the Datong-class cruiser built and put into service in the early 1930s, has a speed of 18 knots; the Qingyang-class frigate built and put into service in the early 1930s can also reach a speed of 17 knots.

But the warships built and put into service later than them only had fifteen knots...

However, a lot of these two battleships were built. Twenty-six Huaiqing-class cruisers with a full load of 3,000 tons were built, and more than 50 Anton-class frigates with a full load of 1,500 tons were built!

This is outrageous!

And why did the Da Chu Empire Navy build so many low-speed warships in the first place? The reason is simple. At that time, the triple-expansion steam engine was still relatively expensive, and the power system was also expensive, so the navy was reluctant to use it... At the same time, there were no opponents at sea. The indigenous countries all used sail warships, and they didn't need to go very fast!

Finally, the Navy patted its head and decided that fifteen knots was enough.

Finally, two so-called low-cost slow-speed warships were produced, and these two warships are still the main warships deployed overseas by the Da Chu Empire Navy. The most important thing is that these two warships seem to be different. Oh, but it's actually pretty easy to use... The naval officers and soldiers are quite satisfied with these two warships, because the living conditions of these two warships are very good, and they are better than some so-called advanced warships later. good.

As for the poor combat performance, it doesn't matter at all... no matter how bad the combat performance is, it can still defeat the natives!

In fact, Luo Zhixue did not have much involvement in the development plans of these naval warships, even though he thought these warships were very strange...

As long as he doesn't completely let himself go, Luo Zhixue generally doesn't care much about the details of military development.

However, in terms of domestic affairs, Luo Zhixue has to pay more attention and intervene more deeply.

After meeting with the army and navy generals, Luo Zhixue also met with some local civil officials who came to meet him, mainly the governors and representative officials of some southern provinces in Guangdong, Guangxi and Jiangxi, Thang Long, and military generals from surrounding areas.

Because there were a large number of people and time was tight, a brief royal meeting was held in the conference room of the headquarters building in the Hong Kong Naval Base.

At the meeting, Luo Zhixue focused on some issues in the southern provinces, such as the industrial development layout in Guangdong and the agricultural development situation in Guangxi, Thang Long and other provinces.

At the end of the meeting, the importance of people's livelihood was emphasized, requiring all provinces and governments to put people's livelihood work first, further develop the economy, create more jobs, and increase more people's income, especially focusing on low-income groups. Income issues.

All localities are required to adapt measures to local conditions, vigorously develop people's livelihood economy, and promote people's income increase.

After the meeting, Luo Zhixue summoned the governors of each province separately. During this period, Wang Tu, who was transferred to Guangdong as governor six months ago, made a detailed report to Luo Zhixue on economic development issues. In the report, Luo Zhixue saw Wang Tu's specific policy direction.

One of the key points is to further strengthen transportation facilities. Wang Tu is preparing to build a Pearl River Delta railway network plan... This railway network is not an intercity railway line in the traditional sense, nor is it the intra-city subway network developed by Songjiang Prefecture.

Rather, it is a rapid passenger railway network covering the Pearl River Delta to relieve congested public transportation and facilitate people's daily travel, especially transportation between suburbs and urban areas in population centers.

This is a public transportation network of city A-suburb-city B... The reason why there is a keyword like suburb in this railway network is because the contemporary urban population of Chu State, especially a large number of middle-income people, like to live in the suburbs. …

For public transportation in various cities, there is not only traffic pressure within the city, but also traffic pressure between urban and suburban communities.

Luo Zhixue was quite interested in this. He and Wang Tu spent a lot of time communicating about this railway network, and also put forward some opinions of his own. For example, some electric motor drives could be used experimentally on some sections, especially in urban areas. tram.