The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 472

The biggest problems that restricted the development of Dongjiang Town in the past were population and food, and now Mr. Ding has solved them all.

To put it bluntly, even if there is no court supply, they are not afraid now.

Chongzhen and the ministers in the court now believe that as long as Yuan Chonghuan cut off the Dongjiang grain, if it is cut off for a year or two, Dongjiang Town will be honest.

In fact, Ding Yi was very dissatisfied with the output. Normally, an acre of fertile land had to produce 2-2.5 stones a year to be considered qualified, and the best one could produce 3 stones.

He has nearly 40 mu of land and needs to produce at least 120 million shi throughout the year. Now it is only 55 shi, half of which is lost. This year is considered a heavy loss.

This can be considered that he attaches great importance to hoarding land. If it is replaced by other provinces and cities in the Ming Dynasty, it may be impossible to harvest.

Otherwise, people along the coast of Fujian would not have immigrated to Daguan in large numbers.

Like Dayuan, the annual output per mu of land is now up to three or even four shi, so the Dutch charge local land rent, and the worst field will receive one shi per acre.

In addition, the output of Jeju Island is relatively high, reaching three stones. Judging from the output of Dongjiang Town in the past few years, the annual output per mu can be stabilized at about 2 stones, which is considered a success.

目前东江镇共有步兵1营、3营、12营、16营、7营、8营、19营、21营、23营，水师1，2、3营，骑兵1营, 共计43000人。

The food and salary of the whole army plus the ration wages of all the people, the monthly consumption is huge.

Fortunately, Ding Yi's current trade routes are basically stable. Japan and North Korea have increased staff running back and forth along the same line, selling guns and guns, plus salt and other benefits. The annual stable income has exceeded 200 million taels. Ding Yi's Financial pressure is not too great at present.

But if Zheng Zhilong blocks the sea, I'm afraid life will be difficult.

It can be said that it was money and resources that could restrict Ding Yi's development in the past, but now it is territory and population that can restrict Ding Yi's development.

But at this meeting, Ding Yi briefly mentioned finances, craftsmen, resources, etc., and no longer reported important data, mainly talking about population, situation and troops.

Right now, only a few people know how many craftsmen and workers there are in the entire Dongjiang Town, how much income, expenditure, how much resources they have hoarded, and how many guns they can produce, and they don't report it at every meeting.

After Ruan Wenlong finished speaking briefly, everyone at the meeting was full of confidence, and some people immediately clamored for more troops.

Because of Dongjiang's special geographical environment, and because most of the young and strong survived in this generation, they have 15 strong, and they can indeed add another wave of soldiers.

Ding Yi conveniently said that there are two goals for the year from September today to September next year.

The first is to continue to build castles and strengthen defenses.

Ding Yi now hoards a lot of land and has a large population. To protect the population and hoard land, he can only build a fort.

Starting from this year, the main building will be Baiyun City, Golden Bone City, and six small castles.

The small fort is mainly on the coastal line of Huanggudao Fort on the east line, and on the edge of Phi Island and Iron Mountain.

Tieshan is close to Uiju.

The line between Yizhou and Tieshan is a very good farmland area. There is Ding Yi's farmland in the south of Tieshan, so we must guard the south of Tieshan.

These forts must be built in places where large groups of troops or artillery can easily walk, and the locations are all selected by the Construction Department.

After the forts were built in these places, it was a bit difficult for Houjin to send troops into Fuzhou sporadically, let alone artillery, unless these forts were destroyed first.

With these two cities and six forts completed, plus Ding Yi's defensive skills, his territory is absolutely impenetrable, and Ding Yi can rest assured to manage other aspects.

The second goal is to raise the population to 50.

This goal is not difficult. It mainly depends on whether there is chaos in the Ming Dynasty and whether there is anyone in the court.

At present, Dengzhou has a steady stream of disaster victims coming there every day. As long as Ding Yi's Propaganda Department does a good job of drainage, other local officials in the Ming Dynasty will not care about it. There should be no problem.

Moreover, this year the intelligence department is mainly developing outwards, bringing propaganda and drainage to other provinces. In the future, more disaster victims will come.

Then Ding Yi talked about the main event, which is the increase in troops and organizational adjustments that everyone is most concerned about.

With the expansion of Dongjiang Town's population and territory, as well as strategic needs, Ding Yi decided to re-adjust the structure and reorganize the troops.

This adjustment is also the largest in previous adjustments.

Dongjiang Town will set up seven departments, including the Logistics Department, the Armed Forces Department, the Commercial and Finance Department, the Teaching Department, the Medical Department, and the Propaganda and Intelligence Department. The Training Department remains unchanged.

After the first sentence was uttered, everyone in the field looked different.

Ding Yi looked at everyone calmly, and some people may have thought of the six ministers of the imperial court.

This is tantamount to establishing a small court.

In fact, Ding Yi used to have various departments, but they were all called divisions. This time, they were suddenly called divisions. It is inevitable that some people would think of this aspect.

But judging from the performance on the spot, most people didn't have any strong reactions, as if it was a normal thing.

Some people may feel that something is wrong, but they didn't say anything.

The former Logistics Department and the Construction Department were merged into the Logistics Department.

Du Ruhai is the minister, and Zhong Zhennu and Chen Youfu are the vice ministers (because Du Ruhai is mainly in Dengzhou and Zhong Zhennu is mainly in Jeju, so Chen Youfu is currently in charge of the Dongjiang side.)
The main task of the logistics department is to stockpile fields, store food and grass, build various forts, raise pigs, cattle, sheep, etc. in Dongjiang Town, etc.

Li Zhongyi was the head of the Armed Forces Department, and Zhou Dahu and Li Zhi were the deputy heads. They were mainly engaged in the production of weapons and armor, the manufacture of ships, the storage of gunpowder, the research and improvement of firecrackers and cannons, etc.

The Commercial Finance Department is headed by Ruan Wenlong and Franco as the deputy head. It is mainly responsible for the operation of various stores and restaurant facilities in Dongjiang Town, the management of salt farms, the sales of salt industry, the overseas trade of the Navy, and the distribution of salary and silver statistics for the whole town.

The teaching department is headed by Mrs. Li, and Hong Anshu and Xie Zhengguo are the vice-ministers, responsible for school construction and teaching in the town.

The medical department and the teaching department are in the same compound, with Zhao Li as the head, Zhang Weishu and Liu Chengyi as the deputy heads, responsible for the management and construction of the medical centers in the town, as well as the deployment and training of military and Chinese doctors.

When Ding Yi's army went to war, they would draw accompanying doctors from their troops.

The Department of Propaganda and Intelligence is actually two departments, but in order to weaken the attention of the Intelligence Department in everyone's mind, Ding Yi specifically said that it is one.

The minister is Yao Xinhan, who is mainly responsible for propaganda work, and the deputy ministers Lu Chao and Yang Yong are mainly responsible for intelligence work.

Of course, intelligence and propaganda must sometimes be combined, like when Lu Chao went to other places to develop manpower and strongholds, and he also joined forces with the Propaganda Department to lure the victims back.

The training department remains unchanged, with Gao Weimin as the director and Yang Xiaochuan as the deputy director. They are mainly responsible for the two-way training of officers' learning and training.

The recruits of each department are still trained by each department itself.

All soldiers who are promoted to officers must go through two to three months of intensive training in the training department. After graduation, they will be able to train new recruits when they go back

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At this time, the organization was reorganized, and for the first time, a woman named Li was appointed as the minister, but there was no reaction at the scene.

Mainly in Lushun in the past few years, Ding Yi has used women a lot. There are women everywhere in shopping malls, Yucheng, and medical clinics. Everyone seems to be used to it.

In addition, Ruan Wenyan often went to sea to do business before, so apart from being a little surprised, everyone didn't have much reaction.

Then came the reinforcements.

Dongjiang Town currently has a population of more than 40, including 4.3 soldiers (including Japanese soldiers excluding Dengzhou and other places) and 2 auxiliary soldiers.

This time, more than 1 soldiers were recruited from the auxiliary soldiers, and more than 1 were selected from the elite as auxiliary soldiers.

The difference between the auxiliary soldiers and the common people of Dongjiang is that.

The former has 6 months of training every year, and most of them focus on training for one or two months, while the latter only has one to two months of training every year, and most of the time is organized during slack.

Therefore, the structure of soldiers in Dongjiang Town has been maintained very well. The soldiers are basically fully trained, the auxiliary soldiers are trained half-trained and the peasants are trained for two months every year.

Once a full-scale war breaks out, even if it is directly recruited from the people as soldiers, it can be used.

For example, when defending the city, the common people who hoard land in each city can use it.

After this conscription, Dongjiang Town's soldiers and horses finally broke through to [-].

It is advisable to adjust some of the generals stationed in various places and establish new division-level units.

Zhang Jing of the first division is responsible for the defense of Lushun, Jinzhou, Beigou, and Fuzhou. (Including Nanguankou, Wanghai Fort, Guifu Fort, Hongzui Fort, Fuhai Fort, Nanxinkou Fort, Yongning Fort, Huanggudao Fort, Changsheng Island and other small forts) and the Golden Bone City under construction.

下辖1营马跃部3000人，3营徐威部5000人，12营向怀来3000人，16营许必成5000人（会和尚可喜对换）。

Zhang Jing's own 5000 cavalry were divided into two battalions, one with [-] cavalry, and Zhang Jing himself commanded them.

The second battalion of cavalry has 22000 cavalry ([-] more troops), led by Yuan Youcai (guarding Xinxin Beigou City), so the total number of soldiers and horses is [-].

In addition, there are 2000 people from Qu Haibo's garrison in Lushun, and [-] Ding Yi's personal soldiers, who are under the direct command of Ding Yi.

Lushun mainly has a lot of forts, and the land is mainly here. There are also islands such as Changsheng, with a total of 24000 soldiers and horses.

Some of the generals have changed places, such as Ma Yue who guarded the South Pass, and Xiang Huailai who guarded Changsheng Island.

This is currently the place with the largest population in Dongjiang and the place with the most farmland.

Most of the auxiliary soldiers and strong soldiers are here. Jinzhou, Fuzhou and Beigou City each have a large number of strong soldiers, which can be converted into combat soldiers at any time. In addition, there are many forts, so there is no problem in defending like this.

If Hou Jin really wants to come in, it is almost impossible without elites of more than a dozen or 20.

Shen Shikui, the division commander of the second division, is in charge of the defense of Pidao. (Including Tieshanbao, Xuanzhou and the new fort built near Tieshanbao Xuanzhou).

下辖肖永秋7营3000人，何良武19营3000人，毛信8营3000人，陈有时21营3000人，日本尚可喜2000人。

In addition, the 35th Battalion of the new group has 3000 people in He Xiaoche.

In this way, Shen Shikui also has 17000 people here, mainly defending the front line of Tieshanpi Island.

There are also 2000 people from the Ding Shitou Department of the Phi Island Garrison, under the direct command of Ding Yi. There are 19000 people on the Phi Island side.

To be honest, there are a lot of soldiers and horses here, because there is only one direction for Hou Jin to come and fight, and it is impossible from the line of Iron Mountain to the sea.

So there are 5000 people guarding the Tieshan line here, which is basically safe.

Ding Yi put so many troops, one is to divide the islands, and the other is to support Lushun to the west, and Japan and North Korea to the east, and there is no place for so many troops in Lushun.

Then there's the navy.

The 1st battalion of the original navy division, the battalion is Ruan Siqing, with 1500 ships and [-] people.

In the 2nd Battalion of the Navy, Seinfeld had 1500 ships and [-] people.

In the 3rd Battalion of the Navy, Xilao had 55 ships and 3000 people, and it was divided into two to leave 2000 ships with [-] people.

The new 4th Naval Battalion was formed, with Shen Zhixiang as the commander of the 4th Naval Battalion, leading 1500 ships and [-] naval troops stationed on Jeju Island.

The new 5th Battalion of the Navy is Xu Erxian. The warships are three 1000-material Haicang warships and two thousand-material blessing ships that were built just last year. Then they bought two thousand-material blessing ships from Songjiang. A total of seven ships, [-] people.

In this way, the fifth battalion navy has a total of 7500 people, and the navy has an additional 2500 troops. This is also the sailors that Ding Yi will prepare for more and more ships in the future.

　There have been too many battles recently, and the water is slowing down.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)