open sea

Chapter 678

The geographical location of the Kingdom of Ireland is very beneficial to Daming, that place needs to be properly managed, but at the beginning Chen Mu had no intention of putting more troops there.

Two guards should be set up in the local area, and the flag troops sailing long distances should try to avoid the environment where they land and go into battle as much as possible. There must be enough barracks and military camps for the flag troops sailing long distances to get enough rest.

What's more, the backward agricultural technology in the area made it impossible to feed the Banner Army supported by Chen Mu's massive supplies. Once the supplies couldn't keep up, the follow-up matter would be very difficult.

It used to be okay to eat eight or two rice and six taels of meat every day, suddenly replaced by wheat bread for a month or two, but once it becomes a bad food supply for a year or so, no one wants to accept it.

They achieved Chen Mu's training goal. After a year and a half of training, although the heights of the first batch of flag troops were uneven, their physiques were all above 150 catties. After eating, coupled with the training that consumes a lot of energy, they are all eaten and strong.

The food supply and training intensity of these flag troops are at least equal to those of the generals' soldiers. In this regard, the Eastern Military Government and Yin Zhengmao's Western Military Government are taking completely different paths.

Uncle Yin is still transporting troops back and forth in Nanyang. Except for several elite regiments of Zhedong Bird Gunners and Guangxi Wolf Army, he has mobilized a large number of guard troops from Guangdong and Guangxi. The value of their [-] troops is comparable to that of Chen Mu. The [-] Banner Army has the same supply.

The consumption of rice and grain is similar, but the Dongyang military government consumes too much meat and eggs.

Each has its own advantages, at least Yin Zhengmao doesn't need to focus on the local servant army, and its relative combat power is stronger than that of the Eastern Army.

There are more people who can be mobilized, and people don't have to worry about such small actions as garrisoning a guard in Goa, but for Chen Mu, he can only garrison a thousand households.

There is no way, the same force is given to Chen Mu to command... His ability may not be as good as just using a guard.

This is the end of the military leadership ability, what can Chen Mu do?
Fortunately, he has excellent fleet captains and staff.

Chen Mu, who was inoculated with the experimental type of vaccinia, had a slight reaction, but soon became active again. Afterwards, the entire Beiyang military government began to vaccinate generally. The Department of Thousands of Households vaccinates the units.

Only at this time will Chen Mu have time to think about family affairs. His second child will be born in six or seven months, and Hai Long, who is already one year old, will be educated in the next few years.

The child is too young, like Mang Chong who came with the fleet. His son can already run up and down the ship. On this long voyage to America, Mang Chong plans to take his son with him. Begin to educate the next generation of the empire's admirals.

Shao Tingda's calculations about raising children are clanging. If there is no accident after five years, Xiao Mangchong has accumulated enough sea and land experience when he comes back. Years, combining practice with theory.

After graduating, the powerful commanders of America couldn't run away.

There are not a few generals of the Nanyang Navy who have such an idea. Basically, every warship coming from Nanyang has three or five young men who serve as lookouts, messengers, or generals.

These children running around on the ship with bare feet will become the upstart navy of the Ming Empire in five or ten years.

Chen Mu felt very sorry for Xiao Hailong's failure to participate in this significant event, but Xiao Hailong also found someone who would open Meng after a few years, Zhao Shizhen's husband, Xu Zhenming, head of the Beiyang Branch of the Ministry of Labor.

The location of Kaimeng is right next to the Beiyang Military Academy. A new project of the Ministry of Industry will be launched immediately, and the Beiyang Primary School will be built. The semester is five years. In addition to the traditional Kaimeng, it also teaches traditional mathematics and geometry after integrating knowledge, as well as some military, engineering, and medical subjects. common sense.

Originally the best way was to let them learn foreign languages ​​from an early age, but Chen Mu might be right about this suggestion—comparatively speaking, he was more willing to send people to Europa to teach Chinese.

It takes a long time, how hard will it be for these children to learn a bunch of unnecessary languages?

In this way, a closed loop of learning is formed within Beiyang. After entering the elementary school, they will enter the medical school, research institute, and lecture hall. Those who are interested will go to the Academy of Medicine or Imperial Hospital directly, those who are interested in engineering will enter the research institute, and those who are interested in pursuing an official career will go to Songjiang Lecture Institute to study.

The parents of the left and right students are all military officers, no matter where they study or how many times they go to school, they have enough financial resources to support them.

In the future, folk colleges will be inspired again to improve the education system.

The court's recognition and promotion of customization is not the beginning, but the end of a stage of educational reform.

Now the whole world knows that the imperial court needs more new-style talents, and the inherent traditional education needs to take another step up to meet the needs of all walks of life.

The imperial court’s demand is the same. In the past, there were too many 400 jinshis a year, but now there are more than [-] jinshis a year. Nearly [-] people will be scraped from the Southwest and Nanyang alone, not to mention that the western countries are also starting to move to the imperial court. The imperial court made a report.

Hai Long had to be at least four years old before he started enlightenment, and the same was true for the second child. They didn't have to be guinea pigs set up by the elementary school.

Based on the experience of the North-South Martial Arts Hall, the Lecture Academy, and the Beiyang Military Mansion, no matter how well-prepared the newly established elementary school is, there are still drawbacks in the first few sessions. When Hai Long enters school, it should be relatively perfect.

In addition to family affairs, Chen Mu also issued task indicators for the North and South Second Ocean Military Office and the North and South Second Armament Bureau for the next few years.

For example, how many ships are built each year, how many guns are built, how many pieces of armor are made, and how much gunpowder is prepared.

"According to last year's output, the Xuanfu Military Bureau produces [-] flintlocks each year, the Nanyang Wei Military Bureau produces [-] flintlocks each year, and the Beiyang Military Bureau produces [-] flintlocks a year. There is a surplus, a total of [-] flintlocks."

"The output of Xuanfu and the Beiyang Military Bureau can be further increased. I think it is possible to achieve [-] flintlocks next year and [-] the next year."

Nanyang's high output of flintlock guns is not due to the manufacturing process, but because most of the parts such as the gun machine, gun bed, and gun barrel have been outsourced to craftsmen in Foshan and other places. Nanyang mainly manufactures the most difficult part of the manufacturing process, and the remaining parts are inspected and assembled.

In order to ensure the quality, each furnace household is numbered according to Tieye Village, and the parts go through four inspection processes before being assembled into guns. This is not so strict in Xuanfu or Beiyang.

A Nanyang-made blunderbuss was disassembled, and the barrel, machine, and bed of the blunderbuss all had the name of the inspector, and the damage period was also set for each.

The one with the highest output is the one with the best quality.

"Pick up a batch of matchlock guns that have been replaced from various places, and ship them to America. I have a hunch that when our Ming's fleet arrives there, these things will be hard currency!"

(End of this chapter)