Just as Wu Yong led the army of eight towns to sweep the Russian troops in the Far East, Li Weiguo's sage had already returned to the Forbidden City in Beijing.☆→☆→,

As soon as he returned, a large group of civil and military officials met and submitted a large number of memorials waiting for Li Weiguo to make a decision.

If you want to be a good emperor, you must be mentally prepared to be tired of becoming a dog.

However, Li Weiguo seemed not ready yet. He quickly sent all the civil and military officials and asked someone to send their memorials to the imperial study room. However, he himself did not go to the imperial study room to work directly, but planned to take a hot bath with his four women, and train two former empress dowager maids to discuss the wonderful life.

Queen Fu Shanxiang blocked the demonic grab that Li Weiguo extended and said coquettishly: "Your Majesty, as long as you have finished reviewing the memorials in the Imperial Study Room, I will agree to serve you together tonight. How about it?"

"Take it seriously?" Li Weiguo was stunned. He felt that Fu Shanxiang had come out from the west today. She had always opposed the sleeping quilt.

"As long as you have no jokes, I will not regret it!" Fu Shanxiang took the lead and Chen Ziyan, Su Sanniang and Yilan were all nodding, each of whom was extremely shy and very attractive.

"You have no jokes!" Li Weiguo agreed immediately.

"You can't review it randomly for speed!" Chen Ziyan added, blinked and smiled cleverly.

Li Weiguo immediately said seriously: "That's natural!"

"Then I will not disturb Your Majesty's office anymore. We will wait for you in the harem!" Fu Shanxiang and his ladies left immediately, and their giggles came until they walked away.

Li Weiguo smiled and secretly asked his wife to beg him to be trained to become more and more open. In the past, he had to spend a lot of effort to ask them to sleep together.

However, when Li Weiguo returned to the imperial study, he was stunned.

I saw that the imperial study was filled with memorials, with only five or six hundred memorials.

That's not all, because there are maids holding stacks of memorials and sending them to the imperial study room.

Damn it's a rhythm that you're going to be tired!

Being fooled by a bird!

Li Weiguo immediately recalled the expressions of Fu Shanxiang, Chen Ziyan, Su Sanniang and Yilan's four girls just now. When he saw Chen Ziyan blinking at him, he thought he wanted him to give her more rain and dew tonight. Now he always understands.

Li Weiguo smiled bitterly and promised the four girls that they would finish reviewing the memorials, but they could not regret it.

If you don’t read the memorial and write a word for reading on it, you can do it. Unfortunately, Li Weiguo is not that kind of person. Especially when it comes to state affairs, if you are not careful, it will cause a disaster and harm the country and the people, so he really dare not review it randomly.

Sighing, Li Weiguo shook his head with a wry smile. Then he picked up the red pen and began to review the memorials seriously.

The memorials were squeezed out recently during the imperial throne of Li Weiguo. As an emperor who monopolizes his power, he is destined to be exhausted as a dog.

Of course, Li Weiguo was already thinking about how to improve office efficiency and reduce office pressure, so that he could be a wise king of the generation without being tired of being tired.

Among the memorials, economic construction is the most complicated, and they are all local projects submitted by local governments, and the central government's finances are requested to allocate funds.

Economic construction has always been the top priority since Li Weiguo ascended the throne. Overall, it copied Shanghai's economic development model, but there are differences between different places. In some places, transportation is convenient, so it is natural to promote industry and trade. However, in some places, transportation is underdeveloped and without railways, it is a waste to promote industry rashly.

Overall, Li Weiguo divided the country into six major industrial bases based on his own recollections, namely the Liaozhongnan Industrial Base, the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Industrial Base, the Shanghai-Ningxia Hangzhou Industrial Base, the Pearl River Delta Industrial Base, the Middle and Upper Yangtze River Industrial Base, and the Mongolian Industrial Base.

So far, only the Shanghai-Ningxia Hangzhou Industrial Base has been completed among the six major industrial bases, centered on Shanghai, Jinling and Hangzhou. It is also the most comprehensive industrial base with the most complete industrial category. Even industries that other powerful industrial countries in the world do not have, such as petrochemicals, internal combustion engines, automobile industry, etc., are all firsts in China. It is unique in the world. For the Shanghai-Ningxia Hangzhou Industrial Base, Li Weiguo only has one requirement, to constantly innovate, lead the world industrial trend, build China's world brand, and cultivate and reserve talents and technology.

Next is the Pearl River Delta Industrial Base. Compared with the Shanghai-Nanjing-Hangzhou Industrial Base, it is far behind. At present, it is only some Guangzhou national capitalists do some light industries such as textiles, clothing, and food. Because they are adjacent to Hong Kong, Macau and Southeast Asia, they are the first to come into contact with the industrial technology of Western powers and thus develop industries.

For the industrial base in the Pearl River Delta, Li Weiguo's requirements are still mainly textile, clothing and food industries, which is the advantage of the south. In the era when hybrid rice was not available, grain in the south was the most important. In addition, mulberry silk breeding in the south was the most developed, which can provide cheap raw materials for the textile industry, and then promote the clothing manufacturing industry, forming China's world clothing brands and food brands.

The remaining four industrial bases are almost nothing, especially the Mongolian industrial base and the Liaozhongnan industrial base, which are still deserts and primeval forests.

But this did not hinder Li Weiguo's interest. On the contrary, the construction of these two industrial bases must be started immediately and built into China's largest heavy industrial base.

This is because the Liaozhongnan Industrial Base has rich mineral advantages, among which Fengtian's iron ore is the richest. It was previously blocked by the Qing Dynasty and could not be developed. Now that the founding of New China, high-quality iron ore in Anshan can be quickly mined. Then, using Anshan iron ore as raw material, a steel smelting factory and mechanical processing factory were established on site to quickly support the heavy industries of New China such as steel and machinery. This is one of the basic standards for an industrial power. At the same time, Jinzhou Bay was converted into Dalian Bay and will be built into the largest port and shipyard in the north, connecting Anshan, Fengtian and its surrounding areas by railways, and quickly converting steel into capital and defense resources.

Similarly, Mongolian industrial bases were established because of mineral resources. They are close to Shaanxi and Shanxi and have the largest reserves, best quality and easiest to mine coal resources in the world. As long as the railway is built, they can be continuously transported to all parts of the country to ensure the coal demand of other industrial bases in China. This is also one of the important indicators of an industrial power. At least in the 19th century, without coal, it is impossible to become an industrial power.

Next is the Beijing-Tianjin-Tang Industrial Base. Because of the Qing Dynasty's capital here, Zhili still has some advantages, such as population advantage, which can provide a large amount of labor and support the key to industrial development. In addition, it is a huge consumer market. Geographical advantages, the entire North China Plain has developed transportation and rich mineral resources, including steel, coal, and oil. In the future, steel, machinery, chemical, textile and other industries will be formed, due to the relationship between the imperial capital. This will become the second largest comprehensive industrial base.

Finally, there is the industrial base in the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River. This is mainly from the perspective of national defense. Once the coastal industrial base is attacked, at least it is ensured that there are complete industrial bases in the inland area, which can supplement national defense consumption at any time.

At the same time, in order to allow all parts of the country to develop at the same time, there will be no situation like later generations where coastal areas are first developed and prosperous and then central and western regions, which will cause serious gaps between the rich and the poor. It is impossible to rely on wealth first to lead to wealth and then to become rich. Therefore, Li Weiguo decided to develop at the same time and become rich at the same time, so that the regional gap between the rich and the poor will be controlled to the greatest extent, and social security will be effectively controlled.

No matter which industrial base is developed, Li Weiguo has one characteristic. It is to build roads first to get rich. If you want to become an industrial power, you must at least have a large coverage of the national railway network. Because from 1840 to 1900, almost all of its domestic construction was under construction of railways. In 60 years, the United States built 370,000 kilometers, France built 60,000 kilometers, Germany built 50,000 kilometers, Britain built 30,000 kilometers, and Tsarist Russia built 25,000 kilometers. Among them, the first four countries achieved national railway network coverage, and the economy took off, directly leaving the last Tsarist Russia a few streets, causing the gap in economic strength between Tsarist Russia and the former four countries to become increasingly large. As a result, it was dragged down halfway through the battle.

Li Weiguo attached great importance to railways, especially when he thought of the situation where tickets were hard to come by during the Spring Festival, he would write the word "accurate" on the memorials of railway construction plans reported in various places.

Li Weiguo was not stingy in the construction of roads and strongly supported him.

In addition to the construction of industrial bases and railway construction, the most exciting thing about Li Weiguo's approval was military construction.

New China has now completed unification, with the mainland's local area of ​​13 million square kilometers, plus more than 1.71 million square kilometers in Alaska, which is more than 14.71 million square kilometers. The land area of ​​the Tsarist Russian Empire is currently 15.7 million square kilometers, although one million square kilometers more than China, Li Weiguo has launched a war against Tsarist Russia in the Far East, and believes that it will soon be able to annex the Far East, kick Tsarist Russia off the throne of the world's largest country, and then make China the world's number one.

Of course, if the land area of ​​more than a dozen vassal states in China is included, it will be the best in the world now. However, Li Weiguo does not like such a self-deception algorithm. The vassal states only obey China in name, but in fact they do not obey orders and cannot count.

Since there is such a huge land area, the construction of military power must of course be the top priority.

After the founding of New China, Li Weiguo divided the country into eleven war zones, namely the Eastern Theater Command, the Southeast Theater Command, the Southern Theater Command, the Southwest Theater Command, the Western Theater Command, the Northwest Theater Command, the Northeast Theater Command, and then the Central Theater and overseas war zones.

Among them, the Central War Zone is the Zhili area of ​​Gyeonggi, and the overseas war zone is Alaska.

The Chinese Shence Army was expanded with the former Nanyang Army as the core, from the fifty-four towns in the Nanyang Army era to one hundred towns. The first town to the tenth towns were the core ace troops of the tenth war zones. Then each war zone retained eight towns and army troops, with about 100,000 people, and the top ten war zones in the country totaled one million people, with numbers ranging from the first town to the eighty town.

As for the number of the twenty towns that followed, they were reserved for the garrisons of each vassal state. Because there is no plan to station troops in the vassal states yet, the forces of the twenty towns were not recruited, but the number was retained.

This is a 100 town with a permanent army size and a front-line combat force. It is known as the Chinese Shence Army to the outside world. It implements a professional military system and can pull out elite troops to fight against the enemy country at any time.

In addition, there are also the Guard troops, which belong to the second-line troops and are only responsible for the country. Each state and province of the Guard troops is stationed in one town, and the size of the troops is equipped according to the population and area of ​​the province, ranging from 12,500 to 15,000. The compulsory military service system is implemented, which can not only ensure the replenishment of the front-line troops, but also maximize the potential of war.

The Navy's East China Sea Fleet is no longer the only one. With the founding of New China, the Navy established four fleets, namely the North Ocean Fleet, the East Ocean Fleet, the South Ocean Fleet and the Seven Ocean Fleet. Among them, the North Ocean Fleet has jurisdiction over the Northern Ocean Fleet (now known as the Sea of ​​Japan), the naval bases Vladivostok (now Vladivostok, Russia) and Miaotun (now Nikolayevsk, Russia); the East Ocean Fleet has jurisdiction over the seas between the Bohai Sea and the East Ocean (now known as the Yellow Sea), and the stationed in Lushun, Weihaiwei, and Shanghai; the South Ocean Fleet has jurisdiction over the entire Southern Ocean (now known as the East Ocean and the northern part of the South China Sea), and its stationed in Hangzhou, Zhoushan, Penghu, and Keelung; the Seven Ocean Fleet has jurisdiction over the entire Qizhou Ocean (now the South China Sea), and its stationed in Guangzhou, Zhanjiang, Hong Kong and Sanya.

During normal times, the four major fleets were divided into seas and bounded together during the war, and named the Pacific Fleet.

The Navy is a money-burning machine, but Li Weiguo still approved the Navy development plan for the first year of Guanghua to the fifth year of Guanghua submitted by Minister of the Navy Lin Jiyun.

During these five years, nine new steam-powered ironclad battleships with displacement of 10,000 tons will be built as the main naval battleships, nine new steam-powered cruisers with displacement of 5,000 tons will be built for combat readiness and ocean patrols, as an auxiliary and supplement to ironclad battleships. Thirty frigates with displacement of 1,000 to 2,000 tons will be built for alert and offshore patrols.

Among them, the design of the iron armor battleship and cruiser has been completed. Xu Shou, Hua Hengfang and others from Jiangnan Shipyard have completed the overall theoretical development and practical inspection of the 305mm main gun and full iron armor construction ship based on the Weiyuan-class shallow water heavy artillery iron armor ship. The newly designed iron armor battleship has improved its freeboard and can withstand large 8-level storm at sea. The most advanced steam engine will be used to increase power, turret main gun, shore secondary gun, ship-table rapid-fire gun mix, full iron armor construction, etc.

After reading it, Li Weiguo smiled bitterly. Is this clearly the former fearless battleship?

Of course, there is still a key point, that is, the difference between all-steel battleships and iron armored battleships. Iron armored ships, to be blunt, are welded together by large iron blocks, which are too bulky. All-steel battleships use high-performance steel to protect the 305mm armor-piercing bombs in the mid-19th century. Iron armored ships must use at least 350mm thick iron armor, while 200mm is enough for all-steel battleships.

Li Weiguo also wanted to build all-steel battleships, but unfortunately the steel production in Jiangwan Industrial Zone is still too small and the cost is high. If it is used to build battleships, it is really impossible to build because the cutting, shaping, welding and other technologies of large steel materials are not yet mature. Even if it is as strong as the British industrial manufacturing capabilities, it was not until 1891 that it began to build all-steel battleships, and the cost is extremely expensive.

"Not considering all-steel battleships for now, but iron armored battleships can be built. Five years later, the East Asian sea power will be supported by iron armored ships!"

Thinking of this, Li Weiguo took a look at the large number behind the estimated cost, and was a little reluctant to let it go, but in the end he gritted his teeth and wrote the correct answer with a big stroke.
Chapter completed!