Chapter 1491: Heyday

Style: Historical Author: Niu Bi Lao DaoWords: 4384Update Time: 24/01/12 10:25:35
The army that college students join is usually the army, because it lacks a preliminary training foundation, and the navy and air force have relatively high requirements for recruits.

The Royal Army of the Ming Empire is currently divided into multiple branches such as field forces, border defense forces, tactical missile forces, logistics support forces, special forces, engineering forces, army aviation forces, and reserve forces.

The field force is its main combat force, with 25 armored brigades, 60 mechanized brigades, 30 infantry brigades, 20 artillery brigades, and 10 mountain brigades.

It is equipped with 16,200 "Tiger"-4 main battle tanks and 3,600 "Leopard"-2 light tanks.

There are more than 10,000 "Wolf" tracked infantry fighting vehicles, more than 30,000 "Fox" wheeled armored transport vehicles, more than 5,000 "Merk" wheeled armored assault vehicles, and three "Bulldog" armored anti-ambush vehicles. There are more than 10,000 vehicles and more than 30,000 "Sheepdog" armored off-road vehicles.

Three thousand "Porcupine" anti-aircraft vehicles and "Hedgehog" double 30mm self-propelled anti-aircraft guns.

There are more than 700 "Lion" tracked 306mm rocket launchers and nearly 1,500 "Wild Boar" 133mm wheeled rocket launchers.

There are more than 5,000 "Rhinoceros" 171mm self-propelled guns and 3,600 "Bison" 171mm truck guns.

There are more than 700 "Giraffe" 123mm towed howitzers and 500 "Moose" 96mm mountain guns.

In addition, there are about 5,000 mortars of various types and nearly 500,000 military trucks of various types.

This does not include the 500 "Badger" long-range air defense systems and the 1,500 "Ao" medium-range air defense systems belonging to the Air Force.

The total strength of the field force is close to 700,000, and there are 824 battalions of border guards.

These troops are equipped with a large number of "Bulldog" armored anti-ambush vehicles and "Shepherd" armored off-road vehicles.

In fact, it is of little use in military operations against enemy countries. It cannot even complete the task of armed escort of logistics supply convoys.

The reason why Emperor Haojing asked the army to purchase these two crispy snacks in large quantities was to use them to suppress rebellions within the territory.

This thing is difficult to defeat the enemy's regular army armed with heavy weapons, but it is very useful for dealing with the rebels in the country.

It is difficult for the rebels to buy heavy weapons, so they can only use rifles or machine guns for sneak attacks, and at most they can add some grenades.

This is not much of a threat to Crispy. The body of the car is armored, and the glass and tires are bulletproof.

Coupled with a large number of armed helicopters and special forces, the rebellion within the territory can be eliminated in a short time.

Things like rocket launchers, self-propelled artillery, truck guns, towed guns, mortars, these things can't be without any fun.

If a large-scale conflict broke out, Emperor Haojing could not afford to send the air force to carry out carpet bombing.

If the army can solve the problem, there is no need to dispatch bombers. Anyway, even in an artillery battle, the Ming Dynasty King's Division will not be at a disadvantage.

For the Army, we are not afraid of the scale of conflicts, but we are afraid that there will be no conflicts in peacetime...

Among the three armies of the Ming Empire, the army started the earliest and now ranks at the bottom.

The fundamental reason is that the earth's land area and ocean area are large. The navy can deploy troops on the coasts and islands around the world to contain the enemy by controlling sea power.

It’s even more amazing now that we have an aircraft carrier that can carry fighter planes. It can directly conduct air strikes on targets hundreds of kilometers away from the enemy’s hinterland from the enemy’s coastal areas.

The air force is a navy without a fleet. It first used airships, and later with propeller-driven fighter jets, the combat range expanded dramatically, and it could reach its target much faster than airships.

Airships can only rely on ground troops to fight, but aircraft are completely unnecessary. Especially after the air force is equipped with bombers, it can do almost anything to the enemy.

With carpet bombing by the Air Force alone, cities in any hostile country will be doomed. The Army can at most play the role of besieging the city and harvesting crops, taking the time to bombard a few with artillery, and that's it.

After the Ming Empire became the world's hegemon, the countries that interfered and provoked had been almost wiped out by Wang Shi's navy and air force.

The Army's future operational goals are to eliminate the remaining enemy troops, capture the city after air raids, suppress the guerrillas in a certain area, clear out the rebel areas within the territory, etc.

Emperor Haojing has told army generals at all levels at the meeting to be mentally prepared for the complexity, severity, and hardship of future wars.

Don't think that the guerrillas in the mountains are easier to fight than the armored forces in the plains. Mosquitoes can be annoying to death if they are too many, and they can also suck a lot of your blood.

The Ming Dynasty King's army suffered one hundred casualties, and the number of casualties throughout the year was more than 30,000.

We must beware of the enemy's piecemeal guerrilla warfare and tug-of-war. We must strike hard and kill the enemy in a short time.

if only

In 1800, the military expenditure of the Ming Empire was 73 billion yuan.

The navy received 22.4 billion yuan, the air force received 19.8 billion yuan, and the army received 21.1 billion yuan.

The remaining 9.7 billion yuan is for expenditures on military academies, weapons research and development, disability pensions, foreign aid, etc.

If it is not enough, you can also apply for a budget subsidy, and the rebates from the sale of second-hand weapons will be directly transferred to the budget.

Not counting reserve forces and including military academies, the Ming Army has nearly 1.9 million personnel.

The naval strength reaches 770,000, the air force is about 820,000, and the total strength of the three armed forces is close to 3.5 million.

Emperor Haojing believed that this was a completely acceptable scale. On average, there was one soldier for every eighty-five common people.

It is far from the time to resort to military force, and there is still a lot of room for expansion.

Emperor Haojing was basically satisfied with the current national strength, military power, financial resources, international influence and world hegemony of the Ming Empire.

The Ming Empire had the largest land area in the world, the richest natural resources, the largest population, and the most high-end technology.

Except for saltpeter, copper, petroleum, natural gas, refined oil, a few chemical resources and semi-finished products, Ming Dynasty has a huge lead in other aspects.

In every aspect, the shortest period is more than ten years ahead of other countries, almost reaching the level of the United States in the 1970s and 1980s.

It's like Zhu Cixiang kicked the accelerator and accelerated the Ming Empire to the millennium...

It's useless for the other partners to be envious and jealous. They either stare or roll up their sleeves and start fighting.

Emperor Haojing is more eager for another large-scale war than they are, otherwise sixty to seventy billion of military expenditures every year will be wasted.

Actual combat can not only improve the combat effectiveness of the army, but also stimulate arms exports. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

The world gradually moved toward peace. The main export products of the Ming Empire changed from tanks, airplanes, and battleships to brains, mobile phones, and household appliances. The biggest gadget was cars.

Arms exports have plummeted, but fortunately, we can use technological products to continue to earn back the money we should earn.

Due to the booming development of chemical products, chemical fiber products, especially clothing, shoes, hats, and plastic products, became the industries that absorbed the most labor in the Ottoman Empire besides agriculture and petrochemical industries.

There are more than 3,000 garment factories with more than 1,000 employees in its territory. Although the industry is fiercely competitive, it has no worries about sales because the Ming Empire is the Ottoman Empire's largest trading partner.

Because most of the oil fields in the Ottoman Empire were spouting wells, the cost of oil production was the lowest in the world, which made the petrochemical industry very profitable. The purchase price of chemical fiber products was naturally the lowest in the world.

The atmosphere in the Ottoman Empire was also gradually opening up, especially as long as the business was run by a female boss, women could be recruited at will, without any restrictions on belief.

Where do these female bosses come from?

Nobles and generals have many wives. If the pocket money is not enough, they will become emotional.

So after seeing the avalanche of clothing orders from the Ming Empire, everyone unanimously asked their wives to open a garment factory.

As long as you spend a little money, you can find a job for your arrogant wives, gain a good reputation as an employment generator, and evade taxes at the same time. Why not?

Due to the special background of the industry operators, Ibrahim knew that this industry had been evading taxes on a large scale and did not make any reaction.

Anyway, these female bosses employ a large number of housewives and pay them wages, which is equivalent to reducing the burden on poor families, and they don't need to worry about this aspect.

As long as the quality is ensured, delivery is on schedule, and the female employees are not owed wages, Ibrahim does not care about other aspects. At most, he can help them contact customers from their old friends.

Because of this, the Ottoman Empire's light industrial products, mainly clothing, shoes and hats, were very competitive in the international market, accounting for almost half of the global market.

The markets in America and Australia are better. In all markets in Europe and the Northland of the Ming Empire, clothing, shoes and hats are almost monopolized by Ottoman products.

Many styles were sent by clothing, shoe and hat design companies in the Ming Empire to manufacturing companies in the Ottoman Empire, and then the products were sold back.

The Ming Empire holds fashion conferences every year in Minsk, Paris, Milan, Madrid, Berlin, Warsaw and other cities. This is the fashion trend of the next year.

Osman can't do this thing, because most of the conferences use female models.

During peacetime, the best-selling magazine in the Ming Empire was the bimonthly "Women's Wear", with an average sales volume of no more than 10 million copies per issue. You know the content...

Most of the female models are Yangma. They not only have outstanding facial features and tall figures, but also have fair skin, which is suitable for heavy makeup. They are good-looking clothes and racks.

It can be said that the modeling industry is the industry with the highest employment rate, accounting for more than 90% of female models.

Although their skin is not as delicate as that of Oriental women.

But it is invisible in the magazine, and this serious flaw is well concealed.

Some gentlemen who rail against female models end up buying every issue and instinctively read them eagerly on the street...

Female models are just like flight attendants. Because of their good temperament and excellent figure, even if they are not married, they are not short of money because they have a large group of suitors around them.

The starting price for a dinner party is 10,000 yuan. If you go to a hotel after the meal, it will cost 30,000 to 50,000 yuan.

It doesn’t matter if you don’t give me money, at least buy a lady’s bag worth tens of thousands, right?

If you think it’s too expensive, just make more money. It’s not too late to find beautiful women after you’ve made enough money!

Coastal cities like Malaga are full of rich people who are not short of money and can live a comfortable life.

There and the coastal areas of southern France are the two places with the highest wages in the Ming Dynasty, with the average monthly salary being no less than one thousand yuan.

The situation in these two places is just opposite to other places. In other places, there are few rich people and many poor people, but in these two places, the rich are everywhere.

Especially in the southern coastal areas of the Iberian Peninsula, especially after the onset of winter, wealthy people come to escape the cold almost everywhere, and there are more luxury cars than ordinary family cars.

As long as the taxes are paid in full, Emperor Haojing will not do anything to these rich people. They have always been dissipated and dissipated, and the court does not care.

The rich also know that the current world hegemon is the Ming Empire.

Once you evade taxes, you will either be sent to mine, run away early, or have to double, triple, or even quintuple to make up the difference.

Instead of doing that, it is better to pay taxes honestly. At least I feel at ease and don't have to worry about factory guards coming to arrest me.

The only way to escape is to the Congo in Africa, which has been war-torn for years and is hardly a place for people.

Other countries have signed treaties with the Ming Dynasty, and they would have been repatriated in the past, but the fate would be even worse.

The most terrifying thing is that according to the rumors about those guys who ran away and were sent back, the other party is waiting for them to pass by, seize them and ask for the bonus from Daming...

Doesn't this mean you're throwing yourself into a trap?

In this case, the reporting rewards are already effective, so there are fewer and fewer tax evaders in Ming Dynasty.

Bosses really can't commit suicide. This is a road of no return. There is no regret medicine!

If you really have to pay a fine of five times the difference, even if you don't go bankrupt, will you still be heartbroken?

Any large-scale group or company, even if the parent company is not in Minsk, has a branch or office in the city.

The purpose is to get news from the court as soon as possible so that the boss of the company can make corresponding preparations.

Give money when you should, give gifts when you should, just give them what they like.

Like three performances in a row, the Spring Festival Gala every three hours is the best stage for display.

Strong companies will spend money on advertising before and during the Spring Festival Gala, which is the best advertising time period.

Next is the final of the Ming Dynasty Local Football Super League, which is divided into three quarters, each quarter is thirty minutes, with a fifteen-minute break in between.

The Daming Local Football Super League, as the top league of Daming football, is divided into three regions and has as many as 108 teams.

The Western Region refers to the states west of Minsk, the Central Region refers to the states east of Minsk to the Ural Mountains, and the Eastern Region refers to the states east of the Ural Mountains.

Each region has thirty-six places, but because there are so many western states, there are less than five places per state on average, so the competition is unprecedentedly fierce.

The weather here is the best, games can be held all year round, not only has the largest number of teams, but the level of football is also the highest.

From the first Premier League in 1751 to the 50th league in 1800.

Teams belonging to the Western Region have won a total of twenty-five championships, accounting for just half of the total.

Teams from the Central Region have won seventeen championships, while teams from the Eastern Region have won only eight championships.