As early as July of the fourth year of Hongwu, Zhou Mancheng and Kong Zhende jointly wrote to Su Yonglin, requesting Su Yonglin to give them a certain number of artillery to equip the navy's main battleships.
It’s just that the number of artillery castings has not been increasing, and there is simply not enough to distribute. Therefore, currently, the two navies only have ten main warships equipped with ten artillery pieces.
In this way, two hundred mounted generals and cannons suitable for battleships were allocated.
These twenty artillery battleships equipped with artillery performed very well in maritime war exercises and had strong lethality. Therefore, the Navy's demand for artillery was even greater. They repeatedly requested the Privy Council and Su Yonglin himself. Allocate artillery.
So much so that Su Yonglin now provides 40% of his artillery production capacity to the Navy. Even so, the Navy still feels it is not enough.
There are too many warships suitable to be equipped with artillery, and too few cannons to keep up with the distribution.
In order to ensure quality, we cannot blindly expand production, so this is a very troublesome thing.
Well, sweet troubles. .
At present, we can only hope that the expansion of factory scale and the increase of production lines will improve the production efficiency of firearms.
Then slowly and gradually the entire army was equipped with firearms, allowing the Ming army to completely complete standardization and modern development.
This is undoubtedly the right thing to do.
The achievements of the Shenji Battalion in Xixia allowed Su Yonglin to see the modern army's dimensionality reduction attack on the feudal army.
This is a complete dimensionality reduction attack on the feudal army in terms of technology, organization, training, and ideology and culture. It is almost impossible for the feudal army to resist.
Under such circumstances, Su Yonglin no longer worried about the war in the Southern Song Dynasty.
Although he knew that the Southern Song Dynasty had completed the recruitment plan of 70,000 soldiers and was further promoting the recruitment plan of 80,000 soldiers, in his opinion, the feudal army, no matter how many, was meaningless.
It just adds merit to the soldiers of the Ming army.
What Su Yonglin needs to be busy now is to contribute to the official establishment of Hexi Province.
Since a rebellion of this scale has appeared in Xixia, although it was not led by the Queen Mother of Xixia, since the rebels used the banner of the Queen Mother of Xixia, Su Yonglin had to accept their "good intentions".
It is time for the land of Hexi, the homeland of China that has been occupied by Xixia for hundreds of years, to return to the embrace of its mother.
As early as the Western Han Dynasty, this land was taken over by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, who established prefectures and counties to establish rule, which was the former Liangzhou.
In the changing times of the late Tang and early Song Dynasty, this place was occupied by Xixia. If the decadent Song Dynasty could not regain this ancient Chinese land, then the Ming Dynasty would complete this sacred mission on their behalf.
Su Yonglin officially issued an edict on December 23rd of the fourth year of Hongwu to abolish the existence of the Xixia Kingdom and formally merge it into the territory of the Ming Dynasty. The hometown of Xixia was established as the Daming River Westward Province.
The Queen Mother of Xixia and the young king of Xixia were deposed from their original status because of the crime of rebellion. They will be deprived of all treatment, deposed as common people, and taken to Zhongdu for guarding.
When the mother and son came to Zhongdu City tremblingly, Su Yonglin did not embarrass them.
Su Yonglin decided to send the Queen Mother Ren of Xixia to work in the Second Textile Factory of Zhongdu to undergo labor reform. If nothing happens in the future, she would be allowed to work and retire as a worker in the textile factory and live an ordinary life.
The little king of Xixia, Li Chunbao, was renamed Li Chun. He was just five years old this year and was old enough to go to school. Su Yonglin decided to send him to the No. 3 Mongolian School in Zhongdu to receive new education with his peers and change his life. trajectory.
All the nobles, civil servants, and military generals of Xixia who participated in the rebellion will be executed, and the relatives and friends of the tribe will be held accountable according to the law.
Beheading of beheading, exile to Heilongjiang Province, exile to Heilongjiang Province, reform through labor reform through labor.
After one operation, the old Xixia ruling class that had survived two purges by Ren Dejing and the Ming Dynasty were swept away. The existence of Xixia as a country was completely swept into the garbage heap of history and ceased to exist.
After the Xixia Kingdom ceased to exist, Hexi Province took its place. After hundreds of years of separatism, the land of Hexi finally returned to the state it should be in.
Su Yonglin immediately appointed Zhou Lin as the political counselor of Hexi Province and became the chief executive of Hexi Province. The administrative team of Hexi Province, which had been planned for a long time, all took office and instantly switched administrative status. Its reaction speed was comparable to that of the main war faction of the Southern Song Dynasty. and the speed of switching between main and factional governments.
Anyway, highlight a seamless switch.
Because everything had been prepared long ago, after the Ming Dynasty took over the Xixia regime, it basically followed the requirements of the Hexi Province. Therefore, the hometown of Xixia entered the status of the Hexi Province in a short period of time.
The bottom farmers and herdsmen, who accounted for the vast majority of the population, had received early care from the policies of the Ming Dynasty and the care from the grassroots organizations of the Renaissance Society. They no longer knew what Xixia was and what the motherland was, and they had no expression for the demise of Xixia.
They simply and directly accepted the fact that they became citizens of the Ming Kingdom overnight.
The bottom class, which accounts for the vast majority of the population, does not object. The upper class of Xixia has been completely wiped out by the adult system, leaving some small fish and shrimps that cannot stand up. They themselves have to rely on the policies of the Ming Dynasty to survive, and of course they will not object to this. matter.
Therefore, the fall of Xixia and the establishment of Hexi Province basically caused no disturbance among the people of Xixia. After two months of counter-insurgency war, at the beginning of the fifth year of Hongwu, Hexi Province was calm and the transition was smoothly realized.
The worries on the northwest frontier of the Ming Dynasty were completely lifted.
Su Yonglin provided some preferential policies and financial support to Hexi Province, and mobilized a batch of materials to enrich Hexi Province's treasury. Next, it depends on whether Hexi Province can use the Ningxia Plain and the Hetao Plain to rebuild One plugged into Jiangnan and came out.
Anyway, after Zhou Lin officially took office as the political advisor of Hexi Province, she came up with the long-considered Ningxia Plain Revitalization Plan and the Hetao Plain Development Plan, as well as the environmental improvement plan that followed closely.
In order to cooperate with the macro-policy of Yellow River management, certain changes must also be made in the Hetao Plain and Ningxia Plain areas.
While restoring and developing production, it is also necessary to restore the natural environment that has been damaged due to extensive farming operations and reduce the sediment content of the Yellow River from the source area.
This policy was praised and adopted at a seminar held by the central court of the Ming Dynasty.
Su Yonglin signed the order to approve its implementation, hoping that Zhou Lin could accomplish what he expected during his five-year term and boost production in Hexi Province.
The Hexi Province is an important springboard for the future march into Western Liao to seize the Western Regions. It is also an important military presence in managing the grassland and restraining the power of the grassland. Its military significance must not be relaxed.
The stalls in Xixia ceased to exist when Hongwu arrived in the fifth year.
In order to prepare for the second imperial examination, Su Yonglin temporarily focused all his energy on this aspect. Even the return and refresher training of the Shenji Camp did not distract him too much.
