In December of the 14th year of Chengshun, after more than a month of quarreling, the army and navy finally finalized the allocation of military expenditures and the allocation of troops.
This cooperation between the army and the navy fully embodies the principle of doing as much as you spend.
As for the army and navy, they allocate military expenditures and subsequent spoils of war based on the number of troops they use and the level of military expenditures. They pay attention to being honest and honest.
According to the combat plan finalized by both parties, the navy will be responsible for maritime transportation and escort, and will also be responsible for defeating the maritime power of the Kingdom of Johor at sea and blocking possible military intervention by the Dutch.
At the same time, the navy will also dispatch a marine regiment from the area controlled by the Kingdom of Johor in the easternmost part of the Malay Peninsula, that is, the Lion City area to land and take control of the area, which will later become Singapore.
Control of this area, together with the necessary naval support, would allow control of the easternmost passage of the Malacca Strait.
This was to ensure that the maritime power of the Great Chu Empire could safely pass through the Strait of Malacca to support subsequent operations in Malacca City and the entire Malay Peninsula.
Even for the Chu Empire, other places on the Malay Peninsula were not as important as Singapore, because the easternmost end of the Malacca Strait adjacent to Singapore was the narrowest place in the entire strait, and there was also a small archipelago, namely Liao. The Inner Archipelago, like the eastern part of the Malay Peninsula, is currently controlled by the Kingdom of Johor.
Based on the importance of the Strait of Malacca and the importance of the eastern end of the Strait of Malacca, the Kingdom of Johor naturally became an enemy of the Chu Empire.
Because the Kingdom of Johor currently controls the eastern end of the Strait of Malacca, the Chu Empire cannot control this area without killing them. Without controlling this area, it is impossible to guarantee the safety of entering and exiting the Strait of Malacca.
Relatively speaking, in other places in the Strait of Malacca, such as the city of Malacca, which is now highly valued by the Portuguese and Dutch, the Chu Empire actually has little interest in it.
Their only interest is to rush in and confiscate many properties here to subsidize military expenditures.
As for building this place into a huge port and garrisoning heavy troops, there is a lack of interest.
Because the Strait of Malacca, where Malacca City is located, is already very wide, it is difficult to conduct a comprehensive blockade. It is far less effective than directly blocking the east end of Malacca.
Before the Malay Peninsula Campaign was launched, the Chu Empire had already finalized plans to build a huge transit port and naval base in the Lion City in the future.
With the Lion City and the Chu Empire's naval base on the west coast of the Malay Peninsula, we can ensure the security of the Malacca Strait in both the east and the west.
In this way, there is a battle plan that the Navy will send a Marine Corps to land in the Lion City and take control of the island.
Yes, the Lion City is actually an island... It does not have a direct land border with the Malay Peninsula. It is separated by a small strait, the Strait of Johor, which is also the main waterway between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean.
The navy's combat plan was relatively cautious. It did not choose to land on the Malay Peninsula as the first step. Instead, it chose to land in the Lion City, then control the island, and rely on the strait as a natural barrier to prevent the Kingdom of Johor from counterattacking.
As long as the Imperial Navy of the Da Chu Empire stabilizes its position in the early stage of landing in Lion City, then relying on the strength of an entire marine regiment and the assistance of naval warships, the Kingdom of Johor cannot expect to counterattack and capture Lion City. Even if the Dutch join the war, it is impossible. Take back the Lion City.
After taking control of Lion City, the naval warships of the Da Chu Empire were able to berth, replenish, and rest in Lion City, and use the port of Lion City as a naval base to conduct operations in nearby waters.
If there was no Lion City as a naval base, then every battle of the Chu Empire Navy would have to start from Beijia or simply Cam Ranh Bay, and fight across a long distance with the fleets of the Kingdom of Johor or the Dutch East India Company.
If one of them fails, they will be doomed.
Luo Zhixue agreed and was even pleased with the promotion in the Navy.
Because unlike the army, which is ahead of other armies in terms of weapons and equipment, the warships of the Da Chu Empire Navy are actually not technically ahead. At most, they are just large in number.
And there may not be any technical advantages in personnel.
The warships of the Da Chu Empire Navy were still sail warships, and they also used forward-mounted artillery. At most, they were equipped with extra grenades.
In terms of firepower, there is actually not much absolute advantage.
In this case, even if we need more warships, we must prevent accidents and cannot be blindly arrogant.
Compared with the caution of the Navy, the Army is much simpler. According to the combat plan, the Army will send a division to participate in the battle, which is the Army's Fifth Division.
The division was early deployed in Yunnan and was responsible for operations in the direction of Myanmar.
As the Chu Empire launched its Nanyang strategy, the army's top brass designated the Fifth Division, the Thirteenth Division, and the Fourteenth Division as the main force for overseas operations, and targeted the above three divisions in conducting sea crossing and landing operations, tropical rainforest and other combat missions. Sexual adaptive training.
At the same time, special changes have been made in weapons and equipment, so that the above three divisions can be more adapted to operations in the Nanyang region.
After the Nanyang Strategy was officially launched, the Thirteenth Division was first transferred to Nanyang and participated in the Battle of Siam. Later, it moved to the Beijia area and participated in the expulsion and suppression missions in the Beijia area. It successfully defeated the newly arrived Chu The new immigrants to the empire freed up a large amount of living space.
After two consecutive years of overseas deployment in the Nanyang region, considering that a large number of soldiers have extended their service years and need to retire and recruit new recruits, it is also considered that the morale within the military has been somewhat low due to the excessively long overseas service.
How to put it, it's okay if you let them fight overseas, but if you keep them overseas to deal with indigenous people and mosquitoes... they don't go back year after year, many people have objections.
Military orders cannot be disobeyed, but periods of depression are inevitable.
To this end, the Army's top brass has launched an overseas rotation dispatch plan, which is to rotate overseas garrison troops to avoid various problems caused by long-term garrisoning.
Although this will increase some transportation costs and adaptability problems, these can be overcome, which is better than the resentment of the soldiers below.
According to the rotation dispatch plan, the 5th Division was dispatched to the Beijia area in the winter of the 14th year of Chengshun to take over the 13th Division to undertake a series of combat tasks in the Beijia area.
The Thirteenth Division is heading back to China and will be stationed in Guangdong on rotation. When the time comes, those who should retire will retire, those who should take vacations will take vacations, and those who should recruit new recruits will be replenished. Officers can also be promoted and mobilized based on combat performance, etc.
At the same time, we will continue to maintain adaptive training and deploy overseas based on the situation. However, if nothing unexpected happens, we will probably be deployed again in two or three years.
If it happens too often, the soldiers will have objections.
Under such circumstances, the fifth division is now responsible for fighting in the Beijia area.
Not only has the Fifth Division been dispatched overseas, but the Fourteenth Division, which is specifically used for overseas landing operations in the tropics, will also be dispatched to the Southeast Asian region, but it will mainly be used as a strategic reserve for the Malay Peninsula Campaign.
The battle is mainly fought by the Fifth Division. The Fourteenth Division is used as a precaution and to take over the suppression and clearing tasks in the Beijia area after the Fifth Division leaves.
Speaking of which, the current ruling pressure of the Da Chu Empire in the Beijia area is still quite large, mainly because there are too many local indigenous people, and these indigenous people are not very friendly towards the foreign Da Chu Empire, and they often attack and resist .
You can't blame them, after all, if you wake up and find that your land has become someone else's, and someone else tells you to pack up your things and get out, you will be very unhappy, and those who are brave will resist.
As for the Great Chu Empire, damn, this Beijia area is already the territory of our Great Chu Empire, and it is also a legitimate and reasonable spoil of war after signing a treaty during the war.
This is the territory of His Majesty the Emperor of the Chu Empire. What are you barbarians doing here? Get out of here...
In this process, there will naturally be various turbulences. Previously, these things were the responsibility of the Thirteenth Division, and later they were handed over to the Fifth Division. Subsequently, it will be the Fourteenth Division's turn.
Of course, as combat readiness first-class divisions, these three troops are mainly responsible for garrisoning in major cities and transportation nodes, and attacking large-scale, organized enemies.
Sporadic eviction and suppression tasks are mainly the responsibility of local armed patrols and even militiamen themselves.
In order to protect the safety of immigrants, the Nanyang Governor's Office made great efforts and assigned a large number of armed patrols in the Beijia area, equipped with matchlock guns and even light artillery and light armor.
Then, a free matchlock gun retired by the military was distributed to every new immigrant to the Beijia area.
As for the flintlock gun, this thing is still a high-tech ordnance. The imperial military is still keeping this thing secret and strictly controls leakage.
Sporadic outflows are normal. After all, this thing is equipped with millions of pieces of equipment in the Chu army. Now even the armed patrols have begun to equip this thing... Coupled with the loss on the battlefield, etc., it is difficult to completely prevent the outflow of this thing.
However, sporadic small-scale leaks are not a big problem, as long as there are no large-scale leaks to allow enemy equipment.
As for the enemy taking it as a sample for imitation... If it could be imitated so easily, all European countries would have completely replaced the flintlock muskets.
You can imitate the appearance, but you can't imitate the materials... Without the corresponding materials and processing techniques, you're a fool to imitate!
How to say, I give you an F35, all the design drawings are given to you, and I give you a few more as samples. All the technologies are made public, and I teach you how to make them step by step, but still no country can copy it. .
Especially the engine inside. The pre-vortex temperature of this thing can reach more than 2,000 degrees Celsius. The parts in it can still maintain normal operation at this temperature, and the high-temperature materials for making these parts are not available in other countries for the time being...
If you don’t even have the corresponding high-temperature materials, how can you talk about imitation?
The same is true for the new flintlock guns of the Dachu Empire. There are many things you can't tell just by looking at the appearance. For example, the inside of the barrels of the Dachu Empire's muskets is smoother and has minimal errors. This is based on better materials and processing. Craftsmanship.
There is also the bullet that seems to be a gadget, but is extremely critical. The performance of this thing is directly related to the firing rate.
Any technical issues involving materials are a sinkhole. Without organizing a large number of manpower and spending a lot of money, other countries cannot expect to be able to solve it.
Just like that, it depends on luck when you can get it!
Therefore, in fact, the Dachu Empire is not afraid that other countries will imitate on a large scale during this period. This is impossible.
Therefore, as long as the Dachu Empire does not take the initiative to sell large-scale sales to other countries, in the future, only the military and police of the Dachu Empire in the world will be able to equip such high-firing flintlock guns on a large scale.
Of course, if other countries insist on equipping flintlock guns with low firing rates, they can do so. However, flintlock guns with an all-weather firing rate of only 50 to 60% have little practical value and are not as good as matchlock guns.
Relying on the regular army to take charge of the overall situation, the armed patrols and the militia to carry out specific elimination and expulsion measures, the Dachu Empire's immigration operation in the Beijia area was carried out relatively smoothly.
Of course, what is more important is that the imperial official provides multiple guarantees for immigrants going to the Beijia area.
The first is official immigration. As long as you sign up for official immigration, in addition to free land allocation, all other expenses are covered by the official. Even if you don't have a copper in your pocket, you can sign up to immigrate to Nanyang.
When you go, there will be official ships to transport you there for free, usually navy ships.
Anyway, navy ships often go to the depths of the South China Sea for various cruises and training. Carrying immigrants was a matter of convenience in the past, especially those transport ships. Anyway, the naval officers and soldiers in these transport ships also need to go to sea for training. If they are idle, If you have nothing to do but run around on the sea for training, you might as well help transport immigrants.
After arriving at the place, free temporary rent, necessary grains and tools will be provided. Qingzhuang will also issue a matchlock gun for self-defense.
In short, as long as you go to immigrate, the official will cover all the expenses for you!
Of course, this kind of official immigration also has limitations, that is, it needs to obey the official allocation.
As for the immigrant settlements arranged by the government, the conditions are often not that good, they are not too remote, the land is not that good, and it is more dangerous to have indigenous barbarians nearby.
Because of the good conditions, the Nanyang governor's office reserved funds to attract immigrants at their own expense to reduce official immigration expenditures.
After all, official funds to support and subsidize immigrants are limited, and Nanyang’s demand for immigrants is too great. If official immigration is relied on alone, the number of immigrants will be limited and the time required will be long.
Therefore, it is natural to need some benefits to attract self-financing immigrants.
These self-financed immigrants take the ships of major trading companies to various colonies in Southeast Asia. After arriving there, they are free to choose where to settle. The government will not interfere in any way. You can go wherever you like to immigrate.
In addition, for these self-financed immigrants with certain financial capabilities, the official will not provide free housing, rations, grain seeds, and tools. Of course, this does not mean that they will not care whether you live or die, but will provide them with interest-free loans.
How to put it this way, if you want to choose to immigrate and settle in a good place, you naturally need to pay more than official immigration.
However, regardless of whether they are official immigrants or self-funded immigrants, they can obtain a large amount of free land. This is a treatment that all immigrants enjoy. The only difference lies in the region, the quality of the land, and the size of the land obtained.
However, the local officials basically give out more money... Anyway, there is a lot of land and there are few immigrants... When there are fewer people and more land, they naturally give out more land.
And if you have the ability to cultivate more land after cultivating the basic quota of land, you can also apply for additional land, which is also free... but the premise is that it cannot be abandoned within a few years. Once it is abandoned, it will be taken back. .
As for whether you want to hire people to farm and get a large piece of land, that's a good idea... New immigrants from the Chu Empire can get land for free from the government. Who will farm the land for you... As for letting the indigenous people help Do you farm?
Sorry, the Da Chu Empire currently has overseas territories and refuses indigenous people to live in the areas actually controlled by the Da Chu Empire.
Slavery and human trafficking were banned in the Chu Empire...
Even slaves during the Ming Dynasty were illegal, let alone pure slaves. If you dare to get an indigenous slave to work for you, the patrol will arrest you directly, and the court will sentence you to death in less than two days. .
Banning slaves is a matter of principle. Even if you want to have an indigenous slave, it is not allowed.
Of course, if you go to an indigenous country, such as Luzon, which is now under Spanish control, and get a lot of slaves, the Chu Empire officials will not care about you.
But as long as you dare to bring these slaves back to the country, they will be arrested in minutes.
The Da Chu Empire strictly prohibited even indigenous slaves, and ordinary indigenous people were generally not allowed to enter the actual controlled areas of the Da Chu Empire.
Therefore, in several overseas colonies of the Dachu Empire, especially in the areas controlled by the Dachu Empire, you can actually see no indigenous people.
There may have been many indigenous people in these places before, but they were basically expelled.
Otherwise, how do you think the new immigrants from the Chu Empire got the land in their hands?
Without the continuous expulsion and suppression campaign, how could there be so much land to be given to them after so many immigrants from the Chu Empire came over?
The immigration and a series of governance measures implemented by the Dachu Empire in the Beijia area were actually different from those of the Dutch and other European colonists.
The European colonists were looking for money, so they engaged in slavery and then captured a lot of indigenous people to farm and mine for them.
However, the overseas expansion of the Dachu Empire was superficially related to various industries, commerce, trade, and the like. But strictly speaking, the overseas expansion of the empire's top leaders was not for money, but for resources and the land itself.
In Luo Zhixue's mind, overseas expansion is more important to alleviate local population problems.
Nowadays, there is naturally no population problem in the mainland. The current population is only about 200 million. But you have to know that during the period of peace and stability, the population growth is very rapid, especially the living standards and medical standards within the Dachu Empire are still improving. Among the improvements, these have further extended the average life span.
On the one hand, the number of births is increasing, and on the other hand, the average life span is gradually increasing.
This will then lead to a larger and larger population, which will grow very rapidly.
Luo Zhixue estimates that in 20 years, the local population may reach 500 million, and within 50 years, 1 billion is possible.
With the population growing so fast, it won't take long, at most, within twenty years, the Chu Empire will have the problem of too many people and too little land. If agricultural technology fails to make big breakthroughs, especially in grain cultivation and chemical fertilizer technology, If there is no big breakthrough, then there will definitely not be enough food to eat.
At this time, huge overseas territories are needed to share the pressure.
On the one hand through continued immigration to overseas territories.
On the other hand, food is transported back from overseas territories to increase local food supply.
A two-pronged approach can reduce the pressure brought by population and continue to maintain stable development.
As for what will happen a hundred years or more later, when the population continues to skyrocket to billions.
Luo Zhixue estimated that there would be no accident. At that time, the Chu Empire had entered modern society. In modern society, we don't have to worry about too many people, but we have to worry about population decline...
Besides, if the population is too large, it will definitely cause various conflicts. When the conflicts become too severe to be resolved, war will be inevitable.
As soon as the war came, the population plummeted!
After the war, the period of great prosperity of the Chu Dynasty, or simply the new dynasty, will naturally come.
If you go through the dynasties several times, the so-called resurgence is basically based on wars or various disasters. Why? Because the population dropped significantly at that time.
With fewer people and more land, even a fool as emperor can create a so-called ZTE...
On the contrary, the population is not small, and the food is still so little, Zhongxing is a piece of cake!
What Luo Zhixue is doing now is to secure overseas territories in advance, and then slowly start immigration to continue to alleviate the local food pressure.
Now it is Nanyang, and in the future it may be the Western Regions, Central Asia, and then the Americas, India and other places.
In short, through continuous external expansion, while emigrating, the food from overseas territories is used to feed the local area.
The expansion of the Beijia area and the current immigration plan are the experimental fields for this series of overseas expansion.
As for the previous four colonies of Cam Ranh Bay in Annan, Bangkok in Siam, Dagon in Myanmar, and Jiulong River in Cambodia, they cannot bear the function of experimental fields.
Because these places are not large in area, and they are not key areas for immigration development.
These places mostly serve as military bases and trade outposts, and a small amount of immigration development is mainly for the purpose of garrisoning troops and supplying ships.
The Beijia area is different. This area is large enough, with enough existing cultivated land and potential cultivated land. It can be used to resettle a large number of immigrants and carry out a series of experimental fields for the empire's overseas expansion policies.
Over the past year or so, the overall experiment has been relatively successful.
The more than 30,000 new immigrants currently settling in the Beijia area are the most obvious example.
And because of the good results, the Dachu Empire is still organizing more official immigrants and conducting publicity to call for more self-funded immigrants to go to the Beijia area.
Strive to increase the number of immigrants in the Beijia area to more than 100,000 as soon as possible, and then consolidate the control foundation of the Da Chu Empire in the local area.
The good results achieved in the Pekka area also made the empire's top officials determined to include other places in the Malay Peninsula.
To expand the scale of immigration development in overseas territories and further verify the effectiveness of various overseas expansion, immigration development and other measures.
Therefore, the decision by the senior officials of the Da Chu Empire to launch a war and seize other areas of the Malay Peninsula was not a plan promoted or led by the navy alone, but a plan of many domestic departments based on the interests of their own departments, coupled with Luo Zhixue's final decision for the future development of the empire. A comprehensive plan has just been finalized.
After all, in the Dachu Empire, military generals did not just start fighting when they thought of it, but they had to obey the overall interests of the empire.
Under such overall situation, the Chu Empire also officially launched its plan to capture the Malay Peninsula.
A large number of ships transported a large amount of supplies and began to move south. The Fifth Division also received orders to go to the Beijia area, and then took transport ships south to Beijia.
