Chapter 2811
There are foreign military cadets studying here in the Dengzhou base, which is not a strange thing. Haihan has been providing various forms of military assistance to foreign countries since the founding of the country, including training officers of various arms for allied countries.
Whether at the Military Academy in Sanya, the naval base at Dinghai Port in Zhoushan, or even in Sasebo Bay in a foreign country, foreign military trainees are frequent visitors. After these officers return to their home countries, they often pursue the military ideas and international relations advocated by Haihan, which greatly enhances Haihan's influence in these countries. This is not only beneficial to Haihan's arms exports, but also during wartime. It can complete the docking of the combat command system faster and form a more combat-effective coalition with Haihan.
After the parade parade, several local elite teams performed a drill on individual combat skills on the school field. However, the Army's training subjects and standards are set by the Ministry of National Defense, so the drill items are nothing new, such as obstacle running, rifle target shooting, grapple training, etc.
After Bai Kesi watched the drill, Chen Yixin invited him to the base headquarters to listen to Sun Bing and others' detailed reports on the garrison situation.
The content of such reports was generally extremely boring. Bai Kesi felt that Bai Letong probably couldn't stay any longer, so he asked Chen Yixin to arrange for him to visit the facilities in the city. Chen Yixin readily agreed and let Chen Pingliao take Bai Letong around.
Most of Bai Letong's understanding of the military came from his experiences in the past few months. He didn't want to expose his unprofessional side in front of Chen Pingliao, so during the visit, the questions he asked were closer to non-military fields.
Bai Letong asked: "Pingliao, Uncle Chen said earlier that before the reconstruction of Dengzhou City, a large number of residents were moved out of the city, but such a large relocation must have encountered many difficulties, right?"
In Bai Letong's view, if Haihan wants to carry out such a large project, it must consider the resettlement of local people. Whether it is persuasion, acquisition, or the use of coercion, it is probably not possible to get people to give up their assets in the city. It would be too easy.
Chen Pingliao's tone was very relaxed: "It went well. The situation in Dengzhou City is quite special. After the Denglai Rebellion, there were not many people left in the city. When we took over Dengzhou City, the city In addition to government agencies and the garrison, the other people here are mainly relatives and family members of officials and soldiers.”
"These people either follow the government and the Ming army to withdraw from Dengzhou, or they surrender to our country and accept the arrangements of the Northern Region. In either case, they must leave Dengzhou City first. After the people related to the Ming Dynasty moved away, the city In fact, there are not many people left here. Moreover, we have announced the renovation plan of Dengzhou City. There are still people who are not interested in the city. It will not be difficult to clean up at this time. "
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"It was later that we recruited workers, because there was not enough labor near Dengzhou City, so it took a lot of effort. We raised the wages several times before recruiting enough craftsmen from nearby counties. Although this place is the seat of Dengzhou, But in fact, everything is lacking. Many building materials and tools had to be transported from Fushan County, which cost a lot of money.”
Bai Letong said: "Then the funds to build this fortress, like Qingdao Port, are raised by the Northern Region itself?"
Chen Pingliao smiled and said: "The cost of Dengzhou City and Qingdao Port is much higher than the military expenditure of the Northern Region during the same period. Do you think the Ministry of National Defense can be so generous as to settle this account for us? Only about 10% of it It is allocated from military expenditures, and the rest is borne by local fiscal funds.”
Bai Letong said: "Presumably the Ministry of National Defense thinks that the needs of these two projects are not so urgent, so they are unwilling to bear the construction funds?" Chen Pingliao nodded slightly and said: "If we have to wait for the Ministry of National Defense to allocate funds, then I am afraid that the construction period will be longer It will take ten or eight years. Time waits for nothing. Since the Northern Region has the ability to implement these plans, there is no need to wait for the red tape procedures to be completed.”
As Bai Letong thought, although the Dengzhou Fortress and Qingdao Military Port planned by the Northern Region were of great military significance, they did not have the urgency to be put into use as soon as possible. Moreover, the subtext of the Northern Region's planning of these two projects is to further expand the establishment of the armed forces within its jurisdiction. This is not a goal that the Executive Committee and the Ministry of National Defense are willing to promote.
Of course, although such infrastructure projects cost a lot of money, they do not have high technical requirements. Therefore, the only way for the Ministry of National Defense to block the Northern Region is funds. However, in recent years, with the development of mining industry, the financial situation of the northern region has been getting better and better. It actually gritted its teeth and shouldered the construction funds and promoted the implementation of these major projects on its own.
Bai Letong couldn't help but secretly think that at the meeting that his father Bai Kesi attended, the local military officers would probably do their best to explain the necessity of building the Dengzhou Fortress in order to win the approval of the Executive Committee for this special project.
In fact, Bai Letong still thought a little more. The executive committee knew Dengzhou much better than he did, and it did not object to the Northern Region's approach. It is just the responsibility of the rulers to understand how the Northern Region will use these military bases next and whether there are plans for large-scale military operations.
Baikes came prepared. After sitting down in the conference room, he directly raised the issues that the executive committee was concerned about.
Chen Yixin made a gesture, and Sun Bing stepped forward knowingly and began to introduce to Bai Kesi the information that was not shown in the military parade.
"According to the information collected by the Military Intelligence Bureau, the Ming Dynasty is still secretly collecting supplies in the Central Plains. In the past year, its Ministry of Industry has increased its procurement of steel, sulfur, saltpeter and other materials. We have reason to believe that the Ming Dynasty is secretly training firearms. Troops.”
While explaining, Sun Bing pointed out certain key locations marked on the hanging map: "Cangzhou, Dezhou, Liaocheng, Jining, Xuzhou... These areas are all undergoing large-scale construction and construction of urban defense fortifications. We think this is a defensive posture. It shows that although the opponent is temporarily unable to launch attacks on the areas controlled by my country, it is trying to build another line of defense on the periphery of the buffer zone between the two countries.”
Bai Kesi reacted very calmly to this, nodded and said: "With such a long defense line, and the terrain is mainly plains, this is just for show. Is there any further news, such as the Ming court's secret decree, the Ministry of War's Documents and the like can help us judge the situation more accurately.”
Sun Bingdao: "There is currently no definite news about the direction of the capital, but I believe that if we continue to take over the Ming court's ruling area, it may not be as smooth as before, and we may encounter stronger resistance."
(End of chapter)