Compared with other overseas bases, Haihan's efforts to recruit Japanese naturalized citizens in Sasebo Bay are not large. It has been so many years since the base was established, but the number of naturalized citizens from here still does not exceed 10,000.
Shi Diwen insisted on setting a naturalization threshold for Japanese people, mainly for security reasons. Haihan executives have always been wary of using Japanese naturalized people.
Shi Diwen's generation of time-travelers are naturally wary of Japan, and their strategies against Japan over the years have also followed this attitude. Even though it has been revised and supplemented many times during the period, it has always adhered to the basic goal of weakening Japan. Even all the military support provided to the various vassal states in the Kyushu region was aimed at dividing Japan's territory.
The Executive Committee will never be able to rest assured that this East China Sea neighbor will not be completely dismembered. This is why the Executive Committee is very supportive of Shi Diwen's visit.
Even in the Haihan Army, there are actually many Japanese officers who were naturalized in the early years. For example, Amakusa Shiro, the garrison commander of the Sasebo base, is one of them. However, the loyalty of these Japanese officers still cannot shake the high-level view of Japan, so so far, the Sasebo base has not relaxed the naturalization conditions for Japanese personnel.
Of course, for those local people who want to join Haihan, there is no solution. They just have to leave their hometown and leave the Japanese archipelago completely.
As long as you obey the government's allocation and move to other areas where foreign immigrants can be resettled, such as Taiwan Island, Luzon Island, and new colonies in South Asia, North America, etc., it will be easier to apply for naturalization there and obtain Haihan national status than at the Sasebo base. Naturalization is much easier.
Therefore, the number of Japanese personnel currently transported to other places overseas through the Sasebo base is much higher than the number of naturalized people locally.
Nowadays, the agricultural planting technology implemented at the Sasebo base has begun to bear fruit, which has greatly increased the appeal of naturalization to ordinary people. After all, before the arrival of the Haihan people, the food production in the Kyushu region had been quite low, and the issue of grain taxation had always been one of the main conflicts between the local forces in Kyushu and the shogunate.
The harvest of farmland around the base supported by agricultural technology and seeds provided by Haihan is several times greater than that of farmland cultivated by local farmers themselves.
Even if Haihan does not take the initiative to publicize it, such an almost miraculous performance will be spread by word of mouth among the locals. This will make many people realize that as long as they join Haihan, they no longer have to worry about going hungry in the future.
After listening to the work reports from the two departments of trade and civil affairs, it was finally the turn of the official leader to appear. Amakusa Shiro reported to Shi Diwen the operation of the Sasebo base this year.
The Sasebo base completed two batches of troop replacements this year. Although the garrison establishment does not seem to have changed significantly, the actual number of troops deployed to the Sasebo base from the country has increased.
The army units that transferred to the Sasebo base this year are a reinforced battalion affiliated with the 1st Regiment of the 7th Army Division and an artillery battalion directly under the division headquarters. These two battalions were serious front-line combat troops, but they were both transferred to Japan before the war against the Ming Dynasty began in April. This shows how seriously Shi Diwen attaches importance to the situation in Japan.
During the naval force's defense change, Shi Diwen also specially arranged for several warships that had recently entered service and had more advanced weapons and equipment to be stationed here, using this covert method to enhance the combat effectiveness of the Sasebo garrison fleet.
At present, the adaptation training of the defense-changing troops has long been completed, and they have entered normal combat readiness status and can perform combat missions at any time.
When Shi Diwen heard this, he nodded with satisfaction. However, he would not completely listen to Amakusa Shiro's oral report, and would still personally inspect the actual situation of the garrison troops later. What he is most concerned about at the moment is actually another question: "How is the training of foreign military personnel?"
Amakusa Shiro responded quickly: "Sir, according to the plan made last year, we have taken the initiative to increase the number of training personnel for the southwestern feudal clans since the beginning of the year, and the response from each clan has been very positive."
"There are 280 foreign military personnel who have completed training this year, and 374 people are still receiving training at the base. These personnel come from 17 vassal countries, and it is expected that they will complete the training before the end of the year. In addition, about two hundred foreign military trainees will be accepted within the year. ”
"The training content is still based on the "Army and Navy Basic Training Outline" compiled by the Ministry of National Defense in the third year of Haihan, supplemented by the "Militia Training Assessment Standards."
Haihan has a long history of training foreign military personnel. It began providing such military support to Annan as early as thirty years ago, so there are many mature plans available for related training plans.
However, the intensity of military training provided to Japan, a special target, cannot be compared with that of slave countries such as Annan and North Korea. The Sasebo base also uses a relatively ancient training program.
To put it simply, Haihan hoped that through military training, the trainees sent by the Kyushu vassals could learn some advanced military knowledge, so that they could defeat the weak and the strong against the Tokugawa shogunate. But at the same time, I don’t want them to learn too much to avoid backlash in the future.
Military personnel trained in this way can at best reach the level of the Haihan militia, and there is still a considerable gap between them and the regular army.
But even so, if these samurai officers who have received orthodox training can take back what they have learned, it will be enough to train a fighting force for each domain. Coupled with the weapons and equipment purchased from Haihan, the military strength is quite impressive.
Shi Diwen asked: "What are the qualifications of the students sent by each domain this year?"
Amakusa Shiro responded: "It's still not ideal, especially the physical condition... If we use our army's standard physical examination, at least half of them will not be able to join the army. If the officers are like this, you can imagine the quality of ordinary soldiers."< br>
Shi Diwen nodded and said: "There are only a few locals who can eat enough, and their bodies are naturally not comparable to those of Chinese citizens."
Japanese people in this era were generally short and thin. Even professional samurai such as Minami Takahashi and Shiro Amakusa who had taken refuge in Kaihan were only slightly stronger than ordinary Japanese, and their height and weight were far inferior to those of time-travelers like Shi Diwen. .
Having said that, had it not been for a severe shortage of manpower, Takahashi Minami and Amakusa Shiro would not have been given the opportunity to enlist in the army. However, despite their poor physical condition, they were good at being kind and tolerant, able to endure hardships, being ruthless to their enemies and themselves, and willing to work wholeheartedly for Haihan, so they were able to stand out in the army by accumulating military merit.
But today, Haihan already has considerable options for sources of soldiers, and there is less need for Japanese people to fill the hole. Even Amakusa Shiro himself now believes that the physical condition of the Japanese is too poor and is far from meeting the requirements of the Haihan Army.