As for why Japan cannot be regarded as an island...
First of all, the area is indeed not small.
Although perhaps in the eyes of the Holy King or a contemporary hero like His Majesty, the size is nothing, but to the army it does have "depth".
For deep islands, we cannot rely solely on firepower from ships. We must actually move our troops into the interior of the island to fight.
And if you want to move an army into its inland area, the army... must be of a certain size, right? If the army needs to be of a certain scale, then it must have a big ship, right? One or two of them won't work, it must be a large fleet of ships.
So now comes the question...
"It's not easy to sail a ship like this, and it requires a large fleet. How can we do it?"
Chai Shao didn't understand what Li Sheng said about "Japan's problems", so he asked about the business. Anyway, since he was going to conquer the country anyway, he had to make a plan.
When he asked, Li Sheng shrugged.
"What's so difficult about this, Miyako... The East China Sea Strait is difficult to navigate, so why not go through it from the south? Laizhou can be used as a central response point, and the main offensive force will take the two routes of Hangzhou and Baekje to bypass the strait.
If not, it’s over.”
"Bypass?" Chai Shao was a little stunned. Bypass the strait? This... sounds a bit unreliable.
Deliberately taking a long route, although it seems to be in line with military principles... After all, soldiers are crafty, and this is not for nothing.
But Chai Shao always felt...
"But if we take a long way around, wouldn't we end up...reaching the open sea? Then the sea will be vast..."
What to do if you get lost.
Chai Shao was always worried about this. Although Li Sheng had invented the sextant, he still couldn't rest assured.
After all, although the South China Sea was difficult to navigate, everyone was going to open up a military town at that time. In addition to sending the Forbidden Army, His Majesty also promised the Forbidden Army heavy profits: the land occupied by the military town would be distributed to the Forbidden Army soldiers in the future!
This kind of good thing is extremely rare in the entire history of China. It was only popular in my era of the Qin Dynasty and the Western Han Dynasty. Now I want to take over the Japanese and Japanese countries...
Now the military power of the Tang Dynasty has also improved a lot. It is indeed difficult and risky to go to Japan and take a detour to the outer sea, but it is completely different from the difficulty of opening up the South China Sea. At that time, on the way to the South China Sea, it was really down to every person.
From a low-level soldier to a bad old man like himself, he still has the heart of a dead soldier.
As for taking Japan... it's not that we can't reward meritorious soldiers, but since it's not that difficult, the reward can't be too high. If the reward is too high, what will you make the Forbidden Soldiers in the South China Sea think? The reason why rules are a major event in the world is because
This is something that can bring peace of mind to everyone. It can change its form but never destroy itself.
But "You can't set too high a reward for the soldiers of the imperial army" is really difficult to say, so Chai Shao couldn't help but look stiff and embarrassed, and his brain was thinking about how to say it...
But before Chai Shao could formulate his words, Li Sheng had already noticed Chai Shao's concerns and said with a smile, "Mr. Chai, there's no need to worry too much. There's no need to get a big reward in this matter. It's not difficult to go overseas...
In recent years, in addition to the initial mass-produced version of the sextant, I also found top jewelry and furniture craftsmen to customize a batch of exquisite limited editions, so positioning them at sea will not be a problem."
"oh?"
Chai Shao's eyes widened when he heard this, "Can such things be customized by a jewelry and furniture craftsman?"
"hey-hey……"
Li Sheng showed a mysterious smile, "Of course that's okay... Otherwise, the old man would think that the springs used in the new internal combustion engine on the big iron ship came from. And recently..."
Recently, Li Sheng also worked on a small project, but it was not a useful military weapon, but...
In short, a lot of jewelry craftsmen were still used.
The reason... During the European Industrial Revolution in the past, there were not many technological deficiencies - because technological deficiencies often go hand in hand with design deficiencies, and even most of the time, the speed of design progress is not as fast as the speed of technological progress. Of course
Not to mention that the process precision is not enough.
However, here in Datang... due to the influence of a certain special factor, the design is always sufficient and always awesome. The problem often lies in the insufficient process accuracy and the incompatibility of many designs.
So, under Li Sheng's instructions, Wu Meiniang began to recruit and search for jewelry craftsmen in the West Lake Industrial Zone on a regular basis all year round. At first, there were not many, and the quality was not high. The reason... mainly was the Tang Dynasty a few years ago.
Industry is just a matter of "with or without", and words like "development" and "progress" cannot be mentioned at all.
For jewelry craftsmen, the "factory" thing is simply a series of spectacles that harm the country. No one believes that this institution called a factory will continue to operate and become more and more prosperous. Therefore...
On the one hand, I instinctively think that it is more stable to have a career making jewelry for powerful people. Secondly, working with powerful people also has many additional benefits, such as not being bullied when I go out.
It seems like a right to go out without being bullied, but if this right comes from local powerful people, then the right also means power, the power to do whatever you want. This is equivalent to local extraterritoriality. Many times political researchers are observing the grassroots
This point is often ignored when working in the industry. However, among the maids and tenant farmers who are dependent on the local powerful, jewelry craftsmen belong to the "middle and high-level white-collar workers". Although they are also servants, they can enjoy certain local extraterritorial rights.
Therefore, for a long time, it was not easy to recruit jewelry craftsmen, and even...
Up to now, Wu Meiniang has recruited a lot of jewelry craftsmen, but overall there are still not many. Compared with the actual number of jewelry craftsmen estimated based on population and household registration data, it is still relatively small——
This is not because Li Sheng is in vain to increase the number of staff and increase expenses, but that jewelry craftsmen are indeed in short supply here in the industrial zone. Although the monthly salary offered has greatly exceeded the money ordinary jewelry craftsmen can earn, the wealthy family shelters the area.
The "sense of stability" I gained still overwhelms the desire to make more money...
This is the case with things like the economic cycle. Often when market confidence is at its lowest, the old profit makers who control the means of production will fall into complete conservatism, and new opportunities will of course be taken advantage of by players like Yanai Masaru. As for jewelry,
Mid- to high-level white-collar workers like craftsmen certainly belong to the former rather than the latter.
However... although Li Sheng doesn't care, objectively speaking, this trend is about to change.
Li Sheng's new project... is exactly what Datang has used to generate countless income in recent years: the clock——
