Chapter 495 It's Difficult to Build a Connecting Railway in Sichuan and Shaanxi!
"If you want to imitate northern firearms, you must first build a large ironworks. In addition, you must imitate them to build a craftsman's bureau that gathers great craftsmen, and set up fortification-related subjects in universities. At the same time, you must build a factory that gathers hundreds of industries. District. In short, this is a laborious, time-consuming and money-consuming matter. It is impossible to achieve good results without expending great efforts. We must pay more attention to this in the future."
"Host, it takes time to do these things. Students are afraid that the situation will change and we will not have the energy to do these things well."
"There should still be time, at least within two or three years, when the capitals of Sichuan and Shaanxi provinces will have no worries about powerful enemies invading the border. The changes in Shenjing City over the past few years have given me the greatest inspiration. Only by consolidating the foundation can we be able to respond calmly. If the foundation is not strong, everything will be broken. It’s just a mirror, a mirror, a mirror. As long as the foundation is strong, no matter how the situation changes, Sichuan and Shaanxi will be able to sit firmly on the Diaoyutai, and everything will be controlled by me.”
The situation on the battlefield in Liaodong left a deep shadow in Sun Chuanting's heart. Back then, he led his troops to fight the Qing army head-on, and he was quite familiar with the Qing army's combat power. Basically, it was impossible to prevent the Qing army from fearing a decisive battle. They suffered losses and forced them to the vicinity of Shenyang City. Such fighting power was really terrifying. If they had not made preparations earlier, when the Qin soldiers faced them, they would definitely still be one-sided.
In any case, he must find a way to make his own army weaponized, so that it can fight. In addition to imitating Beijing's situation and establishing an industrial system, Lao Sun is now even thinking about fully imitating Beijing's military system and education system. Damn. The thing that interests him the most is actually the military academy, but it’s hard to say it openly. His current military team is, to put it bluntly, a collection of military leaders from large to small. If he openly establishes a military academy, it will make his subordinates uncomfortable. The military leader has an idea.
However, he has another way to do this. Recently, Sun Chuanting has gathered some scholars from Sichuan and Shaanxi who are interested in the military and built a scholar camp of 500 people. Although the scale of the scholar camp is not as large as that of Beijing The military academy was so huge, but Sun Chuanting felt that it was actually enough. From now on, these people became the leading generals, taking orders directly from their own subordinates, which could number at least twenty to thirty thousand.
Regarding scholars leading troops, Sun Chuanting's idea was different from the way implemented in Beijing. He believed that it was meaningless to let these people lead thirty or fifty people as a small school, and it was unreliable to let them lead a large army. It was best to lead two Three hundred soldiers and horses constitute the basic combat unit. In the past few years, Sun Chuanting suffered the loss of a large army led by scholars during the invasion of the army. The scholars still had problems with their fighting will, and there were no serious generals who had fought hard on the battlefield to endure the hard battle.
From this point of view, Sun Chuanting was somewhat doubtful about the fighting will of the New Army in Beijing. He believed that the core of the New Army's combat effectiveness was firearms. It was precisely because of the invincible new firearms that they had been able to win many battles in recent years. If you meet an equally matched opponent, they probably won't be that strong. The generals still have to come from the battlefield and rely purely on the school's ability to survive? If this method really works, why can the generals always exist?
The big difference in thinking between Sun Chuanting and Zhu Youjian lies in their different requirements for officers. Military academies are definitely not a place to cultivate outstanding military generals. Zhu Youjian knew this from the time he first established the military academies. He regarded the military academies as a The core purpose of establishing a new type of army is to improve the basic quality of the entire army and raise the bottom line of the Ming Dynasty's army. To put it bluntly, military academies only train officers. As for generals, they are selected step by step through battlefield tests, not It is said that those who graduate from military schools can naturally become generals.
Excellent generals can only appear on the battlefield. Neither military academies nor generals can achieve the purpose of cultivating qualified generals on a large scale. Generals are produced from military academies, which makes many people think that the military academies run by Zhu Yougao are just for cultivating generals.
.However, this idea is completely wrong. Most officers have a military academy background, and a large number of generals will naturally emerge. Such generals, compared to those born in Yeluzi, are naturally better in basic quality and integration with the system.
Advantage. Most military school students actually serve as base members. Many of them will not become generals in the true sense. Besides, an army does not need so many generals at all!
The reason why Sun Chuanting felt that literati were unreliable in leading troops was because he regarded those literati as too important. From the moment he selected those people to enter the scholar camp, he did not regard those people as ordinary people. How could literati be so precious?
Just waste it? The higher the expectations, the greater the disappointment. Unlike Zhu Youjian, if a military cadet can be a qualified company and platoon leader, he is qualified. As for future development, it mainly depends on actual combat ability!
It seems that they are all about letting educated people enter the army, but the starting point and mentality are different, and there will be a huge difference in use. Sun Chuanting, who was born as a scholar, does not have the same ideas as Zhu Youjian in his bones.
, it is estimated that he will never realize this difference. He learned from the scholar camps established in Beijing, but there was a problem with the starting point. In his understanding, the purpose of establishing military schools in Beijing was to strengthen control of the army through the enlistment of civilians.
In fact, this is just one of the intentions, not the most important.
In addition to the above, Sun Chuanting also envied Beijing's railways. Although he had not seen its use with his own eyes, he knew how important railways were after hearing that they could greatly improve transportation speed and efficiency.
People in the army would be in vain if they didn’t have this knowledge. Ever since he learned about the actual situation of the railway, Lao Sun has been obsessed with building a few railways in his territory. If there is one running through northern Shaanxi
By the railway to Sichuan, his Lao Sun's strength will definitely skyrocket.
However, the ideal is full and the reality is cruel. The railway is good, but the current situation in Sichuan and Shaanxi is really incapable of repairing it. Even building a railway from Chang'an to Tongguan is not possible now, unless we build a railway similar to Miyun Iron Works.
Large scale steel plants are coming out.
If we had known that the steel plant was so important, we should have started to do it a few years ago. We are only taking action now. It is a bit late to start!
It's not just a matter of starting late. If Zhu Youjian in Beijing knew that Lao Sun had ideas about railways, who would have looked sympathetically at him? In places like Sichuan and Shaanxi, where railways can be built with existing technical means,
That's the Chengdu Plain and the Guanzhong Plain. The big railway connecting Sichuan and Shaanxi is scary to think about. Even though Beijing's railways have been built outside the entrance, it is not that difficult. The Yanshan Mountains north of Beijing have
The natural aperture is not as scary as the connecting area between northern Shaanxi and Sichuan-Shaanxi. It is really difficult to build a railway anywhere!