Master He Xinyin and his disciples were not wrong. Zhao Hao's arrival did have a bit of a "Mengjin's military observation" meaning. But he was not a military parade, but reviewing various ideological trends.

Everyone has their own judgment on the major changes in the future.

For example, Zhao Shizhen looked down on the Taizhou School. In addition to his own class attributes, there is another very important factor, which is that He Xinyin seriously underestimated the strength of the Jiangnan Group.

They simply don't understand how powerful the group's military strength is.

The four major war zones of the Coast Guard, plus the strategic fleet directly under the headquarters and the Western Expedition Fleet in Europe, have a total force of about 105,000 people...

Well, it's too bullying than the navy. After all, all the warships of the official army are not the opponent of an armored cruiser. The cruiser is just a second-class ship of the coast guard.

Even if it is just a comparison with the army, the group is still worthy of the official army.

Not counting the Coast Guard Marine Corps, the training and equipment level of the 60,000 soldiers, as well as fighting will and discipline are beyond the reach of most officials and soldiers.

Of course, as the focus of Zhang Juzheng's reform, the improvement of the Ming Dynasty's military strength in recent years has also been very significant. Although famous generals such as Yu Dayou and Ma Fang have withered one after another, there are still Qi Jiguang in the capital, Li Chengliang in Liaodong, Ma Gui in Ningxia, Deng Zilong in Yunnan, Liu Zhen in Sichuan, Qi Jimei in Fujian... They still shine.

These famous generals have their own strengths in commanding troops, especially the direct troops have very strong combat power.

But in the view of Zhao Shizhen, who only weapons theory, as long as all his soldiers are equipped with Wanli rifles, wire mesh is pulled, trenches are dug, and a series of field artillery he developed will crush anyone.

What, do you say that there are too few soldiers with 60,000? That is a regular basic cadre! There are still a total of 1.8 million reserves on the list of the People's Armed Forces Departments in the 18 administrative regions!

Because overseas immigrants with arduous abilities have to face various threats such as pirates, aborigines, indigenous people, and beasts, they must have sufficient self-defense capabilities.

According to the group regulations, all registered populations in administrative regions, all men aged 16 to 36, who are healthy and have no disability or criminal records, must be registered as reserves in the local People's Armed Forces Department and conduct regular military training. Whenever a disaster occurs in war or in the event of a disaster, the People's Armed Forces Department may conduct different levels of recruitment and mobilization according to regulations, and lead the reserves to participate in war or disaster relief.

According to statistics from the group's household registration department, as of the end of the 14th year of Wanli, the registered population of various overseas administrative regions had a total of 11.2 million registered population, of which 33% were aged 16-36 and 54%. Therefore, there are nearly two million young and middle-aged men of appropriate age in the administrative region. After deducting those who do not meet the conditions, more than 1.8 million people became reserves.

In fact, the proportion of young and middle-aged people in overseas administrative regions once exceeded 50%. However, because in the past decade, various administrative regions have ushered in baby booms, and the group of middle-aged and elderly people who first immigrated have become middle-aged and elderly, the proportion of young and middle-aged people has dropped to one-third.

The reserve service is usually for the people, but the military training time is no less than 300 hours per year, of which the full-time intensive training is no less than 10 days.

Usually, they are basically based on production teams and workouts every morning for one hour. Then, during the slack season, they take a few days to organize training under the organization of the People's Armed Forces Department, train and exercise, and then they can complete the annual task.

This will not only not affect the working time, but also because of long-term joint training, young and middle-aged people have a strong body and strong organization, which will greatly improve their labor efficiency.

Although the training time of the reserve service is not too long, it is enough to train a qualified musketeer.

In the era of cold weapons, a farmer needs two or three years of training, physical exercise, master combat skills, and learn teamwork to become a qualified soldier. Archers even take five or six years to temper them. Therefore, it is extremely difficult for violent soldiers from various countries to be armed. The farmers who have been hastily armed are purely a group of decorations to make up for numbers, and they are completely vulnerable to tough battles.

But musketeers can be "violent soldiers". A musketeer can complete basic training in a short period of one or two weeks and more than a month, and sent to queue up and be shot dead...

Moreover, musketeers do not have high requirements for physical fitness, and they do not need much strength. It is almost enough to be able to afford a gun. There is no requirement for shooting. Anyway, as soon as the gun is fired, the smoke will be together, no one knows where their bullets will fly.

So in a state of emergency, the theoretically, the group can only convert 1.8 million reserves into 1.8 million soldiers in just seven days.

Of course, due to the group's transportation and logistics capabilities, the maximum force that can be mobilized in a short period of time is around 400,000. If you fight for a long time, it is the limit to protecting a 200,000 army.

But if war really starts in the mainland, the Jiangnan Group can call far more than 200,000 troops.

The 50,000 armed security guards of Jiangnan Security Group, the 500,000 young and strong male employees of the group's subsidiaries, and the 4 million farmers and construction workers of each development company are all excellent soldiers with both loyalty, organization and discipline. They can be armed in just one or two months of training and continuously pull onto the battlefield.

The most powerful part of Jiangnan Group is not the powerful firearms and technology, but the organizational ability that completely transcends the times. This powerful group that Zhao Hao has worked hard for twenty years has the ability to call its own potential that is beyond the reach of the best regime of the same era.

Moreover, with the launch of radio technology, the group's organizational strength will inevitably rise to a higher level, and this is the key to their victory!

So in Zhao Shizhen's view, once the two sides start a war, the gentry in Jiangnan dare not stand on the side of the emperor at all! Because the group will take over the regimes at all levels in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Jiaodong and Liaodong as soon as possible. Then the army landed in Caofeidian, relying on Tangshan City, and the troops headed straight to the capital. In less than a month, the country will change its ownership and the mountains and rivers will be Zhao again!

By then, I would have no choice but to have uncle... My eldest nephew guessed that even if he could not be named a prince, he could still be named a prince, right?

In short, in the face of this great change that has never been seen in the ages, the various voices that are filled with within the group can be roughly classified into two categories.

One type is how Xinyin’s master and apprentice are like that, and it is believed that the strength of the group and the court are very different, and once the war begins, it will undoubtedly be defeated.

One type is like Zhao Shizhen, who treats the imperial court as a local chicken and tile dog that sells mobile phones by inserting a tag, and believes that it will be able to win soon without much effort.

The degree of confusion in the group's ideological at present can be seen. Confused thoughts will inevitably lead to organizational disorder, so the thinking must be unified as soon as possible.

In Zhao Hao's view, the former view is indeed too pessimistic. It was blinded by the 200-year power of the Zhu family and the imperial court, which was scared out of fear. The group's military strength crushed the official army and its economic strength was far better than the imperial court. Otherwise, he would not have hidden the fire hat gun and more advanced firearms.

The so-called "finite generation difference theory", translation is actually that I look down on you. Therefore, I hide better weapons without having to be overwhelmed.

However, the latter "quick victory theory" is blindly optimistic. Just like King Wu's attack on Zhou, when the group faced the Ming Dynasty, the biggest problem was never military issues, but political and economic issues.

First of all, it is the issue of legitimacy of war.

As the saying goes, "The army must be famous." Even the rough people like Lutijie knew that they should make excuses before beating people. Zhao Hao, who has always regarded himself as a righteous army and a civilized army, must be more cautious before the film starts. At least all officers and soldiers, the people of the 18th Administrative Region and the people of Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangdong, must firmly believe in the justice of the war. Otherwise, once the faith is shattered, he and the group will pay an unbearable heavy price.

However, Zhao Hao's family received the emperor's kindness for generations. His mother-in-law was the emperor's aunt, his father-in-law was the emperor's teacher, his father was the top scholar appointed by the late emperor, and the second-level assistant grandson who was ranked first-ranked. Xishan Group and Jiangnan Group relied on the protection of Emperor Longqing to be able to go from nothing to something, from weak to strong.

It is an extremely difficult task to stand on the opposite side of the royal family with justification...

In addition, in terms of economy, the group has a deadly door!

The Jiangnan Group created a miracle in human history. They did not rely on taxes, and without increasing the burden on the people at all, and did not affect economic development, built the world's most powerful navy; developed tens of thousands of miles of overseas territory; continued to immigrate a large-scale population of two million people every year; and carried out efficient and effective management of the 18 administrative regions.

Generally speaking, each of these undertakings can emptiate the treasury of a big country and allow the government to collect taxes decades later. However, Zhao Hao has no right to collect taxes in Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Fujian, Guangdong, Jiaodong. In overseas administrative regions, there are only one tax-one tax-to-one, and the first three years are tax-free. At least for now, that little tax is not enough.

In fact, the group's main sources of funds are two aspects.

First, its own operating income.

The group dominates more than 20 major categories including silk, cotton spinning, glass, cement, construction, porcelain, tobacco, sugar, tea, pharmaceutical, shipping, trade, iron smelting, mining, finance, chemical, agriculture, spices, etc., and can contribute hundreds of millions of silver to the group every year.

In addition, through the issuance of bonds through Jiangnan Bank and the continuous split and listing of various companies, we have tried our best to absorb a large amount of private wealth. Only then can the group cope with the continuous surge in expenses and distribute dividends every year...

But only Zhao Hao and Jiang Xueying knew that behind this grand situation, there was a fatal crisis, that is, the serious shortage of silver!

In the fifth year of Wanli, the GDP of Jiangnan Group reached 200 million taels of silver.

After ten years of rapid growth, the group's GDP in the fifteenth year of Wanli will steadily reach 2 billion taels of silver!

In the fifth year of Wanli, the GDP of the Ming Dynasty was only one billion taels, including the Jiangnan Group...

In the past ten years, under the rule of my father-in-law and the leadership of the Jiangnan Group, the Ming Dynasty's economy also flourished. With the implementation of the One Whip Law across the country, the society's demand for silver is increasing day by day!

Moreover, after the seventh year of Wanli, the sales trade stopped, and American silver had not flowed into the Ming Dynasty for eight years.

It is said that there should be a serious silver shortage in the Ming Dynasty...

However, there is no market, and the market is always sufficient and economic development is not affected at all.

Why is this?
Chapter completed!