I want to be emperor

Chapter 509 Logistics and Industry

September 1640th, Chengshun sixth year, the second midnight of October 10st, 31 AD.

In Weihaiwei Naval Base, Dengzhou Prefecture, Shandong Province, the sky is clear and cloudless, and the big and round moon hangs upside down in the night sky, making the night sky appear dark blue.

In the large open space in front of the port pier, many army soldiers are lining up to board the ship one after another.

These are the first batch of soldiers from the No.20 Third Division to land. They are all neatly dressed and carry many daily necessities for soldiers in the field, including blankets, lunch boxes, and a multi-functional tarpaulin. This multi-functional tarpaulin Interesting.

The Chu army started in Huguang, and fought in the south for a long time, and often fought in the rainy season or even winter. At the same time, the Chu army paid special attention to field marching, so in the early days, it paid special attention to waterproofing.

At first, various simple raincoats were used, including various primitive raincoats, and later, tarpaulins brushed with tung oil were used on a large scale to make raincoats.

Then it was found that soldiers often used this raincoat directly as a daily cloak, and even used it as a simple individual tent when fighting in the field.

Therefore, the technicians of the logistics department simply changed the design and designed interconnected buttons for this kind of tarpaulin in order to build a tent. Concealment requirements under different environmental terrains.

Of course, the need for concealment is generally only available to scouts, not ordinary soldiers.

In wars these days, especially when fighting in formation, the officers had to dress their soldiers as brightly as possible... Otherwise, once the guns were fired, the smoke would fill up and it would be impossible to see clearly.

Ever since, this multi-functional tarpaulin appeared, and it was first put into use on the Yunnan-Guizhou battlefield this spring. After the frontline soldiers gave good feedback, the equipment began to be promoted throughout the army.

The soldiers of the Seventh Army now have almost one tarpaulin of this kind.

Because this kind of tarpaulin can be easily formed into a small field tent, and at the same time, the Chu army also distributed quilts or blankets and other cold-proof materials to the soldiers. Combining the two, during the implementation of emergency march operations, the frontline troops can be less With or without a large number of tents at all, it should be carried by the rear logistics troops as spares.

Although the field tent seems inconspicuous, it is actually the bulk of the supplies that the troops carry when marching in the field. If it can be cancelled, the transportation pressure on the emergency march of the field troops will be much less, and it can be freed up. More capacity to transport ammunition, food and other materials.

But don't think that the emergency march does not bring tents, just think that the Chu army let the soldiers suffer from the rain and freeze in the field. In fact, the combination of this rainproof cloth and marching blankets or cotton quilts is enough for the soldiers to survive in the field. It's been a cold night.

Not to mention, Chu Jun has always attached great importance to winter clothes.

When the autumn wind just started this year, the winter clothes of the troops on the northern front had already been distributed in advance. The soldiers all had thick cotton jackets to wear, and even the shoes were special thick cotton military shoes.

In terms of logistics, the Great Chu Empire Army has always attached great importance to it.

The same is true for the landing operation on the Liaodong Peninsula this time. In order to meet the needs of the landing troops, all kinds of messy materials are prepared and in sufficient quantity.

For dry food alone, the logistics department has prepared enough food for 5 people for a month!
This is not ordinary food, but dry food for military use. In fact, soldiers don't usually eat dry food.

After all, dry food is actually very bad, and the taste is not very good. If the situation permits, the frontline soldiers still hope to be able to eat hot meals.

However, in order to prevent emergencies, the logistics department directly prepared in advance enough dry food for 5 people for a month.

In order to make the nutrition of the soldiers more balanced, the people in the logistics department also prepared a lot of pickled foods that can be preserved for a long time, such as sauerkraut, and some canned food at the end.

This was developed by the Naval Logistics Department commissioned by the grain processing factory of the Ministry of Industry, because after their warships go to sea, they often do not get fresh food supplements, especially fruit and vegetable supplements, and sepsis will occur if they do not eat fruits and vegetables.

Although you can take mung beans and soybeans out to sea, and then eat bean sprouts... But eating bean sprouts all day long will also get boring!
Ever since, the Navy entrusted the Ministry of Industry to develop a food preservation method that can be preserved for a long time without losing nutrition.

Based on the experience of many pickled foods and the experience of making folk candied fruit, the Ministry of Industry finally came up with a lot of pickled products, which can be pickled with sugar or salt... But these two things are different. expensive……

Both sugar and salt are not cheap these days, and there is no way to mass-produce them and supply them to the army on a large scale.

Finally, under the reminder of several teachers from the Royal Institute of Technology, they began to think about the method of sealing and storing after high-temperature sterilization, and then the clay pot appeared.

This thing is very simple. The processed food is sterilized by high-temperature steam, and then quickly sealed and stored in clay pots, so that the food can be preserved for a long time.

The cost is low, and more of the original food taste can be preserved, and the storage time is also long.

Therefore, after the appearance of this kind of canned food, it was immediately purchased by the navy in large quantities, and then the army also followed up with a large number of purchases. For this reason, the Ministry of Industry has successively established more than ten canned food factories in different places. supply.

The emergence of canned food not only solved the problem of long-term storage of fruits and vegetables for the army, but also led to the emergence of a new industrial category, that is, canned food...

At the same time, the appearance of canned food also increased the income of some farmers.

Canning requires a variety of fruit and vegetable raw materials, and the purchase volume is often large, so this is a way for farmers near the canning factory to increase their income. They can grow fruits and sell them to increase their income.

There are even some gentry with foresight and capital who have already started to invest in the construction of canning factories. Some gentry take advantage of their position in the countryside to recruit people to plant large tracts of fruit to supply the canning factory.

Whether it's canned food or tarpaulins, although these things were only military needs at the beginning, after the military started, they often developed into specialized industries later.

In fact, there is still the textile industry in this situation. The earliest development of the textile industry in the Great Chu Empire was purely due to military needs. The troops needed a large amount of low-cost cotton and wool products. In order to reduce costs, the Ministry of Industry would consider improving weaving. The cloth machine and the spinning machine finally greatly improved the efficiency of the spinning machine and the loom, and produced the machine-made cloth that people call.

This kind of machine-made cloth is actually the same as the cloth produced by the traditional loom and spinning machine. Strictly speaking, it is all cloth produced by hand spinning and weaving, but compared with the original cloth, it is more efficient. , large output and low cost.

However, apart from the fact that this kind of machine-made cloth was originally supplied exclusively for the military, it took less than a year for it to become a mass consumer product for the people.

Today, Huguang, Jiangnan and other traditional imitation cities in the Great Chu Empire have basically adopted this new type of loom and spinning machine on a large scale.

After all, everyone is not stupid. When people see that your loom is so efficient, others immediately follow suit... Suqin Textile Company, which is now well-known in the Jiangnan area, took advantage of this wave of textile innovation. private textile company.

At the beginning, they took the lead in introducing new spinning machines and looms, and successively invested in the establishment of three large textile factories. Coupled with their Qin family's rich experience in the cloth industry, contacts, channels, etc., they created Su Qin The quality of the cloth is even better than that of Hantian Textile Company, and the price is lower.

In just a few years, Su Qinbu has been bought all over the country, and even purchased by many maritime trading companies, and then trafficked to Fusang, Koryo Peninsula and even to various places in Southeast Asia.

Because Su Qinbu has continuously invested in the construction of many textile factories, he currently owns as many as eight large and small textile factories, not only in Jiangnan, but also in Guangzhou and Tianjin.

Today, in the textile industry in the Great Chu Empire, Suqin Textile Company has surpassed the government-run Hantian Textile Company and has become the largest textile company with tens of thousands of employees.

It's just that even though Su Qin Textile Company has flourished in the civilian market, it still can't enter the military textile market.

The main reason is that Hantian Textile Co., Ltd. is a government-run enterprise. It has focused on various military textiles from the beginning, and has accumulated rich technical barriers in this field, such as waterproof cloth. The content is still very high.

How to mass-produce such military tarpaulins while controlling costs is not easy.

Now on the wharf of the Weihai base, the tarpaulins carried by many soldiers are the exclusive products of Hantian Textile Company, and other companies are still close to imitating them.

And as these soldiers boarded the boat, the sky gradually brightened!

On the outside of the harbor, many warships have already set sail and left the port ahead of schedule.

Admiral Xia Qiuyang also boarded the cruiser Songjiang and personally took command of this huge landing operation.

Because there are so many people and more materials, more than 500 ships seem to be a lot, but in fact there is really no way to bring more than 5 people and a large number of weapons, equipment and materials all at once.

This operation will be divided into three batches!

The first batch is materials used by the Second Marine Regiment of the Navy, the No.20 Third Division of the Army, the engineering unit, and a large number of projects.

The second time was the No.20 Division and the [-]th Division.

The third batch is the logistics and supply units, heavy artillery units, and cavalry units.

But today, Bai Yangrong will personally command the fleet and escort the first batch of troops fully loaded with a large amount of supplies, engineering personnel and materials to be transported across the sea.

Their goal is the Jinzhou Wei Zhongzuo on the Liaodong Peninsula, which is Lushunkou!
(End of this chapter)