Kai Fu Han

Chapter 594
April [-], Beijing (Wanping), Military Academy.

Liu Lizhen convened a meeting of senior officers from the Military Academy who stayed in Wanping.

After the meeting began, Liu Lizhen asked someone to read Liu Xinqi's order first.

"... From now on, 12 new soldiers will be recruited within the territory of the Xinghan League within 16 days. The training will be completed before the end of June, waiting for reintegration and induction into service. The specific requirements are: first, the age must not be less than 35 years old, and must not exceed [-] years old. .second…"

Recruitment is completed in late April and training is completed in late June. This is not because the training time has been compressed, but because this year is a leap year, leap April, and the first April has 30 days and the second April has 29 days.

According to the monthly calendar, the training time for new recruits is still three months.

"Everyone already knows the specifics. It is a very arduous task to recruit 20 people in 12 days. This is my plan. All colleagues can just listen to what I say and feel free to raise any opinions." Liu Lizhen said.

The recruitment of new soldiers is led by the Ministry of War. Every time there is a recruitment task, other departments must fully cooperate.The "other departments" here refer not only to the departments of the Military Academy, but also to the relevant departments of the Government Affairs Council and the Dali Yuan. If they push the envelope, they will be arrested and dealt with under military law.

Military law is very strict.

"First of all, to recruit 12 recruits, we must do a good job in publicity. Jingdong East Road definitely does not have so many young people of the right age and willingness to serve as soldiers, so the recruitment scope must be expanded to the entire Xinghan League, even if it is occupied first The state capital must also be included in the recruitment scope." Liu Lizhen explained his ideas one by one.

In terms of publicity, the Propaganda Department needs to cooperate, publish recruitment notices in three newspapers, and then introduce in detail the benefits of being a soldier.

In addition to these positive propaganda, there must also be some side propaganda to highlight the honor and greatness of serving as a soldier to defend the country.

"Secondly, we have to prepare for recruitment and training in advance."

It is certainly not possible to set up recruitment booths immediately. Detailed recruitment plans will take time to be arranged to various state governments.

Fortunately, Golden Eagle Communications has a mature recruitment mechanism, otherwise the preparation alone would take at least a month or two.

The Xinghan League had already decided before that it would recruit new soldiers in spring and autumn every year. This recruitment would be regarded as the spring recruitment of 3829.

"Third, we need to coordinate the logistics of these 12 people."

People are like iron, and food is like steel. If you don't eat a meal, you will be hungry.

When people are recruited, they have to take care of their food. They have to take care of their appearance and training, and they have to send garrison troops to pick them up in distant states and counties.

Food, clothing, housing and transportation should not be left behind.

"Fourth, the new recruits must be well trained. Before they enter service, these 12 soldiers must be equipped with weapons and equipment. It's up to the Third Master here."

The Xinghan League has a certain amount of inventory in its arsenal, but who would have thought that 12 new troops would be added at one time. The few weapons and equipment in the inventory are not enough.

"fifth,…"

Liu Lizhen talked about the arrangements and requirements for this recruitment one by one, involving various departments of the Military Academy, and arrangements were made immediately on the spot.As it involved other departments, he planned to discuss it with Lu Ren and Luo Cheng after the meeting.

"That's all I can think of for the moment. Do you have anything to add?" Liu Lizhen motioned for everyone to start talking.

"I'm under a lot of pressure here. The current reserve of cold weapons in the arsenal is only enough to equip 6 people, the armor can only equip 2 people, the latest 3828 type flintlock muskets are less than 12, and the old muskets in the army are all The replacement has not been completed. For the huge number of [-], the gap is too big and it will definitely not be built within three months." Liu Lisheng first expressed his difficulties.

"The armor can take a while. Not all soldiers need armor. Let's make all the muskets first." Liu Lizhen replied: "I will go to Liu Zhimu after the meeting and ask him to arrange various workshops of the Ministry of Industry and alliances and civilians. Relevant factories help manufacture.”

Now the accuracy of Xinghanmeng's measuring tools has reached "silk", and some unimportant parts can be entrusted to private factories for production, such as wooden gun stocks, leather or rifle belts, etc. The logistics department only needs to inspect the quality And accuracy is fine.

目前兴汉盟市制长度单位“寸”的下面还有“分”、“厘”、“毫”、“丝”、“忽”。1寸等于10分，等于3.333cm； 1分等于10厘，等于3.333mm； 1厘等于10毫，等于333.3μm； 1毫等于10丝，等于33.33μm； 1丝等于10忽，等于3.333μm； 1忽等于333.3nm
The following units have not yet been established.

Later countries adopted metric units of measurement because at that time, Western scientific development far surpassed that of the East. In order to better learn Western science and technology and integrate with Western advanced production systems, they could only change the market system to the metric system. Liu Xinqi vaguely remembered that the reform was in the Republic of China. I can’t remember the specific year or period.

Now that the technology of the Xinghan League far exceeds that of the West, there is no need to directly ask the entire Xinghan League to adopt a new measurement system just because of Liu Xinqi's habits.

It is just a unit and does not affect the development and application of science and technology.

Not restructuring would allow Xinghan League to re-study science and technology under the supervision of the municipal government, and prevent Xinghan League's development from being disrupted by Liu Xinqi's intervention.

Xinghan League's technology has developed so far that Liu Xinqi rarely directly presents results for researchers to copy, and only provides some theoretical knowledge.

"The difference in artillery is also huge." Liu Lisheng said again.

"First stop the artillery casting of the navy. There are no strong enemies at sea in the Xinghan Alliance, and the existing warships are enough to cope with it. Now there are enemies on all sides on land, so we must first hold on to the army." Liu Lizhen replied.

"Our military uniform factory cannot produce military uniforms for 12 people (standard four sets per person), even if we only make summer clothes." A middle-aged woman stood up. She is the director of a military uniform factory with thousands of tailors under her. Women accounted for [-]%, so a female factory manager was chosen.

"The size and sewing standards of military uniforms are distributed to private clothing factories, tailor shops, and even housewives who know how to cut and mend. We provide the raw materials, pay the processing fee, and then collect the finished products." Liu Lizhen replied.

"There are definitely not enough raw materials," the factory director added.

Liu Lizhen is a bit confused. Were all the 12 people naked before?Why are there not enough cloths for a few extra sets of clothes?You know, Xinghan League now has a population of nearly 2000 million.

"If you don't have enough, go buy it. Quanxing Han League will buy it. Send ships to Jiangnan to buy it. Go to Jin Kingdom, Goryeo, and Japanese Kingdom to buy it. When are you going to buy it? If you have a problem, try to find a way to see if it can be solved. Don't open your mouth and ask me for it. I Can it be transformed?" Liu Lizhen reprimanded.

The middle-aged woman did not dare to continue talking and sat down.

Liu Lizhen knew that what he had said was harsh, so he could only remember to talk to her after the meeting. The problem still had to be solved, and the production of military uniforms could not be delayed. If it was not possible, he would just make two sets of military uniforms by one person and change some.

(End of this chapter)