I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

Xuzhou, the new army camp of the Qing army.

After Nanjing and Jiangxi lost two main forces, the Qing court was also hurrying to form a new army, and Xuzhou was one of them.

A new army of 50,000 was recruited here, imitating the training method of the Wu army.

Although Wu Jun has taken some confidentiality measures on the training methods, it is very difficult to keep such things that are often practiced secretly.

Now, the spies of the Qing army have figured out some of the training methods of the Wu army.

For example, training formations with proper steps, trust training, courage training, and formation coordination. Even in ideological education, the Qing army compiled a set of content suitable for the Qing army according to the Wu army's policy.

During this period, the Qing Dynasty was not as pedantic as the late Qing Dynasty.

In the past, the firearms of the Qing army were not as good as those of the Ming army. After suffering a loss, they sold iron and developed cannons. In the end, they even overwhelmed the Ming army with firearms.

And today, they continue that tradition.

Seeing that Wu Jun's weapons were more advanced, they imitated them. Seeing that the soldiers trained by Wu Jun were more tough and not afraid of death, they began to imitate Wu Jun's training methods.

The reason why the Qing army changed so actively was mainly because they had to change. The situation they were currently facing was more severe than that in the late Qing Dynasty.

When the late Qing Dynasty was invaded, the foreign powers only demanded some unequal treaties, but no country thought of completely occupying the Qing Dynasty.

Therefore, it doesn't matter if they are defeated, they can't shake the foundation, at most they just lose some money and face, and the status of the rulers is still relatively stable.

But now, Wu Changqing wants to fight them to the death, to compete for the entire Central Plains world, and to completely overthrow them. So, they had to use all their strength to deal with it, and they had no way out.

However, this is the idea of ​​the upper echelons of the Qing court.

Some middle-level and lower-level officials may not think so far in their hearts.

At this time, in the new army camp, several officials and generals were tied up and knelt in front of Kong Youde.

Kong Youde's lungs were about to explode at this time, and the above funds were allocated to form a new army, but the officer in charge of procurement actually bought weapons from Wu Jun.

This operation is simply ridiculous.

"My lord has been wronged, and my subordinates are forced to do so."

The procurement officer cried: "The above has only allocated 100,000 taels of weapons, but we are required to complete the weapons and equipment for 50,000 people, which is impossible in the north.

Only by purchasing second-hand weapons from Wu Jun can they complete the equipment for 50,000 people. "

It turned out that the Qing court was now very shy, and when the new army was set up, it was also withheld from the funds, only a part of the money was given, and the local generals had to find a solution for the rest.

Before the change, their only way was to increase the slaughter of the people.

But now, they have one more option, and that is to buy the weapons that Wu Jun eliminated.

Now Wu Jun is changing clothes on a large scale, and those cold weapons are being eliminated on a large scale.

Originally, those weapons were going to be exported overseas, but as a result, merchants from the north came to buy them, and Wu Jun was too lazy to take care of so much and sold them directly.

Anyway, this kind of backward weapon, Wu Jun is not worried about what will happen to the Qing army.

These weapons are much cheaper than rebuilding a new set of equipment, and the Qing army had to choose to buy them in order to save money.

"Dare you say you didn't embezzle in this?"

Kong Youde also knew that 100,000 taels was too little, but he couldn't blame the court like his subordinates.

There is nowhere to shed your anger, so you can only vent your anger at the purchasing officer.

And this procurement officer is indeed not clean. In order to complete the task, everything is rhetoric, and the ultimate purpose is to embezzle.

In this purchase, he alone embezzled 5,000 taels, and the other people involved add up to nearly 10,000 taels of corruption.

5,000 taels is the military salary of the procurement officer for 50 years, so it is not surprising that he is tempted. It is difficult for anyone to resist such temptation.

"General spare your life, general spare your life."

The procurement officer and others could only kowtow and beg for mercy, but Kong Youde did not relent, and ordered several felons to be beheaded, and other accomplices to be fined and beaten.

He must stop this kind of enemy-funding behavior, otherwise the Wu army will become stronger and stronger in the future.

After dealing with this corruption incident, Kong Youde returned home exhausted physically and mentally.

He felt tired and powerless.

It is easy to solve corruption, but how to solve military expenditure is a big problem.

Kong Youde knew the most correct way to prepare for battle, but he just knew, but couldn't do it.

The most correct way to prepare for the war is undoubtedly to equip the soldiers with flintlock guns, and then train them in the way of Wu Jun. Even if the soldiers obtained in this way did not have 100% of the fighting strength of the Wu army, they still had at least 80% to 90% of them.

He knows the method, and many people in the Qing court know it.

But it's useless, the production capacity is so large, they don't have the ability to increase the manufacturing speed. At the same time, they could not raise so much money to support the army.

This is similar to the late Qing Dynasty in later generations. They also know that if they want to defeat the foreigners, they need to have a ship Jianli Cannon, but they just can't build it.

In addition to the military aspect, in the economic aspect, the high-level officials of the Qing court also knew that the goods from Nanjing could no longer be allowed to be dumped.

However, it is difficult for them to boycott. Wu Jun's products are too cheap.

Like they're going to equip an army of 50,000 now, buy

Wu Jun only needed 80,000 taels of equipment, but it cost 200,000 taels to manufacture it himself. How can you resist this?

Not to mention that the people below chose to buy directly, even some senior officials at the upper level also want to buy directly.

The reason is simple, save money. They are now not only expanding the new army, but also manufacturing guns and artillery, and the pressure on military spending is very high.

Moreover, the north has been plagued by Li Zicheng for several years, and it is very difficult for the people to support themselves, and they cannot squeeze much oil and water.

At night, Kong Youde wrote a diary to record the corruption incident, as well as some of his own insights and experiences.

From this simple corruption incident, he came to the conclusion that the Qing court would be defeated.

Because the strength of the Wu army is not only in the army, but in crushing the Qing court in all directions.

The strength of the Qing court is just an appearance of a lot of territory. In fact, it has no possibility of turning over, unless Wu Changqing gives them five or six years to develop.

Otherwise, with their current strength, they would not be able to compete with Wu Jun at all.

Kong Youde is not very clear about the reason for this, he just has this feeling.

And this is actually the crushing of the strength of the industrial countries over the agricultural countries, and the gap between the industrial countries and the agricultural countries is very large.

Industrial countries and agricultural countries fight, and neither the territory nor the population makes much sense.

The British Empire, which completed the Industrial Revolution early, can rule more than half of the world with tens of millions of people.