The Ming Dynasty did not revolutionize

Chapter 138 Review and Planning
Zhu Jianxuan assigned tasks to Cao Zhendong and Fei Chun and then adjourned the meeting.

Of course Zhu Jianxuan still has a lot to do, but he can't arrange it all in one day.

At the very least, we have to wait until the kingdom’s central court and local institutions are established.

After the meeting, the secretariat and heads of various departments got busy and immediately began to build and adjust the government institutions according to Zhu Jianxuan's requirements.

While the palace was being built, the office space of the royal government was already built inside the royal city, and the nominal garrison officers who were originally responsible for managing the disaster victims were already working here.

First, the signboard must be changed from the original Wei Suo to Qingli Si, and then a local organization must be selected to manage the local county government.

King Zhu Jianxuan couldn't sit idle either. He first asked Cao Zhendong to lead his troops to accompany him to inspect the first few guard corps bases of the Wu State.

The Wu State now has seven regular guard corps, with a nominal total of 70,000 regular troops.

There are 30,000 men stationed near the royal capital.

Zhu Jianxuan summoned three division commanders, staff officers, deputy division commanders and other senior combat officers to command these 30,000 people.

They managed the commander-in-chief, the deputy commander-in-chief, and the assistant commander-in-chief of the garrison where their family was located, and these were the senior management officers of the garrison.

Order all three divisions to assemble.

Then he dressed in his official uniform, mounted his war horse, and walked in front of the team arranged in a square formation with these officers, accepting the collective worship of all the officers and soldiers of the three divisions.

After completing a very simple review, rewards were given out, with all officers and soldiers receiving a not-too-small amount of money.

Zhu Jianxuan's purpose in doing this was to let all his soldiers know him and let them know what their king looked like.

In particular, all senior officers should be reviewed together to strengthen the memory of all grassroots officers and ordinary soldiers and make sure that their status is above that of their commanders.

In case of an accident, he could directly meet ordinary soldiers and low-ranking officers and give them direct orders.

These are very simple things, but they are very important things.

The monarch must be familiar with his army and make the army familiar with himself in order to make the army follow him.

Otherwise the army will become the army of generals or civilian officials.

After Zhu Jianxuan left the military camp, he returned to the bedroom in the harem to rest.

The next morning, Zhu Jianxuan went to the military camp again.

Before training, all major commanders will gather together, announce the start of daily training, and during the training, patrol the entire military camp again.

He came again on the morning of the third day, announced the start of daily training, and specially summoned all the cavalry.

He personally led all the cavalry out of the camp to complete a field march training.

Zhu Jianxuan was learning from the experience of Emperor Chengzu Wen.

The main army was supposed to conduct daily drills, and the monarch was supposed to be present during the drills and give orders directly to the army every day.

Make it instinctive for middle and lower-level officers and soldiers to obey the monarch.

As long as the tens of thousands of troops around him are accustomed to obeying his orders, other officials will not cause any trouble.

As long as the monarch can see the army every day, the officers will have no way to interfere.

If you are an ordinary person and want to gain the following of people around you or even become their leader, it will be very troublesome.

But he was the monarch of the kingdom.

As long as you maintain basic fairness in rewards and punishments and are able to directly manage these soldiers, you will naturally build up sufficient prestige.

There is no way for officers to make soldiers only know the officers and not the monarch.

Therefore, in the future days in Wu State, Zhu Jianxuan will continue to inspect the military camp every day.

However, the patrol time is usually not too long, and most of the time we will return to Chengyun Hall before noon.

In the afternoon, I reviewed the requests from the Secretariat and various government offices.

Five days later, the central court of Wu and the local county government in the royal capital were finally established.

Fei Chun obtained the identity documents of a secretary of the Wu State Secretariat, took the letters written by Zhu Jianxuan to the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty and the Duke of Min, and boarded the fleet commanded by Cao Zhendong to the north.

On April 26, the 38th year of Xianning, Zhu Jianxuan summoned the Secretariat and the heads of various departments to hold a royal meeting in the Chengyun Hall of the Royal Palace.

After everyone saluted, Zhu Jianxuan started to arrange the work:
“From now on, the Secretariat will organize and coordinate the various Qingli Divisions to formulate a five-year development and construction plan.

“The tentative goals include the following aspects.

"The first is to increase the population." We can continue to expand the recruitment of immigrants, open up private immigration groups, and begin to accept individual immigrants.

“We will strive to increase Australia’s total population to five million within five years.

“The second is the transformation and upgrading of industrial production capacity, including military industry.

“We will continue to increase steel production and strive to increase steel production to more than 500,000 tons within five years.

“Renovate existing arsenals and convert all rifle production lines to Type A rifles as soon as possible, producing 50,000 to 100,000 rifles within five years.

"Renovate the existing artillery factory and start producing new breech-loading rifled guns, giving priority to the production of 80mm caliber guns, and strive to achieve universal use on land and sea.

“We will complete the research on seamless steel pipe production technology and strive to mass-produce seamless steel pipe artillery and rifles within five years.

"A new ammunition factory was built to start mass production of nitrocellulose propellant, picric acid charge, metal fixed bullets, and various blasting shells.

"The existing black powder factory will continue to produce and increase production according to the established plan.

“Until the production capacity of the nitrocellulose and picric acid factories meets the needs of the troops, the troops will continue to be supplied with black powder bullets.

“The third is to continue to expand our maritime transport capabilities.

“Continue to expand the shipyard, build and purchase at least 100 civilian steamships, and continue to expand coal stations in Australia, Southeast Asia, and the mainland.

“We have independently built at least twenty pure steel propeller warships, all of which are equipped with new breech-loading rifled guns.

"We can order pure steel propeller warships from local shipyards without guns, and then have the guns installed by the new gun factory in Australia.

“The fourth is the development and construction of new industries.

“Build at least one steam power plant in each of the three locations: the Royal Capital, Nan’ao Bay, and Dong’ao New City.

“Build a hydroelectric power station on the west side of the King’s Valley.

“Build a cable and light factory.

"Telegraph and telephone lines were laid between the palace, the various government offices, and the various guard corps stations, and telegraph and telephone sets were installed.

"These are the current directions. If you have any ideas or opinions, please bring them up for discussion as soon as possible."

There was a suppressed discussion at the scene.

Soon after, Yao Nai stood up and said:

“Your Majesty, if all these goals were to be achieved through finance, the kingdom’s income would definitely not be enough.

“The main source of income for the Wu Kingdom now is actually the South Australia gold mine.

“In the future, we need to prepare to issue gold notes, and we need to reserve as much gold as possible. We cannot continue to spend all of it on purchasing supplies.

“Although coal and steel exports are larger in value, the profits from these two bulk products are not high.

“In the past two years, local disaster victims have just been sent here. They just need a place to stay and can temporarily not be paid.

"Once we have sent all the local disaster victims home, or they have been settled in Australia for a long time, we have to start paying them wages."

Zhu Jianxuan knew that there would be more disaster victims in the next few years, but he couldn't say such things, so he had to find another strategy to attract attention:

"We will first prepare on the largest scale possible. Once the local disaster victims have been dealt with, if we still can't make ends meet, we will issue bonds to the entire Ming Dynasty.

“The name of the bond is the Canal Bond, which states that we will work with Oman and the Ottoman Empire to build a canal connecting the Mediterranean and the Red Sea.

“The current canal vouchers can be used as stock dividend certificates for the canal operating company in the future.

“I believe all merchants can see how high the potential profits of this canal are, and they will definitely be willing to invest in this canal voucher.

“This is equivalent to borrowing money from local merchants in Ming Dynasty.

“If it’s still not enough, then borrow money from local banks under the same name.

“No matter what, build the factories first.

"Once we have steel, warships, muskets, and cannons, we can pay back the money even if we go out to rob."

Zhu Jianxuan spoke rather bluntly, and the Ming civil servants present were a little uncomfortable with it, but this way of expressing it was indeed very easy to understand.

A group of people immediately stood up and bowed to receive the order:
"I obey your orders."

(End of this chapter)