New Ming Empire mixed in America

After the fleet returned to the port of San Francisco, Li Mingqi saw at a glance the huge coastal defense artillery group located on the Alcatraz Fortress.

This fortress may have been dispensable in peacetime, but now, it is an important defensive force in San Francisco Bay.

After getting off the ship, Li Mingqi saw the coastal railway extending from the port to San Jose.

After nearly a year of construction, this railway has been built to the border of Southern California. And under the garrison of the National Defense Force led by Sun Laifu, the plan to cross Southern California began.

After the reorganization and recruitment expansion of the National Defense Force, it has changed from a brigade to a division. From the previous three regiments and the heavy artillery regiment, the number of nearly 10,000 people has become a division of 30,000 people.

This number is very different from the armies of later generations, because now there are no light and heavy machine guns and other heavy equipment. It is an army entirely supported by the number of infantry.

Sitting in the San Francisco City Hall Palace, Li Mingqi listened to Sun Laifu and Liu Youcai's reports on the development of the Xinming Empire.

An asphalt road has been built directly from Oakland, opposite San Francisco, to Sacramento, and a circle of defense facilities has been built outside the city of Sacramento.

This time it was designed according to professional city construction engineers, and this designer who was fortunate enough to participate in the construction of the capital of the New Ming Empire was 'invited' back from the UK by the Umbrella Youth League.

At first, Li Mingqi thought that the city's defense was the city wall, but now he realized that a city's defense system does not just rely on the city wall.

It is designed according to local conditions and consists of fortresses, forts, bastion-style walls, positions, preset minefields, gill net isolation zones and other facilities.

When Li Mingqi looked at the complicated and related defense facilities on the drawings, he said hello.

In his impression, the capital should be the majestic imperial palace of ancient China as the main body, plus a square city composed of inner and outer cities.

But now looking at the design on the drawing that had nothing to do with his impression, Li Mingqi looked at Liu Youcai.

Seeing Li Mingqi looking over, Liu Youcai said: "Long live my lord, I also wanted to build a garden for you before. But later I found that what our Xinming Empire needs most now is this kind of impregnable capital!"

Liu Youcai was also tired. When the Xinming Empire captured California some time ago, he was still thinking of building a magnificent palace and... imperial mausoleum for Li Mingqi.

But later, as the Xinming Royal Fleet set out from Yingtian Mansion and marched all the way to Peru with a bloody storm, Liu Youcai's mind changed.

He has never seen an emperor as capable of doing as Long Live Lord in history.

All ports along the way, no matter which country they are from, will definitely be bombarded as long as they are involved in the murder of Chinese immigrants.

Not only the port, but also countless forts along the way that dared to fire at the Xinming Royal Fleet have been removed.

Not to mention the large and small naval fleets of various countries that sank in the Pacific along the way. Two of the fleets of the Nine Provinces of Colombia alone were sunk.

On the return trip, Li Mingqi captured another wave of merchant ships and took the "Eternal Light Merchant Ships" to demonstrate at various ports.

Liu Youcai was lying when he said he wasn't worried, so he desperately cooperated with Sun Laifu's army expansion plan and even selected a reserve team of 10,000 people for the Imperial Guard.

The capital has changed from the previous palace style to a fortress style, and the site selection for the imperial mausoleum has also been stopped, and we are ready to focus on building the capital first.

Living in San Francisco made Liu Youcai very worried about Long Live Lord's safety.

The sooner the capital is repaired, the sooner Long Live the Lord will be able to live in it. By then, even if all the countries in America declare war on the Xinming Empire, Liu Youcai will not be afraid.

"Long live my Lord, I think Foxconn's workshops that produce those old artillery pieces should be stopped. The Royal Academy has recently come up with a better design for coastal defense turrets. I think it would be better to produce more coastal defense turrets and place them along the coast of San Francisco.

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Liu Youcai just had the words written on his face: Long Live My Lord, you are so capable of causing trouble, how could you do it if you don't guard against enemies attacking the homeland?

Li Mingqi recalled what he did during this period, and the more he thought about it, the happier he felt!

Thousands of Chinese who have died in a foreign land cannot be covered up by a few words of apology. They must use artillery to make the other party understand what a belated trial is.

"Coast defense guns can be built, but they don't need to be of such a large scale. That experience made the Royal Academy pay more attention to warships."

After talking about the construction of the capital, we talked about the construction of the army.

Sun Laifu said: "Your Majesty, now that the expansion has basically ended, when will the artillery be assembled in place?"

The artillery Sun Laifu was talking about was not the light and heavy mortars, but the Xinming 75 artillery that Li Mingqi had promised him.

That type of barrel-retractable artillery impressed Sun Laifu deeply during the attack and defense of San Jose.

Li Mingqi looked through the report that the Royal Academy had previously sent to Peru through Jinyiwei, and then said:

"Now Foxconn has started production, I believe it won't take long to assemble it for you."

Li Mingqi also considered the issue of how the Imperial Guards could ensure that the equipment would be crushed after the Xinming 75 guns were equipped to the National Defense Forces.

That is a simple and crude enlargement of the caliber, from 75mm to 105mm.

And updated with more advanced adjustment system and management withdrawal system.

"There is no problem in distributing artillery to the National Defense Forces, but you have to remember one thing, that is, not a single artillery piece can be obtained by the enemy!"

Li Mingqi's voice was serious. If word of the tube-retractable artillery spread, it would probably trigger a round of weapons updates throughout Europe.

Li Mingqi didn't want to wait until he was able to attack Europe and be beaten with advanced artillery.

Sun Laifu looked at Li Mingqi with a serious expression. He stood up and gave a military salute and said loudly: "If the people are there and the artillery is there, if the people die, the artillery will be destroyed!"

Nodding with satisfaction, Li Mingqi said again: "How is the training situation of the National Defense Force now?"

Today, almost one-third of the people of the Xinming Empire join the army, which is simply a model of militarism.

"The soldiers have passed the training, but after all, they have not been tested in combat, so the overall combat effectiveness is much worse than the soldiers of the Third Regiment."

Sun Laifu spoke very frankly about the difficulties encountered by the army.

Regarding Sun Laifu's answer, Li Mingqi did not express his position immediately. Instead, he checked the various reports sent by the logistics and Jin Yiwei's supplements on them, and frowned.

Shen Sheng said to Sun Laifu: "Now the military is so luxurious that they feed their pets with canned food?"

What Li Mingqi said was Jin Yiwei's supplementary information, that is, some soldiers in the army have begun to enjoy it.

As the status of soldiers in the Xinming Empire increased, some soldiers became complacent.

Li Mingqi was very shocked when he saw the purchasing reports sent by the logistics department during this period. The same funds that could feed a regiment before were now only enough to feed two battalions.

The purchase price of materials has not changed, but the number of people has decreased, which is definitely a problem.

Sun Laifu was stunned when he heard Li Mingqi's dissatisfaction. Only after Li Mingqi threw the information to him did Sun Laifu know what was going on.

Because logistics is not under his control, he has no idea about the increase in logistics procurement costs, but now looking at the numbers above, his face doesn't look good.

"I can let the soldiers enjoy the best treatment, which is what they deserve. But I don't want to raise some old soldiers."

"You only eat the first three bites of the canned food, and you only eat the filling but not the skin of the steamed buns. It's hard for these soldiers to think that they were people who couldn't even eat enough just a few months ago!"

"It can become like this in just a few months. Don't tell me that it's their own fault. If there wasn't such a trend in the National Defense Forces, there would be no way for a person who is accustomed to poverty to be allowed to live in a short period of time."

It will become like this within a few seconds!”

The more Li Mingqi talked, the angrier he became. The current Xinming Empire said it was serving him rather than serving the army, including him.

The whole nation supports the National Defense Forces, but now there are signs of old soldiers. If in the future he becomes the old soldiers like the United States in the future, Li Mingqi doesn't know what his expression will be like at that time.

Is it necessary to follow the example of Chongzhen in the pre-Ming Dynasty and the United States in later generations? If you want to mobilize troops, you have to give the army extra benefits first?