Chapter 3046
Chapter 3046
Chapter 3046
Since coming to North America, the frequency of Wang Tom going to sea has also gradually decreased.
This is not because his love of sailing has diminished, but the nature of his current job.
Before coming to North America, Wang Tom only needed to lead troops to fight as the commander of the navy, without thinking about other things.But now he has also become the consul who leads one side, and there are a lot of government affairs that need to be dealt with in a timely manner every day.
Weighing the pros and cons, he can only focus on the overall situation, temporarily give up his hobbies for many years, and adapt to the new role as soon as possible.
In four years, from scratch, he overcame numerous hardships and built this seaport city on the west coast of North America, which also gave Wang Tom a sense of accomplishment.
But for him, Jinshan Port is not the ultimate goal, but a starting point.The great cause he wants to accomplish will not stop at Jinshan Bay or the valley plain.
To the south, north, and west, there are vast lands to explore, and countless resources waiting to be developed.Of course, there are still many opponents who will not allow Tom Wang to achieve such a goal easily.
Western colonists set foot on the American continent much earlier than Wang Tom. In Central America and the east coast of North America, there were already a large number of developed Western colonies.But Wang Tom believes that Haihan has enough strength to defeat these competitors and seize those regions and resources with strategic value.
But before that, Wang Tom must first ensure that the Jinshan colonial area has the basic conditions to support the war.Even if Haihan, thousands of miles away, can provide some support, the local population, economy, and manufacturing industry are still not up to standard. Tom Wang must first solve these basic problems before he can implement his grand development plan.
But to use limited funds and personnel to solve all kinds of problems, the difficulty is even better than all the wars Wang Tom has experienced in his life.
Among them, the matter of conscription alone is enough to give Wang Tom a headache.
There were more than 30 soldiers who followed Tom Wang to North America, but most of them were veterans over [-] years old.This was also the agreement Tom Wang had reached with the Executive Committee to keep the young and strong soldiers in the country as much as possible in exchange for the support of the Executive Committee.
Later, after arriving at Jinshan Bay, some people were recruited one after another from the family members of the army. In addition to the sporadic recruitment of soldiers from other channels in the later period, the total force was only about 4000.
Self-protection with such a troop scale is definitely no problem, but if you want to launch a foreign war and quickly expand the territory of the ruled area, you obviously need more troops to realize the dispersal of the garrison.
According to the current population structure and age status of Jinshan Colonial Area, the number of retired personnel may continue to be greater than the number of recruits that can be recruited for a period of time in the foreseeable future.This means that the size of the troops in the Jinshan colonial area will not increase, but may be reduced.
Of course, Wang Tom can extend the service life and postpone the retirement time of active soldiers as a buffer.But to solve this problem fundamentally, we still have to try to increase the number of recruits.
Otherwise, after ten years, most of the army will be veterans in their 50s and [-]s, and their combat effectiveness will definitely be greatly reduced.
But if you want to increase the size of the army by recruiting new soldiers, the local population situation is another big problem.
It is not impossible to introduce immigrants from Haihan, but limited by geography and shipping conditions, it is certainly impossible to achieve large-scale population migration across the Pacific Ocean.
Compared with the mainland of Haihan, the Jinshan colonial area does not have the large population base of the East Asian continent as a backer.North America is sparsely populated, and the colonies of Western countries are almost all concentrated on the east coast and the Gulf of Mexico on the other side of the continent, while the aborigines who are taken by them are concentrated in the North American Great Plains with lush water and grass in the middle of the continent. area.
There are not many indigenous tribes actually living on the west coast, and the nature of the indigenous people is different from that of the Han people, so it is not easy to subdue them.
Wang Tom tried to recruit soldiers from the aboriginal group for two purposes, one is to obtain local soldiers, and the other is to gradually realize the naturalization of the aboriginals through this method.
It's just that the implementation of this task has not been ideal. The recruiter has been changed one after another, but no breakthrough has been made.In the end, even a half-child like Wang Anbang was sent to perform the task of conscription.
"After this month, how is the task done?"
Seeing Wang Anbang's dejected expression, Tom Wang had roughly guessed the result.But he also wanted to see if his son could learn some truth from this mission.
Wang Anbang lowered his head and said: "My child is incompetent. I only recruited eight native soldiers this month. If I failed to complete the task, I ask my father to punish me!"
Tom Wang didn't lose his temper with him, but continued to ask: "You were full of confidence when you took on the task, and you must have tried some different methods?"
Wang Anbang explained the various methods he had adopted. Although some methods sounded unreliable, Tom Wang still nodded slightly, affirming his bold attempt.
"Then have you ever wondered why these methods don't work?"
Even if Wang Tom didn't bring up this question, Wang Anbang had been thinking about it for several days, and he responded immediately: "I think that the current conscription method is based on the way we used to, and it is based on the aborigines. But the ideas of these natives are quite different from our Haihan, so the effect of conscription is not ideal."
"For example, paying military salaries during service, granting citizenship after service, allocating cultivated land, arranging jobs, etc. For these aborigines, it seems that they don't care much about these rewards."
"The aborigines are used to bartering, and very few people use coins for transactions. Even if they get some banknotes from us by selling goods, they will not keep them in their hands, but use them all immediately. They don't Treat coins as a form of wealth."
"Indigenous people only recognize the rule of tribal chiefs, and lack awareness and awe of the meaning of the country. In their eyes, Haihan is just a more powerful tribe, but they are not willing to leave their tribe easily."
"Indigenous people mostly live on fishing, hunting and grazing. Agriculture is still at the level of slash-and-burn farming. For them, it doesn't make much sense to allocate arable land to individuals, because there are unowned land everywhere."
"It probably doesn't make sense for them that we're here to build towns, ports, farmland, because that's not how they know how to live and work."
"Everything here may make them feel very novel, but it will not prompt them to actively join us and accept our arrangements and transformation, just like we will not take the initiative to join the indigenous tribes and become one of them."
(End of this chapter)
Since coming to North America, the frequency of Wang Tom going to sea has also gradually decreased.
This is not because his love of sailing has diminished, but the nature of his current job.
Before coming to North America, Wang Tom only needed to lead troops to fight as the commander of the navy, without thinking about other things.But now he has also become the consul who leads one side, and there are a lot of government affairs that need to be dealt with in a timely manner every day.
Weighing the pros and cons, he can only focus on the overall situation, temporarily give up his hobbies for many years, and adapt to the new role as soon as possible.
In four years, from scratch, he overcame numerous hardships and built this seaport city on the west coast of North America, which also gave Wang Tom a sense of accomplishment.
But for him, Jinshan Port is not the ultimate goal, but a starting point.The great cause he wants to accomplish will not stop at Jinshan Bay or the valley plain.
To the south, north, and west, there are vast lands to explore, and countless resources waiting to be developed.Of course, there are still many opponents who will not allow Tom Wang to achieve such a goal easily.
Western colonists set foot on the American continent much earlier than Wang Tom. In Central America and the east coast of North America, there were already a large number of developed Western colonies.But Wang Tom believes that Haihan has enough strength to defeat these competitors and seize those regions and resources with strategic value.
But before that, Wang Tom must first ensure that the Jinshan colonial area has the basic conditions to support the war.Even if Haihan, thousands of miles away, can provide some support, the local population, economy, and manufacturing industry are still not up to standard. Tom Wang must first solve these basic problems before he can implement his grand development plan.
But to use limited funds and personnel to solve all kinds of problems, the difficulty is even better than all the wars Wang Tom has experienced in his life.
Among them, the matter of conscription alone is enough to give Wang Tom a headache.
There were more than 30 soldiers who followed Tom Wang to North America, but most of them were veterans over [-] years old.This was also the agreement Tom Wang had reached with the Executive Committee to keep the young and strong soldiers in the country as much as possible in exchange for the support of the Executive Committee.
Later, after arriving at Jinshan Bay, some people were recruited one after another from the family members of the army. In addition to the sporadic recruitment of soldiers from other channels in the later period, the total force was only about 4000.
Self-protection with such a troop scale is definitely no problem, but if you want to launch a foreign war and quickly expand the territory of the ruled area, you obviously need more troops to realize the dispersal of the garrison.
According to the current population structure and age status of Jinshan Colonial Area, the number of retired personnel may continue to be greater than the number of recruits that can be recruited for a period of time in the foreseeable future.This means that the size of the troops in the Jinshan colonial area will not increase, but may be reduced.
Of course, Wang Tom can extend the service life and postpone the retirement time of active soldiers as a buffer.But to solve this problem fundamentally, we still have to try to increase the number of recruits.
Otherwise, after ten years, most of the army will be veterans in their 50s and [-]s, and their combat effectiveness will definitely be greatly reduced.
But if you want to increase the size of the army by recruiting new soldiers, the local population situation is another big problem.
It is not impossible to introduce immigrants from Haihan, but limited by geography and shipping conditions, it is certainly impossible to achieve large-scale population migration across the Pacific Ocean.
Compared with the mainland of Haihan, the Jinshan colonial area does not have the large population base of the East Asian continent as a backer.North America is sparsely populated, and the colonies of Western countries are almost all concentrated on the east coast and the Gulf of Mexico on the other side of the continent, while the aborigines who are taken by them are concentrated in the North American Great Plains with lush water and grass in the middle of the continent. area.
There are not many indigenous tribes actually living on the west coast, and the nature of the indigenous people is different from that of the Han people, so it is not easy to subdue them.
Wang Tom tried to recruit soldiers from the aboriginal group for two purposes, one is to obtain local soldiers, and the other is to gradually realize the naturalization of the aboriginals through this method.
It's just that the implementation of this task has not been ideal. The recruiter has been changed one after another, but no breakthrough has been made.In the end, even a half-child like Wang Anbang was sent to perform the task of conscription.
"After this month, how is the task done?"
Seeing Wang Anbang's dejected expression, Tom Wang had roughly guessed the result.But he also wanted to see if his son could learn some truth from this mission.
Wang Anbang lowered his head and said: "My child is incompetent. I only recruited eight native soldiers this month. If I failed to complete the task, I ask my father to punish me!"
Tom Wang didn't lose his temper with him, but continued to ask: "You were full of confidence when you took on the task, and you must have tried some different methods?"
Wang Anbang explained the various methods he had adopted. Although some methods sounded unreliable, Tom Wang still nodded slightly, affirming his bold attempt.
"Then have you ever wondered why these methods don't work?"
Even if Wang Tom didn't bring up this question, Wang Anbang had been thinking about it for several days, and he responded immediately: "I think that the current conscription method is based on the way we used to, and it is based on the aborigines. But the ideas of these natives are quite different from our Haihan, so the effect of conscription is not ideal."
"For example, paying military salaries during service, granting citizenship after service, allocating cultivated land, arranging jobs, etc. For these aborigines, it seems that they don't care much about these rewards."
"The aborigines are used to bartering, and very few people use coins for transactions. Even if they get some banknotes from us by selling goods, they will not keep them in their hands, but use them all immediately. They don't Treat coins as a form of wealth."
"Indigenous people only recognize the rule of tribal chiefs, and lack awareness and awe of the meaning of the country. In their eyes, Haihan is just a more powerful tribe, but they are not willing to leave their tribe easily."
"Indigenous people mostly live on fishing, hunting and grazing. Agriculture is still at the level of slash-and-burn farming. For them, it doesn't make much sense to allocate arable land to individuals, because there are unowned land everywhere."
"It probably doesn't make sense for them that we're here to build towns, ports, farmland, because that's not how they know how to live and work."
"Everything here may make them feel very novel, but it will not prompt them to actively join us and accept our arrangements and transformation, just like we will not take the initiative to join the indigenous tribes and become one of them."
(End of this chapter)