Li Sheng had always wanted to build a navy.
Because the farms in the territory had not been built yet, even if they built the farms and reclaimed the farmland, they would not have enough time.
Currently, almost all of the food in the territory came from ocean fishing.
It could be said that the ocean fishing industry was the lifeline of the territory.
Once this industry was destroyed, everything built on it would collapse.
They couldn't even feed people, let alone develop.
Thus, the territory needed a force to protect these fishing boats.
At the same time, after the territory occupied the entire Lushun Peninsula, the island was surrounded by the sea on three sides, so they needed a naval force to protect the territory.
In addition, with the establishment of the South Pass defense line, this defense line was both the territory's defensive wall and also the territory's blockade, cutting off the territory's path to the north.
If they wanted to cross the South Pass defense line and expand north, they had to cross the sea.
Apart from that, once they agreed to Zhao Dahai's plan to launch a counterattack against the Jinzhou State Wei Qing Army, they would be able to kill Zhao Dahai.
Then, Li Sheng had to be fully prepared.
This was to prevent the Manchu Tartars from getting angry and launching an even more intense revenge.
This required a force that could strike at the hinterland of the Manchu Tartars.
Only the navy could do that.
Due to all these reasons, Li Sheng was extremely anxious to have a naval force.
As the town center leveled up.
The appearance of firearms and cannons, as well as the appearance of 100-ton frigates.
This meant that the time was ripe to form a navy.
What was even more amazing was that he had unlocked the manufacturing technology of a hundred-ton fishing boat.
A hundred-ton fishing boat could catch fish during normal times, but at a critical moment, it could immediately become a transport ship.
A large number of fishing ships had become transport ships, which meant that the territory had the ability to organize a large number of troops to fight across the sea!
This was very important!
The navy needed to have the ability to go ashore to truly intimidate the enemy.
If they could not reach the shore, then no matter how large the fleet was or how powerful the cannons were, the enemy could hide inland and ignore them.
Thinking about it, Li Sheng suddenly realized that the time was ripe to form a navy.
Even without the giant cannons he had imagined.
However, with the 100-ton frigate as the core and five or six sentry ships as branches, they could form a naval fleet that could protect the territory's sea surface and control the enemy's sea area at the same time.
Due to limited resources, Li Sheng did not dare to invest a large amount of resources into it.
Therefore, they were only prepared to build a naval fleet with ten frigates as the main force.
These ten frigates were equipped with seven to eight cannons.
And here, there were seventy to eighty cannons.
In addition, they needed to be equipped with 50 to 60 sentry ships, which was the most mobile power of the fleet.
These sentry ships were only 20 tons, and each of them needed to be equipped with a small cannon.
In total, just a small professional naval fleet would require more than 150 large and small cannons.
The number of cannons had already exceeded the number of cannons that Li Sheng had planned for two to three guards.
In addition, the accuracy of the navy's cannons at sea could not be compared to those on land. The amount of gunpowder and shells consumed far exceeded that of the army.
Li Sheng couldn't take it anymore and had to suppress his desire to increase the investment of the naval fleet.
For the current territory, they still needed to invest most of their resources into the army.
The navy could only cooperate first.
However, even if he wanted to support the attack, he had to have it.
Li Sheng immediately passed down the order to form a navy fleet to guard the territorial waters and officially establish a navy.
After doing this, Li Sheng focused on the development of the territory.
As the town center was upgraded, all kinds of new buildings appeared, and all kinds of technology were unlocked.
He needed to upgrade all the industries in the territory.
The appearance of the steel factory and the textile factory could directly demolish the two basic buildings, the blacksmith shop and the tailor shop.
He needed to reorganize the construction.
By setting up an iron processing plant, one could directly pull out steel from the steel plant and process it.
The iron products produced by this processing plant were used for civilian use.
They would set up a specialized military factory to produce weapons and equipment, as well as firearms and cannons.
It didn't mean that cold weapons didn't need to be manufactured after the appearance of firearms and cannons.
On the contrary, he had to expand the production scale of cold weapons and increase their output.
According to Li Sheng's plan, the bows and crossbows that were eliminated by the regular army would be used by the militia to protect the rear.
Militia guards were also very useful.
In this fierce battle with the Qing army at the front line of the South Pass, the militia had contributed greatly.
It was because of the militia that they were able to pull out more than half of the elites from the defense line to conserve their strength.
He would not let the enemy use cannon fodder to waste his stamina.
Only when the elites were well rested could they have the strength to launch a counterattack against the Qing army at the critical moment!
Thus, Li Sheng decided to build a militia like the Lvshun Guards.
He would strive to establish a militia guard in every prefecture.
The land of a prefecture of Great Ming was equivalent to the territory of two or three prefecture-level cities in the future.
From the perspective of the future generations, there was only one guard in a prefecture, and it seemed that the military strength was not enough.
But Da Ming had over a hundred residences, so with a rough calculation, that was over a hundred guards.
A hundred guards, that was five to six hundred thousand soldiers!
Moreover, they were 500,000 to 600,000 soldiers!
In this era, it could be said to be extremely terrifying.
No matter how much he had, it was almost useless.
In the future, they would need so many militia guards. Naturally, the amount of weapons and equipment they would need would be terrifying.
Therefore, Li Sheng had to expand and increase production.
In addition, even if the regular army was equipped with muskets and cannons, they still needed to be equipped with swords, shields, spears, and armor.
Because from the beginning to the end, Li Sheng had no intention of turning his troops into firearms in this era.
At most, they would reduce the number of sword-shield soldiers and spearmen and increase the proportion of fire gunners in the army.
However, he could only modify it after he unlocked the flintlock technology.
It could be said that after the town center was upgraded, Li Sheng had more things to do.
He was busy expanding the scale of the various industries in the territory, upgrading the various industries in the territory, and racing against time to change the regular army under his command.
At the same time, they needed to expand the scale of the shipyard and speed up the construction of 100-ton fishing ships to replace the small fishing ships of the previous few tons.
In addition, he also needed more manpower to look for mines everywhere.
Copper, coal, sulfur, and saltpeter were included in the territory's most important strategic reserves.
Regardless of whether they were going to buy it or rob it, they had to collect a large number of these resources. Moreover, the more the better. They could never find it too much.
It could be said that the replacement of weapons in the army was not as simple as replacing bows with guns and cannons.
This was the adjustment and upgrade of the entire industry in the territory!
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