In the central part of Yingzhou, the State of Zhao was also holding a court meeting.
The current Zhao State seemed very powerful, with more than a thousand officials in the court. The Shang Dynasty was far behind in this respect.
The Zhao emperor slowly scanned the surroundings and finally looked at the new Zhongshu Ling Fang Jingtang: "Fang Jingtang, are all the materials I asked you to sort out yesterday ready?"
"Your Majesty, everything is fine." Fang Jingtang held out a thick book.
"Speak!" The Emperor of Zhao said in a very cold and arrogant tone.
"Yes!" Fang Jingtang was already used to it. He opened the document and began to read:
"As of last night, the territory of Zhao State has reached 20,000 square kilometers. It mainly extends to the north, east, and northeast. For the time being, the surface peace is maintained between the south and Wei State.
Today we have two major railway arteries. The east-west direction continues the Shang Dynasty's main artery.
The north-south direction is the main artery that we built independently. The two arteries have greatly strengthened domestic communication, troop deployment, and material transportation.
There are four main highways in the country, leading from the imperial capital to the surrounding areas, and two ring roads.
The total length of major highways is about 300,000 kilometers.
Today, the country has 43,000 locomotives, including 20,000 large transport vehicles, 8,000 medium transport vehicles, and 15,000 military armored vehicles and artillery vehicles.
These locomotives are currently in good condition.
There are another 20,000 or so old and scrapped locomotives. I believe that if we send people to select and repair them, we may be able to restore about 8,000 locomotives.
The total military strength of the country is currently 40 million. Among them, there are only 3 million elite troops, 12 million regular troops, and the rest are refugee troops.
At present, our elite troops are fully equipped with guns, and are equipped with artillery, locomotives, etc.
Of the 12 million regular troops, only one million were equipped with guns; the rest retained traditional equipment.
What is affecting the deployment of guns now is the problem of bullet production. Four million guns consume billions of bullets a day, and our bullet production line is already close to its limit.
In addition, the air force was established, with a total of 30 supersonic aircraft, all imported from the Shang Dynasty.
4,000 propeller planes, all core components were purchased from the Shang Dynasty.”
After reporting all this in one breath, Fang Jingtang paused for a moment and continued, "There are also domestic economy, food, etc. At present, the food we have stored in previous years is still considerable. The four major granaries in the country have a total reserve of 72 million shi of food, which is enough to support the annual needs of 150 million people. There are also twelve grain-producing areas in the country. With the help of spells and liquid spiritual energy, it is enough to solve the food crisis in a short period of time. It's just that the consumption of liquid spiritual energy is a bit too much. Now half of the country's liquid spiritual energy is used for food production, which puts great pressure on the military. At present, the population of our country is about 150 million. Although the occupied area is large, many people died of starvation and war. Outside the homeland of Zhao, seven out of ten people died."
"There is also industry. At present, we have completed a full set of basic industrialization. The production of smelting, oil refining, and ordinary guns and artillery has been completely self-sufficient. This kind of ordinary guns and artillery can threaten those below the foundation-building stage; concentrated use can threaten the golden elixir stage. In terms of locomotives, the processing of core parts can only be done by importing machine tools from the Shang Dynasty; but the rest is self-sufficient. The application of steel in national defense is becoming more and more important. Last month, steel production reached 3.2 million tons, fully meeting national defense needs. Next month, steel production is expected to exceed 3.5 million tons. In addition, the primary black iron refining device has also been successfully tested. The laboratory has refined steel containing 8% black iron. Iron. Large-scale production can stabilize the black iron content at 5%, reaching the Shang Dynasty's primary black iron standard. Metal materials containing 5% black iron can already be used to refine low-level magic tools on a large scale for ordinary soldiers. By then, the combat effectiveness of soldiers will be increased by several times. In addition, this will also solve the wire problem. The wire problem has always been an important bottleneck restricting our development. Solving the wire problem allows us to get rid of the first control of the Shang Dynasty. But we still need to import high-level wires and ultra-fine wires from the Shang Dynasty. However, there is information that the Shang Dynasty seems to be preparing to re-equip all soldiers with low-level magic weapon sets. So we still need to work hard. Report completed. "