Yan Changwu returned to Kaohsiung in the tenth lunar month, and the fleet docked, showing off his whaling gains: whale oil and whale meat, and the harvest was good!

Dozens of whales were killed, and now the lights of the Overseer's Mansion can be lit as much as they want.

CEO Chen Xinji smiled bitterly: "But our autumn harvest has been ruined this year, and the British have come to the door and asked us to sell white sugar to them according to the contract!" ”

"And what do you sell to them?" Yan Changwu asked.

"I showed them the contract, which was printed on it...... In case of force majeure, there is no need to perform the contract,......" Chen said with a smile.

Force majeure in the contract did not explain including natural disasters and wars, pests and man-made disasters, etc., Hongmao Fan did not pay attention to the contract, and aggressively asked Chen Xinji to act according to the contract and take advantage of the fire to rob.

If the southeast government could not supply sugar, Chen Xinji was asked to sell his shares, hand over the formula of milk candy and activated carbon, and also asked to join the shareholder Nanfu for the foreign trade business of the Japanese country, etc., but Chen Xinji was slapped in the face with the contract, and he had to run away in despair.

Afterwards, Tian shamelessly said that he deeply regretted the natural disaster in the Southeast Mansion, and the reason why he wanted the formula and shares of the Southeast Mansion was just to help the Southeast Mansion get through the difficulties as soon as possible.

"If it is not of my race, its heart will be different!" Chen Xinji was deeply touched.

"So, will you still fight Batavia at the end of this year?" Chen Xinji asked.

", why not!" Yan Changwu said categorically: "Anyway, the army will spend the same money, go and fight!" ”

Although the southeast province mainly lost this year's autumn harvest, the grain stock is sufficient, and there is no fear of food shortage.

As for the lack of a large piece of income from selling sugar, there is a lot of other income in the southeast province, including the water guide collected by the ships of Guangdong Province, as well as the silver dollars sent by Luzon (the last 1 million silver dollars have not been used) and the 100,000 taels of silver sent by the Japanese state, and even more, the Jiabidan Su Minggang in Batavia and other Chinese in the area secretly donated 500,000 silver dollars!

"They asked us to keep their people and property safe when we took Batavia, and I agreed!" Chen Xinji said.

"That's fine!" Yan Changwu agreed.

"Our position is based on fighting!" Chen Xinji said from the bottom of his heart.

If there was no Grand Fleet, the British would have come to the door to fetch sugar instead of the contract, how could the Chinese under the rule of the powerful Dutch give money so generously!

Chen Xinji has no objection to military spending, if it really doesn't work, it's better to sell Yan Dashao, as long as he says to the outside world that he wants to recruit concubines, and Bao Bao has a powerful person to send his sister paper to the door and send a large amount of dowry!

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On October 10, a high-level military and political meeting of the Southeast Prefecture was held, and Yan Changwu introduced the eight generations of Japanese people dressed in Han costumes to Hiraizumi, and the ministers of the Southeast Prefecture were not surprised.

There are red hairs in this system.,What's so surprising about the Oriental people!

Yan Changwu appointed Yashiro Hiraizumi as an assistant minister of the Ministry of Culture and Education (Ministry of Rites), and put him temporarily in charge of foreign relations and foreign labor affairs.

Then he held a meeting, which began with an explanation of the whaling by Deputy Chief of Staff Gan Hui.

"There are a lot of whales in the northern seas, very numerous, and we can catch them in large quantities to meet our needs for lamp oil and grease." Gan Hui explained the requirements for obtaining the captain's "Golden Whale Certificate", and said: "The army and the civilian whale hunting in the North Sea can cultivate the martial spirit, promote the development of the ocean fishery, obtain economic benefits, and train more qualified sailors. ”

Everyone understands the words of the policy, Chen Xinji said: "Then the military ships that go to the North Sea to whaling will be determined by the Ministry of War at its own discretion, and the ships that go to the North Sea for whaling by the people can be supported by low-interest loans, and second, they can sell raw materials without tax. ”

There is no tax on raw materials, but there is still tax on processed products.

Yan Changwu agreed, and then Gan Hui said that the fleet that had returned from the north had entered the dock for maintenance, and that the two major shipyards were currently working day and night, and that the fleet actually had 4 third-class battleships (70 guns) and 4 southeast-class battleships (50 guns), 14 Tainan-class cruisers (38 guns) and 44 Kaohsiung-class sixth-class cruisers (28 guns).

"We are still building 4 Nanhai-class ships and 4 Tainan-class ships, which will be completed next year, and it is more certain to fight Batavia, but the Overseer has decided to fight Batavia this year, and will never slack off!"

Yan Changwu took it and said: "That's right, if you fight Batavia, you may be able to fight, you may not be able to fight, you may suffer losses, but we must fight!" ”

"Development is the last word, and this development, in addition to our economic income, also has our forces, and war is a manifestation of development forces!"

"The last war seemed to be a draw, but the news that came back was that the Dutch lost 2,000 people, and we lost more than 300 people, and we made a bargain!"

"Be sure to fight, no mercy!" He was unusually resolute.

"Let me tell you something!" Chen Xinji said: "Our Southeast Province relies on economic development to stabilize the people's hearts, and second, we must expand externally, as long as we continue to expand, the Southeast Province can grow, and I firmly support the decision of the Overseer!" ”

"Embrace the Overseer's decision!" Let's talk together.

It was decided to use troops against Batavia again, pull up all the battleships (8 ships), plus 8 5th class cruisers, 28 6th class cruisers and 8 supply ships, as the first strike group, and then bring 35 Chinese sailing ships, escorted by 4 6th class cruisers, with sufficient supplies of gunpowder and shells, so as to avoid the last lack of gunpowder.

So the army began to mobilize from top to bottom, and both the people and the military created public opinion, using the Dutch as propaganda in the name of "the heart of the Dutch", talking about the previous three wars, the Dutch must be defeated, and everyone can live in peace!

After repairing ships, training fleets, and supplying supplies, a month later, in early November, riding the northwest wind, the Grand Fleet set sail in Kaohsiung Port.

The military and civilians gathered in the military port to march for their grand fleet!

Yan Changwu brought enough Li Ying, Gan Hui, Yan Donglai, Hong Xiguan, Yan Zhang, Cheng Yu, Xiao Changrong, Zhao Tianjing, Shi Daxuan, Storm, Costeet, Siresma and other generations, all of whom were elite and strong generals of the Southeast Fleet, of which the eight battleships were distributed as follows: Nanhai-class Southeast Class 4 Yan Changwu, Li Ying, Ceresma and Storm, and the 4 captains of the Southeast Class were Yan Donglai, Kostet, Yan Donglai, Cheng Yu, and the rest of the captains as long as they fought the first Batavia operation, the outstanding performance was used by the fifth-class ships.

The military and political affairs of the Southeast Province were handed over to Chen Xinji, and Li De was responsible for leading the fleet to protect the Southeast Province.

"Alas, there is still a shortage of manpower!" Yan Changwu was deeply emotional.