A large amount of silver flowed into China, and more than 3 million taels of silver were given to China a year (including silver, gold, and copper mines), while Hongmaofan gave even more, at least 15 million taels of silver a year, and more than 20 million taels of silver in many years, as well as silver from the trade of the Asan side, Ottoman Turkey, and the Arabs.

The southeastern provinces, which were in charge of maritime trade, really made a lot of money, while China benefited from it from all classes.

Why did Yan Changwu act like a mischief on the mainland, with nearly 10 million enemies, but no uprising broke out?

The deep reason is that he secured the sea trade routes, and the silver flowed into China, and no one could get along with the silver!

In other words, Yan Changwu used the silver of foreigners to maintain his rule.

With a serious trade deficit, foreigners are reluctant to give so much silver to the Chinese, but their manufacturing and productivity are not opponents of the Chinese at all!

The Chinese are the most hard-working people in the world, and they have high intelligence, well, they are really a people who do not give others a way to live.

In the past, at present, and in the future, there are amazing productive forces and beating foreign countries, and there is only one China in the world that is a joke?

Of course, foreigners have also jumped up, such as the red-haired fan with elegant films, the Arabs trafficking in "Carter grass" and other crooked ways, trying to balance the trade, all of which have run into a bloody flow.

Carter grass, also known as Yemeni tea, contains stimulants and is addictive when eaten.

Others don't know those plays, and Yan Changwu, the boss of the Southeast Mansion, doesn't know what the reason for the "sick man of East Asia" is?!

He promptly ordered that all participants in the importation of such unhealthy things, regardless of whosoever, should be sentenced to 10, 20, and 30 years' hard labor, depending on the seriousness of the circumstances, and that the sentence should be increased by 10 years and 10 years, with the lowest grade being 10 years, and the highest being death, beheading, and this decree was applicable to all parts of China.

At the same time, a vigorous anti-drug campaign was launched among the people, so that the foreigners' plan to make money died all at once.

But if a foreigner gives silver like this...... Chen Xinji couldn't sit still, he walked around the house, and instructed Zhou Xingrui: "You go to make a statistic again, count the total number of Westerners' ships in the Indian Ocean, the number of people and the number of artillery, and the number of newly built ships." ”

So Zhou Xingrui worked for another three days, and on the fourth day he reported: "The number of ships of the Westerners in the Indian Ocean has increased year by year, and the tonnage, artillery, and number of people have increased, and they have built shipyards in the Indian region.

"Their ships are mainly Portuguese, Dutch, and British, and they maintain more than three hundred ships in the Indian Ocean all year round, of which more than fifty are ships with double gun decks, and we do not have their previous statistics, but according to those Indians, there are indeed more Western ships than before, and they are larger!"

"They have three shipyards in India, and they produce 10 ships a year with double gun decks!"

"The number of people has also increased a lot compared with before......," Zhou Xingrui said: "There are 200 Dutch ships, but they are generally merchant warships with single-deck guns......

It has to be said that the intelligence organs of the southeast province have done a great deal of work, and as the focus of monitoring, foreign ships have been carefully investigated, and Zhou Xingrui's report was even completed on the basis of the intelligence agency's report.

"The situation is already very obvious, and the possibility of a war with us is extremely high!"

Chen Xinji came to a conclusion: "A war between China and foreign countries is inevitable, and it seems that the red-haired Britain and the Netherlands are converging and preparing to attack our southeast province!" ”

He reported to Yang Ying'er, the housewife, Yang Ying'er is a traditional woman who is deeply influenced by Yan Changwu's thoughts, and she thinks of what will happen to her husband when he encounters such a thing?

The answer is "Prepare for war!" ”

The preparation program was launched that year, and it was ready-made!

The General Staff Headquarters of the Southeast Prefecture is not for nothing; they are responsible for commanding operations during wartime, and in their spare time, they make plans one by one, organize exercises and confrontations, and so on.

These include dealing with the threat of white skins, countering riots, dealing with disgruntled Chinese henchmen, pirates, etc.

Among them, the threat of the white skins is the focus, because they are the ancestors of the sail warships, and they have enough ability to threaten the sea routes of the southeast province.

Anticipating the possibility of a large-scale offensive, the General Staff made the following plan of preparation.

1. Build a ship!

There is no need to say that it will be our battleships that will deal with the enemy's warships, and the speed will be doubled according to the original plan, that is, the planned construction of four battleships this year will be increased to eight battleships.

Second, artillery!

The casting of artillery was also doubled as planned.

3. Preparation of personnel and materials.

Increase the intensity of training and the scope of the reservists' call-up, stockpile gunpowder, artillery, muskets, and ship-building materials, and inspect the warehouses and supplies, so as to be prepared for emergencies, all according to the usual double backup.

Fourth, to inspect the existing ships, it is necessary for all fleets and defenders to intensify their training and make preparations for war.

5. Check the waterway, do a good job of hydrographic data, and hand it over to the captains to know and do more training.

Sixth, it is necessary to investigate all localities and eliminate unstable factors, which is a major aspect and is aimed at all forces. The small aspect is to catch spies, internal precautions, and external arrest of unscrupulous elements who want to spy on military intelligence.

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In the past few days, Chen Xinji has held a series of small meetings at the conference, prompting the work of the cabinet and various ministries, and the army has been grasped even more tightly by him.

The army of the Southeastern Province has been reorganized and consists of:

1. Garrison troops of the major islands:

It is under the command of the Governor's Office of the major islands, including Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi, Kalimantan, Bali and New Guinea, with garrison troops, including one army division (more than 10,000 people, Class B division), marine brigade (more than 3,000 people), and naval patrol ship detachment, a total of six troops.

Each detachment has 15 Class 6 cruisers, and in peacetime, each warship has a standard period of 18 months of training, duty, and rest, and occupies one-third of each time. Therefore, under normal circumstances, warships are on duty or on combat missions, one-third of them are trained at sea, and another one-third are resting in the harbor or entering the factory for maintenance.

Of course, in wartime, the training, rest, and maintenance cycles will be shortened, and the number of warships capable of performing combat missions will be increased by about 50% to 1 times more than in peacetime, and all warships will be put into operation when needed.

This is something that can only be done after a big business, otherwise you would have a few warships, a third of which are used for patrolling, and there is not even a single sail on the big sea.

There is not enough strength to patrol the seas, so don't blame others for thinking too much.

In addition, if the wooden warship is used incessantly, if it is not maintained, the bottom of the sea will soon be overgrown with things and it will move at a turtle speed, or the maggots will erode the bottom of the ship, which will be a big loss.

Then again, there are still few warships, such as warships that conduct training at sea, they are actually on duty, and they must participate in dealing with bad situations when they see them; At the same time, warships are still required to conduct training while on duty, but with a different emphasis.

For the use of complete troops on the major islands, it is necessary to have complete procedures: first, the military orders of the General Staff, and second, in the event of an emergency, the military orders signed by the Governor-General, the central commissioners stationed on the islands, and the commanders of the military districts at the same time before the troops can be mobilized, and the military orders of the General Staff are given the highest priority.

However, the use of the army is still troublesome and not conducive to the handling of emergencies, so the armed police have been formed, they are not as equipped as the army, but the transfer procedure is relatively simple, the training is under the command of the army, and the use is under the governor.

2. The army units directly under the Southeast Prefecture.

Division A, each with thirteen thousand to five thousand men, the best equipped and the most firepower, with 6 and 12 pounds of heavy marching guns (less guns of the B division) and breech flintlock pistols (the B division was not yet equipped with such guns), there were six such divisions;

III. Marines.

Six Marine brigades, each with more than three thousand men.

4. Reserve Forces.

This is the largest army, and all the physically viable males aged between 16 and 60 years old are in reserve.

6. Naval combat units.

The essence of the army of the southeast province, the core force.