Everyone here knows Chen Ming's temper, and if he really makes up his mind, no one can change it. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Fortunately, "Your Highness should still be a little hesitant now." "Military spending of 10,000,000 silver dollars a year is too high," so this is our chance. "Stuck a part of the plan.

"Your Highness is ambitious, and we are the courtiers of the Han Dynasty, so naturally we can't stop each other, but I'm afraid it's too much......" The steps are too big and easy to pull the eggs, isn't it better to step by step. For example, if you remove the mule and horse, the military budget will be reduced all of a sudden. There were also some coastal defense batteries that did not need to be built immediately, and there was no need for the garrison to replace all the guns......

Peng Zhongrui didn't say it directly, but the meaning was very clear. It's not that he opposes the imperial court's plan to reorganize the army, but that he wants to slow down the pace a little.

This is not only Peng Zhongrui's thoughts, but also the people here.

The financial budget of the Ministry of Finance was submitted to Chen Ming two months earlier, leaving a gap of 10 million for the whole army, and the total military expenditure was set at 50 million. Double!

After the budget was released, although the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion kept saying that it was not enough, Chen Cong left them another 10 million, but the difference between 60 million and 10,000 was not too much.

Seriously, Chen Cong, who was brushing his beard, was very dissatisfied with the people of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion in this matter. Won't you say hello before the budget is introduced? Chen Cong subconsciously felt that he was being cheated by the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion.

Looking at Chen Cong waving his arms, Shen Guozhen and Yue Wenhai were also silent, and the big five fingers pressed on their hearts like five peaks, although they were not the Shangshu of the Ministry of Finance, but they were also Alexander. Forty or fifty million, see how much you can do?

With this extra money, the whole fiscal situation is loose. And if this money is missing, all departments of the government will have to bare their teeth.

"Twelve main divisions, the old man thinks eight is enough." The previous main division of the Fu Han Army was seven, and now the instructor belongs to the Praetorian Guard, and has just been renamed the honorary division, and last year began to work on mules and horses. Then there are only six of the original main divisions left, and now they are given two more.

"There is no way to reduce the cavalry troops. It can be used in the northwest and northeast and in Outer Mongolia. But the navy can still reduce it a lot. Chen Cong fought with this idea, in his opinion, in Nanyang, a visible acre and three points of land, Chen Han's current naval divisions are fully capable of dealing with any war. Compared to the Army, the Sailor is not an imminent key to the matter.

"Having said that, everyone knows that His Highness attaches great importance to the development of the water master." This prince of his own seems to have a stubborn will hidden in his heart, so that Chen Ming keeps expanding the navy, and keeps expanding.

If you want the silver of the water card, "It's not easy...... Peng Zhongrui looked at Chen Cong and sighed.

Since the Fu Han Army began to set up a naval division, the funds invested in the latter have increased year by year. Especially the current Western-style sail warships, which cost a lot more than the old-fashioned bird boats, catch boats, and thunder boats, and launch them one after another. Chen Ming means: It is better to let the boat wait for people than let people wait for the ship.

"But one way or another, this thing has to be stopped. Otherwise, the military will be arrogant, how will my cabinet deal with itself? While the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion is busy with the military parade, we must hurry up. Chen Cong clenched his fists. He is going to be the first assistant minister of the cabinet in the coming year, and he will give 10,000 silver dollars to the military in the first year, and the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion should not be thrown to the head of the cabinet.

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There was a sudden commotion in the city of Nanjing, and the news was quickly reported to Chen Ming's hands. The civil officials began to connect, "Leak this information to the Metropolitan Governor's Office." "The problems they cause themselves will be solved by themselves. And the military expenditure of 10,000 is indeed a bit much, even if a lot of it can be eliminated with land, the remaining amount is also an astronomical amount, otherwise Chen Ming would not have sunk Until now, it is not yet a good believe.

Chen Ming listened to the news, and he 'solved' the matter in one sentence. Yes, in his eyes, this matter is solved, the people in the administrative system have just passed the New Year, and the holidays are not over, and the elites of various departments will automatically organize themselves to review the plan, and they will pick the bones in the eggs and squeeze out the water in the plan little by little. Naturally, the military is also going to move, and don't keep your eyes on the big parade.

This lawsuit is going to be officially fought in front of Chen Ming, so both sides should prepare their own guys first. It's a war.

It is already the first month, February is coming soon, and he is about to ascend the throne, and Chen Ming is waiting for the reorganization to be implemented immediately. In the blink of an eye, it has been ten years since he came to this world.

Ten years ago, Chen Ming was just a small local tyrant in Lushan, and ten years later he will ascend the throne and reign as the emperor. The current civil and military disputes, the battle for funds, there must be many, many more in his later life. It's just that Chen Ming, who has joy in the corner of his mouth, doesn't know that Lingnan at this time, Guangzhou at this time. The bustling and crowded Guangzhou City Wharf is playing out one scene after another of joys and sorrows. His empire is far from being full of happiness.

Where there is wealth, there is poverty, and where there is happiness, there is sorrow. What he saw was not all that was in society!

After falling under the rule of Chen Han, although the Guangzhou merchant group suffered a serious purge, many wealthy people now have rotten bones. However, the Guangzhou business group, which has sufficient resources, took advantage of the more relaxed trade policy to quickly restore its strength in foreign trade, and also actively poked out its head to Shanghai and Nanyang. Especially Nanyang!

A group of Guangzhou merchants with surplus wealth formed a reclamation company, obtained a permit from the Nanyang Reclamation Bureau in Guangzhou, and then plunged headlong into West Borneo.

Speaking of which, this is because of a legend passed down from generation to generation, a story that has been passed down for many years along the coast of Fujian and Guangdong. In the eyes of many people in later generations, Borneo, which was poor in mineral resources, had a very high name in the eyes of the people of Fujian and Guangdong in this era - Jinshan.

Yes, Borneo was called Jinshan by many Fujian and Cantonese people at this time.

Because many Chinese living here make a living from gold mining. Unlike the Chinese in Java, Sumatra or Luzon, the Chinese in West Borneo are also engaged in agriculture, such as pepper. But these people are only a relatively small part of the latter, and their main labor force, the male labor force, is still engaged in mining.

After gaining a firm foothold, Chen Ming conducted a thorough investigation of the Chinese in various parts of Nanyang, and compared with the Chinese in Luzon, Jawa, Sumatra and other places, most of whom are mainly engaged in agricultural business, the number of Chinese in Borneo is as high as 780,000, but nearly half of them are engaged in mining labor.

This tradition is said to have been based on the fact that most of the Chinese who landed in West Borneo in the early days mined gold for local chiefs such as the Sultan. Because of the industriousness and skill of the Chinese workers, some of them have a skill in gold mining when they are in China, coupled with honesty and reliability, they have won the trust of the local leaders, and the local sultans generally like to recruit Chinese workers to open mines, and they themselves will receive mining profits. So this has become a tradition of the Chinese in Borneo.

Many of West Borneo's gold mines, as well as individual gem mines, were developed in this way. The number of Chinese laborers in a mine generally ranges from a few dozen. The old man there recalled that thirty or forty years ago, there were 11 diamond mines mined by the Chinese in Landa alone, and the average number of Chinese workers in each mine was twenty or thirty, and each person could dig one bookk diamond a year (two or three hundred small ores, worth 20-24 rupees). The benefits are quite lucrative.

Most of the Chinese mining here are people from Fujian and Guangdong provinces, first of all, the Chaozhou people of Guangdong, including the Chaoyang people, the Jieyang people, the Haifeng Lufeng people, and the second is the Jiaying Prefecture people, Huizhou people. These gold diggers are just like Taiwan's Zhangquan armed fights, the geographical relationship is very obvious, and the internal organization is still very tight, and no one can challenge the authoritative position of the "big brother".

Therefore, when the people of the Fu Han Army came into contact with Borneo, when the secret camp took Huang Guibo from Chaozhou Prefecture and Chen Lanbo from Jiaying Prefecture into their pockets. The Chinese in the entire West Borneo did not have to make much effort, that is, they were accepted by the Han army for their own use.

Speaking of the southeastern clan relationship, which was regarded as a thorn in the side of Chen Han, it was a great help to the secret camp in Borneo.

Subsequently, the secret camp of the Fu Han army kept transferring weapons, iron blocks, etc. to the various Chinese forces in Borneo, and when Guangzhou and Fuzhou were captured by the Fu Han army, the entire West Borneo was almost controlled by the Chinese.

The local natives were no match for the Chinese miners. In ancient societies, whether you like to admit it or not, the miners were much more organized and effective than the peasants. Especially lazy peasants!

After the 30,000 or 40,000 Chinese miners in the entire West Borneo received the support and gestures from the country, once they started to do it, the local lazy natives could only kneel down on their knees, even if several Sultans of West Borneo could not help each other. The Chinese weapons are rudimentary, but the fighting spirit of the natives is even worse. Even though the Spaniards and the Dutch secretly sent muskets to the natives of the island, the Chinese also had the support of the Fu Han army, and they had a small proportion of muskets in their hands, and they were not small in number, and there were also cannons.

Therefore, one-third of Borneo's land was controlled by the Chinese, and the gold mines on the land naturally belonged to the Chinese, and there was no need to pay taxes to the Sultan, and even agricultural planting industries such as pepper, rice, sugar cane, sago, and dried coconut also developed rapidly.

The dark camp comprehensively counted the annual gold production of Borneo, which is not too high, but there are still 20,000 or 30,000 taels.

In particular, the famous gold producing areas, one of which is Mo Jiayin, is the place where the Chinese Thirteen Companies pan for gold and get rich, where it has been dug into a large lake of hundreds of acres; The second is a deep stone, and it is said that the miners' clothes are stained with mud, and each piece can be washed out of several whole pieces; The third is three thousand, the name is very strange, according to legend, it is named after a few Chinese who have just arrived here to get three thousand taels! The output is quite good.

And because the immigration and mining here are all spontaneously organized by the people, so don't look at the 20,000 or 30,000 taels of gold a year, it is not much, but after a hundred years, all the Chinese who come to Borneo have gold in their hands, so Borneo is not a gold mountain but also a gold mountain.

In the past two years, the foundation of the Fu Han army in Nanyang has become more and more solid, taking Borneo as an example, the indigenous people of Borneo in the Middle East have rarely attacked West Borneo again. On the contrary, Sarawak was taken down by the Chinese in West Borneo.

Chen Han has not yet nominally entered West Borneo, and the 'government' organization and model here are already 'companies'. But everyone knows that the people who now hold the power of these companies are no longer the original leading brothers, but those who have been sent from the mainland.

Every year, a large number of Fujian and Guangdong immigrants arrive in West Borneo, as well as a large number of Chinese from Java, Sumatra and Luzon.

The Chinese people here regard Chen Han as the 'imperial court', because of Chen Han's support and leadership behind the scenes, their lives are much better than before, so I don't know how many Nanyang Chinese and the original Borneo Chinese have won the hearts of the Chinese. In two words, it is support!

Renowned all over the world, people are convinced; The decree is unimpeded, and you dare not obey it.

When the hearts of hundreds of people fell to Chen Han, Chen Han's rule in the shadow of West Borneo became deep-rooted.

However, generally speaking, West Borneo, which is one-third the size of Borneo, is not something that can be filled by a few hundred thousand people, and this number is multiplied by ten, and Borneo can fully afford it. Therefore, in the past two or three years, the ships that have gone to the South Seas have never stopped going back and forth between the mainland of Guangdong and the ports of Borneo.

They brought boatloads of Chinese people to Borneo, and transported boatloads of all kinds of commodities needed for people's daily life and production to Borneo non-stop, and at the same time brought back to Borneo agricultural products such as pepper, rice, sugar cane, sago, and dried coconut, as well as gold, and a large amount of timber. It was the single highest value item and the largest quantity of goods in Borneo, and at first there were local gold shops, but with the intervention of the banking sector, West Borneo's growing gold production went into the banks. And there is no shortage of wood in Borneo.

From cloth, iron, hardware, to salt, sugar, and medicinal herbs, China supplies everything needed for the lives of hundreds of thousands of Chinese in Borneo.

Many Chinese families in Luzon, Java and Sumatra who migrated to West Borneo also saw unlimited business opportunities. Relying on their original heritage, they also began to get involved in low-tech industries such as Tangliao, hardware workshops, textiles, etc., but they still have a long, long way to go if they want to really develop their own handicraft industry.

Because before you know it, the relationship between West Borneo and the mainland is about to evolve into a standard colonial economy.

West Borneo became a production base for the supply of virgin materials, and at the same time they completely opened up the market and became a dumping ground for the products of Fujian and Guangdong merchants. There is no problem with this 'reciprocal' economic model in a short period of time, but after a long time, especially the awakening of the handicraft industry in West Borneo, the contradictions between the two sides will inevitably arise. If the prices of agricultural products in West Borneo fall sharply in any given year, the economic contradictions between the two sides will become even more acute.

Just after the end of the Chinese New Year, the first batch of ships heading south with the winter wind were about to leave Guangzhou. In the previous month, more than 1,000 people signed up to go to Nanyang, and after signing their names and getting the money from selling their bodies, they had to live in a fixed place for a month, and after being determined to have no disease problems, they boarded the sea ships to Nanyang. The vast majority of them went to live in Sulu and West Borneo, with only a few going to Singapore.

"Ah Shui, when you get there, you have to find your third uncle. Take care of each other, and you must come back safely. Cao Chen took his youngest son's hand, and tears flowed down his eyes. If it weren't for the fact that the family was really difficult, how could she be willing to let her son go to Nanyang?

There is no safety in the mine, and this is in Nanyang, if something happens, the family can't greet even if they want to. However, it is safer to go to Nanyang than to be a soldier, and it takes a long time to be a soldier, and it will take at least five years to be discharged from the army. As for going to the South Seas, the shortest construction period is only one year, and there are doctors in the mine, who have no guns or cannons, no matter how dangerous they are, they can't compare to being a soldier.

Of course, it should be said that this is no longer the same as before. Originally, you could become a soldier by registering for a name, but now you need to go through various assessments. Many people want to be soldiers and are brushed off.

"Grandma, don't worry. Now this government is different from the time of the Tartars, there are written notes, and the officials dare not come nonsense, and the mines do not dare to come nonsense. "If he gets sick, even if he is willing to go to the mine, he will not be approved by the team leader." You can rest assured. ”

"Big brother, take care of Grandma. When I come back from Nanyang, I want to see my eldest nephew. Ah Shui shouted to his eldest brother Ah Shan, his eyes were full of tears.

"Liang Ashui, Liang Ashui, where is it? Hurry back and count the numbers. ”

Behind him came the familiar shouts of the captain. Liang Ashui's face tightened, "Grandma, big brother, go back quickly." Our team checked the number of people, I went to ......"

Less than a month after Chen Ming ascended the throne, on the fifth day of the new year, ships carrying hundreds of poor coastal people sailed away from the docks of Guangzhou and headed for the warm, humid and rainy Nanhai. (To be continued.) )