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As a behemoth in the past, the dynasty separated from the most powerful economic entity, the Nanhai Society, one of the two major systems, the Donghai Society, and also ushered in a new round of the highest evaluation meeting.

Forty-nine senior veterans and eleven permanent members were also present without any absence.

Mr. Great, who was born in Zongshoji Temple and is responsible for overseeing the day-to-day operations and has the final decision, also appeared in the position of the presiding officer of the innermost meeting. I saw him knock heavily on the table and suppress the noise of discussion, which can be regarded as the official start of the topic.

"The court is already very dissatisfied with my generation."

"Over the years, the input and delivery in all aspects have been decreasing day by day."

"The operation of various industries in the two seas and eight roads has not improved much......

"Don't you have anything to say?" ……

"Do you remember the purpose and original intention of our society?"

"The club supports you to be bold and ......"

"But failure due to incompetence is the biggest mistake,"

"There's nothing to argue with."

With these few words and the figure of the expressionless guard, who was forcibly invited out of the seat, there were obviously several vacancies in the seats of the meeting, which also made the expressions of the rest of the people become awe-inspiring, suspicious, and vigilant.

"Now it's time to get back to business......"

Mr. Big waved his hand

"In the branch of Ceylon Province on Shizhou, Sekaido, all the upper echelons defected, and the Fifth Room of the Pivotal Office has intervened in the investigation and held accountable............

The successive losses of the Guangfu bond market speculation, and the identification of the relevant responsible persons......

In the Tiannan rice market turmoil, the local principal was guilty of dereliction of duty. It is recommended that the gag order be lifted and transferred to the department for handling......

Is there anyone who has an accident with the members of the board of supervisors in Jiangdong......

At this point, Mr. Big paused slightly.

"The next step is Huaidong's countermeasures, as well as a review after the fact."

Hearing this, some of the people present were a little uneasy, their faces changed slightly, and they exchanged glances with each other.

"At present and how much manpower and material resources have been invested."

"And what losses and gains ......?"

"To what extent has the trade of northern goods that we participated in in the past shrunk......

"Don't use the impact of the war or anything like that to prevaricate me,"

"Now the public and private markets in Guangfu are full of northern goods flowing from Huaidong."

"Are they not affected by the war?" ……

"This matter must be clearly explained to the shogunate."

"If you can't explain, I don't mind initiating a council......"

"It's up to you to change a group of people here to continue to explain."

He sighed slightly, after all, the East China Sea Branch is still the East China Sea Branch, not the South China Sea Branch that was as prosperous as it was at the beginning.

As the Nanhai Society, which rose with the expansion of the former Nanhai Governorate, it almost participated in and developed most of the shipping routes and trade bureaus from the east to the north of Juluzhou, the west to the south of Zhangzhou and Xiniuhezhou, and even the colonies on the road.

From the Indian Ocean to the Red Sea in Africa, from the Mediterranean Sea to the Atlantic Ocean, and even further into the Caspian and Black Seas in the interior of the north; It is claimed that as long as there are places where the Tang people have been active, there are the existence and traces of the Nanhai Society, and there are countless wealth of people who have been transported from it.

For a long time, it had its own ship regiments, ports, colonies, and fortified cities, as well as corresponding armed escort forces on land and sea, and countless subordinate branches and trading organizations.

Although many years have passed, and after the two major streams of Southern Liang and Western Xia, the tearing caused by the overseas division and antagonism, and the re-division of the remaining part of the Nanhai Society after the establishment of the dynasty, most of the public resources have been stripped away, and only the most important commercial areas remain; However, whether it is the Donghai branch or the Xihai branch, it is still undoubtedly the largest economic force and commercial entity inside and outside the country.

However, with the passage of time, the overly large and bloated associations have inevitably formed lineage interest groups with strong regional or professional colors linked by family and in-laws due to the changes in previous political and military activities, and the entire huge economic organization that has been operating for hundreds of years has become increasingly bloated and sluggish, and the drawbacks have accumulated and are difficult to return.

Therefore, in order to introduce new blood and vitality, the dynasty has made all kinds of innovative efforts to eliminate the defects, so that it will be passed on and maintained; To this day, many maritime clans and emerging associations and shipping groups will also be attached to them, and become peripheral forces that use the resources of the clubs at a cost; Through persistent efforts and contributions, they eventually obtained certain internal authority and primary voting qualifications, and became a full member and part of the branch of the club.

However, as a small group of people at the top who are qualified to participate in the highest evaluation meeting, as well as the corresponding family and relationship circles, are increasingly entrenched, and there has been no major change for a long time. Many of the three or fourth generations of veterans, as well as the standing committee members with specific backgrounds elected by the Enlarged Assessment Council, have become a norm that has gradually become accustomed in the face of increasingly loose organizational regulations and supervision systems.

Therefore, due to their respective positions and interests, the internal friction caused by intrigue and intrigues, as well as the struggle for power and profit for personal gain, are also staged from time to time within the Donghai Branch. The only thing that could restrain and deter their ambition and greed was the supervision and coercion of the imperial shogunate.

But behind these intricate families, why are there no figures and hands of the opposition or the princes in power. Therefore, this can only be a long process of confrontation and compromise, until the day when this huge system can no longer be sustained, and collapses and collapses.

The development and operation of Xinzhou and Xiaoao are one of the few bright spots in the East China Sea Branch that continue to make profits; But for most of the members of the game, these places are too far away, so far away that they lack not only a lack of interest, but also a lack of concrete concepts and intuitive feelings.

Compared with these remote and remote continents, which make at least a month to several months of round-trip, it is still the native continent with a large population and vast land, and a large number of outputs, but it is the chaotic and chaotic place that they have always been the most familiar and ideal place to profit.

At least in the upper echelons of the Tokai Branch, they no longer have the aggressive pioneering and enterprising adventurous spirit of the past, and they are more concerned and tend to be conservative in the rentier of the Kinai, or invest their wealth in the bond market to manage the ups and downs; or lend money to those merchants who have earned low incomes and high profits, and then wait for an opportunity to take away everything they have painstakingly managed for generations; or by joining forces to monopolize and control the high-end of a certain field, and reap the benefits of downstream industries; They are unwilling to spend more money and energy on developing more mines, factories, plantations and other industries and land investments other than gold and silver mining and metallurgy.

Even credit projects that support and invest in small and medium-sized businesses have become a good strategy for many fledgling children of the powerful to try to please toys and exclusive benefits for the first time, rather than releasing water to raise fish and promote the market.

The huge inertia and deviations they inherited and controlled were enough to make many of the purposes and original intentions of the predecessor of the Donghai Society already unrecognizable.

But this time it was clearly blocked by the newly rising town of Huaidong; They were no longer able to monopolize and control the sea and land interests in the north as they had done in the past, nor were they able to organize large-scale shipping groups to go north in the name of attacking enemy countries, enter the coastal interior, and sit on a profitable long-term and short-term business.

In fact, under the impact of the failure of the Northern Expedition, the East China Sea Branch, which was too deeply involved, also suffered heavy losses, and it took a long time to sort out the internal problems, and only then did it discover an even more embarrassing reality.

They finally promoted and linked the situation, and assumed that the hands of the Northern Dynasty destroyed Dengzhou Town, which was originally not only confrontation and competition, but also tacit understanding and cooperation, but could not stand on its own; In its place, Huaidong Town, which was more powerful and more difficult to negotiate but inherited part of the population and wealth of Dengzhou Town, did not improve, but worsened.

That's why someone took a risk, and even made a series of incidents in a daze......

But in any case, since the national dynasty has already made a decision, they, the people of the East China Sea Branch, must do something and express their position......

My parade in Huaidong continued, trying to eliminate the sequelae and collateral effects of the absence of a formal military order.

At present, we are planning for a new round of army expansion, mainly by adopting some kind of curved and roundabout means to cover people's eyes and ears, and to re-expand the Qingzhou garrison army, which belongs to the second-line local ranks, under the condition that the establishment of the main battle force on the surface is basically unchanged; From the original 15 battalions of the garrison and the eight battalions of the navy, it has become 10 battalions on the left and right compartments, plus 8 battalions of the navy, in order to make up for the vacancy in the combat strength of the former army that has been allocated away, and to achieve a one-to-one basic configuration with the main battalion.

Zhao Long is still the main envoy of the guard, and the regimental training envoy Luo Hussar is also the supervisor of the soldiers and horses in the right wing, Zhao Liangsi, the first general of the Hunting Camp is also the supervisor of the soldiers and horses in the left wing, and Liu Qi is the supervisor of the water battalion and the naval soldiers in Laizhou Shuiying Town; The responsibility of managing the local garrison regiment was taken over by Duan Hong, who was transferred to the deputy envoy of the regimental training.

Although there are garrison regiments in more than 30 counties and the half-employed Jiansheng Army, which are the source of the new round of reserve military service, there are at least one-third to one-half of the young people of school-age among the remaining million people, and another 70,000 or 80,000 people can be transferred without affecting the existing basic production activities. However, after being flooded with a large number of new soldiers, the combat effectiveness of both the Huaidong front and the rear standby troops will inevitably decline.

After all, no matter how selective the former military headquarters that was allocated out, there were still 6,000 in-service soldiers who had met the basic requirements for well-trained training, and half of them had actual combat experience and were basically fully equipped.

For example, the grenadiers at the team level, such as the artillery team and chasseurs attached to the battalion and regiment, as well as the unique chasers of Huaidong and the newly assembled An**** cavalry; Engineers equipped with special equipment and explosive powder, carrying mobile tents, houses, ambulance stations, and repair stations; A reloaded fleet with both bunkers and defensive formations...... Such special establishments and technical arms are obviously not among them.

However, relying on the existing foundation of the former army, it was no problem or difficulty to complete the positional warfare in the field in which Huaidong had always been good at shooting in line and charging in a bayonet line. It depends on how the dynasty uses this pure firearms army.

Now it can be said that Huaidong's strength is the weakest low tide, but fortunately, because of the Second Northern Expedition of the National Dynasty, there is no decent external threat in a short period of time to affect and delay us through this run-in period of decline in overall strength.

However, under the encouragement of a certain kind of thinking and atmosphere that "it is better to seek others than to seek oneself, and self-improvement and self-reliance can be reborn," the military and people of Huaidong are also quite enthusiastic and actively cooperate with this round of expansion actions in the nature of protecting the family and defending the country. However, in terms of external posture, it is still necessary to actively take some measures to cover up people's eyes and ears.

For example, in order to show the embarrassment of insufficient troops and limited combat strength, some old, weak, sick and disabled people who should have been eliminated were deliberately arranged at the defense line posts near friendly forces, holding relatively old fire gate guns, arquebuses, and even bows, arrows, knives and guns and other cold weapons, to be on duty and patrol on the spot, and then arrange some homeless people with yellow faces and bad muscles to do chores for them; In order to achieve a certain purpose of showing the enemy weakness, it is also for the country to see and those neighboring friendly troops.

After all, in the long-term household register of land and land dedicated to the state and dynasty, only one-third of the existing actual situation is weak, and in terms of the quality of the local output reported every year, the top of the acres of land is considered medium, the middle is considered inferior, the lower is considered wasteland, the rich ore is considered poor mine, the cattle, horses, donkeys, mules and other large animals raised are also counted according to small animals such as pigs, sheep, dogs and rabbits, and the fish caught in the ocean is converted into river fishing data; Grasslands and mountains and forests are not counted in the output, anyway, everything is not completely created out of nothing, and it is just to be desperately pushed down.

In this way, it is convenient for those who cried out about poverty and difficulties in the early years, and actively reached out to the country to ask for conditions and resources to help. Now that an army has been withdrawn, it is even more necessary to keep complaining and complaining in order to reflect the difficulties and difficulties of Huaidong's current situation.

It is good to continue this dormant period of underground development of the infrastructure of farming and climbing science and technology reactors, and continue with less external interference and trouble.