In the spring of 1731, the southern part of the East China Sea Kingdom once again began to mobilize in full force, and the huge social forces began to tilt towards the military side in an all-round way, preparing for a large-scale war to completely clean up the Indochina Peninsula.

The work of the southern part of the Industrial Division was to increase the production of materials needed by the military, and the strength of the Inspectorate of the Administration Department swelled rapidly again, and in just over two years it swelled to more than 600,000 people, although it was mainly equipped with light weapons, but it included a large number of bayonets and rifles, and began to be equipped with a large number of light machine guns in order to supervise all foreign laborers.

The Military Affairs Department was completely separated from the work of supervising foreign laborers, and the Supervision Department of the Administrative Secretary began to take over the supervision of all foreign laborers, and the task of the soldiers of the Supervision Department was to carry out intensive scientific and cultural knowledge learning while working. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The transportation management forces of the Department of Communications, the Department of Commerce, the Secretary of Administration, and even the Department of Finance have also begun to lean heavily towards military operations in the south.

Fourning sent a communication message to Geert Francis, and then the Dutch state of Nanyang began to issue a proclamation reminding the Dutch merchants to withdraw from the interior of Indochina as soon as possible, in case some Dutch merchants were accidentally injured by the military operations of the East China Sea state.

The military of the Dutch Kingdom in Nanyang began to take the initiative to discuss the feasibility of joining the military operation of the East China Sea State, and then Geert Francis sent a telegram to Fu Ning, asking if the Dutch military could provide some help to the East China Sea State.

Every plundering war is a feast, of course, this is for the East China Sea Kingdom, because the people of the East China Sea Country have become accustomed to seeking great gains from foreign wars, and the current Nanyang Dutch Kingdom has also understood these truths.

Once the East China Sea Kingdom begins a military campaign, then the main task of the military must be to clean up the indigenous population, hunt down the young and strong alien races, and harvest some rice and precious metals by the way. Now the military and eyes of the East China Sea Country have long been raised, but those remaining materials are still good things in the eyes of the Dutch.

The request of the Dutch State of Nanyang was approved by Fourning, and Geert Francis began to inform the navy of the Dutch State of Nanyang, and their navy, as well as the newly formed Dutch Marine Division modeled after the East China Sea State, began to happily prepare and quickly assemble at the East Sea State naval base in Natuna, in order to win more military tasks and benefits.

The joint command of the military operation was placed in Natuna, and several Marine Divisions of the Marine War Department, the Second and Third Fleets of the Admiralty, the Seventh Field Division of the War Department, and the troops gathered from the Netherlands, the forces of the four directions and five divisions began to be integrated under the unified command of the joint command, and they were successively assembled in Natuna, Champong, Malacca, Dacheng Bay and other places;

Song Guilong, Minister of Marine Warfare, was promoted to commander-in-chief of the Joint Command Headquarters, stationed at the Natuna Naval Base, and was responsible for military operations throughout the Indochina Peninsula.

A large number of surplus ships in the northern cities of Lushun, Busan, Shinhanyang, and Nagasaki began to sail southward, and some old fishing fleets were also vacated and driven away, so the four prefectures and one government in the north were not greatly affected; Education, learning, industrial development, road paving, and so on are still making rapid progress.

When the spring thawed, the Sixth Field Division under the Ministry of War, as well as the two Mongolian light cavalry divisions stationed in Yinshan Hall, began to assemble in Lanzhou, and the imperial court stationed in Shaanxi's Daxi Camp began to be shocked three times a day, Dingxi, Guyuan, Tianshui, Qingyang and other places The continuous bunkers did not bring much sense of security to the imperial court's Daxi Army, the officers and soldiers of the imperial court hid in the bunker and were highly nervous, full of excitement and fear, excited that the war was about to be fought, and they would definitely be able to see the legendary "divine soldiers" of the East China Sea, and the fear was, Can you beat it?

The Eastern Navy shook from Lanzhou for a while and then turned to Xining to go south to the Wusi Zangdu Division, all the officers and soldiers of the imperial court Daxi Battalion began to relax after being shocked into a cold sweat, the soldiers of the East China Sea State finally left, and then the headache of the imperial court stationed in Sichuan into the battalion soldiers, the Wusi Zangdu Division has always been under the management of the battalion soldiers, then it is not the matter of the Daxi Battalion, it should be the imperial court and the soldiers and horses of the battalion.

The military intelligence report reported by the Daxi Battalion to Emperor Shunhe was torn to pieces by Emperor Shunhe, and the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty shouted that the Western Regions had been lost, and the Uszang Capital Division could not be lost anymore, and it was necessary to send troops and fight the East China Sea Country fiercely!

Emperor Shunhe leaned on the dragon chair tiredly, "Where are the soldiers?" Where to hit? How to fight?! - I want a burst of muskets, I want the best Hongyi cannon, I want the best ironclad warship! When I asked you to build guns and ships, you all wanted to hide thousands of miles away, lest they spread it on yourself, and now you are all shouting and fighting? If you don't have weapons, what are you going to do now?! ”

So the civil and military of the Manchu Dynasty knelt on the ground and shouted, "The ministers are waiting for ten thousand deaths!" ”

Similar scenes have happened countless times before, and Emperor Shunhe has long been decadent and doesn't want to say another word,

"Heaven is going to destroy my British Dynasty, and the crime of non-war is ......! In a few nights, is the British Dynasty still my British Dynasty......?! ”

Zhang Tinghe kowtowed heavily, "The emperor must not be discouraged!" As long as we are not discouraged, we must know that the master is strong in self-improvement, we have 30,000 people, we have smart and capable soldiers, and we will eventually create better firearms and train a stronger iron army! -- The East China Sea is brutal, ignorant of the teachings of the saints, uncultivated, indistinguishable from the upper and lower, and without the righteousness of the world, sooner or later it will collapse by itself! The saint governs the country with benevolence, and the people's hearts are attached, which is the right way for a long time! Since ancient times, there has been no immortal king, and Fu Ning, the king of the East China Sea, is an unprecedented cruel person, and he believes that the day when the East China Sea Kingdom will die is not far away; The minister hopes that the emperor will not be discouraged and cheer up to fight against the brutal East China Sea! ”

Emperor Shunhe finally breathed a sigh of relief and reluctantly sat up,

"Zhang Aiqing's words are very true, there are only more than 10 million people in the small East China Sea country, and I heard that last year they actually arrested a million criminals and migrated to Antarctica's house to fend for themselves; It is appalling that there are as many as 10% of the criminals in a country, and it can be seen that they will not last long, and will be abandoned and overthrown by their subjects.

However, striking iron requires three points of hardness, and we can't just expect them to mess up by themselves, and I still have to do more research on things; Firearms and warships all need skill, and they all need skilled craftsmen, so you need to work hard, and after all, it is only right to become strong yourself, so that you can defeat them in the future.

You Aiqing should take a good look at why the East China Sea will make things very quickly, I heard that they have built hundreds of thousands of large ships, each of which can carry tens of millions of catties of goods, you have to find out carefully, what kind of shipbuilding method they have, and strive to get the skills over as soon as possible for our dynasty to use! ”

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Fu Ning is now busy with his feet not touching the ground, the new large steel blast furnaces in the north continue to appear and spread like spring shoots, the black smoke fills the sky over every hall and city, the simple rail railway spreads in all directions like a spider web, and then the light rail heavy rail and highways continue to extend, and the exact same simple machinery and vehicles are quickly transported to wherever they need to be used.

But not all the news is good news, Wei Chengchen, the head of the Supervision Department of the Administrative Department, was shattered by the facts in the south, because the alien hard workers in the iron mines in the southeast of Luzon have revolted!

When the Indochina Peninsula's "vacating" military plan was just brewing, Wei Chengchen patted his chest and promised that the Supervision Department could take over and control all the alien laborers, but it was only a few months before something big happened.

The southeast Luzon iron ore mine is the most important source of raw materials for the steel industry in the south of the East China Sea, once concentrated more than 2 million foreign laborers, and now there are nearly 2 million people; The Ministry of Land Operations completely handed over the supervision of the iron ore mine in the southeast of Luzon, gathered troops to assemble in Natuna and Annam, and handed it over to the Ministry of Supervision for only two months, and now the iron mine suddenly has an accident, and the alien laborers have revolted!

The General Staff Department and the General Department of the General Staff Department held an emergency meeting to listen to the true news of the incident and to discuss the plan for dealing with the incident.

Cheng Qu, the clerk brought by Zhang Xu from the Information Cabinet of the Intelligence Department, first read out the news of the incident,

"In order to prepare for the military plan to vacate the air, the Marine War Department withdrew from the southeast iron mine in the Manila Hall of Luzon on March 27, and the 7th Marine Division, the 15th Marine Division, and the 16th Marine Division, three divisions, went to Zhancheng to assemble, and the Supervision Department of the Administrative Secretary and the Manila Metropolitan Inspection Section took over the control of the Southeast Luzon Iron Mine.

The tripartite system and three-level control policy implemented by the Southeast Luzon Iron Mine are the supervision department responsible for safety and management, the industrial department is responsible for iron ore development, and the cultural department is responsible for civic education; The specific supervision system is that the Supervision Department is responsible for safety, management and risk prevention, mainly managing the hard-working foremen and hard-working team leaders, and implementing the joint sitting system, so as to achieve comprehensive control of all laborers.

The Southeast Iron Mine originally had three incentive policies for hard labor: first, 5,000 people of different races with outstanding work were selected every year to grant citizenship to the East China Sea and move out of the iron mine; Second, 60,000 sterilized women of different races were arranged, and these women were not required to do manual labor, but were only responsible for providing comfort services to the foreign laborers, which were used to comfort the foreign laborers on a regular basis; Third, arrange some delicious food to reward some of the hard laborers.

After Huang Guogang became the president of the Southeast Iron Mine Metropolitan Procuratorate, he believed that there was no need to reward and appease the alien laborers, so he applied to Ge Fang, the chief of the Manila Supervision Section, to cancel the incentive policy for alien laborers, and Ge Fang rejected Huang Guogang's application report; Then Huang Guogang stubbornly announced that the Southeast Iron Mine would cancel the incentive policy for foreign laborers.

After the Southeast Iron Mine announced the cancellation of the incentive policy for foreign laborers, news soon spread that the so-called 5,000 outstanding laborers who were granted citizenship every year were actually moved away by the military and shot; Later, Agasu, the leader of the alien labor team, questioned Huang Guogang about the authenticity of the news, and was ordered by Huang Guogang to be shot, so the alien laborers began to be turbulent;

On May 23, Huang Guogang sent a rescue telegram to the Manila Department, saying that the alien laborers in the Southeast Iron Mine were unstable and that he had applied for 3,000 machine guns to suppress the laborers.

On 26 May, there was no reply to a telegram sent by the headquarters of the Intelligence Division to the Southeast Luzon Iron Ore Mine; On the night of May 26, both the Department of Industry and the Department of Culture received a call from the Southeast Department of Iron Mine, saying that the Southeast Iron Mine had undergone great changes, and the two divisions were urgently withdrawing some personnel; It is said that Huang Guogang was killed by foreign laborers, and the inspectors on the iron mine collapsed and fled by boat.

Today is May 28th, and in the past two days, the Intelligence Department has been trying to establish communication with the Southeast Iron Mine, but to no avail! ”

The clerk Cheng Qu stepped aside after reading the news, and Zhang Qi, the military affairs department, had already burst out.

"Huang Guogang should be killed! It's a thousand cuts! Did he do that?! ”

Fu Ning knocked on the table, "Calm down, I'll talk about the punishment later!" What should we do now? ”

Tian Yanwu curled his lips, "How else to deal with it?" Troop transfer! If the Marine War Department can't do the work, our War Department is willing to take over, isn't it just a few hard labors, and it's all against the sky! ”

Fu Ning rolled his eyelids, "Where to transfer troops?" Most of the marine divisions have been transferred to Annam, seven or eight marine divisions have just begun to be deployed in Ayutthaya, and the Second and Third Fleets are all fighting in Dacheng Bay. The remaining troops in Manila are only enough to maintain the vicinity of Manila, and the Borneo Hall can draw half a marine division, but Borneo still has any troops? Could it be that the field soldiers were transferred from the Kanto Prefecture, and the daylilies were also cold! ”

Sheng Shiran also frowned, "It seems that only one marine division can be made from the Ryukyu Mansion, the Fifth Marine Division in the Chicken Coop Hall, and the Sixth Marine Division in the Penghu and Chiji halls, these two divisions can still gather 5,000 troops, but they have to increase the amount of machine gun equipment, and the Marine Division is not inferior to the field division, and the strength and heavy firepower are worse; Molucas still has half a marine division, but it can also respond to the emergency. ”

Fu Ning hurriedly said, "Molujia's troops can no longer move, the southeast iron mine has fallen a lot of transport ships, and the south of the southeast iron mine is a group of islands, so we have to prevent the chaos and hard labor from spreading to the south, so the Molucca troops not only can't move, but also have to transfer part of the forces of the 20th Marine Division and the 21st Division from the Antarctic Province, and establish a defense line to prevent the spread of the rebellion and hard labor in Moluca, Sulu, and Borneo; As for the north, the command of the 1st Guards Division stationed in the chicken coop hall will also be handed over to your military affairs department for the time being, and it will be transferred south to Luzon.

The First Fleet in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea must all go south to the southeast of Luzon, and the ships of the ports of Liuqiufu, Goryeo, Arthur and Kwantung Province that are ready to be used to form the Fourth Fleet must be launched in advance. Pass on my orders, and the hard laborers around the southeast iron mine will be cleaned up one by one, and there will be no need to leave any more. ”

Lao Yue frowned suspiciously, "Don't be so afraid, right?" Isn't it just that the hard workers of the Southeast Iron Mine are in turmoil, and they can't drive ships, don't worry?! Wouldn't it be okay to send some troops over and clean it up?! ”

Zhang Qi shook his hand,

"Lao Yue, you haven't been there, you don't know the situation there; The earliest development of iron ore in the southeast, but also the largest iron mine in the south, the existing hard labor of nearly two million, there are large iron ore transport fleets docked all year round, so a large fuel supply point has been set up, a large amount of high-quality coal reserves; The troubled alien laborers will not sail, but they will be able to sail if they take some of our men prisoners; Generally, a large iron ore transport fleet may install a radio station, I checked it yesterday, and there were three large iron ore transport fleets in the Southeast Iron Mine in the southeast iron ore mine in front of the incident, but there has been no telegram until now, it seems that they are all trapped in the southeast iron mine, God knows where these troubled alien bitter workers will spread to the ship!

Nearly two million laborers revolted, and there were not so many food reserves on the iron mines, so they would surely flee the spread by boat, and God knows where they would go; My scalp is numb when I think about these things, and the inspection department has caused us a big problem!

Now that the 'vacant' military operation on the Annan side has just been launched, it cannot be withdrawn at all, and the only way is to slow down the military operation and gradually withdraw some troops to the southeast iron mine, but this will take time! We can't wait, and we can't change the plan! ”

Zhang Hui also sighed a little, "The First Fleet was transferred south, and although the Fourth Fleet was formed in advance, it would definitely not be able to pick up the girder for a while; Nowadays, the imperial court has made a lot of small steamers, all of which are one or two thousand tons, although there are not enough of them, but they can't hold many ships, and the horsetail sailors of the imperial court are equipped with twelve small steamers, as well as one hundred and ten wooden sail clippers, just by the Penghu Hall, next to the sea trade routes in the Liuqiu Strait, isn't this all a hidden danger? ! If you want me to say that Wei Chengchen should be removed immediately, how does he manage the Supervision Department?! ”