A new batch of reinforcements for the North American Expeditionary Force has been formed, and the number of this group is not small, because of the long distance between the two sides and the inconvenient logistical supply, the Metropolitan Governor's Office has always strictly controlled the strength of the North American Expeditionary Force.

The minimum requirement of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion is to ensure sufficient materials for the troops, which is also Chen Ming's consistent thinking. An army that does not meet the logistical supply guarantee is a force that cannot fully exert its combat effectiveness, Chen Ming never felt that his army could be compared with the red army in the original time and space, and he very much agreed with a point of view - an army with sufficient supplies is better than an army with a large number of troops but insufficient supplies even if the number of troops is small.

The North American Expeditionary Force had already set up its own military factories early on, with sulfur, saltpeter, guns, shells, etc., to generate their own blood, and they also knew that this was the most important reason for their little increase in troops.

Unless the imperial court abolished its entire ocean transportation as it did in the first year, in order to maintain the transportation capacity on the North American routes, the military supplies that could be brought to North America by the mainland were certain, because most of the ships were to be used to transport immigrants and their production and living materials. There is not much capacity left for the army.

Now Chen Mingxing is forming a new wave of reinforcements, one is because the self-hematopoietic function of the North American part has become greater, and they bought four old ships from the Mexicans at a high price, the latter set out from Mexico, crossed the dangerous Caribbean Sea, then sailed through the whole of South America, detoured from the dangerous Strait of Magellan to the west coast, and then followed the Peruvian cold current all the way north, and then through Mexico, and then came to the hands of the Chen Han expeditionary force.

The 10,000-mile voyage that spared half of the American continent cost the expeditionary force much more than the value of the ships themselves, but it was worth it.

These four ships greatly enhanced the transportation capacity of the North American Expeditionary Force, which was able to carry more Chilean saltpeter and provide more raw materials for its own military factories; It can carry more food and reduce the material pressure on the new soil of North America.

Moreover, Chen Ming also transferred a small fleet of four medium-sized sail warships to join the North American route, which is also an old ship, which was originally assigned to the Third and Fourth Overseas Exploration Bureaus, and is now transferred to North America. So he added 5,000 elite troops to North America at one time.

However, just when Chen Ming was about to shift his main attention to North America, several secret messages were handed over to him, which suddenly woke him up from his wonderful reverie about the Americas.

"Did they negotiate it? A piece of the watch to me? ”

In the Qianqing Palace, Chen Ming was holding a stack of folds in his hand, and people were pacing in front of the dragon case. Don't look at the tone of his voice that doesn't seem to be very good, but in fact, his face, his body and mind are rippling with incomparably cheerful and joyful excitement.

This is an excerpt sent from the Annam region, and it was sent to the bosses of the other three kingdoms other than the Xishan Army, this is not a prayer for the included folds, but they are more exciting than the prayers for the included folds.

Because their excerpt is about 'preparing' reforms.

Political innovation - this was originally an occasional brain-opening session for Chen Ming, who wanted to see what the Eastern Confucian feudal state looked like under the 'New Deal'. As a very self-aware time-traveler, Chen Ming, who knows that his political ability is low, hopes to have a realistic example in front of him......

Then these 'examples' that burn themselves can point out and illuminate the bumpy and bumpy road ahead for China."

Chen Ming is keen to do that. His current strength also gives him the capital to squander this time, Annan has long been regarded as his own meal by Chen Ming.

Of course, the 'New Deals' of these three 'forces' are also different.

Nam Nguyen was a standard Oriental-style political innovation, taking the line of reform, and a constitutional monarchy was a major premise, and then they were free to play, and Russia, Germany, Japan, and even the Manchus and Siam were its teachers in the history of time and space.

The situation in North Zheng is much stronger than that in South Nguyen, and the central government still has a certain degree of control, and it also has to follow the reformist line, but the Gangchang is the national capital line that Chen Ming has made up. This is a system imposed by Chen Ming on Beizheng, and poor Chen Ming himself only has a superficial knowledge and understanding of the national capital line, so don't look at the current situation and strength of Beizheng is better than that of Nanruan, but the future outcome is very likely to be extraordinarily dark......

Finally, there are the remnants of the Qing Dynasty who live in the northern part of Annan. This force has become a knife that is faintly dominated by Chen Ming, and Chen Ming used this knife, which was originally hostile to him, and severely wounded Beizheng. After so many years, this armed force, which still nominally retains the banner of the Qing character, has not stretched out its minions to Chen Han once, but has achieved a leapfrog development of comprehensive trade with China in the northern region of Annam under their control!

Chen Ming's promise to Chen Jie, Yang Zhengjie, and Wu Xiongguang was to vigorously support them and support them to engage in 'Confucian Datong'.

Feudal reform is already being done by Nan Ruan, and there is no need for Sanjie to repeat it. And Sanjie's situation is not very good, after several years of forced helpless trade, so that their grain, cloth, salt and iron, sugar, gunpowder and other social lifelines are in the hands of Chinese merchants, they have become a puppet who is pulled by the string. If China suddenly cuts off economic and trade ties with them one day, it will not take a month for the entire area under its control to become a mess. If they don't want to be assimilated by Chen Han without backhand, they have to change and increase their strength, especially force.

And every true Confucian disciple must have a 'dream of great harmony' in his heart. Chen Ming felt that his proposal was still very attractive to true Confucian disciples.

This 'dream of great harmony' is not a proletarian movement, and the two seem to coincide, but in fact they are very different. Chen Ming didn't plan to meddle in this too much, he hoped that Sanjie could evolve freely. Even if they make themselves into a kingdom of balance without God, Chen Ming will watch themselves go to extinction, which will provide too many useful teaching materials for the China Academy of Political Science. Of course, this premise is that they are willing to change it this way......

The biggest purpose of doing this is to make China's future road better. Seeing the twists and turns and ups and downs in the future, China's progress has been smoother. Chen Ming's idea is as simple as that.

Even the Confucian Datong, he also hoped to attract as many rotten scum in the country as possible and reduce the burden on his body. This proposal has been going on for more than half a year, but none of the three forces has fulfilled his wish. Nam Nguyen, in particular, also asked China for help. Soldiers, arms, money......

Chen Ming forgot about this Miao Ce that he came up with when his brain was open, this was just his whim, as a traverser, he already had the 'entertainment spirit' in his heart that the politicians of this era did not have. But now the three forces of Annan suddenly reported to him: We are willing. What's going on?

The Military Intelligence Agency then sent another message that Annan had ceased hostilities.

It has not yet entered the rainy season in Annam, but all four forces have stopped fighting.

……

In March, Annan was already very hot, and it was only a twenty miles from East Lake to Aizhi, and the horse's chest and thighs were soaked with sweat. This is a southwestern horse, this stuffy place in Annam is not a good place for Mongolian horses to live, although the southwest horse is also resistant to rough feeding, adaptable, and good at mountain walking, labor, pulling and carrying the ability is very strong, and the speed is also fast, but compared to the same is rough feeding, the same endurance of the Mongolian horse these advantages do not have any advantages, and the most fundamental reason is that compared to the Western horses to the short Mongolian horses even if they are shorter than the southwest horses. In the horse market, taller horses are always better able to win people's affection. However, in terms of price, the price of a batch of Mongolian horses is not as high as that of southwestern horses.

Mongolian horses integrated into the Chinese mainland in large quantities brought the glorious southwestern horses to the north and the Yangtze River valley, and they also invaded Lingnan and southwest regions for a time, but in the end, just as the Mongols were defeated in the climate of Annam 500 years ago, Mongolian horses also repeated the same mistakes, and they showed that they could not adapt to the local climate and environment. This also allowed the southwest horses to retain their last piece of market, so that their prices in Lingnan and southwest have always maintained a level beyond the level of Mongolian horses.

Many merchants and wealthy people in Lingnan and Southwest China will not buy low-grade horses to pull carts if they are rich, and big businessmen and tycoons will look at horses imported from overseas. Tall, docile, and brightly furred...... it is summed up in two words - face.

Although the horse in front of him is just the most ordinary southwest horse, it is undoubtedly at the peak of a horse's physical strength, endurance and speed, and at the peak of physical fitness.

The sun hanging in the west, shining from the kapok bushes on the side of the road, was still hot, and the muddy water splashed on the car was also hot on the bare legs. Wading through a muddy puddle, the car with drenched water droplets and marks pressed on the dry road, the old coachman who had been shouting at the horses just now breathed a sigh of relief, this horse is so good that he is not allowed to get out of the car and push the horse away. He sat up straight, reached behind his butt and pulled out a pack of coconut cigarettes.

This is a low-grade cigarette produced in Hongji City, east of Aizhi, and the old coachman's income can only sell this kind of cigarette. In the northern part of Annam, there is its own tobacco leaf, but now there is very little traditional tobacco sold in the northern part of Annam, because the latter is exported to China. The rest of the inferior goods that the Chinese don't want taste as good as this kind of resistant cigarettes.

Now there are more and more people smoking cigarettes in northern Annam, more and more cigarettes are being sold back to Annam from China, and smuggling networks have appeared at sea.

A gust of wind blows, so cool!

The road is lined with clearings and vegetable gardens, and the fields are blackened and there is a faint smell. Canals flow outside the garden, and in the fields are neat rows of dark green and light green vegetables.

Ai Zhi is close to the city of Hongji, and people collect vegetables from here every day and send them to the vegetable market in Hongji the same day or early the next morning, although the total area of the latter is less than the size of Guangning, which is the size of two counties in Chinese mainland, but the population is by no means small, and the population has exceeded 300,000 as of last year.

A large part of them are tied to the coal mining industry.

There is no way.

There is a shortage of coal throughout Lingnan, and the cost of mining and transportation in several small coal fields in Guangdong and Guangxi is not lower than that of Hongji City, but the combustion heat of the same weight of coal is not as good as that of Hongji coal. This also makes the sales of Hongji Coal Mine better and better.

As a state-owned coal mining enterprise, when a large number of free labor expired and then left Hongji City without looking back, they had to recruit workers and buy slaves non-stop.

This once made Hongji City enter the sequence of cities with the highest proportion of non-agricultural population in China, and also brought huge business opportunities to the towns of Annam around Hongji City.

In addition to being barely self-sufficient in food, Hongji City also needs a large number of vegetables, meat and other materials. Moreover, Hongji City's favorable geographical and political environment for Annam has also allowed many people to open factories here. For example, cigarette factories, shipyards, hardware factories, glass factories, match factories, cement factories, etc., these factories have expanded the non-agricultural population of Hongji City to a certain extent, and also expanded the consumer market.

Aizhi is only one or twenty miles away from East Lake, and further east of East Lake is the boundary of Hongji City, and many Aizhi people work in Hongji. As the first place to interact with Hongji City, it has been influenced by Hongji City too much.

Even small buildings like Hongji City are beginning to appear in towns. Although the exterior decoration still has a traditional atmosphere, the inside is already cement bamboo bars.

Every time the old coachman walks through this area, he can't say how envious he is, why doesn't he have such a good land?

As an ordinary low-level peasant, his desire for land is endless.

Soon, a fruit orchard appeared in front of his eyes, which made the old coachman even more envious, his eyes kept staring at the orchard, and he didn't dare to go forward. Anyway, there are no potholes on this stretch of road!

The tree is full of golden-colored fruits, and every time you pick the fruit, you can pile the fruit into a hill. Then the caravan from Hongji City transported the fruits to Hongji City one by one. I really don't know how people are so rich somewhere, it seems that every family can buy fruit......

If there is a fruit forest in his own field, then he will not be a coachman in the town, pulling coal every day, pulling coal every day, and when it is unfortunate - the conveyor does not turn, and he has to follow a piece of loading by himself......

There are now many families in Lunan Town who burn briquettes, and they have to go to Donghu once a day, and most of the five carriages and two cows in the transportation team work for this briquette factory.

The old coachman couldn't help but think of the rumor he heard again, is it true?

"The tiller has his field?"

"There are clothes to wear, money to use, everywhere is uneven, no one is without food and clothing......"

If this is true, his old man will not have a good life for a few days, and he can really live a good life. The old coachman couldn't help but have a reverie in his mind, and he thought of the kitchen he saw when he delivered coal to the restaurant in the town, where chickens, ducks, fish, pork, and beef were hung, and all these things seemed to have become food piled up in front of him, whole chickens, whole ducks, steamed fish, and pig's heads.

If you can really live such a good life, then this life is really worth it.

Although the 'court' on his head now is a group of Qing people, if he can really let himself live such a good life, it is also a good court.

Of course, this rumor caused a panic in Lunan Town, but there were also other people in those rich families, such as Fan Wensi, who shouted in favor of the new policy, saying that he would follow the Governor's Mansion, and Sanjie made it a Governor's Mansion in the north of Annan, instead of really calling the king and the emperor.

In Lunan Town, Fan Wensi, a wealthy Yue family, is an alternative, and he also took the initiative to send his second son to be a soldier, because he felt: "It's good to be sent to be a soldier, but now the world is different, with our people in the team, it's easy to talk about anything." You know, we're called a 'military family'. ”

The old coachman sat in the front of the car and looked forward to the beautiful things in the future, although there were many, many uncertainties, but his heart was happy.

Chen Ming in the Nanjing Imperial Palace had just flipped off Liu Bangyun's belly, and after the clouds and rain, he hugged the smooth Liu Bangyun, with both comfort and deep contemplation on his face. Chen Ming's hand around his little wife kept sliding on Liu Bangyun's smooth body, the atmosphere was a little solidified, and Liu Bangyun seemed to be waiting for something.

After a long time, Chen Ming said, "Let your father let go and do it." Send Chen Gang to Lang Son ......"