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Wang Hongliang had a great time wandering around outside for a few days, and was recalled by Sun Hao by a telegram, and he was very unhappy. Seeing that everyone was a horse, as if everyone owed him millions. However, he saw that Sun Hao still didn't dare to keep a straight face, and after entering the conference room, he learned that there was a battle to be fought soon, and Wang Hongliang immediately smiled happily.

Sun Hao smoked a cigarette and kept scanning the generals, and the conference room was quite quiet.

"Generals, our Huaxia country now has three group armies, 600,000 well-equipped army units, three divisions of cavalry units, two major naval fleets, three submarine formations, one river patrol team, plus the air force, a total of 78,564 people, which can be described as a strong army. Now we have a population of almost 10 million, and because the territory is too small, we have to expand our survival territory through war. ”

Speaking of this, Sun Hao glanced at the generals present, except for Lu Ping of the Second Fleet and Wang Fang, the director of the Intelligence Department, the other generals had a bright light in their eyes, as if they were very eager for war.

"The island of Papua has more than 800,000 square kilometers, and there are now four forces on this island: the Kingdom of China, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the British Empire, and the German Empire. As things stand, Britain and Germany cannot yet be at odds with each other, so we can only start with the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Next, Director Wang will introduce the military forces deployed by the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the South Seas. ”

Bang Bang Bang! Sun Hao applauded first, and then the other generals followed suit.

"Commander-in-Chief Sun, generals, the Netherlands is entrenched in the Northwest Peninsula, where the minerals are abundant, the land is fertile, and after continuous development, the Northwest Peninsula has several towns, among which the town of Cannes is the most significant. It is also the largest town in the northwest of the Papua Islands, a port city, and the center of the Dutch colony of the Northwest Peninsula of Papua.

Cannes has a population of more than 300,000 people, including Chinese, Indonesian, Dutch, Arabs, and Westerners.

The towns of Cannes are mainly Chinese, about 200,000 people, some of whom came from the Central Plains to escape the war. Some are descendants of the Great Song Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and some are unable to live in the Qing Dynasty and travel thousands of miles to Nanyang to beg for a living.

The northwestern peninsula of Papua is rich in not only gold mines, but also many other minerals. The Dutch developed a total of six towns in the Northwest Peninsula, and the Kingdom of the Netherlands was also afraid of the Chinese rebellion or the lazy indigenous rebellion, so the total number of troops deployed in the Northwest Peninsula of Papua reached about 30,000.

In the town of Cannes is stationed the strength of an infantry division, the 20th Division of the Dutch Army, but this infantry division has only more than 4,000 men and is seriously outdated. For our Huaxia Army, the forces deployed by the Kingdom of the Netherlands in Papua are really vulnerable. There was a battalion in the harbor with only a few dozen shore defense guns.

The total strength of the Kingdom of the Netherlands in the South Seas is about 150,000, with a focus on the islands of Kuwa, Sumen and southern Borneo. At the same time, two fleets were also arranged, an East India Fleet and a South Sea Fleet, the warships of both fleets were very backward, most of them were old-fashioned ironclads, the number was about 150, there were no main battleships, they were all cruisers, destroyers and gunboats, and their combat effectiveness was not very strong.

It is worth mentioning here that there are two major families in the northwestern peninsula of Papua, one is the Oriental family and the other is the Li family. The Dongfang family was relocated in order to escape the war during the Great Song Dynasty, and the Li family was a descendant of Li Liang, a famous anti-Qing general. The Qing Dynasty later defeated the Ming Dynasty, and Li Liang was worried that his entire family would be affected, so he ordered all of them to move to Nanyang, so that the entire family could also be reproduced and preserved.

There are more than 60,000 people in the Dongfang family, and about 100,000 people in the Li family. Those who don't know still think that the people with these surnames have nothing to do with each other, and the shrewd patriarch has succeeded in deceiving the colonial Dutch.

Both families were mainly engaged in business, transporting goods from the South Seas to Southeast Asia, the Qing Dynasty and other places for sale, and then transporting East Asian specialties or gems to the South Seas for sale. The Qing Dynasty was rich in tea and silk, and the two families exported the tea and silk of the Qing Dynasty to Europe.

Over the years, the two families have also earned a lot of money, but the Dutch colonists are not so easy to fool, and the two families have also constantly bribed the division commander of Cannes, Van Gandev, to rank the Dutch governor in Nanyang Van der Lahm.

The two families are serious businessmen on the surface, but secretly they both have their own arms. The Li family's armament has reached more than 5,000 people, all of whom are strong in martial arts and highly skilled, and they are also equipped with single-shot foot robbers.

At the same time, when we attack the Kuajiao Islands in the future, we can first send special forces to contact the Lu family in Jakarta, and attack Jakarta, which is heavily defended by the Netherlands, both inside and outside.

The Lu family is the descendant of General Lu Zhigui, a famous anti-Qing general, when the Ming Dynasty fell, General Lu Zhigui resisted the Qing Dynasty and became benevolent, but his son moved to Nanyang for refuge in accordance with General Lu's wishes. After hundreds of years of development, the Lu family has a population of more than 80,000, including the descendants of the soldiers who escaped together.

Because the current head of the family, Lu Xiaoyi, has a good business, and the rubber and sugar business is prosperous, and he makes a lot of money, and he is as rich as the country.

The members of the Lu family are all composed of the descendants of the soldiers led by the old general Lu Zhigui back then, so the Lu family has hundreds of surnames, and has a good habit of practicing martial arts.

The Lu family is a serious businessman on the surface, but secretly it also has its own armed personnel, with a scale of about 4,000 people. It's just that the Lu family is good at hiding, and the Dutch devils don't know that there is a powerful Lu family army in Jakarta until now.

It's just that we sent people to contact the Lu family, and I believe that the Lu family will definitely rise up with troops and cooperate with our Huaxia army to attack inside and outside, and it will be much easier to take Jakarta in the future. ”

Wang Fang said a lot, everyone was listening carefully, only Sun Hao was absent-minded. However, when Sun Hao heard that there was a rich gold mine, his eyes instantly lit up. Gold mines, no matter in that era, had a strong attraction, and Sun Hao could not be excluded.

For thousands of years, gold has been an important tool in creating and protecting wealth, and this golden precious metal is a favorite product of many consortia and capitalists. It even attracted the great interest of ancient Egyptian pharaohs, explorers, rulers of various dynasties and investors.

The appeal of gold – whether stemming from the fear of currency depreciation due to negative interest rates and deficit spending, or from the love of gold itself – cannot be underestimated.

Sun Hao, as a later generation, must have known the importance of gold mines to the country's economy. Especially in countries that implement the gold standard, gold has an incalculable role.

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