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There are more than 1,300 nautical miles from the port of Shangjing to the port of Ambon, and Zhang Wei takes a fast cargo ship, which takes more than four days to reach at an average speed of 13 knots per hour.

After setting sail, Zhang Wei first gave an order to Xiao Yu'er, and then combined 20 destroyers, 20 torpedo boats, and 2 submarine squadrons.

Since it was an empty boat, there was a lot of space and there were few people, so there was plenty of space on board for everyone to move around and rest. Some bedding, pillows, wooden beds, etc. were purchased from the system and placed in the cabin for everyone to rest. Zhang Wei was tired after a busy day, so he went to the captain's room to rest soon after getting on the boat.

Lying on the bed, slowly reminiscing, Zhang Wei felt very proud, only 1 year and 7 days after crossing into this world, not only established the Lanfang Kingdom with an area of 7.3 million square kilometers, established a powerful navy and army, defeated the Far East Fleet of the British Empire, and now embarked on a journey to strike at Japan, which was unimaginable before, with a great contribution to the system, and it is inseparable from the joint efforts of himself and all the synthetic personnel.

Taking a cargo ship is more comfortable than taking a warship, the speed of the warship is fast, but the noise and vibration are too great, and it is uncomfortable for a long time. I originally wanted to buy a passenger ship, which would be more comfortable, but I thought that there were still a lot of places where I needed to spend points, and I couldn't use it a few times after buying it, so I dispelled that idea.

Early in the morning of 8 August, after having breakfast, Zhang Wei gathered Li Zhaoshui and other staff officers and told everyone that there were still four days left to reach Ambon Port, and that it would take more than 10 days to reach Dagukou in Tianjin.

These staff officers were selected by Lu Weimin and Li Zhaoshui from the General Staff Headquarters, and there were 10 men each in the land and naval battles, each led by one special-grade staff officer, and the rest were senior staff officers.

On the morning of August 12, the cargo ship arrived at Ambon Port, and Chief of Staff Fang Liang and Governor Zheng Qiang were already waiting at the wharf.

Wu Fanggang and Vice Governor Zhao Xiaolong are also in the reception team, they have received a notice from the Government Council a few days ago, they only know that they want to be transferred, where they will be transferred, any position, there is no clarity in the appointment, but the promotion is certain, when they first came, Zhang Wei told them that this is exercise, and if they want to be promoted to governor, they must be trained.

Zhang Wei is ready to rest for a day in Ambon.

After getting off the boat, everyone came to the military region staff together, Zhang Wei didn't want to go to the provincial government, because he didn't want to expose the news of his trip.

In the conference room of the General Staff, Fang Liang first reported on the situation of the Archipelago Military Region, which now has four regiments of mercenaries with 12,000 people, two regiments have been stationed in Manado, and two regiments are stationed in Sorong and Makassar respectively.

Zhang Wei asked the Archipelago Military Region to organize two more regiments of mercenaries.

As for the navy, Li Zhaoshui transferred a submarine team to Makassar to station in the Makassar Strait and the Sea of Flores, which could strike at the enemy fleet from the northeast and east, so that Li Jiangtong could know Li Yunhai after the transfer, and at the same time let the fleet of the pirate regiment temporarily be under Li Jiang's command to strengthen the patrol in the eastern and northeastern seas of the kingdom.

Zhang Wei also inquired about some local construction and the difficulties encountered in the work, Zhang Wei was very satisfied with the work results of several people, but in the future, when the islands were cleared, they should not kill all the natives, or adopt a softer management mode, and the old, weak, sick, disabled and young should be sent to the southwest autonomous territory, and the young and strong will either join the mercenaries or go to work as free labor, and it is a pity to kill them.

Fang Liang asked why he was in such a hurry to start a war against Japan? Now that the construction of the country has just begun, it is not too late to start a war against Japan after at least a year of stability.

Zhang Wei explained that now is the weakest time for Japan, the Russo-Japanese War has lost all the money, and no war reparations have been obtained, and now it is relatively slow to obtain profits from the Korean Peninsula and the northeast of the Qing Dynasty, and after the factories and mines he built in the northeast and the Korean Peninsula have profits, Japan's development will be accelerated, and now is the best time to strike at Japan.

At noon, Zhang Wei asked everyone to go to work, leaving only Wu Fanggang and Zhao Xiaolong. Zhang Wei explained to them that he was preparing to launch a war against Japan, recovering the island of Taiwan and the Ryukyu Islands, establishing Taiwan Province, and making Zhao Xiaolong the governor of Taiwan Province; After the recovery of the Korean Peninsula, the Lelang colony was established, and Wu Fanggang served as the governor of Lelang.

The two said that they were very satisfied with this appointment and would definitely do this job well.

Zhang Wei also separately demanded that the main task in Taiwan be to develop the economy and develop trade with the mainland, and that in the future it would be a bridge between the kingdom and the mainland, and at the same time it would shoulder the heavy burden of blocking Japan's forward positions in the future, and that the most important task after arriving in Taiwan would be to cooperate with the army and thoroughly eliminate the traitor family.

For the Lelang colony, it is required to make full use of the advantages of local labor resources to develop mining and smelting; organizing North Korean mercenaries; Completely eliminate the "traitors"; Forming North Korean mercenaries and finding ways to capture North Korea's free young laborers; Slowly, the Koreans south of the Han River moved to the northern mountains, and the cultivated land in the southern plains was divided among Chinese immigrants for cultivation; North Korea has a population of more than 20 million, gradually depleting its demographic advantage until this people disappear from the face of the earth. Zhang Wei didn't have any good feelings about this nation, and felt that he was a white-eyed wolf who couldn't be fed.

Zhang Wei also said that each of them will be assigned 50 senior political officials and 200 mid-level political officials to assist in the work.

The two said that they would take advantage of this time to plan their future work and decided to do their work well.

Zhang Wei believes they have the ability.

On the afternoon of 12 July, Zhang Wei inspected the construction of Ambon Island and filled the warehouses of the Archipelago Military Region and the Archipelago Province with food, ammunition, and other supplies.

After breakfast on the 13th, Zhang Wei and his entourage set sail and headed for Dagukou, Tianjin.

Shortly after setting sail, he received a telegram from Chung Daoyou that the funds for the purchase of battleships had arrived in Japan.

Stopped for another day while passing through Manado. The main thing is to see the combat effectiveness of the mercenaries, so that they can know it in their hearts.

Now stationed in Manado 2 regiments of mercenaries, established relatively early, before joining the mercenaries, these soldiers can use firearms very well, after half a year of intensive training, now the physical fitness has changed qualitatively compared with before, at the same time marksmanship has also improved a lot, many people have been able to listen to more fluent Chinese. The squad leaders and platoon commanders in the mercenaries were all Chinese, and the company commanders, battalion commanders, and regiment commanders were all transferred from the 4th and 6th divisions.

Zhang Wei looked at their training, the staff officers and others were more satisfied, the only lack was the lack of continuous firepower, after the mercenary regiment commander communicated, Zhang Wei decided to add a light machine gun to each platoon, each company to add 1 light machine gun squad/4 light machine guns, each battalion to add 1 heavy machine gun platoon/6 heavy machine guns, and the regiment to 1 artillery company/6 65mm mountain guns. This time, Zhang Wei only left behind the light machine guns and heavy machine guns needed by the three regiments, and the missing personnel were drawn from the pirate army, and as for the artillery company, it should be equipped before arriving at the battlefield, otherwise it would increase the burden of transportation, and the gunners, deputy gunners, calculators, and commanders all used composite personnel, and each regiment only prepared 90 heavy personnel.

After leaving enough baggage supplies for the local area, Zhang Wei rested for the night and set sail early on the morning of August 15.