Of the 1 million people planned to be resettled in Qi Province, in addition to 200,000 people in Wuhu Province (formerly Ontario), 100,000 people will be resettled in each of the other six southern provinces, and the remaining 200,000 people will be resettled in Detroit, Chicago and other large northern cities in Lu Province. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Song Shijie also made a plan to put Zhang Wei in Zhongjing with 300,000 people to be resettled in the surrounding provinces; 150,000 people in San Antonio, ready to reach the northern region of Mexico by train and other means of transport; 150,000 people were placed in the city of Houston, ready to take a ship to the ports of Mexico's central and southern coasts before being transferred to designated locations; 400,000 people were placed in the port of Mobile, 300,000 were shipped to Central America, and 100,000 to the West Indies.

It is very spectacular that so many people are gathered together, and if they are distributed to various places, each state has only a small population, and then it is distributed to the cities and counties, it is a little insignificant; The whole of North America is now the territory of the Xia Empire, and the total number of Chinese is less than 12 million, which is really vast and sparsely populated.

Since the 24th, Zhang Wei has been busy relocating the population, first releasing 300,000 people in Zhongjing, and then flying to San Antonio with Lu Chuanya by airship, where they stayed for a day, and it happened that there was still a military camp built at the beginning, which could accommodate tens of thousands of people, and the remaining population could only wait for the train.

In the following days, they arrived in Houston and Mobile, dropped the corresponding number of people, and purchased 50 diesel engine carriers with a load of 5,000 tons for the navy, in order to make up for the shortage of transport ships and transport personnel and supplies.

In his spare time during these days, Zhang Wei also inspected the places he visited, and he found that there were indeed too few residents; However, there are also things that make him feel gratified, in many places, the police are on duty in turns, and also participate in local labor production; The garrison also has a grain base, vegetable plots and breeding farms, and has achieved self-sufficiency.

In the southern region of the United States, the development time is relatively early, agricultural planting has been relatively developed, now the population is decreasing, many places have been barren, the garrison is only using a part, looking at the barren land, Zhang Wei also feels more distressed, it seems that he has to find another way, simply relying on the system in a short period of time is not able to quickly increase the population to tens of millions or even hundreds of millions, otherwise the land in these places does not know how many years to be barren.

It is indeed not easy for Lu to achieve a bumper agricultural harvest and continuous growth in industrial output value with such a small population.

Houston plus the surrounding counties is already a small metropolitan area, although the population has not yet returned to the pre-war state, the output value has recovered to 80% of the previous state, because the leading industries are petroleum refining, shipbuilding, etc., there is a need for a lot of workers, in the absence of population can only improve technology, so the number of workers has decreased, and the output value has increased.

The Port of Mobile has developed into a large port because of the supply of coal to the coastal ports of American immigrants, and it is a relatively prosperous city with more than 100,000 people, including foreign merchants here.

In order to speed up the development of agriculture, the State Council of Lu relocated some people from the 10 mountainous provinces in the west to the south, increased the use of tractors, reduced the amount of cotton planting that required more manpower, increased the amount of grain planting that was convenient for tractor cultivation, and increased the number of pastures that required little labor, so as to improve production efficiency and land utilization rate as much as possible. Each division and regiment has a large rural area in the area where it is stationed, and the officers and men themselves participate in the labor, and there are also many blacks who work for free.

Zhang Wei is very satisfied with Lu Guo's work, it seems that they have used their brains, and the effect is very good.

On the 28th, Zhang Wei and Lu Chuanya arrived at the Pensacola Naval Base.

Feng Guohua sent a defense division that was already waiting, ready to go to sea to occupy the island of Haiti; Lieutenant General Cao Jiachuan also arrived at the naval base to prepare to meet Zhang Wei in person.

Along the way, Lu Chuanya constantly made various suggestions to Zhang Wei, one of which was to send only one national defense division to occupy Haiti Island, and to occupy and control Haiti Island, at least one Praetorian Guard Division and two National Defense Divisions were required.

For this reason, Lu Chuanya proposed to follow the plan of the Pacific Theater and establish the Atlantic Theater to facilitate the management of the West Indies.

Zhang Wei was no longer inked before he told him that there was a lack of population now, and under dual management, the labor force of local blacks could be squeezed, and the blacks here would be used as a supply base for free labor for 20 years, and a part of the blacks would have to be transported to mining, road construction and farming every year, and the situation would not be different if all the locals could not be transported away in the Pacific Theater and the Indian Ocean Theater.

Lu Chuanya persevered, and soon put forward another plan, that is, to use Bermuda as a base to form two ocean-going mine-laying submarine squadrons, which will take turns to be on duty along the coast of Europe, and any country that dares to oppose the empire can immediately deploy mines to block their ports.

Zhang Wei said: "I am very satisfied with the occupation of the West Indies, I am very happy that you can protect this place, don't keep thinking about attacking other countries now, the empire needs to stabilize for a while, digest the territory that has been occupied, and after receiving the two islands of the United States a year ago, set up a province here to reduce your workload." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty, I'm not in a hurry, and, Your Majesty, Port-au-Prince is not bad as a commercial port, but the draft is too shallow as a military port, and it is not as good as the Port of Houston in Jamaica." Lu Chuanya said.

Zhang Wei explained: "This is not a measure of rights, you are stationed in Port-au-Prince to strengthen the management of the island, anyway, you are not equipped with battleships and battlecruisers, and the draft of heavy and light cruisers is enough; Later, you choose a new site and build a large military port, as long as the draft is more than 13 meters and there are enough berths, I will equip you with a large warship. ”

In the conference room of the naval base, Vice Admiral Cao Jiachuan also suggested that a corps should be formed to garrison the West Indies, and that the military headquarters should rationally dispatch all the troops in the West Indies. The local blacks, if you treat them as human beings, they will feel that they are human beings, and if you don't treat them as human beings, they will also feel that they are a bunch of slaves, so you must conquer them by force, and beat them so that they cannot afford to rise up riots.

Lu Chuanya very much supports Cao Jiachuan's point of view, we must use strong force to subdue these blacks, and we must convince them the first time, otherwise there will be constant troubles in the future, they are broken oxcarts, and they can't beat them often.

Imagine that this is also the truth, in the previous life in the Caribbean, there were dozens of countries, each country has a small population and a small area, except for a few countries supported by Britain and France to carry out the financial industry is relatively rich, the other countries are one of the poorest countries in the world, wars, riots, coups d'état, the poorer you are, the more you can toss, the more you toss, the stronger you are, such a good place is wasted, you can't even eat, it's a pity; It seems that democracy cannot be talked about now, or power decides their fate, and it would be good if the territory would be returned to the Chinese in the future.

So Zhang Wei sent a telegram to Feng Guohua, asking him to send another army major general and a national defense division to form a temporary army stationed in the West Indies, with four national defense divisions and one brigade of mercenaries.

With 2 defense divisions and the transfer of mercenaries on other islands, it should be possible to successfully occupy the island of Haiti under the command of the major general.

Lieutenant General Cao Jiachuan also reported to Zhang Wei: "Your Majesty, the work in the South American theater should be accelerated, and our officers and men stationed on the island have observed that many British and French ships have recently arrived in Venezuela and Colombia, and it is estimated that they are transporting military supplies, and the officers and men are afraid of startling the grass and causing international disputes, so they have not intercepted these merchant ships, and the British have invested a lot in these two countries, and they will definitely prevent the empire from occupying these two countries." ”

"They must be able to guess the actions of the Empire, it is inevitable to be prepared, but the occupation of Colombia is a matter for the US military, let the US army fight for a few months, and then say, consume some US officers and soldiers, if the US military cannot occupy it by the expiration date, you will come forward again, and then you can adjust the material aid to the United States at will, and the United States will not be able to say anything else, and the empire will have the initiative." Zhang Wei explained.

Cao Jiachuan knew in his heart when he saw Zhang Wei say this, and he transferred the two armies and mercenaries to Central America as a reserve, and when the United States was exhausted, they would definitely receive unexpected results.

However, he also suggested: "Your Majesty, in this case, we must first strengthen the forces there in Gao Changshui, and at least transfer two more defense divisions over, and when we occupy Venezuela, we can attack from the north and south." ”

Zhang Wei said: "That's the second half of the year, you and Chen Yifeng will discuss it again." ”

Cao Jiachuan has no objections, and feels that this arrangement is quite comprehensive; For him personally, it is much better to attack cities and seize land in South America than to simply defend in the southwest theater.

Zhang Wei also purchased from the system one Taiwan Island-class heavy cruiser and two Hainan Island-class light cruisers, five destroyers, 10 patrol boats, and one submarine squadron, as the naval force of the South American Theater in the Atlantic direction, and asked it to be stationed in Port of Spain and patrol the waters north of the Amazon River.

Another 20 diesel-engine cargo ships were purchased for use by the South American Theater Navy to transport troops and baggage supplies.

After transporting thousands of civilians and troops, the cargo ships purchased this time can help the US military speed up the resettlement, and it will not be wasted.

In order to let Lu Chuanya divide some, Zhang Wei promised: "Don't look at the weaker armament of the Atlantic Fleet now, this is an agreement between the empire and the European countries, and it is unwilling to intensify the contradictions with them, in the future, this will be the main battlefield of the yellow and white duel at sea, and the configuration of the Atlantic Fleet will be the strongest among the four fleets, and your burden is very heavy." ”

Now with Zhang Wei's promise, coupled with the existing high-speed warships and submarines, Lu Chuanya is satisfied, at least there is hope, otherwise the other three fleets will always be in an uncomfortable situation.

On March 2, after Zhang Wei explained the navy and the occupation of the island of Haiti, as well as the stationing of troops in Central America, he took an airship to Qi and released 1 million people from Qi out of the system.

This time, according to Song Shijie's plan, he first went to the Atlantic Province, then went westward, dropped 400,000 people in the Five Lakes Province, and dropped 100,000 people in each of the remaining provinces, and returned to Hawaii by airship from Vancouver City. (To be continued.) )