Zhang Wei received a congratulatory telegram from Lu Weimin, chief of the General Staff, and Zheng Daoping, premier of the State Council, and put forward several suggestions:

The first suggestion was put forward by Zheng Daoping, hoping to escort the captured more than 200,000 British naval and land officers and soldiers to Shangjing, which is now undergoing infrastructure construction and is lacking a large number of high-quality free labor, and the 12th Division stationed in Padang Port still has to participate in the war to occupy Sumatra, so it is inconvenient to take care of so many British troops, and moreover, it is not possible to raise so many idlers in Padang, just to feed the grain of these more than 200,000 people, it is too troublesome to send many ships to transport;

The second suggestion is to hope that Zhang Wei will systematically send troops to occupy Banda Aceh, start to encircle the Dutch army from the western part of Sumatra, and more importantly, clean up the resistance forces in Banda Aceh;

The third suggestion was for the 11th Division, stationed in Palembang, to assist in the occupation of the Riau and Nasna Islands by the escort fleet escorting the prisoners;

The fourth proposal is to send warships and officers directly from the port of Sabang to occupy Christmas Island and the Cocos Islands;

The fifth proposal was to send a navy to occupy the Andaman Nicobar Islands and to make Port Blair a military port;

The sixth proposal was to occupy Burma or to occupy Singapore. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

After reading these suggestions, Zhang Wei felt that they were all reasonable, so he hurriedly ended the summary meeting and brought Li Zhaoshui, Li Yunhai and Yang Yili to negotiate together.

After Zhang Wei waited for everyone to sit down, he took out a telegram and handed it to Li Zhaoshui and said: "This is a suggestion put forward by Chief of General Staff Lu and Premier Zheng. ”

After everyone read the telegram, Zhang Wei said: "What do you think of these suggestions? Let's talk about the first point first, is it feasible to take these 200,000 captives to Shangjing as free labor? ”

Li Zhaoshui said: "This suggestion is very good, I was thinking about taking care of these prisoners nearby, and I didn't think about the tasks of the 12th Division and the trouble of logistics, which I didn't think through; Since they are to be escorted back as free labor, all of them are placed in Shangjing, and only one division of troops is stationed in Shangjing, and if these 200,000 people make trouble, it will be very troublesome, and one division cannot manage it at all, so I suggest that these prisoners be divided into four parts, respectively in Shangjing, Semarang, Surabaya, and Bandung, which is equivalent to having four divisions guarding these people, and the safety will be guaranteed. ”

"Okay, your suggestion is more perfect, Staff Officer Yang has memorized it, and will call Premier Zheng and Chief of General Staff Lu back in a moment according to what he just meant."

"Yes, Your Majesty"

"What about the second piece of advice?"

Li Yunhai said: "Your Majesty, these suggestions of the Chief of General Staff and the Prime Minister are very good, just adopt them all, as for Article 6, my opinion is to occupy Singapore first, cut off the paws of the British to the east, and when we repair the Japanese, we don't have to worry about the British making trouble behind our backs." “

Li Zhaoshui said: "Your Majesty, according to our long-term plan to deal with the Japanese and Americans first, there is no need to expand the scale of the war with Britain for the time being, but it is not our style to make money if it is cheap, so my opinion is to implement the first five suggestions first, and we will occupy Singapore when the time comes, but I estimate that Britain will definitely not give up Singapore, so that we can obtain other benefits through negotiations." “

"What do you want in exchange for the British?"

"I want Canada or Australia."

"It's simply impossible, it's too big."

"Then they can give us colonies in other places, no matter where they are, no matter what the surface is, they must make up enough 8 million square kilometers, otherwise it is not commensurate with the identity of our Lanfang Kingdom."

"You're daydreaming, it's 8 million square kilometers."

"Your Majesty, if there are more than 8 million square kilometers, you can ask the staff officers to sum up, how many square kilometers are appropriate, anyway, this time to occupy Singapore, Britain must come up with something that interests us in exchange."

Zhang Wei felt that Li Zhaoshui's performance was getting better and better, and he was no longer a simple warmaker, and he had improved, especially this morning's incident of preventing Li Yunhai from shooting the British crew members who had fallen into the water, which made Zhang Wei feel that these synthetic people were becoming more and more like natural people, and they were no longer like when they were first synthesized. So Zhang Wei joked: "Alas, I can't see it, Deputy Chief of General Staff Li's brain has been getting better and better recently, and he knows that he has pushed the problem to others." “

"Your Majesty, don't laugh at me, I'm afraid that the boys in the staff department have nothing to do all day, so give them some food; Now let's think about how to implement these recommendations. Li Zhaoshui smiled awkwardly.

"I'm the king, it's not easy to solve these things, I'll tell you, Staff Officer Yang records."

"Yes, Your Majesty"

"First, I agree in principle with the first proposal, but the more than 200,000 prisoners should be allocated to the four cities of Shangjing, Semarang, Surabaya and Bandung as free labor, and the local garrison division will be responsible for the custody and management, the local garrison and police will assist in the management, and the local government will arrange the work plan and control the progress of the work; Tonight, the fleet was told not to go to the port of Padang, and to go directly back to Shangjing; ordered Zheng Daoping to prepare for the reception of prisoners in various places;

Second, the division headquarters of the 13th Division will be set up in Banda Aceh, the 4th Battalion of the 4th Regiment will be stationed on the island of We, and the 4th Battalion of the 3rd Regiment will be stationed in Port Blair, and tomorrow morning I will go to the sea off Banda Aceh and release the 13th Division;

Third, build the port of Sabang into a deep-water port, at least a port capable of berthing battleships and battle cruisers, equipped with 30,000 tons, 20,000 tons, 10,000 tons and 5,000 tons of docks, and build Sabang into one of the submarine home ports, where the 2nd, 3rd and 4th submarine formations are stationed, and from tomorrow the submarines will be on duty in the southern part of Burma, at the northwest exit of the Strait of Malacca, and all British merchant ships will either be captured or sunk, and this will be up to the navy to see if the destroyers or battle cruisers will cooperate, to cut off the British freight route with the East, if no agreement can be reached with Britain within one month, send submarines to the Bay of Bengal to be on duty and sink the British merchant ships that they can meet; Battlecruiser No. 1, 3 destroyers and 6 torpedo boats were stationed in the port of Sabang and 1 destroyer and 2 torpedo boats were stationed in Banda Aceh; The captain of Battlecruiser No. 1 in today's battle performed well, so he made him the commander of this fleet, responsible for the management of all warships stationed in Port Blair, Sabang and Banda Aceh; Li Wei, chief of staff of the No. 1 battlecruiser, concurrently served as the mayor of Sabang City, speeding up the construction of Sabang; The British warships captured this time are all in good condition and sent to the Archipelago Military District for use, and the wounded warships are temporarily put in the port of Sabang for slow repair, and then distributed after repair, by the way, there are 3 light cruisers that were captured by the public, so leave him another light cruiser;

Fourth, tomorrow Battlecruiser No. 1 will lead 4 destroyers and 4 Sea Lion-class torpedo boats to escort the 4th Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of the 13th Division to occupy the Andaman Nicobar Islands, leaving 1 destroyer and 4 torpedo boats to be stationed in Port Blair;

Fifth, reply to the Chief of the General Staff of the Army and agree with his third proposal;

Sixth, wait for the fleet to return to Shangjing before occupying Christmas Island and the Cocos Islands, stationing 1 destroyer and 2 torpedo boats in these two places respectively, and letting the 7th Division arrange 2 companies to garrison these two places, and the Navy and the 7th Division will communicate;

Seventh, tomorrow I will occupy Singapore as one of the bargaining chips with the British;

Eighth, order the General Staff to study what price Britain is needed in exchange for Singapore.

That's all I can think about at the moment, and you'll see if there's anything else to add. “

"Your Majesty has thought it through, I have nothing to add." Li Zhaoshui said.

"Okay, send it to Lu Weimin immediately, and ask his opinion again."

"Yes, Your Majesty" Yang Yili immediately sorted out the draft and prepared to send a telegram.