It must be emphasized that Lao Renault's recruitment behavior was really not instructed by Qin Zhiyuan. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

Madagascar is indeed very good, and Qin Zhiyuan does intend to plot against Madagascar, but it is certain that it will not be during Pierre's tenure.

Lanfang currently does not have a strong demand for territorial expansion, compared to the number of Lanfang people who are less than 50 million, Lanfang's territory is large enough, Qin Zhiyuan does not have too many territorial claims for the time being, if Qin Zhiyuan really chooses to expand, the direction of Australia will be a better choice.

In fact, Qin Zhiyuan is also migrating to Australia on a large scale.

After Port Hedland was granted legal status, Port Hedland's population has rapidly increased to more than 200,000. Lanfang's decision to build an industrial base in the Pilbara region will definitely stimulate the rapid population growth of the Pilbara region, and it is estimated that by the time the base is completed, the total population of the Pilbara region will exceed the million mark, and the largest city in Western Australia will no longer be Pass, but Port Hedland. And if these millions of people can get legal status, then according to the principle of minority obeying the majority, Western Australia will no longer have the final say, but Port Hedland.

It is not a hassle to build an industrial base, but it is mainly a matter of secrecy, and once the population increases, secrecy will become the top priority.

Fortunately, the Lanfang government does not lack experience in this area, under the instruction of Qin Zhiyuan, Lanfang has carried out pilot projects in Wanghai Prefecture, such as the construction of the 104 factory in the depths of the mountains, the workers in the factory work in the factory, live in the factory, their children go to school in the factory, and the spouses of the workers will try their best to arrange in the same factory, in this way, a factory will become a concentrated society, from life to death, these workers do not even have to go out of the factory gate, This effectively ensured the start of the war on secrecy, and at the same time was more conducive to the workers' enthusiasm for work.

Of course, if the timeline is extended, this model will definitely have problems, such as the floating of people derived from it, and the awareness of the big pot of rice that will definitely appear. However, at this stage, there is no problem in doing so, and when it is time to bring the company to the market, there is no need for confidentiality.

In this context, the telegram sent by Pierre to Qin Zhiyuan is a bit of a groundless accusation, and of course Qin Zhiyuan will not be polite to Pierre, even if it is a relative, he can't talk nonsense.

So the telegram went around and around in the hands of old Renault.

Old Renault's reply to Pierre was simpler: Don't let me hire from Lanfang? That's good, as long as you give me enough workers, I promise not to recruit from Lanfang.

This is what it is difficult for a strongman, and although Pierre is the governor of Madagascar, he still cannot afford to find enough workers for old Renault, otherwise the bankers in Antananarivo would not be chasing Pierre's ass all day and complaining.

In the face of the old Renault's criticism, Pierre was not without countermeasures, of course, Pierre would not say it so obviously, but proposed to the old Renault in a tactful way, hoping that the old Renault would hire more French or French colonists, instead of Lanfang.

The elder Renault immediately sent Pierre a list of the employees of the Renault Bauxite Company, which showed that seventy percent of the workers employed by the Renault Bauxite Company were from Annam, and less than thirty percent were from Lanfang.

Such a statement does not make any sense, everyone knows the relationship between Annan and Lan Fang, which is much closer than the relationship with the French.

However, for the elder Renault, having such a statement was enough to hand over to Pierre.

The relationship between France and Lanfang is still in the honeymoon period, and Pierre will definitely not tear his face with Qin Zhiyuan for this matter, which is not in the fundamental interests of France.

For France, constantly expanding the colonies and expanding France's influence in the international arena was what Pierre, the colonial governors, should do, and the same is what Leoté should do.

Ever since he and Qin Zhiyuan decided to plot against Siam, Leotai began to expand his troops in order to play a greater role in the conquest of Siam, and then to take more initiative in the distribution of benefits after the war.

Prior to Leotey's arrival in Saigon, the Viceroyalty of French Indochina had only two understaffed infantry divisions, and the structure of the Lanfang Foreign Legion was the same as that of Annam, with ordinary soldiers from Annam, and officers and technical officers and soldiers from mainland France.

Such a structure seems to be fine, but because of the tradition of the French army, the combat effectiveness of these two infantry divisions is really not very good.

The French army is also extremely particular about seniority, and the class consciousness in the army is very serious, and the treatment of Annan soldiers is much worse than that of French soldiers, even in the same post, the salary of Annan soldiers is less than half of that of the French, and this unfair treatment has caused widespread dissatisfaction among the two divisions and seriously affected the combat effectiveness of the troops.

In the French army, there was also serious racial discrimination, although the severity was not as obvious as in the British army, but it also put the troops on the verge of turmoil, in these two divisions, the privileges of French officers were eye-catching, and even some officers had slaves in the army, and more Annam soldiers became slaves of French officers, and the antagonism between officers and soldiers was serious.

After taking over the army, Leotey immediately carried out a certain degree of reform, including improving the treatment of Annan soldiers, giving Annan soldiers equal status, and abolishing the military privileges of French officers.

To a certain extent, this alleviated the contradictions between the Annan soldiers and the French officers, calmed the emotions of the Annan soldiers, and improved the combat effectiveness of the troops.

After completing the transformation of these two divisions, Leotey immediately formed two more divisions on the basis of these two divisions, and a certain proportion of the officers in the newly formed two divisions were Annamite, which effectively raised the status of the Annamite people in the army, further improved the combat effectiveness of the troops, and even increased the loyalty of some officers and men to France, which had never happened before.

It's not that the former governor Bastian was incompetent, but Bastian didn't put his mind on running the colony at all, and Bastian had been planning to return to France and strive to climb higher and go further in the French military system, so when Bastian was in office, he didn't pay attention to the construction of the colonial army at all.

When the reorganization of the four divisions was completed, the time had come to November, which was already winter in the traditional sense, and was not suitable for waging war, but in Southeast Asia, this problem did not exist, even in November, the temperature was generally above 20 degrees, and there was no weather problem at all.

By November, good news finally came from the Northern Territory, under the continuous attack of Kolchak's coalition government and the Northern Region of Lanfang, Red Russia finally could not hold out, and in early November, the coalition forces broke through St. Petersburg, the capital of Red Russia, and declared the complete destruction of Red Russia.

When he heard the news, although Qin Zhiyuan had a premonition, he still felt sad, the former "comrade and brother" relationship is not so easy to forget, although in this time and space, Red Russia did not show any goodwill to the Chinese, but that was once the memory of a generation, Qin Zhiyuan was also nurtured by his family when he was a child, and his feelings for Russians are also quite complicated.

In any case, in this time and space, Red Russia has not been able to build that super-empire, the whole of Russia is now fragmented, Denikin's Belarus and Kolchak's coalition government has become the representative of the Russians, and the existence of Lanfang Northern Krai will be a painful memory in the hearts of Russians that will never be erased for a long time.

Although the battle was over, there was still more finishing work to be done, so Lu Zhengxiang and Qin Zhisheng came to Penglai Island to report the cost of this battle to Qin Zhiyuan.

"Since the beginning of the May campaign, we have sent a total of six divisions, one of which is a tank division, two semi-mechanized divisions, and finally two infantry divisions and an artillery division. In the course of the entire campaign, 4,300 soldiers were killed or wounded, most of them because of the weather, the logistics department was not familiar with the logistics support of fighting in the cold zone, and the cotton clothes of individual units were not replenished in time, and there was a certain degree of frostbite among the troops. At the same time, our tanks and automobiles have also exposed some problems in use, and these problems need to be solved by the military industry department. The key issue now is the cost of the bereavement, although the coalition government has not shirked its responsibility, but they have no money now, so they cannot pay the pension to our soldiers-" Qin Zhisheng's report has an element of schadenfreude, not for the casualties of Lanfang's soldiers, but for the embarrassment of the coalition government.

"Eugenage approached me yesterday and wanted to get a loan from us, which the coalition government would repay with minerals and timber, and at the same time Eugenage wanted us to provide some assistance to the coalition government, including food and supplies." Lu Zhengxiang didn't gloat here, and his complacent expression was still overflowing.

Think about Lu Zhengxiang a few years ago when he was still begging for people in Paris, just because there was no strong motherland everywhere to grovel, and then think about Eugenich's humility in front of Lu Zhengxiang, it is really embarrassing.

Eugenich is the plenipotentiary ambassador of the coalition government to Lanfang, and the coalition government is the only country with which Lanfang has diplomatic relations in the Nordic region.

"They owe us a lot of money before, how much is it now?" Qin Zhiyuan still remembers the negotiations with Kolchak during his visit to the coalition government.

The economic situation of the coalition government is not good, at least compared to Lan Fang, and the war launched by Kolchak was only started with a series of assistance from Lan Fang.

"Before the war, it was 400 million Lan Fangyuan, and now it is about 1.6 billion in total, and Eugenage means to borrow another 400 million, so that a total of about 2 billion." Lu Zhengxiang is still proficient in numbers.

After a war, the debt quadrupled, and this war really burned money.

(To be continued.) )