Lin Fei thought of this, and put the Minister of Agriculture ...... The Tea King came to him, and at this time the Tea King was in an important position as the Minister of Agriculture of the Chinese Empire, and Lin Fei felt that he could no longer be called by his nickname at this time, so he helped the Tea King choose a new name...... Wang Fenghua, "Fenghua" means "harvest of China", which is very consistent with his identity as the Minister of Agriculture.

Wang Fenghua came to Lin Fei and said humbly: "What do you have to tell me when Your Majesty came to me?" ”

Lin Fei asked, "How many fishermen are there in the provinces of the Huaxia Empire?" Have you counted any? ”

Wang Fenghua replied: "According to statistics, there are about 150,000 fishermen in various provinces. ”

Lin Fei said: "Okay, you should immediately set up a fisheries department under the Ministry of Agriculture to manage these fishermen, their fishing boats should be very dilapidated, right?" Give them fishing subsidies, let them repair fishing boats, catch more fish, understand? Wang Fenghua agreed to come down and quit and went out.

Lin Fei sent another telegram to the Ministry of Commerce, asking the Ministry of Commerce to issue a notice that from now on, the total amount of tax payable by all aquatic product stores will be reduced by 10 percent.

Lin Fei had drawn up a military development plan before attacking Cebu Island, in which Lin Fei expanded the infantry to three regiments, and successively added professional arms such as communications and artillery.

In the more than 20 days that Lin Fei attacked Cebu Island, the military expansion plan had been completed, and the total size of Lin Fei's army had reached more than 5,000 people, including three infantry regiments, a total of 3,780 people, and the rest were various professional arms.

Lin Fei knew that there were more than 17,000 defenders in Manila, so he thought that the strength at this time was no longer enough to take Manila, so he decided to expand the infantry into six regiments, a total of 7,560 people, these six regiments were organized into two brigades, with Niu Dalong and Wei Zelong as the brigade commanders, and Niu Dalong's younger brother Niu Dahu served as the deputy brigade commander in the first brigade.

Lin Fei expanded the two artillery companies into two artillery battalions, each battalion was equipped with fifteen HP-1 mortars, and the artillery battalion was personally commanded by the brigade-level command organ.

In order to strengthen the army's transportation strength, Lin Fei expanded the logistics corps into two battalions, totaling 840 people, all under his own command.

After the expansion of these arms was completed, the "grand finale" of the army expansion plan began, that is, the divisional artillery regiment. The divisional artillery regiment was equipped with HP-2 75 mm howitzers, with a number of 15 guns, and the original artillery commander Zhao Menggang personally served as the regiment commander.

The howitzer is much more powerful than the mortar, the system is much more complex, and the logistics support equipment is naturally required, and one of the more troublesome things is the horse.

Lin Fei did not have the ability to manufacture internal combustion engines at this time, could not make cars, and it was even more unthinkable to put the howitzer on the walking chassis to make a self-propelled howitzer, so he could only use a pack horse to tow the howitzer, after Lin Fei designed and manufactured the pneumatic tire, the pressure of the HP-2 gun on the ground was greatly reduced, and it was not easy to fall into the ground, so only a pack horse was needed to pull.

Although only one horse is needed to pull artillery, seven or eight horses are needed to pull the artillery cart, and counting the spare horses, an artillery regiment needs more than 200 pack horses, and the horses have to eat 20 catties of forage and 2 catties of beans a day, and beans must be eaten, otherwise the horses will not have the strength.

In this way, the artillery regiment will consume a lot of materials just for the horses, not counting the labor cost of feeding these horses, that is, now that the Huaxia Empire is strong, it can afford such a big cost, if it was in the early days of Lin Fei's territory, these things would be impossible at all.

After a series of military expansions, Lin Fei's army reached 11,000 men, although the number was still less than that of the Spanish army in Manila, but the army was not much more expensive.

After Lin Fei conquered Mindanao, he ordered the printing house in Yanhuangcheng to print a newspaper called "Huaxia Bao", which was Lin Fei's official newspaper, and the articles on it were all praising the Chinese Empire and Lin Fei, so that everyone would be loyal to the Chinese Empire.

Later, Lin Fei asked him to rewrite the content of praising traditional Chinese culture, and he wrote very well, so Lin Fei instructed him to write some articles praising the Chinese empire and published them in Huaxia Daily.

As soon as they entered the Chinese Empire, they admired Lin Fei so much that they sang praises for Lin Fei from the bottom of their hearts, and gradually Lin Fei had a "pen army", which used the pen as a knife and ink as a gun, and used articles to guide public opinion, so that Lin Fei's ideas could be implemented in every corner of the Chinese Empire.

Lin Fei began to eradicate illiteracy from the siege of Samar Island, because the Filipinos on the island did not have their own script, so Lin Fei asked people to teach them Chinese characters, and they also knew a lot of Chinese in the process of communicating with the Chinese, so they learned Chinese characters very quickly.

Lin Fei put education in a very important position, especially after Chen Fu recruited a large number of scholars, the process was even faster, every child over the age of seven in the Chinese Empire had to enter school, every adult had to learn Chinese characters, and those who disobeyed orders were severely punished.

After this series of actions, the illiteracy rate of the Chinese people in the Chinese Empire dropped from 99 percent to 65 percent, and naturally many people bought the "Huaxia Daily", and Lin Fei let his "pen troops" widely publicize the various injustices and abuses suffered by the Chinese in Manila in the Huaxia Daily, and also wrote about the many massacres of Chinese in history, including the massacre that occurred in 1603.

In the massacre of 1603, the Filipinos and Japanese expatriates sided with the Spaniards and fought for the tigers, and the number of Chinese who were eventually slaughtered exceeded 20,000.

After these historical events were reported by the "Huaxia Daily", the entire Chinese Empire was united in hatred of the enemy, when did Lin Fei send troops to attack Manila, and the liberation of the Chinese became the most concerned topic of the people of the Chinese Empire, and the streets, teahouses, and theaters were all discussing this matter wherever there were people.

Lin Fei sat firmly in Diaoyutai, not in a hurry, he had to wait for the expansion plan to be completed before launching an attack on Manila, this time the scale of the army expansion was very large, it was definitely not possible to complete it in a short time, not only that, but he also had to wait for Wang Yao to send over the situation of the enemy's fortifications, so as to finally decide on the attack plan.

Time passed day by day, the world situation was also changing, 1895 was a relatively calm year in the world, although the Western powers secretly intrigued, but there was a ball of harmony on the face, they did not know that more than 20 years later they would experience a big war that swept Europe, and surrendered the throne of the world's number one country to the United States on the other side of the Atlantic.

The world's only hot spot is East Asia, where a small, emerging country with wolf ambitions is devouring the last glory of an ancient and vast empire.

From April 1 to April 16, Qing court negotiators Li Hongzhang and Li Jingfang held talks with Japanese representatives, Prime Minister Ito Hirobumi, and Foreign Minister Mitsunoku Mitsumune.

On April 17, the Qing court and Japan formally signed the "Treaty of Shimonoseki" in the Chunfan Tower of Maguan, Japan, in which the Qing State ceded Taiwan and its affiliated islands, the Penghu Islands, and the Liaodong Peninsula, which brought endless suffering to the Chinese nation, and the Taiwan separatist forces and the Diaoyu Islands dispute in Lin Fei's era all originated here.

The Qing State compensated Japan for military expenses of 200 million taels of silver, which was equivalent to three years of financial revenue of the Qing court, and after receiving this huge amount of money, Japan implemented universal compulsory education for the whole people, which greatly improved the quality of Japan's population and laid a solid foundation for Japan's full-scale invasion of China in the future.

From the moment Li Hongzhang and Ito Hirobumi printed the national seal on the text of the Treaty of Shimonoseki, the take-off of one nation and the fall of another accelerated at the same time, Japan became the hegemon of East Asia, and China was reduced to fish and meat to be slaughtered...

On 18 April, Taiwan's gentry Qiu Fengjia and Tang Jingsong, together with thousands of people in Taiwan, telegraphed to the Qing court, "The people of Taiwan are willing to die in battle and lose Taiwan, and they are unwilling to give up Taiwan." The next day, the Qing court sent a telegram back to Qiu Fengjia and Tang Jingsong, "Cutting off Taiwan is a last resort." Although Taiwan is heavy, it is especially light compared to the Beijing Division. Limited to two months, delivery of Taiwan. ”

During the time when the Chinese nation was ravaged by Japan, Lin Fei's shipbuilding plan, various weapons and equipment development plans, and army expansion plans were all carried out smoothly.

On April 15, after nearly a thousand man-hours of construction, the lead ship of the Dragon-class cruiser ...... The Tianlong successfully taxied and launched at the No. 1 slipway of the shipbuilding factory, and after entering the water, the Tianlong ship entered the No. 1 outfitting dock under the towing of the tugboat to carry out the final installation of hull equipment, and two days later, on April 17, the Yunlong ship also completed the hull construction, launched at the No. 2 slipway, and entered the No. 2 outfitting dock to install equipment.

Lin Fei personally attended the launching ceremony of the two warships, and at the launching ceremony, Lin Fei encouraged the craftsmen of the shipbuilding factory that although two battleships have been built now, they cannot relax, we need more warships, and now immediately build the third and fourth ships of the Dragon-class cruiser.

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