Chapter 812: Tang-class battleship
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"This matter is left to the army and navy to work together. Do your best to migrate all the Indonesian natives to Sulawesi! Then, the government's immigration work can be carried out as soon as possible! Wang Yuze ordered. Although, to relocate 30 million Indonesian natives, it will be a very huge project, and it will consume a lot. But that's nothing compared to the benefits! Moreover, in this case, it can also silence the hypocrites who claim to be righteous in Western society!
"Yes, Your Majesty!" War Minister Cai Yun and Navy Minister Zhang Chengdu received the order.
"Your Majesty, those Indonesian natives, I'm afraid they won't obediently obey our orders. What if they resist? Cai Yun asked.
"Humph! We are kind enough to give them a way to live, and if they don't know it, it's death! All Indonesian natives who are unwilling to cooperate will be treated as thugs! In addition, this matter is mainly done by Japanese mercenaries and North Korean mercenaries, who are more suitable for doing these things! Wang Yuze said. He knew that in the process of forcibly relocating the Indonesian natives, many people would definitely be killed, so it would be better for the Japanese and North Koreans to carry it out, and if something happened, they would be able to come out and carry the blame!
"After the migration of the Indonesian natives began, the navy sent warships to patrol Sulawesi to prevent the Indonesian natives from escaping from the island. Also, if people from other countries want to go to the island, stop them all! Wang Yuze said.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Zhang Cheng, Minister of the Navy, commanded. Although the coastline of Sulawesi is not short, it only takes a few destroyers to send it. There are also some old-fashioned destroyers in the Navy that can be used to take on this task!
"By the way, when these Indonesian natives migrated to Sulawesi, everyone was given three days' rations! And then. These indigenous Indonesians are forbidden to bring seeds, livestock, and other production tools to Sulawesi to fend for themselves! Wang Yuze had a meaningful smile on his face.
"Yes, Your Majesty!" Everyone had to obey. They can see that Wang Yuze still hasn't let go of the thoughts of these Indonesian natives! With nearly 30 million indigenous Indonesians arriving on Sulawesi, food is a big problem. Without seeds and production tools, they would have had to hunt like primitive people. Although Sulawesi is not small, there is very little land suitable for farming, and the bottom is the valley and high mountains, and the roots cannot support nearly 30 million Indonesians. That's impossible! Moreover, if Indonesians are not provided with enough food, they will have a very difficult time in the early days. It is foreseeable that many Indonesians will starve to death. The rest. Because there are no production tools, I am afraid that in the end I will become a wild man!
Although Indonesians have a relatively low Ming Cheng dù, overall, they can be regarded as Ming people. Wang Yuze's approach is completely to destroy the Indonesian people's Ming! This is undoubtedly extremely cruel for a nation. Although they didn't understand how these Indonesian natives provoked Wang Yuze, Wang Yuze's order. They can only follow. Anyway, the nature of this world is that the law of the jungle eats the strong. Eliminate the Indonesians, strengthen China, this is for China. There are great benefits. They, the elites of the Chinese, of course, will not object!
Wang Yuze knew the doubts of these ministers, but he didn't say it explicitly. In Wang Yuze's last life, apart from the Japanese, the most hated people were Indonesians. The Japanese even launched a large-scale war to invade China. But these Indonesians. It's a complete villain. On the one hand, they could not do without the Chinese, and on the other hand, they plundered their wealth by massacring the Chinese. It's simply a representative of vile and filthy!
Soon, the General Staff came up with a specific plan for the migration of Indonesian natives. The cabinet was immediately announced, causing an uproar at home and around the world. Although the Chinese are somewhat puzzled by the government's approach, they still very much agree with it. Since there is a deep contradiction between the Chinese and the Indonesians, then move the Indonesians to an island, and if everyone does not meet, then there will be no more contradictions! Of course, they don't know the specific situation in Sulawesi, and if they did, they probably wouldn't think that Wang Yuze and the imperial government were kind enough to do this! The Western community was even more shocked by China's moves. The relocation of 30 million Indonesians is a huge project! However, the Chinese are willing to consume their national strength in this way, and the Western countries are very willing! Although many parts of Indonesia are open, the Netherlands, which was once the suzerainty of Indonesia, is very familiar with the situation in Sulawesi. They know that China is uneasy and well-intentioned, and wants to use another method to destroy the Indonesians. Only this time the Dutch government did not say any more. In the last incident, the Chinese side had already warned the Dutch side through Guò Germany sternly. If the Dutch provoke China again, in the next war, even if the Netherlands wants to remain neutral, China will not mind taking the opportunity to teach the Netherlands a lesson. Although the Netherlands is very far away from China, with China's ability to cross the Pacific and fight the United States, it is completely no problem to send an army to attack the Netherlands!
Under Chinese pressure, the Dutch government remained silent. Moreover, the media outlets that tried to report on the incident were warned by the government to cancel these unrealistic ideas. Although the Western countries are democratic, in the face of international forces, those media still shut up. This has allowed the Chinese migration program to Indonesia's indigenous people to be carried out smoothly.
The migration of 30 million Indonesians took two years. The Chinese side has adopted the method of island by island migration, and has stuffed all the indigenous Indonesians into Sulawesi. In the process, many Indonesians rebelled, but they were brutally suppressed. Although there is no exact number, at least millions of Indonesians were wiped out by Japanese and Korean mercenaries as a result of their resistance. Only a handful of people escaped, and they hid in the rainforest, hiding in Tibet, and their lives were very sad!
As for the Indonesians who migrated to Sulawesi, most of them starved to death in the first year because they did not have enough food, and even broke out into cannibalism. However, the Chinese navy blockaded Sulawesi, prohibiting Indonesians from fleeing from the island, and also forbidding people from other countries to go to the island. As a result, the condition of the island has been kept unknown to the outside world. It wasn't until 50 years later that a foreign scholar quietly landed on Sulawesi and learned about it. There are less than half a million Indonesians left on the entire island of Sulawesi. They have completely degenerated into savages, and their living conditions are very poor. It's just that fifty years later, China is already the only superpower in the world, and the information obtained by that scholar was invited to tea by the relevant departments before it could be published, and it has never appeared again in his life!
After the migration of Indonesians began, the migration of Chinese to Indonesia also began. Often, when an island is cleaned of indigenous Indonesians, Chinese immigrants then move over to build new homes. In the end, more than 30 million Chinese immigrants to Indonesia, and a large amount of grain produced in Indonesia has also become an important grain base for China!
The year 1906 passed, and in addition to the Moroccan crisis, it was China's seizure of the Netherlands and Indonesia that attracted the world's attention. When the bell rang in 1907, people were one step closer to the Great War.
In Europe, the Allies and the Entente were all vigorously expanding their armaments. The German Navy's 'Caesar-class' battleships have already entered service, but the British Navy's 'Orion-class' battleships have also entered service, and Germany is still not taking advantage of them. While the German Navy was still building the more powerful King-class battleships, the British Navy was also building the 'King George V-class' battleships. Both countries invested the vast majority of their resources in the construction of battleships. Battleships are a money-burning thing, which makes the national strength of the two countries gradually overwhelmed. Everyone knows that once the national strength of the two countries is exhausted, it will probably be the time for war to break out!
China has not been idle in its preparations for war. When the 'Hanshin-class' fast battleship was about to be put into service, the design plan for the main battleship of the next class, the 'Tang-class' battleship, was finally released. Zhang Cheng, Minister of the Navy, sent it to Wang Yuze as soon as possible. If the navy's new battleships want to start construction, they must get Wang Yuze's permission!
"His Majesty, the 'Tang-class' battleship, has a standard displacement of 32,000 tons, a full load displacement of 39,500 tons, a length of 1,965 meters, a width of 312 meters, and a draft of 108 meters. The power is 24 new oil-fired boilers and four latest steam turbines, with a power of 76,000 horsepower, four-axle propulsion, a maximum speed of more than 28 knots (the maximum speed ran out of 29 knots in the test run after successful construction), a cruising range of 10 knots/9,000 nautical miles, and three triple 381 mm 50 times caliber naval guns, using knapsack turrets, two in the front and one in the back, 10 155 mm rapid-fire guns and 10 twin 37 mm rapid-fire guns. The armor is made of new domestic armor, and its performance is completely comparable to the latest armor of Krupp, with 356 mm of armor for the main turret and bridge, 120 mm for the deck, and 305 mm for the side straps. Compared to the 'Hanshin-class' fast battleships, the 'Tang-class' battleships have more firepower, but they are not slow. After completion, it will become a killer of battleships of the navies of various countries! "Navy Minister Zhang Cheng introduced to Wang Yuze. In the design of the Don-class' battleships, the main problems encountered were the new large-caliber main guns and power problems, and only now have these problems been solved!