Lin Fei ignored Su Jiasi's plea, pulled the trigger heavily, and with a "bang" gunshot, the bullet shot into the back of Su Jiasi's head, shattering the facial bone and piercing out, Su Jiaxi's plea stopped abruptly, and fell down like a piece of wood, black blood mixed with milky white **, flowing out from under the dead body.

The Spanish supervisor next to him let out a scream, and a few trickles flowed out of their trousers, but the onlookers erupted in cheers, everyone's face full of excitement.

After Lin Fei finished killing Su Jiasi, he put away the gun in his hand, and handed over the rest to his subordinates to kill, and every time he killed a Chinese, they cheered loudly, and after ten minutes, the Spanish supervisors were all killed, Lin Fei said loudly: "Now this rubber tree plantation is ours, rubber is very important to us, we must speed up the production of rubber, and make our empire stronger..."

The Chinese people cheered again, Lin Fei selected the most prestigious person among the Chinese as the factory director, and hired the Spanish technicians according to the original salary, and the Spanish technicians saw that the supervisors were killed, and they were full of awe of the Chinese Empire, so they had to stay in the factory honestly.

Lin Fei was worried that these Spanish technicians could not be trusted, so he arranged for the Chinese to learn their skills, there was not only this plantation on the island, but there were other plantations, and those plantations also had Chinese slaves, but there were not many Spanish guards, so it was easy to deal with, so Lin Fei sent a small force to fight one plantation after another.

Lin Fei sent troops and placed a large amount of orders for the rubber processing plant, which included...... The various sealing parts used on the warship, the various rubber hoses used in the chemical plant, the previous chemical plant due to the lack of rubber, many pipelines can only use metal pipes, when dealing with acidic solutions, it will bring the problem of corrosion, now with rubber, this problem has been properly solved, and the chemical production capacity can be raised to a big level.

There is also an important use for rubber...... Manufacturing rubber-soled shoes, at this time Lin Fei's army wore leather-soled military shoes, which were not wear-resistant and expensive to build, because there was very little leather on the island, and with rubber at this time, the problem of military shoes was solved.

Taking Lin Fei's attack on Mindanao as an example, in the process of the army's march, many soldiers' shoes were worn out, and the logistics department of the army could not get leather shoes, so they had to let the soldiers use straw sandals, which severely affected the speed of the march and the combat effectiveness of the troops.

Fortunately, Lin Fei's troops had advanced weapons and Lin Fei's command, so these factors that affected combat effectiveness did not lead to defeat on the battlefield, and if they faced more powerful enemies, such as the British, French, German, and Japanese armies, these factors might lead to failure.

A few days later, on March 20, 1895, the entire Cebu plantation had been laid down, the production of the rubber factory was resumed, and the first batch of rubber products was produced and shipped to the shipbuilding factory in Yanhuangcheng.

It was also on this day that Li Hongzhang, a special envoy for negotiations sent by the Qing court, held their first talks with Japanese Prime Minister Hirobumi Ito and Foreign Minister Mutsu Munemitsu at the Chunfan Tower in Shimonoseki, Japan, and the "Treaty of Shimonoseki," which had humiliated the country in history, was about to be signed.

Three days later, on March 23, the Japanese army will send troops to occupy the Penghu Islands, and then they will plot the entire territory of Taiwan, the Penghu Islands are the gateway to Taiwan, from ancient times to the present, all those who attack Taiwan will take Penghu first, the national hero Zheng Chenggong defeated the Dutch at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and this is the case when recovering Taiwan, and the Qing army general Shi Lang is the same.

Lin Fei was familiar with these histories, and he was not in a hurry, because the Chinese Empire was developing step by step at this time, and when the strength was accumulated, it would be enough to annihilate the Japanese army.

At 10 o'clock in the morning that day, Li Tianqian came to Lin Fei and said, "Your Majesty, aren't we going to march to Manila?" Why haven't you held a combat meeting yet? ”

Lin Fei smiled: "Why did you think of asking this?" ”

Li Tianqian sighed helplessly and said, "Many officers want to go to Manila, but they don't dare to come to you to talk to you, so they ask me every day: 'Does Your Majesty have any relevant plans?' I really can't help it, so I'm coming to you. ”

Lin Fei smiled: "Don't you remember Denison's words? The Spaniards are actively expanding their forces, so we need to increase our military strength as well, and there is an even more important reason for this military increase...... We're not the only people who think about Manila. ”

Li Tianqian was shocked and asked, "What do you mean by this?" Is there anyone else going to hit Manila? ”

Lin Fei smiled: "Where do you see the closest place to the Philippines?" It's Indonesia and Malaya, do you know these two places? ”

Li Tianqian nodded slightly and said, "I heard Chinese businessmen mention these two places. ”

Lin Fei smiled and asked, "Then do you know who is ruling those two places?" ”

Li Tianqian replied: "Indonesia is ruled by the Dutch, and Malaya is ruled by the British. ”

Lin Fei said with a smile: "That's right, it's these two countries, both of which have fought with the Spaniards for the territory of the Philippines, but they didn't get the Philippines in their hands, and the reason why they didn't get their hands was involved in many wars and political incidents in European history. ”

"Britain and the Netherlands are coveting the Philippines, and when we hit Mindanao, we were unknown and would not attract their attention, but now that our reputation is out, fighting Manila again will inevitably attract them, and then there will be a big power wrestling, life and death game, so attacking Manila must have a strong military force."

Li Tianqian turned out to have only been a staff officer in the Qing army, and it was okay to do some tactical things, but he was confused when he encountered strategic things, Li Tianqian looked dazed, Lin Fei smiled and said: "The matter of the great power game is extremely complicated, I won't explain it to you more, you just need to remember one thing, countries always speak with strength, so what we have to do now is to enhance our own strength, you tell me what I said, the officers, they should not go to you again." ”

Li Tianqian nodded as if he didn't understand, and said goodbye, and Lin Fei immediately began to prepare plans to increase his strength, including strengthening individual equipment, especially the sniper combat equipment of the sniper team and the underwater combat equipment of the frogman commando; According to the information provided by Denison, the Spanish army in Manila expanded its artillery, so Lin Fei formulated a plan to increase the strength of the army's artillery.

Before formulating the plan, Lin Fei sorted out the industrial and agricultural capacity of the Chinese Empire again to determine that the industrial and agricultural production capacity of the Chinese Empire could support his development plan.

The first thing to consider is agriculture, every time an industrial plan is formulated, it is necessary to establish relevant factories, which will allow some agricultural population to leave agricultural production and join industrial production, at this time, the population of the Chinese Empire has reached 2.8 million, and the population of Zamboanga and the conquest of the Sulu Sultanate was only 2.4 million.

The population was able to surge by 400,000 in just over 20 days, mainly because there were Chinese merchants from the Sulu Sultanate who propagandized the Chinese Empire and brought more Chinese into the Chinese Empire, and almost all of the 400,000 people who added were Chinese, about 10,000 of these Chinese were craftsmen, and the rest were all farmers.

Under the arrangement of the grassroots government of the Chinese Empire, these farmers reclaimed a large area of wasteland, built villages, and they also brought advanced agricultural production technology, the climate of the Philippines is warm, and rice can be harvested three times a year, which makes the advanced agricultural technology inherited by China for thousands of years have a place to use, and there will be a bumper harvest of grain in the future, so the grain is completely sufficient.

The second thing to consider is the industrial capacity, simply put, there are not enough minerals and enough workers, the demand for minerals for the manufacture of weapons and equipment is very large, only taking the HP-1 mortar shell as an example, the production of a 3 kg heavy artillery shell needs to consume 25 kg of copper ore, 1 kg of cotton, 0.8 kg of saltpeter, 3 kg of coal (coal is mainly used to make explosives filled in shells) and so on.

These minerals can be provided by the Chinese Empire, because Mindanao is rich in mineral resources, and there were many large mines here in Lin Fei's time, so Lin Fei knew the approximate location of the mineral deposits, saving a lot of exploration time.

In the process of mineral mining, the Chinese hard-working and hard-working played a great role, after the Chinese miners were liberated by Lin Fei, for the strength of the Chinese Empire to work overtime to mine minerals, Lin Fei set the working hours for the workers to be eight hours a day, six days a week, but the Chinese miners are proud of unpaid overtime, and it is common to work 14 or 5 hours a day.

Many of the low-level jobs in the mine were done by Filipinos, and after being assimilated by Lin Fei's education, these Filipinos also considered themselves to be descendants of Yan and Huang.

This is the case in the mines, and the same is true in the factories, where the craftsmen are working overtime to manufacture all kinds of weapons and equipment, and Lin Fei has designed an assembly line processing method for the factory, which was widely used in Lin Fei's time, and it was not very popular in this era.

In this processing method, each worker is only responsible for one process, so the processing is very fast, and the training work is greatly simplified by one process, which allows more people to enter the factory and become manufacturers of weapons and equipment.

After Lin Fei conquered the city of Mindanao, he took all the factories in it for his own use, and carried out technological innovation in these factories, making these factories responsible for the production of more conventional weapons, while Yanhuangcheng concentrated the best craftsmen to carry out the research and development of new weapons.

After considering the foundation of industry and agriculture, Lin Fei found that the current empire could fully support his plan, so he put his plan on paper and formulated the "Super Army Plan".

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