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"As for those banner people and ordinary people, after waiting for the situation to stabilize, all of them will be sent to Tuntian outside the Guanxi! with other immigrants. However, these bannermen must be closely monitored, and if there are no violations of law and discipline within 10 years, the monitoring of them will be revoked. Once you find out that there is a dangerous hài empire's behavior, you will not be merciful! Long Yufei said. He could not retaliate against those bannermen, but he would never allow those bannermen to try to endanger the security of the Hài Empire in the future. If that really happened, he would never show mercy to his subordinates.

Now, there are only a million flag men in China. In the future, the empire plans to emigrate at least 20 million to the northeast. These flag men are only one-twentieth of the other immigrants. In addition, these bannermen will all be scattered and resettled, so that there is no fear that they will gather again to make trouble.

"Yes, Your Majesty! However, those banner people will not be engaged in production at all, except for walking birds and fighting cocks, and even if they are sent to the northeast tuntian, they may not be able to work! Prime Minister Li Decheng said. After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the banner people began to work non-productively, and their only duty was to serve as soldiers and maintain the Manchu Dynasty. Each banner man can get a considerable amount of money every year, which makes them able to live comfortably without laboring. Two hundred years later, these bannermen no longer know how to produce and work. If the empire drove these bannermen back to the gates, the final result was probably starvation to death.

"Humph! It doesn't matter if you don't know how to work. We can let other immigrants teach them. If they don't learn, then there is no other way to wait to starve to death! The Empire will never feed these parasites with the people's fat and people's ointment again. Long Yufei said. The reason why the Manchus declined. It is also inseparable from the bloodsucking of these flag men. They did not produce, and the number of them increased, so that the Manchu annual financial revenue had to be used to support them until the Manchu finances could not afford to drag it on.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Prime Minister Li Decheng nodded. After the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the entire Northeast was already under the control of the empire. The Northeast is barren though. But the land there is fertile. Coupled with the policy of prohibiting Han Chinese from leaving the customs for two hundred years in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, this vast fertile land has not been developed at all. If the empire immigrated to the northeast on a large scale, it would undoubtedly turn it into a granary. The same. It will also be possible to resettle more displaced people. The war between the empire and the Manchus had already formed a large number of displaced people in the north. In the resumption of production in the north, it is also important to emigrate abroad. After all, the environmental capacity of regions such as the Loess Plateau is already very harsh.

"That's right. We have now captured the princes, nobles, and dignitaries of the Manchus. The Jingshi is also under the control of the imperial army, how much money have we seized? Long Yufei asked. How much wealth the Manchus have collected in the past two hundred years! Although they squandered a lot, what they left behind was also a huge wealth. These riches were very important to an empire that was in the midst of a war.

"Your Majesty, according to the inventory of the front-line troops, those gold and silver treasures are worth about three to four hundred million Chinese dollars. In addition, there are a large number of cultural relics and antiques. Fields and real estate, etc. These need to be further screened and monetized before the final value can be determined. But. It is estimated that the value of these things is also more than 300 million Chinese dollars. General Zhao Yi, Deputy Chief of the General Staff and Minister of Logistics and Equipment, said.

"The land was nationalized and distributed by the government to the landless and landless peasants. In addition, those cultural relics and antiques, which belong to important national treasures, will be collected, and some less important ones will be sold! All those properties have been sold! Long Yufei said. With continuous wars, the consumption of military spending is also very fast, and the empire is in urgent need of a large amount of money to replenish it. In addition, the resumption of production in the north also requires a lot of capital. The wealth seized from the Manchu princes, nobles, and dignitaries was undoubtedly a very important addition to the empire.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Prime Minister Li Decheng and a number of cabinet ministers have long been eyeing this fund. Now spending money every day is like running water, and if there is no other income, the empire's finances are about to go bankrupt.

"Well, ladies and gentlemen, the Manchu Qing have been destroyed by us. However, the war is not over yet. Next, the empire had to continue to fight the Russians. Only by thoroughly hurting the Russians and scaring them can the borders of the empire be safe. Therefore, the next stage of the war against Russia is even more important. Long Yufei admonished. The 600,000-strong Russian expeditionary force had already begun to march to the Far East in batches. It is expected that in two or three months, they will be in the Far East. When the time comes, the empire will once again face a bitter battle.

"Your Majesty, the Empire is ready for this war. After the fall of the Manchus, the Imperial Army would continue its march north. Prime Minister, the cavalry of the empire will continue to begin to expand. The other 4 cavalry corps need to be formed as much as possible. Aim to be in the army within the next three months. In this way, we have a total of six cavalry corps, more than 200,000 men, which can be thrown into the war against Russia. Among the infantry, the General Staff planned to send 12 corps to Eastern Siberia, totaling 420,000 men. With the addition of cavalry, the imperial army would not be much less than the Russians in terms of strength. General Niu Meng, Chief of the General Staff, said. Fighting in the vastness of Siberia, the role of cavalry was undoubtedly much greater than that of infantry. Especially when the logistical supply lines of both sides are very fragile, the cavalry can be used for more purposes, not only to protect their own logistical supply lines, but also to attack the enemy's logistical supply lines. Once the logistical supply lines are cut off, there is little chance of winning the war.

"Hmmm! The warriors who rule the Mongol tribes of Southern Mongolia and Northern Mongolia, and they are ready to join the imperial army. The four newly formed cavalry corps of the empire must be formed as best as possible and then go to the battlefield. In addition, in this war with the Russians, logistics is the key. Long Yufei said. In this war, the logistical supply lines of the imperial army had to cross the entire Mongolian steppe. In the absence of railways and roads, all supplies were guaranteed only by guò mules and horses. Hundreds of thousands of troops on the front line are fighting bloody battles with the enemy, and the daily consumption of war materials will be an astronomical amount. Once the logistics and supplies can't keep up, it is simply impossible to defeat the enemy.

"Yes, Your Majesty! The convoys formed in the previous stage of the empire were ready to leave for the Mongolian steppe. In addition, we can give orders to the Mongol ministers to assist us. In this way, we will have less logistical pressure. General Zhao Yi, Deputy Chief of the General Staff and Minister of Logistics and Equipment, said.

Long Yufei nodded, in order to ensure the supply of hundreds of thousands of troops in front, the empire needs to use at least millions of logistics personnel.

"Give an order to the Khans of the Mongol tribes to organize convoys as well! In addition, there are many horses in the steppe, and we can buy more horses from them at a reasonable price, not only to form cavalry units, but also to use them for logistical support. Long Yufei said. After gaining the allegiance of the Mongols, the empire's constraints on war horses were almost non-existent. Although the Mongolian horse is not as tall as the war horse used by the Western cavalry, the Mongolian horse has good endurance and the breeding conditions are not so high, making it a very good military horse.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Admiral Zhao Yi nodded.

Long Yufei's gaze fell on the map hanging on the study. Now the center of gravity of the empire is south of the Yangtze River, and this area has been fully developed after several years of construction by the empire. However, the areas north of the Yangtze River were much more backward, and the Manchus did not care at all about infrastructure construction, and devoted all their forces to armament construction. Now although the empire has fallen to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, what has been inherited is a mess. Although Long Yufei had thought of these things before, the problems he was facing now were still very tricky.

"Cabinet and Ministry of Communications, prepare to start building roads and railways in the north of the empire on a large scale! In particular, several important railways had to start construction in the shortest possible time. One is from Jiangning across the Yangtze River, to Xuzhou, and then through Shandong to Tianjin. The other is from Wuchang to the north, through Henan and then to Beijing. If these two railways are completed, a large number of supplies can be transported to the north by guò railway. In addition, every effort will be made to build a railway from Beijing to the Mongolian steppe. It is only after the railroad is built on the steppe that we will be able to really influence these places. Even in this war, the railroad may not play a role. However, this was beneficial for the future empire to control the Mongolian steppes and to gradually advance westward from Siberia. Long Yufei said.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Prime Minister Li Decheng and Transport Minister Zhou Zishan nodded. Although, the construction of these railways will encounter many difficulties, and at the same time consume a lot of money and time. But they also knew that these railways had to be built and built as quickly as possible. This is of great significance to the future strategic deployment of the empire.

"Your Majesty, I'm afraid the imperial treasury won't be able to come up with so much money." Chancellor of the Exchequer Liu Mingde said with a bitter face.

"We can consider issuing railway bonds to raise capital from the private sector, and I believe that the people of the empire will support us!" Long Yufei said.

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Chancellor of the Exchequer Lau Ming-tak said.

After the fall of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, the imperial army did not stop, and under the order of the imperial emperor Long Yufei, it began to continue its march north. (To be continued......)