Singapore, Orchard Road, the busiest street in the city center, is the main entrance of a white Victorian-style building surrounded by lawns, palm trees and fountains, and a plaque with white ink characters hangs, "Nanyang Military and Political Headquarters" in seven big characters.

Outside the street, across the triple sentry posts, rickshaws, carriages and cars were parked, and people were constantly looking inside.

On both sides of the main hall where huge chandeliers are hung inside the door, there are all kinds of people waiting to be received: the ** officials of the East Asian Alliance wearing tassels and tassels, the officials in straight suits and shiny leather shoes, the merchants wearing top hats, the gentlemen with civilized rods in their hands, and the indigenous princes wearing bright "Buddy" batik cloth costumes......

On the west side of the second floor, in a spacious and simple office, Marshal Xiao Ruhai, the director of the Nanyang Military Administration, is standing in front of the window with his hands behind his back, facing the hot and humid sea breeze, silently looking at the masts and chimneys in the harbor.

In the four months since he took office, Xiao Ruhai has really become addicted to the "emperors" of various countries and regions within the Nanyang Military and Political Region.

Until October 15, 1915, the General Administration of the Nanyang Military Administration. The jurisdiction of the District includes the Kingdom of Vietnam, the Republic of the Philippines and the Sultanate of Brunei, the Nam Sung Autonomous Region, the Lan Phong Autonomous Region, the Sabah Autonomous Region and the Aceh Autonomous Region, the Sumatra Military Region, the Java Military Region, the Sulawesi and Maluku Islands Military Region and the Nusa Tenggara Islands Military Region.

Aggregate land area by country and region. With a population of 2,620,000 square kilometers and a population of about 80 million, including 3,500,000 Chinese, it has abundant mineral resources and agricultural resources, of which the reserves and output of tin ore rank first in the world, and the reserves of oil, natural gas and copper ore are also extremely considerable.

According to the base camp four months ago - the Cabinet. The policy established by the Joint Conference was to accord to the independent states of the Nanyang Military and Political Region – Vietnam, the Philippines and Brunei – the equivalent of Japan and Siam as members of the East Asian Alliance, i.e., not to directly interfere in their internal affairs, not to have permanent officials in their government departments, except for a few advisers who did not hold real power, and to obtain military and economic privileges mainly through treaties between countries.

The independent states, with the help of the Empire, gradually established a regular . The national defense system, in accordance with the establishment and organization of the empire, has organized and trained new-style army and naval units in preparation for participating in the "Asia-Pacific Liberation War."

By the end of September, the Kingdom of Vietnam had been reinstated in the original Vietnam. Two light infantry divisions and one Janissary regiment have been completed, two infantry divisions and one independent infantry regiment are still being reared, and the Royal Navy has one 800-ton gunboat "Liberation", three river gunboats, and several inshore patrol boats, which were surrendered by the French at the time of surrender.

The Republic of the Philippines is absorbing some of the former puppet army officer base, and has completed the formation and training of the 1st Light Infantry Division of the Philippine Army, and four other infantry regiments and one artillery regiment are still being formed and trained.

Sultanate of Brunei, ed. Completed the Janissary Regiment and two independent infantry regiments.

According to the resolution of the Joint Conference of Supreme Commanders in August of that year, the 1st and 2nd Vietnamese Divisions, the 1st Philippine Division, and the 1st Brunei Regiment would be incorporated into the 1st Army of the Asia-Pacific Liberation Army (PLA) before the end of the year, under the command of a Chinese general, and would be put into the Indian Ocean or the Trans-South Ocean theater.

The autonomous governments – Namsung, Lan Phuong, Sabah and Aceh – were treated as vassals equivalent to Joseon, that is, a certain number of military and political advisers with real power were stationed in their government departments to coordinate the garrison and economic privileges in accordance with the vassal laws of the empire.

The self-government does not have the right to form a regular army, but it can organize and train armed police security forces as appropriate, and in the Chinese-dominated Nam Sing and Lan Fang, the security forces scheduled to be trained are very large and well-equipped, while the Bumiputera-dominated Sabah and Aceh have been given only a small number of obsolete and obsolete captured weapons to equip their limited number of security companies.

The military districts – Sumatra, Java, Sulawesi-Maluku and Nusa Tenggara – were directly occupied militarily, with the military councils of each district as the ruling organs, and the military and political bureaucrats sent by the empire and the locally selected Chinese elites jointly exercising their rule.

The security of the military area was mainly carried out by the gendarmerie units of the Imperial Army, and as a necessary auxiliary, a "volunteer joint defense force" was formed, which was mainly composed of local Chinese and absorbed some of the indigenous police of the former colonial government.

Economically, regardless of political status, the economic lifeblood of the countries and regions of the Nanyang Military and Political Region is basically in the hands of the major conglomerates and state-owned giant monopolies of the empire.

The oil fields in Borneo and Sumatra are completely monopolized by the state-owned Imperial Petroleum Group, the tin mines in Malaya are exclusively owned by the state-owned Shenyang Heavy Industry Group, the bauxite mines in Vietnam are exclusively owned by the state-owned Beiyang Heavy Industry Group, and the copper, gold and nickel mines in the Philippines are jointly developed by the state-owned Han Yeping Group and the Xinshun Mining Company, the head of the ten major consortia in the Zhang consortium empire, which is now presided over by Zhang Xiaoruo, the eldest son of Viscount Zhang Jian......

The third of the top ten consortia of the Zhu consortium empire, the president of Zhu Dachun's Yuan Chang Rice Company monopolized Vietnam's rice exports, the second of the top ten consortia of the Hoang consortium empire, and now the South China Sea Rubber Company, which is presided over by Huang Hong, the eldest son of Viscount Huang Linhong, the former speaker of the Imperial House of Representatives, has controlled the major rubber plantations in Malaya through forced shareholding, and the Guangdong Steamship Company, which also belongs to the Hoang consortium, has also obtained the exclusive right of commercial shipping within the Nanyang Military and Political Region. The Ronghua Department Store, co-owned by the Rong Desheng brothers, controlled the spice trade in the former Dutch East Indies, and the South China Bank, whose president of the Lu consortium was Baron Lu Zhuyuan, who was known as the "financial tycoon", actually controlled the financial power of various countries and regions in the military and political region because of its bid for the treasury exchange franchise of the Ministry of Finance of the Nanyang Military and Political Commission......

The supply of tobacco within the military and political region was exclusively owned by the Nanyang Brothers Tobacco Company, which was co-owned by Jian Zhaonan and Jian Yujie, and the supply of textiles was arranged by the president of the Xue Consortium for Xue Nancheng, the son of the famous diplomat Baron Xue Fucheng, and the supply of flour and non-staple food was controlled by Sun Duosen, the president of the Sun Consortium and the son of Baron Sun Jianai, a former member of the dynasty......

Undoubtedly, Nanyang is the South Sea of the Empire, or rather, the Garden of Eden of the Empire's monopoly capital.

Military politics, military politics, so-called military affairs and government affairs, in fact, are nothing more than appendages of business...... Xiao Ruhai, who is drowning in rare treasures, huge checks, luxurious feasts, and mixed-race beauties every day, often thinks so.

It's just that, after indulgence, what is the feeling of emptiness that can't be filled?

If you can't lead the army yourself, crisscross the earth, and achieve peerless achievements, then why are you here to do it?

At the end of the day, you were quietly deprived of your military power by that woman in a bloodless and seemingly happy way...... Right?

Contentment, compared with Liu Bailiang and them, you are lucky enough.

The various noises echoing in his head usually only make Xiao Ruhai more indulgent and indulgent.

But today, the telegram that was presented by the adjutant early in the morning and is still spread out on the table made Xiao Ruhai leave the hall full of seekers and stand alone in front of this window and fall into a long contemplation......!