Chapter 9: Reversal
The output value of the three provinces has doubled by 15 times in two years, the population has increased from 4 million households two years ago to 16 million households, and the total population has reached as many as 70 million, accounting for one-sixth of the country's registered population.
For a time, the three provinces were overcrowded.
Just as the armies from all over the country petitioned one after another, asking for the Northern Expedition to raise the flag, Zhang Xiaofan asked Liu Yongfu to refuse, the reason was that the time had not come.
Even if Zhang Xiaofan is tired and tired, he controls the power inside and outside the military government, and spends 300 percent of his energy to rectify all walks of life and develop the people's livelihood.
He only earned more than six million merit points, which are five times more than the scroll world of "New Dragon Gate Inn".
But the number of troops has increased tenfold.
The 300,000 troops were 30,000 Black Flag Army, 100,000 White Flag Army, 100,000 Blue Flag Army, and 70,000 Yellow Flag Army. These four armies all used the elixir to wash their muscles and cut the marrow, and each force was comparable to Huang Feihong two years ago.
And Huang Feihong's skills have now reached the realm of transforming gods, and there are thirty-six sect heads and captains who are equally profound with his skills. Among these 36 people, those who were capable and outstanding were incorporated into the army and served as battalion commanders, regiment commanders, and brigade commanders. He has a skilled but not military arrangement, and he has become the head of the four armies.
The 100,000 White Flag Army and the 100,000 Blue Flag Army each sent 50,000 to suppress various places, and the 70,000 Yellow Flag Army were all excellent soldiers, and every month, 10,000 Yellow Flag Army went out to sweep away overseas pirates, making great contributions to the economic development of the three provinces.
The 30,000 Black Flag Army was all absorbed into the Heaven and Earth Society, and Liu Yongfu, Huang Feihong, and Zhang Xiaofan took turns to give them patriotic education, and those who passed the test were sent to all parts of the country to investigate the military situation and people's livelihood in various places. And the particularly excellent, more than 600 people with outstanding language ability, were sent to various countries to collect information on various countries.
In the past two years, there has been more and more intelligence, and the development of the three provinces has become faster and faster, and in the international community, the military governments of the three provinces have been regarded as equal countries.
However, the vassal state of the Qing court, Annan and other kings, asked several times to be incorporated into the jurisdiction of the military government, but Liu Yongfu refused.
Zhang Xiaofan originally planned to agree, but Liu Yongfu said that if he is not my kind, his heart must be different, so he has nothing to say.
Zhang Xiaofan still assured the kings of various countries that if 50 percent of the citizens of various countries could speak and write Chinese, they would be accepted.
It is also for this reason that various countries have hired talented scholars from the Qing court to prepare for the improvement of the quality of their citizens.
There is good news and bad news.
For example, island countries are becoming more and more presumptuous.
Ten years ago, after the success of the Meiji Restoration, he sent 3,000 troops to invade Treasure Island, and although he was repulsed, he also extorted 500,000 taels of silver from the Qing court.
Now the prime minister of the island country sees that the Central Plains is becoming more and more chaotic, and he wants to take the opportunity to occupy the Central Plains, just like the Manchurians took advantage of the civil strife in the Ming Dynasty to enter the Central Plains.
The slogan put forward by the island country is that all the residents of the island country are immigrants from the Central Plains, and the emperor's status is Qin Shi Huang.
Couldn't such an identity inherit the unification of the Central Plains?
The army of the island country attacked the Ryukyu Islands first time, and the king of the Ryukyu country asked the Qing court for help, but the Qing court could only find the foreign powers to coordinate. It is a pity that the European and American powers are busy with their own affairs and do not take care of the family affairs of the yellow people in the Far East.
"Attacking the islands?" Although Liu Yongfu also heard a lot of news, he was still very surprised by Zhang Xiaofan's actions.
After the island country captured the Ryukyus, it pressed westward from the Korean Peninsula, and the next step was where the dragon vein of the Qing court was located.
Zhang Xiaofan attacked the island country at this time, did he really treat the Qing court as an emperor?
"At this time and at that time," Zhang Xiaofan sent the information of the island country to several people.
After the Meiji Emperor, the island country has been developing for nearly 30 years, not only the military has made great progress, but also because of the reform and opening up, a large number of science and technology industries have been introduced into the island country.
Although the military governments of the three provinces have developed for two years, they are still not as good as the economy of Japan for 30 years. If the military governments of the three provinces defeat the island countries and absorb the science and technology and industrial base of the island countries, at least five years of development time will be saved.
"Then hit," Liu Yongfu slammed the table when he heard this.
There are a total of 17 members of the military government in the three provinces, most of whom are from the military, and only five are from local civilian officials, one Sun Yat-sen and one Lu Haodong are all radicals, and the other three provincial secretaries are only concerned with the people's livelihood issues, and they have always been the first to look at the affairs of the military.
"The island country is hateful, ten years ago, it was provoked by the United States to launch a war of aggression against the island, and it still did not give up, this time we will teach him a cruel lesson." Lu Haodong raised his hand.
Sun Yat-sen, who was relatively gentle, also frowned and raised his hand, this time I am afraid that I will be sorry for many friends from the island country.
The soldiers and horses did not move, and the grain and grass went first.
While the junta was preparing for war, horrific news occurred on the Korean Peninsula.
The massacre of the city for three consecutive days and three nights emptied hundreds of thousands of people in Seoul, North Korea.
When this news was disseminated by the great powers in various countries with news, Zhang Xiaofan could not wait any longer. Because of the civil strife in the country, the Qing court was unable to mobilize many troops to protect the vassal states.
Korea fell very quickly, and when the Qing army arrived at the border, there was no need to continue to advance, and when the Japanese army on the Yalu River and the island country were shot twice, the Qing court's will to fight was not high, and the Japanese army was crushed in the face of the fierce Japanese army.
Zhang Xiaofan completed the swearing-in meeting at this time.
led the purchased British warships, led 30,000 White Flag Army and 30,000 Yellow Flag Army to press on the treasure island, and at the same time Liu Yongfu launched attacks on Fujian and Jiangxi.
Although the 100 British-made warships were outdated and eliminated, their sailing ability was very good, and three days later, they successfully landed on the treasure island. After communicating with Liu Yongfu, leaving 10,000 White Flag troops to sweep away the Qing court forces on Baodao, Zhang Xiaofan stepped out of the country for the first time in the scroll world.
Because of the scroll world, Zhang Xiaofan has retained more than one million / merit points have not been used, and he was finally able to go abroad to fight, and the joy in his heart can no longer be expressed in words.
"Chief, the front is the Ryukyu Kingdom, but the Ryukyu Kingdom was invaded by the island country, and now it is renamed Okinawa."
Zhang Xiaofan glanced at several dark shadows that appeared on the sea level, and looked far away, and there were more than a dozen warships in front of him who were retreating frantically.
"Those warships were left by the island country to defend Zhang Zhidong, and now we have encountered them, the chief, please order, we will ensure that the enemy army is completely annihilated." Yuesheng is Zhang Xiaofan's ship, but there is another captain named Tuomu, who is a Mongolian man.
In the face of Liu Yongfu's pressure, in order to protect the safety of his subordinates, he took the initiative to disarm, and in the later review, he successfully passed the political examination and became a member of the Yellow Flag Army. In the process of training, he took the lead, fought for the vanguard in every battle, accumulated meritorious achievements, received more and more rewards, and became one of the thirty-six masters of the Transformation God Realm, and now he is one of the three major captains of the Yellow Flag Army, and was given the surname Huyan by Zhang Xiaofan.
The junta navy now has more than 300 warships, including 137 British-made warships, 56 French-made warships, 35 Portuguese-made warships, 52 American-made warships, and 25 German-made warships. One hundred of the British-made warships were purchased, and the remaining 200 or so warships were all obtained from pirates.
This expedition, he brought 30,000 Yellow Flag troops to control 100 British warships, which was already the most luxurious naval battle of the junta.
It is said that it is a warship, but in fact, most of them are converted from wooden sea ships, and only a small number of more than 20 are iron ships, which are the treasures of the navy, and if they are not necessary, they are rarely driven out of Guangzhou Bay.
This time, Zhang Xiaofan also took out his blood money to gamble.
Fortunately, the cabinet of the island collectively decided that the north was the main battlefield for the battle, and after the Ryukyu was conquered, they only continued to emigrate and did not send many troops.
One hundred warships seized control of the Ryukyus at the first time, and declared that the Ryukyus were restored to Chinese ownership.
Left 10,000 White Flag troops to guard the Ryukyu Kingdom.
The Cabinet on the island still knew about the military governments of the three provinces at the level of two years ago, and when they saw 100 warships stop more than 10 miles away and leave tens of thousands of soldiers into the sea, they thought that there was some strange ritual, and when the 30,000 navy rushed into the Japanese warships from the sea, they could no longer hold back their panic.
What kind of combat power is this? Able to swim more than 10 nautical miles in the sea in half an hour. And these people flew straight out of the sea, and they were more powerful than the ninjas of their own country.
Even so, some of the island's navies resisted, albeit to no avail.
In one hour, he took the naval station of Fukuoka in Kyushu, an island nation.
Two years of training, not just talking.
If all the merit points of five million are fed to a pig, you can raise a divine pig, not to mention a person.
As Zhang Xiaofan's killer weapon, Huang Qijun must be the most important protection and cultivation. In the past two years, only the Yellow Flag Army has often gone to sea to fight, so it has the most military merits and the largest number of cultivation elixirs. The 70,000 Yellow Flag Army and the 30,000 Black Flag Army are already on par, and each of them has the ability to fight four or five Black Flag Army and White Flag Army alone.
The last 10,000 White Flag troops were left on Kyushu Island, the 10,000 White Flag Army collected all the warships on Kyushu Island, and the 10,000 Yellow Flag Army drove back to Guangzhou.
One hundred warships with 30,000 Yellow Flag Army and 30,000 White Flag Army have reached their limit, and now there are still 30,000 Yellow Flag Army and 20,000 White Flag Army waiting to go out in Guangzhou Bay.
The remaining 20,000 White Flag troops circled Kyushu Island to the north, and the 20,000 White Flag Army had more than 300 warships, and the naval warships already occupied two-thirds of the island country's navy.
In order to save resources, the Japanese Navy built and purchased all iron ships on its own, and this time Zhang Xiaofan captured as many as 80 iron ships, and now there are only less than 50 iron ships left in Tokyo Bay, and the remaining 500 warships are all wooden warships.
In other words, the occupation of Kyushu Island has actually disintegrated 60 percent of the island nation's naval strength.
When the Cabinet of the island received the news of the occupation of Kyushu, it immediately issued an order to the Japanese army on the Korean Peninsula and stood by in place. After the collapse of the navy, the island's cabinet knew very well that it was destined to lose the war.