"Prime Minister, this is the list of the last few municipalities drawn up by the Ministry of Construction. 【 I want: super fast update ]"

"Hmm."

Hearing the shout, Li Enfu slowly raised his head from the pile of documents, took the documents handed over, and asked while looking at them, "Which cities are they?" ”

"In addition to the previous *** Tianjin and Dalian, this time they are going to list Shanghai, Hong Kong, Chongqing, Qingdao and Yinchuan as municipalities directly under the central government, so that there are a total of eight municipalities directly under the central government, in addition to the Ministry of Construction according to the emperor's idea, four overseas special management areas, namely Pontianak, Davao, Honolulu and Bahai." Tao Chengzhang stood in front of the desk and said eloquently.

Looking at him full of confidence, Li Enfu smiled slightly, closed the file and asked, "Chengzhang, I remember that you were the first batch of students to graduate from *** University at the end of last year, right?" Tell me, then, why do we want to establish municipalities and special administrative zones? ”

Tao Chengzhang didn't expect that the prime minister, who was in a good position every day, would actually remember his little assistant to the Prime Minister's Office, and he could call out his name in one mouth, and immediately said excitedly: "Prime Minister, you have a good memory." ”

"Hehe, it's old." Li Enfu put the document down, took out a cigarette and lit it, and continued: "Say, be bold, there are only you and me here." ”

Tao Chengzhang was a student selected by the first establishment of *** university two years ago, before he was recommended by Liang Qichao, went to the University of Honolulu to study management for two years, but he didn't expect to be recommended to the Prime Minister's Office after one year of further study at *** university, and he was immediately envious of his classmates.

At this moment, when he heard Li Enfu's inquiry, he immediately said: "Municipalities directly under the central government, so the name means direct jurisdiction, because the city is far smaller than a province, it is more convenient to manage, and these cities that are more developed, or have a better economy, or are geographically important cities are pulled out of the provincial management, which is equivalent to allowing them to concentrate on development and construction."

Since they are directly under the central government, they do not have to compete with the provinces where they are located for resources, so that they can develop and build well, and when they develop, they can lead the regions where they are located and set a good example for everyone. ”

"As for the Special Management Zone." Tao Chengzhang ran his throat and continued: "In fact, the meaning is the same as that of the municipality directly under the central government, but because they are all overseas, Xiang Honolulu and Bahai are still fiefs obtained by the emperor in the early years, and there are still problems in sovereignty, and although Luzon and Borneo have been established as provinces, there are still locals there who have not been naturalized. Speaking of this, he suddenly touched the back of his head and said with a smile: "In the future, when those locals are naturalized, these will still be changed to municipalities directly under the central government." ”

"Well said!" Li Enfu put down his cigarette, slapped his face twice, and asked with a smile: "Chengzhang, I can't see it, you really analyzed it thoroughly, where did you learn it?" ”

Tao Chengzhang didn't dare to hide it, and said: "In fact, the last time the emperor went to Peking University to tell everyone about the future development of the country, I guessed some of these places, and later the French economics teacher also mentioned that the economy of a large geographical country cannot be evenly distributed, because the average distribution will cause everyone to be unable to eat, and they will become a half-hung situation. 【 I want: super fast update ]"

"Well, that's a good point, but it's good that you can add your own understanding." Li Enfu suddenly changed his tone and asked again: "Chengzhang, do you know why you were elected to serve as the secretariat?" ”

This question made Tao Chengzhang stunned for a moment, saying that his knowledge can only be regarded as average among his peers, saying that his family background is not to be talked about, and saying that the experience of staying abroad is nonsense, you must know that now there are two or three hundred people who return from studying in Europe and the United States every year, and they just went to Hawaii, which is still the emperor's private fief.

He shook his head: "The student doesn't know. ”

"Because you know how to persevere, patience is better than others, and you have a heart that will not stop until you reach your goal!" Li Enfu smiled and waved his hand: "This is a country of life, if we can't calm down, we can't strengthen our beliefs, and work step by step, then ordinary people are at a loss?" ”

"Go ahead, do a good job, and Hua will rely on you young people in the future."

"Thank you, Prime Minister." Tao Chengzhang recalled Li Enfu's words and nodded vigorously, but just as he was about to pull the door out, he was suddenly bumped into his arms, only to see Foreign Minister Tang Shaoyi rushing in with an anxious face.

"Prime Minister, the Russian fleet has arrived."

Knowing that the two adults had something important to discuss, Tao Chengzhang quickly brought the door to the door, but the words coming from the crack in the door still made him freeze suddenly, and his heart beat violently.

Russia is still coming!

Can't these powers let us spend a few days in China?!

The Russians really came, and the flotilla of two armored cruisers of the first rank, two protective cruisers of the second class and three destroyers finally sailed back to the Far East again after a long absence.

But General Wittheft, who led them and temporarily anchored in Banda Aceh to recuperate, was worried, and the scene of the last naval battle was still vivid, and his feet trembled as long as he thought about the terrible beasts of the other side after crossing the Strait of Malacca.

What's bad is that the so-called Varyag and Parada first-class armored cruisers led by him can actually only be counted as second-class, because although these two sister ships have a displacement of more than six thousand tons, they don't know that the idiot designed it, and it is only equipped with large-caliber 152 mm naval guns, and they are all turretless and unprotected deck guns!

As the former commander of the Far East Fleet, he naturally knew what would happen to this kind of warship when it sailed into the waters of the Far East, not to mention that after being captured in the last defeat and suffering a "great humiliation", as the only naval officer who was released, he finally found someone to keep his position, and originally according to the plan, he would return to the Far East as Makarpov's staff officer, but who expected that General Makarpov had just arrived in Vladivostok, and he encountered a mine, and he played a good show of dying before he could leave the division, so that he, the only general with "experience" in fighting with the Chinese Navy, was the only general, became the vanguard of this exploration, because His Majesty the great Tsar Nicholas II felt that these experiences would help to defeat the Chinese navy.

There is nothing wrong with pathfinding, but the damn Admiralty only gave itself two first-class armored cruisers, but the Chinese Navy on the opposite side has nine battleships and three first-class armored cruisers, and there are eight Jinghai-class cruisers that no one knows whether they are first-class or second-class.

Well, even if, according to the Admiralty, Russia and China have not yet declared war, they will not open fire, but will it be simple to explore the way? That damn Li Mo has almost shrouded the entire Far East under naval artillery, and he doesn't know which way to go!

Walking the Strait of Malacca? No, as long as you cross it, there is Borneo and Luzon, where the Chinese Navy's Nanyang Fleet is waiting, and they have been given patrol rights in the hands of the British last time, and maybe they will be discovered in the middle of the road.

Even if the Strait of Malacca passes through and enters the South China Sea, the problem is that in order to get to Vladivostok, or enter the Pacific Ocean, there are two necessary routes, the Bass Strait and the Taiwan Strait.

Take the Indian Ocean and take a detour to Sumatra? Or enter Guinea and go through that ugly Bactria? God, the wronged souls of *** people are still crying there.

Even if he escaped all the way to intercept, but the Tsushima Strait was controlled by China, after the last war, Li Mo was not even willing to lend, but directly asked *** to cede this island, and finally succeeded!

It's okay not to go through the Tsushima Strait, you can take a detour to the open sea, but the problem is that Hokkaido has made a country of Ezo, in fact, there are dozens of times more Chinese than Ezo people, and Hua, as a protectorate, has been stationed for a long time, and it is shameless to say that the Chiba Islands are Chinese territory, and the sea has become a playground, and it can't be bypassed at all!

Looking at the unfolded charts, Witthoeft wanted to cry without tears, he finally knew why the officers laughed so obscenely when they heard that he had received this task, because the road from the Indian Ocean to the Pacific Ocean was almost strangled to death, although the British had said that they would not block the Russian passage through the Strait of Malacca, but the problem was that they refused to provide a supply base, and the successive occupations of Luzon and Borneo also made it difficult to break through the Strait of Malacca.

Or just take a detour to Australia?

Witthoeft thought wildly and sketched it, but when he roughly calculated the distance, his face turned white, and it was estimated that the coal would be gone before he could bypass it, even if Britain could provide coal through Australia, but after entering the Eastern Pacific, Hawaii was stuck there like a hard fish bone, and the strength of the Pacific Fleet of the Chinese Navy was stronger than that of the South Ocean Fleet, and the fleet with them as the main body even drove away Philettman last time.

God and Russia, playing a joke on themselves, after arriving here halfway around the world, turned out to be like entering a labyrinth, and then at every exit there was a machine gun.

If you go back like this, His Majesty the great Tsar Nicholas II will immediately ask for impermanence, and Houwittheft can only look at the charts stupidly and stay in Banda Aceh for five days in a row.

But he can't stay like this forever, huh?

The Dutch are already dying, Hua has been peeking at Sumatra and Java for a day or two, and the originally huge Dutch East Indies is left with such two large islands with poor geography, and it is already a risk to let the Russians refuel and rest, if they continue to stay, it is estimated that the South Ocean Fleet of the Royal Chinese Navy will come to find trouble!

"Go, you have to go!"

Later, the Dutch East Indies Governor almost made a straight face and drove Werthoeft into the sea with his army, but Werthoeft was finally a little clever and immediately took the initiative to send someone to contact the headquarters of the Chinese South Seas Fleet, telling them that the great Russian fleet had come to visit a good friend of France, and was going to take the fleet to Cam Ranh Bay for a few days.

But what he didn't expect was that before China could react, the French quit, and a telegram from Paris warned Russia not to cause trouble for France, otherwise any aid would be stopped.

This is a big deal, Russia has just reached an agreement with France on the assistance plan for the technical decommissioning of battleships, and if it is canceled, I am afraid that it will not be possible to build battleships in a few years.

Can't go to Cam Ranh Bay!

Wertherft almost finished grabbing his hair, and then he made a bold decision, one that left the whole world dumbfounded!

Instead of going to Vladivostok, he rushed to Dili east of Java with seven warships, drove a Dutch cruiser away, and declared Dili and Timor-Leste to be occupied by Russia!