According to later statistics from the Prime Minister's Office, since the official launch of the National Day on 1 October, and by taking advantage of the method of open-air broadcasting in the evening, about 20 million people across the country watched the world's first documentary film on naval warfare during the three-day National Day holiday, and 20% of them were students from all over the country. I want to update super fast. A This is an extremely large number, and even hundreds of broadcasters are tired of it, although the whole country has resumed the busy work rhythm again, but Li Enfu seems to be determined to increase his influence, in addition to making a lot of films with words again according to Li Mo's idea, he is also ready to use this thousand copies to spread to small towns, according to his ideas, at least half of the people in the country can watch it once in the next year.

For three days, 10 million people watched, although everyone knows that most of them are in curiosity, but as long as 1/10 of them understand and understand the meaning of the self-spoon inside, then there will be millions of fires, especially those students who watch, it is the hope of national rejuvenation.

Such a large-scale movie broadcast, naturally aroused strong attention from all over the country, a newspaper review began to slowly ferment & to, many reporters used the relationship to visit some naval officers, not only asked in detail about the original battle, but also people even the specific number of downed ships, range, model and tonnage have been dug up, if the newspapers during this period of time can describe this naval battle together, it is definitely a million-word ripple war masterpiece.

Any strange thing has a collateral effect, especially the movie, after the grand scene of the real documentary broadcast called "Sea Soul" was seen by the merchants, some movies appeared in various places, although it was mainly a small story farce, but it also attracted a lot of curious people, but the record of "Sea Soul" watched by 10 million people in three days was not kept for long, and it was broadcast on the National Day of the second year, and the documentary film "Blood-stained Land" collected from the army's northern battlefield was broken with a record of 15 million in three days. It wasn't until thirty years later that the record was broken again.

What is surprising is that many businessmen, including those in the United States, have become interested in "Sea Soul", and have asked if they will sell copies, and Li Mo will naturally not refuse this kind of good thing, and the price of 10,000 US dollars per copy not only makes a lot of money, but also inadvertently implements a cultural export.

As the movie became more and more widely promoted, gradually some well-intentioned people noticed the carefully described one-on-two lonely battle of the Mukden, and the subtitles said that the two warships were sold by Ecuador to Russia, so that half of the dead soldiers on the Mukden were remembered for this small country that they had never heard of, and some people even went to the store to stare at the map for a long time to find Ecuador there.

Under the guidance, the newspapers also began to send signals that Ecuador's actions were contemptuous and a challenge to China, and some radical newspapers even shouted that they should learn from Hudayaceh and teach Ecuador a profound lesson.

In the blink of an eye, this small country located in South America, far away, suddenly became a hot topic in the newspapers, and even the European and American newspapers noticed the abnormality and one after another, but everyone did not think that Li Mo would not make a big move, because even from Hawaii as far away, there were nearly 5,000 nautical miles, and Ecuador did not have anything to make people blush at all.

The important thing is that the South American countries have just overthrown colonial rule, and they have a deep prejudice against the word colonial, so even if Li Modian goes crazy to occupy it, he will fall into endless resistance, just like the previous Anglo-Boer War, when as long as Kuang exported some weapons or something, a deep wound would appear on Qi Hua. ##必去##

So Li Mo is also very aware of this, the way of colonial rule has begun to slowly age, it is impossible for him to attack Ecuador, and offend the entire South American world, he is not interested in the Colón Islands, which are located off the coast of Ecuador, less than 1,000 nautical miles from the exit of the Panama Canal.

The Colon Islands, also known as the Galapagos Islands, have unique creatures and reproduction processes, there are many exotic hibiscus creatures on the island, giant tortoises and monitor lizards are unique, plus Darwin stayed there for a long time, and is known as the precious self-martyrdom heritage of mankind, the birthplace of evolution.

However, Emperor Li is not a biologist, although he does not want to destroy the environment there, but compared with Panama, this damage is insignificant, and he does not look at Isabela Island, but the only one in the archipelago with a relatively deep water berth, San Cristobal Island, the Black Bacrizo Marsh is the large harbor of the archipelago in later generations, and it is also the only habitable area on the archipelago, but the current Colón Islands are still a wasteland, except for scholars from all over the world may visit, the island is inhabited by less than two locals. ※※※※※ I ※ I ※ ※

In 1835, at the age of 26, Darwin arrived there with the British Navy survey ship Beagle, which was completely uninhabited at all, except for Darwin's keen interest in the area, but the British Navy observation ship gave up after several months of continuous surveys, because of the large presence of the Colon Islands.

Lack of fresh water!

The Coron Islands are basically an enlarged Midway Island, fresh water is extremely scarce, the flora and fauna on the island are basically relying on ** water, so the vegetation is very low, if you live in people, maybe five thousand people's fresh water through deep wells and filtration to meet, but to station the fleet is far from enough, any warship, in fact, Jing needs to consume a lot of fresh water, so the military port to rely on overseas, Liao needs to have better fresh water resources, but the Coron Islands do not.

The Colón Islands are not a good choice in terms of distance, but the problem is that Panama's Pacific exit is the only place suitable for berthing larger tonnage warships. Of course, Liao's other way is to garrison Colombia, but now to garrison the South American continent is undoubtedly to challenge the world.

Therefore, it is still necessary to focus on overseas islands, which will not cause a strong reaction in South America, and secondly, it is impossible for countries to fight with themselves for an island that has nothing but turtles and monitor lizards.

As long as the Colon Islands are taken, the Panama Canal, which the United States has coveted for a long time, will be abolished by half even after it is built, and the distance of 1,000 nautical miles means that as long as a few destroyers are stationed there, there is a chance to block the narrow canal outlet to the sea and paralyze the strait.

Of course, it is impossible to rob it directly, because it is aggression and will cause public outrage.

Li Mo stared at the map for a long time, and when he turned around, Wang Bei, Zhao Long and Chen Ping had already arrived, and asked with a smile, "How is it?" Winter in bandit is not pleasant, right? ”

"It's a bit difficult, especially during the period from December to March, basically I can't even go out, and almost half of the soldiers who died this time were sick and frozen during that period." It's winter again, so it's already snowing over there, right? ”

"Well, it snowed for the first time when we came back, but this time we have already prepared, and the Trans-Siberian Railway from Beijing through Jilin has been repaired, in addition to the need to change the wagons in the middle, the supply is also much easier." Zhao Long's main figure walked to the map, pointed to Angarsk and said: "At present, there are two regiments stationed in Angarsk, Irkutsk, Minusinsk and Nizhneudinsk, both of which are on the railway;

In addition, the Marine Corps stationed two battalions in the port of Anhai (formerly Petropavlovsk on the Kamchatka Peninsula). ”

"The Russians in the ten Siberian provinces that are currently divided have basically been expelled, the main forces have already returned for wintering, and the reserve divisions are ready to be disbanded before the year." Li Mo nodded, expelled nearly two million Russians, and divided Eastern, Central and Siberia into ten provinces, which became the original blank area of Huada, plus the immigrants still had to go, and even the government structure was not built, and there was no need for garrisons at all, so he turned his head and asked Chen Pingdao: "The garrison must ensure that the troops give and transport, but there can be no more of last year's situation, and we must make good use of the hundreds of thousands of Russian prisoners to strive for humiliation to change the Siberian Railway into our rail system, so that there is no need to change trains back and forth so troublesomely." ”

"The emperor can rest assured that the Russian prisoners have now been dispersed, and the three divisions that have been withdrawn will be supervised while guarding the work, and the railroad tracks will be completely repaired in the first half of the next year."

"The navy on the Kamchatka Peninsula is rushing to transport it before the ice, and it has already stockpiled 300,000 tons of coal there, and the stockpiling of food and medicine will be completed by the end of the month, and the evaluation station has been built, and the first radio contact was made ten days ago, and we have installed a fax machine there to facilitate contact."

Hearing that he had made sufficient preparations, Li Mo was also a lot more relieved.

The threat from the north has basically been eliminated, and this winter will be particularly cold for Russia, so let alone harassment, if you have learned that the 300,000 have learned that Nicholas II does not want their soldiers to return the guns and send them back, it is estimated that Nicholas II will cry, because the ** in Russia is still continuing, although all countries have provided a lot of loans and weapons support, but Russia has been eroded, and no matter how much money is smashed, it is a bottomless pit The believer, which is fundamentally irreconcilable can contradict itself.

So from this moment on, will be the progress of Huahao called the period, after several years of efforts, the basic structure of the domestic economy has been completed, with the railway line and a few days ago officially laid into Hunan and Zhejiang provinces, the busy Jiangnan waterway for the first time and the Central Plains connected, the mainland and even Siberian specialties can be quickly sent along the railway line to the southeast sea, coastal prosperous goods can also quickly go north into the Central Plains and the northeast.

Since it swept across the northern land, the Ministry of Railways has swept through the land of China like a hurricane with the efforts of millions of construction corps, the railroad tracks are being extended, roads are being built, and the whole country is advancing by leaps and bounds under this craze.

This is the benefit of transportation construction, when hundreds of millions of people are no longer limited by transportation, not hundreds of miles apart but old and dead do not come and go, the resources and specialties of various places can flow.

Just like the development of the west in the United States, if it were not for the vigorous progress of the west to bring a large number of resources to the east, perhaps the United States is not as headache as it is today, when the volume of commodity transactions began to get bigger and bigger, the country's tax revenue will also rise, from October 1, 1898, when the founding of the People's Republic of China was 80 million blue coins, to the end of last year, the official statistics of the Ministry of Finance was 2.5 billion blue coins, seven years has been almost doubling the rate of growth every year, of which forty percent is rubber, sugar, tobacco, Raw silk and other raw materials are obtained from exports, 20% of which are from agriculture, and the rest are brought by industry and commerce.

During the Qing government, it was not that there was no money, but that after curbing industry and commerce, commodities could not be circulated, and industry was almost equal to zero, and they all looked forward to digging in the ground, so the accumulation of hundreds of years in the Ming and Qing dynasties led to a large amount of wealth in the country turned into silver and precipitated in the people, that is to say, it became dead money.

Therefore, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, Li Mo did not say a word about abolishing the silver standard, which made silver become an industrial raw material, and a large amount of backlog of silver had to enter the banking system to exchange it into paper money, and paper money cannot be saved, or you deposit it in the bank, but there is basically no interest in these years, and it is easy to say that small households are sitting on empty mountains for large households, plus the land began to disperse, don't think about it if you look forward to making money from the land, and there is only one way to spend money and invest to make money.

Tens of billions of dollars in state investment, improving infrastructure construction, the country's political stability and the population advantage of up to 400 million, as well as the industrial and commercial stimulus package implemented by Finance Minister Leong Dun Yan, have all provided a guarantee for leapfrog progress.

In particular, the electrification revolution in Huada has begun to emerge, from the electrification of the important power generation and power plant construction point of view, at present China is the world in the world has more power plants, only 500,000 kilowatts of hydropower projects have eight rebuilt, the early Yalu River hydropower station and Tumen River hydropower station even have been in the three northeastern provinces after meeting the electricity demand, began to export to North Korea, according to Li Mo's calculations, until the first phase of electrical construction in 1915 is basically completed, The country's power generation will reach between 800 and 100 billion kWh!

This means that at that time, Huajiang will be the first in the world to be proud of a single data that can reflect the country's strength.

However, although the country has 3.5 billion a year on paper, it is only a little looser, which is much worse than the United States and Britain, especially the United States, whose GDP exceeded 120 billion US dollars last year, and the fiscal revenue also reached 250f2 US dollars, which is equivalent to nearly 380f2 blue coins, and the gap is still extremely far away.

Fortunately, the United States is a private investment model, and the flow of funds is relatively dispersed, and it is a state centralism, which can use foresight to seize the commanding heights in certain key areas.

Therefore, one thing Li Mo knows better than anyone else is that from the beginning of his return, he never thought of relying on the economy and relying on the conventional mode of progress to press the United States, which is impossible.

At this time, although the international status of the United States is not much better than that of China, but people have a white man's skin, his goods can enter any country in the world unimpeded, but he can't, everyone wants raw materials in the South Seas, but the commodities are difficult to say, with the suffocating arms race officially began, the world has entered the age of empires, the free economy is gone, trade restrictions, technical barriers will appear one after another, just like a high-walled embankment, even if you produce good and cheap goods, White people won't easily open the door and let you in and dump.

China has the world's largest human resources, coupled with financial support, only need to wait a few more years, the output of light industry with low technical requirements will reach a frightening level, so it is time to find a predetermined buyer for the goods first.

Seeing that Li Mo stared at the map for a long time and didn't speak, Chen Ping couldn't help but ask: "Your Majesty, what about the expansion of the army?" "Oh, I've already said hello to Mr. Li recently, the council is reviewing this matter, the territory is bigger, the army will naturally expand, and the economy is better at present, so it should be passed in two days." Li Mo tapped his fingers on the table beside him and said: "But you still have to be mentally prepared, the army will not increase a lot at once, Li Enfu and I confessed, he can only give another fifteen main infantry divisions and ten National Guard divisions, and it is not in place at one time, it must be divided into five years, so you must increase the proportion of non-commissioned officers in the army, and keep more veterans down, so that when you need it urgently, you can quickly expand." ”

"Okay, this number is enough, the army will not fight a big battle in the past few years, I will let people jump out of the reserve division first, otherwise it will be difficult to find such good soldiers when it is disbanded." Hearing that a quota of 400,000 yuan was given, Chen Ping did not ** eyebrows.

"Is Sun Jiugong back?"

"I'm back." Chen Ping replied: "I have already told him about the formation of an armored division, and he is very interested and has accepted the task. ”

Li Mohui smiled slightly, the army is always like this, after fighting a battle, you must sum up experience, train the troops, and then prepare for the next war, but the problem is that the next war is too big!

It is necessary to start stockpiling from this moment, and now that the economic pressure has finally eased a little, it is time to start again, so he turned his gaze back to the Coron Islands: "Is there any news from the Bohai and the North Wind?" "News from five days ago, the search for water sources, in addition to the fact that the survey of the port of Black Bacreiso has been completed." Chen Ping knew Li Mo's thoughts, and smiled bitterly: "The situation is not very good, at least none of our capital ships can be stationed, and only light patrols can be used far-fetched." Speaking of this, he paused, thought for a while, and then whispered: "Your Majesty, is it slow again?" ”

"Slow? How? Wait for the United States to grow to challenge us? Li Mo waved his arm and asked, "How are Long Guozhang's warships selling?" ”

"With 50 sets of radios, Chile agreed to buy two Polar Stars, but only offered £300,000 for one." Chen Ping smiled bitterly, Polaris is 300,000, and those poor Russian ** ships don't know what the price is.

"Don't care about the price, it's more cost-effective than when scrap iron, the main thing is to speed up the elimination, recover the funds, and after a while, there will be a large number of this kind of old goods in the international market." Li Mo said, and the essence of the limit flashed: "In addition, you tell him that if you want to sell weapons, you must first muddy the water!" ”

"Contact Simmons, next month we will send two Jilin-class, two Dalian-class and two Jinghai-class ships to Chile to visit and escort two battleships back to Chile." Without waiting for Chen Ping to respond, Li Mo had already stretched his waist and said with a smile: "You have to remember that we are making progress, and our opponents are also making progress, and it is impossible to catch up with the United States, so we must try our best to make the United States unable to concentrate!" ”

"Just because you don't fight doesn't mean you can't tease him!" …… (To be continued)