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Putting down the documents in his hand, Huo Shan frowned, and sighed lightly!

After nearly five years of development, not only the official territory under the control of the Huo Jiajun has become larger, but even the base areas in places such as the Indochina Peninsula and the Qing Dynasty have become more and more. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Indochina Peninsula and other places Huo Shan is not worried, anyway, it is not its own people, as long as there is any strength that hinders the development of the Huo family's army, just start fighting! But the Qing Dynasty has become different, because he once deliberately explained that he could not hurt the innocent, and did not make too many killings, so the entire Qing Dynasty's internal base areas were tied up when they expanded, and they were a little backward compared to other base areas that were developing rapidly!

Moreover, thousands of years of historical civilization and various special reasons have made China's local villages and towns far from being as simple as they seem, whether it is local clan forces, ethnic minorities, or rivers and lakes forces such as the Elders' Association and the Salt Gang, as well as various old families, they have all become obstacles to the expansion of the Huo family's army!

"Huo wolf, is this all true?"

"Yes, young master, Zhili (Hebei) Lu clan, Shandong Kong clan, Henan Cui clan, Shanxi Wang clan, Shaanxi Gansu Li clan, Anhui Zheng clan, Jiangsu Zhuge clan, Zhejiang Xie clan, Sichuan Pei clan and Wei clan, Hubei Liu clan, Hunan Zeng clan, Jiangxi Chen clan, Guangdong Wen clan, Yunnan Mu clan, a total of fifteen major clans, they are out of the Manchu Qing Dynasty Aixinjue Luo clan, whether it is strength or power, now the most powerful fifteen families in the Qing Dynasty!"

"If you add the Zhao family and the Zhu family in Nanyang, it will be seventeen big families!" Huo Shan said with some emotion. In his previous life, his social status was too low. I don't know about these huge families that have been inherited for thousands of years, but I think that even foreign countries can survive Capet, Rothschild, Bourbon, Anjou and other thousand-year-old families, and China, which has been civilized for thousands of years, of course, also has behemoths hidden in the dark!

Now with the increasing power of the Huo family's army. These big families who are well versed in the way of self-preservation have finally surfaced under the investigation of the National Security Bureau and the Military Intelligence Bureau, as well as the Huo family's secret guards!

"Hehe, except for the Mu clan in Yunnan, the Zeng clan in Hunan, and the Zhao family and the Zhu clan in Nanyang, the others are all giant families that have been inherited for thousands of years!" Huo Shan said with a smile.

"What the young master said is that the ancestor of the Mu clan in Yunnan is Mu Ying, the general of the Ming Dynasty, and the Mu clan has guarded Yunnan for nearly three hundred years, and its power there is deep-rooted. Even the Manchu Qing Dynasty only eliminated the power of the Mu clan on the surface, but secretly the Mu clan was still the most influential family in the southwest region! The Zeng clan in Hunan rose because of the Zeng State Domain! Moreover, the Zeng clan was also the youngest wealthy family among the dozen or so big families! The Zhao clan and the Zhu clan were both royal families, but they both left for the same reason. One was driven out by the Mongols, and the other was driven out by the Manchus!"

After listening to Huo Wolf's words, Huo Shan nodded, and after a few circles in his study. Looking up, he asked, "This time." How did they come to us on their own initiative?"

"Young master, these big families have many branches, they control millions of acres of land, and there are thousands of shops in their hands! And the policy we have implemented in the base areas to fight local tyrants and divide the land has fundamentally violated the interests of these big families, so of course they are in a hurry!"

"Haven't we already implemented a policy to support the development of industry and commerce? And the Zhao and Zhu clans in Nanyang have also been transformed, why don't these local wealthy clans know how to adapt?" Huo Shan said with a frown.

To be honest, he had no intention of destroying all of these big families. Because the impact is just too great. Also, no matter what era. Especially in China, which pays attention to origin, lineage, and clan, there will be powerful families rising, even in the 21st century! But the key is that the existence of these big families cannot hinder the development of the Huo family army itself!

"Young master, these big families that have been inherited for thousands of years have a very high opinion of themselves, even our Huo family was not looked down upon by them at the beginning, and our Huo family army only occupied the villages and towns below in the Qing Dynasty, in their eyes, it was like a peasant rebellion like the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom! They thought that they could still destroy us like they had eliminated the peasant army before, how could they abide by the policies we formulated!" Huo Wolf finally said.

"Young master, now that we have accumulated nearly five years, we have controlled more than 800 counties and more than 60 prefectures, and all the internal base areas of the Qing Dynasty, including the regular army with the second-line garrison division, basically there are 30,000 or 40,000 troops in each base area, we have accumulated enough strength, I think it is better to simply turn it over! I believe that those Eight Banners Green Battalion, the Hunan Army, and the Huai Army will not be able to make much waves!"

After listening to Huo Wolf's words, Huo Shan was also a little moved for a while, but thinking of his long-term plan, he pressed down again. He shook his head slowly, "Huo Wolf, now that we are preparing to start a war with the Americans, it is really not easy to start a war. In addition, as soon as the Qing Dynasty moves, Britain, France, and Russia, which have many interests here, will certainly not remain indifferent! Russia, in particular, is always thinking of forcibly occupying the northeast, Mongolia, and northwest China and forming their Yellow Russia!"

After finishing speaking, he turned his head to look at the unwilling look on Huo Wolf's face, Huo Shan couldn't help but smile, and said: "Don't worry, when we clean up the Americans this time, and then use Egypt to weaken the British, and then in a year or two, after the completion of the first five-year economic development plan, it will be time for us to look back and look north!"

"Yes, young master, but what about these big families, according to the intelligence of the Military Intelligence Bureau, they have begun to use the power in their hands to let those local officials of the Qing Dynasty send troops to encircle and suppress us!"

"Hehe, let them come! It just so happens that the population of immigrants from the Americas is too small, so I will move all the captured soldiers and their families to the Americas! Fill the population where we are! Consolidate our rule there!"

"Understood, young master!"

"By the way, how are the French in Cambodia and southern Vietnam doing?" asked Huo Shan.

In the previous life, the Sino-French war began at the end of 1883, but this economic crisis, with Huo Shan's participation, France, as the second most seriously damaged country in the economic crisis after the United States, this life is much more miserable than Huo Shan's previous life! Moreover, the chaotic economic situation in its country has also spent most of their energy, so that now it is November 1884, and the French still have no movement in the Indochina Peninsula!

"Young master, last month, a rebellion broke out in the French-controlled city of Saigon in southern Vietnam, with more than 100,000 participants, but because it was too hasty, coupled with the lack of specific planning and weaponry, it was suppressed by the French in less than a week! In addition, with the aggravation of the economic crisis, the looting by the French in southern Vietnam and Cambodia has become more serious than before, and more than seventy percent of the grain produced by the peasants has fallen into the hands of the French.

"Hehe, that's good, how can we have a chance if we don't mess up!" Saying that, Huo Shan turned around abruptly and said with a solemn expression: "Huo Wolf gave you a task!"

"Young Master, please command!"

"Well, after you go back, immediately go to Yun Feng, get a batch of old-fashioned rifles from the equipment department, and then draw capable personnel from the Military Intelligence Bureau, secretly send them to the French-controlled areas in Cambodia and Vietnam, quietly organize resistance forces, and try their best to fight against the French rule there! The purpose of fighting with the French is not for you to completely drive them out of Indochina, but to consume their living strength, you want to turn the French-controlled area of Indochina into a flesh and blood millstone, and then devour their flesh and blood little by little, understand?" Huo Shan commanded.

Although he didn't know the purpose of the young master's doing, Huo Wolf didn't ask too much, and simply agreed!

"It would be great if we could fight the French in the Indochina Peninsula for eight years! At that time, I can't help but greatly weaken the strength of the French, and it can also reduce the indigenous population of the Indochina Peninsula by a few percent!" Looking at the back of Huo Wolf leaving, Huo Shan couldn't help but laugh.

"Young Master, the American Military Region is calling!" At this moment, Horley walked in with a telegram in his hand!

"Oh, bring it to me and I'll take a look!"

"Hehe, Ou Yangming and Stark Ross have done it!" After reading the telegram, Huo Shan couldn't help but laugh.

"Young master, why do we have to pull these Americans down to our Huo family's army to invest!" took the telegram in the young master's hand, and after reading it, Huo Lei couldn't help but ask.

"Because we have become mortal enemies with the Americans! Moreover, these people have huge wealth in their hands, and if they invest the money in their hands into our territory, then in the future, when the United States begins to rebuild after the end of the war, this part of the funds will be gone! This will inevitably affect the speed of recovery of the United States! On the contrary, our development will become faster under the impetus of these wealth! The gap between us and the Americans will become even smaller!" Huo Shan said confidently.

After the reform and opening up in his previous life, Huo Shan has a large number of methods to eliminate the harm that may be caused by foreign-funded enterprises entering the territory of Huo Jiajun! I believe that as long as the banks and currency are firmly controlled, and then the safety of the financial industry is ensured, then even if these American capitalists invest in more factories, they will not endanger Huo Jiajun's economic security! )