Chapter 527: Rich Ranking
readx; ps: I'm sorry, I didn't update yesterday by taking the train home, and the easterners have to stay in their hometown for three days, so they can only keep one shift, and they will return to normal after three days!
"Therefore, in order to ensure the smooth progress of this war and avoid Britain and France and other countries from detecting the relationship between the two sides, therefore, I am ready to divide the military department!"
"Remove Huo Shi from the post of chief of general staff, Huo Long will concurrently serve as him, remove Huo Hu from the post of minister of the army, and be succeeded by Huo Jianguang, commander of the Nanyang Military Region. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"Remove Huo Bao from the post of commander of the Special Forces Command and temporarily hand him over to Huo Wolf! Remove Wang Xiangzong from the post of chief of staff of the Military Region of the American Military Region, and appoint another person!"
"Huo Shi, Huo Hu, Huo Bao, the three of you, plus Wang Xiangzong, for the time being, the four of you, and then transfer some personnel to form the northbound headquarters, and have full authority to handle all the military priorities after we go north to fight!"
"Yes, young master!" the three of them stood up with excited expressions and said loudly.
Seeing this, Huo Long and Huo Wolf next to him, as well as Huo Yu and Huo Feng, couldn't help but show envy in their eyes.
Going north to fight, overthrowing the Qing government, and establishing a new country in that haunting land is undoubtedly the dream of any Huo Jiajun officer.
"By the way, there is one more thing, after the end of this Qing-French war, there is no need for the French to let them stay in the Far East anymore. Let Liu Wenqi of the Fourth Division drive them out!"
"There were also the British colonies in Indochina, taking advantage of their bogged down in Egypt. The 9th Division of Sun Chengdong in the Cambodia-Puzhai Base Area, the 26th Division of Changyou in Burma, and the 41st Division of Qian Han in Thailand. The 44th Division of Malay-West Asia will strictly observe the courtesy, and then let the 19th Division of Qin Shoushan in Shannan Province (Laos) help them!"
Huo Shan's order was something Huo Long and they couldn't think of before, but it was naturally a good thing that the troops could fight.
"Then, young master, do you want to settle it even with the Spaniards in Luzon. It's an eyesore to look at him!" Huo Hu was always the first to speak.
Now the entire South Seas, all the islands and lands, have basically been brought under the rule of the Huo Jiajun. Only the Spaniards' Luzon was an exception, and the Huo family army was newly established before, considering that it was not appropriate to provoke too many enemies. Later, I fought with the Americans, so there was a delay in time.
Looking at the fiery color in their eyes, Huo Shan smiled and nodded.
"I have no problem with dealing with the Spaniards, but we will have to delay it a little later. Settle the French first. And then settle the British. The last one to drive out the Spaniards!"
"Then young master, is the military budget ......?" Huo Long asked with a hint of a courteous smile on his face.
"Hmph!" Seeing his appearance, Huo Shan rolled his eyes angrily.
"Don't think I don't know, in this American War, your military department also privately withheld a lot, and the small treasury is very rich, so use that money!"
Hearing this, Huo Long and Huo Shi glanced at each other. I couldn't help but smile wryly on my face at the same time.
They did have a small treasury in the military department, about 200 million silver dollars. This is the money they have prepared for emergencies and for the troops to be equipped with some new equipment, especially new artillery. I didn't expect the young master to pay attention to it.
"Okay, don't have a bitter face, don't you still have captured materials in the war? This time, we can give priority to your military headquarters as war funds!"
"Thank you, young master!" Hearing this, Huo Long's faces immediately turned from worry to joy.
The Indochina Peninsula has many gold mines, and is rich in products, oil and water are very rich, and in six years, Huo Jiajun obtained a wealth of more than 400 million silver dollars from here. Moreover, they were all obtained in the relatively poor places of several countries in the Indochina Peninsula, and if the rich coastal areas were occupied this time, it is believed that the spoils of war would be even more abundant!
"Hmm!" Huo Shan nodded.
"By the way, this time I would like to make a special request to you! The war on the Indochina Peninsula must not have anything to do with the Huaxia Republic. Therefore, in this war, your military department must set up a special command. Moreover, this time, the Government Council will not intervene in the government affairs of the countries of the Indochina Peninsula in the future. ”
"Young Master, is this also the case in Luzon?" Huo Long asked.
"Not bad!"
"The British are already very wary of our expansion in the Far East, so there is no need to provoke them. After the liberation of Indochina and Luzon, they set up their own independent states to distract Europe, especially Britain and France. Let's take them back when the time comes!"
Hearing this, everyone nodded, and they had no opinion on such an arrangement.
"Young Master, since the Northbound Command has been formed, what about the government?" Huo Shi asked with a slight hesitation.
For the people who cooperate with him, Huo Shi is still very concerned.
After listening to his words, Huo Shan stood up and said with a smile: "This time, I personally went out to command the battle in the north, and was responsible for all government affairs!"
In the past, because he was too young, Huo Shan never stood at the front desk, but after this year, he will be 18 years old, and he is already an adult in this era, so it's time to stand in the front and lead the Huo family army in the most important liberation battle!
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Just after the Spring Festival of 1887, when the people of the entire Chinese Republic were still immersed in the joy of the second Spring Festival after the new establishment of the country, the richest group of people in the entire Chinese Republic became extremely busy.
"Young Master, it's here!" As the servant opened the car door, Guo Chen stepped down from the galloping horse car that the Guo family had just purchased.
Today's Guo family is no longer the small family that was trapped in Taiwan and wanted to buy a sugar factory worth less than one million, but still needed to borrow more.
Six years have passed, with the joint efforts of father and son, and now the Guo family has become the largest sugar merchant in the entire Chinese Republic, not only controlling hundreds of sugarcane plantations, but also six sugar processing factories with an investment of more than one million, controlling sixty percent of the cane sugar trading share of the Chinese Republic.
However, due to the "Anti-Monopoly Law" promulgated by the People's Republic of China just two years ago, the Guo family's pace in the sugar processing industry finally slowed down, and they began to develop into other industries. Last year, he invested 10 million silver dollars alone to build shipyards and steel mills in Long Beach and Los Angeles in Yizhou Province (California) in the Americas, announcing the beginning of the Guo family's official shift from sugar to shipbuilding and steel expansion.
However, such a large investment also made the Guo family's funds begin to be tight, but despite this, the Guo family did not stop expanding the family's assets.
Just today, when the news came out that the Ministry of Railways of the Government Council would auction off the right to operate some railways and officially issued invitations to major families and enterprises, the Guo family raised 20 million Huaxia coins with their own sugar industry as collateral, and officially registered the Guo's Railway Operating Company with the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. And today he is here to make another major investment for the Guo family, and to fight for more railway operation rights.
Looking at the tall office building of the Government Affairs Yuan in front of him, Guo Chen took a deep breath, handed over the documents to the doorman for inspection, and walked in with the servant.
Then, under the guidance of the reception staff arranged by the Government Council, Guo Chen came to the large meeting room on the second floor. At this moment, the place has already become lively.
Groups of people dressed in neo-hanfu or long robes sat together, talking and laughing with each other. The banquet, which imitated the relatively free and relaxed buffet form of the West, replaced the more rigid and rigid Oriental wine party.
"Brother Guo, here!" As soon as Guo Chen entered, a young man about thirty years old stood up.
"Brother Li, I didn't expect you to come here today!" Guo Chen walked over and said with a smile.
"Hehe, yes! Our Li family also wants to get involved in the railway industry!" Li Wenbin did not shy away from it.
Six years ago, Li Wenbin and Jerry, his college classmate when he was studying in Europe, invested in the purchase of the Huo family's fishing company. Later, during the world economic crisis, Jerry sold all the shares of the company to Li Wenbin, and then returned to Europe by himself.
Over the years, with the support of his family, Li Wenbin has not only developed the original fishing company into more than 500 large and small fishing boats, the largest fishing company in the Chinese Republic, but also further involved in the seafood processing and ocean transportation industry, and on this basis, the Oceanwide International Marine Group has become the ninth largest business group in the Chinese Republic, with assets of no less than 30 million Chinese coins.
And last year, the Lee family also invested 5 million on their own to set up the Kawan Shipyard in Kawan City (Bandar Seri Begawan), Borneo Province. Began to expand from the shipping industry and fishing industry to the shipbuilding industry.
The Li family, who was originally born in Hong Kong, has now moved to Pontianak, Nanyang. Because of the frequent cooperation with the Guo family's sugar transportation, although the Guo and Li families are not world friends, the relationship is also quite close.
However, compared with the Guo family, which is now evaluated by the "Huaxia Business Daily" as the third largest business family in China and has family assets of 60 million Huaxia coins, the Li family is only ranked twelfth.
"Huaxia Business Daily" is a comprehensive newspaper issued by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce of China, which will regularly publish some commercial regulations of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, as well as some major business events in China, and another is to rank the major business families in China, which changes every year.
In the latest issue of the list of wealthy families released in 1887, the first place is the Zhao family, as the descendants of the royal family of the Song Dynasty, in Nanyang for hundreds of years, for the Zhao family to accumulate rich capital, before the Huo family army occupied the Nanyang, the Zhao family has been the largest plantation owner on the island of Java.
Even the Zhao family's plantations and the industries they now operate in wood processing, papermaking, and garment manufacturing are estimated to be worth hundreds of millions of Chinese dollars, which is equivalent to hundreds of millions of silver dollars before the currency reform. (To be continued.) )