It's done.

Sun Chuanting, a strategic-level talent, joined Xu Yuan's command.

is willing to work for Xu Jiazhuang for five years, and the cost is only a mere one million silver dollars in academic research sponsorship.

In such a "Five-Year Agreement", Xu Yuan felt that he did not lose at all, but made a lot of money.

Because of a top talent like him, as long as he uses it well, as long as he gives full play to his ability, the benefits brought by him are absolutely unimaginable and will never disappoint.

Of course, if you don't use such a talent well, like Sun Chuanting in the normal historical line, you will be reduced to a firefighter and a high-level consumable to die, even if you have the ability to score 100 points, you can play 10 points at most, and no matter how talented you are, it is useless.

So Xu Yuan is quite looking forward to it, if Sun Chuanting is provided with a platform that can give full play to his ability, how much surprise will he bring?

Fortunately, Xu Yuan didn't wait long.

Sun Chuanting, who first held the position of 'strategic consultant', did not take office for a long time, and after passing the initial adaptation period, he quickly proved his ability, so that those jealous eyes, private dissatisfaction and slanderous voices had to be reduced a lot.

Because there are several big things going on.

On October 10, the basic construction of the fishing port on Jeju Island was completed and put into use, and since then, the number of ports controlled by Xujiazhuang has increased from one to two.

However, in the eyes of the fishermen of Harbour City, in the eyes of the Xujiazhuang Navy fleet and sailors, this port is affectionately called "Bagang" by them.

That is, the port of hegemony.

As long as there is this port, the fishermen of Harbour City can fish freely and without any restrictions in the surrounding area, and no one can harass these fishermen, let alone expel and attack, which will only invite the retaliation of the naval fleet.

So the right to occupy fishery resources was thus established.

The maritime deterrence capability of the surrounding North Korea and Japan was thus established, and before they established a strong naval fleet and did not have the strength to challenge the naval fleet of the Xu family, the hegemony of this sea area belonged to the powerful Xujiazhuang.

On the 12th, the six ironclad steam warships of the 'fishing fleet' stationed in Ba Gang all returned to Harbour City for rest.

On 15 July, the first batch of 50,000 'innocent troops' in the barracks west of the harbor city were declared officially formed after a month of basic military training.

That is, the 'innocent army'.

And this army is very special, it does not belong to a regular army like the Xu family army, and belongs to the nature of a servant army or militia.

Its soldiers are mainly refugees from Henan, Shaanxi, and Shanxi, and they are all young and strong refugees who are willing to take risks, can take risks, and agree to go overseas to make a fortune.

In order to save costs, they received only one month of recruit training.

There is no military pay, just food and clothing.

In terms of weapons and equipment, each person has a set of half-body plate armor and a pair of alloy dog-leg knives per person, which are the basic necessary equipment.

Ten thousand of them were pikemen, using steel pipe spears with a length of nearly five meters, which could be arranged in an inaccessible array of hedgehog pikes.

20,000 people are bird guns, each equipped with a 15mm caliber bird gun, using fixed graphite black powder bag (a kind of black powder coated with graphite on the surface, with the advantages of not being easy to get wet, powerful, stable particles, etc., is the product of black powder evolution to the apex), breech loading, the use of mini bullets, the use of flintlock ignition fire, huge power, the maximum effective range of 350 meters, high accuracy and other advantages.

The only drawback is that the reload speed is two rounds per minute, and the good shooter can reach three shots, that is, the reload is slow.

Even so, this is one of the best firearms in the world, second only to the electric fire breech gun used by Xu Jiajun.

The remaining 20,000 are crossbowmen, each equipped with a small pulley steel crossbow (which can save half of the force), but the power is also considerable, the maximum lethal range is 150 meters, as long as the physical strength is sufficient, five arrows can be fired per minute, and the arrows can be recovered after the war to reduce the logistical burden.

In short, this 50,000-strong innocent army, from head to toe, has embodied a flavor of compromising with cost and logistics, but its combat effectiveness can still be guaranteed, and it will never be a weak brigade.

And this is only the first batch, and there will be a second and third batches soon...... It is necessary to continuously train innocent troops.

So the big question arises: what is the purpose of forming an innocent army? What are you going to do?

Colonize.

Naturally, in order to send them to overseas colonization, with a knife and gun in one hand and a hoe in the other, the soldiers and peasants were integrated to open up more living space belonging to the Chinese nation.

It is precisely because they have undertaken this glorious and great task that when they go overseas, as long as the innocent army has a knife to the outside world, as long as the living space of the Chinese nation is increased, then no matter what the innocent army does, it is all 'innocent', the law will not punish them, morality will not condemn them, they will be praised and praised for their merits, and there is no need to have any guilty mentality at all.

This is the origin of the 'Army of Innocence'.

To this end, as early as September, after a lot of research and discussion, the senior management of Xujiazhuang formulated the initial plan of "colonizing the southeast and sweeping the South Seas".

Combined with the various situations encountered in reality, a lot of adjustments have been made.

Therefore, at today's high-level strategic meeting, Xu Yuan came up with a set of final action plans and said:

"This time, we have to really make a big deal, not the previous petty fights."

"According to the principle of from near to far, from easy to difficult, we must first develop the nearest overseas colonization points to us, and even the territorial resources within the Ming Dynasty."

"For example, on the island of Taiwan, which is not highly developed, we will immigrate 500,000 people and build 50 sugarcane farms, so as to obtain countless white sugar to meet the people's demand for sugar and industrial raw materials."

"On Hainan Island, the southernmost tip of the Ming Dynasty, we will also immigrate 500,000 people, establish 50 rice estates, occupy and reclaim at least 1.5 million mu of rice fields, and plant high-yield rice in three seasons a year, with the aim of bringing 24 million stone of rice (that is, 1.5 million tons) every year in the future, becoming an important grain export base."

"Then go to the nearby Red River Plain in Vietnam, go to the Mekong Delta of Cham and resettle 500,000 people, establish more than 30 rice estates and colonies, occupy and reclaim at least one million acres of rice fields, and establish a second overseas grain export base."

"Then turn around and go to Luzon and Sulu, eliminate the Spanish colonial forces entrenched in Manila, sweep away all Western colonial strongholds, kill those white male colonists without leaving behind, and avenge the more than 30,000 Chinese people who died in the Manila massacre!"

"Finally, turn south and sweep away the colonial strongholds belonging to the Dutch East India Company, such as Borneo, the Spice Islands, and Batavia, all the way to the Strait of Malacca, and control this choke point, sweeping away all the Western colonial forces existing in the South Seas!"

"We swept through the South Seas, in addition to eliminating and expelling the Western colonial forces, we also had to build 20 fishing ports, develop at least 10 spice estates, 20 rubber estates, as well as fruit estates, sugar cane estates, minerals, logging fields, etc., and make every effort to run the South Seas, and the first batch of immigrants will reach as many as one million! Our action this time is not to be a hurried visitor to the Nanyang region, but to stay here forever, to turn the South China Sea into our inland sea, and the South China Sea into our back garden! ”

Of course, in order to realize this plan of "colonizing the southeast and sweeping the South Seas", the resources that need to be used are also extremely huge.

The six ironclad warships of the Xu family's fleet must all be requisitioned and dispatched.

The Marines, numbering only 20,000 people, had to dispatch at least 15,000.

At least thirty steam cargo ships are to be drawn.

The 50,000-strong innocent army should also be dispatched, and Sun Chuanting should be the commander of this legion, responsible for commanding the innocent army to fight.

There are also drugs used to cope with the tropical climate, such as artemisinin for malaria, antibiotics for cholera, as well as various antiviral drugs, antidote drugs, etc., Xu Yuan has purchased a billion yuan worth of money in modern society, enough for millions of people to use for two or three years, thereby greatly reducing the death caused by disease, water and soil adaptation.

There are also small-scale agricultural equipment, farm implements, pesticides, and high-yielding varieties that can adapt to tropical climates.

As well as rubber saplings, durian saplings, coconut saplings, banana saplings, etc., which are ordered from the modern society, all of which are excellent varieties and can be delivered quickly.

As for other materials, there is no need to introduce more, which has caused Xu Jiazhuang to consume a lot of family funds, not to mention, in modern society, the deposit balance in Xu Yuan's bank card has completely dropped to zero, not to mention, and hundreds of thousands of overdrafts have been overdrawn...... It is difficult to regain blood, at least in the short term.

The purpose of investing so much is to open up overseas, increase the living space of the Chinese nation, and obtain more benefits and resources.

So after listening to Xu Yuan's introduction.

The senior executives present were extremely excited and excited.

"I haven't made any big moves in the past two years, and today it's finally here."

"Okay, it's very good, it's just about to enter winter here, and it's not easy to do anything in the cold, so you can go to the warm south to toss and toss and do something big."

"Refugees and hungry people in Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places, we have rescued more than 8 million, 2 million have been arranged to repair bridges and roads, 2 million have gone to Shanxi to dig coal, and more than 4 million want to fight, fight, willing to take any risk, this number is much more than we expected, but just right, our factories are no longer short of workers, "colonization of the southeast, sweeping the South Seas" this plan, not afraid of no one to pass, to be honest, this year's drought, is a big help to us, We have an incomparably large number of people. The executive said.

"That's right, misfortune and blessing are relied upon, blessing and misfortune lurk, and there are opportunities hidden in the crisis, that's what I said!"

"As long as we prepare well enough, act quickly enough, and with the climate characteristics of the tropics, as long as we sow the seeds as soon as possible, maybe in half a year, we will be able to reap something."

"Devouring the Starry Sky: Signing in to Become a God"

"Yes, three crops a year, even if the land is not very fertile, but after the transformation of our Huaxia people, as long as there is enough water and light and there are fewer natural disasters, we can get a steady stream of countless harvests, and add more granaries, sugar depots, and resource depots to our Xujiazhuang."

"It's just that the strength of our Xujiazhuang family is obviously a little insufficient, especially in terms of ships, which is seriously lacking, and it can't support such a big operation at all."

"Why don't we bring the Zheng family in Fujian to work together, we are allies, the Zheng family has many sailing ships, hundreds or thousands, even if they run much slower than steam ships, but they can also play a very big role."

"We have to pull the Zheng family into this project, otherwise we will invest a lot of money, not to mention, we will be a little overwhelmed, and it is a big deal to divide the land to the Zheng family and let them build dozens of manors...... The land of the South Seas is too big, and our family can't afford to open it all up. ”

Hear these suggestions.

Xu Yuan nodded and said, "Then let people notify the Fujian Zheng Group and ask them if they are interested in joining, and if so, they will start preparing immediately, and if they are slow, they can only drink some soup." ”

"Yes, I'll let you know right away." Zhang Guoyan stood up and said.

"Brother Baigu, do you have any additional suggestions? Are there any gaps in our plan? ”

Xu Yuan turned his head again and asked Sun Chuanting, who was sitting next to him in a white robe, wanting to get some useful advice from his strategic adviser.

And Xu Yuan's words came out.

Eat one's heart out.

Jealous.

Anger, resentment.

Including all kinds of unpleasant eyes, hit Sun Chuanting's body, for this big celebrity around the owner, few of the high-level people present liked him, even in the past few days, Sun Chuanting has proven his ability and put forward a lot of insights, all of which have been adopted by Xu Yuan, which has made him more jealous, after all, it is a mediocre talent not to be envied.

"Yes!"

Sun Chuanting said: "The climate of the South Seas is unpredictable and changeable, so we should recruit more fishermen guides who are familiar with the place to know the location of the nearest safe haven, and each large ship should be equipped with radio equipment, and the small boats should be equipped with iron cables to connect with each other, so that even if there is a storm, the damage can be minimized and the rescue can be carried out quickly." ”

"Good! These are all added to the action plan, is there anything else? Xu Yuan asked.

"Nope."

Sun Chuanting shook his head, that's all he could think of, these days for this plan, he racked his brains, all the details were considered, and they were almost hollowed out.