The Weaver has a new mission - transporting troops.

"Quick, quick, quick, hurry up and get on the ship, don't wait any longer." In Surabaya Port, soldiers from the newly formed fifth brigade were queuing up to go ashore. Time was running out. They didn't know when the Dutch Navy would block the waterway, so the soldiers could only be sent ashore.

It will be reorganized after arriving in the Brunei colony.

"Hey, one, two, push! One, two, push!" The artillerymen are working hard to push the cannon onto the ship. The port is very lively, with dozens of ships operating at the same time. However, the side effect is that the machinery is insufficient, and the artillery can only use manpower.

Transferring nearly 800 kilograms of cannon to the ship is undoubtedly a difficult task.

"Hoo! Hoo! Hoo!" The gunner of this artillery team is seventeen-year-old Yu Deshui. He is a new immigrant. He became the gunner in just half a year. At this level, he can operate an artillery alone or command a fire team.

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"Finally up!" Yu Deshui's eyes were full of tears. He was not crying, but holding his breath. He waited until his lungs stopped whirring like bellows before he stood up.

"Deshui, good news, I just heard the new battalion commander discussing your promotion." A simple and honest middle-aged man came over with a smile on his face, looked around and said carefully in Yu Deshui's ear.

"Oh." Yu Deshui is only seventeen years old after all. If it were not for the reorganization of the Production and Construction Corps, he would not have gone to the battlefield, so he did not have much physical training and did not have much energy at this time.

"It's over if you don't. If you were promoted, you would at least be a company commander, but you are too young, so you should be a deputy, or a deputy. Our village has just settled down, the rice has not been confiscated, and you are dragged to fight again...

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Ignoring the thoughts of the men in the same village, Yu Deshui looked at the cannon and thought of his father...

"Having come from the Hunan Army, is he trustworthy?" Yu Deshui's battalion commander was talking to brigade commander Li Abing.

"And I've only been here for half a year, so I have to ensure that I can trust it before I can use it." Li Abing said.

He participated in the Battle of Dahukou, attacked Pamanukan, destroyed Tangerang, supported Madura Island, and was then reorganized into the Fourth Brigade. He has stayed on Madura Island until now. What Li Abing values ​​most is trust!

"This is the comment I made after asking the village chief of Qianfeng No. 2 Village. These are comments from neighbors who were surveyed and visited. So far, they are biased toward the positive side," said Ma Bei, the battalion commander of the artillery camp.

Due to insufficient artillery training, the newly formed fifth brigade is not directly assigned artillery at the first level. The support firepower is mainly mortars, and the artillery is assigned to the artillery battalion.

It is said to be an artillery battalion, but in fact it is more than that. There are three four-gun artillery batteries, equipped with British three-inch guns for easy supply. There are also three 18th regiment 102 rocket launcher vehicles. It is not enough for an artillery regiment, but it is more than an artillery battalion.

"Call Yu Deshui over and I'll talk to him." Li Abing thought for a long time and said.

Ma Bei ran to look for Yu Deshui.

"Yu De Shui!" Ma Bei shouted in the artillery area.

"Yes!" Yu Deshui jumped up and stood up straight.

In Nanhua, we eat well. Every meal includes rice, vegetables and fish, and sometimes tofu. Sometimes we catch wild animals and eat a piece of meat. Although it is not as luxurious as the luxurious life we ​​had when we were children, it is enough to have enough food and water.

Very satisfied.

"The brigade commander asked you to come over immediately." Even if he was optimistic about Yu Deshui, Ma Bei could not reveal any information. This is a rule. The army is a place where rules are followed. This is what Liu Yiming constantly emphasized.

"Yes!" Yu Deshui packed up his weapons and walked to the brigade commander's cabin.

"Are you from Deshui, Hunan?" After entering, Li Abing asked directly without being polite.

"Yes!" Yu Deshui was a little nervous.

"Don't be nervous. We are fellow villagers. My great-grandfather is also from Hunan." Of course not. Li Abing doesn't know where his great-grandfather is from, but he is from the north.

"Is your father a dead general?" Li Abing continued to ask.

"I'm not a general, I'm in charge of the Hunan Army's Shuiziying Camp." Yu Deshui was extremely nervous now and was sweating profusely. However, the army had military rules, and now was not the time for him to explain.

"Why are you living here?" Li Abing walked over casually and looked into Yu Deshui's eyes.

"Teaching case, after the Tianjin teaching case happened, Zeng Zhongtang died, and the Hunan army lost its source.

When the superiors refused to give me money, my father went to ask for money. The court of Gou Yue gave two hundred taels and wanted to dismiss more than 1,500 people.

Suddenly one day, the soldiers came to arrest me. My mother stuffed me in a hole and escaped death.

After that, he wandered around until he was caught by a trafficker and came here." Yu Deshui told everything he knew.

Li Abing took notes and asked some seemingly unrelated questions, but they could express a person's perspective.

After asking, he nodded.

"The organization has decided to put an extra burden on you. You need to study more in the future. Do you know this? A village will soon be built into a town. After this battle is over, I recommend you to go to school."

Li Abing paused for a moment, looked at the seventeen-year-old child, and smiled evilly.

"I heard that it is difficult to arrange for women. There are already seven or eight thousand girls in one village. When the time comes, go to school and seize the opportunity!"

"Ah! I...I'm not good enough, so I can only fight on the front line." Yu Deshui knew about organization. His village chief was a person in the organization before. He could do everything from farming and fighting to teaching.

What about Yu Deshui? He went to private school for two years and came to Nanhua to learn knowledge for half a year. He was exposed to gunfire when he was a child, and after systematic study, he thought about it.

"Silly boy, don't think about it. The organization is an organization and it does not affect your position. Go back!" Li Abing knew that he had misunderstood. He had misunderstood enough in the past few days.

Yu Deshui left stupidly, and in the end he didn't understand what Li Abing meant.

After a day's sailing, as soon as he got off the ship, the battalion commander found him and brought him a suit of clothes.

"Yu Deshui!" the battalion commander looked at him and stood at attention and shouted.

"Yes!" Yu Deshui stood at attention.

"We hereby appoint Yu Deshui, a member of the militiamen of the Second Village of Qianfeng, as the commander of the second company of the Fifth Brigade Artillery Battalion, with the wartime rank of warrant officer. This order is issued by the Kalimantan Command of the South China Army. November 23, 1891!" Battalion Commander

He took out his letter of appointment and answered in a straight and clear manner.

Yu Deshui is already confused. Am I being promoted?

"Ahem! This is the officer's uniform and the certificate of commission. Keep it all away. You have four cannons, but there are only ten artillery cadets to share with you. You can find the others by yourself. Do a good job." Ma Bei patted Yude.

Shoulders of water.

"Yes!" Yu Deshui replied reflexively before he could react.

Liu Yiming has trained nearly two thousand artillerymen in total. The number of artillerymen operating barreled artillery should be sufficient.

But the forts needed people, and for three forts, a thousand people were taken away. There was also an artillery school that needed instructors, and a field heavy artillery regiment. This number of people was simply not enough.

There is no other way but to train the students from the artillery school in advance, and recruit those who can fire normally under command. Yu Deshui is special. Although he is a militia, his artillery skills are basically up to standard and he has a certain cultural foundation. That's why Ma Bei attaches so much importance to it.

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"Commander, the Dutch sent a diplomatic letter to protest our intention to transport troops to Kalimantan." Liu Yiming was talking to Xu Hui when Staff Yang came in and said.

"Don't worry about him, he is also increasing his troops. In addition, he has not claimed that this is his colony. This is normal behavior for us!" Liu Yiming said.

Kalimantan was annexed to the Dutch East Indies in 1912. Before that, although the Dutch took control, they did not announce it for fear of retaliation from the Qing Dynasty.

"We continue to say that the bank has been established and accepted, then it is time to issue currency." Liu Yiming said, looking at the documents submitted by Xu Hui.

"But we are fighting now, if something goes wrong." Xu Hui worried.

"Precisely because there is going to be a war soon, the British may want to control us at this time, but they definitely don't want us to fail. So this is the most appropriate time." Liu Yiming said.

"This..." Xu Hui was a little unsure. He had outstanding administrative abilities but lacked international vision. This was a common problem.

"Whether the Dutch fight or not, we are about to start fighting in Kalimantan. I plan to send Yang Tao to Kalimantan." Liu Yiming changed the topic and said.

"Why Yang Tao?" Xu Hui asked doubtfully.

"Logistics, we can't provide much supplies, nor can we provide more soldiers, so we sent Yang Tao to train while fighting. The immigrants specially selected a group of soldiers and sent them to Kalimantan for training. Yang Tao is good at this.

"Liu Yiming explained.

Xu Hui accepted this explanation and continued to ask.

"The machine for issuing banknotes is ready. What pattern will be used?"

"Three mountains and five mountains as the base, coupled with the plate maps of past dynasties, supplemented by the portrait of the founding emperor, I will give these to you later,

The colors are distinguished by the attributes of the five elements of the past dynasties, plus the ink formula I gave you, if nothing else happens, no one will be able to make counterfeit coins within twenty years." Liu Yiming thought for a while and said.

"Denominations 100/50/20/10/5/2/1, seven sizes, just right."

"This is to protect our culture. I've seen enough of those banana people!" Liu Yiming said.

"What about smaller denominations? Fifty cents, one cent, and cents." Xu Hui asked.

"Isn't there one more of the Three Mountains and Five Sacred Mountains? For fifty cents, just use that mountain and add coins.

For fifty cents, use silver coins, for one cent, use copper coins, and for five cents, use iron coins." Liu Yiming said.

"Okay, the number of issuances, and the name?" Xu Hui took the plan and asked all the questions he received.

"Name? To put it bluntly, Southeast Asian currency,

The quantity, in terms of gold, silver, and pounds, is converted to the international gold price, and is used as a reserve. The prescribed exchange ratio is 1:1.464476 grams. The treasury will issue as much as it has.

That is to say, it maintains a 5:1 price ratio with the pound and fluctuates according to the international gold and silver price ratio."

Xu Hui was a little confused. It was accurate to six decimal places? So rigorous?

"We are currently cooperating mainly with the United Kingdom and the United States. This ratio is conducive to exports." Liu Yiming did not pay attention to Xu Hui's performance, but said.

"Let's design new coins. I'll see the results within a week." Liu Yiming said.

"So urgent?" Xu Hui was a little embarrassed. The design was not difficult, but it couldn't be done in one set, and modifications would also take time.

"We don't have so much time, so we have to work overtime and strive to complete this battle." Liu Yiming said.
Chapter completed!