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Chapter 129 War Preparation

On New Year's Day in 1892, Nanhua also issued a total of 100 million yuan in banknotes. Although they were printed after that, they were not put into the market for circulation.

One hundred million yuan has already saturated the market of Nanhua. If it increases again, it will be artificial inflation. But the difference is that Nanhua is really rich, so inflation is low, but there is more money.

Nanhua's currency reform attracted many people, and the British were all envious of it, but they didn't take action in the end.

But the capital of France and the United States is not looking for Nanhua. They want to enter Nanhua's finance and make a fortune.

"Mr. Prime Minister, with banks, there should be securities trading and stock markets. This is the most convenient way for companies to obtain financing and for the people to make profits."

"Yes, there are also futures. This is a great tool for physical manufacturing. Farmers who want to expand production but lack funds will get a lot of help."

"Yes, Mr. Prime Minister, mineral mining, agricultural product cultivation, and expression production can all be helped by the futures market! How great it would be to use other people's money to produce your own products!"

Balala...

"Thank you gentlemen for your suggestions. We will carefully consider the opinions of France and the United States. I am still very busy and will leave first."

The Prime Minister they call is Liu Yiming.

Because Chen Jiangtao and Liu Wanhua made a fuss about resigning after Liu Yiming came back.

On December 20 last year, the two resigned from their positions as president and prime minister. Chen Jiangtao was appointed director of the Education Committee, and Liu Wanhua was appointed director of the Children's Health and Development Committee.

Liu Yiming was appointed interim prime minister, Xu Hui was appointed interim deputy prime minister, and Chen Simin was roped in to be the minister of education. Although he was more suitable for the Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, his bargaining and price raising abilities were top-notch.

The president is temporarily idle, and Liu Yiming takes over as president.

This currency reform, because it is a currency reform under military control, other countries have no access to the meat, so they came to encourage Liu Yiming to liberalize the stock market and futures...

Once the restrictions are lifted, tens of millions of cash flow will rush in, pushing up the stock market and futures, and then your life or death will be affected.

"Prime Minister, Wang commanded the telegram." Presidential Palace, Liu Yiming lived here after assuming the duties of acting president.

Liu Yiming received the telegram.

"Huh~ The preliminary preparations are almost complete."

It was to report on the reorganization of the troops. In this reorganization, four brigades were reorganized into four divisions. Thanks to the diversified reserve model, the reorganization was completed quickly.

By New Year's Day, 1892, Nanhua had a total of four divisions, eight brigades, and sixteen regiments, and more than twenty technical battalions directly under the division and directly under the brigade.

Two strategic independent units:

Heavy Howitzer Battalion: Equipped with six 152mm howitzers. The barrels are pieced together and the gun mount is an elastic gun mount. It is the first practical elastic gun mount in Nanhua.

102 Rocket Artillery Regiment: There are two rocket artillery battalions and one transportation battalion.

The total number of the army is more than 60,000, and together with the coastal defense, navy, and police, the total number is close to 80,000.

If it were on a continent, after training, the army of more than 60,000 people could run rampant and scatter the colonial troops in the Dutch East Indies and French Indo-China!

"Send a report to Wang Yang, continue to arrest and train, and at the same time continue to clean up the savages without leaving any room. Before the war begins, there must be no native strongholds along the coast of Java." Liu Yiming said.

Due to insufficient population, Nanhua has been inactive on the southern coast of Java, but that's about it.

"The British have agreed to start the transfer to Brunei." Secretary-General Yang continued. This Secretary-General is a former staff officer, but he has been doing the work of a secretary.

"Send Zhang Wentao to Brunei and gradually take over. Britain is not so quick to let go of the big city, and the focus of immigration is tilted towards Brunei, following the example of the Production and Construction Corps." Liu Yiming said.

Due to insufficient population, Liu Yiming can only strategically occupy important locations, such as big cities, or Brunei, which is very safe and has a certain foundation at this time.

There is a ship repair shop, two small docks, an ironworks factory that can produce some parts, complete living facilities, a gunpowder factory, an arsenal, etc.

It's just that the scale is relatively small and the equipment is old, because this is a supply base for the British anti-piracy, from Malacca, to Hong Kong, to Brunei. There are many small islands in between that serve as supply bases.

…………

While Liu Yiming was discussing this matter, Kalimantan and Yang Tao had already started construction on Brunei.

Set up an advance base and clear out an area for immigrants to live.

Immigration was decided from the beginning to protect the soldiers, but Yang Tao didn't know it yet. As the current situation changed, Liu Yiming decided to increase immigration and directly digest Brunei.

"Commander Yang, the No. 2 Forward Base has just been attacked. The attackers were an insurrectionary force against the British." The staff officer handed Yang Tao a battle report.

"What's going on? Are you not vigilant at all?" Yang Tao looked at the battle report and said angrily.

"This unit was adapted from the urban militia. They have lived in the city for a long time and are less vigilant." The staff officer knew that he would be scolded and said bravely.

"Ask the fifth brigade to clean up the ten kilometers around the qualified base and clear all strongholds." Yang Tao did not curse, but just ordered.

After becoming the commander-in-chief of the front army, Yang Tao truly understood why Wang Xu, Wang Yang, and Liu Yiming had to kill the savages.

The savage cannot be influenced or communicate. Only when the gun is put in his mouth and the trigger is pulled, will he feel a little regretful about why he didn't run away or why he didn't kill you.

"If you want the savages to obey, kill half of them first, and the other half will naturally obey." This is what Wang Xu said.

Sometimes Liu Yiming doesn't dare to use Wang Xu, because he may not have enough labor force. Currently, only one city of the target of Wang Xu's attack has survived, and only half of it has survived.

"Yang, I heard you captured the rebels?" At this time, there was a shout outside the tent, and a very strong British man walked into the tent.

"Wells, I don't know if they are rebels. Are you interested? I will send them to you later." Yang Tao glared at the staff officer and said.

"That's perfect. These rebels are all rats. They can't cause harm to you, but they always jump out to disgust you." Wells paused.

"I suggest you recruit some local people and let them go dog-eat-dog. If trained properly, they are also very useful tools." Wells said softly.

After speaking, without waiting for Yang Tao to answer, he turned around and left the tent.

"What do you think?" Yang Tao really listened. Now he is really short of manpower. He has to build fortifications, build bases, and clean up the savages.

Wells's suggestion moved him. It didn't take much, and it was a kind of liberation to have thousands of laborers to do hard work.

"But the city is controlled by the British. We can't take action. Going to the villages to catch the savages is time-consuming and laborious. It's better to clean up the surrounding area and at least train troops." said the staff officer.

"What about transporting it from Java?" Yang Tao thought about it.

"No, with this transportation capacity, we might as well transport a few more immigrants." Yang Tao vetoed it himself without any advice from the staff.

"Hmm...can we buy it? Use muskets, sell them to those tribes, and let them pay with prisoners?" The staff officer thought of Nanhua's operation of driving the natives into the mountains.

"Huh?" Yang Tao's eyes lit up.

"I'll report to the commander." Yang Tao went to send a telegram excitedly. As for where the muskets came from? Brunei has many, hundreds of them can still be obtained.

"Yes!" After Liu Yiming received the telegram, he only replied with one word. It's just a musket and no logistics. It's useless to give you Maxim!

"Go, find a few locals, spread the news, we will sell guns and replace people." After getting permission, Yang Tao quickly arranged it.

Maybe the colonists always killed people while selling things. After a few days, the news spread throughout the jungle, and many people were ready to take action.

Within half a month, three groups of people arrived to discuss the matter.

"Is there no problem? Although those rifles are outdated, the bullets are just as deadly." Zhang Wentao had already arrived, and at this time he was watching Yang Tao selling guns.

"It's okay, Governor Zhang. We have tampered with these rifles, such as sawing off the barrels, grinding off the rifling, distorting the sights, etc. Moreover, they are all muzzle-loading rifles, which are very troublesome to load and pose little threat to us." Yang Tao

said.

"Will they buy it?" Zhang Wentao asked. Not all natives are worthless, some of them have received education, Javanese education, Malay education, or Dutch education.

Those who receive Chinese education are now Chinese.

"They have no choice. As long as one family buys it, everyone else has to buy it," Yang Tao said.

"What should we do if the Dutch use the same method?" Zhang Wentao continued, asking for advice.

"If I were a Dutchman, I wouldn't. I wouldn't even care about this island. The right way is to concentrate our forces on Java." Yang Tao said first.

"Secondly, the purpose of our doing this is to cause chaos, reduce their population, and finally make it easier to clean up and make room for immigrants. After the Dutch clean up, who will they ask to farm their land?" Yang Tao laughed.



"The mountain tribes have robbed our women, food, livestock, and land. We have become homeless. Today we will take back our land and take away everything from the mountain tribes!" Nisnei held up a handful.

Short-barreled flintlock rifles, shouting loudly.

"Take back the land and kill them!"

"Take back our cattle, sheep and women!"

Dozens of natives shouted sparsely.

"Charge!" Nisnei's eyes were full of anger. These dozens of guns were obtained at the cost of twelve people's deaths, by attacking two villages and capturing a hundred people.

Dozens of people, holding guns and pointing empty guns at the sky, rushed toward a valley with howls of ghosts and wolves.

After a night of "fighting", Sinai walked out of the leader's room holding his pants up the next day.

"Xinei, those who don't want to surrender will be killed. What should we do next?" His men came up and asked.

Sinai thought about the divine help yesterday. When he rushed up, the mountain tribe was already frightened and panicked. He killed the leader boar in a few blows. He also thought about the smell of the leader's woman.
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