Liu Yiming felt that he was still not familiar enough with the people around him. In the first part of the meeting, the establishment of a provisional regime was discussed. The issue of whether to establish a provisional regime was unanimously approved. Everyone agreed that a regime needed to be established, but there were differences in the choice of political form and title.

A group of people headed by Chen Jiangtao did not have many requirements for the political system, but they required that the name must be loud, such as Da Nan or Alliance. Anyway, the requirement was that it sounded mighty, domineering and loud.

The other group of people is mainly the Wang family. The Wang family is purely engaged in trade and is one of the few Surabaya Chinese who do not operate plantations. They have three cargo ships of more than 2,000 tons and more than ten passenger and cargo ships of 1,200 tons. The main routes are

Passing through India, the Qing Dynasty, Japan, Malacca, Batavia and other major cities in the Indo-Pacific. What these people want is to be able to raise the Chinese flag while not overly irritating other people and just target the Dutch.

The other group of people are mainly young people recruited by Liu Yiming, and they are mainly the leaders of various bases. However, the leader of this group of people is Liu Yiming's father, Liu Wanhua. The starting point of this group of people is very tricky, low-key, and they pretend to be pigs and eat tigers.

Paralyze the Dutch, accumulate strength, and find opportunities to steal homes!

The demands are also different. Chen Jiangtao wants to seize greater power, at least drive away the Dutch on Java Island, and also vigorously develop the army, do his best to defeat the Dutch, and accept the entire Dutch East Indies colony. For long-term operations, persist

Full support attitude, optimistic that the situation will get better.

The bottom line for the Wang family and others is limited autonomy. With military, governance, security, economic, and other free rights, they can give up their sovereignty, become an overseas territory of the Netherlands, and accept taxation, diplomacy, and military restrictions from the Netherlands. For

In the next battle, they are willing to provide limited support, but they are more afraid. They believe that they can negotiate with the Dutch and stop when they see fit. As for a long-term battle, the probability of failure is higher.

This group of people are just stupid and not bad in nature. They just have been colonized for many years and their fear of the Dutch has been engraved. In addition, the businessmen do not understand the difference between contracts and treaties and naively think that negotiation can solve the problem.

Liu Wanhua and others simply didn't think too much. Liu Yiming kept doing work for this group of people. He wanted to accumulate strength, defeat the Dutch, open up a living space for the Chinese, etc. Now there is a surprise attack on Surabaya Zhuyu, and now he wants to show off.

Treating the enemy as weak, pretending to be a pig to eat the tiger, raiding Batavia, and going straight to Huanglong. Therefore, this group of people only needs to be submissive, even if they are called the Villagers' Autonomous Committee of Surabaya Village, a Dutch colonial city, it doesn't matter.

The three factions were quarreling in the hall and disagreed with each other. Chen Jiangtao thought that the Wang family was too cowardly. The Wang family believed that it was not certain whether they would win or lose in a subsequent fight. It was better to just accept it as soon as possible. It would be good to win the status of autonomy. Liu Wanhua

He feels that the most important thing now is to unite, develop quietly, show weakness to the enemy, and steal the family. As for whether the fight will continue, the position is certain. He and Chen Jiangtao both believe that the Dutch will not allow the emergence of the Dominion, which makes

What do the other Dutch colonies think? If they can be autonomous, then I also want to be autonomous. How can the Dutch lead their troops?

Liu Yiming prefers Liu Wanhua and others.

The most important thing is that Xu Hui said that after the new equipment is installed and combined with the shipyard's tools, Surabaya will have the ability to manufacture artillery shells. Bullets and artillery shells can be manufactured by themselves, which requires installation, debugging and trial production.

It will take about a month to manufacture fuzes, explosives, and cartridge cases. Mass production can be achieved within two months. In addition, various machine tools are manufactured. In addition to the old machine tools left by the Dutch, some machine tools can also be produced manually.

Guns can be produced within half a year, and with certain equipment added, small-caliber cannons can also be produced.

"Okay, okay, let's negotiate." Liu Yiming watched the time passing by and had to speak first.

"Uncle Chen, you mean to raise a big flag and gather more Chinese people."

"Uncle Wang just wants to keep a low profile."

"Dad, do you mean that we develop quietly and practice Tai Chi with the Dutch?"

"That's probably what it means." The three of them thought for a moment before saying.

"Okay, I roughly understand. Let's do this. In the name of Chinese autonomy, let's talk to the Dutch first. It's definitely the best if we can talk. We need time now. If we can't talk, we can only fight.

." Liu Yiming thought for a moment.

"In addition, what Uncle Chen means is to raise a big flag, gather more Chinese people, and establish the name of the Chinese Autonomous Region. This can be done. The advantage is that it will not overly stimulate the British. The British do not believe us, but they really want to see it.

Until we cause trouble for the Dutch."

None of the three objected. From the moment Liu Yiming took over the command knife from Henry, the Chinese in Surabaya all supported Liu Yiming. This meeting also made the three of them quite satisfied, proving that Liu Yiming did not ignore their feelings.

"Then the general scope has been set. You decide on the name. Now we have to solve the problem of the army." Liu Yiming found that the three of them had no objection and went directly to the most important issue.

"Is there any problem with the army?" Chen Jiangtao was the first to ask nervously: "If you have any difficulties, just say a word if you can solve them."

"Uncle Chen, don't worry, I'll talk slowly."

Liu Yiming paused.

"So far, we have a team of 1,700 people who have gone through training and participated in the entire Surabaya battle, but there are still many problems."

"First of all, there is the medical issue. Many of our soldiers needlessly sacrificed in this battle. The soldiers did not even know the most basic hemostasis operations. Many soldiers bled to death, so we need to sacrifice, especially in surgery. A large number of

Surgeon."

"The second is the number of troops. We only have 1,700 people. After excluding the 500 people from the two forts, the mobile force is only 1,200. We have captured three warships and need 200 people. With the warships, we must guard the port.

, it is expected to be a coastal defense battalion with about 300 people. Other barracks, government affairs bureaus, and various factories all need people, so we are particularly short of troops. This is my army expansion plan. It is planned to expand to 6,000 people. There are 6,000 people.

Man, I am sure to defend the entire Surabaya, including the surrounding plantations!"

In the hall, among the crowd, you look at me and I look at you. Six thousand people are indeed not a small number. There are only about 200,000 Chinese in Surabaya. If half of them are young and strong, there are only 100,000 people. Excluding half of them

Women, 50,000 prime-age men, 6,000 people account for 12%!

"No problem, we will mobilize every household when we go back. We don't have an army. Everything in our hands is empty. Stop the plantation and business and so on. We will only lose a little money. If we can't stop it, everyone here will die.

In the hands of the Dutch! We are all grasshoppers on a rope. If we are not united now, will we regret it when the Dutch's knife cuts on everyone here?" Chen Jiangtao was the first to stand up and said, except for the first sentence:

What I said to Liu Yiming, everything else was said to the people present.

"Yes! Once you decide, just do it. Don't be too petty. What big things can you achieve?" The head of the Wang family also stood up and said.

"Everyone, it's actually not that serious. Times have changed now. It's no longer the time for the Dutch to call the shots. Plantations, docks, and all kinds of work that the natives can do can be done by the natives. We have seized a batch of weapons.

Among them, there are a thousand guns that we don't need and can be distributed to various plantations, docks and other places." Liu Yiming said quickly when he heard that these people were preparing to shut down the plantations.

Hearing what Liu Yiming said, every participant's eyes shone. The Chinese people's experiences over the years have made them have magical beliefs in weapons.

"I support it. The work on the plantation is not difficult anyway, but it is a bit tiring. It is not necessary to use the brainpower of the dock. Let the natives do it. It is not impossible to hire a few of your own people to manage it."

"Yes, that would free up 10,000 to 20,000 young people. Not only can we expand the army, but we can also expand the factory. If the manpower is sufficient, the production of guns and ammunition can be advanced!" Xu Hui said.

"Then it's settled. We'll call them when we get back and see how many of them are willing to come. If Yiming hadn't stopped the battle in Surabaya before, all my sons and nephews would have been eager to rush forward!" Liu Wanhua supported.

"Then, this matter is settled. This matter is very urgent. Please arrange for someone to go back and inform you immediately. If you train one day earlier, a few people will die less. Our lives are precious and we cannot afford to waste them!" Liu Yiming urged!

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"I'll have someone come over now and you can choose." Chen Jiangtao angrily asked his son to go back and make arrangements.

"Okay, then the next question is the issue of industrial production. Xu Hui will tell you this question." Liu Yiming looked at Xu Hui.

"In terms of industrial production, we took over the shipyard, three machinery workshops, several processing plants, as well as chemical equipment, mechanical equipment, steelmaking equipment, etc. shipped from Singapore. The equipment is being installed and debugged. After the installation is completed

, we can start production immediately, because now we are facing the threat of the Dutch, and industrial production is mainly tilted towards the military industry." Xu Hui spoke nervously.

"It is expected that the start-up of two bullet production lines can be completed within one month. It is designed to produce 40,000 rounds of bullets per day. Experimental production of artillery shells can be completed within one month and industrial production within two months. The current design is to produce a total of five types of artillery shells per day.

Baifa, the chemical plant can currently produce 800 kilograms of picric acid yellow explosive per day, as well as a large number of by-products. The equipment has not yet been installed. After completion, it can produce three tons of explosive per day and 600 kilometers of smokeless gunpowder. The by-products can be used for other industrial production.

The steel plant has a designed output of 20,000 tons, and the steel-making furnace is being installed and will be officially put into operation within two weeks."
Chapter completed!