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If you want the Army to work, you certainly need this money.

The three parties were noisy for several days, and finally referred to the early examples of Nanyang expansion. The war proceeds from overseas expansion mainly include three categories: combat seizures, administrative confiscations, and war reparations.

Military supplies are delivered directly to the military, and civilian officials do not interfere. As for how to divide the army and navy, they negotiate internally.

At present, ordinary supplies and gold and silver are divided according to the ratio of 46 to 60% for civil servants, that is, 60% is directly turned over to the national treasury and belongs to the unified financial allocation; 4% for the military, but 40% also needs to be turned over to the national treasury first.

Then it will be returned to the military in the form of temporary war expenses...

This only limits the proportion. The more war revenue, the more the military will distribute!

This distribution model is very similar to giving commissions to salesmen when doing business and making money. The higher the performance, the greater the commissions.

Whether it is military supplies, or ordinary supplies, or cash, the distribution within the military is done in this way, and the civilian officials do not care, and the army and navy negotiate and handle it themselves.

In general, even if the military argued hard, the civilian officials still directly took the lion's share... Of course, it is not appropriate to say that the civilian officials took the majority. Instead, it was said to be directly turned over to the central fiscal treasury and included in the general ledger together with ordinary administrative revenue, taxes, etc.

It is used for various expenditures in the empire, and these expenditures actually include conventional military expenditures.

The internal distribution ratio of the army and navy is more complicated. There are different distribution rules according to different enemies in different areas.

After the three parties reached an agreement, they formally signed a memorandum and then respectfully requested the Holy Judgment!

After Luo Zhixue reviewed it, Zhu approved: Approved!

When it comes to dividing the spoils, the monarchs and ministers of the Chu Empire have always been very serious and serious.

In order to prevent all parties from going back on their word in the future, it is normal to make a memorandum and ask Luo Zhixue to give instructions.

Without Luo Zhixue's accurate words, all parties are worried that the other two parties will go back on their word and pocket their own war gains.

After the most important matter of dividing the spoils is finalized, the next step is simple... The civilian officials said that your army and navy are doing whatever they want overseas, except for several large European colonial countries such as the Netherlands and Spain.

For other small indigenous countries, if you want to fight whoever you like, our civil service group will definitely cooperate vigorously, and we will order the governors of various places to cooperate with you in issuing a declaration of war.

In the political system of the empire, the military has the power to fight, but not to declare war. The power to declare war lies in the center of the empire. In addition, there are two overseas governors who also have the power to declare war against the indigenous countries in specific regions. The Nanyang governor can declare war on the indigenous countries in Nanyang.

, the governor of India can declare war on the Indian Peninsula and the garrison in West Asia.

Without a declaration of war by the central government or the two overseas governors, the military in the overseas territories cannot attack these indigenous countries without authorization.

But the Eastern Trading Company and the Western Trading Company are exceptions... They beat whoever they like outside the territory of the empire and vassal states... because strictly speaking, this is the behavior of a small group of Da Chu Empire citizens on foreign territories.

Whether it is doing business or fighting with the indigenous people, or simply using artillery to bombard the indigenous cities, these are all things that happen on the territory of other countries.

Imperial laws cannot control foreign territories!

Of course, if the people of the empire are bullied by the indigenous people abroad, then the empire cannot ignore it.

To put it simply, the imperial official's attitude towards the actions of these two major armed trading companies overseas is that they have won the battle, and the natives will pretend that they have not seen it when they complain or file complaints. However, if they lose the battle outside, the imperial official will consider it personally.

Help at the end...

In short, what stands out is that he is shameless!

Of course, although the civilian officials put it nicely and said that the military will attack whomever it likes, the final decision-making power still rests with the Jinling Central Committee.

Therefore, in fact, the military's military operations still have to comply with the empire's overall strategy.

The empire's overall overseas expansion strategy is to first secure Fuso and the Luzon Islands to create an absolute defense circle.

In addition, solving the Luzon issue first can also avoid serious conflicts with the Spanish during the expansion of the Americas. Then the Spanish will not sell the Luzon Islands to the Dachu Empire. Although it can be conquered by then,

It will cost a lot of money, and it is difficult to fully accept the Spanish’s numerous strongholds in the Luzon Islands and the indigenous information.

Therefore, we must first buy the Luzon Islands before large-scale expansion in the Americas.

The military, on the other hand, will first make comprehensive large-scale preparations. In particular, the navy will first build a batch of steam ships and refit some warships and install steam engines.

At the same time, we will establish overseas bases and so on.

Then we need to prepare a large number of transport ships. For overseas expansion, warships alone are not enough. We also need a large number of transport ships to transport soldiers, immigrants and various strategic supplies.

Otherwise, if a fleet of battleships rushes over alone, it will be difficult to supply supplies. Even if the stronghold is captured, it will be difficult to hold it for a long time.

At the same time, we need to deal with Fuso first, not by annexing it directly, but by acquiring a few overseas territories and the like, and then continue to control the infiltration of Fuso, and mix up the water first.

Prepare for full annexation in the future.

Under such circumstances, both the civil and military parties started planning separately.

The civil servants asked the Department of Confucius Affairs of the Ministry of Rites and Education to find the Spaniards and restart a new round of negotiations on the transfer of the Luzon Islands.

The military side is preparing to start filming in Fuso...

However, the scale is not expected to be very large. The empire does not intend to send too many warships there, so it randomly sends four warships, along with a group of cruisers and frigates.

Thousands of Marines accompanied him.

The navy's task is very simple. First, find a foothold in Fuso, and then use this foothold as a base to fully control and penetrate Fuso.

However, these military operations are trivial, and the real war preparations are the navy's own equipment improvement preparations.

The Navy placed orders for more than 30 military transport ships of various types to major shipyards in one fell swoop. These transport ships are all motor-driven ships starting from 1,000 tons.

At the same time, Jiangnan United Power Company, Tianjin Machinery Company, Dangtu Machinery Company and other domestic manufacturers that are capable of producing high-pressure steam engines are jointly established by Guangzhou Machinery Company and Luohua Shipyard, Songjiang Naval Shipyard and other shipyards.

A large number of orders for various types of steam engines were placed.

On the one hand, it will be used for the construction of a large number of planned sailing ships, but more of them are intended to be used for the steam transformation of existing pure sailing warships.

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The purpose of modifying these sailboats is not to expect that these modified ships can use steam engines for ocean voyages, but to use them as a backup power.

It can provide additional power to the battleship to speed up during combat, or seize the T prefix to enhance the battleship's maneuverability.

This is also the greatest benefit that steam engines at the current technological level can bring to the navy.

As for relying on steam engines for ocean voyages, to be honest, it’s not very reliable...it might end up anchoring at sea.

What supports the Chu Empire Navy's large-scale plan to build new and modified motor-sailing ships is because there are already four domestic manufacturers of high-pressure steam engines.

However, it is worth noting that except for Tianjin Machinery Company, which solved a series of technical problems on its own and became the second domestic manufacturer to develop a high-pressure steam engine and bypassed a series of unique patents of Guangzhou Machinery Company, other

Jiangnan United Power and Dangtu Machinery Company both use the limited-time patent authorization from Guangzhou Machinery Company.

And even the installation targets are restricted.

Jiangnan United Company doesn't care about this. They are the product of strategic cooperation between several shipyards and Guangzhou Machinery Company. This strategic cooperation is purely to bypass the very cheating agreement signed between Guangzhou Machinery Company and Guangzhou Shipyard.

Pre-orders and priority purchase agreements...

Strictly speaking, this factory is actually a holding production base affiliated to Guangzhou Machinery Company.

However, when Dangtu Machinery Company accepted the patent authorization from Guangzhou Machinery Company, it was a forced and helpless choice.

As Guangzhou Machinery Company's high-pressure steam engine quickly seized the market, and Tianjin Machinery Company successfully developed a high-pressure steam engine, among the three major domestic steam engine manufacturers, only Dangtu Machinery Company was still unable to develop it... For this reason, they

I'm so anxious.

They were originally planning to continue immersing themselves in research and development.

However, the navy, the two major armed trading companies, and major shipping companies have a huge demand for high-pressure steam engines, and the production capacity of Guangzhou Machinery Company and Tianjin Machinery Company is not enough.

Therefore, under their leadership, Guangzhou Machinery Company and Dangtu Machinery Company reached an agreement on technology licensing patents, allowing Dangtu Machinery Company to use these patents to produce high-pressure steam engines specified in the contract for a limited time and in limited quantities.

In this regard, Dangtu Machinery Company is actually unwilling!

You can’t make much money from technology licensing, and you still use other people’s technical standards. Once the patent authorization is over, you can’t use it... and it won’t affect the production of the high-pressure steam engine you are developing.

But people have made it clear that they need more high-pressure steam engines. If a factory as big as yours is idle, you might as well become a foundry to produce Guangzhou Machinery Company's steam engines for a while, and wait until your own high-pressure steam engines are produced.

, you can also take advantage of the situation to produce your own high-pressure steam engine!
Chapter completed!