"What's the situation like over there in India?" Temple asked.
In order to stabilize the situation in India, the cabinet has sent two groups of expeditionary troops to the Indian colonies, with a total of 60,000 people.
The equipment transported reached nearly 200,000 sets.
The funds consumed have exceeded more than ten million pounds.
This is only the local investment. If the colonial losses are added, it will be an astronomical figure.
However, so much manpower and material resources were invested in it. The result? The entire north and northeast of India have fallen.
It was the most elite area of colonial India.
The troops sent now suffered heavy casualties and could only confront the rebels.
"Your Excellency Prime Minister, the situation in India is very bad."
"What happened? Did the other side start attacking again?" Temple asked.
Reinforcements cannot be sent out for the time being. In fact, Temple asked the cabinet to hide the news of the failure in the Indian region for the time being.
At this critical moment in the election, Temple didn't want any negative news to come out.
"Your Majesty Prime Minister, there is now a complete truce in the Indian region. The danger does not come from the enemy, but because of the plague."
"What? Has the plague not subsided yet?" Temple asked.
"Yes, Your Excellency, Prime Minister, we originally thought that the plague would be alleviated when the dry season came, but according to the latest reports from the British and Indian colonies, the local plague is still spreading." David said with a frustrated look.
It has been more than half a year since the plague broke out in Calcutta in the middle of last year.
In more than half a year, almost no war broke out in the British-Indian colonies.
Because at this time everyone faces a common enemy.
That's the plague.
The plague does not choose sides, everyone is their enemy.
This is both good and bad for the British army on the defensive.
In the first few months, the plague spread only in Calcutta, and then spread south along the coast.
Next, the plague was also discovered in the direction of the Northern Alliance.
Immediately afterwards, suspected cases were discovered in Myanmar, Bangladesh and the Holy Army.
Shi Dakai did not dare to underestimate him, and he quickly asked the Renaissance Army for help.
Dong Shuheng sent a capable medical team to support the Holy Kingdom.
They used many methods to finally spread the plague on a large scale.
But the control over the Kingdom of Myanmar is not that good.
In order to prevent the disease from spreading to the eastern mainland of Myanmar.
King Jaraja of Burma ordered to block the connection between the east and the west.
This caused great panic within the Kingdom of Myanmar.
In the capital city of Ava, some people began to spread rumors that the king had been infected with the plague and could no longer function.
Suddenly, the city of Ava was filled with tremors and undercurrents.
Li Shaoquan realized that the problem might get worse and quickly sent a report to Dong Shuheng who was in Phnom Penh.
Dong Shuheng immediately ordered Peng Yulin to dispatch a regiment from Tengchong Prefecture into the Shan State Plateau northeast of Awa City to standby.
Li Shaoquan also actively contacted the intelligence department action team in Awacheng.
Sure enough, after spreading rumors, the nobles in Avachen seized this opportunity to launch a rebellion.
They killed the remaining generals in Galoa and instigated the army in the city to obey their command.
They originally planned to control the army and then control the Prime Minister Min Aung Chong, using the old Prime Minister's prestige to reestablish a new king.
It's just that when they arrived at the Prime Minister's Office, it was already a step too late.
Li Shaoquan had already asked people from the Intelligence Department to take control of the Prime Minister and move him to a hidden place.
Then Li Shaoquan issued orders in the name of Prime Minister Min Angcong and mobilized troops stationed outside the city loyal to King Galoa to enter the city to quell the rebellion.
At the same time, Li Shaoquan, in the name of Min Aung Cong, ordered the troops at the border to release the Renaissance Army and come in for support.
With the support of the Renaissance Army, the rebels and rebellious nobles in Chengnei were wiped out.
Galloja was furious when he found out about this.
He was outside opening up territory for Burma, but he didn't expect that there would be people causing trouble in the rear. He immediately ordered all these rebellious nobles to kill all the nine tribes and take back their chieftain fiefdoms.
Of course, Myanmar's main force is in the Bangladesh region in the west.
When fighting rebellion, we also need to rely on the support of the Renaissance Army.
After this incident, Gaara became more determined to manage the Bengal region.
The local toast in Myanmar is so deeply rooted that it cannot be completely eradicated.
Now in East Bengal, he can control every citizen in his hands.
This feeling is completely different from when he first ascended the throne.
While punishing the rebellious chieftains, Galloya also ordered all clans to move to Dhaka.
At the same time, the main officials also moved to Dhaka.
Although there was still plague in Dhaka at this time, after receiving support from the Renaissance Army, the plague was basically under control.
Facts have proved that some of the measures proposed by the Renaissance Army to prevent the plague are very effective.
Li Shaoquan played a big role in this rebellion in Myanmar.
After this incident, Li Shaoquan's prestige among the chieftains in eastern Myanmar increased day by day.
Dong Shuheng recalled him and arranged for him to serve as the commander-in-chief of the southern Yunnan Province, so as to raise food and fodder for Annan's army.
Li Shaoquan also entered the upper echelon of the Fuxing Army's administrative system and was already qualified to join the cabinet.
Why do you say that?
Because according to the latest cabinet organizational principles formulated by Dong Shuheng, those who have not served as local officials are not allowed to become the prime minister and deputy prime minister of the cabinet.
In the future, the prime minister and several deputy prime ministers will be the core decision-making level of the administration.
As Dong Shuheng gradually divests administrative power from his own hands, the administrative power of the cabinet will become larger and larger.
Now, many senior officials of the Renaissance Army are focusing on the cabinet.
The cabinet of the Ming Dynasty and the military department of the Manchu Qing Dynasty all held positions of extremely popular ministers. The cabinet of the Renaissance Army would have greater power than them.
Dong Shuheng set the number of prime ministers and deputy prime ministers in the cabinet at five.
The deputy prime minister is in charge of some departments and can also serve as the head of some departments.
From now on, mere department heads will no longer participate in decision-making.
However, the Prime Minister and Deputy Prime Minister of the Cabinet are appointed by the President.
Department heads can be nominated by the Prime Minister and then appointed by the President.
The prosecutor's office and the courts are still under separate appointment and jurisdiction directly by the president.
The courts will also be gradually reformed and the justice system will be established. The Supreme Court will have seven chief justices.
A collegial panel system is implemented in the local review of cases, and a collegial panel must be formed by at least three judges.
Judges who hear cases need to be responsible for the outcome of the trial for life.
The Supervisory Yuan has also carried out corresponding reforms. The most severe reform is that if a corruption case occurs in a local area, the local supervisor shall bear joint and several liability. Only when the case is investigated and handled by the supervisor himself, the supervisor shall
Can be exempted from liability.
This has made the inspectors, who used to be aloof and fearful of anyone who met them, now become a high-risk industry.
Of course, now these inspectors have become more fierce and sensitive, like hungry wolves, staring closely at the local officials.
The number of officials who have been impeached and filed cases has greatly increased.
Li Shaoquan finally squeezed into the first echelon of administrative officials by virtue of his own ability.
He is similar in age to Zuo Jigao. Zuo Jigao entered the cabinet as deputy prime minister, making many officials jealous.
Especially officials like Li Shaoquan who joined the Renaissance Army midway, most of them have reached the golden age of their political career.
It's not just these high-level departments. Dong Shuheng has also begun to establish local councils on a pilot basis in some places.
Three important provinces and cities have now established provincial councils.
The number of members of the Council is divided according to prefectures and counties.
Elected locally.
Judging from the current election situation, these people are mainly respected local people.
Each province or municipality determines its quota based on its own population.
The number of these committees ranges from dozens to hundreds of people.
They have the right to question local governments and the power to review government work plans and budgets.
It's just that Dong Shuheng hasn't unlocked more powers for them yet.
He plans to pilot it in some more developed areas with more civilized people first.
Dong Shuheng did not have the ability to establish a new system all at once.
Ordinary people cannot adapt to this system so quickly.
But Dong Shuheng has an advantage, that is, he is young. People in their twenties are the time to think about the future.
Even if you make a few mistakes, it doesn't matter.
It is now the fourth year of Fuxing, 1859 in the Western calendar. Dong Shuheng is 24 years old, Zeng Xianfeng is 65 years old, and Zuo Jigao is 48 years old.
The main generals of the Renaissance Army are all around 30 years old.
This is a legitimate young team. The Renaissance Army is also a positive and progressive group.
However, Dong Shuheng has already begun to train the next generation of successors.
There is a naval academy and an army academy in Xinjing.
In the Naval Academy, Guo Yan, a young man who was admitted to the Naval Academy from the Junior Military Academy, has grown into a handsome young man.
Guo Yan, who has just grown up this year, has been studying in the military academy for a year. He also participated in sailing practice and sailed back and forth in the Pacific Ocean with his teachers on the sailing training ship "Yu Dayou".
As his studies deepened, Guo Yan became more and more fond of the ocean.
Years later, the school suddenly wanted to select a group of students to go to Wuchang. As for what they were going to study, no one knew.
The teacher revealed to them that there was new equipment to be installed, and the best students needed to be selected to participate in secret training.
Guo Yan did not hesitate and was the first to sign up. His grades were already among the best in the class.
Guo Yan was naturally chosen.
Then a group of their students came to a secret training base in Wuchang Prefecture, which was located on a lake by the river.
This lake has a radius of dozens of kilometers. But such a lake has no name.
It's as if someone specifically erased it from ordinary people's vision.
The lake is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and a ship lock is built at the connection with the river.
There is even a large pumping station to fill the lake with water.
This keeps the average depth of the lake at nearly fifty meters.
There is a shipyard by the lake, and the docks are all enclosed.
From the outside, you can't tell what is being built inside.
As soon as Guo Yan arrived here, he could feel the tight security here.
Among their group were outstanding students like Guo Yan, as well as officers and soldiers drawn from the active navy.
The leading officer is Wang Chang, a captain of the First Fleet.
Guo Yan glanced at it and found that all the people wearing military uniforms, including himself, had one thing in common, that is, they were not tall.
Guo Xing was malnourished for a long time when he was a child. After being rescued by Dong Shuheng, he had missed the best growth period. Therefore, he is still less than 1.65 meters tall.
Looking at the people around him, there are even people shorter than him.
He had heard that there was a class of students in the Cavalry Department of the Xinjing Army Academy who were also small.
That class is very mysterious, and since it was recruited, it has not been taught in the main unit.
They first received a few days of confidentiality education.
Then this mysterious lake finally unveiled its mystery to them.
It turns out that the new equipment they are about to come into contact with is submarines.
A ship that can sail underwater.
When everyone saw the submarine for the first time, they were not surprised by his appearance.
This is a large hammer-shaped water tank.
The displacement of the first-generation boat was only over 100 tons. It could carry two torpedoes and had only one torpedo tube.
Guo Xing and others can only take turns boarding the boat to operate.
Once inside the boat, everyone will understand why they are looking for these little guys.
The space inside is really limited. People of their height can only walk hunched over inside.
Another uncomfortable thing is that when the submarine dives underwater, it can only rely on the internal air circulation system.
This thing can convert carbon dioxide into oxygen, but it cannot remove the odor in the air.
Staying underwater is another subject that Guo Yan and the others often train on.
Sometimes when one person farts, everyone will smell it until it rises from the water.
After smelling it, my nose became immune to the smell.
So there is a rule on the submarine that you cannot eat radishes and soybeans before boarding the submarine.
Fortunately, this is only the first boat. Guo Xing and the others have already gone to see their new car.
The finalized submarine has a tonnage of 500 tons and a crew of 50. The driving and command cabin can already stand and walk inside, and there is a dedicated living area.
The engine room is isolated by a special watertight door. When sailing on the water, everyone no longer has to be surrounded by the noise and smell of the diesel engine.
The new submarine's firepower has also been enhanced, and two 450mm torpedo launch tubes have been installed.
The shipyard also specially modified torpedoes for submarines to meet the needs of submarine launches.
Each submarine also has eight spare torpedoes.
However, Dong Shuheng rejected the suggestion of installing a rapid-fire gun on the top of the submarine.
On the one hand, anti-corrosion technology for artillery is not yet available. If it is soaked in seawater for a long time, it will easily malfunction.
The cruising range of this kind of submarine is less than one thousand nautical miles.
If you want to fight in distant seas, you need to be towed by ships or resupplied along the way.
And it also requires escort by surface ships.
Although Guo Xing and the others are having a very difficult time now, they are already dreaming of one day being able to drive their own submarines and become assassins on the sea.
Zhao Ke is wearing a tassel, Wu is frosted and the snow is bright. The silver saddle shines on the white horse, rustling like a shooting star. Killing a person in ten steps, leaving no trace for a thousand miles. When the matter is over, he brushes off his clothes and hides his body and name.
Just like what Li Bai described in "Xia Ke Xing", this will be such a pleasure.
Before that, all they had to do was learn the assassin's forbearance.
ps: Dugu is hiding at home and writing a book. If you have nothing to do, don’t move around as much as possible and read a book at home. I hope everyone is well!