"Society, it's interesting. Let the school department make statistics on how many such societies there are. We need to find out the personnel of these societies and what their purposes are. But don't interfere for the time being, as long as they do not violate the provisions of the law." Dong Shu
Heng Dao.
"President, will this cause any trouble?"
"Don't worry, what's the saying? It will take three years for a scholar to rebel."
"Don't worry about any trouble, but this group is quite interesting. After the academic department has finished the statistics, we will find some leaders of the societies to come to Xinjing. I want to talk to them." Dong Shuheng said with great interest.
"President, this..." Wei Yuxiang is used to Dong Shuheng's thinking always being so out of the ordinary.
"Okay, brother-in-law, it's okay." Dong Shuheng saw that Wei Yuxiang was hesitant to speak, so he interrupted with a smile.
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While Dong Shuheng was reading the military newspaper, a combined fleet composed of the first and second fleets of the Renaissance Army was sailing southwest.
This fleet gathered almost all the capital ships of the Renaissance Army.
Followed by a series of troop transport ships.
This fleet came all the way along the route east of Annan.
Lion City, Tangchengfang.
If you don't look at the port area to the south.
You would definitely think that this is a small city in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
This square is a Chinese community, and there are almost no foreign residents here.
Only the Indian police patrolling the streets showed everyone that this place was different.
The Wu family and the Lin family are the two largest families here.
Before the Renaissance Army contacted Nanyang.
The two families often fight over business matters.
But after establishing a connection with the Renaissance Army, the cake got bigger.
The two families have developed a cooperative relationship.
Because doing business with the Renaissance Army will naturally offend the Strait Governor's Office.
The two families must unite to compete with those white people.
In the beginning, both families were the first to send their children to Yangzhou for further studies.
Among them, the Wu family sent a direct descendant named Wu Xin.
This boy studied at Huaihai Academy for three years. After graduating, he directly joined the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and became the director of the Nanyang Department from a clerk.
This speed is amazing.
But he is not the fastest yet. Most of the first batch of graduates from Huaihai Academy did relatively well.
Among them, Du Hui, who has done the best, is now the deputy minister of the Ministry of Water Resources and is still in charge of the work.
Of course, Du Hui was already in his thirties when he first entered the academy, and he already had quite a wealth of experience in society.
The person sent by the Lin family to Donghua was named Lin Zihao.
This Lin Zihao liked to dance with guns and sticks and fight and kill since he was a child, which did not please the family leader Lin Wenzhi very much.
However, at this time in this secret room, Lin Zihao was sitting near the front.
After Lin Zihao came under the rule of Huai Haijun, he applied to go to Gaoyou Army Academy.
He became a student in the second batch of the military academy. After graduation, he has been serving in the Southern Military District.
Before returning to Singapore, he was already a regimental commander with the rank of lieutenant colonel. As someone who later joined the military, his development has been relatively rapid.
Lin Wenzhi, the head of the Lin family, and Wu Guiren, the head of the Wu family, sat at the top to preside over this secret meeting.
Only the main figures in the family attended the meeting. The confidentiality requirements for this matter were very high, and non-core members of the family could not attend at all.
Not even those small families can participate.
"Elders, according to the order of the military department, I am responsible for the military commander-in-chief of this response operation."
"Wu Xin is responsible for post-war stabilization work."
"Today, after we have determined the number of people, everyone's life will continue as usual without any differences. We estimate that the Straits Governor's Office's attention will be attracted to the south of Hong Kong. However, they will also add surveillance of the Chinese in the city. They are anyway
Never trust us."
"Anyway, one thing must be grasped. We will not move here until the Renaissance Army moves."
Today, they gathered here secretly, mainly to determine the secret signal for the launch, the personnel from each family, and the method of assembly.
Wu Xin and Lin Zihao have been back for some time, and the Renaissance Army's plan for the Lion City has long been formulated.
It is definitely not possible to just improvise. The Straits Settlements have been closely monitoring the Chinese in these lion cities.
However, as early as two years ago, the relationship between the Renaissance Army and the Great Empire was not so tense.
The Renaissance Army has slowly accumulated a batch of weapons bit by bit through smuggling.
Most of these weapons are hidden in the Wu family and the Lin family.
Now the main descendants of the Wu and Lin families are working outside, and the only ones in the Lion City are the head of the family and his close servants.
These servants were the main force in this uprising.
Some of the servants were recruited by the Fuxing Army in recent years.
In order to seize this choke point, Dong Shuheng has been preparing for several years. Many things were done before the Straits Settlements were prepared.
Two years ago, the relationship between the Renaissance Army and the Great Empire was not so tense.
"When the army takes action, everyone will act together according to the signals we agreed on."
"As long as we can bring the army into the city, then the city will be ours. By then, the fortress of the Straits Settlements at the port will be attacked from both sides, and the coastal defense guns facing the strait will become a display."
After Lin Zihao introduced military matters, Wu Xin took over.
"Elders, the President has said that after victory, the Singapore area will not be brought under the direct jurisdiction of the Renaissance Army. Instead, the Straits Republic will be established. Following the precedent of Lan Fang Kingdom, the elders of each family will form an elder council and take turns to serve as consuls."
In fact, Lin Zihao is the appointed commander-in-chief of the military of the future Straits Republic, and Wu Xin will become the first consul.
This is the result of joint discussions between the two families.
Of course, other families will also have a certain say in this country.
There are now more than a dozen kingdoms and republics established on various islands in the Southeast Asia.
One thing they all have in common is that they are all family-owned.
There are historical reasons for this. The Chinese in Nanyang have always been bullied, and they can only join the group to keep warm.
But no strong man could organize them. So they could only unite themselves in the form of township parties or clans.
To resist the oppression of the colonial government and local indigenous people.
Small families or individual investors have become accustomed to relying on those big families for survival.
So they still maintained their original model after establishing the country.
Those so-called republics are when several families share power.
Those who established kingdoms were those who had a dominant family in the area.
In his own country, Dong Shuheng would naturally not allow the emergence of such a big family that could control the fate of the country.
Except for himself, of course.
But in the Nanyang region, as well as those newly developed territories, they need to rely on these large families to manage them.
Because a government cannot manage such a large place well.
This has to do with technology and people's management capabilities.
Because when the territory is large, it is not a simple superposition of one plus one equals two.
A larger territory means that the population and races are increasing.
Management difficulties caused by geographical barriers and customs are also increasing.
Now the senior officials of the Fuxing Army are somewhat puzzled by Dong Shuheng's decision. They believe that Dong Shuheng is deliberately weakening the strength of the Fuxing Army.
Because Dong Shuheng instructed the Amelia region to be independent from the Renaissance Army.
The Renaissance Army made a great contribution to the independence of the Chinese there.
How can we let it go now?
Some people may still be thinking about reaping the rewards?
Dong Shuheng was also afraid that this would happen. Local forces would wantonly suppress the newly developed areas, causing the development of the newly developed areas to be hindered.
In the end, he turned against his native country.
Just like the original Spanish colonization.
Those colonies were established by the Kingdom of Spain.
In the end, the mother country was regarded as an enemy, and the two sides fought fiercely.
There was even a vendetta.
So much so that in the 1820s and 1930s, the population of the Hispanic country of Southern Amelia was reduced by half.
After several wars in Donghua, the local white population directly regressed for more than a hundred years.
Although, Dong Shuheng always emphasized to them that what he pursued was to expand the living space of the Chinese.
Rather than wanting the Renaissance Army to dominate the world.
But in the minds of normal people, what those in power pursue is the maximization of power.
Who would dislike having too much power?
Only Dong Shuheng knows that greater power does not mean greater ability.
Anything that expands to a certain size will decline.
This is the eternal truth.
Dong Shuheng feels that the current size of the Renaissance Army is too large.
It has exceeded the capabilities of my management team.
The management efficiency of the Renaissance Army was relatively high at this time. However, it lacked the necessary scientific and technological support.
After all, the original management method has great limitations.
Dong Shuheng believed that if those overseas territories continued to be brought under the jurisdiction of the central government, there would definitely be chaos.
His idea is this: Donghua has always had its own center. Now let it be completely separated. Dong Shuheng hopes that Donghua Empire will bear the responsibility of Chinese expansion and hegemony in the entire Amelia region.
Canada has now gradually separated from the Renaissance Army system. Its central organization has basically been formed.
Dong Shuheng transferred Liu Qingnan there because of Liu Qingnan's decisiveness.
There is no need to ask him for instructions on anything.
When major emergencies occur, Canada can respond quickly.
In addition, transferring Wang Yan to the past was to make up for Liu Qingnan's deficiencies in military and political affairs.
There is another question now, and that is what will happen to the Zhuzhou and Dongzhou regions in western Canada in the future.
Is this how it will continue to be a territory directly under the Renaissance Army?
When we first started developing, there were no problems.
To put it bluntly, the Chinese here at this time are just pioneering groups.
The population is small, and the government can manage it through simple management organizations such as pioneer groups.
But with the increase in immigration, it is no longer possible to continue to manage this way.
After people go through the arduous pioneering work of getting up early, they must return to their normal lives.
This was the motivation for them to come to this wild place in the first place.
The land will eventually be divided, and the original new settlements will be turned into towns.
Land will also be distributed to those pioneering team members.
At this time, complex government agencies are needed to manage it.
Even with instant communication, it is difficult for the central government to provide effective guidance there due to geographical distance.
Farther north, Alaska is not so bad. Not many people will live there even in the future.
Only some mining companies will attract some people. There are also mobile gold diggers.
Due to the severe cold climate there, it is impossible to keep people here after all.
Without people, management will naturally be simple.
All problems arise because of people. Where there are people, there will be conflicts!
Managing a hundred people and managing ten thousand people are definitely not the same concept.
The difference between them is not a quantitative one.
It's a qualitative difference.
Currently, there are two plans: one is to merge Zhuzhou and Dongzhou areas into Jiahua. A country running from north to south is also established in North Amelia.
Another plan is to separate Zhuzhou and Dongzhou areas separately.
Let there be two Chinese countries outside the entire North Amelia.
However, the development routes of the two are different.
The Jiahua region has never belonged to the Renaissance Army in name only, while the Zhuzhou and Dongzhou regions in the north were placed under the integrated management of the Far East region in the early days.
Because both areas are sparsely populated and close to the North Pole.
The distance between the two places is not that far.
Therefore, the management model popular in Zhuzhou and Dongzhou has always been very Far Eastern.
It’s the kind of farm-like operation model where the government guarantees everything.
Canada is following a corporatized free economic model.
The farmers in Jiahua are mainly homesteaders.
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After the meeting, everyone went back through the secret doors opened in the courtyards of each house.
They did not go back through the streets to avoid being discovered by spies from the Governor's Palace.
This Chinatown is dominated by the Chinese, so it is not difficult to do something secretly.
…
Singkawang is the most important external port of Lan Fang Kingdom. Taking advantage of the darkness, a division of more than 8,000 Lan Fang soldiers were gathering to board the ship.
This is the most elite Pontianak Division in Lanfang Kingdom. Division Commander Luo Ruhu is the first local person to return from studying at the Fuxing Army Military Academy.
The predecessor of the First Division was the first new army established by the Renaissance Army with the help of Lan Fangguo.
Its equipment is also the best in the entire Lanfang Kingdom.
The entire division was rushed from the capital Pontianak to Singkawang to board the ship.
This was not the first division going to sea by boat, but this time they were heading west.
In the port, a "Zhenhai-class" destroyer and two "Jianghe-class" frigates of the Lanfang Fleet were patrolling outside the port, preventing any ships from approaching the port.
Even the Lanfang people's own ships were persuaded to rebel.
The entire division of eight thousand people boarded the ship quietly, and the soldiers had been warned not to make any noise.
Lan Fangguo's current army has a total of four divisions.
For Lanfang Country, which has a Chinese population of just over 3 million, it is not a small number.
Most of Lanfang's troops will be deployed to the west to suppress several sultanates.
Dispatching one division this time is already their limit.
The Riau Islands and Aralia Islands on the south side of the Singapore Strait were the sphere of influence of the Dutch according to the Anglo-Hot Treaty of 1824.
Originally, the Dutch supported the Riau-Arena Sultanate here.
But the year before last, the Chinese forces on the island overthrew the Sultan's rule and established two countries, Riau and Dragon Tooth.
Among them, Pinang Port in Riau has become an important transshipment port across the straits, taking away a lot of business from the Lion City.
Recently, the Renaissance Army has secretly transported a large amount of logistical supplies and stored them in this port.
Most of them are military rations, weapons and ammunition.
This will be a logistics supply base for the Renaissance Army in the Straits.
Dong Shuheng knew that overseas operations must have the support of bases.
With the base relay transportation reserve, the logistics pressure can be greatly alleviated.