"Let's move on to the next topic." Dong Shuheng announced.
"Since the Americans are taking action in Canada, they want to expand the war. We can also follow their example and take action against their New South Wales colony."
"President, we are not even going to support the Han and Tang Dynasties, so why are we going to attack New South Wales? Isn't it farther away?" Zuo Jigao asked in confusion.
He knew that Dong Shuheng had previously planned to send troops to Australia. Because West Pacific Company has been operating there, this company invested tens of millions of dollars in Xinhua Island (Papua) to serve as a transit point for those traveling to Australia.
Not many people know about this matter, but Zuo Jigao is definitely one of the few who knows.
"Old Left, this is not a contradiction. Australia is not Canada. Australia has now been blocked by us, and the Chinese people have basically cut off contact with the island. There are only a few hundred thousand immigrants on the island, and they have no foreign aid."
"Moreover, Donghua has already sent troops to New Zealand as agreed, and the Nanyang Navy has almost wiped out the fleet of people from the People's Republic of China who fled to the Pacific. This is our opportunity to send troops to Australia."
"I am going to let Ding Li take two marine brigades, and Du Hang will lead the first fleet to escort them directly to the southeastern corner of Australia to destroy the lair of the Japanese here. West Pacific Company will send their security personnel to attack from the inland areas.
Clear out the scattered white people."
"I named this plan the 'Purification' operation. The Koreans put a large number of exiles here, polluting this heaven-given island. We, the Renaissance Army, are going to purify this island."
"I have told everyone before that this island is the last node in our establishment of the Greater China Circle. Only by completing this point can the Greater China Circle we have established be complete."
The perfection Dong Shuheng talks about is not only geographical perfection, but also political perfection.
The so-called geographical perfection is that after conquering Australia, the sphere of influence of the Greater China Circle has completely surrounded the Pacific Ocean.
It is no exaggeration to say that the Pacific Ocean is the inner lake of the Great China Circle.
At that time, the Renaissance Army will be like a huge living eye on the Go board.
Relying on the Greater China Circle, the Renaissance Army will be invincible whether it extends its power to India or to the Atlantic Ocean in the future.
That is to say, we have a basic disk.
"Also, Lao Zuo, you don't have to worry about military expenses. The military expenses for this expedition to Australia will be raised by the West Pacific Company. Because I will hand over Australia to the West Pacific Company to run it. We only need to occupy a few points there.
, Now we control too much land, there is no need to spread our energy there. Although Australia is large, it is very arid and not suitable for farming." Dong Shuheng deliberately explained a few more words.
Most of the major shareholders of West Pacific Company are the big businessmen from Jiangsu and Zhejiang who originally supported Dong Shuheng in starting up his business.
On the one hand, Dong Shuheng established this company because he really wanted to bring Australia into the Greater China Circle.
On the other hand, it also gives these businessmen a space to release their ambitions.
He has made it very clear long ago that businessmen cannot dictate the situation locally.
But as these people's business grew, they inevitably longed for power. Dong Shuheng left Australia to them.
Of course, this also means repaying them.
It's like they handed over Jiahua to Xunchen Group to operate.
When Dong Shuheng first started, he had two major helpers. One was the Xunchen Group, which was mainly composed of members of the Dong family.
Some of these people are servants of the Dong family, and some are clerks in the business. Now they have all become the meritorious service of the Renaissance Army.
Based on the system implemented by Dong Shuheng in the country, the rewards they can finally get are limited.
At least not like the ancient emperors.
"President, we can release the governance power in Australia, but in terms of military affairs, I think it should still be controlled by the local people." Zuo Jigao said. He could vaguely guess Dong Shuheng's thoughts.
However, Zuo Jigao still had the traditional idea of unification of civil servants all over the world, not the king and the land in his heart.
Dong Shuheng waved his hand and said: "We can issue a specific charter in the future. It is still a blank piece of paper. There is no need to draw a framework for them so early. This will not attract enough investment."
"This time I plan to hand over the operation of this place to capital instead of the government. It can be regarded as an attempt. It is just a corner place and has nothing to do with the overall situation. Lao Zuo, you don't have to think too much. By then, if you
If you are not worried, you can go there for a walk. Once our passenger airship is ready, it will not be difficult to cross the ocean in the future." Dong Shuheng thought for a while and comforted Zuo Jigao, calming down his stubborn husband first.
Zuo Jigao is now one of the few people in the senior management who dares to oppose himself.
Having such a person will give Dong Shuheng a headache, but it is indispensable.
Unknowingly, it has been almost ten years since I arrived here. Looking back on the past, Dong Shuheng felt as if time had slipped away in an instant.
Sometimes people are afraid of looking back. Looking back is the easiest way to feel that time has flown by in vain.
Especially people like Dong Shuheng who have absolute power are most likely to lose themselves in time.
It is said that absolute power corrupts absolutely.
This sentence is actually problematic.
In the early days of gaining absolute power, powerful people were busy doing what they needed to do and had no time to think about other things.
But as time goes by, they will find that time is fair to him like ordinary people.
Only then would he think of treating himself well. Otherwise, there would be no time to enjoy it, and the time would be gone.
Dong Shuheng sometimes thinks this way now, but he knows that such problems will inevitably happen to everyone.
So he suppressed himself. He reduced the power in his hands and put tight spells on himself.
When he chose Zuo Jigao as Prime Minister, it was because this man had a sense of arrogance in his bones.
Moreover, Zuo Jigao had his own opinions on governing the country.
Unlike Zeng Xianfeng, Zuo Jigao has been expanding the power of the cabinet since he took office.
Dong Shuheng has also been delegating power in recent years. As a result, Dong Shuheng has basically no longer directly intervened in civil affairs and personnel matters.
Zuo Jigao also strengthened the power of the cabinet.
Change some administrative agencies from horizontal management to vertical management.
For example, the Public Security Bureau was originally managed by local prefectures and counties, but now it has become a vertical management.
Lower-level security agencies only obey the management of higher-level security agencies, and are ultimately under the unified jurisdiction of the Cabinet of Ministers and the Ministry of the Interior.
In addition, taxation, land, water conservancy and other departments have also become vertical management.
This has greatly weakened the powers of local government, while the power of various cabinet ministries has been continuously strengthened.
The most intuitive manifestation is that the number of people in various cabinet departments has now increased several times.
Many departments had to move out and build their own office buildings.
Every year, there is an endless stream of people sent by various ministries to inspect local areas.
In addition, Zuo Jigao also paid special attention to restrictions on business groups.
There are many restrictions on their purchasing properties and hiring long-term workers.
Even now, he is already working on enacting an inheritance tax to control the excessive expansion of businessmen's assets.
Many businessmen are quite critical of this.
Dong Shuheng knew that these reforms would have drawbacks, but it was a positive attempt.
Therefore, Dong Shuheng did not come forward to stop these reforms. Not only that, he also secretly supported some reform matters.
Dong Shuheng lacks the determination to reform. He is a nostalgic person and is bound by old feelings. If he is asked to take action to reform, he will be unable to do so.
"President, if in the future, as you said, we can fly across the ocean by airship, then there will be no problem for us to control more land." Zuo Jigao did not answer Dong Shuheng's words, but used this
Thing asked rhetorically.
In his opinion, Dong Shuheng seemed to be artificially weakening the local power of the Fuxing Army.
This is not in line with Zuo Jigao's philosophy.
"Old Zuo, sometimes the distance is not geographical." Dong Shuheng interrupted Zuo Jigao. He did not want to discuss this issue with Zuo Jigao at the meeting.
Zuo Jigao longed for the Renaissance Army to dominate the world. He could even be the Prime Minister of the Earth Cabinet.
But Dong Shuheng knew how much harm a Big Mac would bring in the end.
At this time, "Tianyan Lun" had been translated.
Natural selection, survival of the fittest.
If there is no competition, then humans will stop evolving like many animals on closed islands in the Pacific.
A society does not have to wait until it regresses. As long as it does not develop, a crisis will occur.
The human heart is always the most unpredictable.
The meeting finally ended with some regrets. Jiang Yuqin, who had not spoken behind Dong Shuheng, could feel that many people still had unfinished thoughts.
He can also feel that the relationship between the president and the cabinet is not as close as before.
And the strangest thing is that all this seems to be caused by Dong Shuheng himself.
Jiang Yuqin didn't know why Dong Shuheng did this. He didn't dare to ask.
Ding Li and two marine brigades have already assembled at Yangcheng Port in advance. They will take a transport ship in five days and be escorted by the Duhang fleet through Luzon and Xinhua Island to directly reach Xinnan in southeastern Australia.
Wales area.
Eighty percent of the immigrants from Canada live here.
This is the most suitable area for farming on the entire island and has the most rainfall.
At this time, New South Wales has entered a state of high alert.
Sydney is not yet an international metropolis, its size is equivalent to a larger local town.
In 1788, Sydney was established. Two years later, the Chinese government formed the New South Wales Regiment specifically for the new colony.
The British soldiers who stayed behind became corrupt under the military dictatorship, and the colonial development was in chaos.
Later governors always wanted to change this situation.
But as more and more criminals are exiled, the place becomes increasingly chaotic.
Most of the soldiers who stayed in the early days received land rewards and became large ranchers.
They occupy the best land around Sydney.
Although half a century has passed, the island's population is still less than one million.
But the narrow, rain-rich zone along the southeastern coast is about to be carved up.
Those later exiles could only get the barren land in the west, or work as workers in the original pastures or farms.
In this way, the military class and the exile class were formed in this narrow New World.
Over the years, the people of Yu have always wanted to establish an order in the New World based on their own land.
But without regular immigration, this wish is just a luxury.
The Governor of New South Wales came into office in a hurry.
Several governors who wanted to make a difference were even driven away by local people.
This place seems to be a melting pot of depravity. Anyone who comes here will either be assimilated or kicked out.
People here will only continue to break through the lower limits of human beings.
They hunted the indigenous people on the island and used laws to define the indigenous people as animals.
In their eyes, these indigenous people are not considered human beings at all.
However, they would rape the indigenous women, giving birth to a group of mixed-race children on the island.
But even though these mixed-race people are their children, they are not recognized by them either.
John Young had just taken over as Governor of New South Wales.
He came here with a mission, because the land and sea at the east and west ends of the Australian continent were blocked by the Renaissance Army.
He has a noble status and would not be willing to take the death route in the southern Indian Ocean.
So he became a merchant and followed the Dutch merchant ships to New South Wales.
Before coming, Prime Minister Temple gave him instructions to organize the Australian army and strengthen Sydney's defense.
But after arriving here, he realized how difficult the work here was.
Most of the lower-level management positions here are held by the military group that first came here.
The original interest groups controlled the best land and monopolized the import and sales channels of foreign goods.
Later people could only be reduced to working for them.
If someone acquires land from the Governor's Mansion and sets up his own farm or pasture, those people will try their best to annex it.
John Young observed for a while and found that he could not avoid these initial military immigrants in anything he did.
They still call themselves the New South Wales Regiment.
They will also elect their own leader.
This regiment is no longer a large army formation.
There have long been new garrison troops here, but the New South Wales Regiment is still the de facto ruler here.
The city of Sydney is located in a canyon flat between the Blue Mountains and the Bay.
In 1770, British naval captain James Cook discovered Sydney's Botany Bay and reported it back to Europe, and the United States subsequently became interested in Australia.
In 1788, under the orders of the Great Britain government, Captain Arthur Phillip of the First Fleet established a penal colony in Sydney Bay in Port Jackson.
On February 7 of the same year, Arthur Philip named the place after Lord Thomas Townshend Sydney, the British Home Secretary.
In April 1789, a disease, believed to be smallpox, claimed the lives of many Aboriginal people in Sydney; a conservative estimate is that 500-1,000 Aboriginal people died in the area between Broken Bay and Botany Bay. Gu Linkai and
Both Tharoor communities were also infected.
At the same time, the colonization of the Republic of China encountered stubborn resistance, especially the warrior leader Pemulwuy, who launched the most famous resistance in the area near Botany Bay. Conflicts also often broke out near the Hawksburg River.
In 1796, when Macquarie was the Governor of New South Wales, Sydney had initial development.
Prisoners built roads, bridges, docks and public buildings.
By 1822, there were banks, markets, complete roads and institutionalized police agencies in the city.
When Dong Shuheng came to this world, Sydney's development entered a golden period.
The country of Yu paid more and more attention to this place, causing its population to rise to nearly one million.
However, since the start of the subcontinental war, the development here has basically been frozen.
After the Renaissance Army took control of the strait, some local upper-class people even escaped secretly.
The rest are either the new dignitaries whose industries are here, or ordinary people.