Chapter 206 The plan to colonize the southeast and sweep the South Seas
It’s done.
Sun Chuanting, a strategic-level talent, joined Xu Yuan's command.
He is willing to serve Xujiazhuang wholeheartedly for five years, and the cost is only a mere one million silver dollars in academic research sponsorship.
Xu Yuan felt that such a "five-year agreement" was not a loss at all, but a huge profit.
Because as long as a top talent like him is used properly and his abilities are fully utilized, the benefits he brings will be absolutely unimaginable and will never disappoint anyone.
Of course, if such talents are not used properly, like Sun Chuanting in the normal historical line, he becomes a firefighter and a high-end consumable to die. Even if he has 100 points of ability, he can only perform 10 points at most, and no matter how talented he is, it will be useless.
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Therefore, Xu Yuan is quite looking forward to it. If Sun Chuanting is provided with a platform where his abilities can be fully utilized, what surprises will he bring?
Fortunately, Xu Yuan did not wait long.
Sun Chuanting, who first held the position of 'Strategic Advisor', took office not long after he took office. After the initial adaptation period, he quickly proved his ability, which made those jealous eyes, private dissatisfaction and slanderous voices have to be reduced.
few.
Because there are several big things happening next.
On October 10, the basic construction of the fishing port on Jeju Island was completed and put into use. Since then, the number of ports controlled by Xujiazhuang has increased from one to two.
However, in the eyes of the fishermen in Harbor City, and in the eyes of the Xujiazhuang naval fleet and naval officers, this port is affectionately called "Hegemony Port" by them.
That is the port of hegemony.
As long as there is this port, the fishermen in the Harbor City can freely fish in the surrounding area without any restrictions. No one can harass these fishermen, let alone expel them and attack them. This will only lead to fierce naval fleets.
revenge.
Thus, the right to occupy fishery resources was established.
The maritime deterrence capability against the surrounding North Korea and Japan was thus established. Before they established a powerful naval fleet and had no strength to challenge the Xu family's naval fleet, the hegemony of this sea area belonged to the powerful Xu family.
On the 12th, all six iron-armored steam warships of the "Fishing Guard Fleet" stationed in the harbor returned to Harbor City for rest and recuperation.
On the 15th, in the large barracks in the west of Harbor City, the first batch of the "Innocent Army", numbering 50,000, was officially declared an army after a month of basic military training.
That is, the ‘Innocent Army’ was formed.
This army is very special. It does not belong to a regular army such as the Xu family army, but is a servant army or militia.
Its soldiers are mainly refugees from Henan, Shaanxi, and Shanxi. They are all young and strong refugees who are willing to take risks, can bear risks, and agree to go overseas to make a fortune.
In order to save costs, they only received recruit training for a short month.
There is no military pay, only their food and clothing.
In terms of weapons and equipment, each person has a set of half-body plate armor and an alloy dog-leg knife as basic and necessary equipment.
Ten thousand of them are spearmen, who use steel pipe spears nearly five meters long to form an inaccessible hedgehog spear array.
Twenty thousand people are musket soldiers, each equipped with a 15mm caliber musket, using a fixed graphite black powder cartridge (a kind of black powder coated with graphite on the surface, which has the advantages of being resistant to moisture, high power, and stable particles. It is a black powder
It is a product that has reached the pinnacle of the evolution of gunpowder), is loaded in the front chamber, uses Mini bullets, and is fired by flintlock ignition. It is extremely powerful, has a maximum effective range of 350 meters, and has high accuracy.
The only disadvantage is that the reloading speed is two rounds per minute, and an excellent shooter can reach three rounds, which means the reloading is slow.
Even so, this is one of the best firearms in the world, second only to the electric breech-loading gun used by Xu Jiajun.
The remaining 20,000 people are crossbowmen, each equipped with a small pulley steel crossbow (which can save half the force), but the power is also considerable, with a maximum killing range of 150 meters. As long as they have sufficient physical fitness, they can shoot five arrows per minute.
Lost arrows can be recovered after the war to reduce the logistical burden.
In short, this innocent army of 50,000 people embodies a sense of compromise with costs and logistics from head to toe, but its combat effectiveness is still guaranteed, and it will never be a weak force.
And this is only the first batch, there will be a second batch soon, and a third batch... we must train a steady stream of innocent soldiers.
So here comes the biggest question: What is the purpose of forming the Innocence Army? What are they planning to do?
colonization.
Naturally, it was to send them to colonize overseas. With a sword and gun in one hand and a hoe in the other, the army and peasants merged into one to open up more living space for the Chinese nation.
It is precisely because they have undertaken this glorious and great task that when they go overseas, as long as the Innocence Army keeps its sword open to the outside world and as long as it increases the living space of the Chinese nation, then no matter what the Innocence Army does, it will be correct and 'innocent'.
'Yes, the law will not punish them, morality will not condemn them, they will be praised and praised for their merits and demerits, and there is no need to have any guilt mentality at all.
This is the origin of the ‘Innocent Army’.
For this reason, as early as September, after a lot of research and discussion, Xujiazhuang's senior officials formulated the initial plan of "Colonizing the Southeast and Sweeping the Southeast Asia".
A lot of adjustments have been made based on various situations encountered in reality.
Therefore, in today's high-level strategic meeting, Xu Yuan came up with a final action plan and said:
"This time, we have to really fight, not the small fights before."
"Based on the principle of going from near to far, from easy to difficult, we must first develop the overseas colonization points closest to us, even the territorial resources within the Ming Dynasty."
"For example, in Taiwan, which is not very developed, we need to immigrate 500,000 people and build 50 sugar cane estates, so as to obtain countless white sugar to meet the people's sugar needs and meet the needs of industrial raw materials."
"On Hainan Island, Qiongzhou Prefecture, the southernmost part of the Ming Dynasty, we will also immigrate 500,000 people, build 50 rice estates, and reclaim at least 1.5 million acres of rice fields. We will plant high-yield rice three seasons a year, with the goal of growing rice every year in the future.
It can bring 24 million shi of rice (i.e. 1.5 million tons) and become an important grain export base."
"Then we will go to the nearby Red River Plain in Vietnam and the Mekong River Delta in Champa to immigrate 500,000 people, establish more than 30 rice estates and colonies, and reclaim at least one million acres of rice fields to establish
The second overseas grain export base.”
"Then turn around and go to Luzon and Sulu to eliminate the Spanish colonial forces entrenched in Manila, sweep away all Western colonial strongholds, kill the white male colonists one by one, and save the lives of the more than 30,000 Chinese who died in the Manila Massacre.
Clan revenge!"
"Finally, turn south and sweep away the colonial strongholds belonging to the Dutch East India Company, such as Borneo, the Spice Islands, and Batavia, all the way to the Strait of Malacca, and until we control this chokepoint, we will sweep away all the Western countries in the South Ocean.
Colonial power!”
"We are sweeping across Southeast Asia. In addition to eradicating and expelling Western colonial forces, we also need to build 20 fishing ports, develop at least 10 spice estates, 20 rubber estates, as well as fruit estates, sugar cane estates, minerals, and lumber camps.
Wait, if we go all out to operate Nanyang, the first batch of immigrants will reach one million! Our action this time is not to be a transient passerby in Nanyang, but to stay here forever and turn the South China Sea into our inland sea.
, turn Nanyang into our back garden!”
Of course, in order to realize this plan of "colonizing the Southeast and sweeping across Southeast Asia", the resources that need to be mobilized are also extremely huge.
All six armored warships of the Xu family fleet must be mobilized.
The Marine Corps, which has only 20,000 men, must dispatch at least 15,000.
At least thirty steam cargo ships must be deployed.
The entire 50,000-strong Innocence Army must also be dispatched, and Sun Chuanting should be appointed as the commander-in-chief of this army, responsible for commanding the Innocence Army in combat.
There are also drugs used to cope with the tropical climate, such as artemisinin to treat malaria, antibiotics to treat cholera, as well as various antiviral drugs, detoxification drugs, etc. Xu Yuan has purchased billions of yuan worth of drugs in modern society, which is enough
Millions of people use it for two to three years, thus greatly reducing deaths caused by diseases, acclimatization and other reasons.
There are also small agricultural equipment, agricultural tools, pesticides, and high-yielding seeds that can adapt to tropical climates.
As well as rubber saplings, durian saplings, coconut saplings, banana saplings, etc. ordered from modern society, they are all of high quality and can be delivered quickly.
As for other aspects of materials, there is no need to introduce them in detail. Not only did Xujiazhuang consume a lot of money, but in modern society, the balance of Xu Yuan's bank card has completely dropped to zero, not to mention that he has overdrafted hundreds of thousands.
...At least it will be difficult to regain blood in the short term.
The purpose of such a huge investment is to expand overseas, increase the living space of the Chinese nation, and obtain more benefits and resources.
So after listening to Xu Yuan’s introduction.
The senior officials present were extremely excited and excited.
"I haven't made any big moves in the past two years, but today I finally did it."
"Okay, great, it's just about to enter winter here. It's too cold to do anything. It's just a good time to go to the warm south to work hard and do something big."
“We have rescued more than 8 million refugees and hungry people in Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places, 2 million have been arranged to build bridges and roads, 2 million have gone to Shanxi to mine coal, and more than 4 million want to work hard.
Give it a try and be willing to take any risks. The number of people is much more than we expected. But it just so happens that our factory no longer lacks workers. We are not afraid that no one will pass the plan of "Colonizing the Southeast and Sweeping Southeast Asia". To be honest,
, this year’s severe drought has done us a big favor, allowing us to have extremely sufficient manpower.” said the senior executive.
"That's right, misfortune lies where blessings depend, and blessing lies where misfortune lies. There are opportunities hidden in crises. That's the truth!"
"As long as we prepare well enough and act quickly enough, and given the climate characteristics of the tropics, as long as we sow the seeds as soon as possible, we may be able to harvest something in half a year."
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"Yes, there are three crops a year. Even if the land is not very fertile, after the transformation of our Chinese people, as long as there is sufficient water and light and there are few natural disasters, we can get a steady stream of countless harvests, which will provide our Xujiazhuang
Add multiple granaries, sugar warehouses, and resource banks.”
"It's just that the strength of our Xujiazhuang family is obviously insufficient, especially in terms of ships. We are seriously lacking and cannot support such a large operation."
"How about bringing the Zheng family from Fujian together to cooperate. We are already allies. The Zheng family owns many sailing ships, hundreds or thousands. Even if they run much slower than steam ships, they can still play a very big role.
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"We have to bring the Zheng family into this project. Otherwise, not to mention the huge investment, we will be a little overwhelmed. The worst we can do is give some land to the Zheng family and let them build dozens of manors... Nanyang is too big.
Our family is unable to develop all of them."
Hear these suggestions.
Xu Yuan nodded and said: "Then let someone notify the Fujian Zheng Group and ask them if they are interested in joining. If so, start preparations immediately. If you are slow, you can only drink some soup."
"Yes, I'll inform you immediately." Zhang Guoyan stood up and said.
"Brother Bai Gu, do you have any additional suggestions? Are there any flaws in our plan?"
Xu Yuan turned his head again and asked Sun Chuantingdao, who was wearing a white robe and Confucian uniform sitting next to him, hoping to get some useful advice from his strategic advisor.
And as soon as Xu Yuan said these words.
envy.
Jealous.
Anger, dissatisfaction.
All kinds of unhappy looks were cast on Sun Chuanting. For this popular man next to the village owner, few of the higher-ups present liked him. Even in the past few days, Sun Chuanting had proven his ability and made many suggestions.
All of his insights were adopted by Xu Yuan, which only made him more jealous. After all, if he was not jealous, he would be a mediocre person.
"have!"
Sun Chuanting said: "The climate in Nanyang is unpredictable and ever-changing. We should recruit more fishermen guides who are familiar with the area and know the direction of the nearest safe haven. In addition, every large ship must be equipped with radio equipment, and small ships should be equipped with iron ropes to connect to each other. In this way
Even if there is a storm, the damage can be minimized and rescue can be carried out quickly."
"Okay! These items have been added to the action plan, is there anything else?" Xu Yuan asked.
"there is none left."
Sun Chuanting shook his head. This was all he could think of. He had racked his brains for this plan these days. All the details had been considered and almost exhausted.