Dominate the Country

"Your Majesty, the British have proposed diplomatic coordination. They hope that we can sign an armistice agreement with the Spanish, Portuguese and Americans in South America. Our troops are not far from Portuguese Brazil, and the British do not want to see us continue southward. ”

Chen Jiqing's words were very gentle. But what he wanted to express was very clear. After the fire broke out in the Spanish backyard, the British finally got involved openly. The Anglo-Saxons clearly stated their attitude and did not want to see Chen Han's footsteps entering Brazil. This time the American War has come to an end.

Chen Han has captured the northern and western parts of South America, including large areas of Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, and Peru. It can be said that the battle line has been pushed into Brazil's territory.

This is a very large area. Including Chile, Chen Han occupied at least a quarter of South America, more than four million square kilometers.

Chen Ming's expression did not change at all. He looked at the military map of America and said, "Can the garrison troops still fight?"

"I don't ask them to swallow the entire America in one go, but the Amazon basin must be captured." Of course, there is no need to actually use troops against the vast Amazon rainforest, but the Amazon River estuary must be captured.

You can’t eat the whole America, and you can’t eat the whole Brazil, but you can always swallow half of Brazil, right? In today's Brazil, without the Amazon estuary area, the Portuguese have lost half of Brazil.

"Let the Ministry of Foreign Affairs make private contacts with the Spaniards. We will withdraw our troops from East Peru [Bolivia], but the Spanish troops in the Caribbean must retreat and teach us all their territory. On the South American continent, the two countries are... The existing control area is the boundary. "Leave eastern Peru for the Spanish to settle down, and let them go to the south with Argentina. Chen Ming did not believe that the Spaniards would watch Argentina become independent.

In the original time and space, South America had to fight for a long time to become independent, and it was not until the 1820s that it became truly independent. There were also British people who stepped in to support Bolivar, causing tragedy for Saint Martin.

But now, with the American War at its current stage, the Spaniards can already be said to be game over. Not only did they suffer heavy losses on the South American land, but they also fell into a disadvantage in the Caribbean. They had two battles with Chen Han's American fleet and lost a lot of money. half of the battleships. Chen Ming felt that it would be difficult to squeeze out oil and water no matter how hard Spain was squeezed. Without the northern part of South America, only the Spaniards in eastern Peru and Paraguay were left. The population base was less than one million, and the military industry was almost zero. And Argentina The human population is only one million people, so let them fight. Chen Han's next focus should be on Portuguese Brazil, which has a population of 4 million, and the United States, which has a population of 6 million.

The former owns the huge colony of Brazil. Most of Portugal's hundreds of thousands of troops have been on the battlefield. They fought bloody battles with Chen Han on the Venezuelan battlefield. The result was of course a lot of losses.

But Portuguese Brazil is only scratching their muscles, and their roots are still there. The Portuguese have gathered a new army. Although they have suffered heavy defeats on the Venezuelan battlefield, their total military strength has now risen instead of falling, exceeding 150,000 troops.

It's just that the soldiers in these armies are not all white or mixed-race, but there are a considerable number of black people. Just like Chen Han encouraged black people to fight for their own better tomorrow, the Portuguese also lifted the shackles on black people when the crisis came.

In Brazil today, the total number of Portuguese immigrants, their descendants, Indians, and black slaves is less than 4 million. There are 2 million black slaves here alone. This number is much higher than that of Argentina. You must know that Argentina now counts Indians, and it is only one million.

Therefore, although Portugal still has "many soldiers and generals", it has already used its full strength in the fight. The Spaniards have been at their wits' end until now.

Even if the British kept supplying them with guns and ammunition, they could not find anyone to use them. All the men will be beaten to death.

Therefore, the Spaniards are likely to accept Chen Ming's opinion, and the Portuguese are not terrible at all. Don't look at the fact that they now have "many soldiers and generals". The one who can really grit his teeth and persevere is Lao Mei.

Chen Ming had known about the tight military strength in the Americas a few months ago. While he asked Siam and Japan to "act according to their ability," he also removed 10,000 people from the Imperial Guard, and coordinated the three troops transferred back from Burma and Southeast Asia. A group of 20,000 people has been sent to North America as quickly as possible. The next batch of 20,000 reinforcements has been prepared by Chen Ming.

Although this caused Chen Han's military expenditure to increase sharply again, this persistence was definitely worth it. After Spain, Portugal and the United States are defeated here, the entire America will belong to China.

Even in order to cooperate with the war in North America, Chen Ming asked the Governor's Office to introduce a new army expansion plan, which was not originally part of Chen Ming's plan. But Chen Ming saw the reluctance of some people in the North American War. They were more willing to launch an offensive against weak South America than to fight with the Americans. This is a serious mistake, and one that must be corrected.

Chen Ming asked the National Defense Force to conduct a small-scale military expansion. This was to show his attitude to everyone. There is absolutely no room for retreat between China and the United States. Emperor Chen will fight this war resolutely.

Now the British came out to try to deviate from each other, but Chen Ming ignored them.

He didn't even have the desire to discuss why the British wanted to take sides.

The British who lost the thirteen states in North America should be drooling at the sight of Chen Han swallowing up the land of America.

Who cares?

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China's military expansion has really attracted a lot of attention. The topicality under this big factor has covered up many small details in the recruitment process.

Among the 100,000 recruits, more than half have elementary school education, and half of the remaining half can recognize basic characters and can calculate addition and subtraction of three-digit numbers. Only less than 30% of the recruits are completely illiterate, not to mention being able to read and write, and even unable to count.

But in fact, many people in the Grand Commandery did not understand this. Why did the emperor think of recruiting such a group of young recruits with a certain cultural literacy? Many of them were just over 18 years old, and even after leaving the recruit camp, they were not reassuring.

But Chen Ming obviously would not answer this question, and some people could only "agree" with the very unfounded rumor that these soldiers were to be trained to be technical soldiers.

Although the number of boy scouts has been reduced year by year with the recovery of domestic livelihood. Now, there is really only one scout left.

This phenomenon has led to a significant reduction in the number of "key non-commissioned officers" in the army. Although not all boy scouts from the boy camps join the army, they can provide a large number of excellent soldiers with culture and quality for the army every year in the earliest days. And now, all this is over.

So many people speculate that this batch of new recruits is specially recruited to train technical backbones in the army. Not those positions that require a certain level of knowledge and are destined to serve for a longer time. Many people really can't think of why these child soldiers are stronger than the strong mountain men.

After the craze for joining the army faded in the past, the western Henan region was not ranked in the evaluation of military support projects in various regions across the country. But this time, a full 3,000 people came out of western Henan. The Jiangnan region, which is rich but gives people the impression of being weak, has added 5,000 people to the conscription work.

The number of recruits in the five cities of Nanjing, Shanghai, Yangzhou, Hangzhou, and Suzhou is no less than 500.

The sight slowly moves up from the focus of one state and one place, and the whole of Jiangnan and the whole of China are slowly shrouded in the sight. Then you can find that this wave of joining the army has swept across China.

Among the 100,000 recruits, there are more than 20,000 soldiers with high school education.

What is the concept of 20,000 high school students in the early 19th century. Therefore, in the relatively poor living conditions in the southwestern mountainous areas and the harsh environment outside the pass, Mongolia, Outer Northeast, and even the entire Siberia and the entire Northwest, the enthusiasm of young people in these places to join the army is ten times that of Jiangnan and Western Henan, but the number of recruits they selected is far less than that of Jiangnan and Western Henan.

In China, the monthly salary of soldiers is basically more than 100 yuan. After leaving the recruit camp, plus living allowance and training allowance, a soldier can get 140 to 50 yuan per month. If he goes to the battlefield, it is easy to get 200 to 300 yuan. And the basic salary is based on the years of service, and it is accumulated and increased by 10 yuan per year. There are also benefits for promotion of military rank. As long as you don't violate military discipline and become a troublemaker, and you can stay in the army for three to five years, your monthly salary can reach more than 200 yuan.

This is not a low salary. At least it can be equivalent to a mid-level technician. It is also good in China now.

Therefore, the annual military expenditure of a million troops is a huge pressure for China. The monthly salary of the army alone is more than 100 million yuan. If you add various expenses such as ammunition, supplies, and military projects, the annual military expenditure will soar to 2 billion yuan. This can be compared with the current military expenditure of the British. But the British are fighting a war for the entire country, what about Chen Han? Chen Han is definitely fighting a local "small-scale war".

If Chen Hanchao had not been so well-off, he really could not afford to support so many troops.

Now, in addition to the annual fiscal revenue, another huge benefit of Chen Han is the issuance of more banknotes.

Chen Han now has two extremely powerful national gold companies, one based in Southeast Asia, with Nanmingzhou as the base point; the other based in Northeast Asia, with the gold mines in Northeast and Outer Northeast as the base point. The gold in Xiangzhou and Jiazhou was jointly developed by them. Now the second gold company has set its sights on the South African gold mines, at the cost of giving up the gold mines in Jiazhou and Xiangzhou - that is, the entire America.

These two major gold companies and large and small private mining companies can bring 6/7 metric tons of gold to Chen Han Central every year.

In the long 20 to 30 years, or the short 10 years, the predatory gold mining has ended. Whether it is Northeast, Outer Northeast, Nanmingzhou, Xiangzhou, or Jiazhou, the Golden River and the Golden Sea have become a thing of the past. The explosive gold income of the former has added hundreds of tons of gold to Chen Han's treasury. When everything returns to the "mining" stage, the annual gold income of 6/7 tons is already precious in this era.

And how many more banknotes can Chen Han issue with 6/7 tons of gold?

This is by no means a simple number game. Otherwise, one ton of gold is one million grams, and the gold content of one Huayuan is 0.25g. One ton of gold is 4 million Huayuan, and 6/7 tons of gold is only 20 to 30 million Huayuan. What is this amount of money compared to the entire empire?

But if this gold falls into the hands of the country, on this huge and solid platform of the country, even if the increase is ten times, it can quietly turn paper money into real money.