Chapter 403: prepare in advance

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Holding joint military exercises of the Army and Navy is an effective way to test the combat effectiveness of troops in peacetime, but the Navy is different from the Army. The naval vessels are scattered and deployed in the Atlantic, Pacific, South Pacific, Caribbean, South Ocean, Congo River Estuary, etc. Every time a joint military exercise is held, only the Atlantic Fleet and the Pacific Fleet, which are stationed at both ends of the homeland, are generally involved, but the other four small sub-fleets do not have the opportunity to be tested by the exercise.
In order to prepare for the situation and prepare for the changes in South America in advance, Li Mingyuan decided to change the deployment plan of the navy ships and refocus the over-dispersed navy warships.
"Once the war breaks out, the Caribbean Squadron, the South Ocean Squadron, the South Pacific Squadron, and the Congo dispatched squadron will all face a blockade crisis. Among them, the overall strength of the Caribbean Squadron is relatively weak, with only one station covering an area of ​​more than 100 square kilometers. Totti Island, and the US Navy Atlantic Fleet opposite the Caribbean Sea has dozens of ironclad ships. If the US government intends to intervene in Paraguay, the Caribbean Squadron will become the first target of the US Navy's Atlantic Fleet. "
Li Mingyuan stood up, looked at the huge map on the table with a heavy face, and analyzed: "The waters around the Caribbean are colonies of Western powers such as Britain, France, and the Netherlands, and the US Navy's Atlantic Fleet is set up in the northern part of the Caribbean. In the naval battle, the Caribbean Squadron has no chance of winning. "
"Since 1869, the island of Torti has been under national rule for nearly two decades. There are 30,000 Chinese people on Torti and the island behind Haiti. Even if the Caribbean sub-fleet is weak, it will do its best to defend the soil. Anmin's responsibility! Fight the U.S. Navy to the last ship and last person! "
In the wide and simple hall, a young officer in a navy white dress stood up and declared himself as a navy.
"Xu Zhixuan, I have heard of your deeds, a navy student studying in the United States, the current captain of the Atlantic Fleet Yongxing (1350-ton light cruiser) No. 5 major ship, once organized and participated in the protest against the US Government's Chinese Exclusion Act Action. "
"The Meiyi foreigners bullied me that no one was a Han man. I was born as a Han man. I hate to be ashamed of the country at the moment. I can only put it into the blood, and after ten years of hard work, I will join the Navy and serve the country. Shame of yesteryear! "
Xu Zhixuan stood up and threw his voice.
"The Han men have courage and blood. It's a good thing, but the country is in the early stage of entrepreneurship. Every officer and soldier who bears the enthusiasm of serving the country is a very valuable asset and cannot tolerate sacrifice."
Li Mingyuan waved his hand, motioned the other side to sit down, and then explained: "Torty Island is located in the middle of the Caribbean Sea. Before the last crisis, the court was reluctant to abandon it, but evacuated in the face of the absolute strength contrast between the Chinese and American sides. The Caribbean Fleet, which temporarily evacuates the people of the island to Haiti's main island, is the only reasonable solution in the current situation. "
"Your Majesty, do you really want to abandon the Haiti Raiders plan?"
"It is only temporarily put on hold. It is an expedient to temporarily return the island of Torti to the Haitian warlord. When the situation in the Caribbean becomes clear, the Haiti Raiders plan will resume."
Li Mingyuan answered the questions of the naval officers and generals and continued to arrange: "After the withdrawal of the Caribbean Squadron, the safety of the Chinese people transferred to Haiti's main island is still under the responsibility of the militia and some Marines stationed there.
As for the Nanyang Squadron, before July next year, all ships will evacuate to the Yizhou Islands via the Pacific route, and then join the South Pacific Squadron operation sequence to assist the local Marine Corps and island officers and soldiers in defending core islands such as Samoa and Pahiti. . "
Li Mingyuan successively arranged the deployment plans of the South Pacific Fleet, the Caribbean Fleet, and the South Ocean Fleet. Finally, he instructed the deployment of the Congo dispatched fleet: "The Congolese coastal area is narrow, and the left and right sides are in Portuguese Angola and French. The Congolese colony is controlled, and the local navy's sub-fleet has extremely limited space for movement. However, in recent years, the Congolese colony has imported a large amount of precious metals and ore. Considering the importance of the Congolese colony to the homeland, the size of the Congo ’s dispatched fleet remains unchanged. The local war spread to Africa. The Congo dispatched sub-fleet should conserve its strength and pass all naval officers and affiliated warships through the estuary, and retreat to the inland basin of the Congo River countercurrently, and then cooperate with the Congolese troops to step by step against the invading west. Colonial Army. "
"The Congolese Contingent forces have a total of 10,000 armed forces, and his staff assured His Majesty that if war broke out in the country, the Congolese colonies will never be lost!"
"Her Majesty, rest assured that the Navy is confident to assist the Army in holding Congo!" ...
"It's good to be confident, but you can't belittle the enemy."
The Congo colony is relatively close to South America. Large-scale transport ships from Africa to South America each year not only increase the government's fiscal revenue, but also bring a variety of much-needed metal deposits.
The Congolese colonies are rich in natural resources and are known as "world raw material warehouses", "central African gems" and "geological wonders".
There are many non-ferrous metals, rare metals and non-metallic minerals in the country. Among them, copper, cobalt, industrial diamonds, zinc, manganese, tin, tantalum, germanium, tungsten, cadmium, nickel, and chromium have considerable reserves and occupy an important position in the world. . Iron, coal, gold, silver and other reserves are also very rich, as well as platinum, lead, phosphate, silicate and so on. The main mineral reserves are: 75 million tons of copper (accounting for 15% of the world), 4.5 million tons of cobalt (accounting for 1/2 of the world), 30 million tons of niobium and tantalum (80% of the world), 206 million carats of diamonds (23% of the world) 450,000 tons of tin, 600 tons of gold, 1 billion tons of iron, 31 million tons of lithium, 22.5 million tons of chromium-nickel, 7 million tons of manganese, 7 million tons of zinc, and 2 million tons of aluminum. The proven oil reserves at sea are 10,000 barrels, the land reserves are 20 million barrels, the natural gas reserves are 20 billion cubic meters at sea, and the land reserves are 10 billion cubic meters. In addition, the deep water of Lake Kivu, located at the junction of the DRC and Rwanda, is rich in natural gas resources.
Gold mines, copper mines, diamond mines, iron mines, and aluminum mines that have been explored and developed have supported more than ten large-scale local mining companies. With the help of the mineral resources of the Congo colony, Xinjing Mining Corporation, the Royal Mining Consortium, etc. State-owned enterprises can become a major large-scale metal mining and smelting company in South America.
In the original history, mineral resources from the Congolese colonies have fed dozens of giant international mining companies such as Belgium, Britain, and France. Now, the Congolese colonies, like virgins, are under the supervision and command of the Chinese army and armed militia. It plays a more important role than the original history.
Adhering to the principle of digging three feet of land and not letting a ton of resources go,
The Congo sent troops and more than 100,000 Chinese people who have successively settled there not only conduct exploration and mining one by one in strict accordance with the distribution map of mineral resources provided by Li Mingyuan, but also have low economic value but high quality anthracite with insufficient domestic reserves. Non-metallic mineral resources are also highly regarded.
Ignoring insignificant human mining costs, including transfer and ocean transportation costs, the price of high-quality anthracite imported from the Congolese colony is higher than that of the United States during the same period, and the price of high-quality anthracite mined using local mining is 20% higher. The cost of purchasing in Mexico, Venezuela and other countries should be 30% to 40% lower.
Anthracite is the main raw material for refining crude steel. Although the local Yangzhou and Luozhou coal reserves are considerable, sufficient for local consumption to complete the second industrial revolution, the coal in Yangzhou and Luozhou is mainly sub-bituminous coal, which can be used as Smelting pig iron raw materials, can not be used to smelt crude steel.
In consideration of the surrounding environment facing the Han country, in April 1883, the Han government announced that the first two anthracite coal mining areas that were being mined and operated were allowed to be mined. The other seven were just discovered, including the anthracite coal mining areas discovered in the future. Local governments and private mining are prohibited. The anthracite coal needed for local steelmaking comes from the Congolese colonies and outsourcing, on the one hand, and coke burned from logging in the northern subtropical forests.
Over ninety-nine percent of the forests in the northern part of the country belong to undeveloped virgin forests. During the year, newly moved Chinese people chose to set fire to the forests to burn out dozens of kilometers of virgin forests at once. , And then carry out reclamation work on the bare land.
It is true that the forest in Han is rich, but it is a pity to waste tens of millions of trees during the process of land reclamation. Therefore, in August 1886, the government issued a decree prohibiting large-scale fires and encouraging land reclamation. People cut down trees to make coke, and then sell the coke to the government.
The people who opened up the land are poor, and they all owe a debt to the country. So after learning that refining coal can not only get economic compensation, but also get the government's promise to reduce or cancel some of the debts, the burning of the forest was quickly stopped. However, the number of people who use industrial methods to cut down forests and concentrate on coking is increasing.
The local experience of using the trees as raw materials to obtain coke through simple firing passed to the Congolese colony in less than a year. The Governor of the Congolese Colonial inspected the information a little and found that the Congolese forest coverage rate exceeded 53%, about 125 million hectares. It accounts for 47% of the forest area in Africa and 6.5% of the world's forests. However, only 60,000 hectares are currently mined, which has a very large mining potential.
Therefore, in order to share the concerns of the local government, Huang Naishang issued an order to the Congolese colonial chiefs who were under the administration of the Han Dynasty, asking each tribe to submit coke of varying weights as a tax substitute according to the number of people.
The Congolese colony is under the deliberate administration of the Han country. The population has been controlled within a reasonable range. The number of indigenous blacks is not large and the pressure for survival is not great. It is not good for the indigenous blacks who are idle every day to go around. They can find a livelihood to mine mineral resources and burn coke, can they enrich their lives?
Under the propaganda method that is good for you in the Han country, more than one hundred indigenous chiefs and kings have successively expressed their willingness to accept the order of the governor and turn in a prescribed amount of coke regularly every month.
And those tribes who are not tamed and do not accept Huang Naishang's good intentions, after being taught something, are either rehabilitated or divided by Huang Naishang to other tribes, and integrated into another indigenous family.
The Congolese colony is playing an increasingly irreplaceable role in the overall grand strategy of the Han country. Huang Naishang has done more and more outstandingly in the post of Governor of the Congo. Considering two reasons,
Li Mingyuan decided to increase support for the Congolese colonies.
"More than a decade ago, the Western powers did not find the huge economic benefits hidden in the Congolese colonies, so we can defeat the small Belgian countries and gain control of the Congolese colonies. Now, every year, batches of rushing ships to the mainland are hidden from the Western countries. In order to guard against the Western powers, especially the French Congolese and Portuguese Angola colonies near the Congolese colonies, it is necessary to strengthen the indigenous strength in the Congolese colonies. "
Li Mingyuan pointed his pointer on the map of the Congolese colony and ordered: "The construction of the fortifications of the Congolese colonies needs to be strengthened. Cabinda, Kinshasa, Sankigani Elibo, Kananga five core strongholds The defensive fortress system should be expanded, with five fortresses as the main body, and the tributaries of the Congo River as links to connect the entire Congolese colony as a whole. Each fortress group will deploy two to five thousand troops and militia armed forces. At times, small iron armored ships, gunboats, and gunboats retreating into the inland basin of the Congo River are tentacles, relying on each other and cooperating with each other to firmly control the control of various regions. "
"Yes, Your Majesty, his staff promised to complete the fortification of the Congolese colony within one year."
Rushing back from Africa, the tanned Huang Naishang stood up and said.
"The armed forces of 10,000 people in the Congolese colony are not enough to meet future threats. Therefore, before July next year, the central government will deploy two large infantry regiments, one artillery regiment, one engineering battalion, and one independence from the local area. Heavy machine gun battalion, a battlefield logistics hospital, a total of more than 10,000 people support the Congolese colony,
At that time, two foreign infantry battalions, four field infantry battalions, and Gatling hand-gun gun companies under the control of the Congolese Government will mix with local support forces to form the Congolese Army, which will prepare 14,000 people.
In addition, from the Congolese Chinese population, men of the right age were recruited to form two Congolese police brigades with 4,500 personnel and four militia regiments with 2,000 personnel. They were named Congolese First and Second Police Brigade and Congolese One, two, three or four militia groups.
The formation of the Congolese Army, the Guard Brigade and the Militia has been completed. The Congolese colony has more than 30,000 armed forces of all kinds. It should be safe to face the attacks of Western colonial forces such as France and Portugal alone. "
"The 30,000 people's weapons and equipment are not a small number. My staff is worried that before the outbreak of the war, the Congolese troop will be difficult to equip each soldier with weapons and ammunition according to a predetermined schedule."
"Don't worry about the issue of weapons. The expansion of the local field forces is imminent. The number of Hanhua 1875 rifles that have been eliminated is close to 100,000. Excluding the 60,000 delivered to the local police and militia, sold to Songkhla and Lanfang. 15,000, leaving 24,000 rifles, accompanying ammunition, and 40 Gatling hand-guns all allocated to the Congolese colonies.
The Congolese colony has a total strength of 30,000. The Congolese Army is organized for the regular army. Like the local regular army, it has replaced the Jianye six-year smoke-free rifle. The remaining 16,000 people are equipped with a maximum of 13,000 Hanhua 1875 rifles. There are 11,000 rifles reserved for reserve weapons, which are used for subsequent military expansion and supplementation of weapon consumption. "
"His Majesty, the Congolese colony has only three old-fashioned ammunition production lines, and his staff asked the local side to support several rifle and artillery production lines to supplement the military's operational consumption."
"The mainland has successively established primary smelters, textile mills, gun repair shops in the Congo, and it will not care about adding more ammunition production lines."
The rapid development of the Congolese colony also benefits from the continuous investment of the local community. A batch of practical machinery and equipment were transported to the Congolese colony. Then, under the guidance of Chinese technicians, all kinds of necessary industrial products came from the factories. Produced, and then supply the Han army, the people, and as a reward to the army King, Chief.
The government of the Congolese Colonial Government has strict control over the factory equipment. The kilometers around the factory, including ordinary workers and guards, are carried by the Chinese, and no black indigenous people are employed.
Tight defenses and the presence of tens of thousands of armed forces and the presence of more than 100,000 Chinese have made the local government dare to transport some of the eliminated industrial equipment to the Congolese colonies.
The Congolese colony has always been very clear in its local positioning. As a source of raw materials, it has made every effort to provide various raw materials for the development of local industries. As for mimicking Western powers, guiding the local black indigenous culture, teaching the language of their sovereign country, and training the Congo as The economic market of the sovereign country was abandoned from the beginning.
Congolese blacks live in accordance with their inherent traditions. They have nothing to worry about. Apart from accepting tasks assigned by the Han country, there is nothing to worry about every day. If you let them learn the Chinese language ~ EbookFREE.me ~, understanding the outside world will disturb them. Life, to add to their annoyance, it is better to keep the original state,
Moreover, after the cultivation of the indigenous black people, the little economic market provided is better than nothing.
Therefore, the Congolese colony is developing towards the direction of primary industrialization under the control of the Han country, but the black people still maintain the traditional customary life, and the two parties respect each other and take what they need, and get along very well.
Huang Naishang and the Han government said this every time they introduced the Congolese colony. Whether other countries believe it or not, local people and officials agree with this model.
"The newer machinery and equipment are not properly placed in the Congolese colonies. So, we will dismantle three Hanhua 1875 rifle ammunition production lines, two 75mm vintage field artillery ammunition production lines, and two Gatling hand-machine gun ammunition production lines from the mainland. In addition, a whole set of old-fashioned pharmaceutical factory equipment used to produce and treat tropical diseases are all shipped to the Congo colony for installation. As for the various other mechanical equipment and material requirements, you first put forward, through the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Finance, Industry, Medicine After the hospital and other departments have negotiated, they will submit the report for approval. "
"Your Majesty." ...