Chapter 443: Local construction

High-level officials dispelled doubts and reached a consensus on the issue of intervention in Paraguay, and then the Brazilian Republic's military machinery quickly started to operate.
The 20,000 troops in Paraná, which borders the Han country, remain intact, and the garrison in Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, Campinas and other places, in accordance with the order of the Republican government, marched and assembled in Uberaba and San Jose, ready to take Conservative combat strategy, giving priority to attacking the southern regions of Gonangomato Grosso and Yass.
On June 10, 1889, the first batch of 4,000 troops of the Brazilian Republic arrived in Sao Jose. On June 17, 1889, the number of Uberaba garrisons increased to 11,000. On June 20, 1889, they gathered near the south. The total population of the Brazilian Republic of Mato Grosso and Goias is 32,000. At a time when the Republic of Brazil was tense in mobilizing troops to the border areas, the war to determine the ownership of the Paraguayan regime also slowly began.
More than half a month ago, on June 3, 1889, after a week of rectification and repair, Manli Yili, the commander of the Guards Battalion, Washburn, the commander of the 2nd Brigade of the Paraguayan Army, and Shir, the commander of the 3rd Division of the Paraguayan Army. The three members of Vestre officially declared their oaths in Concepcion, and went south to remove the rebels of the four regents.
At noon that day, the ceremony of the oath division ended. The three left 1,500 soldiers to defend Concepcion, and then led the remaining 10,000 soldiers to board the more than 40 small and large ships recently collected and launched in the direction of Asuncion. attack.
In the evening of June 4, the rebel coalition marched into the waters of the middle and lower reaches of the Paraguay River. More than 300 port guards stationed in the port of Iwabovo fell without a fight, and joined the ranks of the rebel coalition with weapons and ships.
On June 6, during the march, several local garrison troops were received and reorganized in order, and the number of coalition troops increased to 11,200.
On June 8, the rebel coalition troops were briefly repaired in the small town of San Pedro along the Paraguay for one night. Then, the next morning, a fleet of more transport ships and soldiers gathered to continue southward according to the battle plan.
At noon on June 8th, in order to delay the advancement of coalition military expenses and secure more time for Asuncion, the four-member Regency Committee signed a decree to order the Guards and the First Infantry Brigade each to redeploy some forces. The 1,000-strong team recruited by the Asuncion government set off to port Antequera and the town of Linchio on the northern outskirts of Asuncion to defend resistance. Then, after completing the delay task, the surviving troops split into two routes. One was led by Guards Major Buchanan and returned to Asuncion, and the other was led by Polk, the third battalion commander of the Third Brigade of the First Brigade. The coalition's logistics resupply route carried out harassment and destruction.
One day after the transfer order was issued, on the afternoon of June 9, 1889, a total of 1,800 reinforcement troops composed of a Guards Unit, the Third Brigade of the First Brigade, and 1,000 temporarily recruited soldiers arrived in Linchio, respectively. And Antequera.
The town of Linchio and the port of Antequera, one is the northern gate that guards Asuncion, and the other is a military place in the lower part of Paraguay. The two are very important. 21 years ago, during the first Paraguayan war, The coalition of Paraguay, led by Lopez, and Brazil and Argentina, has fought a tug-of-war for 11 months in both places.
The war that took place 21 years ago ended in Paraguay's disastrous victory, but after 21 years, when the two sides of the battle were replaced by a rebel coalition and a four-man regent, the intensity of the war was greatly reduced.
At noon on June 10, a rebel coalition arrived at Antequera and immediately launched a tentative attack on the port garrison.
On June 12, the rebel coalition put 3,000 soldiers into the siege of Port Antequera.
At 9 am on June 15th, a port garrison broke out, and a defense gap appeared in the highlands near the port.
At 11:00 am, more than 200 rebel coalition soldiers entered the internal defense position of the port along the gap, and the Antequera port defense system showed signs of collapse.
At 13:00 in the afternoon, the number of rebel coalition soldiers who poured into the defensive positions inside the port exceeded 1,000, and the core fortress of the port was facing a crisis of being surrounded by all sides.
At 14:00, the battalion commander of the Third Battalion of the First Brigade led the remaining 200 soldiers to evacuate without permission, and the defensive flanks of the Guard's headquarters were exposed.
At 16:00 in the afternoon, the White Fortress at the Fort of Port Antequera raised a white flag. The Major General Buchanan and the port garrison commander led about 800 soldiers out of the Fort and announced their surrender.
The Battle of Port Antequera lasted for six days. The more than 1,400 soldiers stationed in the port, except for the 300 who escaped, of the remaining 1,100 soldiers, about 300 died or were wounded. They surrendered and were forcibly dismissed and supplemented. There were about 800 reverse coalition forces.
On the fourth day after the battle of Antequera, the main forces of the rebel coalition arrived in the town of Linzio.
The town of Linchio originally had 400 regular troops and 200 second-line militiamen. After the fall of the port of Antequera, the four-member Regent Committee dispatched 500 regular troops to the town of Linchio on the basis of the first reinforcements.
After receiving two reinforcements, the town's defensive strength has reached 2,000. However, among the truly combative forces, there are only more than 1,200 troops. The remaining 800 recruits are temporarily recruited, or are only 11 or 12 years old. Baby soldiers, or old soldiers over the age of forty-five years old, are full of positions. In addition to being able to appear more abundant in the number of soldiers, they can really play a limited role on the battlefield.
The lack of school-age men is reflected in all parties in Paraguay, but compared with the armed forces controlled by the four-member Regency Committee, because it has more than twice the regular strength of the other party, the situation facing the coalition forces is more than that of four-member regency The committee is much better.
On June 21, the battle for Linchio began. At the beginning of the war, the rebel coalition put in heavy weapons such as field guns, gunboats, and Gatling handguns to cover the infantry and launch an attack.
On June 23, the third night of the fighting, the garrison troops abandoned their positions inside and outside the town, only carrying their rifles, and fled in the direction of Asuncion.
On June 24, along the route of Lynch's escape, more than 600 rebel soldiers entered the area around Asuncion.
On June 26, after leaving a small amount of troops to maintain the order of the rear supplies, the total force of the rebellious coalition still reached 10,000. The main force of the rebellious coalition arrived in the area of ​​Ayesport, west of Asuncion.
On June 27, 4,000 rebellious coalition soldiers launched a comprehensive offensive against Asuncion from Linzio and the port of Ayes in the west.
On June 28, the rebel coalition forces successively broke through the two outer defense lines established by the four-member Regency Committee outside the city, approaching the core area of ​​Asuncion City.
On June 30, the rebel coalition forces deployed 3,000 reinforcements to the western front. On the battlefield, the frontline combatants of the rebel coalition reached nearly 7,000.
On July 1, the last defensive position deployed by the four-member Regency Committee fell outside the city, and the front forces of the rebel coalition advanced to a position only 8 kilometers away from Asuncion Palace.
On July 3, the four-member Regency Committee reached an agreement and decided that the naval fleet (actually the inland fleet) would assume the counterattack mission, sail north from the lower part of Paraguay, and conduct a sea attack on the counterinsurgency coalition forces.
At 14:00 on July 4, when the main force of the rebellion coalition gathered under the city of Asuncion, a new round of attack on the Asuncion garrison was underway, and the naval fleet commanded by Major General Falcon suddenly retrograde to Aye in western Asuncion. Puerto Vallarta.
Paraguay's water power is mainly in the hands of the four-man Regency Committee. The turrets of the port of Ayes and the defensive fortress along the river were also destroyed in the earlier wars. Therefore, they were suddenly confronted by the four-man Regent's water force. , There is simply no ability to organize a powerful counterattack.
At 18:00 in the afternoon, the water battle that took place in the port of Ayes lasted for 4 hours, and the loss of the convoy allied to the nearby port and river transport fleet was more than half, and the ammunition loss was more than two thirds.
At 19:00, when the naval fleet commanded by Major General Falcon was evacuated for half an hour, the troops assigned to the large artillery arrived at the battlefield.
More than half of the water power that was not dominant was lost. After the battle in Ayes, the imbalance between the water power held by the rebel coalition and the four-member Regent Committee was further exacerbated.
A few days after July 4th, Major General Falcon commanded the naval fleet to frequently attack and attack the traffic lines on the water under the control of the allied forces.
The maritime transport supply route was attacked, and the initial accumulation of ammunition losses was more than two-thirds. A combination of unfavorable factors made the rebel coalition side have to reduce the offensive intensity of the front line and postponed the final timetable for occupying Asuncion. .
The domestic war in Paraguay has entered a feverish phase. The rebel coalition and the four-member Regency Committee continue to fight fiercely under Asuncion, and the situation is deadlocked. On the other hand, the Republic of Brazil sees the opportunity of the Paraguayan civil war and is busy dispatching troops The final preparations will be made for the official dispatch of Paraguay.
In the face of the effects of the Paraguayan change, the Han country has only paid close attention to three aspects: military, intelligence, and diplomacy.
In other respects, normal construction activities are still being carried out in accordance with the development strategy formulated earlier.
On June 2, 1889, Tesla arrived in South America. In order to express his importance to Tesla, Li Mingyuan sent several local scholars who worked in the Academy of Sciences to represent him in person to greet him in Songjiang Port.
On June 3, 1889, the Chinese Academy of Sciences issued a letter of appointment, officially appointing Tesla as a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Physics Branch.
In the field of science and academics, in addition to inviting Tesla to serve in the country, the Academy of Chemical Sciences also upheld Li Mingyuan's instructions.
Taking advantage of Han's first-mover advantage and academic influence in the international chemical community, openly invite invitations to academic exchanges in the chemical community around the world.
On June 5th, at the age of 34, I just received my PhD from the University of Munich. At this time, the little-known young chemist Chard Sigmundi (b. 1865) was the first to accept the news. invite.
On June 6, German scholar Emile Fisher (born 1852) and German organic chemistry expert Adolf von Bayer announced that they had accepted the invitation of the Chinese Academy of Chemical Sciences.
On June 9, the number of people who accepted invitations was expanded to more than sixty. Among them, scholars who will receive the Nobel Chemist Award in the future include William Wästerwald (b. 1853, German), Otto ?? Wallach (b. 1847, German), Arrhenius (b. 1850, Swedish), Emile Ferch and eleven others.
The number of scholars accepted by the Chinese Academy of Sciences continues to increase, and during the same period, the Han Navy ’s ship-purchase program also quickly came to fruition.
On June 15, 1889, the Chinese Navy signed a formal ship purchase agreement with the British Pembroke Shipyard. The agreement stipulated that the Chinese Navy purchased two Orlando-class armored cruisers from the British Pembroke Shipyard, one of which Built in London, England, another expert and technician dispatched by Pembroke Shipyard assisted the personnel transferred from the three local shipyards to construct at the Beijing Shipyard.
Of the two armored cruisers, warships built in London cost £ 210,000 each. For Orlando-class armored cruisers built locally, the cost of design drawings, technology transfer, training of technicians, subsidies for British experts, and technicians will be added. The preliminary estimate is that the total cost is about 400,000 pounds. It is twice the price of an ordinary warship.
While outsourcing, learning to absorb the shipbuilding technology of European powers is the basic guiding principle for the development of local ships. Therefore, although the price of an additional armored cruiser had to be paid, the Han country agreed to sign the ship purchase contract at the price proposed by Pembroke Shipyard.
The issue of inviting European chemists and signing ship purchase contracts has been resolved one after another, and the fifth day after the ship purchase contract was signed,
Another bill related to the national interests of various strata was promulgated.
On June 20, 1889, in order to further promote the growth of the local population, the Han government formulated a more detailed bill to encourage fertility.
The specific contents of the bill include: 1. Raise the standard of rewards for childbearing, and increase the standard of rewards for giving birth and raising a child from 5 acres of land for free to 8 acres!
Encourage women of every age to have 6 children! For families with more than 6 children, additional policy guarantees in terms of land and tax relief are given!
Second, increase the construction of medical and health education systems!
It is mandatory to establish at least one medical college in each state, and the funds for establishing and maintaining the operation of the medical school shall be borne by the central government and local state governments.
It is stipulated that the teaching mode of the State Medical Academy is mainly clinical medicine, and that capital investment in fertility, infant care, etc. must occupy more than one-third of the total financial allocation.
3. Simplify the entry procedures for women of appropriate age and encourage local residents to marry overseas women.
As for females of appropriate age who are imported from the coastal areas of the Indian Ocean, as long as they meet the entry standards, naturalization is permitted. (The Han carrier ships pass through the Indian Ocean, and each time they return, they bring a group of local women.)
The population problem involves the future development of the Han country. The implementation of a policy that encourages fertility, treats a large amount of state-owned land as a policy reward, and distributes it to families with children. Less, but after eating the big loss left by ancestors to do so, neither Li Mingyuan nor his officers and soldiers would choose such a way to increase the population.
In addition, the Han country not only did not relax its requirements on the policy of introducing other ethnic groups, but also tightened the barriers to entry for European personnel because of the pretense of investment by some European personnel and illegal activities in the country.
After 1885, Han's economic development entered the second peak period, and local demand for funds increased.
In order to use overseas funds to accelerate local infrastructure and industrial development,
The local government not only relaxed the restrictions on European capital, but also granted certain preferential policies to foreign capital invested in areas such as basic transportation and industrial construction. Attracted by economic benefits, many foreign capitals moved their hearts and treated Han as a country. In addition to Japan, another emerging investment paradise. After the release of the policy to encourage foreign investment, a large amount of capital from Germany, France, the United Kingdom and other countries poured into the mainland of China. Among these overseas capitals, in addition to the formal enterprises that actually make business investments, there are also some, from rogues, locals and even wanted Conspirators formed a team of scammers.
When such people arrive at the local coast to check the port, more than 80% will be exposed on the spot and then returned to the ship.
A small number of adventurers who speak Spanish and Portugal and are smart and willing to take money for their work. After screening, they have the opportunity to be deployed as intelligence agents in Chile, Paraguay, Brazil, Bolivia, Peru and other countries. Part of the construction source is to collect different aspects of intelligence for the Han government.
The other part of the speculative whites who are qualified and have the ability to fight ~ EbookFREE.me ~ have been recruited to foreign corps. As part of the second-line military armed forces of the Han country, they have been scattered and settled in various regions of the Congolese colony. Government House maintains local order.
In addition to the three types of people mentioned above, a small number of people escaped the inspection and entered the territory of the Han Dynasty. They then used clever and sly means to take advantage of certain loopholes in the local foreign bills to engage in illegal activities.
The economic development of the Han country has maintained a high-speed growth trend. Although only a small number of white people escaped inspection and entered the local area, in order to strengthen public security management and prevent the possibility of European white people sneaking into the country to steal all aspects of intelligence,
According to the instructions of Li Mingyuan, the Han government also reviewed and passed the Economic Investment Management Act on June 24, 1889. The Act clearly stipulates the standards for external personnel who are allowed to enter local investment, and raises the entry barrier. Increased penalties for illegal entry and supervision of unfavorable officials.
The promulgation of the "Management Act" is part of the rapid development of Han's economy and part of policy improvement and refinement. With the further development and improvement of Han's economy, comprehensive national strength, and international status in the future, it will become more complete and detailed The bill will also be promulgated and implemented.