1890 King of Southeast Asia

Until Liu Yiming left, Liu Yiming and Li Hongzhang or Zhang Youqiao finalized more than ten cooperation or bulk trade.

This time, it was not to use a large amount of daily chemical products to make money. For Nanhua, money was not that important. This time, Liu Yiming tried every means to maintain an unbalanced balance.

A trade cooperation that brought together food and by-products, coal, livestock, fur, meat, fruit, cloth, minerals, steel and non-ferrous metals was reached, and it was signed in the form of a commercial contract.

In this way, it looks much better on the books. By importing various minerals, furs, and agricultural and sideline products, the mood of Beiyang can be much better, preparing for future trade expansion.

The military order was promoted by Liu Yiming to Zhang Youqiao for a long time. He placed an order for twelve three-inch guns. Liu Yiming was going to refurbish the 80% new artillery in the hands of the troops and sell them as new artillery.

The price of a single gun, a three-inch gun plus a barrel plus 400 rounds of shells, is 8,000 taels of silver. Compared with the current military sales, it is equivalent to selling blood. Three years later, the price of the Gruson 57 rapid-fire gun is about 7,000 taels, and the shells are even less.

To put it bluntly, Liu Yiming is selling outdated items while grabbing the market. After all, price wars are irresistible to Lao Li. For example, when the Martini Henry, which uses black powder, was diving and reducing prices, Lao Li couldn't help but buy 16,000 guns to equip the Huai Army.

On May 12, Liu Yiming finally embarked on his return journey. Before leaving, he had a mutual admiration with Zhang Youqiao.

"Youqiao, he left?" After Liu Yiming left, Zhang Youqiao returned to the Zhili Governor's Office, and Li Hongzhang asked.

"I saw him get on the ship with my own eyes, and it can't be faked." Zhang Youqiao said.

"Sir, is the price too high to be tied to Nanhua?" Zhang Youqiao said after a pause.

"Youqiao! I am very pleased that you can see this. I should have a long-term vision. How could I not know that? It's just that we should choose the lesser of two evils." Li Hongzhang smiled bitterly and shook his head.

Li Hongzhang tentatively submitted a memorial to purchase military equipment, but was rejected. He also issued an order to strictly prohibit foreign military purchases. You know, before that, they just didn't allocate money. If they really wanted to buy, they just said that the Ministry of Revenue had no money. Thinking of this.

"My Beiyang situation is getting worse day by day. Maybe I should make plans early?" Li Hongzhang thought of the threat that was close at hand.

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On May 25th, Liu Yiming finally returned to Sishui. The reason why it took so long was that the merchant ship was slow and stopped in Singapore.

Before getting off the boat, Liu Yiming saw the person who picked him up. It was too obvious. The little person brought a few smaller people and stood in the most conspicuous position in the crowd.

"Brother Yiming!" As soon as Liu Yiming got off the boat, Zhang You threw herself into his arms.

Liu Yiming touched Zhang You's head and was speechless for a moment.

(Why do you still call me brother after getting married? Liu Yiming's bad taste has nothing to do with the author!)

"Did you miss me at home?" After Zhang You's emotions finally stabilized, Liu Yiming asked again.

"Hiss~" Liu Yiming pretended to be in pain as usual.

"Hmph! I knew you were not serious!" Hearing Liu Yiming's cry of pain, Zhang You let go of Liu Yiming's hand on Liu Yiming's waist.

"Why are you not serious... I miss you very much." Liu Yiming hugged Zhang You and said on her head.

"Cough cough! Cough cough cough cough cough!"

Someone next to him almost coughed his throat out.

"Dad!"

"Father-in-law, how are you?"

Zhang You yelled with a red face like a frightened little rabbit and ran to the carriage. Liu Yiming greeted her honestly.

"In public, how can this be so embarrassing!" Zhang Wentao blew his beard and glared. Although he already knew that his cabbage had been taken away, Zhang Wentao was still unhappy.

After being lectured for a while, Zhang Wentao got on the carriage. Liu Yiming hesitated for 5 seconds between his father-in-law and his young wife, and then walked towards the carriage where his young wife was sitting.

"Where are you going? Come here!" Unfortunately, before he could get on the car, Zhang Wentao opened the door and shouted again.

Nanhua used a Western-style four-wheeled carriage, which was similar to the ones in movies and TV dramas, and the main cities had been rebuilt again, if it weren't for the lack of manpower.

"Humph, I asked you to come up to tell you something, take a look at these." Zhang Wentao took out a bundle of documents and asked Liu Yiming to read them slowly.

"Look at the top first, there are more various problems below, but the ones at the top are the things that everyone can't make up their minds about, so don't run around. If you are not here, Brother Chen will not do it." Zhang Wentao said.

After Liu Yiming left, he also took away Xu Hui, the most capable person in Sishui, and then the center almost stopped functioning. The current system of Nanhua is far from being able to operate on its own.

It’s not that nothing is done. On the contrary, most of the lower-level departments are following the established plan. It’s just that the things that were originally decided by Liu Yiming and Xu Hui suddenly have no one to make the decision.

For example, the first mass-produced army rapid-fire gun has been produced, and the factory asked whether it should be mass-produced, and then requested resource scheduling.

In terms of resource scheduling, the only people who can do well in Nanhua are Xu Hui and Liu Yiming.

"The car is shaking, I will sort it out tomorrow. Have Wang Yang and the others returned?" Liu Yiming asked Zhang Wentao.

"The Beiyang fleet just left a few days ago. Why did you give up again?" Zhang Wentao was particularly puzzled. With the cooperation of the fleet, the South China Army not only occupied four large islands, but also added up. , Also clean up the above.

However, Liu Yiming said that he gave up and gave up. There were not many gold and silver gems above.

"Before the Navy returned, the garrison was lonely on it." Liu Yiming knew that the Beiyang Fleet had left a little absent -minded, thinking that it was for comprehensive maintenance of Beiyang's ship. Don't know that it is not good?

"Then why do you fight this battle? Money is still the second. Listening to the Navy, there are not many shells stored." Zhang Wentao asked.

"There are two goals. First, the ability to practice the army to win the island, second, let the natives afraid of us." Liu Yiming said.

"Fear?" Fortunately, the matter on the land was finally resolved by the army, and the second one was not able to understand.

"This time I wanted to practice soldiers, but I suddenly found that the natives became fierce and died. This is not good news." Liu Yiming said, "We don't have so much time and so much energy to consume with the Turks, the best, the best one, the best, the best, the best one The method is to make them fear "" "" "" "

This approach will have great sequelae. The reason why the hot Africa is chaotic has a lot to do with this kind of thing. Of course, there are also the minimum control of sequelae, such as the United States and South America.

The former only has a little Indian reservation, the latter is the traditional large fusion route.

"Are you going to destroy all the natives? You will be scolded." Zhang Wentao was silent for a long time and said.

Liu Yiming is not surprised. His old man can be said to be one of the few qualified officials in Nanhua. He has a strong learning ability. No matter where he is, he can see the problem from a correct angle.

"When I live alive, they dare not scold, die? They will die in front of me." Liu Yiming was not destroying others, but he was nineteen years old, and he could live for at least 50 years.

"But ..." Zhang Wentao still wanted to continue.

The tradition of the Chinese is so, modesty, the golden mean, was originally a good thing, but the lack of part of the traditional culture was changed by the time of the dog for thousands of years.

"Father -in -law, this is not a separate birth of the brothers, and it can be discussed. This is a war. If they say that they are written in Han Dynasty, I won't say anything, but they won't." Liu Yiming said.

"There are only two goals in the South China Army. The first is to improve the combat effectiveness of the army. I will communicate with the army and the equipment department. Multi -Island Development provides a blueprint. "Liu Yiming said.

"I don't know much about the army, but the accumulation of bones and the golden mouths. Most people can only see the things in front of them. At that time, it will be fascinated by people, and your painstaking will be in vain!" Zhang Wentao cares about this Son -in -law, don't want the son -in -law to take this way. Overwhelmed!

"The old thought should be changed. As long as I let everyone know why I do this, let everyone participate in the national governance construction. When everyone knows what they should do, why do this, why do this, this impact It will be reduced to the smallest, of course, this incident is not so glorious after all, I will take the initiative to carry out the infamous. "Liu Yiming said.

"Do you think! We are old ..." Zhang Wentao couldn't understand, let alone the appearance of the time, but I heard that Westerners also let more people participate in governing the country. It should be okay?

"By the way, in the days when you are absent, everyone discusses what you call the emperor. Brother Chen avoided suspicion, but Simin took the initiative to resign and hoped to implement the constitutional monarchy." Zhang Wentao said when he saw the carriage stopped.

"Let's talk about it!" Liu Yiming also wanted to be the emperor, but thought of the people in Tianjin Wei Wharf's shirt, the people of the slave market, and the pile of beggars, the flowers ...

"Grapefruit, why do you always want to be an emperor?" Sitting in the room, Liu Yiming found that the most difficult thing was not how to drive away the colonists.

Not to mention how to become a strong country, and under the global perspective, the only enemy is the United States with geographical advantages, but this advantage is also a disadvantage, and it is not feared.

"Do you always take the lead? Everyone is accustomed to a emperor on his head, the Dutch, or DIE." Zhang Pan has a little political germination, but not much.

"I won't be this emperor, South China, is the Republican South China." Liu Yiming completely decided that in order to break everyone's ideas and unified his thoughts, Liu Yiming took out a few manuscripts and walked to the printing factory.

"You have to come on stage in advance ..." Liu Yiming looked at the "**", capital theory, thought, and so on.