1890 King of Southeast Asia

On New Year's Day in 1892, Nanhua also issued a total of 100 million yuan in banknotes. Although it was printed afterwards, it was not thrown into the market for circulation.

100 million yuan has already saturated the market of Nanhua. If it issues more, it will be artificial inflation. However, the difference is that Nanhua is really rich, so there is inflation. Prices are low, but there is a lot of money.

Nanhua's currency reform attracted many people. The British were jealous, but they didn't do it in the end.

But French and American capital are not begging Nanhua, they want to enter Nanhua's finance to make a fortune.

"Mr. Prime Minister, with banks, there should be securities trading and stock markets. This is the most convenient way for companies to obtain financing and for people to make profits."

"Yes, there are also futures, which is a great tool for physical manufacturing. Farmers who want to expand production but lack funds will be greatly helped."

"Yes, Mr. Prime Minister, mineral mining, agricultural product planting, and expression production can all be helped in the futures market! It's great to use other people's money to produce your own products!"

Bala Ala...

"Thank you for your suggestions, gentlemen. We will carefully consider the opinions of France and the United States. I am still very busy, so I'll leave first."

The prime minister they are talking about is Liu Yiming.

Because Chen Jiangtao and Liu Wanhua were clamoring to resign after Liu Yiming came back.

On December 20 last year, the two resigned from the positions of president and prime minister. Chen Jiangtao served as director of the Education Committee and Liu Wanhua as director of the Children's Health and Development Committee.

Liu Yiming served as interim prime minister, Xu Hui served as interim vice prime minister, and Chen Simin was pulled up to be the Minister of Education, although he was more suitable to go to the Foreign Trade Department of the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, and his bargaining and price-raising abilities were first-class.

The president is temporarily idle, and Liu Yiming will act as the president.

This currency reform was a currency reform under military control, so other countries did not get any benefits, so they urged Liu Yiming to open up the stock market and futures...

Once the restrictions are lifted, tens of millions of cash flows will rush in, pushing the stock market and futures up, and then your life and death will be in your hands.

"Prime Minister, Commander Wang sent a telegram." Presidential Palace, where Liu Yiming lived after acting as president.

Liu Yiming took the telegram.

"Huh~ Preliminary preparations are almost done."

It was to report on the reorganization of the troops. This time, the four brigades were reorganized into four divisions. Thanks to the diversified reserve model, the reorganization was completed quickly.

By New Year's Day in 1892, Nanhua had a total of four divisions, eight brigades, and sixteen regiments, and more than twenty technical arms battalions directly under the division and brigade.

Two strategic independent units:

Heavy howitzer battalion: equipped with six 152mm howitzers, the barrels were pieced together, and the gun carriage was an elastic gun carriage, the first practical elastic gun carriage of Nanhua.

102 Rocket Artillery Regiment: There are two rocket artillery battalions and one transport battalion.

The total number of the army is more than 60,000, plus the coastal defense, navy, and police, the total number is close to 80,000.

If it is on a continent, after training, these more than 60,000 army can run rampant and break up the colonial troops in the Dutch East Indies and French Indochina!

"Send a telegram to Wang Yang, continue to focus on training, and continue to clean up the savages without leaving any room. Before the war begins, there must be no native strongholds along the coast of Java." Liu Yiming said.

Because of insufficient population, Nanhua has not made any moves on the southern coast of Java, but that's it.

"The British have agreed to start handing over Brunei." Secretary-General Yang continued. This secretary-general is a former staff officer, but he has been doing the work of a secretary.

"Send Zhang Wentao to Brunei and take over gradually. The British will not let go of the big cities so quickly. The focus of immigration is tilted towards Brunei. Follow the example of the Production and Construction Corps." Liu Yiming said.

Due to insufficient population, Liu Yiming can only digest important locations in a planned way, such as big cities, and Brunei, which is very safe and has a certain foundation at this time.

There is a shipyard, two small docks, an ironware factory, which can produce some parts, and living facilities are all available. There are also gunpowder factories, arsenals, etc.

It's just that the scale is relatively small and the equipment is old, because this is the supply base for the British to fight pirates, from Malacca to Hong Kong to Brunei. There are also many small islands in the middle that serve as supply bases.

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While Liu Yiming was discussing this matter, Kalimantan, Yang Tao had already started the construction of Brunei.

Set up a forward base and clear out an area for immigrants to live.

Immigration was decided at the beginning to ensure the troops, but Yang Tao didn't know that with the changes in the situation, Liu Yiming decided to increase the intensity of immigration and directly digest some Brunei.

"Commander Yang, the forward base No. 2 has just been attacked. The attackers are an insurgent army against the British." The staff handed Yang Tao a battle report.

"What's going on? Don't you have any vigilance at all?" Yang Tao said angrily while looking at the battle report.

"This unit was reorganized from the city militia. They have lived in the city for a long time, so their vigilance is a little less." The staff officer knew he would be scolded, so he said it with a stiff upper lip.

"Let the Fifth Brigade clear the area within ten kilometers around the qualified base and push all the strongholds clean." Yang Tao did not scold anyone, but just gave orders.

After taking the position of commander-in-chief of the front, Yang Tao truly understood why Wang Xu, Wang Yang, and Liu Yiming had to kill the savages.

The savages could not be influenced or communicated with. Only when the gun was pointed at his mouth and the trigger was pulled, he would have some regrets, regretting why he did not run away or why he did not kill you.

"If you want the savages to be obedient, kill half of them first, and the other half will naturally be obedient." This is what Wang Xu said.

Sometimes Liu Yiming didn't dare to use Wang Xu, because there might not be enough labor. Among the targets attacked by Wang Xu, only one city survived, and half survived.

"Yang, I heard that you caught the rebels?" At this time, there was a shout outside the tent, and a very strong British man walked into the tent.

"Wells, I don't know if it is a rebel. Are you interested? I will send it to you later." Yang Tao glared at the staff officer and said.

"That's great. These rebels are rats. They can't hurt you, but they always jump out to disgust you." Wells paused.

"I suggest you recruit some locals and let them fight each other. If they are properly trained, they are also very useful tools." Wells said in a low voice.

After speaking, he turned around and left the tent without waiting for Yang Tao to answer.

"What do you think?" Yang Tao really listened to it. Now he is really short of manpower. He has to build fortifications, build bases, and clean up the savages.

Wells's suggestion moved him. He didn't need much. Having a few thousand laborers to do hard labor is a kind of liberation.

"But the city is controlled by the British, so we can't do it. It's time-consuming and laborious to catch wild people in the village. It's better to clean up the surrounding area, at least we can train soldiers." The staff officer said.

"What about transporting it from Java?" Yang Tao thought about it.

"No, with this transportation capacity, it's better to transport more immigrants." Without the staff officer saying anything, Yang Tao rejected it himself.

"Well... can we buy it? Use smoothbore guns, sell them to those tribes, and let them pay with prisoners?" The staff officer thought of Nanhua's operation of driving the natives into the mountains.

"Well?" Yang Tao's eyes lit up.

"I'll report to the commander." Yang Tao went to send a telegram excitedly. As for where the smoothbore guns came from? Brunei has a lot of them, and hundreds of them can still be taken out.

"Yes!" Liu Yiming only replied one word after receiving the telegram. A few smoothbore guns, without logistics, it's useless to give you Maxim!

"Go, find a few locals, spread the news, we sell guns and exchange people." After getting permission, Yang Tao quickly arranged it.

Perhaps the colonists always sell things while killing people. After a few days, the news spread throughout the jungle, and many people were ready to move.

Within half a month, three groups of people arrived to discuss this matter.

"Is there any problem? Although those rifles are outdated, the bullets are just as deadly." Zhang Wentao had already arrived, and at this time he was watching Yang Tao sell guns.

"It's okay, Governor Zhang. We have tampered with these rifles, such as sawing off the barrels, grinding off the rifling, distorting the sights, etc. And they are all muzzle-loading guns, which are very troublesome to load, and they are not a big threat to us." Yang Tao said.

"Will they buy it?" Zhang Wentao asked. The natives are not all useless. Some of them have received education, Javanese education, Malay education, or Dutch education.

Those who have received Chinese education are now Chinese.

"They have no choice. As long as one family buys it, everyone else has to buy it." Yang Tao said.

"What if the Dutch use the same method?" Zhang Wentao continued, asking for advice.

"If I were Dutch, I wouldn't do that. I wouldn't even care about this island. The right way is to concentrate our forces to attack Java." Yang Tao said first.

"Secondly, the purpose of doing this is to cause chaos, reduce their population, and finally make it easier to clean up and make room for immigrants. After the Dutch clean up, who will he let farm for him?" Yang Tao laughed.

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"The mountain tribes have taken away our women, food, livestock, and land. We have become homeless. Today we want to take back our land and take away everything from the mountain tribes!" Xine shouted loudly, holding a short-barreled flintlock rifle.

"Take back the land and kill them!"

"Take back our cattle, sheep and women!"

Dozens of natives shouted sparsely.

"Charge!" Xine's eyes were full of anger. These dozens of guns were obtained at the cost of twelve deaths, attacking two villages, and capturing a hundred people.

Dozens of people, holding guns, firing blanks at the sky, and rushing towards a valley with ghosts crying and wolves howling.

After a night of "fighting", Xine walked out of the chief's room the next day with his pants held up.

"Xine, those who are unwilling to surrender have been killed, what should we do next?" His men came up and asked.

Xine thought about the divine help yesterday, when he rushed up, the mountain tribe was already frightened and panicked, and he killed the chief wild boar in a few strokes, and then remembered the smell of the chief's woman.

"Change more guns, take the useless people to replace, and then capture more people!" Xine's heart gradually began to swell, and he took the first step, which was also the first step for the Chinese to attack Kalimantan.