1890 King of Southeast Asia

It was already April 1893, and three years had passed since Liu Yiming arrived.

In three years, Liu Yiming had made great achievements. He led his people to successfully drive out the colonists, won two foreign wars, established a basic heavy industry and chemical industry system, opened hundreds of primary schools, fifty middle schools of various types, a university and three colleges.

A military and police force of 120,000 people was built, with more than 500 guns (including artillery positions), a naval tonnage of more than 30,000 tons (20,000 tons are being fitted out or sea trials), and a huge military force of more than one million in reserve (the Construction Corps is also considered a reserve).

But no matter how awesome and cool you are outside, there is one thing you can't escape, which is urging marriage.

Liu Yiming has passed the stage of urging marriage and is fast forwarding to urging birth.

"Yiming, you and Yuzi have been married for so long, why haven't you made any progress?" Liu Yiming, who was still calculating the optimal naval tonnage, welcomed Liu's father's cruel urging behavior.

Since the completion and opening of Nanhua University, Chen Jiangtao and Liu Yiming have freed up their hands (the most important thing is that after the construction stage, the other two do not know how to do it, they can only allocate money, but in order to attract talents, various enterprises allocate money more actively than the school.)

Started the cruel behavior of urging marriage.

The Chen family is a large family. From 18 to 30, Chen Jiangtao, who is not in a relationship, arranges to introduce a partner, urges those who are in a relationship to get married, and urges those who are married to have children. If they have one child, they will have a second child. If they are all sons, they will urge daughters, and if they are all daughters, they will urge sons.

What do you mean to make up one or more good characters.

You said over 30? In this era, you are useless after 30!

"Dad, don't think too much, Youzi is still young. It's not good for women to have children now." Liu Yiming thought for a while and remembered a lot of plots of sad dramas.

"It's not me who urges, Youzi is also 20 years old, it's better to get married soon..." Liu Yiming sighed and listened to his father's nagging.

"Is the Prime Minister here? A document has come from the Logistics Department and you need to make a decision." Liu Yiming has never felt that a man's voice can be so pleasant.

"Dad, I have something else to do. Let's talk about it next time. Definitely next time!" Liu Yiming grabbed the briefcase and rushed out the door.

"Prepare the car! Go to the Prime Minister's Office! By the way, go to the Ministry of Education to find my wife and ask her to come after get off work..."

Listening to the vague voice, Liu Wanhua shook his head.

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"What is this? The burden of 120,000 soldiers is already very heavy. What do you think?" As soon as Liu Yiming arrived at the Prime Minister's Office, Xu Hui came to Liu Yiming with a stack of documents.

These documents came from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Police, the Ministry of Education, and various enterprises under the Ministry of Industry and Commerce, etc.

They are all beating around the bush to advance the conscription plan and expand its scale.

"They are looking at veterans!" Xu Hui said unhappily.

"Veterans?" This year, there is a first batch of formal veterans, about 5,000 people, mainly the first and second batches of immigrants.

"These people have learned culture and combat in the army, and they have some skills, such as simple surgical treatment, and they are well organized."

"The soldiers who retired due to injuries before have made great achievements in various industries, and they follow the arrangements and implement them well and quickly. A new round of development is about to start, and they want a group of soldiers." Xu Hui considered.

"It's not impossible, we can't let them stay in the barracks for the rest of their lives. But if you do that, your appetite will be too big." Liu Yiming glanced at the median.

"The Civil Affairs Bureau hopes to expand the conscription plan to 60,000 this year, and the Education Bureau also hopes to expand it by 10,000, reaching 15,000." Liu Yiming accumulated his emotions.

"The worst is the Ministry of Industry and Commerce. The Navy has several thousand people, most of whom are cadets who have just been converted to regular employees. You want to take out a thousand people? Will the Navy still work?"

"If you do this, the military will collapse. No! Absolutely not!" This was mainly said to Xu Hui. It was obvious that Xu Hui was tempted. Otherwise, these documents could be thrown to the State Council and then rejected by the Ministry of National Defense, the Ministry of Logistics, or the representatives of the Army and Navy.

"Among the existing personnel, I will try to give you 5,000 people, and most of them will be used to form the Guinea Island Construction Corps to take over Guinea Island." Liu Yiming thought about it. Two years of military service is still a little bit. Non-technical arms can turn to another direction and stabilize development.

In this way, Nanhua stabilized the country, the government obtained high-quality manpower, and the soldiers had a greater future. Liu Yiming won three times and won.

"Okay!" Xu Hui nodded immediately. It was good to squeeze out 5,000 people. There were a total of 7,000 people who could be used. With the original government staff and the construction corps, the full control of Java could be launched.

"I heard that Die Qing placed a big order for us?" Xu Hui achieved his goal, but it was not easy to turn around and leave, so he asked.

"The first batch of 200 artillery pieces, didn't they produce many retired artillery pieces before, and also seized many? I asked the factory to refurbish them and sell them, that's all." Liu Yiming hadn't looked at the documents yet.

"It's not this amount, the documents should have been sent to you." Xu Hui shook his head.

"Then let me see, there are indeed documents coming, I was not here just now." Liu Yiming was looking for the documents.

"Huh! This is so hungry that he will not choose what to eat!" Liu Yiming opened the documents, a thick folder, marked with this purchase.

Basically, all the miscellaneous goods that can be batched have been ordered, such as the Nanyang purchase ordered 10,000 Japanese 30-year rifles, and Huguang purchased a batch of more than 1,000 1871/85

"Later, I heard from the steel mill that they asked if they could export cannon steel." Xu Hui continued to shake his head.

Cannon steel? Liu Yiming suddenly remembered that Die Qing still had a foundation, especially since the steel mill was going to be put into production this year.

"What a pity..."

"What a pity?" Xu Hui asked in confusion.

"Nothing, damn!" Liu Yiming perfunctorily flipped through the documents.

"Are you kidding me? It's fine if he wants to buy cannon steel, but he also wants screws and rivets? I remember Jiangnan Bureau has them, right?"

If I remember correctly, in addition to raw materials, Jiangnan Bureau can produce most weapons in the current era. Die Qing also has shipbuilding capabilities, including the manufacture of steam engines. How could it be so poor?

"These are what they strongly demand. The price is high, but they want kickbacks. Do you think we should sell them?" Xu Hui felt a little reluctant. The people's money was wasted.

"Sell! Why not!" Liu Yiming was angry.

"It's business, not cold."

"Gun steel, explosives, smokeless gunpowder, brass, and small hardware, cosmetics? Sugar, matches, kerosene? They really come here to do business!" Liu Yiming saw kerosene and thought again.

"Forget it, they can all be sold." There is nothing worth keeping secret about this thing, just a material, ordinary people in this era don't pay attention to it, let alone in the Qing Dynasty.

Just like the third brother in the world, he can buy things we can't buy, guess why?

"Then how is this trade settled? Silver?" Liu Yiming sold silver before and banned the purchase of silver as a reserve.

"Part of the silver, the rest is barter, tea, silk, leather, etc. are all fine. The war is over, and it's time to focus on people's livelihood." Liu Yiming thought about it, and silver is used as industrial reserves.

After the Qing Dynasty was defeated, the price of silver will fall by half. It's not cost-effective to collect too much now, and barter can make more money.

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Nanhua has two oil refineries, which produce a little locally and import a little, but do not store much. The main purpose is to refine diesel and kerosene, as well as to make candles and asphalt for paving roads.

It is mainly for technical reserves, because Nanhua does not have much demand. A few thousand tons of diesel a year, most of which are bought by the navy.

The demand for kerosene is not large either, and the Construction Corps does not need much. On the contrary, candles are exported and are very popular in the die Qing.

All major cities in Nanhua have been electrified, and street lights are completely electric. When power plants supply electricity to factories, they also supply electricity to cities.

In the coal chemical industry, Nanhua is far ahead of the world.

"Is this the silk you pulled out?" Liu Yiming took a hair-thin silk and gently pulled it. It was very good and did not break.

"Can it be pulled thinner?" This is still a bit thick. Compared with silk stockings, it has no core competitiveness.

"Yes, just find the most suitable strength and speed. Is this thing so important?" Zhang Qiutang tidied her hair and looked at Liu Yiming with tired eyes.

"Ahem! Then keep working on it. It's better to make it thinner than raw silk, translucent or transparent, and then make it into long leg socks." Liu Yiming glanced at Zhang Qiutang's long legs.

Liu Yiming only knew that coal tar could be used to make nylon, but he didn't know how to make it or how to draw silk. Later, he was busy, the output of coal tar was not large, and he had to give priority to the use of chemical industry, so he delayed it.

It was not until the end of last year that the scale of coking was further expanded and more and more coal tar was produced. The project was thrown to the newly established University of South China.

Zhang Qiutang was a student who had just started college. After taking a semester of theoretical classes, the tutor gave her a book and asked her to start doing experiments independently, and take the theoretical classes slowly.

"Okay, Prime Minister." Zhang Qiutang was already staring at Liu Yiming.

It was not until Liu Yiming felt uncomfortable and turned around and left the university that the students in the university withdrew their curious eyes.

"I felt like a monkey just now..." Liu Yiming had seen more people's scenes, but this kind of fanaticism, excitement, but with scrutiny, and more than one look, made Liu Yiming very uncomfortable.

"It's already five o'clock, do you want to go home?" The driver didn't answer, and he didn't know how to answer. Anyway, it was time to get off work, and he could go home and hug his child after sending Liu Yiming.

"No! Go back to the Prime Minister's Office, not tonight." Liu Yiming woke up from his emotions immediately. Going back now would be a Shura field.

I heard that my mother-in-law was coming back, no, I had to think of a way.

"Brother Yiming!" Unknowingly, I had arrived at the Prime Minister's Office. Zhang You had already got off work and was eating snacks and processing documents.

This girl is getting more and more attractive...

Liu Yiming looked at Youzi dressed in red Hanfu and couldn't help thinking.

"We are an old couple, but you are still like this!" If the biggest change of Zhang You is that her personality is undoubtedly stronger.

But when it comes to clinging, she is not vague at all!

"Let's go, eat, and take a hot spring bath together tonight?" Liu Yiming walked away with Zhang You.

It was another busy night...

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