1890 King of Southeast Asia

"Are there any other difficulties?" Liu Yiming asked when he saw Xu Hui hesitated to speak.

"There are many difficulties." Xu Hui answered.

"For example, researchers are responsible for technology, production, and management. The work efficiency is actually very low. In addition, we have a lot of waste. Although many products are stored, the warehouse is almost full, and many products are wasted."

"There are also reagent raw materials. We don't have enough production capacity and insufficient raw materials for production, but in fact we have the theoretical conditions and all kinds of raw materials. We only need a chemical plant, but we really can't spare any manpower."

... "There are also various mineral supplies. The mining is insufficient and the supply is unstable. We also need enough people to mine. I estimated that it would take about 20,000 people to complete the production task in a short time and build a small military industrial base."

"I'm not complaining about people, but the industry is now facing this unsolvable problem. We need enough workers, the army needs soldiers, and the city needs people to run. I know all this, but the objective conditions are here. I said that 5,000 people are actually the minimum requirement to complete the military industrial preparation. I hope everyone will consider it." Xu Hui sat down after speaking.

"Industry is the backbone of war. Agricultural countries cannot defeat industrial countries. Don't worry, I will try my best to find people for you." Liu Yiming comforted.

"Yiming, let me say a few words." Chen Jiangtao whispered.

"Uncle Chen, please."

"Hehe, everyone, we are old acquaintances, so let's not waste time. Now is not the time to consider other things. At this time, all Chinese must contribute. All men aged 16 to 40 in the Chen family will be sent to the army, factories, and other places where manpower is needed. I thought about it. If there are not enough men, there are still women. Yiming only wants men, so let the women take care of the business. The old guys over 40 will go to the plantation to watch."

"We are not old scholars. Women can do well. Take care of the business. A business has a few men responsible for carrying, that's enough. There are also children. There are so many children, and they can also help. At this time, throw everything away, throw it all away!" Chen Jiangtao waved his hand and said heroically.

"Uncle Chen is right." Liu Yiming's eyes lit up: "Women are also an important force. Besides, the factory is just working normally. It's not like they don't go home. They just work in a different place."

"We can use women if we can, and we can use natives if we can. We have guns on our heads, and we are not afraid that the natives will not obey. How about squeezing out 30,000 people from all walks of life?"

There was another noisy sound, but fortunately it didn't last long. This issue was passed. The Chinese in Southeast Asia are indeed different. Under the turmoil, women are required to have high self-defense capabilities and independence. In this environment, it is no problem to further strengthen the role of women. As long as they are not demonized, gender equality is a normal development trend.

"Okay, let's move on to the next topic, the management of Surabaya. Let me talk about the plan first. We plan to set up a police department to be responsible for the public security incidents of the entire Surabaya city, and to set up a government department to exercise the daily management rights of Surabaya. The courts and other departments will be temporarily postponed. The legislative department will temporarily set up a consultation bureau to slowly come up with a charter..."

Time passed little by little until the end of the meeting. The entire makeshift team was basically set up, but the name was never agreed upon. For the name, the people in the lobby almost fought.

Finally, Liu Yiming made a decision. The government was called the Surabaya Chinese Provisional Autonomous Government. In order not to overly stimulate the colonists, or other colonists, the army was called the Chinese Provisional Autonomous Government Armed Forces. The Provisional Autonomous Government was headed by Chen Jiangtao as the mayor, Xu Hui as the director of the Industry Department, Liu Wanhua as the director of the Police Department... Liu Yiming as the chief of the army.

I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, but no one mentioned adding Surabaya in front of the name of the army.

Liu Yiming suspected that the reason why these people couldn't take the name was because they were waiting for him to make a decision. This feeling was a bit bad, but also a bit comfortable. It meant that these people did recognize Liu Yiming's leadership, but it also meant that their identities had changed. They were no longer as willful as before.

Liu Yiming had a new office area, Henry's office, a small manor. Although it was there before, it was a temporary command post at that time. Now it is a formal command post, although the only difference is that there is a sign hanging.

Afterwards, Liu Yiming went to the dock. This is a conscription office. There are six conscription offices in Surabaya. The six conscription offices registered more than 20,000 pieces of information. In the end, only 4,600 people were conscripted. The total number of troops was 6,300, including 300 navy, 800 coastal defense, and the rest were army.

Similarly, after the meeting, surgeons in Surabaya were gathered together, including Chinese and Western medicine, to discuss the problem of hemostasis. Liu Yiming's requirement was to come up with an effective emergency measure. The discussion lasted for three days, and finally an operation method with the shadow of modern medicine was developed. A medical kit mainly composed of bandages and hemostatic powder was developed.

Liu Yiming also added doctors to the army. Ordinary people were trained in basic medical operations, supplemented by apprentices. Ordinary people who had learned basic hemostasis, wound treatment, and first aid training were assigned to the platoon, and apprentices who had been trained for more than one year were assigned to the company. Only the battalion headquarters would have two or three formal doctors, and the regiment level was similar, but they still had certain training obligations. The brigade headquarters added a field hospital, consisting of 30 doctors, and another 100 apprentices. Liu Yiming was also vigorously training nurses. There were not enough men, so women were used. Not only nurses, but half of the apprentices were women.

However, they were all in the field hospital, not in the company. There was no way. The educated men were snatched away by Xu Hui. Several college students with liberal arts backgrounds were gathered together to jointly deceive these educated people and deceived them to go to the factory.

Liu Yiming knew the situation in the factory. Now it was not an assembly line, but manual operation, and it was easier for those with education to get started.

After three days, the makeshift team of the Municipal Bureau was basically set up, but the system was not formal yet. However, this government led by a group of old people was stable and could meet the requirements of ensuring order, effectively accelerating the construction of the army and industry.

In addition, after Liu Yiming knew the industrial capacity, he quickly ordered two sets of seamless steel pipe production equipment, which were used by Kolkata to produce various pipes. The cost of the steel pipe factory was 10,000 pounds, and Liu Yiming paid three times the premium. The shipment was completed in three days and it would arrive in another three days.

Liu Yiming was ready to use firepower to make up for the decline in combat effectiveness caused by insufficient training of recruits. He produced a simple version of the mortar, with steel formula, equipment, and simple manufacturing. Liu Yiming was ready to equip the platoon level and specially equip a gun squad. The firing rate of the mortar was unimaginable in this era. As long as the equipment was completed, Liu Yiming would stand firm on land.

Naval training had begun. Without textbooks and manuals and instructors, the Dutch were pulled away. Under the temptation of bayonets and money, the Dutch happily taught the Chinese navy the basic training methods.

The same is true for the artillery. A part of the fort garrison was pulled out. Under the temptation of the golden coins, even the commander of the southern fort became a mercenary. This was his own request. As long as he was given a monthly salary of 200 pounds, he was willing to become a mercenary.

The purchasing power of one pound at the moment is reflected in the book of Sherlock Holmes. In 1890, it was roughly equivalent to about 1,000 yuan now. It only cost 80 pounds to rent a villa in the countryside of London. At that time, London was a foggy city, and dignitaries and capitalists mainly lived in the countryside.

This commander was a hapless guy. He was at odds with Henry, did not make money in the colonies, and his property was confiscated (he was captured in advance and had no time to sort out his finances). The current situation is that even if he can be released, he is still a poor guy. For money, he dares to do anything.

There were quite a few such people. After finding a dozen artillerymen and getting the promise from the Chinese army not to spread the news, Liu Yiming hired five navy artillerymen and five artillerymen as instructors at an average price of 150 yuan. As for the army, to be honest, Liu Yiming really looked down on the current army tactics. It was still a dense skirmish line, that is, heavy machine guns were not adopted, and there were no goods in Singapore. There were some in the UK. Gatling machine guns were available, but Liu Yiming did not buy them.

The training of recruits was based on the skirmish line, pincer attack, and alternating attacks. Liu Yiming's little knowledge in the data and his head was squeezed out, and he made a youth version of the three-three system.

The training of recruits began in an orderly manner. The infantry regiments used Martini Henry, and the artillery forts, coastal defense, and police used the captured Mauser 1871. More than a thousand guns of various models were captured, but fortunately the bullets were universal.

Twelve more infantry guns were added, all of which were German six-pounders. They were old guns from the Franco-Prussian War, but they were still usable. In addition to Britain, France and Germany, other countries also equipped them in large quantities, such as the Qing Dynasty, Japan, etc.

Liu Yiming divided the artillery into two six-gun companies. In this way, Liu Yiming had four six-gun rear artillery companies, a mixed artillery company, 40 infantry guns, and some muzzle-loading guns. If necessary, some of the guns on the coastal artillery platforms could be pulled over.

Infantry training was concentrated for one week. While training, they learned to let them understand why they fought the Dutch. Chen Minghan was in charge of this. This was very effective and could effectively enhance the soldiers' fighting spirit.

Amid the chaos, three days later, the seamless steel pipe equipment arrived at the port of Sishui. To be honest, the British were really reckless in order to cause trouble for others. In this era, the seamless steel pipe technology was very advanced. Except that it could not be used directly to make weapons, other ships, industries, etc. all needed high-pressure seamless steel pipes. But the British sold it like this. Fearing that Liu Yiming would not be able to install and operate it, they also sent a group of technicians... Of course, they were paid.