1890 King of Southeast Asia

By October 1918, the total area of ​​territory owned and administered by the Huaxia Empire exceeded 18 million square kilometers.

Specifically, the Huaxia Empire: more than 11 million square kilometers of territory, autumn-leaved begonia.

Southeast Asia, later Indonesia, the Philippines, East Timor, Papua New Guinea, that is, the entire Southeast Asian islands plus the half of the island in northern Australia.

Levant region: the Arabian Peninsula, Palestine, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and southern Turkey in later generations.

Others include the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, the Pacific Islands - Hawaii, Solomon, etc.

The territory has surpassed France and become the world's third largest country in terms of territory, second only to Britain, which occupies 1/7 of the world's land area, and Russia, which occupies 1/10 of the world's land area.

However, the Huaxia Empire faces a problem very similar to that of Britain - the territory is too large and too scattered. It takes more than a month for the fastest warship to travel from one end of the country to the other, and the maintenance cost is extremely high.

The British solution to this problem was to divide the rights of each colonial government, give the colonial government full autonomy according to its importance, and then use the navy to maintain its influence.

Of course, the rights are different. For example, the Straits Settlements and India are directly managed by Britain, while the barren land of Australia was directly abandoned by Britain.

The advantage of this is that the cost of governance is low and the efficiency is good. The disadvantage is that with the development of the times, the ruling power will decline rapidly due to various thoughts and eventually fall apart.

Liu Ming knew this a long time ago, so he has always adopted another solution-immigration.

The Huaxia Empire has a huge manpower, and because of various natural disasters, man-made disasters and low productivity, these people are very young, with an average age of less than 30 years old.

Of course, there is a reason. A few years ago, the average life expectancy of the Huaxia Empire was only 35 years old.

"It's all done, but where should these people be sent?" Zheng Shangqing rushed to Huang Zhengfang, drank a sip of water, and wiped his sweat.

They are now at the dock. In addition to them, there are more than 70,000 Adana aborigines concentrated at the dock.

"Maybe it's Arabia, or maybe it's sent to Southeast Asia. I heard that they have been reclaiming farmland recently, so there's no such thing as too many hands." Huang Zhengfang closed the notebook, waited for Zheng Shangqing to finish drinking water, and poured him another cup.

"Report, the transport fleet is approaching, Captain Qi asked us to clean up the dock and make a way for the people to get off the ship."

Huang Zhengfang heard this and looked at the sea level.

Dozens of faint gray-black dots appeared on the edge of the sea level.

"So many?! I hope it's the Construction Corps, so we can be much more relaxed." Huang Zhengfang saw it, and Zheng Shangqing certainly saw it too, muttering in his mouth, as if praying to Buddha.

"Yes, the Construction Corps doesn't require us to spend too much energy, and it can also establish a management agency. It's not appropriate to always let our people manage it."

"Deal with them and let them make way. The ship will arrive in about half an hour at this distance, so we have to move quickly."

Huang Zhengfang glanced at the messy locals and said with a frown.

These locals mainly come from the northern part of the Adana Plain, bordering the mountains - the main source of supplies and information for the guerrillas and the resistance army.

Various guerrillas and resistance organizations have emerged in the newly occupied land of the Huaxia Empire. Since traditional villages are an unstable factor in them, Zheng Lei finally decided to speed up the completion of immigration transportation while there was no military action.

"What? Why are they all women?" The first ship docked, and the people who came down were beyond Huang Zhengfang's expectations.

"Bali, it's still a registered ship, why are they all women? I'll go over and ask." Zheng Shangqing couldn't sit still and led people to the dock.

The Huaxia Empire has rich experience in immigration in the past. In order to restore and develop the productivity of the immigration area as soon as possible, and to reduce the voice of opposition, immigration is generally based on families.

After all, if you tear someone's family apart alive, even the most tolerant people will cause you some trouble. The purpose of immigration is to reduce trouble.

When arriving in a new place, most people will remain silent before getting familiar with the environment, observing the environment while adapting to the environment, so that after they are familiar with the environment, they have settled down.

Except for a few people, most people still prefer a stable life, so that the overall environment can be kept stable, and some small problems can be solved.

"Where is the captain? What's going on? Why are there only women? Why send so many women here?" Zheng Shangqing walked to the Bali with some impatience, grabbed a sailor and asked.

"General, I am the captain of the Bali troop transport ship, and Chizhou, the transport fleet of the Logistics Support Department of the 6th Fleet of the Navy, reports to you." The captain had noticed Zheng Shangqing a long time ago, but it was crowded to get off the ship, so he couldn't get there first.

"Captain Chi." Zheng Shangqing looked at the major rank on Chizhou's shoulder and saluted him back.

"What's the situation? Where are their families?" Zheng Shangqing asked his doubts directly.

"Report, according to the time, we are almost in Thailand. We should be in the Bay of Bengal to the Myanmar Sea now." Chizhou's heart skipped a beat.

Zheng Shangqing's question proved that he didn't know, and the rank of major general on his shoulder meant that he should be the person in charge of immigration, or one of the persons in charge.

If he didn't know, then this matter would be a bit tricky, because these were a group of women, much more difficult to deal with than men.

"This group of people is shipped from Haifa, with a total number of about 10,000 people, divided into three troop transport ships of the 6th Navy Squadron. Our mission is to hand over to the 101st Division." Chizhou said while looking at Zheng Shangqing.

"I am Zheng Shangqing, Chief of Staff of the 101st Division. This is my ID." Zheng Shangqing took out his officer ID and handed it to Chizhou. Chizhou looked at it and compared it, and gave it back to Zheng Shangqing.

"Chief of Staff Zheng, I don't know why all the people transported are women. I thought the higher-ups would explain it to you clearly. These people are too difficult to deal with." Chizhou complained first.

The Bali, like most of the troop transport ships of the 6th Navy Squadron, is based on a cruise ship, and then it is modified accordingly, rather than a professional troop transport ship.

After the modification, the Bali troop transport ship has a light load displacement of more than 16,000 tons and a full load displacement of 28,000 tons. It can accommodate the personnel and equipment of an entire regiment before the military reform, that is, more than 3,000 people. However, it will be overloaded during actual transportation, with the highest record being 5,000 people.

In contrast, the Bali cruise ship was designed to accommodate only 800 passengers and 460 crew members.

The difference of 45 times in loading capacity means that the troop transport ship has no comfort at all.

It is of course no problem to use it to carry soldiers, but when it comes to these women, all kinds of strange problems arise. Even if they only took 1 day to reach their destination, Chizhou was still scared.

"However, Chief of Staff Zheng."

Chizhou hesitated for a moment, approached and whispered in front of Zheng Shangqing:

"I have a guess that these are all Jews, maybe it has something to do with this."

After that, Chizhou took out the handover procedures and asked Zheng Shangqing to arrange for inspection.

A troop transport ship is called a troop transport ship, but it can not only transport troops, but also equipment and supplies.

"Okay, Xiao Wang, you go with Captain Chi. Captain Chi, I have to inform the division about this matter, and send a telegram to the headquarters to ask what happened."

"We haven't received any notification either. How should we arrange these more than 10,000 people?"

Zheng Shangqing heard the Jews and understood why there were only women this time. The higher-ups were deliberately split.

However, how to arrange these people became a problem.

Women at this time had a low level of education. In fact, it was not bad in the Huaxia Empire. In any case, women would master some skills, such as farming and textiles. Those with a good family background would also be able to read, write and do simple business.

The Jews, on the other hand, believed in monism and attached great importance to male superiority and female inferiority. In Jewish tradition, women could only serve as assistants to their husbands in life. Their concepts were more difficult to deal with than those of women in the Huaxia Empire.

At least, only a small number of Jewish women had mastered some production skills.

From the perspective of immigration, this was undoubtedly unqualified. Zheng Shangqing even doubted whether they could survive on their own.

"Just after you left, the headquarters' telegram arrived." After listening, Huang Zhengfang picked up the telegram on the table that still smelled of ink.

"The headquarters means to put these Jewish women together with Arab men, one part from the natives and one part from the immigrants."

"At the same time, Jewish women are prohibited from contacting immigrants from the Chinese Empire."

Huang Zhengfang said thoughtfully.

"Driving wolves to devour tigers? Sitting on the mountain and watching tigers fight?" Zheng Shangqing understood it all at once.

Having stayed in Arabia for a long time, it is difficult for them not to know many things, such as the Arabs' attitude towards religion.

Zheng Shangqing didn't quite understand what was wrong with Judaism, but he knew that Judaism believed in God and had the same origin as Christianity.

And almost all Arabs believed in Islam.

These two sects were not incompatible in history, but they were also blood enemies.

"It's not that exaggerated, but this is also a good thing." Huang Zhengfang laughed when he heard these two idioms.

He didn't think these people were worth the government's chain of tricks, but it was true that this would make it convenient for them.

Religious conflicts will protect the Huaxia Empire from bullets, at least part of it. If they use violent means, the Huaxia Empire will have an excuse to take the next step.

"More than 8,000 Chinese families came this time? What a surprise. They have all undergone basic military training. How do you think they should be organized?" Zheng Shangqing said in surprise after reading the telegram.

For a small place like Adana, Zheng Shangqing thought they would never be included, but he didn't expect them to be included in the first batch.

"30,000 people, organized into 3 divisions and 9 regiments, can basically control the plain area."

"It's almost winter, and there will probably be no major actions this year. I will take the people who came down back and resettle them first. You should improve the regional division as soon as possible to see how to allocate manpower most reasonably."

Huang Zhengfang went out and scratched his head while looking at the escorted immigrant team. Isn't he a military commander...

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