Chapter 1081

"Does the emperor mean that the industrial part using steam engine can be transferred overseas?"

Yang Chengye had a flash of inspiration in his mind and suddenly thought of something.

Xiao Ming nodded with a smile and said, "in fact, some businessmen in the Empire have already brought steam engine technology to the colonies. This is the mines in the colonies. Mining without steam engine is very inefficient."

"That's right. Relatively speaking, thermal power plants must be built to use electricity. Steam engines only need coal and water wherever they go, which is very convenient." Yang Chengye said.

Pang Yukun pondered for a while and said: "the factories with steam engines as the main body will gradually withdraw from the imperial market. These idle machines are indeed wasteful. Moreover, compared with the cheap labor in the colonies, the salaries of the workers in the Empire are much higher, and the factory owners will gradually be unable to bear it. However, when they move to the colonies, they can continue to make profits, which is very important for the Empire It's also waste utilization. "

"That's exactly what I mean. The businessmen of the Empire are the businessmen of the Empire wherever they go. Their output is the output of the Empire. So the steam engine industry is completely abandoned, causing huge waste. It's better to transfer it to various colonies to extract the surplus value."

"Emperor Shengming!" When people heard the words, they were all amazed.

Over the years, the development of the Empire was so fast that the people of the Empire could not keep up with the speed of the upgrading of the factory machinery.

After the emergence of electricity, this contradiction is more prominent. If we still use steam engines, we will face low efficiency and high labor costs. If we use electricity and purchase steam engines only a few years ago, they will all be idle.

After the Empire successively occupied the colonies of Japan and Nanyang, some smart businessmen were ready to move the steam engine factories to the colonies. In this way, they could continue to produce in the colonies, and they also had money to buy electric machinery.

It's just that the Empire had very strict control over technology, except for mining.

Because of this, when businessmen contacted with officials, they complained. Now that the emperor has set the tone, there will be no more problems.

This is the end of the report on economy, science and technology. Next, Xiao Ming heard about the political reform and military reform in the past two days.

According to the report provided by the cabinet and the general staff, the restructuring of all the provinces has been completed, and the officials of all the departments have their own duties.

And the top-down establishment of the military area command's duty gate was basically completed.

When these two reforms were successfully completed, Xiao Ming was also relieved, because it means that the Empire has officially become a modern country in terms of industry and commerce, government, culture and industry and commerce.

In the next few hundred years, the order he created will not lag behind, which is enough to ensure the stable operation of the Empire. After all, these systems are also from the contemporary era.

At the end of the year, the court meeting lasted from morning to noon. After entertaining the ministers in the palace, the meeting continued in the afternoon. However, the content of the afternoon meeting became the meeting for formulating the specific plan for next year.

"If you have something to play, if you have nothing to retreat from the court!"

In the evening, in the shrill voice of Qian Dafu, the curtain of the court meeting came to an end. All the ministers chanted long live and withdrew from the hall. Tomorrow is the 30th of the lunar new year.

Standing up from the Dragon chair, Xiao Ming and Qian Dafu first withdrew from the Zhengda Guangming hall.

Outside the hall, Xiao Ming looked up at the flying snow and asked, "it seems that the war in Nanyang will drag on until next year."

"I'm afraid so, but at least the southeast army won Jakarta. Now I don't know that Yue Yun's fleet is enough to control the sea trade routes." Qian Dafu was in charge of receiving telegrams, so he was clear about these wars.

Xiao Ming's eyes narrowed. In fact, he had a hunch that the war in Nanyang would not be as easy as that in Japan and Korea. After all, although the Western weapons were backward, they were really modern armies.

Moreover, soldiers in the era of queuing up to shoot are the most disciplined, because they have to face the enemy's muzzle directly in every war.

So in Jakarta, thunder's attack resulted in 2000 casualties, while in India, there are more Western soldiers. If they are forced to fight, they will also lose a lot of soldiers.

Now what he needs most is oil, and the occupation of India is not the first, so he is also considering the attack plan of India.

Since the Imperial Navy could control the sea routes, the Allied soldiers besieged in India were a good choice.

at the same time, let the southwest army of Luo Xin attack the East Indochina from the land, the British controlled Burma, from the east of India to encircling India, so that India's coalition forces will be even more uncomfortable.

Soon, his idea was verified in the 10th day of the year, and the telegram from the Imperial Navy was sent to him.

"In henghekou World War I, the Imperial Navy sank 96 enemy warships, but more than 3000 people were killed and injured. This is the most serious battle damage suffered by the Imperial Navy so far. According to Liu Chen, the Allied forces built stronger fortifications in Calcutta, India. I'm afraid the southeast army alone can't chew this hard bone."In the imperial library, Cui Shangan analyzes the war reports from Nanyang.

"How many people are there in the southeast army now?" Xiao Ming asked.

"Back to the emperor, there are currently 64000 soldiers registered in the southeast army, of whom 57000 are combat soldiers, and the remaining 7000 are logistics and civilian personnel." Cui Shangan said.

Xiao Ming nodded after hearing the speech. Because of the modernization reform of the army, the logistics of the army is now his own business, because the logistics soldiers account for a considerable proportion of the army.

"According to Liu Chen, if we want to capture Calcutta, we will have to pay 20000 soldiers' casualties, which is equivalent to half the loss of the southeast army's fighters?"

"I'm afraid that's true. In order to control the colonies, the southeast army now has garrisons in the colonies. I'm afraid that only about 40000 soldiers can actually participate in the attack."

Xiao Ming frowned and said, "it's not worth paying 20000 soldiers' lives for a Calcutta. In that case, let's spend it slowly. Anyway, the Empire has plenty of time now. The more we wait for our advanced equipment, and they will lose their will to fight if they leave their country for too long."

"This is also the idea of the lower officials. At this time, the empire can digest the occupied colonies, and at the same time, let the southwest army go south to attack the cities and seize the territory, so that they can't look after each other." Cui Shangan said.

When he got up and went to the map, Xiao Ming circled India in a red circle. He said, "let's do this. In addition, we should expand the Empire's army to 600000 people. I'm afraid we have a lot to deal with in the future."

Cui Shang'an was stunned for a moment, then said with a smile: "emperor, it's no problem, but the military expenditure?"

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