I want to be emperor

The Great Chu Empire's large-scale development plan for the Nanyang Peninsula area is a huge and complex plan, including a series of follow-up urban areas, transportation facilities, water conservancy facilities, medical facilities and a large number of infrastructure constructions.

At the same time, it is necessary to divide the administrative regions after the security in advance and make arrangements for officials.

These all involve a lot of human and material resources.

After all, the development of the Nanyang Peninsula by the Great Chu Empire does not mean that it is enough to maintain colonial rule after direct occupation.

The Great Chu Empire intends to develop the entire Nanyang Peninsula region as its future homeland, in order to make the Nanyang Peninsula region an important economic crop for the Great Chu Empire in the future, such as rubber and various fruits, as well as the most important rice. Origin.

Despite the problems of one kind or another in the Nanyang Peninsula region, the local climate is actually very good, which is very beneficial to the production of some crops.

Especially rice.

It's not a joke to cook three times a year!
Of course, in the early stage, the water conservancy facilities must be solved first, otherwise the local area will be flooded when it rains, and there will be no way to grow food on a large scale.

To sum up, the investment is not small, but the future income after investing in it is also very large.

This point has been proved by the Great Chu Empire in Thang Long Province and Hue Province in the Annan area, although the Great Chu Empire paid a huge price to solve the local floods, especially in the lower reaches of the Red River and the lower Mekong River, and built a large number of water conservancy projects. facility.

But after the construction of these water conservancy facilities, a large amount of local land has instantly become the best fertile land, and the grain output is very high.

At present, these two new provinces in the south, to be precise, the plains along the Red River and the lower reaches of the Mekong River have become the new grain production areas and grain export areas of the Great Chu Empire in the south.

Under such circumstances, if the subsequent Great Chu Empire can win Siam and Myanmar, it will also be able to develop the central and northern plains of Siam and the Chao Phraya River plain on a large scale. The natural conditions of these two areas are very good, and they are An important grain-producing area in Siam.

If the water conservancy facilities are repaired again, the grain output can be doubled several times, and it will become the new southern granary of the empire.

The Irrawaddy River Delta region in the south of Myanmar is also one of the most important grain-producing areas in the Nanyang Peninsula region, accounting for more than half of the grain production in the entire Myanmar region.

Before World War II, Myanmar was also the largest rice exporter in the world, and its annual rice exports accounted for more than 40.00% of the total global rice exports, making it a veritable rice exporter.

The exported rice basically comes from the Ayeyarwady River Delta region in southern Myanmar.

This shows the importance of the place!
Of course, this is talking about development potential. If we only talk about the present, the above-mentioned Red River Delta, Mekong Delta, Chao Phraya River Delta, northern Siam, and Myanmar’s Irrawaddy River Delta, even if they are all added up, their food production is far inferior to that of Dachu. The empire is a Liaodong province!

Even if it is really developed, it is actually inferior to many provinces of the Great Chu Empire. For example, the Northeast Region, where the Great Chu Empire has invested heavily in the development of the Northeast, the entire development plan is aimed at producing 5000 million tons of grain per year... …This is the era without chemical fertilizers and hybrid rice!
The annual output of 5000 million tons of grain is terrifying!

According to the standard of 500 kilograms per capita, it is enough to feed a population of [-] million!

As for the above-mentioned Nanyang Peninsula area, even if it is fully developed, in the contemporary era without chemical fertilizers and hybrid rice, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry of the Empire estimates that the grain output will only be 4000 million tons.

Many people have the illusion that the Nanyang region is the country with the largest production... Actually it is not. Although many countries in the Nanyang region are grain exporters, their total output is actually not good.

The grain output in Vietnam, Thailand, and Burma in later generations was basically around 4000 to [-] million tons, while in the Huaxia area of ​​later generations, it was almost the same number, or even more, in any province.

For example, Heilongjiang, the largest granary in China in later generations, has an annual output of more than 7000 million tons of grain. This does not mean the entire Northeast, but Heilongjiang Province!
Ranked second is Henan in the Central Plains, with more than 6000 million tons!
But many people have the impression that it is just a piece of prairie and desert. Inner Mongolia, which does not produce food, has an annual output of nearly 4000 million tons... ranking sixth in the country!
In Jiangsu, the traditional land of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River, the modern grain output of later generations is actually not high. In fact, it is only more than 800 tons. Hunan, one of the lakes and regions, is even less, just about 3000 million tons...Of course, this is not because of the poor terrain and climate, but because of the lack of food. Modern large-scale planting technology is the reason why farmers do not grow food and switch to various economic crops, or even abandon them directly.

This situation actually existed in the Great Chu Empire!
In the current Great Chu Empire, the Pan-Jiangnan region including Jiangnan Province is still the most important grain-producing area of ​​the Great Chu Empire.

It's just that with the development of the industrial and commercial economy, even though the grain output in the Pan-Jiangnan area is increasing every year, the increase is not large. Many peasant families are more inclined to grow some cash crops, such as cotton, than to grow grain that does not make much money. , Mulberry etc.

In recent years, some people with lofty ideals have even put forward a very scary slogan, that is, the situation of "cotton mulberry eating people" has appeared in the Jiangnan area!

It means that farmers grow cotton and mulberry trees instead of grain.

At the same time, the population of the Great Chu Empire is growing rapidly, and the population growth rate of the Panjiangnan region is also very fast, which is the most densely populated area in the Great Chu Empire.

Therefore, although the current Pan-Jiangnan area still produces the most grain, it is actually no longer a grain export area, but has become a grain import area.

Every year, a large amount of grain is imported from the Huguang area, North China area and even the Northeast area.

Today, in the Great Chu Empire, the main grain output area is the Huguang area, including the capitals of Chubei, Chunan, and Hantian provinces. The contemporary Huguang area actually has a small population, but its grain production is huge. The Chu Empire continued to focus on development for 30 years, so that Huguang has the reputation of being familiar with the world.

The second is the northeast region, mainly Liaodong and the newly developed Heishui Province. These two places are also sparsely populated, and there is also a rich black soil in the Northeast. At the same time, large-scale mechanization or horse farming is used for planting , so the per capita grain output is huge, and it has become one of the important granaries of the empire.

As for the three provinces of Henan in the Central Plains and Shandong and Hebei in North China, the local food production is actually quite a lot, but the local population is also recovering quickly, and the local consumption is also large, so although the production is large, the output is relatively small.

Whether a place can become a food exporter and supply other key areas depends not on the total output, but on per capita output and per capita consumption.

Even if the total output is large, the per capita output is not good, and the per capita consumption is large. There will be enough food for oneself. How can there be any surplus to supply to other places? So let alone export, a large amount of grain has to be imported every year.

(Actually, we are still the third largest grain exporter in the world, exporting a lot of grain every year, but at the same time we are also the largest grain importer in the world, importing about [-] million tons a year, this import amount far exceeds the export amount)
(The reason for this situation is mainly due to the import of a large amount of staple food and supplementary food while exporting certain processed food products. You can simply understand that most of the imported food has been digested by us, but there is still a part of the imported food that is not It is purely imported, but it belongs to the grain processing trade, the front foot is imported, and the back foot is processed and sold.)
Of course, this is talking about our special situation. In reality, many countries obviously have low per capita food production, do not import food, and export a lot of food, such as India!
Their total food production is much less than that of Huaxia, and their population has surpassed that of Huaxia. The per capita food production is only over 200 kilograms, while the international per capita food security standard is [-] kilograms...

But here comes the point, they are the sixth largest grain exporting country in the world, and sometimes they can even rank fifth in the world, and more importantly...you can’t find India among the top ten grain importing countries in the world name……

More than 200 kilograms per capita, and a large amount of exports... I am afraid only God knows how Indians survived!

Let’s not talk about the later generations, let’s talk about the Great Chu Empire itself. Because of the large population growth, the breakthroughs in hybrid rice, chemical fertilizer industry, and even pesticides are not big, and the yield per mu is not high.

This has led to the fact that although local food continues to increase, the growth rate of per capita food is not fast, and the per capita food consumption has been hovering at the level of [-] to several kilograms.

This forced the Great Chu Empire to increase grain development in its local areas, such as the Northeast, Huguang, Central Plains, North China, and even Mongolia.

On the other hand, it is to increase the acquisition of food from overseas regions.

North America is one thing, and Southeast Asia is another.

Although the total grain output in the Nanyang region may not be very good now, and it is estimated that it will be far inferior to the Northeast region when it is fully developed in the future, but those places are all new places, and it will be no problem to feed tens of millions of people after they are done well.

How to put it, this means that the world will produce tens of millions of tons of grain every year, which can greatly alleviate the food demand of the empire itself.

This is the background of the large-scale development of the Nanyang Peninsula. It is nothing but to feed more citizens and let them have enough food.

Against this background, the Great Chu Empire passed the Nanyang Peninsula Development Plan and prepared a series of measures.

And before these development measures are implemented, there is still something to do first!

That is to solve the local indigenous people first.

Not all places in today's Nanyang region belong to the territory of the Great Chu Empire. Annan, Cambodia, and the Malacca Peninsula are all directly subordinate territories of the Great Chu Empire, and provinces have already been established.

But there is still a kingdom of Siam and a kingdom of Burma.

Before engaging in the large-scale development of the Nanyang Peninsula, these two indigenous countries must be wiped out first.

And the so-called large-scale development of the Nanyang Peninsula...in fact, it refers to the development of the territories of these two indigenous countries.

If you want to develop, naturally you have to grab the site first!
In November of the 33rd year of Chengshun, the Army of the Great Chu Empire began its preliminary military preparations. The Army claimed that it would invest 20 troops for this military operation, which would definitely make the 800 million Chu Yuan spent by the cabinet worthwhile.

As for the navy... Myanmar and Siam do not have any navies at all, so just send some offshore and inland river gunboats there.

And the army's so-called 20 troops is actually nonsense...these two indigenous countries don't need the army to use 20 troops at all, and they only have 5 to [-] troops.

For the 20 troops, the army counted all the garrisons in the surrounding provinces!

If you really want to use 20 troops, the 800 million Chu Yuan is not enough, not to mention adding a zero at the end, but at least four or five times more...

And the army is obviously impossible to fight at a loss at its own expense. After all, this time, the grand development plan of the Nanyang Peninsula, but the plan that was tossed out by the cabinet, the army doesn't really want to fight... After all, the army really doesn't want to go to the poor place of the Nanyang Peninsula. .

The reason why it is still said to be 20 is just to coax the cabinet to make them feel that their 800 million flowers are worth it.

Those who actually participated in the battle were more than 5 people, including two first-class divisions, one second-class division, and some third-class garrison troops in the local colonies.

Specifically, there are the eighth division of the first-class combat readiness division stationed in Yunnan Province, the No.14 division of the first-class combat readiness division stationed in Malacca Province, and the No.30 seventh division of the second-class standing division stationed in Hue Province.

In addition, there are the C-rank garrison regiments in the two colonies, the Bangkok County Garrison Battalion and the Dagon Garrison Battalion.

Of course, in addition to the army, there is also the navy, and the navy also plans to send a marine regiment to participate in the battle to gain some military exploits.

As for the guards, it is even more impossible to be absent. Wherever there is a war, there will be guards, so the guards will also send a mixed brigade of 4000 people to join the battle.

Coupled with some headquarters and independent artillery units, the total strength is about 6.

Most of these troops are combat readiness troops stationed in the local area. As long as one order is issued, they can directly perform tasks. The guards are special and have to be transferred from the local Gyeonggi, but if they are transported by steam ships, it does not need to be too much A long time, a month or so is enough.

It is worth mentioning that some of the participating troops in this series are equipped with the latest Type 32 rifles and 75-year-old [-]mm field guns.

The Eighth Division in Yunnan and the No.14 Division in Malacca each have a battalion equipped with 75 rifles and a [-]mm rear-loaded rifled field gun with a post... Both of these units are typical First-class combat readiness troops are stationed in border areas and face wars at any time, so they naturally give priority to equipping new weapons.

It's just that the army has relatively few breech-loading rifled weapons... Therefore, only one battalion of these two troops is equipped with new rifles, mainly for adaptive training and as the seed of the whole army!
The Army currently purchases few new rifles, simply because they feel that new rifles are too expensive, and they really have no choice but to equip them all in one go.

The army still wants to wait for the guards and navy to purchase, and then spread the cost before picking up the cheap...

On the other hand, the Guards are very proud. They have already equipped more than 4 guns, and there are more than 5 orders in the future. Not only can they equip the entire Guards, but also leave some of them as daily and combat weapons. Supplement for loss, and serve as inventory for emergencies!

The guards... some generals of the guards look at the generals of the army and navy like they look at the rebels... every day they think that the army and the navy will rebel.

Therefore, regardless of the price, it is also their old tradition to be the first to equip new weapons and hoard a large number of brand new weapons and equipment.

The guards dispatched this time are temporarily organized into the third mixed brigade, all equipped with rear-loaded rifled weapons, and the regiment has practiced new era tactics for more than a year, not only the new skirmishers newly proposed by the guards Tactics, as well as infantry coordinated tactics in the era of breech-loading rifles.

This time, the Guards also want to use Siam and the Kingdom of Burma to practice their hands, and try out the new weapons and tactics that they have pondered over the past few years.

I hope to find the advantages and disadvantages in actual combat, enlarge the advantages and improve the disadvantages.

In fact, the army has a similar idea. They want to test new weapons and tactics through this war, but the army's new weapons and equipment are not as many as those of the guards, and the experimentation is also a petty air.

Therefore, this war has a strong experimental nature, and at the same time, it is also to prevent the participating troops with a small number of their own, advanced equipment, and different tactics from the ordinary army, from being randomly used by the army bastards.

After discussion, the high-level guards sent a heavyweight general to serve as the commander of the mixed brigade: Major General Xu Jiaqing.

According to the tradition of the Chu army, the commander of a mixed brigade is usually a brigadier general, and this mixed brigade is generally a mixed brigade with a size of six to seven thousand people.

The third temporary mixed brigade of the Guards only has a size of more than 4000 people... According to the previous rules, it is just a mixed regiment designation. The commander is usually a colonel, and in a few cases a brigadier general.

But in order to avoid trouble, the Guards directly assigned the number of a mixed brigade and sent a major general over.

Make it clear that the chariots and horses told the army: Don't think about commanding me...

The Army let out a chuckle at this, and several big bosses discussed it, so, since you guards want to make merit and don't want to interfere with us, you might as well be in charge of a battlefield alone.

So, after some discussions, the Guards temporarily formed the third mixed brigade, which will land directly from Bangkok and take charge of the war in the area. The local army garrison in Bangkok will help you and take care of the logistics.

The No. 30 Seventh Division of the Army's second-class standing division will attack westward from the direction of the Mekong Delta in Hue; the No. 14 division of the first-class combat readiness division in the Malacca area will launch an attack from Malacca to the north, um, at the same time attack Burma and China. Siam!

The eighth division of the first-class combat readiness division in Yunnan, fighting south from Yunnan.

A marine regiment of the Navy landed in Dagon, Myanmar, and the local garrison, while ensuring the safety of Dagon, launched an offensive northward.

In this war, attacks will be launched in five directions at the same time, trying to penetrate these two indigenous countries directly in the shortest time, without giving these two indigenous countries enough time to react, and quickly destroy their main force and regime, avoid protracted wars, and fall into the quagmire...

If the fight is procrastinated, it will easily change... Don't think that if the Chu army is well equipped and has high combat effectiveness, it will definitely win. There are too many variables in war.

In the original time and space, the British fought Afghanistan and the Boers in South Africa. They all suffered big losses. The Americans were no exception.

The high-ranking generals of the Great Chu Empire would not despise any opponent just because of their own equipment and strong combat effectiveness.

The army of 6 people was sent out at one time, which proved that the Chu army attached great importance to these indigenous people.

And if that wasn't enough, there was also a large strategic reserve in the rear.

The 20 army mentioned by the army is not all fooling the cabinet... They really prepared a lot of strategic reserves. If there is a change in the war, these strategic reserves can be lined up at any time.

It's just that it probably won't work.

After the basic guidelines for the development of the Nanyang Peninsula, there are also strategic military deployments, and even general tactical plans.

The next step is to implement it!

In the winter of Chengshun 33, on November [-]th, the Guards temporarily formed the third mixed brigade. Under the leadership of Major General Xu Jiaqi, they boarded many ships at the Wusong military base, and eight of the guards' own ships The battleship escorts south!

Well, you read that right, it was the guards' own warships that escorted them.

People's Guards also have a fleet, and the scale is not small!

Not only the fleet, but also the guards and the air force. They were equipped with the first hot air balloon unit in the Great Chu Empire, which was used for high-altitude visual alerts for defense and artillery shooting.

The Imperial Guards of the Great Chu Empire are a mixed force of land, sea and air, with complete independent combat capabilities.

And this is also the confidence of the guards to prevent the army and navy from rebelling!
Of course, the generals of the army and navy laughed... I don't know who is the potential villain in the empire.

In order to prevent the turmoil of the Guards, the small number of breech-loading rifled weapons currently equipped in the army are all deployed in Jiangnan Province.

The several large-tonnage offshore battleships that the Navy has produced in recent years are basically lying on their stomachs at the Songjiang Naval Base.

Many people in the army and navy are thinking that if there is a problem with the guards in the future, they will rebel and go back to Gyeonggi to escort them directly!