Chapter 376 Warning
George was not blackmailing. After the East India Company bought Sarawak, it began to carry out drastic transformation of Kuching. The cost is expected to cost a total of 10 million pounds.
Although the renovation plan has just begun and will last for 10 years, George cannot let his men suffer.
Gray is smarter now. He is just a messenger and does not argue with George at all.
The warships of the Asian Fleet stayed off the coast of Kuching for less than 12 hours before turning around and heading to the Straits Settlements.
Seymour was just showing off. If he really wanted to fight, Seymour really wouldn't dare.
The UK is not only full of smoke and smoke, but also leaking wind everywhere.
George has a criminal record.
If George is cornered and George sends someone to the Transvaal to interfere, who will bear the responsibility?
George is really good at choosing time.
On January 22, Queen Victoria passed away on the Isle of Wight, England, at the age of 82.
Queen Victoria reigned for 64 years and was known as the grandmother of Europe. She had a profound impact on the entire Europe.
Nicolas' uncle Edward VII has just ascended the throne, and the coronation ceremony will not be held until next year. When the Queen was alive, he was idle for a long time because of his misbehavior. The Queen has not allowed him to take charge of any affairs related to actual government affairs. , so he has not really taken control of the entire empire.
Think about how cautious the Russian Empire was when Nicholas first succeeded to the throne, and you will know the situation that Britain is facing now.
George is a master of time management by seizing this fleeting opportunity to unify Kalimantan.
Marco is ambitious and is planning to merge East India and the Aceh Sultanate to completely eliminate hidden dangers.
Ivanov and Antonov warmly welcomed this idea.
Li Sha had no objection. After the merger of East India and Aceh, Li Sha was still the Sultan of Aceh, with the same status as the Sultan of Balni.
Since East India is not a country, there is not even a ceremony. East India and Aceh merge into one and gradually resume their functions.
In mid-April, a new group of retired officers and soldiers from the Amur Military Region arrived in East India.
There are a total of 565 officers and soldiers in this group, together with their families, the total number is as high as 3,000. The highest-ranking officer during their service was Lieutenant Colonel Musayev, deputy commander of the Vladivostok Cavalry Regiment.
Musayev was unlucky. He accidentally fell off a horse during an exercise last summer and suffered multiple fractures throughout his body. He was hospitalized for 9 months, but he still had sequelae and had to retire.
After arriving in East India, Musayev served as the head of the East India Military Advisory Group with the rank of major general.
Marco is very happy. This group of retired officers and soldiers can be said to be both civil and military. Not only do they have excellent military qualities, but they are also proficient in Russian and Chinese. Some of them can also speak English. They will be assigned to various parts of East India and become George's most important Loyal Sergei.
Sergey means guardian and defender in Russian.
In fact, in the past few years, retired officers and soldiers have come to work in East India every year, and many Amur people have come to settle in East India. Statistics from the Aceh Sultanate at the end of last year showed that there were more than 12,000 Russians living in Aceh.
After the annexation of Bo Ni, the area of East India has exceeded 2.1 million square kilometers.
Compared to such a large area, 12,000 Russians are too few and not enough to cover the entire East India.
Marco is in no hurry.
Under normal circumstances, the Amur Military Region retires about 5,000 people every year, and more and more retired officers and soldiers will arrive in East India. Theoretically, sooner or later, East India will have a headache in settling these retired officers and soldiers.
But it doesn’t matter. The area of East India is too large. There are countless gaps in civil affairs administrators, tax officers, peace officers, and garrison officers. Coconut City is the capital of the Aceh Sultanate. In many departments, only the department leaders are Russian, and the deputy chiefs are Russian. Since ministers are all temporary workers, this problem will not arise for at least 20 years.
Twenty years later, it’s almost time for Marko and Musaev’s generation to retire, and they believe in the wisdom of future generations.
In troubled times, military construction is still a top priority. The Army of the Aceh Sultanate has 100,000 people, and the Navy is a vassal of the Siberian Fleet, which is basically 0.
As the strength of the Siberian Fleet gradually increases, the East India Navy will get on the right track sooner or later. The expansion of the Coconut City Shipyard has begun, and with it, basic industries in various places will be rolled out.
The Sultanate of Aceh and East India used to be single colonial economies.
Now that East India has become Amur's back garden, George will definitely increase his efforts in building East India.
With the experience of Amur, the construction of East India is proceeding step by step. The first things to start are power plants and cement plants. Only with these two things can we be qualified to talk about other things.
The foundation of East India is still good. Thermal coal reserves are richer than Amur. The tin ore export volume of Wen Island ranks first in the world. The production of palm oil and natural rubber also ranks among the top in the world. Kalimantan also ranks first in the world. Oil fields were discovered, and combined with the geographical and climatic environment of East India, East India is actually more suitable for industrial development than Amur.
Musaev was not good at civil affairs. He only stayed in Coconut City for less than half a month before he returned to Amur with Marco, hoping that George would approve the establishment of an arsenal in East India.
There are no arsenals in East India.
Although there is one in the Aceh Sultanate, all raw materials are imported from Amur.
How can this be possible? If we do not establish a complete industrial chain, what if the waterway is blocked and external contact is completely cut off like the Transvaal now?
George comforted Musayev not to worry, East India has not even dug out the mines yet, and it is too early to develop military industry now.
“We brought a lot of samples and asked Vladivostok University to help test them. If there are mineral deposits worth developing, we will hire people from India to dig them——”
Marco actually didn’t know what to do. How to develop industry.
But with the jewels of Vladivostok at the front, I will always copy my homework.
Compared with the original Vladivostok, East India has huge advantages. It only takes 10 days to travel from East India to Vladivostok by boat.
Now that wireless telegraphy has appeared, communication is more convenient than before.
Marco does not want the most advanced equipment. Vladivostok has been upgrading equipment. Some of the equipment that Vladivostok has eliminated is eliminated and sold to East India. How much money can be made while turning waste into treasure? . George could only sigh that Marco now fully understood the essence of thrift and diligence.
This is actually not Marco's credit, but stems from the reports of Jin Yongjun and Jiang Guoxian.
Unless necessary, Kim Yongjun and Jiang Guoxian will not report to the Yuriev Palace beyond their level. This is the most basic respect.
Jin Yongjun and Jiang Guoxian understand the role of industry in promoting the economy better than Marco.
At the same time, I also understand better the hard truth that if you fall behind, you will be beaten.
Although Amur and East India are the same family, they are separated by 4,000 kilometers after all, and the waterway still faces serious potential threats. Therefore, East India must have basic industrial capabilities so that it can maintain long-term peace and stability.
Amur's industry also started from small workshops and gradually expanded to what it is today.
Having and not having are completely different things. This is what George taught them.
"Is there no one in East India?"
In George's impression, the population of East India should be quite large.
“Yes, but not enough——”
Marco is not greedy. The labor force is never enough.
East India has a large population.
But the stalls cannot be spread out too much. Plantations and mines are labor-intensive industries. Even with the number of people in East India, throwing them all into plantations and mines is not enough.
Amul tried his best to immigrate from the Qing Empire.
When you get here in East India, India becomes the best choice.
The immigrants from the Qing Empire in Amur were either farming or working in factories, and those who mined were Koreans and Japanese.
Although Goryeo has a large population, the average life expectancy is not high, and the number of young and middle-aged people is even smaller. Being held down by Amul and sucking blood for many years, it is almost unbearable.
The relationship between Japan and Russia is gradually deteriorating. It is becoming more and more difficult for Amur to hire workers from Japan. It is even more impossible for East India to hire labor from India.
As for how to hire, George doesn’t need to worry about it. The UK and the Netherlands both have industrial chains.
George himself has experienced the pain of developing Amur, so he can naturally understand the feelings of Marko and Musayev.
So George called Mikhail and asked Mikhail to figure it out.
Marco is very sensible. When he went to find Mikhail, he took the initiative to bring a piece of information about the East Indian islands.
What these islands have in common is that although they are small in size, they have beautiful scenery, convenient transportation, and are inaccessible, making them very suitable for private vacations.
East India is known as the country of ten thousand islands, and there are many islands.
The nobles of St. Petersburg go to France or Crimea for vacation every winter.
The Vladivostok nobles had similar needs.
East India has become George's private domain. What could be more tempting than buying an island and becoming the island owner?
If you want to be the owner of the island safely, you have to consider safety.
So George didn’t know that all the equipment Mikhail gave Marco was the latest equipment.
What’s so good about black powder? Vladivostok has completely eliminated it and there is no relevant equipment at all.
There are copper mines in East India, and the reserves are still very rich. Bullets and artillery shells are not a problem at all.
Although the reserves of iron ore are not very rich, the iron sand in Daye and Guandong can be sold to anyone. The requirements of East India are not high. They can make it themselves without asking for help.
With steel and gunpowder——
Give the East Indies ten years, Marco dared to walk sideways in Southeast Asia.
When the time comes, Little Japan——
Hum hum, you are the one called the United Kingdom!
George really did not care about East India. With the signing of the armistice agreement between the coalition forces and the Qing Empire, the Russian Empire once again attracted the attention of various countries.
Other countries that invaded the Qing Empire were busy grabbing things, but the Russian Empire quietly took over Kanto.
The specific amount of compensation for the war has not yet been determined, so the coalition forces decided to withdraw from the Qing Empire in batches.
The Russian Empire also wants to withdraw from Kanto.
This was not only a requirement of the Qing Empire, but also a requirement of all other countries.
Especially the United Kingdom and Japan have the most determined attitudes.
Seymour even shouted that if the Russian Empire did not withdraw from Kantung, the coalition forces would declare war on the Russian Empire.
It was only then that little Nicholas remembered George’s warning.
(End of this chapter)