"Not a single copper plate will be missing you."

Xiao Ming glared at Cui Shang'an, if it was before, he really wouldn't dare to boast of expanding Haikou to 600,000 troops.

After all, the modern army is not the feudal cold weapon army that used to be fed for food, and the training of soldiers, the purchase of equipment, the diet on weekdays, and the military salary of soldiers are all huge expenses.

In addition, the imperial army is much higher than other countries in terms of the generation difference in weapons, so the three or four hundred thousand people in the six major military regions are more than enough.

But the war in Nanyang still made him decide to expand, because the empire seems to have a lot of troops, but except for those who are stationed and defend the border, they can be freely pulled out to fight.

After all, according to the information he obtained, Europe is now also making efforts in science and technology, as long as it lasts for a few more years, I am afraid that the weapons will be updated, and the war will be even more tragic at that time.

Although Xiao Ming wants to strangle Europe, it is still a little impractical to fight in Europe, firstly, the empire does not have such a strong ability to transport troops, and attacking Europe requires at least four or five hundred thousand troops.

An army of this size with supplies is nothing short of an epic and difficult task.

Therefore, in order to prevent a counterattack by European countries in the future, it is still necessary to expand the army in advance, and he does not want to be in a hurry when there is a problem in the future.

And the most important point is that the steady growth of the empire's tax revenue also gives him the capital to maintain a large army, and this bullet and cannonball are now fired out of real money, and no money is not possible.

"If that's the case, it's not a problem, there are still a lot of young people in the empire who are interested in joining the army." Cui Shangan said.

After a pause, Cui Shangan remembered something, and he said, "Does the emperor remember the Foreign Legion that was ordered to be formed?" “

"You're talking about the Foreign Legion of Goryeo and Wakoku?"

"Exactly, now that this Foreign Legion has been formed and trained, the number is about 20,000, Ye Qingyun called to ask if it can be put into the Siberian battlefield now?" Cui Shangan asked, "If the emperor is not in a hurry to take Siberia, this foreign army can be thrown into the Indian battlefield." ”

"Let's let them go to Siberia, now the only land threat to the empire is Tsarist Russia, we can't give him a chance to grow, we must drive them to the west of the Ural Mountains as soon as possible." Xiao Ming said.

Cui Shangan responded that although the protagonist of this year's war is the Southeast Army, the actions of other military regions have not stopped, Ye Qingyun has been arranging the war to seize Siberia, and Qi Guangyi has put the center on Central Asia.

Luo Xin had been preparing for the southward movement, and now he had drawn up a complete offensive plan and handed it over to the General Staff.

After recruiting and training the first batch of 8,000 soldiers, Zhu Sansi set off for Alaska in the second half of last year, but there has been no feedback yet.

However, he also understands this situation, after all, Alaska is a snowy field, and it is not easy to land and establish the first city of the empire in this place, even if it takes a long time to go back and forth.

Speaking about the Foreign Legion, Xiao Ming suddenly remembered the civil strife in the Japanese country, last year his attention was focused on the war in Nanyang, and he didn't know what Wang Xuan's arrangement was in the Japanese country?

But the thought only flashed through his mind, because now he had something more important, and that was oil.

It doesn't matter if India doesn't fight for the time being, but buying oil from the Middle East must be on the agenda, and now that the breakthrough in internal combustion engine technology has achieved, the only thing missing is oil.

Buying oil from the Middle East is not something that can be done by talking about it, although the oil fields in the Middle East are said to produce oil with a shovel, but there is no concept of oil in that region at present.

If you want to get oil smoothly, you must first send an exploration team to find the location of the corresponding oil field, and secondly, you must ensure the safety of the exploration team, and this needs to have a good relationship with the Omanse Empire or Persia.

Therefore, he was prepared to send two waves of envoys to the Ottoman Empire and Persia on the same day, and it was his usual style to bet on both sides, so as to at least ensure that the other side could be handy when one side had a problem.

……

Istanbul.

It was the capital of the Ottoman Empire and the residence of Sariman III.

As with every morning, the Ottoman Sultan, Sariman III, woke up as the sun poured into his bedroom window.

It was only when he had finished washing up and was about to have breakfast that the Ottoman Vecchier came to him.

"Selit, why did you come to my palace at this time?" Sariman asked, a little strangely.

Bowing his head respectfully, Celit said, "Great Sultan, a group of envoys from France has just arrived here, and they have asked to go to the palace for an audience, saying that there is something of great importance. ”

"France!" Saliman frowned when he heard this, "Don't the French know that they are not welcome here?" Unless they give us back the Peloponnese. ”

Celité smiled at this time: "Great Sultan, this time the French envoys said that they came to discuss this issue, and they said that they came to this time with the support of the British, which represents the attitude of the British. ”

Sariman was stunned for a moment, and he hesitated: "Could this be a trap, these damned Europeans have taken too much land from us." ”

Thinking of this, Sariman hated it, hundreds of years ago, the Ottoman Empire was once a huge empire that spanned three regions of Asia, Africa and Europe.

However, with the rise of science and technology in Europe, the Ottoman Empire continued to lose wars with Europeans, and lost territory in Africa and Europe.

This made the Ottoman Empire, which was once the overlord country, feel very humiliated, because of the repeated defeats in the war, and now there are voices against him within the empire.

He claimed that he had made the Ottoman Empire still at the level of technology hundreds of years ago, but for Saliman, he was very aggrieved, because he had only taken over the empire for more than 20 years, not hundreds of years.

"I believe that this time he came with sincerity, and now both the British and the French are said to have been defeated in Asia by the former Great Chongqing State, and now they have a request for us."

"Great Chongqing? The country that was almost wiped out by the Golden Horde? Sariman asked.

"That's right, this is it." Celitt said.

Salriman was more and more surprised to learn that in fact, because of his geographical isolation and his peace of mind with the status quo, he cared very little about countries outside of Europe.

Celit's words really surprised him.