"Your Majesty, the British proposed diplomatic coordination. www.biquge.info I hope we can sign an armistice with the Spaniards, the Portuguese, and the Americans in South America. Our army was not far from Portuguese Brazil, and the British did not want to see us continue south. ”

Chen Jiqing's words were very gentle. It's just that the meaning he wants to express is very clear, after the fire in the backyard of Spain, the British finally got involved. The Anglo-Saxons made it clear that they did not want to see Chen Han's footsteps enter Brazil, and that it was time for the war in the Americas to come to an end.

Chen Han has seized the northern and western parts of South America, including Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana, and Peru. It can be said that the front line is already on Brazilian soil.

This is a very large area, including Chile, and the South American land occupied by Chen Han is at least a quarter of South America, more than four million square kilometers.

Chen Ming's face did not change at all, he looked at the military map of the Americas, and said, "Can the garrison still fight?" ”

"I don't ask them to swallow the whole of America in one gulp, but the Amazon basin, it has to be taken." Of course, the vast Amazon rainforest does not need to be used against it, but the Amazon estuary must be taken.

You can't eat the whole of America, you can't eat the whole of Brazil, but it's always okay to swallow half of Brazil, right? In today's Brazil, without the Amazon estuary, the Portuguese have lost half of Brazil.

"Let the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have a private contact with the Spaniards, and we will withdraw from eastern Peru [Bolivia], but the Spanish troops in the Caribbean must back down and teach us all their territory. On the South American continent, the two countries are bounded by the areas they currently control. "Leave East Peru for the Spaniards to settle down in, and let them go with Argentina to the south. Chen Ming didn't believe that the Spaniards would watch Argentina go independent.

South America, which was in the original time and space, fought for a long time before it became independent, and it was not until the twenties of the 19th century that it became truly independent. There were also the British, who intervened in the middle to support Bolívar, tragedy for San Martín.

But now, the war in the Americas has reached the point where it is now, and the Spaniards can already be said to be game over, they not only suffered heavy losses on South American land, but also fell into disadvantage in the Caribbean Sea, and lost half of their capital ships in two major battles with Chen Han's American fleet. Chen Ming felt that it would be difficult to squeeze oil and water out of Spain again, without the northern part of South America, only the Spaniards in East Peru and Paraguay remained, the population base was less than one million, the military industry was almost zero, and the population of Argentines was only one million, let them fight. Chen Han's next focus should be on Portuguese Brazil, which has a population of 4 million, and the United States, which has a population of 6 million.

The former owns the huge colony of Brazil, and most of Portugal's more than 100,000 troops have been on the battlefield, and they have fought bloody battles with Chen Han on the battlefield in Venezuela, so the result is of course a lot of losses.

But Portuguese Brazil is only broken, and their roots still exist. The Portuguese had gathered a new army, and although they had suffered heavy defeats on the battlefields of Venezuela, their total strength had now risen to more than 150,000.

It's just that the soldiers of these armies are not all white or mixed-race, but there are a fair number of blacks. Just as Chen Han encouraged blacks to fight for a better tomorrow, the Portuguese untied the blacks when the crisis came.

In today's Brazil, Portuguese immigrants and their descendants, Indians, and black slaves, there are less than 4 million people in total. There are 2 million black slaves here. This number is much higher than that of Argentina, which now counts all the Indians, and it is only a million.

Therefore, although Portugal still has a large number of soldiers, it has already used its strength to eat milk until now. The Spaniards have been exhausted until now.

Even if the British kept sending them guns and ammunition, they couldn't find anyone to use them. The men are going to be killed.

Therefore, it is very likely that the Spaniards will accept Chen Ming's opinion, and the Portuguese are not terrible at all. Don't look at them now that they are 'over-the-top'. It is Lao Mei who can really grit his teeth and insist.

Chen Ming already knew about the tension of the American army a few months ago, and at the same time he asked Siam and Japan to 'do what they could', he drew 10,000 people from the Praetorian Guard, and cooperated with the three regiments transferred back from Burma and Nanyang, a total of 20,000 people have been sent to North America at the fastest speed. And the next batch of another 20,000 reinforcements has been prepared by Chen Ming.

Although this made Chen Han's military spending soar again, this kind of persistence was definitely worth it. After the defeat of Spain, Portugal, and the United States, the whole of America will be China's.

Even in order to cooperate with the war in North America, Chen Ming asked the Metropolitan Governor's Office to introduce a new military expansion plan, which was no longer in Chen Ming's plan. But Chen Ming saw the reluctance of some people in the North American war, who preferred to launch an offensive against the weak South America rather than engage in a fight with the Americans. This is a grave mistake and one that must be corrected.

Chen Ming asked the Wehrmacht to carry out a small-scale expansion, which was to show his attitude to everyone. There is absolutely no room for retreat between China and the United States. Emperor Chen will resolutely fight this war.

Now that the British have come out to pull the bias, Chen Ming will not pay attention to it.

He didn't even have the desire to explore the reasons why the British came out to pull the shelf.

The British, who lost the thirteen states of North America, should be so hungry that they drool when they watch Chen Han devour the land of the Americas?

Whatever.

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China's military expansion has really attracted a lot of people's attention, and the topicality of this big factor has covered up many small details in the recruitment process.

More than half of the 100,000 recruits have a primary school education, and half of the remaining half know basic writing and can calculate addition and subtraction of three-digit numbers. Less than thirty percent of the recruits are outright illiterate, not to mention literate, hyphenated, and can't even count.

But in fact, many people in the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion do not understand this. How could the emperor think of recruiting such a group of young but well-educated recruits? Many of them are only over 18 years old, and even if they are out of the new barracks, they are not reassuring.

But Chen Ming obviously won't answer this question, and some people can only 'agree' with the very unfounded rumor that these soldier dolls are to be trained into technical soldiers.

Despite the recovery of people's livelihood in the country, the number of scouts is shrinking every year. By now, the Boy Scouts have really become only one army.

This phenomenon has led to a significant reduction in the number of 'backbone non-commissioned officers' in the army, and although not all the boy soldiers who came out of the boy boy camp have joined the army, they can provide the army with a large number of educated and qualified soldiers every year in the earliest days. And now, it's all over.

Therefore, many people speculate that this batch of recruits was recruited specifically for the purpose of cultivating technical backbones in the army. It is not those positions that require a certain level of knowledge and are destined to serve for a longer time, and many people really can't think of why this group of child soldiers is stronger than the sturdy mountain men.

After the upsurge of joining the army in that year faded, the western Henan region was no longer ranked first in the evaluation of projects supporting the army in all regions of the country. But this time, a full 3,000 people came out of western Henan. The wealthy but weak Jiangnan region has added 5,000 people to the conscription process.

The five cities of Nanjing, Shanghai, Yangzhou, Hangzhou, and Suzhou all had no less than 500 recruits.

The line of sight slowly rises from the focus of one state and one place, and the whole of Jiangnan and the whole of China is slowly shrouded in sight, then it can be found that this craze for joining the army has swept the whole of China.

Of the 100,000 recruits, more than 20,000 have a high school education.

20,000 high school students in the early 19th century, what a concept? Therefore, in the mountainous areas of southwest China, where living conditions are relatively poor, and in the harsh environment of Guanwai, Mongolia, and Northeast China, and even in the whole of Siberia and the entire Great Northwest, the enthusiasm of young people in these places to join the army is ten times that of Jiangnan and western Henan, but the number of recruits they have selected is far less than that of Jiangnan and western Henan.

The monthly salary of Chinese soldiers is basically more than 100 yuan, and after leaving the new barracks plus living allowance and training allowance, a small soldier can get 1450 yuan a month, and if he goes to the battlefield, it is easily 2 or 300 yuan. And the basic salary is based on the length of service, ten yuan per year as the standard of cumulative increase, the promotion of military ranks also has benefits, as long as you do not violate military discipline as a thorn, in the army for three years and five years, the monthly salary can reach more than 200 yuan per month.

That's a lot of money. At least one mid-level mechanic. That's not bad in China today.

Therefore, the annual military expenditure of a million-strong army is a huge pressure on China. The army's monthly salary alone costs more than 100 million yuan, and if we include various expenses such as ammunition, materials, and military engineering, the annual military expenditure soars to 2 billion Chinese yuan. This can be compared with the current military spending of the British. But the British are fighting the whole country's overall war, what about Chen Han? What Chen Han fought was definitely a local 'skirmish'.

If it weren't for Chen Hanchao's abundant family background, he really couldn't afford to raise so many troops.

Now, in addition to the annual fiscal taxes, another huge benefit of Chen Han is the issuance of additional banknotes.

Chen Han now has two giant national gold companies, one is based in Southeast Asia, based on Nanmingzhou; One is based in Northeast Asia, based on the gold mines in Northeast Asia and Outer Northeast China. The gold of Xiangzhou and Jiazhou was jointly developed by them. Now the Second Gold Company has set its sights on the South African gold mines, at the expense of abandoning the gold mines in Jiazhou and Xiangzhou - that is, the whole of the Americas.

These two major gold companies, as well as large and small private mining companies, bring 6/7 metric tons of gold to Chen Han Central every year.

Twenty or thirty years, short more than ten years, the predatory gold mining has ended, whether it is the Northeast, the Outer Northeast, or the South Mingzhou, Xiangzhou, Jiazhou, the Golden River, the Golden Sea has become a thing of the past. The former's explosive gold returns have added hundreds of metric tons of gold to Chen's treasury, and when everything returns to the 'mining' stage, 6/7 metric tonnes of gold per year is already rare in this day and age.

And how much more banknotes can Chen Han issue with 6/7 metric tons of gold?

This is by no means a simple numbers game. Otherwise, one metric ton of gold is one million grams, one Chinese dollar has a gold content of 0.25 grams, one metric ton of gold is 4 million Chinese dollars, and 6/7 metric tons of gold is only 20 or 30 million Chinese dollars. That's a lot of money compared to the entire empire.

But this gold falls into the hands of the state, and on the huge and solid platform of the state, even if it is increased tenfold, it can quietly turn paper money into real money.