Regardless of whether they are in charge of the economy or the judiciary, what Datang is facing now is something related to national strategy, and then it is related to the development and future of the entire country.

Zhao Daling sat in the first place, he put down the materials in his hand, and said: "Everyone, I believe that I don't need to explain in detail, everyone knows what the trade with the Qing Dynasty means to our country." In 1777, the total trade volume of the Tang and Qing dynasties was 47.86 million Tang Yuan, and in 1778, not counting the last trade without a successful transaction, the total trade volume also reached 55 million Tang Yuan. This is the largest part of our national economy, and it is also the part on which our country depends heavily. More than seventy percent of Datang's factories make a living from supplying trade and exporting, and our factories can generate benefits and make the working population get considerable remuneration, and they all rely on this. Although we have opened up routes to the United States and France in the past two years, for the time being, these two trading countries are still not on the same level as the Qing Kingdom. Of course, this matter is not just a matter of economics and trade, we all know what kind of calculation we have against the Manchus. ”

He Nan asked, "Bai Nan, how are the current war preparations going?" ”

Since Zhao Daling asked so, there is no doubt that he doesn't want to wait any longer.

Bai Nan perked up and replied, "We have already carried out the first round of material reserves in Sapporo, and we have stationed two regiments of soldiers, but according to the plan, we still need to carry out two rounds of material reserves before we can successfully carry out large-scale military operations." ”

Zhao Daling nodded and said, "My second round of reserves in the past few days has almost been completed." ”

Bai Nan nodded and said, "That's right, it can be completed within this week, after the second round of reserves is deployed at the forward base, we will be able to maintain a certain limit of material consumption, as well as spare parts for munitions vehicles, and use Sapporo as a base to carry out continuous operations on the East Asian continent." And the third round of reserves is mainly to take care of our small number of high-tech weapons. For example, the Qilian Mountain and helicopters. ”

Zhao Daling said: "The Qilianshan is carrying out the work of material transportation and landing front station, and there is no big problem, after completing the task, you can go directly back to Los Angeles, as for the helicopter, we have a total of four, one is not good and there are others." Even if you fall on the battlefield, it will not affect other battles. I want you to speed things up. What about the newly formed troops? ”

Bai Nandao: "The current training level of the second brigade and the third brigade is worthy of fighting, in the first brigade, the dragon regiment has just withdrawn to the country in the summer of seven or eight years to rest, and it belongs to the reserve force, the tiger regiment has been deployed in Sapporo, and the snow leopard regiment has also been waiting for the battle. In terms of cavalry, the hussars still need a certain amount of training. The cavalry regiments originally scheduled to be sent to the three southeastern states have been suspended, and the marines and foreign legions are now fully taking over the garrison work of the three southeastern states, and we can guarantee that at least one cavalry regiment will be sent to East Asia. ”

At this time, Xue Yue suddenly said: "President, is it a bit hasty to send troops in such a hurry now." Although the Manchu trade was of great significance to us, we could have prepared according to the previous plan, and we could have done some diplomatic things, such as sending people to Beijing to hold them accountable, or taking other ways to put pressure on us. ”

Minister of Commerce and Trade Wang Jinghong, who has always belonged to the cabinet with a weak presence, spoke this time. "Don't be a small Manchu trade, this is not only a matter of more than 50 million trade volume, if we hold on to such a situation in China for a year, the financial burden on us will be huge, and the development and livelihood of enterprises will also be destroyed, but also affect the many industries and companies we have painstakingly cultivated, and will affect the lives of our people in Datang. If. If this trade can be maintained, we can wait a few more years, and it will not hurt, but now that the trade is broken, our country will be completely passive, and it will seriously affect the introduction of our new immigrants, which must not sit idly by. ”

Ye Baozao, the governor of the central bank, said: "However, if we really start a war in the Qing country, it will not do us any good for the recovery of trade." Even if we were able to occupy the trading cities of Canton and Ningbo, the locals would not be keen to trade with us, because we would become enemies this time. According to Director Bai's previous estimate, a large number of our troops will engage in a long-term battle with King Qin's army in the land of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, which may not be able to resume trade, and will not help to alleviate our domestic economic embarrassment. ”

Bai Nan can't deny that what Ye Baozheng said is very reasonable, of course, logically, there is nothing wrong with fighting early than late, the longer it drags on, the more obvious and terrible the economic crisis in Datang may be. Therefore, the problem is not whether to fight now, but how to ensure the operation of one's own domestic economy after the fight.

Zheng He said: "It is a better way to speed up the opening up of the American and European markets, although the current economic aggregate of France is not as good as that of the Manchus, but the development of the commodity economy is higher, and it is also very rich, and our economic sector has been able to expect the development of French trade to be faster than the development of the Manchu trade before." Moreover, by working with the French and the Dutch, we were able to dump more goods into Europe, at least the German princely states of Poland and Italy, which were our fast-growing markets. Especially in the case of Germany and Italy, which did not have a unified era, they were particularly good targets for economic plunder. By developing these markets, we were able to alleviate some of the pressure on the Manchu trade cut-off. ”

The foreign minister is very pertinent, if the European market is well developed, there will not be the slightest problem in surpassing the transaction volume of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. Bai Nam also proposed some solutions: "It is undoubtedly important to open up new markets, and I don't think we can expect to restore Manchu trade, and what the key means are." The best-case scenario is that we are able to fully establish our sphere of influence in the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta, directly control the sales terminal in our hands, and then go deep into the local area. In this way, there is one less link of middlemen, although we may put in more efforts, but in terms of benefits, it is obviously greater. ”

The old man Yao Weichun shook his head and said: "The idea is very good, but if our manpower wants to control the Yangtze River Delta and the Pearl River Delta, I am afraid that the strength will not be enough, this is not a problem that we can solve by sending troops. ”

Bai Nan did not deny this, he added: "In the domestic industry, maybe we should make some adjustments, after all, we are small in scale, at this time to turn to the production of bulk heavy industry, the production of more steel, building materials, chemicals and munitions, because in the future, we obviously need these things to build Shanghai, Hong Kong and even Sapporo and other colonial cities that we expected to take, although it is very difficult to recover the trade, but I am confident that this time we can get a lot of wealth by attacking the vested interests of the Manchus, Then we can directly use government investment to decentralize this economic power to our factories, companies and workers, and avoid the losses caused by the loss of the large-scale civilian goods consumption market through industrial adjustment. ”

Zhao Daling slapped the table and said, "The wartime system, that's right, is the wartime system. We have thought of a lot of external methods, but we have not learned from ourselves, although Datang attaches importance to market rules, macroeconomic regulation and control and planned economy are our strengths. By moving into the wartime system, we put our production capacity into what we need a lot and what we need in the future, try to balance the output of daily necessities, meet our own needs, and meet foreign exports, although our income from trade will inevitably be affected, but our Datang family background is thick enough, plus our Director Bai never forgot the Manchu Qing Dynasty accumulated a hundred years of treasury, and the little belongings of the corrupt officials in Beijing are enough for us to expand state expenditure and investment. ”

Xue Yue said again: "In any case, Director Bai's war in East Asia still has to uphold the principle of quick victory, take the Jingshi as soon as possible, calm the situation as soon as possible, expel all the Qinwang troops, get a treaty from the new emperor that satisfies us, and then restore the trade order." ”

Bai Nandao: "Yes, this is also my strategic policy. ”

Zhao Daling said: "Then, now I announce that the Republic of Datang is now transformed into a wartime cabinet, and all actions are diverted to a favorable war, Director Bai is now immediately making final preparations for the expeditionary force, and within a month, I hope that our troops will be deployed." The Ministry of Communications and the transport companies made every effort to coordinate the transportation of our expeditionary force. In addition, the Ministry of Industry now needs to make a unified arrangement, and we will make a comprehensive arrangement for all production enterprises across the country within 45 days at the latest, concentrate the core production capacity on the heavy industry and military industry, and appropriately tighten the production capacity of light industry. The Ministry of Security also needs to do a good job of monitoring public security and public opinion in the country, and the Ministry of Culture and Propaganda is the most urgent, and we need to come up with the fastest situation and inform our people. ”

That's right, even if the Tang Dynasty has been preparing for war for so many years, the vast majority of the people of the Tang Dynasty don't know that the old men of the cabinet are planning to conquer the Manchu Dynasty, even for many people who travel through it, this is a secret. Now, if the Manchu Qing Dynasty is to use troops, at least the Tang officials need a strong and logically consistent excuse to make the Tang people hate the same enemy, and at least agree with the decisions made by the cabinet.

Even if the people of Datang have been following their government, they still have to avoid doing things that the people don't like. However, these people in the cabinet can be regarded as old in politics, and the people's will cannot be played with at will, but public opinion can be manipulated. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for the recommendation ticket, your support is my biggest motivation. )