Australian Storm 1876

  Chapter 311 No Money

  In the past few days, Li Fushou’s mood was extremely excited. The general manager of Huitong Bank, Kesite, was crying and poor and could not affect his good mood, and his attitude was surprisingly kind.

  Bank position shortages and financial difficulties are temporary. At the end of the month, a large amount of export combed wool tops will be paid in the account, the amount is as high as 3.2 million pounds (with interest and interest), which can greatly ease the current tension.

  In the past six months, more than a dozen bad battles have been fought in succession, five divisions have been built, and banknotes have been spent like water, and the results have been huge.

The navy took full control of the sea in the South Pacific. The island guard eliminated the Royal Netherlands Army troops that landed on Shangri-La Island, and took full control of Shangri-La Island. The army landed on Samarinda. Through a series of successful military expansion operations, Borneo was brought to the east. The provinces of Kalimantan and South Kalimantan are included in the bag.

  Jufan went into the pocket of Lord Earl of Queensland, and it is extremely difficult to take it out again. The Dutch don't even think about it without taking off a layer of skin.

Li Fushou regards the occupied land as his own. The large-scale immigration work has been carried out for more than three months, especially in the occupied areas of East Kalimantan and South Kalimantan in Borneo. The Dutch are being wiped out. The colonial imprint, in addition to the introduction of British consortium forces, also used compulsory trading to seize large white Dutch plantations and reward them to meritorious soldiers in the army.

  This regional war for hegemony was provoked by the Dutch on their own initiative, but it is not up to them to decide whether it will end. The initiative is in the hands of Li Fushou.

  Now he is not in a hurry to negotiate, but intentionally delays it. Everything will be discussed next year.

  One after another, huge victories have established the reputation of Queenslanders.

  Queensland’s military power is nothing in Europe, that is, the level of a third-rate small country, but it can beat the Dutch colonial army to the ground, and it is indeed a strong army in the South Pacific.

  In the past few days, Li Fushou has been with his wife Gu Liuyan in Jingsi Pavilion, talking with her, looking forward to the future, and amusing the children together, which is fun.

  In the study room of Jingsi Pavilion

After reporting the accounts, Chen Shiheng, the chief administrator of the internal accountant, stood upright, and Li Fushou finally couldn't laugh when looking at the huge expenditure accounts in his hand; "What the hell? If I didn't understand it wrong, it means that I am the richest in the world. The rancher has no money. Can the poor in the inner warehouse run mice?"

   "Return to the lord, in the strict sense, you still have 73,017 pounds, 16 shillings and 7 pence. It is enough to maintain a decent aristocratic life, but you can spend the same amount of money as before..." Chen Shiheng said nothing, and the following was self-explanatory.

   "Ha ha... more than 70,000 pounds..." Li Fushou smiled bitterly.

  This little money is enough to put in the hands of other aristocratic masters. Putting it in your own hands is a small amount of money, and you can't even hear it when you throw it in the water.

  At the two-day meeting, a lot of development plans were put forward. There is no money to do a shit, and it seems that the implementation has to be suspended.

  War is really a bottomless gold-swallowing beast. After years of hard work, it took a **** to clean up. He also carried a huge debt of more than 5 million pounds in Huitong Bank. It is really a millionaire.

   "Today is September 22nd. I remember that there is a huge amount of export money that can be withdrawn at the end of the month. It should be more relaxed?"

"Master, you are referring to the monthly payment for the combed tops exported to Europe by the Honghe Wool Spinning Plant. The amount is about 3.2 million pounds, of which nearly 70% is the principal, which must be returned to the company for the acquisition of wool reproduction. We What can be misappropriated is only about one million pounds, which is distributed in proportion to the equity, and no more than 800,000 pounds belongs to you."

  "The million pounds will be charged into the internal treasury first. The year-end dividends belonging to other shareholders will not be delayed for a few months. It will always be impossible if there is no money in hand. Let's deal with this difficult period first. Let's go down."

   "Accomplished, subordinates retire."

  Li Fushou was irritated and took a sip of the tea. It seemed that the expansion of Borneo had to be paused.

  The Dutch colonial rule for more than 200 years has had a very low degree of development in the entire Borneo. Except for the white plantation economy around more than 10 port cities in the coastal area, the large inland areas still maintain the original appearance and are completely undeveloped.

The coastline of the entire Borneo Island is more than 14,400 kilometers, minus the northern Malaya region belonging to the British Strait Governor’s House and the northwestern corner of Lanfang Country, the remaining Dutch Borneo occupies 2/3 of the country, and the coastline is as long as Ten thousand kilometers.

  It has a tropical rainforest climate, and the only means of transportation are coastal shipping and inland navigation. The deep jungle that cannot be reached by inland navigation is completely isolated from the world, and only a few indigenous tribes that are slashed and burned exist.

  Therefore, the expansion in Borneo is mainly through the use of cross-sea warfare, which is similar to checkers.

In the entire Borneo region, the only port with shore artillery defense is the capital of Borneo Samarinda. Other port towns are completely open commercial or fishing ports. At most some small defensive fortresses can be built. The Dutch defense force is weak. It is not difficult to attack.

  The Queensland army initially set off from Samarinda and used a mixed navy and army formation to capture the important port city of Machen in South Kalimantan. It adopted a point-of-war plan and achieved great success.

  Of course, this is the old almanac.

  Spurred by the continuous victory of the Queensland army, the Dutch colonial army mobilized more than 5,000 troops from Sumatra, and mobilized more than 4,400 local white militias, focusing on strengthening the defense of colonial port cities.

at the same time

The continuous deployment of white armed militias from the island of Java to Borneo to participate in the defense. Now it is not easy to gnaw down any Dutch colonial town in North Kalimantan, Central Kalimantan and West Kalimantan. thing.

  You must go through a **** battle and pull hard nails.

  Now the time has come to the end of September, and the traditional rainy season will come after October. The rainy season will last until March next year. Due to the constraints of the climate and traffic environment, this period is not suitable for large-scale wars.

  Unexpected torrential rains, mountain torrents, muddy roads, and extremely humid and hot weather are severe tests for soldiers and weapons and equipment.

  Borneo military commander-in-chief, Yu Chi Shouzhuo, proposed a battle plan for the full capture of Central Kalimantan. The battle plan took two weeks to take the plan of crossing the sea to capture and defend important towns in Central Kalimantan.

  The combat plan was submitted to the General Staff Headquarters and aroused fierce controversy. There were those in favor of it, but the opposition was equally fierce.

  For the time being, the affirmative opinions will not be discussed, and the opposing opinions are also very reasonable;

  During the two weeks specified in the combat plan, the three key towns for the removal of the Dutch were too aggressive and under-considered the difficulties, and underestimated the confidence of the Dutch army to stick to the defense after it strengthened its defenses.

Once the attack is unsuccessful, the battlefield is likely to fall into a standoff phase. The rainy flash floods in the tropical regions that follow will bring great difficulties to the attacking forces. The white Dutch colonists who get a respite can gather the armed forces of the nearby white plantation owners crazy The counterattack put the unsteady attacking forces into a more dangerous situation.

  In addition, the rainy and humid rainy season has a great impact on weaponry and artillery. The muddy roads pose greater difficulties, and a large number of non-combat attritions are almost inevitable.

  The first and second divisions of Kalimantan are newly-expanded units, and their ability to deal with difficult combat environments is greatly compromised. This has to be considered.

  It is not necessarily the battle that overwhelms the troops, it may be the non-combat attrition caused by the harsh environment or the epidemic of tropical diseases.

  Rather than rushing to attack, it would be better to wait for the army's morale to adjust to its best state after the rainy season in March next year. Even if it encounters unplanned difficulties, there is time to calmly deal with it, so that the offensive troops will not be in danger.

  In the absence of all conditions, the lesson of the Dutch hastily landed is thought-provoking.

  The last sentence in the dissenting opinion of the General Staff moved Li Fushou. After repeated consideration, he finally rejected the combat plan submitted by the Borneo occupying forces.

  Military factors are one aspect, and financial difficulties are also an important reason.

  In the study

  Li Fushou put down the pen in his hand. He just vetoed the military plan for further expansion. He felt particularly depressed in his heart. He sighed and stood up and walked to the side of the map hanging on the wall of the study to take a closer look.

  His gaze stayed in Central Kalimantan Province for a long time, and there was a fiery look in his gaze.

  What a great place!

Central Kalimantan is the province with the densest water network in Borneo. There are more than a dozen rivers with a lot of water running into the sea from here. The capitals of Palangkaraya and the town of Sampit have a large number of Dutch garrisons and white militias, which are currently confronting. Queensland's forward position.

  It is only 400 kilometers away from the Dutch-ruled Machen Sultanate. However, due to the dense tropical jungle, land transportation is completely cut off, and island-hopping operations can only be carried out by sea.

  Central Kalimantan does not have a local indigenous kingdom, and it is directly ruled by Dutch colonists, according to the latest military intelligence;

  The capital of Palangkaraya has gathered close to 3,300 white military forces (including regular and militia), as well as three times as many indigenous soldiers (mainly cold weapons). The defense strength cannot be underestimated.

  This is a piece of land covering an area of ​​150,000 square kilometers, which is much larger than the entire Java Island, and the area is equivalent to 1.5 times that of Jiangsu or Zhejiang. The total population is only a small area of ​​less than 190,000, and most of them are indigenous people.

The total number of white colonists in the capital Palangkaraya and Sampit Town is less than 7,000. Most of them are concentrated in towns and nearby plantations. White men who can pick up guns from 16 to 60 years old are basically mobilized. , Ready to use blood to defend the Dutch colonial achievements and defend their homeland.

  It can be imagined from this that the Dutch have carried out extreme mobilization in order to defend this colony, preparing to fight the enemy to the death.

  Okay, okay, I will leave you jumping for a while...

  (End of this chapter)