Iron Dynasty

Not a single penny will be missing you.

Xiao Ming glared at Cui Shangan. If it was before, he would not dare to boast about the expansion of Haikou to 600,000 troops.

After all, the modernized army is not a feudal cold-weapon army that used to be able to eat food. The training of soldiers, the purchase of equipment, the daily meals and the soldiers' salaries are all huge expenses.

In addition, the difference in weapons of the imperial army is much higher than that of other countries, so there are more than 300,000 to 400,000 people in the six military regions.

But the war in Nanyang still made him decide to expand, because the army of the empire seems to be many, but apart from those who are stationed and defend the border, those who can freely go out to fight are tight.

If the Europeans are fighting with him, he is really difficult to deal with. After all, according to the information he has obtained, Europe is also making efforts in technology. As long as it lasts for a few more years, I am afraid that the weapons will be updated. At that time The war will be more tragic.

Although Xiao Ming wanted to stifle Europe, it was still impractical to go to Europe to fight. First, the empire did not have such a strong ability to transport troops, and attacking Europe would require at least 400,000 to 500,000 troops.

Resupplying an army of this size is an epic task.

Therefore, in order to prevent the counterattack of European countries in the future, it is still necessary to expand the army in advance. He doesn't want to worry about problems in the future.

And the most important point is that the steady growth of imperial taxation has also given him the capital to maintain the size of the huge army. These bullets and cannonballs are now all real money, and it is impossible to have no money.

If this is the case, this is not a problem. There are still many young people in the empire who are interested in joining the army. Cui Shangan said.

After a pause, Cui Shangan remembered one thing, and he said, Does the emperor remember the foreign legion he ordered?

You're talking about the Foreign Legion of Korea and Japan?

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

Let them go to Siberia. Now the only land threat to the empire is Tsarist Russia. If 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 focused on Central Asia.

Luo Xin has been preparing for the south, and now he has made a complete attack plan and turned it over to the General Staff.

The only part of the General Staff that has not yet been informed is Zhu Sansi's Eastern Military Region. 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 has not received any feedback yet.

However, he also understands this situation. After all, Alaska is a snowfield. It is not easy to land in this place to establish the first city of the empire. Even going back and forth will take a long time.

After talking about the Foreign Legion, Xiao Ming suddenly remembered the domestic strife in Japan. Last year, his attention was focused on the war in Nanyang, and he didn't know how Wang Xuan's arrangement in the Japanese country was going?

But the idea just flashed through his mind, because now he has more important things, and that is oil.

It doesn't matter if India is not beaten for the time being, but the purchase of oil from the Middle East must be put on the agenda. Now that the internal combustion engine technology has achieved breakthroughs, the only thing missing is oil.

Just buying oil from the Middle East is not something that can be done by talking. Although oil fields in the Middle East are said to be able to produce oil with a shovel, at present there is no concept of oil in that area.

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

Therefore, he is going to send two waves of envoys to the Ottoman Empire and Persia on the same day. It is his usual style to bet on both sides, so that at least one side can be assured that the other side can come in handy when there is a problem.

...

istanbul.

This is the capital of the Ottoman Empire and the residence of King Saliman III.

Like every idle morning, the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Saliman III, woke up when the sun shone through his bedroom window.

It was only when he finished washing up and was about to have breakfast that Vichyr of the Ottoman Empire came to him.

Salit, why did you come to my palace at this time. Saliman asked strangely.

Bowing his head respectfully, Selit said, Great Sultan, a team of messengers from France just arrived here. They asked to go to the palace for an audience, saying that there is something extremely important.

France! Saliman frowned upon hearing this. Don't the French know that they are not welcome here? Unless they return the Peloponnese to us.

Selit smiled at this time: Great Sultan, the French envoy said that they are here to discuss this issue, and they said that this time they came with the support of the United Kingdom, which represents the attitude of the United Kingdom.

Saliman froze for a moment, he hesitated: Is this a trap, these damn Europeans have taken too much land from us.

Thinking of this, Saliman hated it. Hundreds of years ago, the Ottoman Empire used to be a huge empire that traversed the three regions of Asia, Africa and Europe.

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

This made the Ottoman Empire, once a hegemonic country, feel very humiliated. Because of the repeated defeats in the war, there are now voices against him within the empire.

He claimed that he kept the Ottoman Empire at the technological level of hundreds of years ago, but to Saliman, he was very aggrieved, because he only took over the empire for more than 20 years, but not hundreds of years.

I believe that this time he came with sincerity. Now both the British and the French are said to have been defeated by the former Great Yu country in Asia. Now they are asking for us.

The Great Yu Kingdom? The country that was almost wiped out by the Golden Horde? Saliman asked.

That's right, that's it, Sailit said.

Surreyman is more and more surprised, in fact, because of the geographical isolation, and the stability of the status quo, he rarely cares about countries outside Europe.

Selit's words really surprised him.