"How is it like commanding the army?" At some point, Gao Feng had appeared in the conference room and asked Ah Hai with a smile. At present, the Beiyang War Zone only has a piece of territory in Qingdao Fortress on the mainland, and the headquarters can only be located on Jeju Island. In fact, most of the troops are here. Jeju Island only maintains a small number of troops to prevent the Qing Dynasty from spying on the strength of the United States. This is why Ah Hai actually borrowed the office facilities of the Beiyang War Zone.

In fact, not only that, Ahai's staff members were temporarily seconded from the Commander and the Beiyang War Zone.

"I'm not interested in commanding the army at all. Fortunately, the generals are experienced, so I just need to command the general well." Ah Hai asked Kawaharada to leave, and smiled and let Gao Feng sit in the main seat.

"Ahai, you really look like the head of state, very much like the head of state. The head of state has the same personality as you. You always have the same chance of winning." Gao Feng sat down and said, "You don't know that when I first commanded a battle, I was worried about gains and losses, afraid of failure, and afraid of casualties. I had a few days of rest."

Ah Hai smiled: "Times are different. Even without these Japanese people, we will still win, and even win faster and better, but politics is higher than military, right?"

As Ah Hai said, this group of Japanese people is not important to victory or defeat. If Ah Hai wants to win quickly, he can order the Marines to land in Edo Bay before the shogunate army has not yet gathered, and then the main force of the army will land on ashore and fight a decisive battle with the gathered shogunate army. In this way, the shogunate army can only gather 100,000 to 150,000. The United States Army, Marines and a dependent Japanese army can gather at least 75,000 people. Such an army that has always been huge and powerful can defeat Japan's main force on the Kanto Plain. If Japan is willing to negotiate, talk, and if it is not willing to negotiate, fight again in places like Kyoto. As long as the main force of the Tokugawa Shogunate and then throw an olive branch to the other daimyos, the war against Japan can be ended, but the result is victory and no profit.

In the mid-17th century, Japan was a great country with nearly 30 million people. Even if it was not so many, it would have to use at least 25 million people. Such a country with a relatively independent civilization, a single nation and historical origin could not be completely conquered. Even if it was built into a colony, it would take many years. The main purpose of this war was to win and gain, and to build a pro-China force within Japan to lay the foundation for future colonization and control.

For Ah Hai, this time fighting in Japan is like robbing a village. The best result is not to rush in and kill the rebels, drive away the rest, and then take away the little poor wealth in the house, because such a harvest is too little. If you want to expand the harvest, you have to go to the fields to harvest the rice. The better way is to defeat this group of farmers, force them to harvest the rice, and then take away the rice and money. But this is not the best way. The best way is to defeat the village chief, and then blackmail the wealth of three times the value of the village. By maintaining the rule of the village chief, let him exploit the village on his behalf and take away part of the harvested rice every year. This method can obtain the most in a row and invest less.

Therefore, although Ah Hai named this alliance the Anti-Shog League, he did not really want to destroy the Tokugawa Shogunate, but defeated him and made it a tool for the United States to make money. Simply put, in the absence of strength and bad timing, he first turned Japan into a semi-colonial and semi-feudal society.

But the shogunate is different from the Qing court in later generations. The Qing court ruled China for more than 200 years and was unique, so it could exploit the entire Chinese nation by maintaining its rule for a long time. The Tokugawa shogunate only actually mastered one-quarter of the strength of this country, and was only the strongest among the princes. If one accidentally killed him, there would be no one who exploited the United States, and it would not even be crippled, because this country still has many powerful daimyos.

There is a Chinese saying that if you want to cook a big country, it is actually more difficult to fight a big country than a little bit. Therefore, Ah Hai had to prepare for both ways. On the one hand, he had to have the strength to defeat the Tokugawa shogunate in Japan, and on the other hand, he had to use the Shogun Alliance to capture most of the external daimyos to avoid them from taking the blame.

"To be honest, only you and the head of state can fight this kind of battle. The degree to which you have to take is too accurate, and I can't handle it." Gao Feng shook his head helplessly.

Gao Feng said in his heart that if this battle is not fought well, the Dutch plan will fall into the quagmire of war. If he fights well and kills the Tokugawa shogunate with a stick, he will have to go to the field to cut the rice by himself, which is equivalent to falling into the quagmire. The difficulty lies in grasping the situation.

Ahaidao: "There is no way. In the past half century, the Netherlands should be the most successful country in the world. With its years of wisdom, it has given us this question. If you want to answer it and answer it well, you must be smarter and more rigorous."

Gao Feng waved his hand: "Tales, Dutch, Ah Hai, you guess where the Dutch was hiding, you must not guess?"

Ah Hai thought for a while and said, "New Guinea?"

At the strategic meeting, Ah Hai judged that the Colonies would adopt a strategy of avoiding war and hiding the fleet. It was soon confirmed that Cebu, Iran, Banda, Batavia, Malacca, Galle, Chittagong, and the Clippers sent by Simmons have searched all the ports of the Dutch and Spaniards in the Eastern region, but have found nothing. You must know that Simmons has been ready for the past six months, and when the colonists appear, they will immediately attack and kill the Dutch.

After finding nothing at the port, the United States ships began to look for harbors far away from the main routes, such as the west coast of Sumatra and the south coast of Java. These are places where only Dutch ships will enter, but they are still missing. Ahai knew some reconnaissance directions, so he speculated that it might be in New Guinea. It is said that Matt Sorco established a colonial stronghold there, but the United States ships were not found around the island for a long time. However, a hidden stronghold should not be able to support the fleet of the Colonists Alliance.

Gao Feng shook his head: "I knew you wouldn't guess. In fact, even the Chief of the People's Republic of China did not guess that the fleet of the Netherlands and West fled to Orangeburg!"

"Those Spaniards must have hated Matt Sokol to death, causing them to travel around the world and do nothing." Ah Hai smiled relaxedly.

The Spanish have added many warships in recent years. Originally, a few more Galen ships were not painful to the United States today, but now it seems that it has been a day or two that Matt Solco has been in a bad way for the alliance. Most of these Spanish warships came from the New Spain Governor, but in the direction of the Caribbean Sea. After the Galen ship sailed south, it crossed the southernmost end of the Americas along the route of Magellan's global sailing, and arrived in Central America, then crossed the Pacific Ocean and came to the Philippine Governor. Then it received an order from the hidden fleet to gather on the south coast of Java Island and headed to Orangeburg.

The so-called Orangeburg is actually at the mouth of the Behelefe River, only three hundred miles away from Cape Town, the capital of the United States South African colony, and is located directly north. Orangeburg is a demonstration area of ​​the "reciprocal development" principle of Matt Sorco. In fact, this is not the original name of Matt Sorco. Matt Sorco named this colony Gerlandscha. This name is the same as the purpose of establishing a stronghold, which is just to disgust the United States.

As a demonstration zone designated by Matt Sorcochin, Orangeburg is actually the only achievement of "reciprocal development". This principle was implemented on a large scale after Matt Sorco took office. Orangeburg in South Africa, Tulear in Yingzhou (Madagascar), and Adelaide in Australia. These three strongholds were ordered by Matt Sorco to vigorously develop.

The East India Company invested thousands of immigrants for Tulayal, but it was soon declared destruction because it was the colonization scope of the East African colonial company. As a colonial company, the means were much richer than that of the country. Gao Mingyi directly bribed the European pirates entrenched on Mary Island to burn the fenced town that the Dutch had just built. The Dutch colonists were either killed or driven away, and in the end there were less than a hundred people fled back. When the Dutch wanted to take revenge, the pirates had already joined the East African colonial company, and they could only argue.

Adelaide is located between Western Australia and Longcheng, and is a good place with abundant water and soil. Because Australia only has a colony of the United States, Matt Solco is more cautious and has been immigrating secretly. He specially sent three ships to disguise themselves as Chinese or Portuguese ships to transport people and supplies to Adelaide. On this route, there are only immigrant ships traveling between Longcheng and Western Australia. They carry wool and cotton when they return. They are not the main route and there are no coast guards, so Dutch ships were not discovered, and Adelaide is hidden in the bay, and the ships sailing outside cannot be discovered at all.

Finally, the slave-catcher team from the Australian administrative region discovered Adelaide from the land direction, but the Dutch had colonized for four years, with more than 7,000 residents of Adelaide. Although there were less than 500 Dutch and mixed races, and the others were exiled Javanese and Malays, the Dutch built forts and forts, reclaimed land and developed animal husbandry in four years, and it was already a very mature settlement. When the two countries had not declared war, Ma Donglai, who was still the chief executive at the time, could not send troops to destroy Adelaide.

After Adelaide was discovered, the local Dutch chief sent an envoy to Longcheng, hoping to be friendly. Matt Solco also negotiated with the United States Ministry of Foreign Affairs, hoping to allow free trade between Adelaide, Longcheng and Western Australia, which is actually to allow the United States to recognize the fact that the Netherlands has a colony in Australia.

If it weren't for an accident, Adelaide was the model of reciprocal development of Matt Solco. This accident was the discovery of gold mines in Australia, which triggered the gold rush. The news soon reached Adelaide. The local Dutch leaders were thriving in blood, but the Dutch chief controlled everyone to leave the territory. Ma Donglai discovered this and took away several slaves and asked them to go to gold. After gaining something, he threw the people back to Adelaide for the crime of fleeing slaves. These slaves were eventually hanged, but before their death, it was proved that the gold mine was real.

The Dutch conquers began to escape, and not long after, the escaped people brought more news to Adelaide, that is, the Australian administrative region treated all gold diggers equally! The residents of Adelaide were no longer controlled, the wheat fields were abandoned, the cows were starved to death, and people threw everything down and went to hunt for gold. In a year, when the envoy of Matt Solco arrived in Adelaide excitedly with the news that the United States recognized the existence of Adelaide, there were only less than 1,300 people left here, many of which were captured local natives, and even more than half of the white Europeans escaped, and Adelaide was abandoned.

Orangeburg is different. Although it was founded from the beginning and was sent by the South African colonial commanders to make trouble and harass the pirate ships, horse teams, indigenous people, and musketeers to make trouble and harass them, the East India Company invested a lot, and Europeans were happy to see that European colonists had strongholds on the necessary path of East-West trade, so those from Europe did not make trouble and only supported them.

Matt Solco first attracted many West India Company merchants and farmers, because five years ago, West India Company lost all its colonies in Brazil. These merchants who planted sugar and cotton had no land. In Orangeburg, all the land was free. They could plant cotton on the fertile impact plains, or go deep into the mainland to capture black slaves sold in the Americas. In order to consolidate this stronghold, East India Company also transported 1,300 bankrupt Booleans (farmers) from Europe in one go and gave them free land. The development of Orangeburg began in 165. In just seven years, it had tens of thousands of white Europeans, as well as various mixed races and indigenous people, as many as 20,000.

The East India Company built docks and ports here to provide construction services for merchant ships traveling between the East and the West, forming a competition with Cape Town. Fortunately, Cape Town is a free port, and the United States spared no effort to support it. Nearly 100,000 citizens were not afraid of competition and provocations from the Dutch.

Orangeburg is large enough, safe enough, and has complete facilities. It is no wonder that Matt Solco chose the hiding place for the Colonial Alliance. In fact, this is not a hiding place. Even if it has been made public, the United States ships will not go to the Atlantic to start war. The warships are not merchant ships. From Taipei to South Africa, one-fifth of the ships and people can be lost. This is really too expensive.
Chapter completed!