The location of the Chingqiu Islands is between Taiwan and Japan, located about 7-800 kilometers away from the eastern coast of China, but it does not belong to Taiwan. Moreover, the Ryukyu Kingdom has always been a vassal state of the Chinese dynasty in history, not a territory of China.

However, for China, the Ryukyu Islands are very important for China's maritime power. Shang Jinfeng's explanation of the naval organization and the explanation of the future establishment of the Pacific Fleet, he spent a lot of time explaining the importance of the Ryukyu Islands in detail. If the Ryukyu Islands fall into the hands of hostile forces, it is an important fulcrum for attacking China from the sea and an island chain for blocking the Chinese navy's entry into the Pacific Ocean. In the old time and space, the first island chain for blocking China set up by the United States was based on the Ryukyu Islands; and if the Ryukyu Islands are controlled by China, it is a barrier on the eastern coast of China, which can greatly increase the depth of China's eastern seas, improve the security factor of the eastern coastal areas, and allow China to face the Pacific directly, thus moving towards a vast sky.

Although both the Ryukyu Islands and Taiwan are in the hands of Japan, due to Japan's insufficient strength, it is certainly impossible to block China. However, when fighting for maritime power with China, it still has a great geographical advantage. Even if China recovers Taiwan in the future, as long as the Ryukyu Islands are still in the hands of Japan, then Japan has a certain advantage at sea. When the war between East China and Japan is in charge, Japan can threaten China's entire eastern coastal area as long as the People's Army Navy fleet attacks, and when the People's Army Navy fleet attacks, it can use the complex sea areas of the Ryukyu Islands to avoid it and not fight head-on with the People's Army Navy. It can even lead the main force of the People's Army Navy and raid the eastern coastal areas. Therefore, the People's Army Navy will only be able to arrange large-scale fleets in the eastern coastal areas to prevent Japan's assault.

Of course, after the East China ** regaining Taiwan, it can cut off the maritime trade line from Japan to Europe. This is the advantage of East China **. Therefore, the outcome of the war is difficult to predict, and it only depends on who can play to his advantages.

However, Japan can also collude with external forces, such as Britain, France and the United States, and rely on the Ryukyu Islands to impose a maritime blockade on China. The Ryukyu Islands are crucial to China's maritime rights. Therefore, while East China's regaining Taiwan, it must also be taken back together with the Ryukyu Islands. Even if it is not incorporated into China, at least a pro-China regime must be established on the Ryukyu Islands, and the Ryukyu Islands must not be allowed to fall into the hands of Japan or other hostile forces.

Of course everyone present knew the importance of the Ryukyu Islands, so they naturally had no objection to such an explanation. So the [Naval Organization Plan] was finally passed, and on the next day, together with the [Five-year Shipbuilding Plan for 1907-1911], it was submitted to the Senate Parliament for deliberation and voting.

Of course, Huang Zhe also represented the Navy Department and accepted questions from the Senate Parliament, answered the members of the Representatives' questions about these two plans, and then voted, and they were finally passed. In fact, this was just a mere act of the motions. The Navy's plan was not unreliable, and the members did not have much military issues. In addition, Qin Zheng intended to guide the direction of the issue, so of course it was easy to pass.

Moreover, this time the Senate passed another military-related issue, which was the final formal establishment of the National Guard.

In fact, it is also an imperative thing to establish the National Guard Army. It only takes time to discuss and formulate the organization of the army, the definition of the scope of responsibility, and the ownership of the scope of responsibility, so it has been delayed to the present.

The final National Guard Army does not belong to the organization of the People's Army, but is an independent armed army, and is controlled by the Executive Yuan and the Military Commission. Because the National Guard Army is an army after all, it is of course a matter of course to be controlled by the Military Commission, but the National Guard Army's responsibilities are mainly for internal affairs after all, so they should be directly commanded by the Executive Yuan without being approved in the Senate.

The National Guard will be composed of the Land Guard and the Coast Guard respectively. The main responsibilities are: one is to maintain the security order and stability within the East China **; the second is to combat crimes and terrorist acts within the East China **; the third is to go abroad to combat terrorist acts, or assist the People's Army in fighting if necessary and approved by the Executive Yuan.

The organization of the land guard army is divided into squads, squads, brigades, and brigades to show the difference from the People's Army. The following brigades are organized in the three-three system, and five brigades are organized into one brigade. This is also the highest organization of the land guard army, because the land guard army mainly fights internally and will not encounter large-scale enemy troops, and will be scattered in various places. Even if they are fighting abroad, they do not need to fight terrorism. If they assist the People's Army in combat, the guard army will not appear on the front line of the battlefield. That is the responsibility of the People's Army. The main responsibility of the guard army is to maintain public security in the occupied areas. Of course, there is no need to expand the organization.

Now East China has established many local public security forces in the Northeast region to maintain local order. In addition, there are still many civilian troops in Shandong and Henan. These troops will be the main source of the Guards' early days, and in the later period, like the People's Army, they mainly recruit and military service.

The establishment of the Coast Guards is still mainly based on fleets, but the range of activities is within 24 nautical miles of the coast, and when necessary, it can exceed 24 nautical miles. The main responsibility is to combat maritime smuggling, crime, fishing protection, and pirates. The latter two items are repeated with the navy, and the difference is that the 24 nautical miles range is divided. However, the Maritime Guards do not have ready-made troops that can be converted, so they can only be reorganized.

Of course, due to the different responsibilities, the weapons and warships used by the Land Guards and Maritime Guards should be different from those of the People's Army. However, at present, it is impossible for East China to design weapons specifically for the National Guards or use the same weapons as the People's Army. After the National Guards officially formed an army and performed a task for a period of time, they would then design weapons in a targeted manner according to the tasks they performed.

After the navy's organization plan was approved, Qin Zheng began to prepare for returning to the Northeast and negotiating with Russia. Moreover, during this period, Qin Zheng also formulated a plan and strategy for negotiations with Russia and reported to Xia Bohai, Xiao Jianjun, Wang Yunpeng, Xu Jichao and others.

In this era, there are two countries that are the least willing to encounter in negotiations, one is Russia and the other is Japan. The former is known for being arrogant and unreasonable; while the latter is famous for being unreasonable. However, during the negotiations in Shanghai, the Japanese negotiators knew the truth that the situation was stronger than others. Moreover, the People's Army was still transporting the Japanese to China one by one, so the Japanese did not dare to make trouble, but respectfully and pretended to be pitiful, so Shanghai did not encounter any trouble during the negotiations.

But it is hard to say whether the negotiations with Russia will be so smooth this time. After all, the threat to Russia by East China is much smaller than that of Japan. Apart from military means, East China has basically no other way. This time, it is entirely because the closing action launched by East China will make Russia unable to withstand it. Therefore, in this negotiation, military threat is still the most effective bargaining chip for East China.

But Russia will never admit defeat. Qin Zheng judged that Russia's negotiator would probably still use a brutal intimidation strategy to make profits and reduce his own losses. Therefore, Qin Zheng decided to take the countermeasures to be tough on Russia with super toughness, and he would take the initiative to break the negotiations and launch another military strike like a closing operation to let Russia know that once the negotiations break down, Russia will lose more.

Others had no objection to Qin Zheng's strategy. Bi Jing and Qin Zheng knew the situation in the Northeast best, and had rich diplomatic and foreign negotiation experience. East China also has tough capital now. Xia Bohai said that this negotiation was fully responsible for Qin Zheng, and he could independently decide the measures based on the actual situation during the negotiation period, and even if another military strike was carried out, he would do whatever he wanted. Because Japan's compensation has been fully paid, the Marine Corps is gradually withdrawing troops from Japan, so East China's financial and military forces will enter a relatively sufficient period, and it is possible to launch a few more attacks on Russia.

While everyone was talking, Xia Bohai's secretary hurriedly walked into the conference room, handed Xia Bohai a folder, and said: "Several leaders, emergency military information has come from the Northeast War Zone."

Everyone was also surprised when they heard this. Xia Bohai immediately took the folder and saw two black belts on the cover. He couldn't help but feel a little nervous. Although it was three black belts that meant the most urgent and unfavorable situation, the two black belts were definitely not a good thing, so he hurriedly opened the folder to watch. The other four people also saw the mark on the cover of the folder, so they were also a little nervous. Could something really happened in the Northeast? So they surrounded Xia Bohai and watched together.

It turned out that the Jinzhou area was attacked by bandits. Yixian, Guangning and Fuxin County were all captured by bandits. The People's Army stationed in Jinzhou attacked and was defeated by bandits, causing great losses. Therefore, Jinzhou sent an emergency to the War Zone Command.

After reading the five people, they were also quite shocked. You should know that Jinzhou is the gateway to the northeast and its geographical location is very important. When East China* first went to the northeast to participate in the war, Huludao was used as a port and Jinzhou as a logistics base, and a logistics headquarters was established in Jinzhou. Moreover, Jinzhou was also a barrier to prevent the Qing army from sending troops into the northeast. Therefore, the People's Army also arranged heavy troops to garrison in Jinzhou and repaired many defensive fortifications.
Chapter completed!