"Chief of General Staff, according to preliminary estimates by the staff of the logistics department, if everything is strictly followed in the "Operation No. 1" plan, we conservatively estimate that more than 2 million yuan of military expenditures must be prepared for sufficient use. Otherwise, the distribution of military pay and the preparation of materials may encounter certain difficulties. Regarding this, the Chief of General Staff must not ignore this!" In the building of the Army Department, a first-class staff in charge of logistics reported conscientiously: "The ministry may not pay too much money, and the majority still needs to be allocated by the Ministry of Finance."

"Let the Ministry of Finance pay? I think it's so beautiful!" Mo Ming picked up the steaming mate tea and took a few sips, and said with a sneer: "It's clear that the Executive Committee has no money now. Even if we are doing something for a long time, it's difficult for them to pull out a few hairs. If they are slaughtering, they will be able to get a few hairs. If they are slaughtered, they will give us 100,000 yuan and 200,000 yuan, plus some food, salted fish and other things to send us. We still have to do this by ourselves when fighting Brazil."

"Of course, everyone knows that war requires money. Even if our soldiers on the East Coast can endure hardships, necessary food, medicine, ammunition, patronage, and military pay are still indispensable. In addition, there are guns and cannons, transportation losses, storage losses, etc., all are necessary expenses. However, these are not unsolvable solutions..." Mo Ming held the teacup and sniffed the fragrance of matte tea, and his thoughts had turned to the military budget preparation meeting that had just been held.

At that senior military meeting attended by senior army officers of the Army and Navy, the officers and staff worked together to formulate a plan to raise military expenses and materials in Brazil. Well, this plan seems to be quite feasible, and it is roughly divided into several aspects:

1. There is no doubt that it was a plundering and marrow-sucking plunder of the Portuguese colonies. The cultivated land that Portuguese colonists worked hard to reclaim but had incomplete procedures (this is not uncommon), the land used by local residents for generations of woodcutting and hunting, the public forest farms and grasslands of indigenous tribes, etc., were all collected by the army. This will naturally arouse the strong sense of resistance among the local residents, but who cares? As soon as the army on the east coast was dispatched, there were tens of thousands. How many resisters did you have? Haha, guerrilla warfare and public security warfare are with you to the end. How many people did you come to play with us?

And the land that has been recovered naturally has a way to deal with monetization. For example, I don’t know how many second-generation young men and women are newly grown in China every year, most of them are children with no inheritance rights. As long as the Army Department sells the stolen land (usually jealous and familiar land) for sale, there will definitely be many parents who love their children generously donating money and purchasing a considerable amount of land to give to their children who do not have inheritance rights to start a family and start a business. This is a lot of money.

In addition, even for those so-called complete lands, the East Coast Army can confiscate them on the charge of "anti-East Coast". These grains, tobacco or cotton plantations are often operated for many years. Once they are publicly auctioned in China (such as auctioning for 30 years, fifty years of lease rights, etc.), the prospects are quite good, and a large part of the funds can definitely be recovered.

2. If the above are all plundering policies for real estate, the Army Department has also formulated economic exploitation policies for commodities and commerce. For example, at the last joint meeting of land and sea, everyone agreed that on the land that implemented military occupation of Brazil, a variety of commodities, including grain, salt, tobacco, alcohol, oil, sugar, cotton, and medicines, cane sugar, cotton, and medicines, can be entrusted to domestic merchants on the east coast, and to Ba.

Of course, it is not impossible for Western merchants to go on sale and purchase by the Army Department personally. In short, it is necessary to regulate the purchase and sale of these mainstream commodities to achieve the goal of seizing the maximum share of interests. In order to amplify this kind of interests, the East Coast people can of course contact the merchants who are familiar with the Netherlands in advance, and they will take on the sales tasks. I believe they will be happy. After all, the things are real, and the prices are cheap and the amount is sufficient, so a fool will not do it.

Moreover, during the military occupation of the East Coast, most of Brazil's foreign trade will undoubtedly be terminated, but the demand of the Brazilians has not disappeared, and at this time their trade targets will be the East Coast. Well, at that time, the Portuguese Brazilian colonies are short of commodities and soaring prices are almost certain. The supply of goods transported by the Army Department will definitely be sold at a good price. It is not a joke to make a big profit.

3. How can we forget the military tickets that were "powerful" in the Second East-West War? As the second article says, the East Coast people imposed controls on local goods and purchased them in a unified manner. Do you think they were buying them with real money? You are too naive, how could it be possible! Just say, Chief of Staff Mo has decided that the Joint Staff will search for an aircraft to print the first batch of three million yuan military tickets at the end of this year, and then sell them at a 30% discount in a small domestic market. At that time, they will hit the Brazilian commodity market and exchange them for various specialty products.

What? Do you think the military tickets may depreciate? Will they be rejected? Haha, what do the bayonets on the mainland brothers eat? What are the giant cannons on naval warships eat? It’s very simple. Use violence to stipulate the value of military tickets. How much do you say? It’s not impossible to force military tickets to exchange for silver coins to appreciate to deepen economic plunder. It all depends on which step you want to do and how thick-skinned you are.

4. Finally, since all the military occupied some places, according to the tradition of the old continent at this time, a series of heavy taxes such as war tax, land tax, house tax and even slave tax were imposed in the occupied areas. Anyway, the East Coast people would do whatever they did. The Portuguese should be used to it. As long as the level is kept to the right level, they would not be expected to risk their lives to resist - it would be great to collect money easily!

By the way, some closed plantations and workshops are bound to be indispensable in the occupied areas (the owner may have escaped early), so it is natural to organize the management personnel and slaves to resume production to support the just fake punishment war in the East Coast Army. Anyway, the slaves in the manor should be ready-made, so don’t be sorry for them. They drive them to work hard and strive to produce the most commodities at the lowest cost. As long as the slaves do not obey, they will serve them with bayonets and sticks. They don’t have to care about it. Anyway, it is not their own property, and they are afraid of hair!

Mo Ming didn't believe that if he could not raise military expenses, he and the staff officers unswervingly believed that as long as the operation was done properly, the army might have a slight surplus after removing the military expenses - indeed war is the only way to obtain wealth, and robbery is always faster than farming!

"Anyway, money is never a big problem." Chief of Staff Mo took a sip of Matte and said with a final say: "There is enough money and enough money to play. When we are short of money, we also have a lack of money in war philosophy. What you should worry about should never be a matter of materials and military expenditure, but whether the "Operation No. 1" plan is complete, whether there are any omissions, whether the combat effectiveness of the Brazilian colonial army, militia and even the Sao Paulo flag team is appropriate, and whether the survey and mapping of the terrain, environment, and marching routes along the way are correct, these are what you should do. Of course, these are all in charge of the intelligence, contact, marching and combat staff, and you don't have to worry about the logistics staff..."

"The Brazilians are still sleeping in their dreams and have no idea about our war attempts. Even if some guys with a keen sense of smell have guessed something through the clues we have on the border, they probably think we want to take advantage of border friction again." Mo Ming stood up, put his hands behind his back, and said with a smile: "Let them go so confused and let them take care of it is our goal. What's more, they are very enthusiastic now. The Dutch on the front line of Recife, Olinda, and Fortaleza have been defeated repeatedly, and it seems that it has been a matter of one or two years. The glory of the Portuguese Kingdom seemed to be restored instantly. Haha, we will shatter their illusion."

Chief of Staff Mo's comments caused a burst of chuckling from many young staff members in the office. Yes, the Army has been waiting for this opportunity for too long, how could it be easy to stop? Every winter, we have mobilized tens of thousands of militias to the mountains to clear out the indigenous people. Do you think it is just to capture the labor force and improve the public security environment? How could the purpose be so simple! By this winter, we will completely cut off the indigenous tribes near the Wujiang River source, and then build railways, highways, and military stations, and transport supplies to store them. In the middle of next year - at the latest second half of the year - you will taste the thunderous blow of my soldiers on the East Coast! Who made you refuse to open the market? Who made you collude with the British? Who made you steal our various technologies and then spread them openly? Now the consequences are here, no one can save you!
Chapter completed!