Liu Hai's order quickly spread throughout his entire military system from the military plane.
After receiving Liu Hai's order, Liu Da, who was far away in Malacca, immediately dispatched the navy and began to block the entire Strait of Malacca.
This immediately paralyzed the entire Strait of Malacca.
You must know that the Strait of Malacca is a very important sea channel in this plane, connecting almost all trade between Western powers and East Asia.
As long as the Strait of Malacca is blocked, Western powers will have to make a big circle if they want to enter East Asia, and the shipping routes there are very dangerous.
All the Western businessmen traveling to and from the Straits of Malacca were now very angry. They organized several representatives and went to the Government House in Singapore to meet with Liu Da.
Liu Da had known for a long time that these businessmen would come to meet him, so he had been waiting for them. Now he heard the businessmen asking for an audience at the gate of the Governor's Mansion, so he ordered someone to bring them to the living room.
These seven or eight foreign businessmen came to the living room of the Government House of Singapore and saw Liu Hai waiting for them with tea.
After these people came in, they first bowed curtly to Liu Da, and then began to condemn Liu Da in all directions.
"Mr. Governor, you sent troops to block the Strait of Malacca and blocked the trade between the East and the West. This is completely unacceptable."
"You have to think clearly, if you do this, you will offend the entire Western powers."
"Mr. Governor, I demand that the Malacca Water Channel be opened immediately."
"Mr. Governor, you have to know how much money I will make less if you block the water for one day. You won't be able to compensate me by then."
Liu Da listened to their chaotic questioning, gently put down his tea cup, then looked at them and said: "I have been ordered by the domestic military aircraft department to block waterways and strictly investigate smuggled arms. I will dispatch warships within a few days.
Check the passing ships one by one and let them go as long as they do not involve arms or sensitive materials."
After Liu Da finished speaking, he looked at them again, with a disdainful smile on his lips.
Liu Da knew very well that those who could engage in the arms business must be people with great hands and eyes in the West, and these people were generally very prestigious.
Among the seven or eight businessmen in front of Liu Da now, five or six are engaged in arms trading.
Sure enough, after Liu Da finished speaking, five or six people's faces turned pale.
Because now due to the internal instability of the Qing Dynasty, the amount of arms needed in various places has greatly increased. They, Western businessmen, have been instructed by the country to transport a large number of weapons and want to sell them to the governors within the Qing Dynasty. One is to make profits from it, and the other is to make a profit from it.
It shows the great powers' support for them.
And now that Liu Da has blocked the Strait of Malacca, even if they have great abilities, they cannot fly to the Qing Dynasty, unless they make a big circle and enter the Qing Dynasty from the Japanese waters.
But now the Japanese country is also Liu Hai's lackey, and it may not be safe to go there, and the Japanese country is very barbaric, but Liu Da can just board the ship and inspect it like this. If it happens, the ship and the cargo will be detained by them.
Therefore, these businessmen had nothing to do when faced with Liu Da's answer. They now knew Liu Hai's status in the world's naval community.
Therefore, these businessmen left the Governor's Mansion in a hurry.
Liu Da kept his promise and sent out warships to inspect passing ships on the second day.
Liu Da would let all ordinary material transport ships go. However, once they encountered arms and supplies, Liu Da would not be polite. Although he did not confiscate the supplies, he would not let them pass customs.
In this way, because Liu Hai blocked the Strait of Malacca, the smuggling trade of weapons, which was very prosperous in the Qing Dynasty, came to an abrupt end.
Moreover, those governors who used to be very aggressive now have no confidence and are no longer as happy as before.
Liu Hai doesn't have time to take care of them now. As long as they don't attack his territory, he will let them make trouble for now.
Liu Hai's current main target is the Rakshasa people in the Northeast. If the Rakshasa people are not driven out of the border and stabilize the Northeast, Liu Hai will not worry about heading west.
In order to deal with the Rakshasa people, Liu Hai had already prepared to lay down hundreds of thousands of troops.
There are now nearly 300,000 Japanese troops gathered near the capital, and there are also about 100,000 Japanese servants in the northeast.
However, as the capital, the capital had to leave people behind, so Liu Haizhi ordered Liu Zhi to lead 200,000 troops from the north to the northeast, take over the 100,000 Japanese troops in Shengjing, and launch a counterattack against the Rakshasa army.
But this time, there is a big difference between the army going north and Liu Hai going from Nanjing to Beijing.
Because in the pass, it is easy to say that although the various roads are not wide, they still extend in all directions, and the army can move very quickly.
But once entering the Northeast, the Qing government has been pursuing a policy of blocking the Northeast, which made all kinds of transportation in the Northeast very backward.
It can be maintained just by moving the army north, but if we have to transport supplies for hundreds of thousands of troops, it will be a real headache.
Because of this matter, Liu Hai and the people from the Military Aircraft Department held meetings for several days in a row, and finally worked out a clause.
This provision was completely implemented according to the ancient combat strategy, which was to recruit civilians on a large scale in various places to use a huge number of people to make up for the shortcomings of the roads.
Every citizen who came to Fuyao Yi not only took care of the food, but also received 500 copper coins as wages.
To say that in ancient times, 500 Wen was not a small amount. Ordinary people could only earn this much money in a month by doing odd jobs during the off-season.
However, too many people were raised this time, and the required copper coins were all gone. The original Qing Dynasty treasury would not be enough to support it.
However, he couldn't support his meeting in the Qing Dynasty, but Liu Hai had his own way. Because of this, Liu Hai returned to modern times.
In Modern Times, Liu Hai paid a visit to his wife Wang Fang, whom he had not seen for a long time, and delivered a large amount of supplies to Zhang Tao.
Since Liu Hai has slowly controlled most of China, and his navy has controlled Malacca and Malaysia, the supplies transported this time were much more than before.
Liu Hai can now export nearly 100 million tons of iron ore and 50 million barrels of oil almost every month.
And this amount of money is a huge amount for Liu Hai and the current plane.
It is simply a waste for the modern government to see such a large amount of money lying in the bank and not using it.
Therefore, when they met this time, Zhang Tao said as soon as they met: "Boss Liu, you should buy something after such a long time, right?"
After hearing this, Liu Hai thought for a while and then said with a smile: "Brother Zhang really guessed it right. I really have a batch of supplies that I need to buy from you when I come back."
Zhang Tao became interested as soon as he heard this, "Tell me, what is the shortage over there?"
Liu Hai first asked Zhang Tao to sit on the sofa opposite him, then took out a copper coin from his briefcase and handed it to Zhang Tao.
Zhang Tao took the copper coins in confusion and looked a little dumbfounded.
Because he had never heard of the year number marked on this copper coin.
I saw that the front of this copper coin was written Xingqing Tongbao, and the reverse was re-marked in Manchu.
But Zhang Tao soon came to his senses. He put the copper coin on the table, looked at Liu Hai with deep eyes and said, "It seems that you are developing well."
Liu Hai nodded very proudly.
Zhang Tao then asked Liu Hai: "How much do you want?"
When Liu Hai heard that Zhang Tao finally asked about the key point, he hurriedly said: "These copper coins are divided into strings of 1,000 coins. I need 10 million strings."
After Zhang Tao heard this, he almost spit a mouthful of tea onto the table. This amount was too big.
Liu Hai saw Zhang Tao's excitement and hurried up to give him a pat on the back and said: "Brother Zhang, I need this batch of goods urgently. I hope you can prepare them for me within three to five days."
Zhang Tao had already calmed down a bit, but when he heard Liu Hai's words, he immediately became a little angry again, "Are you kidding me? Although we have a large production capacity, but you need such a large quantity within three days, where can I give it to you?"
Find it."
"Brother Zhang, if not, I will add 30% to the cost price. What do you think?"
Zhang Tao is a little reluctant now. According to Liu Hai's original meaning, he was not prepared to make money for himself at all. Now because he needs it urgently, he has added three levels of profit for himself.
"What are you doing here? I can't accept your price. You can go to whoever you want."
Liu Hai saw that Zhang Tao was a little angry and hurriedly went up to laugh with him, "Brother Zhang, am I short of money? Do you think this will work? I will increase the price to 50% for you, and the profit will not be small."
But Zhang Tao still didn't buy his account, "If you receive the goods in one or two months, I can accept the price. But now you want it so urgently, your price is not even enough for the expedited fee. Let me tell you,
Now I have to double the cost price."
After listening to Zhang Tao's words, Liu Hai slapped his thigh, "That's it, Brother Zhang, pay as soon as the goods arrive."
Zhang Tao saw Liu Hai agreeing to his offer so happily, and he murmured in his heart, could it be that his offer was too low?
Otherwise, how could Liu Hai, a stingy man, agree so readily.
But Liu Hai did not give Zhang Tao a chance to continue thinking. He immediately took out a contract from his handbag and handed it to Zhang Tao.
"Brother Zhang, look at the contract and there's nothing wrong with it. We can sign it now."
Zhang Tao picked up the contract and took a look. The paper used on the contract was not simple. The contract was not the document paper commonly used today.
Moreover, all the words on it are written with a brush, in small regular script, which is more neat than modern pen calligraphy. The most important thing is that the words on it are all traditional Chinese characters.
Zhang Tao looked at Liu Hai and shook the contract. Did he mean to ask Liu Hai what was going on?
Liu Hai shrugged and didn't answer.
But Liu Hai didn't answer, so Zhang Tao was able to make a guess. He smiled, took out a pen from his jacket pocket, and signed his name below.