"Your Highness."

Governor's Office.

Qu Sheng bowed when he saw Zhao Xu and smiled.

Zhao Xu smiled and said, "The attraction of this rubber forest is really great. I didn't expect you to come here in person."

Qu Sheng was a little helpless, and he said, "It was not that way. Although I was happy, I didn't expect to come here. However, Wang Chong was even happier than me. He urged me to come and transport a batch of rubber back as soon as possible, saying that it would not delay the time when the thermal power plant was put into use."

Zhao Xu nodded.

During the war, all plans were not affected and were implemented step by step.

Prime Minister Liu Fu is responsible for supervising the matter.

If he doesn't do it properly, he will scold people when he goes back.

"Okay, this rubber involves the production of commodity in many industries." Zhao Xu said, "After you go back, you will refine this batch of raw rubber to mature rubber."

Before the war in the southern region began, he told Qu Sheng to establish a rubber workshop in advance.

The process of turning raw glue into cooked glue is very simple, which is to mix sulfur with raw glue and heat it.

For Qu Sheng, a top chemistry talent, this process is familiar.

"Yes, Your Highness." Qu Sheng replied.

After a few simple conversations, Zhao Xu asked Qu Sheng some questions about the chemical industry.

Zhao Xu smiled with gratitude when he learned that under the guidance of the Chemistry Laboratory students of the R&D Institute and the assistance of the Electric Power Laboratory students.

The pure hydrogen and oxygen obtained in the last electrolytic test, as well as elemental metals such as magnesium and aluminum, are just a small part of the commodity in the electrolytic industry.

In fact, almost all elemental metals and gases, as well as a large portion of compounds, can be obtained by electrolysis.

For example, electrolytic brine can not only obtain hydrogen and chlorine, but also caustic soda.

In the future, the way to obtain caustic soda in soap workshops will no longer need to be as complicated and inefficient as before, and can obtain a large amount of cheap caustic soda.

And this is the difference between the Second Industrial Revolution and the First Industrial, which can be said to be a drastic change.

With the goods manufactured by the Second Revolution, Dasong can defeat the Western world even in fair competition.

"Very good. The take-off of Dasong Industry will be left to you and Wang Chong. I am responsible for escorting you and providing you with all the raw materials you want." Zhao Xu said with a smile.

Qu Sheng smiled shyly, "I will definitely live up to what Your Highness hopes."

After saying that, Qu Sheng said goodbye and went to the plantation.

He will collect the raw rubber from the plantation and transport it back to Yancheng.

During this period, the order in Manila was basically restored.

The workers in the plantation also went back, which would be beneficial to Qu Sheng's work.

Three days later, Qu Sheng returned on a commercial steamboat loaded with raw rubber.

Another ten days passed, and with the help of the Marines, Battel controlled Manila and all cities in the north.

Cebu Island and Mian Island are also under the jurisdiction of the Protectorate, and the entire Luzon area is basically on track.

At this time, Zhao Xu turned his attention to Australia, two thousand kilometers away from Luzon.

"More than two thousand kilometers, this is basically the distance from Luzon to Yanzhou, so the navy will establish three supply points from north to south at the end."

Governor General Office.

Zhao Xu and Zhou Yi compared the chart and finally determined the next action.

To the south of Luzon is a group of broken islands.

This island group is a contemporary Indonesian region, spanning more than 3,000 kilometers from east to west.

Dasong calls it Java.

Now, this place is controlled by the Steady.

However, during this period, the main area controlled by the Steadians was West Indonesia near Malacca.

Because there is the largest population there.

The current East Indonesia area is very desolate, and Stedam's troops are very weak.

It can be said that it can be easily taken.

The only thing they need to do is to take down three supply points from north to south and stock up at the supply points.

After that, you can use the southernmost supply point as a springboard to climb up to Australia's land.

And this matter was already done after they captured Manila.

In the past month, the navy has broken through a line from north to south.

Three supply points were established on this route.

The southernmost point is the contemporary East Timor.

This place is only 500 kilometers away from the Australian continent.

In just one day, the naval fleet can cross.

The Marines can rest here and then easily set foot on the land of the Australian continent.

"Well, in addition to the southern Luzon line, it is necessary to open a route eastward." Zhao Xu's fingers traveled eastward from Luzon on the map, and went north of the Australian continent.

There is also a large island here, which the British call the Solomon Islands.

Now, since the Western natives have chosen to retreat strategically and defend Maluojia.

Then he took the initiative and could only eat all the areas east of Malacca.

Afterwards, he used the eastern part of the southern region as the base to compete with the Western Turkish coalition in Malacca.

"Yes, Your Highness." Zhou Yi said, "I will give Gong Ying an order to take down Moreau Island to the east and then control the Solomon Islands."

The Western Tu Navy shrank to Maluojia, and the warships left in the north did not need to continue to guard the island chain.

It is completely possible to cooperate with the warships heading south.

They just need to monitor Malacca to adjust its strategy according to the situation.

At the same time, the Marine Corps had a total of 60,000 people. In addition to the 10,000 people stationed in Japan and Ryukyu, and 30,000 people in Luzon, Gong Ying could also dispatch 20,000 Marine Corps.

He can take on the task of opening a route.

At that time, one of them landed from the west of the Australian continent and penetrated the west coast, the other one of them landed from the east of the Australian continent and penetrated the east coast, and then joined the south coast of Australia.

By attacking on both sides, you can take over the entire Australian continent as quickly as possible.

"Well, without further ado, let Gong Ying take action immediately." Zhao Xu said.

He couldn't wait to take over the Australian continent.

Because he knew that the focus of the attacks of the Western Turkish coalition was Jiaozhi, Piman, Tubo and the entire northern border.

As for the Southern Region, it was an accident for them.

Originally, they thought their navy could defeat the Dasong Navy, and they could even match the situation, but they never thought that they would be defeated so suddenly, which led to their passiveness in the Southern Region.

But the more this happens, they are afraid that they will be more anxious to open up another battlefield, surround Wei and save Zhao, and alleviate the crisis in the southern region.

And this battlefield is a comprehensive invasion of Dasong on the C-shaped encirclement.

So, he hopes to take over the Australian continent as soon as possible.

In this way, if a war breaks out on the second battlefield, he can return to Dasong in time, work with Chang Wei to resolve the siege, and remove the forces of Dasong who are besieging one by one.

During this period, the navy in the southern region could establish supply points westward.
Chapter completed!