The difficulty is not in terms of reliability - according to the report of the Li and Miao Affairs Office, at least in the various Li Tong and Miao villages in Lingao, they are "wholeheartedly supporting" the new regime. Three years of work have not been done in vain. Although according to the observation of the health team sent by the Ministry of Health to the Lebanon district, most of the malaria patients in Li and Miao are benign malaria, but the intermittent episodes make it difficult for them to make full use of them as ordinary laborers and soldiers.

"I don't think it's a big problem, doesn't Li Min still riot often, and he has the strength to riot and have no strength to be a soldier?" "Besides, there must be some of them who can resist abuse. Otherwise, how could the Li people survive in the mountains for a long time? ”

"Therefore, the Li people rioted frequently, but their combat effectiveness was limited. Da Ming relied on a group of guards like Hanako to guard a few stockades to control the field. Dongmen Blowing Rain said, "The army has to go out every day for drills, training, and duty." But the soldiers did not know when they were going to fight, and the army could not use it. ”

"It's a waste of human resources if you don't need it." Skade never forgot about the Li people, "Can't you treat them?" ”

"Let's think about how to do it." Dongmen Fuyu was reluctant to reveal the military's specific plan for this, and vaguely fooled the past. Since the Executive Committee is now reluctant to expand the military personnel by reducing the number of workers under its rule, and the demand for military strength continues unabated, a large number of highly dispersed security and internal security tasks affect the normal education and training of the army. The idea of recruiting a group of mercenaries to carry out law and order tasks, so that the troops could get rid of the security and internal security operations, was unusually put forward to the internal meeting of the military governor's court. The Li Miao soldiers were just one of the options.

As soon as the announcement of Hong Kong's development jihua, it immediately attracted a craze for new officials to run for office. Despite the fact that the Second Plenary Assembly laid down the basic principle of "voluntary registration and organizational review" for the selection of officials, many people went to private interviews with various people who they believed would be influential, in addition to registering on the website of the Organization Division of the Intranet. Minglang had to stay out of the courtyard gate of the office for several days in a row, so as not to be forcibly dragged to "have a meal and chat".

After a series of fierce on-stage and off-stage activities, a list of bureaucratic allocations in Hong Kong was finally announced: the co-captain of the Hong Kong Wing of Nongken was Luo Chen, a member of the Heaven and Earth Society; Shi Zhiqi became the commander of the Hong Kong garrison, and Le Lin became the commander of the Hong Kong naval detachment. Hung Wan was appointed as the commercial representative of Hong Kong.

In addition, a group of Jishu cadres were also assigned to Hong Kong. This includes Shi Jiantao, who is a strong advocate for the construction of a shipyard in Hong Kong. This person originally worked in the Planning Institute and was very interested in the shipbuilding industry, so he took the initiative to ask Ying to be the director of the Hong Kong shipyard.

The appointment of Shi Zhiqi as commander of the Hong Kong garrison was originally unacceptable, and the army believed that it was unreasonable for all of Hong Kong's high-ranking military posts to be occupied by the naval system, but in the end, everyone finally reached a consensus: the commander of the Hong Kong garrison should choose a person with experience in amphibious operations to serve as the commander, and Shi Zhiqi was obviously the most qualified candidate.

In light of the increasing number of expatriate senators, the Senate formally implemented the system of "Senate Council" and "Collective Decision-making on Major Matters" in all groups of expatriate senators with two or more members. If there are more than three elders stationed in a place, a local council of elders must be formed, and all major policy decisions made in the local area must be informed or even voted on at the meeting of the council. The Committee must meet regularly and with a record of its meetings.

Escorted by two patrol boats, the "Qionghai Coal" slowly approached the No. 1 Central Pier on the "Virgen Bay" -- the Central Government Council has officially issued a place name naming document, officially renaming Xiangshan Ao as "Hong Kong Island" and the 852 base as "Central"; Victoria Bay was named "Virgen Bay". Replacing the daimyo of Queen Victoria, which does not exist at all.

On the deck of the "Qionghai Coal" stood several people in gray and green uniforms, pointing at the Central base under construction. The tall and muscular stature and relatively haode clothing indicate that they are the so-called "senators". As the soldiers working as stevedores on the docks turn to each other, does the arrival of another group of veterans mean that there is something new to be done? After the end of the military campaign against the Pearl River Valley, many of the elders left Hong Kong. Now there are only two or three elders left on the island.

Under the traction of the big hair boat, the Big Whale slowly leaned onto the trestle and set up a gangplank. When the port staff boarded the ship for inspection, several elders had already disembarked, and a twenty-five or sixteen-year-old man who looked like a veteran was originally in a small shed next to the wharf, and he would quickly greet him.

"Meigong, you're here." The young man greeted a senator in his thirties who got off the boat, and Merlin came to the official construction company.

"Xiao Shi, you're not bad here." Merlin looked around, "Four months, it's starting to take shape. ”

A shrill whistle sounded - the port authorities had noticed the red warning flag on the Qionghai coal, which symbolized the highest danger symbol, and the laborers and soldiers who had been toiling near the No. 1 pier quickly evacuated.

"What? Dangerous goods were shipped. "Xiao Shi is a little discolored.

"Dynamite." Merlin said briefly, "Didn't you apply for explosives to open the mountain?" ”

"Yes, yes, let's go first."

A few people didn't care about greeting each other, and under the leadership of a person called "Xiao Shi", they walked towards the trading station at the Central base. The trading station is more than 1 kilometer from the dock by the sea, where the construction team built a standard track of wrought railroad tracks to transport goods and people between the two places.

Since the Pearl River Estuary detachment landed in Hong Kong in September 1630, the development of Base 852 has been underway, and the planned Central Base has taken on a rough scale. The merchant station is the core building of the entire base. It is the fortress and foundation of domination. The building was built in accordance with the 19th-century model of an armed trading station, and was built with reference to the modern government experience in public construction design. The area is not large, but the supporting facilities are perfect.

The entire main castle is a rectangular multi-storey hollow building. The structure is roughly a large area surrounded by multi-storey buildings

Clearing. At the four corners are four convex forts, each 5 storeys high and 17 meters high. At the top is an open-air casemate. The lower floors are the guards' quarters, ammunition depots, and gymnasiums...... At the bottom are the toilets, which are flushed using seawater.

With the exception of the Boss Fort, all floors are 4 floors 14 meters high. There are no windows on the first and second floors facing outward, and there are windows on the third floor and above, and there are iron protective window panels that can be closed in case of attack. However, for the inner compound, there are windows on each floor to facilitate ventilation and lighting. The top terraces of the floors are fortified.

The south-facing building is the external office area, and the ground floor is the lobby and main entrance. All the institutions that need to be open to the public are located here. In the middle of the building to the south, there is a five-storey bell tower. On the east floor is the dormitory area, where soldiers of the guard unit, naturalized civilian staff, and cadres live. Each floor is equipped with a large washroom. Part of the ground floor is the canteen and kitchen, and part is the arsenal. The west side is also divided into four floors, with warehouses on the first and second floors, health clinics and inpatient departments on the third floor, and dormitories on the fourth floor. To the north is the auxiliary room, which includes the boiler room, the pump room and the wind power plant. There are also temporary detention facilities and various warehouses, including garages on the ground floor.

The trading station is not yet fully completed, but the four corner towers, the main entrance building to the south, and the bell tower have been completed. Although the bell tower is found in many buildings designed by Lingao, so far not a single large bell has been made - not that it cannot be manufactured, but that the Planning Institute feels that it is not urgently needed, so it will simply wait for the supply of raw materials to be more abundant.

At the foot of the main castle, a road was paved in accordance with the model of the original construction of Dongmen City, and now the merchant hall and customs are under construction. Everywhere there were piles of yellow sand, barrels of cement and stones of various sizes. The laborers are constantly busy. The horn of labor and the whirring of the steam roller resounded.

The labor force is staffed by locally established decontamination camps. The Guangdong people, officers and soldiers who were captured and voluntarily followed in the Zhujiang Estuary Expedition were quarantined here and also served as infrastructure construction workers. Lingao Construction Corporation sent a veteran named Shi Dafu to be in charge of all the construction of the project locally. Shi Dafu is a professional in industrial and civil construction, and has worked in a construction company, so he can be regarded as a doer with theory and experience.

Shi Dafu led the group into the main city and invited them to sit down in the conference room. The meeting room is located on the clock tower on the south side of the trading station. That's when they introduced each other. Among the new veterans, Merlin was in charge of several reservoir projects on Hong Kong Island -- to set up a shop in Hong Kong, and according to the calculations of the Planning Institute, he was going to complete the storage of 2 million cubic meters of water in 1631-1632. By 1633, the total storage capacity was 7.7 million cubic meters. This can effectively supply the needs of industrial and agricultural production on Hong Kong Island.

"Most of the reservoirs in Hong Kong were built using the existing terrain in the mountains, and the amount of earthwork was limited." Merlin brought with him a complete set of Hong Kong hydrological materials from old time and space provided by the Grand Library, "but the cost was still very high. ”

After the end of the Second Five-Year Plan, the whole of Guangzhou will be occupied

Under the premise, the Planning Institute of Hong Kong's investment in too much capital believes that it cannot be paid, so the entire scale of Hong Kong's industry and agriculture is limited to a small amount. The total population of Hong Kong in the future planning of Hong Kong Island and outlying islands is as follows: the population residing for more than 30 days, including garrisons, workers, cantonment workers and people to be decontaminated, does not exceed 30,000.

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