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During the long training period, Lin Xiao only occasionally came to the playground to observe the training.

After more than three months of intense construction by tens of thousands of migrant workers, by mid-October, nearly 30,000 houses had risen from the ground in Haiphong New Town, leaving fine stone roads and brick wells still under construction.

A large number of straw huts near the wharf have begun to be dismantled, and more than 10,000 families have moved into their new homes one after another, starting a new life full of hope.

Lin Xiao left a batch of houses with the best materials to the military families, and when the new recruits became the army, the families of the soldiers who officially enlisted in the army could move into the batch of blue brick houses with bright windows.

Li Tao also suggested that a simple city wall should be built on the periphery, but the road outside the west gate of the city wall was not rebuilt, and the merchants who came and went to Haiphong mainly took the waterway, and most of the people who entered and exited by land were peasants who went to the fields to cultivate, and the expansion of the road was not very urgent.

During this period, Lin Xiao also accompanied Zhou Xiaojie to Halong Bay and Jinpu once, and in mid-September, the Annan government sent someone to inform them that those two places could be handed over and asked them to send someone to receive them.

The port of Halong Bay is very close to Haiphong, and the "unicorn" sails north along the coast through Cat Ba Island for about 40 kilometers, arriving in less than three hours.

By the time they arrived, the local garrison and officials at all levels in Annam had already evacuated as agreed, leaving only a few handover personnel waiting there, and a large number of local miners were in a state of anarchic shutdown.

The mine is right by the sea, and the open-pit coal mine does not need to be dug deeply, and the black coal seam can often be seen by removing a thin layer of soil and rock. The buildings in the entire mining area are basically straw huts made of straw mats, there are no decent houses, but there are several fishermen's villages in the distance, and most of them are low grass houses.

Due to the lack of mine management personnel, Lin Xiao sent a letter to Gong Zhenhao to urgently send dozens of men, under the leadership of Zhang Haifa, the next day by sea boat to Ha Long Bay, half of the people were stationed in the coal mine, and the miners began to dig coal.

Looking at Zhang Haifa, who was very busy, Lin Xiao and Zhou Xiaojie were both moved and guilty in their hearts. A person's ability is really very limited, the ambitious Lin Xiao deeply felt that he didn't understand a lot of work, if it wasn't for the help of these Ming wanderers, he felt that he would probably achieve nothing.

Zhou Xiaojie is similar, as a chemical expert in the 21st century, with minerals such as coal and iron, as well as the machinery and equipment on the "Longsheng", he can help Lin Xiao do a lot of things, he can run a smelter, a chemical plant, and even very likely to produce smokeless gunpowder, but this is all after returning to China, not to mention that he can't organize workers to dig holes, he can't even understand the local language, and he can't do anything.

Lin Xiao and Zhou Xiaojie looked at each other and smiled, helplessly becoming spectators, they really felt bored, so they decided to go back to the boat and wait for the next day to go to Jinpu, and twenty kilometers north along the coastline is Jinpu Port.

Lin Xiao only brought about 30 infantry from the logistics platoon on this trip, which was only enough to be stationed in one place in Halong Bay, but fortunately, the sailors on the "unicorn" could be divided into a squadron and stationed ashore at Jinpu Port to maintain local order.

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When he woke up, it was already early the next morning, Lin Xiao looked at his watch, it was not yet six o'clock in the morning.

Looking out of the aft window, Lin Xiao found himself in a dreamlike spectacle, hundreds of strangely shaped verdant islands covered the sea, mist drifting between the seabirds and islands flying in the sky, and the air was slightly salty, fresh and intoxicating.

In the distance, there are strange limestone islands near and far. An island is a hill jutting out of the sea, and there is nothing superfluous.

The peaks jutting out of the emerald blue sea are in a variety of shapes, with dense vegetation on the mountains, flocks of birds rising and falling from time to time, and the almost transparent blue sky reflected in the sea in the early autumn morning, which becomes a beautiful backdrop for the islands.

In the distance, there are some small fishing boats with ochre-colored double sails, which pass between the mountains and gorges from time to time, floating in the green mountains and blue seas, and in the blink of an eye, they disappear into the mountain shadows, confusing, like a dream......

Lin Xiao's heart was drunk, and he felt that the tourist resorts in Phuket and Bali in the future were not as charming as the scenery in front of him.

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Arriving at Jinpu Port before noon that day, Zhang Haifa took the other half of his men and his family, escorted by a squadron of sailors, and started a new busy.

Lin Xiao and Zhou Xiaojie, but they were no longer too lazy to go ashore, so they stayed in the "unicorn" stern to drink tea and chat, the scenery of the Jinpu sea is still beautiful, outside the small island groups of thousands of shapes on the sea, there are some big islands faintly, the peaks on these big islands are higher, along the coastline between these big islands, continue to go north for more than 100 miles, is the northernmost point of the Beibu Gulf, there, is the homeland of China.

Although there are many natural open-pit coal mines in Halong Bay, the largest coal mine is in Jinpu, and it is located on the seaside, so it is very convenient to transport the coal back to China in the future, and if the weather is good, it can even go back and forth in a day.

Listening to Zhou Xiaojie's introduction, Lin Xiao was out of the world again.

The recruits have been training for more than a month, and in another month and a half, by the end of October, they will be on their way home.

What do you look like now, your hometown?

Lin Xiao's heart was melancholy for no reason......

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At the end of October, Lin Xiao returned to the camp by the Taiping River.

The first batch of tribute materials from Annam has been fully delivered, and the newly built warehouses in Haiphong cannot be stored, and some grain can only be stacked in the open barn at the wharf.

Xiao Kaifeng and the main force of the third company have returned, and now the first and third companies are stationed in the camp.

Tomorrow, the training of recruits will come to an end, and the final assessment will take place. The recruits who have passed the examination will officially enlist in the army, and the new recruits who have been eliminated are ready to set up a coastal defense militia team to increase the defense force of the base area.

In order to ensure a certain elimination rate, Lin Xiao personally revised the assessment items and standards overnight.

There are 10 individual assessment items, namely 100-meter sprint run, armed cross-country 3-kilometer run, horizontal bar pull-ups, push-ups, sit-ups, long jump, bomb throwing, live ammunition shooting, individual tactics, and battlefield hemostasis bandaging.

Each item is worth one point, and those who pass get one point, and those who fail do not get any points; The full score of ten items is 10 points, and those with a total score of 8 points will pass, and those with less than 8 points will be eliminated.

The scoring method is a bit simple, and Lin Xiao can't help it, most of these recruits are illiterate, and it's too complicated for them to understand.

Among them, Lin Xiao improved the passing score of the three-kilometer run from 13 and a half points to 12 and a half points; increased the number of passing marks on the horizontal bar from 5 to 8; The passing score of push-ups has increased from 40 to 50 per minute; The bomb throwing score was changed from a 30-meter pass to a 35-meter pass; The score of 5 rounds in the 100-meter lying position of live ammunition shooting was changed from 35 rings to 40 rings, and the passing grade of 4 rounds of 10 bullets on target was changed to 5 rounds on target; Individual tactics: crawling forward 10 meters and 15 meters serpentine running under the barbed wire in a low posture, followed by aiming at the gun, changing from 50 seconds to 35 seconds.

Lin Xiao estimates that according to this standard, about 2,000 of the 6,000 recruits will be eliminated.