Li Guang's return to Shixiang Island this time was not only to bring Ren Tianyang's group of submariners back to the island for a round battle. But now the development of the Stone Statue Island is faster than expected, which makes Li Guang feel that it is necessary to set up the main base on the Stone Statue Island.

It has become the core of the Naval Resistance Army. Not only in terms of numbers, but now the investment here is large enough. The food factory has already been successfully put into operation. And the artillery plant has also been basically built. The power plant has already generated electricity. The production of torpedoes by this time had completely moved to the island of Statues.

The largest dock and the dock for submarine warships have also been completed. All this was done in half a year. It can be said that in addition to shipbuilding, which is still in Uruguay, other important industries have now all moved to the Statue Island. (Several R&D projects are also in Uruguay.) ）

Li Guang's biggest worry has always been that once he starts the Pacific War, he will not go to the ocean and attack the Stone Statue Island.

The island is triangular in shape, with three volcanoes at three corners, and the longest of the three coastlines is no more than 24 kilometers. If you want to say that the defense is really blessed, as long as the cannon is placed on the three volcanoes, then you can completely control the sea surface.

However, at present, there are only six 152mm cannons that can be used as shore artillery by the Naval Resistance Army, one of which has been installed on the Baxia.

The 152mm cannon is already a big killer in land warfare, but it is really not enough in naval warfare, and there are many large-caliber naval guns.

And the number of five cannons is also too small.

The island itself is only 163 square kilometers, and there is no depth at all, and what is more serious is that there are no people around 2,000 kilometers. It was only necessary to dispatch a few cruisers to blockade the island.

Originally, Li Guang only planned to use this place as a supply base for submarines and warships, and even if it was occupied by the Chinese army, it would not break his muscles and bones. And now, by mistake, there are so many Chinese people here. And because of the compromise between the Uruguayan political axe and the book, Li Guang was forced to move some important industries to the stone statue island. If it is really occupied by Yueben, then it will really break its muscles and bones, and even destroy the foundation of the Naval Resistance Army.

Li Guang had already discussed this concern with Su Qing. But this problem is simply unsolvable, only to try to keep it secret, and say that the devil knows that it will be safe for a day if he knows it late. If the devil really fights, there is no other way but to fight to the death, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to even retreat at that time.

The only solution is to increase the strength to the point where it can compete with the main fleet of the Yue Army, but this is simply a fool's dream, and Li Guang, a traverser, does not dare to think about it at all.

The current development speed of Shixiang Island is simply amazing, and in terms of civil industry and commerce, Su Qing's family is called business. Li Guang's level cannot be compared with others at all.

To be honest, if Uruguay hadn't had Yuan Ran's help, Li Guang would have made a mess of a company long ago.

And Su Maode and a few shopkeepers not only got the business of fish and meat compressed biscuits on the right path, but also set up a bullet factory on Stone Statue Island at the same time as the construction of the power plant began. So far, the 10,000-ton freighter has made one trip to China, and the second trip is already on the way back.

Chile, the country closest to the Statue Island, has a large amount of copper, which Li Guang knows, but has not developed this kind of business. Su Maode brought 300 tons of copper with him on his first shipment to China. One back and forth is three times the profit.

And Mrs. Su, who is surnamed Mao, Li Guang's future mother-in-law who is most afraid of seeing her, is very bold and directly sells all the real estate in her hometown. At the helm of the Su family is the Su Mao family, who eats fasting and recites Buddha, and has now used the funds to establish a bullet factory, and has sent men to buy a large amount of red copper in Chile.

Li Guang has always been worried that the food industry will not be able to provide sufficient employment for 2,000 people, but in fact, there is not enough manpower on Shixiang Island now.

Su Maode's first trade was in Burma, and it seems that the Su family still borrowed a lot of light from the chairman, and the trade was not hindered at all. The net profit of the first trip reached 50%, and the return was extremely rich.

On the return trip, Sumoud did not forget to make full use of the transportation capacity and brought back more than 10,000 tons of timber, which solved many difficulties on the island at once.

Judging from the Su family's operation, Li Guang thinks that he can't be so strict no matter what. There must be both means and interpersonal relationships. Careful planning is required.

In terms of civil affairs, Professor Yuan Ye captured everyone's hearts with a small measure. Education, from kindergarten to primary and secondary school.

It is a very simple wish of the Chinese people to let their children study, and all parents hope that their children can read and become talents.

Professor Yuan Ye has captured not only the hearts of the Chinese people, but also the hearts of the aborigines on the island. Li Guang didn't care too much about these aborigines before, one was not energetic enough, and there was always some estrangement between the two ethnic groups.

Do not do to others what you do not want to be done to others, and it is said that he has invaded China, and the pain of the Chinese is in front of him, and Li Guang does not dare to engage in colonization. Li Guang is unwilling to force his suffering on other weak and small ethnic groups, which is his moral bottom line.

However, Professor Yuan Ye's education and promotion obviously made these people who had been enslaved by various colonial political axes very grateful, and their centripetal force was enhanced.

Another thing that happened on the island played a huge role in rallying the hearts and minds of the people, especially the indigenous people. In April, there was a plague on the island.

The plague is very strange, Chinese refugees are rarely infected, but the aborigines and even the Spanish priests of the local church are infected. Just over 2,000 aborigines, the death toll reached 200.

After the outbreak of the plague, Yuan Ran's mother, Mrs. Li, took several doctors from the Maritime Resistance Army to treat these aborigines at night.

Originally, the credit was undoubtedly Mrs. Li's greatest, but what is ironic is that the aborigines on the island are the most grateful to Mrs. Mao.

Since Mrs. Mao arrived on the Stone Statue Island, she began to burn incense and worship the Buddha, and there are many stone statues on the Stone Island, which is enough for her to worship. But after worshipping for a while, she felt that these stone statues really couldn't be considered Buddha statues. So I found a stonemason among the refugees and carved a three- or four-meter-high Nanhai Guanyin.

The stones on the island are not hard stones such as granite, and the construction was extremely fast, and in less than a month the Nanhai Guanyin was erected on the pier, facing the northwest-China direction.

In this way, Mrs. Mao has a normal place to work, and she recites scriptures and does homework in front of the statue of Guanyin every day.

The people from China believed in Buddhism in large numbers, and soon there was a small group. When the plague broke out, Mrs. Mao's language barrier actually attracted many local aborigines to worship Buddha.

In a word, your gods are not spiritual, but our bodhisattvas are spiritual. The evidence is very conclusive, you see that none of us Chinese are sick.

As a result, a large part of these aborigines really came to worship the Bodhisattva, and a few months later, they were full of inaccurate pronunciation, "There is no Amitabha Buddha in the south, and there is no Guanyin Bodhisattva in the south." ”

In short, when the plague disappeared, the aborigines had already given credit to the Nanhai Guanyin Bodhisattva. There is also competition for such a thing, and in this game, Buddhism beats Christianity by a wide margin.

The priest on the island has died, and as a result, Mrs. Mao didn't care about Jesus, and once again got a statue of the Bodhisattva to live in the church, and now the church has been changed beyond recognition by the powerful Mrs. Mao, combining Chinese and Western.

According to Li Guang's judgment, the plague was most likely due to the arrival of refugees who disrupted the original microbial balance on the island. Some viruses have no effect on Chinese, but for people who have not experienced this virus, it is a disaster. This is not uncommon in history, when Europeans embarked on their voyages, bringing plagues of calamity to each place they went.

However, in the twentieth century, this kind of thing was rare, but the stone statue island was too closed, and no outsiders arrived for several years, and the population generally lacked immunity from external viruses.

In short, under Professor Yuan's educational methods and Madame Mao's superstitious methods, the aborigines and Chinese on the island now begin to get along well. Even many aborigines know a few words of Chinese. The children's language skills are significantly stronger than those of adults, and some children are already able to communicate and play with Chinese children normally.

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