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414 Situation in the South China Sea (Part II)

"So the current situation on the Luzon side is that there are already a lot of foreigners working for the regime that we have established. Where are the novels updated the fastest? Look out for the Aishang Novel Network biquge.info but I think most of their allegiance is to Old Jack himself, not to our group. These men were currently on only a few non-military assignments, but many of them were ex-soldiers—the Spaniards and Dutchmen whom we had taken prisoner had lost, and the Italian convoy of Miss Anna...... These men are closely united around Old Jack, and if we do not interfere, they will naturally become an army again - and it is understandable that we cannot let them form an armed force on their own, if we do not discriminate against foreigners, at least not at this stage. ”

"I said long ago that those foreigners can't be trusted"

Xiao Lang shouted in the crowd with his neck straightened, but everyone knew about his ultra-nationalist tendencies and ignored him - now was not the time to discuss foreign policy. Even Ade, who had always had a similar point of view to him, just glanced at him and continued:

"By the way, Old Jack himself did not want this to happen, and he focused on two points in his report to us: first, he himself asked to be transferred back to Hainan Island and re-appointed as the director of his hospital. Second, he disapproved of our previous approach of sending all Westerners to Manila, believing that this disguised apartheid system would only weaken the competitiveness of the entire team in the South China Sea. ”

When he said this, Zhao Lide glanced at Julie again, some time ago, taking advantage of the opportunity of Old Jack to take his stall people to Manila, at the strong request of Xiao Lang and a group of nationalists, most of the units in Qionghai Town sent the Westerner employees they had previously absorbed to Old Jack to help - in addition to the hospital, most of them were in the navy, but Julie's trading company also had many Western employees, including Anna herself.

But Julie always ignored this trend, and later some people proposed that the Qionghai market should not be open to Westerners, and asked that Western merchants should go to Manila to buy goods, so as to ensure that there is a difference between inside and outside - but when the construction was conveyed to the general manager of the trading company, it was coldly pushed back, and Julie also said extremely bitterly that those who raised opinions did not know anything about trade, which made several people angry.

-- Basically, there is still no unified statement on how to deal with foreigners who join their group, and each department has its own mind. For example, Xiao Lang and others will never appoint a foreigner in the mechanical group, while Julie's trading company is the opposite, and most of the other departments are in between...... No one can only take care of themselves, and they can't take care of others.

“…… Therefore, this is the dilemma that the Luzon side is facing at present: on the one hand, the foreign enemy we face is stronger than that of the Ming Dynasty, and those colonists from Europe are certainly much stronger than the Ming army in terms of morale, equipment, and tactics; On the other hand, the local situation in Luzon is much more complicated than that of Hainan Island and Taiwan. But internally, we have not yet developed a long-term governance plan. The key is that there is no one, old Jack and his girlfriend are not at ease over there, but we have no other suitable candidates to volunteer to ......"

Ade's gaze scanned the crowd, and he hoped that someone would voluntarily step up and take on this responsibility, so that the staff team could arrange it. It's a pity that in any group, there are always only a few who dare to give up their current comfortable life to open up new fields. The 139 modern tourists on the Qionghai have all come to this era unintentionally, they have no ambition to expand the territory and dominate the world, and what they have done so far is actually only for one purpose: to survive, and then live a little better......

In the past, when the environment was the worst and there was no guarantee, many of them could still go out and fight. However, as the surrounding shape is getting better and better, especially when the entire Hainan Island is safe enough, and the county seat of Lingao and Qiongzhou have been transformed into relatively comfortable, most people naturally become inert and are reluctant to take any more risks.

Intellectually, everyone knows that it is necessary to expand its forces and occupy more territory -- it is precisely on this basis that the staff group and the military group took action to seize Luzon and the two islands of Taiwan one after another, and then immediately sent troops to Shandong to seek development. But there are only twenty or thirty people in the team who have the courage, courage, and ability to lead the team to go out on adventures. At the moment, most of them went to Shandong, while others scattered to the big 6. The comrades who stayed at home were either shouldering heavy responsibilities and could not be taken lightly, or they simply lacked courage and self-confidence...... In a word: no one goes

After staring at it for a long time, seeing that no one answered his words, Ade sighed helplessly, and had to throw out the temporary measures that he had discussed with the old professor first:

"The military group intends to form a fourth regiment in Manila in the future, and to divide half of the fleet to be stationed there for a long time, and the fourth regiment will be formed under the name of the Navy 6, and it may be that Ling Ning or Wen Desi will be stationed in Luzon at that time - but neither of them can spare time at this stage. So this time, Professor Li, Captain Tang, and a few of us went over to set up the shelves first, and by the way, we saw what the real situation was over there. ”

-- The people who were in charge of attacking Manila, Wang Haiyang, Beiwei, Ling Ning, and Ao Sayan, are now not on the island. Professor Li, Tang Jian, and Ade have never been to Luzon, and politicians are most taboo to work behind closed doors, and if they want to formulate policies about that side, they must see it with their own eyes.

This was the plan of the staff group, but towards the end of the meeting, many people suggested that they would like to take the opportunity to visit Manila together, which was more exotic, although not as a tourist city in later times. After staying on Hainan Island for a long time, it is inevitable that they will not have the courage to go out to expand their territory, but they will be happy to travel - they are all backpackers.

Tang Jian was a little hesitant at first, but Ade's eyes rolled here, and he immediately vigorously expressed his support, saying that as long as anyone who is interested, they might as well go over and have a look--pull people over to experience it for themselves, and if anyone is interested in there at that time, they will voluntarily stay one or two, and the situation will be much more relaxed.

In the end, there were more than 30 people who participated in this "Manila tour group", basically except for those who were on the expedition and those who couldn't leave with a mess at home, everyone else was quite interested in this trip. In this way, the people in the chemistry group simply stopped being wordy - so many people went out on a boat, and they must have to go out of the Qionghai. At present, the main force of the navy's large ships are busy assisting in the Shandong operation, and the rest are small boats or civilian ships, which will be very dangerous if they encounter enemy forces at sea, and only the Qionghai can guarantee that nothing goes wrong.

On the other hand, when attacking Manila before, only ordinary sailing troops were dispatched, and as a result, the locals were not very honest, and they had to be ruthless in Wang Haiyang's northern latitude to be willing to obey. This time, pulling the Qionghai over to make a show will help deter those unstable elements, and at the same time give a reassuring pill to the Chinese compatriots over there, which will be of great benefit to stabilizing their rule.

-- Soon after, Qian Shilang and Eunuch Cao, who were about to go to the Luzon Islands to proclaim the peace on behalf of the imperial court, heard the pleasantly surprised news that they could take the big iron ship to Luzon

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This voyage was obviously a very big impact on those Ming Dynasty people. The strange things they saw on the ship alone during this journey were more than anything new they had seen since they came to Hainan Island - unlike the "combination of ancient and modern" facilities in Lingao, the Qionghai was a completely modern product. Although she has been modified for battle, she is still a tourist ship at heart. Until the Qionghai finally docked at the port of Manila and the group left the ship, they were still talking about the surprising things on board......

For the advent of these "Great Tomorrow Envoys", the local Chinese all showed great reverence. When Qian Qianyi and Eunuch Cao walked down the gangway in four directions, all the local Chinese with Lin Yizhuo's father and son knelt down in unison, and they raised their hands high, and then threw their whole bodies down to worship with their whole bodies.

"I...... What is this, this place was brought down by us. ”

Seeing that a banner with the word "Ming" and a few Ming Dynasty officials could actually cause those Chinese to be so fanatical, many of the crossing people who were still lining up on the deck to get off the ship secretly pouted, only the old professor sighed softly, turned back to Ade and Tang Jian and smiled slightly:

"See, this is the people's heart -- if we want to compete with the European colonizers in the South China Sea, in the name of the Ming Dynasty, we will have to get much more results with half the effort than if we started from scratch by ourselves."

A few people whispered and laughed, and at this time, the Qian waiter in front of him was already very humble to help the old man of the Lin family up, and had a few words of cordial conversation with him. Then he turned to the other side, where there were many Westerners with big noses and blue eyes.

Qian Qianyi obviously has little experience in dealing with foreigners, but fortunately, after all, he has been an official of the Ministry of Rites, and his actions are not leaky.

But unexpectedly, those big noses on the other side showed embarrassed looks when they saw him salute, and they all avoided it, and some people quickly bowed deeply in return, only for a big man who smiled and nodded at him, and said "hello" in very fluent Chinese.

Immediately, the big man greeted Professor Li and his party who came from behind, and there was a lot more casual between them, shaking hands with Old Man Li first, and then Ah De Tangjian and others hugged each other. Turning his head, seeing that the eunuch Cao looked sluggish, Zhao Lide patted him on the shoulder and smiled:

"Introduction, Lao Cao, this is also one of our one hundred and thirty-nine people, you should have heard of it, Old Jack, foreign shorthair, haha."

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