The so-called "Greater Sanya" development strategy is to focus on the construction of this large area east of Yazhou and south of Lingshui, located in the southwest corner of Hainan Island. The Executive Committee plans to spend five years, ten years or more to build this area into the most solid base of the Haihan regime in the South China Sea.

In the early stage, this development strategy was mainly centered on Shengli Port and gradually radiated to the surrounding areas. In order to make good use of the limited human resources and armed forces, the Executive Committee believes that the development area should not be too far away from Shengli Port at this stage, and of course, the resource-based colonization area such as Heitu Port is a special case, and the crossing group must have the coal and coke resources there to ensure the scale of local steel production.

However, in addition to the energy industry, the layout of other industries can only be gradually expanded outward according to this strategy, although the development prospects of Yingge Haiyan Farm are very attractive, but for the current crossing group there are two unavoidable problems. First, the local terrain is flat, and there is hardly any dangerous terrain to defend, and the voyage distance from Shengli Port is more than 50 nautical miles, and at the speed of the existing Fu ships or Guangzhou ships, it will take a whole day to smooth the wind and water, and once an accident occurs, there is no time to rescue at all, and from a military point of view, the risk of development is relatively large; second, although the area in the Yinggehai area that can be used for the development of salt farms is large, there must be enough manpower to invest, and the current speed of foreign immigration is probably not enough to carry out large-scale development projects.

If the two places do not compare the theoretical output, the difficulty of development and construction, and the military risks that need to be borne by the two places, then the score of the Iron Furnace Port will undoubtedly greatly exceed that of Yinggehai. The only weakness here is probably the northern defense hole formed due to the strange terrain. However, in the eyes of the Executive Committee, this is not a big problem, it is more than enough to be less than the bottom, and it is much better than the geographical environment of Yinggehai. The purpose of the military police department's inspection is to design a set of practical and effective defense systems according to the actual situation here.

The coastal defense artillery system will certainly not work in the short term, and in fact, many people also think that the executive committee is making a big fuss and making a salt pan really need to build a fort to protect it? If this is really done, then Hainan Island will have to build a fort around the island in the future.

The Military Police Department has no obsession with repairing the fort, and this is not Victory Port anyway, and even if it really fights, it will only lose some salt. Since it is impossible to rely on artillery fire to confront the enemy that may come in, it is at least necessary to retreat and formulate a set of escape plans. This is also the minimum requirement of the Executive Committee, at least to ensure the personal safety of naturalized people working here.

According to the actual situation here, after lowering the requirements by one notch, Xiao Liang and Yu Yao's tasks became much easier. In the early stage, it is completely possible to build salt farms only in the inland areas and set up observation posts on the coastal hills, just as the military police department did in Yulinjiao, as long as there is an early warning of external threats, then the salt field staff can be used to evacuate calmly for at least one or two hours, and there is definitely no safety in terms of safety. The laborers of the salt works can retreat all the way west along the valley between Yalong Ridge and Baishi Ridge, and return to the vicinity of Tiandu in half a day.

The Ministry of Agriculture has given an ideal solution to the preservation of this valley passage, which is to develop the valley agriculturally, grow oil, hemp, spices and other cash crops on the slopes, and try to slowly persuade the Li Miao mountain people who are accustomed to living in the mountains to gradually move out of the interior and settle them into this ravine. In a few years, it is natural that an economic corridor will be formed here, such as the industrial farm salt farm.

Although there were doubts about whether the Li and Miao tribes, who had a feud, would be able to live in close proximity, the Executive Committee expressed optimism. The two clans fought back and forth in the past, in addition to the official intentions of the Ming Dynasty in the early days, but later it was more to fight for more survival resources in the mountains and forests, even if it was just a barren hillside cultivated land and a small mountain spring, it would become the reason for their big fight. (Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable)

And now the crossing group can provide them with sufficient food, pig iron, salt and other daily necessities, and as long as they are willing to go out of the mountains, they can live the same life as the Han people, which is difficult for many young people of the Li and Miao ethnic groups to resist** The current proportion of Li and Miao militia in the militia is as high as forty percent, as evidenced by this. Although there are still frictions and disputes between the two clans from time to time, with the powerful arbiter of the crossing group, there is no longer the situation in the past where the whole village and the whole village are involved in the armed struggle at every turn.

The crew of the "Haixun 02" ship measured the water depth along the entire S-shaped channel into Tielu Port, and in accordance with the requirements of the Ministry of Chemical Industry, the water samples were also tested for salinity. According to the test results, the salinity of the seawater here is slightly lower than that of the Yanchang Commune and Yinggehai, but it is more than enough to meet the production needs of the salt farm, and it will be easier to transform the large tidal flat area all over the harbor into a salt pond, and it does not even need as many irrigation devices as the Yanchang Commune to introduce seawater into the inland salt pans.

In addition to the tidal flat area, there is also a large area of flat area near the Iron Furnace Port that can be used for agricultural development. Although the salinity of the land here is high, which is not suitable for the cultivation of ordinary crops, the Ministry of Agriculture has begun to formulate various plans for Hainan's agricultural development before the crossing, and the relevant units have long been prepared for how to develop the saline-alkali land by the sea. For example, the samphire seed, the preferred crop for seawater irrigation agriculture, can be used to extract vegetable oil because of its high oil content, and its seedlings and tender tips are also seawater vegetables with high nutritional value, which is commonly known as sea shoots. In addition, there are medicinal plants such as black wolfberry, which is suitable for cultivation in heavy saline-alkali land, as well as vegetables such as sea fennel and sea cabbage. In addition to the construction of salt works, the port can also be developed on a large scale, and the area will be built into one of the production bases for oil crops and vegetables.

It is also worth mentioning that the professional opinions from the Ministry of Construction have also played a great role in promoting the selection tendency of the Executive Committee. There are quarries and abundant forest resources available for development in the Iron Furnace Port, which greatly reduces the difficulty of future development. There was a lack of stone near the Yanchang Commune, and almost all the stones that could be mined were used by the ancestors to make stone salt troughs, so that when it was necessary to build masonry houses, these building materials had to be loaded and transported from Shengli Port. Another site, near Yinggehai, even if there is not even a mountain within square kilometers, let alone quarrying, even wood may have to be transported from Shengli Port, which shows the difficulty of early development.

After receiving opinions from various departments such as the military and police, shipping, construction, and agriculture, it was only natural that the Executive Committee was more inclined to choose the Iron Furnace Port as the development site for the next salt works. After the end of this inspection, the relevant conclusions will be sent to the Executive Committee for the Executive Committee to make a decision, and after determining the location, at least one or two groups of expeditions will be sent to survey and plan the site, calculate the materials and manpower needed, and formulate a more detailed development plan. It is estimated that it will be half a month later at the earliest.

By the time I came out of the Iron Furnace Harbor after the survey, it was already afternoon. After sailing out of the narrow channel, the sailboat sailed past the east side of Wuzhizhou Island, made an arc and sailed straight to the open sea. On the way to Guangzhou, the expedition team will take a direct route to Guangzhou to calculate the shortest voyage and sailing time, and on the return trip, it will take a relatively conservative route and go south along the east coast of Hainan Island, and by the way, it will also investigate the conditions of the people and sea conditions in the coastal areas.

Although there were a large number of old crew members on the "Haixun 02", the speed of the ship itself was extremely limited, and it was not until the fourth day that the Wanshan Islands outside the mouth of the Pearl River were finally seen. Fortunately, the weather conditions along the way were not bad, and there were no major winds and waves, which also made the naturalized people who went out to the open sea area for the first time by boat much better, and there were no serious patients on board who were so severe that they were seasick to the point of almost shock in the colonization fleet of Heitu Port.

And Yu Xiaobao and Zhang Qianzhi, two and a half teenagers, are even more energetic, and they spend almost the whole time on the deck. Zhang Qianzhi's family has been shipwrights for eight generations, and he himself grew up in the shipyard since he was a child, and he is very familiar with ships.

The "Haixun 02 boat" did not rush north into the Pearl River, but adjusted its direction and headed northeast. Before going to Guangzhou, they also had an expeditionary mission, which was to explore the waters of Hong Kong and the islands.

Hong Kong has been included in the jurisdiction of the government since the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, under the jurisdiction of Dongguan County, to the first year of the Ming Dynasty, the government because it is too far away from Dongguan County, the management is inconvenient, so it carved out the land and population from Dongguan County, and established Xin'an County. From this time until it was forcibly leased by the British in the 19th century, the area of Hong Kong was under the jurisdiction of Xin'an County.

In fact, the place name of Hong Kong has existed before crossing the crowd to this time and space, and the term "Hong Kong Island" has been mentioned in the art of "Guangdong Daji" written by Guo in the Wanli period, and the "Guangdong Coastal Map" recorded in the book is marked with place names such as Hong Kong, Stanley, and Tsim Sha Tsui.

In the present era, Hong Kong's economy is mainly maintained by agricultural industries such as incense planting, salt boiling, fishing, and farming, among which the incense farming industry is the most developed. The fragrant wood produced in Hong Kong is an excellent commodity in Fuguang and Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the "Xin'an County Chronicles" of the Ming Dynasty has recorded the situation of fragrant wood produced in Hong Kong, and the Sha Tin, Lantau Island and other places in later generations are rich in fragrant wood products, these commodities are first transported to Tsim Sha Tsui, and then transported to Guangzhou with the local unique ship commonly known as "big-eyed chicken" for sale. One of the reasons for the origin of the name Hong Kong is that the fragrant wood trade here has been very prosperous in history.

Hong Kong's salt farms still use the old-fashioned method of boiling salt, and the output is very limited. However, the Guangdong Salt Department has set up a small inspection department here to prohibit the sale of illicit salt. For the Crossing Group, the salt production here is almost negligible, and the annual output is no more than half a month of the salt farm commune.

In addition to the Inspection Division, there are also sailors stationed here in Hong Kong, and there are a small number of garrisons in Fomen Hall, Lung Chuan Wan, Lok, Tai O, Long Tao Wan, Lang Bai and other places. According to historical records, at the end of the 16th century, the number of Ming troops and miscellaneous servants stationed in Hong Kong exceeded 2,000 people, and dozens of large and small warships, which were much stronger than the Yazhou Water Village and the garrison of the guard. And the garrison here is not to be seen, since the Ming Zhengde period, the garrison here has fought with the Western colonists many times, and there are few defeats. The closest east-west confrontation to this time and space should be the Dutch warship breaking into the Buddha Hall Gate in 1622, but under the strict defense of the soldiers and civilians of Xin'an County at that time, the Dutch finally did not choose to attack, but left silently.

One of the tasks of the "Haixun 02" ship in Hong Kong was to find out the situation of the naval garrison here. Of course, this kind of thing must not be carried out openly, Sun Changmi had people cover the name and number of the ship painted on the side of the ship with fishing nets and canvas, and then the military police department used high-magnification military telescopes to reconnoiter the target area from several miles away. The effect of this kind of reconnaissance was naturally very limited, but for safety reasons, Sun Changmi did not dare to let the ship get too close to the Ming army's Shuizhai station, so as not to attract attention. Although there were more than a dozen guns on board the "Haixun 02", their role in naval warfare was extremely limited, and the speed of the ship itself was not fast enough, so it was not easy to be discovered and even run away.

The "Haixun 02" boat spent a day cruising around the waters between Lantau Island and Hong Kong Island, and also visited the commercial ports around Tsim Sha Tsui and typhoon shelters. At this time, Victoria Harbour naturally could not be compared with the prosperity of later generations, but sails could be seen everywhere on the sea, and there were many merchant ships from Fuzhou and Guangzhou. Sun Changmi considered that the clothes of the people on his boat were too conspicuous, so he did not choose to dock here, but after completing the reconnaissance mission, he sailed out of this sea area, crossed the waterway between Ma Wan and Lantau Island, and then turned northwest and re-entered the mouth of the Pearl River.

During the more than a day of investigation in Hong Kong, most of the people on the ship were in a state of nervous tension, and it was not until they returned to the mouth of the Pearl River that they slowly calmed down. They not only had to guard against the Ming troops stationed there from discovering their aims, but also had to guard against pirates that often appeared in the vicinity of Hong Kong waters.

However, the naturalized people obviously don't know that the chiefs have so many troubles in their heads, they simply think that this is just a normal journey, and there are omnipotent chiefs in this boat, where in the world can they go?

That night, the boat anchored outside a small fishing village at the mouth of the Pearl River, and contacted the GDETO via Guò Radio to make an appointment for a meeting the next day. Although everyone wants to set foot on land as soon as possible to rest and recuperate, this place is still dozens of kilometers away from the city of Guangzhou, and it is against the current, so it is obviously impossible to move forward in the dark.

As soon as it was dawn the next day, the anxious crossers got the crew of the cabin up and went to the deck, quickly hoisted the sails and set off at anchor, and even ate breakfast after departure. But it was useless for them to hurry, and the speed of the boat was more than twice as slow as that of riding the wind and waves on the sea, until it was already dark, and the lookout standing at the bow of the ship reported that he had seen the walls of Canton through the telescope.

Schneider and He Xi waited on the wharf only a few hundred meters away from the Guangzhou Office after finishing their own errands in the afternoon, and when they were already hungry and wondering if something had happened to the boat on the way, they finally saw the "Haixun 02" boat with a conspicuous red cloth tied to the top of the mast appear in the river.

"Hurry up, the slogan is up!" He Xi instructed a few servant boys who came with him.

The servants hurriedly put up the bamboo poles and unfolded the banners, and a few big black letters on the two-foot-wide white cloth were very conspicuous Welcome to Guangzhou! This is not that He Xi wants to sensationalize, but they are afraid that the ship will arrive too late and will not be able to see the situation on the shore clearly, so they specially made a conspicuous sign, of course, it is also to show the sense of existence of the Guangzhou Office by the way. However, this thing is only useful at dawn, and if it continues to get dark, He Xi will have to order someone to beat the torches. Fortunately, it was getting late at this time, and there were not many people on the dock, and they did not attract the crowd who did not know the truth when they unfurled this banner.

Finally waited for the boat to dock, and the first to walk down from the gangplank were their old acquaintances Sun Changmi and Dr. Morgan, Schneider and He Xi stepped forward, and the four pairs of big hands were tightly clasped together: "Hard work, hard work along the way!" "Each other!

Xiao Liang, who got off the boat after him, said thoughtfully: "How do you look at this...... A bit of the posture of the Red Army in northern Shaanxi?"

"We have only taken the first step in the long march, and this is where to follow!" Yu Yao responded with a smile: "Let's go, get off the boat quickly, I don't want to stay on the ship for a second." ”