The disappearance of the three officials in Hangzhou Prefecture happened to be the clear-cut anti-Haihan fighters in the Zhejiang officialdom, and the discerning people would probably subconsciously associate this incident with their opponent Haihan. However, for officials like Qu Yutong, the prefect of Ningbo, who already have close interests with Haihan, the mysterious disappearance of Liao Xun and others is not necessarily a bad thing, which means that the voices of opposition to cooperation with Haihan in Zhejiang officialdom will be greatly reduced, and the various business projects that are now cooperating with Haihan may be able to slowly turn from underground to semi-public, and the benefits that can be obtained from them will naturally rise.

Qian Tiandun has been in Zhoushan for a year, and he has dealt with Qu Yutong a lot of times before and after, so he naturally knows the temperament of this old fox, and he is not worried that the Ningbo government will suddenly change its position and fight against Haihan.

Sure enough, He Xiao then changed his style and asked about business: "The snuff sent by your party last month, Lord Qu liked it very much after using it, and I specially told me to ask if I could buy more." ”

Qian Tiandun knew that Qu Yutong was not asking about this to buy some snuff for his own use, but to go around the bend to ask for the agency distribution right of this thing. Snuff is a new product that Haihan has only recently begun to launch to the Zhejiang market, and it has not been sold at present, and has only been handed over to Ma Ling, a thousand households of Changguowei Shipu Institute, to try to operate in the Sanmenwan area. Considering the market prospects of the tobacco business, the commerce department consciously wanted to hand over the agency to someone with an official background to operate, so it sent a sample to Qu Yutong for him to try. Sure enough, Qu Yutong realized the beauty of this thing, and turned his head and sent He Xiao to negotiate agency.

However, Qian Tiandun was not the head of the trade department, and he didn't want to interfere too much in this matter, so he immediately ordered someone to invite Yang Yun, the head of the Ministry of Commerce, to come over and ask him to discuss specific cooperation matters with He Xiao. Compared with this kind of trade negotiations, which were not too urgent, Qian Tiandun was still more concerned about the current progress of preparations, and after he explained the matter, he went to the direction of the military port to check the preparation of materials and personnel.

In the past three years, Haihan has continued to expand its control area to the north, and has accumulated rich experience in how to build strongholds in the target area, but the northward operation is still relatively difficult to operate, and the huge northward fleet will be a new test for the military's command and coordination capabilities.

Compared with the previous invasion of the Fujian Strait and the Zhoushan Islands, the special feature of this northward operation is that it has a relatively strict time limit, and the Haihan army must complete the capital construction, material hoarding, and personnel deployment of the stronghold before the winter, otherwise as soon as winter arrives, the Bohai Sea will begin to freeze, and the navigation capacity of the coast near Zhifu Island will also be greatly reduced, and it will be difficult to transport a large number of personnel and materials at that time. In order to ensure that the troops going north can survive the first winter smoothly and reduce uncontrollable variables as much as possible, the plan formulated by the Ministry of Defense for going north is to increase the transportation capacity of a large number of fleets as much as possible, and try to put the materials and personnel needed in the early stage of the construction of the base into the local area in one step.

According to the navigation plan jointly drawn up by the Navy and the Maritime Department of the Ministry of Communications, the approved fleet includes more than two full fleet of naval vessels, including two majestic class capital warships. In terms of the total tonnage of combat vessels, the scale of this task force has actually surpassed that of the original fleet that marched from Fujian to Zhejiang, and there are several expedition-class warships that have been converted into hybrid propulsion, which are stronger than ordinary warships with pure sail power in terms of navigation and sea power.

With a fleet of this size as a force guarantee, the military is fully confident that it can cope with the few existing maritime armed forces on the Jiaodong Peninsula. After all, in the Denglai Rebellion before this, the Daming Naval Division stationed in Dengzhou Water City has been completely destroyed, and the few remaining naval troops and combat ships have been coerced by the rebels to Liaodong, at least on the northern coastline of the Jiaodong Peninsula, there is no armed fleet of the Daming Naval Division.

The reason why the Ministry of Defense took great pains to assemble such a large fleet to the north is not that the military budget is too much and there is no place to spend it, nor is it simply to show off its military might and deter the defenders of the Ming Dynasty on the Jiaodong Peninsula, and another main purpose is to train troops. The establishment of the Haihan Navy has expanded extremely rapidly in recent years, and many sailors who have entered the navy in the past one or two years have not even carried out real combat missions, and their combat experience is relatively lacking. Even if the equipment and tactics of the Haihan Navy are ahead of this era, the lack of combat experience is also an undeniable shortcoming, and the best way to make up for this shortcoming is to send the fleet overseas to carry out various tasks. Even knowing that there was no strong armed fleet in the local area, the Ministry of Defense still forcibly sacrificed its own "cattle knife" to carry out this mission.

In addition to practicing basic seamanship skills and tactics, both the Ministry of Defense and the Department of Maritime Transport hope to be able to familiarize themselves with the sea conditions of the North as quickly as possible. As soon as possible, Haihan's database contains the most detailed charts of this era, but they are only information that exists on a flat surface, and the actual situation can only be experienced by sailors after they go to the local area.

In addition, the Haihan military also urgently needs to test the equipment, weapons, and ships currently installed in the army through on-the-spot garrisons, and test whether these equipment made in the south can maintain normal performance in the cold winter environment of the northern region. Of course, at present, the most important thing to be tested is the soldiers of the Haihan Army, and the vast majority of them are from the south, and how the Haihan Army will perform in Shandong is one of the issues that the military top brass is most concerned about. If it is difficult for the troops to adapt to the garrison in Shandong, then the Ministry of National Defense may have to make certain adjustments to the future conscription and even the plan to march into the northeast.

As for Qian Tiandun personally, the question he is most concerned about is whether the combat skills trained by his subordinates in the southern jungle can still be effective after arriving in the north. Although after the special operations battalion was transferred to Fujian, Qian Tiandun began to consciously recruit soldiers from the north to join the army, so far, the vast majority of the soldiers from the south still account for the establishment of the special operations battalion. Although the special operations battalion had been stationed in Zhejiang for a year, Qian Tiandun was not sure whether his subordinates would be able to adapt to the environment further north. All he can do now is to try to get the best conditions for his troops in terms of military supplies.

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The disappearance of the three officials in Hangzhou Prefecture happened to be the clear-cut anti-Haihan fighters in the Zhejiang officialdom, and the discerning people would probably subconsciously associate this incident with their opponent Haihan. However, for officials like Qu Yutong, the prefect of Ningbo, who already have close interests with Haihan, the mysterious disappearance of Liao Xun and others is not necessarily a bad thing, which means that the voices of opposition to cooperation with Haihan in Zhejiang officialdom will be greatly reduced, and the various business projects that are now cooperating with Haihan may be able to slowly turn from underground to semi-public, and the benefits that can be obtained from them will naturally rise.

Qian Tiandun has been in Zhoushan for a year, and he has dealt with Qu Yutong a lot of times before and after, so he naturally knows the temperament of this old fox, and he is not worried that the Ningbo government will suddenly change its position and fight against Haihan.

Sure enough, He Xiao then changed his style and asked about business: "The snuff sent by your party last month, Lord Qu liked it very much after using it, and I specially told me to ask if I could buy more." ”

Qian Tiandun knew that Qu Yutong was not asking about this to buy some snuff for his own use, but to go around the bend to ask for the agency distribution right of this thing. Snuff is a new product that Haihan has only recently begun to launch to the Zhejiang market, and it has not been sold at present, and has only been handed over to Ma Ling, a thousand households of Changguowei Shipu Institute, to try to operate in the Sanmenwan area. Considering the market prospects of the tobacco business, the commerce department consciously wanted to hand over the agency to someone with an official background to operate, so it sent a sample to Qu Yutong for him to try. Sure enough, Qu Yutong realized the beauty of this thing, and turned his head and sent He Xiao to negotiate agency.

However, Qian Tiandun was not the head of the trade department, and he didn't want to interfere too much in this matter, so he immediately ordered someone to invite Yang Yun, the head of the Ministry of Commerce, to come over and ask him to discuss specific cooperation matters with He Xiao. Compared with this kind of trade negotiations, which were not too urgent, Qian Tiandun was still more concerned about the current progress of preparations, and after he explained the matter, he went to the direction of the military port to check the preparation of materials and personnel.

In the past three years, Haihan has continued to expand its control area to the north, and has accumulated rich experience in how to build strongholds in the target area, but the northward operation is still relatively difficult to operate, and the huge northward fleet will be a new test for the military's command and coordination capabilities.

Compared with the previous invasion of the Fujian Strait and the Zhoushan Islands, the special feature of this northward operation is that it has a relatively strict time limit, and the Haihan army must complete the capital construction, material hoarding, and personnel deployment of the stronghold before the winter, otherwise as soon as winter arrives, the Bohai Sea will begin to freeze, and the navigation capacity of the coast near Zhifu Island will also be greatly reduced, and it will be difficult to transport a large number of personnel and materials at that time. In order to ensure that the troops going north can survive the first winter smoothly and reduce uncontrollable variables as much as possible, the plan formulated by the Ministry of Defense for going north is to increase the transportation capacity of a large number of fleets as much as possible, and try to put the materials and personnel needed in the early stage of the construction of the base into the local area in one step.

According to the navigation plan jointly drawn up by the Navy and the Maritime Department of the Ministry of Communications, the approved fleet includes more than two full fleet of naval vessels, including two majestic class capital warships. In terms of the total tonnage of combat vessels, the scale of this task force has actually surpassed that of the original fleet that marched from Fujian to Zhejiang, and there are several expedition-class warships that have been converted into hybrid propulsion, which are stronger than ordinary warships with pure sail power in terms of navigation and sea power.

With a fleet of this size as a force guarantee, the military is fully confident that it can cope with the few existing maritime armed forces on the Jiaodong Peninsula. After all, in the Denglai Rebellion before this, the Daming Naval Division stationed in Dengzhou Water City has been completely destroyed, and the few remaining naval troops and combat ships have been coerced by the rebels to Liaodong, at least on the northern coastline of the Jiaodong Peninsula, there is no armed fleet of the Daming Naval Division.

The reason why the Ministry of Defense took great pains to assemble such a large fleet to the north is not that the military budget is too much and there is no place to spend it, nor is it simply to show off its military might and deter the defenders of the Ming Dynasty on the Jiaodong Peninsula, and another main purpose is to train troops. The establishment of the Haihan Navy has expanded extremely rapidly in recent years, and many sailors who have entered the navy in the past one or two years have not even carried out real combat missions, and their combat experience is relatively lacking. Even if the equipment and tactics of the Haihan Navy are ahead of this era, the lack of combat experience is also an undeniable shortcoming, and the best way to make up for this shortcoming is to send the fleet overseas to carry out various tasks. Even knowing that there was no strong armed fleet in the local area, the Ministry of Defense still forcibly sacrificed its own "cattle knife" to carry out this mission.

In addition to practicing basic seamanship skills and tactics, both the Ministry of Defense and the Department of Maritime Transport hope to be able to familiarize themselves with the sea conditions of the North as quickly as possible. As soon as possible, Haihan's database contains the most detailed charts of this era, but they are only information that exists on a flat surface, and the actual situation can only be experienced by sailors after they go to the local area.

In addition, the Haihan military also urgently needs to test the equipment, weapons, and ships currently installed in the army through on-the-spot garrisons, and test whether these equipment made in the south can maintain normal performance in the cold winter environment of the northern region. Of course, at present, the most important thing to be tested is the soldiers of the Haihan Army, and the vast majority of them are from the south, and how the Haihan Army will perform in Shandong is one of the issues that the military top brass is most concerned about. If it is difficult for the troops to adapt to the garrison in Shandong, then the Ministry of National Defense may have to make certain adjustments to the future conscription and even the plan to march into the northeast.

As for Qian Tiandun personally, the question he is most concerned about is whether the combat skills trained by his subordinates in the southern jungle can still be effective after arriving in the north. Although after the special operations battalion was transferred to Fujian, Qian Tiandun began to consciously recruit soldiers from the north to join the army, so far, the vast majority of the soldiers from the south still account for the establishment of the special operations battalion. Although the special operations battalion had been stationed in Zhejiang for a year, Qian Tiandun was not sure whether his subordinates would be able to adapt to the environment further north. All he can do now is to try to get the best conditions for his troops in terms of military supplies.

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