Although the influence of the Yacheng government in most areas of Yazhou has been declining, the executive committee does not intend to completely take over the functions of the government in the near future, and the storage of this layer of the Ming government can also play a certain positive role in the development of the crossing group, and in the future for a period of time, it is not only necessary to maintain its existence, but also to try to use the Yacheng government to increase the influence of the crossing group on Qiongzhou Island. , the latest chapter of the visit wèn:.

Of course, this strategy of the Executive Committee is also not lacking in the nature of experimentation, after all, how to coexist with the Ming government on Qiongzhou Island, there are no relevant experience examples to learn from, everyone is 'feeling' the stones to cross the river. Judging from the current development form, it seems that the way to gradually erect the local government is still relatively feasible, which basically ensures the stability of the surrounding environment to the greatest extent, so that the crossing group can quickly enrich its own strength. And this degree of overhead is also very important, more will inevitably 'provoke' the hatred and resistance of Ming officials, and unnecessary conflicts, while less will make the policies of the Executive Committee unable to be implemented in the region, affecting the development plan.

Schneider spent two days in Yazhou and basically finalized most of the issues of land ownership. Although Zhang Qing and other Yazhou officials may not be convinced by the aggressive 'force' of the Executive Committee, in the current environment, their best choice can only be to cooperate.

Now Yazhou up and down know that the Haihan people live in the area of peace, income is high, and they are not oppressed by the government, the people who moved to live in the Shengli Port area are no longer like the beginning, only some bankrupt people, since the anniversary celebration of Shengli Port, there have been some Yacheng residents who have land and property trying to enclose land near Shengli Port to buy real estate.

If the initiator of this trend 'tide' really wants to talk about it, it has to be remembered on Luo Shengdong's head. The first batch of Yacheng magnates who bought real estate in Shengli Port were basically pulled by Luo Shengdong. When these people went to Shengli Port and saw the local living environment on the spot, they quickly dispelled the doubts in their hearts -- Shengli Port has far surpassed Yacheng in terms of living environment, social security, and material supply level.

Of course, there are not a few people who choose to continue to live in Yacheng, after all, the materials produced in Shengli Port have never stopped being transported to Yacheng, and even ships from Annam regularly send boatloads of high-quality coal and rice, and the prices of some daily necessities have been significantly reduced compared with the past. However, while they enjoy this convenience, they also have to face the inconveniences caused by the dwindling local employable workforce.

With the development of Sanya New Town, the demand for labor on the side of the crossing group has risen to a new height, and the labor required for various infrastructure projects alone has reached thousands of people. Due to the high remuneration given by the Haihan people, and the fact that they could manage food and housing during the working period, more and more people from the Ming Dynasty came to work in the Xincheng Development Zone, and many of them decided to join the naturalized nationality after arriving at Shengli Port to receive a short period of brainwashing propaganda, in order to get better work treatment.

Of course, the 'gate' of the Ministry of Civil Affairs did not separate and oppose the identity of the naturalized people and the identity of the Ming nationals, and the propaganda for the ordinary people was still that they would continue to retain the identity of the Ming nationals -- but the 'gate' of the ministry that managed them was no longer the local government of the Ming Dynasty, but the supreme executive committee composed of the Haihan people.

As long as the Haihan Executive Committee can provide them with a better living environment, most of them will not care whether their household registration is in Yacheng or Shengli Port in the future.

In the direction of the mainland, he successfully repelled the siege of many rogue bandits, and killed the bandit leader Liao Dabi, who had been wanted by the government for many years in the battle, so that Lijiazhuang became a hot topic among the people of Guangdong in a very short period of time. Many large families have asked the Li family about what kind of force they can repel the siege of thousands of rogues, and the Li family has also taken advantage of this momentum to make an excellent publicity activity for the "Golden Shield Security" that has just opened. (Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable)

The only regret is that after the corpse of the bandit leader Liao Dabi was sent to the Guangzhou government, although the recognition of the corpse and the reward were relatively smooth, he failed to get the commendation of the leading figure. But it's reasonable to think about it, after all, the Li family had a falling out with Li Fengjie, the number one leader in Guangdong officialdom, before, and it was already thankful that people didn't take the initiative to find trouble with "Fu Ruifeng".

However, after the incident in Lijiazhuang, the trend of non-governmental organizations in various parts of the province to organize their own militia groups broke out all at once. However, all clan-inhabited villages like Lijiazhuang have begun to organize local armed forces to protect the village, and these spontaneous "sexual" organizations without exception have set the object of imitation as the Lijiazhuang militia group with outstanding achievements, and have sent people to visit Lijiazhuang, hoping to obtain some technical "sexual" guidance.

Naturally, the Li family did not dare to take over the whole matter, but took the initiative to find the military representatives stationed in the Guangzhou Office to discuss. After the approval of the Executive Committee, the Guangzhou Office decided to use Lijiazhuang as a model to help establish a number of militia organizations using the Haihan military establishment in the surrounding areas of Guangzhou.

In order to facilitate 'operation' and avoid risks, the backstage bosses of these places who are fortunate enough to become the targets of the Haihan military's assistance must also have a certain record of trade with Haihan, and some of the bosses who themselves have the status of "Qiong Lianfa" shareholders can directly select trainees to receive military training ranging from three months to six months in Shengli Port.

Although these personnel selected for training are either children of the family or loyal subordinates, it is difficult to brainwash these people to completely guide the Haihan, but the military still decided to accept these students. The military does not expect these trainees to be able to turn all kinds of local militia groups into members of the Haihan Association after they go back, but at least they can establish the concept of "the Haihan is invincible" during their training, so that when the Haihan forces attack the mainland in the future, these civilian armed forces will not jump out and become a stumbling block to the Haihan army.

Of course, the export of weapons is also part of the military's large-scale training program, especially products such as arquebuses and small-caliber cast iron artillery, which are very suitable for civilian armed use, and the buyer's reliance on ammunition and "medicine" will also allow the military to better control these civilian armed forces in the Ming Dynasty in the future.

On 17 June, the "Expedition" warship, the lead ship of the "Expedition Class" with a displacement of 500 tons, was launched at the wharf of the Shengli Port Shipyard and began to enter the final outfitting stage. The hull of this three-masted sailing ship can basically be regarded as an enlarged version of the "Exploration-class" warship, and at the same time, it continues to use the "Haihan-style sails" that combine Chinese and Western. The 50-meter-long ship will be equipped with a total of 14 'guns' of 12-pounder guns and one 'gun' of 18-pounder barrels at the bow and one at the end. The rated crew consists of 168 members, including 120 combatants and 48 crews, sailors and other shipboard personnel. After the outfitting is officially listed, the "Expedition" will serve as the flagship of the Haihan Militia Navy for at least one year, until the next new warship with a larger displacement and more complete combat functions is launched.

However, neither the Navy nor the shipyards continued to build larger combat ships during the year. On the one hand, this is because the cost of warships is so high, and the "Expedition-class" warships are almost the limit of the current Navy's budget, and there is no more development and construction cost to complete the next improvement. On the other hand, because the maintenance costs of the navy itself are quite high, according to the navy's plan, at least two "expedition-class" and eight "exploration-class" warships will be completed within the year to form the first combat fleet in the true sense, which means that the navy's establishment must be at least 1,000 people, and it is quite difficult to support a fleet of such a scale by relying on financial appropriations alone.

In the final analysis, there is actually no money, and compared with the army, the navy does not have much foreign oil and water to subsidize military spending. Up to now, the main role of the navy is still to transport land forces, which leads to an extremely limited share of the navy's share of the subsequent military expenditure.

Of course, if you really want to let the navy go out and fight people at sea, it is really not practical. So far, almost all the operations conducted on the surface of the water can crush the opponent in terms of strength, and it is not too difficult, but if it really needs to face the armed fleets of the "Eighteen Zhi", Xu Xinsu, or the colonial companies of Western countries, then the strength of the navy is indeed far behind, and the Central Military Commission will definitely not risk being killed by someone to send the navy out to face the enemy head-on.

However, if the military expenditure is wasted to support this army, the Military Commission will be unwilling, so after returning from Guangdong, Wang Tom and several high-ranking military officials began to plan to find a new opponent for the navy to train.

The "Eighteen Zhi" in the north will definitely not be able to do it, and the Military Commission will first rule out this target. There are very few targets left to choose from in the surrounding areas -- either cross the entire South China Sea to the Philippine Islands to the east to trouble the Spaniards, or go south to find an old rival, the Nguyen dynasty of Annam.

Among such candidate answers, it should be said that the choice of the Military Commission did not feel difficult. South Vietnam's water prowess had already proven vulnerable in January, and an attack on the South Vietnamese coast should have been a less risky option. However, the military excitedly sent this plan to the Tu Son Peninsula through Guò and coordinated with the North Vietnamese court, hoping that they would be able to send troops to cooperate in the battle, but the other side rejected the plan.

The reason for North Vietnam is quite realistic, it is two words - no money. After the January war, the North Vietnamese court, which owed Haihan a large amount of military expenses and could not repay, had no choice but to choose to pay in installments and convert the cost into the immigrant population. Although by June, the North Vietnamese had largely paid off the arrears of the last war, but their domestic economy was inevitably affected by a considerable amount of money. For a period of time, Zheng's trading houses even had to use rice as a means of 'exchange' instead of gold and silver to buy 'fine' salt, weapons and other goods from Haihan.

The North Vietnamese court was not a fool in power, and they knew very well that if they needed to ask the Haihan to help each battle, then the biggest beneficiary of the continuation of the civil war was not the North Vietnamese, but the Haihan who were happy to act as mercenaries. If you have to spend more than 100,000 or 200,000 taels of silver now to hire the Haihan people to fight against the South Vietnamese rebels, then the dignitaries and magnates of Thang Long Mansion in the second half of the year will not have to live.

The most feasible way is for North Vietnam to buy Haihan weapons, receive Haihan-style military training, and obtain a force subordinate to Thang Long, which will then go to conquer the Nguyen rebels in the south and unify the country. But there were two major drawbacks to the plan, which the North Vietnamese top brass could not ignore: the high cost of army formation and the long time it took to build an army.

In the past, North Vietnam fought very simple wars, a small number of professional troops were wrapped in temporarily recruited peasant soldiers, and they did not need to go through too much complicated training, and when they were issued weapons, they were directly pulled to the battlefield to work, and if they won the war, they took some benefits from the spoils of war and distributed them appropriately. However, since the cooperation with the Haihan, this concept of combat has slowly changed, and the officers believe that the peasant soldiers who have not received formal military training are completely useless, and the soldiers of the regular army also believe that they should be like the Haihan people, and pay generous pensions in the event of injury or death in battle, so as to effectively ensure the combat effectiveness of the troops.

According to the Hai Han people's standard for forming an army, North Vietnam required an upfront cost of about 20 taels of silver for each musketeer, including 12 taels of silver for the purchase of a complete set of weapons and equipment for individual soldiers, 3 taels of silver for military salaries during the training period, and 5 taels of training fees for the Tu Son training camp. Although the Haihan people are under the guise of free military training, the free tuition is only tuition, and they still have to charge a certain fee to use the various equipment of the training camp and the various materials consumed during the training.

To train a reinforced battalion equipped with an artillery company, the North Vietnamese court had to pay at least 30,000 taels of silver, which was sky-high compared to Annam's previous military spending standards. And if you carefully calculate the military expenses, you can find that almost 25,000 taels of the 30,000 taels of silver ended up in the pockets of the Haihan people in various names. According to the North Vietnamese military's own estimates, if they want to gain a one-sided advantage on the battlefield and complete the crusade against the South Vietnamese rebels more smoothly, they need at least ten reinforced battalions, about 10,000 new troops. And now even if Thang Long Mansion smashes the pot and sells iron again, it will not be easy to make up this money in a short period of time.

Therefore, there are also two completely opposite views in Thang Long Province, one is that it should rely on its own military strength to complete the great cause of reunification, even if it costs more and takes a longer time, it is worth it, after all, this army is ultimately the wealth of the North Vietnamese court itself. Another view is that instead of 'handing' so much silver to the Haihan people in disguise, it is better to directly pay them to destroy the South Vietnamese army, at least it will save a lot of time. At that time, the north and the south of Annan will be reunified, and the taxes of the people will be doubled, and the pressure on military spending will be much smaller for the construction of the army.

Some people believe that they should take advantage of this opportunity to gather the combat troops on the front line of the Hengshan River to sweep away the rebels in one go. However, many people believe that the Haihan people may not have such good intentions, and that their invitation to war is probably not to help North Vietnam achieve reunification, but has another purpose - those who hold this view even include Zheng Bai, the supreme commander of the North Vietnamese defense line, and Zheng Zheng, the little prince who had many contacts with the Haihan people.

This school of thought held that it was very likely that the Haihan people would not sincerely help North Vietnam complete the reunification of the North and the South in a short period of time in order to export weapons to North Vietnam for a long time, and that the reason why they took the initiative to launch an attack on South Vietnam ahead of schedule this time was probably just to make a fortune from North Vietnam while training their troops -- this almost hit the truth.

In the face of overwhelming opposition, the North Vietnamese side finally chose to reject Hai Han's proposal. Of course, the North Vietnamese did not talk too much -- it was okay to fight, but the military expenditure needed to be renegotiated by both sides, and in short, it could not be done according to the standards of the previous time.

The Victory Port side did not expect such a result at all, and the Executive Committee had even passed a decision to send troops in advance, because everyone thought that such a battle could not only train troops but also make money, and the risk was relatively small, so there was really no reason to oppose it. But after receiving the reply from the Tu Son training camp, everyone was staring at each other, and they were a little surprised by North Vietnam's unexpected reaction. After a long time, Yan Chujie said: "I really can't take these monkeys as fools, they can actually see through our purpose!"

"It's useless to see through it, they still have to rely on us in the end, it's just a matter of time. Tao Donglai's reaction to the North Vietnamese side was a little more calm: "I think there is one thing that they may not be aware of, or not understand deeply enough. ”

"What's the matter?" Yan Chujie asked casually. "The North Vietnamese rejected our offer because they felt that our expenses were too high, and they planned to slowly train their troops to complete the crusade against the south. But they probably forgot that they weren't enough to train a new army that could be used. Tao Donglai paused, his eyes turned to Bai Kesi and said: "I think when necessary, I can pinch their necks and let them figure out who has the final say in this matter." Bai Kesi comprehended: "It just so happens that during this time, I want to make new guns for Qian Tiandun's troops, and I think the arquebus production line can be stopped first." ”