In an undeveloped area like Da Nang, there is naturally nothing to eat and drink, and the skills of Annam's chefs cannot be compared with those of specially trained Haihan chefs, but fortunately, the ingredients are fresh and can be eaten. Of course, Ruan Jinggui, who is still skeptical, will inevitably complain from time to time that the northern chefs brought by Zheng Lin will not use the spices of the south. Zheng Lin will also retort, saying that the mountain villagers in the south probably rarely have the opportunity to eat authentic royal food.

Liu Shanxia really wanted to shut up these two guys, as far as Annan's food level was concerned, it would be at the level of Shaxian snacks when it broke through the sky, and he didn't know how to compete for a superiority, in Liu Shanxia's opinion, it was simply sitting in a well and watching the sky.

Early the next morning, Zheng Lin came to the Haihan camp to handle the handover of immigrants with Ruan Jinggui. Liu Shanxia took a group of subordinates from the Ministry of Construction to the beach to survey the terrain and draw construction drawings.

Da Nang is strategically located in the middle of the Indochina Peninsula, 1,500 miles from Thang Long Province and bordering the South China Sea. In another time and space history, Da Nang was used by France, Japan, and the Soviet Union as a military base in the South China Sea. Da Nang Harbour is shaped like a horseshoe facing north, with a length of about 15 kilometers from north to south and a width of about 11 kilometers from east to west. There is the Son Tra Peninsula in the south of the harbor, the Han Island as a barrier in the north, and the Marble Mountains and Fuxiang Mountains along the coast to shield the strong winds from the sea, and the shelter conditions are very good. The temperature here is around 25 degrees Celsius all year round, and with the long coastal sandy beach, it can be considered a very comfortable holiday destination.

Of course, Liu Shanxia does not have much time to spend time here, he must complete the actual survey of the area within half a month, and design the development and construction plan of Da Nang accordingly. At that time, the matter of supervising the work will be handed over to other technicians of the Ministry of Construction to follow up, and he himself needs to rush back to Sanya, where there are also a bunch of things such as the Hong Kong Island port project and so on, and he has to go back to deal with it personally. Compared with before the crossing, Liu Shanxia hardly enjoyed the benefits of the crossing, and in the past two years, he has spent more than half of his time on the construction site - and almost all of the rest of the time is spent on the way to the construction site.

Compared with the topographic survey work, which does not tolerate half a point difference at a glance, it is difficult to have a uniform implementation standard in the handover process of immigration. Originally, according to the prior agreement between the two parties, the working conditions provided by Annan should be healthy people between the ages of 16 and 50, who are not physically disabled or have obvious diseases, but the actual situation did not achieve the desired effect of Haihan, and as long as Nguyen Jinggui was not blind, he could easily see that there were many people in the crowd who did not meet the requirements.

Ruan Jinggui turned his head sideways and whispered a few words to his subordinates next to him, and after a while, a militia stepped forward and began to pull those who did not meet the conditions out of the ranks.

Of course, Zheng Lin immediately noticed that something was wrong, so he asked Ruan Jinggui, "Commissioner Ruan, what does this mean?"

Ruan Jinggui snorted and said, "Special Envoy Zheng doesn't need to pretend to be confused with me, right? Look at these people pulled out, old and small, and there is still a leg in them, this is not the same as saying good!"

"How many years is this age difference, it's inevitable, as long as you can work, isn't it?" Zheng Lin also knew that he was wrong, and planned to fool the past.

"Can you work?" Ruan Jinggui got up angrily and pulled out a half-grown child from the crowd that was pulled to the side just now: "This child is no more than seven or eight years old, you say he can do the work of an adult?"

After speaking, Ruan Jinggui took out an old man with a cane and a white beard from the crowd: "Even if this person is not seventy or eighty, he must be more than fifty years old, right? With his current situation, can he bear it or can he carry it? Special Envoy Ruan, the 3,000 laborers we agreed upon at the beginning, you have mixed in so much sand, and when the time comes, the project will be delayed because of this, and the responsibility will be yours or mine?"

Ruan Jinggui knew that the Haihan bureaucratic system attached great importance to the word "responsibility", and since he himself was responsible for the handover of labor, he would not release the water lightly, otherwise he would definitely be held accountable for this link. For such a big matter as the construction of the port area, it may be considered light to be dismissed at that time, and if it is not done well, it will be directly arrested and put into a hard labor camp as a coolie.

Zheng Lin sighed and said: "Commissioner Ruan, this is not intentional, these laborers are all requisitioned from the whole village, if these people are deliberately singled out, wouldn't they have to break up countless families?"

The last time Zheng Lin went to Sanya Port to discuss cooperation with the Executive Committee on the development of cooperation, there were 3,000 people on Haihan's side, and there were not so many residents near Da Nang. In order to solve this problem, the Annam government had to requisition people from the vicinity of Hoi An in the south, and almost all the remaining local people were taken away and sent to Da Nang as labor candidates. Since the whole village is relocated, there will inevitably be some unqualified people, but no matter what the considerations, it is unlikely that these people will be driven away and left to fend for themselves, so they will simply pack them all and send them to Da Nang, maybe they can make up a few numbers.

Ruan Jinggui is also from South Vietnam, and after listening to Zheng Lin's explanation, he was somewhat moved: "Didn't you all use prisoners of war to deliver them before?"

Zheng Lin shook his head and said: "It's been half a year since the war ended, and everything that can be caught is almost caught, those who put down their weapons and go home to farm, can't they all be caught, right?"

Ruan Jinggui also felt a little reasonable after hearing this, but Zheng Lin said that the prisoner of war resources were close to running out, which was not good news for Haihan. Ruan Jinggui has been in Sanya for half a year, and he also knows that a considerable number of the local naturalized people are from Annam. The introduction of a large number of immigrants from the outside world has always been a policy that the Executive Committee has insisted on, and if the source of immigrants in Annan is interrupted, it will definitely affect the development process of Haihan to a greater or lesser extent. The base camp may not know about this situation, and it will have to be reported to Liu Shanxia later.

Although Ruan Jinggui is also very sympathetic to these compatriots, he knows very well which side he is on now, not to mention that being able to enter the Haihan system is a good thing for these people who lack a stable living environment.

"I can collect these people, but they can't be counted as qualified labor, and you still have to find a way to make up enough of the 3,000 people we want. Ruan Jinggui has been by Schneider's side for a few months, not to mention anything else, this ability to calculate others has learned a lot, not only to keep these unqualified population, but also to let Zheng Lin try to make up the difference.

Zheng Lin also felt that his head was big when he heard it, and he had already collected all the people within a radius of nearly 100 miles, if he followed Ruan Jinggui's selection method, I am afraid that 1,800 of the 3,000 people would have to pick out the unqualified ones, and they would have to transport people by ship from other places, and the consumption of the outside here would be great.

Zheng Lin immediately shook his head and retorted: "Commissioner Ruan's words are not right, we do not break up families when we recruit laborers, we do hope that you can accept them all as laborers, but since they are not qualified, we have no reason to provide them to you for free." “

Zheng Lin refused to let Ruan Jinggui take advantage, and Ruan Jinggui did not want to suffer this loss, so the two were at a stalemate. However, Ruan Jinggui's men were not idle, constantly picking out those who obviously did not meet the conditions from the ranks of the people, and the families of these people often followed out of the ranks because of this, so hundreds of people were soon confined outside the ranks. Some of the half-grown children had no idea what was going on, and when they saw the Haihan militia holding the shiny bayonets on their rifles, they couldn't help but cry loudly, and the scene suddenly became chaotic.

"What's going on?" At this time, Liu Shanxia finally came back, just in time to bump into this chaotic scene.

The two talked about the cause and effect, and Liu Shanxia couldn't cry or laugh after hearing it. Both families have their own reasons for this, but from Liu Shanxia's point of view, of course, it is better to defend themselves as the first choice.

"Special Envoy Zheng, this is not our people deliberately trying to embarrass you, we will just implement the original agreement. No matter what happens to these unqualified people, you still have to provide these 3,000 qualified laborers, otherwise the construction period will continue to drag on, and you will suffer the most. You should think about it!" Liu Shanxia didn't say who was right and who was wrong, anyway, he insisted on the matter of the 3,000 laborers first. As for what to do with these singled out people in the end, he is not in a hurry anyway.

This place is more than a thousand miles away from Thang Long Mansion, and Zheng Lin doesn't have the magic skill of Haihan to talk through the air, so he can't do anything to ask the court for instructions. If the envoy was sent back to ask for instructions, more than half a month would have passed, and the Haihan people obviously would not have such a good patience to wait in this bay all the time.

Zheng Lin hesitated for a long time before responding: "How about this, let's take a step back, and these people who don't meet the conditions will be converted into one person, so that there will be less trouble for each other." “

Ruan Jinggui glanced at Liu Shanxia's face a little hesitant, as if he wanted to agree with Zheng Lin's construction, and immediately rushed to the front and said: "How can two people be converted into one? You see this small, old and old, which one doesn't need to be taken care of? In my opinion, at least five people should be converted into one, which is fair." “

"Five?" Zheng Lin almost shouted "Why don't you rob it".

"If you think it's wrong, then send these people back, anyway, we can't make them do things, we can only eat food for nothing. Ruan Jinggui said with an indifferent look.

Zheng Lin was unwilling to stop there, and talked for a long time, and finally after Liu Shanxia's "upholding justice", the condition that three people were counted as a qualified laborer was reached. But even so, the number of workers is still not enough, and Zheng Lin still has to find a way to make up the difference of 3,000 people.

Three thousand people is not much, but it is definitely not something that Zheng Lin will be able to make up for a while. The instructions given to him by the imperial court were to build Da Nang as much as possible and restore the sea trade routes in southern Annam, and as for the rest of the situation, the high-ranking officials and magnates of Thang Long Province would not care. In the end, Zheng Lin had to promise to add another 500 young people, but hoped that Liu Shanxia would be able to do his best to let the construction start here.

However, this kind of thing is useless in a hurry, no matter how big Liu Shanxia's ability is, he does not dare to close his eyes and start directing the construction, and he still has to complete the preparations that should be done one by one, but considering the specific situation on the Annan side, Liu Shanxia decided to revise the original construction plan and complete the construction of Da Nang in the way of using and building.

Liu Shanxia stayed in Da Nang until mid-October before returning to Sanya, when the survey of Hong Kong Island was sent back, and he was needed to come back to organize and coordinate the development of the port in the southwest of Hong Kong Island.

When the infrastructure project was in full swing, other departments were not idle. In late October, the first 1,500-ton displacement warship built at the Victory Port Shipyard finally entered the stage of launching and outfitting. Although the completion of the construction at this time is only six or seven percent, and it is still too early to be put into use, the bigwigs of the executive committee are very excited and gather in the shipyard to watch this big guy.

For the sake of secrecy, the Executive Committee did not arrange a large-scale celebration for this purpose, and the vicinity of the dock where it was launched was also isolated from a high fence and warships on the perimeter, and the idlers and others could not even approach the dock within a radius of a mile.

Of course, it is almost impossible to achieve 100% secrecy, after all, the high mast of the ship cannot be shielded. Anyone entering and leaving Victory Harbor will notice the large sea ship being built in this mysterious dockyard, but no one can guess how big this ship really is.

Luo Shengdong had also noticed this mysterious big ship for a long time, to be precise, it should be two, because he knew that there were two large docks built in the area under strict military control, and according to the habits of the Haihan people, a type of ship obviously would not build only one, Luo Shengdong was almost certain that there was another large ship with a slightly slower progress under construction in the other dock.

It is true that there are guys with a larger displacement than the "expedition-class" warships in the Ming army's naval divisions, but only the Guangdong naval divisions are equipped with a few, not on Qiongzhou Island, and Luo Shengdong has never seen the real thing. However, he speculated from the length and distance of the mast protruding high that the warships being built by the Haihan people not only had a displacement far superior to the "expedition class", but also that it was probably difficult to find opponents of the same level among the warships in active service of the Ming army. Perhaps Zheng He's treasure ships had such tonnage when he went to the West, but the current Ming Dynasty no longer has that kind of huge treasure ships like mountains.

Luo Shengdong applied several times to visit the shipyard to see this new ship, but was rejected by the Military Commission. The reason is also very simple - all the circumstances of such a ship must be kept secret until it is publicly unveiled, and even allies are not allowed to enter.