Sun Changmi's last introduction was his colleague, You Yihan, a representative sent by the Ministry of Maritime Transport to the Guangzhou Office. You Yihan, a 29-year-old single man, whose hometown is Qingdao, Shandong, is a typical Shandong man who looks stocky, and was engaged in freight warehousing in Qingdao Port Authority before crossing. He has been involved in the planning and design of the two terminals of Shengli Port and Heitu Port, and is familiar with the situation of sea freight transportation, and will be responsible for the freight management in Guangzhou after coming to the Guangzhou Office.

The Ministry of Shipping sent You Yihan to Guangzhou, firstly, in response to the call of the Executive Committee to recommend elite soldiers and strong generals as much as possible to build the Guangzhou Office into a bridgehead in the mainland, and secondly, it also took a fancy to the important position of Guangzhou Bay in the future regional transportation system of the South China Sea, and directly dispatched competent personnel to lay the groundwork for the follow-up development plan.

Geographically speaking, Guangzhou is the largest foreign trade port in South China, and it is also the closest large-scale trade port to Shengli Port, the base camp of the group, and will be the most important window for trade between the group and the mainland in the future, and has very important strategic value. The significance of the Guangzhou Office is not only to maintain the commercial and trade activities between the two places, but also to purchase raw materials, organize immigration, collect intelligence, military early warning and other functions, the Executive Committee sent to Guangzhou this time, it can be said that the elite Cheng dù is not inferior to the Ya Office and the Black Soil Port, and the Guangzhou Office in terms of policy support is even more than the first two overseas units in the mainland, the Guangzhou Office is the spokesperson of the Group, and the words and deeds of the Guangzhou Office can represent the attitude of the Group to the Ming Dynasty.

That is to say, the Executive Committee has a high degree of trust in the words and deeds of the Guangzhou Office, and the Guangzhou Office has a high degree of freedom of action, and most of the daily matters can be decided on their own. Although the Group has the most advanced high-tech communication methods of this era, the Executive Committee believes that the working method of "early request and late report" is not suitable for an organization like the Guangzhou Office, and that only by giving them the right degree of freedom can they give full play to their abilities.

Before the crossing, several high-level people had several discussions about how to control the vast territory under the rule of the crossing regime in the future. The crossing group began to build a new world from the settlement of the island, so the way to expand outward must be to use the sea as a springboard, and continue to build colonization points to control a wider area, how to ensure that these colonization points will not suddenly have ambitions to start an independent kingdom after they have the ability to self-hematopoiesis, which has become a problem in front of the high-level. In addition to the traditional political and economic leadership, high-level figures believe that it is more important to firmly control all kinds of strategic resources in the hands of the Executive Committee.

Energy, steel, is the top priority, steel production can almost be regarded as a symbol of a country's national strength, and energy is the most important guarantee of steel production. As long as the Executive Committee can firmly control these two resources or even just one of them, then the development of the colony will inevitably depend on the base camp for a long time. Looking at the entire South China Sea region, Hainan Island is probably the only place that is really qualified to build a large-scale coal-iron composite industrial base, so this policy will be persistently implemented for a long time to come, until one day the government can have a more perfect political system to maintain and manage the colonies and colonies scattered all over the country.

The Executive Committee does not expect the Guangzhou Office to be able to turn Guangzhou into a new colony of the Crossing Group in the mainland within a few years, although the Ming Empire has begun to decline, but after all, the life span has not yet come to an end, and the Crossing Group cannot have enough strength to shake the country in the short term, and it will be very unfavorable to the plan of the Crossing Group to use the mainland market to expand its economy too early.

Sun Changmi and You Yihan also took this opportunity to explain to the people present some of the executive committee's long-term plans for Guangdong. The export of goods and culture to the mainland is naturally based on Guangzhou, which is also the main task of the Guangzhou Office in the coming period. The territorial expansion, or rather the pace of military expansion, through the regime, will not involve Guangzhou in the short term, which is likely to lead to a head-on conflict with the Ming Empire. Both the Ministry of Maritime Transport and the Military Police believe that more valuable targets for expansion are still at sea, such as the Wanshan Islands, which control the Pearl River estuary, or the adjacent Hong Kong area of Xin'an County.

Sun Changmi said: "In terms of our development model, controlling the shipping route should be the first choice, and its significance is even far greater than occupying a state and a county in the mainland, and the Pearl River Estuary is undoubtedly the most important waterway in the south of the Taiwan Strait, as long as we can gain a firm foothold in the Pearl River Estuary, then it can really be said that the revolution has achieved a phased victory." ”

"If we look at the topography alone, then we will undoubtedly choose the coast along Tsuen Wan, Stonecutters Island, West Kowloon and Tsim Sha Tsui, or directly occupy Hong Kong Island, and later build a future naval base capable of controlling the Pearl River Estuary with Victoria Harbour as the center. But the problem is that the Ming Dynasty has garrisons in these places, and if we want to seize these places, we will inevitably have an armed conflict with the Ming Dynasty. ”

Xiao Liang interjected and added: "According to the preliminary investigation results when we came, I think that the naval division stationed in Xin'an County is far above the Yazhou naval division in terms of equipment scale and training level, we can't underestimate these Ming navy, before there is no heavy artillery giant ship, we have to fight with this well-trained regular army at sea, it is very likely that we will not take any advantage." ”

"Speaking of heavy artillery ships, I really want to consult my colleagues in the shipping department, the shipyard has been laying the keel for more than two months, and I see that there is no ship type now, when will you design this new ship to be launched?" Yu Yao couldn't help but ask: "At this speed, our generation shouldn't expect to see the ironclad ship across the seven seas, right?"

Sun Changmi sighed and said: "The design is easy and the construction is difficult, there are hundreds of ready-made shipbuilding drawings in the number of jù libraries, and there are many that can be taken out and used, but either there is no construction experience, or the materials and processing technology do not meet the requirements, and now the shipbuilders in the shipyard have only built Fu Ship or Guangzhou Ship, but completely copy these two ship types, probably can only be used to run freight, and cannot meet the requirements of the Navy at all." Do you know what Mr. Yan asked the design department on our side? A ship with a displacement of two or three hundred tons must be equipped with at least 10 12-pound guns, and at least two 18-pound heavy guns, and the sailors must not exceed 30 people, and the normal speed should not be less than 10 knots...... The main warship of the Ming army has a larger displacement than this, and it is only one Hongyi cannon and six Franc machines, so it is difficult to stuff so many cannons into a small boat?"

At present, the executive committee's thinking on the development of maritime power has changed somewhat compared with before the crossing, because the reality is too cruel, and the speed of shipbuilding cannot keep up with the actual demand, and if we wait for the shipyard to slowly accumulate experience on its own, it is estimated that it will only be able to go around the coastal area of Hainan Island in the first two or three years. Fortunately, the development of the port of Heitu has allowed the Executive Committee to discover a new idea, that is, cargo ships can use bought or even leased Chinese sailing ships first, while shipyards focus on some problems in improving the performance of ships, especially for military purposes. Of course, up to now, the shipyard, which has been established for several months, has not made any breakthroughs, and even the progress of the first test ship seems to be very slow, and Yu Yao is far from the only one who has questioned the efficiency of the shipyard.

"If you want to load so many guns on board, you have to have an artillery reducer. Xiao Liang had some insight into this, and explained for Sun Changmi: "But before, because the steel production was very limited, and the processing equipment was not in place, the military industrial unit could not make a hydraulic brake device, so it was impossible to let large-caliber artillery be equipped with a large number of wooden sailing ships of this tonnage." ”

"Can you do it now?" asked Yu Yao.

"It can be done, but the capacity is very limited. The hydraulic device has relatively high requirements for machining accuracy, and the processing technology is more complex, and the production efficiency of this thing will not be higher than that of the steam engine at this stage. In addition, the progress of the self-built test ship is very slow, and the military industry department believes that it is impossible to load the ship for testing in a hurry, so the artillery hydraulic control device has not been included in the list of priority production. "Xiao Liang has a few friends who work in the military industry, so he has more inside information than others.

Sun Changmi complained bitterly: "The problem is that the military industry department has not finalized the mass production, and the hydraulic system of the gun mount is uncertain in specification, how can we calculate the balance of the ship's counterweight? When the ship is built and found that there is a problem with the gun mount, can the ship be dismantled and rebuilt?"

"That's the problem of coordination and communication between your two departments. Schneider said a fair word: "You can communicate the design requirements in advance! In this way, after you go back, contact the military industry department and the military police department, and the three parties will hold a joint meeting to explain their respective requirements clearly, and then discuss how to coordinate the relationship between production and design." At the end of the year, if you don't see the test ship launched, I don't think Mr. Tao and Mr. Yan will let you have a good time!"

Sun Changmi shook his head and said: "It's not that simple, the shipyard is in Shengli Port, and the military industry department is all in Tiandu, many technical changes can not be explained clearly by telephone and radio, and they must be discussed face-to-face with drawings." These two places are separated by more than ten miles, and as long as there is a small problem, you have to run back and forth for twenty or thirty miles to solve it.

"It seems that it's time to form our own Lolita company!" He Xi suddenly interjected in a very deep tone.

"What Lori?" Chen Tianqi, who had been dazed by everyone just now, somehow heard this key word and woke up immediately.

"It's not Lolicon, it's Norinco. Schneider said, seeing that except for the few people from the military and police department, almost all the others were at a loss, and Ma Yu's face was even redder, and he didn't know whether he was drinking or excited to listen to this topic, so he quickly explained: "Sister Ma, what we are talking about is not the kind of lolita you think, we are all gentlemen, absolute gentlemen!"

Chen Tianqi coughed dryly and said, "Gentleman is actually not a good word...... In otaku culture, gentleman is sometimes synonymous with **. ”

Schneider glared at Chen Tianqi, and quickly turned the topic back to normal: "The Lolita Control Company He Xi is talking about is actually Anorthinustires Corporation, the abbreviation is Norinco, and it sounds like Lolitacon." ”

"I said Mr. Shi, you have been talking around for a long time, what is Lolitacon?" Sha Xi has no culture, and others have almost understood, so he is still asking questions.

"It's NORINCO. He Xi replied for Schneider: "The number one arms dealer under the China North Industries Group, our great motherland can rank among the top five arms exporters in the world, and this company has made great contributions. ”

Sha Xi blinked inexplicably and said, "It's an arms dealer who sells guns and cannons, what does it have to do with the fact that we are going to build gunboats now?"

"NORINCO is actually a military-industrial complex. Schneider took over the conversation again: "As now, each department is responsible for a military project, and it is easy to have the problem of being in a separate position in the construction of test ships. If we have a comprehensive unit that includes a series of military services, such as research, trial production, manufacturing, sales, and maintenance, we can deploy various units for effective cooperation in the process of weapons development. Even from the beginning of the research and development of weapons, we have planned the follow-up trial production, mass production, equipment, maintenance, and so on, instead of all military projects crossing the river by feeling the stones as we do now, and there is a lack of unified arrangement plans. ”

"In fact, the responsibilities of such a unit are currently undertaken by the Executive Committee, but the work of the Executive Committee is too much, and the Executive Committee members do not all understand these doorways in the middle of the military industry. He Xi also has a deep knowledge and understanding of this issue.

Sun Changmi nodded again and again after hearing this: "It's too much, the current situation is like this, the military police department only knows how to make requirements, and it is not clear what the difficulties are in realizing these requirements, and the military industry department is bent on upgrading according to its own science and technology tree plan, and it doesn't matter whether our shipping department can keep up." The Executive Committee has coordinated many times in the middle, but it has not played much role, and Mr. Yan proposed the establishment of a higher-level military industry department at the Executive Committee, but I heard that it was vetoed. ”

"Mr. Yan also listened to it that time, and the matter is indeed not as simple as talking about it. Xiao Liang took over and said: "The Ministry of Military Industry is currently mainly under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Industry, and the shipyard belongs to the Ministry of Shipping. There are already a lot of people who are privately spewing the military police department too much power, and it would be hellish if such a proposal could be approved by the Executive Committee. ”

"Military projects must be jointly developed by multiple departments, but there will always be disputes between the three units over the division of power, so the time to solve this problem is far away?" Yu Yao felt very indignant at this kind of problem that habitually existed in the bureaucratic system, but limited by his vision and insight, he could not think of any solution to the problem for a while.

"Not really. You Yihan, who had been listening for a long time, suddenly said: "The key is to have interests. The reason for the emergence of the military-industrial complex is driven by interests, and if you have money, you will see if these units will still lack enthusiasm as they do now. ”

Speaking of this, You Yihan smiled self-deprecatingly: "Although I am also a person who belongs to the Ministry of Shipping, it stands to reason that I should not expose my shortcomings on this occasion, but in the development of military projects, the Ministry of Shipping does have its own small abacus." At present, the cost of the development and construction of this test ship is arranged by the Executive Committee as a whole, and the Military Police Department will place an order in the future, and the Executive Committee will definitely have to allocate the funds for this money; in the final analysis, it is the Executive Committee that will take the money to do things, so why should the Maritime Department listen to the command of the Military Police Department? I am not saying this to sow discord between the two countries, and you should not take it to heart. ”

He Xi waved his hand to indicate that it was okay, Xiao Liang and Yu Yao also said that it had nothing to do with it, Morgan pricked up his ears and tried to understand a little more of You Yihan's Shandong-flavored pronunciation, and he didn't rush to wonder if there was any other meaning in his words.

"But if there are enough benefits for all the units involved in the design, development, and production of weapons to make a good profit, then the pressure to set up a competent authority will be much less, and the profitability of this development model will make all those who oppose it obediently shut up," You continued. Of course, until then, we'll all have to make our own achievements. ”

"Are there any successful cases of this model you are talking about?" asked Sha Xi with great interest.

"Before the crossing, the world's largest arms dealer was the United States, everyone can't deny this, right?" You Yihan looked around at everyone, and then continued: "In 2011, the total value of arms and equipment exported by the United States exceeded 400 billion US dollars, and the strongest military-industrial complexes accounted for half of them. In the same year, China's military expenditure was only more than $140 billion, and we can think about how much money these military-industrial complexes made from it? The Yankees instigated wars everywhere in the world, and when no one was fighting, they rolled up their sleeves on their own, not because they were full of food and panicked, but because of the huge interests behind them, and even the US foreign policy had to succumb to such interests. ”