No matter how bold and reckless the civil landlords' armed forces are, they will not be able to save their weak armed strength. This kind of private armament, which is supported by long spears and short sticks, large knives and hunting bows, is completely incomparable with the regular army in terms of fighting will and combat level. Although there are also "wealthy" Zhuangzi Shangtong Guò some special ways to buy a few 27-type arquebuses that were eliminated by the Haihan militia two years earlier, and even one or two rusty small-caliber Franc machine guns, but in front of the tactics of the militia artillery opening the road and advancing the guns, it is tantamount to using the mantis arm as a car.

After Haihan took control of Danzhou, the reason why the militia wanted to clean up these recalcitrant rebels was even more high-sounding, and they were directly buttoned down with the big hat of "colluding with pirates", and they would not even be given a chance to defend themselves. Naturally, the military regarded the attack on these villages as an opportunity to train its troops, and some relatively simple combat tasks had even begun to be commanded by young trainee officers who were only fourteen or fifteen years old. The Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Construction were also happy to see this, and these rebels were used to fill the rapidly depleting labor camp laborers, who were immediately sent to the south to work as miners in the Shiroku region.

In the city of Danzhou, the original Danzhou Prefecture had been destroyed by artillery fire when the pirate army entered the city, and the gate and a large section of the surrounding wall on the left and right were destroyed. However, the façade destroyed by the war has never had time to be repaired, and the management committee has only organized people to clean up the ruins, and then pulled barbed wire as a simple isolation measure. Although it seems a bit nondescript, this kind of defense is basically enough for the current Danzhou City.

At this time, Zhang Xin was in the study to meet with several local "progressive" gentry, these people were local merchants, and they had business dealings with Haihan before that, and Haihan's takeover of Danzhou would have more advantages than disadvantages for them. And these people are also an important tool for the Provisional Management Committee to implement rule in Danzhou, and Haihan wants to control public opinion, and these people are far more effective than the means of the Ministry of Security and the Propaganda Department.

Zhang Xin held the teacup and said with a smile: "Everyone, the day after tomorrow is the day when the Danzhou branch of Haihan Bank opens, and I hope everyone can come to cheer and publicize the benefits of our bank to more people!"

A fat white old man sitting at the bottom of Zhang Xin immediately responded: "You don't need Director Zhang to greet you for this, everyone here will also go." The shopkeepers of the Danzhou Chamber of Commerce have long been looking forward to the opening of Haihan Bank in Danzhou, and I will go to open an account when the time comes, and deposit 18,000 taels of silver into it, so that it will be more convenient to do business with the shopkeepers of Haihan in the future. ”

The fat man surnamed Yuan was originally a salt merchant in Danzhou, but after Haihan salt hit the market at a low price, the salt farm in Danzhou Bay was unable to make ends meet in a short period of time and declared bankruptcy, and Yuan Fatzi found a business opportunity, not only did he reduce the price and fight against Haihan Salt, but instead ran to find the agent of Haihan Salt, Luo Shengdong, the military attache of Yacheng Water Village, used the existing sales channels in his hands as an exchange condition to negotiate a distribution qualification in Danzhou and came back, and then became a distributor of Haihan Salt. Although the profits of this second-level agent are limited, and he can't talk about making a lot of money, no one dares to embarrass him when he does this business--he has the support of the Ming Sailor behind him, and he really can't support the big backer of Haihan, even the local government does not dare to provoke these two forces.

Yuan Fatzi is also a well-informed and interesting person, and after making a fortune, he did not forget his backer, and he has always been willing to cooperate with Haihan's various light and dark expansion methods in Danzhou. After this pirate rebellion, Haihan took over Danzhou, and Yuan Fatzi took the lead in jumping out and contacting a group of pro-Haihan gentry, in the name of the Danzhou Chamber of Commerce to promote Haihan, which can be regarded as working very hard.

Of course, Zhang Xin also knew that this guy was an extremely slippery philistine, but when Haihan occupied Qiongbei at the beginning, he definitely needed this kind of person who took the initiative to jump out and wave his flag, so the necessary benefits still had to be given to him. At that moment, Zhang Xin said: "It just so happens that Boss Yuan is here today, so I will also talk about the things you have been concerned about by the way." The salt factory in Danzhou will resume operation next month at the latest, and in the future, if Boss Yuan wants to buy salt, there is no need to send a ship to the Yinggehai salt field in the south. Of course, the locally produced sea salt will continue to uphold the characteristics of high quality and low price of Haihan salt, and you will have to take care of your business in the future!"

A group of businessmen present here have said hello to Yuan Fatzi, he is the general agent of the salt industry in Danzhou, the Haihan people set up a salt farm here, there is no doubt that it will greatly reduce the cost of Yuan Fatzi's salt operation, just this year's shipping costs, it is estimated that he went to Sanya to buy two sets of legendary Haihan garden houses.

Yuan Fatzi immediately benefited from his loyalty, and others naturally did not take it lightly and followed one after another. And Zhang Xin has long been prepared for this, throwing out all kinds of benefits one by one, so that these pro-sea Han elements can have equal interests and get some practical benefits.

Although Danzhou is already a city with a history of hundreds of years, in the eyes of the Haihan people, it is still in a state of ruin, and if many things are done by the Haihan people themselves, it will inevitably reduce the efficiency of the guide due to manpower problems, so now Zhang Xinzhong has the project to be handed over to these second-class dealers to operate.

Since the construction force of the engineering department has been in a very strict state, Zhang Xin plans to hand over the renovation of several major official roads in Danzhou to private contractors after reporting to the executive committee for approval. It would certainly cost more money to do so than to organize the construction on its own, and the construction efficiency would certainly be much lower, but given the current situation, it is likely that the progress of handing over the construction to the private sector will be faster than handing it over to the Ministry of Construction.

Among them, the official road leading to Fucheng through Lingao, and the official road leading to Changhua along the coastline in the south will be organized and implemented by the interim management committee of Danzhou, while the Sanya side is only responsible for providing part of the funds, designing the construction plan and reviewing the project costs.

Part of the missing funds was raised by Zhang Xin on behalf of the management committee in the local organization. Although there is no way to recover the cost by charging a fee, the management committee will give some compensation in other ways - such as obtaining the agency years and areas of certain Haihan products.

Among these people who are willing to cooperate with Haihan, there are not many smart people who voluntarily want to join Haihan, but Zhang Xin received instructions from the Executive Committee is not to rush to let people from the middle and upper strata of society join Haihan for the time being, these people retain the status of Ming subjects, and their role in Haihan is greater. After all, these people have far more power to speak and dominate in society than ordinary people, and they can lead the trend of public opinion in a certain way, and with them as the mouthpiece and propagandist for Haihan, many policies and ideas can achieve twice the result with half the effort. In Ning Qi's words, this is essentially cultivating a group of pro-sea Han big Vs and public knowledge.

At the same time, Qiu Yuan, who is sitting in the capital of Qiongzhou, is not as comfortable as Zhang Xin. There is a big difference between the people's feelings in Fucheng and Danzhou, and the people's feelings for the Ming Dynasty are obviously better than the fear of foreign ethnic groups, and many people who have lived here for generations are not so willing to sell the accounts of Haihan. Compared with the gentry in Danzhou who are not very firm, the discipline of the upper class of society here in Fucheng is obviously much more stable. Although various temporary management measures in the local area of Haihan are also being implemented, the cooperation they have received is far less than that of Danzhou, and there are countless situations of yang and yin violations.

Moreover, the area around Fucheng is also the area with the largest number of landlords on the entire Qiongzhou Island, and the implementation of the land policy has correspondingly suffered great pressure. Although those who tried to resort to violent confrontation were quickly suppressed, the effectiveness of land policy promotion was alarmingly low. The vast majority of landlords have adopted a soft rejection method of non-resistance and non-cooperation, and are not willing to accept the various solutions proposed by Haihan. Although the Executive Committee did not reject the use of force to suppress the resistance of the landlord class, it did not want to violently and bloodied the landlord class before the contradictions had fully erupted.

Because the military has imposed military control on the port near the capital city of Qiongzhou and the entire Qiongzhou Strait, this has also brought a lot of inconvenience to the local people in the city, especially those who rely on the sea for their livelihood or engaged in maritime trade, and the people's complaints about this have always been endless. However, the Executive Committee had already issued an order that the closure of the Qiongzhou Strait should be enforced until the end of January, and one of the main tasks of the Fucheng Management Committee was to try to win the hearts of the people as much as possible before this deadline arrived, cut off the opposition, and consolidate the foundation of Haihan's rule in northern Qiongbei.

This task is not so easy to accomplish, and after Qiu Yuan came to stay for two months, he deeply felt this kind of pressure, which was much more difficult than when he was a commercial representative in the Dan Office and a port director in Shengli Port. There are at least seven or eight incidents of coming to the office of the management committee every day because of various disputes, and most of them are caused by conflicts of interest between local people and Haihan, which makes Qiu Yuan feel very tricky to deal with.

While the reconnaissance fleet was still adrift in the South China Sea, Qiu Yuan received a telegram from Guangdong, which made him feel the cruelty of Murphy's Law again.

According to the reliable information obtained by the Ministry of Security from Zhaoqing, Wang Zunde, the governor of Liangguang and Guangzhou, has drawn up a list of some officials who will go to Qiongzhou to fill their posts, and the first batch of personnel will soon set off from Zhaoqing and Guangzhou respectively and go to Qiongzhou Island by sea.

When the pirate army attacked Qiongbei three months ago, the resistance faction of the local government was basically all plundered, and there were few family members left, and the entire government system in Qiongbei was completely paralyzed. Although this information was processed by Haihan and conveyed to the governor Wang Zunde, it was not a simple matter to re-appoint a group of officials.

There are so many seats vacated on Qiongzhou Island at once, and there are many high-ranking positions such as Sipin and Wupin, and the power game that unfolds around these positions behind the scenes is no less fierce than the battle on the battlefield. Although it did not make any difference to Haihan what officials the Ming sent to Qiongzhou Island, the relevant departments still took some measures to exclude those officials who harbored hostile feelings towards Haihan from the shortlist as much as possible.

But even so, it is difficult for the Ministry of Security to make a conclusion in advance whether these Ming officials will have an adverse impact on the local situation after they go to the island, and it is not very convenient to use some means to prevent the Ming government from sending these personnel to Qiongzhou Island, and the only thing that can be done is to inform the Qiongzhou Island side of this situation in advance.

"The house leak happened to rain overnight!" Regarding such a state of affairs, Qiu Yuan had nothing else to comment on except sighing.

He wasn't particularly worried about what these officials would do when they arrived, in fact, the military and the Ministry of Intelligence had already made corresponding plans, and these people had already begun to enter house arrest the moment they set foot on Qiongzhou Island. And after that, there will be some tests to test the political tendencies of the other party, and if he can take advantage of it, then he will have the privilege of spending a relaxed and pleasant term on this island. But if it is a resolute rebel, the greatest possibility is that it will disappear completely, and some new soldier with a number will appear in the coal mines deep in the mountains of Jonesy or on the other side of the Beibu Gulf.

"I just hope these people can do their part, and don't cause me any trouble!" Qiu Yuan sighed, and after reading the contents of the telegram several times, he put it in the archived text folder.

"Director Qiu, the participants have already arrived. The naturalized secretary stood at the door and reported to him.

Qiu Yuan's meeting today was actually of the same nature as the one held by Zhang Xin in Danzhou, and it was also intended to win over the local gentry and promote some commercial and infrastructure projects led by the Haihan. But compared with the scene of the sedan chair being carried by everyone in Danzhou, Qiu Yuan's situation is much more troublesome. Most of the local businesses are reluctant to cooperate with Haihan's various arrangements, and such liaison meetings have been held several times, but there has not been much progress.

This is also related to the composition of the local gentry, almost all the disgruntled gentry in Danzhou were cleared during the pirate siege, and the capital city of Qiongzhou was never captured by the pirate army from beginning to end, so the gentry here is still dominated by pro-Ming people, and there are a lot of dissatisfaction with the management of the Haihan Dynasty, especially the various "new policies" implemented during this period. Even allowing the local gentry to participate in such a meeting requires a certain amount of pressure from the Haihan militia, so that the effect of the meeting is naturally not much better.