Haihan has been operating in the capital of Qiongzhou for more than two years, but so far his influence has been mainly concentrated in the economic and cultural fields, and the political influence that the Executive Committee values most is still extremely limited, far less than the prefectures and counties controlled by Haihan in the southern part of Qiongzhou Island. Although the influence of the Haihan in the economic and cultural fields has become increasingly significant, and some pro-Haihan forces have also been established in the officialdom of Fucheng, there is still little hope of influencing the government of Fucheng.

He Xi and Tom Wang discussed the shape every day after returning to their residence, and they both thought that this place would have to be solved by force in the end. The city of Qiongzhou is well defended, even if the militia army is prepared, it may not be able to take this fortified city in a very short time. In order to defend against the Ming army, the Ming army mobilized reinforcements from the mainland, and the blockade of the Qiongzhou Strait from the sea was a necessary means, and the militia navy could come in handy at that time.

"Fortunately, this place is close to the sea, if it is like Danzhou, there are still twenty miles to get off the ship, then our navy will have to be a spectator again!" Wang Tom stretched his waist and sighed with great rejoicing. He and He Xi lay on the bookcase and studied the topographic map of the city for almost three hours, and it was not until it was over that he felt that his spirit was too sleepy.

"There is also the camp of the Qiongzhou Navy Division by the sea, and your navy must have work to do in the city. He Xi did not forget to remind him: "This is the main force of the Qiongzhou Water Division, and the water village on the Yacheng side was at most a detachment in the past. ”

"Well, let's leave early tomorrow to see how strong this sailor is. Wang Tom also seemed very excited about this, after all, it is a new opponent that has only appeared with difficulty, and how much military budget the Navy can get next year depends on the weight of this opponent.

However, the greater the hope, the greater the disappointment, after Tom Wang went to reconnoiter the next day, he came back with a depressed face: "What else do you say about the Qiongzhou Water Division, I don't think the situation is much better than the original Yacheng, no wonder I went to Luo Shengdong to ask about the situation before leaving, and he told me not to worry...... With just a few broken ships, I really don't have anything to worry about!"

The sailors stationed in Qiongzhou were originally quite large, with a total of more than 60 warships of all kinds, nearly one-third of which were arranged in Yacheng Water Village. However, in addition to having a little more ships, the condition of the naval division garrison on this side of Fucheng is actually not much better than that of Yacheng. In particular, Luo Shengdong later pulled out the naval division warship to be used as a smuggling ship, and the sailors here in Fucheng also did the same, and simply dismantled the firearms on the ship that had been in disrepair and could not be used, and used them to run the freight business, so that in addition to military salaries, they could also have a good part-time income, and the ships used did not need to pay for themselves, so why not do it for the military leaders of the naval division?

It is not difficult to imagine what Tom Wang had spotted near the waterhouse, which had almost become a cargo dock, and the guards were cheap men who shipped all kinds of goods onto warships that had been converted into cargo transport. A considerable part of the goods were produced by the Haihan, and these goods would be transported by warships to the Leizhou Peninsula on the other side of the strait, and then sold to local merchants for distribution.

If the Qiongzhou Naval Division is only at this level, then it will be very easy for Wang Tom to control the situation, and then he only needs to send a few gunboats to the mouth of the Nandu River to cross the river, and these so-called warships can only sink as many as they come. And such a weak opponent obviously can't satisfy Wang Tom's plan to train his troops through actual combat.

After listening to his complaints, He Xi couldn't help but smile and said: "Things have to be on the good side! The opponent is so weak, just a quick decision, as long as you complete the combat purpose, not so many people care about the strength of your opponent." ”

Tom Wang shook his head and said, "It's just a pity that I didn't have the opportunity to fight head-on with the Daming Naval Division, after all, this is one of the most powerful maritime forces in the Far East. ”

"Keep your momentum, and use it again in two years!" He Xi smiled and did not continue to persuade. He can see that Tom Wang is not a bad fighter, but he has always wanted to find an opponent of equal strength to make a move. However, such an opponent no longer exists on the island of Qiongzhou today. Whether it is the Ming official army or the Li and Miao tribes on the island, their strength is completely unable to confront the Haihan militia head-on, and the value of military training is relatively limited.

The two spent a little longer in the capital city of Qiongzhou, and after staying for a full week, the various reconnaissance missions they shouldered were completed. After leaving Fucheng, the fleet crossed the river from the south to the sea, continued to sail eastward, bypassed Hainan Jiao and Jingxin Jiao, turned south, and sailed into the territory of Wenchang County.

Wenchang is also a big county in Qiongzhou Island at this time, with a population of more than 20,000, and there is not much gap between the population size and Yazhou, but at present, it is basically an agricultural population, and the economic level is still relatively backward. The military defense force here is also relatively weak, and there are only two or three hundred guards stationed in the county seat, plus the city walls and city defense facilities that have been in disrepair for a long time, they are simply unable to stop the Haihan militia army. From a military point of view, this is not really an area that needs special attention.

However, He Xi and Wang Tom still arranged this stop in their inspection schedules, and it was specially designated by the Executive Committee, which naturally had a special reason in it.

Wenchang County is one of the most abundant mineral resources on Hainan Island, with more than 10 kinds of minerals such as iron, titanium, tungsten, aluminum, coal, crystal, kaolin, sapphire, quartz sand, etc., which is a treasure trove for the executive committee dedicated to establishing an industrialization system, and its importance is even no less than that of Shilu iron ore in the west of Qiongzhou Island.

The proven reserves of the local quartz sand mine in Wenchang in the time and space before the crossing are as high as more than 300 million tons, and the mining difficulty is low, the quality of the ore is high, and the demand for high-quality quartz sand in the fields of glass, casting, ceramics and other fields is very high. In addition, there are more than 20 million tons of bauxite reserves, which is one of the important raw materials that the industrial sector has been looking forward to day and night, and has a wide range of uses. The Ministry of Construction has also been waiting for this thing, and with thermite, the welding problems in the current track engineering can be easily solved.

Of course, the military department also has great hopes for the production of aluminum ore, ammonium aluminum explosives and explosives made of thermite, which are quite powerful weapons, even if it is difficult to catch fire, under the action of thermite, it will still burn, this is definitely a magic weapon to defeat the enemy in a tough battle.

With these mineral resources alone, they have to come here and take a trip. It's not that they need to come over to find out the distribution of mineral deposits, and that kind of professional things still have to be done by special people, but to see what the development prospects are here, such as the local labor, land, transportation, natural environment, etc., and assess how many resources Haihan needs to invest if it wants to carry out large-scale mining operations here.

The fleet docked at Qinglan Harbor at the mouth of Bamen Bay -- of course, there was no huge port wharf where rockets could be loaded and unloaded in another time and space, only a small fishing port.

The fishermen on the beach were not surprised to see the Haihan ship slowly approaching, because this place is an important supply port on the east coast of Qiongzhou Island, and most of the ships going from the north to the south or from the north to the south will use it as a docking point. When the Haihan fleet arrives here, it will sell the last batch of goods on board to the local residents, mainly some cheap daily necessities, as well as iron kitchen utensils, agricultural tools, and so on.

Haihan also has an office here, but he has not appointed a traverser to preside over the work here. The reason is actually very simple, Haihan has no ability to develop the minerals here for the time being, so naturally no one will be willing to come to this fishing village to stay all year round.

However, this place is not so difficult that it is useless, there are large fishing grounds in the waters near Qinglan Port, the fishing season is long and there are many kinds of seafood, such as grouper, mackerel, lobster, prawn, abalone, squid, sea cucumber and other economic seafood, all of which are produced in large quantities here. Wang Tom and He Xi went out to circle around Hainan Island for most of the time, and still found the freshest seafood here. Wang Tom naturally did not forget his own good job, and commanded the sailors on the ship to buy a seafood barbecue feast, and then the whole fleet ate enough before leaving Qinglan Port.

Continuing south from Wenchang, passing through Qionghai, Wanzhou, Lingshui and other places, it is basically within the control range of Haihan. Although Haihan's control of these places was not as thorough as that of Yacheng, it was almost semi-public, and as long as the executive committee made a statement, the ownership of the local area would immediately change hands. Of course, perhaps a small number of local people would not welcome the presence of the Haihan people, because the reputation of the Haihan people for engaging in public ownership of land in the areas under their rule had already spread here, which was definitely an unpopular policy for the landlord class.

However, the Executive Committee is not particularly concerned, the militia army and the security police have accumulated enough experience in dealing with these matters, and if anyone tries to rebel against the rule of the Executive Committee for this, then the relevant departments will naturally come forward to teach them how to behave. However, small-scale local groups that lack regular armed and militarized organizations are simply like chickens and dogs in front of the Haihan militia, and they will not make much of a storm.

By the time the expedition returned to Sanya, it was May 1630. Since the celebration of the third anniversary, the general direction of the Executive Committee's work has been adjusted to the expansion of armaments and warfare, and preparations are made to launch the reunification of the entire Hainan Island within the year. Of course, during this period, other infrastructure projects were not pulled down, such as the railway line from Changhua to Shirok, the construction of a port in the south of Annam, and the improvement of the Hong Kong Island base.

In addition, in order to prevent the other party from taking some extreme measures after the confrontation with the Ming Dynasty, the Guangzhou Office and even the migrant transfer point in Panyu have been notified by the Executive Committee, requiring them to complete the preparations for relocation at any time before August. Some important materials and property can be delivered to the Hong Kong Island area in advance. All traversers working in the Ming Dynasty must also be prepared to evacuate the area immediately after receiving a notice from the base camp within 48 hours before starting the project.

This is not an easy task, and the Guangzhou Office is now busy every day, as if it has become a high-end business forum outside Guangzhou, where the leading figures of Guangzhou's business community will come here every once in a while to exchange the latest business information with each other. The place where the news of the supply and demand of various bulk commodities is released has been changed from the teahouse and wine shop in Guangzhou to the Guangzhou office outside the city.

"This is simply embarrassing us!" Ma Like, who had just been promoted to chief administrative officer of the Guangdong Administrative Region for more than a month, shook the telegram in his hand and said with some indignation: "With so many people coming in and out of the Guangzhou Office every day, how can we evacuate here in a blind eye? If I don't show up for two or three days, I'm afraid that the news will spread throughout the business district of Guangzhou City!"

Marico's statement is not entirely exaggerated, as the leader of the Guangzhou Office, his storage zài is completely the vane of Haihan's policy to local businessmen, and all new trends and new policies, Marico is the first-hand publisher. And the businessmen who are accustomed to cooperating with Haihan already know the value of this information very well, and if they can get the news even half a day earlier, the benefits they can obtain are at least hundreds of taels of silver. And under this top-level circle, there are at least thousands of people inside and outside Guangzhou, who are making a living from the trade relations between the Haihan and the Ming Dynasty, and these people are not even less concerned about the Guangzhou Office than those rich businessmen.

It is almost impossible for the Guangzhou Office to evacuate Guangzhou without realizing it under the gaze of so many people. A year ago, there might have been a chance to do it, when as long as the city gate was closed at night, there would be basically no one outside the city, and the people stationed in the Guangzhou Office could still take advantage of the night to slip away from the Pearl River. But later, a lot of hotels were opened along the river outside the city, and most of the guests were businessmen who came to Guangzhou to do business with the Haihan people. Outside the city is not like inside the city, and there is no curfew at night, so some people have invested in the construction of some entertainment places nearby, so that these rich people who are well fed and drunk can pass the time.

Although these places are not directly built on the land belonging to the Guangzhou Office, after all, they are all businesses developed around the Guangzhou Office, and they are already very close to each other, even if there is any movement here in the middle of the night, most of them will not escape the eyes of people who care about it.