The island's migrants are supplied about once a week, mainly vegetables, fruits, and a small amount of livestock. Since the beginning of trade with the North Vietnamese caravans, rice has not been a scarce commodity in the port of Heitu, so tons of rice are also stored on Fushuizhou Island, which serves as a transit and supply station, in case of emergency. Even in extreme cases, if supplies are not available for ten days and half a month, the island's residents do not need to worry about falling into a situation of food shortage.

Tao Donglai ordered that most of the meat, vegetables, melons and fruits on the ship be left for the residents of the island, leaving only the supplies for the rest of the journey. It is indeed a chore to stay on such an island for a long time, and what the Executive Committee can do is probably to make the residents of the island better at cooking. Tao Donglai also promised the residents that they would be moved to Shengli Harbor as soon as their garrison period arrived, which drew cheers from the residents.

According to the arrangement of the management committee, a small livestock farm has been built on the island, raising dozens of chickens, ducks and eight pigs. And because of the isolation of the sea, the wild animals on the island are mainly all kinds of seabirds, and there are no carnivorous beasts at all, so there is no need to worry about wild beasts attacking the breeding grounds, which is much stronger than Shengli Harbor and Black Earth Harbor, in order to prevent wild beast attacks, the breeding grounds in these two places not only dig isolation ditches on the periphery, but even specially bury bamboo and wood picket isolation belts.

On that day, the "Feisu" did not rush to travel overnight, but anchored at Fushuizhou Island for one night. The next day, as soon as it was dark, everyone got up and set off. After leaving the island, the sailboat headed southeast at full speed. The journey was smooth, and we arrived at the Yinggehai area in the afternoon. Before dark, the "Feisu" has arrived at the mouth of the Ningyuan River outside Yazhou, according to the schedule in advance, Tao Donglai's inspection will go to the Yazhou Office on the return trip, and this is also the last stop of this inspection trip.

At noon, Tom Wang used the radio to contact the Cliff Office once and informed him of the possible time. As soon as the "Feisu" arrived at the mouth of the Ningyuan River, he saw a Cangshan boat of the Ming Army Navy coming out of the estuary, and Luo Shengdong, who loved to join in the fun, would never miss such an opportunity to shoot the ass at close range.

Today, when Wang Tom contacted the Cliff Office, Luo Shengdong also happened to be drinking tea at the Cliff Office. Since taking the big ship of Haihan, Luo Shengdong found that his future suddenly became brighter, not only making a lot of money, but also his popularity in Yazhou City skyrocketed. Many powerful people knew that he had a good relationship with the Haihan people, and asked Luo Shengdong to buy the very tight Haihan goods on the market on his behalf Since the opening of the mainland route, most of the limited production of the group has been shipped to the more profitable mainland areas for sale, and it has become a scarce commodity in Yazhou, which is close to Shengli Port, and the price has risen sharply, not to mention, many things are in a state of price and no market.

In this case, without a special relationship, basically don't think about getting Haihan's goods. Even "Fu Ruifeng" and "Anfu Hong", which have business dealings with Haihan, have no solution to the current tight situation, and it is useless to have silver alone.

Luo Shengdong is a little different, he is the kind of Ming Dynasty official who can be "fought for" in the eyes of the Executive Committee, and when necessary, the Executive Committee will also give him some impetus from behind, such as providing him with a small amount of Haihan goods, so that he can establish his own connections in Yazhou.

This approach quickly took effect, and now in the elite circle of Yazhou City, Luo Jiang of Shuizhai is always a little famous, and even Jinyiwei and Dongchang Fanzi in Yazhou are now beginning to call him brothers. There is no other reason, none of these privileged department personnel stationed in Yazhou will be willing to stay in such a remote area, but if they want to be transferred back to the mainland to enjoy happiness, there are only two ways, one is to receive meritorious service awards, and the other is to bribe their bosses.

The special nature of Yazhou as a place of exile greatly reduces the possibility of receiving awards for meritorious service. It is full of criminals who have been exiled from all over the country, and it is difficult to find a charge to arrest these people and sentence them again? I am afraid that the consequences of doing so will only be angrily denounced by the superiors as incompetent. Then the only way left is to bribe the boss, but Yazhou is poor and has no special products, can't it be done to send coconuts and homespun cloth to the bosses in Qiongzhou and Guangzhou?

However, since the emergence of the Haihan people, this situation has changed, and the new products launched by the Haihan people are in short supply on the market, and these rare gadgets are perfect for gifts. Under the current situation that Yazhou Commercial Bank is out of stock, the local Jinyiwei and Dongchang Fanzi are eyeing Luo Shengdong's road.

Of course, there are also people with ill intentions in the middle, and Jian yì arrested Luo Shengdong and the Haihan people, and directly swallowed their goods in the name of confiscation, but the person who came up with this bad idea was quickly cleaned up internally. According to the current situation, the Haihan people have now gathered thousands of people in Yulin, in other words, there are thousands of people who rely on the Haihan people to eat, relying on the manpower of Yazhou, even if Jinyiwei and Dongchang join forces, I am afraid that there will be no return to Yulin to arrest people. This concern is not unfounded, two months ago sent to the inspection department, the entire team of people and horses have not returned to Yazhou during this time, except for the regular "patrol Yulin" Shuizhai warship brought back the letter of safety, these people seem to have disappeared out of thin air.

Jinyiwei and Dongchang are not all fools, they just eat the bowl of intelligence, of course, they can more or less detect that there is something wrong with the Haihan people, but so what? The Haihan people are just a group of businessmen, they did not kill officials and rebel, but they just sold some rare things through various channels. It is said that the Haihan people still have a militia group of hundreds of people on the Yulin side, and no one wants to make trouble for the Haihan people, not to mention that these two yamen are up and down, and who dares to say that they have not taken the benefits of the Yamen Office?

In addition to the two spy agencies, Luo Shengdong's prestige in Shuizhai is also getting higher and higher. Since Luo Shengdong got the one-foot square mirror requested by his sixth aunt for General He Shendong, General He has almost treated Luo Shengdong as a cronie. And due to the deformed system of Yazhou Water Village, there is no garrison and a thousand general settings under the generals, Luo Shengdong, the general manager, has a faint taste under one person and above the whole village, and even without the warrant of the generals, the warships of the whole village can be deployed to sail. And a group of people who followed Luo Shengdong to do things, after a few months of private salt business, are now all making a lot of money, which also brings him more followers.

For the current situation, Luo Shengdong himself has a very good idea, he knows very well that this qiē is due to the Haihan people, if the Haihan people cut off his source of goods, then the power he established in Yazhou Shuizhai will soon be scattered, and the connections in Yazhou City will be quickly severed, and the Haihan people will quickly help Luo Shengdong No. 2 to take his place and want to kick him off the stage and replace him, I am afraid there are a lot of people.

And every time I go to Shengli Port and see the speed of development there, Luo Shengdong will not have the idea of confrontation at all. Luo Shengdong also went to Shengli Port half a month ago, and happened to see at least twenty or thirty Haihan guns stacked on the wharf, and boxes of arquebuses were piled up like a hill, and these things were being carried and loaded into a lucky ship by the laborers. Luo Shengdong's top boss Ren Liang during the labor camp explained to him very lightly that the arms were being sold to a certain country in Nanyang. Luo Shengdong is a smart person, of course he can understand Ren Liang's extraneous voice, since Haihan can sell these weapons to the outside world, then he must already have stronger force. Thinking of the continuous forts under construction on both sides of the Shengli Harbor Fjord, Luo Shengdong knew that the current armament of the Haihan people had far exceeded the local Ming army, no, even if the more than 10,000 garrisons on the entire Qiongzhou Island were all added together, I am afraid that they would not be able to enter this harbor that was still deserted half a year ago.

The only good thing is that, at least so far, the Haihan people do not seem to intend to attack Yazhou by force. If that day really came, Luo Shengdong would be very hesitant whether he should be loyal to the Ming Dynasty, or whether he should take refuge in the invincible Haihan people as soon as possible. But in any case, having a good relationship with the Haihan people now will always leave a way back for the future. Therefore, Luo Shengdong ran to the Cliff Office almost every day when he was not on duty, and sometimes he would specially invite several local officials to go with him according to the instructions of the Cliff Office.

Referring to the national leaders of later generations, it stands to reason that Tao Donglai's whereabouts should be kept secret from the outside world, but after He Xi left, the vigilance of the gang in the Yaya Office in terms of intelligence security has indeed decreased a lot. After receiving the telegram information, Qiu Yuan, who was in charge of receiving Luo Shengdong, did not shy away from him, an outsider, and began to order his subordinates to go separately to buy vegetables, clean up, and prepare carriages and horses.

Luo Shengdong asked, I heard that Tao Dong was coming to Yazhou today, so he hurriedly asked Qiu Yuan for the task of greeting. Luo Shengdong has a very frequent contact with Haihan, and he is also very aware of Haihan's power structure, and Tao Donglai is undoubtedly the leadership core of this group of Haihan people. So Luo Shengdong invited Qiu Yuan to join him, ordered a Cangshan boat in Huishui Village, and waited for Tao Donglai to come to the mouth of the Ningyuan River.

After the two ships approached, everyone on the "Feisu" had already seen Luo Shengdong and Qiu Yuan who were standing on the bow of the Cangshan boat waving. Tao Donglai didn't think there was anything wrong with Luo Shengdong's greeting, so he and Tom Wang transferred to the Cangshan ship, and the "Feisu" was moored in the shallow water near the shore outside the mouth of the Ningyuan River.

During the greetings, Tao Donglai also revealed the fruitful results of this trip, selling tens of thousands of taels of silver in arms, and that thousands of immigrants will arrive at Shengli Port by ship recently.

After hearing this, Luo Shengdong also sighed: "I think that since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, there have been few such large-scale arms sales to foreign countries, coupled with the attachment of overseas people, Mr. Tao's actions are really a precedent in the history of the opening dynasty!"

Tao Donglai smiled and said: "Mr. Luo, we are not Ming people, and what we do is not for the Ming Dynasty." ”

Luo Shengdong replied embarrassedly: "Yes, yes, it's a gaffe!"

This time, Luo Shengdong did not intend to lose his words, but deliberately tried to do so. Although Tao Donglai revealed very little information, Luo Shengdong believed that what he said was the truth, because he had also happened to see the scene of Haihan arms loading on ships. Haihan now has all kinds of profitable transactions, and has been constantly introducing immigrants to enrich the population of Shengli Port, although Luo Shengdong is not a person on the intelligence front, but in fact, he has been very sensitive to smell a trace of danger. Although Tao Donglai has expressed his attitude more than once that Haihan will definitely not integrate into the Ming Dynasty, Luo Shengdong still wants to make sure again and again whether his attitude will change. But obviously, with the growing power of the Haihan Dynasty, their confidence has become more and more sufficient, and Tao Donglai, as always, has no intention of surrendering to the Ming Dynasty.

Tao Donglai's statement made Luo Shengdong a little worried, because according to the current development, the decline of Yazhou City and the rise of Shengli Port seem to be only a matter of time. In the past month or two, many immigrants who had previously moved to Shengli Port have returned to their hometowns to visit their relatives, and their own experiences have led more people to move to Shengli Port. Many people didn't even wait for the ships that regularly come to the vicinity of Nanshan to carry migrants, and instead traveled overland to Shengli Harbor. This is fundamentally different from the original immigration situation in Yazhou.

At the beginning, the immigrants recruited by the Yazhou Office were poor people who had lost their fields and had no skills to survive, and they had to grasp the life-saving straw of Haihan in order to survive. Recently, however, more and more people have been moved by the fact that the living conditions in Victory Harbor are superior, and most of these people are hired farmers and long-term laborers of the local magnates, and although they have no land themselves, they can live by doing farm work for the lord's family. The departure of this group has led to the abandonment of farmland on a small scale outside Yazhou, and the reduction in grain production is bound to create a new group of unemployed people after the recent autumn harvest.

In addition, the number of craftsmen in Yazhou City is also gradually decreasing, and only one of the original five blacksmith shops is still open, and carpenters, plasterers, and masons have also begun to disappear from Yazhou City unconsciously. Others may not know, but Luo Shengdong knows very well that these people basically went to Shengli Port. And the impact of this kind of craftsman's migration on the local area is particularly obvious, Luo Shengdong's future father-in-law's door was broken for four days, and he didn't find a carpenter to repair it all over the city, and finally he couldn't only drive the ducks to the shelves, or Luo Shengdong called two boatwrights from the water village to repair it.

If this development continues, within a year or two, I am afraid that there will only be an empty city left in Yazhou, and most of the others will move to Shengli Port, which is more lively and convenient for life, except for the prisoners in the various yamen and Yazhou prisons. And the people with this kind of thinking also include Luo Shengdong himself. He knew that the Haihan people had planned a large commercial area in Shengli Harbor, and that there were already merchants enclosing land there and preparing to build commercial facilities. Taking advantage of the fact that the price of land in Shengli Port has risen, Luo Shengdong is also ready to buy a piece of land there, as for the specific business, you can take a look at it slowly, and then occupy the place first.

Of course, Luo Shengdong also knew that his worries were a bit redundant, this should have been the matter of the Lord Zhizhou and the old men, and his little sailor didn't even have the slightest say in the local government. Since adults are not in a hurry, why bother with it, for now, it is better to get rich with peace of mind. Luo Shengdong put aside the distractions first, and turned to Tao Donglai to ask about the supply of several in-demand commodities recently.

The Cangshan boat went upstream, the boat was extremely slow, and it took a full hour to finally arrive at the pier in the north of Yazhou City. Ma Like, Mu Xiabai and Feng Anan from the Cliff Office have been waiting on the shore for a long time, and after a few words of greeting, they set out on their way home, and Tao Donglai also took this opportunity to experience a human-powered sedan chair with original flavor. Luo Shengdong knew that Tao Dong must have something important to come to the cliff office, and it would be a little inappropriate for him to drill into it on this occasion, so he immediately said goodbye and led the team back to Shuizhai.

After the group returned to the Cliff Office, Zhang Guang and Zhao Xiaoruo, who stayed at home, also came out to meet. Then there were a few errand runners from the Cliff Office, all of whom came out to meet this Haihan boss who met for the first time.

Naturally, the topic of the reception banquet will not leave the business negotiations in Vietnam, and the huge gains made by this trip also make everyone in the cliff office happy. Marik said with a smile: "Mr. Tao, this time the immigration problem has been solved, and the pressure on our side is much less." Although the number of immigrants in Yazhou has increased a lot recently, if it continues at this rate, I am afraid that in another half a year, there will be no one left in Yazhou who can move. ”

Tao Donglai shook his head and said: "Yazhou or Vietnam are not our final solution to the source of immigration, in the short term, Hainan Island and the surrounding areas are the mainstay, and in the long run, we still have to focus on the mainland." Needless to say, Hainan has a limited local population, but have you ever thought about the biggest problem that Vietnamese immigrants will bring to us?"

Marico replied tentatively, "Population ratio?"

"That's right. Tao Donglai nodded and said, "If we follow the current plan and bring in 30,000 to 40,000 Vietnamese immigrants in the next year, this number will greatly exceed the local naturalized population." Although in our eyes, the treatment of naturalized people will be treated equally, but the common people may not think so. We must take into account in advance the impact and impact that a large number of immigrants may have on the lives of local naturalized people, otherwise many problems may arise in the future. Xenophobia is nothing new. ”