Yu Xiaobao arrived here by boat with some representatives of merchants from Guangzhou, and the reason why they arrived here early is also very simple, that is, to start building their own business inns here in advance.

Although the Wanshan Port transshipment point built by Haihan at the mouth of the Pearl River can also provide convenient transshipment services for Daming maritime merchants, the scale of the local port is really small and cannot meet the expanding trade needs between Haihan and Daming. Moreover, Wanshan Port is a military control area under the jurisdiction of the militia group, which not only has many restrictions on ships and personnel arriving at the port, but also does not allow merchants to build commercial facilities on the island on their own, and merchants can only rent warehouses, commercial inns and other facilities that have been built on the island, which undoubtedly increases the operating costs of merchants to a certain extent.

The development and construction of Hong Kong Island will change this status quo, and in the future, the role of Wanshan Port will tend to be more military, and the functions of trade and transshipment of goods will be more undertaken by the port on Hong Kong Island. At present, the land demarcated by Haihan in the southwest of Hong Kong Island is still smaller than when Shengli Port was first built, and it has to be evenly distributed among dozens of merchants, and the area that each one can obtain is not too large. But the Executive Committee's goal is to annex the entire island in the near future, and by then a few dozen merchants will be more than enough for even a few hundred.

Of course, these merchants are not interested in the geographical advantages of Hong Kong Island itself, but the current development project is dominated by Haihan. Haihan's ability to develop ports has been proven by two ports in Sanya, and its business reputation is impeccable.

The garrison of the Ming Army's naval division on the north side of Hong Kong Island obviously heard some rumors, and sent a few ships to inspect in the first few days, but when they encountered two "adventure-class" warships of the Haihan Navy off Ap Lei Chau, they immediately retreated—the Haihan Navy opened the ship's gunsoft window very unfriendly, revealing a whole row of black holes. Several ships of the Ming army were added together, and there were only two small-caliber copper cannons in total, of course, they did not dare to blow up with the Haihan side, and the officer who led the team gave an order, and the warships of the Ming army quickly left this dangerous water area and turned back to the north.

Of course, the militia navy did not have the intention of engaging in an armed conflict with the Ming army's sailors, and the purpose of doing so was more to show off their muscles. With the development of this seaport, there will be a large influx of wealth and population into the local area, and the local garrisons, which have always relied on the mountains and water, may inevitably turn their minds to this side. It is better to show your muscles earlier, and to get rid of some people's unstable minds earlier.

In addition to the hard means of the threat of force, Haihan's side also prepared some soft measures to break the vigilance of the Ming garrison on the island. This kind of method has been successfully used on Qiongzhou Island many times to win over the Ming army, but for the economically distressed Ming army, these bribery methods are direct and effective, and are rarely refused. In addition, with the support of Luo Shengdong, the "consultant", the relevant departments will not give gifts to the wrong object because of the unclear establishment of the Ming military position when operating.

The Executive Committee did not expect the Ming garrisons on the island to take the initiative to withdraw in a short period of time, and this was not something they could decide, and the transfer of these garrisons would probably have to be ordered by Wang Zunde, the governor of Liangguang. At present, the Executive Committee has no intention of revealing its intention to annex the entire Hong Kong Island, and at this stage, it is good to maintain a state of peace and quiet with the Ming army on the island. Of course, if you can win over some Ming soldiers, especially the sailors and crews in the navy, and let them join the ranks of the Haihan Navy to achieve the goal of disintegrating the opponent's combat effectiveness, it will naturally be the best way.

However, the small number of Ming troops does not mean that the Executive Committee will relax its control over this area. As a matter of fact, after the Central Military Commission put forward a plan for the expansion of the army, preparations for the Guangdong Military Region were already underway. Although it is an exaggeration to call the establishment of a battalion a military region, both the Executive Committee and the Central Military Commission still attach great importance to this step.

Prior to this, the garrisons near Guangdong were relatively scattered, and in addition to the army and navy stationed on the port of Wanshan, a small number of militia fighters were stationed at the migrant transfer base in Panyu and the Guangzhou Office. With the gradual expansion of Haihan's control area in the mainland region, the previous troop allocation is no longer able to meet the needs of today's security and defense. Among other things, the forts and other military defenses that the military is planning to build at Ap Lei Chau alone will require at least two companies of combat personnel, not including the navy that will guard the waters around Hong Kong Island in the future.

According to the CMC's intentions, the number of Haihan's garrisons in the Pearl River Delta must be sufficient to ensure the security of several major strongholds—at least to ensure that Haihan's interests in Guangzhou would not be devastated. In addition to increasing the number of military personnel stationed in the locality, it is more important that the troops stationed in various localities can coordinate with each other and accept unified command.

At present, the leading body of the Guangdong Military Region, which is favored by the Central Military Commission, is still Yu Yao and Xiao Liang, who were the first to go to the region. Both of them are from military backgrounds, have relatively strong professional qualities, have been stationed in Guangzhou for two years, and have been partners for a long enough time, are relatively familiar with various local situations, and have also participated in all the military operations of the militia in the mainland, and have a certain amount of actual combat experience, so it can be said that they basically cannot pick out obvious shortcomings. Chen Yixin, a young officer currently stationed at Wanshan Port, is very likely to be upgraded from the current military commander of Wanshan Port to the commander of the army of the Guangdong Military Region.

Of course, it is not enough to expand the army, and the navy must also have a corresponding expansion plan. In fact, the Navy's expansion plan was approved by the Executive Committee earlier than the Army, but because the Navy's plan involves the construction of a large number of combat ships, the military formation period is much longer than that of the Army.

The naval forces under the jurisdiction of the Guangdong Military Region planned by Wang Tom must have at least one 1,500-ton steam-assisted warship as the flagship, and it seems that it will take at least three to five months to realize this plan, and this timetable will only be realized if all the installation and commissioning work can be completed smoothly.

There is another reason that restricts the expansion plan of the navy, that is, the existing ports under the control of the Haihan militia cannot dock an entire fleet for a long time, even in Wanshan Port - if a future main warship sails into the narrow port area of Wanshan Port, it will find it very difficult to turn around inside, and this will obviously not be conducive to the sailing of warships in an emergency.

Obviously, there will be no such problems in the new port of Hong Kong Island after it is completed, there are two channels in and out of the bay, one in the south and one in the north, and there will be a coastal defense battery on the Ap Lei Island that covers the bay as a cover, so it is obviously more appropriate for warships to dock in the bay here.

Even though the navy has already begun to retrain personnel in preparation for the next flagship sea trials, it is estimated that the navy of the Guangdong Military Region will still lag far behind the army when it will be formally established. However, despite this, the militia navy has already transferred several warships into the East Hiroo Strait in the southwest of Hong Kong Island, patrolling the waters between Hong Kong Island and Lamma Island every day, bringing this area under the control of the navy for the first time.

At night that day, Yu Dashan carried a bottle of "Sanya Special Brew" and a bag of peanuts brought from Shengli Port and walked into the cadre residential area at the east end of the harbor. The so-called cadre living area here is actually a collective dormitory built from the prefabricated house operated by Daben, but for the identity of the Yu family's father and son, being able to live in this kind of prefabricated house itself is a manifestation of identity, and they will not be dissatisfied with the simple furnishings in the room.

Taking into account the actual situation of the father and son, the engineering command assigned them a separate dormitory, which was already a very generous treatment among the naturalized people. There is only a bunk bed, a wardrobe and a set of tables and chairs in the room, the area is only ** square meters, and even the usual solar LED light source is not assembled, only an oil lamp as illumination.

"Is it done?" When Yu Dashan entered the house, he saw that his son was still writing in front of the oil lamp, so he asked casually.

"Right away. Yu Xiaobao replied without replying.

"Don't panic, take your time, don't make any mistakes!" Yu Dashan was afraid that his son would be in a hurry, so he hurriedly admonished.

After Yu Xiaobao arrived at the port, he quickly devoted himself to local work, and there were a large number of data that needed to be summarized by him, and then reported to the Guangzhou Office, which then organized manpower and corresponding materials to be sent over in Guangzhou according to the information fed back by Yu Xiaobao. It's not a onerous task, but it's a lot of responsibility.

Yu Xiaobao was making an abacus while recording all kinds of statistics he had received today on a piece of paper, and after about half an hour, he stretched out and stopped. When I looked back, my father was sitting at the door, looking up at the night sky, and I didn't know what he was thinking.

Yu Xiaobao took the things on the table aside, put the wine and food brought back by Dashan on the table, and then went to the door to help him up: "Dad, I'm done, come in and sit!"

The father and son sat down at the table, Yu Xiaobao took the rice bowl used by the two of them, and naturally opened the wine bottle and poured wine.

Yu Dashan picked up the bowl and said, "Hard work!"

Yu Xiaobao responded with a smile and said "hard work", picked up the bowl and touched it lightly, and then took a big sip.

The two fathers and sons peeled peanuts and were silent for a while, before Yu Xiaobao took the initiative to ask, "Is the situation on the dock site okay today?"

Yu Dashan nodded and said, "As usual, these workers are all from the base camp, and they are all skilled in their work. However, these two boats of people were only pulled from Panyu today, and there are quite a lot of problems!"

"Disobedient?" asked Yu Xiaobao.

"It's not just disobedience, a few guys are planning to make some trouble, but when the people of the militia saw that the situation was not good, they directly picked up the sticks, knocked over more than a dozen people on the spot, and took them all away, and it is estimated that they have been sent to Wanshan Port at this time. Yu Dashan said that he took another sip of the bowl and drank it when he was excited, wiped his mouth and said: "When these guys were in Panyu, they didn't know if they had received camp education, and they didn't understand any rules.

Yu Xiaobao responded: "The child knows a little bit about this matter, Chief Sha, who is in charge of immigration affairs here in the Guangzhou Office, has recently gone on a business trip to other places, and several people under him are not very capable, and they probably don't care too much about the affairs of Panyu." I'll mention this when I write my report. ”

"Don't go to do too much!" Yu Dashan immediately stopped him: "It's not within the scope of your work, don't be strong!" You think you're doing your duty, but have you thought about it, it's sweeping the face of the head of Sha in doing so! Besides, you are also a naturalized citizen, you have to come forward to complain, how will your colleagues think of you in the future?"

"This ......" Yu Xiaobao heard his father say this, but he hesitated a little: "Then I know about this matter, but it's not appropriate to ask, right?"

Yu Dashan shook his head again and again and said: "You have to pay attention to ways and means to do things, and my father didn't say that you should leave it alone! These new immigrants are disobedient, so naturally there are police and militia groups to teach them how to behave." And you're in charge of the coordination, and what you need to report to the chiefs is to count how many people here have been sent to hard labor camps for violating labor records. The chiefs are all shrewd people, and they will naturally see the problem from the number you have counted here, and when the time comes, who should be responsible and who will take the blame, it will not have anything to do with you directly. ”

"Dad, you ......" Yu Xiaobao had to admire Jiang for being old and spicy, this kind of routine was indeed unthinkable for a young man like him, who had only been working for a short time. The reason is very simple, as soon as Yu Dashan pointed out, he already understood, but as a party, it was difficult for him to think of this aspect.

"Take your time, you have to learn. Yu Dashan is also a little complacent about this.

Yu Dashan also encountered a similar situation in his early work, when he also had a similar attitude to Yu Xiaobao, believing that it was necessary to inform the chief as much as possible in order to be conscientious, but the consequences of dealing with it were not satisfactory. Later, after a long time, he also slowly improved his working methods, trying to do his duty as a foreman while not directly offending people.