Those who came early, such as Li Nai and others, naturally do not need to participate in the commodity bidding again, and the orders of "Fu Ruifeng" are guaranteed by the trade agreement between the two sides, and there is no need to worry about their goods being sold to others. But Li Nai really wanted to join the ranks of the bidding, after all, no one would have too many Haihan goods that could be bought here, and as long as they were shipped back to Guangzhou, they could be exchanged for white flowers and silver immediately. However, Li Nai's request was finally rejected by the Executive Committee, because this sale activity is to open the mainland market, and if the goods are still wrapped up by the "Fu Ruifeng" family, it will completely deviate from the goal of this event.

"The first thing you see is the locally produced silver mirror, which is divided into four specifications: two-inch, five-inch, and eight-inch round mirrors and one-foot square mirrors. First of all, there are fifty two-inch round mirrors, you can first take a look at the samples we showed, the light is clear and not deformed, and there is no need to re-grind it regularly like a copper mirror, it will not rust when wet, and it is light in weight and small in size, so it is easy to carry out the door...... "Today's auctioneer is Tao Donglai to make a cameo in person, so as to be able to deal with the problems that may arise in the auction process in a timely manner, after all, this kind of event is the first time to be held, and everyone has no experience at all, so they can only let Tao Dong, who has strong mouth cannon skills, take on this important task."

Seeing that everyone had already inspected the sample, Tao Donglai turned back to the topic: "The starting price of this fifty-sided two-inch silver mirror is 200 yuan, and the price is increased by 20 yuan by default every time the card is raised.

Some of the merchants in the audience are still pondering the price, and some have immediately raised their cards to offer: "Two hundred!"

"Company C bids two hundred yuan!" Tao Donglai replied loudly.

Only then did the others react and hurriedly raised their cards to make an offer. The market price of the two-inch Haihan silver mirror in Guangzhou is currently more than 35 taels per side, and the market value of these 50 mirrors is more than 1,700 taels of silver.

"Two hundred and twenty!" "Three hundred!" "Four hundred!"

Merchants from the mainland have been waiting for too long, obviously not enough patience to increase the price according to the range of 20 yuan each time, and soon some people began to raise the price in units of 100 taels, after all, the market value of this thing is there, and it is easy for everyone to estimate how much profit margin their quotation is.

After some fierce competition, it was finally a businessman surnamed He from Zhaoqing Mansion who auctioned the fifty two-inch silver mirrors at a price of 1,320 yuan. Some other merchants think that the profit from shipping back to Guangzhou for sale at this cost is not too much, after all, they have to pay a certain tax to the government after shipping back. Some merchants are aware of the fierce competition and want to save their money for better goods. And this businessman surnamed He considered that after these mirrors were shipped back to Zhaoqing Mansion, the market value was at least more than two thousand taels, and he could still make a relatively large profit if he auctioned them at this higher price.

Of course, this transaction price is more ideal for the crossing group, the two-inch silver mirror is 20 yuan per side, after such a competition, it sold hundreds of more circulation coupons, and the speed of appreciation can not be faster. And for the goods to be auctioned today, these fifty mirrors are just an appetizer.

The next several larger-sized silver mirrors continued to bid for high prices, and finally the total price of the five one-foot square mirrors was more than 6,000 yuan, which exceeded the original issue price by 50%. This is not that the merchants are rich and capricious, but a square mirror is indeed a rarity in the current Guangzhou market, after several months of speculation, the price of one side has stabilized at more than 1,500 taels, and there are even cases of wealthy businessmen in Jiangsu and Zhejiang who have paid 1,800 taels to buy a sea Han square mirror in Guangzhou.

At the current price, it is actually very profitable after being shipped back to the mainland, and if this thing is put in its own commercial house, the passenger flow will definitely be significantly improved, and the advertising effect is enough to hype for a long time.

The auction of the day continued until the sun went down at the strong request of the merchants. The turnover of this half-day alone has exceeded 30,000 yuan, and compared with the previous sale method, the average transaction price has increased by more than 25%.

Early the next morning, some anxious merchants took the cash box to the door of the currency exchange center to line up, and the previous day's auction had already used up the circulation coupons on hand, and they had to exchange some again to cope with today's auction sale. And some people who don't have enough money can only watch the play on the wall today. It is said that today the Haihan people will also sell a two-foot-long, one-foot-wide "giant" Haihan silver mirror at the auction, as well as several merchants of silver today are holding back their strength to grab such good goods, and because this is a new product that has never been sold to the public, so the powerful "Fu Ruifeng" has also been licensed to join the ranks of the auction.

In addition, the high-end colored carved stationery in the glass stationery and ten sets of special commemorative editions of the Ding Mao Year are also auctioned today, which are all valuable treasures for merchants, if you miss this sale, you don't know when you will have a chance next time.

However, today's auctioneer has changed, and Ning Qi, another mouth cannon player from the crossing group, has replaced Tao Dong to preside. Although Ning Qi is not a member of the business system, he has accumulated a wealth of experience from his years as a university lecturer, and there is no trace of stage fright when he hosts such activities on stage. And the Ming merchants of this era are simply simple in Ning Qi's eyes, and they are obviously much easier to deal with than the eccentric college students in later generations.

Tao Donglai did not intend to be absent from the auction because the process was so smooth yesterday that he lost interest, but because there was another scheduled schedule that he had to attend today. When the merchants walked into the auction site of the No. 1 base, Tao Donglai also stepped on the barracks dock on the east bank of Shengli Port. Today is the day when the third batch of militia cadets have completed their training and officially enlisted in the army, and as the supreme commander of the military forces of the crossing group, Tao Donglai will definitely show up on such an important occasion.

In addition to reviewing the results of the training of the third group of militiamen, it is also necessary to review the fourth group of militiamen who have undergone military training for nearly a month, as well as the first batch of ordinary people who have received military training, and finally the live-fire exercise of the first batch of naturalized civilian artillerymen. For the current military training system, today is the time to verify the results. This military training is also a rehearsal for the military parade at the end of the year, when there will be a public military parade for all the traversers and ordinary naturalized people, in order to promote the armed forces of the Haihan and Han Dynasty and boost the morale and confidence of the people.

Most of the first trained militia were stationed in the port of Heitu, and then gradually rotated by cargo ships between the two places. Half of the second militia were sent to the Tu Son Peninsula to serve as North Vietnamese military advisers and train North Vietnamese soldiers to use firearms. It can be said that the enlistment of the third group of militia will greatly alleviate the current situation of military tension and make the local militia garrison arrangements not too stretched.

Of course, the existing number of militia is still far from sufficient for the Military Police Department, and the Military Police Department estimates that the Shengli Port Coastal Defense Battery alone will require at least 200 or more men to be fully manned, and at least 30 to 40 qualified gunners who have passed the examination must be assigned to each gun position to be responsible for commanding the operation. And now, both the soldiers and the gunners are still far from the figures expected by the Military Police Department. There was also a suggestion in the military police department to select some young men from the prisoners of war and prisoners transported from North Vietnam to join the militia, but this proposal was quickly rejected by the executive committee.

Now that the economy of the Crossing Group is in good shape, and the rate of population importation has been greatly accelerated, the Executive Committee is not as resistant to the expansion of the Military Police Department as it was at the beginning, but it believes that the use of prisoners of war and prisoners must still be carried out cautiously. While some of these people are wronged, many of them are dangerous people who have killed people and seen blood, and their positions are different from those of North Vietnamese immigrants, and allowing them to enter violent institutions is likely to pose a threat to the growing number of North Vietnamese immigrants in the country.

Ning Qi pointed out that the race of South Vietnam is somewhat different from that of North Vietnam, and the proportion of Malay people is relatively high, and there are obvious differences between them and the Sinicized Yue people in North Vietnam in terms of language, living habits, and cultural traditions, and it is difficult to include these people in the system of naturalized people. Moreover, the IQ of the Southeast Asian race is significantly lower than that of the East Asian race, which is the result of scientific research in later generations, limited by the means of cultural transmission, in this era, the civilization gap between Southeast Asia and the Ming Dynasty is greater than that of later generations, and the more south of Asia, the closer the local indigenous people are to the state of barbarism, and even the formed social system can not be talked about.

Of course, the Nanyue region, located on the Indochina Peninsula, is not as backward as those island tribes in the south, such as the Champa city, which was founded in the Qin and Han dynasties, and its civilization is still relatively high. However, in the view of the Executive Committee, the island tribes, whether they were Champa or further south, were areas that could not be reused by the local natives because of their inherent racial inferiority, and could at most be used as labor force like the South Vietnamese prisoners of war in the labor camps.

Compared with the Southeast Asian race that has always been called "monkeys" by the people who have crossed the country, the Ming Dynasty and the deeply sinicized North Vietnam are obviously more in line with the requirements of the Executive Committee for naturalized people. It is said that some of the first North Vietnamese immigrants to arrive have already signed up for the fourth group of militia.

The third group of militiamen, dressed in gray cloth uniforms, marched past the rostrum in platoons and carrying the latest equipment of Type 27 arquebuses. The style of this military uniform is closer to the military uniform of the New Fourth Army of the Eighth Route Army in later generations, with a short cardigan, trouser leggings, plus a cowhide armed belt and cloth shoes, and a "Haihan Mintuan" armband is worn on the left arm. However, because most people still have hair buns, they are not issued with short-brimmed cloth hats that are inconvenient to wear, but use a rattan helmet with a unified style, which is basically copied from the rattan helmet style of Zheng Chenggong's rattan army.

According to the feedback from the grassroots, the military police department has gradually canceled the original camouflage military uniforms and replaced them with gray cloth military uniforms that are cheaper and more suitable for large-scale equipment. The militia is obviously more receptive to this kind of military uniform, because they generally think that the fancy camouflage military uniform is simply a beggar's dress, without any prestige, and this perception has also spread to the people, greatly affecting the people's intuitive perception of the army's combat effectiveness. The Military Police Department had to silently begin to recycle the camouflage uniforms that had been issued at the beginning, and sent some of them to the combat unit trained by Qian Tiandun in Heitu Port in the mountainous and jungle areas, which may be the place where the camouflage uniforms are really needed.

Tao Donglai, Yan Chujie and others stood on the viewing platform, looking at the militia phalanx marching in unison, and at the same time thinking about the future planning of the Military Police Department.

At present, after several expansions of the militia forces of the crossing group, including the fourth group of militia still in training, there are already two companies of security guards and a total of five companies of militia, one of which belongs to a combat unit authorized by the Military Police Department to be privately organized by Qian Tiandun, and the executive committee is not very clear about its real establishment.

However, such a military size is still a little weak for the speed of expansion of the crossing group, especially the combat force at sea, which is still in a state of almost zero, and there is not even a real warship, let alone a formal naval or sailor establishment. The five companies of militia seem to be quite a lot, but they have to be stationed in the base camp, Tielu Port, Heitu Port, and Tushan Peninsula respectively, and the actual number of troops that can be mobile is pitiful. In other words, the current military strength of the Crossing Group is estimated to be able to protect itself, but it is still insufficient to launch military operations against the outside world.

In order to change this situation, the Military Police believes that in addition to the continuous expansion of the militia, large-scale military training for the population of appropriate age is also one of the solutions. Turning the population of appropriate age into militias, and turning existing militias into professional soldiers, in exchange for the mobility of a limited military force, would at least be able to launch small-scale military operations when necessary.

"Mr. Tao, these two phalanxes are ordinary naturalized people who have been trained since last month. Gu Wei, who was standing beside Tao Donglai, introduced softly. He is currently the head of the entire training camp, and he is responsible for formulating and organizing all military training plans. Today's military parade can also be regarded as a large volume handed over by Gu Wei to the Military Police Department and the Executive Committee.

Tao Donglai came back to his senses from his contemplation and raised his hand to greet the militia phalanx passing by the rostrum. These irregular militias do not receive in-depth military training, and their current training is based on familiarity with military orders, marching in formations, and basic military skills, and they do not even have access to firearms. These irregular militias are equipped with two kinds of weapons, one is a five-meter-long wooden iron-tipped spear, needless to say that this is an imitation of the famous Spanish spearmen in history, which can fight with musketeers in wartime, and the relevant tactics are very mature and not complicated, and can be directly applied to these militias who have little military foundation. The other is a rattan soldier equipped with a rattan short sword, whose main role is to cooperate with the pikemen.

Of course, the Military Police Department does not expect to really send these arms to the battlefield in the future, and they will still undertake the daily garrison tasks, so as to liberate the musket units that have begun to become professional as much as possible from the garrison and become a truly professional army. And these spearmen or rattan soldiers, in wartime, the biggest function is not to kill the enemy, but to act as a logistical force for transporting supplies, cleaning the battlefield, and ambulating the wounded.

A total of two companies are currently undergoing military training at a frequency of one day five times a month. If one of the more qualified personnel is discovered by the instructor, it is also possible to be promoted to the real military establishment. And the people are not disgusted with this kind of military training, the reason is very simple, the people will record double the number of working hours when they participate in military training, which is equivalent to at least five more days of income per month, and the personnel who enter the grass-roots militia also enjoy a certain amount of subsidies every month, and they also have priority in the promotion of labor grades.

With the gradual expansion of the size of the naturalized civilian forces, further improvement in the establishment of the army has become imminent. Since there are not many personnel in the military and police department who can really engage in operational command, the positions held by the cross-cutting staff in the plan are at least at the level of platoon commanders, but at present it seems that such an establishment is no longer suitable for the actual situation of the army, and the number of cross-cutting officers is too small, and if the scale of the army continues to expand, it will not be able to cover the command of the grass-roots level.

However, the speed of training of naturalized civilian officers obviously cannot keep up with the speed of expansion of the army's establishment, and the military police department really cannot let go of the fact that those naturalized civilians who have only received military training for less than half a year and have not even fought a war serve as operational commanders at the grassroots level.

The solution of the Military Police Department to this problem is to change the establishment of the military and replace the current simple three-three system with a more scientific and rational military establishment. For example, in the past, the establishment of three squads at the platoon level was simply three squads combined into one platoon, but now the establishment of a comprehensive support squad should be increased from the platoon level, and in addition to the original three squads, a comprehensive support squad will be added, which will mainly undertake such tasks as communications, engineers, material transportation, battlefield rescue, and logistics. In this way, the number of personnel under the direct command of each platoon commander will be increased by one-third on the existing basis, and the reorganization and expansion will be realized on the basis of no large-scale adjustment, so as to enhance the actual combat effectiveness of the troops.