Li Nai raised his head when he heard the sound and looked at the line next to him, and actually saw a few acquaintances, Wei Ping and his friends who had met in the inspection department yesterday, were also lining up here to receive breakfast. (Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable) Seeing that no one was paying attention to the left and right, Li Nai glanced at He Qiang, and the two silently changed the queue to the back of Wei Ping. Yesterday, they had a lot of questions about the inspection department, but Schneider was always staring at them, and it was inconvenient for them to communicate with Wei Ping alone.

Li Nai and He Qiang once thought that these people from the inspection department had been put under house arrest by the Haihan people, but now it seems that they are not so strict, these people can still enter and exit the small courtyard freely, and there is no one around to monitor them.

"Patrol Wei is early!" Li Nai pretended to greet Wei Ping.

Wei Ping saw that these two businessmen who had come to the inspection department yesterday to give gifts, and nodded in response. He didn't have much of the heart to deal with these foreign businessmen now, and all he was thinking about was how to get the Haihan people to give him a higher degree of freedom of movement, at least to break through the existing "within thirty zhang of the patrol department".

On the first day Wei Ping and his subordinates arrived in Shengli Port, they were placed under house arrest by the Haihan people in the small courtyard of the Inspection Division, and there were not only sentinels on duty 24 hours a day around the small courtyard, but even three meals were delivered from outside, and there was no opportunity to go out for activities at all. Wei Ping didn't know until this time that his brother-in-law had found a job for him.

Fortunately, the Haihan people are also kind, and there is no deduction in the living conditions, although the three meals are not very delicious, but at least they are full, and they can eat a meat meal the next day. The house was also quickly changed from a tent to a small cabin, although it still looked a little shabby outside, but seeing that the Haihan people actually installed glass windows on this small cabin, Wei Ping felt that he really had nothing to complain about The two sets of glassware in his brother-in-law's house were all sent by the Haihan people, and they were usually collected like treasures, and his two young nephews were not even allowed to touch it, if he knew that he actually lived in a house with glass windows here, I don't know what kind of expression he would have.

Of course, in addition to this, the economic reward promised by the Haihan people was the focus of Wei Ping's attention, and everyone could get double the original salary, and there was also a full fifty taels of "special office funds for the Yulin Inspection Division" every month, and this silver alone was as much as six hundred taels a year! After a brief discussion, everyone decided that Wei Ping would get half of the silver, and the remaining half would be divided equally among the other twelve subordinates.

However, although the plan was good, it could not catch up with the changes, and in the middle of the night on the fifth day of Victory Harbor, a guy tried to escape from the small courtyard, but was caught by the night patrol team leading the big black dog. The next morning, a Haihan leader surnamed Ren came from the labor camp and had the unfortunate man taken away, and he was to complete three months of hard labor in the labor camp, during which time he would not receive any payment. The Haihan leader, surnamed Ren, also said that because the inspection department stabbed such a Lou Zi, half of the "special office expenses" for the first month would be directly deducted, and all of them would be deducted if there was a similar situation again.

Someone asked a lot what would happen if there was a third case? The leader replied with a sad smile that if this kind of thing happened for the third time, then everyone in the inspection department would be sent directly to the labor camp without explanation.

So for the sake of everyone's interests, the rest of the people have lived in peace since then. Wei Ping found that many people would even remind each other that there was nothing to complain about in the current living situation, and that there should be no deviant thoughts, and that they would stay here for two or three years, and then they could buy a house and land when they returned to Yazhou. These people stayed in the courtyard every day, watching the Haihan people direct the people to constantly build roads and houses.

Of course, when a group of new immigrants came to the port, these people would also stand behind the fence of the small courtyard and watch, and bet that any of the new immigrants would be arrested and sent to a labor camp for disobeying orders on the dock. Wei Ping's vision is higher than these subordinates, with the arrival of immigrants in batches, his heart is sinking little by little, the more people here, the more the power of the Haihan people is growing, and the possibility of this place being restored to the rule of the Ming Dynasty is smaller.

As far as the locals Wei Ping and the others can come into contact with, whether it is the militia on duty or the ordinary small workers who deliver food, they must be called the "executive committee", and no one cares about the attitude of Yazhou officials towards this place, which is also a scene that Wei Ping has never seen in other places in Yazhou. In this case, it has become a very unrealistic idea for them to use these locals to transmit news to Yazhou, and if they must do so, it must be more likely that the news will reach the ears of the Haihan people directly.

A month later, there was no further problem on the part of the Inspection Department, and the Executive Committee issued them half of the "special office funds" as promised, and of course, this money was also distributed in the form of negotiable coupons. They were told that they could only exchange the negotiable notes for the equivalent of silver when they left Porto Victory in the future.

However, this is actually insignificant, because they have no need to spend money in this place, and the Haihan people are all responsible for food, clothing, and housing. The only things that the Haihan people sell to the outside world are salt and glassware, and even these two things are only sold to merchants, and they are not sold at all, and even if they buy them, they can't ship them out.

In view of the good performance of the inspection department, the executive committee finally agreed to give them more room to move, but still limited the scope to "within 30 zhang of the inspection department". As for what can be done within this thirty zhang distance, the only way to do it is to go to the canteen stall outside the gate of Base No. 1 to receive food at three meals a day.

Although the scope of activities is pitifully small, the whole inspection department cherishes this hard-won opportunity, and even Wei Ping, who has always liked to send his subordinates to do things, has changed his habits and personally goes to the queue to receive three meals every day, even this one in the morning. Wei Ping came out every day to have breakfast before returning to the small courtyard of the Inspection Department to continue to sleep.

This is of course one of the management tools of the Executive Committee, so that these people can go around the area outside the courtyard every day and talk to other people, at least to make them feel that they are not prisoners of this place. By gradually reducing their sense of hostility and resistance, it will be much easier to brainwash them with consciousness and culture through the various details of life. In this regard, there are already examples of Luo Shengdong and others, and the Executive Committee believes that these people in the Inspection Department will not be able to have a little more discipline than the Ming Army Naval Division.

This subtle effect still has a certain effect, at least Wei Ping's hostility towards the Haihan people has faded a lot compared to the beginning. He found that these Haihan people did not have the usual faces of the superiors, everyone seemed very peaceful, and they could get along with the ordinary people on an equal footing, which was absolutely impossible for the Ming gentry or wealthy merchants to do. Moreover, these Haihan people did not show obvious hostility towards the outsiders of the Inspection Department, and occasionally someone would even ask him "how long can I eat a meal of meat when I am in Yazhou", or "How many wives do Ming people usually marry" and other questions that make him cry and laugh.

Wei Ping was not at all surprised that merchants from Guangzhou finally appeared in Shengli Harbor. He knew that with the Haihan people's ability to do business, it was only a matter of time before they could sell glass products and refined salt to the mainland. What's more, the Haihan people have been constantly expanding the docks by the sea, and it will definitely not be just for the sake of docking their limited sea vessels. After living here for a long time, Wei Ping has slowly seen that the Haihan people have a lot of long-term plans for this place, and they don't just plan to use this place as a foothold.

Wei Ping noticed that the Haihan people had put a lot of effort into repairing the not too long road from the port to the No. 1 base, paving the entire road very smoothly with a kind of plaster, planting street trees and arranging flower beds and seats along the road. And that's not all, on both sides of the road, workers have already begun to level the ground under the command of the Haihan, and it seems that there is still some work to be done.

Some people in the Inspection Department believe that the Haihan people are building houses to house the increasing number of immigrants. But Wei Ping had a different view: the new arrivals were to be placed in a camp at the foot of the western mountain for a few days, and then most of them would be resettled elsewhere, and there were not many people who remained in Shengli Harbor, and the Haihan people did not need to build large-scale houses near the port to settle the migrants.

As for the next project of the Haihan people, Wei Ping believes that it is very likely to be facilities such as warehouses, shops, restaurants and restaurants. Because of the excellent location of this road in Victory Port, if it really becomes a prosperous port in the future, then a large number of foreign merchants and sailors will definitely need places to eat, lodging, and shopping, and the section of the road from the port to the gate of Base 1 will undoubtedly be the most prosperous area of the entire port area. And Wei Ping, who is more agile, has already smelled a glimmer of business opportunities from it.

Wei Ping pondered that if his guess was true, if he could open a restaurant or something like a restaurant in this place, he would definitely not have to worry about having no business in the future, and the money of the maritime merchants would be much better than the money of those poor ghosts in Yazhou. However, in order to do this, Wei Ping had two other problems that he had to overcome, one was to try to confirm whether his guess was true, and second, if this was the case, how to persuade the Haihan people to allow him to fund a business here.

Wei Ping came back from his contemplation, looked at Li Nai, who was staring at him, and suddenly had an idea in his heart.