Regardless of whether the plan for the development of Dawanshan Island still has uncontrollable risks, the system is the system, and since the plan has been discussed and approved by the Executive Committee, it is logical to enter the implementation stage. (Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable)

Although it was the Central Military Commission and the Ministry of Commerce that put forward the plan, in order to implement this plan, it is far from enough to rely on these two alone, and the civil affairs, shipping, and construction departments must all be involved. How to carry out the infrastructure work on the island, how many supplies and personnel need to be transported, and how to arrange the capacity of the ships all need to be coordinated between the various departments. Therefore, at the initiative of Tao Donglai, a "Dawanshan Island Project Development Office" was set up to operate the project.

Naturally, the "Qiong Lianfa" that was chosen as a shield was not forgotten, and a telegram from the base camp was sent to Guangzhou, and there were clerks who spent money to go to the yamen to register the "Wanshan Island Warehouse." As long as money can solve the problem, it is a trivial matter for the Guangzhou Office and the "Qiong Lianfa." As for whether the "Qiong Lianfa" built a warehouse or a fort on the island, the old men of the Guangzhou government were not interested in going out to sea to inspect it by boat. Of course, "Qiong Lianfa" is not in vain to top this pot, and after the construction of the facilities on Dawanshan Island is completed in the future, "Qiong Lianfa" will have two free warehouses in the local area as a return on the initial "investment".

In fact, if it were not for the concern that Dawanshan Island was under the nose of the Ming army and needed a legal reputation, the military would not want to involve such a private organization as "Qiong Lianfa". After all, Dawanshan Island is not a purely commercial development project, and after being forced to add a commercial factor, it is conceivable that the military's future defense mission will be much more complicated by the entry and exit of merchant ships.

Although the construction schedule proposed by the military in the plan was three months, which was very timely, two days after the executive committee passed the proposal to Guò, the military sent the "Lightning" north, and an engineering team led by Wang Tom went to Dawanshan Island to conduct on-the-spot investigations.

The leader of the engineering team is Liu Shanxia, the second-in-command of the Ministry of Construction, and he is also one of the busiest people in the crossing group at present. was able to invite this busy man out, not only the face of the military, but also Tao Donglai's personal relationship played a role. Liu Shanxia had been a colleague with Tao Donglai for many years before the crossing, and if Tao Donglai hadn't personally invited him this time, it would have been difficult for him to put down a bunch of affairs at hand and follow the military people to the sea to investigate the desert island.

When the Heitu Port was first developed, Liu Shanxia went to the local area to serve as the commander-in-chief of the infrastructure project, and this achievement also greatly consolidated his position in the Ministry of Construction. The subsequent development of the Iron Furnace Port, and even the ongoing development of the Sanya Inland River New Port, were all under the charge of Liu Shanxia, and it can be said that Liu Shanxia has no more experience in the construction of new settlements than in the Crossing Group.

"The last time I went to sea was in October last year, and I haven't been on a ship since the development of Iron Furnace Port. Although the high wind and rough sea conditions made Liu Shanxia's face a little pale, it was still difficult to hide the excitement in his tone: "I haven't found this kind of opportunity to come out for breath for a long time!"

"Then you should treat this mission as a vacation!" Wang Tom quipped, holding the steering wheel, "If you are interested, you can go to Guangzhou for a few days when you are done." ”

"Forget it, if Mr. Tao knew that I had this spare time, he would have to throw a bunch of tasks to me when I went back. Liu Shanxia shook his head and said: "Guangzhou or something, it's better to keep it for the future, let's talk about it later, I'm just working hard, being a hard contractor before crossing, and I still do the same work as before! Sometimes I am also wondering what I plan to do when I pass through, if I really want to be a contractor for a lifetime, it is better not to follow at the beginning!"

"Don't be pessimistic, when we build a country in the future, you will be a ...... It's also a ...... By the way, I heard Ning Qi say that he was a big official of the second grade!" Tom Wang replied with a smile. (Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable)

"Forget about Shangshu, my official position is not low now, Deputy Minister of Construction, if the official rank of the Lighting Dynasty is counted, it is probably the level of the Ministry of Industry's squire Lang Zhengsanpin! It's just that the treatment is not very good, with such a big title, doing the work of moving bricks, I don't know when I will be able to enjoy the blessings!" Liu Shanxia shook his head and changed the topic: "It's more practical like you, how comfortable it is to sail to sea! If I wasn't a little seasick, I would want to change my career to be a sailor." ”

The "Lightning" encountered bad weather when it sailed near the Qizhou Islands in the northeastern waters of Hainan Island, and the only islands here were all rocky coasts, and they did not have the conditions to dock or take shelter from the wind and waves. For safety reasons, Tom had to change his original route and turn northwest to avoid the wind and waves.

The "Lightning" traveled north along the Wailuo Waterway on the east side of the Leizhou Peninsula, and only turned east after reaching the island of Jinzhou. At the beginning, Gao Qiaonan's pirate gang came from Jinzhou Island off the coast of Zhanjiang. Considering that there may still be pirates on Jinzhou Island, the "Lightning" did not stop here, and sailed to the sea area of Yangjiang County, Zhaoqing Prefecture, before finding a relatively secluded sea area to rest for the night.

Due to the temporary change of the route on the way, the expedition took a day and a half longer than the original voyage to reach the waters of the Pearl River estuary. It was not the first time that Tom had come to this sea, so he had almost easily found the location of the Wanshan Islands.

"Ahead is Dawanshan Island. Wang Tom said as he handed the telescope to Liu Shanxia.

Liu Shanxia took the telescope and looked over there, the mountain peaks on the island at an altitude of more than 400 meters were just an inconspicuous tip rising from the sea level in the telescope.

After another half an hour of walking, the outline of Dawanshan Island and the adjacent Xiaowanshan Island finally became clear. The "Lightning" travels from west to east, facing this natural haven on the west side of Dawanshan Island. This harbor is actually very small, less than 500 meters deep and less than 400 meters wide, and the same width inside and outside is basically rectangular, because the area is too small and there is no narrow harbor entrance like Shengli Harbor or inland river port to shelter the waves, and the effect of sheltering from wind and waves is not necessarily very good. According to the information that Liu Shanxia has, in later generations, this small harbor was specially built with three breakwaters in the north and two in the south to strengthen the wind shelter effect here, but to build this kind of breakwater that extends into the sea in the current era, the amount of work is really too large.

The Bliksem lowered its sails and slowed down as soon as it entered the harbor, routinely collecting a number of channels and water depths so that the shipping department could use them to calculate the design docking capacity of the harbor. Although the GJO has collected some relevant information in this area in the past six months, Wang Tom believes that it is necessary to take into account the influence of seasonal and tidal changes, and the richer the measured numbers, the better.

After landing, the main work was handed over to the engineering team led by Liu Shanxia to complete, and Wang Tom took a few militiamen into the mountain, planning to go to the commanding height of the island to have a look. In the future, after a military stronghold is built here, it is bound to set up an observation post at the commanding heights, and Wang Tom can be regarded as a front station.

Since there were no people on this desert island, and there were no predators of predators, the environment was relatively safe, and the two teams began to work separately after agreeing on the radio contact time.

According to the military's plan, on this small harbor coast, it is necessary to build infrastructure such as passenger and freight terminals, warehouses, commercial inns, garrison barracks, port fortifications, and people's residential areas, and also take into account the needs of drinking water, sewage, transportation, etc. It took the engineering team half a day, and it only preliminarily completed the surveying and mapping work in the wharf area.

The Guangzhou Office, which received the news, also sent Xiao Liang and Yu Yao, who arrived at the harbor by boat in the evening of the same day. Because these two people have been to Dawanshan Island many times and have a better understanding of the situation here, the military also specially dispatched them to assist in the investigation.

The inspection of Dawanshan Island was completed for three whole days, and Liu Shanxia already had a general idea of the development plan in his mind, and when he returned to Shengli Port, he could slowly sort it out and start the preparation of relevant materials. Because the location of Dawanshan Island is very close to the mainland, a considerable part of the materials and even construction personnel do not need to be shipped from the base camp, and can be prepared directly in Guangzhou, which can save a lot of trouble in the transportation process.

However, there is one thing that the almighty Guangzhou Office has no way to do for it, and that is the garrison of Dawanshan Island. According to the military's plan, at least one company of army units will be stationed on Dawanshan Island, and as for whether or not to send naval units, it will depend on the speed of the navy's formation of troops, and judging from the current progress, it will be possible to send a formed naval fleet to the base at the mouth of the Pearl River at least in the second half of the year.

The militia is less resistant to being sent overseas to serve. First of all, the military has already realized the rotation system promised at the beginning, and the troops stationed overseas can return to their homeland in a maximum of six months and a minimum of three months. As for the newly trained militia units in the base camp, one of the military tasks that they will inevitably have after they become an army is to station in overseas bases for a period of time, and this has formed a certain tacit practice.

Second, all militia officers and men who have been stationed overseas can enjoy special allowances issued by the military, up to more than twice the local service income, and those who have served overseas many times also enjoy preferential treatment in terms of job promotion, and these measures have also greatly increased the militiamen's enthusiasm for serving in other places. Therefore, when the military announced internally that it would transfer a certain company to the Pearl River Estuary stronghold, it did not cause too much controversy, and the militiamen who were selected for that company were very excited, because even if it was only for three months, they would receive a special allowance that could be used as military pay for at least one month. If there is an additional combat mission during this period, then there will be additional gains.

Since the end of the Battle of Annam, the militia has realized the benefits of fighting. Although some people died on the battlefield in the process, compared to the results achieved, the casualty rate of the Haihan militia was simply surprisingly low in this era, almost negligible. The various forms of war dividends obtained after the war are the focus of everyone's attention. After the military announced the transfer order, some people in the military began to speculate whether there would be another battle to be fought next.

Compared with the prosperous Shengli Port area, the two river basins, which are dozens of miles north of Shengli Port, seem more and more deserted. Originally, there were not many inhabitants in this place, not even a large-scale village, only a few individual households who came here to open up the land on their own. Since the Haihan people opened the port in Shengli Port a year ago, some people have heard that the Haihan people give excellent treatment to laborers, and they have moved to Shengli Port one after another, and finally entered the naturalized nationality town. This radius of more than ten miles, in the end, there are more than 20 families left to live. Of course, the reduction in the number of local residents is not necessarily a bad thing for those who remain, so that they can occupy more land, even though it has not been registered with the Yacheng government and is not legally considered private property from a legal point of view.

Beginning in March, the few residents of the area began to feel as if their good days were coming to an end, and the Haihan people on the side of Victory Harbor sent several teams to advise them to move out. Those who are willing to work in Victory Port will be hired first, and will also be able to compensate a little bit for the expropriated arable land "appropriately". Of course, for those who are unwilling to cooperate, the attitude of Haihan people is not so kind, and they directly give a deadline for moving out, and claim that those who do not move will bear the consequences when it expires.

These diasporas simply had no ability to confront the Haihan militia armed to the teeth, and there was no force behind them to support them in their fight against the Haihan, so the vast majority of them chose to submit and move to Shengli Harbor to join the Haihan-controlled social system. There are also a handful of diehards who do not intend to leave the area and continue to ignore the Working Group's warnings. They apparently didn't realize that the vigilante groups organized by the Haihan weren't just for scare.

In the early morning of 28 April, a militia unit set out from a temporary camp near the river port in Sanya and marched on foot towards the upper reaches of the two rivers. The main force of this militia unit is the fourth company of the Shengli Port Independent Battalion, which will be stationed at the mouth of the Pearl River in the near future, and the company commander is named Chen Yixin, who is only a few months old and will be 20 years old.

Chen Yixin was not a professional soldier before the crossing, and he had no experience of really enlisting in the army, he was just a young worker assigned internally after completing a factory-run technical school in an arsenal, but because of the special nature of his unit, Chen Yixin naturally became a local reserve militia, and also received militia training for nearly a year in his spare time. After learning the news of the crossing group by chance, he participated very actively, and after the interview, he went through the resignation procedures and went to Guangzhou with his meager savings of several thousand yuan. At that time, several executive committee members in charge thought that this little guy should have read too many novels and was a little crazy, but since the crossing action was based on the principle of voluntary participation, Chen Yixin showed an extremely positive attitude, and the preparatory committee had no reason to refuse him to join, so he finally got his wish and stayed to participate in the action.

In terms of professional skills, Chen Yixin is far more suitable to go to the machining department than to enter the military and police system, after all, he has also learned professional skills for several years. As for his amateur militia qualifications, compared with his colleagues in the Military Police Department, he is like a blank sheet of paper, and he is also a little transparent when he stays in the army, and if he goes to a production unit, he has a great chance of becoming a technical backbone.

However, Chen Yixin insisted on taking up a post in the Military Police Department when he was assigned work internally, even if it was an ordinary soldier, and finally the Executive Committee fulfilled his wish and let him enter the Military Police Department. When the first batch of cadets of the Military Police Department graduated, Chen Yixin didn't even get a real job as an officer, and he only had an empty rank. It was not until the second batch of trainees graduated that Chen Yixin was fortunate enough to become a platoon commander and the word "internship" was hung in front of him, which also shows that the military top brass lacked sufficient trust in his personal ability.

However, Chen Yixin himself was very calm, and did not express frustration or uneasiness, and this kind of calmness that did not match his age finally brought him the opportunity to express himself. In the campaign of the expedition to Annam, Chen Yixin participated in several battles on the front line of the battlefield as a platoon commander, and completed the combat mission of the headquarters relatively well. Although he did not have a personal military exploit, his appearance was seen by the upper echelons of the military, and he was promoted to company commander before the anniversary.

Of course, there are some unavoidable elements in this promotion, because at that time, the military and police were already a foregone conclusion, and the number of military personnel was immediately reduced by nearly half after the separation, and excluding Wu Zhuo and Xiang Zhinan, who were technical personnel with military titles, there were not many people who could act as middle and high-level commanders in the army. Although Chen Yixin's qualifications are a little worse, his appearance after crossing is remarkable, and there is basically nothing wrong with him, so he was promoted to company commander by the Military Commission.

Less than a month after his promotion, Chen Yixin was assigned the task again, and he will lead his company to garrison the Pearl River Estuary stronghold in the near future. Although this task has a certain degree of risk, in Chen Yixin's view, it is another excellent opportunity for meritorious service. But before that, he first had to complete the task assigned by the executive committee, and clear the undeveloped area in the upper reaches of the Sanya Lianghe River basin