With nearly 300 years of rule, vast territory, and a large population, it seems that there is no way to take a local force entrenched on the island, and Li Nai believes that this is the current situation between the Ming Dynasty and the Haihan. If it was Li Nai five years ago, he would probably feel unwilling and sad about this situation, but after a few years of contact with the Haihan people, he can already face this reality with a more peaceful vision and attitude. The Haihan people have told him more than once in an affirmative tone that there is a difference of hundreds of years in the civilization between the Haihan and the Ming Dynasty, which is the fundamental reason why the Haihan who had no foundation was able to occupy a territory and hundreds of thousands of people in the southern Xinjiang of the Ming Dynasty in only five years.

The civilization of the Haihan population does not refer to achievements such as poetry and songs, but to the gaps in social systems, structures, and productive forces. Li Nai believed that the claims of the Haihan people were not unfounded and derogatory, because they did show that they were far superior to their contemporaries, and even the Franc and the Netherlands, which seemed to be very powerful in the eyes of the Ming Dynasty, the Haihan people also claimed to be hundreds of years ahead of them.

The Haihan people started with hundreds of people on Qiongzhou Island, and it took only five years to operate to their current size, and the rate of expansion is getting faster every year, it is difficult for Li Nai to imagine what kind of development they will achieve when they have ten times the land and population in the future. Don't talk about the Ming Dynasty at that time, I'm afraid that these surrounding countries plus the West will be tied together, and they will not be the opponents of the Haihan people. Anyone should be amazed at this state of affairs, but the Haihan themselves take this qiē for granted. Li Nai had heard more than one Haihan person say that the purpose of their coming here was to do something great to expand the territory and establish state power, and for them it was only one step in the whole plan.

Of course, according to the Haihan people, there is no such thing as "king" or "emperor" in this country, and the leadership and management of the entire country will still be a political model consistent with the existing system. If you don't witness the history of Haihan's fortune, it's hard for anyone to believe that this ridiculous-sounding model can work well.

Li Nai once discussed this issue with Tao Donglai - if the civilization of the Haihan Dynasty was hundreds of years ahead of the Ming Dynasty and other contemporaries, then after a few hundred years, would there be no more monarchies?

"There is still there, but the reservation] dǐng] diǎn] small] said, .⊥.▲os_(); The royal family that comes down will basically become an ornament. Tao Donglai's answer at the time, he still remembers it very clearly: "If any country wants to become stronger, it must eventually get rid of the monarchy, but this process requires the blood and lives of many people in exchange, and it may even take many repetitions, but fortunately, our Haihan civilization has already taken this step." Therefore, in the coming period, no country in the world will be able to catch up with us. ”

Although Tao Donglai's words are not particularly straightforward, they have already made the meaning very clear - as long as it is a monarchy, it is impossible to become an opponent on a par with the Haihan. In the foreseeable future, it is unlikely that such a country will appear in the vicinity of Haihan.

"Young Master, it's time to stop!" After the attendant reminded him softly, Li Nai came back from his rambling contemplation and got up and got out of the car.

Before leaving the station, the aroma of various foods mixed together filled the air. Outside this Sanya station is the Sanya Port Center on the bank of the Linchun River, that is, the area of Luhuitou Square in Sanya City in the future, ships and personnel entering and leaving Sanya Port need to register in the port center to go through various procedures, and people who go to Shengli Port and Shengli Fort to do business also need to take a car here, so the flow of people in this place is huge, giving birth to a large number of service industries, and there are even more hawkers and restaurants that supply all kinds of catering than the business inns on the wharf.

In addition, all kinds of goods unloaded from Sanya Port also need to be transferred to the surrounding areas by guò trains, pack horses, manpower, etc., and the flatbed team and the pack horse team can be seen on the street at any time. Fortunately, the Haihan Executive Committee had already taken into account the future development when planning, and the road was built to be extremely wide, and there were black-clad policemen waving batons to direct traffic every other section of the road.

In terms of prosperity in the market, Sanya Port is already on a par with the Pearl River Wharf outside Guangzhou, and it is far more neat and orderly than the Pearl River Wharf, where you can see cleaners carrying bamboo baskets and brooms to sweep up the garbage on the streets, and all kinds of animals carrying goods also have dung pockets hanging on their buttocks, so that outsiders will be amazed by the clean environment here.

On top of that, the social order here is far better than the port in the Meiji area, and police squads of five can be seen patrolling the streets on foot at any time. Anyone caught stealing or committing any other crime will be sentenced to three months of hard labor, and no one will pick quarrels and provoke trouble in this place, as long as their brains are not burned.

The villa purchased by Li Nai was still some distance away from the station, and the attendant asked Li Nai very intimately if he needed to take a rickshaw or horse-drawn carriage on the street to get to his destination.

Li Nai waved his hand and rejected the entourage's suggestion: "I haven't been here for more than half a year, so I should take a walk on this road, just to see how Sanya Port has changed in the past six months." ”

To the north of the station square, you will basically leave the port area and enter the town. In recent years, Haihan has built a lot of commercial properties here, which are provided to outsiders in the form of rental and sale. Some of the Haihan naturalized people with higher incomes also bought real estate here. When Li Nai first bought a house here, the scale of real estate development was only two or three hundred households, and now the population only settled here has exceeded two thousand. Most of them are outsiders, like the members of "Qiong Lianfa" that Li Nai is familiar with, almost all of them have purchased real estate here, and some large families have even purchased several sets, and there are many examples of Zhan Gui, the owner of the shipping company, who moved his family to Sanya to settle down.

However, Li Nai knew that the high-ranking people of Haihan did not live here, and some of them still lived in Shengli Fort, and in addition, on the coastline of East Dragon Bay above Shengli Port, it is said that many large villas were built for the Haihan chiefs to live, but Li Nai has not been to see it on the spot for the time being, and he does not know what the specific situation is.

When he arrived here, there were obviously more people who knew Li Nai, and after walking not far, someone greeted him, and then stopped to say a few words. Most of them are businessmen who travel between Guangdong and Sanya, and even if these people don't know the big people who don't often show up in the Haihan Executive Committee, they must also know the third young master of the "Fu Ruifeng" firm in Guangzhou, and Li Nai, the big shopkeeper of the "Golden Shield Escort". After all, at least seventy percent of the valuable money and goods sent from Guangzhou Prefecture to all parts of the province have been taken over by the "Golden Shield Escort", and they can make friends with Li Nai, not to mention how much cheaper the business can be, at least they can make the other party more attentive to the corresponding business.

Of course, there is another reason that everyone knows but will not take lightly, and that is the close relationship between Li Nai and the Haihan people. It is rumored in the rivers and lakes that "Fu Ruifeng" was able to take the Haihan boat to soar all the way, mainly because of the results of the negotiations between this Third Young Master Li and the Haihan people in Sanya. Although I don't know the specific exchange conditions between the two sides, Haihan has always carried "Fu Ruifeng" with him in recent years, and has made the Li family the most popular family in Guangzhou along the way. The most valuable items produced by Haihan have always been controlled by the Li family in the Liangguang region, and it has not changed for several years, and this alone is enough to make the Li family make a lot of money, which makes people envious and jealous.

Moreover, Haihan's support for the Li family is not only in terms of business, in the first year of Chongzhen, the family directly sent hundreds of soldiers to Lijiazhuang to relieve the siege without saying a word, and defeated the besieging local rogue army. Later, he assisted the Li family to start a bodyguard business, and with the strength of the "Golden Shield Escort" today, he can pull out seven or eight hundred fully armed bodyguard teams at any time, as long as it is not a rebellion, self-protection will definitely be safe. Clear-eyed people can naturally see clearly, in addition to the uniforms worn, the bodyguard team of the "Golden Shield Escort" is basically exactly the same as the militia under the Haihan people, and most of the dart divisions who lead the team are veterans who have retired from the Haihan militia.

Even if no one in the Ming Dynasty knows the title of "Leading the Way Party", as long as they have diǎn status in the shopping mall officialdom in the Liangguang area, they can at least see that the interests between Haihan and the Li family are extraordinary. If you are familiar with the third young master of the Li family, maybe you need help with something in Sanya, so let the third young master Li come forward to say hello to the Haihan people.

Li Nai has been a shopkeeper for more than two years, and the edges and corners have been smoothed out a lot, and he is not as self-aware as before. Although he also knew that many people just wanted to get acquainted with him, or use his name to get in touch with Haihan's high-level officials, this did not make him look impatient.

From the station square to the villa where Li Nai stayed, it was only a distance of more than two miles and less than three miles, and it took more than an hour to greet people all the way. When he arrived at the gate of his yard, it was already time to hold the lamp. Fortunately, when he got off the ship before, he sent other entourages to come over to hit the front station, and at this time he had already packed up and prepared to stop. The three servants who were stationed here stood at the gate, bowing their heads to greet him.

Covering an acre of land, Li Nai's two-storey villa is built entirely in the Haihan style rather than a traditional Chinese courtyard. The first floor is the reception room, dining room, kitchen and servants' quarters, while the second floor is his private space, including two bedrooms with full Hahan bathrooms, a living room and a study. The doors and windows of the villa are made of locally sourced flat glass, and the furniture and floor tiles are all shipped from Guangzhou, and the money spent on this decoration alone is enough to buy a mid-range garden apartment in a nearby residential area.

The villa sits south and faces north, and the window of one of the bedrooms can be opened to see the Linchun River at hand, and the Haihan people call this location "river view room", which makes this villa 20% more expensive than the villa that can't see the river from the east. Of course, this is just a small amount of money for Li Nai, who has been pocketed for a few years ago, and why not be able to spend a diǎn to make his body and mind happy?

Li Nai went upstairs to wash up, changed into a set of comfortable home clothes, and went downstairs to eat. One of the three servants stationed here is a specially selected cook, and he goes to the chef training course run by the Haihan people twice a year to ensure that the dishes he makes taste exactly the same as those eaten by the Haihan chiefs in Victory Castle. Of course, all kinds of seasonings and spices used in the kitchen are basically copied from the standard equipment of Shengli Fort, and even the stove in the kitchen was entrusted by Li Nai at the beginning, so that Tao Dong came over there to send someone to supervise the construction, in order to ensure that the heat can also meet the same standard.

Li Nai admires the Haihan people's approach of paying attention to quality in some details of life, so he will follow suit intentionally or unintentionally, and try to keep his lifestyle consistent with the object of imitation. He believes that this will help him to experience and learn the way of thinking of the Haihan people, and as for whether this has any practical effect, Li Nai believes that the reason why he came to Sanya this time is the best proof. If you don't fully understand the way of thinking of Haihan people and look at the changes in the situation from their perspective, it is indeed difficult to deduce Haihan's next planning plan.

Due to Li Nai's haste this time, the chef of the villa did not purchase some fresh ingredients in advance, but he still overcame various difficulties and made him a full set of Western-style steak packages according to Li Nai's personal preferences.

Li Nai once ate a steak in Victory Castle prepared by Haihan's chief chef Fan Wei, and when it was included in his private menu, he sent a chef to Victory Castle to learn the dish. Of course, in exchange, this dish cannot appear in the restaurant under the name of the Li family, and can only be enjoyed as a private dish.

It is said that the cooking of this dish came from the continent of Europa, where the Western Fan country is located, but after it was introduced to Haihan, many improvements were made, and the cooking techniques have been somewhat different from the Westerners' methods. For example, the steak must be selected in the sixth to eighth pair of ribs on the cow's body, and it must be cut down along the bone. And the spices used to marinate and soak the steak to make it shortlisted are many varieties that are not in the European recipe at all.