The benefits of the rulers pooling the wealth of the people are obvious, but the idea seems quite simple, but it is not easy to realize.k. Regardless of whether others can do it or not, Nguyen Ching Gui knew very well that South Vietnam before the fall would definitely not be able to do it, and the imperial court lacked professionals in the financial field to preside over the operation, nor did it have a perfect financial system to implement this idea. Of course, the most important point is that the privileged class, including himself, will certainly not unreservedly hand over their property to others.

Putting aside the mature financial system, Nguyen Ching Gui still doesn't quite understand how the Haihan people make everyone obey this system. In his view, the social system of the Haihan is not fundamentally different from that of South Vietnam, and it is also a pyramid structure composed of the lower class of the people, the middle level of naturalized civilian cadres, and the upper level of the Haihan chiefs. These short-haired, short-shirted, and strange-accented Haihan people are the nobles in this social system, holding the power of life and death in the regions under their rule, but they don't seem to care too much about their private property, even the noble members of the executive committee, it seems that they have not purchased their own land, domestic servants, slaves and maids, which is fundamentally different from the practice of the South Vietnamese aristocracy.

But if you want to say that these Haihan people are "selfless", Ruan Jinggui faintly feels that it is wrong, as far as he knows, the things that Haihan people are most interested in are not real money, but land and population. The North Vietnamese court was able to obtain military support from the Haihan people, and it is said that it was in exchange for seven or eight seaside ports and tens of thousands of immigrants. If we want to describe the behavior of the Haihan people more accurately, Ruan Jinggui believes that what they fought for through guò trade, war and other means is for the sake of the Haihan collective, not the individual in it, as for why the thoughts of these Haihan people can be so unified, and what are the goals they really pursue, Ruan Jinggui feels that he may have to wait until he really becomes a member of this social system in the future to slowly understand.

After dinner, the migrants were confined to the camps where they lived. There is a strict curfew in the camp, and from 7 p.m., everyone has to go back to their dormitories. According to the immigration cadres, the period after dinner is called "tidying up housekeeping". The content is to clean the house, put away personal belongings, and then the head of the house will organize a discussion and review of the lessons learned during the day.

However, there seems to be some small changes in today's arrangement, as soon as Ruan Jinggui returned to the room after washing the dishes and chopsticks, the squadron leader who managed their area came with a few security guards.

Every 10 dormitories in the camp are divided into a squadron, and a squadron leader is assigned to manage the day-to-day affairs, but the squadron leader is not a newcomer. Rather, it is a naturalized civilian cadre sent by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The head of this squadron at Nguyen Ching Gui is named **, who is said to be an immigrant from the North Vietnamese region. But his surname is not directly related to the Zheng family, who is currently in charge of the Annan dynasty. ** Annam immigrants who took refuge in Haihan earlier, had already been naturalized in Heitu Port the year before last, and only moved to Sanya at the beginning of this year, which is considered an old qualification among the naturalized people of Annam, so they were assigned to the immigration isolation camp to do management work.

Generally speaking, every evening before the curfew, the migrant cadres at the squadron leader level would conduct a patrol in the camp, and occasionally the captain or even the senior Haihan civil affairs cadres would also come and go, so Ruan Jinggui didn't care about it at first, but just followed the usual practice. As he got up, he shouted, "Stand up!"

Everyone in the room, no matter what they were doing, reflexively stood up immediately. In the first two days of moving in, some people did not adapt to this rule and were unwilling to stand up and wait, so they were pulled out and punished, and they ran around the camp for ten laps and almost died of exhaustion. Since then, no one has objected to this rule, even if they don't think so.

**Glanced around the room. Then he spoke: "Ruan Jinggui, Ruan Jingwen is out!"

The Ruan brothers glanced at each other, but still walked to the door according to their words. They are confident that they have not committed any trouble in the past few days, and there should be no excuse to find trouble for themselves.

"You two come out with me, and the others continue to tidy up the housekeeping!" **After saying that, he walked out with his hands behind his back.

"There's a migrant boat coming back from Hue, and you two will go to the scene to help maintain order. "After leaving the house. The reason was explained to them very succinctly.

For such a task assignment, the Nguyen brothers had no reason to refuse. At the moment when they chose to come to Sanya, they had already decided that the future would definitely be to do things for the Haihan people. It is also reasonable for them, the old aristocracy, who are familiar with the conditions of the South Vietnamese people, to engage in the work of pacifying the new immigrants from South Vietnam.

The two followed ** to the gate of the camp, there were already several other people waiting here, and Ruan Jinggui also recognized one or two of them, both of whom were immigrants from Annan. Several security guards told them to line up. Then lead the team to walk to the Sanya River Port, which is not far away.

At this time, it was not yet completely dark, but the street lights had already begun to be lit on the side of the road. When Ruan Jinggui came to Shengli Port last year, he had seen this kind of hardcore street lamp, and he was really shocked when he saw it for the first time, because the top of this street lamp is made of glass on all sides, according to the valuation of glass products in Annam, the value of this lampshade alone is at least twenty or thirty taels of silver, and this kind of street lamp is actually arranged from the Shengli Port wharf to the gate of Shengli Fort, not to mention nearly 100 sticks, which can be called a luxury facility, which made Ruan Jinggui deeply feel the wealth of the Haihan people.

In addition, Ruan Jinggui also knew that this kind of street lamp does not burn oil, nor firewood, nor is it coal produced in Heitu Port, but an invisible gas called "morning gas" by the Haihan people. Ruan Jinggui didn't understand where this gas came from and why it could be burned, so he could only understand it as another unexplained "spell" in the hands of the Haihan people. However, the last time I visited, this kind of high-grade street lamp could only be seen in the landscape avenue near Shengli Port, and now this kind of street lamp has appeared in the area around Sanya River Port.

Ruan Wenwen was allowed to play at night for the first time after coming to Sanya, and it was also the first time he saw this kind of magical street lamp, and the expression on his face was like seeing a ghost: "Big brother, this Haihan people are so extravagant, they have to light so many oil lamps on the street when it's dark, how much lamp oil has to be burned over the years!"

"Second brother, this kind of lamp does not burn oil, but burns a kind of gas. It is said that you can have as much gas as you want, and it doesn't cost too much. Ruan Jinggui immediately gave his brother a "popular science" about the burning principle of this street lamp.

"Yo, you have some knowledge!" A security guard next to him glanced back at Ruan Jinggui and said, "It must have been said by a chief?"

Ruan Jinggui said proudly: "Last year, I came to Shengli Port as a guest as an envoy. At that time, I was the guest of honor of the Executive Committee!"

"Brother, this time is different from the past, your country is gone, don't put on a show!" The security guard obviously knew the identity of these new immigrants, and kindly persuaded him: "In the future, do a good job for the leaders, this is the right way!"

Soon coming to the dock, Ruan Jinggui noticed that there was no one else here. There are also about a hundred militia soldiers and an equal number of black-clothed policemen who have been set up on the dock, and there are even a dozen people wearing Daming military uniforms in the middle. The last time Ruan Jinggui came to Shengli Port, he had met Luo Shengdong and Wei Ping. also knew that those people were the Yacheng Sailor and the Yulin Inspection Division, and the reason why they appeared on the dock was just to meet the needs of the Haihan people, so that the new immigrants mistakenly thought that this was the ruling area of the Ming Dynasty.

The scene in front of Ruan Jinggui reminded Ruan Jinggui that when they had just arrived here by boat a few days ago, when they got off the boat, they saw basically the same scene on the dock - there were all representatives of the militia group, the police, the Ming officials, the Haihan Civil Affairs Department, and the old immigrants.

Soon, a naturalized cadre from the Ministry of Civil Affairs came over and gave a brief lecture to Ruan Jinggui and others, to the effect that they should be told how to help appease the situation of the immigrants and organize the immigrants to organize the queue on the dock and wait for the arrangement. For them, they have experienced all these things firsthand, and it is interesting to replicate them again in different camps.

Just when the sky was finally getting dark, a little light was finally seen on the water at the mouth of the sea, which was the lantern hanging from the mast of the sea ship. Soon a pilot boat sailed into the dock. This was followed by two 400-material Chinese-style Fu boats, but the sails of these two Fu boats have been modified by the Shengli Port Shipyard to use a new type of Haihan soft sail instead of the traditional Chinese hard sail.

At present, there are more than 30 Chinese sailing ships under the name of the Ministry of Shipping, although the shipyard has already placed orders for 300-ton cargo ships, but because the backlog of orders from the Navy is too large, the shipyard simply cannot vacate a large slipway to complete the order of the Ministry of Shipping. Therefore, at present, the shipping task between Sanya and the Indochina Peninsula is still completed by relying on the Chinese sailing ships collected through various channels in the first two years.

Traditional Chinese sailing boats are slow and have a low cargo capacity, and have slowly begun to adapt to the increasing volume of freight between the two sides of the strait. Ships between the two sides of the strait now had to transport not only coal and migrants, but also various Haihan export commodities and other supplies. However, this embarrassing situation should be effectively improved within this year. The Executive Board has approved the second phase of the expansion of the Shengli Port Shipyard, which will include the construction of two 500-ton dry docks and two large 1,500-ton docks, in addition to several small slipways of up to 300 tons.

After launching ten 500-ton ships one after another, the Ministry of Shipping was unwilling to continue tossing in this tonnage. A sailboat with more tonnage, more loading space and greater endurance. There are already more mature design schemes. And on this new tonnage ship, the trial installation of the upgraded power steam engine in the industrial sector will begin, and if the first thousand-ton sailing ship is launched within a year, this new type of cross-era power ship is expected to appear in this time and space a century earlier.

Of course, in order to promote the implementation of such a large project, it is not enough to rely on the influence of the young Yue Zhiyun and Sun Changmi, and in this process, the "Haihan Military Industry" and the Military Commission have played a significant role. The Central Military Commission expressed its willingness to give 50,000 yuan from the seizure in Hue to the Shengli Port Shipyard to engage in the research and development and design of the next generation of naval warships. The "Haihan Military Industry" also boldly took out 20,000 yuan to fund this project, and said that it would work with the technical departments of the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Energy and other relevant units to carry out joint technical research on some key technical links of the future sailing ship.

However, in the future, even if this kind of sailing ship can be developed smoothly, the Military Commission, which now seems to have a lot of money, may not be able to place much of an order. Taking the current "Expedition-class" warships as an example, the third batch of warships launched after many technical improvements and perfections in details, there is probably no rival of the same displacement in the Far East that can match it, but its cost has also risen, breaking through the 20,000 mark. If we add in the daily maintenance expenses after the Navy is installed, the cost of such a ship plus the military expenditure in the first year of listing is already a considerable amount -- in fact, in the second half of last year, the Navy stopped ordering the "Exploration Class" with a smaller tonnage, and used its limited military budget as much as possible to supply the "Expedition Class" warships with stronger endurance at sea.

Based on the use of the "expedition-class" warship, it can be inferred that the cost of a 1,000-ton steam engine sailing ship in the future will definitely not be less than 50,000 yuan. Moreover, the maintenance cost of the current sail ships will be greatly higher than those of the current pure sail warships. Even if the Military Commission made a lot of money in the battle of Hue, when it really faced a large-scale expansion of the army, it would soon find that this gain was not very sufficient in the face of the huge military budget figures.

According to the plan of the Central Military Commission, in the expected years, the navy will maintain at least two large fleets, one of which will be responsible for the safety of shipping lanes east of Hainan Island and the southeast coast of the mainland. The other is to be deployed in the southeast of the Indochina Peninsula to maintain the security of the sea area, including the base camp and the Beibu Gulf. And the cost of feeding such two fleets. It will certainly far exceed the level of military spending for the two army divisions, and it will probably be an unavoidable situation for the army and navy to compete for internal resources.

Of course, Ruan Jinggui, who is still in the period of immigration inspection, does not know about these things, in his opinion, the existing maritime power of the Haihan people is already very amazing, like the two Chinese sailing ships that are docking at the dock, they are definitely first-class ships in the coastal area of Annam. But as far as he knew, there were many warships much larger than this one docked at the military docks of Shengli Harbor of the Haihan people. Even the Portuguese, who provided military assistance to the Hue court, seem to have fewer ships than the Han Chinese.

In order to be able to get enough lighting, there are no street lights on the shore. Several large fires were also built with dry firewood. Although Ruan Jinggui was still far away from the fire, his face was still hot from the scorching air.

The sailors at the bow threw a rope as thick as their forearm to the shore, and the wharf caught the rope and fastened it to the pig iron cable piles buried on the shore. Several laborers pushed a special cargo ship gangway, which was anchored by wooden wheels and had a gentle slope up to three meters wide. The upper end has a movable flap to connect directly to the side of the boat, which is ideal for docking with relatively tall boats. This kind of gangway has a certain load-bearing capacity, and it is faster and more convenient than the traditional way to unload and disembark.

Several crew members stood on the side of the ship with torches to light the gangway, and then the passengers began to land from the ship. The vast majority of these immigrants are those who have voluntarily followed the Haihan migrant ship to settle in Sanya. The two ships carried a total of more than 500 people, and the ships were also packed.

At the behest of the migrant cadres, the Nguyen brothers, holding an iron horn, loudly commanded the migrants who had come to the shore in the South Vietnamese dialect to advance to the designated area and assemble on standby. Of course, at such times there will always be some people who make their own opinions, but under the double encirclement of the Haihan police and the militia group, the only thing such people can get is a stick with their heads and brains.

Nguyen Ching Quy didn't react to the scene, and he didn't care that his compatriots were beaten by naturalized people. In his opinion, the stick is the most effective way to teach some untouchables to obey their orders - although they have only been brainwashed here for a few days, Nguyen Ching Gui has gradually begun to become intolerant of undisciplined personal behavior.

And Ruan Wenwen's reaction was more direct than him, perhaps because he had been in the barracks, Ruan Wenwen saw those guys who did not listen to orders and started to move freely after getting off the boat, and often directly used the method of punching and kicking, so that the police next to him had to stop his brutality first. However, the beaten people did not dare to resist in such an unfamiliar environment, and after the beating, they honestly returned to the queue, and marched towards the designated assembly area according to the command of the old drivers.

It took about ten minutes for the civilians on the ship to finally land, and just as Ruan Jinggui was relieved, a new figure appeared on the ramp. And the people who appeared this time were all shackled and handcuffed, and they made a rattling sound when they took a step, and they must have been South Vietnamese soldiers captured in the Battle of Hue.

During the Battle of Hue, the militias captured thousands of people, many of whom were the Belt and Road Party, who had surrendered early and were released after the war through an agreement with the North Vietnamese. The other part of the soldiers captured during the siege was transported back to Sanya by ship as part of the prisoner of war debt agreement. (To be continued.) If you like this work, you are welcome to vote for recommendation and monthly passes, and your support is my biggest motivation. )