The ultimate reason why everyone chooses to travel is to come to this time and space to be a master, no one will be willing to live in a crowded collective dormitory all the time, even if there is no deep house compound to live in for the time being, at least everyone has to be assigned a set of welfare housing. (Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable)

However, the dream is beautiful, the reality is cruel, since the crossing, the crossing of the apartment has been in the planning of the Ministry of Construction, but only in the planning. With so many infrastructure projects, the Ministry of Construction simply can't spare the manpower to arrange the construction of the apartments in the crossing, and the executive committee does not seem to be in a hurry to make this matter a priority, and there are many projects that are more urgent and timeless than the construction of dormitories and apartments, which can be postponed for a while.

More than half a year has passed, and the vast majority of people are still living in prefabricated dormitories built in the early days. Of course, compared to the bamboo-and-wood boat-shaped houses that naturalized people live in, prefabricated houses seem to be good, but this is not a long-term solution. Recently, the number of people who have complained to the Executive Committee about the living conditions has increased, and the Executive Committee has had to re-examine this once neglected link, and is ready to urge the Ministry of Construction to start the construction of the project through the public apartments as much as possible.

Liu Shanxia of the Ministry of Construction also felt very wronged in this regard, and the Ministry of Construction has only five or six hundred laborers, and there are as many as seven or eight large-scale construction projects that are currently undertaken, such as the recently started development project of Tielu Port, the isolation and resettlement area for North Vietnamese immigrants, the glass products workshop, the track laying project from the port area to Tiandu, the factory construction of the Tiandu Industrial Zone, and the two construction sites of the freight terminal and the reconstruction and expansion of the Shengli Port salt farm, which are about to be completed. There are still a lot of infrastructure projects to be done in the port business district, and so many places are being built at the same time, so it can be said that the labor required for any one of these projects is not a small amount. The Ministry of Construction has been stretched thin for this, and there is still no manpower to build apartments.

However, with the arrival of large numbers of North Vietnamese immigrants, this labor gap is expected to improve in the near future. To this end, Liu Shanxia has submitted an application to Ning Qi, the head of human resources, hoping to allocate four or five hundred laborers from the new immigrants in November and December, and if Ning Qi does not release them, then the apartment project can only continue to be shelved.

However, in the eyes of foreign merchants, the speed of local construction of the Haihan people has already belonged to the category of inhuman. This place has a wide port, a strong fortress, a village and a farm, a barracks and a fort, and these merchants from Guangzhou all think that Shengli Port has gone through at least two to three years of construction before it will have its current situation, but when they learned that this place was still barren at the beginning of the year, and the Haihan people had only settled here for more than half a year, they had to marvel at the Haihan people's ability to change the world.

And this astonishing speed of construction does not seem to have the participation of the Yazhou local government, but is all a miracle completed by the Haihan people and a group of people. The only official agency of the Ming Dynasty in Shengli Port seems to be the Yulin Inspection Division, but the actual influence of the Inspection Division in the local area is probably almost zero, and careful people have noticed that at the banquet held by the Haihan people for two consecutive days, no one from the Inspection Department appeared, and even the fortress that was called the "No. 1 base" by the Haihan people has never seen anyone from the Inspection Department enter or leave.

As long as you are interested in observing these details, it is not difficult to come to the conclusion that Li Nai said before: the owner of this place is a Haihan person. All the qiē here are under the control and management of the Haihan people, and the entire Shengli Port is operated according to the will of the Haihan people.

However, even this will not affect the local business activities of the merchants, whether this place is decided by the Haihan people or the inspection department, so what's the matter? There is a lot of silver to be made, who cares who is in charge of this place, maybe it is better for the Haihan people to manage, so at least there will always be tax-free treatment here, and there are no various gods and goddesses who need to incense one by one.

After completing the transaction, most of the merchants chose to set off for Guangzhou as soon as possible, so that they could turn their goods into silver as much as possible. However, there are also several principals of commercial banks who are not in a hurry to leave, because like "Fu Ruifeng", they are also keenly aware of the development potential of Shengli Port and want to make some longer-term investment plans here. To build a business inn here, the cost is only a few hundred yuan of circulation coupons, plus the annual rent is not too much, but there are a lot of things that can be done.

On this day, after Ren Liang completed the land lease procedures for another merchant, but saw that the merchant did not seem to have any intention of leaving, Ren Liang took the initiative to ask: "Does Boss Zhan have anything else to say?"

This Boss Zhan said: "I would like to ask Mr. Ren in the next place, if I come from the Nanyang seller and want to sell it locally, how should this cost be calculated?"

Boss Zhan's name is Zhan Gui, and he is a maritime merchant in Guangzhou. Zhan Gui is a maritime merchant who is different from "Fu Ruifeng", he is a serious man who is mainly engaged in maritime transportation, and relies on reloading goods back and forth between many places to make profits, rather than "Fu Ruifeng" that is a merchant who is based on a chain business layout and only uses sea freight as a means of freight. Zhan Gui came to Shengli Port this time with two boats, one of which had already returned with the purchased Haihan goods, while he himself stayed behind, ready to see what other opportunities for making a fortune there were here.

Ren Liang explained: "If it is the materials we purchase, then of course there is no cost, and everything will be borne by us." If the goods are delivered with other merchants, they must also be registered at the port center, and we will charge a handling fee of 1/1000 for each party. If it is retailed locally, then you will have to pay commodity tax, depending on what Boss Zhan intends to sell. ”

"Ivory, rhino horn, ebony and other commercial goods, you are interested in buying?" asked Zhan Gui.

"Oh?" Ren Liang raised his eyebrows slightly: "I don't know where Boss Zhan's goods came from?"

"Cham. Zhan Gui didn't intend to hide anything, so he said it directly.

"Boss Zhan has business dealings with the state-owned enterprises in Zhancheng?" Ren Liang asked, already thinking of something that Ning Qi had mentioned before.

Zhan Gui said with a smug face: "Since I became an adult, I have been going to Champam many times with my father to trade, and I have some ways to do it locally. If you are interested in purchasing local goods, you can come forward to purchase them on your behalf. ”

Located in the southeastern part of the Indochina Peninsula, Champa calls itself the Champa Kingdom, although China has always called it Champa. The most famous product is not the ivory rhino horn as Zhan Gui claims, but the Zhancheng rice, a grain crop that was introduced to China during the Northern Song Dynasty, and which has a very large planting area in the southern part of the Yangtze River region and has had a profound impact on the rice farming system in the Yangtze River basin. And the relationship between the Champa and China is also more complicated, in the history of the war and peace for hundreds of years, to the Ming Dynasty, Champa once sent envoys into the court to pay tribute, and there is Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang issued an edict to reward the title of the king of Champang, at that time it was also regarded as a vassal state of the root red Miaozheng.

However, since Annam became independent in the Ming Dynasty, the days of Champa were not very easy, and after the establishment of the Lê Dynasty in the early 15th century, a military attack was launched on Champa. After 1470, Li Shengzong of the Li Dynasty personally led an army to attack the city, and it took only three months to break through the state of the city, and even the king of the city was captured at that time. Since then, most of the territory of the city has been incorporated into the territory of Annam. Ha Tinh, South Quang Binh, Quang Tri, and even the Hue region further south where North and South Vietnam are at war today are actually the territories that occupied the city in the past.

Around 1627, Champa was a vassal state of Annam, and was under the control of the Nguyen regime in South Vietnam. The territory under its actual control has also become extremely limited, and it still has a control area in the southeast corner of the Indochina Peninsula.

Ning Qi had explained at the previous discussion meeting that the existing immigration policy to Vietnam is actually only applicable to the North Vietnamese region, because the South Vietnamese region has been the territory of the Champa city state for the past few hundred years, and the language and script used by the Cham people were not imported from Middle Earth, and their race is closer to the Malay race of the South China Sea Islands, and there is no direct inheritance relationship with the Han culture from head to toe, and it is difficult to assimilate it from the cultural or social system, and it is not something that can be completed in the short term.

However, the location of the city is one of the key points in the South China Sea, and the Zhan people have also been engaged in maritime transit trade between China and Southeast Asia, India, West Asia and other regions since a very early time, and it can be said that it is a seafaring country with a very early start in the South China Sea. However, due to its national strength and constant foreign wars, the navigation ability of Champa has not been fully developed, but has become more and more degraded with the weakening of its national strength. It is said that during the Wanli period, there were often maritime merchants in Yazhou who occupied the city, but after staying in Yazhou for so many months, they did not even see a single merchant who occupied the city.

And this change in shipping capacity has also caused the rise of Zhancheng's property in Daming, as Zhan Gui said that the market price has risen by 30% compared with the Wanli period.

Zhan Gui's abacus was very fine, and he transported these high-value goods from Champa back to Shengli Port for trading, if the Haihan people were willing to buy it, it would be the best, compared to shipping back to the mainland, they could save a lot of customs duties and taxes. If the Haihan people are not interested, then handing it over to other merchants can also save a lot of money in commercial taxes, which is still much more cost-effective than shipping it back to the mainland. As for retail, Zhan Gui didn't think about it at all, Lao Tzu was a maritime businessman, not a businessman, and it was better to leave the work of retail to professionals.

After listening to Zhan Gui's answer, Ren Liang did not rush to talk about this matter further, but immediately asked people to inform Ning Qi and Tao Donglai to come over quickly, and he dragged Zhan Gui to start talking around.

About ten minutes later, Ning Qi and Tao Donglai arrived one after another, and Ren Liang hurriedly said what Zhan Gui mentioned earlier. After listening to this, Ning Qi asked Zhan Gui, "Boss Zhan, may I ask how long ago was the last time you went to Zhancheng?"

Zhan Gui saw that the two big leaders of the Haihan people were present at the same time, and he didn't understand why the Haihan people were so nervous about this matter, so he quickly replied honestly: "I went to Zhancheng once in April last year. I was going to go there in the first half of this year, but it was delayed due to illness and it took a few months to recover. This time I went south, and I was going to take a trip to Champa on the way. ”

Ning Qi continued to ask, "Then the last time you went, how big was the area of Zhancheng control?"

"Only Bin Tonglong is left!" Zhan Gui replied.

"Where is Bin Tonglong?" Tao Donglai asked Ning Qi, this kind of relatively out-of-the-way historical knowledge was not within the scope of his knowledge reserves.

"Bintonglong is an ancient kingdom located in the southern part of the former territory of the Champa state. Ning Qi said that Tao Donglai and Ren Liang were at a loss when they said this, so they had to say again: "It is probably the area south of Quy Nhon and east of Ho Chi Minh." ”

As soon as Ning Qi said this, they understood that in the past few months, they had not looked at the map of Vietnam for the research of Vietnamese history for the Black Earth Port project. Tao Donglai touched the stubble on his chin and said, "This means that what we did in North Vietnam can be repeated in the south?"

"The desire of the Cham people to restore their country has not ceased for more than a century since the fall of the country, and I think they will be very interested in purchasing a batch of advanced weapons to arm their soldiers. Ning Qi nodded and agreed with Tao Donglai's opinion.

"But didn't we sign an exclusive supply agreement with the North for arms sales?" Ren Liang asked, "Will this cause trouble for future arms sales to North Vietnam?"

"Perhaps, but that will be a long time later. The first target to deal with Champa was not the Trần regime in North Vietnam, but the Nguyễn clan in South Vietnam, and from a certain point of view, Champa and North Vietnam had the same goal, that is, to eliminate the Nguyen clan. After that, the two of them will really face each other, and the previous process of eliminating the Nguyen clan may take several years, and if we can control the rhythm, they may not be able to distinguish the winner for another few decades. Tao Donglai was very optimistic about this, and pointed at Zhan Gui, who was sitting at the bottom with a deferential face, and said: "Besides, we don't have to sell foreign arms sales ourselves, we can support agents when necessary, so it is very reasonable from a moral point of view." ”

Of course, the agent is just talking, Tao Donglai didn't plan to hand over the most lucrative arms business to Zhan Gui, who met for the first time. Half of the reason for handing over the arms business to the "Fu Ruifeng" agent on the mainland was out of helplessness, because the ships that crossed the group could not go to the coastal areas of Fujian at all, and they had no relationship with the local forces, and it was very easy to attract the attention of the pirate groups if they came out of nowhere. However, in the face of the weak national strength of the city, Tao Donglai thought that the crossing group still had an advantage, and the city now even had a pitiful number of merchant ships, and did not have the strength to attack Shengli Port across the sea, so there was no need to worry about their eyes on the Shengli Port area, which was rich in production.

Zhan Gui sat down and listened to the three Haihan people talking quickly, trying hard to hear what they were talking about, but all three of them used the same northern accent in their conversation, and as a result, they could only understand a few words intermittently. But looking at the expressions of these Haihan leaders, Zhan Gui always felt that he seemed to have caused something terrible.

"Boss Zhan will go back and rest first, and regarding the problem of cargo transshipment between Champa and Shengli Port that you mentioned, we will inform you of the specific operation method later. In addition, if you rent the land, someone will take you to the site to demarcate the land and then issue you documents. Tao Dong came to see that Zhan Gui was still sitting next to him, and it was inconvenient to say some things in front of him, an outsider, so he politely persuaded him to retire immediately.

After Zhan Gui said goodbye, Tao Donglai continued the topic just now and said, "If I'm not mistaken, there is a good place in the territory of Zhancheng now. ”

"That's right, and we'd better take this place as far as we can, so that we can keep our future shipping lanes open to the Malacca region of the South China Sea. Ning Qi obviously understood where Tao Donglai was talking about.

Only Ren Liang hasn't figured out the situation yet: "Did I miss something, why can't I understand what you're saying?"

"Pull up the map and you'll see. Tao Donglai tapped lightly on the table.

Ren Liang hurriedly pulled up the local satellite map from his laptop, and soon he understood where Tao Donglai and Ning Qi were talking about the "good place": "Cam Ranh Bay?"

"Well, it's Cam Ranh Bay. Tao Donglai affirmed his answer.

Cam Ranh Bay was the most important military port and naval base in southeastern Vietnam in later years, and its importance was equivalent to that of Yulin Military Port in Sanya. This bay formed by the two peninsulas is divided into the outer port of Pingba and the inner port of Cam Ranh, with an area of more than 60 square kilometers, but the mouth of Cam Ranh Bay is only more than 1,000 meters, and the water in the bay is deep enough to dock aircraft carriers, it is an excellent deep-water port on the Indochina Peninsula, and the location is just between the shipping routes of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean, and the strategic position is very important. Historically, France, Russia, Japan, the United States and other countries have used Cam Ranh Bay as a naval base, which shows the importance of this harbor.

"There are no good deep-water ports in North Vietnam, so let's not talk about it, we can also talk about the Tu Son Peninsula in our possession. But this Cam Ranh Bay in the south can't be let go, you see, this place is located in the middle of the Strait from Victory Port to the Strait of Malacca, and this location is a good supply point for ships going south from China to Malacca or Batavia, occupying this place, we can control the lifeblood of this route!" Ning Qi said very excitedly.

"Don't get too excited, it's not so easy to occupy this place, it's farther away than the Black Earth Port, the harbor area is much larger than the Victory Port, and in order to gain a foothold there, we must first have a strong fleet. Tao Donglai poured a basin of cold water on Ning Qi, who was good at talking on paper, at the right time.