In addition to being invited to attend the ceremony, the North Vietnamese mission also undertook a series of trade and military cooperation negotiations with Haihan. After the end of the Great War two months earlier, the North Vietnamese had already regarded the military aid of the Hai Han as an indispensable and important support, and the changes in the shape of Annam in the next few years depended on the strength of the Hai Han support. As a high-ranking North Vietnamese figure who had the most dealings with the Haihan people, Zheng Zheng was once again entrusted with the important task of leading a North Vietnamese mission to visit the port of victory by his father, King Truong of Qingdu, the current de facto controller of the North Vietnamese regime. The deputy of the mission was also a military figure who was close to Hai Han, the commander of the North Vietnamese musket army, Truong Ting.

Zheng Ting's father, Zheng Bai, is a general of North Vietnam and the supreme commander of the first line of the Hengshan River, and Zheng Bai is a distant cousin of Zheng Zheng, although Zheng Ting's age is about the same as Zheng Zheng, but the two are uncles and nephews. Zheng Ting's outstanding performance on the battlefield was also rewarded after the war, and Zheng Ting, the king of the Qing capital, personally ordered that his original temporary commander be regularized, and imitated the establishment of the Haihan people, and the newly formed artillery unit was also allocated to this new army. In Annan, Zheng Ting has become a rising star in the military circles, which can be said to be no less than Qian Tiandun's status within the Crossing Group.

As Zheng's first successor, Zheng Zheng's future political prospects are also bright, according to the original historical development trajectory, Zheng Zheng will take over the power of Beiyue in 1654 and be named King of Xiding. The dispatch of such an uncle and nephew to visit the port of victory also shows the importance that the North Vietnamese side attaches to this mission. There are more than 200 staff, servants and guards in total, and the size of the team is indeed not small.

However, since there were few large ships on the North Vietnamese side that could make it to the occasion, the mission had to take the sea ships provided by the Hai Han side. Zheng Zheng is ready to add another article to the content of this meeting, hoping that the Haihan side can provide shipbuilding technical support to North Vietnam.

The three-ship fleet also had a small episode during the voyage, as it was carrying a lot of cargo back to Hainan Island, and made a brief stop outside Yazhou on the way to unload some goods to be sold in the local market. When the fleet set off from Yazhou again, Luo Shengdong, who was doing a good thing, actually sent two warships out to escort him, which made the North Vietnamese mission on board nervous for a while, after all, their visit did not greet Daming in advance, which would be a big deal if they were caught by Daming sailors.

Of course, the subsequent facts proved that Zheng Zheng and the others' worries were purely unnecessary, just as the Haihan people assured them before setting off, the Ming side would definitely not ask about the matter of Shenglong Mansion sending people to Qiongzhou Island for activities. The warships of the Ming Dynasty escorted the merchant ships of the Haihan people, which has fully demonstrated that the local government of the Ming Dynasty near Shengli Harbor was completely angry with the Haihan people.

After arriving at Shengli Harbor without danger, Zheng Zheng and the others seemed to understand a little bit why the local government of the Ming Dynasty would be so polite to the Haihan people, and the dense forts outside the harbor and the new gunboats patrolling the bay were all showing the strength of the Haihan to outsiders. After entering the harbor, you can see from a distance the sailing ships docked densely on the wharf, there are as many as thirty or forty large and small. Of course, not all of these ships belonged to the crossing group, but in the eyes of the North Vietnamese mission, it seemed that it was enough to explain why the Haihan people were able to organize thousands of troops to fight across the sea in the first place.

As a high-ranking Haihan officer who had met with Zheng Zheng, Tao Donglai personally went to the dock to greet the special operations company and the North Vietnamese mission. However, due to the size of the North Vietnamese mission, it was almost impossible to arrange for all of them to settle in Base 1, and the inns in the port business district could be accommodated, but given their sensitive status, the Executive Committee did not want them to be exposed too much in public. In desperation, the Executive Committee had no choice but to temporarily suspend the Shengli Port Primary School and vacate the classrooms in advance to be used as barracks to accommodate the North Vietnamese mission.

According to the Executive Committee's plan, the entire anniversary celebration will last from April 1 to April 5. Of course, during this period, not all the holidays in the entire jurisdiction, all units are still taking turns to take turns off, but most of the personnel in the port area who do not bear the production task can enjoy a rare holiday on April 1, of course, the so-called holiday does not have any free time, and can only be spent in the conference room.

The Executive Committee did not prepare a complicated celebration for the anniversary, because during the anniversary, the leadership and institutional system of the entire crossing group had to be greatly adjusted, and most of the crossing people had to participate in a series of meetings except for a few technical positions that could not be separated.

April 1 is the plenary meeting, which will count and announce the candidates for the next executive committee on the spot, and a series of institutional and personnel adjustment decisions that have already been made will also be announced at the plenary meeting.

On April 2, each department and unit will hold a separate meeting to implement the latest decision of the new Executive Committee.

April 3 is the publicity day of various departments and units, mainly to convey the spirit of the meeting to the naturalized staff of various units, so that the local people can have a preliminary understanding of the direction of the new Executive Committee.

The 4th of April is the highlight of the anniversary celebrations, with a large-scale military parade of the navy and the army. According to information revealed by the Military Police Department, the scale of the military parade will greatly exceed that of the military parade at the end of last year, and not only will the Haihan militia and reserve militia participate, but the Military Police Department will also organize a special military formation to attend the parade. And after the military parade is over, a large-scale amphibious military exercise will be held at the mouth of the Tiandu River to strengthen the momentum. In addition, on the same day, some of the soldiers who made meritorious contributions to the expedition will be publicly awarded, and it is reported that the first batch of naturalized civilian grassroots officers will most likely be born in the award on this day.

On 5 April, the Ministry of Commerce will hold a large-scale product fair in the port area, during which in addition to various product promotion and trade negotiation activities, there will also be a highlight of the listing ceremony of "Qiong Lianfa" in Shengli Port.

On April 1, the compound of the Yulin Inspection Division of the port area.

Wei Ping yawned and pushed open the door, and came to the courtyard to stretch a big laziness. He had only returned to Shengli Port from Yazhou three days earlier, because he had finalized with Luo Shengdong the matter of Zhang Tongju and his brother-in-law's visit to Shengli Port in the past few days, and the Executive Committee had now looked at him differently, and in addition to freedom of movement, he also relied more on the Inspection Department on the management of the port area. After the compound of the Inspection Division was built, Wei Ping and his friends moved from the small courtyard outside the No. 1 base, where they usually have offices and accommodations.

With the increasing number of foreign institutions stationed in Shengli Port, the number of local non-naturalized Ming people is gradually increasing. As of March, the number of non-naturalized Ming people in the Shengli Harbor area has exceeded 1,000, and more than half of them are staff members affiliated with various foreign agencies. At present, all the merchants who have frequent trade contacts with Haihan have basically chosen to set up permanent offices in Shengli Port, with as few people as few as nearly 100 people, such as the business opened by "Fu Ruifeng" in Shengli Port, which has been stationed for a long time with more than 70 employees of various types.

The local Ming people on Qiongzhou Island said that the Haihan security team was enough to send away those thorns who were not very peaceful. However, for those outsiders from the mainland, it is difficult to find a justifiable reason for the law enforcement methods of the Haihan Security Force, after all, so far, the Executive Committee, both internally and externally, still recognizes that Shengli Port is still the territory of the Ming Dynasty and is subject to the management of the Ming law. In this way, the role of the Yulin Inspection Division, the only local security agency of the Yazhou government in Shengli Port, has once again become prominent.

Compared with the Yazhou Naval Division, which is inconvenient to meddle in civil affairs, the Yulin Inspection Division has an innate advantage in the distribution of functions, and foreign workers may not sell the accounts of the Haihan Security Team, and some people will even scold these security guards in black uniforms as "black dogs" behind their backs, but they often have a natural fear of the Inspection Division. Now when it is inconvenient for the Haihan security team to deal with the situation, almost all of them are dispatched by the inspection department to settle things, and sometimes they are even tired of running around because their numbers are too small. Ren Liang had already talked to Wei Ping a few days ago, saying that the Military Police Department planned to seconded some personnel from the security team to the Inspection Department to assist the Inspection Department in its daily law enforcement operations in the name of "temporary workers."

Although Wei Ping didn't quite understand what a "temporary worker" was, he also knew that the Haihan people were planning to mix sand into the inspection department. It's just that no matter how clear he is in his heart, he doesn't dare to object to Ren Liang's mention, after all, now the entire inspection department has to rely on the Haihan people to eat enough, and if he wants to make good money, it is better to follow the meaning of the Haihan people. Although it is now up to the Haihan people's faces to do things, their personal income has increased by at least ten times compared to the past, and they do not feel significantly inferior, at least what arrangements do Haihan leaders like Ren Liang have, they still communicate with themselves in a tone of negotiation rather than orders In the words of the Haihan people, this is called respect.

After the end of the war in January, the number of North Vietnamese immigrants arriving in Hong Kong increased dramatically, and the daily affairs of the Inspection Department gradually became busy. According to the arrangement of the Port Management Committee, when the security team maintains the order of the migrants landing on the wharf, the Inspection Division also has to cooperate with the operation and participate in the operation. Fortunately, most of these immigrants from North Vietnam were sent directly to labor camps, and there was no need for the Inspection Department to follow up.

"Who is in charge of getting breakfast today? Who is lazy and sick again?" Wei Ping looked at the empty dining table and couldn't help but ask with some dissatisfaction. The current station of the inspection department is some distance from the canteen of the base, and in the morning it is usually arranged for two people to go to the canteen to bring back everyone's breakfast together, but occasionally some people oversleep and forget about it.

"Brother Wei, it's not that we didn't get it, but we can't get out today, the roads outside are closed, and the people from the security team said that everyone can't go to the base today. Immediately, a subordinate answered: "I said that the canteen will arrange someone to bring food over later, and ask us to wait in the inspection department." ”

"What the hell!" Wei Ping frowned when he heard this: "Wait for me to go out and have a look!"

As soon as he walked to the door, Ren Liang pushed the door in with a few people: "Inspector Wei is early, I'm here to bring you breakfast." ”

"Mr. Ren, how can you afford this!" Wei Ping hurriedly turned his head and shouted to his subordinates: "Why are you still standing stupidly?

Wei Ping commanded his subordinates to come forward to help, and at the same time hurriedly apologized to Ren Liang: "This kind of rough work, just let me do it, why bother with Mr. Ren!"

"It's nothing, the main thing is to come and say hello to you, today the port area is under martial law, and all security operations are temporarily taken over by the security team and the militia group, and your inspection department will have a day off today." But it's best to stay all here and don't go out to avoid misunderstandings. Ren Liang was very easy-going, and explained his true intention to Wei Ping: "Three meals will be delivered, and if you need anything, you can report to the security guards on duty on the street." ”

Wei Ping was stunned at first, and then nodded in response: "Since Mr. Ren has ordered, I will definitely do it correctly." ”

Wei Ping didn't ask the reason for the matter, and respectfully sent Ren Liang away. After Ren Liang left, someone among Wei Ping's subordinates asked, "Brother Wei, which play is this Haihan man singing?"

"It doesn't matter which play they sing, you and my brother just do as they are told, and don't inquire about those things that shouldn't be known!" Wei Ping stopped after a few reprimands, and did not continue to talk about this topic.

With the level of information that Wei Ping had access to, he knew much more than these ordinary subordinates. The Haihan people will have a lot of big moves in the past few days, which Wei Ping is very clear about. For example, the two ships of Annam who arrived in Hong Kong yesterday were obviously not ordinary immigrants, and even Tao Donglai, the leader of the Haihan people, personally greeted them on the wharf, and the vicinity of the No. 3 trestle where the fleet docked was also isolated by the security team early on. The Annan immigrants who arrived in Hong Kong a few months ago had twenty or thirty boatmen, and Wei Ping had never seen such a big movement when the migrant ship arrived at the port.

Another thing that Wei Ping noticed was that there was a glass ballot box at the entrance of Base No. 1 a few days ago, and it was said that all the Haihan people voted for the next executive committee candidate in the past few days. According to the posted announcement, the voting should have closed yesterday, and Wei Ping guessed that the results would be announced in the next two days, perhaps today.

Thinking of this, Wei Ping felt that he had already figured out some clues, since all the Haihan people participated in the voting, when the results were announced, most of them would be gathered together. In this way, the Haihan people temporarily closed the streets of Shengli Port, obviously for the sake of their own safety.

Although Wei Ping's guess is not Quanzhong, it is not much different from the actual situation. In fact, the Military Police Department has been under curfew since the night before, and the ban will last until the night of April 1, during which time all ordinary people will not be allowed to approach the temporary armed checkpoint outside Base No. 1 without special reasons, and some special units, such as the Yulin Inspection Department and the Yazhou Naval Division Office, will be directly banned from traveling.

The purpose of this was naturally to ensure that the first plenary meeting after the crossing could be held smoothly and safely, after all, the vast majority of the people who crossed the meeting gathered at Base 1 on this day, and the security issue must be a top priority. To this end, in addition to dispatching all the security forces, the Military Police Department also specially transferred a company of militia soldiers from the military camp on the east bank and set up armed checkpoints outside the north and south gates of Base No. 1.

Although the Executive Committee had already begun to arrange for the plenary meeting, on April 1, only about 70 percent of the people who could actually attend the meeting were only about 70 percent, and in addition to the personnel stationed abroad, some important production posts had to be left behind by technicians to act as supervisors. In addition, a group of military personnel in charge of defense were also unable to participate in the conference because they had to stay on the front line.

Since there were more than 300 participants, there was no such large conference room in Base 1 that could accommodate such a large number of participants, and the venue was finally arranged in the small square at the intersection in the middle of Base 1. To this end, the Ministry of Construction also specially built a large canopy, the venue under the canopy did not have a rostrum, only a slightly higher base of the platform was built in the front, and the current executive committee, new candidates and the heads of some important units were seated in the front row of the venue.

At half past eight in the morning, the traversers began to arrive one after another to take their seats. At 9 o'clock, after counting the number of people, Ning Qi, as the master of ceremonies of the meeting, announced the opening of the first plenary meeting. Somehow, who took the lead, the crowd began to burst into applause, and the sound grew louder and denser, interspersed with a few discordant whistles.

It wasn't until this moment that the participants really felt that it had been a full year since they had traveled to this time and space, and that in this fulfilling year, they had done a lot of things that were unimaginable before, and through the joint efforts of guò, the Crossing Group had managed to take root in Victory Harbor even faster and more smoothly than they had imagined before the crossing. You must know that before the crossing, the preparatory committee has given early warnings on various possible extreme situations, natural disasters and so on, and most people participated in the final crossing operation with the mentality of breaking the boat.

However, the year after the crossing was not as difficult as they expected, except for the first few months because of the lack of labor and had to rely on themselves to complete a large amount of physical labor, in fact, did not face too much external pressure, the pace of the group's outward expansion of power was far faster than the original plan, some plans have even been put into implementation a year or two in advance, such as the promotion activities of financial institutions and financial systems that are already in progress in the Guangzhou Office, in the original plan will not be carried out in the field until at least the second or even third year after the crossing, and the efforts of the relevant departments have finally made this plan much advanced, and has added a huge impetus to the development of foreign trade through the group