"It's not just about money. Tao Donglai personally contacted the North Vietnamese rulers and knew more about their thinking: "The warlords of North Vietnam have never really seen the power of firearms on the battlefield, and the reason why they buy our weapons is simply because they think that they are powerful." As for how to train firearms units, they do not have a clear idea in their minds. Perhaps in their minds, they will think that the firearms unit is the same as the peasant soldiers they used to recruit, as long as each of them is given a weapon and locked up for twenty or thirty days of training, they can be sent to the battlefield to fight. ”

"If they really think like this, then they will only suffer a big loss after going to the battlefield. After listening to Tao Donglai's words, Ninkistan was no longer optimistic about the situation facing North Vietnam.

"It's hard to say what happens on the battlefield, and it depends on many factors such as weather conditions, geographical environment, opponent's strength, and officers' on-the-spot command. Tao Donglai's evaluation is very objective: "If they are lucky and the opponent they meet is also an ordinary peasant soldier, then as long as a few rounds of guns are released, it is enough to make the opponent collapse." ”

"But if you're unlucky enough to run into a large force of cavalry, you're killed. "Although Ning Qi is not a military enthusiast, he also knows that the most important treasure of the cold weapon unit to restrain the firearm unit in the field is the cavalry.

"Fortunately, the South Vietnamese troops could not have a large force of cavalry, and their place was not suitable for cavalry. Tao Donglai was not worried about the situation that Ning Qi said.

Even the Mongols, who swept the two continents of Europe and Asia with cavalry in history, have to admit Tao Donglai's view. In 1284, the Yuan army entered Annam in the name of attacking and occupying the city, and the king of Annam directly abandoned the capital and fled to Thanh Hoa, but the Yuan army could not give full play to the advantages of cavalry because of the local jungle and water network environment, coupled with supply problems and tropical epidemics, and had to retreat back to Guangxi under a good situation. By 1286, after Kublai Khan had defeated Japan in the north, he launched another expedition against Annam, but this larger military campaign still failed to completely defeat Annam, and after a year of fighting, the Yuan army retreated back to Guangxi again. In 1293, Kublai Khan made three expeditions to Annam, and before the battle was decided, Kublai Khan hung up, and Timur, who took over the throne, issued an edict to cease fighting and withdraw his troops, thus basically announcing the complete defeat of the combat system relying on cavalry in the Annam region.

After that, the Ming Dynasty's crusade against Annam did not do better than the Mongols, and in terms of results, it was even inferior to the Mongols. In 1427, the Ming army was defeated in the last large-scale battle of Changjiang City, Anchang, and the 70,000 Ming army, including the general soldier Anyuan Marquis Liusheng, was annihilated, and the Ming army had to take the initiative to sue for peace. The following year, Annam's military leader Le Le Le declared his independence from the Ming Dynasty in Hanoi, and the founding name was Da Viet, and the capital was located in what was later Hanoi. It is worth mentioning that Liu Sheng, the Marquis of Anyuan who died on the battlefield of Annan, was a senior general of the Ming Army who single-handedly created the Shenji Battalion.

It can be seen from the several military operations of the Yuan and Ming dynasties against Annan that the superiority of armaments is not the only factor that affects the outcome of the war. Of course, in the original history, they were not the end of this record, hundreds of years later, the French and Americans equipped with advanced weapons also knelt in this ghost place, in a sense, this area east of Indochina can really be called the "graveyard of empires".

Of course, the Executive Committee is also very clear about Annan's history, and there are lessons from the past, and the Executive Committee will certainly not make the same mistake again. Therefore, from the very beginning of its contact with the North Vietnamese regime, the Executive Committee adopted a more cautious attitude, only carrying out a certain amount of military aid and arms deals, and did not intend to directly intervene in the war situation in Annam. On the one hand, this is because the armed forces currently in the hands of the Executive Committee are indeed limited in scale, and they simply cannot afford to lose if they want to fight a tough battle, and on the other hand, they are also worried about repeating the mistakes of the past, after all, the lessons of the Yuan and Ming dynasties in this regard are still vivid, and even the military and police departments do not dare to boast that they can do a better job than their predecessors.

Of course, one of the most important and inhumane reasons is that the Executive Committee believes that it is better for Annan to continue to maintain a state of civil strife, so that the Crossing Group can continue to import industrial products to it, and then bring in immigrants from there to expand its own strength, and by the way, it can also take advantage of the civil strife there to occupy a few more good places in its coastal areas. It is no exaggeration to say that even if the North and the South want to cease war and negotiate peace one day, the Crossing Group will try to keep them fighting, and in the face of the big collective interests, no matter what doctrine has to be silenced, even a pacifist like Gu Kai has not raised any objection to this policy of the Executive Committee.

After a brief screening and a seven-day quarantine period, these new immigrants will be assigned to various units, mainly to the Iron Furnace Port Salt Works. For the sake of social stability, only a small number of North Vietnamese immigrants will be left to settle in the port of Shengli. Of course, for those prisoners of war and prisoners, the same life of hard labor in the labor camps awaited them.

However, compared with the group of North Vietnamese immigrants who arrived in Hong Kong in October, this group of new immigrants went to a new place in addition to the Iron Furnace Port, which is located in the coastal area of Yalong Bay between the Shengli Port and the Iron Furnace Port.

Yalong Bay, a half-moon-shaped bay located at the southernmost tip of Hainan Island, was best known for its kilometers of white sand beaches and crystal clear waters. In later generations, it was a well-known resort area, filled with a variety of luxury villas, convention centers, high-end hotels and resorts, and there are two standard golf courses alone, which shows that the consumer market here is very high-end.

This plain area along the coast of Yalong Bay is sandwiched between Liudaoling and Yalong Ridge, but its area is larger than Shengli Port and Tielu Port combined, but because its terrain is too open, facing the sea is almost unsafe, so the Executive Committee did not take it as the main development goal in the early stage, after all, the Executive Committee did not have the strong construction capacity of the later republic, and directly built several kilometers of wave protection embankment in Yalong Bay, sealing off half of the bay as a naval base.

At present, the Executive Committee will consider safety more when choosing colonization sites, so natural salt farms such as Yinggehai and nearby plains such as Yalong Bay have been brushed off the shortlist by the Executive Committee. The reason why Yalong Bay has recently been included in the development object again is that it comes from the Ministry of Agriculture's old man Yuan's suggestion.

After crossing the group to occupy the area from Shengli Port to Tiandu, the Ministry of Agriculture reclaimed a large number of fields along the Tiandu River for the cultivation of food crops and cash crops. At present, rice, which is the main food crop, has been harvested for two seasons, while the harvest period of cash crops is much longer, such as sugarcane, which takes about a year, and slow rice, such as rubber trees and oil palms, will not see results in three to five years. The mountain forests that were cut down in the early stage are now slowly replanting various economic forests. In particular, the diesel tree, which can be used to refine biodiesel, is known as jatropha and has been cultivated non-stop, and it is expected that a small-scale diesel supply will be realized in a few years.

The Executive Committee's hopes for the Ministry of Agriculture were not limited to food, which had largely ceased to be a problem for the Crossing Group after the opening of the North Vietnam route. Sisal that can be woven into canvas, as well as rubber and diesel fuel for industrial production, are not all the goals of the Executive Committee, and those cash crops that can be exported and generate profits for the group are the parts that the Executive Committee is currently valuing. In addition to the existing industrial products, the crossing group also needs to have more agricultural products that can be used, and Mr. Yuan believes that the most suitable cash crop for large-scale cultivation and the fastest effect is sugarcane.

In the seventeenth century, sugar was a very important production in southern China, and the merchants of Western countries did not purchase porcelain and silk fabrics as in later generations, but to the surprise of most people, about 80% of the goods on the ship were Cantonese sugar, and porcelain and silk fabrics accounted for no more than 10%. This is partly due to the fact that the prices of porcelain and silk fabrics were too high for merchants to buy large quantities, but on the other hand, it can also be seen that the sugar industry in southern China was developed at that time, and the sucrose was sought after in the market.

Sugarcane can be harvested in just 10 to 12 months, which is a very short cycle for cash crops. However, due to the constraints of the early conditions, the Ministry of Agriculture only planted more than 100 acres of sugarcane along the Tiandu River, which was enough for its own people's tooth sacrifices, but it was far from enough to mass-produce white sugar.

However, since the manpower has been much more relaxed than in the early days, the Ministry of Agriculture has once again put forward a plan to plant sugarcane in a large area, this time the Ministry of Agriculture has set its sights on the coast of Yalong Bay, and plans to reclaim more than 2,000 acres of sugarcane fields as the first phase of the project, and has written a complete development plan for this purpose.

After studying the reclamation plan submitted by the Ministry of Agriculture, the Executive Committee approved it smoothly and urged the relevant departments such as human resources to cooperate in the implementation. This time, the Executive Committee did not reject the proposal to develop Yalong Bay again on the grounds of security concerns, and in fact, there were several reasons.

First, the Executive Committee really needs the Ministry of Agriculture to come up with a short-term and quick foreign exchange earning project to alleviate the current situation of insufficient export commodities in Shengli Port. Second, the planned development area of the Ministry of Agriculture is only two miles away from the nearest glass workshop located on the east bank of the estuary of the Tiandu River, and there is only a small mountain range with an altitude of less than 100 meters in between. The third reason is the help of the Military Police Department, which is preparing to relocate the coastal observation post to expand the range of maritime warnings. To the west, it is expected that an observation post will be set up on the Luhuitou Peninsula, while the site chosen for the east side will be Huling, which can observe the entire sea area of Yalong Bay. In this way, the early warning range of the observation post was increased by more than five times compared to the single post at Yulin Point in the past, and the defense forces of Victory Port had more time to react in the event of a situation.

The 2,000 acres of sugarcane fields are not immediately open, and the deep ploughing and ditching required before planting sugarcane are real hard work. Fortunately, this period has entered the agricultural slack season, and there is a large amount of idle labor available in the farm commune. By the day the latest group of migrants arrived at Victory Port, the workers of the farm commune had cultivated nearly 1,000 acres of sugar cane fields in the Yalong Bay area. Some of the new immigrants will be assigned here after the quarantine period to be responsible for the cultivation and maintenance of sugar cane.

Three days later, Schneider also arrived at Shengli Port on a cargo ship returning from Guangzhou, ready to attend the year-end summary meeting. He was accompanied by more than a dozen merchant ships from Guangzhou and the surrounding areas, which was even larger than the previous visit.

On the same day, the first foreign investor in Shengli Port, "Fu Ruifeng", finally completed all the construction of the commercial inn. In fact, the main building of the business inn was completed more than half a month ago, but the subsequent interior decoration took a lot of time. Because after the completion of the main building, Li Nai remembered to put forward a request that the bathroom system must be all made by Haihan, and the result was that the whole building had to be renovated again to meet the laying conditions of the bathroom pipes. To this end, "Fu Ruifeng" invested an additional 3,000 yuan in negotiable coupons, which was still a 20% discount on the price of acquaintances by the Ministry of Construction.

Li Nai himself is not distressed by this additional investment, because he knows that although this money is thrown out quickly, the speed of earning it back will not be slow, because this business inn is actually a very efficient money-making machine for "Fu Ruifeng".

Although there are only two floors, the interior decoration and even the staffing are in accordance with the standards of high-end restaurants in Guangzhou, and all the tables, chairs, doors and windows, as well as cups, dishes, chopsticks and plates, are all transported from Guangzhou, and the chef is naturally specially invited from Guangzhou. Of course, the level of consumption is also based on the level of Guangzhou's wealthy class, and if you ignore the local currency exchange rate, the consumption of a meal here is not much cheaper than that of the most exclusive Four Seasons Xuan in Guangzhou.

Li Nai is not worried about the source of guests in the hotel, at this stage, all the maritime merchants who can come here have a certain economic strength, and the Haihan people needless to say that the only currency that can be used in the local area is printed by them, and no one will be stupid enough to doubt their spending power.

As for the hotels that several other investors are going to open, Li Nai is not worried, after all, it is difficult to replicate the practice of moving a whole set of hotels from the mainland like his own, and even if it can be replicated, it will be at least two or three months later, and by that time the properties he has placed in Shengli Port may have doubled.

Behind this hotel as a façade is a two-entry courtyard, which is the ** jointly planned by the Executive Committee and "Fu Ruifeng". At present, the practitioners here are more than a dozen young women hired by "Fu Ruifeng" from Guangzhou, and in order to respond to the special request of the Executive Committee, there is no personal contract between these women and "Fu Ruifeng", but they appear here in the form of hired workers, which is also the request made by the Executive Committee to Li Nai in order to avoid being provoked by feminists.

Of course, all those twists and turns are false, and they are nothing more than an excuse to do business legally. In order to ensure that the place can maintain normal "business order" and fully protect the health and personal safety of its own people, the Executive Committee has made very strict regulations on the time, mode and service users of the business.

It can only be opened between 6 p.m. and 11 p.m. every day, and all employees are not allowed to leave the location of the inn without reason, and they are not allowed to show their faces in the hotel facing the street to solicit customers, and they must undergo a physical examination at least once a month. The most important one is that only the personnel who have issued special bills issued by the Executive Committee can be received here, and as for the expenses, they will be settled by the Shengli Port Management Committee under the Executive Committee and "Fu Ruifeng" according to the number of special bills, once a month.

This is not the executive committee directly out of the money for bachelors to solve the physiological needs, in fact, the wool is still out of the sheep, this kind of special bills that can be consumed in the ** are registered by the traveler to the civil affairs department for real-name purchase, each person is limited to five per month, and when you go to consume, you must also show your own identity number plate, and there will be a special person responsible for checking and registering, which is basically the ** version of the real-name system of train tickets.

These regulations may seem unkind, but they can greatly reduce the frequency of jealousy, fights and other phenomena that are common in this kind of Fengyue place, and anyone who makes trouble here will be easily traced. In addition, this measure is also conducive to the prevention and control of certain diseases, and it is easy to find out the people she has come into contact with by checking the business records of a certain girl.

In fact, before the appearance of **, some of the traversers had already "spontaneously acted" and privately had a relationship with some female naturalized people and even Li Miao mountain people. Although there are not many such cases, the executive committee has not spared the butts of these guys whose hormones are overflowing. If there is no legal place for the large number of bachelors in the crossing group to meet their physical needs, sooner or later a civil strife will break out in Victory Port.

Of course, to solve this problem at the root, it is still necessary to continue to bring in a large number of immigrants, especially excellent young women. However, this task is relatively arduous, and people with good conditions will naturally not let their daughter go to this lonely overseas port to live with a group of unknown maritime merchants. There are also cases where naturalized people want to marry their daughters to the crossers, but this situation also faces legal problems, and whether the relatives of the women who marry the crossers can also enjoy the same treatment as the crossers?