1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 127 The Battle for Enrollment Expansion
The executive committee gave the green light to the preparation of materials, and almost without exception, all the materials needed for the construction of Xingang were quickly approved as long as they were still in the warehouse.The use of modern drugs has always been restricted by the executive committee because of their limited reserves. This time, the list submitted by the medical team was approved without any discount.Even the fuel oil that has been listed as a strategic reserve and is strictly controlled, the Executive Committee has "generously" approved a whole ton for the Xingang project.As for those not in the warehouse, the executive committee tried every means to dismantle them from the places currently in use, such as prefabricated houses and photovoltaic power generation equipment.

However, the preparation of materials is only a part of the preparation work for the Xingang project. For the Xingang project, the most important thing is still manpower, members of the Transit Group who have mastered advanced technology.For the development of the Xingang project, how many people should be dispatched from the base camp, who should be dispatched, and how to institutionalize the remuneration and remuneration of the overseas stationing period, these are all issues that need to be carefully considered by the Executive Committee.

So far, only a very small number of positions have confirmed candidates for expatriation. For example, the Ministry of Construction will send Liu Shanxia as the main technical backbone, and Tian Yeyou of the mining exploration team has submitted an application for permanent residence in Xingang to the Executive Committee. As for the administrative staff , civil affairs and transport management departments have yet to determine candidates.

In terms of administration, the opinion of the executive committee is that at least one executive member should go to Xingang. Even if he is not permanently stationed there in the future, at least he must first grasp the administrative management work in the initial stage.The executive committee has also discussed several times about the candidate for the head of the overseas sub-base. This is not to say that no one is willing to go, but that the executive committee members all have their own jobs that cannot be separated from their own jobs and have no time to take care of overseas.

The temporary executive committee currently in this trial operation has a total of nine executive committee members, who are basically the heads of various departments, including Tao Donglai from the Ministry of Construction, Bai Kesi from the Ministry of Industry, Yuan Ruoxiu from the Ministry of Agriculture, Meng He from the Ministry of Information Industry, Ning Qi from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Gu Kai from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Commerce, Schneider from the Ministry of Finance, Yan Chujie from the Military and Police Department, and Yue Zhiyun from the Ministry of Shipping.Each executive committee member has a lot of things to manage at hand, and random selection of one person may cause a blank area in management.After the executive committee discussed several times, the candidate finally fell on Gu Kai, who is relatively not so busy, and Schneider will temporarily hold his job during his overseas stay.

After the leadership candidates are determined, the next step is the deliberation of the expatriate candidates for each relevant department. Mining, construction, medical, communications, shipping and other departments have submitted a list of candidates one by one for everyone to discuss and review.In order to ensure the efficiency of the review process, these candidates have already passed the preliminary approval of various departments before, and as long as there are no major problems, they will pass the final pass smoothly.

The list of personnel reported by the Ministry of Shipping was densely written for two or three pages. This time, except for a small number of crew members who needed to stay at the base camp, almost all sailors and crew members registered with the Ministry of Shipping were included in the list.Even the few sailors of the Ming army who were captured by the crossing had to submit to the conscript and go to sea this time.

In addition, some pirate sailors who performed well in the labor camp have also been selected for intensive training and are on standby as substitute crew members.These pirate sailors were told that if they behaved well, some of them would be freed after the construction period of the new port was completed, and after that, they would have the same opportunity as the local residents, and could choose to join the commune as an honorable Haihan Naturalized people.This was undoubtedly a huge stimulus to the coolies eager to get out of the labor camp. Even some coolies who could not drive a boat signed up one after another, trying to seize this rare opportunity to escape.

Another department that accounts for the majority of expatriates is the Military and Police Department. Although the proposal to build a stronghold and fortification of Xingang has been rejected before, this did not prevent the Military and Police Department from continuing to develop overseas bases. Expand your own influence.The new plan proposed by Yan Chujie on behalf of the Military and Police Department is to send two-thirds of the active security forces and one-third of the armed forces to form a mixed team to be stationed in Xingang at the beginning of the operation.This force will combine the two functions of public security management and military defense, plus seven to ten commanding personnel who will pass through. Gradually set up a small-scale militia organization to assist military and police personnel to maintain order.

Of course, after sending so many people out, the Military and Police Department intends to add the second batch of military and police cadets who have already been recruited to the camp into the official establishment as soon as possible, and will prepare to start the recruitment of the third batch of cadets in the near future. Because now no one knows whether the armed forces of overseas bases are enough. If it is necessary to transport armed personnel from the base camp for reinforcements, then the military power of the base camp itself will appear too empty.According to the calculations of the Military and Police Department, with the current scale and expansion speed of the base camp, at least two hundred or more indigenous armed personnel should be sufficient. However, the current establishment of the Military and Police Department is obviously still far from this goal.

The most striking thing is that the third batch of students of the Military and Police Department has plans to expand its enrollment. It plans to form a security company and an armed company at one time, and then add the personnel of the previous two batches. Under the establishment of the Military and Police Department, it can maintain The total strength of a naturalization battalion.This expansion plan can be described as ambitious. If the three phases of recruitment and training can be successfully completed, the number of naturalized military and police officers under the Military and Police Department will reach about 500. In addition to the armed forces of the Traversing Group itself, this will undoubtedly reach the level of a future generation. Formation of a full infantry battalion.

As soon as Yan Chujie's expansion plan was put forward, Ning Qi objected: "Let's not talk about whether it is necessary to maintain this scale of armed personnel in the military. From the perspective of our current overall economic scale, it is difficult to maintain Let’s start with such a professional army. Simply put, the population we control now is less than 4000. Even if we count the overseas sub-bases in a while, the number of [-] to [-] people will be sky-high. At the current level of productivity, the average is five or six. People support a professional soldier, I think this is simply militarism! You must know that our army is not the guards of Ming Dynasty, as long as there is a living, we have to provide food and clothing for the soldiers, and consume weapons and ammunition. They conduct training, has the Military and Police Department calculated how much it costs to support a soldier?"

Before Yan Chujie could open his mouth to refute, Schneider, who was in charge of finance, had already taken up the conversation: "Let's talk about the first month's expenses of the new barracks. Each soldier's monthly salary is two yuan. In addition, in order to appease the people, we also give each soldier more money." Settlement fee of two yuan per person. Clothes are materials prepared before crossing, so we don’t care about it. Weapons and equipment, the rattan wooden sticks used by security companies are very cheap, so let’s add 27 yuan to the soldiers’ salaries However, in order to master the combat skills of firearms, the militia companies are equipped with 6-type matchlock guns. The current ex-factory price of the military industry department is about [-] yuan a piece, plus two [-]-pound guns for training artillery, including live ammunition for a month. The consumption of gunpowder in the household is about six or seven hundred yuan. Ladies and gentlemen, not counting food, clothing and housing, we need to invest more than one thousand yuan to raise a company. If it is difficult to understand, we can convert this amount into an equivalent amount. silver."

Seeing Yan Chujie's eagerness to try, Schneider seemed to have anticipated what he was going to say, and did not leave him a chance to refute, and immediately continued: "Perhaps the colleagues from the military and police department want to say that settlement expenses, camps, clothing and weapons are all important. It is a one-time investment, and there is actually not that much expenditure every month. But I want to remind everyone that even without those expenditures, the daily maintenance cost of a professional army is not a small amount."

Schneider called up a document from the computer, and then used the projector to project it on the screen at the front desk of the conference room: "Everyone, this is the budget for the next quarter handed over to the Executive Committee by the Military and Police Department, which does not include the budget for the unformed army. The second batch of trainees and the third batch that have not yet started to be recruited are just the existing troops, and the maintenance cost for one quarter has reached..."

Schneider deliberately paused here before continuing: "... 2000 yuan. Everyone, 2000 yuan per month, this is the expenditure of a company-organized army in peacetime. If it is completed, then we will maintain the establishment of four companies, and the monthly cost will exceed 2000 yuan. What is the concept? With [-] yuan, we can buy two brand new [-]-material sea-going ships. If it is employment, we can hire Ten sea-going ships of the same tonnage! To make back the [-] yuan, we need to sell [-] tons of salt, or [-] sets of glass stationery. It is easy to spend money and difficult to make money. I suggest that you review the expansion of the military and police department We must be cautious when planning. We must understand that these professional military police can only spend money and cannot create social value. If the scale of professional military police at this stage develops too large, it will only cause economic damage to our collective. burden……"

"Nonsense!" Yan Chujie slapped the table and interrupted Schneider's speech. He could no longer tolerate the carefully prepared enrollment expansion plan of the military and police department being slandered by this fake foreign devil and scammer: "Without enough armed forces to protect us, we really will Can you develop and grow with peace of mind? Do you people think that we can rest easy after defeating the small Ming army and pirates? I solemnly remind everyone that it is best to put away such fluke mentality as soon as possible! Although the Ming army’s combat effectiveness is very Poor, but they still have tens of thousands of troops to mobilize in Hainan Island, and they can also continuously mobilize troops from the mainland to supplement them. However, our armed forces are extremely limited. It can be said that if one dies, one will be lost. If there is an outbreak someday In the event of a war, can our temporary organization of militias that have never entered the barracks work?"

(End of this chapter)