1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 1935
Regarding the Danzhou case back then, it did involve a lot. Not only were many people arrested for their involvement in the incident, but many people from the official circles of Haihan and Daming were involved in it at that time. Official hat and even life.And there will naturally be some shady content in it, and even the Ministry of Security may not fully grasp this information.Both Zhang Qianzhi and Gai Liangcai knew that there were some unspeakable things in the middle. Although it was many years later, it is better to be cautious, so they stopped discussing this topic tacitly.

The security topic that the two of them can talk about at the moment is naturally the special task they are performing.The two have basically the same perception of Li Luo, thinking that although he is young, he is quite responsible as a superior person, and his attitude in foreign affairs activities is neither humble nor overbearing, and he has a calm performance beyond his real age.

Of course, this is the first time for Li Luo to visit Haihan, and it is inevitable that his academic shortcomings will be exposed in front of Haihan officials.No matter how calm he is, he still inevitably reveals his excitement when he sees all kinds of new things in Haihan.Zhang Qianzhi has met many foreign dignitaries in recent years, and he is very familiar with this subtle emotion of envy, jealousy and hatred, and he noticed Li Wei's slightest expression.

In addition, the Ministry of Security has already been collecting intelligence on Li Luo, so after Zhang Qianzhi takes over this task, he can temporarily fill in all kinds of information about Li Luo and have a better understanding of his basic situation. Learn more.However, Gai Liangcai did not have such conditions at all. Even though the Military Intelligence Department had information about Li Min, he had no access to such information for the time being with his authority, and the higher authorities did not give him special treatment because of his mission.Therefore, in terms of the degree of understanding of Li Mo, Gai Liangcai must be inferior to the well-prepared Zhang Qianzhi.

Zhang Qianzhi put down his wine glass and asked, "I've seen that brother Gai has a good command these days. Have you ever performed similar missions before?"

Gai Liangcai responded, "I'm ashamed to say it, but to tell you the truth, Brother Zhang, I have not actually received any special security training. This is the first time I have received the task of protecting important people. I can only be careful along the way and try not to make mistakes."

"In this way, brother Gai has the talent for this job!" Zhang Qianzhi praised: "If brother Gai is interested, after this mission is over, I can try to recommend brother Gai to study security courses. "

Gai Liangcai had a heart for making friends with Zhang Qianzhi, so naturally he would not refuse the other party's kindness, so he clasped his fists and responded immediately: "Then Gai will thank Brother Zhang here first!"

In fact, Gai Liangcai once had the idea of ​​entering the special departments of the two major armies, the Intelligence Bureau or the General Staff. If he had joined the army two years earlier, it would have been much easier to realize his wish. After all, the Haihan Army was large at that time. It is not big, there are not many excellent officer seedlings, and it is easier to get training and promotion opportunities.

And when he came up with this idea, he had to be transferred from the combat unit to the Military Intelligence Bureau or the General Staff. The lowest rank was a second lieutenant, and he had to take relevant refresher courses.Although Gai Liangcai had enough military ranks at that time, opportunities for advanced studies were not always available. Basically, they were officers who had recently won major military exploits or had been determined to be promoted before. Go to military school for advanced military courses.

Although Gai Liangcai has his own connections, he can't exert his strength in this field, and Gai Liangcai has not had any particularly dazzling military exploits in recent years, and he has climbed up little by little by relying on his years of service, so There is no competition at all.This time he managed to get the task of guarding the son of the Joseon Dynasty, hoping to be promoted to major with this credit, and one of the fringe benefits of such a step-up promotion from Wei Shengxiao is that he will have the opportunity to study in a military academy.

It is precisely because it is so difficult to obtain opportunities for advanced studies that Gai Liang is particularly grateful for Zhang Qianzhi's attitude.He knew that with Zhang Qianzhi's status, it would not be difficult to do this. After all, this young official from the Ministry of Security has an extraordinary background. It is said that he has a deep personal relationship with the senior officials of the Executive Committee. Going to Fort Victory is like going home. As long as you say hello to the relevant department, you may be able to have another opportunity for further study.

Although it may not be possible to receive similar security tasks in the future, there is no harm in having the opportunity to study further, and it may become one of the capitals for oneself to compete for promotion opportunities in the future.Moreover, being able to establish a personal friendship with Zhang Qianzhi is undoubtedly an excellent benefit for Gai Liangcai.

Feeling Zhang Qianzhi's favor for him, Ge Liangcai's mood also relaxed a lot. After three glasses of wine, he also opened up the chatterbox and asked Zhang Qianzhi for advice on security issues.

In fact, Zhang Qianzhi is not very professional in the field of providing protection for dignitaries. What he is good at is intelligence analysis, investigation and case solving.However, Gai Liangcai was humble and spared no effort to praise him, so Zhang Qianzhi tried his best to give him some pointers.

Although Zhang Qianzhi himself has not received professional training in this area, he has been with high-ranking officials of Haihan for a long time, and he has long been familiar with the security measures around these high-ranking officials.In front of a layman like Gai Liangcai, Zhang Qianzhi is indeed an expert.

Before that, Gai Liangcai almost relied on his own thinking about the deployment of security, and then tried his best to cooperate with local security measures.Although it seems that the effect is good so far, and there are no mistakes, but this is on the premise that there is no abnormal situation.He is also not sure whether the security measures he has deployed will still be watertight in case of an emergency.

Zhang Qianzhi thought that he did a good job before, mainly because of Gai Liang who was cautious and didn't make any obvious mistakes, but if you look at it from a professional perspective, there are still many areas for improvement.Zhang Qianzhi pointed out several security issues and explained them. Gai Liangcai had been thinking about these tasks all day long. When he heard Zhang Qianzhi's words, he stopped drinking immediately and wrote down these points first. , lest you forget it later.

Early the next morning, Gai Liangcai gathered his team in high spirits and issued several new orders to them, the main content of which was the few details suggested by Zhang Qianzhi last night.Because it was not a major adjustment, the subordinates he led would not have much problem adapting.The soldiers he took on this mission were all veterans trained and selected by him, so he didn't need to worry too much about the execution of orders.

The adjustments in the details have no effect on the scheduled itinerary. The convoy still departs from the manor according to the scheduled time and drives to the Changhua Industrial Zone under the escort of armed cavalry.

The section from the manor to the official road is relatively secluded, and it is also the section that Gai Liangcai cares most about. Both sides of the road are dense forests that have not been logged, even if hundreds of people are hidden in it, it is not easy to detect.However, this section of the road was only about Li Xu, and the convoy quickly turned to the official road with a wider road surface and a wider view, and there were a few soldiers guarding the fork in the road to prevent vehicles and horses from colliding with the convoy. Seeing this scene in the carriage, I felt a little more relaxed.

The convoy traveled along the official road, turned north outside the county seat, and went straight to the industrial area without entering the urban area.Seeing the tall chimneys emitting black smoke in front, it is the location of Changhua Industrial Zone.

The main industries in Changhua Industrial Zone are metal smelting and processing. In terms of the scale of these two industries, they are even higher than Sanya Tiandu Industrial Zone.Although the Tiandu Iron Mine in Sanya was mined earlier, the reserves and quality of the ore deposits are not as good as those in Shilu, so the Ministry of Industry later simply made the Shilu area in Changhua the key development zone for these two industries.

And this development zone supports not only thousands of local industrial workers, thousands of miners in Shilu, and their families, but also many practitioners in related industries, such as the shipping industry with Changhua Port as its destination, There are at least two fixed freight routes from Heitu Port-Changhua, and Sanya-Changhua. There are at least a hundred cargo sailing ships traveling between these two routes all year round, and thousands of sailors are needed to support them. up.

In addition, there are a large number of new immigrants here who quietly exchange their labor for living materials and labor points, with the goal of obtaining the qualification of naturalization as soon as possible.In ports, railway stations, industrial areas and mines, there are such people sweating.Due to the high mobility of these populations, it is difficult for officials to calculate a specific number of them, but the most conservative estimate is at least 3000 to [-].

And the core of all industries are these large and small blast furnaces in the smelting workshop.Li Lu was very interested in these huge melting furnaces with rather novel shapes, and he devoted his attention to observing their production process from the moment he entered the workshop.

Qiao Zhiya also lost no time in explaining the production principles of these blast furnaces to Li Min in as simple and clear words as possible: "We send crushed iron ore, coke and some flux from the top of the furnace into the blast furnace according to a certain ratio, and let the coke and ore The furnace forms an alternating layered structure, and these raw materials will be melted into iron and iron slag after being fully burned inside, and then released from the iron and slag ports periodically.”

In fact, the physical and chemical reactions of ironmaking are of course not as simple as what Qiao Zhiya said, but even so, Li Luo still can't understand.The common sense he has mastered is to melt iron ore at high temperature, and then turn it into molten iron. As for why other raw materials are added in the process, and why such a strange-looking blast furnace is used for smelting, Li Mo is completely clueless. I don't know.

But even though he didn't quite understand the technical terms in these production links, Li Luo still listened to Qiao Zhiya's introduction with great interest.Although he has not been in Haihan for a long time, he has already realized that the strength of this country is inseparable from the extensive use of steel.Not only the army uses a large number of guns made of steel, but also the steam engines used in various production sites, as well as the impressive railway transportation, all of which consume a lot of steel.

Haihan was able to use hundreds of thousands of catties of iron to build a steam locomotive, of course because the production capacity of steel was enough to support them to use precious steel in more high-end manufacturing.Li Wei believes that although his country cannot manufacture advanced gadgets such as steam locomotives, if it can manage to increase the production capacity of steel to a level similar to that of Haihan, then at least it can manufacture a large number of weapons and equipment by itself, so as to effectively improve the country. military force.

Among the series of industrial cooperation projects agreed between Haihan and North Korea, there is a metal smelting and processing industry located at the mouth of the Datong River to cooperate with iron ore mining.Moreover, in terms of natural conditions, the local iron and coal mines are located in the Datong River Basin, and the conditions for building a coal-iron composite industry are even better than Changhua Shilu.After all, there is only iron ore in this place, and the large amount of coal needed for smelting needs to be transported across the sea from the black soil port.

After studying the situation in Changhua in the past two days, Li Lu also realized that his country's basic development conditions in the Datong River Basin are even better than those of Haihan. When it comes to North Korea, the prospects for the development of that industry can be described as bright.

But before that, he still has to understand how Haihan smelts iron ore into steel. Even if he can't fully understand the production process, he should at least try to write down everything he has seen and heard here. Maybe it will come in handy when building this kind of smelting industry in China in the future.

At the same time, Xue Zheng and a group of his subordinates pretended to be coolies looking for odd jobs, and mixed into the transportation team that transported coke to the smelting area.The reason why they got it so easily is also very simple, that is, they only ask for extremely low wages, and the foreman who undertakes the coke transportation task naturally wishes to pay his subordinates as little wages as possible. As for where these people come from, do they have any intentions? For special purposes, the foreman doesn't bother to think about these issues. He only needs to remember to transport a car of carbon from the coke plant to the destination, and he can get a freight benefit of one yuan.

When business is good, there will never be enough livestock, mules and horses, so the flat carts for transporting coke will also be pulled by manpower when necessary, such as the three-car coke that Xue Zheng and others are in charge of.The foreman issued a number plate of the coke plant to each car. After they arrived at the destination, they used this number plate to exchange for another plate for settlement on the opposite side, and then pulled the car back to the coke plant to settle the bill.

"If you can read and see the words on the signboard in your hand, that is the destination you are going to! A[-] is the No. [-] furnace in District A, B[-] is the No. [-] furnace in District B, and so on! Remember how those two words are written, and when you get there, look at the street signs to find your way! Also, if you don’t come back within an hour after departure, half of the reward will be deducted! Do you understand? If you understand, get out and do something!”

After the foreman assigned the task with spit, he drove these people to set off quickly. If he could seize the time and let these cheap laborers make two more trips, the foreman would be able to add a few more dishes for dinner today.

(End of this chapter)