1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 248 The New Trend of the Haihan Militia
Those who come early, like Li Nai, naturally do not need to participate in this commodity bidding—the order of "Fu Ruifeng" is guaranteed by the trade agreement between the two parties, so there is no need to worry about their products being sold to other companies.But Li Nai really wanted to join the bidding process. After all, no one would dislike too many Haihan products here. As long as they were transported back to Guangzhou, they could be immediately exchanged for valuable money.However, Li Nai's request was rejected by the executive committee in the end, because this sale is to open up the mainland market, if the goods are still sold by the "Fu Ruifeng" family, it will completely deviate from the goal of this event.

"The first thing you see is the locally produced silver mirrors, which are divided into four sizes: two-inch, five-inch, and eight-inch round mirrors and one-foot square mirrors. Next, we will issue quotations for sale in batches according to size. First It is a two-inch round mirror with fifty sides. You can take a look at the samples we displayed first. It looks clear and does not deform. It does not need to be re-polished regularly like a bronze mirror. It will not rust when it gets wet, and it is light in weight and small in size. It is easy to carry out..." Today's auctioneer is Tao Donglai himself, so that he can deal with problems that may arise during the auction in a timely manner. After all, this is the first time that this kind of event is held, and no one can talk about it. There is no experience to speak of, so Tao Dong, who has a strong talkative skill, can only be allowed to take on this important task.

Seeing that everyone had already inspected the samples, Tao Donglai turned back to the topic: "The starting price of these fifty-sided two-inch silver mirrors is 20 yuan for circulation coupons, and the default price increases by [-] yuan each time the placard is raised. After three inquiries, no one raised the price. It's a deal with the hammer! Do you all understand?"

Some of the merchants in the audience are still thinking about the price, and some have already raised their placards to make an offer: "Two hundred!"

"Shop C offered two hundred yuan!" Tao Donglai responded loudly.

Only then did the others react, and hurriedly raised their placards to make an offer.The market price of two-inch Haihan silver mirrors in Guangzhou is currently more than 35 taels per side. The market value of these fifty mirrors is more than 700 taels of silver. Why hesitate!
"220!" "Three hundred!" "Four hundred!"

Merchants from the mainland have been waiting for too long, apparently not patient enough to increase the price by 20 yuan each time, and soon some people began to raise the price in units of [-] yuan, after all, where is the market value of this thing It's easy for everyone to estimate how much profit margin their quotation has.

After a fierce competition, a businessman surnamed He from Zhaoqing Prefecture finally bought the fifty two-inch silver mirrors at a price of 320 yuan.Some other merchants think that the profit of shipping back to Guangzhou for sale at this cost is not too much. After all, they have to pay a certain amount of taxes to the government after shipping back.Some merchants are aware of the fierce competition and want to save money to bid for better products later.The businessman surnamed He considered that the market value of these mirrors would be at least 2000 taels after they were shipped back to Zhaoqing Mansion, so they could still make a lot of money if they were bought at this relatively high price.

Of course, this transaction price is even more ideal for Time Travel Group. The selling price of the two-inch silver mirror is 20 yuan per side. After such a competition, hundreds of circulating coupons were sold. faster.And for today's auction items, these fifty mirrors are just an appetizer.

Several larger sizes of silver mirrors continued to be auctioned at high prices. Finally, the total price of the five-sided one-foot square mirror was more than 6000 yuan, which was 50% higher than the original issue price.This is not because merchants are rich and willful, but that a one-foot square mirror is indeed a rarity in the current Guangzhou market. After months of hype, the price of a single side has stabilized at more than 500 taels. An example of a rich businessman from Jiangsu and Zhejiang asking for 800 taels in Guangzhou to buy a Haihan square mirror.

At the current price, it is actually very profitable after being shipped back to the mainland, and if this thing is placed in one's own business, the customer flow will definitely increase significantly, and the advertising effect is enough to hype it for a long time.

Under the strong request of various merchants, the auction of the day lasted until the sun went down.The transaction volume in this half-day alone has exceeded 3 yuan, and compared with the previous sales method, the transaction price has increased by more than 25% on average. Tao Donglai used "the situation is gratifying" to describe the progress of the day at the summary meeting that night. reward.

In the early morning of the next day, anxious merchants took their cash boxes and queued up at the entrance of the currency exchange center—the previous day’s rush auction had already used up the circulating coupons on hand, and they had to exchange some more to cope with today’s auction sale .And some people who didn't bring enough money can only watch the show on the wall today.It is said that the Haihan people will sell a "giant" Haihan silver mirror that is two feet long and one foot wide at the auction today, and several merchants who still have silver are struggling to grab this good product today. And because this is a new product that has never been released to the outside world, the powerful "Fu Ruifeng" was also licensed to join the ranks of the auction.

In addition, the high-end color carved stationery among the glass stationery and ten sets of limited edition special commemorative editions of Ding Mao are also auctioned today. For merchants, these are all valuable treasures. If you miss After this release, I don’t know when I will have a chance next time.

However, today's auctioneer has changed, Ning Qi, another hot-mouthed contestant from the Traveling Group, replaced Tao Dong to preside over it.Although Ning Qi is not a member of the business system, his years as a university lecturer have allowed him to accumulate a wealth of experience, and there is no trace of stage fright in hosting such activities on stage.In the eyes of Ning Qi, the businessmen of Ming Dynasty in this era are simply simple, and they are obviously much easier to deal with than the eccentric college students of later generations.

Tao Donglai didn't intend to miss the auction because yesterday's process was so smooth that he lost interest, but because he had to attend the auction today because he had another schedule that had already been booked.When merchants stepped into the auction site of Base No. [-], Tao Donglai also set foot on the military barracks pier on the east bank of Victory Port.Today is the day when the third batch of militia students finish their training and officially enlist in the army. As the supreme commander of the crossing group's military force, Tao Donglai will definitely show up on such an important occasion.

In addition to inspecting the training results of the third batch of militiamen, the fourth batch of militiamen who have received military training for nearly a month, as well as the first batch of ordinary people who have received military training, and finally the live ammunition of the first batch of naturalized civilian artillery drill.For the current military training system, today is the time to verify the results.And this military training is also a preview of the military parade at the end of the year. At that time, there will be a public military parade facing all the crossing people and ordinary naturalized people, so as to promote the military strength of Haihan and boost the morale and confidence of the people.

Most of the militiamen trained in the first batch were stationed in Heitu Port, and then took the cargo ships between the two places to gradually carry out rotation and garrison.Half of the second batch of militiamen were sent to the Tushan Peninsula, where they served as North Vietnamese military advisers and trained North Vietnamese soldiers in the use of firearms.Another part of the militia is stationed in Tiandu, Tielugang, Yulinjiao and other places. It can be said that the enlistment of the third batch of militia will greatly ease the tension in military strength, so that the local militia garrison arrangements will not be too stretched.

Of course, the existing number of militias is still far from enough for the military and police department. The military and police department estimates that at least 200 people are needed to fully fill the Shengli Port coastal defense fort, of which at least three Ten to forty qualified gunners who passed the assessment were assigned to each gun position to command operations.But now, whether it is soldiers or gunners, there is still some gap between the numbers expected by the Military and Police Department.Some people in the Military and Police Department also proposed to select some young men from the prisoners of war and prisoners transported from North Vietnam to join the militia, but this proposal was quickly rejected by the Executive Committee.

Now the economic situation of the Crossing Group is very good, and the speed of population importation has also been greatly accelerated. The Executive Committee is not as opposed to the expansion of the Military and Police Department as it was in the early days. However, the Executive Committee believes that the use of prisoners of war and prisoners must be handled with caution. .Of course, some of these people were taken advantage of, but there were also many dangerous elements who had killed people and seen blood, and their positions were different from those of the North Vietnamese immigrants. Letting these people enter violent institutions would probably pose a threat to the increasing number of North Vietnamese immigrants in the area.

This is not unfounded worry by the Executive Committee. Ning Qi pointed out that the ethnicity of South Vietnam is somewhat different from that of North Vietnam. The proportion of Malays is relatively high. In terms of language, living habits, and cultural traditions, they are all similar to the Sinicized Vietnamese in North Vietnam. There are obvious differences between people, and it is more difficult to incorporate these people into the naturalized people's system.Moreover, the IQ of the Southeast Asian race is significantly lower than that of the East Asian race. This is the result of scientific research in later generations. Limited by the means of cultural communication, the civilization gap between Southeast Asia and Ming Dynasty in this era is even greater than that of later generations. As far as the south is concerned, the local indigenous people are closer to a barbaric state, and they can't even talk about a formed social system.

Of course, the Nanyue region, which is located in the Indochina Peninsula, is not as backward as those island tribes in the south. For example, Champa, which was established in the Qin and Han Dynasties, has a relatively high level of civilization.However, in the opinion of the Executive Committee, whether it is Champa or the island tribes further south, due to the inherent disadvantages of race, they are areas that cannot be reused by local aborigines. like those South Vietnamese POWs in the

Compared with the Southeast Asian race that has always been called "monkey" by the cross-travelers, Daming and the deeply sinicized North Vietnam are obviously more in line with the Executive Committee's requirements for naturalized people.It is said that among the first batch of North Vietnamese immigrants who arrived in the local area, some people have already signed up to join the fourth batch of militia.

The third batch of militiamen wearing gray cloth military uniforms walked across the rostrum in platoons, carrying the latest [-]-style flintlock guns.The style of this military uniform is closer to the military uniform of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army of later generations. It consists of a double-breasted short jacket, trousers and leggings, a cowhide armed belt and cloth shoes, and uniformly wears the armband of the "Haihan Militia" on the left arm.However, since most people still wear hair buns, they did not distribute inconvenient short-brimmed cloth hats, but used rattan helmets with uniform styles—basically copied from the rattan helmets of Zheng Chenggong’s Rattan Army. of.

According to the feedback from the grassroots, the Military and Police Department has gradually canceled the original camouflage military uniforms and replaced them with gray cloth military uniforms that are cheaper and more suitable for large-scale equipment.The militiamen obviously have a higher acceptance of this kind of military uniform, because they generally think that the flashy camouflage military uniform is simply dressed as a beggar, with no prestige at all, and this view has spread to the public, greatly affecting the public's understanding of the military. The intuitive feeling of combat effectiveness.The Military and Police Department had to silently start recycling the camouflage uniforms that had been sent out, and sent some of them to Heitu Port—the combat troops trained by Qian Tiandun, whose activities were in the mountains and jungles, might be the ones that really needed the camouflage uniforms. The place.

Tao Donglai, Yan Chujie and others stood on the viewing platform, looking at the marching militia phalanx, while also thinking about the future plans of the military and police department.

At present, after several expansions of the militia force of the Crossing Group, counting the fourth batch of militiamen who are still in training, they already have two companies of security guards and a total of five companies of militiamen - one of which is authorized by the Military and Police Department The executive committee is not very clear about the actual establishment of the combat force that Qian Tiandun has set up in private.

However, the scale of such an army is still relatively weak for the expansion speed of the crossing group, especially the combat power at sea, which is still in a state of almost zero, not even a warship in the true sense, let alone Not to mention the formal establishment of the navy or sailors.The militiamen of the five companies seem to be quite a lot, but they have to be stationed in the base camp, Iron Furnace Port, Black Earth Port, and Tushan Peninsula, and there are very few troops that can actually move.In other words, the current military strength of the Traversing Group is estimated to be able to protect itself, but it is still seriously insufficient to launch military operations abroad.

To change this situation, the Ministry of Military and Police believes that in addition to continuously expanding the militia, large-scale military training for people of the right age is also one of the solutions.Turn the people of the right age into militias, and then turn the existing militias into professional soldiers, in exchange for the mobility of limited military forces, so that at least they have the ability to launch small-scale external military operations when necessary.

"President Tao, these two phalanxes are ordinary naturalized people who have been trained since last month." Gu Wei, who was standing beside Tao Donglai, introduced softly.He is currently the person in charge of the entire training camp, and all military training plans are formulated and organized by him.Today's military parade can also be regarded as a large volume that Gu Wei personally handed over to the Military Police Department and the Executive Committee.

Tao Donglai recovered from his contemplation, and raised his hand to salute the militia phalanx passing by the rostrum.These irregular militiamen have not received in-depth military training. Their current training content is mainly based on familiarizing with military orders, marching in formation and basic military skills, and they have not even been exposed to firearms.The weapons equipped by these irregular militias are divided into two types. One is a five-meter-long wooden iron-tipped spear. Needless to say, this is an imitation of the famous Spanish spearmen in history, which can cooperate with musketeers in wartime For combat, the relevant tactics are very mature and not complicated, and they can be directly applied to these militiamen who do not have much military foundation.The other is rattan soldiers equipped with rattan short knives, whose main function is to cooperate with pikemen in combat.

Of course, the military and police department did not expect to send these arms to the future battlefield as the main force. What they will undertake is the daily garrison task, so as to liberate the professional musket troops from garrison as much as possible and become A real professional army.And whether these spearmen or rattan soldiers, the biggest function in wartime is not to kill the enemy, but to serve as a logistics force for transporting supplies, cleaning the battlefield, and rescuing the wounded. These people were sent to fight on the frontal battlefield.

At present, there are a total of two company establishments receiving military training, the frequency is five times a month, one day each time.If those with better qualifications are discovered by the instructors, they may also be promoted and enter the real army establishment.And the people are not disgusted with this kind of military training. The reason is very simple. People will record double working hours when they participate in military training, which is equivalent to at least five more days of income every month. They also enjoy a certain amount of subsidies every month, and they also have priority in the promotion of labor ranks. All kinds of benefits are placed there, so that young and middle-aged people who cannot enter the regular army establishment have an additional way to "repay service".

With the gradual expansion of the scale of the naturalized militia, further improvement of the establishment is imminent.Since there are not many personnel in the Military and Police Department who can actually engage in combat command, the planned position of the crossing staff is at least the rank of platoon leader. However, it seems that such an organization is not suitable for the actual situation of the army. The number of people is too small. If the scale of the army continues to expand, it will be impossible to achieve command covering the grassroots.

The training speed of naturalized civilian officers obviously cannot keep up with the expansion speed of the army establishment. Besides, it is really hard for the military and police department to let those naturalized civilians who have only received less than half a year of military training and have not even fought a battle be the grassroots combat commanders. I can't let go of this heart.

The solution of the Ministry of Military and Police is to change the establishment and replace the current simple three-three system with a more scientific and reasonable army establishment.For example, at the level of squad platooning, in the past, three shifts were simply combined into one platoon. Now, at the platoon level, the staffing needs to be increased. Undertake tasks such as communications, engineers, material delivery, battlefield rescue and logistics.In this way, the number of personnel that each platoon leader can directly command will increase by one-third from the current basis, and the restructuring and expansion will be realized without large-scale adjustments, so as to enhance the actual combat effectiveness of the troops.

(End of this chapter)