1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 2482
The Executive Committee is not unaware of some "little moves" made by the Xingdao colonial area during the development of the oil project. The Ministry of Security and the Military Intelligence Bureau have their own intelligence sources in each overseas colonial area. Not much can be hidden from their eyes and ears.

However, the Executive Committee will not easily intervene in such development projects led by overseas colonies to prevent certain senior officials from profiting from them.If there is no motivation of personal interests, the development progress of most areas will be stagnant for a long time, and the development and construction of these areas can be promoted smoothly only if the officials who preside over the work make moderate profits.

What's more, Tian Yeyou is the only mining expert in the time-traveling group. Only he has the corresponding professional knowledge and can organize and manage the mining of new mineral deposits.All the mineral deposits developed by Haihan over the years are inseparable from Tian Yeyou's participation. The value he has created for Haihan over the years is difficult to measure simply by money.

Regardless of whether Tian Yeyou wants to make money to support his family by presiding over the project, or pave the way for his children to get through the joints in advance, as long as he is still serving the country, the executive committee will not pursue these trivial issues.Compared with Tian Yeyou's contribution to the country, these small things are simply not worth mentioning.

The executive committee is also well aware of the role played by the Xingdao colonial area here.In fact, it is not uncommon in Haihan to lead the development and construction of industrial projects in overseas colonial areas. The relevant history can be traced back to the first overseas colonial area opened by Haihan, which was the black soil port with coal mining as its main business.

Colonial areas with mining projects have natural advantages in terms of development conditions. Heitu Port and Shandong Dengzhou are representatives of this aspect.Regions lacking such natural conditions can only find ways to seek development opportunities from other aspects, such as taking advantage of the special geographical location of Hong Kong and Zhoushan in the early years to position the local development direction as an international trade port, or follow the example of Kaohsiung In the colonial area, vigorously develop planting and agricultural deep processing.

However, the Xingdao colonial area failed to find a suitable positioning and development direction until the Dumai oilfield project was developed.Although the local area is located at a key point on the sea, the navigation scale of this area in this era is far from reaching the level of supporting a large trading port.As for agricultural development, because the local geographical conditions and climatic environment are completely different from those of the East Asian continent, and the immigration situation has not been ideal, no significant results have been achieved.

After entering the [-]s, the number of wars in the South China Sea decreased. Although the Xingdao colonial area organized several waves of actions to expand its territory, they failed to win the attention of the executive committee.During this period, the main energy of the executive committee was put on digesting the southern coastal areas of the mainland that were annexed from the Ming Dynasty, and they did not care about the remote South China Sea.

To put it bluntly, the Xingdao colonial area has no ability to make profits, and even has to rely on the funds provided by the state for a long time to subsidize consumption and maintain the operation of the government system, so naturally it cannot be valued by the executive committee.Moreover, the Xingdao colonial area has been the place where Haihan's tortured prisoners have been exiled for many years, and some departments do not want to take the initiative to change this special function of the local area.

Now that the Xingdao colonial area has managed to develop the Dumai oilfield project on its own, it will definitely play a certain role in promoting Haihan and the local industrialization process, and the executive committee is naturally happy to see the results.As for the official Sing Tao holding a relatively large share in this project and using the profits from the operation to develop the local area in the future, these practices are also within the scope approved by the executive committee.

Of course, the Xingdao colonial area wants to take some changes in the military field, especially actions such as expansion and replacement, which need to be double-checked by the Executive Committee and the Ministry of National Defense. achieved goals.Roger wants to drastically expand and reorganize the army, update the armament, and get Sanya's approval, so he must first find a reasonable reason for this-for example, to protect the petrochemical industry in the Dumai area.

Protecting Haihan's property or personnel is one of the most common reasons for Haihan to use military means overseas in recent years.Overseas colonial areas will also use this reason to submit some special applications to the Executive Committee and the Ministry of Defense.

For example, when Haihan was developing the local copper mine in Fushan County, Dengzhou, Shandong, in order to ensure the normal production of the mine, the executive committee specially approved Chen Yixin to form an infantry battalion in the local area to be responsible for protecting the safety of the Fushan copper mine production area.A few years later, Haihan developed a gold mine in Zhaoyuan County, Dengzhou. Chen Yixin followed suit and expanded the local garrison on the grounds of protecting the gold mine production.

Of course, these resource lands "protected by force" by Haihan will naturally be included in Haihan's territory, and will not return to their original owners.Therefore, for areas that Haihan intends to annex, the executive committee will generally agree to the applications of overseas generals, and sometimes even take the initiative to instruct them to send troops to occupy the target area.

Whether Roger can realize his military expansion plan depends to a certain extent on whether he can find a valuable action target in the future.

However, for the Haihan Executive Committee, the South China Sea will not be the focus of attention in the near future, regardless of whether the Dumai oilfield project is born or not.The trend of the situation in the East Asian continent is an important condition for whether Haihan can develop stably in the next few decades or even hundreds of years. Most of the people in power in the executive committee are in their 60s and [-]s. What kind of situation will it be for the next generation of rulers.

After arriving in this world, I gradually realized that it is not so easy to realize all kinds of grand plans and hegemony that I imagined before crossing.If you just use military means to defeat opponents in East Asia, Haihan already has enough strength to achieve such a goal, but to occupy the world and build a powerful Eastern Empire, the rulers are still somewhat powerless .

It will take a long time for Haihan to digest the Fuguang area that was annexed from Daming.The vast majority of people in the crossing group have no experience of governing the local area as officials. For many people, being a county magistrate or mayor is already the upper limit of their ability. In areas other than Hainan Island, they have to rely on Da Ming's training. bureaucratic system to continue governing the region.

If Haihan wants to continue to annex more regions on the East Asian continent, it can indeed be achieved from a military point of view, but how to govern is a major problem facing the Executive Committee.If we cannot implement the Haihan system in the occupied areas and govern in the manner of an industrialized and civilized country, then we will only rule these places in name, not only failing to achieve the intention of the Executive Committee, but will reduce the efficiency of governing the country .

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