1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 256 Development of Yalong Bay
"It's not just about money." Tao Donglai had personally contacted those in power in North Vietnam, and understood their thinking better: "The warlord leaders in North Vietnam have never really seen the power of firearms on the battlefield. The reason why they buy our weapons is that they simply think that this weapon is powerful. As for how to train the firearms troops, they do not have a clear understanding in their minds. Perhaps in their hearts, they will think that the firearms troops are also Just like the farmers and soldiers they conscripted in the past, as long as each person is sent a weapon and locked together for two to thirty days of training, they can be sent to the battlefield to fight.”

"If they really think so, then they will suffer a big loss when they go to the battlefield." After hearing Tao Donglai's words, Ning Qi was no longer optimistic about the situation facing North Vietnam.

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

"But if you are unlucky and encounter a large group of cavalry, you will die." Although Ning Qi is not a military enthusiast, he also knows that the greatest magic weapon for cold weapon troops to restrain firearm troops in field battles is cavalry.

"Fortunately, it is impossible for the South Vietnamese army to have a large number of cavalry, and their place is not suitable for cavalry." Tao Donglai was not worried about the situation Ning Qi said.

Even the Mongols who used cavalry to sweep across the two continents of Europe and Asia in history had to admit Tao Donglai's point of view. In 1284, the Yuan army entered Annan in the name of attacking the city, and the whole journey was like a broken bamboo. The king of Annan directly abandoned the capital and fled to Qinghua. However, the Yuan army could not give full play to the advantages of cavalry because of the local jungle and water network environment. Coupled with the problem of supplies and the troubles of tropical diseases, they had to withdraw their troops back to Guangxi when the situation was very good.In 1286, when Kublai Khan finished defeating Japan in the north, he launched another conquest against Annan. As a result, this larger-scale military operation still failed to completely defeat Annan. Retreat back to Guangxi. In 1293, Kublai Khan conquered Annan three times. Before the results of the battle were fought, Kublai Khan died. Tie Muer, who took over the throne, issued an order to cease fighting and retreat. At this point, he basically announced the complete failure of the combat system relying on cavalry in the Annan area.

Afterwards, Daming's crusade against Annan failed to do better than the Mongols, and in terms of results, it was even worse than the Mongols. In 1427, the Ming army was defeated in the last large-scale battle in Changjiang City, Annan. The [-] Ming army including the general Anyuan Hou Liusheng was wiped out. The Ming army had to ask for peace.In the second year, Le Li, the military leader of Annan, announced in Hanoi that he would break away from the rule of the Ming Dynasty.It is worth mentioning that the Marquis of Anyuan, Liu Sheng, who died on the battlefield in Annan, was the senior general of the Ming army who created the Shenji Battalion single-handedly.

From the several military operations against Annan in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, it can be seen that the superiority of armaments is not the only factor that affects the outcome of the war. Failed in Annan.Of course, in the original history, they were not the terminator 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 place on the east side of Indochina Peninsula An area can really be called the "cemetery of empires".

Of course, the Executive Committee is well aware of Annan's history. There are lessons learned from the past. Of course, the Executive Committee will not make the same mistakes again.Therefore, from the beginning of contact with the North Vietnamese regime, the Executive Committee has adopted a more cautious attitude, only conducting military aid and arms transactions to a certain extent, and has no intention of directly intervening in the domestic war situation in Annan.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. On the other hand, they are also worried about repeating the same mistakes. Even the military and police departments dare not boast that they can do better than their predecessors.

Of course, one of the most important and inhumane reasons is that the executive committee thinks that it is better for Annan to continue to maintain a state of civil strife, so that the crossing group can continuously import industrial products to it, and then introduce immigrants from there to expand its own strength By the way, you can take advantage of the civil strife over there to occupy a few more good places in the coastal area to settle down.It is no exaggeration to say that even if the North and the South want to cease war and negotiate someday, the Transcend Group will try to keep them fighting—in the face of the great collective interests, no matter what the doctrine is, even if it is peace like Gu Kai Interestingly, activists have not voiced any opposition to this policy of the Executive Committee.

After a simple screening and a seven-day quarantine period, these new immigrants will be assigned to various units, and their main destination will still be the Iron Furnace Salt Farm.The naturalized people in the Victory Port area are mainly Ming people. For the sake of social stability, only a small number of North Vietnamese immigrants will be left to settle in the Victory Port area.Of course, for those prisoners of war and prisoners, what awaited them was the hard labor life in the labor camp.

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

Yalong Bay has a half-moon shape and is located at the southernmost tip of Hainan Island. It is most famous in later generations for its white sandy beaches stretching for several kilometers and crystal clear sea water.In later generations, this is a famous resort area, filled with various luxury villas, conference centers, high-end hotels and resorts, etc. There are only two standard golf courses, which shows that the consumer market positioning here is very high-end.

This plain along the coast of Yalong Bay is sandwiched between Liudaoling and Yalongling, but its area is larger than that of Shengli Port and Tielu Port combined, but because its terrain is too open, it is almost impossible to defend against the sea. , 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 capabilities of the later Republic, and directly built several kilometers of wave breakwaters in Yalong Bay to seal off half of the bay. It was used as a naval base.

At present, when the executive committee chooses colonization sites, it has more considerations about safety. Therefore, the natural salt fields like Yinggehai and the nearby plains like Yalong Bay have been removed from the candidate list by the executive committee. Brushed off.The reason why Yalong Bay was included in the development target again recently was the proposal of Mr. Yuan from the Ministry of Agriculture.

After the crossing group occupied the area from Shengli Port to Tiandu, the Ministry of Agriculture reclaimed a large number of fields along the Tiandu River for growing food crops and cash crops.At present, rice, which is the main food crop, has been harvested for two seasons, but the harvest period of commercial crops is much longer. Fast ones like sugar cane take about a year, and slow ones like rubber trees and oil palms don’t last for three to five years. Not effective.Those mountain forests that were felled in the early stage are now slowly replanting various economic trees.In particular, biodiesel can be extracted. The diesel tree known as Jatropha curcas among the people has been continuously planted, and a small-scale diesel supply is expected to be realized in a few years.

The hope that the Executive Committee places on the Ministry of Agriculture is not just food - this is basically no longer a problem that plagues the crossing group after the North Vietnam route is opened.The sisal that can be woven into canvas, as well as the rubber and diesel needed for industrial production, are not all the goals of the Executive Committee. Those economic crops that can be exported and create profits for the Transit Group are the parts that the Executive Committee currently values. .In addition to the existing industrial products, the Crossing Group also needs to have more agricultural products that are readily available, and Mr. Yuan believes that the economic crop that is most suitable for large-scale planting and has the fastest effect is sugarcane.

In southern China in the 80th century, sugar was a very important product. Among the ocean-going goods purchased by merchants in Western countries in Guangzhou, porcelain and silk were not the main products as in later generations, but more than most of them. Unexpected sugar—about 10% of the cargo loaded on the ship is sugar produced in Guangdong, while porcelain and silk fabrics account for no more than [-]%.This is partly due to the fact that the prices of porcelain and silk fabrics were too high, and merchants did not have enough financial resources to purchase them in large quantities. On the other hand, it can also be seen how developed the sugar industry in southern China was at that time, and the popularity of sucrose in the market. degree.

Sugar cane can be harvested in only ten to twelve months, which is basically a short period among commercial crops.However, due to limited conditions in the early days, the Ministry of Agriculture only planted more than 100 mu of sugarcane along the Tiandu River—such an area is enough for its own people to make teeth and sacrifices, but it is far from enough to mass-produce white sugar.

However, now that manpower is much looser than it was in the early days, the Ministry of Agriculture once again proposed a plan to plant sugarcane on a large scale—this time the Ministry of Agriculture set its sights on the coast of Yalong Bay, planning to reclaim more than [-] acres of sugarcane fields in one go. The first phase of the project, and wrote 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 human resources and other relevant departments to cooperate in the implementation.This time, the Executive Committee did not veto the proposal to develop Yalong Bay because of safety issues. There are actually several reasons.

One is that the Executive Committee really needs the Ministry of Agriculture to come up with some short-term, flat and fast foreign exchange earning projects to alleviate the current situation of the lack of export commodities in Shengli Port.Secondly, the planned development area of ​​the Ministry of Agriculture is only two miles away from the nearest glass workshop on the east bank of the Tiandu River estuary, and there is only a small mountain with an altitude of less than [-] meters in the middle. The land area retreats.The third reason is that the Military and Police Department helped. They are preparing to relocate the coastal observation post to expand the range of early warning at sea.The western side is expected to set up an observation post on the Luhuitou Peninsula, while the eastern side will choose Huling, which can observe the entire Yalong Bay waters.In this way, the early warning range of the observation post has increased by more than five times compared with the single post in Yulinjiao in the past, and the defense force of Victory Port will have more time to respond when encountering a situation.

The [-]-acre sugarcane field cannot be opened immediately. The deep plowing and ditching required before planting sugarcane is a real effort.Fortunately, this time has entered the slack season, and the farm commune has a lot of idle labor available.As of the day when the latest group of immigrants arrived at Shengli Port, the laborers of the farm commune had cultivated nearly a thousand acres of sugarcane fields in the Yalong Bay area.Some of the new immigrants will be assigned here after the isolation period to be responsible for the planting and maintenance of sugar cane.

Three days later, Schneider also arrived at Shengli Port on a cargo ship returning from Guangzhou, preparing to participate in the end-of-year summary meeting.Returning with him are more than ten merchant ships from Guangzhou and its surrounding areas, which are larger than the fleet of maritime merchants who visited the previous time.

On the same day, the commercial warehouse built by the first foreign investor "Fu Ruifeng" in Shengli Port finally completed all the projects.In fact, the main building of the store 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 ask that all the bathroom systems must be made of Haihan. As a result, the whole building had to be remodeled to meet the laying conditions of the bathroom pipes.For this reason, "Furuifeng" invested an additional 3000 yuan in circulation coupons-this is the price that the Ministry of Construction gave a [-]% discount for the sake of acquaintances.

Li Nai himself didn't feel bad for this extra investment, because he knew that although the money was thrown away quickly, the speed of earning it back would not be too slow, because this store was very important to "Furuifeng" In fact, it is a very efficient money-making machine.

This shop is a restaurant facing the landscape avenue. Although there are only two upper and lower floors, the interior decoration and staffing are all in accordance with the standards of high-end restaurants in Guangzhou. The dishes are all shipped from Guangzhou, and the chef is naturally specially invited from Guangzhou.Of course, its consumption level is also based on the level of the wealthy class in Guangzhou. If you ignore the local currency exchange rate, the consumption of a meal here is not much cheaper than the most upscale Sijixuan in Guangzhou.

Li Nai is not worried about the source of customers for the hotel. The sea merchants who can come here at this stage all have a certain economic strength, and the Haihan people needless to say - the only local currency that can be used is printed by them Yes, no one is foolish enough to doubt their spending power.

As for the restaurants and hotels that other investors are going to open, Li Nai is not worried. After all, it is difficult to replicate the practice of moving a whole hotel from the mainland like his own. Even if it can be replicated, it will be at least two or three months later. By that time, the property owned by the family in Shengli Port may have doubled.

Behind this hotel as a facade is a courtyard with two entrances, which is the brothel jointly planned by the Executive Committee and "Fu Ruifeng".At present, the employees here are more than ten young women hired by "Furuifeng" from Guangzhou, and in order to respond to the special request of the executive committee, there is no personal contract between these women and "Furuifeng", but Appearing here in the form of hired workers - this is also a request made by the Executive Committee to Li Nai in order to avoid being picked on by feminists.

Of course, those convoluted things are all imaginary, and they are nothing more than an excuse for a legitimate business.In order to ensure that this place can maintain a 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 business hours, methods and service targets.

This brothel can only operate between [-]:[-] pm and [-]:[-] pm every day. All employees are not allowed to leave the location of the store without any reason, and they are not allowed to show their faces in the hotel facing the street to solicit customers. They must undergo a physical examination at least once a month.The most important thing is that this place can only receive people who have issued special bills by the Executive Committee. As for the fees, the Shengli Port Management Committee under the Executive Committee and "Fu Ruifeng" will settle the settlement according to the number of special bills. once a month.

This is not that the executive committee directly takes money out for bachelors to meet their physiological needs. In fact, wool is still produced on sheep. This special bill that can be consumed in the brothel is to be purchased by the traveler with his real name at the civil affairs department. There is a limit of five tickets per person, and you must show your ID number plate when you go to make purchases - there will be a special person in charge of inspection and registration at that time, which is basically the brothel version of the real-name system for train tickets.

These regulations may seem unreasonable, but they can indeed greatly reduce the frequency of unfavorable phenomena such as jealousy and fights that often occur in such romantic places. Anyone who makes trouble here will be easily tracked down.In addition, this measure is also conducive to the prevention and control of certain diseases - as long as you check a certain girl's business records, you can easily find out the people she has come into contact with.

In fact, before the appearance of the brothel, some time-traveling people had already "spontaneously acted" and had private relationships with some female Guihua people and even Li Miao mountain people.Although there are not many such cases, the executive committee also wipes the buttocks of these guys whose hormones are overflowing.If there is no legal place for the large number of bachelors in the time-traveling group to meet their biological needs, sooner or later a civil strife will break out in Victory Port.

Of course, to solve this problem from the root, we still need to continue to introduce a large number of immigrants, especially young women with excellent qualities.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 situations where naturalized people want to marry their daughters to time-traveling people, but this situation still faces legal issues—whether relatives of the woman who married time-traveling people can also enjoy the same treatment as time-traveling people?

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