1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 272 Changes in Li Tong
"There is one more thing. I was thinking about whether I should give it to you." Yu Dashan showed hesitation, but in the end he reached into his arms, took out something and handed it to Yu Xiaobao: "I'll give it to you." Come on! This is a small knife I brought you from Fulito, he said he can't come to give you today."

"This is the knife he carried with him!" Yu Xiaobao recognized his good friend's things at a glance: "When I saw him the day before yesterday, he said he would come to the pier to see me off. What's going on?"

This dagger was also a gift given to the cave owner Fu Nuo when the Li District Working Group visited Fushan Cave for the first time - Kaba 1218 made in Yangjiang.Although it was just a counterfeit product produced by Dayangjiang in later generations, Li Tong in this era is no different from a peerless magic weapon. This dagger has always been regarded as a treasure by Fu Li.

"The executive committee plans to recruit another group of Li militiamen as soon as possible. Fu Li went back to his cave to help recruit people. This was brought over by his cousin who worked at the dock yesterday." Yu Dashan paused, He said softly: "I heard that the chief has approved Fuli to join the militia. This kid... probably isn't going to take his grandfather's place!"

"No wonder he gave me the knife. If you join the militia, you will be able to use the uniformly distributed weapons!" Yu Xiaobao is also happy that his good friend can realize his long-standing dream. As for whether Fu Li will succeed Fu Li The position of cave master in the cave is not what he cares about now: "Father, you said that it would be great if I could join the militia and wear military uniform with Fu Li!"

"Stop daydreaming, kid!" Yu Dashan slapped Xiaobao directly on the forehead, as if trying to wake him up from a dream: "Stay honestly in Guangzhou and take care of Mr. Shi. Learn more skills! Don't think about being a soldier and fighting all day long, you are doing things for the executive committee, your current job is much better than Fu Li, and you should cherish your blessings!"

Yu Xiaobao giggled a few times, and was about to speak when he saw a familiar figure appearing behind Yu Dashan: "Uncle Zhang is here!"

When Yu Dashan turned his head, he saw that it was Zhang Tiangui, the head of the naturalized migrant worker at the shipyard. Although they were both highly regarded naturalized civilian cadres, they were quite competitive in private, but they still greeted each other when they met.

Seeing that Zhang Tiangui was also carrying a large package behind him, Yu Dashan asked, "Old Zhang, do you have something to bring to your son?"

Zhang Tiangui smiled awkwardly and said, "That's right... I originally wanted to ask some chief to take it there, but this time our shipping department does not have a chief to go to Guangzhou..."

Zhang Tiangui's youngest son, Zhang Qianzhi, joined Yu Xiaobao as the second batch of members in last September.However, different from Yu Xiaobao, Zhang Qianzhi worked with He Xi, the intelligence leader, and didn't spend much time in the Guangzhou Office.And this time Schneider returned to Shengli Port to report on his work, and He Xi, the deputy director of the Guangzhou Office, was sitting in Guangzhou as a temporary leader, so Zhang Qianzhi, a small follower, was not able to return to his hometown to visit his relatives this time.

Before he finished speaking, Yu Dashan said to Xiaobao, "Aren't you going to take the package for you, Uncle Zhang?"

"This... why is this so embarrassing?" Zhang Tiangui probably didn't expect Yu Dashan to be so proactive, and he didn't know what to do for a while.

"There are only two juniors in the Guangzhou Office, and they are both from Shengli Port. How can we not take care of each other?" Yu Dashan said and slapped Yu Xiaobao on the back: "Xiaobao, are you right?"

"Take it easy, Dad!" Yu Xiaobao couldn't help but yelled, and then took the package from Zhang Tiangui: "Uncle Zhang, don't worry, I have a good relationship with Qianzhi! I will definitely bring the things to you carefully." .”

"Then thank you, Xiaobao!" The expression on Zhang Tiangui's face also became more relaxed: "Please send a message, let him do things honestly in Guangzhou, learn his skills from Mr. He, and everything at home will be fine... ...well, that's it."

"It's exactly the same as what my father said!" Yu Xiaobao responded with a smile.

Yu Dashan and Zhang Tiangui looked at each other and couldn't help shaking their heads and smiling wryly.It may take a few years for these children to understand the thoughts of parents.However, they have already worked beside the chiefs at a young age, and after a few years, their status and achievements should greatly exceed those of their parents.

When Yu Xiaobao's cargo ship left Shengli Port, Fu Li was in Fushan Cave to persuade his grandfather Fu Nuo to accept the conditions offered by the Haihan people.

Due to the recent military operations that require the mobilization of a large number of troops, Victory Port will soon face a period of defense emptiness. Some people who have always held objections to the Military and Police Department’s military expansion plan have finally realized their short-sightedness and began to change their attitudes and reconsider the Military and Police Department. previously proposed military expansion plans.

Prior to this, the Military and Police Department had proposed a conscription plan for the Li and Miao ethnic groups, but it was not approved during the discussion by the Executive Committee, so it was also suppressed.The starting point of this plan is to use the Li and Miao people on Hainan Island as the main source of troops at this stage, because most of the settlements of the Li and Miao people are in the inland mountainous areas, and their education levels are generally low. Whether they are industrial workers or professional Farmers have to go through a long period of training to be barely competent.In fact, most of the Li and Miao people who have gone out of the mountainous area to work for the Crossing Group are engaged in simple heavy manual labor, such as logging, mining, road construction, etc., and very few of them are engaged in technical work.

However, some Li and Miao youths who joined the Haihan militia in the early stage performed relatively well. Their bravery, tenacity, and adaptability to the environment are all qualities that the Military and Police Department value very much.Except for the occasional fights between the Li and Miao tribes in the camp due to family feuds, it can be said that the other performances satisfied the military and police department very much.As for feuds, the military and police department is not particularly worried - as long as they have fought on the battlefield a few times, the friendship of comrades in arms who share the same hatred and share life and death will quickly dilute the original ****.

The Ministry of Military and Police believes that there are three benefits that cannot be ignored by recruiting a large number of Li and Miao youths to join the army.On the one hand, it can guarantee the combat effectiveness of the source of troops. These brave and ruthless mountain youths are indeed more aggressive than the farm children who grew up in the fields, and this is an important quality that soldiers should have.Second, taking time out of the young and strong Li and Miao ethnic groups in the nearby area can also reduce a worry for the crossing group. The security problem in the jurisdiction alone will be reduced by at least half of what it is now, and the Lidong Miao Village after losing the young and strong will also be reduced. It can only rely more on the material supply of the crossing group.Thirdly, the Li and Miao ethnic groups do not have any object of attachment, and they only adopt an attitude of listening to the local government of Daming and not listening to propaganda. According to what Grandpa Mao said, "Make fewer enemies and make more friends." According to this political principle, these two groups should be drawn into their own camp as much as possible. It is obviously a good way to let their teenagers enter the Haihan military circle.

However, when this plan was proposed at that time, the objection was that a large number of young men should not be recruited into the military and police department that was not so urgent to expand under the situation of labor shortage, and these native Li Miao youths were in batches. After mastering the barrel of a gun, no one dares to guarantee whether he will make some actions beyond the control of the military and police department.So for various reasons, the targeted military expansion plan of the Ministry of Military and Police was not approved in the end.It is worth mentioning that Fu Li's application to join the army has not been approved. In fact, there are indeed concerns in this regard. After all, he is the heir of Fu Shandong. This kind of local political status and influence It may not be a good thing for the Time Traveling Group for people to join the militia.

But with the continuous expansion of the time-traveling group, the situation is slowly changing.After the opening of the North Vietnamese Black Soil Port colonization site, a large number of Li and Miao soldiers were consciously arranged to garrison overseas through a change of defense. At the same time, a large number of North Vietnamese immigrants began to enter Victory Port, diluting the proportion of the local population of the Li and Miao ethnic groups.For the first time, the Military and Police Department has received the demographic dividend brought about by a large number of immigrants. The labor force of the Li and Miao ethnic groups is no longer a resource that various departments are fighting for. On the agenda of the Executive Committee.

At this time, the advantages of the Li and Miao ethnic groups began to emerge again. Due to language and cultural reasons, the Han naturalized people were the targets of the Executive Committee's plan to train a large number of industrial workers. Arrange some clumsy tasks for them to complete. Organizations with a certain political color like the militia will not open their doors to them for the time being. At most, they just select some relatively outstanding talents.At present, the only unit of North Vietnamese naturalized people that has been formed is the special warfare company in Heitugang, which the military and police department placed high hopes on and led by Qian Tiandun himself for training.In this way, the Li and Miao tribes undoubtedly became the most suitable candidates for conscription.

As for the security issues brought about by the proportion of troops that some people are worried about, the Military and Police Department has also made better arrangements.With the expansion of the crossing group's control area, the military and police department can now selectively transfer local companies to other places for garrison, and troops like the Black Earth Port Special Warfare Company, which is mainly composed of North Vietnamese immigrants, can also be transferred back to Victory Port in the future Regional garrison, the implementation of remote garrison system, greatly reduces the possibility of uncontrollable problems at the bottom of the army.

Under the conscious operation of the Military and Police Department, they finally let go and approved Fu Li's application for enlistment in the army. The attitude is still based on control and supplemented by support. Members of the ruling families of the Li and Miao ethnic groups are not allowed to enter the militia system, lest the military and police department lose control over some low-level soldiers.

Of course, even so, the arrangement of Fuli is still very delicate-his company is basically composed of Han Chinese, supplemented by a small number of North Vietnamese immigrants, and he is the only seedling of Li and Miao. To a certain extent, the possibility of him influencing other soldiers as the heir of Fushandong was eliminated.Moreover, during the period when Fu Li was in the military, he had to temporarily give up the power to inherit the power of the cave master of Mount Fu. If he wanted to choose to be the cave master, he had to retire from the army and leave the militia. The two identities of a soldier and a cave master cannot be combined .

In addition, the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the Ministry of Agriculture have already planned to relocate Fushandong as a whole. At that time, the name of Fushandong may have to be changed, and the influence of Fuli's heir status will naturally be weakened a lot.The only person who regrets this is probably Ning Qi who proposed to support a puppet leader of the Li people.

Fu Li himself has no objection to such an arrangement. For him, being able to enter the Haihan Militia and wear this long-awaited military uniform is already a great happiness. Is it that important?If he hadn't received the mission this time, Fu Li would not have been willing to return to Fushandong when he just joined the army and was full of freshness about everything in the army.

"Grandpa, Chief Haihan wants us to move the entire Fushan cave to the outside of the mountain, and to drive other Li caves to gradually move to the coastal areas. The Ministry of Agriculture has allocated a lot of land for us in Tiandu, and will send People taught us to grow spices, and food, iron and other good things will be openly supplied to us, and everyone’s life will get better and better in the future!” Fu Li sat next to Fu Nuo, patiently explaining to him the executive committee’s policy.

Fu Nuo shook his head and said, "The children want to live a good life and go outside the mountains to earn money. I have no objection to that, but the Haihan people want us to relocate. This is to dismantle Lidong. Fu Li, after moving out, Fu Nuo The cave is no longer Fushan cave!"

According to the plan of the executive committee, the Lidong Miao Village in the inland area near Sanya will be gradually resettled outside the mountains to join the development army of Hainan Island.Li people's cottages like Fushandong will be resettled in the ten-mile valley from Tiandu to Tielugang. Women and old people will be engaged in spice planting, young and strong will enter the militia system, and children will start to receive orthodox Haihan-style education.The Executive Committee believes that it only takes a few years to completely transform these mountain people into supporters of the new regime.

Fu Li retorted: "Grandpa, you said before that we Li people are not like this because we like to live in the mountains. If we have a choice, we also want to live a life as rich as the Han people. But now such an opportunity is gone. It is in front of us. As long as we go out, the executive committee can provide us with everything, so that we can live the life of the Han people. With the care of the executive committee, the Yazhou government will not conscript us in the future. Wouldn't it be nice to collect our taxes?"

"But the Haihan people have dragged our young people into the army..." Fu Nuo still felt uncomfortable.

"Grandpa, the Haihan people didn't pull anyone, and we volunteered to serve as soldiers!" Fu Li proudly puffed out his chest, and his brand new gray military uniform seemed to confirm what he said was true.

"You go to be a soldier, who will inherit this Fushan cave..." Fu Nuo always felt a little dazzling when he saw the military uniform of the Haihan militia.

"Grandpa, do you really think it is necessary to inherit Fushandong?" Fu Li's face showed a serious expression that did not match his age: "We have more than 300 households in Fushandong, with more than 1000 people. How many? Five hundred or six hundred? Most of the young people like me have already left the mountain, and many of them have already become naturalized people. Why do we still guard this place? Do you remember that Mr. Ning came to Dongdong before? Why did we agree to cooperate with him when Li visited?"

"Remember." Of course, Fu Nuo remembered how Ning Qi persuaded himself nine months ago to let the Litong mountain people go out to work for the Haihan people: "He said that we would stop worrying about food and let young people wear clothes Beautiful, so that children can read and write!"

"Since the Haihan people have done what Mr. Ning promised, why can't we continue to cooperate with them and move to a better place to live?" Fu Li continued to persuade: "The chiefs said, when the time comes We can still form a village to live in, but for the sake of management, we can no longer call it Dong in name, but change it to a commune. After we move there, a Fushan commune will be established, and everyone can still live together. "

"Then the place where we live now is just abandoned like this?" Although Fu Nuo was also very moved when he heard it, he was still very unwilling to think that the century-old Fushan Cave would be wiped out.

"It is said that all the trees here will be used for planting trees in the future. It is a big tree called... a rubber tree. It has been planted in many places in Tiandu." Fu Li replied while recalling.

"Banana trees? Aren't they all over the mountains and plains?" Fu Nuo asked puzzled.

"It's not bananas, it's rubber... In short, it's very different from banana trees. Grandpa, you can go to Tiandu to see it when you have time." Fu Li stood up and said, "I have to talk to my third uncle about the relocation of Fushandong. Uncle Wu and the others discuss it and see how to arrange it."

"I haven't agreed to this condition yet!" Fu Nuo shouted angrily.

"Grandpa, tell me about the conditions you want?" Fu Li knew that he had let go when he heard his tone.

"We have to build a village for us first, let us send people to look at it, and then move if we think there is no problem! In addition, the Haihan people must ensure our food supply! And the conditions that were promised to us before must continue to be followed. !" Fu Nuo thought for a while, and finally proposed a few conditions that he thought were necessary.

"Okay, the chiefs will definitely agree!" Fu Li nodded heavily and said confidently.

From his own point of view, Fu Li didn't quite understand why the executive committee's attitude changed in the first few months, but it was clear that this was an excellent opportunity for the folks in Fushandong to change their lives. .Fu Li has lived in Shengli Port for several months, and has seen the rapid changes in the Shengli Port area at close range. Even if he didn't know the purpose of the Executive Committee arranging the Lidong Miao Village to move out at this time and preparing to recruit a large number of militiamen, but There is one thing that Fu Li believes is absolutely clear - only the Haihan Executive Committee has the ability to change the backward and impoverished living conditions of the Li people for hundreds of years, and lead everyone to live a truly good life.

(End of this chapter)