1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 328
Chen Yixin ordered these few nail households to be tied up and thrown on board, not intending to sink them directly into the river. The executive committee even took North Vietnamese prisoners of war, so naturally they would not easily waste local human resources.According to the planning and arrangement of the civil affairs department, all objects that refuse to cooperate in the process of demolition and land acquisition and affect the overall planning of the new urban area will be arrested and sent to overseas colonial sites.Therefore, these unlucky ghosts who don't know the current affairs have lost their last chance at this moment. Their destination is very likely to be one of the three existing ports in North Vietnam. opportunity to obtain naturalization.

This kind of practice is naturally not legal. The nature of robbing the citizens of a country is no different from that of war.However, under the special environment of Yazhou, no one would come to trouble the Transcending Group because of this.In the eyes of the Yazhou government, these people belonged to the proletarian refugees, and no one cared about their whereabouts. Even if someone reported the matter to the officials, the bureaucrats in Yazhou who had benefited would not ask about such matters.

When Chen Yixin got the task, he had already learned about the measures that could be taken for this operation from his superiors, so he did not hesitate to deal with it.After these people were brought onto the boat, Chen Yixin immediately ordered the whole team to march to the next target.As for the dilapidated shacks here, there will naturally be follow-up migrant workers to demolish them, and the militia troops only need to be responsible for completing the violent part.

"We're a bit like the urban management fighting against the nail households!" Seeing these unlucky ghosts being thrown onto the boat like sacks by the militiamen, Li Dou's anger finally subsided a lot, and he turned to attack the militiamen. Rough behavior is a little worrying.

"What do you want to say? Do you want to reason with these people slowly?" Chen Yixin turned to look at Li Dou, not even a trace of pity in his eyes: "If you insist, then I can let them go, but the consequences It's up to you."

"No, no, I didn't mean that." Li Dou shook his head again and again.The idea of ​​dealing with nail households was originally brought up by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The military just sent people to implement it.

"This is not the 21st century. There is no need to apply the moral standards of that era to the present. We chose to travel to this era to be conquerors!" Chen Yixin did not stay in the barracks for nothing this year. There is obviously more military killing spirit on his body: "Whether it is a nail household or someone else, a stumbling block is a stumbling block. This does not make any essential difference to us. Your cultural management system is responsible for distinguishing who is a stumbling block. We The military is in charge of cleaning them up!"

"Simple and rude! But I like it!" Li Dou couldn't help stretching out his thumb and praised: "Your thinking has changed a lot this year! I remember when I first met you, what did you say to me?" You have to be reasonable, and you can walk around the world with reason, but you can't walk an inch without reason..."

"I still hold the same point of view." Chen Yixin adjusted the rifle strap to make it more comfortable to carry: "What is the truth? The barrel of the gun is the truth! If it is useful to play tricks, then we soldiers should do it." Well? In the future, you will still have to rely on the barrel of a gun to conquer the world!"

When he first entered the military and police department, Chen Yixin did still have some unrealistic fantasies, but when he actually went to the battlefield during the expedition to Annan and experienced the cruelty of war, Chen Yixin gradually understood the meaning of the existence of the army and Not just defending the home and defending the country, every expansion of the territory of the external force is essentially completed by the army, and expanding the territory is the main task of Haihan, an armed force in the future.And to perform combat-type military missions, first of all, all kindness must be left behind, even including many of his previous moral standards.After seeing the insignificance of human life on the battlefield, Chen Yixin can say that he has no psychological pressure at all when he returns to the base camp to perform small tasks such as cleaning up nail houses.

With the processing flow of the first nail household, the subsequent process will appear to be much smoother.After Lidou led the way to the place, the militiaman shouted that if he honestly admitted that he was killed, he could move out immediately with his belongings, or he could choose to report to the immigration reception office in the construction area of ​​the Inland River Port.But if anyone tried to resist or play tricks, Chen Yixin would immediately order them to be tied up and thrown on board.Li Dou has also changed from an action leader to a leading party. He only needs to watch, and he no longer needs to take the lead in clearing the field at the risk of being smashed in the head by a hoe.

The demolition operation jointly launched by the military and the civil administration lasted for three days. In fact, from the second day onwards, the operation team discovered that some of the nail households who got the news had fled the resident overnight, or went to the immigration reception on their own initiative. place.Although these people have no cultural knowledge, it does not mean that they are ignorant of current affairs. The result of fighting the Haihan people head-on has already come out.

Of course, some people chose to flee to Yazhou to report to the officials, but they didn't know that the actions of the Haihan militia had already been acquiesced by the Yazhou government, and it was basically impossible for the government to support them.If this matter becomes serious, it will not be of any benefit to the officials of Yazhou, so even if the people complain, the government will try its best to calm the situation.

After the demolition operation is over, from the inland port area all the way north to another confluence of two rivers upstream, the range of more than ten miles has been basically cleaned up, and the construction team can welcome in.During the entire demolition process, more than [-] people were arrested for refusing to cooperate. Their fate was to be relocated to three ports in North Vietnam and sentenced to hard labor ranging from one to three years.

In this operation, Chen Yixin, who commanded well and took effective measures, was rewarded by the Military Commission's internal notification.Although he still hadn't been able to achieve high-level military achievements, it was already a very rare treatment for a junior in the army like Chen Yixin.In order to celebrate this harvest, it is said that Chen Yixin also privately dragged Li Dou and a few capable men to a newly opened Cantonese restaurant in the business district to have a big meal.

On May [-]th, Chen Yixin received a transfer order from the Military Commission. Three days later, he led his troops to set off from Shengli Harbor and take a warship to the Dawanshan Island stronghold at the mouth of the Pearl River.Accompanying them are nearly [-] construction workers and a large amount of construction materials on two ships.

For the Crossing Group, this is the first real military stronghold established by the military in the mainland. Therefore, the Executive Committee attaches great importance to it, and specially convened various department heads to hold several working meetings. assign related tasks.

Since the local area is close to the mainland and there are fresh water resources on the island, there is not much problem in supply, and the focus of the executive committee is still on safety issues.Due to the limitations of its own conditions and the local objective environment, the military is unlikely to deploy too many troops on the island, and there will not even be any surface armed ships stationed on the island for the time being. Therefore, the existence of this stronghold has a certain value. risky.The military generously allocated ten 12-pound coastal defense guns to the troops stationed on the island—these guns were allocated to the fortifications of Iron Furnace Port, but the high-level military officials considered the defense needs of Dawanshan Island to be more urgent. , and finally gave them priority.For this reason, the military also allocated 20 gunners who are in short supply to the troops stationed on the island. As for the difference between artillery and artillery, the full-time artillery can only slowly train other militias locally.

In addition to the garrison, nearly half of the construction workers transported to the local area will be resettled on the island as immigrants, mainly to provide logistics and military supplies for the troops, and also to prepare for the commercial development of Wanshan Port.Perhaps considering the performance of the previous demolition operations, the civil affairs officer sent by the civil affairs department to Dawanshan Island this time turned out to be Lidou, so the pair of friends were lucky to become partners again.

On May [-], the fleet quietly set off from Victory Harbor.This operation did not have the usual farewell scenes with great fanfare. The executive committee did not want the plan to establish a stronghold on Dawanshan Island to spread too early. Only officers of Chen Yixin's level in the army knew the details. The militia only knew that they would go to new strongholds overseas, but they knew nothing about the specific targets.

This time the fleet did not encounter any bad weather and arrived at Dawanshan Island smoothly.There are hundreds of laborers available, and the progress of building the simple pier is very fast. When they arrived at the harbor in the morning, the construction of the first trestle bridge was completed at two o'clock in the afternoon.The migrant workers used logs to assemble the brackets, and began to lift and unload various materials loaded on the ship to the shore.

"The environment of this island is quite good, almost all of which are forests, original ecology!" Li Dou, who had already taken a stroll around the area after landing, was full of praise for the island's environment: "Pure natural and pollution-free , it feels much more secluded than Victory Harbor!"

"Of course, this place has always been an uninhabited island. Victory Port was a small port before, but it just declined." Chen Yixin was the first time to independently command such an overseas mission, and he also seemed very excited. Looking at Gangwan in front of him, he said: "In the future, I will really eat seafood until I vomit!"

In the afternoon of the same day, the ship carrying supplies from Guangzhou to the south also arrived at the harbor.Since it is closer to Guangzhou, some living materials, especially the poultry and livestock that the Ministry of Agriculture intends for the islanders to breed here, are all transported from Guangzhou.In addition, the Ministry of Agriculture also plans to reclaim some fields on the gentle slope at the southern end of the island to grow some vegetables and fruits to supplement the island's food demand.For this errand, Mr. Yuan also sent his son Yuan Qiuye to guide the migrant workers to build poultry breeding sheds.

Along with the fleet was Wu Zhuo from the communications department, who was in charge of setting up the radio station on the island.Wu Zhuo can be regarded as a practical person. After getting off the boat, he didn't take much rest, so he took a few of his men to climb the mountain to test the signal.

That night, when Chen Yixin and Li Dou were counting supplies together, they were really taken aback by the executive committee's generosity.In addition to the necessities of life for these hundreds of people, the material list also includes small solar power generation equipment, simple water purification devices, two hot water boilers, one large and one small, and more than 20 tons of anthracite coal from Heitu Port, etc. Zero has at least dozens of items, and Chen Yixin's eyes are straightened.

"It's not easy for your Ministry of Civil Affairs!" Seeing so many supplies, Chen Yixin couldn't help sighing.To organize so many materials, the logistics department needs to deal with not one or two units, and such an efficient organization and coordination ability can only be achieved by the crossing group.

"It's okay, it's not as troublesome as it was when Heitu Port and Iron Furnace Port were developed." Li Dou replied proudly: "This is the superiority of the system!"

After the unloading of the cargo was completed the next day, the two cargo ships left Wanshan Port, but instead of returning to Shengli Port, they continued northward and entered the Pearl River Estuary to go to Guangzhou to load the cargo.

According to the plan of the Ministry of Construction, the development process of Dawanshan Island is divided into three phases. The first phase is the construction of temporary residences and basic fortifications. The second phase is the continuation and strengthening of the first phase of the project. The third phase It is the construction of commercial facilities.The estimated construction period for the first phase of the project is 25 to [-] days. The reason for such a large range is also considering that possible weather changes in this season will cause certain delays in outdoor construction.

In addition to the port wharf and temporary barracks for troops and people stationed on the island, the duty post on the top of the mountain was first built.This outpost is a set of flat-roofed simple board houses directly demolished from Fort Victory. Chen Yixin mobilized two platoons of soldiers and spent half a day transporting the parts from the harbor to Dawanding, the commanding height of the island at an altitude of 400 meters above sea level. Then assemble this prefabricated house on the open space on the top of the mountain.From this position, even if you don't borrow a telescope, you can easily observe the situation within a radius of more than ten nautical miles when the weather is fine.Twenty nautical miles away from Dawanshan Island, Lantau Island is located in the northeast, and its outline can also be seen from Dawanding.

After this outpost is put into use, it can be said that almost half of the entire Pearl River Estuary's waterway will be under the surveillance of this observation post.The surveillance results on the post can be sent to the command center at the foot of the mountain through walkie-talkies, and then the radio station in the command center will send the information to Guangzhou or Victory Port.

Now the most disturbing thing for the troops stationed on the island is Dangan Island, which is located 300 nautical miles east of Dawanshan Island.According to the information obtained by the Guangzhou Office, there is a small group of pirates on this island, numbering [-] to [-] people, and this is also the closest threat to Dawanshan Island.The fact that this band of pirates was able to survive under the eyelids of the Ming army navy stationed in Hong Kong and the nearby "Eighteen Zhi" presumably also had their special survival skills. The sentry post in the city should strengthen the surveillance of the eastern waters.

However, the latest news that the military received after that did not come from the pirates on Dangan Island, but a long telegram sent back from Guangzhou by the Guangzhou Office.

It is not the Guangzhou Office that is in trouble, but "Fu Ruifeng".To be precise, it was the ancestors of the Li family that had a problem.The Li family's roots are in Panyu, which is not far from Guangzhou City.More than [-]% of the local Lijiazhuang's population is of Li ancestry, and this is also the main source of troops for the Lijia militia.

In addition to the big business name "Furuifeng", the Li family also owns [-] mu of arable land in Panyu, and is one of the few big landowners in the area.Apart from doing some smuggling business, the Li family actually didn't have much bad deeds in the local area, but after all, wealth attracts people's hatred, and there are still quite a few people who are dissatisfied with it.

In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, that is, in 1626, Zhaoqing Prefecture suffered from severe drought, while Guangzhou Prefecture suffered from severe drought and floods. Dongguan, Panyu and Xinhui counties were all famined. The same situation was also experienced in Shaozhou Prefecture. Yingde County in Yingde County and Changle County in Huizhou Prefecture have tens of thousands of people affected by the disaster.Due to natural disasters and the slow and ineffective means of disaster relief by the local government, natural disasters began to turn into man-made disasters in the second year. Shares are as many as thousands of people.These mountain bandits did not attack towns, but plundered the countryside in groups. As a result, a large area of ​​refugees had to join the bandits and bandits in order to survive.

Misfortunes never come singly. In the past two years, the "Eighteen Zhi" frequently invaded the coasts of Huizhou and Chaozhou, looting local merchants and people, further aggravating social chaos.

By the beginning of this year, Xinhui County in Guangzhou Prefecture, Guishan County in Huizhou Prefecture, Gaoming County in Zhaoqing Prefecture and other places experienced spring drought again, causing a large number of local people to go bankrupt, and the ranks of refugees further expanded.Recently, these rogues who have swept through the villages near Guangzhou have finally begun to focus on the fat piece of Lijiazhuang.

The degree of wealth of the Li family is almost well known in Guangzhou. Although the Li family village is not the silver warehouse of the Li family, it can be regarded as a wealthy village.In the past, there was a militia guarding the village with strong soldiers and horses in Lijiazhuang, and ordinary small bandits dared not go to harass them.However, in March, the Guangzhou Office and "Furuifeng" jointly formed the "Golden Shield Security", and transferred most of the members of the Li family's militia to Guangzhou to enrich the "Golden Shield" guards. The lair's defenses became empty.Although the Li family is already training new militiamen, their combat effectiveness is not the same as that of the already formed militia.After learning of the change in the guard force of Lijiazhuang, several rogue bandits near Panyu attacked Lijiazhuang several times in a row, causing considerable losses in the local area.

According to the news that the Li family spent money to inquire, several bandits near the Guangzhou mansion have recently begun to join forces, preparing to join forces to take down the Li family village in one fell swoop.This is a big deal for the Li family. Although they have the Li family militia in their hands, which seems to be a pretty good armed force, no one dares to fight whether they can withstand the siege of thousands of rogues. This is a guarantee, so after weighing it over and over again, Li Jifeng still asked for help from the Guangzhou Office.

(End of this chapter)