1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 409 Entry Experience
At the beginning, in the minds of many dignitaries and senior officials in South Vietnam, the war with Haihan was not raised to the level of a national power competition. Most people still regarded Haihan as a local civilian armed force on Daming Qiongzhou Island. I think Haihan is just a relatively powerful pirate.Although he lost time and time again in the confrontation with Haihan, both civilian and military officials simply attributed the defeat on the battlefield to the simple backwardness of weapons, and were completely unaware of the terrifying strength hidden behind the opponent's war .

Last year, when Ruan Jinggui went to Shengli Port for peace talks with the Haihan Executive Committee, he had actually realized from the prosperous scene here that Haihan was not just an ordinary civilian armed force, nor was it a pirate organization that made a living by plundering. Although this group had not been established It has its own political power, but it has essentially become a state within a state within the Ming Dynasty. Not only does it have its own bureaucratic system, legal system, and armed forces, but it also has a very clear strategic development plan.But at that time, Ruan Jinggui's contact with Haihan people was mostly superficial, and he didn't have such profound feelings as now.

The land area and the number of subjects of the South Vietnam court are dozens of times larger than that of Haihan, and they are still fighting at home. However, they are defeated again and again in the face of the sharp offensive of the Haihan militia. There is no so-called "big country" advantage at all. The reason for this is After the war, it also became a question that South Vietnamese immigrants like Ruan Jinggui often reflected on.It wasn't until Schneider took him to know the true face of Hai Han group little by little, that Ruan Jinggui suddenly discovered that everyone, including himself, had underestimated Hai Han's true strength.

Behind the signboard of "Haihan", in addition to the think tank headed by the Executive Committee and the tens of thousands of Haihan naturalized people who obeyed the orders of the Executive Committee, there are dozens of families from Qiongzhou Island, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian and even the northern part of Annan. Big businessmen in other places are continuously delivering materials and various professionals to them, and behind these people there are intertwined interests, which drag most of the wealthy families, officials, businessmen and dignitaries in these areas into this area. In the big net of interests, Haihan people have become the backing of Haihan people, either overtly or covertly.

Although this kind of benefit transfer is two-way, there is no doubt that the Haihan people have benefited more from it. It is precisely because of these increasingly strong trade relationships that they have developed from a group of unknown overseas visitors to the South China Sea in just two years. A force in the region that no one can ignore.From what Ruan Jinggui has learned so far, the Haihan people are not just satisfied with simply doing business. They are now promoting commodities, financial systems, technical standards, cultural concepts, etc. through trade, and at the same time introducing immigrants. Constantly establishing overseas strongholds, these development measures and strategies are continuously expanding and strengthening Haihan's sphere of influence, and gradually forming an interest group with a larger scale than Haihan.

In addition, Haihan, who has only a few tens of thousands of naturalized people, is actually not terrible, but today, the names of Daming and Annan have appeared in this interest group dominated by Haihan, and there is no one in the South China Sea. Can easily shake the position of this group.

As for the Haihan people's method of pulling these external forces into their own camp, Ruan Jinggui has also seen it with his own eyes, and that is the real bondage of interests.The outstanding business talents of the Haihan people have already been proven by facts. No normal person would refuse such an opportunity to make a lot of money with the Haihan people who are proficient in business operations.Huge commercial interests make these people ignore Haihan's various "rebellious" actions intentionally or unintentionally, and continue to invest more manpower and resources in cooperation projects with Haihan, even with the assistance of Haihan Military Commission. Under the formation of a large number of civilian armed forces.Up to now, if anyone wants to move Haihan, he has to leverage the interests of a large number of privileged classes in the southeast coast of Daming and the vast area in northern Annan. This is obviously far beyond the scope of ordinary business cooperation.

These external forces brought Haihan various production materials, living materials, and sufficient labor force, which provided the necessary conditions for Haihan's development and growth. The South Vietnamese court lost to Haihan not only because the fighting power of the Haihan militia was too great. Strong, but also lost to the huge interest group behind it.To put it a bit exaggeratedly, the war was carried out by Hai Han, but in essence, the four forces of Hai Han, Ming Dynasty, North Vietnam and Portugal combined to pit South Vietnam. It would be strange if South Vietnam could still carry it.

After understanding the entanglement of interests, Ruan Jinggui felt calmer than before.If it was simply unable to defeat the opponent, then the losing side would still be somewhat dissatisfied, but the fact is that there is an all-round gap in strength between the two sides, and the collapse of the South Vietnamese court cannot be simply attributed to bad luck on the battlefield or It is because the soldiers did not fight well, and the victory or defeat of the war was actually decided long before the two sides started the war.

Li Nai signed all the agreement documents, and then handed them to Schneider.Schneider also didn't look through it slowly, and handed it to Ruan Jinggui: "Put it up first. Third son, there will be a dinner party hosted by our Ministry of Commerce in Fort Victory tonight. Annan's construction of a new port, you must give him face!"

"Since it was Mr. Shi who spoke, this face-saving boy must give it to me." Li Nai replied with a smile.

"Okay, then I'll take my leave first, and I still have a few companies to visit, and I'll send someone to pick you up here later." Schneider got up to say goodbye to Li Nai, and Ruan Jinggui quickly stood up with his briefcase.

After the two came out of the "Fu Ruifeng" shop, they went to visit several shops, all of which were opened by foreign merchants without exception.What makes Ruan Jinggui a little strange is that the discussions between Schneider and the owners and shopkeepers of these shops seldom involve specific transaction items and money exchange figures. They just drink tea, chat for a while, and talk about the recent business direction and market conditions, and even some topics that are not related to business at all.If he didn't know Schneider's identity, Ruan Jinggui would really think that he was just an idler looking for someone to chat with.

It wasn't until after leaving the third store that Ruan Jinggui finally couldn't help asking: "Mr. Shi, why do you often not talk about business matters when you visit these stores?"

Schneider said: "A lot of business matters are already on the right track. I can at most check the details. Naturally, the following staff will discuss the details with the merchants. The purpose of my visits to these merchants is not to discuss business, but to It is to maintain customer relationships, publicize the new policy of our executive committee, and at the same time understand the ideological trends of these businesses.”

"But shouldn't the Ministry of Civil Affairs be responsible for promoting the New Deal?" Ruan Jinggui didn't take lectures in vain these days in the isolation camp, and he still knew a little about the responsibilities of the main departments under the Executive Committee.

"The Ministry of Civil Affairs is targeting naturalized people. I am targeting foreign businessmen. The focus of communication is different." Schneider explained to him patiently: "This kind of communication work is very necessary, and the thinking is unified. Only then can the pace of action be unified, understand?"

"Forgive me for being stupid..." Ruan Jinggui hurriedly confessed.For Schneider's half-literate statement, he really can only understand six or seven points.

"Forget it, it doesn't matter if you don't understand now, you will gradually understand after you go to the training class for a period of time." Schneider didn't really think how dull Ruan Jinggui was, originally Ruan Jinggui was originally assigned to the Ministry of Commerce to work The candidates he hand-picked, in his opinion, in the construction of the four southern ports in the future, naturalized cadres who are familiar with the local people will be needed to preside over the business work, and Ruan Jinggui's experience and background are undoubtedly an excellent candidate.

Of course, before the Ministry of Commerce gave Ruan Jinggui more tasks, he first had to spend a period of observation and training in Victory Port.In addition to the secret ideological review, what awaits Ruan Jinggui are training courses involving finance, logistics, trade and other majors.As for the degree of appointment he can get in the future, it depends on his specific performance and learning progress during his stay in Victory Port.

"I'm going to class too?" Ruan Jinggui asked curiously.

"Yes, of course I'm going, and it will start tonight." Schneider raised his hand to look at the time and said, "It's getting late now, you can get off work and go back to the dormitory to have a look, your luggage should have been arranged to be delivered It's over. After dinner, report to Shengli Harbor Primary School, and someone will handle the enrollment procedures for you there."

Ruan Jinggui watched Schneider walk away with the briefcase, and it took him a long time to realize that he was free now, and headed towards the immigrant dormitory area at the foot of the mountain on the west side of Fort Victory.

The building of this dormitory area is a little better than that of the isolation camp. Although it is also a boat-shaped house structure, the materials are obviously much stronger, and each room only accommodates four people, unlike the dormitory of the isolation camp where ten people live in one room. So nervous.Ruan Jinggui quickly found his place - Room 23, District C, according to the house number address he received from the civil affairs department.To his relief, Ruan Jingwen was also assigned to live here, and the two brothers could continue to live together.

"Brother, I just went to visit my sister-in-law and the others in the women's immigrant area. Everything is fine, and my sister-in-law let you not worry about it." After Ruan Jingwen saw his brother, he immediately informed him of the news.Both of them had family members, but they were assigned to different residential areas after they landed, and they usually only met when they were cooking.Although they have been released from the quarantine area, they still haven't been arranged to reunite for the time being.However, Haihan had already promised Ruan Jinggui that he would give his family the same treatment, so Ruan Jinggui was not worried about his family's life.

Ruan Jinggui nodded and said, "I've been working outside today, but I didn't have time to mention the application for dormitory. Brother Wei will ask his boss to apply after he goes to work tomorrow, so that he can reunite with his family as soon as possible."

When Ruan Jinggui was in the isolation camp, he asked the immigration cadres specifically. Immigrants like them can apply for living in a dormitory with a single household. However, due to the large number of immigrants entering the Sanya area recently, they have to apply for living alone. I'm afraid you need to wait in line for the dormitory.As for apartments with better accommodation conditions, they can only be eligible to apply after they have obtained naturalization. The Ruan brothers don't have to hope for it for the time being.

Ruan Jingwen asked, "Brother, did you go to the Ministry of Commerce today to do things well?"

"It's all about dealing with business affairs. I'm familiar with my brother, so there's nothing difficult about it." Ruan Jinggui coughed dryly and said, "Boss Shi from the Ministry of Commerce has appointed my brother as an assistant today, and I'm following him today. Visit some merchants outside."

"Brother is really amazing!" Ruan Jingwen praised sincerely: "Na Shi is always one of the nine executive committee members of the Haihan Executive Committee, and he is already considered a top figure in Haihan. Soaring to the top!"

"Well... let's read it slowly!" Ruan Jinggui didn't dare to exaggerate the bullshit, he was just a new immigrant who just came out of the isolation camp, and he hadn't even obtained naturalization yet, maybe there are ears behind the wall and someone who wants to hear it Go, or you might get into trouble.

"By the way, did you get a job in the Ministry of Justice today?" Ruan Jinggui asked casually.

"Brother, bro, I'm going to join the army with art, so it won't go well?" Speaking of his entry into the job, Ruan Jingwen immediately became energetic and began to talk about it with joy.

Because Ruan Jingwen led the city defense army in South Vietnam, he can be regarded as a former practitioner with certain work experience, so he was included in the list by the Ministry of Justice when the relevant units selected personnel.During this process, the Military Commission also got in the way. After all, officers of Ruan Jingwen's level were relatively rare among the new immigrant groups.

But in the end, it was the Ministry of Justice that gained the upper hand in this battle for talent, because the shortage of personnel in the Police Department has indeed reached a point that cannot be ignored, and after two years of training in large and small battles, the military is still There are already a group of outstanding naturalized grassroots military officers.

After the anniversary of crossing last year, the Military and Police Department announced its separation, and the Police Division was separated out and brought under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Justice.Prior to this, the source of the police was also the Shengli Port Military Academy, but after the separation of the military and police, the military academy gradually stopped sending new forces to the Police Department.This is not because the Military Commission has turned its face and refused to recognize people, but after the establishment of the navy at that time, the military also faced a gap in the number of soldiers needed for military expansion, and the number of trainees was limited.

Soldiers can perform the tasks of the police at the right time, but the police do not have the ability to fight on the battlefield like soldiers, so the training direction of the military academy focuses on the recruits needed by the military, and the police department has to rely on the original The establishment and a part of the reserve militia were barely maintained.

With the gradual expansion of Haihan's territory, the establishment of the Police Department has become increasingly unable to keep up with actual needs.Ren Liang has been reporting to the Executive Committee since last year to request an increase in staffing, but perseveringly he attacked Lijiazhuang in May last year, Hoi An in August, fought Liu Xiang at the mouth of the Pearl River at the end of the year, and started preparing for the battle against Hue at the beginning of the new year. The military's demand for military resources has never stopped, and foreign wars have almost become the main theme from the second half of last year to the first quarter of this year, and the shortage of police force has to temporarily succumb to the needs of the situation in the face of the overall situation.

However, as soon as the Hue campaign came to an end in March, Ren Liang submitted a report on the expansion of staff to the Executive Committee, and asked the Executive Committee to allocate special funds to set up a school to train the required professionals for the Ministry of Justice.Naturally, this report was also supported by Gu Kai, because in addition to the police, the school's planning major also has law-related content.

Ren Liang and Gu Kai, two executive committee members, jointly signed a letter, which is naturally enough to attract the attention of the executive committee.The serious lack of police force has indeed begun to show various disadvantages, forcing the executive committee to shift its attention from the military's brilliant record to the local public security situation.

According to the population statistics of the Ministry of Civil Affairs at the end of the first quarter, the ratio of the number of troops stationed in Sanya to the total population is about 2000:[-]. If this terrible ratio is placed in the time and space before crossing, it is definitely a militaristic ratio. In fact, the only country that can reach this level is the army of a certain hereditary dynasty on the northern peninsula - with a population of more than [-] million, it has an army of nearly one million.However, the situation of that dynasty is somewhat similar to the current situation of Annan Kingdom in this time and space. It also only has the army, and the navy and other arms are almost negligible.

The powerful Haihan militia has brought invincible achievements and ever-expanding territory to the crossing regime, but the negative impacts brought about by it have also begun to appear slowly.The ratio of the establishment of the Police Department under the Ministry of Justice to the total population is only one to three hundred.Originally, this ratio was not so miserable, but during several military expansions, the military even transferred some armed personnel who belonged to the police department.Of course, the result of this kind of transfer is that meat buns will beat dogs, and there will be no return. The already stretched police force will become even more scarce, and the consequences of this situation will soon become apparent.

According to statistics from the Ministry of Justice, compared to the first year after time travel, the number of public security cases in the Sanya area has increased tenfold in the past year!During this period, not only did the police force fail to increase, on the contrary, it was because of the military's bottom line that the number of personnel was reduced by nearly 20%.If it weren't for Ren Liang's background in the military and police department, the two sides would have started to tear up openly.

Regarding the "crying" of the Ministry of Justice, the Executive Committee is of course not good at continuing to fight. Anyway, the battle that should be fought is over, and the chances of another large-scale war breaking out in the near future should be relatively small. We can consider concentrating some resources on the The internal judicial construction is on.As a result, the Ministry of Justice received the approval from the Executive Committee to build a specialized judicial training school and expand the police force to reverse the decline in the security situation in Sanya every month.

(End of this chapter)