1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 465
In an undeveloped area like Da Nang, there is naturally nothing delicious and delicious, and the cooking skills of Annan chef cannot be compared with that of the specially trained Haihan chef, but fortunately, the ingredients are fresh, so they can make do with it. .Of course, Ruan Jinggui, who still has a grudge, will inevitably complain from time to time that the northern cooks brought by Zheng Lin can't use southern spices.Zheng Lin would also retort, saying that mountain villagers in the south probably rarely have the opportunity to eat authentic royal cuisine.

Liu Shanxia really wanted to tell these two guys to shut up. As far as Annan's food level is concerned, it can only reach the level of Shaxian snacks.

Early the next morning, Zheng Lin came to the Haihan camp to handle immigration handover matters with Ruan Jinggui.And Liu Shanxia took a group of subordinates from the Ministry of Construction to the seaside to survey the terrain and draw up construction plans.

Da Nang is located in the central part of the Indochina Peninsula, 1500 miles away from Thang Long Mansion, on the verge of the South China Sea, and its strategic location is very important.In the history of another time and space, Da Nang was used by France, Japan, and the Soviet Union as military bases in the South China Sea in turn.Da Nang Bay is in the shape of a horseshoe facing north, about 15 kilometers long from north to south, and about 11 kilometers wide from east to west. The water depth along the coast is more than ten meters, and deep-water wharves for large ships can be built.The harbor has the Camellia Peninsula in the south, Han Island in the north as a barrier, and Marble Mountains and Fuxiang Mountains along the coast to shield it from the strong winds from the sea. The conditions for sheltering from the wind are very good.The temperature here is around 25 degrees all year round, and with the long coastal beaches, it can be regarded as a very comfortable resort.

Of course, Liu Shanxia doesn't have much time to spend here. He has to complete the actual survey of this area within half a month, and design the development and construction plan of Da Nang based on this.At that time, the supervision work will be handed over to other technicians from the Ministry of Construction for follow-up, and he himself needs to rush back to Sanya, where there are still a lot of things such as the Hong Kong Island port project that he has to go back to deal with in person.Compared with before the time travel, Liu Shanxia hardly enjoyed the benefits of time travel. Over the past two years, more than half of the time has been spent on the construction site—the rest of the time is almost always on the way to the construction site spent on the way.

Compared with the topographical survey work, which cannot tolerate any mistakes, it is difficult to have a unified implementation standard in the process of resettlement handover.Originally, according to the previous agreement between the two parties, the labor conditions provided by Annan should be healthy people between the ages of [-] and [-], without disabilities or obvious diseases. However, the actual situation did not achieve the effect Haihan expected. If you are not blind, it is easy to see that there are a lot of unqualified people in the crowd.

Ruan Jinggui turned his head and whispered a few words to the subordinates beside him. After a while, militiamen stepped forward and began to pull out those who did not meet the conditions from the team.

Of course Zheng Lin immediately realized something was wrong, so he asked Ruan Jinggui, "Commissioner Ruan, what do you mean?"

Ruan Jinggui snorted and said, "Special envoy Zheng don't need to pretend to be confused with me, right? Look at the people who were pulled out, the old ones, the young ones, and the ones with a leg inside. This is not the same as what was agreed !"

"It's inevitable that the age difference is a few years old, as long as you can work?" Zheng Lin also knew that he was wrong, and planned to fool him.

"It's fine if you can work?" Ruan Jinggui got up angrily, and pulled out a half-old child from the crowd who had just been dragged aside: "This child is only seven or eight years old at most. Do you think he can do adult work?"

After speaking, Ruan Jinggui pulled out an old man with a walking stick and white beard and hair from the crowd: "Even if this man is not in his seventies or eighties, he must be more than 50 years old, right? With his current condition, can he bear the burden or carry it?" Can it be moved? Special Envoy Ruan, you mixed in so much sand for the [-] laborers we agreed at the beginning, and the project will be delayed due to this, will the responsibility be yours or mine?"

Ruan Jinggui knew that the Haihan bureaucratic system attached great importance to the word "responsibility". Since he himself was responsible for the handover of labor, he would not release the water easily.For such a major matter as the construction of the port area, it may be considered trivial to be resigned at that time, or he may be directly arrested and sent to a hard labor camp as a coolie.

Zheng Lin sighed and said, "Commissioner Ruan, I didn't do this intentionally. These laborers were confiscated from the whole village. If these people were deliberately singled out, wouldn't countless families be torn apart?"

The last time Zheng Lin went to Sanya Port to discuss cooperative development with the executive committee, there were 3000 people in Haihan's side, but there were not so many residents near Da Nang.In order to solve this problem, the Annan government had to recruit people from the vicinity of Hoi An in the south, and almost all the few people left in the area were taken away and sent to Da Nang as labor candidates.And the problem Zheng Lin mentioned does exist. Since the whole village is relocated, there must be some unqualified people, but no matter what the considerations are, it is impossible to drive these people away and let them fend for themselves. , so I just packed them all and sent them to Da Nang, maybe I can charge a few more.

After all, Ruan Jinggui was also from South Vietnam. After hearing Zheng Lin's explanation, he was somewhat moved: "Didn't you all use prisoners of war to deliver them before?"

Zheng Lin shook his head and said, "The war has been over for half a year, and almost all the people who can be caught have been caught. Those who put down their weapons and went home to farm, can't they all be caught?"

After hearing this, Ruan Jinggui also felt that it made sense, but Zheng Lin said that the prisoner of war resources were almost exhausted, which was not good news for Haihan.Ruan Jinggui has stayed in Sanya for half a year, and he also knows that a considerable part of the local naturalized people are from Annan.Introducing a large number of immigrants from the outside world has always been a policy that the Executive Committee has been insisting on implementing. If Annan's immigration source is interrupted, it will definitely affect the development process of Haihan to a greater or lesser extent.The base camp may not know about this situation, and will have to report to Liu Shanxia later.

Although Ruan Jinggui also sympathizes with these compatriots, he is very clear on which side he is standing on now, not to mention that being able to enter the Haihan system is a good thing for these people who lack a stable living environment. Some compatriots entered the Haihan system, and Ruan Jinggui was very happy to contribute.

"I can accept these people, but they can't be counted as qualified labor. We need 3000 people, and you still have to find a way to get enough people." Ruan Jinggui has been with Schneider for several months. I have learned a lot about calculating others, not only to keep these unqualified people, but also let Zheng Lin try to make up the difference.

Zheng Lin also felt that his head was big when he heard it. With these 3000 people, he had already searched out the population of nearly a hundred miles. Those who are qualified have to be transported by boat from other places, and the internal and external consumption here will be huge.

Zheng Lin shook his head immediately and retorted: "Commissioner Ruan is wrong. We don't break up families when recruiting laborers. We really hope that you can accept them as laborers. But since they are not qualified, then they are not qualified." people, and we have no reason to give it to you for free."

Zheng Lin refused to let Ruan Jinggui take advantage of it, and Ruan Jinggui also didn't want to suffer this dull loss, so the two were at a stalemate.However, the people under Ruan Jinggui are not idle, and they continue to pick out those people who obviously do not meet the conditions from the public team, and the family members of these people often follow them out of the team because of this, so soon there are people outside the team Hundreds of people were held in solitary confinement.Some half-grown children didn't know what was going on at all. Seeing the Haihan militiaman holding the shiny bayonet on the rifle, they couldn't help crying loudly, and the scene suddenly became chaotic.

"What happened?" At this moment, Liu Shanxia finally came back, just in time for this chaotic scene.

When the two talked about the cause and effect, Liu Shanxia couldn't laugh or cry after hearing it.Both of them have their own reasons for this matter, but from Liu Shanxia's point of view, of course, maintaining one's own personality is the priority.

"Special Envoy Zheng, it's not that our people deliberately make things difficult for you. We just implement the original agreement. Regardless of where these unqualified people end up, you still have to provide these [-] qualified workers. Otherwise, if the construction period continues to be delayed, you will suffer the most. You should think about it carefully!" Liu Shanxia didn't say who was right and who was wrong, anyway, he insisted on the matter of the [-] workers first.As for how to deal with these selected people in the end, he is not in a hurry anyway.

This place is more than 1000 miles away from Shenglong Mansion, and Zheng Lin doesn't have Haihan's magical ability to communicate through the air, so he has no choice but to ask the court for instructions as soon as possible.If an envoy was sent back to ask for instructions before coming back, more than half a month would have passed, and the Haihan people obviously would not have such good patience to wait in this bay forever.

Zheng Lin hesitated for a long time before answering: "How about this, let's take a step back, and those who don't meet these conditions will be converted into one person, so that both of us will have less trouble."

Ruan Jinggui caught a glimpse of Liu Shanxia's hesitant expression, as if he wanted to agree with Zheng Lin's suggestion, so he rushed to the front and said, "How can two people be converted into one person? You see, the young ones, the old ones, which ones don't need someone to take care of them?" ? In my opinion, at least five people should be converted into one person, which is fair."

"Five people?" Zheng Lin was about to shout "Why don't you go grab it?"

"If you think it's wrong, then send these people back. Anyway, we can't let them work after we take them over. We can only eat food for nothing." Ruan Jinggui said with an indifferent expression.

How could Zheng Lin stop there, and twisted and talked for a long time, and finally, after Liu Shanxia's "justice", the condition for three people to count as a qualified laborer was met.But even so, the number of workers is still not enough, and Zheng Lin still has to find a way to make up the difference of 3000 people.

3000 people is not much, but it is definitely not something that Zheng Lin can gather in a while.The instructions given to him by the imperial court were to build Da Nang as soon as possible and restore the maritime trade channel in the south of Annan. As for other situations, the senior officials and dignitaries of Thang Long Mansion would not care.In the end, Zheng Lin had to agree to add another five hundred young men, but he hoped that Liu Shanxia could start work here as soon as possible.

However, it is useless to rush this kind of thing. No matter how capable Liu Shanxia is, he dare not start the construction with his eyes closed. He still has to finish the preparation work one by one. It was decided to revise the original construction plan to complete the construction work of Da Nang by using and constructing at the same time.

Liu Shanxia stayed in Da Nang until mid-October before returning to Sanya. The survey data research of Hong Kong Island was sent back, and he was needed to come back to organize and formulate a seaport development plan for the southwest of Hong Kong Island.

While infrastructure projects were in full swing, other departments were not idle either.In late October, the first 1500-ton displacement warship built by Shengli Port Shipyard finally entered the stage of launching and outfitting.Although the construction is only [-]% to [-]% complete at this time, and it is still too early to be put into use, but the big bosses of the executive committee are very excited, and they gathered at the shipyard to watch this big guy.

For the sake of confidentiality, the executive committee did not arrange a large-scale celebration for this, and the vicinity of the launching dock was also isolated by high fences and guarded warships on the periphery. Can't get close inside.

Of course, it is almost impossible to achieve 100% secrecy, after all, the tall mast on the ship cannot be blocked at all.Everyone who entered or left Victory Port will notice the large sea ship being built in this mysterious dock, but no one can guess how big the ship is.

Luo Shengdong had also noticed this mysterious big ship a long time ago. To be precise, there should be two ships, because he knew that there were two large docks built in the area under strict military control, and according to the sea According to the habits of the Han people, obviously not only one ship of a certain type will be built. Luo Shengdong is almost certain that there is another large ship with a slower progress under construction in another shipyard.

In the navy of the Ming army, there were indeed ships with a larger displacement than the "expeditionary class", but only the Guangdong navy had a few of them, and there were none on Qiongzhou Island, and Luo Shengdong had never seen the real thing.However, he infers from the length and distance of the mast protruding high that the warships being built by the Haihan people not only have a displacement far greater than that of the "expedition class", and it is probably difficult to find opponents of the same level among the warships currently in service of the Ming army.Perhaps the treasure ships of Zheng He's voyages had such a tonnage, but the current Ming Dynasty no longer has such huge treasure ships.

Luo Shengdong applied several times to visit the shipyard to visit this new ship, but was rejected by the Military Commission.The reason is also very simple-before this kind of ship is publicly unveiled, all information must be kept secret, and even allies cannot enter.

(End of this chapter)