1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 712
May 1632, 5, Nangang, Hong Kong Island Town.

The weather was not very good today, and it has been raining for a week.Chen Yixin and his subordinates are watching the fleet sail south out of the Aberdeen Strait on the pier. After returning from Fujian, the fleet took a short rest in Zhennan Port and set off today for Sanya in the rain.

The army and sea troops stationed locally in Zhennan Port also changed their defenses at this juncture.The troops originally stationed here will be transferred back to Hainan Island, and a part of the troops from Fujian will take over the defense of Zhennan Port.Of course, according to the military's practice of deploying overseas troops, it was time for Chen Yixin, the chief military officer of Zhennan Port, to change his guard.

Xiao Liang, who also served in Guangdong for several years, took over the post of commander of Zhennangang. He had already come from Guangzhou last week.His old partner Yu Yao will continue to stay in Guangzhou and be responsible for the relevant affairs of the Haihan military in the local area.When Chen Yixin first arrived in Guangdong, he helped Xiao Liang and Yu Yao. In the past few years, he served in Guangdong together. He had a lot of dealings with them. His personal relationship was quite good, and the handover work went very smoothly.

However, Xiao Liang did not stay in Zhennan Port after completing the handover, and immediately rushed to Causeway Bay in the north to organize supplies for the fleet returning from Fujian triumphantly.Although the fleet is docked at Zhennan Port for supplies, the materials needed are basically transported from Xin'an County adjacent to Hong Kong Island, which involves inventory counting and financial delivery, so senior military personnel must be on the ground. Only with it.

Xiao Liang came to Hong Kong with Li Dou, Chen Yixin's close friend. He has also received an order from the executive committee and will go to Penghu with Chen Yixin to take up his post.For the past two years, Li Dou has been engaged in the entrepot trade in the Pearl River Delta region on Wanshan Island. Although he didn't have much credit, he handled things in an orderly manner.After Hong Kong Island came under the rule of Haihan, he had already been transferred from Wanshan Island to assist You Yihan in handling trade and immigration affairs on Hong Kong Island.

Li Dou and Chen Yixin are junior characters in the time-traveling group, but because of their young age, the executive committee has always trained them as the backbone of the future.Both of them were under 20 years old when they took over Wanshan Island. After several years of training, the executive committee felt that they could be sent to work in frontline areas that needed more pioneering spirit.Anyway, Qian Tiandun, who is rich in the local area, is not worried that the two brats will make any big news.

Of course, in fact, just looking at his age, Qian Tiandun was only four years older than them, and it was very reluctant to say that he was a veteran cadre.However, Qian Tiandun was able to sit in the top 3 position in the military, and he was promoted based on his military exploits. No one, including the two juniors, would be dissatisfied with this.

Chen Yixin was transferred to Penghu, and his main task was to act as Qian Tiandun's deputy and assist him in building and managing the local military base in Penghu.Although Chen Yixin had also participated in the naval battle at the Pearl River Estuary, his ability to lead troops in battle was still far behind Qian Tiandun's. He was transferred to Qian Tiandun's side because the top military officials hoped that he could learn more. Some real stuff.

"Chen Yixin, see if there is anything missing, if there is no problem, let someone pack the ship."

Li Dou's voice woke Chen Yixin from his contemplation. He turned around and took the list of supplies from Li Dou's hand, and began to check them one by one.The list consisted mostly of clothing and some personal items from another time and space that would be taken to the next stop.

"Okay, let them ship it." Chen Yixin quickly checked the list, and after making sure that there was nothing missing, he handed it back to Li Dou.

"I'm leaving Guangdong tomorrow. I'm really reluctant to live here for a few years." Chen Yixin looked at the sea and sighed.

"Actually, I don't really want to go to Fujian." Li Dou replied in a low voice.

"Then where do you want to go?" Chen Yixin was a little surprised, looking sideways at him and asked.

"I want to go back to Sanya." Li Dou explained: "My situation is different from yours. You soldiers have to be stationed abroad to have the opportunity to fight and make meritorious service. But we do civil affairs, and we still have to be under the watchful eye of the executive committee." It’s better to work at the bottom. If you’re far away, the executive committee won’t even know what you’re doing outside.”

"Not necessarily. Isn't the transfer to Fujian this time a recognition of your work?" Chen Yixin retorted.

Li Dou shook his head and said: "What you do in Fujian is actually the same as what you did in Wanshan Island before, and your authority may not be improved. My field is not like your army. There are clear military ranks and positions, and each level has corresponding authority. I was the director of the management committee in Wanshan Port, and when I went to Penghu, it was obviously a promotion, but instead I became a deputy. Do you think this is a promotion or a demotion?"

Chen Yixin said with a smile: "Boss Qian is now in charge of Penghu. Of course, the director is reserved for him as a part-timer. Do you still want to be equal to him?"

"That's not true." Li Dou naturally wouldn't be so arrogant, and shook his head in denial: "I just think there is something wrong with the organizational structure of the Executive Committee, where there are directors everywhere, but obviously the authority of directors in each place is very different. Same."

Chen Yixin slowly put away his smile and said: "Li Dou, going to Penghu is a different errand. Now that Penghu is occupied, the executive committee will definitely set up an office in Fujian to coordinate the agencies stationed in various prefectures in Fujian. Arrangements. At that time, Penghu will be the command center. Even if you are a deputy, this authority will be very different from your previous situation. It is impossible for Boss Qian to be in Penghu all the year round. Sooner or later, the power will be passed on to his successor, and we will go to help him now, and you may take over the position of this leader in the future."

Li Dou sighed and said, "You still don't understand what I mean. No matter how well I do in Penghu, if the executive committee can't see it, the effect will be very limited. Forget it, you don't have to persuade me, of course I won't talk to the executive committee. I will fight against it, and since I was transferred, I will still do my job well."

Chen Yixin didn't continue this topic. Everyone has his own ambitions. Although he didn't quite agree with Li Dou's ideas, he could understand Li Dou's utilitarianism.Both of them have been in Guangdong for several years. Chen Yixin's military rank has been promoted twice, while Li Dou's title of "director" has never changed.However, he believes that Lidou's views on the future are too extreme, and working in Penghu will definitely be a turning point in his career—at least he sees it this way.

At the same time, at the Harbor Center next to the Causeway Bay Typhoon Shelter in the north of Hong Kong Island, Xiao Liang, who has recently taken over as the local military commander, is also talking with You Yihan, the Civil Affairs Chief, about the transfer of personnel and the transfer of power in Guangdong.

"The executive committee transferred these two juniors to Penghu, which is their good luck. I heard that Mr. Tao, Mr. Yan and Mr. Shi are very optimistic about them, so this time the personnel in Guangdong has hardly been moved, and only the two of them have been transferred. He was transferred away." Xiao Liang obviously knew more about the "inside story" than the two people involved, if Li Dou heard about Xiao Liang, he might have a different feeling about this transfer.

"There is no way to do this. Just think about it. Half of the members of the executive committee are over forty, and the heads of several major ministries and commissions are not young anymore. Committee members are probably selected from among these people. If you don’t train the younger generation first, will you pass the position to the Guihuamin in the future?” You Yihan replied while peeling the shrimp.

Xiao Liang pointed at You Yihan with his chopsticks and said with a smile: "Director You, this is not politically correct! Now the executive committee is advocating the use of naturalized cadres who dare to use more naturalized civilians and put more burden on them. You still insist Blood lineage theory, what kind of pure blood inheritance, if a few bosses find out about this, they will be criticized!"

You Yihan said indifferently: "What I'm talking about is not a question of blood. There are many things that the naturalized people don't understand at all. How do you let them inherit? Can you explain things like the confidence center server to them clearly? New rifles Can the design and manufacture of artillery be completed by naturalized technicians? Can the operation of financial institutions be managed by accountants who have only worked in banks? It must not work, right? So in the end, you have to do it yourself That's fine. Don't talk about these two juniors, look at the two daughters of the Beard Johnson's family. They are still being offered as treasures by the executive committee at a young age, and they are expected to be able to treat the bearded and old Morgan in the future. The craftsmanship is passed on.”

After Xiao Liang heard these words, he also had no way to refute. What You Yihan said was indeed true. The naturalized people recruited by this time and space were indeed qualified for some management positions after training, and there were also many cases of technical work.But there are indeed too many technical positions, and the current naturalized people are still not competent.And if the talents needed for these positions are to be selected from naturalized people, it will take at least ten years of gradual education and training before they can meet the requirements.At present, the outstanding ones among the naturalized people, such as Yu Xiaobao, Huang Que, Zhang Qianzhi, etc., their cultural level can only touch the edge of high school.

Most of the naturalized children who received basic education only completed the basic elementary school courses, and then began to receive various targeted vocational training to prepare for becoming skilled workers in the Haihan industrial system.Only a very small number of talented people can get opportunities for further study at a higher level, and learn new knowledge that has not yet appeared in this era and can only be mastered by time travellers.

The number of children of the time-travelers themselves is also worrying. There were only three minors at the time of time-traveling, which greatly narrowed the range of options for the time-traveling group to cultivate heirs.Among the three, Johnson's two daughters accounted for two-thirds of the quota.The other minor had just turned one year old when he crossed, and now he has just entered school age, so he can not be included in the scope of discussion of this topic.

Johnson's two daughters, Jessica and Emily, were only 11 and 7 years old when they crossed. Five years later, the two children also reached the age of entering high school and junior high school.However, the scope of knowledge they have learned in the past five years has long exceeded the level they should be at this age, especially in terms of medical knowledge. The two were completely taught by Johnson and Old Morgan. Jessica Even at the age of 12, she began to follow her father to sit in the clinic.Johnson's apprentice doctors in their 40s and [-]s had to respectfully call out "Sister Master" when they saw a little girl.

This kind of arrangement is not entirely Johnson's intention, but the executive committee has talked to him several times, hoping that he and Morgan can pass on their unique knowledge and be candidates who can inherit their medical skills in the time-traveling team. There are not many candidates, and Johnson's two daughters are undoubtedly excellent choices.

In order to achieve this goal, the executive committee has indeed invested a lot of resources in the two little girls.Among other things, just being the daily teacher of the two little girls is almost a luxurious lineup of the entire executive committee.Even if the executive committee members are usually busy, they must find time to give lectures to the two little girls.At present, Jessica has completed high school three years ahead of schedule, and the younger Emily has also completed junior high school.This is also thanks to the fact that Johnson and his wife Laura have relatively good genes. They have two daughters who have the potential to be academic masters. After another five or six years of training, they will probably be able to carry forward the family business.

Of course, it would be impossible to rely on such two or three children for the entire business of the time-traveling group.So after the situation stabilized in the past two years, the bachelors who traveled across the mile also began to marry wives and have children, and reproduce.Up to now, more than a dozen people who work locally in Hainan Island have already had children, and even the second child has already been born quickly.After You Yihan went to work in Guangdong, he also married a wealthy woman in Guangzhou, and he just finished hosting the birthday banquet for his daughter last month.

According to what You Yihan said in private, his children will either be the second generation of rich or the second generation of officials, but whether they can maintain it depends on whether the parents are up to date, and the second is to see the executive committee's major policies for the descendants of time travel What's up.So now You Yihan is very sensitive to the executive committee's work arrangements and transfers to the younger generation. In his opinion, the transfer of Li Dou and Chen Yixin is enough to show how much the executive committee attaches importance to the younger generation.

You Yihan said self-consciously: "When my daughter grows up in a few years, I have to let her learn a personal skill. Forget about medical skills. Bloody ones are not suitable for girls. I plan to let her learn chemical engineering. In the future Engage in cosmetics or something, no matter what era you are in, this is a hard currency that will not worry about selling!"

Xiao Liang couldn't help laughing and said, "You're thinking too far ahead, right? After ten or twenty years, who knows what the future will be like."

(End of this chapter)