1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 920 Vung Tau Port

The weaker the country, the weaker its resistance to foreign cultures and values. Haihan’s cultural export work in Daming lasted for several years before he achieved some results, but a country like Champa has achieved success in a short period of time. Become highly respected for Haihan culture.

This is also a helpless move for Champa. Surrounded by countries that are stronger than themselves such as Annan, Chenla, and Siam, the land has been continuously eroded by the surrounding tyrants in recent centuries. Finally, a person willing to support himself came If he is a strong person, he must try his best to hug this thigh tightly.Moreover, Haihan's cooperation conditions do not require Champa to pay unilaterally. The grain and other local specialties purchased from Champa in large quantities each year have also become one of the main sources of income for Champa.

In addition, there are a large number of Champa nationals who crossed the border and came to Vung Tau Port controlled by Haihan to work for Haihan to earn income.Among the thousands of residents in Vung Tau Port, at least one-third are migrant workers from Champa, and they take up most of the local manual jobs. Some of them apply to join the sea after working for a long time. The situation of Han nationality exists.

Similar to Annan, Champa will also select outstanding domestic talents every year, and go to HN Sanya to receive advanced training provided by Haihan.These trainees include not only the military, but also personnel from various fields such as culture and education, civil affairs, commerce, finance, manufacturing, and medical treatment. The scope of training they receive covers all aspects of society, and even members of the Champa royal family also participated this kind of training.These trainings have greatly accelerated the speed of Haihan’s cultural import into Champa, making Champa, especially the Saigon area near Vung Tau Port, a very high degree of Haihanization, even surpassing Annan, who cooperated with Haihan earlier.

The person in charge of Vung Tau Port is Qiu Xin, who belongs to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Like most other traversers, Qiu Xin also holds different part-time jobs in multiple departments.In addition to his position as the director of the Champa Affairs Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he also holds different positions in the Ministry of Commerce, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the Ministry of Agriculture. This appointment also allows him to have more autonomy when he is in charge of Vung Tau Port. The decision-making power does not need to be reported to various departments across the sea. After all, it is time-consuming and labor-intensive to coordinate many things among multiple departments. It is better to let Qiu Xin make the decision alone.

The executive committee's trust in Qiu Xin is mainly due to the fact that he once served as the mayor of a town in Ling NS District before crossing, and he has rich practical work experience in managing the place.However, the executive committee did not use this person in the early days of time travel. The reason was that Qiu Xin left the officialdom in a disgraceful way. He was stripped of his official hat because of dereliction of duty and bribery. The suspended sentence has not yet begun.

How much Qiu Xin participated in the time-traveling is also a factor of desperation, and staying in the original time and space will not have any second result other than ruining his reputation.Moreover, he divorced at an early age, and his parents have passed away for many years, so he didn't have any worries when he participated in the time travel.Although Qiu Xin's black history made the Executive Committee feel a little bit afraid when using him, after the first few years of being unknown in Sanya, Qiu Xin's ability was still recognized by the above.

After Haihan took over the port of Vung Tau, the executive committee appointed him to serve as a magistrate here, and gave him considerable autonomy.Although the position here is only the most basic director of the management committee, Qiu Xin, who has spent some time in the officialdom, knows that this is an opportunity he must seize.Compared with most people in the crossing group, he knows better how he should make good use of his official status. Although Vung Tau Port is just an inconspicuous place on the map, he believes that this will be the runway for his future take-off .

It has to be said that Qiu Xin's ability to govern the local area as an official is much stronger than that of the transmigrators who have become half-ordained. At present, more than half of Haihan's contacts with Champa are maintained by the official organization of Vung Tau Port. The export of economic, cultural, military and other affairs is almost always handled through the link of Qiu Xin.Judging from the current development situation, Qiu Xin's achievements can be regarded as quite good.

The daily sea transportation of Vung Tau Port is mainly based on grain trade, so the setting of the port did not consider military functions too much. This time, there are many ships in the combined fleet of the two countries going south, including two majestic-class ships. This makes docking and replenishment a lot of trouble.However, Qiu Xin had done sufficient preparations beforehand, and there was no obvious confusion when guiding the fleets into the port area one after another, and the supplies needed by the various fleets were also relatively well prepared.

"Good job!" Yan Chujie was quite satisfied with the local preparations, and immediately praised Qiu Xin without hesitation: "You can be considered a good leader if you can make preparations within half a month." Already!"

"Boss Yan is over the top." Qiu Xin was very humble, and did not appear complacent because of what he had done: "The responsibility is, if you don't do it well, you have to take the responsibility."

This southward military exercise involves the mobilization of a large number of troops, and it needs to be kept secret from the outside world. Therefore, the military and the Executive Committee did not notify the various ports passing through the meeting to make preparations until half a month before the start of the operation.In addition to the necessary supplies, Vung Tau Port has an additional task of communicating with Champa, because the fleet going south includes not only Haihan's ships, but also Annan's entire fleet. join in.Champa and Annan have a long history of grievances, if they do not notify in advance, unnecessary misunderstandings will likely be caused.Of course, Annan probably won't be afraid of misunderstandings because of this. On the contrary, he may hope that this situation will happen, so that he can find an excuse to fight Champa again.

"Have Zhancheng been notified?" Yan Chujie asked with concern.

Qiu Xin nodded and replied, "I have informed you. I went to Saigon last week and talked with the Champa military. They agreed that they will not send military ships to cruise in Saigon Bay during the time when the United Fleet enters the port."

"Chancheng people are so talkative?" Yan Chujie asked in disbelief.

"The people in Champa are not stupid. Of course there is an exchange condition." Qiu Xin explained: "They asked to send a military observation team to Vung Tau Port. , to be able to bring the Champa Navy together. I have already agreed to the first thing. I think it is a good thing for them to see our fleet up close and realize their own weight. As for the second thing, I definitely can’t As the master, we can only wait for you to arrive."

Yan Chujie pondered: "Your idea is correct. Let the Zhancheng people come over to take a look and realize the gap in their own strength, so that they don't have any unreasonable thoughts. And after they see the size of Annan's fleet, they may not I will learn from the pain and place more shipbuilding orders with us. As for the second matter, we will only stay in Vung Tau Port for four to five days. It is not clear whether Champa will be ready to sail... Their people have arrived ?"

"I arrived three days ago. The leader is a general from Zhancheng named Fan Ji. Does Mr. Yan want to meet him?" Qiu Xin took the initiative to ask: "He lives not far from the port area. , I can arrange as soon as possible."

Yan Chujie looked at Qiu Xin, and asked half-jokingly: "Zhancheng wants us to play with him, and I asked you to help arrange it. It should be a favor for you, right?"

Qiu Xin's face changed slightly and he said: "Boss Yan, don't make fun of me. If I make another mistake at my age, my career will really be ruined."

Qiu Xin is a bit older in the time-traveling group. He was already 42 years old when he joined, and now he is approaching fifty. There is nothing to rush.

"Just kidding with you, Lao Qiu, we have all seen your performance in the past few years. If you can't trust you, why would you take care of the entire port of Vung Tau." Yan Chujie originally only knocked a little Seeing that his attitude was quite correct, he immediately laughed and brought the matter over: "Well, you can arrange it and bring the Champa to meet me at night. Be careful, don't let the Annan people Found."

Qiu Xinying said: "You can rest assured about this, I will arrange it properly."

The reason why Yan Chujie was not disgusted with sending people from Champa was because he also knew that this kind of thing could not be avoided by refusing. There are thousands of Champas living in Vung Tau Port, and there must be a lot of spies here. Even if the Champa military is refused to send personnel over, the situation of the combined fleet cannot be avoided by Champa's surveillance.So it is a good way to deal with it simply by being more magnanimous and letting the Champa military personnel directly stationed in Vung Tau Port.Although Qiu Xin was suspected of overreaching, there was nothing wrong with the way he chose to deal with it. If Yan Chujie handled this matter by himself, he would probably make the same choice.

After night fell that night, Qiu Xin brought Champa General Fan Ji to the guest house where Yan Chujie was staying.After the two parties were seated, Yan Chujie asked straight to the point: "I heard that your country plans to join our South China Sea cruise military exercise?"

"I do have this plan." Fan Ji's Chinese is fairly standard, even with a little taste of Haihan Putonghua, and he must have put in a lot of effort.

"Is it okay to have Annan ships in the fleet?" Yan Chujie continued to ask.

"Annan is Annan, and Champa is Champa. We only recognize Haihan, and we don't care about others." Fan Ji's tone was very blunt, and it was obvious that he didn't have a good impression of Annan.However, since Champa is willing to endure the inconvenience of working with Annan, it also shows that he attaches great importance to this opportunity to participate in coordinated operations.

The Haihan military did not include the Champa Navy when planning this operation, because the military strength of the Champa Navy is far inferior to that of Annan, and the main warships are only four expedition-class sailing ships purchased from Haihan. The old models built before 1630 were eliminated by the Haihan Navy and sold to Champa at a discount.The performance of these ships is on par with the export models ordered by Annan, but the number is much worse than that of Annan. The sailors and the commanders on board are relatively inexperienced in oceangoing sailing, and they have not participated in the Haihan held before. There is an obvious lack of experience in maritime military exercises.

However, the Annan Fleet’s participation in this exercise will end here in Vung Tau Port. Afterwards, the large force will not go south with the Haihan Fleet. Only one ship will carry a military observation team headed by Zheng Zuo to participate in the subsequent operations. .If people from these two families met, accidents would happen in all likelihood, so Yan Chujie had to explain the situation beforehand so as not to cause trouble to the Champaigns.

Yan Chujie continued to ask: "How many ships does your country plan to send to participate in the exercise?"

"Six ships, four warships ordered from you, and two supply ships." Fan Ji obviously came prepared, and immediately gave a reply.

Yan Chujie said: "Our destination is Anbuna Island in the South China Sea. The round trip may take half a month, but you only have a few days to prepare. If you can't prepare properly by then, we can only follow the Originally planned to leave Vung Tau Port."

Fan Jiying said: "There is no need for General Yan to worry about this. When we set off to Vung Tau Port, Saigon has already started to make corresponding preparations. If there is no accident, the assembly should have been completed at Saigon Port by this time. As long as General Yan says, Our fleet will be able to arrive at the port of Vung Tau to join you in three days."

The Champa's intentions were clearly beyond Yan Chujie's expectations. It seemed that they had been waiting for such an opportunity to practice together for more than a day or two.Of course, this may also be because Zhancheng saw that Annan and Haihan were getting too close, and was a little worried about his own safety. He hoped to win over the relationship between the two parties by participating in the joint military exercise, so that Haihan's butt would not go to Annan's side.

Yan Chujie nodded and said: "There is one more thing I must emphasize first. During your navy's participation in the joint military exercise, the fleet will implement wartime laws and all actions must follow our command. Any violations of discipline and regulations will be dealt with by military law. !"

"Of course." Fan Ji did not show any objection to this: "The king of our country also really wants to know whether the tactics learned by the navy from you have been transformed into real strength through this kind of exercise."

As a relatively pure agricultural country, Champa is not easy to manage a naval fleet, and the manpower, material and financial resources invested are not small for it.After so many resources have been invested, whether the navy is truly capable of combat is definitely a matter of great concern to its rulers, and it is also a good way to test the achievements of military construction over the past few years through such a military exercise.Although Fan Ji himself has not received military training from Haihan, the commanders of the several warships that are going to participate in the exercise this time are all new generation officers trained by Haihan himself.

(End of this chapter)