Chapter 256 Developing Yalong Bay

"It's not just a matter of money." Tao Donglai has personally contacted the North Vietnamese authorities and has a better understanding of their thoughts: "The warlord leaders in North Vietnam have never really seen the power of firearms troops on the battlefield.

The reason why they buy our weapons is that they simply think that these weapons are powerful. As for how to train firearms troops, they do not have a clear understanding in their minds. Perhaps in their hearts, they think that firearms troops also

Just like the peasant soldiers they recruited in the past, as long as each person is given a weapon and locked together for twenty or thirty days of training, they can be sent to the battlefield to fight."

"If they really think so, they will probably suffer a big loss after going to the battlefield." After listening to Tao Donglai's words, Ning Qi was no longer optimistic about the situation facing North Vietnam.

"It's hard to say what happens on the battlefield. It depends on weather conditions, geographical environment, opponent's strength, on-the-spot command of officers, and many other factors. Even if our personally trained fusilier militiamen are brought out to fight, they will not be able to fight every battle.

"Victorious." Tao Donglai's evaluation was quite objective: "If they are lucky and the opponents they encounter are ordinary peasants and soldiers, then just a few rounds of firing will be enough to make the opponent collapse."

"But if you are unlucky and encounter a large group of cavalry, you will die." Although Ning Qi is not a military enthusiast, he also knows that the greatest magic weapon for cold weapon troops to restrain firearms troops in field battles is cavalry.

"Fortunately, the South Vietnamese troops cannot have large groups of cavalry. Their area is not suitable for cavalry." Tao Donglai was not worried about what Ning Qi said would happen.

Even the Mongols, who used cavalry to sweep across the two continents of Europe and Asia in history, had to admit Tao Donglai's point of view. In 1284, the Yuan army entered Annan in the name of attacking the city.

They abandoned the capital and fled to Thanh Hoa. However, due to the local jungle and water network environment, the Yuan army was unable to give full play to the advantages of the cavalry. Coupled with supply problems and tropical diseases, they had to retreat on their own in a favorable situation.

Guangxi. In 1286, after Kublai Khan finished defeating Japan in the north, he launched another expedition against Annan. As a result, this larger-scale military operation still failed to completely defeat Annan. After a year of fighting, the Yuan army

He again angrily withdrew his troops and returned to Guangxi. In 1293, Kublai Khan made three expeditions to Annan. Before the battle could be concluded, Kublai Khan died. Temu'er, who took over the throne, issued an edict to cease the war and withdraw his troops. At this point, he basically announced a battle relying on cavalry.

The system completely failed in the Annan region.

After that, the Ming Dynasty's crusade against Annan failed to do better than the Mongols, and in terms of results, it was even worse than the Mongols. In 1427, the Ming army was defeated miserably in the last large-scale battle at Changjiang City in Annan, and the commander-in-chief Anyuan was defeated.

The 70,000 Ming army, including Hou Liu Sheng, was completely wiped out, and the Ming army had to take the initiative to sue for peace. The next year, Annan's military leader Le Li announced in Hanoi that he would break away from Ming rule, and the founding of the country was named Dai Viet, and the capital was later located in Hanoi.

Hanoi. It is worth mentioning that Anyuan Hou Liu Sheng, who died on the Annan battlefield, was the senior general of the Ming army who single-handedly founded the Shenji Camp.

From the several military operations against Annan in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, we can see that the superiority of armaments is not the only factor that determines the outcome of the war. The Yuan army has cavalry that is invincible, and the Ming army has the world-famous Shenji Battalion, but all of them failed.

They failed in Annan. Of course, in the original history, they were not the end of this record. Hundreds of years later, the French and Americans equipped with advanced weapons also knelt in this damn place. In a sense, Central South Africa

This area on the east side of the peninsula can really be called the "Graveyard of the Empire".

Of course, the Executive Committee is also very aware of Annan's history. With lessons learned from the past, the Executive Committee will certainly not make the same mistake again. Therefore, from the beginning of its contact with the North Vietnamese regime, the Executive Committee adopted a more cautious attitude.

To carry out a certain degree of military assistance and arms transactions, there is no intention to directly intervene in the domestic war situation in Annan. This is partly because the armed forces currently controlled by the Executive Committee are indeed limited in scale, and they cannot afford to lose if they are drawn out to fight a tough battle.

, on the other hand, they are also worried about repeating the same mistakes. After all, the lessons of the Yuan and Ming dynasties in this regard are still fresh in our minds, and even the military and police departments do not dare to boast that they can do better than their ancestors.

Of course, the most important reason that is not humane to outsiders is that the Executive Committee believes that it is better for Annan to continue to maintain a state of civil strife, so that the Crossing Group can continuously import industrial products to it, and then introduce immigrants from there to expand its own strength.

, and by the way, they can also take advantage of the civil strife there to occupy a few more good places to stay in the coastal areas. It is no exaggeration to say that even if the North and the South want to cease war and negotiate, the Crossing Group will try to let them continue to fight -

-In the face of the great collective interests, no matter what doctrine, you must silence your voice. Even a pacifist like Gu Kai very wisely did not raise an objection to this policy of the Executive Committee.

After a simple screening and a seven-day quarantine period, these new immigrants will be assigned to various units. The main destination is Tielugang Saltworks. The naturalized residents in Shengli Port area are mainly Ming people. For the sake of society

For stability reasons, only a small number of North Vietnamese immigrants will be left to settle in Port Victory. Of course, for those prisoners of war and prisoners, a life of hard labor in a labor camp still awaits them.

However, compared to the group of North Vietnamese immigrants who arrived in Hong Kong in October, this group of new immigrants went to a new place besides Tielugang, which was Yalong Bay between Victory Port and Tielugang.

Coastal areas.

Yalong Bay is half-moon shaped and is located at the southernmost tip of the entire Hainan Island. It is most famous in later generations for its kilometers of white sandy beaches and crystal clear water. In later generations, it was a famous resort area, home to various luxury villas, conferences,

The center, high-end hotels and resorts are full of facilities, and there are two standard golf courses, which shows that the consumer market positioning here is very high-end.

This plain area along the Yalong Bay is sandwiched between Liudaoling and Yalong Ridge, but its area is larger than Shengli Port and Tielugang combined. However, because its terrain is too open, it is almost undefendable facing the sea.

, so the Executive Committee did not regard it as the main development target in the early stage - after all, the Executive Committee did not have the strong construction capabilities of later republics, and directly built several kilometers of breakwaters in Yalong Bay to seal half of the bay.

It was used as a naval base.

At present, the Executive Committee will consider safety more when selecting colonization sites. Therefore, natural salt fields like Yinggehai and nearby plains such as Yalong Bay have been removed from the candidate list by the Executive Committee.

It was brushed off. The reason why Yalong Bay was recently included in the development target again was the suggestion of Mr. Yuan from the Ministry of Agriculture.

After the Crossing Group occupied the area from Shengli Port to Tiandu, the Ministry of Agriculture reclaimed a large number of fields along the Tiandu River for growing food crops and cash crops. Currently, two seasons of rice, the main food crop, have been harvested, and

The harvesting period of cash crops is much longer. The harvesting period of cash crops is much longer, such as sugarcane, which takes about a year, and the harvesting period, such as rubber trees and oil palms, which is slow, and no results can be seen within three to five years. Those mountain forests that were cut down in the early stage are now

Various economic trees have also begun to be slowly replanted. In particular, the diesel tree, which can be used to refine biodiesel and is known as Jatropha curcas among the people, has been planted continuously. In a few years, small-scale diesel production is expected to be realized.

supply.

The Executive Committee's hopes for the Ministry of Agriculture are not just about food - this is basically no longer a problem that plagues the crossing group after the opening of the North Vietnam route. Sisal that can be woven into canvas, and rubber needed for industrial production,

Diesel is not the entire goal of the Executive Committee. Those cash crops that can be exported and create profits for Chuan Chuan Group are what the Executive Committee is currently focusing on. In addition to the existing industrial products, Chuan Chuan Group also needs more

The most important thing is to get more agricultural products, and Mr. Yuan believes that the most suitable cash crop for large-scale planting and the fastest yield is sugar cane.

In southern China in the seventeenth century, sucrose was a very important product. Among the ocean-going goods purchased by Western merchants in Guangzhou, they were not mainly porcelain and silk fabrics like those of later generations.

Unexpected cane sugar - about 80% of the cargo loaded on the entire ship is cane sugar produced in Guangdong, while porcelain and silk fabrics account for no more than 10% of the cargo. This is of course partly due to the fact that porcelain and silk fabrics

The price was too high, and merchants did not have enough financial resources to purchase large quantities. But on the other hand, it can also be seen how developed the sugar industry in southern China was at that time, and how popular cane sugar was in the market.

Sugarcane can be harvested in only ten to twelve months, which is basically a short period among commercial crops. However, due to early conditions, the Ministry of Agriculture only planted more than 100 acres along the Tiandu River.

Sugar cane - such a small area is enough for one's own people to make tooth sacrifices, but it is far from enough for mass production of sugar.

However, now that manpower is much looser than in the early days, the Ministry of Agriculture has once again proposed a plan to plant sugar cane on a large area. This time, the Ministry of Agriculture has set its sights on the coast of Yalong Bay and plans to cultivate more than 2,000 acres of sugar cane fields at one go.

Phase I project, and a complete development plan was specially written for this purpose.

After studying the reclamation plan submitted by the Ministry of Agriculture, the Executive Committee approved it smoothly and urged human resources and other relevant departments to cooperate in the implementation. This time, the Executive Committee did not reject the proposal to develop Yalong Bay due to safety issues.

In fact, there are several.

First, the Executive Committee really needs the Ministry of Agriculture to come up with some short-term and quick foreign exchange-earning projects to alleviate the shortage of export commodities in Victory Port. Second, the planned development area of ​​the Ministry of Agriculture is only a short distance away from the glass workshop on the east bank of the Tiandu River estuary.

The two-mile road is separated only by a small mountain ridge with an altitude of less than 100 meters. If there is an attack from a foreign enemy, you can retreat to the inland area in time. The third reason is that the Military and Police Department has helped. They are preparing to move the coastal observation post

Move outward to expand the maritime warning range. An observation post is expected to be set up on the Luhuitou Peninsula in the west, while the location selected in the east is Huling, which can observe the entire Yalong Bay sea area. In this way, the early warning range of the observation post is larger than that in Yulinjiao in the past.

The number of single outposts has increased by more than five times, giving Victory Port's defense forces more time to react when encountering a situation.

The two thousand acres of sugarcane fields cannot be cultivated immediately. The deep plowing and ditching required before planting sugarcane are real hard work. Fortunately, this period has entered the off-season, and the farm commune has a lot of

Idle labor is available. As of the day when the latest batch of immigrants arrived in Victory Port, farm commune workers had cultivated nearly a thousand acres of sugarcane fields in the Yalong Bay area. Some of the new immigrants will be assigned here after the quarantine period, and they will be responsible for

Planting and maintenance of sugarcane.

Three days later, Schneider also arrived at Victory Port on a cargo ship returning from Guangzhou, preparing to attend the year-end summary meeting. Returning with him were more than ten merchant ships from Guangzhou and surrounding areas, and the scale was larger than that of the previous visit.

The merchant fleet grew stronger.

On the same day, the commercial warehouse built by "Fu Ruifeng", the first foreign investor in Victory Port, finally completed all the construction. In fact, the main building of the commercial warehouse was completed more than half a month ago, but the subsequent interior

The decoration took a lot of time. Because after the main building was completed, Li Nai remembered to request that all bathroom systems must be made by Haihan. As a result, the entire building had to be remodeled to meet the needs of the bathroom pipes.

The laying conditions were perfect. For this purpose, "Furuifeng" invested an additional three thousand yuan in circulation coupons - this was a 20% discount given by the Ministry of Construction because of their acquaintance.

Li Nai himself didn't feel bad about this extra investment, because he knew that although the money was thrown away quickly, the speed of earning it back would not be much slower, because this business store was very important to "Fu Ruifeng"

In fact, it is an extremely efficient money-making machine.

Facing the Landscape Avenue, this business store is a restaurant. Although it only has two floors, the interior decoration and even the staffing are in accordance with the standards of high-end restaurants in Guangzhou. All the tables, chairs, doors, windows, and even cups, bowls and chopsticks in the store

The dishes are all shipped from Guangzhou, and the chef is naturally specially invited from Guangzhou. Of course, the consumption level is also based on the level of the wealthy class in Guangzhou. If you ignore the local currency exchange rate, it is worth having a meal here.

The cost is not much cheaper than the most upscale Four Seasons restaurant in Guangzhou.

Li Nai is not worried about the hotel's customer base. At this stage, all the maritime merchants who can come here have certain economic strength, and it goes without saying that the Haihan people - the only local currency that can be used is printed by them.

Yes, no one would be stupid enough to doubt their spending power.

As for the hotels that several other investors are going to open, Li Nai is not worried. After all, it is difficult to copy his own method of moving a complete hotel from the mainland. Even if he can copy it, it will be at least two or three months later.

, by that time, the property purchased by the family in Shengli Port will probably have doubled.

Behind this hotel that serves as a front is a two-entry courtyard, which is the brothel jointly planned by the executive committee and "Fu Ruifeng". The current employees here are hired from Guangzhou by "Fu Ruifeng"

More than a dozen young women, and in order to respond to the special request of the Executive Committee, these women did not have a personal contract with "Fu Ruifeng", but appeared here as hired workers - this is also the purpose of the Executive Committee to avoid

A request made specifically to Rina after being criticized by feminists.

Of course, those twists and turns are all false and are nothing more than an excuse for legal business. In order to ensure that this place can maintain normal "business order" and fully protect the health and personal safety of its own people, the executive committee

The association has very strict regulations on business hours, methods and service objects.

This brothel can only operate between 6 pm and 11 pm every day. All employees are not allowed to leave the business premises without any reason, and are not allowed to show up in the hotel facing the street to solicit customers. They must undergo a physical examination at least once a month. The most important thing is

, this place can only receive people with special bills issued by the Executive Committee. As for the fees, the Shengli Port Management Committee under the Executive Committee and "Furuifeng" will settle the accounts according to the number of special bills once a month.

This is not that the executive committee directly uses money for bachelors to meet their physiological needs. In fact, the wool still comes from the sheep. This special bill that can be consumed in the brothel is registered by the time traveler with the real-name subscription at the civil affairs department. Every month

Each person is limited to purchasing five tickets, and they must show their ID number when they go to consume. There will be a dedicated person responsible for checking and registering. It is basically the brothel version of the real-name system for train tickets.

These regulations may seem unkind, but they can indeed greatly reduce the frequency of jealousy, fights and other bad phenomena that are common in such romantic places. Anyone who causes trouble here will be easily traced. In addition,

, this measure is also conducive to the prevention and control of certain diseases - as long as you check a girl's business records, you can easily find out the people she has come into contact with.

In fact, before the emergence of brothels, some time-travelers had already "spontaneously acted" and had private relationships with some female naturalized citizens and even Li Miao people. Although there are not many such cases, the Executive Committee also

There is no shortage of wiping the butts of these guys whose hormones are overflowing. If there is no legal place for a large number of singles in the time-traveling group to satisfy their physiological needs, then sooner or later a civil strife will break out in Victory Port.

Of course, to solve this problem from the root, we still need to continue to introduce a large number of immigrants, especially young women with excellent qualities. However, this task is relatively difficult. People with good conditions will naturally not let their daughters go to this isolated overseas port.

Living with a group of unknown maritime merchants. There are also cases where naturalized citizens want to marry their daughters to time-travelers, but this situation also faces legal issues - whether the female relatives who marry the time-travelers can also enjoy the benefits

Equal treatment for time travelers?

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