Chapter 343 Forcibly taking advantage of others

Although the influence of the Yacheng government in most areas of Yazhou has gradually declined, the executive committee does not intend to completely take over the functions of the government in the near future. The existence of the Ming government can still play a role in the development of Chuanchuan Group.

It has a certain positive effect. In the future, it will not only maintain its existence, but also try to use the Yacheng government to increase the influence of the Crossing Group on Qiongzhou Island.

Of course, this strategy of the Executive Committee is also experimental. After all, there is no relevant experience and examples to learn from on how to coexist with the Ming government on Qiongzhou Island. Everyone is crossing the river by feeling the stones. As far as the current development situation is concerned,

It seems that the method of gradually evacuating local government is relatively feasible. This basically ensures the stability of the surrounding environment to the greatest extent and allows the Crossing Group to quickly enrich its own strength. And the degree of this evasion is also very important.

Too much will inevitably arouse the hatred and resistance of Ming officials and cause unnecessary conflicts, while too little will make it impossible for the executive committee's policies to be implemented within the region and affect development plans.

Schneider stayed in Yazhou for two days and basically finalized most of the issues of land ownership. Although Zhang Qing and other Yazhou officials may not be convinced by the aggressiveness of the executive committee, in the current environment, they are most likely to

The only good choice is cooperation.

Nowadays, everyone in Yazhou knows that life in the area under the jurisdiction of the Haihan people is peaceful, their income is high, and they are not squeezed by the government. The people who have moved to the Shengli Port area are no longer just bankrupt and helpless people like in the beginning.

, since the anniversary celebrations were held in Victory Port, some Yacheng residents with land and property have begun to try to acquire land near Victory Port.

If we really want to talk about the initiator of this trend, we have to remember Luo Shengdong. The first batch of Yacheng dignitaries who bought properties in Shengli Port were basically attracted by Luo Shengdong. When these people went to Shengli

Port, after seeing the local living environment on the spot, I quickly dispelled my doubts - Shengli Port has far surpassed Yacheng in terms of living environment, social security and material supply level.

Of course, there are also many people who choose to continue living in Yacheng. After all, the materials produced by Victory Port have never stopped being transported to Yacheng, and ships from Annan even regularly deliver shiploads of high-quality coal and

The prices of rice and some daily necessities have been significantly lower than in the past. But while they are enjoying this convenient life, they must also face the inconveniences caused by the shrinking local employable labor force.

With the development of Sanya's new urban area, the demand for labor force from Chuanchuan Group has risen to a new level. The labor force required for various infrastructure projects alone amounts to thousands of people. Due to the remuneration given by Haihan people

Gao, they can still take care of food and housing while working. More and more people from Ming Dynasty come to work in Xincheng Development Zone. Many of them decided to become naturalized citizens after arriving in Shengli Port and receiving short-term brainwashing propaganda.

, in order to get better job benefits.

Of course, the civil affairs department did not separate the naturalized people’s place of origin and the identity of Ming citizens. The propaganda to the ordinary people is still that they will continue to maintain the identity of Ming citizens - but the department that manages them is no longer in the Ming Dynasty.

The government is the highest executive committee composed of Haihan people.

Ordinary people are not particularly concerned about who has the final say in Yazhou. What they care about is basically inseparable from the basic necessities of life such as food, clothing, housing and transportation. As long as the Haihan Executive Committee can provide them with better

Living environment, most of them actually don't care whether their household registration is in Yacheng or Shengli Port in the future.

On the mainland, he successfully repelled the siege of many rogue bandits and killed the bandit leader Liao Dabi in the battle. This achievement made Lijiazhuang become a hot topic among the people in Guangdong in a short period of time. There are many

The wealthy families all used various connections to find the Li family to find out what kind of power they had that could enable them to repel the siege of thousands of rogue bandits. The Li family also took advantage of this momentum and gave the "Golden Shield Security" a service that had just opened.

Excellent promotional campaign.

The only regret is that after the body of the bandit leader Liao Dabi was sent to the Guangzhou government, although the identification of the body and the reward went smoothly, he failed to receive the award from the leading figure. But it is reasonable to think about it. After all, Li

I had a falling out with Li Fengjie, the leader of the Guangdong officialdom, so I was thankful that I didn't take the initiative to cause trouble for "Fu Ruifeng".

But after the incident in Lijiazhuang, the trend of self-organized militia groups broke out across the province. Whenever clans like Lijiazhuang lived in villages, they began to organize local armed forces to protect their villages and villages. These spontaneous groups

Without exception, the organizations set their target of imitation to be the Lijiazhuang militia with outstanding achievements, and sent people to visit Lijiazhuang one after another, hoping to obtain some technical guidance.

Naturally, the Li family did not dare to take over the entire matter. Instead, they took the initiative to find military representatives from the Garrison and Guangdong Office for discussion. After approval by the Executive Committee, the Garrison and Guangdong Office decided to use Lijiazhuang as a model to first conduct research in the areas surrounding Guangzhou City.

Helped establish a group of militia organizations using Haihan military establishment.

In order to facilitate operations and avoid risks, the backstage bosses of these places who are fortunate enough to be the recipients of Haihan military support must also have certain trade records with Haihan. Some bosses who are shareholders of "Qiong Lianfa" can directly

Trainees are selected and sent to Victory Port to receive military training ranging from three months to half a year.

Although these personnel selected for training are either family members or loyal servants, and it is difficult to completely lead them to Haihan through brainwashing, the military still decided to accept these trainees. The military did not

It is expected that these trainees will be able to turn all the local militia groups into the Haihan Association Army after they return, but at least they can establish the concept of "Haihan is invincible" during the training period. When the Haihan forces conquer the mainland in the future,

These civilian armed forces will not jump out and become a stumbling block for the Haihan army.

Of course, the export of weapons is also part of the military's large-scale training plan, especially products such as matchlocks and small-caliber cast iron artillery, which are very suitable for use by civilian armed forces, and the buyer's dependence on ammunition will also allow the military to

Better control these civil armed forces in Ming Dynasty.

On June 17, the first ship of the "Expedition-class" warship with a displacement of 500 tons, the "Expedition", was launched at the Port of Victory Shipyard pier and began to enter the final outfitting stage. The hull of this three-masted sailing ship can basically be regarded as an "exploration vessel"

An enlarged model of the "class" warship, it also continues to use the "Haihan-style sail" that combines Chinese and Western methods. This fifty-meter-long warship will be equipped with a total of fourteen 12-pound naval guns, as well as one at the bow and stern.

18-pound long-barreled gun. The rated crew is a total of 168 people, including 120 combat personnel, 48 crew members, sailors and other shipboard staff. After completing the outfitting and officially entering the fleet, the "exploration

The warship will serve as the flagship of the Haihan Militia's naval force for at least a year until the next new model warship with a larger displacement and more complete combat functions is launched.

However, at least within this year, neither the Navy nor the shipyards have plans to continue building larger combat ships. This is partly because the cost of building warships is too high, and the "exploration-class" warships are almost beyond what the current Navy budget can afford.

It has reached the limit, and there is no more development and construction costs to complete the next improvement. On the other hand, the maintenance cost of the Navy itself is quite high. According to the Navy's plan, at least two "exploration-class" ships and eight "exploration-class ships" will be completed within the year.

"class" warships were put into the queue to form the first true combat fleet, which meant that the navy must have at least a thousand personnel. It was quite difficult to support such a large fleet with financial allocations alone.

In the final analysis, there is actually no money. Compared with the army, the navy does not have much external oil and water that can be used to subsidize military expenses. So far in the battle, the main role of the navy is still to transport army troops, which leads to the subsequent settlement of military expenses.

The share that the navy can get from it is extremely limited.

Of course, if you really want the navy to be dragged out to fight with people at sea, it is really not practical. So far, almost all the battles carried out on the water surface can crush the opponent in terms of strength. It is not too difficult, but if it is really necessary

Facing the "Eighteen Zhi", Xu Xinsu or the armed fleets of Western countries' colonial companies, the navy's strength is indeed far from enough, and the Military Commission will never risk being blamed by sending the navy out to face it head-on.

enemy.

However, the Military Commission would not be willing to spend military funds to maintain this army in vain. Therefore, after returning from Guangdong, Wang Tom and several senior military officials began to plan to find a new opponent for the navy to train troops.

The "Eighteen Zhi" in the north is definitely out of reach. The Military Commission ruled out this target first. There are very few targets left to choose from in the surrounding areas - either we have to cross the entire South China Sea and go to the Philippine Islands in the east to find Spain.

If you are in trouble, why don't you go south to find your old rival Annan and Ruan Chao to continue the fight.

Among such candidate answers, it should be said that the Military Commission will not find it difficult to choose. South Vietnam's water strength has been proven to be vulnerable in January, and attacking the coastal areas of South Vietnam should be a relatively low-risk combat plan.

However, the military excitedly sent this plan to the Do Son Peninsula via telegram to coordinate with the North Vietnamese court, hoping that they could send troops to cooperate in the battle, but the other party flatly rejected the plan.

North Vietnam's reason was quite practical, and it could only be said in two words - no money. After the war in January, the North Vietnamese court, which owed Hai Han a huge amount of military expenses and could not repay it, had no choice but to pay in installments and to repay the money by converting the cost of immigration to population.

Although as of June, North Vietnam had basically paid off the arrears from the last war, its domestic economy was inevitably affected to a considerable extent. For a period of time, the business under Zheng's name even had to use rice as a means of exchange.

, instead of gold and silver, he purchased refined salt, weapons and other goods from Haihan.

The North Vietnamese court is not a fool in power. They know very well that if they need to ask the Haihan people to send troops to help in every battle, then the biggest beneficiary of the continuation of the civil war is not North Vietnam, but these Haihan people who are willing to act as mercenaries. If now

If you have to spend more than ten or two hundred thousand taels to hire Hai Han people to conquer the South Vietnamese rebels, then the dignitaries of Thang Long House will not have to live in the second half of the year.

The most feasible way is for North Vietnam to purchase Hai Han weapons, receive Hai Han-style military training, and obtain a force affiliated with Thang Long Province, and then use this force to conquer the Nguyen rebels in the south and unify the country.

However, this plan had two major drawbacks that the North Vietnamese senior leaders could not ignore. One was the high cost of forming an army, and the other was the long time it took to form an army.

In the past, North Vietnam's wars were extremely simple. A small number of professional troops were accompanied by temporarily recruited peasant soldiers. They did not need to go through too much complicated training. They were issued weapons and went directly to the battlefield. If they won, they would get some benefits from the spoils.

If they lose, everyone will consider themselves unlucky, and there will be no such thing as post-war pensions. But since cooperating with Haihan, this combat concept has slowly changed, and the officers feel that they have not accepted it.

Peasants and soldiers with regular military training are completely unusable, and soldiers in the regular army also believe that generous pensions should be paid in case of injury or death like the Haihan people, in order to effectively guarantee the combat effectiveness of the army.

This is of course all due to the Haihan-style education in the Bai Tushan training camp. According to the Haihan army standards, training a musketeer in North Vietnam requires an upfront cost of about twenty taels of silver, which includes the purchase of individual soldiers.

Twelve taels of silver for a complete set of weapons and equipment, 30 taels of silver for military pay during training, and 5 taels of training fees paid to the Tushan training camp - although the Haihan people are using the guise of free military training, what is free is only tuition, and you have to use it

There will still be a fee for various equipment in the training camp and various materials consumed during training.

To train a reinforced battalion equipped with an artillery battery, the North Vietnamese court had to spend at least thirty thousand taels of silver. This cost was sky-high compared to Annan's previous military expenditure standards. And if you carefully calculate the military expenditures, you can find that these three

Of the ten thousand taels of silver, almost twenty-five thousand taels ended up in the pockets of the Haihan people under various names. According to the North Vietnamese military's own estimation, if they want to gain a one-sided advantage on the battlefield, they can successfully complete the war against South Vietnam.

The crusade against the rebels requires at least ten reinforced battalions and a new army of about 10,000 people. And now even if Thang Long Mansion once again sells iron and steel, it will not be easy to collect the money in a short period of time.

Therefore, there are two completely opposite views in Thang Long Province. One is that we should rely on our own military power to complete the great cause of unification. Even if it costs more and takes longer, it is worth it. After all, this army is ultimately the North Vietnamese imperial court.

own wealth. Another view is that instead of giving so much money to the Haihan people in disguise, it is better to directly pay them to destroy the South Vietnamese army. At least it will save a lot of time. By then the north and south of Annan will be unified.

If private taxes are doubled, the pressure on military spending to build the army will be much smaller.

When the Haihan people's invitation to fight was submitted to Sheng Long Mansion, it aroused fierce debate between the two sides. Some people thought that we should take advantage of this opportunity to summon the combat troops on the front line of Hengshan and Jiangjiang to go south and wipe out the rebels in one go.

With their combat experience, there is no doubt about the combat effectiveness of the Hai Han militia, and they will definitely be able to push it all the way. However, more people think that the Hai Han people may not have such good intentions, and their invitation to fight may not be to help North Vietnam complete the reunification.

Rather, they had an ulterior motive - those who held this view even included Zheng Bai, the supreme commander of the North Vietnamese defense line, and the young prince Zheng Zha, who had had many contacts with the Haihan people.

This school of thought believes that the Haihan people are most likely to export weapons to North Vietnam in the long term and will not sincerely help North Vietnam complete the reunification of the north and the south in the short term. The reason why they will take the initiative to launch an attack on South Vietnam in advance this time is probably just to train troops.

It was just a matter of making some extra money from North Vietnam at the same time - this was almost the truth.

In the face of overwhelming opposition, North Vietnam ultimately chose to reject Haihan's proposal. Of course, North Vietnam did not put its words too hard - it was okay to fight, but the military expenditures needed to be discussed by both sides. In short, they could not follow the previous rules.

The standard of times has come.

Victory Port did not expect such a result at all. The Executive Committee even passed the resolution to send troops in advance, because everyone believed that such a battle could both train troops and make money, and the risk was relatively small. There was really no objection.

Reason. But after everyone received the reply from the Tushan training camp, they were all stunned. They were a little unprepared for North Vietnam's unexpected reaction. After a long time, Yan Chujie said: "You really can't treat these monkeys as fools.

After seeing it, you can actually see through our purpose!"

"It's useless to see through it. They have to rely on us in the end. It's just a matter of time." Tao Donglai seemed a little calmer about North Vietnam's reaction: "I think there is one thing that they may not be aware of, or maybe

The understanding is not deep enough.”

"What's the matter?" Yan Chujie asked casually.

"The North Vietnamese rejected our proposal simply because they felt that the cost we required was too high, and they planned to slowly train their troops to complete the crusade against the south. However, they probably forgot that in order to train a usable new army,

It's not enough for them to rely on themselves alone." Tao Donglai paused, turned to Bai Kesi and said: "I think if necessary, I can pinch their necks and let them figure out who said this.

Calculate."

Bai Kesi answered understandingly: "It just so happens that Qian Tiandun's army needs to rush to make new guns during this period. I think the production line of matchlock guns can be stopped for a while."
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