Chapter 357 New guests at Sanya Port

Fighting means making money. The Annan Civil War has been going on for several years. Most of the income of the northern and southern courts was invested in the battlefield. Even if one side temporarily achieved victory on the battlefield, it would be difficult to use the victory to achieve results in one fell swoop.

Opponents, both sides have been struggling to support the war situation. Like the Haihan Militia, they play raids behind enemy lines, directly attacking cities in the hinterland of the rear, using war to support war to maintain the cost of the army, and even wage war.

To obtain economic gains, it is impossible for both the North and the South to do it. After all, they currently do not have the maritime mobility capabilities of the Haihan Navy. Especially the South Vietnam region suffered heavy losses twice in a year, and the previous one was deployed in the war zone.

Most of the nearby surface forces were wiped out by the Haihan Militia, and a large number of civilian ships were snatched away from the rear by the Haihan Militia. Now even the channels for exporting goods have become a problem. It is simply a misfortune that comes singly.

In comparison, the situation in North Vietnam is slightly better. If the North Vietnamese court can tolerate it for another year and a half, this helpless situation may change. The Black Tu Port Shipyard is currently producing a steady stream of water with a displacement of about 100 tons.

With offshore sailing ships, North Vietnam may be able to have a small-scale maritime force in about a year. By then, the problem of land and water support operations that has troubled them for a long time can also be effectively solved. The North Vietnamese Army may even have the opportunity to transport troops by sea.

Launch a direct attack on the Hue area which lacks the protection of surface forces.

Of course, there is another faster solution, which is to rent a large ship directly from the Haihan people. Although the North Vietnamese military borrowed a number of ships for free from Yong'an Port this time, most of them are small ships, which can only be used for short-distance operations such as crossing the river.

There is no problem with the transportation task, but it is more difficult to complete long-distance troop projection. Haihan will definitely not provide a sailboat with a displacement of more than 100 tons for free, but when it comes to money, military expenditures are stretched thin

The North Vietnamese military really has no confidence. Even if it has a clear advantage on the battlefield, if the fight continues at the current pace, the consumption of military expenditures will still be a huge astronomical figure. The North Vietnamese court does not even have the confidence to do so.

Make sure you can unify South Vietnam before your country completely goes bankrupt.

North Vietnam's military shortage caused by years of war is not unsolvable. Hai Han has long proposed a comprehensive cooperation package, but the conditions are unacceptable to the North Vietnamese court. Hai Han's proposed method is actually very simple, which is to let North Vietnam use its population and land

in exchange for military assistance.

When North Vietnam first dealt with Hai Han, they boarded a pirate ship because of unknown circumstances. After the Hai Han people took away the land in Heitu Port, Tushan Peninsula and Yong'an Port one after another, some smart people in the North Vietnamese court finally woke up.

, realized that the Haihan people actually occupied the concessions in the name of the concessions. And those who built various infrastructures for the Haihan people in these concessions were the war refugees that the North Vietnamese court once considered a burden. North Vietnam paid for the land and population.

, all they got in exchange were various consumables produced by Hai Han, but every step Hai Han took was done openly. Some of the bilateral agreements were even begged by the North Vietnamese court to sign by Hai Han, and he was not even qualified to complain afterwards.

However, when the knowledgeable people in the North Vietnamese court realized Hai Han's intentions, they were no longer willing to pay a high price in exchange for the Hai Han people's help. At least they could no longer arbitrarily transfer land to the Hai Han people in the form of concessions.

Especially the key areas in the coastal areas. The military attacks suffered by South Vietnam have fully proved the importance of defense in the coastal areas. The Haihan people specifically selected coastal areas in North Vietnam to establish concessions, which occasionally made the people in power feel embarrassed.

The feeling of coolness. The population exported to Haihan gradually changed from the original war refugees to mainly prisoners and prisoners of war, and the total amount of population exported was gradually reduced, hoping to slightly limit the expansion speed of the Haihan Concession.

Of course, these methods are still a little immature in the eyes of the Haihan Executive Committee. After all, they have accumulated more than four hundred years of historical experience. Whether it is political means or economic means, if they want to rectify a country like Annan with internal and external troubles, the Executive Committee has all the tools.

There are too many precedents to learn from. Whether North Vietnam is willing to cooperate is not the primary issue in the opinion of the Executive Committee. Due to military needs, the North Vietnamese regime will never fall out with itself at this stage.

The biggest difficulty in expansion lies in the initial two or three years. As long as we survive this period of development and get on the right track, it is not impossible to support a more cooperative regime to come to power to manage Annan.

At present, the North Vietnamese court is more eager to resolve the domestic split between the North and the South. Therefore, no matter how difficult it is, it still has to squeeze out resources to exchange military assistance from Hai Han so that the civil war can continue. As the confrontation between North and South Vietnam moved south to Hengshan

On the front line, two ships filled with Annan immigrants arrived at the Sanya New Port, which was not yet fully completed.

The sailors on the ship rounded their arms and threw the cable to the trestle. The staff then pulled the cable to the shore and tied it firmly to the mushroom-shaped cement pier. On the river bank, a platoon of black policemen were on standby.

, they will be responsible for taking over the immigrants on the two ships. Standing with the police are people from the Ministry of Civil Affairs and the medical team. They will conduct simple quarantine on the people on the ship and register and verify the demographic information of these immigrants.

After several months of construction at the Sanya New Port, the current channel in and out of the port has been renovated, and the docks on the south bank of the inland river have been basically completed. There are more than ten trestles of different lengths and widths, which can accommodate ordinary fishing boats to large 500-ton boats.

The warship is docked, and the cargo yard behind the dock is adjacent to Xingang Railway Station. There are four trains running between here and Tiandu every day, making the transportation of goods in and out of the port very convenient. After the construction of this section of the dock is completed, the Executive Committee

I couldn’t wait to put this place into use.

Due to the increasing number of merchant ships coming from the mainland, although Victory Port's harbor is large, the steel fleet docked at the Crossing Group occupies about one-fifth of the area. The military barracks pier to the east of the harbor is specially designed for warships to dock. This naturally

Needless to say, to the west is the dock area belonging to the Victory Port Shipyard, so the dock area left for ordinary merchant ships and civilian ships to dock is already relatively limited. One of the purposes of the Executive Committee to develop Sanya New Port is to share the victory

Therefore, after the railway from Victory Port to Sanya New Port is opened to traffic, there will be basically no land transportation difficulties in loading and unloading goods from Sanya New Port. Everything between New Port and Tietian Du Industrial Zone can be realized by railway.

Interconnection.

The current general division of labor between the two ports is that Victory Port is responsible for docking ships coming from the mainland, while Sanya New Port mainly receives coal ships and immigration ships that come regularly from the Annan direction.

Once immigration matters are involved, there are more problems that need to be dealt with at the dock. Therefore, the Executive Committee established the Sanya Port Management Committee for this purpose. The administrative level is the same as that of the Victory Port Management Committee. In July, the Sanya Port Management Committee was established.

Heitu Port transferred back local leader Zhou Hengxing to serve as director of the management committee, and the position left by him was taken over by Xie Chun, the local maritime affairs officer.

Today Zhou Hengxing came to the dock in person to preside over the reception of the two immigrant ships. With his current status, he did not have to handle this kind of specific work, but the immigrants on the two ships today were mainly South Vietnamese prisoners of war.

, Zhou Hengxing came forward also to prevent emergencies from occurring during the handover.

Up to now, the Executive Committee's use of Annan immigrants is still continuing the previous policy - North Vietnamese immigrants are basically forcibly converted to naturalized citizenship after the isolation period, and then assigned to various immigration settlements to settle down; while South Vietnamese prisoners of war are

Because of language and racial issues, most of them were sent directly to hard labor camps to be used as free labor. These people had to serve at least three years of hard labor before they could get a chance to regain their freedom depending on the degree of their transformation. Of course, at present

Considering the intensity of labor arranged in the hard labor camps, it is hard to say how many of these people will be able to serve three years of hard labor.

After the ship docked, the medical team first boarded the ship for inspection to make sure that there was no epidemic or other disease on board. Since these two ships were almost all prisoners of war, the degree of medical inspection was far less detailed than that of ordinary immigration ships.

After exchanging a few words with the medical staff accompanying the ship, the medical team on board inspected a few random people and then signed and released them.

A crew member opened the vent on the deck and shouted into the dark cabin: "We're here, come out, one by one, no stopping! No crowding!"

These prisoners of war were loaded onto a ship at Yong'an Port five days ago. After being locked in a steamer-like cabin and drifting at sea for nearly two hundred nautical miles, all of them looked not very good. Since they had not seen the sun for many days, most of them were

When people got on the deck, they were so shaken that they couldn't even open their eyes.

These prisoners of war were organized into groups of ten, and were strung together by iron chains and shackles. Each ten people were like a centipede, dragging the iron chain forward slowly. Most of them looked numb, and only a few could

They looked around, trying to figure out where they were by observing the surrounding environment. However, those looking around quickly stopped thinking, because the policemen in black had already drawn out the batons from their waists, and their heads and faces were in pain.

Beat up those who stare around. The police have already accumulated enough experience in dealing with these hard labor. Sticks can often teach new people to obey the rules here more efficiently than preaching. After a few beatings, they will naturally know

What can and cannot be done.

"These people are the property of the Executive Committee. You should take it easy. If you beat them to death or maim them, your money will be deducted!" Zhou Hengxing looked at the slightly chaotic situation on the dock and couldn't help but say hello.

"Did you hear what Director Zhou said? Be careful with your actions!" A thin, dark-skinned, middle-aged man in police uniform quickly said, "Tell them to line up quickly and listen to Director Zhou's instructions!"

This middle-aged man is called Yu Zhen, and he is friends with the inspector Wei Ping. He used to work as a detective in the Yamen of Yacheng, but was later moved by Wei Ping. At the end of last year, he resigned from office and secretly came to Shengli Port to serve.

He was able to be successfully absorbed into the police system, which was partly due to Wei Ping.

Aftershock changed his job from a detective to a police officer, which was basically a professional counterpart. He had work experience as a yamen errand, and with Wei Ping's targeted guidance, he got started quickly. After a few months, he was able to get started.

He was promoted by Ren Liang, the head of the Public Security Department of the Ministry of Justice, and sent to Sanya Xingang to take charge of security work.

Yuzhen came from a yamen, so he was naturally very sensitive to the ins and outs of the officialdom. After he entered Haihan's civil service system, he did some homework and studied which positions in this system had quick promotions and potential.

.The position of director of the Port Management Committee is definitely a good position with a bright official career in Yushui's opinion.

The first director of the Victory Port Administrative Committee was Schneider, one of the nine elders of the Haihan Executive Committee. Everyone in the local naturalized community knew that Shopkeeper Shi was the God of Wealth in charge of Haihan's finances, so there was no need to say more.

The second term was Ren Liang, and now he has joined the executive committee and became a senior official, which can already explain the problem. Although Sanya Port is a new port that has just taken shape, Aftershock can see that the executive committee is here.

The resources invested are no joke. The future development potential may be higher than that of Victory Port. It is said that Director Zhou was the director of the management committee in the colonial port of Annan. Although he was transferred back from overseas, he did not seem to have been upgraded.

, but the work experience of holding the top position in two ports is no joke, and he will probably continue to be promoted in the future. With this understanding, Yushui was somewhat flattering in front of Zhou Hengxing, and his words and deeds were more like

Zhou Hengxing’s preferences will be considered.

Although Aftershock urged his subordinates to assemble the hard laborers into a team, after all, the two boats carried hundreds of people, and it still took a while to get these ignorant guys to stand in line on the dock. In the end, Aftershock himself could not restrain himself.

Stop, rush into the team of hard laborers, curse and kick them, in order to speed up the formation of the team of hard laborers.

"Director Zhou, the team has been assembled, please give me a lecture!" Yuzhen reported while handing over the tin horn in a very awkward manner.

Zhou Hengxing took over and said lightly: "Thank you for your hard work."

"No hard work, no hard work, serve the Executive Committee!" Yu Zhen also attended several special political and ideological training courses before he was promoted. Although he didn't quite understand what the lecturer said, he said things like "Serve the Executive Committee"

"Service" is a slogan that is easy to show loyalty, but I keep it in my heart and talk about it all the time.

Zhou Hengxing stayed in Annam for more than half a year, and he has a certain talent for languages. Now he can basically master the dialects of North and South Vietnam, so he doesn't even need an interpreter to lecture these prisoners of war. He took a few steps forward and stepped onto the makeshift container.

Standing on the stage, he raised his tin trumpet and began to speak: "This is Sanya Port, and you will spend the next few years of your life here!"

"In this place, you'd better forget where you came from and what you've done before. You only need to remember one thing in your mind, and that is to obey orders! For those who want to disobey orders, I can guarantee that you will never

It is possible to leave here alive, but if you obey orders and work honestly, you can get the food and shelter you need to survive! After working for three years, you will have a chance to regain your freedom! Think about it,

You have sold your lives for three years for the small court of Hue Province. Will they let you go? All of you should have died on the battlefield, but now you have a chance to live. I hope you can cherish it.

Because this opportunity only comes once to each of you!"

Zhou Hengxing saw the silence in the audience and was very satisfied with the effect of his speech. After leaving the stage, he handed the trumpet to Yu Zhen: "You can also say a few words!"

Yuzhen was flattered and said: "How dare a villain dare to be rude in front of Director Zhou!"

"If you ask me to say it, just say that you will also have a share in the future management of these people." Zhou Hengxing nodded to Yushui and said: "I am rushing to the Victory Fort for a meeting. You can handle the things here and arrange these as soon as possible.

People go to work.”

"Yes, yes, the villain must do his best, Director Zhou, walk slowly."

Yuzhen bowed and sent Zhou Hengxing away, and walked up to the stage made of cargo boxes. Looking at the darkness of heads under the stage, he coughed twice and cleared his throat, raised the microphone and said: "You Annan boys, don't move when you get here.

What other thoughts are there? I have a bad temper, so I will tell you the rules first! From now on, you will be a team of ten. If one person violates the rules, the whole team will be punished! Anyone who tries to escape will be hanged! If you want to survive here, you will be punished.

I work hard to do a good job!"

After giving a simple and rude speech, Yushui ordered the slave laborers to be escorted to their base. The slave labor camp at Sanya Port is not far from the dock, just at the foot of Luhuitou Mountain in the south. The accommodation conditions in the slave labor camp are naturally poor.

Compared with ordinary workers, it is basically just a simple pergola made of bamboo and wood. Wind leaks from all directions. The shelter function on rainy days is also very worrying. Compared with the boat-shaped house, it is more crude and can only provide some protection from the wind and sun.

.The living area of ​​each pergola is less than ten square meters, but it has to accommodate a team of ten people. Basically, it is so packed that there is no remaining space.

The only thing that can make the hard laborers feel a little relieved is that after entering here, the shackles connecting them have finally been removed. They no longer have to be as embarrassed as they were a few days ago, when one person defecates while others are forced to watch.

.Each shack has a toilet, and there are basically no other living facilities other than that. When eating, you only receive tableware when the meal is served. After eating, someone will take it away. As for the working tools, there are even more working hours.

Only the people can be contacted, and there are dedicated personnel to check and control them. If someone tries to find weapons in the camp to rebel, other than using toilets, they may have no choice but to demolish the house.

Soon the hard laborers got their first meal after landing, which was white rice porridge in coconut shell bowls. Although the meal only had an unknown pickle that was dark and salty, the hard laborers still wolfed it down because it was

If this was the first real meal they had since being captured, there was really no reason to dislike it.
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