Chapter 374 The reflection arc is slightly longer

Although a breakthrough was made in the final stage, allowing the Haihan people to make a small concession, Ruan Chenggui did not feel even the slightest bit happy in his heart. The Haihan people's apparent concessions, in disguise, drew a time line between life and death for South Vietnam——

Thirty days later, the warships of the Haihan people will appear on the coast of South Vietnam at any time, and by then the court will no longer be able to use the far-fetched excuse of "pirates to cause trouble" to fool the people. Moreover, the Haihan people have ignored South Vietnam from the beginning to the end.

A request to put pressure on North Vietnam and Champa to cease the war.

Just one Hai Han is enough to make the South Vietnamese court anxious. In the south and north, there are two sworn enemies, North Vietnam and Champa, who are eager to take turns sending troops to attack South Vietnam. This has put Hue Prefecture in a situation where it is besieged on all sides.

The high-ranking officials in the court originally expected that the Haihan people would intervene in the atrocities committed by the two neighbors through negotiations, but they never thought that the Haihan people had no intention of allowing the debt to be forgiven.

During the negotiations, the executive committee did not place strict restrictions on his movements. Instead, he was taken to visit various places by dedicated personnel every day, with the purpose of allowing him to "feel the advanced nature of Haihan's social system."

Ruan Jinggui is just a businessman from a small country. He can't compare the advantages of Haihan's social system. However, in his opinion, the local civil affairs system is far stricter than that in Annan, but the people's living standards are much higher than that in Annan.

.Although there are many strange rules here that Ruan Jinggui cannot understand. Even trivial matters such as whether to keep to the left or the right when walking on the street are clearly stated, but he has to admit that the social order here is very good.

There are no idlers or gangs of beggars begging along the streets in Victory Port. Everything seems orderly.

Although Ruan Jinggui himself has never been a civil affairs official, he was born in a family of officials. He was influenced by his experience and knew that this kind of good social order not only requires the maintenance of the legal system, but more importantly, the people's lives must be prosperous enough. If most of the people

If people don’t have enough to eat or clothes to keep warm, how can they have the heart to abide by those weird rules?

Under the deliberate arrangement of the Executive Committee, Ruan Jinggui also had close contact with several families of immigrants who had moved from Annan. These families had settled in Victory Port for more than half a year, and they had basically been converted into orthodox

Haihan, a naturalized citizen, did not show much surprise at the arrival of the envoy from his motherland, but calmly introduced some details of life that interested him to Ruan Jinggui.

The five members of Wu Shang's family were all brought to Victory Port by Hai Han's coal ship in Thanh Hoa when they were escaping from the war. In Annam, they were already landless and propertyless people, and they could only sell themselves as serfs if they continued to stay.

Or being captured and serving as peasants and soldiers, they had two choices. After arriving at Victory Port, it was undoubtedly a new life for them.

"The Haihan chiefs built us houses, gave us food, and gave us clothes. We can get paid for working here, and we have the protection of the militia and don't have to worry about war. It's good here." Wu Shang was weaving a basket with bamboo strips.

He casually talked about his living situation. He was a bamboo craftsman when he was in Annan. After coming to Victory Port, he resumed his old profession and made a living by making earth-carrying baskets for the Ministry of Construction.

"But you are Annan people!" Ruan Jinggui couldn't help but complain: "Now the Haihan people want to destroy our country, but you are still working for them!"

Wu Shang raised his head and glanced at Ruan Chenggui, and said calmly: "The state? I only know that when our family was about to starve to death outside Thanh Hoa City, the state had no intention of saving us."

"That's because the traitors in Thang Long Palace don't care about people's livelihood. We, Hue Palace, are the orthodox Li dynasty and will restore the country soon..."

Ruan Jinggui planned to give this ignorant man a good ideological and political lesson and help him reshape his true origins and reshape correct historical values, but Wu Shang interrupted him rudely: "When the orthodox court is killing innocent people like us,

It didn't show any mercy. My brother, sister and his family were all honest farmers. As soon as the army from the south came, they robbed his family of all their food and money. In the end, he and his family were all killed... This kind of imperial court

Even if the country is restored, what good will it do to us people?"

"...You...this is really treasonous!" Ruan Jinggui was speechless for a moment and didn't know how to refute, so he could only put a big hat on him.

Early last year, South Vietnam launched a counterattack to the north, and some looting of people did occur. As the saying goes, bandits are like combs, soldiers are like grates, and officials are like shaves. Ordinary people in the war zone will naturally be looted.

The South Vietnamese army obviously did not leave any room for the people in the enemy-occupied areas, burning, killing and looting wantonly, causing a large number of people to abandon their homes and property and flee north - this is what made the crossing group what it was.

One of the fundamental reasons why North Vietnam got immigrants.

"The villain is now a naturalized citizen of Haihan. He has acquired the native place of Haihan and is no longer a citizen of the Annan Kingdom. This villain cannot bear such a treasonous statement." The work in Wu Shang's hands kept going.

The words he said were all the same, which made Ruan Jinggui feel very upset.

Ruan Jinggui visited several households of naturalized residents from Annan, and their reactions were not much different from those of the Wu Shang family. In the eyes of these naturalized residents, Sanya, where food, clothing, housing, transportation and safety are well guaranteed, is far better than the years of war.

Annan Kingdom, and after they came here, they did not suffer unfair treatment because of their status as outsiders - of course, in fact, more than 70% of the population in the entire Sanya area are outsiders, and the real aborigines are not actually

Too many people feel that the treatment they receive here, the surrounding living environment, and the future development prospects are far from what they were in Annan in the past. Therefore, when Ruan Chinggui asked them if they were willing to return to Annan again, they all felt that

A clear rejection was expressed.

This situation made Ruan Chenggui very disappointed. He originally held out a glimmer of hope that he could mobilize a group of Annan immigrants to return to the country to join the war. There were also many Annan-origin militiamen in the Haihan Militia. If these people could be mobilized, there might be some success.

He hoped to change the attitude of the Haihan people. However, the facts dealt him a heavy blow again. Not only were these naturalized people from Annan unwilling to return to the country to join the war, they instead took out all their grievances about leaving their hometowns on the ruling court. Ordinary people

If the attitude of the people is like this, let alone the people in the army.

Ruan Jinggui finally had the opportunity to visit the big iron dragon that frightened him up close. Only then did he realize that this thing was not a living creature, but some kind of mechanical device made of fine iron. As for why it could follow the

The rails laid on the ground moved quickly, but Ruan Jinggui did not understand the principle. Seeing that there were many ordinary people riding on the train, it was obvious that this thing was not driven by any mysterious magic.

Then Ruan Jinggui was shocked by the cargo unloaded from the train. One carriage was full of artillery, rifles, ammunition and various armors, swords and guns. Most of these weapons will be sold to Xu Xinsu in Fujian and the North Vietnamese military, and a small amount will be supplied to

They were used by the militia groups of each major shareholder of "Qiong Lian Fa". Seeing such a scene, Ruan Jinggui was almost convinced that the firearms troops that appeared in the Champa Kingdom recently must also be armed by Haihan people.

This is of course not an unintentional mistake by the relevant departments, but was deliberately shown to Ruan Jinggui. Haihan's business of selling arms to foreign countries is no longer a secret. After the battle of Lijiazhuang, everyone in Guangdong and Guangxi knows that Haihan can make glass.

Man-made weapons are also good at it. However, for South Vietnam, which has been isolated from the Haihan system, perhaps they still lack an intuitive understanding of Haihan’s weapon manufacturing capabilities, so the relevant departments arranged such an opportunity for Ruan Jinggui to

Let’s take a look at Haihan’s military strength from the side.

Basically all the firearms in South Vietnam come from the Portuguese, who have no manufacturing capabilities. However, the Haihan people are far more powerful than the Portuguese in manufacturing weapons. Seeing black cannons being unloaded from the train

onto a flatbed truck, and then transferred to the dock for shipment. Ruan Chinggui was indeed very jealous. The South Vietnamese court tried every means to buy artillery pieces from the Portuguese every year, but the total was only about twenty pieces in total, and the ship at the port was

The North Vietnamese merchant ship under the flag of "Zheng" loaded twenty artillery pieces on board in one go, as well as dozens of boxes of muskets. Comparing one person to another is simply infuriating.

With the arsenal of Hai Han behind them, North Vietnam does not have to worry about supply shortages. They are even purchasing more weapons in preparation for continuing to attack South Vietnam. South Vietnam has now lost Portugal as a big supplier and is about to fall into a crisis.

In the stage of running out of ammunition and food, the gap between the two sides in terms of armed strength is constantly widening. This reality makes Ruan Jingui, who was already relatively pessimistic, even more frustrated.

At the end of October, Nguyen Thanh Kuei left Port of Victory full of disappointment and returned to Hue, South Vietnam, on a sailing ship specially sent for him by the Ministry of Maritime Transport. In addition to gaining a little consideration period for the South Vietnamese court, this visit basically

There is nothing good to say. Ruan Xinggui was also shaken by the cruel reality he saw with his own eyes and lost all confidence. He only hopes that after returning to Hue, he can use his personal experience to make the senior officials in the court calm down and look at the current situation.

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However, at this time, the Executive Committee did not have the energy to pay attention to how the South Vietnamese court would react to the results of such negotiations, because there were some new trends in Guangdong that they had to pay attention to.

On the same day that Ruan Chenggui left Victory Port, the Executive Committee received a telegram notification from the General Office of the People's Republic of China, stating that the "Eighteen Zhi" had sent envoys to contact them and asked Haihan to stop arms exports to Fujian.

To be honest, the "Eighteen Zhi" did not start to react until this time, which was something that surprised the Executive Committee. The troops under Fujian Xu Xinsu's command had gradually begun to use Haihan weapons on the battlefield since the second half of last year.

And relied on these sharp weapons to slowly reverse the decline, causing a lot of casualties to the armed personnel of the "Eighteen Zhi". Originally, Xu Xinsu died in the Zhongzuo Institute in this year, but now he is

He is living well, and he has been awarded by the court for defeating incoming pirates many times this year.

The "Eighteen Zhi", which had been hit hard, could not help but wonder about the reasons for this change in the battle situation, and the firepower of the defenders had obviously been greatly strengthened. This was why the "Eighteen Zhi" organized several large-scale offensives but failed to do so.

The main reason for the failure. With the intelligence network of the "Eighteen Zhi" in the coastal areas of Fujian and Guangdong, it is not very difficult to find the source of these big killer weapons that suddenly appeared in the opponent's camp. The Executive Committee once believed that the most optimistic

It is estimated that they can hide it in the first half of this year. Especially in May, the militia launched continuous attacks to rescue Lijiazhuang and then opened the Dangan Island pirates' nest at the Pearl River Estuary. Their strength was almost completely exposed to the table.

Above. As long as the senior officials of the "Eighteen Zhi" were not deaf or blind, they should have discovered that there is an inevitable connection between the sudden rise of the Fujian Navy and Haihan.

However, the "Eighteen Zhi" did not send a large number of pirate ships to harass the Pearl River Estuary or even attack Wanshan Port as the executive committee feared. Instead, they maintained a strange silence until a few months later, when they suddenly jumped

He came out and made an offer to Haihan.

Regarding the sale of arms to the Xu Xinsu Department of the Fujian Navy, the Guangdong Office neither admitted nor denied it. After discussing with the local first and second-ranking officials, Ma Like and He Xi, they decided to just pass the news back to Shengli Port and let them know.

The base camp was well prepared. They used the customary Tai Chi technique in the local area to deceive the people of "Eighteen Zhi" first, and then slowly obtained information.

The Executive Committee attached great importance to the fact that "Eighteen Zhi" finally reacted to the extremely long reflex arc. Two hours after receiving the news, the Executive Committee held an emergency meeting to discuss what should be done.

How to deal with this.

"Are they going to be polite before fighting?" Ning Qi, who had just heard about this, was a little confused about the attitude of "Eighteen Zhi": "Can I understand their attitude as fear of us?"

"Perhaps the reason you mentioned is really involved." Tao Donglai nodded and replied: "We have made a name for ourselves through several battles in the first half of the year, especially the two battles in Guangdong. It is no secret that the Haihan Militia Group has

Anyone who is interested can easily find out the status of our operations. Although the 'Eighteen Zhi' are very powerful in the Fujian waters, their base is in Taiwan after all. It is too far away from the Pearl River Estuary and Sanya. In addition,

With Xu Xinsu dragging them there, it would obviously not be a wise move to go on an expedition at this time. If I were in Zheng Zhilong's position, I would probably first use negotiations to test the opponent's attitude."

"I would also like to add something." Schneider continued Tao Donglai's point of view: "So far, we have not had a direct armed conflict with the 'Eighteen Zhi', nor have we shown very direct hostility.

The only thing that is not beneficial to them is the military assistance to the Xu Xinsu Group. Currently, 17% of our foreign trade orders come from Fujian. In addition to Xu Xinsu, there are probably also "Eighteen Zhi" among them.

'Businessmen arranged in the mainland. Do you remember the pirates that the militia militia wiped out on Dangan Island in May? They have been reselling our products to the 'Shibazhi'. There must be more than one doing this.

We are one family, and Shibazhi probably doesn’t want to be cut off from the supply of certain in-demand products because of bad relations with us.”

"That is to say, on the one hand they resent us for selling weapons to Xu Xinsu and ruining their good fortune, but on the other hand they are not willing to offend us directly to avoid our direct involvement in the war in Fujian and cut off supplies to them

supply." Ning Qi suddenly realized and concluded: "That's why they struggled for so long, and finally couldn't help but burst out."

"It took so long to take a stand. Maybe there are other reasons that we don't know about now. On the one hand, trying to figure out the opponent's intentions, on the other hand, we must also be prepared for emergencies. After all, this is

We have identified a major opponent before we traveled, and we must concentrate on dealing with it." Tao Donglai brought the topic back to the main thread, looked at the executive committee members present and said: "If the opponent's attitude is tougher, then we

You should be prepared for battle in advance!"

In the preparatory plan before the time travel, the "Eighteen Zhi" had already been listed as one of the major hostile forces listed by the executive committee. Although so far, the "Eighteen Zhi" has not had any influence on the time travel group.

Hostile behavior, but it is no longer possible for the Executive Committee to treat it as a future partner. With an opponent like Portugal, the Executive Committee can turn enemies into friends for the sake of long-term interests and choose to cooperate, but for the "powerful enemy" entrenched in the Taiwan Strait,

"Eighteen Zhi", the Executive Committee has never intended to ease the relationship between the two parties.

On the one hand, this is because the "Eighteen Zhi" occupies the Taiwan Strait, a golden waterway in East Asia, and has a fundamental conflict of interest with the future development plans of the Crossing Group. In the future, Haihan's power will definitely expand northward along the coastal areas of Fuzhou and Guangdong.

, and the importance of such a key part as the Taiwan Strait far exceeds that of the Pearl River Estuary. It is impossible for the Executive Committee to be controlled by outsiders, and it is impossible for the "Eighteen Zhi" to voluntarily give up its territory. Both sides want to

It is only a matter of time before a conflict breaks out over control of this sea area.

On the other hand, Zheng Zhilong was criticized by later generations for his moral issues. This guy first followed the pirate businessman Li Dan, and later helped the Dutch, attacking Spanish merchant ships at sea. Then he joined the pirate leader Yan Siqi in Taiwan and changed his family.

The book is still fast. After Yan Siqi and Li Dan passed away in 1625, Zheng Zhilong inherited part of their family business and raised the banner of "Eighteen Zhi".

After Zheng Zhilong's uprising, he gathered a crowd to attack Fujian and nearly wiped out the Fujian navy. After the attack, he suddenly changed his identity, accepted the court's recruitment, and successfully came ashore with a clear conscience. But the first thing this guy did after landing was

He led his original troops to kill his former sworn brothers, and at the same time absorbed the power of other pirate leaders of the "Eighteen Zhi".

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