Chapter 403 What happened at the dock

The benefits of the rulers pooling and using private wealth are obvious, but this idea seems simple, but it is not easy to implement. Regardless of whether others can do it or not, Ruan Xinggui knows very well that South Vietnam before its collapse would definitely not be able to do it.

The imperial court lacked relevant professionals in the financial field to preside over operations, nor did it have a complete financial system to implement this idea. Of course, the most important point is that the privileged class, including himself, will definitely not unreservedly transfer their

Leave your property to someone else to control.

Putting aside the mature financial system, Ruan Jinggui still can't understand how the Hai Han people can make everyone obey this system. In his opinion, the social system of Hai Han is not essentially different from that of South Vietnam, and the same is true.

A pyramid structure composed of the people at the lower level, the naturalized cadres at the middle level, and the Haihan chiefs at the upper level. These Haihan people with short hair, short shirts, and weird accents are the nobles in this social system, and are in charge of the power of life and death in the areas under their rule.

, but they don’t seem to care much about their private property. Even the noble executive committee members don’t seem to have purchased their own property, land, or servants in their names. This is fundamentally different from the practice of the South Vietnamese nobles.

But if you want to say that these Haihan people are "selfless", Ruan Jinggui feels something is wrong. As far as he knows, the things that the Haihan people are most interested in are not real money and silver, but land and population. It is said that the North Vietnamese court can obtain military support from the Haihan people.

It was obtained in exchange for seven or eight seaside ports and tens of thousands of immigrants. If we want to describe the behavior of the Haihan people more accurately, Ruan Jinggui believes that everything they strive for through trade, war and other means is for the collective Haihan.

Rather than being an individual among them, Ruan Jinggui feels that he may have to wait until he truly becomes a member of this social system in the future to understand why the thoughts of these Haihan people can be so unified and what is the goal they really pursue.

After dinner, the immigrants' activities are restricted to the camp where they live. The isolation camp has a strict curfew system. Starting at 7 p.m., everyone must return to their dormitories and are not allowed to go out or visit at will. According to

According to the immigration cadres, the period after dinner is called "tidying up the housekeeping", which involves cleaning the room, packing up personal belongings, and then the dormitory leader organizes a discussion to review the lessons learned during the day.

However, there seemed to be some small changes in today's arrangements. As soon as Ruan Jinggui returned to the room after washing the dishes, the squadron leader who was in charge of their area came with a few security guards.

Every ten dormitories in the immigration isolation camp are divided into a squadron, and a squadron leader is appointed to manage daily affairs. However, the candidate for this squadron leader is not a new immigrant, but a naturalized cadre sent by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. Ruan Jinggui is in charge of this squadron.

His name is Zheng Yi, and he is said to be an immigrant from North Vietnam. However, his surname is not directly related to the Zheng family who currently controls the affairs of Annan. Zheng Yi is an Annan immigrant who defected to Haihan earlier. He had already entered the country at Black Earth Port the year before last.

After obtaining naturalization, he moved to Sanya at the beginning of this year. He is considered a veteran among Annan naturalized citizens, so he was assigned to manage the immigration isolation camp.

Generally speaking, before the curfew is enforced every evening, immigration cadres at the squadron leader level will conduct an inspection in the camp. Occasionally, the brigade captain or even higher-ranking Haihan civil affairs cadres will come to visit, so Ruan Jinggui did not pay attention at first.

, just followed the usual practice, stood up and shouted: "Stand up!"

No matter what they were doing, everyone in the room stood up immediately as a reflex. In the first two days of moving in, some people did not adapt to this rule and refused to stand up and wait for orders. As a result, they were pulled out and punished by going around the camp area.

After running for ten laps, I almost died from exhaustion. Since then, no one has raised objections to this rule, even if they disagreed with it.

Zheng Yi glanced around the room and said, "Ruan Jinggui, Ruan Jinggui, come out!"

The Ruan brothers looked at each other and walked to the door as instructed. They believed that they had not committed any crime in the past few days, and Zheng Yi should have no excuse to cause trouble for him.

"You two come out with me while the others continue to clean up the house!" After Zheng Yi finished speaking, he walked out with his hands behind his back.

"There will be an immigration ship coming back from Hue later. You two will go to the scene to help maintain order." After leaving the house, Zheng Yi explained the reason to them succinctly.

For such a task assignment, the Ruan brothers had no reason to refuse. The moment they chose to come to Sanya, they had already decided that they would definitely work for the Haihan people in the future. Let them, old people who are familiar with the people of South Vietnam,

It is reasonable for nobles to engage in the work of appeasing newly arrived South Vietnamese immigrants.

The two followed Zheng Yi to the gate of the camp. There were already several other people waiting here. Ruan Jinggui recognized one or two of them, both of whom were immigrants from Annan. Several security guards asked them to line up and then led the team to the camp.

Not far away is the Sanya Inland Port which is just a short walk away.

It was not yet completely dark at this time, but the street lamps had begun to light up one after another on the roadside. Ruan Chinggui had seen this kind of iron street lamp when he came to Victory Port last year. He was really shocked when he saw it for the first time, because

This kind of street lamp has a lampshade made of glass on all four sides. According to the valuation of glass products in Annan, the value of this lampshade alone is at least twenty or thirty taels of silver. And this kind of street lamp is actually installed all the way from the Victory Port Pier.

Outside the gate of Fort Victory, there were nearly a hundred branches at least, which were extremely luxurious facilities. At that time, Ruan Jinggui deeply felt the wealth of the Haihan people.

In addition, Ruan Jinggui also knew that this kind of street lamp did not burn oil or firewood, nor was it coal produced in Heitu Port, but an invisible gas that the Haihan people called "morning gas". Ruan Jinggui did not understand this.

Where this gas comes from and why it can burn, we can only understand it as another unexplainable "magic" mastered by the Haihan people. However, the last time I came here, this kind of high-end street lamp was only available near Victory Port.

It can only be seen on landscape avenues, and now this kind of street lights has appeared in the areas around Sanya Inland Port.

This was the first time Ruan Wenwen was allowed to go out at night after coming to Sanya. It was also the first time he saw this magical street lamp. The look on his face was as if he had seen a ghost: "Brother, this Haihan people are so extravagant.

So many oil lamps are lit on the street after dark. How much oil will be burned over the years!"

"Second brother, this kind of lamp does not burn oil, but a kind of gas. It is said that you can have as much gas as you want, and it does not cost too much." Ruan Jinggui immediately gave his brother a "popular science" about this.

The combustion principle of street lamps.

"Hey, you do have some knowledge!" A security guard next to him turned back to look at Ruan Jinggui and said, "You must have heard it from some chief, right?"

Ruan Jinggui said proudly: "I came to Victory Port as an envoy last year. At that time, I was a guest of all the executive committee members!"

"Brother, things are different these days. Your country is gone, so don't show off!" The security guard obviously knew the identities of these new immigrants, and he kindly advised: "From now on, do good things for the chiefs.

It’s the right way!”

Arriving at the pier soon, Ruan Jinggui noticed that in addition to their group, there were about a hundred militia troops and an equal number of policemen in black who had been deployed on the pier, and there were even a dozen or so people in the middle.

A man wearing a Ming Dynasty military uniform. Ruan Jinggui had seen Luo Shengdong and Wei Ping the last time he came to Victory Port, and he also knew that those people were from the Yacheng Navy and the Yulin Inspection Department. The reason why they appeared on the dock was just that.

It is to meet the needs of the Haihan people and make the new immigrants mistakenly think that this is the ruling area of ​​the Ming Dynasty.

The scene in front of him reminded Ruan Jinggui of the time when they arrived here by boat a few days ago. When they disembarked, they saw basically the same scene on the dock - vigilante groups, police, Ming Dynasty officials, Haihan Civil Affairs Department and old immigrants.

There are representatives for all.

Soon, a naturalized cadre from the Ministry of Civil Affairs came over and gave a brief lecture to Ruan Jinggui and others. The general idea was to tell them how to help calm the immigrants' emotions and organize the immigrants to organize their teams at the dock to wait for arrangements. These things were important to them.

Yan Du has experienced it personally, and it would be interesting to replicate it again from a different camp.

Just when the sky finally slowly darkened, a few lights were finally seen on the water at the estuary. They were lanterns hanging on the masts of seagoing ships. Soon a pilot boat sailed into the dock, followed by two

The Chinese-style fortune ships cost 400 materials. However, the sails of these two fortune ships have been modified by the Victory Port Shipyard and use the new Haihan soft sails instead of the traditional Chinese hard sails.

At present, the Ministry of Shipping still has more than 30 Chinese-style sailing ships under its name. Although it has already placed an order for a 300-ton cargo ship with the shipyard, the Navy's backlog of orders is so large that the shipyard cannot free up a large slipway to complete it.

orders from the Ministry of Shipping, so the current shipping tasks between Sanya and Indochina still rely on Chinese-style sailing ships collected through various channels in the first two years.

Traditional Chinese-style sailing ships are slow in speed and have low cargo capacity. They have gradually begun to be unsuitable for the increasing freight volume between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait. Now the ships traveling between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait not only transport coal and immigrants, but also carry various Haihan exports.

commodities and other supplies. Before launching the war, the Military Commission recruited cargo ships to transport supplies, which led to an almost complete shutdown of the shipping industry in the Annan region. However, this embarrassing situation should be effectively improved within this year. The Executive Committee has

The second phase expansion plan of the Victory Port Shipyard was approved. In addition to several small slipways below 300 tons, two more 500-ton dry docks and two 1,500-ton large shipyards will be built.

After launching ten large 500-ton ships one after another, the Ministry of Shipping is no longer willing to continue tossing around this tonnage. There are already relatively mature design plans for sailboats with larger tonnage, more loading space, and stronger endurance.

.And on new ships of this tonnage, the trial installation of power steam engines upgraded by the industrial sector will begin. If all goes well, maybe within a year we can see the first 1,000-ton motor sailboat launched. This kind of transcending era

New power ships are expected to appear in this time and space a century ahead of schedule.

Of course, to promote the implementation of such a large project, it is not enough to rely solely on the influence of young Yue Zhiyun and Sun Changmi. In this process, both "Haihan Military Industry" and the Military Commission played a significant role. The Military Commission expressed its willingness to

The 50,000 yuan seized in Hue this time was specially provided to the Victory Port Shipyard to engage in the research and development and design of the next generation of naval warships. The "Haihan Military Industry" also generously provided 20,000 yuan to fund this project.

project, and stated that it will work with the technical departments of the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Energy and other relevant units to conduct joint technical research on some key technical aspects of future motor sailing ships.

However, even if this kind of motor-sailing ship can be successfully developed in the future, it seems that the Central Military Commission, which has deep pockets, may not be able to place a large order. Taking the current "exploration-class" warship as an example, the third batch of warships launched after

After many detailed technical improvements, there is probably no opponent with the same displacement in the Far East that can match it, but its cost has also been rising steadily, exceeding the 20,000 mark. If you add in the daily life after being commissioned into the navy,

The maintenance cost, the cost of building such a ship plus the military expenditure in the first year of listing is already a considerable amount - in fact, the Navy stopped ordering the "Exploration Class" with a smaller tonnage in the second half of last year.

The limited military budget should be used as much as possible to supply "exploration-class" warships with stronger maritime endurance.

Judging from the operating expenses of the "exploration-class" warships, the cost of building a 1,000-ton steam-powered sailing ship in the future will definitely not be less than 50,000 yuan, and the maintenance cost after being put into service will be much higher than that of the current pure sailing warships.

. Even if the Military Commission made a lot of money from the battle of Hue, when it comes to truly large-scale military expansion, it will soon be discovered that this gain is not actually sufficient in the face of the huge military budget figures.

According to the Military Commission's plan, within the foreseeable few years, the Navy will maintain at least two large fleets. One is responsible for the safety of waterways east of Hainan Island and the southeastern coastal areas of the mainland, and the other is to be deployed on the Indochina Peninsula.

Southeast, maintain the security of this sea area including the base camp and the Beibu Gulf. The cost of feeding such two fleets will definitely far exceed the level of military expenditures of supporting two army divisions. By then, the army and navy will have a huge impact on internal resources.

Competition is probably unavoidable.

Of course, Ruan Jinggui, who is still in the immigration inspection period, does not know about these things. In his opinion, the existing shipping power of the Haihan people is already amazing. The two Chinese-style sailing ships that are docking at the dock are placed in the Annan coastal area.

It was definitely a first-class large ship. But as far as he knew, there were many warships much larger than this ship docked at the Victory Port military dock of the Haihan people. Even Portugal, which originally provided military assistance to the Hue court,

They seem to have fewer ships than the Haihan people.

In order to obtain sufficient lighting, in addition to street lamps, several large fires were built with dry firewood on the shore. Although Ruan Jinggui was still far away from the fires, his face was still heated by the scorching air.

The sailor on the bow threw a rope as thick as an arm to the shore. The workers on the dock caught the rope and fixed it to the pig iron cable piles buried on the shore. Several workers pushed up the special cargo ship ramp.

, this kind of gangway has wooden wheels that can be fixed below. The ladder is up to three meters wide and is in the shape of a gentle slope. There is a movable flap at the high end, which can be directly connected to the side of the ship. It is very suitable for ships with relatively tall hulls to dock.

For shore use. This kind of gangway has a certain load-bearing capacity, and it is faster and more convenient than the traditional method of building a springboard whether unloading cargo or disembarking people.

Several crew members stood on the side of the ship with torches to light up the gangway, and then the passengers began to disembark from the ship one after another. Most of the immigrants who arrived at the port were those who voluntarily followed the Haihan immigration ship to settle in Sanya.

The ship carried more than 500 people in total, and the ship was packed to the brim.

Under the instruction of the immigration cadres, the Ruan brothers each held a tin trumpet and shouted in South Vietnamese dialect to direct the immigrants who had arrived on the shore to advance to the designated area to gather and wait. Of course, at this time, there will always be some people who make their own decisions.

However, under the double siege of the Haihan police and militia, the only thing this kind of person can get is a stick clamped between the head and head.

Ruan Jinggui had no reaction to this scene. He did not care that these compatriots were beaten by naturalized people. In his opinion, for some untouchables who did not obey orders, sticks were the most effective way to teach them to obey the rules——

Although he had only been brainwashed here for a few days, Ruan Jinggui had gradually begun to become intolerant of undisciplined personal behavior.

Ruan Wenwen's reaction was more direct than his. Perhaps because he had stayed in a military camp, when Ruan Wenwen saw those guys who disobeyed orders and started to wander around freely after getting off the boat, he often resorted to fists and kicks.

The method of adding force made the policeman next to him have to stop his violence first. However, the person who was beaten did not dare to resist in this environment where the number of people and the place were unfamiliar, and he returned to the queue honestly after being beaten.

Follow the instructions of the veteran drivers and line up to the designated gathering area.

It took about ten minutes for the civilians on the ship to finally land. Just when Ruan Jinggui breathed a sigh of relief, a new figure appeared on the movable gangway. This time, the people who appeared were wearing shackles and handcuffs, and they started to rattle as soon as they took a step.

There was a loud noise, and it was obvious without asking that these were the South Vietnamese soldiers captured during the Battle of Hue.

In this battle of Hue, the militia captured thousands of people, a considerable number of whom were from the leading party who surrendered in advance. These people were released after the war through an agreement with North Vietnam. The other part was during the siege battle.

The captured soldiers were shipped back to Sanya by ship as part of the prisoner of war debt settlement agreement.
Chapter completed!