Chapter 58 Inspection Report

That night, at the executive committee meeting at Base 2, Yan Chujie, as the leader of the action team, made a report on the process and results of the Yazhou inspection operation.

"First of all, let me talk about the military investigation results. The garrison in Yazhou is divided into two armies: water and land. Among them, we generally know the situation of the water stronghold. Although we were not able to enter the water stronghold this time, according to our observations, the general situation should be

As Luo Shengdong explained before, the garrison in Yazhou is mainly composed of garrison troops, with a strength of about 1,700 people, stationed at the west gate of Yazhou. We managed to get close to the military camp and found that most of the barracks were empty.

, if this is not a coincidence, we believe that the actual number of garrison troops in Yazhou City is about 700 to 1,000. In addition, the proportion of old and weak soldiers among these Ming army soldiers is very high, which is consistent with what we know about the large number of deserted troops stationed in the late Ming Dynasty.

The historical facts of the battle are consistent."

"In terms of city defense, the Yazhou city wall is six to seven meters high and more than three meters thick. The four walls are 500 to 700 meters long respectively. The defense facilities on the city wall are relatively intact, but there are no large-caliber artillery or forts. Later, Luo Sheng

Dong also confirmed this. According to what we know, the proportion of Yazhou Ming army equipped with firecrackers is about one-third, but there is very little experience in live ammunition shooting, and the army is not equipped with long-range firepower, only a small number of

The Folang machine gun was equipped during the Jiajing period, so whether it can be launched now is a question."

"The defense outside the city mainly uses Yazhou Water Village and Nanshan Inspection Department as water and land gateways. It's hard to say how capable Yazhou Water Village is in water combat. Nanshan's Inspection Department only has more than 40 people, so it won't be very big.

The threat. In addition, there are no Yazhou official agencies stationed in Tianya Town and Fenghuang Town between Yazhou and Victory Port. I think the executive committee can consider sending working teams to these places as soon as possible."

"Finally, according to the assessment of our military team, it is not recommended to attack Yazhou with force before sufficient heavy weapons are built. Even if we do not consider the consumption of materials and forcibly capture Yazhou City, we will inevitably suffer heavy losses during the process of entering the city.

If there are casualties when encountering resistance, it may turn into bloody street fighting, which is very detrimental to our future governance of Yazhou."

Yan Chujie closed his notebook and said: "This is the military situation. Regarding the trade situation, please ask Schneider to report to everyone."

Schneider stood up and walked to the front desk and began his report: "As far as I know, there are about 4,000 households living in and outside Yazhou City. Counting the garrison and various prisoners, the total population is about 20,000.

Shang Xia. Although this consumer market is not big, its actual consumption power is not bad. From what I observed in two commercial banks in Yazhou, the goods they sell include some relatively high-priced non-daily necessities, such as high-end stationery.

, porcelain, jewelry, etc. The turnover of these two firms is around 500 to 800 taels per month. Considering the population base of Yazhou and the existence of other small shops and private traders, this turnover is from a commercial perspective

It is said to be very good, and at the same time, it also shows that the private purchasing power of Yazhou is higher than we thought."

"In addition, we need to note that Yazhou also administratively governs five counties: Ningyuan, Ganfen, Changhua, Lingshui, and Wanxian. The actual controlled population and area are far beyond the scope of what we currently understand.

In the future, Yazhou will be one of our main business targets, and these areas will also become our business radiation areas."

"Currently, apart from most of the food sold in Yazhou City, which is produced locally, a considerable part of daily necessities are shipped from Qiongzhou and Guangzhou. Not only are the prices high, but the supply is also very limited. In addition, the Executive Committee is concerned

Regarding the salt issue, currently the salt on the Yazhou market is basically shipped from the Yangpu Salt Farm in Danzhou, and the sales price is three to four hundred yuan. I think our products are very competitive in terms of price and quality.

.And we have also convinced Luo Shengdong to use Yazhou Shuizhai's boat to help us traffic private salt. Of course, the top priority in this matter is to start construction of our salt farm as soon as possible. You must know that Hainan Island alone has

There is about 500 tons of salt market every year waiting for us to capture!"

"Our export products should initially focus on glass products with higher added value. It is said that the glass products shipped by the Spanish are in short supply in Guangzhou. It is recommended that the executive committee consider setting up an office in Guangzhou as soon as possible to ship our products directly.

In the past, we entered the Guangzhou market to steal Spanish jobs..."

"At this stage, we don't have that much available ocean shipping capacity to run the Guangzhou route." Sun Changmi of the Ministry of Shipping interrupted Schneider's impassioned speech without mercy: "Now we only have one Guangzhou ship and one Haicang ship on hand.

The ship, the Haicang ship is still a warship and cannot carry much cargo at all. If two ships go to Guangzhou, they can bring back at most 20 or 30 tons of cargo. How useful will it be?"

Schneider smiled and said: "I have actually considered these issues you mentioned. We can not only use our own transportation capacity, but our trading partners can also work for us. For example, the 'Fruifeng' that has reached a deal with us this time

It's a trading company in Guangzhou. They promised to ship the materials we need from Guangzhou in the future. We just need to calculate the freight. When we set up a Guangzhou office and have more products, there will definitely be more companies pulling in.

The goods come to Victory Port to trade with us... By the way, speaking of this, I must remind the Executive Committee that our temporary terminal has limited tonnage, and it is time to build a larger permanent terminal."

"No one is available!" Ning Qi complained immediately: "The salt fields and farms will soon start to form communes, which will take away at least two hundred laborers. The land passage from the No. 2 Base to Victory Port has been opened.

, but then we have to organize manpower to renovate the ground before oxcarts can pass. The construction site of the hydropower station will not be completed for at least a month. The Tiandu Iron Mine will be officially mined, the charcoal kiln, cement kiln, and iron-making workshop will need to be expanded.

The glass kiln and glass kiln will also be put into operation immediately. Tell me, where can we organize a large number of laborers to go to Victory Port to repair the dock?"

Before Schneider had time to reply, Tao Donglai spoke: "By the way, when you went out for inspection this time, did you have any new ideas on the issue of population introduction?"

"It's okay to say that these nearby villages and towns are mostly poor people. If they can find a place with stable food and income, I believe there are many people willing to come. However, it will be more troublesome in places farther away. If you are in Yazhou

Recruiting workers on a large scale, I wonder if it will attract the attention of the officials." Schneider was also helpless about this. The executive committee had money and food, but it wanted to make the residents near Yazhou abandon their current lives and go to them.

Life in the wilderness is not an easy task.

"Didn't Luo Shengdong say that we can dispatch prisoners to do hard labor in Victory Port?" Gu Kai interrupted and asked.

"That's what I said, but he is still the CEO, and the power he has is too small to reach his place. He has to wait for Qiongzhou City to give him a promotion order before he can find a way to allocate labor to us." Regarding this matter, Schneider said.

I had already asked Luo Shengdong in detail at the wine table, so I knew it quite clearly.

"I don't think there will be that many ships coming to Victory Port in the short term. The people who are repairing the pier will wait for a while and wait until Luo Shengdong has specific news before arranging the construction." Tao Donglai finally made the decision: "Glass

The kiln and salt field must be put into operation as soon as possible, and manpower can be prioritized. As for the establishment of the Guangzhou office, I suggest that we wait until the hydropower station project is completed. After all, this is a major event that requires coordination from multiple departments. We can’t spare a moment now.

Dedicate so much energy to prepare for this matter."

Next, each department reported on the procurement of materials. Except for the shipping department, which was quite satisfied with the purchase of the tung oil, cloth and shipbuilding tools they needed, most of the other procurement projects were not completed. Sulfur, saltpeter, cassiterite, and cinnabar were purchased separately.

The purchase price ranged from tens to one or two hundred kilograms. However, coke and coal, which were in huge demand gaps, only purchased 500 kilograms and 1,400 kilograms respectively, which was simply a drop in the bucket for the industrial projects that the Executive Committee wanted to launch.

Fortunately, the two trading houses in Yazhou have already stated that they will organize the supply of goods as soon as possible and transport them to Victory Port for trading.

After the report about the field trip to Yazhou, the next topic is some relatively trivial matters. The person in charge of each project raised various problems encountered in actual operations and discussed solutions together. This kind of discussion

Conducted every night, the executive committee will make adjustments to the next development plan based on the difficulties encountered by each project.

Although many of them were specialized technical talents in the past, in the past large-scale industrial era where social division of labor was extremely detailed, the vast majority of them did not have much practical experience in the project construction process.

This has resulted in most projects crossing the river by feeling the stones, with endless problems arising.

For example, Yue Zhiyun and Sun Changmi, who studied shipbuilding, although they came from majors and are familiar with various ship hull structures, it is not too difficult to design a sea-going ship, but they have to pick up an ax and saw to build a sea-going ship from wood.

After coming out, it is not as easy as talking, and the hands-on ability is far inferior to that of Cai Hongzhan, who was a carpenter. The same situation is reflected in almost every project to varying degrees, which also slowly exposes the crowd structure of the travel public.

Weaknesses - there are enough people with theoretical knowledge, but too few people with practical experience.

Faced with this situation, the Executive Committee has no better solution. It can only encourage everyone to boldly try while paying attention to safety. Even if they fail, they will only treat it as paying tuition. The only thing that makes people feel gratified is

The foundation of agriculture is very solid, and there have never been any problems in time travel. All agricultural plans made in advance are being completed step by step. This way, at least people in time do not have to worry about starving to death because no one knows how to farm in this era.
Chapter completed!