Sometimes communication is more effective than flexing muscles with each other.
Unconsciously, Bao Ling and Bulbulon regarded Dong Shuheng as a subject with whom they could have an equal dialogue.
You must know that at the beginning, they were full of contempt for the Chinese, and they only wanted to negotiate with the Chinese to obtain more benefits.
"Two ministers, you can put aside your worries. Fujian and Zhejiang will be more open under the management of Huai Haijun."
"Our business will grow bigger and bigger, isn't this a good thing?"
"In addition, I can reveal in advance that many ports in Fujian and Zhejiang will be renovated. In addition, I am planning to build a shipyard and a shipping school in Mawei, Fujian."
Some port facilities in Zhejiang and Fujian are very old and can no longer keep up with the needs of the current shipping industry.
Because today's ocean-going ships are getting bigger and bigger, it is difficult to load and unload materials on board without new lifting equipment.
Therefore, if Dong Shuheng wants to develop shipping in Zhejiang and Fujian, he must transform the ports.
When the two of them heard that Dong Shuheng had thrown out such a big cake again, they couldn't help but get excited.
It's good to keep the cake and eat it for yourself, but the Huai Navy lacks shipbuilding talents and lacks the manufacturing capabilities of large equipment. These are the Huai Navy's shortcomings.
"I heard that you have cooperated with France to build a shipyard in Taiwan?" Bao Ling asked.
His question was addressed to Bourblon, and the meaning could not be clearer. This new shipyard should cooperate with us British.
"Yes, Mr. Bao Ling, but our current transportation capacity demand is increasing too fast. I plan to eliminate all those old wooden ships, so we will need a lot of ships in the future. Keelung's shipyard is simply not enough." Dong Shuheng explained.
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"Yes, China is a big country, and one Keelung shipyard is not big enough. Our hoisting equipment in France is very good and driven by steam engines. I think Mr. Dong can consider it."
Bulbulon was not prepared to fight. Dong Shuheng had already made it clear just now that there were a lot of projects this time.
Then the shipyards should be given to the British, and the French can definitely get a share of the port construction.
In the end, the three parties negotiated and the shipyard in Fujian cooperated with the British in the construction. However, as a subsidiary project, the British had to help the Huai Navy build a supporting shipbuilding school.
Large-scale equipment for port reconstruction is mainly imported from France.
Dong Shuheng's silver bullet resulted in a promise from the two ministers that both sides would not interfere in China's internal affairs.
Of course, these money are meant to be spent.
However, the two still expressed concerns about the expansion of the scale of the war.
Dong Shuheng understood that they were worried that they would continue to expand the scale of the war, or that they were worried that Dong Shuheng would completely replace the Manchus.
In Temple Street in the Far East, the last fleet carrying supplies has left, and everyone is using the last time to prepare supplies for the winter.
Prospectors sent by the Huai Navy Headquarters discovered a coal mine in the mountains to the west, which greatly enriched the fuel structure for local residents.
Coal is more resistant to burning than wood, and can be used to make iron, burn kilns, and be used in steam engines.
With coal, it is much more convenient to supply docked ships. Now there are many ships in the Huaihai Navy, all of which need to burn coal.
Although Temple Street experienced a war, it did not affect its construction speed at all.
On the contrary, because there were many more prisoners, the speed of city construction was greatly increased.
Because of the availability of coal, cement plants were also built.
The roads were hardened and the harbor at Temple Street was renovated, with cement piers replacing the original wooden piers.
The prototype of the city has emerged. Now Temple Street has two main streets.
The east-west direction is the commercial street, and most of the shops on both sides of the street sell some daily necessities. The streets to the north and south are the office buildings of various government agencies.
There are mainly farms and forest farms around Temple Street, and the collective economy is still the mainstay here.
Supplies are gathered at Temple Street every day, and supplies that can be used in the south are hoarded and transported to the south when the transport ship goes south.
Various farms and forest farms have offices in Temple Street for convenience.
The Far East Provincial Headquarters of the Huaihai Navy is also located here. This may be the province with the smallest population under the Huaihai Navy.
In addition, Heilongjiang Province was formed from Sanjiangkou upstream to Ulan-Ude.
Far East Province and Heilongjiang Province are very vast in area, but their population is very sparse.
The population situation of Heilong Province is better, as it has taken in the people from Jiangdong.
In addition, some of the people who were taken away by the Qing army after their retreat have now returned.
Now these people have become common people under the governance of Huai Haijun, and another population is the herdsmen of Nerchinsk City.
These people were brought all the way from the grasslands by the Second Brigade, and now they have become common people in Heilong Province.
These people are spending the winter in Nerchinsk City at this time. When spring comes next year, they will be dispersed to the upper reaches of the Nerchinsk River to graze.
These people have all become members of the Huaihai Haijun Collective Herding Team. This is a farm-like organization established by Huaihai Haijun among herdsmen.
The population of Far East Province is smaller than that of Heilongjiang Province, and most of them are immigrants.
According to statistics, there are now a total of 150,000 Han people living in Far East Province, and there are about 50,000 other people of various ethnic groups.
Since these herdsmen are scattered in the vast forest, there is no way to make detailed statistics.
Further north, there are nomadic tribes who make a living by herding reindeer, and their population is even pitifully small.
However, most of these people came to the strongholds or farms set up by Huai Haijun to conduct transactions.
From Temple Street to the west and then north, the Huaihai Navy has completely taken over some of the strongholds previously established by Tsarist Russia.
These strongholds became Huai Haijun's farms. There were usually several hundred people stationed in the farms. Among these people were soldiers, militiamen, and ordinary workers. They opened up the surrounding land.
These people focus on farms and use the short summer to grow some quickly maturing crops, such as corn, potatoes, etc. Nordic rye can also be grown here.
It must be said that the Chinese are naturally gifted with skill bonuses in planting.
The Russians couldn't grow anything here. They had to rely on hunting, so they couldn't maintain a large population here.
There is a special trading post on the farm. This trading post is responsible for supplying the stronghold and also trading with surrounding herders and hunters.
The furs obtained through trade can be turned over to the farm in exchange for income.
In addition, these farms also have their own hunting teams.
The fur here will be processed by the Huaihai Company in the south and become expensive luxury goods.
Yunmei Company has created its own fur luxury goods industry because of its stable source of furs.
However, unlike Maozi, Huaihai Haijun exports finished fur products, such as coats, cloaks, scarves, hats, etc., so the added value of the products is higher.
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Lushou and his advance team had already crossed the Transoxingan Mountains. They first searched for Tsarist Russian strongholds in the area east of the Maya River.
A total of three Tsarist Russian strongholds were found here, but they were all small strongholds with about a hundred people.
The stronghold is only surrounded by a simple wooden fence.
For the advance team, it was a piece of cake. There was no need for special forces to take action. In the night weather, a few hunters were sent to sneak attack and open the village gate. Then a team of Japanese tachi teams went up and hacked at it, and they could easily take it down.
Each stronghold can provide part of the supplies for the advance team.
Of course, it can also allow the team members to relax. There are usually women in the strongholds of Tsarist Russia. It is somewhat similar to a small village.
The special forces from the Huai Navy looked down upon these ocean horses with strong body odor.
They would rather show off with their hands than touch them. Only the Japanese Tachi players don't mind it.
It's just that the short Tachi team members looked very funny as they leaned over the tall Tsarist Russian woman.
Before coming out, the military region had explained that the advance team was a special entity and that they were not worthy of the supervisory committee and were not subject to the Huaihai Navy's military discipline.
They are like the wild beasts released by the Huai Navy to the north.
Lin Wei had no choice but to make this arrangement at the beginning. In the extremely cold environment in the north, the regular army's method could not maintain sustained combat effectiveness.
In this harsh natural environment, humans not only have to be cruel to nature, but also to their own kind.
By eliminating Russian strongholds one by one, the advance team became larger.
From time to time, aboriginal hunters would join them on the road.
It has to be said that human beings have a very strong ability to survive. There are still many aborigines living in places like this, and they have survived under the noses of the cruel Tsarist Russians.
There are already native hunters like Lushou in the team, which are very attractive to these hunters who fear the strong.
Lushou now has four to five hundred men. He distributed the weapons captured from the Russian stronghold to these new members. Of the three types of people in the entire team, hunters are now the most numerous.
The weather is getting colder and colder, but this team has no intention of stopping yet.
They have a designated wintering place, and only there can accommodate this team of more than 1,000 people to spend the winter.
The advance team only had rudimentary maps captured by the Russians, and their team also had an important task to improve these maps.
There is a city marked very clearly on the map.
This city is Yakutsk, which is the seat of the Governor-General of Eastern Siberia.
This is where the former Russian Governor-General Muravyov's official residence was located.
According to captured Russian soldiers, the city is now basically an undefended city.
Because the Russians had no enemies here, Muravyov took away almost all the garrison in the city.
Yakutsk is on the main stream of the Lena River, and theirs is on the Maya River, a tributary.
Judging from the map, they need to continue downstream, find the intersection, and then follow the main river upstream to find it.
A layer of broken ice has formed on the river. Fortunately, the raft made of logs is relatively strong.
The advance team took a raft and drifted downstream. Finally, they found the confluence of the rivers.
Then they disembarked and followed the wider river on the other side, heading upstream.
After a difficult trek, they discovered a small stronghold outside Yakutsk.
After successfully occupying this place, the advance team finally found their final prey.
When Dong Shuheng was in Shanghai, he was worried about the coming winter in the Far East.
This advance team under him has helped him capture Tsarist Russia's most important stronghold in Eastern Siberia.
This stronghold can house tens of thousands of people, and such a scale is rare in this frozen land.
There are plenty of supplies in the stronghold, because most of the Tsarist Russian personnel who originally needed to consume the supplies were killed.
The ones who killed the most were the Tai Swordsmen, followed by the hunters. Only the women were left, and they were still useful.
The captain of the advance team generously gave all the rewards to the hunters and the Tai Sword Team. Of course, they were only allowed to manage them. These women also served the people in the city.
This boosted the morale of the entire team. Because of the abundant supplies, the advance team recruited some hunters and herdsmen from the surrounding area. They originally lived with the Tsarist Russians, but now they became the subordinates of the advance team.
People here will only recognize the strong and will not care about your identity.
Come November, even the powerful advance team can only hide in Yakutsk during the winter.
But their footsteps will not stop on this Arctic continent.
In this far north, this team gradually became known, and those Tsarist Russians who escaped death told others about their horrific economy.
Some people even said they saw werewolves walking on two legs, breaking into strongholds on full moon nights and tearing people in half.
In fact, it's because the advance team all wear dog-skin hats, and those tachi teams like to split the enemy in half to show their bravery.
Therefore, the Russians called them the "Wolves of the Ice". This was a cold-blooded, cruel and cunning team.
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