On the way back, Dong Shuheng thought up a township enterprise development plan.
He wrote down his own ideas in this plan, including how to guide towns and villages to establish collective enterprises. The government will publish a list of scarce industries based on full research and actively guide the development of township and village enterprises.
What Dong Shuheng is doing now is a point-to-point industrial development model, taking two industrial zones and the Xuzhou Heavy Industry Base as points.
Drive the industrialization transformation of the entire Jiangbei. At present, the development momentum is very strong. But now he has the entire mainland of China as a dumping ground for goods, so he basically does not have to worry about the sales of goods. But in the future, after the liberation of the country, there will be a more comprehensive
Just the layout.
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The next morning, Dong Shuheng, led by his guards, arrived at the temporary naval base in Haimen.
Officers and soldiers of the Nanyang Navy gathered from all over the country have been training here for nearly a month. Some of them are former officers and soldiers of the river navy, some are militiamen on fishing boats and merchant ships, some are Chinese young people from Nanyang, and there is even an island
group.
No matter where they come from, they are all descendants of Yan and Huang, descendants of the dragon, and descendants of Chinese Miao.
Although there are no warships, the training of the navy is still very hard. They train during the day and learn navigation knowledge at night.
The Naval Academy had not yet been built, so Liu Qingbei helped the navy hire some retired naval officers and experienced old captains in Shanghai to help teach the navy and give them a certain foundation in navigation theory.
Liu Dahai used to be a pirate and had rich sailing experience. But Dong Shuheng never knew about this. In the past, only Dong Shuheng's father knew about this matter in the Dong family. It was Dong's father who told Liu Dahai not to tell anyone out of caution.
But this time, when he decided to establish the Nanyang Navy, Liu Dahai finally told Dong Shuheng the secret. He was worried that Dong Shuheng would leave him at the Naval Command to retire.
Only then did Dong Shuheng realize that there was a dragon crossing the river hidden next to him.
It was Liu Dahai who suggested that Dong Shuheng recruit pirates from the East China Sea to join the navy.
Of course, not all islands must be recruited. In fact, pirates in the East China Sea also have inheritance. Many of them have been active in the East China Sea since the Ming Dynasty. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, big pirates like Li Dan could even fight against the Western navy alone.
Lao Liu happened to be from this family, and his seniority was quite high.
So Lao Liu personally took action to recruit and surrender this pirate group. There were more than 2,000 of them, and they had been active in the waters from the east of Zhoushan to the Ryukyu Islands.
The current leader of this pirate is also a young man. He is very tall, probably over 1.8 meters tall, but he looks quite gentle.
Dong Shuheng met this person at the base.
"Bao Youzhi is here to meet the President. I didn't expect that only half a year after Dongtai, the president would develop to such an extent that Youzhi can't even match it." The young pirate saluted.
"Hey, have you seen me?" Dong Shuheng asked doubtfully. He remembered that it was the first time he met this person.
"Sir, of course you have never seen me, but I have indeed seen you. In March, when your Majesty led troops through Dongtai, I happened to be there too.
I originally wanted to visit Uncle Liu that time, but I didn't want Uncle Liu to be sent out by the adults. So I had no choice but to return without success."
"I didn't expect that after eight years of not seeing each other, you would develop to such an extent. It makes Youzhi feel that it's too late to get along."
"Haha...Brother Bao, it's not too late, it's not too late. Our Nanyang Navy has just been established, and we lack capable officers like our ambitious brothers who can sail across the ocean."
"If the president doesn't dislike it, you are willing to serve the president's great cause!" Bao Youzhi said with his hand.
Dong Shuheng quickly supported him with both hands. "Brother Bao, when the warship arrives, you will become the captain of the light cruiser detachment."
"Is it a fast light cruiser like the British?" Bao Youzhi said excitedly.
"Exactly, we purchased a total of 4 cruisers and 6 light cruisers this time, and I plan to divide them into two detachments."
"Thank you, President, for your cultivation. I will definitely do my best." Bao Youzhi felt that this light cruiser detachment was tailor-made for him. They had also encountered British light cruisers before, and had suffered a lot at the hands of such warships.
Unfortunately, this kind of warship built purely for speed is most suitable for the pirates' wolf pack tactics.
Bao Youzhi still doesn't know about Dong Shuheng's secretly built escort fleet. If he knew, he would no longer have a soft spot for these old-fashioned light cruisers. Jianghe-class frigates are the real masters of sea hunting. They are designed to hunt large-scale
Born from ships.
More than half of the more than 2,000 pirates were educated, old and weak. These people were placed on farms by Dong Shuheng and lived a stable life. The remaining young and strong pirates were mixed with others and became part of the Nanyang Navy.
member.
At noon, Dong Shuheng held a banquet at Haimen Port to receive the hired naval officers and professional sailors. Liu Qingbei and Wen Han both attended the banquet.
At the banquet, Wenhan mentioned the ongoing Crimean War in the Caspian Sea.
"The greed of the Russians for territory is unimaginable. Do they want to occupy the entire Eurasian continent?" Wenhan complained.
"Mr. Minister, you are right. In fact, the Russians have been trying to invade our territory in the north." Dong Shuheng agreed.
"Yes, General, you have to advise your Emperor to be careful of the Russians."
"Thank you for the reminder, Minister, did you know that Britain would declare war with Russia this time?" Dong Shuheng asked.
"Maybe, this is a matter decided by Her Majesty the Queen. Of course, we must also look at the French emperor's opinion. We will not send troops alone." Wenhan did not answer directly, but from Wenhan's tone, Dong Shuheng could feel that,
The war is about to break out.
"Your Excellency, Minister, I don't know if Qingbei has mentioned it to you. I would like to ask you for another favor. We are planning to establish a naval school. You know that the navy is a highly professional service. I would like to ask you to help us recruit some
Navy instructors. We all know that the British Royal Navy is the most powerful navy in the world, and we would be very honored to have the Royal Navy as our division."
"I think there should be no problem." Wenhan thought for a moment and responded.
The handover of the fleet went smoothly. The British instructors who came with the fleet were headed by Captain David. They were assigned to lead classes on each battleship, and guided the Chinese naval officers and soldiers step by step to operate the battleships and conduct maritime operations.
Lieutenant Colonel David followed Liu Dahai as a naval staff officer. Although Liu Dahai had been a pirate, he was not familiar with the battles of regular naval fleets.
After the Nanyang Navy was established, according to Dong Shuheng's instructions, before winter came, it first patrolled the sea along the coastline to the north and drew maps.
Due to Wenhan's advice, Dong Shuheng also specifically asked the fleet to pay special attention to the movements of the Russians off Heilongjiang.
In order to be able to monitor the Russians in the future, Dong Shuheng also mobilized two additional teams, a caravan and a logging team. They would bring supplies for the winter and take merchant ships to and from the Japanese team. A trading house was also established at the estuary of Heilongjiang.
There is a lumberyard. The lumberyard is actually a cover. These people are from militia, and their role is mainly to protect the trading company. This fleet will follow the fleet all the way north.
The ships of the Nanyang Navy are all second-hand, and they can set off on long voyages without any further seaworthiness training. So just one day later, after replenishing supplies, the Nanyang Navy embarked on the journey. The naval officers will
Learn while sailing.
The Chinese crew and officers will adapt to the control and command of the ship at sea with the help of those British officers.
It is said that August is full of fire. In the northern part of the Sea of Japan at the end of September, you can still feel the scorching sun. A small fleet consisting of a three-masted sailing ship and five dhows appeared in the southern part of Sakhalin Island. They are
An armed merchant fleet departing from Temple Street at the estuary of Heilongjiang.
Temple Street is a small market town formed by trade. Every year after the sea ice melts, merchants from the Qing Dynasty will come here to trade with ethnic minorities living in the lower reaches of Heilongjiang. Of course, Russians from the north will also come here to trade daily necessities.
But in 1850, the Russian army in the Far East boldly occupied this place according to the order of Tsar Nicholas I.
When the Chinese were trading, the Russians openly planted the Russian flag on Temple Street. They also collected taxes from the merchants and local hunters who came to trade.
Their banditry has certainly aroused dissatisfaction among the caravans, but those who come here to trade are generally small caravans who are unable to resist these organized bandits.
In this way, Temple Street fell into the hands of Tsarist Russia, but the greedy Tsarist Russia was not satisfied with this. They set their sights on Sakhalin Island in the east. If they occupied it, they could collect furs from local hunters as taxes.
The Russians just have to lie in the outpost and drink vodka.
At this time, the Russian sailors on the ship had stripped naked, exposing their body hair, and were lying on the deck basking in the sun. The entire deck was filled with a strong body odor.
This fleet belongs to the Tsarist Russian American Company, which specializes in colonial activities in Northeast Asia and northwest America.
This greedy company is notorious for bullying local ethnic minorities and taking away their life-saving winter supplies before winter comes.
As long as the American company is mentioned, there is no one who does not hate the indigenous people living near the Arctic.
This time, the company's top management received a direct order from the Tsar to occupy Sakhalin Island. This armed merchant fleet was dispatched by the American Company and prepared to first occupy the Atyn Bay in the southernmost part of Sakhalin Island. There is a small port there.
The Qing fleet that came to do business going north docked. The Qing Dynasty also had a post there established by the indigenous militia.
Through repeated trials, Tsarist Russia found that the Qing army did not care about these wild territories in the north. So this time it was bold enough to cross the Heilongjiang Estuary directly to the south.