Chapter 248 New trends of the Haihan Militia
Those who came early, like Li Nai, naturally no longer need to participate in this product bidding - the order for "Furuifeng" is guaranteed by the trade agreement between the two parties, and there is no need to worry about their goods being sold to others. But Li Nai really wanted to join the bidding. After all, no one can have too many Haihan products that can be bought here. As long as they are shipped back to Guangzhou, they can be exchanged for free money immediately. However, Li Nai's request was politely rejected by the executive committee in the end, because this sales event was to open up the mainland market. If the goods were still packaged by the "Fu Ruifeng" family, it would completely deviate from the goal of this event.
"The first thing you see is the locally produced silver mirrors, which are divided into four specifications: two-inch, five-inch, eight-inch round mirrors and one-foot square mirrors. Next, we will make sales quotations in batches according to size. First of all It is a two-inch round mirror with fifty sides. You can take a look at the sample we show first. It looks clear and does not deform. It does not need to be reground regularly like a bronze mirror. It will not rust when exposed to water, and it is light in weight and small in size. Easy to carry around..." Today's auctioneer is Tao Donglai himself, so that he can deal with problems that may arise during the auction in a timely manner. After all, this is the first time that this kind of event has been held, and no one can say anything about it. With experience at his disposal, Tao Dong, who is a strong talker, can only take on this important task.
Seeing that everyone had inspected the samples, Tao Donglai returned to the topic: "The starting price of these fifty two-inch silver mirrors is two hundred yuan in circulation coupons. The price will be increased by twenty yuan by default every time a sign is raised. No one increased the price after asking three times." After that, it’s a done deal! Do you understand?”
Some of the merchants in the audience were still thinking about the price, and some had already raised their placards to offer: "Two hundred!"
"Business C offered two hundred yuan!" Tao Donglai responded loudly.
Only then did the others react and quickly raised their signs to bid. The market price of two-inch Haihan silver mirrors in Guangzhou is currently more than thirty-five taels per mirror. The market value of these fifty mirrors is more than one thousand seven hundred taels. The current quotation is only two hundred circulation coupons, which is two hundred taels. That’s all, there’s nothing to hesitate about!
"Two hundred and twenty!" "Three hundred!" "Four hundred!"
Merchants from the mainland have been waiting for too long, and obviously do not have enough patience to increase the price by twenty yuan each time. Soon some people began to increase the price in units of one hundred yuan. After all, the market value of this thing is It is there, and it is easy for everyone to estimate the profit margin of their own quotation.
After a fierce battle, a businessman named He from Zhaoqing Prefecture finally bought the fifty two-inch silver mirrors for 1,320 yuan. Some other merchants believe that the profit from shipping it back to Guangzhou for sale at this cost is not too much. After all, you have to pay a certain amount of taxes to the government after shipping it back. Some merchants are aware of the fierce competition and want to save their money to bid for better products later. The businessman surnamed He considered that after these mirrors were shipped back to Zhaoqing Prefecture, the market value would be at least two thousand taels, and he could still make a relatively large profit by buying them at this higher price.
Of course, this transaction price is even more ideal for the Chuan Chuan Group. The selling price of the two-inch silver mirror is 20 yuan per side. After such competition, several hundred more circulation coupons were sold. The value-added speed is simply It can't be faster. And for the goods to be auctioned today, these fifty mirrors are just an appetizer.
The next several larger-sized silver mirrors continued to be auctioned at high prices. In the end, five one-foot square mirrors were sold for a total price of more than 6,000 yuan, which was a full 50% higher than the original issue price. This is not because the merchants are rich and willful, but the one-foot square mirror is indeed a rarity in the current Guangzhou market. After several months of speculation, the price of a single side has stabilized at more than 1,500 taels. Recently, it has even There is an example of a wealthy businessman from Jiangsu and Zhejiang who spent 1,800 taels in Guangzhou to buy a Haihan square mirror but failed.
At the current price, it is actually very profitable to ship it back to the mainland. Moreover, once this thing is placed in your own store, the customer flow will definitely increase significantly, and the advertising effect will be enough to hype it for a long time.
Under the strong request of various merchants, the auction of the day lasted until the sun went down. The transaction volume for most of the day alone has exceeded 30,000 yuan, and compared with the previous sales method, the average transaction price has increased by more than 25%. Tao Donglai used "the situation is gratifying" to describe the day at the summary meeting that night. Harvest.
Early the next morning, anxious merchants took their silver boxes and lined up at the door of the currency exchange center - they had already used up all the circulation coupons they had in the previous day's auction, and they had to exchange some again to cope with today's auction sale. . And some people who don't have enough money can only sit on the wall and watch the show today. It is said that Haihan people will also sell a "giant" Haihan silver mirror that is two feet long and more than a foot wide at the auction today. Several merchants who also have silver are trying their best to grab this good product today. And because this is a new product that has never been released to the public, the powerful "Furuifeng" has also been chartered to join the bidding.
In addition, high-end glass stationery and colorfully carved stationery and ten sets of limited-edition special commemorative editions for the Ding Mao Year are also auctioned today. These are all valuable treasures for merchants. If you miss it, After seeing this release, I don’t know when I’ll have the chance next time.
However, the auctioneer was changed today, and Ning Qi, another talkative contestant from the Cross Travel Group, took over the auction instead of Tao Dong. Although Ning Qi is not a person in the business system, his many years as a university lecturer have allowed him to accumulate rich experience, and he has no trace of stage fright when hosting such an event on stage. In Ning Qi's eyes, the Ming merchants of this era were simply plain and simple, and were obviously much easier to deal with than the quirky college students of later generations.
Tao Donglai didn't intend to miss the auction because yesterday's process went so smoothly that he lost interest, but because he had other scheduled events today that he had to attend. When the merchants entered the auction site at Base No. 1, Tao Donglai also stepped onto the military dock on the east bank of Victory Port. Today is the day when the third batch of militia trainees complete their training and officially join the army. As the supreme commander of the military force of the Crossing Group, Tao Donglai will definitely appear on such an important occasion.
In addition to reviewing the training results of the third batch of militiamen, they will also review the fourth batch of militiamen who have received military training for nearly a month, as well as the first batch of ordinary people who have received military training, and finally the live ammunition of the first batch of naturalized civilian artillery. drill. For the current military training system, today is the time to verify the results. This military training is also a preview of the grand military parade at the end of the year. There will be an open military parade for all travelers and ordinary naturalized citizens to promote Haihan's military power and boost public morale and confidence.
Most of the first batch of trained militiamen were stationed at Black Earth Port, and then took cargo ships between the two places and gradually rotated the garrison. Half of the second batch of militiamen were sent to the Do Son Peninsula, where they served as North Vietnamese military advisers and trained North Vietnamese soldiers in the use of firearms. Another part of the militiamen are stationed in Tiandu, Tielugang, Yulinjiao and other places. It can be said that the recruitment of the third batch of militiamen will greatly ease the current situation of tense military forces and make the local militia garrison arrangements less stretched.
Of course, the existing number of militiamen is still far from enough for the Military and Police Department. For the Victory Port coastal defense fort alone, the Military and Police Department estimates that it will require at least two hundred people to fully staff it, of which at least three must be fully staffed. Ten to forty qualified gunners who have passed the examination are assigned to various gun positions to command operations. But now, whether it is soldiers or gunners, there is still some gap between the numbers expected by the Military and Police Department. Someone in the Military and Police Department also proposed to select some young men from the prisoners of war and prisoners transported from North Vietnam to join the militia, but this proposal was quickly rejected by the Executive Committee.
Now that the economic situation of the Crossing Group is very good, and the population import rate has also greatly accelerated, the Executive Committee is not as resistant to the expansion of the Military and Police Department as it was in the early days. However, regarding the use of prisoners of war and prisoners, the Executive Committee believes that it must be done with caution. . Although some of these people are taken advantage of, there are also many dangerous elements who have killed people and seen blood, and their stance is different from that of North Vietnamese immigrants. Allowing these people to enter violent institutions is likely to pose a threat to the growing number of North Vietnamese immigrants in the local area. This is not an unfounded concern of the Executive Committee. Ning Qi pointed out that the race of South Vietnam is somewhat different from that of North Vietnam. The Malay race has a higher proportion. In terms of language, living habits, cultural traditions, etc., it is more different from the Chinese people in North Vietnam. There are obvious differences between people, and it is difficult to incorporate these people into the system of naturalized people. Moreover, the IQ of the Southeast Asian race is significantly lower than that of the East Asian race. This is a result proved by scientific research in later generations. Limited by the means of cultural transmission, the civilization gap between Southeast Asia and the Ming Dynasty is wider in this era than in later generations. Towards the south, the local indigenous people are closer to a barbaric state, and they can't even talk about a formed social system.
Of course, the South Vietnam region located in the Indochina Peninsula is not as backward as the island tribes in the south. For example, Champa, which was founded during the Qin and Han Dynasties, has a relatively high level of civilization. However, in the view of the Executive Committee, whether it is Champa or the island tribes further south, due to the inherent disadvantages of the race, the local indigenous people are areas that cannot be reused. At most, they can be used as labor forces - just like labor camps. Just like those South Vietnamese prisoners of war.
Compared with the Southeast Asian race that has always been called "monkey" by the traversers, the Ming Dynasty and the deeply Sinicized North Vietnam are obviously more in line with the Executive Committee's requirements for naturalized people. It is said that some of the first batch of North Vietnamese immigrants who arrived in the local area have also signed up to join the fourth batch of militiamen.
The third batch of militiamen wearing gray cloth military uniforms marched past the rostrum in platoon units, carrying the latest Type 27 flintlock rifles. The style of this military uniform is closer to the military uniform of the Eighth Route Army and the New Fourth Army in later generations. It consists of double-breasted shorts, trousers and leggings, plus leather armed belts and cloth shoes, and uniformly wears the "Haihan Militia" armband on the left arm. However, since most people still have buns, they are not issued short-brimmed cloth hats that are inconvenient to wear. Instead, they use rattan helmets with a uniform style - basically copied from the style of the rattan helmets of Zheng Chenggong's Rattan Brand Army. of.
According to feedback from the grassroots, the Military and Police Department has gradually canceled the original camouflage military uniforms and replaced them with gray cloth uniforms that are lower in cost and more suitable for large-scale equipment. The militiamen are obviously more accepting of this kind of military uniforms, because they generally believe that the flashy camouflage military uniforms are simply beggars' clothes and have no prestige at all. Moreover, this view has also spread to the people, greatly affecting the people's view of the military. An intuitive feeling of combat effectiveness. The Military and Police Department had to quietly begin to recycle the camouflage uniforms that had been issued, and sent some of them to Black Earth Port - the combat unit trained by Qian Tiandun that uses mountain jungles as its activity area may be the one who really needs camouflage uniforms. place.
Tao Donglai, Yan Chujie and others stood on the viewing platform, looking at the militia phalanx advancing in unison, while also thinking about the future plans of the Military and Police Department.
At present, after several expansions of the militia forces in the Crossing Group, including the fourth batch of militiamen who are still in training, they already have two companies of security guards and a total of five companies of militiamen - one of which is authorized by the Military and Police Department. The executive committee is not very clear about the actual establishment of the combat force that Qian Tiandun built privately.
However, the size of this army is still too weak for the expansion speed of the Crossing Group. Especially the combat power at sea is still close to zero. There is not even a real warship, let alone There is no formal establishment of the navy or sailors. The five companies of militiamen seemed to be quite a lot, but they were stationed in the base camp, Tieliang Port, Black Earth Port, Tushan Peninsula and other places, so the actual number of mobile troops was pitiful. In other words, the current military strength of the Crossing Group is estimated to be enough to protect itself, but it is still seriously insufficient to launch military operations externally.
To change this situation, the Military and Police Department believes that in addition to continuously expanding the militia, conducting large-scale military training for people of appropriate age is also one of the solutions. Turn the people of appropriate age into militiamen, and then turn the existing militiamen into professional soldiers, in exchange for the mobility of limited military forces, so that they can at least have the ability to launch small-scale external military operations when necessary.
"Mr. Tao, these two phalanxes are ordinary naturalized citizens who have been training since last month." Gu Wei, standing next to Tao Donglai, introduced softly. He is currently the person in charge of the entire training camp, and he formulates, organizes and implements all military training plans. Today's military parade can also be regarded as a large document submitted by Gu Wei personally to the Military and Police Department and the Executive Committee.
Tao Donglai came back from his thoughts and raised his hand to greet the militia square passing by the rostrum. These irregular militias have not received in-depth military training. Their current training content is mainly familiar with military orders, marching in formation and basic military skills, and they have not even been exposed to firearms. There are two types of weapons equipped by these irregular militias. One is a five-meter-long wooden iron-tipped spear. Needless to say, this is an imitation of the famous Spanish spearmen in history. It can cooperate with the musketeers in wartime. In combat, the relevant tactics are very mature and not complicated. They can be directly applied to these militiamen who do not have much military foundation. The other type is a rattan soldier equipped with a rattan sword, whose main function is to cooperate with the spearmen in combat.
Of course, the Military and Police Department does not expect to actually send these arms to the future battlefield as the main force. They will still undertake daily garrison tasks, so as to liberate the musketeers, who have begun to become professional, from garrisoning as much as possible and become A true professional army. Whether these spear soldiers or rattan soldiers, their biggest function in wartime is not to kill the enemy, but to serve as a logistical force to transport supplies, clean the battlefield, and rescue the wounded. The military and police department will not use them until it is absolutely necessary. These people were sent to fight on the frontal battlefield.
Currently, a total of two companies are undergoing military training, the frequency is five times a month, one day each time. If there are personnel with better qualifications who are discovered by instructors, they may be promoted and enter the real military establishment. The people are not disgusted with this kind of military training. The reason is very simple. The time people participate in military training will be recorded as double working hours, which is equivalent to at least five more days of income every month. In addition, those who enter the grassroots militia establishment They also enjoy a certain amount of subsidy every month and have priority in labor grade promotion. Various benefits are placed there, giving young adults who cannot enter the regular army an additional way to "repay".
With the gradual expansion of the scale of the naturalized civilian army, further improvements in the organization are imminent. Since there are not many personnel in the military and police department who can actually engage in combat command, the planned position of the Chuanchuanzhong is at least the platoon leader level. However, it seems that this organization is no longer suitable for the actual situation of the army - Chuanzhongzhong officers The number of people is too small. If the size of the army continues to expand, it will not be able to achieve command covering the grassroots level.
The training speed of naturalized civilian officers obviously cannot keep up with the expansion of the military establishment. Moreover, it is difficult for the Military and Police Department to allow those naturalized civilians who have only received less than half a year of military training and have never fought in a battle to serve as grassroots combat commanders. I can't let go of this.
The military and police department's solution to this problem is to change the organization and replace the current simple three-three system with a more scientific and reasonable military organization. For example, in the past, the establishment of squad level was simply three squads combined into one platoon. Now, it is necessary to increase the establishment from the platoon level. In addition to the original three squads, a comprehensive support squad will be added. This is mainly Responsible for communications, engineering, material transportation, battlefield rescue and logistics tasks. This will allow each platoon leader to increase the number of personnel he can directly command by one-third on the existing basis, achieve restructuring and expansion without making large-scale adjustments, and enhance the actual combat effectiveness of the unit.
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