Chapter 967 Everything is for the celebration
Yu Dashan just had the courage to make a few remarks, and he was already secretly regretting such a "disobedient" act of "discussing the government's affairs". Unexpectedly, his son dared to speak more than he did, so he quickly advised: "Keep your voice down! Such words Don’t tell anyone to listen!”
Although Yu Dashan did not have much education, after all, he had joined the dragon early enough and had sufficient seniority. Over the past few years, he had worked hard without any credit, and the loyalty of father and son to Haihan was unquestionable, and they are now senior cadres within the system. , Yu Dashan has not become complacent because of this and has forgotten how much he weighs. He is usually cautious in his words and deeds. Today, it is quite outrageous to say something to him to this extent.
Yu Xiaobao does not have as many taboos as his father. Based on his understanding of the leaders, this kind of view on differences in political systems is not a forbidden topic. The division of labor between various yamen and Haihan departments in the Ming Dynasty often aroused heated discussions among the chiefs after dinner. The comparison between the two was also an achievement that the chiefs were quite proud of.
Haihan's department classification and function allocation are much more detailed than the Ming Dynasty's six-ministry function allocation method. For example, the household department alone includes the functions of Haihan's finance, civil affairs, commerce, auditing, taxation and many other departments. , but this all-encompassing system did not bring efficient operation to the Ming Dynasty's bureaucracy. Instead, it became slow to respond and inefficient because of the bloated organization and complex personnel structure. Haihan's reasonable division of functions allows each department to have a more professional and efficient operating mechanism, which allows this emerging force to rise rapidly in just a few years, and also has the ability to surpass many established forces. trend.
However, regarding his work arrangements, Yu Xiaobao really doesn't want to argue too much with his father about right and wrong. Ning Qi and Schneider have long told him that as long as he does things peacefully, don't do too much wrong. The idea is to accumulate more experience in various fields while you are young, so that you will have more opportunities to be reused in the future. Whether he is working in the youth league or in other departments, he will gain a lot of experience personally, and these are parts that Yu Dashan, the senior foreman in charge of infrastructure projects, cannot see and cannot understand.
Yu Xiaobao knew very well that there were very few naturalized cadres like him who were young and highly valued under Haihan. They might not reach a very high position within three to five years, but after ten or twenty years, There will definitely be a place for young people like them at the top of Haihan officialdom. He is more concerned about his father's condition than his own future development prospects.
"Dad, how is the progress of the project you are responsible for recently?" Yu Xiaobao took the initiative to change the topic and asked.
Yu Dashan shook his head and said: "There are no big problems, just small problems. They are all in the rush for this celebration!"
Yu Dashan has been in charge of the expansion project of the Sanya Guest House in recent months. The original guest rooms in the Guest House can no longer meet the reception requirements of this celebration, so as early as the middle of last year, the executive committee allocated a special fund To the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to renovate and expand the local reception institution.
The Guest House, which is specially used to receive foreign guests, is located at the foot of the mountain northwest of Victory Fort. It is designed and built in the style of a townhouse. It can be regarded as one of the most high-end residential areas in Sanya. The people who can stay here are basically representatives and envoys from various countries stationed in Sanya, or high-level people visiting Sanya. Of course, there are occasionally some wealthy nouveau riche who choose to live in this most expensive place in Sanya. On the one hand, they want to enjoy high-end treatment that ordinary people cannot get, and on the other hand, they also use it to get close to the social circle of high-level people. Find opportunities to talk about business or other cooperation matters.
Due to the special nature of this year's anniversary celebration, a record number of foreign guests will be invited. Unexpectedly, there will be many stakeholders who have not received invitations but will still come to attend the ceremony. It is foreseeable that the Guest House will be full by then, so the Ministry of Foreign Affairs must complete the expansion project before the celebration to accommodate the crowds of spectators who will flock to the ceremony.
The existing 20 or 30 villas in the guest house were successively renovated in the past few years, but this expansion requires doubling its reception capacity in less than a year, and the construction period is still very tight. Yu Dashan was afraid that the construction period would affect major events such as the founding ceremony of the People's Republic of China, so he rarely went home in recent months and basically stayed at the construction site for food and accommodation. Although he no longer needs to do the work in person as he did a few years ago, Yu Dashan is still used to watching his craftsmen on the front line, so that he can feel more at ease.
However, for things like building a house, it is not just about working overtime that can significantly shorten the construction period. Many processes require waiting for a considerable period of time before proceeding to the next step. Moreover, many of the various materials and accessories used in the decoration of the Guest House are shipped from Guangdong or even distant Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Once the shipping schedule or delivery date is slightly delayed during this process, it will easily cause the entire construction site to stop. situation. Although this part of the responsibility does not need to be borne by Yu Dashan, as the on-site supervisor of this project, he has added more uncertain factors to the control of the entire construction schedule, and naturally he will always be anxious because of this.
Similar to the situation of the Yu family and his son, there are hundreds of naturalized cadres working for Haihan in the Sanya area. Currently, various units and departments have entered the sprint stage of preparations for the founding celebration in April. Many of them are following Haihan. Senior cadres who conquered the world together with the Han Dynasty all regarded this celebration as an important opportunity in their lives, and they spared no effort in supervising all preparations.
At the same time, defense changes in various places have also been implemented more than two months earlier than in previous years. In the past, it was usually after the anniversary celebrations in April that armed personnel stationed in various places began to implement defense changes according to their establishment. However, this year's situation is special. The garrisons in various places will send some personnel to participate in this year's military parade, and at the same time, they will also serve as a part of the celebration period. of additional security. In this way, all localities must allow these people participating in the celebration to return to Sanya in advance and join in the unified rehearsal. In addition to the secret mobilization of the military, the police also deployed hundreds of capable police officers from various regions of Hainan Island back to Sanya to maintain local social order before and after the celebration. If not, it would have been difficult for the police to quickly and effectively block the entrance and exit to Victory Port in the previous Spanish espionage case, thus eliminating the possibility of the persons involved in the case absconding.
The occurrence of Du Wen's case undoubtedly sounded the alarm to the judicial department, and the interrogation of immigrants who have recently arrived in Hong Kong has become increasingly strict. In the past, relevant departments generally paid more attention to the health status of immigrants. For some people whose origins were unclear and difficult to confirm, the Immigration Affairs Bureau would not bother to slowly verify their identities. But now the judicial department clearly requires that the identity background of immigrants also be verified. As part of the naturalization assessment for naturalized citizens, the personal files of naturalized citizens are also improved. Of course, this more complete file system can only be used for newly arrived immigrants for the time being, and the old files in the past will probably have to wait until the next census to be gradually updated.
In order to ensure that uncontrollable factors during the celebrations are minimized, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has issued an official document at the end of January that will suspend the immigration of unnaturalized immigrants to Sanya from now until April 30. Although this may cause an increase in local labor costs in a short period of time, the executive committee is now paying more attention to social stability during this period. In order to maintain a stable situation during the celebration, spending a little more money during this special period is not a problem. .
On February 7, the railway line from Sanya Port to Tiandu Industrial Zone via Shengli Port began its first comprehensive maintenance after its completion. Fortunately, this rail transit line has already been completed as a double track and can be divided into two phases. Perform maintenance separately. Although the number of trains will be reduced due to this impact, fortunately the maintenance period is not long, only ten to twelve days. During this period, the railway department will carry out maintenance on some steam locomotives and overhaul the entire railway track. Some sections of the road in poor condition will also need to be repaired and the track will even be replaced.
On February 10, the immigration isolation camp on the Luhuitou Peninsula began to be gradually emptied. This area will be vacated as a temporary residence for troops transferred back from various places to participate in the founding celebration. According to calculations by the Military Commission, the number of troops returning from various overseas stations in the near future will reach about a thousand. Coupled with the two army battalions and a full naval fleet already stationed in Sanya, the size of the garrison will exceed 3,000 in the near future. If the police and militia are included, this number is probably the highest number of local troops stationed since Haihan landed in Sanya.
On February 15th, Victory Port and Sanya Port began to simultaneously carry out a half-month "comprehensive management" activity, mainly to conduct a relatively thorough cleaning of the port area, and to address some long-standing public security, sanitation, and Firefighting dead ends will be investigated one by one, and corresponding construction teams will be arranged to enter the site as soon as possible for some areas and facilities that need to be repaired. To put it bluntly, this kind of measure is actually a face-saving project. We hope that foreign representatives will leave a deep impression on Sanya as soon as they come to Sanya.
In fact, in terms of the level of port construction and daily operations, Sanya Port and Victory Port are definitely the leaders in the Far East. Even their Western counterparts who took the lead in spreading navigation routes all over the world are not as good as Haihan in this regard. Well done. Advanced port planning and excellent and efficient management methods are conditions that peers in this era do not have. Haihan has also relied on these innate advantages to overtake in the competition in the past few years and surpassed many companies in port operations. competitors, and used this as an opportunity to gain more trade opportunities for its own development.
On February 17, a fleet from Yunfu, Guangdong arrived at Sanya Port. The goods transported by this fleet were tens of thousands of marble floor tiles made in accordance with the requirements of the Haihan Ministry of Commerce. These floor tiles were shipped from Yunfu and went down the Xijiang River via Zhaoqing and Macau. It took more than ten days to arrive in Sanya. port. The purpose of the Ministry of Commerce traveling all the way to order these floor tiles from Yunfu was to complete the ground laying project of Victory Square before the celebration.
Half of the project was completed last year, but the wait for the delivery of the other half of the floor tiles was a full three months behind schedule. This is because a group of bandits appeared near Yunfu, causing unrest in the local people's livelihood, and Zhaoqing Prefecture, which is across the Xijiang River, was unwilling to spend manpower and material resources to go into the mountains to suppress the bandits. As a result, it was delayed for several months and was not completely completed. Solve this problem. In the end, the Executive Committee issued instructions to the Guangdong Office, and asked the "Golden Shield Escort" to organize an armed team of more than 300 people in the name of escorting goods. It took more than two days by boat from Guangzhou to Yunfu, and then again After spending two days fighting in the mountains and knocking out the bandits, the local stone merchants were able to resume production.
Zhaoqing Mansion was well aware of the actions of the Haihan people, and acted blind from the beginning to the end without making a sound at all. Of course, the government did not care about the errand costs of sending troops to suppress the bandits this time, so the local stone merchants would naturally have to bear most of it. Fortunately, this business is really profitable. Even after deducting the cost of Haihan sending people to suppress the bandits, there is still a slight surplus. Just because the delivery time was delayed by this accident, the renovation project of Victory Square has been stalled until now. The Ministry of Commerce was afraid that it would not be able to meet the construction deadline, so it asked the Ministry of Shipping to dispatch several fast ships to Yunfu to transport this batch of goods back.
It will only take a little more than a month from now to the beginning of April. Considering the construction time and maintenance time, the people of the Ministry of Construction really can only enter the site immediately and start construction in order to deliver Victory Plaza for use before the end of March.
Beginning in late February, businessmen from various countries in the South China Sea, like predators that smelled meat, rushed to Sanya consciously, intending to take advantage of this grand opportunity hosted by the Haihan people to make a fortune. Most of these businessmen have heard from various channels that Haihan will announce the founding of the country in early April, and this decision is mostly positive in the eyes of the businessmen. After the establishment of the country, Haihan will definitely further expand the scale of trade. This is exactly what multinational businessmen want to see.
Haihan's old friend, the young prince of Annan, Zheng Zhuo, also came to Sanya in advance in early March. After completing the negotiation mission on Ambona Island, he returned to Annan Shenglong Mansion to report on the actual status of the trade alliance, and then came to Sanya again without staying at home for long. According to the instructions of his old father, King Zheng of the Qing Dynasty, Annan will take this opportunity this year to place the largest arms trade order with Haihan since the two sides cooperated. There is no other reason. The five-year period of peace after the Annan Civil War will probably come to an end within this year.
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