Chapter 1018 Miaoli
Although Ning Qi also agrees with the concept of industrialized management in the field of education, he does not want to turn this industry into a pure business. If the business results are calculated based on the amount of economic benefits, it will definitely violate his role as an educator. The professional beliefs that workers adhere to. Promoting Haihan Educational Institutions to other countries is of greater political significance. As long as there is a way, we must continue to do so even if we lose money. But if Schneider's method is used, the smell of copper will inevitably become stronger, and it is also inconsistent with Ning Qi's original intention of advocating this matter.
Of course, Ning Qi also knew that Schneider's words were mostly joking. Businessmen from various countries who came to Schneider to discuss business during this celebration had already lined up in a long queue. There were a lot of profitable deals waiting for him to handle, so how could he have the energy? To take care of the "small business" of opening a school. When Ning Qi told him about Zhang Jinbao just now, he didn't even ask carefully about Zhang Jinbao's assets and the amount of loans he needed. He agreed immediately, partly out of trust in Ning Qi, and partly out of trust in Ning Qi. On the other hand, they really didn’t take this small business too seriously. Even if Ning Qi really leaves the blame to Schneider, he probably won't be able to do anything at all, and in the end he will probably leave it to his subordinates.
Rather than turn this matter into a pure business, Ning Qi is more willing to leave it to practitioners in the education industry, such as Zhang Jinbao, who is a practical person with ideas. Ning Qi decided to wait until he was done with his work here and then find some time to talk to Zhang Jinbao to discuss the possibility of promoting the private vocational education system abroad.
Schneider only briefly communicated with Ning Qi for a moment before being surrounded by several foreign envoys. The establishment of the South China Sea Trade Alliance is a great change for countries in the region. Countries that have already joined want to gain more benefits for themselves in the formulation of trade rules, while countries that have not yet joined are trying their best to get more benefits. Understand what kind of benefits you can enjoy after joining this international organization, and what you need to pay. As the initiator of this international organization, Haihan, the responsible leader of the Minister of Commerce, naturally became the target of inquiries from representatives from various countries.
For these countries in the South China Sea in this era, although international trade is nothing new, they basically play their own game, and there are no rules of the game that are recognized by all countries or common in the region. Haihan took the lead in organizing the South China Sea Trade Alliance and formulating relevant trade systems, which is a relatively novel experience for most countries. Fortunately, countries such as Annam, Champa, Portugal, and the Netherlands have responded for their own purposes. The governments of Fuzhou and Guangzhou in the Ming Dynasty have also acquiesced in the legitimacy of this international organization. The influence of this trade alliance is enough to drive Other countries join in.
But even if they choose to join a trade alliance, each country has its own selfish motives. It is difficult to require every member of such a relatively loose international organization to fully abide by a unified system in operation, and each country has its own selfish interests. There are differences in the understanding of these trade systems, and it is naturally difficult to maintain the same standards when implementing them. These are problems that exist objectively and are difficult to completely solve. However, Schneider made the priorities of the matter very clear. What Haihan needs is not that these countries show absolute obedience in the field of international trade, but to control the voice in international trade within the region and allow member states to Haihan opened the door to trade.
For Haihan, as long as trade channels are opened, everything else is easy. The political, military, cultural and other projects that Haihan promotes to the outside world have always been opened up by trade, and then gradually followed up, so that the resistance they will encounter will be relatively small. This set of operating methods already has relatively mature experience and routines. What Schneider has to do is to bring these countries that are interested in the trade brought by Haihan into the South China Sea Trade Alliance one by one, and use considerable economic resources to We can use the proceeds to break down the alertness of these countries, and then introduce projects in other fields bit by bit to gradually transform local societies.
While the international exchanges during the celebration were still in full swing, a fleet of more than thirty sailing ships quietly set off from Victory Port in the early morning of April 4th. Because there have been so many large fleets entering and exiting Sanya recently, the departure of this fleet did not attract public attention. Only a few staff at the port witnessed Tao Donglai and many other senior officials coming to see the fleet off. As for Its destination is only known to a very few senior executives.
In fact, most of the passengers in this fleet do not know the specific place they are going to. The task they were given was just to go to Taiwan Island to complete a project. As for where the project is and how long the construction will take, There is no specific information at all. And everyone was required to keep this mission strictly confidential, and they were not allowed to talk about it even in front of their families. For most people, a dedicated person will not inform their family members of their mission until after they leave.
The official leading this fleet is the Minister of Industry, Bai Kesi. This is also the first time he has traveled far away in the seven years since time travel. The furthest place he went before was to Changhua to inspect the local smelting industry, and Everyone has taken care of the entire itinerary, so you don’t have to worry about it at all. This time when he went to Taiwan, Bai Kesi was responsible for coordinating and commanding a team of thousands of people, and he had to take root in a poor and poor place. This was almost a replica of the Sanya landing. The only difference was that now he had more people under his command, and everything was different. You need to do it yourself, just give the order.
Fortunately, he was not the only time traveler in this team. Morgan, who was in charge of armed defense, and Liu Shanxia, who was in charge of engineering construction, were also traveling with him. After the team arrives in Miaoli, Taiwan, Tian Yeyou, director of the Mining Department of the Ministry of Industry, will also come from Jilong Port in Taipei to join them and implement the oil drilling project together. Among the projects Haihan has carried out overseas in recent years, it is one of the few cases where so many time travelers can participate at the same time.
Since most of the ships in this fleet are cargo ships loaded with various supplies, they move relatively slowly, with the average speed only maintaining around five knots. After setting off from Victory Port, the fleet headed north along the east coast. After approaching the coastline of Zhaoqing Prefecture, Guangdong, it turned east. It took four days to reach Hong Kong Island at the mouth of the Pearl River. The fleet will stay here for a day for a short rest and replenishment. In order to avoid attracting attention, this fleet did not even sail into the Causeway Bay in the northern waters of Hong Kong Island to dock. Instead, it chose the early-developed Zhennan Port in the south of Hong Kong Island and docked at the military dock on Ap Lei Chau.
You Yihan, who is currently serving as the chief administrative officer in Hong Kong, took a boat from Causeway Bay after receiving the news, just in time to catch up with the fleet docking in the port.
"Thank you for your hard work, this is many days earlier than previously announced! Did you set off from Sanya in advance?" You Yihan asked after a few pleasantries. He had received a telegram notification from Sanya before, saying that a large fleet would be heading north to Taiwan in the near future and would stop at Hong Kong Island for supplies on the way. The local government would do its best to cooperate to meet the demand. However, the time mentioned in the telegram was at least late April. Unexpectedly, the fleet arrived much earlier than expected, and it was only when it was approaching Hong Kong waters that the telegram was sent to inform the Hong Kong Management Committee. Otherwise, There was no need for You Yihan to rush over for the meeting in such a hurry.
"Originally we expected to leave in the middle of the year, but the supplies and personnel were in place earlier than expected, so we left early." Bai Kesi explained to You Yihan: "The construction period of this project is relatively long, and if we start construction earlier, we can put it into production earlier."
You Yihan didn't know the purpose of this fleet going to Taiwan Island, so he asked curiously: "What project created such a large formation? The last time such a large fleet transited from Hong Kong Island, it was the fleet led by Shi Diwen. Go to fight in Fujian ”
You Yihan was not an outsider, so Bai Kesi did not hide the truth and told him everything, but still told him to keep it secret and not to publicize it. As a time traveler, You Yihan is naturally very aware of the great significance of oil to industrial civilization, and it is reasonable for Sanya to organize such a large fleet to rush to Taiwan. If he, You Yihan, had served on the executive committee, he might have been even more anxious to get the oil out of the ground than this group of people are now. However, there is actually oil on the island of Taiwan, which is an unheard-of news for him.
After staying in Zhennan Port for a day, the fleet set off on April 10, passing through the Shuangsimen Waterway along the southern waters of Hong Kong Island, and then sailed along the coasts of Huizhou Prefecture and Chaozhou Prefecture toward the Fujian Strait. For reasons of confidentiality, the fleet did not dock again in Guangdong waters, but sailed directly to Penghu. On the morning of the 14th, the fleet successfully arrived at the naval base in Magong Port, Penghu.
As the Haihan territory has further expanded outwards in the past year, Penghu is no longer the front line at the outermost edge of the Haihan territory. Therefore, the number of troops currently stationed in Penghu has also been reduced a lot. The special operations forces originally stationed here The battalion has changed its location to Dinghai Port in Zhoushan, Zhejiang. The current military officer in charge of Zhoushan is Yu Yao, the former military attaché in the Guangzhou Office. He was transferred from Guangzhou to Penghu last year to take over the seat left by Qian Tiandun.
After arriving in Penghu, the fleet had to stay for a few days. Baikes and others had to listen to the opinions of the local garrison and formulate a complete action plan before landing in Miaoli.
Yu Yao received the notice from the Executive Committee much earlier than Hong Kong Island, because he not only assumed the task of advancing the base here, but also collected as much local intelligence information as possible before the arrival of the fleet, so as to provide Make preparations for the smooth implementation of the project.
"I took a team to Miaoli late last month, and I will tell you the general situation first." Yu Yao said lightly, as if this trip was as relaxing as taking a walk in his own backyard. Yu Yao walked to the map that had been hung up and introduced the local situation in Miaoli to Bai Kesi and others.
Miaoli is actually a name that travelers copied from later generations, and this place actually does not have an exact place name in this era. The aboriginal people living here are the Dajia people, who are also one of the Pingpu ethnic groups. The local settlement of the Dajia people is called Maolishe. Later, Han immigrants took the homophony and named the place Miaoli.
Miaoli has more mountains than plains. The main terrain is the river impact fan on the west side of the Snow Mountain Mountains. Due to constant erosion by rivers, the local hilly and valley terrain is very common. Chusuangkeng, the location of the underground oil field currently controlled by Haihan, is located in one of them. In the river valley, there is still almost thirty kilometers away from the coast. Judging from the environment of this era, this distance is not really close. You must know that it took Haihan a year or two to open the land passage from Changhua to Shilu, and the distance was only shorter than It's only about ten kilometers more here.
After Yu Yao went to the local area to investigate, he thought that if he wanted to build a road to the inland in this wilderness, it would probably take a year and a half. However, between the seaside and Chuluangkeng, there is a small river called Houlong River that is navigable. In the early stages of construction, materials and personnel can be sent to Chuluangkeng by water. But the more troublesome thing is that the water depth of this small river is limited. Ordinary sea-going ships will probably run aground if they enter, so they have to use flat-bottomed boats.
Regarding this point, Yu Yao has already prepared a batch of inland river flat-bottomed boats for them, which will be towed to the local area for use. However, the navigation capacity of this Houlong River is limited. If it is to be used as the main means of transportation for a long time, it will probably be difficult. The safest way is probably to build a land passage along the waterway, but Yu Yao is only the military commander of Penghu, and this kind of infrastructure project is not something he can make decisions on his own. He can only mention it at this meeting. How to deal with it depends on the opinions of Bai Kesi and others.
After listening to Yu Yao's introduction, Bai Kesi first expressed his gratitude to him for his investigation work, and then began to ask detailed questions: "Does the Chulunkeng area belong to the territory of a certain tribe? When we enter that area, will there be any encounters with the aboriginal people?" Exclusion or even expulsion by force? ”
Yu Yao said: "The Dajia tribe has about a dozen societies in the mountainous area near Miaoli. To be honest, we don't have much information about the sphere of influence of these societies. But what is certain is that there are several societies near Chusulukeng. When we visited the area last time, the attitude of the aborigines was not particularly friendly. Personally, I am not very optimistic about the possibility of peaceful coexistence. If we move into the mountainous area on a large scale, we are likely to encounter conflicts with the aborigines. Residents engaged in armed conflict.”
Bai Kesi said: "We have two companies of the army accompanying us this time. Do you think these troops can deal with the local aboriginal tribes?"
Yu Yao shook his head and said: "It's hard to say. If we open up the battle line and fight on the plains, our two companies of troops are enough to deal with the aborigines in the entire Miaoli area. But in the mountains and forests, how much can our soldiers do? Its combat effectiveness is hard to say.”
(End of chapter)