Chapter 2482
The Executive Committee is not unaware of some of the "little tricks" used by the Star Island Colonial Zone in the development of the oil project. The Ministry of Security and the Military Intelligence Bureau have their own intelligence sources in each overseas colonial zone. The local situation Not much can be hidden from their eyes and ears.
However, the Executive Committee will not easily intervene in such development projects led by overseas colonies to prevent certain senior officials from profiting from them. If there is no personal interest drive, then the development progress in most areas will probably stagnate for a long time. Only by allowing the officials in charge to make moderate profits can the development and construction of these areas be smoothly advanced.
What's more, Tian Yeyou is the only mining expert in Chuanchuan Group. Only he has the corresponding professional knowledge and can organize and manage the mining of new mineral deposits. All the mineral deposits that Haihan Kingdom has developed over the years are inseparable from Tian Yeyou's participation. The value he has created for Haihan over the years is difficult to measure simply in terms of money.
Regardless of whether Tian Yeyou wants to make money to support his family by presiding over projects or to pave the way for his children to open up their joints, as long as he is still serving the country, the executive committee will not pursue these minutiae issues. Compared with Tian Yeyou's contribution to the country, these small things are simply not worth mentioning.
The Executive Committee is also well aware of the role played by the Star Island Colony here. In fact, it is not uncommon for overseas colonial areas to take the lead in developing and constructing industrial projects on their own in Haihan. The related history can be traced back to the first overseas colonial area opened by Haihan, which was the Black Earth Port whose main industry was coal mining.
Colonial areas with mineral projects have natural advantages in terms of development conditions. Black Tu Port and Shandong Dengzhou are representatives in this regard. Regions lacking such natural conditions can only find development opportunities from other aspects. For example, like Hong Kong and Zhoushan in the early years, they used their special geographical location to position the local development direction as an international trade port, or they followed the example of Kaohsiung. Colonial area, vigorously develop planting industry and agricultural deep processing.
However, the Sing Tao Colony was unable to find a suitable positioning and development direction until the Dumai Oilfield project was developed. Although the area is located at a strategic location on the sea, the scale of navigation in the area in this era was far from being able to support a large trading port. As for agricultural development, because the local geographical conditions and climate environment are completely different from those of the East Asian continent, and the immigration situation has always been unsatisfactory, no significant results have been achieved.
After entering the 1940s, the war in the South China Sea gradually decreased. Although the Singdao Colonial Zone organized several waves of operations to expand its territory, it failed to gain the attention of the Executive Committee. During this period, the main energy of the Executive Committee was focused on digesting the southern coastal areas of the mainland that were annexed from the Ming Dynasty, and did not care about the distant South China Sea borders.
To put it bluntly, the Xingdao Colonial Zone has no ability to make a profit. It even has to rely on funds provided by the state to subsidize consumption and maintain the operation of the government system for a long time. Naturally, it cannot be taken seriously by the Executive Committee. Moreover, the Xingdao Colonial Area has been used as the place where Haihan's tortured prisoners were exiled over the years, and some departments do not want to take the initiative to change this special local functional positioning.
Now that the Sing Tao Colonial District has managed to develop the Dumai Oilfield project on its own, it will definitely play a certain role in promoting the industrialization process of Haihan and the local area. The executive committee is naturally happy to see the results. As for the Sing Tao official holding a larger share in this project and using the profits from operations to develop the local area in the future, these practices are also within the scope approved by the executive committee.
Of course, if the Star Island Colonial Zone wants to take some measures to make changes in the military field, especially actions such as expansion and replacement of equipment, it needs to be double-reviewed by the Executive Committee and the Ministry of National Defense. It does not mean that the local area can raise its own military expenses. goals achieved. Roger next wants to drastically expand and reorganize the army, update armaments, and get approval from Sanya. Then he must first find a reasonable reason for this-such as protecting the petrochemical industry in the Dumai area. Protecting Haihan's industries or personnel is one of the most common reasons Haihan has used military means overseas in recent years. The overseas colonial zones will also use this reason to make some special applications to the Executive Committee and the Ministry of Defense.
For example, when Haihan was developing the local copper mine in Fushan County, Dengzhou, Shandong Province, in order to ensure the normal production of the mine, the executive committee specifically approved Chen Yixin to form an infantry battalion there to protect the safety of the Fushan copper mine production area. A few years later, Haihan developed a gold mine in Zhaoyuan County, Dengzhou. Chen Yixin followed suit and expanded the local garrison on the grounds of protecting gold mine production.
Of course, these resource areas that were "protected by force" by Haihan were naturally included in Haihan's territory and would never return to their original owners. Therefore, for areas that Haihan intends to annex, the executive committee will generally agree to the applications of overseas generals, and sometimes even actively instruct them to send troops to occupy the target areas.
Whether Roger can realize his army expansion plan depends to a certain extent on whether he can find valuable action targets in the future.
However, for the Haihan Executive Committee, regardless of the birth of the Dumai Oilfield project, the South China Sea will not be the focus of attention in the near future. The direction of the situation in East Asia is an important condition for whether Haihan can develop stably in the next decades or even centuries. Most of the people in power on the executive committee are in their fifties and sixties. They must consider what will happen after they give up. What kind of situation will be left to the next generation of leaders?
After arriving in this world, I slowly discovered that it was not that easy to realize the various grand ambitions and hegemonies I had envisioned before traveling through time. If we simply use military means to defeat opponents in East Asia, Haihan already has enough strength to achieve such a goal, but to occupy the world and build a powerful Eastern empire, it is still somewhat insufficient for the rulers. .
Just the Fuguang area currently annexed from the Ming Dynasty will take a long time for Haihan to digest. The vast majority of people in the Traveling Group have no experience in governing local areas as officials. For many people, being a county magistrate or mayor is already the upper limit of their abilities. In areas other than Hainan Island, they have to rely on training from the Ming Dynasty. bureaucracy to continue to govern the local area.
If Haihan wants to continue to annex more areas on the East Asian continent, it is indeed achievable from a military perspective, but how to govern it is a big problem before the Executive Committee. If you are unable to implement Haihan's system in the occupied areas and govern in the manner of an industrialized civilized country, you will only rule these places in name. Not only will you fail to achieve the intention of the Executive Committee, but it will also reduce the efficiency of governing the country. .
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