Chapter 2717
For these young people who come from high-ranking families, they have known what the front page of Haihan Times means since they were young. Generally, only articles involving major current affairs and national policy orientation will appear on that limited page, and their names are on the front page, which means that their personal career has reached a new level. The various agreements reached during the mission's visits to North Korea and Japan and all the benefits gained for Haihan will be recorded in their resumes and become political capital for future promotions.
Of course, these young people also know very well that this achievement is not entirely due to their own efforts, but the main reason is the care of their parents. Visiting in the name of a mission was originally a task tailor-made by Shi Diwen for Shi Chengwu and Wang Anguo, but Tao Hongfang and others happened to meet him at the right time, and Shi Diwen was happy to send a favor to their parents to let them participate in this mission. on task.
The fact that the relevant reports about the mission appeared on the front page of the Times should be part of Fort Victory's response to this. After all, Haihan has established diplomatic relations with quite a few countries. There are not ten but eight missions to various countries under various names every year, but there are really not many deeds that make the front page of the Times. Considering that the mission has not been completed yet, it is likely that there will be subsequent continuous reports appearing in the Times, which is also something worth looking forward to for them.
Zhu Zian can sympathize with the mentality of his companions. He came to Haihan to develop as the prince's younger brother of the Ming Dynasty. Isn't it actually another special form of mission? It's just that he came to Haihan in his own name, and he couldn't expect the Ming Dynasty regime, which was huddled in the Gyeonggi area and lingering on, to provide support to him abroad like Haihan treated these young officials.
But he had indeed gained a lot along the way. He knew that if he had chosen to be a landlord in Jinan, he would never have had these unimaginable experiences. In the future, whether you return to the area under the Ming Dynasty or stay in Haihan for development, these experiences will become valuable assets.
Due to the long distance, only a few copies of Haihan Times were sent to the Sasebo base, and two of them were sent to the mission. Zhu Zian had to wait for others to read them before he had the opportunity to read the contents carefully. .
Zhu Zian knew very well that the honor of the mission did not belong to him, so after he hastily read the report about the mission, he quickly turned his attention to other news. What he wanted to read was not necessarily the news in Haihan, but trying to find information related to the Ming Dynasty and Prince De's Palace.
This issue of the Times did not disappoint Zhu Zian. He quickly found a report related to the Shandong region on the front page - Chen Yixin, the governor of the Haihan Northern Region, recently visited Jiaozhou Bay in the south of Laizhou Prefecture to attend the local Groundbreaking ceremony for the first phase of the port.
As far as Zhu Zian knew, the local government organized the construction of a port during the Wanli period, which was called Qingdao Port. However, the scale of development was certainly not comparable to those large ports with dozens or hundreds of berths in areas under Haihan rule.
As for why Haihan fell in love with this place, Zhu Zian, who was familiar with the geography of Shandong, could roughly guess. After Jinan City was captured by the Qing army, the whole of Shandong was in chaos. At that time, Haihan sent troops from Dengzhou in the name of resisting the Qing army and rescuing refugees, and quickly controlled all traffic from west to east into the Jiaodong Peninsula. thoroughfare.
Haihan then took this opportunity to gradually isolate Ming's control over the Jiaodong Peninsula and annexed most of the two states, Denglai and Denglai. At that time, the Ming Dynasty was plagued by internal and external troubles and suffered from natural disasters for many years. It was unable to stop Haihan's actions, and it had no spare power to take these areas back from Haihan. It could only watch the Jiaodong Peninsula being gradually eroded by Haihan like Liaodong. Almost exhausted. However, after taking control of the Jiaodong Peninsula, Haihan still has many problems that need to be solved. One of them is that Haihan's garrison and shipping are concentrated in Fushan County, Dengzhou Prefecture, which has been operating for many years. The control of the southern part of the Jiaodong Peninsula mainly needs to be through It has become a top priority to implement it by land, open new ports in the southern region, and achieve rapid delivery of troops and materials by sea. As for Qingdao Port, which has superior natural conditions, it was no surprise that it was requisitioned by Haihan.
In the following years, the Haihan Northern Region focused its energy mainly on Liaodong. The situation in Shandong was relatively peaceful, and the port facilities at Qingdao Port were barely usable. However, last year the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty both surrendered, so Chen Yixin decided to expand and transform Qingdao Port. While increasing the scale of shipping, it would also become another garrison for the Haihan Northern Fleet.
The Times clearly stated that taking into account changes in the objective environment, the military functions of Dengzhou Zhifu Port will gradually decrease in the future, and the Northern Fleet will adjust its garrison deployment, using Lushun Port and the newly built Qingdao Port as its main garrison bases.
It is not difficult for Zhu Zian to make such an adjustment. He has been to Zhifu Port, and the port conditions there are not necessarily that good, at least compared to the Port of Lushun, Zhoushan Port, and Sasebo Port that he visited later. There are obvious differences in conditions in various places. Haihan would choose Zhifu Port to settle down at that time, mainly to facilitate the expansion of territory to Liaodong and to control the Bohai Bay and the northern Yellow Sea at the same time.
But now the external environment has changed drastically. After Haihan freed up his hands in the north, he no longer needed to reluctantly use the poor conditions of Zhifu Port. It was time to find a natural port like Jiaozhou Bay to station the naval fleet.
However, this report did not devote much space to the Jinan area where Prince De's Mansion is located. It only mentioned that nearly 10,000 migrant workers had been recruited for the port reconstruction and expansion project. Their sources were all over Shandong, including Jinan Prefecture. . The first phase of the project is expected to last two years. After completion, not only will the Haihan Navy be stationed there, but it will also become the largest operating trading port in Shandong. As for subsequent plans, the report did not mention it.
Although this report has no direct relationship with Prince De's Mansion, Zhu Zian is very pleased to see the news from Shandong. You must know that at this time, he is in a foreign country more than two thousand miles away from Jinan Mansion, and he can get News about my hometown is hard to come by.
And Zhu Zian believes that this news at least explains a few things. First, the situation in the Jiaodong Peninsula is stable and there will be no risk of war. Otherwise, Haihan would not start such a large-scale long-term project. Second, Haihan should be very optimistic about Shandong's development potential before investing huge sums of money in building the port. This is tantamount to seeing the dawn of hope for the people of Shandong who have been ravaged by various natural and man-made disasters in the past ten years.
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