"Brother, I'm very happy to see in the document that you're coming. But this is more than a year, which is a bit unexpected, and I miss it very much. In the bustling Jiaozhou Port, Liu Jianguo, the outgoing captain of the Denglai Pioneer Team and the commander of the Far East Security, was holding the arm of Liu Houfei, who had just come by boat, and said with a smile.

This "meeting" of Erliu was arranged in a luxuriously decorated hotel next to the train station. The owner and investor of the hotel is the local state-owned Oriental Hotel Group, they saw the potential of Denglai's future development and the unique location advantages of Jiaozhou Port, so they invested in the construction of this six-storey hotel - it is worth mentioning that this building called Jiaozhou Hotel is the tallest building in and outside the city of Jiaozhou (except for the facilities of the lighthouse), designed by the famous architect Sun Dapeng on the east coast, it can be called a landmark building in Jiaozhou, very famous. Let Denglai and even many people from foreign countries feel the powerful power of the industrialized east coast.

Liu Houfei was previously the Commissioner of the Bac Ninh Regional Administration and has many years of experience in politics in Brazil. This time, he came all the way from the mainland to the Far East to take over the post of Ma Wenqiang, the former captain of the Southern Pioneer Team, and to serve as the chief official of the richest of the three feudatories, and to take charge of the affairs of the southern region. Before going to Yinxian to take up his post, he and the cadres of the Personnel Department of the Executive Committee had to go to Liu Jianguo, the supreme military officer of the Far Eastern Domain, to discuss with him the work plan for the next stage.

Liu Jianguo was accompanied by Liao Degong, commander of the Liaodong garrison. This gentleman has been officially announced to take over Liu Jianguo's position, as an active military attaché as the commander of the Far East security and the captain of the Denglai Pioneer Team, and has become the most powerful person in the three feudatories of the Far East.

Liu Jianguo's mood can be seen to be quite excited, because of his achievements in the homeland and the Far East for many years, his reputation in the Founders' Council is quite good, and he has been confirmed to enter the next executive committee, and the ranking will be quite high, and even the chairman's throne is closer than others, faintly feeling like the first person in the Mesozoic Era. Therefore, he Liu is really high-spirited now, and he is very imposing when he speaks, which makes Liu Houfei feel a lot of emotion: It's really slow step by step, when Liu Jianguo was working hard in South Chile, he also started working in Bac Ninh, but because of the slow step, several good "radish pits" were occupied by others in advance, and then caused a situation like today.

But it's not too late for him! didn't catch up with the first echelon, and the tickets for the second echelon were finally held tightly in my hands! Starting this year, he was able to begin his gilded resume as the captain of the all-important Southern Pioneer Team. After a few years, can't he return to his homeland with this honor and claim the supreme throne?

"The storm is sinister, the distance is far away, there is no way." Liu Houfei shook his head, with a worried expression. In order to be in a hurry, he did not take the Indian Ocean route, which was already very mature and had many supply points on the way, but chose to take the fleet of Sun Chunyang's South Cargo Store to China through the Pacific route. Because of the scarcity of supply ports along the way, the distance between each other, and the large waves at sea (most of them sailing in the deep sea), Liu Houfei suffered a great crime along the way, and he was so seasick that he was about to vomit bile.

And that's not all, on the way out of the port of Jinhua on the island of Tahiti, on the way to Rabaul, they were blown off the course due to bad weather, one of the four ships unfortunately sank, one was badly damaged, and had to abandon the ship after transferring personnel and supplies, and then it took a lot of effort to reach the port of Rabaul for rest.

It was this voyage that fully made Liu Houfei realize why navigation was called a "game of the brave" in this era, which was indeed too difficult and dangerous. And it was at this time that Liu Houfei deeply understood how naïve and ridiculous it was that someone proposed to abandon South America and move to the Far East in its entirety: You let the old men who have already settled down and have a family and a business take the risk of pinning their heads to the waistband of their trousers and drifting across the ocean to the mainland? Are you murdering? And it's almost child's play! It is no wonder that the few people who proposed at the beginning, themselves and their descendants, are still not very popular in the parliament, and belong to the soy sauce family, which is really too low in emotional intelligence, which has aroused the anger of the public.

"This trip is to understand why most of the nobles or big merchants in our country and the European continent are not happy to sail, it is too dangerous, and I almost died." Liu Houfei said with a wry smile. He was really worried, worried that in the history of the East Coast, there were more than a dozen political rising stars who rose like comets, and fell like meteors in shipwreck. And this is actually good to explain why the East Coast is particularly tolerant of officials with overseas resumes, because it is already a great risk for the Guy family to go to sea to become officials, not to mention dealing with all kinds of very complex situations, this ability, courage and luck are naturally extraordinary, and it is certainly worth cultivating.

"Okay, since you're here, I won't say much about my polite words. In view of the fact that Captain Ma Wenqiang of Ningbo has left his post and returned to China, and now there is no leader over there, brother, you should arrive as soon as possible. Although we have already negotiated peace with Qingguo, there are still a lot of other affairs, and if you don't go, the acting captain will not be able to completely decide many things. Liu Jianguo led Liu Houfei to sit down in front of a coffee table, and then said: "Xiao Liao, you have now been appointed as the captain of the Denglai Pioneer Team and have taken over my class, which is very good, and it is also your opportunity." You are much younger than me and Brother Liu, and you will definitely be more brilliant in your career in the future, so you must cherish this opportunity. You have worked in both Liaodong and Denglai, so you should know the situation very well, so I won't say much about the specifics, and you can do it yourself at your own discretion. ”

"Hehe, to be honest, I was also surprised this time, after all, whether it is the mainland or the Far East, there are many people with seniority older than me, and it is not my turn to be the commander of this security. Perhaps, the reason is that as you said, Brother Liu, the local area needs a soldier who is familiar with the actual situation of Denglai to take charge of the overall situation. In the past two years, the number of immigrants who have been transported back to the mainland has been declining, and it is gradually becoming unsustainable, and the mainland must be dissatisfied, and I am also lucky to be catching up with this moment, otherwise I am afraid that there will be no chance. Liao Degong's speech is straightforward, he has been promoted to the rank of colonel and is now full of ambition, and his body is full of excitement to do a big job, so he is also full of enthusiasm when he speaks, only to hear him say again: "I will consider the problem from the perspective of the overall situation in the future, Liaodong and Denglai will not be wasted, and the support for Heishui will not be cut off." Of course, the most important issue of immigration, I will not be negligent, but the mainland should also be psychologically prepared, now that the situation on the mainland is becoming more and more stable, it will only become more and more difficult to get people in the future, and the previous long-term retention of 50,000 or 60,000 immigrants is unrealistic. ”

Liao Degong's words are not false, now that the large-scale war between the Qing and Shun has subsided, the East Coast and the Qing court have basically negotiated peace, and the brother of Guangdong Erli has also disappeared under the threat and interference of the East Coast people. The only place where skirmishes are still going on is probably the battle that the Lee Soon regime is in full swing to clean up the toast, right? But people are cleaning up the place with the idea of changing the land and returning it to the river, so how can they give valuable human resources to you East Coast people? This kind of thing is not only unreasonable, but also related to the face of the Dashun regime, which may have been possible more than ten years ago, but now it is not possible.

As a result, it is really difficult for people on the East Coast to get enough immigrants right now. The reserve population has been swept away, the Tan people in the coastal waters of Guangdong, Fujian, and Hainan have been unable to recruit, and the Qing army prisoners have been sent away in batches, and the population obtained by the "recruitment" immigrants in the Qing army and the Lu Wang's rule is also very limited, and now it is up to the annual population growth in the Ningshao area to fill the gap (the Denglai area has not yet reached the level of more people and less land). But the problem is that although there are few people in the Ningshao area, there are also many people staring! Manchuria, the Outer Northeast, or even Ezo Island, which one is not staring at these people? Those young people in Ningbo, who have no vitality, are probably more willing to live in places that are not so far from home, right? What the? Thousands of miles away on the East Coast? Where is that? Will there be deaths on the road? I'm not going! If you go to Manchuria, if you make some money, you may have the opportunity to go back to your hometown in Ningbo.

"There's no doubt that local needs must come first." Liu Houfei, who was about to take up his post in Ningbo, immediately said: "Although the assessment of the immigrant population in the local area has been lowered a lot, this is still an important criterion for measuring the work of the Far Eastern Domain. I remember that last year the population sent to the mainland was 30,000, which is too little, at least more than 45,000 people. Ningbo's new population every year will be exported to the mainland in the future, right? These people are all the new generation born in Ningbo, and the social atmosphere is somewhat different from the traditional Chinese areas, so it should be better to send them to the mainland, and the people from the Immigration Department and the National Development General Residence are also more acceptable. ”

"Let's mix it up. The new generation born in Ningbo is very important for assimilating people from other regions and can be said to be a valuable resource. After Liu Jianguo pondered for a while, he said, "Of course, I'm just a suggestion. What to do specifically, in the future, you and Xiao Liao will have to discuss it, Denglai and Ning Shao are the two fulcrums of our foothold in China, and the two still have to cooperate more. ”

Speaking of this, Liu Jianguo suddenly thought that Zeng Mou, the special envoy of the Personnel Department of the Executive Committee, who had already taken the ship of the Okhotsk Naval Detachment to the south, was destined for the Haizhu Island Commercial Station in Guangdong. When he arrives, he will announce a major event, that is, the Executive Committee has officially decided to readjust the administrative divisions of the Far East and turn the three feudatories of the Far East into the four feudatories, that is, they have decided to further split the Blackwater Pioneer Team and establish a separate administrative body in many areas, including Sakhalin, the Kuril Islands, Hokkaido, and the Kamchatka Peninsula, that is, the jurisdiction of the Blackwater Management Committee; The rest of the Outer Northeast, North Manchurian and other places were renamed the jurisdiction of the Manchurian and Mongolian Pioneer Team, and were under the jurisdiction of the captain of the Manchurian and Mongolian Pioneer Team.

It can be seen from this series of administrative divisions and names that the local administration and control of the Far East is really like a step-by-step. They divided Sakhalin Island, the only place in the Far East with basic industrial production capacity and rich in resources, and adopted the model of the management committee, which had been piloted for many years in Rabaul and Tahiti (compared with the decision of the leader of the development team, the management committee model relied on the collective decision of many members and dispersed power).

The new director of the Blackwater Management Committee will be Colonel Lan Fei, and the rest of the members of the management committee will be the general manager of the East Coast Japan Company, the commander of the Okhotsk Sea Fleet of the Third Fleet of the Navy, the commissioner of the Sakhalin Regional Administration, the commissioner of the Hokkaido Regional Administration (newly established), the head of Heishui County, and the deputy commander of the Military Police Command (in charge of the Far East).

It can be seen from the gathering of many leading figures in the Far East that the local people still regard Heishui as a "son". The only two coal mines, the only machine processing plant, the only iron and steel plant, the only gun assembly plant, the only shipyard, the only seed breeding center, and the only mint in the Far East are all located here, in addition to the only comprehensive university in the Far East, the Heishui Transportation Institute (Yantai College is mainly for training cadres, not involving technical aspects), the largest fishery production center in the Far East, the largest leather production center, the largest whaling center are all here, and the trade with Japan is also monopolized by it. The local technical assistance has also received a large share here, who believes it if it is not a son?

Compared with Heishui, the future Manmeng, Denglai, and Ningshao can only be raised by the queen, and the only industrial production facilities are probably some ship repair workshops, light artillery repair workshops, and train repair workshops, which are really not on the table. In addition, there are only some light industrial enterprises such as food processing, textile, and tea making invested by the government or private investment, and the production factories with roaring machines and chimneys in Heishui are completely two styles, which makes people feel depressed when they see it.

Liu Jianguo is also a person who is going back to the mainland to "enter the normal", and he understands the strategy of mutual checks and balances in the local area, although he feels that he is a little sorry for Denglai and Ningshao, two colonies with very good population and economy, but this is also something that cannot be helped. Your population and economy are already so developed, and if you are given industrial facilities, then it will not be heavenly? Therefore, the necessary administrative divisions and technical and financial restrictions still need to be met, especially when the native country is no longer particularly thirsty for immigrants, and it is indeed possible to let go of these feudal towns in the Far East.

Liu Jianguo understands this, and Liao Degong, Liu Houfei and others are not fools, so they naturally understand the Tao. Especially Liao Degong, who has worked in Denglai and Liaodong for many years, still has a deep affection for this land, so he will feel particularly sorry for Denglai, and he thinks that after he takes office in the future, he can only make up for it from other places, that is, try to attract more social capital to invest in industry and commerce, even if he starts from light industry, and consolidate Denglai's industrial foundation little by little.

He believed that it would be better to accumulate funds from light industry and then find ways to spend money on importing technology and hiring people from the country—even if it was outdated technology, and hiring third-rate technicians than nothing—to improve Denglai's industrial technology step by step. He believes that this is in line with the law of economic development and the comparative advantages of Denglai, which has a large population, and is not necessarily worse than those command-type and plan-based production enterprises under the Heishui Management Committee that rely on local aid.

If the expectation is good, Liu Houfei should have the same idea. The situation in the Ningshao area, Liao still knows a little bit, this feudal town that relied on trade with the Dutch East India Company and developed, has already passed the primitive accumulation stage of capital, and the merchants who have made money have constantly updated their technology under the guidance of the government, relying on local resources, and set up many tea factories, silk reeling factories, textile factories and other enterprises, which have developed very rapidly and the degree of mechanization is quite high.

After half of Shaoxing Mansion was seized by the people on the east coast, these capitals quickly poured over, and it was estimated that they would be able to toss for a while to invest in the local area and develop characteristic industries. But in the future, after this half of Shaoxing Prefecture is also digested and absorbed by them, they will either expand outward, look for new raw material sources and commodity dumping markets, or develop to the upstream of the production chain and technology chain, which is a foreseeable thing. The local restrictions on Denglai and Ningshao can actually be limited for a while, and at most thirty years later, these shackles will be broken, and what kind of strategy should the local people adopt at that time?

Now that Denglai has a new army, locally trained cadres, and businessmen with bulging pockets, can their interests really be sacrificed and ignored unscrupulously? Liao Degong has also read a lot of books, and he knows very well how the local elite opposed and even rebelled after the British promulgated the "Navigation Regulations" and harmed the interests of the North American colonies. The rampant smuggling trade with the French and the Dutch began at that time, and the local handicraft manufacturing industry also originated during that period, you must know that the head is determined by the ass, in the face of real interests, no one will tell you what feelings, dedication and sacrifice, Deng Lai and Ning Shao, decades later, will come to this point sooner or later.

But who can build a system that will never be easy to come by? Is it possible? Liao Degong sighed secretly in his heart. A smart politician is very powerful if he can formulate policies that will work for decades, and that is almost 1-2 generations. If it is longer, it is a matter for future generations, can it be managed so much? Denglai has Denglai's creation, Ning Shao has Ning Shao's luck, and these things are not his turn to worry about Liao Degong. In the future, he will compile these thoughts and feelings of his own into a document and submit them to the leaders of the country for review and discussion, and he will already be worthy of everyone, what else do you want? Denglai, Ningshao and even Chinese mainland also have incense love with the east coast, and the language, writing and many customs are even more common, and their future development is better than that of European continental countries, right? The Pacific Ocean is so big, and several countries can still afford it!

Liu Jianguo, Liao Degong, Liu Houfei and others then talked about the trade of Japan, Korea, and the Dutch East India Company, and talked about the financial cooperation between Denglai and Ningshao (Ningshao Prefecture needs to subsidize a part of Shandong's money and grain every year), and finally had dinner together before finally dispersing and going to their own business.

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