Chapter 563: Candidate Competition
Ryukyu, as the key to the development of the Ding Navy for a long time in the future, such a place, even if there is a slight problem, will be directly reported to Zhao Xin, not to mention, it may face the premise of war.
Because of the status, the news of the Ryukyus was previously limited to the bureau level, the district level or the bureau level, and in addition to these levels of personnel, only those who have reached a certain level of secrecy can know about it when they come into contact with the Ryukyus, and nothing else knows.
Before Zhao Shin was released, there were very few people who really knew about this, and only those in the Secretariat and those who were personally involved in the transportation of the Ryukyus would know.
In the middle level, among these people other than Zhao Xin, few people paid attention to these things, that is, Zhao Xin only began to understand after he found four people, and in the middle, only Zhou Zhong and Wang Xue understood, Xue Yu and Sun Ji didn't care about this matter at all.
This may be talent and sensitivity, Zhou Zhong and Wang Xue are very good in this aspect, Xue Yu and Sun Ji, they are also very strong in their own fields, but they are not good in other fields.
Zhao Xin quickly prepared for the diffusion, and asked people to prepare some simple things, mainly some narrative materials, and notified Zhou Zhong and Wang Xue.
Among this group of leaders at the middle level, the people who know the most about the Ryukyus, their status, and make sure that what they say does not need to be explained too much.
In the conference room, a large number of people sat down, distributed materials, and Zhou Zhong and Wang Xue gave a lecture respectively, so that all the participants had a basic understanding of Ryukyu.
It was a large island large enough to solve the whole problem of the land of the Ding Navy, and everything was going well in itself, but now, a conflict with the natives had put the settlement on the cusp.
The only thing to be thankful for is that it did not happen in the early stage of the landing, but in the later stage of the landing, at this time, the buildings of the entire Ding Navy landing site have basically taken shape, although it is said that the other three or four buildings are still under construction, but the core area is a complete defense system.
However, there are too few people at the landing site, although I don't know how many people there are, but conservatively estimated, there are at least more than 20,000 people, then, the manpower that can be used is between 3000-5000, which is already 10 times that of the Ding Navy, and the defense is not a fortress, but a 3-story steel structure, no one dares to guarantee whether it can be defended.
An island that is so important, even related to the future, that the entire Ding Navy layout is about to have a crisis, which will affect the period of several months, which can no longer be said to be a small matter for the Ding Navy, where every second counts.
Those who understand and those who don't understand communicate with each other, and there is a buzz in the entire conference room, but only a few people really care.
Zhao Xin looked at everyone's expressions in his eyes, nodded slightly, the personnel at the bureau level, the same as he had thought about before, except for a few people who had some thoughts about this, they didn't think of the right place, and the others didn't care much about it.
Only a few selected are the ones who are most concerned, and among them, Sun Ji is the most excited.
Sun Ji was armed with imperial weapons, and even participated in the war in the northwest, even when he arrived in the Ding Navy, after entering politics, he was more in the military field.
Before, the unexpected discovery of Pirate Island, Sun Ji was quite interested, and even ran to Pirate Island, although it did not play a role, but it inspired his idea, and now, another more huge island, it is certain that the army, will definitely play a role in it.
This is not the previous naval battle on Pirate Island, although this is also a war that spans 2,000 miles of sea, but these aborigines live in the mountains, so the main form of this war is land warfare.
The ballistas of the Ding Navy are very powerful and can shoot up to 2,000 meters away, but the reason why the Takayama clan is the Takayama clan is that it is on the high mountains, and there are many high mountains in the Ryukyus, and there are many mountains over 3,000 meters, but there are few mountains of all kinds near the coast.
Also excited is Xue Yu, he is also eager to make contributions, the two of them are stronger in military affairs than in government, and they don't realize at all why Ryukyu, which everyone doesn't know very well, has Zhou Zhong and Wang Xue to tell why they know more than him.
In the conference room, there were also many people, who did not discuss or speak, and some of them were indifferent to this matter, thousands of miles away from the entire Ding Navy, or even more than a thousand miles away, so far away, what happened to them, does it have anything to do with them?
But among the people who don't speak, there are also a few people with a heart, including Zhou Chong.
Zhou Zhong sat there, in fact, after this news came back, he was already thinking about it, and the main question he was thinking about was whether to give up his current position.
If there was no such thing as this emergency, in the next month or two, when the construction of the settlement was completed and the camp was able to accommodate four or five thousand people, he would have applied for it, but now, the plan has not changed quickly.
The literati of the Northern Song Dynasty were not as pedantic as later generations, and the top literati were also a choice to enter the prime minister, for example, Han Qi was the representative, Han Qi could become a civil official in various ways, master everything on the whole road, and he could also become a general, for example, he was once a good Shuichuan, of course, this is a shame, and in the subsequent Western Xia War, it has been turned over.
Zhou Zhong was only from a human background, far from reaching the height of Han Qi, and even when he came to Ding Haijun, he came with the idea of a shortcut.
It is impossible for people to exist alone without the trajectory of development, and the same is true for Zhou Chong, perhaps at the beginning, he had that idea, but he stood in the right position at the right time, and more than 1 year of training made him stand out among nearly a thousand literati, which is the proof of strength.
Now, such an opportunity is in front of him, and his idea is not to be safe and continue to wait for an opportunity in the port area, but to give it a go.
In terms of identity, Zhou Zhong is the middle level below Zhao Xin, and in terms of status, he is regarded as the core official of the entire Ding Navy, and he may want four or five grades according to his grade, but the development of the Ding Navy is a thousand miles by day, and Zhou Zhong sensitively feels that if he can't enter Zhao Xin's field of vision, then he can only go with the flow.
The development of the Ding Navy, that is overspeed, Zhao Xin's traverser itself, coupled with the combination of the card system, directly created the glory of the Ding Navy, and in 2 years, built a city that is twice as large as Bianliang and has a terrible production capacity.
If you follow the development of an ordinary feudal dynasty, it may go too fast, and it will take a little time to accumulate, but Ding Navy does not, after the Spring Festival, a large number of personnel are in place, and Ding Navy's land has already had problems, and it is almost inevitable to expand outward.
If Ryukyu was just an island similar to the Ding Navy, or even a little bigger, Zhou Zhong would never consider it like this, but Ryukyu was too big, a place hundreds of times larger than the Ding Navy, and even almost the size of a road in the Northern Song Dynasty, he definitely needed to fight for it.
From the Ryukyu crisis to the present, Zhou Zhong has been thinking about it seriously, and now, in the whole meeting, he finally made up his mind.
After the discussion came to an end, when Zhao Xin began to let everyone express their opinions, Zhou Zhong stood up.
At the meeting, he expressed his thoughts, that is, to resign from the post of head of the port area, and go to the Ryukyus with reinforcements to rescue the vanguard
As soon as this statement came out, it was immediately earth-shattering.
Under the premise that the vanguard of the Dinghai Navy may encounter war, the assistance is certain, so easy, it took several months to stabilize and improve such a settlement, in a sense, this is a foundation for the expansion of the Dinghai Navy, such a large amount of time has taken so long to build, in the future, if you really want to break away, the price is Zhao Xin can not bear.
Under such circumstances, sending troops, even if it is a general like Sun Ji, is a normal choice, and it is appropriate for a literati to take the initiative to apply?
In the middle, Sun Ji first stood up, first talked about the current positive situation, and then compared the strength of the two sides, and also proposed that he would go.
Regarding the argument between the two people, Zhao Xin was noncommittal, but looking at Zhou Zhong's vision, it was different.
Zhou Zhong was indeed the first person to read the information about the Ryukyus, and in a sense, Zhou Zhong understood the meaning of the Ryukyus.
It's just discovered by the natives, and in the future, there will be continuous battles, how much strength the natives have, even if they dispatch a few thousand people, the outstanding strength of the soldiers who think it is said is enough to solve most of the problems, and it is not a problem to send civilians or soldiers.
The fortress has proven its defenses, and it would not be so worrying if there was now a fortress in the settlement of the Ryukyus.
However, the reinforced concrete steel structure has perfect protection, which is something that ordinary people can capture, and the protection is not as good as the fortress, but compared with the fortress in Baozhou, the overall protection is not weak.
Under the premise that neither civilian nor military personnel are a problem, and individual force is no longer the focus of the war, the key issue is the control of the Ryukyus at present.
Zhou Zhong and Sun Ji seemed to start a competition for everyone, and after a short hesitation, others also took the initiative to go to the Ryukyus to solve the current crisis.
The people who can sit here are not ordinary people, maybe some people don't care about the affairs of the Ryukyus, and some people are more concerned about their own one-third of an acre.
But between people, it's not just indifferent, they are all middle-level officials, Zhou Zhong is willing to gamble, even if others don't have this vision, they will consider whether to let go of this opportunity.
When Zhou Chong, Wang Xue, Sun Ji and Xue Yu, these four people who are obviously better than others, join the camp of the competition, they will not let go.
Zhao Xin watched coldly, and did not lean towards anyone, but the more he looked, the more depressed he felt.
Talent, although there is a saying, the superior thinks that you are a talent, you are a talent, otherwise, you will not be talented.
After turning the corner from Baozhou to safety, he took the initiative to give up such an identity as a prince and chose to come to the Ding Navy, relying on the card system and the vision of the traverser, he laid a world in the Ding Navy.
In just 2 years, Zhao Xin can unceremoniously say that he has developed very well, from a remote couple, to changing the pattern of the entire Northern Song Dynasty, all kinds of industrial products, flooded the Northern Song Dynasty, imperceptibly transforming the Northern Song Dynasty.
If you were any other person, you might do better than him, but it wouldn't be much better.
However, now, everything is developing very smoothly, and Ding Haijun's Dinghai currency can even pass through the entire Northern Song Dynasty, and it is having more and more influence and share.
However, there is one problem that has begun to emerge, and that is the lack of talent.
The land can not be too big, more than 300 square kilometers of land in the Ding Navy, which is enough to accommodate millions of people, some pollution-free factories, and even large-scale concentration, Ding Navy built a factory building, which is a clear example, maybe some are not very convenient, but the dense capacity makes the output value of the Ding Navy greater.
These don't need a lot, but talent is in demand more and more.
With the growth of personnel in the Ding Navy and the creation of various factories, the demand for talents is getting higher and higher.
The Northern Song Dynasty has been raising scholars for nearly a hundred years, among the entire feudal dynasty, the Northern Song Dynasty has the best attitude towards literati, and because of the relationship between Chongwen, the entire Northern Song Dynasty, talent began to erupt, which has never been seen in the previous feudal dynasties, and the Renzong Dynasty is one of the best.
Zhao Xin chose to become a festival envoy, so that after he had the right to have the right to one acre and three points of land, it was almost inevitable that he would lose the supplement of the dynasty.
At present, those who defected to the Ding Navy are the highest to raise people, and there is not a single jinshi.
The literary name of the Northern Song Dynasty is respected, but among the people, and even among the talents, how many talents, even if Zhao Xin is in Ding Haijun, actively cultivating illiteracy, but in a short period of time, there is still no way to see the effect.
As far as the current situation is concerned, among these middle-level people in the Ding Navy, there are mostly mediocre people, and some of them can't see the important role of the Ryukyus at all, but as long as they feel that they have interests, they can fight for it, and this is not all a mess of quarrels.
This is not in a hurry, among the many officials, Zhou Zhong and other four people have been trained, which is already good, and Zhao Xin does not have extravagant hopes, in a short period of time, in the Ding Navy, there are talents like Ye Qingchen and Han Qi, who are in charge and outstanding, so they can pick generals among the shortened people as much as possible, and now the four major regions are still okay, but the middle-level bureau is not good.
Sighing, not continuing to bask in negative emotions, Zhao Xinrang stopped the quarrel and announced the decision.
After simple consideration, repeated consideration, and for the sake of balance, the personnel finally sent out were Zhou Zhong and Sun Ji, Zhou Zhong was responsible for the management of government affairs and other specific matters, and Sun Ji led the reinforcements, mainly responsible for the military.