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, and if the business effect is calculated by the amount of economic benefits, it will definitely violate his professional beliefs as an educator. The promotion of Haihan educational institutions to other countries is of greater political significance, as long as there is a way, even if it loses money, it will be done. But if you use Schneider's method to operate, it will inevitably become more coppery, and it is not in line with Ning Qi's original intention of advocating this matter.

Of course, Ning Qi also knew that Schneider's words were mostly jokes, and the merchants from all over the world who came to Schneider to talk about business during this celebration had already lined up in a long line, and there were a lot of profitable transactions waiting for him to deal with, how could he have the energy to take care of the "small business" of opening a school. As soon as Ning Qi told him about Zhang Jinbao just now, he didn't even carefully ask Zhang Jinbao about his asset status and the amount of loans he needed, so he agreed first, on the one hand, out of trust in Ning Qi, and on the other hand, he really didn't pay too much attention to this small business. Even if Ning Qi really threw the pot to Schneider to operate, he estimated that he would not have the skills, and in the end, most of it would be handed over to his subordinates.

Rather than turning this into a pure deal, Ning Qi is more than willing to hand it over to practitioners in the education industry, such as Zhang Jinbao, who has ideas and doers. Ning Qi decided to wait until he was done here, and then find another time to talk to Zhang Jinbao and discuss the possibility of promoting the private vocational education system abroad.

Schneider only briefly communicated with Ning Qi for a moment, and then he was surrounded by several foreign envoys. The establishment of the South China Sea Trade Alliance is a great change for the countries in the region, as the countries that have already joined the South China Sea Trade Association want to gain more benefits for themselves in the formulation of trade rules, while the countries that have not yet joined the organization are trying to figure out what kind of benefits they can enjoy and what they need to pay after joining this international organization. As the initiator of this international organization, Haihan and the Minister of Commerce, the leader in charge, have naturally become the object of questioning by representatives of various countries.

For these countries in the South China Sea at this time, although international trade is not a new thing, it is basically playing its own game, and there is no game rules that are universally recognized by each country or prevailing in the region. Haihan took the lead in organizing the South China Sea Trade Alliance and formulating the relevant trade system, which is a relatively novel experience for most countries. Fortunately, Annam, Champang, Portugal, and the Netherlands responded one after another for their own purposes, and the governments of the two provinces of Fuguang in the Ming Dynasty also acquiesced in the legitimacy of this international organization, and the influence of this trade alliance was enough to bring other countries to join.

However, even if they choose to join the trade union, each country has its own selfish motives, and it is difficult to require every member of such a relatively loose international organization to fully abide by the unified system in its operation, and each country has its own deviation in understanding of these trade systems, and it is naturally difficult to maintain the same standards in implementation, which are objective problems that are difficult to solve thoroughly. However, Schneider made the priorities of the matter very clear, what Haihan needs is not for these countries to show absolute obedience in the field of international trade, but to control the voice of international trade in the region, and so that member countries can open the door to trade with Haihan.

For Haihan, as long as the trade channel is opened, everything else is easy to say. The political, military, cultural and other projects promoted by Haihan have always been opened by trade, and then gradually followed up, so that the resistance will be relatively small. What Schneider has to do is to bring these countries interested in the trade brought by the Haihan into the South China Sea Trade Alliance one by one, and use considerable economic benefits to break the guard of these countries, and then introduce projects in other fields little by little, and gradually transform the local society.

While the international exchange was still in full swing during the celebration, a fleet of more than 30 sailing ships quietly set off from Victory Port in the early morning of April 4. Because of the large fleet that has recently entered and exited Sanya, the departure of this fleet has not attracted public attention, and only a few staff members at the port witnessed the arrival of Tao Donglai and other high-ranking officials to see off the fleet, and the destination of its voyage is only known to a very small number of executives.

In fact, most of the passengers in the fleet did not know exactly where they were going, and they were given the task of only going to the island of Taiwan to complete a project, and there was no specific information about where the project would be and how long it would take. And everyone was asked to keep the mission strictly secret, not even in front of their families. Most people don't even let their families know about their trips even after they have set off.

The official who led this fleet was the Minister of Industry Bai Kesi, and this was the first time he had traveled far in seven years since the crossing, and the farthest place he had gone before that was to Changhua to inspect the local smelting industry, and the itinerary before and after was properly taken care of, and he did not need to worry about it at all. And this time he went to Taiwan, Bai Kesi had to be responsible for coordinating and commanding a team of thousands of people, and he had to take root in a poor and white place, which was almost a reprint of the Sanya landing, the difference was that now there were more people under his hands, and he didn't need to do everything himself, just give orders.

Fortunately, he was not the only traveler in this team, but also Morgan, who was in charge of armed defense, and Liu Shanxia, who was in charge of engineering construction. When the team arrives in Miaoli, Taiwan, Tian Yeyou, the head of the Ministry of Industry's Department of Mining, will also rush over from Jilong Port in Taipei to join them and implement the oil drilling project together. In the projects implemented overseas by Haihan in recent years, it is also one of the few situations where so many traversers can participate at the same time.

Since most of the ships in this fleet were cargo ships loaded with various supplies, they also moved slowly, with an average speed of only about five knots. The fleet departed from Shengli Harbor and headed north along the east coast, approaching the coastline of Zhaoqing Province in Guangdong Province before turning east, and 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 being conspicuous, the fleet did not even dock at Causeway Bay in the northern waters of Hong Kong Island, but chose the early development of Zhennan Port on the southern side of Hong Kong Island to dock at the military pier in Ap Lei Chau.

Yau Yi-han, who is currently serving as the chief administrative officer in Hong Kong, received the news and took a special boat from Causeway Bay to arrive at the port.

"Everyone, this is many days earlier than the time previously announced! You set off from Sanya in advance?" You Yihan took the initiative to ask after a few words of greeting. He had already received a telegram from Sanya, saying that a large fleet would soon sail north to Taiwan, and that it would stop at Hong Kong Island for supplies on the way, and that the local authorities would do their best to meet the demand. However, the time mentioned in the telegram was at least late April, but I did not expect that the fleet would arrive much earlier than expected, and it was only when it was almost in Hong Kong waters that the telegram was sent to inform the Hong Kong Administrative Committee, otherwise You Yihan would not have rushed over to meet in such a hurry.

"It was expected to leave in the middle of the year, but the materials and personnel were in place earlier than expected, so we set off early. Bai Kesi explained to You Yihan: "The construction period of this project is relatively long, and the sooner the construction starts, the sooner it can be put into production." ”

You Yihan did not know what the purpose of this fleet was to go to Taiwan Island, so he asked curiously: "What kind of project has created such a large formation? The last time such a large fleet crossed Hong Kong Island, it was the fleet led by Shi Diwen who went to Fujian to fight. ”

You Yihan is not an outsider, Bai Kesi did not hide the truth, and told him 1510, but still told him to keep it secret and not to publicize the matter to the public.

As a traverser, You Yihan is naturally well aware of the great significance of oil to industrial civilization, and it is reasonable that Sanya organized such a large fleet to rush to Taiwan. If he had been replaced by You Yihan in the Executive Committee, he might have been in a hurry to get the oil out of the ground than the current gang. However, the fact that there is still oil on the island of Taiwan is new news that he has never heard of.

After a one-day stay at Zhennan Harbour, the fleet set off on April 10 and sailed along the southern waters of Hong Kong Island through the Shuang Si Mun Channel, and then along the coasts of Huizhou and Chaozhou to the Fujian Strait. Out of secrecy, the fleet did not dock again in the waters of Guangdong, but sailed directly to Penghu. On the morning of 14 July, the flotilla successfully arrived at the naval base at Magong Port in Penghu.

Due to the further expansion of the Haihan territory in the past year, Penghu is no longer the first line in the outermost part of the Haihan territory, so the number of troops stationed in Penghu has also decreased a lot, and the special operations battalion originally stationed here has changed its station to Dinghai Port in Zhoushan, Zhejiang. At present, the military chief of Zhoushan is Yu Yao, the former military attache of the Guangzhou Office, who was also transferred to Penghu from Guangzhou only last year to take over the position left by Qian Tiandun.

After arriving in Penghu, the fleet had to stay for a few days, and Bai Kesi and the others had to listen to the opinions of the local garrison and formulate a complete action plan before they could land in Miaoli.

Yu Yao received the notice from the Executive Committee much earlier than Hong Kong Island, because he not only took on the task of advancing the base, but also had to gather as much local intelligence information as possible before the arrival of the fleet, so as to prepare for the smooth implementation of the project.

"I led a team to Miaoli late last month, and I'll tell you about the general situation first. Yu Yao said lightly, as if going to this trip was as easy as walking 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 the others.

Miaoli is actually the name of the travelers who copied the name of later generations, and this place actually does not have an exact place name in the current era. The aborigines living here are the Dajia people, which is also one of the Pingpu people, and the local settlement of the Dajia people is called Maoli Society, and later the Han immigrants took its homonym and named the local name Miaoli.

Miaoli Mountain has many plains and few plains, the main terrain is the river impact fan on the west side of the Snow Mountain Range, due to continuous river erosion, the local hilly valley terrain is very common, and the sulfur pit where the underground oil field is located in one of the river valleys is located in the valley, which is about 30 kilometers away from the coast. In terms of the environment of this era, this distance is really not close, you must know that it took Haihan a year or two to open up the land passage between Changhua and Shilu, and that distance is only about ten kilometers longer than this side.

After Yu Yao went to the local area, 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 to do it. However, there is a small river called Houlong Creek that can be navigated from the sea to the pit, and in the early stage of construction, materials and personnel can be sent to the pit by water. But the more troublesome thing is that the water depth of this small river is limited, and ordinary sea boats are likely to run aground when they enter it, and 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 can be used when they are towed to the local area. However, the navigable capacity of this Houlong Creek is limited, and if it is to be used as the main means of transportation for a long time, it is estimated that it will still be a little 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 decide on his own, so he can only mention it at this meeting, and how to deal with it depends on the opinions of Bai Kesi and others.

After listening to Yu Yao's introduction, Bai Kesi first thanked him for his investigative work, and then began to ask detailed questions: "Does the area out of the pit belong to the territory of a certain tribe?

Yu Yao said: "The Dajia clan has more than a dozen societies in the mountainous areas near Miaoli, and 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 in the vicinity of the pit. The last time we went on an expedition, the attitude of the aborigines was not particularly friendly. Personally, I am not very optimistic about the possibility of peaceful coexistence, and if we move into the mountains on a large scale, there is a high probability that there will be an armed conflict with the indigenous people. ”

Bai Kesi said: "We have two companies of army counterparts this time, do you think these troops can settle the local aboriginal tribes?"

Yu Yao shook his head and said: "It's hard to say, if we open up a battle on the plains, the troops of our two companies will be enough to deal with the aborigines of the entire Miaoli region, but in the mountains and forests, it is difficult to say how much of our soldiers can exert their combat effectiveness." ”