Li Qingyang looked at these two young people whose faces had not completely shed their childishness, and the old mistake was made again, and he couldn't help asking: "Looking down, the two little brothers are also young talents, why didn't they go to the test to make a name for themselves and serve the imperial court before?"

"Meritorious fame?" Fu Li was stunned, turned his head to look at Yu Xiaobao, and then the two looked at each other and smiled.

"Forget about the fame, we don't have such a good life. Yu Xiaobao waved his hand and said: "We have started to read and write, that is, it has been a matter of the past two or three years, how can we write articles to test our fame! If it weren't for the chiefs coming to this place, I would probably still be working as a fisherman on the beach, and this guy is probably working as a hunter in the mountains......

"I'm the heir of the lord of the mountain, so I don't have to do these menial tasks by myself when I am the lord of the mountain!" Fu Li corrected with a smile.

"Ah, it turns out that Brother Fu is from Li!" Li Qingyang subconsciously sighed.

The Ming Dynasty has always divided the leaders of the Li people's cottages, of course, they are just empty positions that don't need money, and they will not really arrange official positions for these Li people in the local area. Li Qingyang saw a lot of Li people in Sanya doing things for the Haihan people, almost all walks of life, and it seems that the Haihan did solve the ethnic problem between the Han and Li better than the Ming Dynasty. However, it was the first time that Li Qingyang had encountered an heir to the lord like Fu Li locally, and he knew that this identity was already considered a nobleman among the Li people, and looking at Fu Li's attitude, he obviously preferred his identity in the Haihan society, and probably would not return to Li Tong to be the lord of the mountain.

Li Qingyang can feel the good relationship between the two, but one is a descendant of fishermen, and the other is the lord of Li people, it is really difficult for him to imagine how two teenagers with such different identities and backgrounds can become capable generals under the Haihan people together. But from here, he can also feel that the standards of Haihan in terms of employment are very different, the descendants of the fishermen and the Li people can become officials under the Haihan people, while he can only be deployed as a supernumerary member of the Ministry of Security.

Although Li Qingyang thought that he had no real intention of taking refuge in Haihan, he still clearly felt the unwillingness in his heart at this moment - he was also an orthodox hundred households of Jinyiwei, an official of the imperial court, and he had also made meritorious contributions to the Ming Dynasty.

As if hearing the complicated feelings in Li Qingyang's sigh, Fu Li responded: "Our Fu Shantong is the first Li Tong to cooperate with Haihan, and many of the young people who came out of our mountain are like us, and now they are working in the militia and the police department. The Haihan chiefs give us the same opportunities as the Han people, and for the chiefs, as long as they are loyal to the Haihan and the executive committee, they are usable people, and there is no need to be divided into nationalities. ”

Li Qingyang was now accustomed to not arguing with people about whether he should be loyal to the Haihan or the Ming Dynasty - there were quite a few people in this area who had never really accepted the rule of the Ming court, and for whom this matter was of no value to discuss. But when Li Qingyang heard Fu Li, a young Li person, say something like "loyal to Haihan", he still felt a lot of shock.

The Ming Dynasty has ruled Hainan for more than 200 years, and during this period, it even mobilized Miao soldiers from the mainland on a large scale to Hainan to quell the rebellion of the Li people. However, Haihan has been here for three years, and the Li and Miao people here have rushed to take refuge and serve him. These mountain people, who have always been unruly, have been trained to be so obedient, let alone the Han people, Li Qingyang couldn't help but think of Hao Wanqing's evaluation of "the Ming Dynasty is going to end" -- if the Haihan people really want to reach out to the mainland, will there be a situation where the people of the Ming Dynasty will also rush to join them?

However, Li Qingyang thought about it, how can there be any future, and now there are fewer people of the Ming Dynasty who cross the sea from the Liangguang region every month to join Haihan? According to Li Qingyang's estimation during this period of time, the average number of immigrants transported from the direction of Guangdong should be about 2,000 per month, which seems to be a small number, but after years of calculation, it basically provides the population of at least one county for the Haihan people every year, and the efficiency of the use of labor in the Haihan is amazingly high, and the population of this county to Haihan is only more than the three counties under the Ming Dynasty can do.

In addition, not all the immigrants recruited by Haihan on the mainland were transported to Sanya, and he heard that in addition to the two bases of Panyu and Wanshan Port that he had visited before, Haihan had opened a new port in Xinhui County, which was not only far larger than the previous two places, but also that the Executive Committee planned to gradually take the local area for itself and build a Haihan ruling area like Sanya. After this area was occupied, Li Qingyang estimated that there would be no natural obstacles that could stop the expansion of Haihan along the coast of Liangguang.

Yu Xiaobao said: "Mr. Li, the younger brother has been in Guangzhou in recent years, and the younger brother has also seen how the Ming government governs the place and appoints talents. If we talk about knowing people and making good use of them, how can those officials of the Ming Dynasty compare with the wise Haihan chiefs?"

Li Qingyang laughed at himself: "I am just a prisoner who was captured by mistake, and it is probably impossible to have a chance to be reused." ”

"Prisoners, identity is not a problem, Luo Shengdong and Wu Sen were all prisoners at the beginning, and now they are not all mixed up like people?" Yu Xiaobao seemed to see Li Qingyang's discouragement, and continued to persuade: "Mr. Li, the Ministry of Security is the most difficult to enter the Yamen, I don't know how many people want to enter and can't enter, you can be included in the establishment of the Ministry of Security as a prisoner, this is a great opportunity!"

The two young Haihan cadres sat for a while, and then set off to patrol the streets again. Li Qingyang continued to sit on the bamboo chair alone, thinking about his future outlet.

He originally planned to be able to get some fierce information in Qiongzhou, and then use it to get promoted and make a fortune, but after being captured by the Haihan people, this possibility has become very small. Under the surveillance of the Haihan people, the things he can send back through the guò news channel have no weight, and naturally there is not much merit to speak of, and after a long time, maybe the boss on the side of the Nanjing Zhenfu Division will forget that there is still a person like him Li Qingyang lurking on the remote Qiongzhou Island.

Li Qingyang knew that now the Haihan people felt that he still had a bit of a role in stabilizing the situation, so he kept him with good food and shelter, but when the wings of Haihan were hardened and he didn't worry about the pressure on Daming's side, he, a little Jinyi guard spy, would become a dispensable person. At that time, even if he will not be sent to the hard labor camp, I am afraid it will be difficult to have a good way out, and if he returns to the mainland at that time, Jin Yiwei may not be able to spare him, at least he will have to be punished for a crime of incompetence.

And completely taking refuge in Haihan seems to be the most promising path at present. His immediate boss Lin Nan also told him more than once that as long as he really figured it out one day and was willing to serve Haihan, he could bring it up at any time, and the Ministry of Security would immediately help him arrange a new job and position, and any promotions and salary increases would not be a problem. Today, after coming into contact with these two young Haihan cadres, this kind of thought in Li Qingyang's heart seems to be a little stronger.

While Li Qingyang was agonizing over how to choose the future path, the executive committee and the officials in charge of various units were gathering at Shengli Fort for the annual plenary meeting.

Of course, it is the plenary meeting, but in fact, it is still the congress, and a considerable number of traversers are not in a position to rush to Fort Victory to participate in this meeting, so all the items that need to be voted on by the whole are announced internally at least ten days in advance, and then the voting tickets filled out by everyone are sent back by all places.

The proposal to establish a military region was indeed smoothly received a high vote, and in addition, the nomination of the commanders of the three major military regions was also voted on at this meeting. All three military regions are tentatively established at the regimental level, and the first and second leaders have been uniformly promoted to the rank of colonel. The Guangdong Military Region was commanded by Xiao Liang, Yu Yao was appointed as a member of the political committee, and Chen Yixin, a young officer, was promoted to the rank of major and served as chief of staff of the Guangdong Military Region.

Yan Chujie and Tao Donglai served as commanders and political committee members respectively, while Wang Tom, commander-in-chief of the navy, concurrently held the post of chief of staff.

The three main posts in the Annan Military Region were divided between Qian Tiandun, Mu Xiabai, and Feng Annan. It is worth mentioning that due to the limitation of geographical conditions, the expansion of the army in the past two years has almost always been through self-recruitment, and the military and political commanders on the Annam side are inclined to expand by force, so the Annam Military Region is also the first of the three major military regions to meet the regiment-level establishment requirements.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the military has also promoted a large number of grass-roots naturalized civilian officers to meet the needs of the expanded establishment. Nearly 50 junior officers on the Annam side will be sent to the Shengli Port Military Academy to receive the latest political and ideological training, and after returning to the local garrison, they will serve as instructors for combat units at all levels in the local garrison. Doing a good job in the ideological work of the military's grassroots personnel is also a big move that the military will carry out this year, otherwise in the future, the territory controlled by the Haihan will become bigger and bigger, and the garrisons in various places will gradually become local warlords.

In addition, the practice of regularly changing the garrison of the troops, which had been interrupted for a long time because of the military expenditure problem, will be resumed this year, and the garrisons of the three major military regions will be partially stationed in different places on rotation, and the purpose of this is also to prevent the emergence of local warlordization as much as possible.

At present, among the three major military regions, the naval strength of the Hainan and Guangdong Military Regions, which will receive two main combat gunboats, is undoubtedly stronger, and because of the end of the civil war, the local area has basically restored normal stability and order, so the requirements for the maritime armed forces are not high, and at present there are only a few "exploration-class" warships paired with two "exploration-class" as the main force of local maritime patrol.

However, the situation of the army units is completely opposite, and the successful experience gained by Qian Tiandun in the special operations battalion in Heitu Port has also been extended to the entire garrison in Annam, and the combat capability of the army soldiers trained according to his model in complex environments such as mountains, jungles, and areas with dense water networks is significantly stronger than that of the troops trained in Shengli Port. In the annual army competition, the team sent by the special operations battalion of Heitu Port has never been defeated, and it has been the first every year. Even Yan Chujie had to admit that at least in the field of field operations, the troops under Qian Tiandun were the strongest in combat among the various departments of the militia group.

Of course, this is also related to the commander's personal combat thinking, garrison environment, and functions in a certain way. The main task of the army in Sanya is defense, relying on the shore defense artillery batteries established in the two ports and the fortresses in the ports to defend the locality, and the requirements for the army's combat capability are more focused on defense. Qian Tiandun himself was born in special forces, and it was far more feasible for him to take the initiative to attack than to hold on, so his thinking of training the army was also mainly offensive, and the troops were equipped with a large number of short-barreled large-caliber guns suitable for jungle and mountain warfare, as well as lightweight and easy-to-move 3-pounder small-caliber army guns, all of which were based on maintaining good mobility.

This kind of field force may not be the opponent of the Sanya militia troops in the offensive and defensive battles of the city, but if it is a guerrilla war in the field, then their power can be fully demonstrated. Moreover, Qian Tiandun attaches great importance to the training of snipers, after the first batch of sniper flintlock pistols was made the year before last, Qian Tiandun asked for half of it as soon as possible, and every year there are double-digit sniper rifles in the equipment application submitted to the Military Commission. Over the past two years or so, the Annan garrison has trained more than 30 qualified snipers, which is more than the snipers of the other two military regions combined.

The only regret that Qian Tiandun regretted was that due to the end of the civil war in Annan, the militia troops stationed in Annan had no real opponents for a long time, and this was simply a torment for Qian Tiandun, who had always emphasized actual combat training. At present, the only country with small and sporadic fighting with Annam is the Champa state in the south, but the Champa state is also buying weapons from Haihan and seeking military assistance, and Qian Tiandun cannot let his troops wade into this muddy water.

One of the purposes of Qian Tiandun's return from this trip was to encourage the Military Commission to start looking for the next target. Although the current development idea of the Central Military Commission is to focus on the navy and first control the choke point and shipping lanes on the sea, Qian Tiandun understands very well that the role of the army will not be weakened much because of this, because to occupy an area, the army will eventually have to solve the problem, and Annan's troops are the best knife in the hands of the military at present.

As for the army of the Guangdong Military Region, because the conditions for garrisoning troops were extremely limited before, the establishment was also the smallest of the three major military regions, and after that, I am afraid that it would have to draw troops from the other two military regions to supplement it, otherwise the establishment of this regiment level is only a battalion level of troops, and that is indeed not very good-looking.