According to the Ministry of Agriculture, the yield of sugarcane fields here is at most about three tons per mu, about two-thirds of the sugarcane fields in Guangdong. This is not just the difference in yield caused by the difference in sugarcane varieties, but also due to the influence of geographical environment, even in the era before the crossing, there were similar differences in sugarcane yield per mu between Hainan and mainland China.

But for the delegation, the yield of about 6,000 catties per mu was enough to make them excited, because during this period, the yield per mu of sugarcane producing areas in the Liangguang area was actually far from reaching the level of later generations, and the best place was about 7,000 catties per mu.

According to Schneider, there are thousands of acres of sugarcane fields here, and the shareholder representatives can easily estimate that about 6 million catties of sugarcane can be harvested within the year, and according to the general sugar extraction level of the sugar industry in the Liangguang region, it should be a relatively safe figure to produce 300,000 catties of cane sugar. If nothing else, the Haihan people will further increase the sugarcane planting area after the first year's harvest, and develop the sugar industry as one of the pillar industries in Yazhou.

During the Ming Dynasty, Chinese sugar products such as brown sugar, white sugar, and rock sugar were exported to Japan, Southeast Asia and even Western countries in large quantities. The methods of refining white sugar are recorded in works such as "Tiangong Kaiwu", "Minshu Southern Production Chronicles", "Physics Knowledge", "Guangyang Miscellaneous Records", "Xinghua Fuzhi" and other works, which shows the prosperity of China's sugar industry at that time. Due to the limitations of the means of technological communication at that time, white sugar was a high-tech commodity such as silk fabrics and porcelain, and was always favored by Western merchants. According to historical records, the merchant ships of the British East India Company visited Guangzhou in the tenth year of Chongzhen, and among the materials purchased there, there were 13,000 quintals of white sugar and 500 quintals of rock sugar.

Based on what the delegation has seen and heard in the past few days, it is not difficult for the shareholder representatives to speculate that the intention of the Haihan people is to grab a part of the sugar export business in the mainland. Although the scale of local cultivation is far from being comparable with that of the mainland, the shareholder representatives believe that the idea of Haihan people must have some way to control costs, and the biggest competitive advantage of Haihan products is cost, and the price of the goods sold in Shengli Port will always be a few points lower than that of its competitors. Although the sugarcane industry here has only only been in its infancy for less than a year, it seems that everyone can foresee a bright future for the local sugar industry, and it is undoubtedly a very wise choice to invest in the industry at this stage.

Due to the eagerness of the shareholder representatives, Schneider had to extend the tour of the sugarcane plantation base, so that the sky had already begun to darken, and the shareholder representatives were urged to board the ship and return to port.

On April 7, the delegation welcomed the last large-scale inspection project of their trip to Shengli Port, which is located in the Sanya River Port Development Zone at the confluence of two rivers west of Shengli Port. This inland port is close to the mouth of the sea, but due to the narrow passage to the sea, the harbor is almost unaffected by the wind and waves on the sea, so it can be said that it is an excellent haven. At the beginning of the planning, the Executive Committee planned that this place would be a commercial port in the main urban area of Sanya in the future, and it would be developed as the first batch of infrastructure projects to build the main urban area.

The Sanya River Port project is not on the list of projects of "Qionglianfa", and the reason why the delegation was arranged here is that the Executive Committee hopes to let these wealthy businessmen understand the local planning situation, so as to have more confidence in the future development prospects of Sanya.

After departing from Shengli Port by boat, the delegation bypassed the Yulin Peninsula and the Luhuitou Peninsula successively, and arrived at the inlet channel of the inland port. The channel here is more than half as narrow as the one leading into Victory Harbor, and the narrowest point is only forty or fifty zhang wide. Both catamarans lowered their sails in half and slowly entered the narrow channel one after the other.

Tom Wang traveled with the fleet for the past two days, on the one hand, he was responsible for the command and safety of the fleet, and on the other hand, he also had to give some brief explanations about the surrounding environmental conditions. At this time, Tom Wang took a hand-held megaphone and said to the shareholders' representatives: "Look at the starboard side, we will build a fortification in the form of a fortification on the hillside on this side to guard the passage into the harbor." In the future, ships anchored in this harbor will not have to worry about being attacked from outside. ”

After sailing through the waterway and entering the inland harbor, the shareholder representatives of the delegation were surprised to find that hundreds of migrant workers were already busy working on the shore here, and two or three wooden trestle bridges had even been erected on one section of the riverbank.

In fact, after the end of the Battle of Annam, the Ministry of Construction began to implement the development project of the Sanya River Port. The land passage from Shengli Port to the inland port was opened in early March, and it is planned to complete the laying of railroad tracks between Shengli Fort and the inland port within this year, so that the rail transit will connect the three key areas of the inland port, Shengli Port and Tiandu. During this period, the large-scale development of the two river basins and the migration of migrants will also be carried out simultaneously, and with the operational experience of developing the Shengli Port, the development of the inland port area will be much faster than before.

Before he could disembark, Schneider was already surrounded by shareholder representatives in the middle of the deck. The questions raised by everyone are also very consistent, whether the land near the new port is for sale, what price, and if it is not sold, can it be rented?

Although the development of Shengli Port has only been a year, but due to the limitation of the geographical environment, the development potential of Shengli Port as a commercial port is actually very limited, the port is next to the mountain, and the small flat land at the foot of the mountain is now very little, after the arrival of the delegation, the port business district has a few remaining vacant land has also been snatched up, it can be said that there is no space to expand the business district. The Executive Committee was also aware of this situation and accelerated the development of the new inland port. Compared with Shengli Port, the Lianghe area where the inland port is located has more flat open space for development and utilization, and sharp-eyed businessmen have obviously discovered this business opportunity and want to take advantage of this opportunity to enter early, and first get a piece of land to seize the advantageous terrain.

Schneider was also a little surprised by the enthusiasm of the delegation, and he thought that it would take a lot of words to convince these people of the bright future of this barren mountain range, and then they would be willing to spend money to invest here. Who knew that these guys had already seen through it, and before he could start his propaganda, they had already said that they wanted to take land and invest in this Xingang District.

"That's a lot of trouble!" Schneider thought as he beckoned the merchants to come ashore to inspect the surrounding environment.

In the area near the harbor, a special logging team has long been arranged to clean up. According to the plan of the Executive Committee, this bay between the Yulin Peninsula and the Luhuitou Peninsula will become a new plant of the Shengli Port Shipyard, and several large dry docks will be built in the future. The open space between the shipyard north and the river port will be used as a wharf yard and warehouse area. Of course, rail transit stations are also planned in this area, so that the production of the Tiando Industrial Park can be easily transported to the port for loading.

Soon, a shareholder representative asked: "Mr. Shi, the land near here has been bought by you now?"

Schneider responded: "As long as we take out the land for development and construction, it will definitely belong to us." As for the land that is owned by the local people, we are also looking for ways to acquire it. In any case, you can rest assured that the land will not affect our development of the area. ”

The two river basins to the north of the harbor will be developed as future business and residential areas. The land that the shareholder representatives can get is also concentrated in this area. As for the plains closer to the interior, they are all the territory of the Ministry of Agriculture. At present, the Executive Committee has sent several working groups to start activities in Tianya Town, Fenghuang Town and other places to persuade the local people to transfer their land to the crossing group.

This errand is certainly not easy to do, and land is regarded by the people as the foundation of life in this era, and no one will sell their land lightly until the last resort. The Working Group will certainly encounter many difficulties and even dangers during this period, but the Executive Committee believes that it is better to take the path of salute before soldiering, and to refrain from the use of force to resolve land ownership conflicts as much as possible. The only good news is that there are no large villages and towns in the first phase of the river port, and the nearest town is Fenghuang Town, which is 20 miles away. Although there are a small number of local people, these people are unwilling to pay the land deed tax, and the cultivated land they have reclaimed has not gone through legal procedures in Yacheng, which also saves a lot of trouble for the crossing group to acquire these lands.

Zhang Tongju and Wang Tongzhi had returned to Yacheng by boat a day earlier, and they were brought back to Yacheng with two boxes of silver, which were part of Yazhou's official compensation for the land registration procedures for the crossing group. Except for a few landlords, eighty percent of the area west of Shengli Port and east of Nanshan Town has been registered under the name of the crossing group under various names. It was only a matter of time before the Crossing Group could legally obtain the right to govern the Yazhou region.

Although there is a significant cost to do so, the Executive Committee believes that it is worth spending some money if it can effectively avoid conflicts in the land acquisition and development process. After all, the cost of large-scale armed demolition will not be small, and the use of force can easily lead the situation out of control, which is a situation that needs to be avoided as much as possible for the Executive Committee, which attaches great importance to establishing a positive image of the crossing group.

Beginning on 8 April, the wealthy businessmen of the Ming Dynasty, who had completed their inspection trips, began to leave Hong Kong one after another to return to the mainland. Of course, there are also some people who continue to stay in Victory Port for various reasons, such as a group of military academy students who were selected as elites to study advanced military theories.

These people were mainly from the Ming "officers and soldiers" under the name of Xu Xinsu in Fujian, the militia of the Li family of "Fu Ruifeng", and the North Vietnamese military. Among them, the people sent by Xu Xinsu this time are mainly craftsmen, and the content to be learned has basically nothing to do with military theory, but the knowledge of ordnance maintenance and repair.

The Li Jiamin Regiment selected four "platoon commanders" to participate in the training at Shengli Port, which was also a military position they had appointed after the reform of the militia according to the Haihan military adviser's suggestion. Today's Li Jiamin Regiment has completely followed the Haihan practice in its establishment, taking the squad platoon company as the combat unit, and even considering whether to join the company-level military post of "instructor" with Haihan characteristics, so as to raise the ideological level of the soldiers.

On the North Vietnamese side, the lineup was much larger, with 20 men, a quarter of whom were specially trained to learn the maintenance and repair of ordnance, and the rest were full-time officers, including Truong Dinh, the commander of the first formed musket unit in North Vietnam.

According to the military establishment of Haihan, Zheng Ting's military rank is probably equivalent to the level of commander of the reinforced battalion, and he is regarded as a rising star of the Shaozhuang faction in the North Vietnamese Army. In the Battle of Hengshan, Truong Dinh commanded the North Vietnamese New Army, which had only received three months of training, and defeated the South Vietnamese army with a near-perfect appearance on the battlefield with the Hai Han militia, and naturally became the first batch of North Vietnamese officers to go to Victory Port for further study. After he returns to China after completing his studies, he will be basically promoted and raised, and as an officer who knows the most about hot weapon warfare in Annan, he will have great hope of entering the top echelons of the military in the future.

Zheng Ting was also well aware of the responsibilities he carried, and he had long been determined to learn as much as possible during the three-month training period. Because he had already received Haihan-style training on the Tushan Peninsula for a period of time before this, and had fought side by side with the Haihan militia on the battlefield, Zheng Ting thought that this training would not have too many adaptability problems for him, at least he thought so before entering the military academy.

"Zheng Ting is out of the ranks!"

Hearing this command, Zheng Ting returned to reality from his state of distraction, hurriedly took a step forward, and responded loudly. At the banquet where Zheng Zheng returned to Annan yesterday, everyone drank so much that he almost couldn't get up this morning to participate in the roll call.

"The assembly horn has been blown, and you slowly came out to gather, when the military regulations here are all jokes?" The black-faced instructor's mouth was pestled in Zheng Ting's ear, and the spit Xingzi sprayed Zheng Ting's whole face.

Although he did not have a good impression of this Haihan officer named Gu Wei, out of the habit of soldiers obeying their superiors, Zheng Ting did not express any dissatisfaction with his rude behavior, and still stood up straight to accept his reprimand. Although there was no expression of resistance, Zheng Ting still had some slander about it: "When I was in the Tushan training camp, there was no such thing as gathering in the morning for roll call......

"For your first offense's sake, then ...... Let's run ten laps around the playground. Gu Wei immediately announced the punishment for him: "Leave immediately!"

Although Zheng Ting was very reluctant, he had to carry out the order when he was in the barracks, and he still did according to Gu Wei's order. It's just that he didn't expect that these ten laps were just the beginning, and on the first day, he was punished several times for running laps for trivial things such as not tidying up housekeeping, not following the rules of eating during meals, and so on. And the North Vietnamese friends who were in the refresher class with him were basically not spared. This kind of almost strict management style was something Zheng Ting had never experienced before when he was in the Tushan training camp.

What made Zheng Ting feel a little dissatisfied was that a group of officers and students of the Haihan People's Regiment who were also in the refresher class were not punished in any form, but instead showed a gloating look when they were punished. But at the same time, he also had to admit that the officers and students of the Haihan Militia did know what military rules were better than them, and the appearance of these guys was almost infallible, and there was no reason to punish them.

"Your Haihan's military regulations are too strict!" After returning to the barracks after dinner, Zheng Ting finally couldn't help but complain to the Haihan officers and cadets who lived with him: "Our duty is to go to the battlefield to fight, make the barracks so clean, and only use chopsticks when eating, so what's the need to hold on to these things?"

One of the cadets closest to him stood up, not tall but stocky, with very short haircuts. Zheng Ting noticed that the military merit medal on the chest of his military uniform actually had a personal third-class merit medal and a commemorative medal for the Battle of Annam, and it could be seen that he should have made meritorious service in the battle of the previous expedition to Annam to obtain this opportunity for further study.

"Do you want to know the reason?" The Haihan officer stretched out his finger and pointed at Zheng Ting, and then pointed at himself: "That's why your court needs to spend money to ask us to help you fight, because you are all amateurs, and we are professional soldiers!"

After hearing this, Zheng Ting stood up awkwardly and glared angrily at this rude guy who was half a head shorter than himself. If it weren't for the military regulations, Zheng Ting would have smashed his clenched fist into this nasty face.

"Are you not convinced? You can't even do such a trivial thing, you can't keep such a simple rule, do you still expect you to strictly abide by the military order after you go to the battlefield?" The little officer continued to mock mercilessly: "Punishing you is just to help you develop a good habit of obeying military orders." If you can't do well as an officer, how can you train your soldiers well when you return to Annam?"

Although Zheng Ting was furious, he also had to admit that the little officer had some truth in what he said. Compared with the militia officers personally trained by these Haihan people, the appearance of his own group of North Vietnamese soldiers does seem to be a little loose. Zheng Ting couldn't help but complain a little about the instructors who were trained at the Tu Shan training camp, why they didn't require the trainees according to the standards of the Hai Han militia at that time, of course, he didn't know that in the military training agreement reached between the North Vietnamese high-level and the Hai Han, there was only tactical training, and the comprehensive management including military regulations was not included, so the instructors of the training camp naturally would not take the initiative to meddle in things