1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 231 Staff Adjustment in the Ya Office
Regarding the issue of attracting investment in Shengli Port, the Executive Committee has already reached a conclusion on this - the introduction of foreign capital can speed up the construction of Shengli Port, promote local economic development, and make Shengli Port an early business center in the South China Sea.Based on this understanding, the Executive Committee believes that it is necessary to start attracting more people from the outside world to settle and invest in Shengli Port, and the main source in the early stage must be Yazhou City, which is close at hand.

In addition to wealth, the executive committee is also concerned about the intellectuals in Yazhou.At present, there are more than [-] school-age children in the Shengli Harbor area, but there is a serious shortage of teacher resources.It stands to reason that each of the time-travelers can serve as a guest teacher to teach literacy, arithmetic, and basic knowledge courses, but the actual situation is not so optimistic. There are only less than ten people in the time-travelers who are full-time in charge of education.When the large-scale immigration starts, the number of school-age children will increase further. We can't wait until Shengligang Primary School bursts before trying to solve the problem.

Therefore, Yazhou, which has a large number of scholars, has become the target of the executive committee. Famous scholars are fine. For scholars who have failed to obtain academic honors for many years, the executive committee can provide them with a job to make a living.Although these pedantic scholars who read the Four Books and Five Classics can't teach much really useful knowledge, it is still no problem to teach basic literacy courses.Tao Donglai asked the office in Yazhou to work more on this aspect, and to send a group of unhappy scholars from Yazhou to Shengli Port as soon as possible-the wave of immigrants from North Vietnam is coming soon, Tao Donglai did not expect At that time, Ning Qi's complaints were heard again.

For the office in Yazhou, which has been gradually weakening its functions, attracting investment and recruiting talents from Yazhou will be the main task in the coming period.Although Maliko was not sure about this, he still assured Tao Donglai that he would complete the tasks assigned by the executive committee.

Feng Annan saw that Tao Donglai wanted to stop here, so he hurriedly asked, "Mr. Tao, do I have any new tasks with Lao Mu?"

Tao Donglai asked with a smile, "What new tasks do you need?"

Feng Annan frowned and said, "There's really nothing to do in Yazhou. The two of us just go around the four city gates every day to see if the guards are on duty on time. This day is a bit too idle. , if there is no special arrangement in the near future, I think it is better to go back to Victory Port to bring the militia.”

Mu Xiabo's temper was much hotter: "President Tao, let me just say it straight. I can understand the executive committee's policy of gradually encroaching on Yazhou. I personally don't advocate the settlement of Yazhou by force, but my current status I am a soldier, so I should be assigned to a place with military missions, right? What we are doing now, even if we let the rich and the rich go there, we can do a good job. Staying in Yazhou is empty."

Tao Donglai laughed dumbly and said: "It turns out that I can't be idle anymore! Well, it's very good! I was afraid that you were used to living a comfortable life here, it seems that worrying is for nothing!"

Feng Annan heard a hint of taste from Tao Donglai's words, and hurriedly asked: "Did the executive committee already have new arrangements for us?"

Tao Donglai said: "It's not the arrangement of the executive committee, it's my own idea... Of course, I have to ask for your opinions first, and then I will submit it to the executive committee for discussion."

"Mr. Tao, if you want to talk about the personnel arrangements within the military and police department, then we won't listen in." Maliko stood up and left with great interest.Seeing this, several other people couldn't stay any longer, and got up and went out one after another, leaving this room to the three of them from the military and police department.

The personnel arrangement of the Military and Police Department has always been decided internally before being submitted to the Executive Committee. This kind of submission is more of a "notification" rather than a real need for the Executive Committee to discuss this. The procedure is different from other departments.It was precisely because of this independence that the last time the Heitu Port colonization team decided on the candidate for the military officer, there was a disturbance because of Qian Tiandun's nomination, but the final winner of that dispute was still the Military and Police Department.

The independence of the Military and Police Department in terms of personnel arrangements was decided by the then five-member Preparatory Committee before the crossing. The purpose was to ensure that the military would not be affected by the ruling civil servants in the future.Otherwise, after the founding of the country, what if the Executive Committee sends an engineering student to be the Minister of Defense?
This is not an absurd possibility invented by the military out of fear.In fact, before they crossed over, the fourth Secretary of Defense nominated by President Obama of the United States was an out-and-out physicist. This gentleman has a lot of titles of doctor and professor, but he has never served in the army. Pass.The U.S. military, which has the most powerful military in the world, can't even elect a representative who has the ability to command the entire army. It has been reduced to the point where it needs a science tyrant to take charge of the family?Of course, the reason is not that simple. Such an absurd situation is more of a political game and compromise.As for whether the Minister of Defense, who has not even worn a military uniform for a day, can command the most powerful army on earth, I am afraid he can imagine the result with his toes.

At that time, in order to avoid this kind of layman commanding experts in the future, especially in such an important department as the military and police, the Traveling Preparatory Committee specially formulated relevant personnel rules for this purpose. Appointment has full autonomy.Of course, this rule also stipulates that the Executive Committee still retains the veto power over the appointment decisions of the military and police departments, but the Executive Committee has no right to directly appoint and remove personnel under the military and police departments or the Ministry of National Defense.In this way, the possibility of the civil service system directly interfering with the internal affairs of the Military and Police Department in the future is eliminated-and this is exactly what the civilian officials are most critical of the current Military and Police Department.

No matter what the civil servants think in their hearts, rules are rules, and the established system is for people to abide by.Although Mariko is the head of the Cliff Office, he never takes the initiative to intervene in the work of the military police, intelligence, and security, let alone the internal personnel arrangements of the military police department.

After the irrelevant people left, Tao Donglai asked, "I have to ask first, are you all willing to continue working in the army?"

Both of them nodded abruptly without the slightest hesitation.

Tao Donglai said: "Now there are two places to go, you can think about it. Let me talk about the first one. After we have reached an arms trade with the North Vietnamese Zheng family, we will set up a training camp in the Tushan Peninsula on the coast of Vietnam. , we will send military advisers to train Zheng's troops so that they can learn to use firearms and corresponding tactics. For this reason, the Executive Committee will add a company of militia in Heitu Port to ensure that the number of local troops will not be affected. Too much impact. Qian Tiandun will be responsible for the training mission of the newly established company, and we also need to send people to the training camp on the Tushan Peninsula."

"This training camp is not just for military training, is it?" After all, Mu Xiabo is older, and he is keenly aware of the tricks involved.

Tao Donglai nodded and confirmed his guess: "The firearms troops we trained for Zheng will definitely be the elite of the North Vietnamese army in the future. What they learn from us will be used for a long time in the future. affect the attitude of the North Vietnamese military toward us."

Feng Annan clapped her hands and said, "I also understand. If this is done well, the Zheng family will actually pay for us to train a puppet army!"

Tao Donglai said: "The method of operation is very flexible. We don't necessarily need to gain actual control over these troops. We just need to be able to control the thoughts of senior officers."

"It's easy to handle, advanced training for senior officers! At that time, we can select some officers with signs of development and let Mrs. Zheng send them to Shengli Harbor for advanced training." Mu Xiabo's emotions also rose: "Think about the domestic Among the military academies, which school doesn’t accept a large number of military students from Africa and South America every year?”

"This errand sounds very interesting!" Feng Annan's eyes began to light up.

"However, I also need to remind you that the place on the Do Son Peninsula is very desolate, and now there are no living facilities except for a few huts and tents. Although that place will be used as a place for our immigration, business, and military relations with North Vietnam for a period of time to come But the living conditions will be more difficult, not to mention Shengli Port and Yazhou, even Heitu Port can’t compare.” Tao Donglai vaccinated them in time.

Mu Xiabai grinned and said: "It's nothing. Before I retired, I was a frontier armed policeman, and I was used to being in the wild mountains. After retiring, I went to the city to work as a security guard, but I still felt weak. Mr. Tao, I have to figure it out in advance. Me alone!"

Tao Donglai said: "Don't rush to make a decision, let me talk about the second destination. Mr. Yan proposed a plan to expand the training scale of the militia a few days ago. You should have heard about this, right?"

Both of them nodded, and Feng Annan said: "The boat that came to Yazhou to pull immigrants last week has sent all the latest news. This is a great thing for the development of our military and police department."

"A good thing is a good thing, but the implementation of this plan requires the efforts of the entire military and police department. To expand the scale of militia training, a large number of instructors are needed. Now the oldest militiamen have less than half a year of experience. It is still very difficult to use them as instructors." Reluctantly, we still have to be watched by our own people." Tao Donglai explained the situation succinctly: "Don't think about fighting for the time being, there should be no foreign military operations in the near future, but as an instructor, there is such a thing. There are two ways to go. Either way, think carefully about it!"

Tao Donglai saw the hesitant expressions on the faces of both of them, so he said again: "You don't need to answer me right now, anyway, I won't leave tonight, you have a night to think about it slowly."

Of these two paths, choosing to be stationed abroad as a military advisor will undoubtedly increase the gold content of qualifications, and even its significance will far exceed the current stationed in the cliff, but relatively speaking, the living environment will be more difficult, and the results will be slower - training a It will take at least three to five months for a batch of qualified soldiers to achieve results after going to the battlefield.And returning to Victory Port to train the militia is obviously easier to achieve results, and it is easier for the executive committee and the big bosses of the military and police department to see their performance, but the corresponding competition will be more intense-the military camp in Victory Port has There are quite a few instructors who travel through, and there is Gu Wei, the chief instructor, on top of them, so it is not so easy to get ahead.

Even Mu Xiabo, a relatively high-minded veteran, hesitated when faced with this fork in the road.He is not worried about how harsh the environment of the overseas station is, but he has to consider which path to take is more beneficial to his future development.This may sound like a bit of a philistine, but this is an unavoidable reality. Since he chose to travel to this world, what he wants to do is to become a leading general as soon as possible, to lay down a territory for the new regime and make contributions.

In addition, there are still dozens of members of the military and police department who have removed those technical positions. Although everyone is a lieutenant now, it is unlikely that they will be promoted to captains or even higher ranks at the same time, and it is impossible for them all to serve together in the future. Company commanders, battalion commanders, and even higher-level positions that have not yet been seen.In such an era, whoever has made more military achievements can be promoted faster. If you want to become a general on the battlefield as soon as possible, you have to plan carefully now and add as much weight as possible to your resume.

The young Feng Annan thinks more directly - as a soldier who wants to become a general as soon as possible, he must gain as much military merit as possible. In this case, you must choose to go to the place closest to the battlefield.The current attitude of the Executive Committee towards the local government of the Ming Dynasty is to cooperate on the surface and eat away in the dark. They will definitely not fight against the Ming Dynasty in the short term. At present, the closest battlefield in the South China Sea to the Crossing Group is probably only Vietnam. a place now.

After breakfast the next day, Tao Donglai got an unanimous answer from these two people—they unanimously chose the training camp in Tushan Peninsula as their next goal.Tao Donglai expressed his understanding and support for this, and promised to determine the relevant matters as soon as possible after returning to Shengli Port.

As for the current work of the two, the Military and Police Department will also send manpower to take over after that.However, the personnel sent to take over the monitoring task next time may not be from the Transcendents. As Mu Xiabo said, the existing monitoring tasks are not difficult, and only naturalized people who have undergone simple training are enough to complete them.

After that, Tao Donglai spent nearly an hour listening to Qiu Yuan's financial report alone, and inspecting the relevant accounting records.In addition to the cost of living, a considerable part of the accounting expenses of the Cliff Office is social expenses.This includes bribing and buying the officials and staff of various yamen, eating and drinking daily to win the relationship, and the odds and ends are not a small amount, but the executive committee unconditionally approves this part of the expenditure, because it is effective Obviously, the role played has far exceeded this limited expenditure.

In terms of income, it is not the strong point of the Cliff Office.Although the Executive Committee also hopes that overseas institutions such as the Cliff Office can have self-hemopoietic capabilities, it is very difficult to actually operate.Now the two commercial firms even send their own ships to Shengli Port to buy goods, and the role that the Cliff Office can play in commerce and trade is getting smaller and smaller, let alone any benefits.Moreover, this place is too close to the base camp, unlike Heitu Port or Guangzhou Office, where the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, and it has enough autonomy to act independently. Even if Maiko and the others occasionally have some ideas to make a little money, they have to go through the base camp first. After making a decision, the time of coming and going often misses the opportunity.

Tao Donglai personally doesn't care much about the financial burden of the office in Yazhou. Compared with the expenditures of the Guangzhou office of foreign institutions of the same nature, this is actually just a pediatric department.The office in Guangzhou spent 500 taels of silver just to buy a house. Since its establishment, the office in Ya’an has actually spent less than 3000 taels if you don’t count the cheap glass products given as gifts. .Moreover, the local network of the Guangzhou Office has only just begun to be built, and when it has a large scale, the daily expenditure in this area will certainly not be a small amount.

Tom Wang, on the other hand, seized the time in the morning and went with Mu Xiabo and Feng Annan to have a look at the city defense situation of Yazhou City.After confirming it with his own eyes, Wang Tom also had to admit that what Mu and Feng said was reasonable. Yazhou was not worth much to attack. Instead, a large number of civil affairs and military personnel had to be sent to manage it. Human resources, it is better to leave this place to the government to take care of.

After lunch that day, Tao Donglai and Tom Wang set off from Yazhou again, took the boat sent by Luo Shengdong down the Ningyuan River, and then changed to the "Flying Speed" at the mouth of the Ningyuan River.Luo Shengdong said that he could escort all the way to Shengli Port, but Tao Donglai politely declined his kindness - if he had to wait for his slow warship along the way, it would probably be dark Not Victory Harbor.

The "Flying Speed" flew all the way and returned to Shengli Port from the mouth of the Ningyuan River in only three hours. According to Tom Wang, this seems to have broken the new record for the one-way time of the "Flying Speed".After leaving Shengli Port for more than ten days, Tao Donglai and his party finally returned with a fruitful harvest.

That night, Tao Donglai called the executive committee members to hold a discussion meeting. Firstly, he reported to the executive committee the results of the tour, and secondly, he communicated with the executive committee on some measures to be taken in the next step, soliciting everyone's opinions.The lengthy meeting lasted from the end of the dinner until midnight, but the participants maintained a high level of excitement, because Tao Donglai's tour this time solved many problems for the development of the Time Travel Group. Within a short period of time, it seemed that he could finally shake off his arms and do a big job.

(End of this chapter)