Chapter 127 The battle for enrollment expansion

The Executive Committee has given the green light to prepare materials. All materials needed for the construction of the new port, as long as they are still in the warehouse, have been approved quickly without exception. Modern drugs have always been restricted by the Executive Committee due to limited reserves.

, this time the list submitted by the medical team was approved without any discount. Even the fuel oil that has been listed as a strategic reserve and is strictly controlled, the Executive Committee very "generously" approved a full ton for the New Port Project

.As for what is not in the warehouse, the executive committee will find ways to remove it from the places currently in use, such as prefabricated houses and photovoltaic power generation equipment, etc.

But the preparation of materials is only part of the preparation work for the New Port project. For the New Port project, the most important thing is still manpower, which is the members of the Crossing Group who have mastered advanced technology. How many people need to be sent by the base camp to develop the New Port project, and how many people should be sent

Who should be assigned, the period of overseas assignments, and how the remuneration packages for overseas assignments should be institutionalized are all issues that require careful consideration by the Executive Committee.

So far, only a few positions have been confirmed for expatriate candidates. For example, the Ministry of Construction will send out technical backbones led by Liu Shanxia, ​​while Tian Yeyou from the mining exploration team has submitted a permanent application for Xingang to the executive committee. As for the administrative

, civil affairs and transportation management departments have not yet determined candidates.

In terms of administration, the opinion of the executive committee is that at least one executive member should go to Xingang. Even if he does not stay there permanently in the future, at least the administrative work should be taken up in the initial stage. Regarding the candidates for the top leadership of this overseas branch base

, the executive committee also discussed it several times. This is not to say that no one wants to go, but that these executive committee members all have their own jobs that they cannot get away from and have no time to take care of overseas.

The interim executive committee currently in trial operation has a total of nine executive members, who are basically heads of various departments, including Tao Donglai from the Ministry of Construction, Bai Kesi from the Ministry of Industry, Yuan Ruoxiu from the Ministry of Agriculture, Meng He from the Ministry of Information Industry,

Ning Qi from the Ministry of Internal Affairs, Gu Kai from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Commerce, Schneider from the Ministry of Finance, Yan Chujie from the Military and Police Department, and Yue Zhiyun from the Ministry of Shipping. Each executive committee member has a lot of things to take care of, and randomly transferring one person may cause management problems.

Blank area. After the executive committee discussed it several times, the candidate finally fell on Gu Kai, who was relatively less busy. Schneider would temporarily take over his duties while he was stationed abroad.

After the leadership candidates are determined, the next step is to review the candidates for expatriation in each relevant department. Mining, construction, medical, communications, shipping and other departments have submitted lists of candidates one by one for everyone to discuss and review. In order to ensure the efficiency of the review process

, these candidates have all gone through preliminary reviews by various departments before, and as long as there are no major problems, they will pass the final level smoothly.

The list of personnel reported by the Ministry of Shipping was densely written for two or three pages. This time, except for a small number of crew members who needed to stay at the base camp, almost all sailors and crew members registered with the Ministry of Shipping were included in the list. Even the original

The few Ming army sailors who were captured by the Chuanzhong and stayed behind had to obey the conscription and all go to sea this time.

In addition, some pirate sailors with better performance in the labor camp have also been selected for intensive training and are on standby as substitute crew members. These pirate sailors were told that if they perform well, some of them will return to work after the construction period of the new port is completed.

After gaining freedom, they will have the same opportunities as local residents, and can choose to join the commune and become a glorious Haihan naturalized citizen. This is undoubtedly a huge stimulus to the coolies who are eager to escape from the labor camp, and even some

Coolies who didn't know how to sail a boat also signed up one after another, trying to seize this rare opportunity to escape.

Another department that accounts for the majority of expatriates is the Military and Police Department. Although the proposal to build a stronghold and fortress in Xingang has been rejected previously, this has not stopped the Military and Police Department from pursuing this opportunity to develop overseas bases.

To expand its own influence. The new plan proposed by Yan Chujie on behalf of the Military and Police Department is to dispatch two-thirds of the active security forces and one-third of the armed forces to form a mixed team to station in Xingang at the beginning of the operation. This

The army will integrate the functions of public security management and military defense, plus seven to ten people of cross-command command staff. Xingang's military and police force will be based on this armed force of about seventy people, and then gradually develop in the local area.

A small militia organization was formed to assist military and police personnel in maintaining order.

Of course, after sending so many people out, the Military and Police Ministry plans to add the second batch of military and police cadets who have been recruited into the camp into the formal establishment as soon as possible, and is preparing to start recruiting the third batch of cadets in the near future.

Because no one knows whether the armed forces in overseas bases are sufficient. If armed personnel need to be transported from the base camp for reinforcements, the base camp’s own military strength will appear too empty. According to the calculations of the Military and Police Department, the current base camp

The scale and expansion speed require at least two hundred indigenous armed personnel to be adequate. However, the current establishment of the Military and Police Department is obviously still far from this goal.

The most eye-catching thing is that the third phase of the Military and Police Department has plans to expand its recruitment. It plans to form a security company and an armed company at one time, and then add the personnel from the first two phases. Under the establishment of the Military and Police Department, it can maintain

The total military strength of a naturalized battalion. This expansion plan can be described as ambitious. If these three phases of recruitment and training can be successfully completed, the number of naturalized military police under the Military and Police Department will reach about 500, plus the cross-travel group's own

The armed force has undoubtedly reached the establishment of a full infantry battalion in later generations.

As soon as Yan Chujie's expansion plan was proposed, he encountered opposition from Ning Qi: "Let's not talk about whether it is necessary to maintain this scale of armed personnel in the military. Judging from our current overall economic scale, it is difficult to maintain it.

To build such a professional army. To put it simply, the population we control now is less than 2,000. Even if we include overseas sub-bases in a while, the number of 3,000 to 4,000 people will be overwhelming. Under the current productivity level, the average population is 5,000.

I think six people support a professional soldier. I think this is simply belligerence! You must know that our army is not the guards of the Ming Dynasty. As long as we have food and clothing, we have to provide food, clothing, and pay for the soldiers, and we have to consume weapons and ammunition.

To train them, have the Military and Police Department calculated how much it costs to support a soldier?"

Before Yan Chujie could open his mouth to refute, Schneider, who was in charge of finance, had already taken over the conversation: "Let's just talk about the first month's expenses for the new camp. Each soldier has a monthly salary of two yuan. In addition, in order to appease the people, we will also give each soldier an extra

The settling-in fee of two yuan per person and the clothing are supplies prepared before crossing, so we won’t care about them for now. In terms of weapons and equipment, even the rattan wooden sticks used by security guards are very cheap, so let’s calculate them together with the soldiers’ salary of 500 yuan.

.However, in order to master the firearms combat skills, the militia companies are equipped with Type 27 matchlock guns. The current ex-factory price of the military industry department is about five yuan each. Plus the two 6-pound guns for artillery training, including live ammunition shooting in a month.

The gunpowder consumption in the battle is about six to seven hundred yuan. Everyone, not counting food, clothing, and housing, our investment in raising a company probably requires more than a thousand yuan. If it is difficult to understand, we can convert this amount into equivalent

silver."

Seeing Yan Chujie eager to give it a try, Schneider seemed to have anticipated what he was going to say, and did not leave him a chance to refute. He immediately continued: "Perhaps my colleagues from the Military and Police Department want to say that the settlement allowance, camp, clothing and weapons are all."

It’s a one-time investment, and it’s actually not that big of a monthly expense. But I want to remind you that even without those expenses, the daily maintenance costs of a professional army are not a small amount.”

Schneider pulled out a document from his computer and then used a projector to project it on the screen at the front desk of the conference room: "Everyone, this is the cost budget for the next quarter handed over to the Executive Committee by the Military and Police Department. It does not include the unformed army.

The second phase of students and the third phase of recruitment that have not yet started, just for the existing troops, the maintenance cost for one quarter has reached..."

Schneider paused deliberately before continuing: "...Fifteen hundred yuan. Everyone, five hundred yuan per month. This is the expenditure of a company of troops in peacetime. If the military and police expand their recruitment in the third phase,

If completed, then we will have to maintain the establishment of four companies, and the monthly cost will be more than 2,000 yuan. What is the concept? For 2,000 yuan, we can buy two brand-new seagoing ships with 400 materials. If it is hired, we can

We have hired ten sea-going ships of the same tonnage! And if we want to earn back these two thousand yuan, we need to sell twenty tons of salt or two hundred sets of glass stationery. It is easy to spend money but hard to make money. I suggest you review the army.

We must be cautious when planning to expand the police department. We must understand that these professional military police can only spend money and cannot create social value. If the scale of professional military police at this stage grows too large, it will only cause harm to our collective.

A financial burden..."

"That's nonsense!" Yan Chujie interrupted Schneider's speech by slamming the table. He could no longer tolerate the military and police department's well-prepared recruitment expansion plan being continued to be slandered by this fake foreign devil fraudster: "Without adequate armed force protection, we really can't stand it.

Can we develop and grow with peace of mind? Do you people think that after defeating a small group of Ming troops and pirates, we can rest easy? I solemnly remind you that it is best to put away such luck as soon as possible! Although the combat effectiveness of the Ming army is very high

Poor, but they still have tens of thousands of troops on Hainan Island that can be mobilized, and they can also continuously draw troops from the mainland to supplement them. However, our armed forces are extremely limited. It can be said that if one dies, one will be lost. If there is an outbreak one day

If a war breaks out, will it be effective if we temporarily organize militiamen who have never entered a military camp?"
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