Chapter 405 New Life (1)

When Ruan Jinggui came to Sanya last year, he had seen this kind of monster that was spitting out white smoke and moving on the iron track from a distance. However, he did not understand the operating principle of this thing at the time. He thought it should be another magical spell mastered by the Haihan people.

.When I came to the camp where I stayed in Sanya this time, I could hear the whistle of the train when it entered and exited the station every day. Now that I saw the locomotive parked next to the platform in the distance, Ruan Jinggui really realized that this thing has

How huge. However, it was not yet time to depart, so they could only watch this big guy lying motionless on the rails on the platform.

"It's really big!" Ruan Jinggui couldn't help but sigh softly.

Ruan Wenwen also sighed at the side: "The iron material used for this black iron knot must weigh tens of thousands of kilograms, and rails must be laid everywhere it passes. I don't know how much iron material is used. The Haihan people have so much iron material."

It can be used in a place like this, no wonder the military is stronger than Annan."

Although Ruan Wenwen is an officer with a noble background, he is not a playboy who knows nothing. He is quite familiar with what iron material means to a regime. If there could have been someone like Hai Han under the rule of the Hue court

With a large amount of iron production, they had already started to smelt iron and cast cannons themselves. If the Hai Han militia wanted to take Hue City, they would have to face at least several times the number of cannons defending the city. The defenders would not be able to defeat the city in just one day.

Yue was completely defeated in the battle.

When facing the offensive of the Haihan Army, all South Vietnamese officers had to lament that the opponent's equipment was powerful, almost all musketeers, and supplemented by a large number of artillery. This made the South Vietnamese army, which was still at the level of cold weapons for most of the army, simply

There was no way to resist. And the large amount of iron materials needed to make weapons for such an array was also beyond the reach of South Vietnam. While the South Vietnamese army was still worrying about the source of iron materials, the Haihan people had already used the iron materials extravagantly.

On the paved road, this huge gap in strength is simply disappointing.

"If our high-ranking officials had come here to see the strength of the Haihan people in person, how would they have chosen war to resolve the dispute?" Ruan Jinggui shook his head slightly and sighed: "The princes in the court are not reluctant to cede territory to seek peace. The north can give it.

We can provide the same conditions, but the princes are still unwilling to believe in the strength of the Haihan people. They wishfully believe that they only help the north to fight the war after receiving money from the north. As long as the north cannot provide money, the Haihan people will automatically withdraw.

The battlefield... is so confusing! Little did they know that the purpose of the Haihan people's war was for land and population, and collecting money from the north was just a casual move. If the imperial court had complied with their wishes, there would have been room for negotiation in everything, so why would they have caused such a fuss?

Now the country is ruined and the family is ruined!"

"But the condition for peace talks proposed by the Haihan people was that the imperial court should give up the state system. How could this be achieved?" Ruan Wenwen said disapprovingly: "If the government gives up the state system, how can we negotiate other conditions?"

"Brother, I had the same idea as you at that time. I thought that the national system was the foundation of our Hue court and we must never give up." Ruan Jinggui sighed and said: "Later, when I think about it, what the Haihan people want is Annan unification.

They just want Annan to have a court that obeys their will to rule."

"Where did you start talking about this?" Ruan Wenwen heard this for the first time from his brother and couldn't help but ask.

"Do you know why the Champa Kingdom in the south suddenly raised troops to ask for territory from our country?" Ruan Jinggui changed the topic and asked a seemingly irrelevant question.

Ruan Jingren is not stupid either. He rolled his eyes and thought of the key: "Are you saying that the Haihan people intend to support Champa, but not just to go against us?"

Before Hai Han launched his attack on South Vietnam, the Champa Kingdom in the south had already taken the lead in spreading propaganda to South Vietnam and defeated the South Vietnamese army in several consecutive battles. The weapons they used were matchlock guns produced by Hai Han.

It seems that it was precisely because of Haihan's intervention that Champa had the courage to jump out and fall out with South Vietnam. The purpose of supporting Champa by the Haihan people was probably not just to cause some trouble for the South Vietnamese court - to create a problem for Annan.

Opponents, so that the rulers can continue to rely on Haihan, is the most fundamental purpose.

Although it was an afterthought, it was quite difficult for Ruan Jinggui to understand the interplay of interests. After Ruan Jinggui was prompted by a few words from his brother, he suddenly realized: "So what they want is not the unification of the north and the south, but the reunification of the north and the south."

The obedience of the imperial court?”

"Maybe there is no need to obey. The Hai Han people don't like to kill everyone. As long as they are willing to cooperate with them, there is room for negotiation on many things." Ruan Jingui sighed: "When they attacked Hoi An last year, they fought really hard with the Portuguese.

After working in the gun field, the two families were sitting together to discuss business. When brother Wei came here last year for peace talks, the Portuguese representative came to help them to persuade me. The Haihan people are a group of businessmen who value profits over justice.

, as long as the interests are related, there is nothing they can't discuss."

Ruan Wenwen was stunned for a long time before saying: "If I had known this, why would I have to fight this battle? Seeing the Haihan troops approaching the city, the senior officials in the court should assess the situation and negotiate with Haihan!"

"It was already too late by then!" Ruan Jinggui shook his head and said: "If Haihan had not yet sent troops, there might still be room for negotiation. But they mobilized thousands of people to come across the sea. How much would it cost? Haihan people

When the regiment attacked the city of Hue, it was no longer possible to form an alliance under the city. How could they be willing to withdraw their troops without breaking Hue!"

The two brothers sighed for a while on the platform, knowing that this was an irreversible reality. No matter whether the South Vietnamese court chose to resist or obey, they would inevitably end up being manipulated by Hai Han in the end. In the end, fighting this battle would only serve to strengthen both sides.

It was just consumption. The South Vietnamese court chose a more heroic way to withdraw from the stage of history, but for the losers, their actions will ultimately be regarded as wrong lessons by future generations.

"Back up, back up!" A policeman in black came over and waved his baton to signal the people waiting for the bus on the platform to retreat to a certain safe distance.

The steam locomotive on the platform has completed coal preheating, and steam is continuously discharged from the exhaust pipe, forming a fog barrier near the platform. The train driver wearing blue cloth overalls walked quickly with his head held high, and in front of everyone

Under the watchful eye, he climbed into the cab of the locomotive.

In the early days of the opening of the train line, the work of driving trains was still done by a few traversers from the Ministry of Transportation. However, driving this kind of steam engine was very simple. After half a year of training, the first batch of ten naturalized driver drivers took up the job.

After this job, all front-line personnel involved in the operation and maintenance of the entire railway system have been replaced by naturalized citizens.

The Civil Affairs Bureau cadre who led this group of new immigrants showed the ticket to the platform staff, and then called the Ruan brothers and others to get on the train. This train only had one passenger carriage, and the other three carriages were pulled and unloaded from the port.

All kinds of production raw materials will be transported to Tiandu Industrial Zone. Probably based on the previous operational lessons, the passenger carriages are now hung at the last section of the train to prevent passengers from being confused by soot and steam throughout the journey.

Face.

Everyone entered the carriage full of novelty, but the furnishings inside were indeed a bit disappointing. There was nothing in the empty carriage except long benches, and there was also a thick layer of soot on the floor.

It's even far less clean than the dormitories in the immigration isolation camps.

Ruan Jinggui brushed off the dust on the bench with his sleeves in disgust, and then reluctantly sat down. If he hadn't known that Fort Victory, where he was going now, was ten miles away, Ruan Jinggui would have been reluctant to take such a dirty ride.

means of transportation.

Ruan Wenwen was not as particular as his brother. He looked left and right and couldn't stop at all. There were no special windows in this carriage. It was just a bamboo-wood structure roof propped up on the original open-top truck body. There were people in all directions.

You can stick your head out and look around, which is very suitable for a curious person like Ruan Wenwen.

Except for them, the new immigrants, the other passengers in this carriage were almost all naturalized citizens wearing blue shorts and overalls. These people were obviously used to the newcomers coming out of the immigration isolation camp getting on the train here, so they were very interested in it.

They didn't really care about their existence and just chatted on their own.

After waiting for a while, there was still no sign of the train starting. A dark-faced man sitting next to Ruan Chenggui became agitated. He stuck his head out of the carriage and asked the staff on the platform: "Why hasn't the train started yet? This is causing people to be late.

But wages will be deducted!"

The staff member waved his hand and said: "Don't worry, there is a leader who wants to take the car, and we are arranging the train."

After hearing this, the black-faced man did not ask any more questions. He shrank his head and sat back in his seat angrily. Ruan Jinggui asked: "Brother, why does the chief need to adjust the carriage when he is traveling? There are obviously many empty seats here!

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The man smiled and said, "A new immigrant, right?"

Ruan Jinggui didn't know why, but he nodded and didn't deny it.

"The carriages the chiefs ride in are much better than the ones we ride in. It's dirty here. How can the chiefs ride in it?" The black-faced man explained the reason to him.

Ruan Jinggui asked again: "If this delays your work time, what compensation can you get?"

"I haven't been busy at work for a while. No matter how busy I am, how can the leaders be busy?" The black-faced man didn't have any complaints about this.

After waiting for a while, there was indeed a very short carriage hanging behind this carriage. Ruan Jinggui visually estimated that it was only about two feet long. However, this short carriage was obviously modified from the truck he was riding in.

The civilian version of the car is obviously different. The carriage and the roof are obviously an integral structure, and the windows of the carriage are made of glass, which can completely isolate soot and water vapor while traveling.

Then Ruan Jinggui saw several Haihan people entering the car at the back, and following them were several gray-clad militiamen carrying short guns. Ruan Jinggui knew without asking that these militiamen must be relatives of the Haihan people in the car.

Soldiers.

After these people got on the train, the train finally sounded the exit signal whistle. Unprepared, several immigrants were so frightened that they sat down on the floor, causing a burst of laughter from the naturalized laborers.

Laughter.

After the train leaves the station, the first place it passes is the shipyard area between Luhuitou Peninsula and Yulin Peninsula. From the train, you can clearly see that there are several slipways standing on the coast, and each slipway has a

A number of sea-going ships with different manufacturing progress are under construction. With Ruan Jinggui’s many years of experience in maritime trade, the smallest ship he has seen has exceeded the level of 400 materials. So many large sea-going ships are here day and night.

The construction seems to explain from the side why the Haihan people were able to dominate the sea area between Annan and Qiongzhou Island of the Ming Dynasty.

After passing the shipyard, we entered the port area of ​​Yulin Port. Looking into the harbor, we saw that the shore was densely packed with various warehouses, commercial warehouses and goods stacked like hills, while large ships were docked on the pier.

Large and small ships. Last year, the number of ships entering and leaving Yulin Port every day was only five or six, but now this number has doubled again. There are more than a hundred foreign merchant ships arriving at the port every month.

The location of the first commercial port on Qiongzhou Island. Compared with the prosperity here, Nguyen Thanh Que had to admit that Hoi An City, which the Hue court was proud of in the past, was just a rural wharf.

After passing through the five-mile-long port area, the train began to slow down and enter the station. This stop was Fort Victory Station, which was also the final stop for new immigrants such as Ruan Chinggui. The civil affairs cadres greeted everyone to get off the train and assembled the team on the platform. Ruan Jinggui noticed that there were more naturalized laborers getting on the train here, filling the originally empty carriages, and some people who could not squeeze in at the back had to climb onto the wagons. These laborers took the train here to Going to the Tiandu Industrial Zone, which is located inland, and the remaining distance of this line is still twenty miles, so taking the train is the fastest way for them to commute to get off work every day.

Except for Ruan Jinggui, this group of new immigrants came to Victory Fort, the political center of Sanya, for the first time. After seeing the majestic appearance of Victory Fort, almost everyone felt the visual impact. Although Victory Fort

The height of the city wall is not as high as that of Hue City, but the dense gaps in the forts and the weird-looking bunker-style towers on the city wall were enough to shock these people.

"Now you follow me to the Immigration Affairs Bureau to go through the registration procedures." The civil affairs cadre led the way and took them to a masonry building next to the Victory Fort.

In fact, when they arrived at Victory Port and checked into the isolation camp, they had already registered their identities, and now they just checked their identities again and allowed them to collect their luggage and other personal belongings.

The luggage of the Ruan brothers was not too much, and before they entered the isolation camp, Ruan Jinggui took the initiative and handed over all the gold and silver to the civil affairs cadres to exchange for circulation coupons. When they signed and received a stack of banknotes

When circulating the coupons, I still felt a little uneasy. Ruan Wenwen couldn't help but murmured in a low voice: "Real money and silver have been exchanged for so many pieces of paper. Can this really be used?"

Ruan Jinggui comforted him: "Don't worry, the areas under the rule of the Haihan people use this kind of circulation coupon. You can even buy a house, so there is nothing to worry about. Besides, this piece of paper is easy to carry and is not as easy to lose as gold and silver."

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Even so, he carefully wrapped the stack of circulation coupons with a piece of cloth and put it in his arms, leaving only two yuan in change outside for emergencies.

"Ruan Jinggui, Ruan Jingwen, have you finished counting your personal belongings? Is there anything missing?" the civil affairs cadre asked.

"No, no, the numbers are correct." Ruan Jinggui responded quickly.

"If there are no omissions, just sign here." The civil affairs cadre pushed the pen and paper over, and Ruan Jinggui picked it up and wrote the names of his two brothers on the "Signature".

"This is your temporary identity certificate. You need to carry it with you when you go out. If you don't bring it with you and you happen to be found by the police, you will be in a dark room. Do you understand?" the civil affairs cadre said while putting on the hemp rope.
To be continued...