Chapter 499 The Development of the Army

Li Qingyang looked at these two young people who had not yet completely shed their childish looks, and his old habits suddenly recurred. He couldn't help but ask: "I see that these two young brothers are also young talents. Why didn't you take the merit examination before?"

To serve the imperial court?"

"Testing for merit?" Fu Li responded in astonishment, turned to look at Yu Xiaobao, and then the two looked at each other and smiled.

"Forget it, we don't have such a good fortune." Yu Xiaobao waved his hand and said: "It's only been in the past two or three years that we started to learn to read. How can we write articles to test for merit! If the leaders hadn't come here

Where, I am probably still working as a fisherman at the seaside, and this guy is probably working as a hunter in the mountains..."

"I am the heir to the cave master. When I am the cave master, I don't have to do these rough jobs myself!" Fu Li corrected with a smile.

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

The Ming Dynasty has always enfeoffed the leaders of the Li people's strongholds. Of course, these are just empty positions for free, 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.

Almost all walks of life are working for the Haihan people. It seems that Haihan has indeed solved the ethnic issues between Han and Li better than Ming Dynasty. However, this is the first time for Li Qingyang, the heir of the cave master like Fu Li, to work in the local area.

When he met, he knew that this status was considered a noble among the Li people, and judging from Fu Li's attitude, it was obvious that he preferred his status in Haihan society, and probably would not return to Li Cave to become the master of the cave.

Li Qingyang could feel the good relationship between the two, but one was a descendant of fishermen and the other was the owner of Shaodong from Li. It was really hard for him to imagine how two teenagers with such different identities and backgrounds could become Haihan people together.

A capable general under his command. But from here he could also feel that Haihan's standards for employment were very different. The fishermen and the descendants of the Li people could serve as officials under the Haihan people, but he could only serve as a member of the Security Department.

Non-staff personnel are available for deployment.

Although Li Qingyang thought that he had no real intention to join Haihan, at this moment he clearly felt unwillingness in his heart - after all, he was also an orthodox member of the Jinyiwei family, an official of the imperial court, and had worked hard and sacrificed his life for the Ming Dynasty.

Gong, it sounds like he is a capable person. When he arrived at Haihan, he was given a job and then thrown into a drug store to work as an accountant?

As if he heard the complicated emotions in Li Qingyang's sigh, Fu Li responded: "Our Fushandong is the first Lidong to cooperate with Haihan. Many of the young people coming out of our cave are just like us.

, now working in the militia and the police department. The opportunities given to us Li people by the Haihan leaders are the same as those of the Han people. For the leaders, as long as they are loyal to Haihan and the executive committee, they are available. No.

There needs to be a distinction between ethnic groups.”

Li Qingyang is now used to not arguing with others about whether he should be loyal to Haihan or Ming - there are quite a few people in this place who have never really accepted the rule of the Ming court. For them, this matter is not discussed at all.

Value. But when Li Qingyang heard with his own ears that a young Li like Fu Li said "loyal to Haihan", he still felt quite a shock.

The Ming Dynasty has ruled Hainan for more than 200 years. During this period, it even mobilized large-scale Miao soldiers from the mainland to Hainan to quell the rebellion of the Li people. However, up to now, it can only enfeoff the land and let them govern themselves. If they want to win over the Li people and even

It is almost impossible for the Miao people to be loyal. However, after Haihan came for three years, the Li people and Miao people here rushed to seek refuge with him and be loyal to him. These mountain people, who had always been unruly and unruly, were trained to be so obedient.

Not to mention the Han people, Li Qingyang couldn't help but think of Hao Wanqing's comment that "the Ming Dynasty is about to end" - if the Han people really reach out to the mainland, will the people of the Ming Dynasty also rush to defect?

However, Li Qingyang thought about it again. How could there be any future? Will there still be fewer people from the Ming Dynasty crossing the sea from Guangdong and Guangdong every month to defect to Haihan? According to Li Qingyang’s estimation during this period, on average, people from Guangdong will come from Guangdong every month.

There should be about two thousand immigrants transported from this direction. This number may not seem large, but calculated over the years, it basically provides the Haihan people with at least one county's population every year, and Haihan's utilization of labor is incredibly efficient.

, the population of this county reaches Haihan, and I am afraid that it can do more things than the three counties under the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, not all the immigrants Haihan recruited from the mainland were shipped to Sanya. He heard that in addition to the two strongholds in Panyu and Wanshan Port that he had visited before, Haihan had opened a new port in Xinhui County.

, not only is its scale far greater than the previous two places, but the executive committee plans to gradually take the area as its own and build a Haihan ruling area like Sanya. After this area is occupied, Li Qingyang estimates that there will be no more places along the coast of Guangdong and Guangxi.

This is a natural obstacle to Haihan's expansion.

Yu Xiaobao said: "Mr. Li, I have been in Guangzhou in recent years. I have seen how the Ming Dynasty government governs the place and appoints talents. When it comes to knowing people and making good use of them, how can those officials of the Ming Dynasty compare with the wise leader Haihan?

How does it look?"

Li Qingyang laughed at himself: "I am just a prisoner who was captured by mistake. There is probably no chance of being reused."

"Prisoners? Identity is not a problem. People like Luo Shengdong and Wu Sen were all prisoners at the beginning, but now they all behave like human beings?" Yu Xiaobao seemed to have noticed that Li Qingyang was frustrated and continued.

He persuaded: "Mr. Li, the Security Department is the most difficult yamen to get into. I don't know how many people want to get in but can't get in. It's a great opportunity for you to be included in the Security Department as a prisoner!"

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

He originally planned to get some powerful 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, he was able to pass the news

Nothing passed back through the channel has much weight, and naturally there is not much merit to speak of. As time goes by, the superiors at Nanjing Zhenfu Division may forget that there is a person like him, Li Qingyang, on the remote Qiongzhou Island.

Lurking.

Li Qingyang knew that now the people of Haihan felt that he could still stabilize the situation, so they kept him well fed and housed. But when Haihan's wings became stronger, he would no longer worry about the pressure from Daming. He, a little

The Jin Yiwei spy will become a dispensable person. Even if he will not be sent to a hard labor camp by then, it will be difficult to find a good way out. Moreover, if he returns to the mainland at that time, the Jin Yiwei may not be able to spare him. In the end,

At least one charge of incompetence must be punished.

And completely surrendering to Haihan seems to be the most promising path at present. His immediate boss Lin Nan has told him more than once that as long as one day he really figures it out and is willing to serve Haihan, he can do it at any time.

You can bring it up, and the Ministry of Security will immediately help him arrange a new job and position, including promotion and salary increase. After contacting these two young Haihan cadres today, Li Qingyang seemed to have this idea in mind

One point stronger.

While Li Qingyang was worrying about how to choose his future path, the executive committee and officials from various units were gathering at Fort Victory to hold the annual general meeting.

Of course, it is said to be a plenary meeting, but to be precise, it is still a representative meeting. Quite a few time travelers do not have the conditions to rush to Fort Victory to participate in this meeting. Therefore, all projects that require a general vote are publicly announced at least ten days in advance.

, and then the voting coupons filled out by each person were returned from various places.

As expected, the proposal to establish military regions was successfully passed with a high vote. In addition, the nominations for commanders of the three major military regions were also voted and approved at this meeting. All three major military regions are tentatively designated as regiment-level establishments.

The second-in-command was promoted to the rank of colonel. Xiao Liang served as the commander of the Guangdong Military Region, Yu Yao served as the political commissar, and the young officer Chen Yixin was promoted to the rank of major and served as the chief of staff of the Guangdong Military Region.

Since there are military bosses in charge of the Hainan Military Region, there is little competition. Yan Chujie and Tao Donglai serve as commanders and political commissars respectively, while Navy Commander-in-Chief Wang Tom also serves as chief of staff.

The three main positions in the Annan Military Region are divided between Qian Tiandun, Mu Xiabai and Feng Annan. It is worth mentioning that due to the limited geographical conditions of the Annan Military Region, almost all military expansion in the past two years has been through self-recruitment.

The military and political leaders in Annan tend to expand by force, so the Annan Military Region is also the first among the three military regions to reach regiment-level establishment requirements.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the military also promoted a large number of grassroots naturalized civilian officers to meet the needs of the expanded establishment. Nearly fifty grassroots officers from Annan will be sent to the Victory Port Military Academy to receive the latest political and ideological training before returning.

After that, they will serve as instructors of combat units at all levels in the local garrison. Grasping the ideological work of grassroots military personnel is also a big move that the military will implement this year. Otherwise, the territory controlled by Haihan will become larger and larger in the future.

I am afraid that the garrison will gradually become a local warlord.

In addition, the practice of regularly changing garrison locations for troops, which has been suspended for a long time due to military expenditure issues, will be resumed this year. Some of the garrison troops in the three major military regions will have part of their strength to rotate garrison in other places. The purpose of this is also to

Try to prevent the emergence of local warlordism as much as possible.

Among the three major military regions at present, Hainan and Guangdong Military Region, which will receive two main combat gunboats, are undoubtedly superior in naval strength. In Annan, due to the end of the civil war, the local area has basically returned to normal and stable order. Therefore, for the maritime armed forces

The requirements are not high, and currently there are only a few "Exploration-class" warships paired with two "Exploration-class" ships as the main force of local maritime patrol.

However, the situation of the army is completely opposite. Qian Tiandun's successful experience in the Black Tu Port Special Operations Battalion was later extended to the entire Annan garrison. The army soldiers trained according to his model performed well in the mountains.

, the combat capability in complex environments such as jungles and dense water network areas is significantly stronger than the troops trained here in Victory Port. In the annual military competition, the team sent by the Black Earth Port Special Operations Battalion has never lost.

, ranked first every year. Even Yan Chujie had to admit that, at least in the field of field operations, Qian Tiandun's troops were the most powerful among the militia departments.

Of course, to a certain extent, this is also related to the personal combat thinking of the military commander, the garrison environment and functions. The main task of the army in Sanya is defense, relying on the coastal defense artillery established at the two ports.

Forts and fortresses in ports are used to defend the local area, and the military's combat capability requirements are more focused on defense. Qian Tiandun himself is a special forces soldier. For him, it is more feasible to take the initiative than to stick to it, so his idea of ​​​​training the army is also

Focusing on offensive capabilities, the troops are equipped with a large number of short-barreled large-caliber muskets suitable for jungle and mountain warfare, as well as 3-pound small-caliber army guns that are lightweight and easy to move. All are based on maintaining good mobility.

This kind of field force may not be an opponent of the Sanya militia forces in city offensive and defensive battles, but if it is guerrilla warfare in the wild, their power will be fully demonstrated. Moreover, Qian Tiandun attaches great importance to sniper training.

After the first batch of sniper flintlock rifles were manufactured, Qian Tiandun immediately ordered half of them to leave, and there were double-digit sniper rifles in the equipment applications submitted to the Military Commission every year. Over the past two years, the Annan garrison has been training

More than thirty qualified snipers were produced, which is more than the snipers of the other two military regions combined.

The only thing that Qian Tiandun regrets is that due to the end of the Annan Civil War, the militia troops stationed in Annan have had no actual combat opponents for a long time. This is simply a problem for Qian Tiandun who has always emphasized actual combat training.

It's a torment. Currently, the only country that still has small-scale sporadic fighting with Annan is the Champa State in the south. However, the Champa State is also now buying weapons from Haihan and seeking military assistance. Qian Tiandun can't let the troops go.

Wander through this muddy water.

One of the purposes of Qian Tiandun's return is to encourage the Military Commission to start looking for the next target. Although the current development idea of ​​the Military Commission is to focus on the navy and control the choke channels at sea first, Qian Tiandun understands the army's

The effect will not be weakened much because of this, because to occupy an area, the army will ultimately have to solve the problem, and Annan's troops are currently the best sword in the hands of the military.

As for the Army of the Guangdong Military Region, due to the extremely limited garrison conditions before, the establishment is also the smallest among the three military regions. After that, I am afraid that troops will have to be transferred from the other two military regions to supplement it, otherwise the regiment-level establishment will not be

With only battalion-level troops, that really doesn't look good.
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