The difficulty is not in terms of reliability - according to the report of the Li and Miao Affairs Office, at least every Li Dong and Miao village in Lingao "wholeheartedly supports" the new regime. [Read the latest chapter] The work of the past three years was not in vain. Rather, there are a large number of malaria patients among the Li and Miao population. There is a statement in the local chronicle of Hainan Island that "Li people are prone to diseases." Although according to the observation of the health team sent by the Ministry of Health to go deep into Li District, most of the malaria patients in Li and Miao are Benign malaria, but intermittent malaria makes it difficult for them to be fully utilized either as a general labor force or as soldiers.
"I don't think the problem is big. Don't the people still riot often? If they have the strength to riot but not the strength to serve as soldiers?" Skade said, "Besides, some of them must be able to resist violence. Otherwise, how can the people stay in the mountainous area for a long time?" How about surviving?”
"So the people in Li people rioted frequently, but their combat effectiveness was limited. The Ming Dynasty could suppress the situation by relying on a group of beggar-like guard soldiers guarding a few villages." Dongmen Chuiyu said, "The army has to go out for drills, training, and duty every day. Soldiers But I don’t know when one day something will happen and this army won’t be able to be used.”
"It would be a waste to not use such human resources." Skade was obsessed with the Li people. "Can't we treat them?"
"Let's think about specific methods." Dongmen Chuiyu was unwilling to disclose the military's specific ideas for this, and was vague. Since the Executive Committee is now reluctant to expand military personnel by reducing the number of workers under the rule, and the demand for military strength from all sides continues unabated, a large number of highly decentralized security and internal security tasks have affected the normal education of the army. train. The idea of recruiting a group of mercenaries to perform security tasks to free the troops from internal security operations was abnormally brought up in an internal meeting of the General Military Administration. Li Miao soldiers are just one of the options.
As soon as the Hong Kong development plan was announced, it immediately aroused a wave of new candidates seeking official positions. Although the Second Plenary Session established the basic principle of "voluntary registration and organizational review" for the selection of officials, there are still many people who, in addition to registering on the intranet Organization Office website, also visit privately various offices where they think they can exert influence. Powerful person. Ming Lang had to stay away from the office for several days to avoid being forced to "have a meal and chat."
After some intense activities on and off the stage, a list of bureaucratic configurations in Hong Kong was finally announced: Luo Chen, a technician from Tiandihui, was appointed as the captain of the Hong Kong Agricultural Reclamation Team; Shi Zhiqi was appointed as the Hong Kong Security Commander, and Le Lin was appointed as the Hong Kong Security Commander. Commander of the Naval Detachment. Hung Hung Yin serves as Hong Kong Commercial Representative.
In addition, a group of technical cadres were also dispatched to Hong Kong. Including Shi Jiantao, who strongly advocates the construction of shipyards in Hong Kong. This man originally worked in the Planning Institute and was very interested in the shipbuilding industry, so he took the initiative to serve as the director of the Hong Kong Shipyard.
The appointment of Shi Zhiqi as the Hong Kong Garrison Commander was originally unsuccessful. The Army believed that it was unreasonable for all senior military positions in Hong Kong to be occupied by the naval system. However, in the end everyone finally reached a consensus: the Hong Kong Garrison Commander should choose someone with experience in amphibious operations. person to serve, Shi Zhiqi is obviously the most qualified candidate
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In response to the increasing number of expatriate elders, the Senate has officially implemented the "senator committee" and "collective decision-making on major affairs" systems in all groups of two or more expatriate elders. If there are more than three elders stationed in one place, a local elders committee must be established. All major local policy decisions must be informed and even voted on at the elders committee meeting. The committee must meet regularly and minutes must be kept of meetings.
The "Qionghai Coal", escorted by two patrol boats, slowly docked at the Central Pier 1 on the "Saint Maiden Bay" - the Central Government Administration has officially issued a place naming document, officially changing the name of Xiangshan O to " Hong Kong Island", base 852 was renamed "Central"; Victoria Bay was named "Sir's Bay". Replacing the non-existent Queen Victoria.
Several people in gray and green uniforms stood on the deck of "Qionghai Coal", pointing at the Central Base under construction. Their tall, muscular bodies and better clothing indicate that they are so-called "elders". The soldiers working as loaders on the dock were whispering to each other. Does the arrival of another group of veterans mean that there is a new operation to be carried out? After the military campaign against the Pearl River Basin ended, many elders left Hong Kong one after another. Now there are only two or three elders on the island left.
Under the tow of the large boat, the Great Whale slowly moved onto the trestle and set up a springboard. When the port staff came on board for inspection, several elders had already disembarked. A twenty-five or six-year-old elder who was originally in a small shed next to the dock quickly came up to greet them.
"Member, you are here." The young man greeted a thirty-year-old veteran who came off the boat. It was Mei Lin from the General Construction Company.
"Xiao Shi, you're doing a good job here." Merlin looked around, "It's been four months and it's starting to take shape."
The sharp whistle sounded - the port authorities had noticed that the red warning flag symbolizing the highest danger sign was hanging on the Qionghai coal, and the workers and soldiers who were working near Pier 1 quickly evacuated.
"What? Dangerous goods have been transported." Xiao Shi changed his color a little.
"Explosives." Merlin said briefly, "Didn't you apply for explosives to be used for mining?"
"Yes, yes, let's go first."
The few people ignored each other's greetings, and led by a man named "Xiao Shi" to the commercial station at the Central Base. The commercial station is more than 1 kilometer away from the seaside pier. The construction team built a standard rail of wrought iron rails here to transport goods and people between the two places.
Since the Pearl River Estuary detachment landed in Hong Kong in September 1630, the construction of the 852 base has been in progress, and the planned Central base has taken shape. The business station is the core building of the entire base. It is the fortress and foundation of rule. This building was built based on the 19th century armed merchant station model and was comprehensively designed with reference to modern government public construction design experience. The area is not large, but the supporting facilities are complete.
The entire main castle is a rectangular multi-story hollow building. The structure is roughly a large area surrounded by multi-story buildings.
space. At the four corners are four convex-cornered forts, each 5 stories high and 17 meters high. At the top is an open-air fort. The lower floors are the guards' quarters, ammunition depot, gymnasium... The bottom floor is the toilet, which is flushed with sea water.
All floors are 4-storey and 14 meters high, except for the Corner Castle. There are no windows on the first and second floors facing outward. There are windows only on the third floor and above. There are iron protective window panels that can be closed in case of attack. But for the inner courtyard, there are windows on each floor to facilitate ventilation and lighting. The top terraces of the floors are fortified.
The building facing the south is the external office area, and the ground floor is the lobby and entrance. All institutions that need to work externally are located here. In the middle of the south building, there is a five-story bell tower. The east floor is the dormitory area, where soldiers of the guard force, naturalized civilian staff, and cadres live. Each floor has large powder rooms. Part of the ground floor is the canteen and kitchen, and part of it is the weapons warehouse. The west side also has four floors, with warehouses on the first and second floors, a health clinic and inpatient department on the third floor, and dormitories on the fourth floor. To the north are auxiliary buildings, including boiler rooms, pump rooms and wind power stations. There are also temporary detention facilities and various warehouses - including a garage on the ground floor.
The trading station is not yet fully completed, but the four corner towers, the main entrance building on the south and the clock tower are completed. Although the bell tower is found in many buildings designed for high heights, so far, no large clock has been manufactured - not that it cannot be manufactured, but that the Planning Institute feels that this thing is not urgently needed and simply waits for the supply of raw materials. Do it when you have enough.
At the foot of the main city, roads have been laid according to the model originally used to build Dongmen City, and now commercial buildings and customs are under construction. There were piles of yellow sand, buckets of cement and rocks of different sizes everywhere. The workers are busy in an endless stream. There were labor chants and the whir of steam rollers.
The workforce was staffed by personnel from decontamination camps established locally. Guangdong civilians, officers and soldiers who were captured during the Pearl River Estuary Crusade and those who voluntarily followed were quarantined here and also served as infrastructure project personnel. Lingao Construction Corporation sent a veteran named Shi Dafu to be responsible for all project construction locally. Shi Dafu has a major in industrial and civil construction, and has worked in a construction company. He can be regarded as a practical man with both theory and experience.
Shi Dafu led a group of people into the main city and asked them to sit down in the conference room. The conference room is located on the clock tower to the south of the business station. Then they introduced each other. Among the newly arrived elders, Mei Lin is here to preside over several reservoir projects built on Hong Kong Island - to be rolled out in Hong Kong. According to the calculations of the Planning Institute, it is planned to complete the water storage capacity of 2 million cubic meters in 1631-1632. . By 1633, the total storage capacity was 7.7 million cubic meters. This can effectively supply the needs of industrial and agricultural production on Hong Kong Island.
"Most of Hong Kong's reservoirs are built using existing terrain in the mountains, and the amount of earthwork is limited." Mei Lin brought a complete set of Hong Kong hydrological data from the old time and space provided by the Grand Library. "However, the cost is still very high."
After the end of the Second Five-Year Plan, we will occupy all of Guangzhou.
Under the premise, the Planning Institute believes that it is not worthwhile to invest too much capital in Hong Kong, so the entire industrial and agricultural scale of Hong Kong is restricted to a very small scale. The total population of Hong Kong in the future planning for Hong Kong Island and outlying islands is as follows: the population who has lived there for more than 30 days, including the garrison, workers, settlers and people awaiting decontamination, is no more than 30,000. . ..
