Wuzhou was called Cangwu County in ancient times and has a long history. Now it is a key pass that connects Guangdong and Guangxi. Guangxi can go down the river and go straight to Guangdong. In later history, the warlords of Guizhou Province "aided Guangdong" several times, and basically took this path because they save time and effort.

On June 15, 1701, Wuzhou had been in the hands of the East Coast people for many years. It was the capital of the Lianwu Management Committee, the political center, the military center, and the cultural center. The economic center. Well, this is Qinzhou Port. After all, it can be docked in large sea boats there, and it is very convenient to go south and north. It is a distribution center for 70% of the goods in the Lianwu area.

Qinzhou Port is currently conservatively estimated to have a population of more than 150,000, or 200,000, but who knows. The organizational construction of the Lianwu Management Committee is very problematic, and there are few qualified cadres. The large number of former Ming Dynasty officials will only hold the yellow household registration book that is full of mistakes and omissions for you. But everyone knows that they cannot believe a word on it, and even the punctuation cannot be believed. OK, there is no punctuation mark.

The population composition of Qinzhou Port is very complex, among which locals who speak Cantonese or immigrants account for 70%, and the Ming Dynasty surrendered troops (both in Yunnan and Guizhou and Guangxi) account for 20%, and the remaining 10% come from Ningshao and Denglai, and there are also a small number of Koreans and Japanese. In short, it is still relatively complicated.

Of course, we cannot forget Fangchenggang, which has built a naval base. According to the agreement between the Lianwu Management Committee and the Navy, this city is a military-controlled area and is managed by the Third Fleet Southeast Asian Squadron. Any project involving the county of the Lianwu Management Committee must consult with the Navy's guard commander. Of course, generally speaking, the Lianwu Management Committee will not invest here. Except for a completed second-class national highway connecting Fangchenggang to Qinzhou Port, they almost ignore it and completely ignore its existence.

However, the management committee does not care about it, which does not mean that the city is not good. In fact, after the wealthy navy invested a large amount of construction funds, Fangcheng County was completely renewed. The county area (usually referring to a new county that moved to the beach) had water and water facilities, gas lamp systems, modern hospitals and shopping malls. The population of the county has exceeded 20,000, most of which are migrant population (including naval officers and soldiers, newly built supporting factories workers, hospitals, shopping malls, schools, government agencies staff and family members). The local population is very small, but these people made a fortune during the land acquisition process, exactly the same as those of the people who became rich in Qinzhou Port Area.

The population of Fangcheng County has also increased to more than 60,000. With the increase of foreign trade and military special needs, the agricultural products they planted have achieved good sales. The income level of the county's people has climbed several steps in succession, and has changed from a poor border county to a wealthy county famous in the whole district.

Compared with Qinzhou and Fangcheng, Wuzhou is slightly inferior. After all, the wealth brought by modern industry and overseas trade is not comparable to that of traditional feudal society. Fortunately, Wuzhou has a deep foundation and its position as a trade hub for thousands of years have greatly influenced the business atmosphere of Wuzhou people. They have certain capital (although they have lost a lot in the previous wars), and have experience and channels for doing business. Now, as long as they change their thinking, keep up with the pace of the new rulers, and do a good job in trade with Guangdong, they may not be able to develop.

You should know that according to the "Xijiang Friendly Trade Agreement" just revised by the Lianwu Management Committee and Guangdong Li Yuanhao, the Lianwu Management Committee will jointly invest 500,000 yuan with Guangdong to dredge the Xijiang channel to facilitate larger ship navigation. To be honest, there are still many problems with the current channel. Some places are severely silted and the water depth is not enough. If a large ship is not careful at night, it may be stranded. In addition, some logistics and warehousing facilities and coal-adding and water-adding stations must be installed on both sides of the channel, which all require capital investment.

Ships on the east coast of the cleared waterway can sail freely. You only need to pay a certain amount of waterway maintenance fee at the cash gate near the downstream estuary and go up and down to Wuzhou. This waterway is crucial to Wuzhou because it connects to the essence of Guangdong, especially when it is near the downstream estuary, all kinds of cargo can be transported up and down through this waterway, which can be said to be a golden waterway.

Because of the political and military advantages of the East Coast people in the Guangzhou Li regime, Wuzhou merchants will inevitably be able to occupy a larger share of the trade of this waterway. They have shipping advantages, financial advantages, and cargo sources. If they can't fight Guangdong merchants, they are also Guangdong people before, but now they are not. The Management Committee will only support people who can be supported. If it really doesn't work, it is also a good way to make Qinzhou Port bigger and stronger and focus on developing foreign trade in the Far East Economic Circle.

"Captain Niu, I won't say much about this trip north. Your headquarters are full of troops and the military is powerful. Looking at the Far East, there are no enemies that you have combined. However, there are many factors that determine the outcome when marching and fighting. When you go to Manchuria, you must be careful and careful. You must not suffer losses due to carelessness, which will ruin the reputation of our army men and be ridiculed by the navy." At the dock of Wuzhou Port, Tang Moyu, director of the Lianwu Management Committee, held the hand of Niu Ce, the leader of the second mixed regiment, and said earnestly.

In fact, as one of the main forces of the army, the Second Mixed Regiment has such a respectable status that the Director of the Yiji Management Committee had no right to issue orders to them. But what is Tang Moyu's identity? The former leader of the main force, the retired Army colonel (there was one level before retiring from the active service, which was considered a honor and retirement). He was Niu Ce's old senior, so he was completely qualified to give him guidance.

Niu Ce's troops were stationed in Lianwu for three years. They went through Qinzhou, Wuzhou and Hengzhou. Whenever they arrived, the Management Committee did their best to solve the military supply problem. There was no shortage. It was said that it was over. Moreover, Niu Ce's origin was average and there was a little difference with the "rich family" like Tang Moyu, so he was still relatively modest. He only heard him say: "Director Tang rest assured. There are many veterans in the Second Mixed Regiment and will not make any low-level mistakes. After our troops withdraw, the slut lurking in Lianwu may have abnormal movements. Director Tang might as well start to force his hands and kill them to kill them. Lianwu's heaven is from our East Coast!"

"Haha, I'm really full of energy." Tang Moyu nodded and said, "Don't worry, Commander Niu. I have already negotiated with Vietnam. More than 30,000 people from Li Sixing's troops in Gaoping will be withdrawn in batches. After the withdrawal, this group of people will stay in Lianwu for a while and just take them to fight public security wars. You can't have a waste of time. Moreover, I have two new military advisors here, including five county security regiments that have been initially trained. They have strong troops, so there is no problem to deal with it. Unless Li Laiheng from Changsha is full and sent a large army to attack us, but will he dare?"

It is said that the remnants of King Jin of the Southern Ming Dynasty were entrenched in the mountainous areas of northern Vietnam for several years, and now they are almost a piece of the North Vietnamese regime. The damage was too serious, so they were given a free chance. If you don’t fight, it would be a big deal for them to recruit soldiers and openly erect the flag. The East Coast people came forward to negotiate with North Vietnam and asked Li Sixing’s troops to withdraw more than 30,000 people from the poor mountain valley. It was really a matter for the North Vietnamese regime. For this reason, they were extorted by the East Coast people as "severance payment" by the East Coast people, which paid them within ten years, which reduced a lot of burden to the Lianwu Management Committee, which was not well-off.

For Li Sixing, withdrawing from the mountainous areas of northern Vietnam was also a relief. In that poor place, they could not eat enough or wear warm clothes, and even the military supplies and medicines were supported by the East Coast people. Although they had formed a team of more than 30,000 people (many were Vietnamese who could not survive in the mountainous areas), they had only more than 10,000 guns, only more than 40 cannons, and their caliber was not very large, and their ammunition reserves were only enough to fight a few small and medium-sized battles and lost their territory. They were so miserable that they could not hold on. They could walk out, no matter where they went in the future, whether in the South Ocean or the Whale Sea, they were better than the humid and stuffy mountainous areas of northern Vietnam, which were raging with snakes and insects, but also had barren products.

Of course, the most ideal thing is to go to Nanyang. Although Li Sixing has been squatting in the mountains, he knows more or less some things, such as Li Yuanyin from Guangdong and Zheng Kezang from Fujian in Nanyang, and advertisements for recruiting people to go to Guangxi. More than two-thirds of Li Sixing's subordinates are from Yunnan and Guizhou, and the rest are either from Guangxi or Vietnamese, and they are still very able to adapt to the climate of the Nanyang islands.

However, they are still a little different from Li Yuanyin and Zheng Kezang. After all, when they are poor, they have nothing to bargain with the East Coast people. In the future, there is a high probability that they will not be able to maintain their independence. It is estimated that like the grass-roots masters founded by the East Coast people in Shandong in the early years, they will set you a defense zone. The financial resources in the defense zone will be self-supported, but most of them are not enough, and they need to be funded. In addition, they are directly under the East Coast forces, so there is no possibility of separatism. But in this situation, what can I do? Eat what others drink from others and drink from others, and they will collapse if they don’t help them. It’s better to be realistic. Even if they ask you not to go to India, the East Coast people really want them to go to India to make trouble. The second choice is to establish Lijiapo in Malacca City, but this requires communication with the Dutch East India Company. Don’t you have to carry your bags and honestly expand your territory for others?

After being poor for so long, everyone's enthusiasm has long been exhausted. It is no longer the tiger and wolf army that dared to fight with Shunjun in real swords and guns!
Chapter completed!