Chapter 3725
Chapter 3725
Chapter 3725
Since there are many departments involved, it will take about half a month just to gather all the personnel participating in this operation in Hangzhou and Ningbo.
In addition, the amount of materials that the fleet needs to transport is also very large. In addition to the hundreds of tons of oil exploration equipment from the Ministry of Industry, there are also a large number of other materials to be sent to the jurisdiction of the Special Operations Division.
Weapons and equipment, work tools, medical supplies, daily necessities and emergency supplies, these were things that had been promised to Qian Tiandun to be distributed as soon as possible, and it was estimated that at least twelve to fifteen heavy-loaded sailing ships would be filled.
The Ministry of Commerce, unwilling to make an empty trip, is said to have organized five large cargo ships on its own, all filled with a variety of export goods, apparently intending to earn back all the expenses of this trip.
There were also immigrants promised to be provided to the special warfare division, and this time they planned to send 2,000 people first. However, since more than half of the immigrants could only be made up of Japanese personnel taken in by the Sasebo base, they had to wait for the fleet to be arranged to bring these personnel back to Zhoushan Port to wait.
However, this is not the complete composition of the visiting fleet. In addition to those arranged by the Executive Committee, there are also temporary participants who are not included in the plan.
The movements of the Special Operations Division in the Indian Ocean direction have long been no secret. The Executive Committee’s public commendation of the Special Operations Division not long ago was reported in detail in newspapers.
Even most of the illiterate people had heard that the special operations division had captured two geographically important ports thousands of miles overseas, extending the country's border a long way westward.
As for how big the impact of this achievement will be, one only needs to look at the attitude of the Executive Committee. Judging from the various statements made by the Executive Committee, the importance attached to the achievements of the Special Warfare Division even exceeds that of the two major regions of Luzon and Xingdao entering the new southern continent last year.
How could the Executive Committee’s public statements not attract the attention of other countries? You have to know that the embassies of various countries in Hangzhou must be loyal readers of the Hai Han Times and other official media newspapers.
It was also no secret that Shi Diwen later proposed to the Executive Committee a plan to lead a team to inspect the Special Operations Division's jurisdiction. Even if the Executive Committee and Shi Diwen did not publicly announce the specific content of this plan, the number of personnel to be dispatched for this plan alone was as high as 2,000 to 3,000, and the number of indirect participants was even more difficult to count, so how could it be kept secret?
So, some foreign envoys who had learned the news from some unknown channel came to us on their own initiative, hoping to participate in the long-distance voyage organized by Hai Han.
Ambassador Annan was the first to visit the Executive Committee. His suggestion to the Executive Committee was straightforward. He hoped that Hai Han would allow Annan to participate in this operation as an ally.
Annan will organize a fleet to follow the Hai Han fleet into the Indian Ocean, and during this period it can cooperate with Hai Han to carry out various exploration and escort missions.
This is of course just a nice way of saying it. In fact, anyone can see that today's Annan is probably no longer satisfied with just one corner of the South China Sea.
Given Annan's geographical location, the north, east, and south are all Hai Han's territories. Although the neighboring countries to the west are slightly weaker, it would be difficult for Annan to fight a war of annihilation alone without Hai Han's nod.
Therefore, if Annan wanted to become a more powerful country with greater international influence, it could only follow Hai Han's example and seek opportunities for external expansion by sea. Last year, Annan took the initiative to apply for the freight business to Hai Han's newly developed South China Sea New World. Although it only got the transportation mission between Sanya and Xingdao, it was actually a good start.
When the ports of the Southern New World are opened to foreign ships, cargo ships from Annan will most likely be the first customers to obtain access.
This time, Ambassador Annan took the initiative to apply to send troops to follow the Hai Han fleet into the Indian Ocean. This was obviously a well-prepared request. The Annan people must have been waiting for this opportunity for a long time.
The Executive Committee was not unaware of the Annanites' increasingly revealed ambitions, but Annan's military field was greatly influenced by Hai Han, and most of its armaments supply depended on Hai Han. Therefore, the Executive Committee believed that Annan's movements were still within the controllable range, and could be a reliable force if used properly.
In principle, the Executive Committee will not stop Annan from entering the Indian Ocean. The reason is very simple. Nowadays, the Sing Tao region has invested a lot of transportation capacity in the routes to the New World in the south, resulting in a serious shortage of sea transportation capacity from the South China Sea to the special operations division's jurisdiction.
If we were to draw transport capacity from Hai Han to fill the needs of this area, it would actually be like digging Peter to pay Paul, and would not really improve the overall situation.
Now Qian Tiandun has expanded the special operations division's range of activities in the Indian Ocean to the vicinity of the Arabian Peninsula, which has led to further lengthening of shipping routes and a larger capacity gap.
If Annan can provide the transportation capacity that Hai Han needs, then allowing it to enter the Indian Ocean will definitely be more beneficial than harmful.
Therefore, Ambassador Annan's request was quickly approved by the Executive Committee. In exchange, the Annan Fleet had to transport a batch of goods from Sanya to the Special Warfare Division's area, and in the next few years, according to Hai Han's requirements, it had to allocate a portion of its transport capacity on the route from the South China Sea to the Indian Ocean to transport Hai Han's goods.
Such exchange terms were not a problem for Annan, at least in the ambassador's opinion. It was not that the goods transported for Hai Han were free, but they would be charged a lower price.
What Annan will gain is Hai Han's access to several ports in the Indian Ocean region, as well as the long-term benefits of building these ocean routes. In comparison, giving Hai Han some benefits is nothing, it can just be regarded as paying management fees.
The two sides hit it off and reached an agreement. Ambassador Annan left the office building of the Executive Committee and immediately rushed to the radio station not far away to send the good news back to the country as soon as possible by telegram. I believe King Zheng Zao will be very happy after hearing it.
Annan was not the only one who had similar plans. As soon as Ambassador Annan left, North Korean Ambassador Ri Xi followed.
Li Xi's purpose in coming was the same as that of the Annanites. Having heard that Hai Han was about to send a large fleet to the distant Indian Ocean to support the special operations division stationed there, North Korea naturally could not miss this opportunity to gain benefits and also expressed its willingness to send a fleet to cooperate in the war.
It seems that the intelligence obtained by the Koreans was biased. They believed that Hai Han’s action this time was to invade the local area, so they planned to send their own navy to assist.
Therefore, the Executive Committee had to explain to Li Xi that the fleet going to the Indian Ocean was not going to fight there, but to establish a trade route across the entire Indian Ocean.