1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 92 Immigrants
The recruitment of immigrant laborers went very smoothly that day. The working group went to the servant market after lunch. The reserved place for [-] people was already filled, and many people continued to ask around the dental dealer if they would still accept people.On the other hand, according to the statement made by the working group, the dental merchants only said that the quota for today is full, and those who want to eat a bowl of rice should have breakfast tomorrow.As for the people who received the bamboo chips, they have been notified that they will bring their luggage and wait for the owner tomorrow afternoon, and then they will arrange a boat to their destination.

Although the tooth merchant was already tired and hoarse, he had received seven taels of silver for most of the day, which made him still quite excited: "The recruitment of laborers is so smooth today, can you continue tomorrow?"

"Of course we have to continue. We need people for a long time. You just need to do your best." Malico thought about it and added: "You don't need to emphasize that in the future when recruiting people, you need to cultivate land. Yes. In addition, if you can recruit various craftsmen or people with skills, the cost can be calculated separately.”

"There are also workers whose age can be lowered, and we also want children." Qiu Yuan also helped to add.

In the executive committee's population introduction plan, in addition to the labor force, children are also a very important category.The Executive Committee believes that if a group of absolutely loyal naturalized citizens is to be cultivated within ten years, then the children whose three views have not yet been finalized are undoubtedly the best targets, so it also specially requested the working group to provide a large number of Bring in school-aged children.

In view of the current situation of mixed multi-ethnic students in the schools run by Chuanzhong, the teaching content is still mainly on Chinese literacy and conversation, followed by teaching some basic mathematical operations, and the rest of the courses are basically brainwashing content. Different angles and different methods are used to continuously publicize the high-level image of the Executive Committee, so that these students can subtly form the awareness that "the decision of the Executive Committee must be correct, and the orders of the Executive Committee must be obeyed".The military and police department, which has always been eyeing population imports, is said to have put the Boy Scouts program on the agenda.Of course, the Military Police Department's plan to train Boy Scouts is not to push the child soldiers to the battlefield in a short period of time, but to establish a military academy-style management organization to partially replace the current ordinary schools with serious shortage of teachers.

In the evening, when the office in Yazhou contacted the base camp, they reported the progress of labor immigration in detail, and asked the executive committee to send a boat the next day to receive immigrants at the designated place.The Executive Committee is also very satisfied with the progress of the work in the Ya Office. It provided the base camp with timely information on the market trend of glass products. Currently, the Ministry of Industry is working overtime to build a glass kiln, which can be put into small-scale production in about a week.Now the executive committee has also made a breakthrough in the population issue, which is the most concerned about. Naturally, they agreed to their request, and said that the hot water boiler mentioned by the Office of the People's Republic of China in the last time is already under construction and can be shipped to the next week at the latest. In Yazhou, samples of newly baked glassware will also be sent there.

The next day, Malico and Qiu Yuan went to the servant market again. Sure enough, there were a lot fewer people than the previous day, and only a dozen people were recruited in the morning.In the afternoon, the people who came to apply for the job the day before showed up outside the market one after another with their luggage. The number of people in the teeth business was not big compared to the previous day. Seeing that the agreed time had come, they took the group with Ma Qiu and the others. The settlers headed towards the south coast.

This time, the Executive Committee sent the "Bliksem" and the Guangzhou ship that captured the pirates last time to pack people. It was the first time that the Yashang and these immigrants had seen such a strange-looking sailboat as the "Bliksem". Amazed.Most of the migrants were loaded onto the Canton ships and the cabins were packed to the brim. Only a few women and children got on the "Blitzkrieg" and were fortunate enough to enjoy this yacht journey.

After a brief handover with Tom Wang, who led the team, Malico watched the two ships pull anchor and sail, and slowly sailed eastward from the coast.The fleet will also stop at Tianya and Fenghuang on the way back, and bring some immigrant workers recruited from the local area back to the Sanya base camp.

The laborers who came to apply for the recruitment were still a little apprehensive about the prospect. After all, everything they knew came from the mouths of dental dealers, and it was hard to say how credible it was.But after coming to the seaside to see the two large ships, the workers' originally uneasy heart gradually calmed down.There were also a few Hainan natives who were more articulate on the boat, and they kept preaching to the newcomers the various immigration policies of the "Haihan Executive Committee" throughout the voyage. The content was basically the same as the commune system and the labor hierarchy. To encourage these newcomers to join the commune, and exchange long-term service for various preferential treatment from the executive committee.

The effectiveness of this propaganda plan has been verified many times in the Sanya area. Although the boats are filled with people who have never been to Sanya, the tempting propaganda they have heard has made them There is a longing for the destination - the executive committee manages the sky and the land, the food and the house, the children who are born, sick and dying, and can be allocated a piece of land of their own after a few years of hard labor. What else is there to be demanding?
Of course, there are still many people who have doubts. Before they saw it with their own eyes, it was really hard to believe that there was such a place in Daming. The social system they followed seemed to be completely different from the environment they lived in in the past.Whether living in a place like this is good or bad, a lifesaver or the start of another nightmare, it's hard for them to judge now.

Since the speed of the ship itself was not fast, and it was full of people, the "Bliksem" had to slow down and wait for the ship to follow.If the "Lightning" were to perform the mission alone, half a day would be enough for it to run back and forth between Victory Harbor and Yazhou, but now at this speed, I am afraid that it will not arrive until it is dark.

Hurrying and rushing along the way, the fleet finally made it around Yulinjiao before sunset and sailed into Victory Harbor.The sleepy migrants in the cabin were woken up and told they had arrived, packed their belongings and lined up on the deck to get off the ship.

When the migrants got on deck, the first thing they noticed, without exception, was the "New World" docked in port.The side of this huge ship is slightly higher than the top of the mast of the wide ship. The huge hull of the ship made all the immigrants who saw this scene stunned, and their mouths were dumbfounded.Although many of them have lived by the sea for a long time, no one has ever thought of building a ship so huge.And beside this giant ship, there is also a row of strange ships without masts and no sails, each of which is larger than the vast ship he is on.

Next to these strange ships, hundreds of people are working on the coast, carrying baskets of sand and gravel to a construction site that protrudes into the sea, filling in a straight line along the originally winding coast, and the construction site runs east and west along the coast. Extend it, the range is as long as a hundred feet.People with sharp eyes have already seen the doorway. It is clearly building a large pier. It seems that the bragging about the "Haihan Executive Committee" just heard on the boat was not made up.

At present, the main work of the Tiandu River upstream hydropower station is nearing completion. The remaining work is mainly to hoist the generator and conduct power generation debugging. The labor required is not too much, so the construction of Shengli Port Wharf has finally been proposed by the Executive Committee. priority location.In terms of engineering volume, this wharf is larger than the hydropower station because it has a part of the reclamation process. However, the terrain here is open, it is convenient to use various construction machinery, and the technical content is relatively low. Hydropower plants are faster.The Ministry of Construction expects to have one-third of the wharf put into use by the end of this month, and will be basically completed next month.

Of course, due to the limitations of the current conditions, although the firmness and docking tonnage of the new wharf have greatly exceeded the previous temporary floating wharf, after all, piling and rock filling are the main construction methods, which need to be continuously repaired.The Ministry of Construction plans to wait until the cement output can be guaranteed in the future, and still have to carry out the cement solidification and renovation of the entire wharf to reduce the workload of daily maintenance.

When the boat finally docked at the pier, the migrants found a group of people trotting over in a neat line. With a whistle, these people stopped in unison, and then quickly formed a formation on the pier. , forming a rectangular encircling circle, and the opening of the encircling circle is facing the trestle where the immigrants will land.These people wore colorful short jackets, long trousers, and green short-brimmed hats.Although this group of people were not holding guns and knives, there was an invisible pressure emanating from their gestures, causing the migrants on the boat to remain silent for a while.

The team that was transferred to the dock to maintain order was naturally the naturalized soldiers who had been in the recruit camp for some time.Of course, it is still too early to call this group of people "soldiers". The military training they have received is far from reaching the military standards set by the Military and Police Department. Now, at most, they are performing the task at hand and acting as an anti-riot team to maintain law and order. Or patrol police, the executive committee will build the local security agency based on them.Another group of high-quality personnel continued to stay in the boot camp to receive firearms training and some basic tactical training. Those were the real first batch of naturalized soldiers.

"Everyone lined up to get off the boat, sit down in the area designated by us and wait for the arrangement. No loud noises, no random movement! Violators will be punished with hard labor for more than three days for the crime of disturbing the peace..." The loudspeaker on the dock suddenly rang, It frightened the immigrants who were disembarking.Some people looked around and wondered who could have such a loud voice, which made people's ears buzzing from far away.

(End of this chapter)