1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 2161
Xiu Nian didn't dare to complain about receiving such a difficult problem at the beginning of his tenure. He also understood that his boss should be testing his ability, so he deliberately asked such a question to test himself.

Although the time we spent together is still very short, Xiu Nian can already feel that Jiang Zian is an official who pays great attention to practical ability. If his ability does not meet his expectations, it is really very likely that Jiang Zian will be replaced by Jiang Zian from his current position. kicked off.

Jiang Zian asked him to visit two villages for resettling Japanese immigrants every day to understand the progress of these new immigrants' settlement in the local area, but he did not explain where to start, how to proceed, what information should be obtained, and what to do in case of problems. How to deal with it, for Xiu Nian who has only received a few days of preliminary training in the immigration camp, it really needs to be well prepared.

A letter of introduction with the seal of the town hall was the only support Xiu Nian got from Jiang Zian, and Xiu Nian had to solve the rest of the work needs by herself.He even had to go to the courtyard of the town office to look at the map of Baiquan Town drawn on the courtyard wall, so as to know which direction the target he wanted to visit was.

Fortunately, the terrain of Baiquan Town's jurisdiction is not complicated. All the villages are distributed on the seaside plain of more than ten square kilometers on the north shore of Zhoushan Island, and the town office is located in the middle of these villages.As long as you know the general direction of your destination, it is basically impossible to get lost on the way.

However, after carefully looking at the map of Baiquan Town on the wall, Xiu Nian seemed to understand better the purpose of this task assigned by her boss.Since I am responsible for assisting in the management of the [-] Japanese immigrants assigned to the ten villages under Baiquan Town, of course I must first understand the specific conditions of these ten villages, and visiting these places on the spot is probably the fastest and most intuitive way There is a way.

It's just that Xiu Nian is still a little uneasy when she has to start her work alone in the environment of a foreign country.He is a little worried about his new immigrant status, whether he will be half short in front of the people who really have Haihan nationality. If the local government does not cooperate with his work at all, then he will probably just stare blankly.

But work is work, and Jiang Zian didn't leave him any room to escape, either to complete the task and continue to stay in the town hall to enjoy good living conditions, or to pack up and play in the mud with other immigrants.There is no need to choose between these two paths, Xiu Nian is very clear which one is the one she should take.

The turbulent Hirado Port, Seogwipo where food and clothing are scarce, and the immigrant camp with an uncertain future, all the more difficult situations before have been overcome step by step. Now that they have just embarked on the right track of a new life, how can Xiu Nian be willing? Stop there.

In the early morning of the next day, Xiu Nian went to the group cafeteria to have breakfast, packed a few steamed buns from the cafeteria with the letter of introduction, poured a pot of cold water, and set off from the town hall.

Xiu Nian's first destination was Gaoxie Village. The reason why she chose this place was because when I was eating in the cafeteria last night, I heard other people say that the bayberries in Gaoxie Village were ripe for picking. The office filed an application to transfer a horse-drawn carriage from the town office to transport the bayberry, and this application was approved by the town office yesterday, and it will send a carriage there today.

That's right, being able to take a ride with the town office is why Xiu Nian chose Gaoxie Village as her first destination.This not only saves him the physical exertion on the way and the time spent on finding the way, but also allows the local people to confirm Xiu Nian's official identity - although he is only a new Japanese immigrant, he is also here on behalf of the town hall. Officials who work.

Gaoxie Village is located in a ravine on the west side of Baiquan Town. In fact, the group of Japanese immigrants that Xiu Nian was in passed by the official road next to Gaoxie Village on the way from the immigration camp in Dinghai Port to Baiquan Town. once.

Before entering the village, Xiu Nian, who was sitting cross-legged on the cart, saw bayberry trees all over the mountains and plains. The branches were covered with red bayberry fruits. It was already the harvest season, and many farmers were picking fruits in the fields.

Xiu Nian had never seen bayberry trees and bayberry fruit before, this was a brand new experience for him.He heard the coachman say that this is a special fruit of Gaoxie Village, and he was even more interested in trying it.

After inquiring several times from the farmers who were picking red bayberries by the roadside, Xiu Nian finally found Wang Dagui, the head of Gaoxie Village who was also busy in the field, and showed him the official documents of the town office.

However, Wang Dagui glanced at the official document in Xiu Nian's hand, and he probably only had time to see the seal of the town office stamped on it, and he didn't read the text at all, so he said to Xiu Nian: "Monk, help me pull it on this branch."

Xiu Nian didn't feel bad about it, but still followed Wang Dagui's instructions honestly, reaching out and grabbing the branch, while Wang Dagui told him not to let it go, while reaching out to pick the bayberry fruit on the branch.

Xiu Nian couldn't laugh or cry when she saw this, she didn't expect that she had just arrived in Gaoxie Village, before she had time to catch her breath, she would be recruited by the village chief as a migrant worker, and this was not the purpose of her coming to Gaoxie Village.

Xiu Nian couldn't figure out Wang Dagui's temper, so she had to say cautiously: "Mr. Wang, I'm here from the town office to verify the resettlement of the new immigrants..."

"I know you are from the town office, didn't I see you yesterday?" Wang Dagui replied nonchalantly, but he didn't stop working at all.

Xiu Nian took a closer look, and it seemed that she had indeed met Wang Dagui at the scene where the immigrants were assigned yesterday, but it was too busy at that time, and Xiu Nian couldn't quite remember what the people who came to collect immigrants from each village looked like. Only noticed this when prompted.

Xiu Nian asked again: "Then what happened to the 20 people that Village Chief Wang brought back yesterday?"

"How about it? It's good. Yesterday, I arranged for them to live in the ancestral hall at the head of the village. I'll wait until the red bayberry fruit is almost harvested in the past few days, and then concentrate on building a few thatched houses for them... I ate today. After breakfast, I have to go to work, and I am all picking fruits on this hillside!" Wang Dagui explained the situation of Japanese immigrants to Xiu Nian in a few words.

"I brought it back last night and went to work this morning?" Xiu Nian couldn't help being a little surprised at the efficiency of the work in Gaoxie Village.

"It's not like letting them come to the village to eat and live for nothing, so why don't they hurry up and start working?" Wang Dagui said confidently, "You have to work when you come here. People with good hands and feet, don't they make sense if they don't work?"

After finishing speaking, she stared at Xiu Nian, and Xiu Nian swallowed the words again, silently grasping the branch tightly.

Xiu Nian didn't think there was anything wrong with Wang Dagui's words, he just wanted to explain to the other party that he didn't come to Gaoxie Village to help with farm work, but to have official duties.But when the words came to his lips, he suddenly felt that it was inappropriate to say that. Jiang Zian asked himself to go to various villages to learn about the resettlement of Japanese immigrants. Isn't the farm work he is doing now the same as what other immigrants are doing?
First rely on work to win over the relationship with the village head, so that you can learn more about the situation from the other party.Otherwise, if you look down on yourself and make a small report in front of your boss, then you will really be unable to eat and walk away.

After picking the bayberry fruit from this branch, Wang Dagui signaled Xiu Nian to let go, and then pushed the basket containing the bayberry in front of him: "Try it, this is a specialty of our Gaoxie Village! Masters of Dinghaigang It's more particular, you have to soak it in salt water before eating, but we don't have that much trouble, so it's the same if we just eat it!"

Xiu Nian was not too polite, she casually picked up a bayberry fruit from the basket and put it in her mouth, biting it lightly, the sweet and sour juice immediately spread in her mouth, it was indeed a taste he had never tasted before.With a little bit of force on the tongue, all the pulp was rolled off from the core. The aroma of the fruit penetrated from the mouth to the nasal cavity, making Xiu Nian feel very comfortable. There is a saying that "there are many mouthfuls, but it is as sweet as honey. I would rather know the strange place It's slightly sour."

"Good stuff!" After Xiu Nian finished her compliments, she took another one into her mouth, and slowly chewed and tasted it.

"Our red bayberry here has big fruit, fine core, juicy and tender meat. It was recorded in Zhoushan local chronicles hundreds of years ago. Even the adults who came to Zhoushan from the capital city said it was good after tasting it!"

Wang Dagui proudly boasted about the glorious history of Gaoxie Yangmei.

It's just that his culture is limited, and he can't tell the specific documents such as "Yuan Da De Chang Guo Zhou Tu Zhi", and he can't read such elegant sentences as "the countryside is full of fragrance in May, only the red bayberry is full of branches", which can only be given to him. Xiu Nian talked about the common saying that "peach and plum are full of life, and bayberry cures all diseases".

Of course, in Wang Dagui's view, no matter whether it is history books or poetry, it cannot compare with the praise from senior officials in Haihan.After all, the people in charge and management of this empire are some god-like figures, and the views expressed by them can best prove the value of Gao Xie Yangmei.Senior officials say yes, that is really good.

Xiu Nian didn't have such a deep understanding, he just simply thought that this sweet and sour fruit was quite delicious.After eating five or six in one go, he said to Wang Dagui with a little satisfaction: "It's a pity that there is no such delicious fruit in my hometown."

Wang Dagui said: "This food should pay attention to water and soil. On the entire Zhoushan Island, the bayberry grown in our mountain depression is the best. Even if you have this fruit in your hometown, it may not have the same taste."

Xiu Nian nodded and said, "Cunnel Chief Wang is right. Moreover, the fruit is soft and juicy. It must be difficult to preserve it for a long time after picking it. It should be difficult to transport it to other places. It can only be eaten near Zhoushan Island!"

Wang Dagui said: "In the past, it was really impossible to sell it outside. In some years, the harvest was so good that it couldn't be sold out, and it could only be left to rot on the branches. However, after General Shi took over Zhoushan, it was different. What we produce here Yangmei can be shipped to the capital thousands of miles away for sale.”

"Thousands of miles... Then you can't walk on the sea for a month, won't it break?" Xiu Nian asked in disbelief.

"The agricultural technician sent by General Shi taught us how to use red bayberry to make canned food, dried fruit, jam, juice and fruit wine. In this way, the storage time will naturally be longer." Wang Dagui paused and added : "And after processing, these things can be sold for a much higher price than fresh bayberries!"

The deep processing of agricultural products can be regarded as a special industry of Haihan. Almost all agricultural areas under Haihan's rule have corresponding industries, and Zhoushan is no exception.The Ministry of Agriculture also has an office in Zhoushan, where a group of agricultural technicians are responsible for imparting deep processing technologies in agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, sideline fishery and other aspects.

Processing bayberry into various agricultural and sideline products is of course not Haihan’s first initiative. The folks have long had similar processing methods, but Haihan has made these processing methods scientific, standardized, and mass-produced, allowing farmers to produce and sell a small amount of processing. It has been upgraded to a large-scale production, and channels and markets have been provided for it, so that these bayberry can get out of the small mountain and become a commodity circulating in the external market.

No matter how delicious the bayberry produced in Gaoxie Village is, because of the limited shelf life, it can only be well-known near Zhoushan. Naturally, no businessman will go to Baiquan Town to buy the by-products of bayberry.However, Haihan has a mature operation plan for the development of agricultural products. On the one hand, it guides farmers to further process bayberry, and on the other hand, it allows the commercial department to arrange export channels.Not to mention the local farmers in Zhoushan, even the government belonging to the Ming Dynasty did not have such operational capabilities.

These deep-processed agricultural products are shipped across the ocean to other markets, and the price will naturally double and rise. The merchants who handle them will get benefits. In the second year, they will go to Zhoushan to order without the Ministry of Commerce taking the lead. up.And these farmers in Gaoxie Village will also get practical benefits from the operation of export channels, so that they have more motivation to engage in bayberry planting and deep processing.

How this system works, the village chief Wang Dagui is limited by his vision, so he is actually not very clear.But one thing is certain, that is, this business model has brought very real benefits to the people of Gaoxie Village.

Therefore, in Wang Dagui's eyes, when the bayberry harvest season comes, other things have to be postponed a little bit, and this year's picking and processing tasks have to be completed first.This is not only a matter for the villagers of Gaoxie Village, but also involves a large number of commercial orders to be completed this year. If the goods cannot be delivered by then, it will not only affect the income of the villagers this year, but also affect the business of Gaoxie Yangmei. Credibility suffers certain damage.

At the beginning of the year, Wang Dagui had guaranteed Ding Zian that he would complete the dual goals of increasing production and income in Gaoxie Village this year. If he could not complete the task by then, the mayor of One Arm would definitely come to Gaoxie Village to trouble him.So yesterday I went to the town to pick up new immigrants, Wang Dagui hurriedly brought people back after completing the formalities, and drove all the new immigrants into the fruit forest early this morning, and immediately put them into use.

Even the official errands like Xiu Nian who came to Gaoxie Village from the town to do business, Wang Dagui didn't let them go, so he caught them first and used them later.However, after the chatterbox between the two opened up, Xiu Nian helped Wang Dagui talk a lot about the development of the bayberry industry in Gaoxie Village, and she was very interested in hearing it, so she was not in a hurry to meet those days who were also busy picking fruits. immigrants.

(End of this chapter)