1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 219 Trip to Vietnam ([-])

It has been two full months since the cargo fleet of the Crossing Group shipped immigrants here for the first time. During this period of time, the black soil port, which has been transshipping immigrants non-stop, has not been idle. More than 20 more reliable Vietnamese were sent to set up a relief station here to organize the scattered refugees and conduct preliminary screening and identification.In this way, every time the cargo fleet arrives here, there is no need to waste a lot of time to slowly select immigrants, and they can directly load the selected people on board and leave.

After the fleet docked, Tom Wang found that what he saw was quite different from what he saw two months ago. Many simple shacks and even a few wooden houses have been built on the originally empty wasteland—that is, rescue A warehouse for storing food.In order to organize more immigrants, Black Earth Port will regularly send food, salt and other supplies, so that those refugees who do not carry much rations can wait here until the arrival of the next batch of ships.

Although the appearance of the fleet made the people on the shore very excited, this time there was no scene of refugees swarming up. Through the publicity of the aid station, the refugees waiting for the boat here knew what rules they had to abide by in order to get a chance to leave by boat.It's not like no one tried to break this rule before, but those who did so were tied up hand and foot and thrown directly into the Qingyuan River.After about a dozen unlucky ghosts were thrown into the river, there was no such chaotic scene as when Tom Wang first arrived here.

This method was thought up by Gao Qiaonan, a corporal of naturalized civilians. Although this method seems simple and crude, it has a very good effect on dealing with the chaotic situation in the refugee camp, and it once again proves the necessity of "using heavy codes in troubled times".Of course, as a pacifist, Gu Kai did not fail to question this approach, thinking that it was inconsistent with the "rule of law" society that the Traveling Group wanted to build in the future, but those who stood up to support Takahashi Nan were not only His immediate boss, Qian Tiandun, and even Zhou Hengxing, Xie Chun, Tian Yeyou and the others believed that there was nothing wrong with doing so—there is no shortage of labor in Heitu Port, so for those who disobey orders, they may become thorns It's better for the guy to be excluded from Heitu Port as soon as possible, not to mention that by doing so, he can kill the chickens and monkeys by the way, and shock those who are restless.

For this reason, Zhou Hengxing even quoted the words of Confucius: "Government is lenient and slow. Economic lenient, political harmony." It means that for these Vietnamese immigrants who have no concept of the rule of law, severe measures should be taken to correct their behavior, so that they know what they can do and what they can't do.Just like the hanging of the four prisoners at the opening of the Black Earth Port, if they hadn’t been decisively sentenced to hang to teach the new immigrants a lesson, only the limited management personnel from Victory Port would have It may not be possible to manage thousands of immigrants in a submissive manner.

It has to be said that the role of the rescue station here is relatively obvious. In addition to maintaining the basic order of the people, they even organized people to build a trestle on the shore for the cargo ships to and from here to dock.After setting up the springboard, the militiamen under the Military and Police Department first landed. As soon as these soldiers in colorful shorts and holding five-foot firecrackers appeared, the onlookers automatically pushed back a certain distance—— The guys who made trouble in the past were thrown into the river by these strangely dressed soldiers.

After the militiamen cleared a passage, a group of transversal talents headed by Tao Donglai made their debut.Xie Chun called the person in charge of the rescue station here, a Vietnamese man in his 30s, and reported to Tao Donglai and others.The Vietnamese man heard that this was the head of the chief, from the legendary "Haihan Executive Committee", and almost knelt down to kowtow, but fortunately, Xie Chun quickly dragged him up.

"Let us take a look around first, and talk while walking." Tao Donglai is also full of leadership temperament now.He was originally the boss of the company, and he has been a high-ranking official after time travelling. After a long time, he gradually acquired the power of a superior person.

In the original schedule, there was no patrol in Qinghua, but after Tao Donglai heard that there were personnel from Heitu Port here, he temporarily changed his mind.Although the personnel stationed here are all Vietnamese and there are no traversers, but speaking of their status as naturalized citizens, it is necessary to let them feel the attention of the executive committee.

So the person in charge of the rescue station led the way tremblingly, and led a group of cross-border people from the base camp to visit this small refugee camp at the mouth of the Tsinghua River.

After these people from the relief station were stationed here, they organized a group of refugees who voluntarily immigrated to Heitu Port locally and began to build shacks.Because cargo ships pass by here only once in ten and a half months, simple settlements must be built.And then the refugees who came here also started to build shacks around under various propaganda offensives, waiting for the legendary fleet to rescue them from the sea of ​​misery.

If you can look down from the air, you can find that the structure of this refugee camp is centered on the simple pier by the river, and radiates to the surrounding area along the river bank in a semicircular shape.The most central location is the wharf and rescue station, while the periphery is a circle of shacks.When a fleet arrives, a group of people will be picked up, and a shack near the center will be vacated, and then people from the periphery will gradually move in to the center, waiting for the arrival of the next fleet.Such an almost primitive batch immigration method has been maintained relatively smoothly, and there has not been any trouble during the period-those who are not willing to obey this method can leave on their own. deprived of immigration eligibility.

Of course, if there are too many people stationed abroad and there is no supervision, there will inevitably be loopholes. Among the naturalized people who were stationed here at first, there were also more active-minded people. Refugees demand property in exchange for immigration priority.However, this incident was later discovered by the crossing people who escorted the boat, and they hanged three daring naturalized people on the pier here, which was considered to temporarily stop this trend.

If Heitu Port had sent traversers here, perhaps such a thing would not have happened, but after seeing the living conditions here, Tao Donglai had to admit that there was nothing wrong with the arrangement of Heitu Port—compared with the real The living conditions here are indeed too poor.

In the simple shacks where these refugees live, they can’t even find a decent bed. Most of them are just a layer of hay, reeds and other things on the ground. It's just that each person has an extra wooden single bed brought from Heitu Port, and there is no other furniture other than that.

The canteen for cooking at the aid station is also built outdoors, with only a few stoves built out of stones. Under the shack next to the canteen are several water tanks, which contain the daily drinking water needed by the aid station.Because this place is close to the sea, sea water will pour in from the river mouth when the tide is high, so the salt content of the fresh water here is still relatively high, even exceeding the level that ordinary people can accept.

In this case, the only desalination method available is distillation.There are several stoves in the cafeteria that have been used to light fires and boil water for a long time. After the water vapor is condensed, fresh water is obtained that can be used practically.Although this process is a bit more troublesome, fortunately, fuel is free of charge—cargo ships coming from the direction of Black Earth Port to carry immigrants will bring tons of coal each time, which is enough to ensure the local fuel supply.Of course, the fresh water that can be obtained by distillation is extremely limited and cannot be supplied to all the refugees stranded here, so only the naturalized people in the relief station, a small number of infants and sick patients can enjoy fresh water, and most refugees still only have Drink salty water.

As for the food, there is nothing to say about it. Although Vietnam is a country rich in rice, the Heitu Port Management Committee does not intend to use rice to feed these people for nothing, so the relief station here only provides one meal a day for those who lack food. Most people have to wait until they go to Black Earth Port or Victory Port before they can really have a full meal.

What disturbed Tao Donglai the most was the sanitary conditions here.Although several latrines were built at the beginning of the construction of the refugee camp, as the refugees here left in batches, the later refugees did not seem to have the awareness of cleaning the latrines, and the situation of excrement and urine has begun to appear in the outer camps.Due to the lack of local medical staff, the patients here basically can only rely on their own bodies to resist. Once the weak collapse, it is almost impossible to leave this place.The only thing the local rescue station can do is to clear those sick people out of the refugee camp as soon as possible to prevent their diseases from spreading here.

The effect of this treatment method can be said to be extremely limited. Even if a plague breaks out here tomorrow, Tao Donglai will not find it strange at all.With such a poor sanitation situation, it would be a dereliction of duty if the Management Committee of Heitu Port still insisted on sending traversers to garrison here.

According to the report of the naturalized people, there are about 300 Vietnamese refugees here. It sounds like there are not many people. If the eight cargo ships come here empty, they will probably be able to barely fill them.But in fact, the speed of cargo ships transferring immigrants from here is not much faster than the population growth rate here. There are 400 new refugees every day, and the cargo ships responsible for transferring them now only come at least once every ten days.Moreover, the cargo ships that come here cannot be loaded with people every time. For example, among the four ships this time, two of them were loaded with militia and munitions, and there were other tasks on the way, so they can actually take immigrants to the black soil. There are only two ships in the port.The space on the ship is inherently limited, even if it is completely full, it can only take three to four hundred people.

After briefly inspecting the situation of the refugee camps and aid stations, Tao Donglai ordered some vegetables and fruits to be unloaded from the boat to comfort the naturalized people stationed here.At the same time, he also encouraged them in words, and promised them that after completing the work here, they would have the opportunity to move their families to Shengli Harbor, the seat of the Executive Committee, to settle down—before that, they had to stay in Thanh Hoa for at least [-] hours. next year.

But for these naturalized people, this is already great news.Because so far, coal ships departing from Heitu Port to Shengli Port have always taken away some children or single women, and the Heitu Port Management Committee has put a lot of effort into publicizing this matter, claiming that only those who were The lucky ones who will be selected will have the opportunity to go to Haihan's base camp and settle in Victory Port on the other side of the sea.Victory Port is naturally portrayed as a paradise on earth, where everyone has food, clothing, and housing. There is no war, no landlord, and no emperor. Everyone who goes there can Live a happy life.

Except for the selected lucky ones, ordinary people can apply to the Management Committee to move to Victory Port as long as they are upgraded to the third-level labor force.Of course, this kind of relocation quota is also very limited, every three months is an application period, and the approval ratio of each application period will only be one-fifth of the number of applicants.Therefore, when these naturalized people heard Tao Donglai's promise, they were very excited, which will greatly increase their chances of moving to Shengli Port in the future.

After listening to Xie Chun's explanation, Tao Donglai, who didn't know why, realized that there was such a propaganda in Heitu Port, and he was a little bit dumbfounded: "If you deify the status of the Executive Committee and Shengli Port, maybe there will be a comparison in the short term. Good effect, but not a good thing in the long run!"

"Let's go out first, let's talk about it, let's take it step by step." Xie Chun was a little disapproving: "With the current conditions of Heitu Port, it is difficult to describe a bright future and goal for these people, so they can only use the base camp. Let’s talk about things. Let them have a goal in their hearts, so they can work with peace of mind!”

Black Earth Port has not been open for a long time, and the labor class is generally low, so there are no qualified applicants for the time being.From this point of view, the group of people who were selected to build a refugee aid station in Thanh Hoa might become the first batch of naturalized people who were relocated to Victory Port because of their outstanding work.

After completing the inspection, Tao Donglai ordered the immigrants who had been selected to board the ship.The two ships used to transport the immigrants this time did not carry any other goods except for the necessary supplies, so the number of immigrants that could be taken away was relatively large.Under the watchful eyes of the militiamen with live ammunition, the immigrants lined up in two long rows and slowly moved towards the two ships.

To be on the safe side, these people will also receive a final physical examination before boarding the ship.This time the fleet brought several medical staff from Victory Port, which also came in handy here by the way.This inspection is mainly to see if there are any obvious infectious disease patients among the immigrants, or those who are not fit for long-distance voyages. People like this will be cleared out of the team and lose their immigration qualifications.

At one o'clock in the afternoon that day, the migrants finally boarded the ship.This time there will be a total of 380 new immigrants who will take a boat to Heitu Port. These lucky ones will get rid of the threat of war and become naturalized citizens under the executive committee.And another seven unlucky ones were found to be suffering from various diseases during the inspection, and because of this, they lost their immigration qualifications.

Half an hour later, the fleet slowly sailed out from the estuary of the Tsinghua River, adjusted its direction and continued heading north.In the afternoon of the second day, the fleet arrived at the second destination of the trip, the Do Son Peninsula located in Haiphong City.

The two cargo ships carrying migrants did not stop here. They continued to sail northward towards Cat Ba Island, and would go directly to Heitu Port without stopping.The other two cargo ships carrying militia and munitions were docked at the southeastern tip of the Tushan Peninsula together with the "Flying Speed".

In the place of Tushan Peninsula, the first expedition team to explore the shipping route of Heitu Port had already been here, but they did not land here.This long and narrow peninsula protruding into the sea in the southeast direction in an S shape is actually quite strategically located. At that time, Wang Tom mentioned this place in his report, thinking that when the conditions are ripe in the future, this place can be occupied to build a Vietnam near-shore strategic support point.

This idea is actually very close to the idea of ​​the military and police department wanting to establish a stronghold at the Pearl River Estuary. The purpose of this strategic support point is not to build a large military base, but a small military stronghold, which is mainly used for supply and surveillance in peacetime. effect.Looking at the coastal area east of Hanoi in northern Vietnam, it is undoubtedly a pretty good place-it is directly connected to the mainland, the terrain is narrow and easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there are natural harbors that can accommodate ships.

Do Son Peninsula is about 90 kilometers away from Hanoi and is directly connected by waterways.It is only about ten kilometers away from the nearest grain producing area, which is also convenient for future grain trade.The narrowest part of the peninsula is no more than [-] meters. With the firepower of the weapons equipped by the penetrating group, it is easy to build an insurmountable defense line. Moreover, the island has a commanding height, and three-dimensional fortifications can be built if necessary. The S-shaped island terrain has two huge natural harbors, which can accommodate several thousand-ton ships to dock. In fact, the Soviets in later generations also occupied this place for many years to dock warships. It was not until the early [-]s that the Tushan Peninsula withdraw.

The Military and Police Department believes that if a stronghold is built in this place, then the main threat will still come from the land, and this threat can be easily controlled.As for the sea, the Military and Police Department does not believe that the current Beibu Gulf area will be threatened by the sea. The nearby coastline is sparsely populated, and there are not even pirates, so there is no threat at all.As for Vietnam's water power at this stage, it is not much stronger than the fishermen by the sea.You must know that Vietnam's civil war between the North and the South has been fought for so many years, and it has been fighting along the coastline, but it has never been done at sea, which shows that its sea power is weak.

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