1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 257 Work Report of the Executive Committee

The executive committee is not worried that these naturalized people will become a privileged class after getting better treatment because of their in-laws. In fact, there will be a privileged class in any country or society—the vast majority of time-traveling people come to this time and space The purpose is also working with this.It is only a matter of time before some of the naturalized people who have married with the time-traveling people will form a new privileged class, but the key point is that the current population of the time-traveling group in Sanya is less than [-]. People, if there are dozens more privileged families from naturalized people in a short period of time, the negative effect on social stability will be self-evident.For this point, the Executive Committee has not yet determined the final solution.

Compared with this kind of trouble, the executive committee would rather let the bachelors go to the brothel opened by "Furuifeng" to solve the problem for the time being. At least it is convenient and quick with less sequelae. within the control range.

However, the executive committee's detailed planning and strict control in advance had achieved results on the opening day, and there was no scene of a large number of single time travelers crowding the hall at the opening.This is because the executive committee has consciously controlled the issuance of brothel consumption coupons, so as to prevent members whose hormones are already overflowing from making uncivilized and irrational actions.The first batch of consumers approved by the Executive Committee are members of the most difficult jobs, such as prospectors who have been active in the field for a long time, military police stationed in various mountain posts, and spend more time at sea than on land. Sailors and more.

The low-key handling of the executive committee also saved a lot of trouble for the opening of this business. At first, the relevant departments were worried that the feminists headed by Reza would jump out to make trouble again, but this time it was calm and there were no extra problems. situation.Some people think that this has something to do with the fact that the executive committee specially transferred Gu Kai back from Heitugang—the young couple is newly married after a long absence, and Ruisa naturally has no time to care about her external affairs.

The news department under the Ministry of Information Industry, which has always been troublesome, also shut up obediently this time, and did not make an in-depth report on the opening of this business.Meng He greeted the people in the news department in advance. This is a major event that affects the stability and unity within the group. Anyone who wants to talk too much at this juncture should be careful to be sent to Heitu Port as a foreign reporter.

On December 12th, people from all walks of life gathered together to summarize the progress of the construction in the past half a year after crossing, and to look forward to the development plan for next year.

Except for those time travelers who reside outside, many members even in the base camp cannot directly participate in the meeting, especially in the Tiandu Industrial Zone, where the technical backbones of each production unit are time travelers. If these people leave their posts, almost all Production must be stopped, and this is definitely a situation that the Executive Committee does not want to see.

In the early morning of that day, after the participants from all walks of life entered Base No. [-], the militiamen set up roadblocks outside the gate to refuse entry to ordinary naturalized citizens and foreign merchants.In addition to security considerations, this is also to ensure that the meeting process is not interrupted by other trivial matters.

Due to the large number of participants, the original conference room certainly could not accommodate so many people, so the venue was also moved to a small sports field in the center of the base.Fortunately, the weather has been pretty good recently, and this open-air meeting was able to proceed smoothly.

The executive committee headed by Tao Donglai still presided over the meeting. Although the nature of the executive committee is still a temporary management organization, the term of office of these executive committee members is one year, which means that it will not be until three months later. The first re-election will take place on the first anniversary of the crossing.

Red tape is rare in the internal meetings of the Traveling Group, and the bureaucratic atmosphere has not yet caused too much influence among the ruling personnel of this small group, so the meeting quickly got to the point from the very beginning.

The first is the "Executive Committee Work Report" made by Tao Donglai on behalf of the Executive Committee. This report covers the construction arrangements and actual progress in various aspects after the crossing, especially industry and agriculture, immigration, military construction and shipping. The contents that the members are most concerned about are given in detail in the report.

Up to now, the actual population under the jurisdiction of the Crossing Group has exceeded [-]. Among them, there are more than [-] naturalized citizens in Shengli Port, and more than [-] naturalized citizens in Heitu Port. The composition of other people is under investigation new immigrants, scattered migrant workers, personnel stationed by foreign merchants, and prisoners in labor camps.In terms of the proportion of naturalized people in the population, Heitu Port is significantly higher than the base camp. This is because most of the people who go to Heitu Port are homeless refugees, and there is no other way than to join the naturalized people.However, there are a large number of local residents around the Sanya area, and the population composition is much more complicated than that of Heitu Port.

At present, the cross-travel group's immigration introduction work has made great progress compared to the early days. Not only has North Vietnam been found as a population input channel, but the number of immigrants recruited from Daming has also increased steadily.Especially after the establishment of the Guangzhou Office, the recruitment of immigrants in the mainland has been highly targeted, mainly targeting various craftsmen and down-and-out literati. The quality of immigrants recruited from Guangzhou is obviously much stronger than other immigration input channels.

Looking at the current population ratio of naturalized immigrants, there are both comforting points and hidden worries.Among the current naturalized people, the proportion of young and strong people between the age of 40 has reached more than 60%, which is obviously higher than that of any other country at the same time.The ratio of the labor force to the total population is relatively high, which is one of the main reasons why various construction projects can be implemented quickly.However, similar to the population ratio of the Traveling Group, there is also a serious imbalance in the ratio of male to female naturalized residents. Currently, female naturalized residents only account for 27% of the total population, and the proportion of married single women is even more pitifully low. For the Commission, such a population situation is definitely a ticking time bomb that urgently needs to be cleared.

In addition, the education rate of naturalized people is quite worrying.According to statistics from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, only 12% of the naturalized residents in the base camp have received elementary education.However, this situation has shown a tendency to improve recently. The down-and-out literati who have defected to the time-traveling group have begun to gradually take over the most basic literacy teaching work, allowing the education department to concentrate the teachers of time-travelers into higher-level elite education.

In contrast, the situation of Ming immigrants was significantly better than that of North Vietnamese immigrants.The literacy rate of naturalized citizens in the Heitugang area is now less than 5%, and the vast majority of the people are purely illiterate. This also makes it difficult for various civil affairs measures to gain the understanding and support of the people during the implementation process.In this regard, the "Report" also put forward a prospect, hoping that by the end of next year, the literacy rate of the naturalized population can reach more than 20% - this rate is actually lower than the literacy rate of Liberia and Afghanistan in the 21st century .

In fact, the low literacy rate of the naturalized people does not represent the cultural level of this era. The average literacy rate of the people in the prosperous areas of Ming Dynasty is even above 30%, far exceeding the level under the rule of the Traveling Group.A large part of the reason for this situation is that the main source of naturalized people is poor people with extremely low education.For example, Yulin fishing village, which was recruited under its banner at the beginning of landing, was illiterate at that time, and Douda could not read a single basket.Not to mention the Li Miao mountain people from inland areas, many of them can't even speak Hainanese well, and there is no literacy rate at all.

That's why the executive committee put forward special requirements in the recent immigration work, increasing the cultural quality requirements for mainland immigrants.From a certain point of view, this is also a kind of policy bias consciously made by the Executive Committee towards the ethnic group - the uneducated North Vietnamese immigrants can basically only engage in the most elementary manual labor after entering the naturalized system, and they can only Joining the army or waiting for the second generation of naturalized people to receive education and grow up, while craftsmen or literati who moved from the Ming Dynasty to the area ruled by the Executive Committee and have a certain level of education will have a higher starting point and have more Opportunity becomes the backbone of the new society.

In terms of shipping, after the hard support in the first half of the year, it finally ushered in a wave of explosive shipping capacity recently.The cargo ships ordered by Crossing Group in Qiongzhou Fucheng and Guangzhou began to enter the delivery period one after another. In addition, they have been purchasing second-hand large ships and hiring sailors and crews from various channels. At present, they not only maintain ten large ships on the route from Shengli Port to Heitu Port capacity, and opened regular sailings on the route from Shengli Port to Guangzhou. Four ships are divided into two shifts to participate in the transportation of this route. To a certain extent, it solved the material demand of the Guangzhou Office and the problem of immigration transportation.

In addition, the maritime assistance proposed by the Transit Group to the Fujian Xu Xinsu Group in the previous arms trade has finally received a response. In exchange for the long-term arms supply of the crossing group.These ships have already arrived in the waters of Hong Kong. "Fu Ruifeng" will come forward to carry out the handover, and then recruit a group of sailors in the local area to drive these ships to the south of Shengli Port.

Of course, the ships obtained from outside are all temporary expedient measures after all, and the main force of shipping in the future still has to fall on their own shipbuilding capabilities.After a full month of trial voyage, the "Discovery" passed dozens of ship performance tests, and met the design requirements in terms of basic performance. It was transformed into an armed gunboat during the war—of course, it must be equipped with enough gunners to fully exert its power.Although some technical problems were exposed during the sea trial, most of them are minor problems that can be solved through technical improvement.After the Ministry of Shipping made small-scale modifications and improvements to the original design and construction plan, this type of sailboat was finalized and named "Exploration Class".

In the next six months, the Victory Port Shipyard will complete the construction of six "exploration-class" sailboats, which will be the main transport force between Victory Port and mainland ports after they are launched.The larger 500-ton sailboat is directly enlarged based on the "Exploration Class", and the design plan has basically been completed. It is expected that the keel will be laid at the Victory Port Shipyard by the end of January at the latest.

In addition, the Black Earth Port Shipyard was officially listed earlier this month.However, due to the gap in technical strength, the Heitugang Shipyard does not have enough strength to directly start building "exploration-class" sailboats. Medium-sized ships with a displacement comparable to Yazhou Shuizhai Haicang boats will become their starting point for practice.The Heitu Port Management Committee will not put newly built ships on the route from Heitu Port to Shengli Port. The existing fleet can basically meet the cargo and immigration transportation tasks between the two places. In the future, the destination of these new ships will be located in Lianzhou Prefecture and Leizhou Prefecture in the north of Hainan Island—of course, the relevant trade policies still need Gu Kai to apply to the executive committee for approval at the year-end summary meeting.

In terms of agricultural production, all work can be described as "step by step".Compared with industry or shipbuilding, agriculture should have the least difficulty in achieving localization.A large number of unowned lands in Sanya saved a lot of trouble in the initial farmland reclamation, and then the Traveling Group merged these lands into their own names for public ownership. Attaching to the crossing group to make a living greatly reduces the possibility of land distribution disputes.

Regardless of whether it is food crops or cash crops, the members of the farm commune can only obey the unified arrangements of the Ministry of Agriculture, and the convenience brought by large-scale production to field management and harvesting naturally goes without saying.Although the addition of various chemical fertilizers is lacking, the harvest of food crops is much higher than that of contemporary agriculture. Coupled with the continuous supply of vegetables, fruits, and livestock, the dietary structure and calorie intake of the local people They are all much better than the areas under the Ming rule.This is the reason why many naturalized people are willing to stay in Shengli Port - they all do the same work, and they can eat better and be fuller here, and the quality of food is much better than that of long-term labor in the landlord's house.

In terms of industrial production, after obtaining the guarantee of fuel supply, the productivity has been significantly improved.At present, the main export commodities of the Crossing Group are various high value-added industrial products. Although the output is not high and there are not many varieties, the profit is very considerable. Once any new product is released on the market, it will immediately become the object of pursuit of all merchants.As of this month, the total export volume of industrial products has exceeded 40 circulation coupons, and the profit margin has exceeded 200%.

This profitable trade model has also effectively promoted the further development of industrial production. For this reason, almost all industrial product production workshops are building large-scale construction projects to expand the scale of production.At the same time, hundreds of naturalized people are recruited every month to enter the factory for training, and a group of full-time industrial workers has already appeared in Tiandu Industrial Zone.Through industrial development, the people will gradually break away from the traditional feudal land attachment, which is one of the policy policies that the Transit Group has been implementing.

However, the working class, or to be more precise, the industrial workers, the proportion of their population among the naturalized people is not high. It is currently less than 15% of the naturalized people who are employed, which is far lower than those related to agriculture and infrastructure construction. The number of naturalized citizens of the industry.It can also be seen from this that the number of industrial workers is also one of the short boards in the industrial development of the Crossing Group, but the training period for industrial workers is relatively long, even greatly exceeding the training period of the militia - three months is enough to train people who can skillfully use Militia with flintlock guns, but for training industrial workers for certain technical positions, three months is just an introduction.

And this situation is directly related to the overall cultural level of the naturalized people. The low literacy rate has greatly slowed down the training speed of industrial workers, and many technical positions have to be worked on the front line by traversers. This is undoubtedly It is a great waste of technical power, and it also indirectly affects the improvement of production efficiency.

The "Executive Committee Work Report" made by Tao Donglai did not mention much about the military. Development status and future planning for a period of time.Of course, all departments have already written their own work reports, but the military and police department is a special case, because Qian Tiandun, who just rushed back to Victory Port yesterday, is said to have brought back the latest situation in North Vietnam, and will be present at this time Attendees are publicly informed at the General Assembly.

After Tao Donglai finished reading the report, he was not in a hurry to give up his speaking position, but continued: "...Maybe some people think that the information we can get from this "Report" is too rough, but it doesn't matter , each department will have a more detailed work report in the future. Every data we hear now comes from the results of everyone's hard work, and it is also the basis for our group to achieve brilliance in the future. Next I also hope that everyone can listen carefully to the work reports of various departments, because the achievements of these departments do not only represent themselves, but belong to everyone. Similarly, the problems and difficulties they face also need everyone to study and solve them together .”

Tao Donglai paused, looked around the crowd and said, "Many of the plans we made before and at the beginning of the time-traveling, most of them have been adjusted more or less according to the actual situation, and even completely overturned or temporary. There are not a few cases of self-initiation. What I want to say is that each of us should be proud and proud of being able to develop to today's situation in this situation of crossing the river by feeling the stones!"

After a burst of applause, cheers and whistles, Tao Donglai motioned for everyone to calm down first, and then Beks, who represented the Ministry of Industry, came to the stage and began to give a more detailed work report.

(End of this chapter)