1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 362 Drive away the landlord
Although Ning Qi's explanations were as easy as possible to use in an easy-to-understand way, most of these naturalized students came from poor farming families, and their cultural background was generally poor. It was probably impossible to expect them to fully understand the spirit. Thank God for understanding four or five sentences.Of course, he doesn't expect to be able to correct these people's deep-rooted ideas about the land in one or two lectures. Even after hundreds of years, the revolutionaries set up the Peasant Movement Workshop, and they still experienced a lot of twists and turns. In order to gradually implement the land reform policy and fundamentally change the public's perception of land ownership, it will not be achieved overnight.

To let these students understand why private ownership of land restricts the development of productivity, I am afraid that Ning Qi will not be able to achieve good results even if he speaks dryly, but he wants them to realize that even if they are not attached to the land in the future, they can live well Going down, it's not difficult.

Most of these people are from areas other than Sanya. Here, they have witnessed how the Haihan Executive Committee turned a barren land into a prosperous commercial port, and they are also beneficiaries of this social system. They have always accepted Instilled with the ubiquitous Haihan consciousness, they already believed in the omnipotence of the executive committee in their hearts. Even if they couldn't fully understand the theories Ning Qi said, they at least understood the area governed by the executive committee. It is not by farming that we have come to where we are today.Today there are tens of thousands of residents in the Sanya area, but only half of the population is devoted to farming, and the proportion of the agricultural population continues to decline.

Such a ratio is simply impossible to exist in other places in Daming. The existing productivity is doomed to require a high proportion of agricultural population to support the food consumption required by society. If Ning Qi promotes this set in other places to encourage people to leave the land I am afraid that the theory will be directly regarded as a neurosis.Only where Sanya has achieved results in this way and can be shown to others with examples can it achieve a certain publicity effect.This set of rhetoric may not be effective for stubborn landlords and squires, but as an argument for internal propaganda and brainwashing, it will definitely have excellent influence.

The trainees may not understand the huge changes that the transformation of land from private ownership to public ownership will bring to the social system, and they may not completely let go of their desire to buy land on their own one day, but out of almost complete trust in the executive committee, they will still choose to implement it. Carry out orders issued by the Executive Committee.In their view, no matter what the prospect of implementing this policy is, since it is a decision of the executive committee, it must be fully implemented—this is also one of the basic rules that a qualified Haihan naturalized citizen must abide by .

Although the executive committee tried to expel and annex some stubborn landowners and gentry in the jurisdiction in a non-violent way, in the actual operation process, contradictions and conflicts were still unavoidable.

On September [-], two naturalized workers sent by the Ministry of Agriculture to Fenghuang Township to measure the land were arrested and beaten by the local landlord Huang Yuancai.On the [-]th, a naturalized agricultural technician was driven away by the local people when he was instructing migrant workers to dig and build a canal, because these people believed that the canal would divert water and affect their field irrigation. As a result, conflicts arose during the contact. Several people were injured on both sides, but luckily no one was killed.On the [-]th, thirteen landowners in Fenghuang Town united to block the main road passing through the town, prohibiting the naturalized people coming from Sanya from passing.

These acts of death were reported to the Ministry of Agriculture one by one. After Gao Huan, who was in charge of the collective farm project, got the news, he quickly reported the official document to the executive committee.Then the Executive Committee only took more than an hour to decide and approve the response plan.

The Ministry of Agriculture, the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Military Commission, the Ministry of Justice, and the government of Daming Yacheng formed a joint law enforcement team to investigate the Fenghuang Town area. The main targets of this operation were several recent cases of malicious injury and the leakage of registration of acres of land. and cases of tax evasion.

Now the executive committee wants to get the official document stamped with Zhizhou's seal from the Yacheng government. It can't be more convenient. A telegram is sent to the office in Yacheng, and Zhang Guang will transcribe the content of the official document, and he doesn't even need to go out in person. , let the Hai brothers send it to the state government office, and at most half an hour will be able to complete the formalities and seal it and send it out.The executive committee's way of dealing with this kind of matter is also simple and rude. Since the toast does not eat fine wine, and does not respect Haihan's rules, then deal with it in the name of Daming officials. If these troublemakers dare to resist, they will be rebellious. up.

The military also cooperated in the previous stage of the land acquisition process, and Chen Yixin, the current military director of Wanshan Port, took the lead because of his outstanding performance at that time.For this kind of low-intensity military mission, the military is quite familiar with it. Considering the actual situation on the ground, the military mobilized two infantry companies from Shengli Port and one from the militia currently stationed in Yacheng. Finally, a company was selected from the recruit battalion being trained as a reserve team to cooperate with the operation. A total of nearly 500 armed forces were dispatched, which can be described as a huge momentum.

Of course, such a big battle was not because of how powerful the local landlords in Fenghuang Town were armed. More than half of the reason was to use military operations to deter Xiaoxiao and dispel some people's luck.

On September [-]th, the joint law enforcement team departed from Shengli Port and Yacheng respectively, and headed for Fenghuang Town, which is about [-] miles northwest of Sanya New Town.Although it is said that it is a joint law enforcement, the main force must be the Haihan Militia. The Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Civil Affairs only sent representatives to watch, while the Yacheng government was more trouble-free and directly appointed a resident in Shengli Wei Ping from Hong Kong served as the official representative—because the executive committee was in a hurry and the shipping was too slow, the order for this appointment was even sent back to the headquarters by the Cliff Office through the radio.

The executive committee dispatched a battalion of troops for this incident that was not serious. Although there was no need to fight, a senior officer who could hold the scene was needed to come forward.It happened that Wang Tom was leading the navy to familiarize himself with the two newly launched warships during this time, so he took over the task of transporting the operational troops back and forth as a matter of course, and served as the field commander of the operation.

The fleet met the troops from Yacheng on the coast near Fenghuang Town, and then headed inland.Fenghuang Town is not too far from the seaside, only two or three miles away, and they arrived after a short march.Fenghuang Town covers a small area, and most of the residents have moved out of this place in the past two or three months, so there are only a dozen or so families in the town, and most of them are stubborn households who refuse to sell their land and move out of this place. .However, unlike the impoverished nail households cleaned up in the Mesopotamia last time, the nail households in Fenghuang Town are better off. Almost all of them have land ranging from tens to hundreds of acres of land under their names, and they will Haihan's land policy and formed an alliance.

Now that the soldiers have been mobilized, Tom Wang will not have any plans to salute first and then soldiers. As soon as he reaches the ground, he orders four companies to split up and surround Fenghuang Town from four directions. .Anyone who comes out of the town must be detained first.

Such a large battle naturally attracted the attention of the residents of the town. Seeing that the armed Haihan militia began to set up repelling horses and pull iron nets on the road outside the town, the people of the town suddenly became chaotic.These people originally thought that joining forces would cause a little bit of trouble for the Haihan people and make them give up their plan to annex the land, but they didn't expect the other party to be so violent that they didn't give the young and old a chance to continue to make trouble, and directly sent troops Come to clean up.

How capable is the Haihan militia?They've heard a lot if they haven't seen it with their own eyes.The Annan clean coal, Annan rice, and the Annan hard labor that is scattered all over the mountains and plains in Sanya are said to have been snatched back by the Haihan militia in the Annan country.Even if the landlords and veterans are aggressive, they are not capable enough to fight against the Haihan militia who are armed to the teeth.

In order to complete the armed demonstration without bloodshed in this operation, Tom Wang also specially applied to the Executive Committee to bring a tweeter from Victory Harbor.After the troops set up checkpoints outside the town, someone turned up on the tree and set up the horn to the height of the tree branch.

Tom Wang picked up the microphone and began to persuade him to surrender: "Listen up, people in the town, listen up, people in the town, this is the joint law enforcement team formed by the Yacheng Government and the Haihan Executive Committee, you are now surrounded! Everyone Put down your weapons and surrender immediately! Any act of resistance will be treated as a rebellion! We only arrest the culprits, as long as the accomplices have no major crimes, they will not be blamed! Now give you half an hour to leave the town and surrender on your own. Anyone who remains in the town after half an hour will be treated as a gangster!"

A few minutes later, some people began to walk out of the town one after another, surrendering to the militia guarding the periphery.Although they have the courage to resist the ordinary clerks sent by the Haihan people, if they want to fight against this army with live ammunition, as long as their brains are not burned out, they will not be so stupid.Half an hour later, the militiamen entered Fenghuang Town in four groups, and found that the town was empty, and all of them chose to surrender.

"They are all people who are greedy for life and afraid of death!" Tom Wang looked at the prisoners who were being inspected one by one by the militia, and complained disdainfully.

A few days ago, when the naturalized civil affairs staff were attacked here, the people in this town let it go, as long as the Haihan people came here, they would come and beat them once, but now it seems that there is no The exceptions are just a bunch of cowards.Nothing happened during this process, which made Wang Tom feel a little dull.

According to the situation known beforehand, among these people, those who participated in the previous conflicts will all be escorted to Yacheng to accept the trial of Lord Zhizhou.According to the agreement between the two parties, these unscrupulous people will be sentenced to heavy punishments for various crimes-the so-called heavy punishments, that is, punishments that are severe enough to make them bankrupt.These people either sold the land to pay fines and left this place of right and wrong, or they were arrested and imprisoned in Yacheng, and then transferred to Sanya to do hard labor.As for the lucky few who were not liquidated in this catastrophe, I am afraid it will be difficult for them to have enough courage to guard their land and continue to stay in Fenghuang Town. It is better to sell the land and leave here now than to be like other people. In that way, you will be charged with nothing in the end.

As for whether these people who were forcibly driven out would develop hatred towards Hai Han, and even embark on a path of complete opposition to Hai Han, the executive committee was not worried at all.If the Traveling Group wants to expand outward, a large number of people will inevitably suffer damage to their interests and become opponents of the Haihan system. However, in the process, they will also support a considerable number of vested interests. Maintain this new social system.

Now almost all the areas under the rule of Yazhou are controlled by Haihan. Those who want to fight against Haihan are basically unlikely to succeed in the south of Qiongzhou Island. In addition to Han, there is still a shell of Yazhou government, and now the whole Qiongzhou Island knows that Yacheng government has become rich and powerful with the support of Haihan people, and its overall strength has even surpassed that of Qiongzhou. Offend Yacheng.

As for making troubles in the mainland, it is even more impossible. Haihan is now a voluntary businessman who has been named and praised by the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi. Speaking out is an act of righteousness that can be published in the memorial.Of course, the most important thing is that Haihan donated property in various names to the government, far exceeding that of ordinary businessmen.In the first month after Wang Zunde took office alone, the Cliff Office donated seven sums of a total of over ten thousand taels of silver to the Governor's Mansion in the name of disaster relief, bridge building and road paving, condolences to the garrison, etc., which is not insignificant.

The Guangdong Office in Guangzhou has created a very good reputation for Haihan. It is carrying out various forms of public relations activities almost continuously, and the public's reputation is mostly positive.If a group of bankrupt landlords on Qiongzhou Island went to Guangzhou to make trouble, claiming that the Haihan people had harmed the village, not only would they not receive sympathy, they would most likely be accused of spreading rumors and slandering good people.

As long as the Haihan Executive Committee does not show its banner to establish a political power, it will be difficult for the Ming Dynasty officials to find a reason to attack Haihan. Could it be that the Haihan people have done too much business and paid too much tax?At least in the eyes of the current governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, these descendants of Han people are more capable of doing things than the Portuguese living in Haojingao.

Speaking of the Portuguese, after several days of repeated discussions, the Macau Council finally sent an envoy to Wanshan Port to inform the local garrison that they had agreed to Haihan's request to hire military instructors in Macau.Of course, out of fair trade considerations, the council also requested Haihan to open the ports in Sanya to Portuguese merchant ships.

When the news reached the base camp, Enrique, the special envoy from Macau to Victory Port for the second time, had only arrived in Hong Kong for two days.The resolution of the Macau Council undoubtedly greatly reduced the difficulty of the two sides in discussing in-depth cooperation. The Executive Committee readily agreed to allow Portuguese merchant ships to enter and exit Sanya New Port from October, and to establish long-term commercial stations and warehouses in the local area, freely Trade with various merchants arriving in Hong Kong.

For the Portuguese who just lost Hoi An, this decision is like a great loss, and the conditions of Sanya New Port are obviously better than Hoi An Port, even for old seals like Enrique who have been to ports all over the world. It's hard to fault it.Of course, the most important thing is that the port under the Haihan people has implemented a very favorable free port system. There is no pressure from tariffs. All kinds of goods that can only be purchased in the mainland can actually be bought in Sanya. The reason is that it is even cheaper than the purchase price of the Portuguese in Guangzhou.

Of course, there are gains and losses. The Portuguese chose to accept the preferential terms offered by the Haihan people, which is equivalent to giving up their interests in South Vietnam.After receiving the promise from the Executive Committee to ensure that the safety of the lives and property of all Portuguese in South Vietnam would be taken care of reasonably, Enrique asked his servants to take the ship of the Daming Maritime Merchant and went to South Vietnam to send a message to the local Portuguese organization—— Portugal gave up continuing to support the South Vietnamese regime, and instead maintained a neutral attitude, stopped all forms of military assistance, and only maintained the most basic trade status with the South Vietnamese court.

On the issue of South Vietnam, the Executive Committee also gave the good-looking Portuguese a step down as appropriate: after the North Vietnam unified Annan, the commercial port that Haihan acquired in the area south of Hue Province must be given to Portuguese merchants and ships. that power.

Enrique believes that this agreement can allow Portugal to recover the losses suffered by the destruction of Hoi An in the future, but he does not know that the Executive Committee also planted mines in this agreement.In the current plan for the east coast of the Indochina Peninsula, the Executive Committee has only planned two large commercial ports, namely Da Nang and Quy Nhon, while further south of these two ports, the military has long ago put Cam Ranh Port Included in the plan of military expansion.According to this agreement, the Port of Cam Ranh, which is used for military purposes, will not allow the Portuguese to intervene in the future, and the location of Cam Ranh is further south, which can easily cut off the route between Portuguese merchant ships traveling between Malaga and the commercial ports of the Indochina Peninsula.In other words, as long as the executive committee wants to pinch Portugal's neck in the future, it can basically do it at any time.

For the hidden malice of the Haihan executive committee, Enrique had no idea at all. Although he had been to various ports on the east coast of the Indochina Peninsula, he couldn't imagine that Haihan would set a deserted place as the future. sea ​​military base.Of course, this is also related to Enrique's contact with the Haihan people too late. If he could establish a relationship with the Haihan people about a year earlier, he would realize that this group of people's talent in land reclamation is simply unparalleled, including Portugal. The old European colonial countries in China, their colonial methods and vision are still too immature in front of the Haihan people.

(End of this chapter)