1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 778 New Colony
According to the arrangement of the executive committee, the preliminary guard work of the colonial site in the Kaohsiung area of ​​Tainan will be fully responsible for the Haihan militia troops stationed in Penghu. However, it is no longer Qian Tiandun, the supreme commander of the Penghu base, who leads the troops to Kaohsiung this time. Chen Yixin, a young officer under his command.It's not that Qian Tiandun was in charge, but that he was in Penghu discussing the development and cooperation of the Kaohsiung area with the Xu family, and he couldn't get away for a while.

Although Chen Yixin is young, he has been a military officer in Wanshan Port and Zhennan Port for several years, and he is familiar with the task of stationing colonial points.The troops stationed in Kaohsiung this time include more than 340 navy troops and three companies of the army. In addition to five warships at sea as support, the army is also equipped with six small-caliber artillery and is preparing to launch at the northern end. Lighthouses and coastal fortifications were built on the Qihou Mountain in Haikou to defend against possible sea enemies.

Although Kaohsiung Port has two outlets in the north and one in the south, the southern outlet is just a gap on the Cijin Peninsula. The water depth is low and the channel capacity is poor. When the water level is low, even the entire Cijin Peninsula will be connected as one. Cut off the access channel.Therefore, the southern waterway can only pass some small fishing boats for a limited time. The last time Qian Tiandun's fleet came here to inspect the terrain, even the shallow-drafted scout boats almost got stuck in the sandbar under the water surface of the south estuary.In another time and space, Kaohsiung Port was not until 1967, in order to allow 10-ton ships to enter and leave Kaohsiung Port, to completely dig and widen the southern estuary, forming a second estuary in the true sense.

Under such a geographical environment, the defenders basically only need to guard the commanding heights of Qihou Mountain and Shoushan Mountain at both ends of the North Outlet to completely control the access channel of Kaohsiung Port.The militia navy chose to station on the inner coast of the Qijin Peninsula, which is a long and narrow area outside Kaohsiung Port.The Kaohsiung Port of another time and space has built a ten-kilometer-long port terminal on this coast alone. The space for development is huge. Not to mention the naval fleet stationed in Penghu, even if all the existing military ships in Haihan It is more than enough to concentrate on mooring here.

However, the defensive pressure Chen Yixin is currently facing is not great. After all, the pirate gangs such as Shibazhi who used to operate in the Strait have been expelled to the far sea. The Kadao people have also communicated, and both sides have released enough goodwill.Coupled with the backing of the nearby Penghu base, the external security of Kaohsiung Port is relatively secure.In addition to basic defensive patrols, the militia troops stationed here focused more on maintaining local law and order.

The army gathered here from Hainan, Guangdong, and Penghu, together with immigrants, craftsmen, sailors, etc., has reached a population of 800, and about [-] of them are immigrants who will live here for a long time in the future.In the next few months, immigrants and other workers will arrive here one after another. It is estimated that the number of people who will settle here in the first half of next year will exceed [-].However, since there has always been a huge gap in the local police force used to maintain civil law and order in Hainan Island, it is impossible to deploy sufficient police force to the new colony, so this part of the responsibility must be shared by the militia.However, in the early days of the new colony, military control was implemented, which has become Haihan's practice. Many of the special forces under Qian Tiandun joined the army in Heitu Port during the military control period. They have long been accustomed to this situation. Therefore, neither the executive committee nor the militia army raised any doubts about this.

The immigrants selected to be transported to the Kaohsiung area are relatively easy to manage. The immigrants sent from Sanya are all naturalized citizens who have been naturalized for a period of time, and many of them are young adults who separated after adulthood.Although most of the hundreds of people sent from Guangdong have not yet been naturalized, they have all lived in the Lijiazhuang Immigration Center for a period of time. They have been taught the rules that should be known to them, and the management is not difficult.In addition, the deterrence brought by soldiers with live ammunition must be much stronger than that of policemen who only have batons as weapons. In this environment, ordinary people still dare not commit crimes lightly. They will all be sentenced to be sent directly to labor camps.

Of course, there are still guys who are so bold and reckless that they dare to commit crimes against the wind. For example, in the first few days after landing, there were several cases of theft of personal property in the immigration camp.Someone took advantage of the time when the immigrants were working on the construction site, broke into the tent, dug out other people's circulation coupons and stole them.Although the amount is not large, and less than [-] yuan of circulation coupons were stolen in total, the amount of money is by no means a small amount for ordinary people. After naturalization, a naturalized citizen is promoted to a third-level laborer, and his annual income is also Only about a hundred yuan.

Chen Yixin personally took over the case. It is actually not difficult to find out the truth. As long as the clues are sorted out, it is not difficult to delineate the approximate scope of the perpetrators.Chen Yixin planned to take advantage of this opportunity to solve the case and build up his personal reputation with the local people and subordinates.

The immigration camp in Kaohsiung Port is currently divided into four camps, A, B, C, and D, and the current theft cases are all concentrated in C.Since the camps are separated by fences, people from other camps can only destroy the fences if they want to enter Zone C, except for going through the guarded gates.After Chen Yixin walked around the tent area twice, he confirmed that there was no trace of damage to the fence, so he asked the Guihuamin cadres to take out the work arrangements for the past few days for verification.Those who stayed in the camp during the time of the theft were naturally the most suspect.

Since the construction of a formal immigrant residential area is currently being organized, most of the labor force has to go to work every day, and the elderly, weak, women and children who stay in the camp will also be assigned to relatively easy tasks such as preparing food and cleaning the camp area.The children will be gathered together in various camps, and special personnel will conduct cultural education.In addition to these people, there will also be a very small number of people who stayed in the camp to recuperate due to injuries. After Chen Yixin determined the scope of the suspects, he decided to investigate these people who stayed in the camp.

After conducting investigations with such a simple method, Chen Yixin soon discovered that there were people in a group tent in District C who had been absent from work for three consecutive days due to illness.And it happened that during these three days, there were successive cases of theft in the camp, and it was difficult for Chen Yixin not to link these two incidents together.Then he sent a team of people to the camp to pick up the three people, and opened their luggage one by one to check. Sure enough, three circulation coupons of almost equal value were found in the personal belongings of the three people.These three people were sent from the immigration camps in Guangzhou, and the local area did not issue negotiable notes to the immigrants. Obviously, this cannot be the result of their previous labor savings.

Such a simple technique might not even be able to film a single episode of criminal investigation dramas in later generations. Chen Yixin just tried it out with the idea of ​​following the clues, but unexpectedly caught the criminal smoothly.After being interrogated separately, the three of them soon confessed.

It turned out that they were originally a gang of thieves who roamed about in various cities in Guangdong. When they heard that Hai Han ruled a wealthy family, they planned to infiltrate Hai Han's land and continue their old business.But they did not expect that after staying in the immigrant camp in Panyu for a period of time, they were not sent to Sanya, known as "the first port of Qiongzhou", but crossed the sea to such an undeveloped coast.

The Haihan people want to open a port here, but what they think about is how to get a sum of money to leave here as soon as possible.The new immigrants from Guangzhou were dispersed and divided into four camps, so that the naturalized citizens who had already been naturalized could bring the old and bring the new to help them adapt to the new social environment as soon as possible.But after these guys discovered the function of the circulation coupons, they secretly thought about it.The three of them made up their minds in private, and they took turns asking for leave, sneaking into other tents to commit crimes when everyone in the camp was out working.

Although when the case first appeared, the civil affairs cadres also suspected that the sick who stayed in the camp to recuperate were suspected of committing the crime, but the suspect recovered and went to work the next day, but the camp continued to have theft cases, which to a certain extent was cleared. Cleared up the previous suspects.After all, Chen Yixin is from a later life, even if he has never eaten pork, he has seen pigs run away, and he is not afraid to speculate on the bottom line of these people with the greatest malice, and directly ordered his subordinates to arrest the person first, and then find evidence, and directly captured the real culprit .

After interrogation, it was learned that they had another accomplice in another camp, and immediately soldiers were ordered to capture that person as well.However, this fish who almost slipped through the net was actually quite wronged. He was not able to be assigned to the same camp as his accomplices due to bad luck, so he didn't dare to do anything casually. He hadn't even done a single case when the case happened, and the result was like this He was sold out for nothing by his accomplices.

Solving such a simple theft case did not give Chen Yixin much sense of accomplishment. It only took a few hours from the time he took over to solving the case.However, the civil affairs cadres in District C regarded Chen Yixin as their savior, because if the case was not resolved, the camp administrators would definitely be held accountable for negligence in their duties, and they might even lose their hard-won civil servant positions.Chen Yixin was able to find out the case so quickly, capture the perpetrator and recover the stolen goods, which indeed saved the camp managers from a big trouble.

The stolen goods were obtained together, and the confession was made, and the next step is to deal with it.However, although Kaohsiung Port is currently under military control, Chen Yixin will not directly judge the punishment of these people on his own initiative.Due to the situation and reason, he still had to inform the local civil affairs officer, not to mention that his background was indeed bigger than him.

The official assigned by the Executive Committee to Kaohsiung Port to preside over colonial and infrastructure affairs is Anxi, who holds multiple positions in the Ministry of Construction, Ministry of Commerce, and Ministry of Industry.

Anxi is a civil engineering professional. He was assigned to the Shengli Port Salt Field as the supervisor at the early stage of the construction of Shengli Port. Construction and operation of Hong Kong Saltworks.It can be said that Haihan's salt production system was almost all created by him, and it was the Haihan refined salt produced by these salt factories that defeated the official salt with better quality and lower price and became the Haihan trade system. An indispensable hard currency in the world.

After several years of struggle, Anxi certainly no longer has to personally watch the production in the salt field. Naturally, the naturalized cadres brought out in the past few years are responsible for the specific work.And this time the executive committee decided to open up a colony in Taiwan, and Anxi was selected into the list of chief officials in charge of civil affairs by virtue of his outstanding personal qualifications.

In terms of civil affairs management ability, many of the traversers are competent. After all these years of training, many people have accumulated experience in grassroots management during the continuous expansion of the territory.However, Anxi finally won the favor of the Executive Committee by virtue of his professional background in civil engineering, because a new colony like Kaohsiung Port has a large number of infrastructure projects to be implemented, and if Anxi is selected to serve as the chief officer of the local area, then the Ministry of Construction does not need to do it again. Another technical officer was appointed to preside over the project.

In addition, Anxi has been in charge of the operation of the salt industry for nearly five years. During this period, the total amount of foreign salt industry trade handled by him has reached several million taels of silver. He has also accumulated rich operational experience in business negotiations and trade operations. .For the future commercial positioning of Kaohsiung Port, having such a knowledgeable person in charge will also make the executive committee more at ease.

Of course, if Anxi is interested, he can also build another salt field on the coast of Kaohsiung Port, and continue to bring his familiar old business to the local area.Based on Haihan's way of operating the salt industry, in less than a year, he will probably be able to control all the salt trade on the island.

However, it is said that when the executive committee made the last suggestion to him, he rejected it. The reason is that the best natural salt field in Taiwan is not in Kaohsiung, but in Dayuangang controlled by the Dutch and the Han people who were immigrated by Shibazhi in the early days. Between the sites, that is, the coast where Budai Town, Chiayi County is located in later generations.In the time and space before crossing, Budai Salt Field, Changlu Salt Field in Bohai Bay, and Yinggehai Salt Field in Hainan Island are also known as the three major salt fields in my country.As the director of the salt industry, Anxi has a personal wish, which is to collect the achievements of the three major saltworks in his lifetime.The location of the Budai Salt Field is across the sea from Penghu, and the straight-line distance from Kaohsiung is less than [-] kilometers. Naturally, Anxi does not want to spend time and effort building a salt field on the coast of Kaohsiung Port. The Budai Salt Field area is only a matter of time.

Anxi is seven years older than Chen Yixin, and is already in his early thirties, and his status and contributions in Haihan far exceed Chen Yixin's younger generation. Therefore, the current leadership team in Kaohsiung is based on Anxi Mainly, Chen Yixin as auxiliary.With regard to the handling of security cases, Chen Yixin would naturally seek the opinions of his seniors.

(End of this chapter)