1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 883 Immigration Issues
"The sixty-mile-long coastal port area..." Shi Diwen couldn't help whistling after reading the plan of the Zhoushan Port area of ​​the Ministry of Construction: "This project is much better than the construction of Shengli Port and Sanya Port. It's time! A special military port area has also been set up, and it seems that the Executive Committee has approved the plan to station a fleet here."

Liu Shanxia said: "Not only will the fleet be stationed here, but also a large shipyard will be built here. Before I came here, I heard from Sun Changmi that the naval ships deployed in Northeast Asia in the future will probably come from here. But the steam The power unit still has to be manufactured in Sanya, and then shipped here for installation.”

"Then who will come to preside over the shipyard? Sun Changmi or Yue Zhiyun?" Shi Diwen asked.

Liu Shanxia shook his head and said, "They are all very busy people, with a lot of things on their hands and they can't get away. I heard that Zhang Qianxiang, the second child of Zhang Tiangui's family, came here."

Shi Diwen sighed: "Zhang Tiangui's family has produced a lot of talents."

Zhang Tiangui is currently a senior cadre in charge of ship engineering in the shipping department, and he is also one of the very few naturalized cadres who can attend the executive committee meetings.He is no longer engaged in specific shipbuilding work, mainly assisting Sun Changmi and Yue Zhiyun in designing new ships and handling matters such as opening new shipyards.And his five sons are all working for Haihan. The youngest son, Zhang Qianzhi, joined the Ministry of Security very early to follow He Xi, and later made great contributions in the investigation of the Danzhou rebellion case. Senior cadres of the Ministry.The eldest son, Zhang Qianren, is currently in Fujian and is the director of Haihan's Quanzhou office, which can be regarded as a fat job.This time, the second child, Zhang Qianxiang, was dispatched to Zhoushan to take charge of the shipyard affairs.

"To organize the introduction of immigrants, the Ministry of Civil Affairs should send more people to take charge of the work. Does it mean that our military should be in charge of immigration affairs?" Qian Tiandun's focus was on another matter.

"Old Qian, it's useless for you to complain to me. Now there is no one from the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The executive committee sent me here first. The project is urgent. You can only do part of the organization of immigration." Liu Shanxia said about this arrangement. It can only express helplessness.

Qian Tiandun wondered, "What is the Ministry of Civil Affairs up to lately? They can't even send anyone out."

"Population census!" Liu Shanxia sighed: "The Ministry of Civil Affairs is counting and sorting out the population data of the areas under its control. This should have ended last month, but there is a serious shortage of manpower. When it will end, I have to ask Ning Qi. knew."

This reason makes Qian Tiandun unable to refute. The census is a very important reference for the Executive Committee to revise existing policies and formulate development plans for the future.Although the Ministry of Civil Affairs had begun to implement the household registration system a few years ago to register the registered naturalized people, Haihan's sphere of influence expanded so fast that a large number of naturalized people would move away from their original places every year. The settlement of the new colony made the Ministry of Civil Affairs have a considerable workload when conducting the census.In order to collect more reliable and credible data, a large number of field visits must be used to implement the situation, and this requires a lot of time and manpower.

Regarding the post-war development plan of Zhoushan area, various departments including the Ministry of Civil Affairs did have corresponding arrangements, but because the previous census work has not yet been completed, civil affairs officials including Ning Qi are patrolling and guiding the work in various places , It is really impossible to send more people to Zhoushan.

Qian Tiandun and Shi Diwen looked at each other, and smiled wryly at the same time.Organizing immigration is a rather cumbersome job, and they are not willing to do it for them, but if this is the arrangement of the executive committee, even if they are unwilling, they can only bite the bullet and do it.

"Jiangsu and Zhejiang are rich and prosperous areas, and there have been no major natural or man-made disasters in the past one or two years. It may not be easy to introduce a large number of immigrants in a short period of time." Qian Tiandun's attitude towards this is not very optimistic: "Hurry up Otherwise, we can only intercept the refugees brought back from the north, but doing so will probably cause dissatisfaction in the south.”

At present, the number of war refugees transported back to the south from the Jiaodong Peninsula in the north is still at the scale of 3000 to [-] per month. However, after Haihan cleared the biggest obstacle on the immigration route, the pirates in Zhoushan, the scale of immigration is expected to be further expanded.However, the immigrants transported back from the north are not enough to fill the labor gap in the south. If too many are detained by Zhoushan, it may indeed cause dissatisfaction in some areas in the south.For example, the Kaohsiung Port in Tainan, which was developed at the end of last year, and the Danshui Port and Jilong Port, which were newly brought under Haihan’s control in the first half of this year, still have a large labor gap. Development and construction speed.

"Then we can only use the old method." Liu Shanxia gave an idea: "Divide the land! Although there is not much arable land on Zhoushan Island, with proper planning and planning, many people can be resettled."

"Inappropriate." Qian Tiandun shook his head and objected: "The development zone we planned on Zhoushan Island will focus on commerce and trade in the future, and now we have divided the land to attract immigrants to farm. Take it back, and then it will be another trouble."

"How about putting it in a slightly remote location?" Liu Shanxia asked.

"Old Liu, this is Zhoushan, not Sanya. There is no train for commuting, and the immigrant settlement is arranged farther away. It takes several hours to commute by boat, so how can you work?" Qian Tiandun still disagrees with Liu Shanxia. suggestion.

"Then we can only use the people on the island temporarily." Shi Diwen touched his chin and said, "Don't forget that there are tens of thousands of people on this island. Adding the islands we captured before, we can add up to a few thousand people." The labor force should still be able to do it."

"The young and strong on the island are almost all pirates. It's too risky to do so. Don't forget Shi Lu's lesson!" Qian Tiandun still held objections to this.

The Haihan militia captured a large number of people in the Zhoushan Islands area this time, but most of them were identified as dangerous elements. The original plan was to disperse them and send them to various mines and forest farms in the south areas to minimize the risk of rebellion. One of the reasons for the riot at the Shilu Iron Mine in 1631 was that too many serious criminals were concentrated in the local area.These desperadoes knew that they would have no chance of regaining their freedom, so they would inevitably link up with each other and seek escape by means of riots.After that incident, the judiciary changed its previous practice and restricted the proportion of people who are prone to trouble, such as prisoners of war and felons, in a place of detention.

The three discussed for a long time, but they still haven't reached a unified opinion. However, the development and construction of Zhoushan Trade Zone does not wait for anyone. With so many cooperation agreements signed by the China Merchants Association, a large number of merchant ships and people will flood here soon, and the port facilities will also be exhausted. To keep up with the needs of the application.Everyone in Liu Shanxia has arrived. If the progress of this project cannot keep up, it will be tantamount to wasting his precious technical resources.For the current plan, we can only follow the method suggested by Shi Diwen, and send the prisoners of war to the construction site to serve as labor force, and do the work first.

However, this method inevitably requires the use of a large number of armed personnel to be responsible for guarding, and there is currently no local police force in Zhoushan, so the elite militia army can only be used as guards.In addition, this kind of deployment will also slow down the progress of cleaning up the islands in the northern waters of the Zhoushan Islands. Without the participation and cooperation of the army, no matter how powerful the Haihan fleet is, it will be difficult to clean up the pirates who can't hide on the island.

Under such circumstances, the task of the special warfare battalion in charge of clearing and suppressing the island has virtually increased the difficulty of the task. However, for these elites, they have long been accustomed to various difficult combat environments. It is a good opportunity for power leveling, so I don't want to wait for reinforcements to come from the south, and still carry out the operation according to the original plan.

In the first half of the year, Sun Zhen, a recruit, has experienced a series of combat operations in Danshui Port, Jilong Port, and going north to Zhejiang. He has completely faded away from the youthfulness when he first joined the army. He has become more calm and calm on the battlefield. Killed and captured enemies many times in the game, and the performance has been recognized by a group of veterans.If it wasn't for his lack of qualifications, the military exploits he had accumulated in the past three months would have been enough to advance two ranks in a row.However, Sun Zhen himself doesn't care much about the speed of his promotion, he prefers to enjoy the excitement on the battlefield.In Qian Tiandun's words, Sun Zhen is the kind of material that is naturally suitable for being a soldier. For him, entering the special warfare battalion, a unit with intensive combat missions, not only did he not feel tired because of the intensive combat, but he felt like a fish in water, wishing that he could fight every day. There are battles to fight every month.

The mission Sun Zhen is currently performing is to clear up the wandering bandits on Zhoushan Island. Most of the island with an area of ​​more than [-] square kilometers is mountainous, and what Haihan occupies is only the narrow coastal plain area on the southern coastline. More than two-thirds of the region is still out of control.After Haihan captured the territory of the Zhoushan Ship Gang, a large number of members of the Ship Gang chose to flee northward and hide in the mountains and forests. According to the confessions of the prisoners and the compiled information, the headquarters believes that there are at least a thousand people hiding in the north-central part of Zhoushan Island. In the mountains and forests, these people must be hidden dangers that must be eliminated.

After Sun Zhen finished his breakfast, he carefully organized his outfit and equipment.This time he would have to stay in the mountain for at least five to seven days, and he didn't want his mission to be affected by taking something away due to his negligence.

"Assemble!" The platoon leader gave the order loudly, and Sun Zhen quickly got up, carried his combat bag on his back, and then picked up his rifle and rushed to the queue.

"I have already told everyone about the combat mission of entering the mountain this time, but just now a new order came from the battalion headquarters. After we enter the mountain this time, we must pay special attention to a wanted criminal..." the platoon leader said A piece of paper unfolded, and on it was a portrait of a man: "This is Wang Jialin, the leader of the Zhoushan Boat Gang. Note that his image is different from the portrait you saw last time. He has shaved off his beard and hair. The battalion department requires that once If you find this person, arrest him immediately. In case of resistance, you can use all necessary means, but if you can catch him alive, you must try to catch him alive. The Ministry of Security needs to get some information from this person. You all look carefully, his appearance Remember firmly!"

After showing the portraits in front of everyone, the platoon leader put them away and gave the order to set off.This time, Sun Zhen's company will take the platoon as a unit and divide into four routes from south to north to carefully sort out a mountainous area at the western end of Zhoushan Island.

Due to the limited force, several platoon leaders agreed on the interval during the march before departure, so that they can support each other in time when there is a situation.They were not worried about the ambushes set up by the bandits on the island, but they needed to have their companions outflank them when chasing the enemy, so as to improve the efficiency of the killing.

Although there is only a straight-line distance of more than 20 miles from the starting point to the coastline on the north side of Zhoushan Island, it will probably take a whole day to complete this section because of the almost primitive mountains and forests along the way, and the time required to search for traces along the way. journey.Then set off from the northern coastline the next day and turn back, like a comb, to filter and search the mountainous areas of the island bit by bit.

If the Haihan militia can invest thousands of troops, then this task will not take a few days, but since most of the troops who went north to fight this time were dragged around to deploy defenses, there are only two troops that can participate in the clean-up operation. Even.It is indeed a time-consuming and labor-intensive task for such a small number of people to search hundreds of square kilometers of mountainous areas.

Two hours after setting off, Sun Zhen's platoon found several guys who were grilling food in the col.While these people were focusing on the food, Sun Zhen and others slowly approached and surrounded them, and then gradually narrowed the encirclement.But these guys did not choose to resist by force after discovering their bad situation, but surrendered directly.After interrogation on the spot, it was learned that these people were indeed members of the boat gang. They had been hiding in the mountains for more than ten days, and they could only survive by catching birds and fish. All finished.

After interrogation, it is known that these guys have lost contact with other people. They planned to go to the seaside to try their luck after eating this meal, to see if they could get a boat to leave Zhoushan Island, but they were still caught by the sea before they fled. The Han Mintuan caught him right away.But even if they had the courage to go out of the mountains, it would probably be difficult to find a boat to leave Zhoushan, because the Haihan militia had already imposed a blockade on the coastline of Zhoushan Island.Including the northern coastline, Pianfan is not allowed to go to sea without Haihan's permission.

The soldiers tied these people upside down with cowhide ropes and put them in a string, escorting them and continuing to march north.They only need to escort these people to the northern coastline, and then contact the Haihan warships cruising back and forth along the coastline to pick up the captives.

After the wave of business in the morning, there was no business throughout the day. Before dinner time, the soldiers marched calmly to the northern coastline, and successfully contacted their companions on the sea cruise.

(End of this chapter)