1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 94 Population Import
The sleepy-eyed migrants were quickly chased out of their tents by security guards and slowly gathered in the open space outside the camp.Then someone brought several large buckets and several large baskets of pottery bowls and began to distribute breakfast to the immigrants.Immigrants consciously formed several long queues in front of the vat - when the dinner was distributed last night, many people who didn't know the rules and rushed forward ate sticks, and they were all beaten up by the security guards and screamed, so vivid The example obviously helped them quickly grasp the rules of eating here.

Today's breakfast is still porridge, green vegetables and salted fish, but no one expresses dissatisfaction with this.They were able to eat three meals a day, and they were still full of meat, even if they didn't lose their family property in the past, it was difficult to enjoy such treatment.The children who had been starving and dizzy because of the family's predicament were even more happy about it. They didn't understand why they had white rice porridge to eat after they came here, but the voice in the loudspeaker repeatedly reminded them that they could eat in There is food, housing, and books here, all of which are bestowed by the Executive Committee.The children don't understand what the executive committee is, and in fact even their parents don't understand either, but one thing is obvious - the executive committee has money and power and is willing to feed them poor people, Anyone can continue to live in this place as long as they obey the orders of the Executive Committee.

After breakfast, the human resources department began to distribute these immigrants.Most of the people will be divided into two communes, the farm and the salt field. After a period of hard work, the managers will select some more flexible people to work in the factory.A small number of craftsmen who registered their skills at the time of application will be individually selected and assigned to relevant units. Carpenters go to carpentry workshops, blacksmiths go to metallurgical workshops, and plasterers go to the construction department. Although these craftsmen are few in number, they can be regarded as skilled workers. After going to the relevant unit, it will be faster to get started.

Children under the age of 14 are singled out, and they will concentrate on basic courses for seven to ten days, and then, according to the teacher's observation, some of the brighter children will stay in the school to continue their studies.The other part of the children who are considered to be less qualified will be taken away by the military and police department and entered the newly established scout camp. Although the scout camp also has reading and literacy courses, the path these children will take will be completely different.Most of them will stay in the scout camp until they are 16 years old, and then most of them will go directly to the barracks and become an honorable Haihan soldier. Future reserve officer.

Immigrants do not have a clear idea of ​​their future arrangements, so there is little resistance.After completing their assignments, they were taken to a dock site not far from the makeshift camp.Before entering their respective jobs, they also have to complete a training program, which is to visit the labor camp.The executive committee believes that taking a look at hard labor in labor camps will make these immigrants appreciate the opportunities they get.

The schedule of the labor camp has always been very full, and the work time is almost double that of ordinary laborers.And such long-term high-intensity work will inevitably lead to loss of personnel. Before Luo Shengdong's men were released, two people died in the labor camp. Except for some of the remaining lucky people, they followed Luo Shengdong. Except for returning to Yazhou Water Village, everyone else was assigned to the commune, barely getting rid of hard labor.As for the second batch of pirate captives sent to labor camps, seven people have died so far, and more than a dozen lucky ones were shipped by sea because they were familiar with sea conditions and boating skills, and no bad deeds were found. The Ministry asked for the past as a crew supplement.

Of course, the service members of the labor camps are not limited to these two groups of prisoners. Those who make troubles in the jurisdiction of Chuanzhong will be sent to the labor camps as long as they are caught, and they will be sentenced to hard labor for different periods of time depending on the severity of the situation.After the implementation of this measure, it also played a certain role in maintaining local public security, so that the number of hard laborers in the labor camps has always been maintained at about a hundred people.Especially after the security team of the mixed formation of the Han, Li and Miao ethnic groups was put into use, the ethnic conflict that originally caused some headaches for the Executive Committee finally found a solution.Now in this labor camp, there are also people from the Li and Miao ethnic groups who have been arrested and served.

Gao Qiaonan had been informed by Ren Liang yesterday that a group of immigrants would come to the construction site this morning to visit and study.Before leaving for work today, he specially changed into his cleanest set of clothes, tied his hair neatly in a bun, and put on the pair of green Jiefang shoes that Ren Liangfa gave him.After everything was ready, he took the little leather whip he used to "supervise" the hard laborers and set off to the construction site.

So all the immigrants saw how a ferocious little man used a whip and scolding to maintain order on the construction site, especially the unlucky guy who was sent to the labor camp last night. Too slow to eat several whips, and the screams are even better than when he was beaten by security guards yesterday.And there is no good gentleman like Ning Qi here to dissuade Gao Qiaonan, and even his immediate boss Ren Liang just watched all this happen with a smile - the meaning of labor camps is not only to punish prisoners, but also to punish prisoners. It is important to warn those who have not yet made a mistake, so that they can realize in advance what the dire consequences will be if they do the wrong thing.

The ragged hard labor, like a fierce overseer, worked endlessly. Everything they saw in the labor camp made the immigrants' faces turn pale, and secretly reminded themselves not to make mistakes, and gave the Haihan people to put themselves into labor camps. Camp excuse.

After the visit and study, the people sent by each unit will lead the assigned immigrants to different places.Those who go to the Saltworks Commune have the farthest journey and need to board the ship again at Victory Port.But if you put aside the amount of labor, the people who go to the saltworks are more fortunate. There are only a few people who cross the commune and take the leadership of the management committee of the commune. The laborers are subject to relatively less supervision than other units. Be free.The units to which a few skilled craftsmen are assigned have a large number of transmigrators, and it can be said that they are under supervision anytime, anywhere, but because they are technical jobs, the corresponding labor points will also be higher than other units.

Of course, the most promising are those children. Whether they stay in the school or enter the scout camp, these children will be the resources that the Executive Committee attaches great importance to in the future. After a few years, a group of home-grown technologies will gradually emerge among them. personnel, civil affairs cadres and grass-roots officers.

In the afternoon of the same day, another fleet arrived at Shengli Port. This was Luo Shengdong's original agreement to send the first batch of prisoners from the mainland to be sent to Yazhou for hard labor.There were more than 270 people in this group, more than [-] of them were men, and only a small number of women and children.The vast majority of these people are innocent people who were implicated in the judgment of some major cases.Some people were sentenced to exile in a muddle-headed way just because they lived in the same village and street as the chief criminal, and some people were sent to prison because of their kinship with the prisoner, and they were basically criminals with very light charges.

The prisoners who were sent to Yazhou were generally divided into three categories. One category was the prisoners sent by Luo Shengdong who did not commit any crimes and were merely implicated.The second category is prisoners with heavier charges that cannot be released. Such people are all year round in Yazhou prison, and Luo Shengdong can't get them out even if he wants to.The third category is officials who have made mistakes and have been demoted. Many of these people still have the possibility of recovering. Even when they arrive in Yazhou, they still enjoy the treatment of celebrities and elegant scholars. Luo Shengdong must not be dispatched.

Among the three types of people, the first type has the largest number of people, but the local government of Yazhou is also the most troublesome to deal with.These prisoners must eat food to survive, but it is not so easy to make these prisoners work.There is no local output in Yazhou, let alone large-scale manufacturing, and there are no labor-intensive industries that can produce profits in the short term, so the only place for the labor force is to farm, but the land near Yazhou is seriously merged. , a large number of tenant farmers have begun to lose their jobs, and if they want to cultivate land, they can only go further afield to open up wasteland.However, to send prisoners to open up wasteland requires sending troops to guard, which is also a large expense.How to feed thousands of local prisoners has become a headache for previous local governments.

And Yazhou Shuizhai's proposal to raise the general manager Luo Shengdong is to let the local officials on the prefecture's side see a new idea to solve this problem.Luo Shengdong suggested that these prisoners be sent to the newly built villages and towns of the Haihan people in the east, so that the Haihan people who are in urgent need of a large number of laborers will be responsible for feeding these prisoners.If something goes wrong in the middle, the place is a hundred miles away from Yazhou, and it will not affect the safety of Yazhou.Of course, these superficial reasons are secondary. The most important point is that Haihan people are willing to pay some price for this, such as silver and gold that everyone likes.

In the past, the prefectural government had to provide financial subsidies to the Yazhou prison every year to support these prisoners who could not create enough output value, but now this situation seems to be improved, let alone throwing this huge financial burden out, It is still possible to make money because of this, so it is obvious how to choose this matter.After discussions between Zhizhou, Tongzhi, and the judges, the prefectural government issued a document authorizing Shuizhai to bring the general manager Luo Shengdong and let him be in charge of this matter.Of course, if something goes wrong, such as the large-scale escape of the prisoners or the failure to recover the fees that should be collected, then the person who needs to stand up to the thunder is also Luo Shengdong.

(End of this chapter)