Lu Ming

Chapter 568
The ghostly place of Qiongzhou has been known as the "ends of the earth" since ancient times.

In the officialdom in this frontier area, I would like to know who can come to work: except for some unlucky ghosts who have no background and were kicked over by the officials to fill the hole, most of the rest are "low-ranked and high-ranked". It is not uncommon for a scholar to be a county magistrate.

Even so, the official pits in the Qiongzhou area have never been fully staffed, and it often happens that the second official "temporarily presides over the work of the whole county in the second half of this year".

Gein those who raise people to Jinshi also have a temper. Many people find out that they have been cheated, and then they are fired from the bureaucracy. Isn't it good to go home and be a master and play maid?Whoever has the patience to go to the land of miasma to die will go, the Lord will not take care of him!
Thus, a vicious circle has formed: the less people take office, the greater the gap in officials, and the less hope that officials who take office will be transferred back to the mainland.Seeing this situation, other people are even more afraid to take office
This kind of stretching situation in the frontier has been like this since ancient times, and it belongs to the daily life of the dynasty.Not to mention the Ming Dynasty, but going back to the Tang, Song and Han Dynasties, the situation is exactly the same.

But if there is an official who is blinded by the benefits of being transferred, and then is fooled into border areas like Guanlong, Qiongzhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, then this old man who supports the construction of the frontier is very likely to move indefinitely in the border area, and he will never be able to live forever. One step into customs.

As for future generations, it's the same!

Most of the people in the world have heard the words "aid to Tibet and Xinjiang".In fact, no matter how it is packaged, its core is no different from that of the ancients. It is the central government trying to send officials to the border areas to stabilize social development and construction.

There is no big difference in the means after hundreds of years, and the biggest motivation is still the very realistic things like salary at the level.However, things are not that simple. Many people can only take root there. Like the ancient officials, it is not so easy to come back.

Fortunately, the productivity of the later generations is developed, and there are high-speed trains and planes that can solve the problems of traveling and visiting relatives. The medical level is also very different, and it is much more comfortable than the ancients.

Sha Zhengming and Shao Qiang's group encountered such a group of officials in the government office of Qiongzhou today.

Many of them are low-spirited low-level officials, and most of them have no background.Most of the rest are crooked melons and jujubes with low official positions, and there are even small people who have been officials for generations on the table-most of these people's ancestors were officials assigned by them, they could not go back to the inland, and they were intellectuals. Passed down through generations, they become indigenous.

However, it is these people who control the actual operation of the entire Qiongzhou government.

The atmosphere of the banquet was very harmonious.Everyone is not restrained, and those who are high and low in the officialdom in the mainland don't have a lot of fun here in Qiongzhou, so Shao Qiang and Shao Counselor had a good chat with these people.

There is a wise saying called "How bold a person is, how productive the land is."

This sentence is especially suitable for officials in remote areas.

Most of the proposals from Shao Qiang's side were quickly accepted by the officials as long as the rewards were qualified, which saved Shao Qiang a lot of embarrassment.One must know that in the past, Shao Qiang saw a lot of posts on the BBS where timetravelers complained that Daming's Daoists and officials were difficult to deal with.

In the end, the Qiongzhou bureaucratic group headed by Sun Futai and Shao Qiang reached a package development agreement: oral.This kind of thing must not be seen in the ink.

After the banquet, they all dispersed.

As the chief military officer, Sha Zhengming definitely couldn't stay overnight in Qiongzhou Fucheng.So after the banquet, he hurriedly walked around Qiongzhou City, took a general look at the defense system of Qiongzhou City, and left the city before closing at night.

Shao Qiang is not in such a rush anymore, he still has a lot to do in Qiongzhou City.

After one night, Shao Qiang first led his followers to start numbering houses inside and outside the city.In the future, the time-traveling forces will open various grain and grocery wholesalers in Qiongzhou, which will naturally require a lot of houses and warehouses.

According to the previous experience summed up by the business department, Shao Qiang this time unceremoniously marked out a street in Guanxiang outside the city and inside the city.

The accompanying Qiongzhou government officials and yamen servants immediately appeared on the scene and began to "negotiate" with the merchants on these two streets.

The result of the negotiation went well, after all, this is the dark old society.When wolf-like officials come to "negotiate" with money, smarter merchants know what to do.After all, in terms of amount, the compensation is quite a lot.Therefore, the merchants promised to move immediately as a joke. If the government is upset and all kinds of "requisition" and "buy" tricks are used, it will really be a disaster from heaven.

So in the next few days, Shao Qiang took root in Qiongzhou City, and began to lay out business and intelligence - his entourage naturally included people from the Intelligence Bureau.Although Qiongzhou Station is a small station of C-class, the Intelligence Bureau also needs to deploy it.

Seven days later.

With the rising sun on the sea, the agreed fleet arrived outside Shenying Port.

Seven days ago, after the Guangzhou side received a telegram from the duo of the Southward Fleet, it immediately began to organize the supply of goods and manpower overnight.Thanks to the well-developed freight, warehousing and human resources in the new area, it took Guangzhou less than 24 hours to fill the warehouse with grain and industrial products from Taiwan, and sent ten 500-ton cargo ships to Qiongzhou. fleet.

The cargo fleet was accompanied by six Taijiang-class frigates.And these six high-speed patrol ships, together with the several ships that have already arrived, will be the backbone of the Baisha base to fight against scattered pirates in the surrounding area and deploy the Qiongzhou Strait patrol network for a period of time in the future.

The arrival of the 500-ton large fleet made Qiongzhou Prefecture empty for thousands of people.Just like a whole row of big men in suits, the public has never seen such a uniform, clean and smooth large tonnage fleet.

Next, a steady stream of food, which seemed to never be empty, was unloaded from the big ship by laborers like ants, and it never stopped from morning to night.

Food soon filled the warehouse prepared by Shao Qiang.So in the newly opened Yonghe Chain Grain Store in Qiongzhou Prefecture, rice and potatoes began to be sold at a low price.

After confirming the quality of the rice grains sold in the granary and grain store, the officials of Qiongzhou Prefecture confirmed that the allies have the ability to fulfill their promises, and their confidence suddenly increased, and they began to roll up their sleeves and go to the countryside. .

Along with the fleet, there are many primary industrial products.

Qiongzhou is a place where there are few rich and noble families, and the overall consumption power is low, so there are not many high-end luxury goods on the cargo ship this time.Common daily necessities such as cotton towels, sewing needles, and enamel washbasins accounted for the majority.

Of course, in line with the principle that the traversing people have always absorbed people's power to stabilize the place, there must be several sets of semi-handmade textile machinery in the warehouse of the fleet.Since Qiongzhou is famous for its homemade cloth and even kapok cloth, and the story of Huang Daopo is spread everywhere, it must have a foundation in the textile industry.

Where there is a foundation, people from across the country will definitely come to set up some small manufacturing enterprises, and their claws will not let go of the hardworking and capable Qiongzhou women.

Finally, those who came with the ship were the "management personnel" that Shao Qiang valued most.

The so-called management personnel, 50 of whom arrived earlier, are management personnel under the jurisdiction of the "National Prison System", commonly known as prison guards.

These people will be responsible for the operation of the labor camp that is already under construction—with the arrival of the high-speed patrol ship, the construction of the labor camp must be put on the agenda. Travelers have a lot of experience in this regard.

The rest of the dozens of management personnel are low-level cadres who have accumulated over the past few years.These people carry beautiful leather briefcases, and write crooked simplified characters on the small books. They are the backbone of the governance of the people across the country.Shao Qiang will use these people to control all the industries in Qiongzhou and carry out long-term infiltration operations.

When everything settled down, it was already half a month after the Southward Fleet settled in Baisha New Port.

On this day, Shao Qiang, who had been busy with settlement matters, finally got free from the busy resettlement work and left Qiongzhou Fucheng.

The reason why he left Fucheng was because he wanted to inspect the construction of the "labor camp".

According to the internal rules of the traversing forces, Shao Qiang is currently in charge of the labor camp, a place used for forced labor for "dissatisfied people", so he has to go and have a look as soon as he gets out of his hand.

The location of the Baisha Labor Camp is very clear, just across from the Baisha Military Port, and there is only a dirt road between the two sides.

After leaving Qiongzhou City, Shao Qiang and his party started to board the bumpy dirt road within a short distance.Fortunately, Master Shao is sitting on the pole at the moment, so there is no possibility of spraining his feet.

Seeing the labor camp construction site from a distance, the captain of the prison guard wearing jeans and short hair soon came to greet him.So Master Shao got off the pole, and accompanied by the team leader, he walked around the labor camp.

The current construction progress of the labor camp can be said to be within Shao Qiang's expectations.The deserted beach, which was originally full of weeds and rocks, has now been cleaned up by a large number of locally recruited migrant workers.

Several temporary wooden houses were erected on the land that had undergone preliminary leveling.The focus of the labor camp's current project is to build a wall around a large circle.Here too, ditches have been dug out by migrant workers, as well as wooden watchtowers used by armed guards.

Now wait for the treated wooden piles to arrive, combined with the barbed wire from Guangdong, then a barbed prison familiar to the world and often seen in American TV dramas will take shape.

After almost a round of inspection, Shao Qiang, who was quite satisfied with the progress of the project, patted the captain on the shoulder and said encouragingly: "The navy is ready, and it will go out to patrol in the next few days. So you still have to hurry up, lest you lose time." When people come, there is no place to live.”

The tall and strong captain of the prison guard was full of smiles: "The peasants in Qiongzhou still work hard. Who pays us better."

"Please rest assured, sir, according to the current progress, the Datong shop will be built within three days."

"Well, very good." Shao Qiang nodded: "Although the climate in Qiongzhou is hot, it will cool down in recent years, so we still need to prepare housing."

After inspecting the construction site and seeing that it was still early, Mr. Shao leaned on his waist and looked around. Suddenly, he became very excited, so he stretched out his arm and pointed to a mangrove forest on the beach with blue sky and white clouds in the distance: "Bring the tables and chairs." Dude, sir, I'm going to relax and eat some grilled seafood!"

"As ordered!"

Ever since, a large group of people surrounded the master sitting on the sliding pole, carrying the iron grill on the seat, and began to march towards the mangrove forest by the sea.

(End of this chapter)