African Nationhood

Chapter 451 Sakhalin Administrative Office (Part )

October 1906, 10, Yating Bay (now Aniva Bay).

Sun Guangming, 46 years old, has a Chinese character face, medium height and a crew cut.

He stood at the port of Yadong Port (now Korsakov, Sakhalin Island) and watched the last cruise ship from the mainland leave. For the next half year, the entire Sakhalin Island Administrative Office would be in a state of lockdown.

The closure period here is from November to March of the next year. The sea water in the entire sea area will freeze. Not only will fishing be impossible, but the temperature will drop sharply.

The top priority right now is to build a large number of houses for immigrants to live in as soon as possible and to make enough clothes for immigrants to wear.

Fortunately, the locals had a good deal with Japan and helped them buy enough rice and wheat nearby, which solved one of his thorny problems.

Next, it's up to him to keep these people alive before the ban is lifted next year.

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After the Russians took over Sakhalin, the island was not effectively developed.

They mainly used this island to exile prisoners, so the level of urban construction here was completely blank.

At the end of 1904, Tsarist Russia fulfilled its contract and captured more than yellow women from the Far East and sent them to the island. The largest number of them were Yakut women.

Most of the prisoners in Tsarist Russia were serfs who rebelled against farmers, or villains who owed money, but after arriving on this island, there was no need to worry about their previous crimes.

As long as they are willing to obey the orders of the Sakhalin Administrative Office, Sun Guangming will not drive them away.

As for the indigenous people, he said it was up to them to make their choice.

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The Yadong Port here can be used as both a fishing port and a military port. It will be enough to arrange for some people to be stationed there.

These yellow women have fierce personalities and strong bodies, and it is not easy for ordinary people to subdue them.

Sun Guangming naturally agreed. As long as these indigenous people obey the management honestly, there is no need to expect too much at this stage.

With these women and Tsarist Russian prisoners at his disposal, Sun Guangming was finally no longer a mere commander. He led his subjects to reclaim land, cut trees, and build houses.

Those Feyaka people were very surprised to see that the new ruler was so talkative.

Due to the climate, it can only be planted once a year, so more than 2,000 people grow potatoes, corn and wheat on this island, and the harvest is good.

As for the remains of Japanese development on the island, there seems to be nothing new at this time, and most of them are wooden buildings.

However, after being beaten several times by navy soldiers, they all obeyed.

They prefer to live in seclusion in the mountains and forests, and say they can trade with people in the agency.

(Sakhalin Island is called Kuwu and Kuye, and there is a large plain here, so it is called Kuyuan. The Japanese named this place Fengyuan, saying that it is a harvest plain.)

Kuyuan Town is rich in geothermal resources, and it is a plain area that is conducive to reclamation and survival.

After they arrived here for exploration, they did not place the administrative capital in Yadong Port on the coast, but in a place more than 300 kilometers away from Yadong Port. They called it Kuyuan Town (today's Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Sakhalin Island) .

More than 800 soldiers were divided into small teams and searched the entire island. Hundreds of Tsarist Russian prisoners and nearly a thousand indigenous people were found on the island. They said they were living a good life here and were unwilling to leave.

After Sun Guangming signed the "Sakhalin Treaty" between Japan and Tsarist Russia, he took the Nanhua Company's warship "King Wei" to Sakhalin Island.

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Since the two countries were at war with each other at the time, Ou Haiwa, the captain of the "King of Wei", and 800 naval soldiers stepped off the battleship to help Sun Guangming set up his headquarters.

If they want to live in groups, they can live in groups. If they don't want to, they can live in seclusion in the mountains and forests on their own. The Sakhalin Administrative Office will not force them.

After sealing the sea, they began hunting and cutting down trees to prepare food for the winter.

For more than a year, their lives were pretty good.

In winter, they had nothing to do, and those Yakut women became good companions. Exiled prisoners and many naval soldiers were assigned women.

Sun Guangming and Ou Haiwa were not exempt from the custom. They both chose a young and beautiful Yakut woman to be their bed partner and take care of their food and daily life.

By the time spring comes next year, many Yakut women will be pregnant.

... As the fighting in East Russia became fierce, many Russian warships came to Yating Bay to surrender. Ou Haiwa accepted the surrender of these Russian warships after asking for instructions from the mainland.

Because Japan came to protest, Ou Haiwa had no choice but to send the surrendered Tsarist Russian officers and soldiers to Vladivostok, and at the same time told them that if they wanted to get the warship back, they could either exchange it for Qing immigrants or pay for it.

Tsarist Russia had no choice but to capture tens of thousands of Qing immigrants in Northeast China in exchange for warships.

Later, nearly 10,000 Slavic and yellow women were sent, but these populations were only enough to exchange for two large battleships.

They had no money for the other four cruisers and destroyers and asked the Sakhalin Administrative Office to let them go first.

With the entry of a large number of people, Sun Guangming's work as an administrative commissioner has become easier.

The entry of a large number of immigrants has improved efficiency, and the cultivation area and fishing efficiency have also been greatly improved.

As hunting efficiency increases, fur production greatly increases.

The cruise ships coming from the mainland not only brought a large number of production tools but also more weapons and equipment. They also brought many administrative personnel and workers from the mainland.

These workers will build factories here on Sakhalin, starting with canneries, garment factories, fur factories, and paper mills, as well as coal mines and oil explorers.

The addition of these technical personnel has brought vitality to the entire Sakhalin Island.

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The arrival of administrative staff allowed the framework of the Sakhalin Administrative Office to be truly established.

Administrative agencies such as police stations, post offices, hospitals, thermal power plants, mining bureaus, and electricity bureaus also began to be established.

With the exploration by mineral explorers, the layout of the island's mineral resources gradually became clear.

With more and more mineral resources, the manpower gap has become more and more prominent.

The turning point was so sudden. With the outbreak of floods in the Qing Dynasty, immigration transport ships continued to transport immigrants.

Sun Guangming had no time to be happy. He began to worry about the food, clothing, housing and transportation of so many immigrants.

Fortunately, the administrative office had more than 20,000 manpower to lay the foundation, otherwise it would be too late for him to cry now.

Such a large number of immigrants require a large number of clothes.

Fortunately, a large number of clothes and cotton cloth were shipped from the mainland, and many sewing machines were also sent.

Since we want to build a garment factory here, the first step is to teach the immigrant women here to use sewing machines.

When Sun Guangming thought of this, he quickly turned around and walked towards the horse behind him, mounted the horse and galloped towards Kuyuan Town.

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Sun Guangming, who was riding on the horse, still kept thinking about the administrative affairs.

The days in winter are too long, so we have to find something for these immigrants to do that can both kill time and improve their skills.

Otherwise they will definitely cause trouble, after all, this island is an isolated island in winter.

In addition to setting up garment factories, we also need to carry out education work.

Winter has arrived, and people who have nothing to do are just using it to learn literacy.

Children are the focus of education. Among adults, except the elderly, who do not need to learn, everyone else has to learn to read.

This is a big project, and he has always kept the local assessment goals in mind.

In addition, the militia must be organized and trained. The number of police officers in the office is too small. If something goes wrong and the police cannot help, the militia is the most reliable.

Thinking of these things, Sun Guangming not only did not look sad at all, but was full of pride. It was a great political achievement for him to manage Sakhalin Island well.

With this political achievement and qualifications, it will be a matter of course for him to join the cabinet and enter the central government one day.

(End of this chapter)