Chapter 94 Population Import
The sleepy-eyed immigrants were quickly shouted out of the tents by the 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. The immigrants consciously formed several long lines in front of the big barrels - when the dinner was being distributed last night, many people who didn't understand the rules rushed forward and ate sticks. They were all beaten by the security guards and screamed. It was so vivid. The example clearly helped them quickly understand the rules of eating here.
Today's breakfast still consisted of porridge, vegetables and salted fish, but no one expressed dissatisfaction with it. Being able to eat three meals a day, with meat and fish every meal, was a treatment that was difficult for them to enjoy even if they had not lost their family property in the past. Those children who were dizzy from hunger because of their family's dilemma were very happy about this. They didn't understand why they had rice porridge to eat after they came here, but the voice from the loudspeaker repeatedly reminded them that they could There is food, housing, and books here, all given by the executive committee. The children don't understand what the Executive Committee is, and in fact even their parents don't understand it, but one thing is obvious - the Executive Committee is rich and powerful and is willing to give poor people like them a bite to eat. Anyone can continue to live here as long as they obey the orders of the Executive Committee.
After breakfast, the human resources department began to distribute the immigrants. The vast majority of people will be divided into two communes: farms and salt fields. After a period of work, managers will select some of the more flexible people among them to work in the factory. A small number of craftsmen who have registered their skills when applying will be singled out and assigned to relevant units. Carpenters go to the carpentry workshop, blacksmiths go to the metallurgical workshop, and plasterers go to the construction department. Although these craftsmen are few in number, they can be regarded as skilled workers. It will be faster to get started after going to the relevant unit.
Children under the age of fourteen are singled out, and they will be concentrated on basic courses for seven to ten days. Then, based on what the teacher observes, some of the brighter children will stay in school to continue learning. Another group of children who are considered to be of lower quality will be taken away by the Military Police Department and entered into the newly established Scout Camp. Although there are also reading and literacy courses in the Scout Camp, the path these children will take will be completely different. Most of them will stay in the Scout camp until they are sixteen years old, and then most of them will enter the military camp directly and become a glorious Haihan warrior. A few of them with outstanding performance will receive higher-level military training. Become a future reserve officer.
The immigrants do not know their future arrangements, so there is no need to say they have any resistance. After completing the assignment, they were taken to the dock site not far from the temporary camp. Before entering their respective jobs, they also had to complete a training project, which was to visit a labor camp. The executive committee believed that seeing the hard labor life in the labor camps would make these immigrants appreciate the opportunities they were given more.
The schedule of the labor camp has always been very full, with people working from sunrise to sunset, and their daily working hours are almost double that of ordinary workers. Such high-intensity labor for a long time will inevitably lead to personnel attrition. Before Luo Shengdong's men were released, two of them had already died in the labor camp. Among the remaining lucky ones, except for some who followed Luo Shengdong After returning to Yazhou Water Village, everyone else was assigned to the commune, barely getting rid of the life of hard labor. As for the second batch of pirate prisoners sent to the labor camp, seven have died so far, and more than ten lucky ones were shipped by sea because they were familiar with the sea conditions and sailing skills, and had no bad deeds. The Ministry asked him to go over and supplement the crew.
Of course, the service personnel in the labor camp are not limited to these two groups of prisoners. Anyone who makes trouble within the jurisdiction of Chuanzhong will be thrown into the labor camp as long as they are caught, and will be sentenced to different periods of hard labor depending on the severity of the case. After the implementation of this measure, it also played a certain role in maintaining local security, keeping the number of hard laborers in the labor camp at around a hundred people. Especially after the security team of the mixed formations of Han, Li and Miao ethnic groups was put into use, the ethnic conflicts that originally caused some headaches for the Executive Committee were finally resolved. Now in this labor camp, people from the Li and Miao ethnic groups are also being captured to serve.
Gao Qiaonan had received notification from Ren Liang yesterday and knew that a group of immigrants would come to the construction site to visit and study this morning. Before going to work today, he specially put on his cleanest set of clothes, tied his hair neatly in a bun, and put on the pair of green liberation shoes that Ren Liangfa gave him. After everything was ready, he took the small whip he used to "supervise" the hard laborers and set off to the construction site.
So all the immigrants saw how a vicious little man used whips and curses to maintain order on the construction site, especially the unlucky guy who was sent to the labor camp just last night. In just a few moments, his hands and feet were damaged. Tai Chi was whipped several times, and his screams were even louder than when he was beaten by the security guards yesterday. There will be no good gentleman like Ning Qi here to dissuade Takahashi Nan. Even his immediate boss Ren Liang just watched all this happen with a smile - the purpose of the labor camp is not only to punish prisoners, but also to punish prisoners. The important thing is to warn those who have not yet made a mistake, so that they can realize in advance the dire consequences if they make a mistake.
The ragged hard labor, the fierce-looking overseers, the endless toil, everything they saw in the labor camp made the immigrants turn pale, and they secretly reminded themselves not to make mistakes, which gave the Haihan people the opportunity to put themselves into labor camps. Excuse for the camp.
After the visit and study, people sent by various units led the assigned immigrants to different places. Those going to the Saltworks Commune have the longest journey and need to board the ship again at Victory Port. But if we put aside the workload, people who go to the salt field are relatively lucky. There are only a few cross-countrymen who are responsible for the leadership of the commune management committee. The workers receive relatively little supervision, compared with other units. Be freer. The units to which a small number of skilled craftsmen are assigned have a large number of workers. It can be said that they are under supervision at any time and at any time. However, because they are technical types of work, the corresponding labor points will be higher than other units.
Of course, the most promising ones are those children. Whether they stay in school or enter the Scout camp, these children will be a resource that the executive committee attaches great importance to in the future. In a few years, a number of home-grown skills will gradually emerge among them. personnel, civil affairs cadres and grassroots military officers.
In the afternoon of the same day, another fleet arrived at Victory Port. This was the first batch of prisoners sent to Yazhou from the mainland as promised by Luo Shengdong. There were a total of more than 270 people in this group, more than 80% of whom 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 sentencing of some major cases. Some people were inexplicably sentenced to exile just because they lived in the same village and street as the main criminal. Others were sentenced to consecutive imprisonment because of their kinship with the prisoner. They were basically prisoners with very light charges.
The prisoners sent to Yazhou are generally divided into three categories. The first category is the prisoners sent by Luo Shengdong who have no criminal behavior themselves and are simply implicated by others. The second category is prisoners who have serious crimes and cannot be released. This kind of people have been locked up in Yazhou Prison all year round. Luo Shengdong has no way to get them out even if he wants to. The third category is officials who made mistakes and were demoted. Many of these people still have the possibility of making a comeback. Even in Yazhou, they still enjoy the treatment of celebrities and elegant scholars. Luo Shengdong will definitely not be able to be dispatched.
Among these three categories of people, the first category has the largest number of people, but it is also the most troublesome for the local government of Yazhou to deal with them. These prisoners must eat food to survive, but it is not so easy to make these prisoners work. Yazhou has little local output, let alone large-scale manufacturing, and there are no labor-intensive industries that can produce benefits in the short term. Therefore, almost the only place for the working population is to farm, but land annexation is serious around Yazhou. , a large number of tenant farmers have begun to lose their jobs, and if they want to farm land, they have to go further to open up wasteland. But sending prisoners to open up wasteland and sending troops to guard it are also a big expense. How to feed the thousands of local prisoners has become a headache for successive local governments.
The proposal of Luo Shengdong, the general manager of Yazhou Shuizhai, gave the local officials here a new way 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 were in urgent need of a large number of laborers, would be responsible for feeding these prisoners. If something goes wrong in the meantime, that place is a hundred miles away from Yazhou, and it will not affect Yazhou's safety. Of course, these superficial reasons are minor. The most important point is that the Haihan people are willing to pay some price for this, such as silver and gold that everyone likes.
In the past, the state government had to provide financial subsidies to Yazhou Prison every year to feed these prisoners who could not create enough production value. But now this situation seems to be changing, not to mention throwing away this huge financial burden. If you can still make money from this, then the choice in this matter is obvious. After discussions between the magistrate, his fellow magistrates, and the magistrates, the state government issued a document authorizing Luo Shengdong, the commander-in-chief of Shuizhai, to be responsible for handling this matter. Of course, if something goes wrong, such as a large-scale escape of prisoners or failure to recover the fees that should be charged, then Luo Shengdong will also be the one who needs to stand up and take the blame. (End of chapter)