Chapter 219 Trip to Vietnam (2)
It has been two full months since the cargo fleet of the Crossing Group loaded immigrants here for the first time. During this period, the Black Earth Port, which has been constantly transshipping immigrants, has not been idle. The management committee even More than 20 Vietnamese from relatively reliable locations were dispatched to set up a rescue station here to organize the scattered refugees and conduct preliminary screening and identification. In this way, every time the cargo fleet arrives here, there is no need to waste a lot of time slowly selecting immigrants. You can just load the selected people on the ship and leave.
After the fleet docked, Wang Tom found that the scene he saw was very different from what he saw two months ago. There were actually many simple shacks and even a few wooden houses built on the originally empty wasteland - that was a rescue operation. Station warehouse for storing grain. In order to organize more immigrants, Black Earth Port regularly delivers food, salt and other supplies, so that refugees who do not carry much food rations can wait here for the arrival of the next fleet.
Although the appearance of the fleet excited the people on the shore, there was no scene of refugees swarming this time. Through the propaganda of the rescue station, the refugees waiting for the boat here knew what rules they needed to abide by to get the chance to leave by boat. It's not like no one tried to break this rule before, but those who did so were tied up hand and foot and thrown directly into the Qingyuan River. After about a dozen unlucky people were thrown into the river, there was no such chaotic scene as when Tom Wang first arrived here.
This method was thought up by naturalized citizen Corporal Takahashi Minami. Although this method seems simple and crude, it is very effective in dealing with the chaotic situation in the refugee camp, and once again proves the necessity of "using heavy codes in troubled times". Of course, as a pacifist, Gu Kai has questioned this method of handling it, believing that it is not consistent with the "rule of law" society that the Crossing Group wants to build in the future, but not only those who have stood up to support Gao Qiaonan His immediate boss, Qian Tiandun, and Zhou Hengxing, Xie Chun, Tian Yeyou and others all believed that there was nothing wrong with doing so. There is no shortage of labor in Heitu Port, so those who disobey orders may become thorns. It's better to exclude this guy from Black Earth Port as soon as possible, not to mention that doing so can also scare the monkeys and shock those who are restless.
For this reason, Zhou Hengxing even quoted the words of Confucius: "Government is tolerant when it is slow, and when it is slow, it is corrected with violence; when it is fierce, it is crippled, and when it is crippled, it is lenient. To be lenient is to help the fierce, and to be lenient is to be strong. "Ji Kuan, government is based on harmony." This means that for these Vietnamese immigrants who have no concept of the rule of law, strict measures should be used to correct their behavior and let them know what they can and cannot do. Just like the four prisoners who were hanged at the opening of Black Earth Port, if those few people had not been hanged decisively to teach the new immigrants a lesson, with only the limited management staff coming from Victory Port, It may not be possible to manage thousands of immigrants in a submissive manner.
It has to be said that the role of the rescue station here is quite obvious. In addition to maintaining the basic order of the people, they even organized people to build a trestle on the shore for cargo ships coming and going here to dock. After setting up the springboard, the first people to land were the militiamen affiliated with the Military and Police Department. As soon as these soldiers wearing colorful short clothes and holding five-foot fireguns appeared, the onlookers immediately pushed back a certain distance—— Those who made trouble in the past were thrown into the river by these soldiers in strange clothes.
After the militiamen cleared a passage, a group of time-travelers headed by Tao Donglai appeared. Xie Chun called the person in charge of the rescue station here, a Vietnamese man in his thirties, and reported to Tao Donglai and others. The Vietnamese heard that this was the leader of the leader in front of him, from the legendary "Haihan Executive Committee", and he almost knelt down to kowtow, but fortunately Xie Chun's quick eyesight and quick hands pulled him up.
"Take us around first and talk as we go." Tao Donglai is now full of leadership temperament. He was originally the boss of the company, and he has been a high-ranking official since time travel. As time went by, he gradually gained the power of a superior person.
The original schedule did not include an inspection in Thanh Hoa, but after Tao Donglai heard that there were personnel stationed here from the Black To Port, he changed his mind temporarily. Although the personnel stationed here are all Vietnamese and there are no time travelers, these people can be regarded as naturalized citizens, and it is necessary to make them feel the attention of the Executive Committee.
So the person in charge of the rescue station cautiously led the way and led a group of travelers from the base camp to visit this small refugee camp located at the mouth of the Qinghua River.
After the people from the rescue station were stationed here, they organized a group of voluntary immigrants locally to start building shacks for the refugees in Black Earth Port. Because cargo ships often pass here only once every ten and a half months, simple settlements must be built. The refugees who came here later began to build shacks in the surrounding area under various propaganda campaigns, waiting for the legendary fleet to rescue them from the sea of misery.
If you can look down from the air, you can see that the structure of this refugee camp is a semicircle-like shape centered on a simple dock by the river and radiating along the river bank to the surrounding areas. The center is the pier and rescue station, while the periphery is a circle of shacks. When a fleet arrives, a group of people will be picked up and a shack near the center will be vacated, and then people from the periphery will gradually move in to the center, waiting for the next fleet to arrive. This almost primitive method of batch immigration has been maintained relatively smoothly, and no trouble has been encountered during it - those who are unwilling to obey this method can leave on their own, and if they want to forcefully jump in, that will be the case. Denied the right to immigrate.
Of course, when there are too many people stationed abroad and there is no supervision, loopholes will inevitably appear. Among the naturalized people who were initially stationed here, there were also some who had more lively ideas. They found that this seemed to be an opportunity to seek benefits for themselves, so they asked Refugees demand property in exchange for immigration priority. However, this incident was later discovered by the people escorting the ship, and three daring naturalized citizens were hanged in public on the pier here, which temporarily put a stop to this trend.
If Heitu Port had sent travelers here, this might not happen, but after seeing the living conditions here, Tao Donglai had to admit that there was nothing wrong with the arrangement in Heitu Port - compared to the real colonial settlement, the living conditions here are indeed too poor.
There is not even a decent bed in the simple shacks where these refugees live. Most of them just use hay, reeds and other things to lay a layer on the ground. Even these naturalized residents with slightly better living conditions can only It's just an extra wooden single bed shipped from Black Earth Port for each person, and there is no other furniture other than that.
The canteen where the aid station cooks is also built outdoors, with only a few stone stoves. Under the shack next to the canteen are several water jars, which contain the daily drinking water needed by the aid station. Because this place is close to the sea, sea water pours in from the estuary during high tide, so the salt content of the fresh water here is relatively high, even higher than what the average person's body can tolerate.
In this situation, the only desalination method available is distillation. There are several stoves in the canteen that are used to light fires and boil water for a long time. After the water vapor is condensed, practical fresh water is obtained. Although this process is a little more troublesome, fortunately, fuel is free of charge - the cargo ships coming from the direction of Black Earth Port to load immigrants will bring several tons of coal every time, which is enough to ensure the local fuel supply. Of course, the fresh water that can be obtained by distillation is extremely limited and cannot be supplied to all the refugees stranded here. Therefore, only the naturalized people at the rescue station, a few infants, and the sick can enjoy fresh water. Most refugees still can only Drink salty water.
As for the food, it is also lackluster. Although Vietnam is a country rich in rice, the Black Tu Port Management Committee does not intend to use rice to feed these people in vain. Therefore, the rescue station here only provides one meal of food to those who lack food every day. Most people have to wait until they go to Black Earth Port or Victory Port before they can really have a full meal.
What makes Tao Donglai most uneasy is the sanitary conditions here. Although several toilets had been built at the beginning of the refugee camp, as the refugees here left one after another, the later refugees seemed not to have the awareness to clean the toilets, and feces and urine began to flow across the outlying camps. Due to the lack of local medical staff, the patients here basically have to rely on their own bodies to resist. Once the weak fall down, it is almost impossible to leave this place. The only thing the local rescue station can do is to clear those sick people out of the refugee camp as soon as possible to prevent their diseases from spreading here.
The effect of this treatment method can be said to be extremely limited. Even if a plague breaks out here tomorrow, Tao Donglai will not find it strange at all. In such a poor sanitary condition, if the Black Earth Port Management Committee still insists on sending time travelers to station here, it would be a dereliction of duty. According to reports from naturalized people, there are about 1,200 or 300 Vietnamese refugees here, which sounds like there are not many people. If eight cargo ships come empty to load them, they can probably barely load them all. However, in fact, the speed of cargo ships transferring immigrants from here is not much faster than the growth rate of the population here. There are one hundred and eighty new refugees arriving every day, and the cargo ship responsible for transporting them will now come at least once every ten days. Moreover, the cargo ships that come here are not always able to carry people away. For example, among the four ships this time, two of them carried militiamen and arms, and had other tasks on the way, so they can actually take immigrants to the black soil. There are only two ships in the port. The space on the ship is inherently limited, and even if it is fully packed, it can only take away three to four hundred people.
After briefly inspecting the conditions in the refugee camps and aid stations, Tao Donglai ordered some vegetables and fruits to be unloaded from the ship to express condolences to the naturalized residents stationed here. At the same time, he also encouraged them verbally and promised that after they complete the work here, they will have the opportunity to move their families to settle in Victory Port, where the Executive Committee is located - before that, they will have to stay in Qinghua at least until next year.
But for these naturalized people, this is already great news. Because so far, the coal ships departing from Black Earth Port to Victory Port have taken away some children or single women, and the Black Earth Port Management Committee has also put considerable effort into publicizing this matter, claiming that only those who were detained by the Management Committee Only the lucky ones who will be selected will have the opportunity to go to Haihan's base camp and settle in Victory Port on the other side of the sea. And Victory Port is naturally described as a paradise on earth, where everyone has food, clothing, and housing. There are no wars, no landlords, and no emperor. Everyone who goes there can Live a happy life.
In addition to these lucky ones, ordinary people can apply to the management committee to move to Victory Port as long as they upgrade to third-level workers. Of course, this kind of relocation quota is also very limited. There is an application period every three months, and the approval rate for each application period will be only one-fifth of the number of applicants. Therefore, these naturalized residents were extremely excited when they heard Tao Donglai's promise, which would greatly increase their chances of moving to Victory Port in the future.
After listening to Xie Chun's explanation, Tao Donglai, who was confused, realized that there was still such propaganda in Heitu Port. He was a little bit dumbfounded: "You deify the status of the Executive Committee and Victory Port in this way. Maybe there will be a comparison in the short term." It’s a good effect, but it’s not a good thing in the long run!”
"Go out first and then we'll talk about it, step by step." Xie Chun was somewhat disapproving: "With the current conditions of Heitu Port, it is difficult to describe a good prospect and a goal for these people, so we can only use the base camp Let’s talk about it. Only when they have a goal in mind can they settle down and do things!”
Black Earth Port has not been open for a long time, and the labor level is generally low, so there are no people who meet the application conditions yet. From this perspective, these people who were selected to establish a refugee relief station in Thanh Hoa may become the first batch of naturalized people to be moved to Victory Port because of their outstanding work.
After completing his inspection, Tao Donglai ordered the selected immigrants to start boarding the ship. The two ships used to transport immigrants this time did not carry any other goods except necessary supplies, so the number of immigrants that could be taken away was relatively large. Under the watchful eyes of armed militiamen, the immigrants formed two long columns and slowly moved forward to the two ships.
For safety reasons, these people will also undergo a final physical check before boarding the ship. This time the fleet brought several medical staff from Victory Port, and they also came in handy here. This inspection is mainly to see if there are any obvious infectious disease patients among the immigrants, or people whose physical condition is not suitable for long voyages. People like this will be cleared from the team and lose their qualifications for immigration.
At one o'clock that afternoon, this group of immigrants finally completed boarding. A total of 382 new immigrants will take the boat to Black Earth Port this time. These lucky people will be freed from the threat of war and become naturalized citizens under the executive committee. Seven other unlucky people were found to be suffering from various illnesses during the inspection and therefore lost their qualifications to immigrate.
Half an hour later, the fleet slowly sailed out from the mouth of the Qinghua River, adjusted its direction and continued heading north. On the afternoon of the next day, the fleet arrived at the second destination of the trip, the Do Son Peninsula located in the later Haiphong City.
The two cargo ships carrying immigrants did not stop here. They continued to sail north towards Cat Ba Island and will go directly to Black Earth Port without stopping. The other two cargo ships carrying militiamen and arms docked at the southeast end of the Tushan Peninsula together with the "Speed".
The first expedition team exploring the Black Tu Port navigation route had already been here on the Tushan Peninsula, but they did not land here. This long and narrow peninsula that is S-shaped and protrudes into the sea toward the southeast is actually quite strategically located. Wang Tom once mentioned this place in his report at that time, believing that when conditions are ripe in the future, this place can be occupied to build a Vietnamese offshore strategic support point.
This concept is actually very close to the Military and Police Department’s idea of establishing a stronghold at the Pearl River Estuary. The purpose of this strategic support point is not to establish a large military base, but a small military stronghold, which is mainly used for supply and surveillance in peacetime. effect. Looking at the coastal area east of Hanoi in northern Vietnam, it is undoubtedly a very good location - directly connected to the mainland, the terrain is narrow, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there are natural harbors that can accommodate ships.
Do Son Peninsula is about 100 kilometers away from Hanoi and is directly connected by waterway. It is only about ten kilometers away from the nearest grain producing area, which will also facilitate future grain trade. The narrowest point of this peninsula is only a hundred meters. With the weapons and firepower equipped by the Penetration Group, it is easy to build an insurmountable defense line. Moreover, there are commanding heights on the island, and three-dimensional defenses can be built if necessary. The S-shaped island topography has two huge natural harbors, which can accommodate several thousand-ton ships to dock. In fact, the Soviets also occupied this place for many years to dock warships. It was not until the early 1990s that they moved from the Tushan Peninsula to withdraw.
The Military and Police Department believes that if a stronghold is built here, the main threat will still come from land, and this threat can be easily controlled. As for the sea, the Military and Police Department does not believe that there will be threats from the sea in the current Beibu Gulf area. The nearby coastline is sparsely populated, and there are not even pirates, so there is no threat at all. As for Vietnam's water power at this stage, it is not much better than the fishermen on the seaside. You must know that the civil war between the North and the South in Vietnam has been fought for so many years, and has been fought along the coastline, but it has never been fought at sea, which shows that its maritime power is weak.
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