Chapter 328 Civil Unrest in Guangzhou
Chen Yixin ordered these nail households to be tied up and thrown into the ship. He did not intend to sink them directly into the river. The Executive Committee had even taken North Vietnamese prisoners of war, so naturally it would not waste local human resources easily. According to the planning arrangements of the civil affairs department, anyone who refuses to cooperate during the demolition and land acquisition process and affects the overall planning of the new city will be arrested and sent to overseas colonial sites. Therefore, these unlucky guys who are ignorant of current affairs have lost their last chance at this moment. Their destination is most likely one of the three existing ports in North Vietnam. If they serve honestly, they may still be able to return in a year or two. Opportunities for naturalization.
This approach is naturally not a legal act. To rob a country's citizens is the same as fighting. However, given the special environment of Yazhou, no one would cause trouble for the Crossing Group. In the eyes of the Yazhou government, these people were originally proletarians, and no one cared about their whereabouts. Even if someone reported the matter to the government, the bureaucrats in Yazhou who had benefited would not care about such a matter.
When Chen Yixin received the task, he had already learned from his superiors about the measures that could be taken for this operation, so he did not hesitate in handling it. After these people were brought on board, Chen Yixin immediately ordered the whole team to move towards the next target. As for the several dilapidated shacks here, migrant workers will naturally follow to demolish them, and the militia troops only need to be responsible for completing the violent part.
"We are a bit like the city management fighting against the nail households!" Seeing these unlucky guys being thrown onto the boat by the militiamen like sacks, Li Dou's anger finally subsided a lot, and he started to attack the militiamen. Rude behavior is a bit concerning.
"What do you want to say? Do you want to slowly reason with these people?" Chen Yixin turned to look at Li Dou, without even a trace of mercy in his eyes: "If you insist, then I can let them go, but the consequences will be It’s your responsibility.”
"No, no, no, I didn't mean that." Li Dou shook his head repeatedly. The opinions on dealing with nail-biting households were originally proposed by the Ministry of Civil Affairs. The military only sent people to implement them. Li Dou would not take responsibility for this.
"This is not the 21st century. There is no need to apply the moral standards of that era to the present. We chose to travel to this era just to be conquerors!" Chen Yixin's year in the military camp was not in vain. Yes, he obviously has the murderous spirit of a soldier: "Whether it is a nail shop or someone else, a stumbling block is a stumbling block. There is actually no essential difference for us. Your cultural management system is responsible for identifying who is a stumbling block. , our military is responsible for cleaning them up!”
"Simple and crude! But I like it!" Li Dou couldn't help but raised his thumb and praised: "Your thoughts have changed a lot this year! I remember what you said to me when I first met you. Everyone must be reasonable. If you are reasonable, you can travel all over the world, but if you are unreasonable, you cannot move forward..."
"I still have the same view now." Chen Yixin adjusted the rifle strap to make it more comfortable for him to carry: "What is truth? The barrel of the gun is the truth! If talk is useful, then we soldiers must do it. Well? From now on, we have to rely on guns to conquer the world!”
When he first entered the military and police department, Chen Yixin did still have some unrealistic fantasies. However, during the expedition to Annan, he actually went to the battlefield and experienced the cruelty of the war. Only then did Chen Yixin gradually understand the meaning of the army's existence and It's not just about protecting the country. Every expansion of the territory of overseas forces is essentially completed by the army. Opening up territory and expanding territory will be the main task of Haihan's armed forces in the future. To perform combat-type military missions, he must first leave all kindness behind, including many of his previous moral standards. After witnessing the insignificance of human life on the battlefield, Chen Yixin could say that he had no psychological pressure at all when he returned to the base camp to perform small tasks such as cleaning out nail houses.
With the first nail-biting process in place, the subsequent process will appear to be much smoother. After Li Dou led the way to the place, the militiamen first announced that if they honestly admitted their defeat, they could take their belongings and move away immediately, or they could choose to report to the immigration reception office in the inland port construction area. But if anyone tries to resist or resort to tricks, Chen Yixin will immediately order him to be tied up and thrown on the boat. Li Dou also changed from the leader of the action to the party leading the way. He only had to watch and no longer had to take the lead in clearing the scene at the risk of his head being smashed with a hoe.
The demolition operation, jointly carried out by the military and the civil affairs system, lasted for three days. In fact, starting from the second day, the action team discovered that some households who had received the news had fled their residence overnight, or had taken the initiative to go to the immigration reception. at. Although these people have little cultural knowledge, it does not mean that they are ignorant of current affairs. The result of confronting the Haihan people has already come out. If they follow the unlucky people in front of them, they will be asking for death.
Of course, some people chose to flee to Yazhou to report to the government, but they did not know that the actions of the Haihan Militia had long been approved by the Yazhou government. It was basically impossible to get the government to support them. If this matter gets serious, it will not be of any benefit to Yazhou officials, so even if there are complaints from the public, the officials will definitely try their best to calm the situation.
After this demolition operation is completed, the area of more than ten miles from the inland port area all the way north to another intersection of the two rivers upstream has been basically cleared and can welcome the construction team. During the entire demolition process, more than 20 people were arrested for refusing to cooperate. Their fate was to be moved to three ports in North Vietnam for one to three years of hard labor.
Chen Yixin, who commanded well and took effective measures in this operation, was commended by the Central Military Commission's internal report. Although he still hasn't achieved high-level military merit, it is already a very rare treatment for a junior in the army like Chen Yixin. In order to celebrate this achievement, it is said that Chen Yixin even privately took Li Dou and several of his capable men to a newly opened Cantonese restaurant in the business district for a feast.
On May 7, Chen Yixin received the transfer order from the Military Commission. Three days later, he led his troops from Victory Port and boarded a warship to station at the Dawanshan Island stronghold at the mouth of the Pearl River. Along with it were two entire ships of nearly 300 construction workers and a large amount of building materials.
For Chuanchuan Group, this is the first real military stronghold established by the military in the mainland. Therefore, the executive committee attaches great importance to it and specially convened several working meetings with the heads of various departments. Assign relevant tasks.
Since the local area is close to the mainland and there are fresh water resources on the island, there is not much problem with supply. The focus of the executive committee is still safety issues. Due to its own conditions and the local objective environment, the military is unlikely to deploy too many troops on the island, and there are even no surface armed ships permanently stationed on the island for the time being. Therefore, the existence of this stronghold has certain implications. Riskiness. The military generously allocated ten 12-pound coastal defense guns to the troops stationed on the island - these were originally allocated to the artillery used in the defenses of Tieliang Port, but the military leaders considered that the defense needs of Dawanshan Island were more urgent. , and finally gave them priority. For this reason, the military also assigned 20 artillerymen, who were in short supply, to the troops stationed on the island. As for the difference between artillery and artillery, the full-time artillery force could only slowly train other militiamen locally.
In addition to the garrison, nearly half of the construction workers transported to the local area will be resettled on the island as immigrants, mainly to provide logistical and military services to the troops, and also to prepare for the commercial development of Wanshan Port. Perhaps taking into account the performance in the previous demolition operations, the civil affairs officer sent to Dawanshan Island by the civil affairs department this time was actually Li Dou, so the pair of friends were lucky enough to become partners again.
On May 11th, the fleet set out quietly from the Port of Victory. This operation did not have the same grand farewell scene as in the past. The Executive Committee did not want the plan to establish a stronghold on Dawanshan Island to spread too early. Only officers of Chen Yixin's level in the army knew the details. Ordinary The militiamen only knew that they would go to garrison new strongholds overseas, but they knew nothing about the specific targets.
This time the fleet did not encounter bad weather conditions again, and arrived at Dawanshan Island smoothly. There were hundreds of laborers available, and the construction of the simple pier was progressing very quickly. When we arrived at the harbor that morning, we completed the construction of the first trestle at around two o'clock in the afternoon. The migrant workers used logs to assemble brackets and began to unload various materials loaded on the ship to the shore.
"The environment of this island is quite good. It's almost all woods, so original!" After landing, Li Dou, who had taken the time to stroll around the area and returned, was full of praise for the environment on the island: "Pure natural and no pollution. "It feels much quieter than Victory Port!" "Of course, this has always been an uninhabited island. Victory Port used to be a small port, but it just declined." This is the first time that Chen Yixin has commanded independently. He was also very excited about this kind of overseas mission. He pointed at the harbor in front of him and said: "From now on, I will really be eating seafood until I vomit!"
In the afternoon of the same day, the ship carrying supplies from Guangzhou south also arrived at the harbor. Since it is closer to Guangzhou, some living supplies, especially the poultry and livestock that the Ministry of Agriculture plans to let the islanders breed here, are shipped from Guangzhou. In addition, the Ministry of Agriculture also plans to cultivate some fields on the gentle slope at the southern end of the island to grow some vegetables and fruits to supplement the island's food needs. For this errand, Mr. Yuan also sent his son Yuan Qiuye over to guide the migrant workers in building livestock breeding sheds.
Also coming with the fleet was Wu Zhuo from the communications department, who was responsible for setting up radio stations on the island. Wu Zhuo can be considered a practical person. He didn't take much rest after getting off the ship, so he took a few of his men to climb a mountain to test the signal.
That night, when Chen Yixin and Li Dou were counting supplies together, they were truly shocked by the generosity of the executive committee. In addition to the daily necessities for these hundreds of people, the list of supplies also includes small solar power generation equipment, simple water purification devices, two hot water boilers, one large and one small, and more than 20 tons of anthracite coal produced in Heitu Port, etc. There were at least dozens of items in total, which made Chen Yixin's eyes go straight.
"It's not easy for the Ministry of Civil Affairs!" Chen Yixin couldn't help but sigh when seeing so many supplies. To organize so many materials, the logistics department needs to deal with more than one or two units, and such efficient organization and coordination capabilities can only be achieved by traveling through the group.
"It's not bad, it's not as troublesome as the development of Black Earth Port and Tieliang Port." Li Dou responded proudly: "This is the superiority of the system!"
After completing the unloading of goods the next day, the two cargo ships left Wanshan Port. However, they did not return to Victory Port, but continued northward into the Pearl River Estuary to ship goods to Guangzhou.
According to the plan of the Ministry of Construction, the development process of Dawanshan Island is carried out in three phases. The first phase is the construction of temporary settlements and basic defenses. The second phase is the continuation and strengthening of the first phase of the project. The third phase It is the construction of commercial facilities. The first phase of the project is expected to last from 15 to 25 days. The reason for such a large range is because possible weather changes during this season will cause certain delays in outdoor construction.
In addition to the port terminals and temporary barracks for the troops and people stationed on the island, the first thing to be built was the duty post on the top of the mountain. This outpost is a set of simple flat-roofed houses dismantled directly from Fort Victory. Chen Yixin mobilized two platoons of soldiers and spent half a day transporting the parts from the harbor to Dawanding, the commanding height of the island at an altitude of just over 400 meters. Then the prefab house was assembled on the open space on the top of the mountain. Even without borrowing a telescope from this position, under clear weather conditions it is easy to observe the situation within a dozen nautical miles. Twenty nautical miles away from Dawanshan Island, Lantau Island is located in the northeast, and its outline can also be seen from the top of Dawanshan Island.
After this post is put into use, it can be said that basically half of the entire Pearl River Estuary channel is under the surveillance of this observation post. The surveillance information from the sentry post can be instantly reached through the walkie-talkie to the command center at the foot of the mountain, and then the radio station in the command center will send the information to Guangzhou or Victory Port.
What makes the troops stationed on the island most uneasy now is Dangan Island, which is located 30 nautical miles east of Dawanshan Island. According to the information obtained by the Guangdong Office, there is a small group of pirates on this island, numbering two to three hundred people. This is also the closest threatening force to Dawanshan Island. And this pirate must have its own special survival skills for being able to survive under the noses of the Ming Navy stationed in Hong Kong and the nearby "Eighteen Zhi". Chen Yixin did not dare to be careless about this, and immediately ordered the top of the mountain to The sentries should strengthen surveillance of the eastern sea area.
However, the latest news received by the military after this did not come from the pirates on Dangan Island, but a long message sent back from Guangzhou by the Guangdong Office.
It was not the Guangdong Office in Guangzhou that was in trouble, but "Fu Ruifeng". To be precise, it was the ancestor of the Li family who had a problem. The Li family is based in Panyu, which is not far from Guangzhou. More than 70% of the local Lijiazhuang population is of Li descent, and this is also the main source of soldiers for the Lijiazhuang.
In addition to the large business name "Fu Ruifeng", the Li family also owns 10,000 acres of cultivated land in Panyu and is one of the largest landowners in the area. Apart from some smuggling business, the Li family actually didn't have much bad deeds in the local area, but after all, wealth was hated by people, and there were still quite a few people who were dissatisfied with them.
In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, that is, 1626, Zhaoqing Prefecture suffered from a severe drought, while Guangzhou Prefecture suffered from severe drought and floods. Dongguan, Panyu and Xinhui counties were all affected by famine. The same situation was found in Shaozhou Prefecture. In Yingde County and Changle County in Huizhou Prefecture, tens of thousands of people were affected. Due to natural disasters and the slow and ineffective rescue measures of local governments, natural disasters began to turn into man-made disasters in the second year. In August 1627, a large number of mountain bandits evolved from the victims appeared in Zengcheng, Conghua and other places in Guangzhou Prefecture. Shares are up to thousands of people. These mountain bandits did not attack towns, but plundered villages in groups. As a result, a large number of refugees had to join the ranks of mountain bandits in order to survive.
What makes trouble never come singly is that in the past two years, the "Eighteen Zhi" frequently invaded the coasts of Huizhou and Chaozhou Prefecture, plundering local merchants and people, further exacerbating social chaos.
By the beginning of this year, spring drought once again occurred in Xinhui County of Guangzhou Prefecture, Guishan County of Huizhou Prefecture, and Gaoming County of Zhaoqing Prefecture, leading to a large number of local people going bankrupt and further growing the number of refugees. Recently, these bandits who have swept through the villages near Guangzhou have finally begun to focus on the fat piece of Lijiazhuang.
The wealth of the Li family is almost universally known in Guangzhou. Although Lijiazhuang is not the silver warehouse of the Li family, it can still be regarded as a wealthy village. In the past, Lijiazhuang had a strong militia to protect the village, and ordinary small bandits simply did not dare to harass them. However, in March, the Guangdong Office and "Fu Ruifeng" jointly established the "Golden Shield Security" and transferred most of the members of the Li family's militia to Guangzhou to strengthen the "Golden Shield" security force. The direct result was that the Li family's The defense of the lair became empty. Although the Li family has begun training new militia soldiers, their combat effectiveness is not comparable to that of the already formed militia. After several bandits near Panyu learned that Lijiazhuang's guard force had changed, they launched several sneak attacks on Lijiazhuang and caused considerable losses in the local area.
According to the news that the Li family spent money to inquire about, several bandits near Guangzhou Prefecture have recently begun to join forces and prepare to join forces to take down Lijiazhuang in one fell swoop. This is a huge event for the Li family. Although they have the Li family militia, which seems to be a pretty good armed force, no one dares to fight whether it can withstand the siege of thousands of rogue bandits. This was a guaranteed vote, so after careful consideration, Li Jifeng still requested help from the General Office of the People's Republic of China.
(End of chapter)