Chapter 420 Exploration Completed
Before departure, the executive committee had held a special meeting and had warned Qiao Zhiya about some precautions. Therefore, although Fu Li's persuasion seemed to have achieved certain results, Qiao Zhiya's attitude was still relatively cautious.
Qiao Zhiya warned: "We can provide them with a place to live and teach them to grow food or do other jobs to support themselves, but we will not directly give them money or land. You must make this clear to Huang Sanmu. As for other things The conditions, such as the supply of food, can be relaxed appropriately. Shizidong is our primary target. If this place is negotiated and dealt with, it will be relatively easy for us to contact other Lidong. "
After some discussion, the group of people returned to their tents to rest.
In the next two days, the two parties began to negotiate some specific conditions. For example, the livelihood issue after moving outside the mountains must be detailed to how to solve the problem of everyone's residence. Before the harvest of the cultivated land can be harvested, everyone can How much food subsidy will be received, and whether Shi Zidong should be loyal to the Ming Dynasty or the Haihan Executive Committee in the future, etc.
Some of these problems are very simple to solve, such as food supply. Feeding hundreds of people in Shizidong for a period of time will not cause too much of a burden. Shengli Port now has at least thousands of new immigrants arriving every month. Destroy the logistics department. Once these people move out of the mountains and move to the area under the jurisdiction of the Executive Committee, they will naturally become immigrants during the inspection period. Financially, they will also receive special allocations from the Executive Committee, and their livelihood will definitely not be a problem.
But some things are more difficult to resolve now. For example, the land policy implemented by the executive committee is somewhat unacceptable to Huang Sanmu. He believed that since the Haihan side's relocation plan was to use other land to replace the existing jurisdiction of Shizidong, the new land should be owned by the Li people of Shizidong and not still belong to the aloof Haihan people. committee.
Why does the Executive Committee have to be so stubborn about collective land ownership? Fu Li has also attended relevant training courses, but the theory he learned is too superficial, and the depth of understanding is also very limited. For people like Huang Sanmu who have never experienced For Li people who have been out in the mountains several times, Fu Li's propaganda is tantamount to playing the harp on a cow, and once one of the parties accepts the dead end, it will be difficult to proceed with this kind of negotiation.
As a last resort, Fu Li had no choice but to change his explanation, saying that as long as the Li people in Shizitong were willing to be brought under the rule of the executive committee, then after obtaining the naturalized native place, the cultivated land they cultivated would also be Protection and recognition by the Executive Committee - of course this recognition is not land ownership, but the right to use it. But this kind of word-picking was a detail that Huang Sanmu would not notice at all. As for how he would react if he discovered something was wrong in the future, Fu Li was not worried. When these people are truly incorporated into the Haihan social system, they will soon find that the power of individuals or a very small number of people is simply not enough to resist this powerful system. Even though there are hundreds of people in Shizidong, they are just small screws in the huge machine of the Haihan social system and will not affect the operation of the entire system.
Whether it was persuasion or even coaxing or deceiving, in short, with Fu Li's efforts, the special task force finally reached a preliminary agreement with Huang Sanmu. The Haihan Chamber of Commerce will provide Shizidong with a residential area of no less than 3,000 acres of cultivated land in three months, and will build houses and basic living facilities there in advance. In addition, after the Li people move there, they will teach Their more advanced methods of growing food. Before the first harvest is obtained, the food and production tools of these Li people will be provided free of charge by the Haihan Chamber of Commerce.
What the Li people in Shizidong need to do is to cooperate with the Haihan Chamber of Commerce in the exploration and development of the nearby area within three months, and move away from the place when the agreement takes effect. The last and most important thing is naturally to enter the new area. After settling in the territory, he swore allegiance to the Haihan Executive Committee.
Regarding the last point, Huang Sanmu still has some scruples. After all, the Li people have been unable to get out, largely because they could not defeat the Han court, and the image of the Ming court in their minds was still that of a giant, not the Haihan Chamber of Commerce. Such a group of people whose strength is unknown can be compared with each other. But Fu Li finally convinced him to accept this, because Fu Li implored him to send an envoy to personally go to Yazhou under the rule of the Haihan Executive Committee to take a look at the local situation and see which party's rule was more powerful.
Huang Sanmu thought about it again and again, and finally decided to send his most trusted nephew Huang Que to follow this group of people to see if the legendary Haihan ruled area was really that powerful. Huangque is eighteen years old, one year older than Fuli. When he was a child, he was sent to Changhua and studied in a Han private school for two years. He is considered a rare educated person in Shizidong. Normally, Dongli organizes trips to Changhua City to sell local products and buy daily necessities. Huang Quezai is fully responsible for this.
As soon as Fu Li saw the candidate from Huang Sanmu Sect, he knew that something big had happened. He himself has been there and knows that there are many fascinating things in the Haihan system. People aged seventeen or eighteen are the period when curiosity is most intense. As long as you go to the place where the Haihan people are, you will easily become obsessed with the bizarre things. It is difficult to extricate oneself from Haihan culture. Fu Li could conclude now that when Huangque returns to Shizidong in a month or two, he will definitely have become a loyal supporter of Haihan. By then, Huang Sanmu will naturally have a lobbyist by his side.
Some words may not be useful when spoken by an outsider like Fu Li, but the same words spoken by someone close to Huang Sanmu should have a different effect. After Fu Li entered the Ministry of Justice, his main work target was the Li and Miao people, and he had accumulated certain work experience in this. After meeting Huang Que, he had already made it his next work target.
The special team paid a deposit of three hundred catties of salt, three hundred catties of sugar, twenty bottles of liquor, one thousand catties of pig iron, and one thousand catties of rice in exchange for the right to move freely in Shizidong in the near future. However, the special mission team did not bring so much supplies into the mountains. Shizidong had to send people to Changhua Fishing Village to carry most of the things in this transaction.
After gaining freedom of movement, the special team finally began to explore the veins of Shilu Iron Mine on the fourth day after arriving in Shizidong. In the large database of information about the Shilu Iron Mine, there are both detailed longitude and latitude records of the mining points, as well as satellite images for reference. Although there is a time span of hundreds of years in between, it can still significantly reduce the cost of the exploration operation led by Tian Yeyou. Difficulty.
The Executive Committee also specially used the stock of prospecting equipment for this operation. This equipment was used once when the Tiandu Iron Mine was developed, and then it was sealed in the warehouse. With this good thing, it will be easier to determine the status of the mineral veins near the surface without having to dig everywhere. In addition, the special mission team also spent a "high price" of two hundred taels of silver to hire 20 young Li people from Shizidong to be responsible for digging out ore samples. Originally, Liu Shanxia was a little worried about this method. What if the Li people refused to move after discovering the iron ore veins? If you leave this area, you don't need to worry about any big changes in the future.
The two hundred taels of silver were well spent. Not only did the young men they hired work very hard, but they also took care of all the heavy lifting in the process. Of course, this is also directly related to their income level. For a Lidong village like Shizidong, there is only a small and unprosperous town like Changhua County within a hundred miles around. Don't expect to sell many mountain goods. With this, This simple and primitive trade method, the income of the entire village in a year is only three to four hundred taels of silver. The special team's action is almost half a year's harvest of Shizidong. Naturally, Huang Sanmu will not be stingy in letting his men earn more. A little strength.
Huang Sanmu had heard rumors about Haihan people being generous in the past, but he didn't really feel it. In his opinion, being generous is probably better than the Han merchants in Changhua County. For example, a deerskin can be increased from five cents to eight cents of silver. But when the real Haihan people came to the door, he understood the meaning of the word "luxury". The deposit for Shi Zidong's agreement was far beyond their expectations. The value of these goods was at least enough for all the Li people in Shi Zidong. People have been struggling for several years.
After witnessing the generosity of the Haihan people with their own eyes, Huang Sanmu and his people also had more expectations for the various preferential treatment claimed by Fu Li. As Fu Li said, the people in Quandong can eat fragrant white rice every meal, they don’t have to work hard and pay taxes for the Han government, and they no longer have to worry about being oppressed by the Han people. This is simply a great thing for the Li people. It is a dream that is longed for but always out of reach. Huang Sanmu's attitude gradually changed from suspicion at the beginning to cooperation, and he even took the initiative to send several old hunters in the village to act as guides for the special team in the wild activities.
With the right time, location, and people, the special mission team basically had everything covered, so the prospecting work went very smoothly. It only took five days to roughly determine the scope of the largest iron ore open-pit mining area in later generations, and explore Know where the foundation is most convenient for excavation. As long as the manpower and tools are in place, this treasure can be mined immediately. In addition, Tian Yeyou also roughly determined the location of the veins of several high-value metals such as copper, silver, and gold in the process. Of course, in the exploration work of these mineral veins, Tian Yeyou deliberately avoided the young and strong laborers sent by Shizidong. After all, money is very attractive. If these Li people knew that there were valuable things like gold and silver mines here, Son, it’s not worth it to cause extraneous problems.
On May 20, after basically completing the exploration work, the special mission team finally embarked on its return journey. Along with them, more than fifty people from Shizidong walked out of Shilu Mountain. They followed them to the beach to carry the deposit for this agreement.
It took a group of nearly a hundred people two days to arrive in Changhua County. The special mission team asked the Li people to stay in the county to handle the handover procedures for rice, salt, and sugar with the people in the office, while the rest had to be taken to the beach. Moved on the boat.
After resting for half a day in Changhua, the group came to the seaside fishing village and delivered the last batch of goods. According to Li people's rules, this agreement has officially come into effect. If the Li people want to go back on their word, then the deposit must be returned double, and if the Haihan side goes back on their word, then the deposit will automatically belong to Shi Zidong.
The Li people left carrying iron ingots and other goods in their backpacks. Only one of them stayed, and that was Huang Que, the envoy sent by Huang Sanmu. Although Huang Que was only eighteen years old, probably because he had been in a Han school since childhood, Huang Que did not appear nervous or at a loss when he single-handedly followed this group of Han people out of the country. Of course, this is also related to Fu Li, who has always been with him. With Fu Li, a person who is familiar with the culture and values of both Hainan and Li people, the work of the special mission team is indeed much easier, and there is no need to worry about following Huang Que, the representative of Shi Zidong, slowly communicated and left everything to Fu Li to handle.
Although Tian Yeyou's main task has been completed, it does not mean that he can leave here immediately and return to Black Earth Port. Next, he has to follow the large team back to the Victory Port base camp, firstly to give a staged report on the work, and secondly. He still needs to be responsible for the analysis of these ores and the corresponding mining plans. If nothing else happens, he will have to stay on Hainan Island for at least half a year.
When Tian Yeyou received the transfer order from the executive committee, the work arrangements had been clearly written down, so he also made some corresponding preparations when he was in Black Earth Port. First, he sent someone to deliver a letter to his father-in-law to inform him of the work. Regarding the location transfer, the second is to arrange for his wife to pack up her belongings and prepare to move the family to Shengli Port. As for the place to live, there is no need to worry. For a core technical backbone like him, the Ministry of Civil Affairs has already reserved a welfare house for him, and he can move in at any time when he comes back.
On May 22, the special task force returned to Port Victory and was immediately summoned by the Executive Committee for a face-to-face report on the operation. Let’s not mention the details of the mining plan. After all, it will take a certain amount of time to analyze the ore and formulate a plan. The executive committee is mainly concerned about the road survey from the Changhua coast to Shilu, and whether the local Li people in Shilu have accepted the conditions proposed by the party.
Fu Li was undoubtedly the number one contributor to the agreement with the Li people. Seeing that Fu Li had even brought back Li representatives from Shi Zidong, all the executive committee members also praised him. Gu Kai expressed his position on behalf of the Ministry of Justice on the spot and wanted to give Fu Li credit. Tao Donglai also said on behalf of the Executive Committee that Fu Li will be awarded a special contribution award in the name of the Executive Committee at an appropriate time.
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