Chapter 524: Methods to increase the scale of immigration
Li Maozi's hard labor did indeed kill two people last night, but one of them was bitten by a poisonous snake on the construction site and later died before the medical staff arrived. The other died of pneumonia, a terminal illness that was basically incurable in this era. The Sanya Ministry of Health's drug warehouse still has some antibiotic drugs that can treat pneumonia, but such precious things are obviously impossible to use on these hard laborers. If they get sick and can't handle it, they will have to consider themselves unlucky.
Although it is not Li Maozai's responsibility to say such a thing, according to the management regulations of the hard labor camp, the death of the hard labor must be registered, and the loss rate of each foreman's personnel is also limited, so as to prevent the foreman from exploiting the hard labor. and punishments too cruel. And Li Maozi's limit has long been reached, and if anyone dies, he will have to accept the punishment.
The naturalized civilian cadre waved his hand and said: "The system only stipulates the number of deaths in hard labor and the corresponding punishments. It does not stipulate who is at fault... No, it stipulates that as long as the number of deaths exceeds the standard, the fault belongs to the foreman! Li Mao Zai, stop making excuses, follow the rules and register yourself!”
Li Maozai shamelessly begged for love for a long time, but it didn't have any effect. In the end, he could only go to the battalion headquarters to register with his head hanging down. According to the hard labor camp system, after the death quota is exceeded, the directly responsible foreman must also receive corresponding punishments - for each additional person, the sentence will be increased by half a month.
When Li Maozi was captured, he was sentenced to three years of hard labor. Due to his good performance, he was promoted and his sentence was continuously reduced based on his labor points. As of now, he only has half a year left in his sentence, said Duoyidu. Maybe he will be free in four or five months. However, as soon as these two unlucky guys died yesterday, Li Maozai's sentence immediately had to be increased by another month, which was indeed difficult for him to accept. But he also knew that he could not change anything. After all, the rules of this hard labor camp were clear and organized, and there were no loopholes to exploit. If he wanted to complain, he could only blame these monkey slaves for being in poor health and unable to withstand the torture.
Of course, Li Maozi is not alone in this complaint. In fact, many grassroots foremans in hard labor camps have received similar punishments in recent times, and there are many who have received longer sentences than Li Maozi. This situation naturally reflected on Qiao Zhiya, but what he was worried about was not that the death rate of hard labor was too high to explain to the executive committee, but that this situation would affect the overall progress of the project. After all, each new batch of hard laborers is not able to go to the construction site immediately after they are delivered. They have to go through a simple quarantine, be assigned jobs according to the situation, and then sent to the Shilu first-line construction site in the interior. This process itself takes several days. Time, if it is too frequent, it can easily lead to a disconnect with labor demand.
On November 7, the Portuguese transported two ships of slaves to Changhua Port. However, there were more than 500 slaves on the two ships, and there were only less than 20 black slaves. More than 80% of them were captured in large numbers from South Asian islands. The rest are from Indochina and the Indian Peninsula.
Qiao Zhiya refused to sign for the goods on the spot, because according to the original agreement between the two parties, at least 30% of the slaves shipped by the Portuguese must be non-natives from South Asian islands, and the "goods" sent this time were obviously of serious insufficient quality.
"Don't you understand? These natives can do nothing but waste our precious food! How dare you collect money from us after sending these rubbish?" Qiao Zhiya raised his middle finger at the Portuguese captain: "Take these things back and use them yourself!"
Of course, the Portuguese would not take these slaves away foolishly, so they tactfully expressed that the price of these slaves could be reduced appropriately.
After some negotiations between the two parties, Haihan finally accepted the native slaves at half price, and agreed that the proportion of South Asian natives should not exceed 60% the next time the slaves were transported. Qiao Zhiya finally extinguished his anger.
"We still have to think of other ways!" Seeing the situation report sent back from Changhua District, Tao Donglai couldn't help but sigh: "Relying on them to transport these slaves is really a drop in the bucket!"
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Next to him, Ning Qi continued: "The Ministry of Civil Affairs is already thinking of a way. There are currently two main ways. The first is to absorb the Limiao people from the Qiongxi and Qiongbei mountains and let them leave the village and work for us. . Another way is to immigrate to the west from the Qiongbei area we currently occupy, and send the landless people to Qiongxi to be trained as industrial workers.”
"The second method shouldn't be realized so soon, right?" Tao Donglai asked.
"It does take time." Ning Qi nodded and acknowledged Tao Donglai's point of view: "In fact, most of the people in Qiongbei who are willing to move to live in our ruling area have already moved in the past two years, and most of the remaining people They all have land and properties locally and it is not easy to leave. Even after we complete the land clearing work, the size of the population that will move to Qiongxi is still not optimistic.”
Tao Donglai said meaningfully: "There are only about 200,000 people on Hainan Island. They move here and there. In the end, they still have to tear down the east wall to repair the west wall. To solve the root cause, we still have to find a solution from the mainland. ”
According to the executive committee's plan, after the Qiongxi Industrial Zone is completed, at least tens of thousands of industrial workers will be needed to ensure that the local production capacity of steel and other metals reaches the expected level. The actual population living there may be three or four times the number of workers. However, the number of people currently living in Shilu, Changchang, even if several thousand slaves are added, does not reach the scale of 10,000, which is far from the Executive Committee. expectations are still far behind. Now that the land passage from Changhua to Shilu is about to be completed, the countdown to the development of Shilu Iron Mine can begin. However, the manpower gap is still a shortcoming of this very large project, and it is likely to affect the implementation of the project. schedule.
Although Qiongbei is an area with a relatively concentrated population on Hainan Island, as Ning Qi said, it is still difficult to move the existing population of Qiongbei to settle in Qiongxi. Moreover, it is not advisable to adopt public coercive measures in this process, otherwise it is very likely to aggravate the conflicts between Haihan and the local people due to land ownership relations.
Immigrants who move in from outside the island have no such worries at all. Most of these immigrants come to make a living. When they arrive on Hainan Island, they have almost no property to speak of. Where will they be placed and what kind of job will they get? , are unified arrangements made by Haihan, these immigrants can only rely on and obey Haihan, otherwise it will be difficult for them to live on this island. Therefore, for the Executive Committee, although the process of immigrating from outside the island is more troublesome and the initial cost is relatively high, in terms of long-term costs and effects, it actually has certain advantages over immigrants from within the island - at least The proportion of them converted into industrial workers is much higher than that of immigrants from the island.
Of course, this task was naturally handed over to the Guangdong Office, or to be precise, the new organization now called the Guangdong Regional Administrative Committee.
"Old Ma, why are you calling me back so urgently?" He Xi stepped into the study and asked the frowning Maliko.
"What else could it be? A reminder!" Maliko handed over the telegram in his hand: "The telegram just sent from the base camp requires us to try to expand the scale of immigration."
He Xi took it and spread it out for a while, then frowned and said, "The pressure at the base camp is really tight this time!"
"The Shilu project is about to be put into production. We are short of labor!" Malik said clearly: "With so much manpower, financial and material resources spent on this project, the executive committee certainly hopes that it can perform 100% from the beginning. "But where are we going to get so many people?" He Xi put down the telegram and sat on the chair opposite Malico: "The immigration camp in Panyu now has one thousand to two thousand people. , the Executive Committee requires us to double the number of immigrants as soon as possible. Where can we find the extra one or two thousand people? ”
"There is definitely nothing we can do around Guangzhou. Now the refugees who come from other places don't need us to publicize it. Once they enter the boundaries of Guangzhou Prefecture, someone will show them the way to Panyu." Maliko shook his head and sighed: "It's convenient, but There have been no natural or man-made disasters in Guangdong this year, and there are not many refugees at all.”
"Then... how about we create an accident?" He Xi asked following Maliko's words.
Maliko glanced at He Xi and said: "How to make it?"
"Do you really want to know or are you just asking out of curiosity?" He Xi asked him instead of answering hastily.
"Hey, it seems that you really have a plan, then I really need to listen to it." Maliko thought that He Xi was just joking, and after hearing this, he straightened up and said, "Come and listen to it." , if it is really feasible, we will make a good plan.”
He Xi did not answer in a hurry, but stood up and walked to the door of the study to look outside, and then said to the sentry at the door: "I have a meeting with Director Ma, and no one is allowed to break in without permission. ”
"Yes!" The sentry stood at attention, saluted He Xi, and then closed the door.
He Xi was taking things so seriously, and Maliko could see that he was not joking, and immediately braced himself to hear what he had in mind.
He Xi sat back in his seat and explained: "After the battle in Lijiazhuang the year before last, our security department has begun to contact civil armed forces in various places in Guangdong to screen out some forces that can be used. Give them some help and support secretly.”
Maliko said in shock: "Does the executive committee know that your security department does this kind of thing?"
"Of course I know, otherwise where will the expenses come from?" He Xi nodded and said: "The Executive Committee has known about this approach of the Security Department from the beginning, and the annual work report to the Executive Committee also contains relevant content. . You don’t have to worry about the legality of this matter.”
Maliko smiled and said: "Okay, then you continue."
He Xi continued: "The reason for such an arrangement is, firstly, to increase our intelligence sources and prevent our strongholds and personnel from being attacked by civilian armed forces, so as to prevent Lijiazhuang from being attacked as it was the year before last. We only received the news at that time. Secondly, we should strive to recruit some civilian armed forces for our use so that we can have another solution when it is not convenient for us to use force ourselves.”
When Maliko heard this, he understood most of it, nodded and said: "So your routine is actually a bit similar to the lighthouse country supporting anti-government forces around the world?"
"This is not called routines, this is called working ideas!" He Xi corrected Malik's statement sternly: "Although your understanding is not very accurate, it is relatively close to the truth. Although we have a deep relationship with Daming Trade cooperation relations, and at this stage we must support the Ming Dynasty’s dominance in the mainland to resist the invasion of northern wild boar skins, but in the long run, our purpose in coming to this time and space is to replace the Ming Dynasty’s position in the Far East. So after all, there is still a fundamental conflict of interest..."
"Okay, Lao He, when did you change your career to become a political teacher? If you want to give lectures, save your breath. Just use these theories to brainwash Zhang Qianzhi and Gong Qiqi." Malico interrupted with a smile. He Xi's long speech: "Hurry up and talk about business."
He Xi was not angry after being interrupted, and said with a smile: "If I really lectured them like this, they might not be able to understand... Okay, let's get back to the topic. Now we keep in touch, and we have regular contacts with people There are about 17 or 18 armed forces throughout Guangdong. Whether they are mountain bandits or water bandits, they can accept our arrangements to a certain extent and perform some simple tasks for us, and do things that are not convenient for us to do. Dirty work.”
Maliko nodded slightly while listening. What He Xi said was not a big deal. Although Haihan maintained a certain scale of armed forces in Guangdong, except for the escort troops escorted by the Golden Shield, almost all of them were Limits the scope of activities. Many things that required the use of force were not suitable for directly dispatching militiamen, and He Xi had too few people in the field operations team, so he had to come up with this method to solve the problem.
As for how much money it costs to maintain relations with these civilian armed forces every year, Maliko will not bother to ask. The expenses of the Security Department are directly approved by the Executive Committee. Although he, the person in charge of the Guangdong Region, has very high authority, he still has no right to interfere with the inside story of the Security Department, a unit directly managed by the Executive Committee. Of course, with He Xi's shrewdness and sophistication, Malik believed that the Ministry of Security would never waste money on this aspect.
He Xi's next words got to the point: "...if necessary, we can mobilize these armed personnel to artificially create some tension in the province, and then take in the refugees and organize immigration."
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(End of chapter)