Chapter 778 New Colony
According to the arrangements of the Executive Committee, the preliminary security work for the colonial settlement in Kaohsiung area of Tainan will be fully responsible for the Haihan militia troops stationed in Penghu. However, this time it is no longer Qian Tiandun, the top commander of the Penghu base, who leads the troops to Kaohsiung. His young officer Chen Yixin. This is not because Qian Tiandun is too big, but because at this time he is in Penghu discussing development cooperation with the Xu family in the Kaohsiung area, and he cannot get away for a while.
Although Chen Yixin is young, he has been a military officer in Wanshan Port and Zhennang Port for several years, and he is quite familiar with the task of garrisoning colonial points. The troops transferred to Kaohsiung this time include more than 340 navy and three companies of the army. In addition to five warships at sea as support, the army is also equipped with six small-caliber artillery and is preparing to attack the enemy in Kaohsiung. A lighthouse and shore defenses were built on Qihou Mountain at the northern end of the sea to defend against possible enemies from the sea.
Although Kaohsiung Port has two outlets, one in the north and one in the south, the southern outlet is just a gap in the Cijin Peninsula. The water depth is low and the channel capacity is poor. When the water level is low, the entire Cijin Peninsula will be connected and blocked. Cut off the entry and exit channels. Therefore, the southern channel can only be used by some small fishing boats within a limited time. Last time the fleet led by Qian Tiandun came here to inspect the terrain, even the shallow-draft reconnaissance boat almost got stuck in the sandbar below the surface of the southern estuary. In the later Kaohsiung Port in another time and space, it was not until 1967 that the southern seaport was completely dug deep and widened to allow 100,000-ton ships to enter and exit Kaohsiung Port, forming a true second seaport.
In such a geographical environment, the defenders basically only need to guard the commanding heights of Qihou Mountain and Shoushan at both ends of the northern outlet to completely control the access channels to Kaohsiung Port. The location chosen by the militia navy is the narrow inner coast of Cijin Peninsula outside Kaohsiung Port. Kaohsiung Port in another time and space has built a ten-kilometer-long port terminal on this coast alone. The space for development is very huge. Not to mention the naval fleet stationed in Penghu, even if all the existing military ships in Haihan are It is more than enough to park here together.
However, the defensive pressure currently faced by Chen Yixin is not great. After all, the pirate gangs such as Shibazhi that used to operate in the strait have been expelled to the distant sea. Now across the strait are his own allies, next door are the Dutch who have surrendered, and the local indigenous horses The Cardao people have also communicated, and both parties have shown enough goodwill. Coupled with the close proximity of the Penghu base as a backing, the external security of Kaohsiung Port is relatively guaranteed. In addition to basic defensive patrols, the militia troops stationed here focus more on maintaining local security and order.
With the troops gathered here from Hainan, Guangdong, and Penghu plus immigrants, craftsmen, sailors, etc., the population has reached 1,780 people, of which about 1,000 are immigrants who will live here for a long time in the future. In the following months, immigrants and other staff will continue to arrive here, and it is expected that the number of people settled here will exceed 3,000 in the first half of next year. However, since Hainan Island has always had a huge gap in the local police force used to maintain civil security and cannot deploy sufficient police force to the new colony, this part of the responsibility must be shared by the militia. However, in the early days of the new colony, military control was implemented, which has become Haihan's practice. Qian Tiandun's special operations force itself has many people who joined the army in the black soil port during the military control period. They have long been accustomed to this situation. Therefore, neither the Executive Committee nor the militia army raised any questions about this.
The immigrants selected for transportation to the Kaohsiung area are relatively easy to manage. The immigrants sent from Sanya are all naturalized citizens who have been naturalized for a period of time. Many of them are young adults who have separated and started their own business after adulthood. Although most of the hundreds of people sent from Guangdong have not yet been naturalized, they have lived in the Lijiazhuang Immigration Center for a period of time. They have been taught the rules they should know, so management is not difficult. In addition, the deterrence brought by soldiers with live ammunition is definitely much stronger than that of police officers who only have batons as weapons. Most people still dare not commit crimes easily in this environment. After all, even trivial crimes can be punished during the military control period. They will all be sentenced to be sent directly to hard labor camps.
Of course, there are still some people who are bold and arrogant enough to commit crimes. For example, in the first few days after landing, there were several cases of theft of personal property in the immigrant camps. While the immigrants were working on the construction site, someone broke into the tent through an empty door, turned over other people's circulation coupons, and stole them. Although the amount is not large, less than two hundred yuan in circulation coupons were stolen in total, but for ordinary people, this amount of money is by no means a small amount. After naturalization, naturalized citizens are promoted to third-level workers, and their income for a whole year is also Only about a hundred yuan.
Chen Yixin took over the case personally. It was not difficult to find out the truth. As long as the clues were sorted out, it would not be difficult to identify the general scope of the perpetrators. Chen Yixin planned to take advantage of this opportunity to solve the case and brush up his personal reputation in front of the local people and subordinates.
The immigration camp in Kaohsiung Port is currently divided into four camps: A, B, C and D, and the current theft cases are all concentrated in Area C. Since each camp area is separated by fences, people from other camps who want to enter Area C have no choice but to destroy the fences other than going through the guarded gate. After Chen Yixin walked around the tent area twice, he determined that there were no signs of damage to the fence, and then asked the naturalized cadres to check the work arrangements in recent days. Those who stayed in the camp during the time of the theft are naturally the most suspect.
Since formal immigrant residential areas are currently being organized and constructed, the vast majority of the labor force has to work every day. The old, weak, women and children who remain in the camps will also be assigned to relatively easy tasks such as preparing food and cleaning the camp area. Children will be gathered together in each camp and given cultural education by dedicated personnel. In addition to these people, there will also be a very small number of people who stay in the camp to recuperate due to injuries. After Chen Yixin determined the scope of the suspects, he decided to investigate these people who stayed in the camp.
After using such a simple method to investigate, Chen Yixin soon discovered that someone in a collective tent in District C had failed to attend work for three consecutive days because of illness. And just in these three days, there were a series of theft cases in the camp. It was difficult for Chen Yixin not to connect the two things together. Then he sent a team of people to the camp to pick up the three people, and opened their luggage one by one for inspection. Sure enough, he found three circulation coupons of almost equal amounts in the personal belongings of the three people. These three people were all sent from the immigration camp in Guangzhou, and the local area did not issue circulation coupons to immigrants. Obviously, this cannot be the result of their previous saved labor.
Such a simple technique would probably not be able to film even one episode of criminal investigation dramas in later generations. Chen Yixin just tried it with the idea of following the clues. Unexpectedly, he caught the culprit very smoothly. Under separate interrogations, the three men soon confessed.
It turned out that they were a theft gang that was committing crimes in various cities in Guangdong. They heard that Haihan was prosperous under his rule, so they planned to sneak into Haihan's land and continue their business. But they did not expect that after staying in the immigration camp in Panyu for a period of time, they would not be sent to Sanya, known as the "First Port of Qiongzhou," but would instead cross the sea to such an undeveloped coast.
The Haihan people want to open a port here, but what they want is how to get some money and leave here as soon as possible. The new immigrants from Guangzhou were divided into four camps, allowing the naturalized residents to lead the new ones with the old to help them adapt to the new social environment as quickly as possible. But after these guys discovered the role of circulation coupons, they secretly started to have evil thoughts. The three of them secretly worked together and took turns asking for leave, taking advantage of the time when everyone in the camp was out working, and sneaked into other tents to commit crimes. Although when the case first emerged, the civil affairs cadres also suspected that the patient who was recuperating in the camp was suspected of committing the crime. However, the suspect recovered and went to work the next day, but theft cases continued to occur in the camp, which to a certain extent cleared the air. Cleared the suspect in front. After all, Chen Yixin came from later generations. Even if he had never eaten pork, he had seen pigs running away. He was not afraid to use the greatest malice to guess the bottom line of these people. He directly ordered his men to arrest the people first and then find evidence, and he immediately captured the real murderer. .
After interrogation, it was learned that they had an accomplice in another camp, and soldiers were immediately ordered to capture that person as well. However, this fish that almost slipped through the net was actually quite unjust. Because of his bad luck, he was not assigned to the same camp as his accomplices, so he did not dare to take action at will. By the time of the incident, he had never completed a single case. The result was this He was betrayed for nothing by his accomplices.
Solving such a simple theft case did not give Chen Yixin much sense of accomplishment. From the time he took over the case to the time he solved it, it only took a few hours. However, the civil affairs cadres in District C regard Chen Yixin as their savior, because if this case continues unsolved, the camp management staff will definitely be held accountable for dereliction of duty, and they may even lose their hard-earned civil servant positions. Chen Yixin was able to find out the facts of the case so quickly, capture the perpetrators and recover the stolen goods, which indeed saved the camp managers from a big trouble.
The stolen goods have been obtained, the confession has been made, and the next step is to deal with it. However, although Kaohsiung Port is currently a military-controlled area, Chen Yixin will not directly judge the punishment of these people on his own initiative. Due to circumstances and reasons, he had to inform the local civil affairs officer, not to mention that his background was indeed bigger than his.
The official assigned by the executive committee to Kaohsiung Port to take charge of colonial, infrastructure and other affairs was Anxi, who held multiple positions in the Ministry of Construction, the Ministry of Commerce and the Ministry of Industry.
Anxi majored in civil engineering. He was assigned to be the supervisor of the Victory Port Salt Field in the early stages of the construction of Victory Port, and single-handedly planned and implemented the subsequent Tielugang Salt Field, Yinggehai Salt Field, Danzhou Bay Salt Field, Annan Black Tugang Salt Field, and Jinlan Salt Field. Construction and operation of the Port Saltworks. It can be said that Haihan's salt production system was almost all created by him, and it was the Haihan refined salt produced in these salt farms that defeated official salt with better quality and lower price, and became the Haihan trading system an indispensable hard currency.
After several years of struggle, Anxi no longer has to personally oversee production at the salt farm. Naturally, the naturalized cadres brought in in recent years are responsible for specific work. This time the Executive Committee decided to open a colony in Taiwan, and Anxi was selected into the list of officials responsible for civil affairs based on his outstanding personal conditions.
In terms of civil affairs management capabilities, a large number of time-travelers are competent. After all, after years of training, many of them have accumulated experience in grassroots management during the continuous expansion of their territory. However, Anxi finally won the favor of the executive committee with his professional background in civil engineering, because a new colony like Kaohsiung Port has a large number of infrastructure projects that need to be implemented, and if Anxi is selected to serve as the local chief official, the Ministry of Construction will not need to A separate technical officer has been assigned to take charge of the project.
In addition, Anxi has been in charge of the operation of the salt industry for nearly five years. During this period, the total amount of foreign salt trade handled by him has reached millions of taels of silver. He has also accumulated rich operational experience in business negotiations and trade operations. . Regarding the future commercial positioning of Kaohsiung Port, having such a knowledgeable person in charge will make the executive committee feel more at ease.
Of course, if Anxi is interested, he can build another salt farm on the coast of Kaohsiung Port and continue to bring his familiar business to the local area. With Haihan's experience in the salt industry, he would probably be able to take over the island's salt trade in less than a year.
However, it is said that when an executive committee member made the last suggestion to him, he rejected it on the grounds that the best natural salt field in Taiwan is not in Kaohsiung, but is located in Damuan Port controlled by the Dutch and the Han people who were immigrated by Shibazhi in the early days. Between the sites was the coast where Butai Town, Chiayi County was located in later generations. In the time and space before the time travel, Budai Salt Field, Changlu Salt Field in Bohai Bay, and Yinggehai Salt Field in Hainan Island were also known as the three major salt fields in my country. As the director of the salt industry, Anxi has a private wish, which is to collect the achievements of these three major salt fields in his lifetime. The Butai Salt Field is located across the sea from Penghu, and the straight-line distance from Kaohsiung is less than 100 kilometers. Naturally, Anxi does not want to waste time and effort building a salt field on the coast of Kaohsiung Port - according to Haihan's current expansion rate, it will take Butai Saltworks area is only a matter of time.
Anxi is seven years older than Chen Yixin, and is now in his early thirties. Moreover, his status and contribution within Haihan are far greater than that of Chen Yixin, so the current leadership team in Kaohsiung is based on Anxi. Mainly, Chen Yixin is the assistant. Regarding the handling of public security cases, Chen Yixin naturally wanted to seek the opinions of his seniors.
(End of chapter)