Chapter 883 Immigration Issues
"A sixty-mile-long coastal port area..." After Shi Diwen read the Zhoushan Port Area Plan of the Ministry of Construction, he couldn't help but whistled: "This project is much better than the original construction of Victory Port and Sanya Port. It’s time! A special military port area has also been set up. It seems that the Executive Committee has approved the plan to station a fleet here.”
Liu Shanxia said: "Not only do we need to station the fleet, but we also need to build a large shipyard here. Before I came here, I heard Sun Changmi mention that the naval ships deployed in Northeast Asia in the future will probably come from here. But steam The power unit still has to be built in Sanya and then shipped here for installation.”
"Then who will come to take charge of the shipyard? Sun Changmi or Yue Zhiyun?" Shi Diwen asked.
Liu Shanxia shook his head and said: "They are all busy people and they have a lot of things on their hands and they can't get away. I heard that Zhang Qianxiang, the second son of Zhang Tiangui's family, came here."
Shi Diwen sighed: "Zhang Tiangui's family has produced many talents."
Zhang Tiangui is currently a senior cadre in charge of ship engineering in the Maritime Transport Department, and one of the very few naturalized cadres who can attend executive committee meetings. He is no longer engaged in specific shipbuilding work. He mainly assists Sun Changmi and Yue Zhiyun in designing new ships and handling matters such as opening new shipyards. And all his five sons are working for Haihan. The youngest son Zhang Qianzhi joined the Security Department very early and followed He Xi. Later, he made great contributions as an undercover agent in the investigation of the Danzhou rebellion. He was already a security officer at a young age. A senior cadre of the ministry. The eldest son, Zhang Qianren, is currently in Fujian and is the director of the Haihan office in Quanzhou, which can be considered a good job. This time, the second eldest son, Zhang Qianxiang, was sent to Zhoushan to take charge of the shipyard affairs. The family was now flourishing and each had his own wealth.
"To organize the introduction of immigrants, the Ministry of Civil Affairs should send more people to take charge of the work. Should our military be responsible for immigration affairs?" Qian Tiandun's focus was on another matter.
"Old Qian, it's useless for you to complain to me. No one from the Ministry of Civil Affairs is here now. The executive committee sent me here first. The project is urgent. You can only do part of the immigration organization." Liu Shanxia said about this arrangement. It can only express helplessness.
Qian Tiandun wondered: "What has the Ministry of Civil Affairs been busy with recently? They can't even send out anyone."
"Census!" Liu Shanxia sighed: "The Ministry of Civil Affairs is collecting and sorting out the population data of the areas under its control. This matter should have been completed last month, but there is a serious shortage of manpower. When will it be completed? You have to ask Ning Qi. Got it.”
Qian Tiandun has no way to refute this reason. The census is a very important reference for the executive committee to revise existing policies and formulate development plans for the future. Although the Ministry of Civil Affairs began to implement the household registration system a few years ago and register the naturalized residents who have settled in the country, Haihan's sphere of influence has expanded so rapidly that a large number of naturalized residents will move away from their original places every year. The settlement of new colonies has increased the workload of the Ministry of Civil Affairs when conducting censuses. In order to collect more reliable data, a large number of field visits must be used to confirm the situation, which requires a lot of time and manpower.
Regarding the post-war development plan of the Zhoushan area, various departments including the Ministry of Civil Affairs did have corresponding arrangements. However, since the preliminary census work has not yet been completed, civil affairs officials including Ning Qi are touring various places to guide the work. , It is really impossible to send more people to Zhoushan.
Qian Tiandun and Shi Diwen looked at each other and smiled bitterly. Organizing immigrants is a rather tedious task, and they are not willing to do it for them, but if this is the arrangement of the executive committee, they will have no choice but to do it even if they are reluctant.
"This area of Jiangsu and Zhejiang is a prosperous area. There have been no major natural or man-made disasters in the past year or two. It may not be easy to introduce a large number of immigrants in a short period of time." Qian Tiandun's attitude towards this is not very optimistic: "It needs to be done quickly. If so, we can only intercept the refugees brought back from the north, but that may cause dissatisfaction in the south.”
Currently, the number of war refugees transported back to the south from the Jiaodong Peninsula in the north each month remains at two to three thousand. However, after Haihan removes the Zhoushan pirates, the biggest obstacle on the immigration route, the scale of immigration is expected to be further expanded. However, the immigrants brought back from the north are not enough to fill the labor gap in the south. If too many immigrants are intercepted by Zhoushan, it may indeed cause dissatisfaction in some areas in the south. For example, the Kaohsiung Port in Tainan, which began to be developed at the end of last year, and the Tamsui Port and Jilong Port, which were newly under the control of Haihan in the first half of this year, still have a large labor gap. Zhoushan's interception of northern immigrants means that it will slow down the development of these areas. Development and construction speed.
"Then we can only use the old method." Liu Shanxia gave an idea: "Divide the land! Although there is not much cultivated land on Zhoushan Island, with good planning, many people can be accommodated."
"Inappropriate." Qian Tiandun shook his head and objected: "The development zone we planned on Zhoushan Island will focus on commerce and trade in the future. Now that we have divided the land to attract immigrants to farm, in a year or two we will have to allocate all the cultivated land. If you take it back, you will be in trouble again.”
"How about putting it in a slightly remote location?" Liu Shanxia asked.
"Old Liu, this is Zhoushan, not Sanya. There are no commuting trains. If the immigration station is farther away, it will take several hours to go back and forth by boat. How can we still work?" Qian Tiandun still disagrees with Liu Shanxia suggestions.
"Then we can only temporarily use the people on the island to take over." Shi Diwen touched his chin and said: "Don't forget that this island originally had a population of tens of thousands. Adding in the islands we captured before, we can make up a few thousand Labor should still be able to do it.”
"Nearly all the young people on the island are pirates. It's too risky to do this. Don't forget the lesson Shi Lu learned back then!" Qian Tiandun still held objections to this. The Haihan Militia captured a large number of people in the Zhoushan Islands area this time, but most of them were identified as dangerous elements. The original plan was to break them up and send them to various mines and forest farms in the south. areas to minimize the risk of rebellion. One of the reasons for the riots in Shilu Iron Mine in 1631 was that too many serious criminals were imprisoned there. These desperadoes know that they will never have a chance to regain their freedom, so they will inevitably join forces with each other and seek to escape through violence. After that, the judicial department changed its previous practice and restricted the proportion of trouble-prone people such as prisoners of war and serious criminals in a detention place.
The three discussed for a long time, but still did not reach a unified opinion. However, the development and construction of Zhoushan Trade Zone waits for no one. With so many cooperation agreements signed by the Merchants Association, a large number of merchant ships and personnel will soon flock here, and the port facilities will also be improved. Just keep up with application requirements. Liu Shanxia's people have arrived. If the progress of this project cannot be kept up, it will be equivalent to a waste of his precious technical resources. For the current plan, we can only follow the method suggested by Shi Diwen, and take the prisoners of war to the construction site to serve as labor force, and get things done first.
However, this method inevitably requires the use of a large number of armed personnel for guarding. There is currently no local police force in Zhoushan, so only the elite of the militia army can serve as guards. This is really like killing a chicken with a knife. In addition, this kind of deployment will also slow down the progress of cleaning up the islands in the northern waters of Zhoushan Archipelago. Without the participation and cooperation of the army, no matter how powerful the Haihan fleet is, it will be difficult to clean up the pirates who are unable to hide on the islands.
Under such circumstances, the task of the special operations battalion responsible for clearing the islands has increased invisibly. However, for these elites, they have long been accustomed to various difficult combat environments. Takahashi Minami also believes that this is because of the war. It was a good opportunity for power training, so he didn't want to wait for reinforcements to arrive from the south, and still carried out the operation according to the original plan.
After the recruit Sun Zhen experienced a series of combat operations in Tamsui Port, Jilong Port and the northward journey to Zhejiang in the first half of the year, he had completely lost the greenness when he first joined the army. He became more and more calm and calm on the battlefield, and during the battle in the Zhoushan Islands He has killed and captured enemies many times, and his performance has been recognized by a group of veterans. If his qualifications were not too low, he would have accumulated enough military exploits in the past three months to be promoted to two levels in a row. However, Sun Zhen himself doesn't really care about the speed of his promotion. He prefers to enjoy the excitement on the battlefield. In Qian Tiandun's words, Sun Zhen was the kind of person who was born to be a soldier. When he entered the special operations battalion, a unit with intensive combat missions, he not only did not feel tired due to the intensive fighting, but he felt like a fish in water, eager to be with him every day. There will be battles to fight every month.
Sun Zhen's current mission is to clear out the roaming bandits on Zhoushan Island. Most of the island, which covers an area of more than 400 square kilometers, is mountainous, while Haihan only occupies a narrow coastal plain area on the southern coastline. More than two-thirds of the region remains outside control. After Haihan captured the Zhoushan Boat Gang's territory, a large number of boat gang members chose to flee north and hide in the mountains and forests. Based on the prisoners' confessions and the information compiled, the command headquarters believes that there are at least a thousand people hiding in the central and northern parts of Zhoushan Island. In the mountains and forests, these people are definitely hidden dangers that must be eliminated.
After Sun Zhen finished breakfast, he carefully organized his outfit and equipment. This trip into the mountains would take at least five to seven days, and he didn't want to affect his mission by accidentally taking something with him.
"Gather!" the platoon leader shouted. Sun Zhen quickly stood up, put his combat bag on his back, then picked up his rifle and rushed to the queue.
"I have told everyone about this combat mission into the mountains before, but a new order has just been sent from the battalion headquarters. We need to pay special attention to a wanted criminal after entering the mountains this time..." The platoon leader put his hands on A piece of paper unfolded, with a portrait of a man on it: "This is Wang Jialin, the leader of the Zhoushan Boat Gang. Please note that his image is different from the portrait you saw last time. He has shaved off his beard and hair. The battalion headquarters requires that once If you find this person, arrest him immediately. If you encounter resistance, you can use all necessary means, but you must try to capture him alive. The Ministry of Security needs to get some information from this person. Look carefully and see what he looks like. Remember it!”
After the platoon leader showed the portraits one by one in front of everyone, he put them away and ordered to set off. This time, Sun Zhen's company will be divided into platoon units and divided into four routes from south to north to carefully sort out a mountainous area at the western end of Zhoushan Island.
Due to limited troop strength, several platoon leaders agreed on intervals during the march before departure so that they could support each other in a timely manner in case of emergency. They were not worried about the ambush set by the bandits on the island, but they needed to be outflanked by their companions when chasing the enemy to increase the efficiency of the killing.
Although there is only a straight line distance of more than 20 miles from the starting point to the northern coastline of Zhoushan Island, because the mountains and forests are almost in a primitive state along the way, plus the time required to search for traces along the way, it will take about a whole day to complete this task. segment of the trip. Then we set off from the northern coastline and turned back the next day, filtering through the mountainous areas of the island bit by bit like a comb.
If the Haihan Militia could invest thousands of troops, then this task would actually not take more than a few days. However, since most of the troops heading north this time have been dragged around to set up defenses, there are only two troops that can participate in the clearing operation. Just a company. It is indeed a very time-consuming and labor-intensive task for such a small number of people to search hundreds of square kilometers of mountainous areas.
Two hours after setting off, Sun Zhen's platoon discovered several guys grilling food in the mountain col. While these people's attention was focused on the food, Sun Zhen and others slowly approached and surrounded them, and then gradually narrowed the encirclement. But after discovering their unfavorable situation, these guys did not choose to resist with force, but surrendered directly. After interrogation on the spot, it was learned that these people were indeed members of the boat gang. They had been hiding in the mountains for more than ten days and could only survive by catching birds and fish. These days, the supplies have basically been exhausted, including salt. All finished.
After interrogation, it was found that these guys had lost contact with the others. They planned to go to the beach to try their luck after eating this meal to see if they could get a small boat to leave Zhoushan Island. However, they did not expect that they were intercepted by the sea before escaping. The Han militia group caught him red-handed. However, even if they were brave enough to walk out of the mountains and forests, it would probably be difficult to find a boat to leave Zhoushan, because the Haihan Militia had already banned the coastline of Zhoushan Island. Including the northern coastline, Pianfan is not allowed to go to sea without Haihan's permission.
The soldiers used cowhide ropes to tie these people behind their backs and string them together, and escorted them to continue heading north. They only need to escort these people to the northern coastline, and then contact the Haihan warships cruising back and forth along the coastline to pick up the prisoners.
After the wave of business in the morning, there was no business for the whole day. Before dinner time, the soldiers marched to the northern coastline calmly and successfully contacted their cruising companions.
(End of chapter)