Chapter 2156
For most travelers, the benefits they receive now far exceed their expectations when they participated in the operation. Three wives and four concubines, private estates, fine clothes and fine food, and numerous servants... Whether it is property, power, or social status, the time travelers have become the true ruling class of this emerging country, enjoying the benefits brought by the establishment of political power. many dividends.
But precisely because of this, the relatively comfortable environment has caused most of them to lose the motivation to continue fighting. They can just lie down in Sanya and enjoy the sunshine and beaches while tasting the fruits of victory. Why risk their lives to go out and fight.
The territory that the Haihan Kingdom now occupies is spread all over the continental coastline of East Asia, but in terms of living environment, only parts of Sanya can barely maintain some of the characteristics of the time and space before traveling through it.
In terms of basic conditions such as social system, medical security, educational institutions, and living facilities, no other colonial area can reach the level of Sanya, let alone high-tech facilities such as power grids and local area networks that are temporarily difficult to replicate.
Leaving Sanya means staying in a "primitive" living environment for a long time. Even if the living standard can be much higher than that of the rich and powerful of this era, it also means staying away from the "civilization center" of this era to a certain extent.
For travelers, there are too many risks and uncertainties in the outside world. Although going to overseas colonial areas has the opportunity to become the Tu Emperor with sole power, no matter how particular it is, the Tu Emperor's living environment is definitely still worse than Can’t go to Sanya. For example, in the simplest of emergencies, if you unfortunately get an acute illness, you may not even be able to get back to Sanya by boat for treatment.
The risks and opportunities of becoming an official in overseas colonial areas coexist, but not everyone is willing to face such risks. Most people choose to participate in time-travel operations just to have a chance to change their own destiny, but if the risk is so great that they are completely unable to control it, then it is a different matter.
To take a step back, even people who have this idea may not have the corresponding abilities. In Sanya or Hainan Island, no matter what problems you have, you can get assistance quickly and whatever resources are needed can be solved quickly. But when you go overseas, you have to face all the difficulties by yourself.
Not everyone is qualified to develop, manage and operate an overseas colonial area. Many people may have never been a cadre in Dalian since childhood and do not have work experience in related fields. They are asked to manage thousands of people. Tens of thousands of people are obviously too reluctant to do so.
Therefore, although Operation Time Travel has been going on for ten years, most of the senior officials assigned to overseas colonial areas to take charge of the overall situation are from the military and implement militarized management of the colonial areas. A management model that integrates military and political affairs like Zhoushan's is not uncommon in overseas colonial areas. In many places, the local garrison commander also serves as the top chief executive, wielding military and political power.
As this situation lasted for a long time, it in turn caused the officials in charge of administrative and civil affairs in overseas colonial areas to have a relatively weak voice and sense of presence. Some people believe that when they go to overseas colonial areas, they will definitely not be able to get power from the generals who hold military power, and they can only play a supporting role locally. Instead of traveling so far to see people's behavior, it would be better to stay on Hainan Island and be a free official.
There are three cities in Hainan Island: Sanya, Danzhou, and Haikou, and there are more than a dozen counties below. There are so many official positions. People who just want to be official do not need to go overseas to become officials, even if it is nothing. If a person is capable, the Executive Committee may also assign a sinecure at its discretion. However, in overseas colonial areas like Zhoushan, which always had administrative vacancies, it was difficult to find suitable personnel to take up the posts, so Shi Diwen could only fill the post concurrently.
Of course, Shi Diwen has long been accustomed to this situation. He does not think that sending someone from Sanya to share his responsibilities will allow Zhoushan to operate in a better state. What is more likely to happen is due to the redistribution of power. , will cause existing official institutions to be at a loss as to what to do, and it will take a long time to adapt to the new system. Therefore, although Zhoushan will be at a standstill due to Shi Diwen's absence, neither the executive committee nor Shi Diwen himself seems to have the intention to drastically change the status quo.
Shi Diwen is not worried about being transferred by the executive committee because of his outstanding performance in Zhoushan. In fact, he also knows that it will be difficult for the executive committee to recommend another person to replace him. Almost all the local official institutions in Zhoushan were built by him. More than 70% of the officials were promoted by him personally, and at least half of them had received training from him and could be regarded as his disciples. It will not be so easy for someone to come to power in Zhoushan.
The most important thing is that when Shi Diwen was in power in Zhoushan, he established a strong network of contacts in the nearby Daming Prefecture. This brought Haihan extremely reliable trade and intelligence channels, which was of great help to Haihan. Many of them are maintained by Shi Diwen's personal relationships. If someone else is in charge of Zhoushan, it will be difficult to ensure that these channels can continue to operate smoothly.
It is precisely because of these and other reasons that Shi Diwen does not need to worry too much about Sanya's attitude when managing Zhoushan, as long as there is nothing wrong with the overall direction.
After roughly agreeing on a plan for handling the spoils, Shi Diwen took a short break and then started another meeting to arrange the resettlement of Japanese immigrants.
Staff from the civil affairs department explained to the participants the number of Japanese immigrants brought back from Hirado this time, as well as the situation of this group of Japanese trainees currently receiving civil affairs training. Then he asked Shi Diwen whether to continue to implement the previous resettlement plan for Ming Han immigrants, or to formulate a separate resettlement plan based on the situation of Japanese immigrants.
If we follow the method of resettling Han people, we can simply resettle these Japanese immigrants in villages to Zhoushan Island, Xiushan Island, Daishan Island, Zhujiajian Island and other places, and then set aside a piece of wasteland for them to colonize and settle down. The advantage of this resettlement plan is that it is simple and fast. Basically, it only needs to provide the immigrants with labor tools and early food rations, which can greatly reduce the workload of the Ministry of Civil Affairs.
However, this arrangement also has certain shortcomings. Allowing these Japanese immigrants to be resettled in villages will inevitably slow down their integration into local society, making it inconvenient for the civil affairs department to manage, and may even cause hidden dangers to public security. . Similar incidents are not without precedent in Haihan's past process of resettling foreign immigrants.
After listening to the report, Shi Diwen immediately gave instructions: "These immigrants must be dispersed and arranged, and each resettlement site cannot exceed one hundred people... No, the upper limit of fifty people is better. Do a little more now, and then we will It will save a lot of trouble, do you understand?" Regardless of whether they understood the meaning of Shi Diwen's words or not, the officials present quickly nodded in agreement and immediately copied the number into their notebooks, and some even went so far as to Put a mark to show its importance. Regardless of the reason why Shi Diwen specified this number, in short, you will not go wrong if you follow the instructions.
Shi Diwen's instruction was not just his personal intention. The Executive Committee sent a telegram specifically for this matter, detailing the resettlement requirements for Japanese immigrants. In addition to dispersed resettlement as much as possible, the executive committee also requires local governments to strengthen ideological indoctrination and transformation of these Japanese immigrants so that they can integrate into Haihan's social system as soon as possible.
Shi Diwen roughly understood why the Executive Committee paid so much attention to these Japanese immigrants. He knew that many people within the Chuangzhong had a certain hostility towards Japan. Even if Japanese immigrants were introduced now, they would have to do so in the shortest possible time. Erase the traces of their origins so that they can rule over them with confidence.
Shi Diwen did not think that the opinions of the Executive Committee were making a fuss out of a molehill. In fact, he also felt that it was necessary to take some measures to eliminate the original stance of these Japanese immigrants. Otherwise, they would always think that they were in conflict with the Haihan authorities. relationship, this will be very detrimental to future governance. Even if some of them are stubborn, a series of measures must be taken to prevent them from forming a joint force to resist the government.
Dividing these thousands of immigrants into dozens of groups and settling them in different places, and allowing them to live in existing villages and towns will indeed increase the workload of the relevant departments. However, everything is aimed at stability. It’s worth spending a few extra resources in the process.
But then someone raised a question. Currently, there are only about ten Japanese immigrants selected for training as "potential talents." If they are dispersed and resettled according to the upper limit of fifty, there will inevitably be some resettlement sites. There are no officially trained grassroots civil affairs personnel.
Those who master Chinese and can listen and speak have basically been selected. The remaining people cannot even communicate in language, so naturally they cannot receive training from the civil affairs department. For the current plan, the only way to effectively solve the grassroots management problems is to modify the population limit proposed by Shi Diwen just now and increase the population limit of some resettlement sites.
Shi Diwen is a very practical person. Since the standards he proposed will have problems in actual operation, he will not insist on it for the sake of face. He quickly absorbed the opinions of his subordinates and canceled the one-size-fits-all plan. , a floating system will be implemented for the population allocation standard in resettlement sites. Villages and towns with a large population base will allocate more immigrants, while small places will still be limited to 50 people. In this way, the distribution plan is more scientific than one-size-fits-all.
Of course, this means that the Japanese civil affairs personnel assigned to large villages and towns need to have stronger management capabilities. By then, hundreds of Japanese immigrants will be responsible for arranging production and life, and their work will inevitably be very complicated. The screening criteria for relevant candidates will probably be based on performance during the training and the assessment at the end of the training.
Xiunian is undoubtedly the best among the Japanese personnel receiving training. Not only can he listen and speak, but he can also write. In the past, when I was copying Buddhist scriptures at Guangming Temple, I felt it was boring and useless, but I never thought that it would come in handy at this time. Although the Chinese characters he can write are basically limited to the scriptures he has copied, it also covers commonly used characters. The scope is enough to write a short official document.
In addition, Xiunian was responsible for material procurement when he was at Guangming Temple. This not only allowed him to master computing skills, but also had a very intuitive understanding of buying and selling and material circulation. These are rare skills.
Among the first few batches of immigrants taken away from the northern colonial area, people with such skills were basically selected, so among the thousands of people left for Shi Diwen in the end, there was no one as "all-powerful" as Xiunian. There really is no second person among the staff.
Although Xiunian is aware of his "advantages", he has not yet figured out how to use these strengths to gain more benefits. When he set foot on Zhoushan Island, he only had a certain understanding of the Haihan Army, and his understanding of Haihan society was still almost zero.
The goal he wants to achieve for himself is very practical. He needs to keep his current job first and then consider future development. As for becoming the manager of a certain resettlement site, he hasn't thought that much yet.
So far, Xiunian has learned some local information about Zhoushan from the training. For example, Haihan's industry in Zhoushan Islands is mainly divided into four parts, agriculture, fishery, shipbuilding, and marine trade closely related to navigation. The most important industry among them is transnational trade centered on Dinghai Port. The people's livelihood of the entire Zhoushan Colonial Zone is based on the huge scale of trade.
This kind of environment is not difficult to understand for Xiunian from Hirado, because Hirado Port is also a trading port similar to Dinghai Port. The core industry of the entire city is transnational trade. The difference is that the industries of Hirado Port are huge. Part of it is privately owned by the lord of the Hirado clan. However, the situation of Haihan seaport is different. It is said that General Ishida who is in charge of Zhoushan is only the manager. The ports, warehouses, merchants, shipyards and military here are not It is not his private property.
All Haihan citizens in the entire Zhoushan area, including the transcendent General Shi, must be loyal to the Executive Committee thousands of miles away. Such a power structure reminded Xiunian of the Japanese shogunate, but Haihan's executive committee probably had much higher prestige than the shogunate, because he could see the faces of every teacher when he mentioned the executive committee. There is a kind of fanatical and humble look in Shanghai. Similar expressions like this, Xiunian occasionally saw on the faces of some loyal believers who came to the temple to worship Buddha when he was at Guangming Temple.
"Allegiance to the Supreme Executive Committee" is a key point that the instructors will mention repeatedly during the training process. Xiunian believes that this is a special kind of belief. In this way, the aloof executive committee tightly gathers the citizens under its rule - including quasi-citizens like himself who have not yet obtained Haihan citizenship. .
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