Chapter 2421
Of course there will be land allocated to immigrants on a per capita basis, but that will be a matter for the future. At present, immigrants must first serve as laborers and immediately join the project of building settlements. The temporary shelters that have been built so far can only accommodate the first batch of immigrants, but a large number of immigrants will be transported in the future, so the construction of settlements will continue.
Haihan has rich experience in organizing and directing immigrants to participate in infrastructure projects. Although local civil affairs officials are slightly lacking in capabilities in this area, manpower transferred from other places does not have this problem. The refugees who had just arrived in the settlements were immediately assigned jobs. The women, children, old and young were engaged in logistical work such as cooking and cleaning, while the young and middle-aged were given labor tools and taken to the construction site to work.
The newly arrived immigrants do not have the conditions to make a living on their own. They have to rely on the local government in Haihan for food, housing and personal safety. Therefore, even if they are not necessarily willing to participate in this kind of labor, they have to obey the arrangements in order to survive. Moreover, the civil affairs department has made arrangements for this in advance. Before boarding the ship from Shandong, they conducted a simple screening of the people sent to Miaoli to try their best to ensure that these people were ordinary people who had lost their property, so as not to send some pampered uncles over. Instead, it caused trouble for Miaoli.
However, colonial areas like Taipei Jilong Port and Tainan Kaohsiung Port that organized their own fleets to transport people to Shandong would not have such a problem. The level of development and construction of these colonial areas is far better than that of Miaoli, which has always been closed. Not only are they capable of organizing the transportation and resettlement of immigrants on their own, but they even have spare resources to support Miaoli. Immigrants from better-off families are generally arranged to settle in areas with relatively better living conditions. The local social environment has matured, allowing such immigrants to skip the construction period and directly enjoy the results of the construction.
As for those special immigrants with deep pockets and even certain backgrounds, their destinations will only be places like Zhoushan, Hong Kong, and Hainan Island where they can guarantee safety and continue to enjoy a life of superiority. The wealth they possess will allow them to have a living standard in these places that is not inferior to that in their hometown, and even live more comfortably than before - living in the areas under Haihan's rule, at least they no longer have to worry about leaving their hometowns due to war.
Of course, these Mingren who were sent to Miaoli did not know that there would be so many differences in immigration destinations, but they were not dissatisfied with their situation. Although the place they were in looked desolate, at least they no longer had to worry about themselves. survival and safety issues. Moreover, the village houses being built are said to be all used to resettle Shandong immigrants like them. This also prevents them from having too much resistance to the assigned labor tasks. Instead, they are motivated by building new homes with their own hands.
Liu Shanxia is no longer supervising the work at the temporary resettlement site at this time. For him, he does not need to personally oversee the construction of basic projects such as the resettlement village. There are many people under him who can do the job. He can just leave it to a few apprentices. Right now, priority is Still dealing with the task of building roads.
The terrain along the planned route of this main road is relatively flat, so the surveying and mapping work is relatively easy. Although it covers more than 40 miles, the preliminary mapping work was basically completed in a few days. Then, based on the local soil conditions and environment, the details of the roadbed, pavement, protection, drainage and other components are determined, the project volume and cost are calculated, and a specific construction plan is formulated.
However, this is just preparation work. Before starting to build the road, the area that the road will pass through must be cleared first. Fortunately, there are basically no households or farmland where this road passes, so there is no trouble of land acquisition. Moreover, some sections of the road will be renovated on the basis of the old dirt road, so there will be no need to clean up these sections.
According to the plan, this road is one foot and two feet wide, so the planned road surface and the trees within a few feet of both sides of the road must be cut down before road construction can begin. Considering that the scope of the construction was relatively large, Liu Shanxia notified Wang Hui and asked him to withdraw the local registered workers from the construction site of the temporary settlement and transfer them all to complete the logging work of clearing the road. The cut trees can also be transported to the nearest resettlement site and used as building materials.
Wang Hui obeyed Liu Shanxia's request. On the one hand, he had received instructions from the Executive Committee to fully cooperate with the infrastructure project organized and implemented by Liu Shanxia in Miaoli. On the other hand, he was about to leave office, and to be honest, he didn't have much. He was thinking carefully about whether Liu Shanxia's request would affect his local authority. Whatever the other party wanted, he could just agree. After waiting for the successor to arrive in two days, he would no longer be responsible for these work docking matters.
Wang Hui's successor arrived in Miaoli three days later than expected. It is said that it was because the sea conditions were not ideal, so the ship did not sail directly to Miaoli after entering the Fujian Strait. Instead, it diverted to Zhangzhou for a few days to wait for the weather. After getting better, I crossed the strait and came to Miaoli. During this period, the other party also sent a telegram from Zhangzhou to explain the situation to Miaoli.
Although it was only delayed for a few days, Wang Hui was very anxious about waiting. In the end, he had no intention of staying in the oil production area. He simply went to the seaside dock to wait, lest the other party was on his way from Zhangzhou. What else will happen? Of course, if something happens, Wang Hui has nothing to do in Miaoli and can only wait and see.
Fortunately, nothing went wrong this time. The ship carrying the successor set off from Zhangzhou and arrived in Miaoli smoothly. Wang Hui, who was waiting in a nearby tea shed, heard that a government ship appeared on the sea in the distance. He put down the teacup in his hand and hurried to the pier. The official ship that would come to Miaoli at this time should be his successor. If Liu Shanxia were here at this time, he would probably have a knot in his heart when he saw this scene. After all, when he arrived in Miaoli a few days ago, Wang Hui didn't go all the way to the beach dozens of miles away to greet him.
However, when Wang Hui saw the ships approaching from the sea, he couldn't help but be a little surprised, because there was not only one ship on the sea, but a small fleet. In this fleet, except for one official ship , there are actually two expedition-class warships and a comprehensive supply ship, which are even larger than the fleet that transported immigrants last time.
The first thought that flashed through Wang Hui's mind was that the Executive Committee had transferred troops from nowhere to reinforce Miaoli. However, there are already four to five hundred soldiers stationed in Miaoli at this time. Under normal circumstances, it is enough to protect an area with twenty times the population. Besides, this is not a war zone. Is it really necessary to continue to increase troops here?
But he soon realized that his idea was wrong. Naval warships were constantly burning money if they went to sea. Therefore, as long as they were not performing combat missions but simply mobilizing garrison troops, in order to save military expenses, they would usually just dispatch them. Troop transport ships, and the current population of Miaoli is less than two thousand, there are no opponents around, and there are no large military bases for more troops to be stationed or supplied, so how can there be warships coming here.
Unless, the mission of these two warships is actually to protect a certain big shot on the official ship. But this possibility seems unreasonable, because none of the telegrams received recently mentioned that any big shot will come to Miaoli for inspection. Could such a thing be a surprise attack?
With doubts on his mind, Wang Hui watched the fleet slowly arrive at the dock. However, because the dock pier here is too small, it cannot accommodate the entire fleet. Only the official ship and one of the warships can dock on the pier, and the other two ships can only dock on the other side of the two ships. , the berthing position is fixed by cables and anchors.
After the ship was parked, a springboard was set up on the side of the ship. Several Haihan soldiers disembarked first to confirm that the environment was safe. This is also one of the security measures that travelers will enjoy during their business trip. Wang Hui tidied up his appearance slightly, then slowly stepped forward, ready to greet his successor. As far as he knew, there was a slight hiccup in the selection of the successor this time. The person who was supposed to take over suffered from appendicitis before departure and had to undergo a surgical operation in Sanya to solve the problem. Since he couldn't travel far away, the superiors could only make temporary adjustments and replaced Wang Hui with another person stationed in Miaoli to take over Wang Hui's position.
However, the new one was one of Wang Hui's few friends, so Wang Hui also showed a different enthusiasm than usual for his successor. When he saw the other person appearing on the side of the ship, he immediately raised his hand. Waved. But before he put down his hand, he saw another person appear, and he was stunned for a moment to make sure his eyes were not deceived. The two men stepped on the gangplank one after the other and got off the boat.
Wang Hui took three steps at a time and rushed over to greet him: "Mr. Tao, Lao Lu! Thank you for your hard work along the way!"
The two people who got off the boat were Tao Donglai and Lu Zhanpeng, Wang Hui's colleague in the Ministry of Industry. Lu Zhanpeng temporarily took over someone else's task and came to Miaoli to take up his post. Wang Hui had already learned about this from previous telegrams, but why did Tao Donglai suddenly land in Miaoli?
Wang Hui has rarely left Hainan Island in the past few years except for business trips. As far as he knows, Tao Donglai should not have traveled as many times as him. Coming all the way to Miaoli this time should not be a small matter. Why did he do it before? This matter was not mentioned in the telegram received?
As the initiator and main funder of the time-travel operation, Tao Donglai became the central figure of the executive committee after time-travel, and received special treatment as a lifelong executive committee member. It can be said that he is the nominal leader of Haihan Kingdom so far. . It is no exaggeration to say that the influence of his every move, word and deed is not much worse than that of the king of the feudal dynasty.
Tao Donglai held an important position and needed to supervise many affairs. His participation in the resolution of major national affairs was inseparable from his participation, so he rarely left Hainan Island in the years after the founding of the People's Republic of China. When traveling with an identity like his, he must have notified local organizations in advance to welcome him. How could he arrive in Miaoli quietly? However, this can also explain why there are two warships traveling together. This is probably a security measure specially provided for Tao Donglai.
"Lao Wang, please find a place nearby to rest for a while. Lao Lu is feeling unwell and a little seasick. Let him take a rest first."
After listening to Tao Donglai's words, Wang Hui noticed that Lu Zhanpeng's face was pale, he looked listless and a little weak, and he quickly called the two of them to the place where he had just drank tea. This tea shed was originally the private property of the port foreman. It was open occasionally to receive sailors coming and going here. However, it was requisitioned by Wang Hui early today, so there was no one waiting at this time. The three of them entered and sat down under the tea shed. Wang Hui called his men and asked him to quickly make a new pot of tea.
Seeing that Lu Zhanpeng was in good condition and that Tao Donglai was accompanied by a full-time doctor, Wang Hui knew that it should be fine, so he asked: "Mr. Tao, why didn't you say hello in advance when you came? Look at me here I’m so sorry that I didn’t prepare anything!”
"I have a special mission this time, and I didn't plan to make it public, so the itinerary was not notified in advance. Not just you, but other places along the way. Don't worry, Old Wang." Tao Dong He briefly explained the reason, but did not talk about the specific content of the task.
Wang Hui was not a very curious person, so Tao Dong didn't mention it. He expected that this would probably involve military affairs, so he did not ask further questions about it, and instead asked about Tao Dong's purpose of coming to Miaoli.
Tao Donglai responded: "When I set out, it happened that Lu Zhanpeng was coming to Miaoli to take up his post, so I came over together on the way, which can also save some money. It's a rare opportunity for me to go out. Anyway, I'm not in a hurry, so I stopped by. Look at this place. Miaoli is going to introduce immigrants for development. Let’s see if there is anything I can do to help.”
The industry that Tao Donglai was engaged in before crossing over was real estate-related, and development and construction was his specialty. In his early years, he also went to Annan personally to direct the operation to absorb war refugees, so he had little to do with immigration resettlement matters. Wang Hui is much more experienced.
After Tao Dong finished speaking, he pointed to Lu Zhanpeng who was resting and said: "During his term of office, the local petrochemical industry will implement technological upgrades, which will have higher requirements for production capacity and quality. I also have to go and see it on the spot. Look at the development status of our only oil field.”
Wang Hui thought to himself that if you go to see the scene, you will be disappointed. However, since the executive committee has set the tone for upgrading the petrochemical industry, this is a good thing after all, and it is also what Wang Hui has been looking forward to. Although Liu Shanxia had already conveyed this news to him before, Wang Hui still couldn't help but feel excited when he heard Tao Donglai confirm it in person.
Wang Hui asked tentatively: "Mr. Tao, now that we are arranging technology upgrades, have we made breakthroughs in related applications? Has the engine been built?"
Tao Donglai shook his head and said: "Not yet. But the breakthrough should be very close. Yu Feng's machinery factory is currently doing the final technical research. The manufacturing plan has been finalized and the materials are in place, but there are still some The details of the process need to be improved, and the results should be ready in three to five months at the earliest, or one and a half years at the earliest.”
(End of chapter)