Chapter 1374
Chapter 1374
Chapter 1374
"Sailing one day further, we will reach the boundary of Shandong!" The captain pointed to the looming land outline on the sea level to the west and said, "When we brought refugees from Shandong from the north to the south, it was Haizhou Prefecture over there."
After the Denglai Rebellion broke out that year, a large number of war refugees soon appeared in Shandong. One of the escape routes for these refugees was to enter Jiangsu from the Shandong Peninsula southward.At that time, Haihan happened to open up the key channel of the Fujian Strait. With the help of Xu Xinsu, the government came forward to organize Fujian maritime merchants to go north to Jiangsu and Shandong, recruit a large number of Shandong people who had fled to the local area, and transport them to Haihan in the south. Settlement in the control area.
Although the voyage from Shandong to the south is far away, over the past few years, Haihan has received over [-] refugees from Shandong, making them an important part of the immigrants in this emerging country.For many people who have become Haihan citizens, Haizhou Prefecture bordering Shandong can be said to be a place of great significance, which symbolizes the beginning of their new life.On this passenger ship carrying the Beishang cadre team, many members boarded the ship from here a few years ago and left Daming, and fell into Haihan's arms.Coming back here after a long time, it is natural to have a lot of emotion.
Many of them, when they left here, were refugees with nothing and no livelihood. Just to have a mouthful of hot food to survive, they defected to the Haihan people they didn't know, but when they returned to their hometown, they could be regarded as Homecoming.Although Haihan is not a big country, they are now genuine officials of Haihan. This is a scene that they could not have dreamed of when they left in despair.
"Can we stay in Haizhou for a day or two? I want to see the place where we lived." Someone asked the captain.
The captain shook his head with embarrassment and said: "This kind of thing, I can't be the master. The higher-ups have issued an order to sail directly to Shandong. If there are no special matters, the fleet will not stop halfway."
In the sea area between Shandong and Zhejiang, there are no coastal strongholds under the control of Haihan, so in order to avoid complications, the passenger ship transporting the cadre team going north will definitely not stop at the port of Daming halfway.This is an order directly issued by the Executive Committee to the Ministry of Communications. The captain is only a small person who obeys the orders of the Shipping Department, so naturally he dare not disobey the order from above. authority is still far behind.
Those officials who had a difficult experience in Haizhou Mansion could not help but sigh again. Of course, they have no right to order the captain to change the sailing route. They can only look at the outline of the mainland from a distance and miss the days when they were in trouble.
Of course, not all the officials on board were from the north, and those from the south felt differently about this place, and were more curious and vigilant about the unfamiliar environment.In particular, some people with special backgrounds are particularly interested in this history that the outside world does not know much about.
Liu Shang is a person with this kind of mentality. His background is different from that of everyone on board. As a member of Daming Gongmen, he is very interested in how Haihan digs through Daming to strengthen himself.He has also heard about the deeds of the immigrant fleet transporting a large number of immigrants from Shandong back then, and he was lucky enough to come here to learn more about it.
Because the relevant departments paid special attention to the area of origin when selecting cadres going north, so there are quite a few people on this ship who have experienced this period of history. After setting off from Zhoushan, Zhejiang, Liu Shang did not spend too much time asking a lot about The details of Haihan's recruitment of immigrants here.
Liu Shang has been in Haihan's bureaucratic system for a while, and he has dealt with Haihan's immigration department a lot as a new immigrant and as an official, and he can understand Haihan's intentions when he hears many measures. There is no need for the parties to explain slowly.
In the past, Liu Shang only knew that Haihan had been introducing immigrants from Daming on a large scale, and the farthest even reached the surrounding areas of the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, but he didn't know much about the specific operation methods.Now after listening to the story of the person involved, I realize that Haihan’s attitude towards introducing immigrants is so firm that he even spent huge sums of money organizing an immigrant fleet to recruit homeless war refugees thousands of miles away from Hainan Island.
To organize such a large-scale population migration over such a long distance, the freight and food invested in it will inevitably be astronomical. Even Ming Dynasty may not be able to afford such an expense, otherwise tens of thousands of refugees would not be stranded in the country. Haizhou is near and has not been resettled by the government for a long time.Haihan crossed such a spatial distance and introduced refugees from the southeast of Shandong. The cost must be much higher than that of Ming Dynasty's internal resettlement of refugees, but in the end these measures were still persisted over the years and also In exchange for a large number of loyal subjects who were saved by Haihan at the most difficult moment, they devoted themselves to Haihan Kingdom.Some of the best among them are on this ship going north at this time.
If Liu Shang hadn't lived in Haihan country for a period of time, it would be difficult for Liu Shang to understand why the Haihan people would do such a thing like exchanging money for population.But now he knows that population means many things to Haihan, not only the improvement of social productivity, but also the vast control area of Haihan that requires a large number of immigrants to develop and operate.
Liu Shang once read the annual changes of Haihan's territory in the library. The speed of this country's external expansion is undoubtedly very alarming, but they have always controlled the scope at the edge of the territory of Ming Dynasty, trying to avoid obvious territorial disputes with Ming Dynasty as much as possible. Therefore, the world does not know how big Haihan is. Even intelligence personnel like Liu Shang always thought that Haihan only occupied Hainan Island, Taiwan Island, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Just some islands off the coast of Zhejiang.
But the fact is not so simple. The Leizhou Peninsula, which is only separated from Hainan Island by a strait, the Pearl River Basin, which controls the economic lifeline of Guangdong and Guangxi, the Fujian Strait, which is the main channel for sea traffic between the north and the south, and the Hangzhou Bay area, which is the most affluent in the south of the Yangtze River, are the most affluent in the south. The regions most dependent on shipping are more or less under Haihan's control.The two big islands of Hainan and Taiwan alone, Haihan officials claim, are enough to support hundreds of thousands of immigrant populations.
And this is only the area occupied by Haihan on the coast of Daming. In fact, in the South China Sea area south of Hainan Island, the scale of overseas enclaves occupied by Haihan is no smaller than that in the north. There are also a large number of overseas colonies that urgently need to introduce immigrants for development. .
For Haihan, no matter how much money he spends on immigration affairs, he can earn back the expenses by multiplying them through later operations.All kinds of high-priced industrial products dumped from Haihan to Daming and other neighboring countries are almost all produced by the labor of these immigrants. It is not an exaggeration to say that immigrants have built the economic foundation of Haihan.
There are immigrants from various countries and races in Haihan Kingdom, but the largest proportion of them, and the fastest to adapt to the social environment, are the Han immigrants from Ming Dynasty.Liu Shang himself has personal experience. After he entered Haihan, he had a short adaptation period, and he realized that Haihan society has many similarities with Ming Dynasty, and the culture is even more in the same line, and the language and characters are basically the same.It can be said that the most convenient choice for Haihan is to introduce Han immigrants from the Ming Dynasty, and this is probably one of the main reasons why Haihan is willing to invest heavily in this area.
"Then is the Ministry of Civil Affairs still continuing to recruit immigrants from Shandong?" Liu Shang asked the interlocutor while sorting out his thoughts.
It was Su Yu, a naturalized civil affairs cadre who was telling him the story of organizing immigrants from Shandong and Jiangsu to go south. He was also a native of Shandong and was one of the refugees recruited by Haihan back then.Su Yu has been a Haihan nationality for much longer than Liu Shang, and he has a much clearer understanding of the immigration situation than Liu Shang. He knows that Liu Shang's official identity is the secretary of the Youth League, so he didn't deliberately hide any inside information from him. .
"Of course we are recruiting, and the work in this area has never stopped." Su Yu admitted frankly: "It's just that after the end of the war in Shandong, refugees are gradually returning from other places to their hometowns. We want to go south again like before. It is not so easy to transport back [-], [-] or even more immigrants. In the past six months, the focus of immigration has shifted to Liaodong. It will take up most of the existing capacity."
"Phi Island..." This place name is still a little strange to Liu Shang who has been living in the south.He also only recently learned that this overseas enclave that originally belonged to Ming Dynasty has joined forces with Haihan, not only in terms of immigration, but more importantly, he has also chosen to form an alliance with Haihan in military affairs to jointly fight against the invasion of the Liaodong area outside the pass. Later Jin Kingdom.
In the past, Liu Shang would have hated this kind of treasonous behavior, wishing to eat his flesh and skin, but since his colleagues and partners in Hainan Island died unexpectedly, many of his thoughts have also changed. is gradually changing.The officials of Phi Island will make the decision to cooperate with Haihan, presumably because they have a lot of helplessness and cannot rely on Daming to solve the problem.Since Phi Dao agreed to Haihan's recruitment of immigrants, it probably shows that the local living conditions have become difficult to maintain.
It is not difficult for Liu Shang to make some guesses about what kind of follow-up development the local cooperation with Haihan will have. Officials in Fuzhou and Guangxi provinces have cooperated with Haihan, including both economic and military, and the scale of cooperation between the two parties has expanded year by year. The depth and breadth have also been increasing.The interest entanglement between these areas and Haihan is too deep, and it is impossible to take the initiative to stand on the hostile side of Haihan.And Phi Island in Liaodong is Daming's overseas enclave. Once it cooperates with Haihan, its dependence on Haihan will definitely be similar to that in Fuguang area, and even more compromises will be made to Haihan due to the scarcity of supplies.In the future, whether the local area will follow Haihan's command or the Ming court's dispatch, I'm afraid it will be a little uncertain.
Su Yu didn't know what kind of situation Phi Island was like, so he couldn't provide Liu Shang with more relevant information.But even so, Liu Shang's half-guessing also guessed some facts, but he can't verify it yet.
Liu Shang remembered that when he stayed in Zhoushan, he saw that there were still many port projects under construction in the local area, so he asked again: "Many of these Han people who came from Liaodong will probably be resettled in Zhoushan, Zhejiang?"
Su Yu said with a smile: "It is inevitable for immigrants brought back from the north to be deducted along the way. But Zhoushan is actually fine. Zhejiang is a province with a large population. As long as you spend more money to do some publicity work, it will be the same. It can also absorb a lot of skilled immigrants.”
Liu Shang also understands the meaning of the so-called "skilled immigration". In fact, his own situation can also be classified into the scope of "skilled immigration".It was thanks to his storytelling skills that he was recruited by the Propaganda Department and quickly obtained naturalization qualifications. Although it was only a lip service, he was regarded as a professional talent in Haihan.And once they are introduced into Haihan as "technical immigrants", generally speaking, the treatment will be greatly improved compared to before. Therefore, there have always been many craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty who, under the temptation of heavy money and generous benefits, chose to immigrate to Haihan. .
Immigrants transported from Liaodong to the south will definitely be screened first when they arrive in Zhejiang, and some of them will be left in the local area before continuing to send south.However, civil affairs departments generally have clear requirements on the proportion of immigrants detained in the colonies along the way, so in the end, a considerable proportion of immigrants will be transported back to Hainan Island for unified resettlement.
"It seems that in less than two years, there will be a group of officials speaking with northern accents in every yamen." Liu Shang couldn't help sighing when he thought of this.
Su Yu replied: "This is basically a matter of certainty. The higher-ups still have a lot of ideas about the Liaodong region. They will definitely train a group of local cadres, and it will be much easier to send them back to carry out work in the future."
Liu Shangxin said that you are just playing such a role now. You were born in Shandong, wandered around in Haihan, and after becoming an official, you came back after a long journey, but now the object of service is replaced by Daming. It's just Haihan.Of course, it is absolutely impossible for an ordinary person like Su Yu who didn't even have a reputation in Daming to enter the Yamen and get a half-job. In the country, people like Su Yu will get the chance to be an official.
Introducing these ordinary people as officials is good or bad for the development of the country. Liu Shang actually can't tell. The platform he stands on is not that high, and he can't see the impact on social development from his perspective.But the Haihan people are obviously good at this, and they can train ordinary people to quickly adapt to the work in this field. This is probably one of the reasons why the Haihan country has developed so fast.
(End of this chapter)
"Sailing one day further, we will reach the boundary of Shandong!" The captain pointed to the looming land outline on the sea level to the west and said, "When we brought refugees from Shandong from the north to the south, it was Haizhou Prefecture over there."
After the Denglai Rebellion broke out that year, a large number of war refugees soon appeared in Shandong. One of the escape routes for these refugees was to enter Jiangsu from the Shandong Peninsula southward.At that time, Haihan happened to open up the key channel of the Fujian Strait. With the help of Xu Xinsu, the government came forward to organize Fujian maritime merchants to go north to Jiangsu and Shandong, recruit a large number of Shandong people who had fled to the local area, and transport them to Haihan in the south. Settlement in the control area.
Although the voyage from Shandong to the south is far away, over the past few years, Haihan has received over [-] refugees from Shandong, making them an important part of the immigrants in this emerging country.For many people who have become Haihan citizens, Haizhou Prefecture bordering Shandong can be said to be a place of great significance, which symbolizes the beginning of their new life.On this passenger ship carrying the Beishang cadre team, many members boarded the ship from here a few years ago and left Daming, and fell into Haihan's arms.Coming back here after a long time, it is natural to have a lot of emotion.
Many of them, when they left here, were refugees with nothing and no livelihood. Just to have a mouthful of hot food to survive, they defected to the Haihan people they didn't know, but when they returned to their hometown, they could be regarded as Homecoming.Although Haihan is not a big country, they are now genuine officials of Haihan. This is a scene that they could not have dreamed of when they left in despair.
"Can we stay in Haizhou for a day or two? I want to see the place where we lived." Someone asked the captain.
The captain shook his head with embarrassment and said: "This kind of thing, I can't be the master. The higher-ups have issued an order to sail directly to Shandong. If there are no special matters, the fleet will not stop halfway."
In the sea area between Shandong and Zhejiang, there are no coastal strongholds under the control of Haihan, so in order to avoid complications, the passenger ship transporting the cadre team going north will definitely not stop at the port of Daming halfway.This is an order directly issued by the Executive Committee to the Ministry of Communications. The captain is only a small person who obeys the orders of the Shipping Department, so naturally he dare not disobey the order from above. authority is still far behind.
Those officials who had a difficult experience in Haizhou Mansion could not help but sigh again. Of course, they have no right to order the captain to change the sailing route. They can only look at the outline of the mainland from a distance and miss the days when they were in trouble.
Of course, not all the officials on board were from the north, and those from the south felt differently about this place, and were more curious and vigilant about the unfamiliar environment.In particular, some people with special backgrounds are particularly interested in this history that the outside world does not know much about.
Liu Shang is a person with this kind of mentality. His background is different from that of everyone on board. As a member of Daming Gongmen, he is very interested in how Haihan digs through Daming to strengthen himself.He has also heard about the deeds of the immigrant fleet transporting a large number of immigrants from Shandong back then, and he was lucky enough to come here to learn more about it.
Because the relevant departments paid special attention to the area of origin when selecting cadres going north, so there are quite a few people on this ship who have experienced this period of history. After setting off from Zhoushan, Zhejiang, Liu Shang did not spend too much time asking a lot about The details of Haihan's recruitment of immigrants here.
Liu Shang has been in Haihan's bureaucratic system for a while, and he has dealt with Haihan's immigration department a lot as a new immigrant and as an official, and he can understand Haihan's intentions when he hears many measures. There is no need for the parties to explain slowly.
In the past, Liu Shang only knew that Haihan had been introducing immigrants from Daming on a large scale, and the farthest even reached the surrounding areas of the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea, but he didn't know much about the specific operation methods.Now after listening to the story of the person involved, I realize that Haihan’s attitude towards introducing immigrants is so firm that he even spent huge sums of money organizing an immigrant fleet to recruit homeless war refugees thousands of miles away from Hainan Island.
To organize such a large-scale population migration over such a long distance, the freight and food invested in it will inevitably be astronomical. Even Ming Dynasty may not be able to afford such an expense, otherwise tens of thousands of refugees would not be stranded in the country. Haizhou is near and has not been resettled by the government for a long time.Haihan crossed such a spatial distance and introduced refugees from the southeast of Shandong. The cost must be much higher than that of Ming Dynasty's internal resettlement of refugees, but in the end these measures were still persisted over the years and also In exchange for a large number of loyal subjects who were saved by Haihan at the most difficult moment, they devoted themselves to Haihan Kingdom.Some of the best among them are on this ship going north at this time.
If Liu Shang hadn't lived in Haihan country for a period of time, it would be difficult for Liu Shang to understand why the Haihan people would do such a thing like exchanging money for population.But now he knows that population means many things to Haihan, not only the improvement of social productivity, but also the vast control area of Haihan that requires a large number of immigrants to develop and operate.
Liu Shang once read the annual changes of Haihan's territory in the library. The speed of this country's external expansion is undoubtedly very alarming, but they have always controlled the scope at the edge of the territory of Ming Dynasty, trying to avoid obvious territorial disputes with Ming Dynasty as much as possible. Therefore, the world does not know how big Haihan is. Even intelligence personnel like Liu Shang always thought that Haihan only occupied Hainan Island, Taiwan Island, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Just some islands off the coast of Zhejiang.
But the fact is not so simple. The Leizhou Peninsula, which is only separated from Hainan Island by a strait, the Pearl River Basin, which controls the economic lifeline of Guangdong and Guangxi, the Fujian Strait, which is the main channel for sea traffic between the north and the south, and the Hangzhou Bay area, which is the most affluent in the south of the Yangtze River, are the most affluent in the south. The regions most dependent on shipping are more or less under Haihan's control.The two big islands of Hainan and Taiwan alone, Haihan officials claim, are enough to support hundreds of thousands of immigrant populations.
And this is only the area occupied by Haihan on the coast of Daming. In fact, in the South China Sea area south of Hainan Island, the scale of overseas enclaves occupied by Haihan is no smaller than that in the north. There are also a large number of overseas colonies that urgently need to introduce immigrants for development. .
For Haihan, no matter how much money he spends on immigration affairs, he can earn back the expenses by multiplying them through later operations.All kinds of high-priced industrial products dumped from Haihan to Daming and other neighboring countries are almost all produced by the labor of these immigrants. It is not an exaggeration to say that immigrants have built the economic foundation of Haihan.
There are immigrants from various countries and races in Haihan Kingdom, but the largest proportion of them, and the fastest to adapt to the social environment, are the Han immigrants from Ming Dynasty.Liu Shang himself has personal experience. After he entered Haihan, he had a short adaptation period, and he realized that Haihan society has many similarities with Ming Dynasty, and the culture is even more in the same line, and the language and characters are basically the same.It can be said that the most convenient choice for Haihan is to introduce Han immigrants from the Ming Dynasty, and this is probably one of the main reasons why Haihan is willing to invest heavily in this area.
"Then is the Ministry of Civil Affairs still continuing to recruit immigrants from Shandong?" Liu Shang asked the interlocutor while sorting out his thoughts.
It was Su Yu, a naturalized civil affairs cadre who was telling him the story of organizing immigrants from Shandong and Jiangsu to go south. He was also a native of Shandong and was one of the refugees recruited by Haihan back then.Su Yu has been a Haihan nationality for much longer than Liu Shang, and he has a much clearer understanding of the immigration situation than Liu Shang. He knows that Liu Shang's official identity is the secretary of the Youth League, so he didn't deliberately hide any inside information from him. .
"Of course we are recruiting, and the work in this area has never stopped." Su Yu admitted frankly: "It's just that after the end of the war in Shandong, refugees are gradually returning from other places to their hometowns. We want to go south again like before. It is not so easy to transport back [-], [-] or even more immigrants. In the past six months, the focus of immigration has shifted to Liaodong. It will take up most of the existing capacity."
"Phi Island..." This place name is still a little strange to Liu Shang who has been living in the south.He also only recently learned that this overseas enclave that originally belonged to Ming Dynasty has joined forces with Haihan, not only in terms of immigration, but more importantly, he has also chosen to form an alliance with Haihan in military affairs to jointly fight against the invasion of the Liaodong area outside the pass. Later Jin Kingdom.
In the past, Liu Shang would have hated this kind of treasonous behavior, wishing to eat his flesh and skin, but since his colleagues and partners in Hainan Island died unexpectedly, many of his thoughts have also changed. is gradually changing.The officials of Phi Island will make the decision to cooperate with Haihan, presumably because they have a lot of helplessness and cannot rely on Daming to solve the problem.Since Phi Dao agreed to Haihan's recruitment of immigrants, it probably shows that the local living conditions have become difficult to maintain.
It is not difficult for Liu Shang to make some guesses about what kind of follow-up development the local cooperation with Haihan will have. Officials in Fuzhou and Guangxi provinces have cooperated with Haihan, including both economic and military, and the scale of cooperation between the two parties has expanded year by year. The depth and breadth have also been increasing.The interest entanglement between these areas and Haihan is too deep, and it is impossible to take the initiative to stand on the hostile side of Haihan.And Phi Island in Liaodong is Daming's overseas enclave. Once it cooperates with Haihan, its dependence on Haihan will definitely be similar to that in Fuguang area, and even more compromises will be made to Haihan due to the scarcity of supplies.In the future, whether the local area will follow Haihan's command or the Ming court's dispatch, I'm afraid it will be a little uncertain.
Su Yu didn't know what kind of situation Phi Island was like, so he couldn't provide Liu Shang with more relevant information.But even so, Liu Shang's half-guessing also guessed some facts, but he can't verify it yet.
Liu Shang remembered that when he stayed in Zhoushan, he saw that there were still many port projects under construction in the local area, so he asked again: "Many of these Han people who came from Liaodong will probably be resettled in Zhoushan, Zhejiang?"
Su Yu said with a smile: "It is inevitable for immigrants brought back from the north to be deducted along the way. But Zhoushan is actually fine. Zhejiang is a province with a large population. As long as you spend more money to do some publicity work, it will be the same. It can also absorb a lot of skilled immigrants.”
Liu Shang also understands the meaning of the so-called "skilled immigration". In fact, his own situation can also be classified into the scope of "skilled immigration".It was thanks to his storytelling skills that he was recruited by the Propaganda Department and quickly obtained naturalization qualifications. Although it was only a lip service, he was regarded as a professional talent in Haihan.And once they are introduced into Haihan as "technical immigrants", generally speaking, the treatment will be greatly improved compared to before. Therefore, there have always been many craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty who, under the temptation of heavy money and generous benefits, chose to immigrate to Haihan. .
Immigrants transported from Liaodong to the south will definitely be screened first when they arrive in Zhejiang, and some of them will be left in the local area before continuing to send south.However, civil affairs departments generally have clear requirements on the proportion of immigrants detained in the colonies along the way, so in the end, a considerable proportion of immigrants will be transported back to Hainan Island for unified resettlement.
"It seems that in less than two years, there will be a group of officials speaking with northern accents in every yamen." Liu Shang couldn't help sighing when he thought of this.
Su Yu replied: "This is basically a matter of certainty. The higher-ups still have a lot of ideas about the Liaodong region. They will definitely train a group of local cadres, and it will be much easier to send them back to carry out work in the future."
Liu Shangxin said that you are just playing such a role now. You were born in Shandong, wandered around in Haihan, and after becoming an official, you came back after a long journey, but now the object of service is replaced by Daming. It's just Haihan.Of course, it is absolutely impossible for an ordinary person like Su Yu who didn't even have a reputation in Daming to enter the Yamen and get a half-job. In the country, people like Su Yu will get the chance to be an official.
Introducing these ordinary people as officials is good or bad for the development of the country. Liu Shang actually can't tell. The platform he stands on is not that high, and he can't see the impact on social development from his perspective.But the Haihan people are obviously good at this, and they can train ordinary people to quickly adapt to the work in this field. This is probably one of the reasons why the Haihan country has developed so fast.
(End of this chapter)