Chapter 1453
Precious Population
Chapter 1453 Precious Population
Before going north, Chen Yixin may not have too many thoughts on Sha Xi's statement, but he has been in charge of civil affairs in Shandong for more than a year and has some operational experience in matters such as farmland, infrastructure, and immigration. When he heard these words, he knew that the other party was bargaining with him.
"Brother Sha, overseas colonies, especially war zones, have always given priority to military affairs and civil affairs second. You are also aware of this rule." Chen Yixin responded without being humble or arrogant.He knew that Shaxi wanted to keep more people in Lushun, in order to carry out the local infrastructure project as soon as possible, so as to recruit more immigrants from Shandong to settle in Liaodong in the later stage.However, according to normal rules, all resources in the theater, including manpower, must be prioritized for military use. Civilians must be recruited at the front, and there is no excuse for the rear to refuse the military's request.
Chen Yixin is well aware of how troublesome the reconstruction project of the Jinzhou Isthmus defense line is, and the required labor force is not enough to solve the problem with 800 people.In the current environment, there are not many working people in Liaodong that can be recruited, and the only populated place is the recently captured Lushun Fort.In order to complete the fortifications on the front line as soon as possible, many arrangements in the rear can only be stopped for a while.
Sha Xi tried a few more words, but Chen Yixin never let go. He didn't want to give Sha Xi face, but thought that Qian Tiandun would send him back to Lushun just to keep an eye on these matters?This side is relieved to Sha Xi, but he can't explain it in front of Qian Tiandun when he looks back.Chen Yixin still knows the importance of favor and public affairs.
Sha Xi saw that Chen Yixin's attitude was resolute and unmoved, so he did not persist.It's not that he doesn't understand the rules that Chen Yixin said, but that he gave up his foundation in the south and traveled all the way to Liaodong to take office. Naturally, what he did was not just to help the military.He also hopes to be able to rule one side like some of his colleagues who seize the opportunity, and then feel at ease as the emperor in the overseas colonies.
Although the place in Liaodong is a bit colder, in Sha Xi's opinion, it is still very promising, and it is close to Daming, so it should not be difficult to introduce a large number of Han immigrants in the future. Stupid and lazy natives are much better off.Before Sha Xi came to Liaodong, he had already made a lot of plans, how to engage in the development of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, sideline and fishery related industries on the land of more than 100 square kilometers, and how to introduce more immigrants from Daming to resettle here.However, judging from the current situation, the Haihan army's military operations will not end for a day, so these ideas of his have to be put on hold.
Population, especially the working population, has been one of the main difficulties restricting the development of Haihan since the day of crossing.Even now, nine years later, the colony controlled by Haihan has extended thousands of miles from Hainan Island to the north and south, and the registered population is close to 30. However, there is still a huge labor demand gap for Haihan.Like the southern part of Jinzhou, where Houjin fortified the walls and cleared the wilderness in advance, the population is even more scarce. Most of the local labor force has actually been recruited as civilians to the front line for labor service. However, the military is obviously not satisfied with the status quo. This makes the local Sha Xi, who did not have the capital to bargain, felt a little disappointed.
Chen Yixin went on to say: "The construction schedule in the north is very tight, and a large amount of labor must be invested to complete it. Therefore, only the personnel who maintain the operation of the logistics, shipping, medical and other departments are left here in Lushun, and other non-essential laborers must be Move to the front first."
Knowing that this was a military order that could not be disobeyed, Sha Xi calmed down, took out a pack of cigarettes and handed one to Chen Yixin, lit one himself, and took two puffs before saying, "This cigarette is produced by the colony over Annan. , it may be the relationship between latitude and climate. It is better than the tobacco we planted in Hainan Island in the early days. If it is put on the market, the price will be at least [-]% more expensive. However, these high-grade tobaccos are still sent to Hainan Island for further processing and processing. Packaging, because the production capacity is too small, is not publicly available, it is a good thing for internal special supply, you know."
After listening to his introduction, Chen Yixin picked up the cigarette case and looked at it.The packaging of this cigarette is very simple, only a small red and blue two-color label is printed on the front and back sides, and there is not even a word. It is indeed not a product sold in the market.Haihan offers a variety of good things inside, such as cigarettes, wine, sugar, dairy products, etc., and there are generally such signs on the packaging.Chen Yixin tasted it, the taste of this cigarette was indeed somewhat different from the cigarette he smoked before, and the feeling of inhaling it was obviously more mellow.However, at the current industrial level of Haihan, the standard sponge filter cannot be produced, and it can only be replaced with high-quality cotton. For this reason, it is much more advanced than ordinary cigarettes without filters on the market.
"This is a new product? No wonder." Chen Yixin looked at the cigarette in his hand, took another puff, and said vaguely, "Good stuff!"
Sha Xi went on to say: "It takes more than a month to transport from Sanya to Liaodong, and part of the journey will be exploited and taken away by big bosses from all over the country, so there is not much left when transported here..."
Chen Yixin raised his hand to stop Sha Xi from continuing to say: "First, get a box for each person at the frontline headquarters, no problem?"
Shaxi shook his head and said, "At most, one person can exchange five ... one cigarette for ten people who can work."
Chen Yixin frowned slightly, thinking to himself that you are waiting for me here.All the generals in the frontline headquarters, including Chen Yixin, had to smoke, five five twenty five, and at least 25 laborers would be left for Sha Xi.Although this is not a large amount, it is quite a lot for the Lushun area where human resources are stretched.
Since he knew that the other party had a plan, Chen Yixin would not agree easily, shook his head and said, "What you take out now is nothing more than a taste. Since it is an internal special supply, the logistics department will send it soon, at most. It's only ten days and a half late, and you still use it to find me to replace it, isn't it too perfunctory."
Sha Xi smiled and said: "To tell you the truth, the tobacco plantations in Annan are also limited in production, so this batch of cigarettes for internal special supply is only three hundred boxes in total, one third of which were brought by me. Going north, you have to wait for the next batch, which may be by the end of the year."
Seeing that Chen Yixin didn't answer the call right away, Sha Xi knew that he was probably calculating the pros and cons, so he added: "I still have some barrels of wine here, all of which have been cellared for five to seven years. I think you are in Liaodong. Can't drink this stuff either. If you're willing to make the deal, I'll send you two more barrels of wine."
Chen Yixin thought that the others were fine. Tom Wang and Morgan were known to like to drink wine. If they could get a few barrels of wine back, they would definitely be very happy.However, this matter was definitely in conflict with Qian Tiandun's order, and he was still worried that his own assertion would make Qian Tiandun unhappy.
Sha Xi seemed to see through his mind, and continued to persuade: "These are all consolation items that are not easy to get in the market. Commander Qian is a reasonable person, and of course he will not embarrass everyone on this kind of thing."
Chen Yixin sighed, raised his head and said to Sha Xi, "That five-barrel bar!"
"Three barrels! I'll ask someone to move it!" Seeing Chen Yixin's resignation, Sha Xi knew that this could be done, and immediately started bargaining with him: "It's not my brother, I'm stingy, there are five barrels of wine on hand, so I have to keep some. The goods are the bottom line, or when Commander Qian and the others come back from the front line, I won't even be able to get the good wine to entertain them."
"Then add another cigarette to each person!" Chen Yixin saw that it was difficult to break through here, so he feinted and returned to the cigarette.
"Forget it, that's it!" Sha Xi also knew that he couldn't bear the child's inability to catch the wolf, so he gritted his teeth and agreed.
Although these items were specially supplied internally, because the quantity he needed was relatively large and far exceeded his personal quota, he had to pay for the goods at the beginning, and he had paid for the goods when they were shipped all the way to the north.As for the purpose, it is just like the current use, it is used to win the relationship.The more than 200 labors exchanged for these things are all the results of his own money.Although the value of these items is not astronomical, for the Liaodong region where supplies are relatively scarce, these items are indeed not so easy to obtain.The military's willingness to sacrifice a little principle for this is also Shaxi's expected reaction.
Of course, this kind of absurd situation can only happen in this special environment.Shaxi didn't want to fight against the military, nor did he want to become a follower of the military.He roughly knows the military's combat plan in Liaodong, so he has to hurry up to develop and construct the Lushun area, even if it is worth paying a little money to subsidize it. All these investments are recovered in hundreds and thousands of times, and the difference is nothing more than the length of time.
Shaxi has accumulated a lot of experience during his stay in Guangdong, and he already knows the development model of Haihan Colony.Before he came to Liaodong, he had realized most of the family property he had saved over the years, and applied for several business projects to the Ministry of Agriculture. He was relieved to make a career in Liaodong.Although the labor cost here is extremely high at this stage, Shaxi still has full confidence in his plan and is willing to pour a lot of money into it.
Chen Yixin didn't expect Sha Xi to have so many plans. Since Sha Xi was willing to bleed a lot in exchange for labor, Chen Yixin simply granted him.So the sailboat sailing from Lushun to the Jinzhou Isthmus the next day was carrying less than 200 people and a lot of seemingly inconspicuous goods.
Of course, out of prudence, after Chen Yixin reached a verbal agreement with Sha Xi, he used the radio to inform Qian Tiandun of the situation on the front line.However, after listening to the ins and outs, Qian Tiandun did not blame Chen Yixin for making an assertion, but let him continue to stay in Lushun to supervise the local material transfer and resettlement.
As Sha Xi said, Qian Tiandun is indeed not a scrupulous person. The more than 200 laborers can play a limited role in the defense line reconstruction project, but it may have a significant impact on the infrastructure project in Lushun. .Qian Tiandun knew that the executive committee sent Sha Xi to Liaodong to take over the civil affairs here after the war, so he didn't want to have any unpleasantness with Sha Xi because of such a trivial matter, let alone the other party expressed enough goodwill, This kind of transaction is also acceptable in Qian Tiandun's view.
Qian Tiandun has been in the north much longer than Sha Xi, and he has a better understanding of the environment here. He knows that instead of competing with his colleagues here for two or three hundred people, it is better to spend more time in places outside Liaodong. , and strive to recruit more immigrants from Shandong and Pidao in the near future to supplement the manpower demand gap in Liaodong.
However, given the current situation, the Shandong government has become more and more wary of the existence of Haihan, and has tightened the trend of population flow from other places to Fushan County, Dengzhou.The local people in Fushan County who have a strong desire to immigrate have already left in various ways in the past year or so. The clan that held Haihan's thigh tightly obeyed Haihan's arrangement.
After Haihan arrived in Shandong, almost all the bandits and bandits near Dengzhou were wiped out, and even the officers and soldiers did not dare to act recklessly among the people.Under such circumstances, the number of local migrants in Shandong has shown a downward trend month by month. Now it is considered a lot to have 500 people a month, and this order of magnitude obviously cannot meet the population needs of the current development of the Liaodong colony.
As a result, Phi Dao, which still has a population of tens of thousands, has become Haihan's life-saving straw.In the past year or so, almost all of the Liaodong refugees sheltered on Phi Island have been taken away by Haihan and sent to various places for resettlement.And now the people living on Phi Island are basically the Phi Island Army and their families.
Although Haihan and Shen's uncle and nephew have reached an oral agreement to gradually move the soldiers and civilians of Phi Island back to the Liaodong Peninsula to settle in after the war, there is still a big and no small problem, and that is whether Haihan should be fully incorporated The armed forces of Dongjiang Town.
Shen Zhixiang really wanted to fall into the arms of Haihan, but Dongjiang Town was not monolithic, and not everyone chose to give up Daming like him.If you want to incorporate Dongjiang Town, you will definitely encounter a lot of resistance, and Haihan does not want the undercurrent situation in Liaodong, which has just been won.Moreover, Haihan hopes to use the signboard of Dongjiang Town to act in Liaodong, so as to avoid causing excessive fear in Daming. The inclusion is a superfluous move.
However, if it is not incorporated and the tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Dongjiang Town are autonomous in the southern enclosure of Jinzhou, this is also very likely to become a factor of local instability.Haihan must have handled this matter properly before he dared to let the special forces battalion and other elite troops withdraw from Liaodong.
(End of this chapter)
Before going north, Chen Yixin may not have too many thoughts on Sha Xi's statement, but he has been in charge of civil affairs in Shandong for more than a year and has some operational experience in matters such as farmland, infrastructure, and immigration. When he heard these words, he knew that the other party was bargaining with him.
"Brother Sha, overseas colonies, especially war zones, have always given priority to military affairs and civil affairs second. You are also aware of this rule." Chen Yixin responded without being humble or arrogant.He knew that Shaxi wanted to keep more people in Lushun, in order to carry out the local infrastructure project as soon as possible, so as to recruit more immigrants from Shandong to settle in Liaodong in the later stage.However, according to normal rules, all resources in the theater, including manpower, must be prioritized for military use. Civilians must be recruited at the front, and there is no excuse for the rear to refuse the military's request.
Chen Yixin is well aware of how troublesome the reconstruction project of the Jinzhou Isthmus defense line is, and the required labor force is not enough to solve the problem with 800 people.In the current environment, there are not many working people in Liaodong that can be recruited, and the only populated place is the recently captured Lushun Fort.In order to complete the fortifications on the front line as soon as possible, many arrangements in the rear can only be stopped for a while.
Sha Xi tried a few more words, but Chen Yixin never let go. He didn't want to give Sha Xi face, but thought that Qian Tiandun would send him back to Lushun just to keep an eye on these matters?This side is relieved to Sha Xi, but he can't explain it in front of Qian Tiandun when he looks back.Chen Yixin still knows the importance of favor and public affairs.
Sha Xi saw that Chen Yixin's attitude was resolute and unmoved, so he did not persist.It's not that he doesn't understand the rules that Chen Yixin said, but that he gave up his foundation in the south and traveled all the way to Liaodong to take office. Naturally, what he did was not just to help the military.He also hopes to be able to rule one side like some of his colleagues who seize the opportunity, and then feel at ease as the emperor in the overseas colonies.
Although the place in Liaodong is a bit colder, in Sha Xi's opinion, it is still very promising, and it is close to Daming, so it should not be difficult to introduce a large number of Han immigrants in the future. Stupid and lazy natives are much better off.Before Sha Xi came to Liaodong, he had already made a lot of plans, how to engage in the development of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, sideline and fishery related industries on the land of more than 100 square kilometers, and how to introduce more immigrants from Daming to resettle here.However, judging from the current situation, the Haihan army's military operations will not end for a day, so these ideas of his have to be put on hold.
Population, especially the working population, has been one of the main difficulties restricting the development of Haihan since the day of crossing.Even now, nine years later, the colony controlled by Haihan has extended thousands of miles from Hainan Island to the north and south, and the registered population is close to 30. However, there is still a huge labor demand gap for Haihan.Like the southern part of Jinzhou, where Houjin fortified the walls and cleared the wilderness in advance, the population is even more scarce. Most of the local labor force has actually been recruited as civilians to the front line for labor service. However, the military is obviously not satisfied with the status quo. This makes the local Sha Xi, who did not have the capital to bargain, felt a little disappointed.
Chen Yixin went on to say: "The construction schedule in the north is very tight, and a large amount of labor must be invested to complete it. Therefore, only the personnel who maintain the operation of the logistics, shipping, medical and other departments are left here in Lushun, and other non-essential laborers must be Move to the front first."
Knowing that this was a military order that could not be disobeyed, Sha Xi calmed down, took out a pack of cigarettes and handed one to Chen Yixin, lit one himself, and took two puffs before saying, "This cigarette is produced by the colony over Annan. , it may be the relationship between latitude and climate. It is better than the tobacco we planted in Hainan Island in the early days. If it is put on the market, the price will be at least [-]% more expensive. However, these high-grade tobaccos are still sent to Hainan Island for further processing and processing. Packaging, because the production capacity is too small, is not publicly available, it is a good thing for internal special supply, you know."
After listening to his introduction, Chen Yixin picked up the cigarette case and looked at it.The packaging of this cigarette is very simple, only a small red and blue two-color label is printed on the front and back sides, and there is not even a word. It is indeed not a product sold in the market.Haihan offers a variety of good things inside, such as cigarettes, wine, sugar, dairy products, etc., and there are generally such signs on the packaging.Chen Yixin tasted it, the taste of this cigarette was indeed somewhat different from the cigarette he smoked before, and the feeling of inhaling it was obviously more mellow.However, at the current industrial level of Haihan, the standard sponge filter cannot be produced, and it can only be replaced with high-quality cotton. For this reason, it is much more advanced than ordinary cigarettes without filters on the market.
"This is a new product? No wonder." Chen Yixin looked at the cigarette in his hand, took another puff, and said vaguely, "Good stuff!"
Sha Xi went on to say: "It takes more than a month to transport from Sanya to Liaodong, and part of the journey will be exploited and taken away by big bosses from all over the country, so there is not much left when transported here..."
Chen Yixin raised his hand to stop Sha Xi from continuing to say: "First, get a box for each person at the frontline headquarters, no problem?"
Shaxi shook his head and said, "At most, one person can exchange five ... one cigarette for ten people who can work."
Chen Yixin frowned slightly, thinking to himself that you are waiting for me here.All the generals in the frontline headquarters, including Chen Yixin, had to smoke, five five twenty five, and at least 25 laborers would be left for Sha Xi.Although this is not a large amount, it is quite a lot for the Lushun area where human resources are stretched.
Since he knew that the other party had a plan, Chen Yixin would not agree easily, shook his head and said, "What you take out now is nothing more than a taste. Since it is an internal special supply, the logistics department will send it soon, at most. It's only ten days and a half late, and you still use it to find me to replace it, isn't it too perfunctory."
Sha Xi smiled and said: "To tell you the truth, the tobacco plantations in Annan are also limited in production, so this batch of cigarettes for internal special supply is only three hundred boxes in total, one third of which were brought by me. Going north, you have to wait for the next batch, which may be by the end of the year."
Seeing that Chen Yixin didn't answer the call right away, Sha Xi knew that he was probably calculating the pros and cons, so he added: "I still have some barrels of wine here, all of which have been cellared for five to seven years. I think you are in Liaodong. Can't drink this stuff either. If you're willing to make the deal, I'll send you two more barrels of wine."
Chen Yixin thought that the others were fine. Tom Wang and Morgan were known to like to drink wine. If they could get a few barrels of wine back, they would definitely be very happy.However, this matter was definitely in conflict with Qian Tiandun's order, and he was still worried that his own assertion would make Qian Tiandun unhappy.
Sha Xi seemed to see through his mind, and continued to persuade: "These are all consolation items that are not easy to get in the market. Commander Qian is a reasonable person, and of course he will not embarrass everyone on this kind of thing."
Chen Yixin sighed, raised his head and said to Sha Xi, "That five-barrel bar!"
"Three barrels! I'll ask someone to move it!" Seeing Chen Yixin's resignation, Sha Xi knew that this could be done, and immediately started bargaining with him: "It's not my brother, I'm stingy, there are five barrels of wine on hand, so I have to keep some. The goods are the bottom line, or when Commander Qian and the others come back from the front line, I won't even be able to get the good wine to entertain them."
"Then add another cigarette to each person!" Chen Yixin saw that it was difficult to break through here, so he feinted and returned to the cigarette.
"Forget it, that's it!" Sha Xi also knew that he couldn't bear the child's inability to catch the wolf, so he gritted his teeth and agreed.
Although these items were specially supplied internally, because the quantity he needed was relatively large and far exceeded his personal quota, he had to pay for the goods at the beginning, and he had paid for the goods when they were shipped all the way to the north.As for the purpose, it is just like the current use, it is used to win the relationship.The more than 200 labors exchanged for these things are all the results of his own money.Although the value of these items is not astronomical, for the Liaodong region where supplies are relatively scarce, these items are indeed not so easy to obtain.The military's willingness to sacrifice a little principle for this is also Shaxi's expected reaction.
Of course, this kind of absurd situation can only happen in this special environment.Shaxi didn't want to fight against the military, nor did he want to become a follower of the military.He roughly knows the military's combat plan in Liaodong, so he has to hurry up to develop and construct the Lushun area, even if it is worth paying a little money to subsidize it. All these investments are recovered in hundreds and thousands of times, and the difference is nothing more than the length of time.
Shaxi has accumulated a lot of experience during his stay in Guangdong, and he already knows the development model of Haihan Colony.Before he came to Liaodong, he had realized most of the family property he had saved over the years, and applied for several business projects to the Ministry of Agriculture. He was relieved to make a career in Liaodong.Although the labor cost here is extremely high at this stage, Shaxi still has full confidence in his plan and is willing to pour a lot of money into it.
Chen Yixin didn't expect Sha Xi to have so many plans. Since Sha Xi was willing to bleed a lot in exchange for labor, Chen Yixin simply granted him.So the sailboat sailing from Lushun to the Jinzhou Isthmus the next day was carrying less than 200 people and a lot of seemingly inconspicuous goods.
Of course, out of prudence, after Chen Yixin reached a verbal agreement with Sha Xi, he used the radio to inform Qian Tiandun of the situation on the front line.However, after listening to the ins and outs, Qian Tiandun did not blame Chen Yixin for making an assertion, but let him continue to stay in Lushun to supervise the local material transfer and resettlement.
As Sha Xi said, Qian Tiandun is indeed not a scrupulous person. The more than 200 laborers can play a limited role in the defense line reconstruction project, but it may have a significant impact on the infrastructure project in Lushun. .Qian Tiandun knew that the executive committee sent Sha Xi to Liaodong to take over the civil affairs here after the war, so he didn't want to have any unpleasantness with Sha Xi because of such a trivial matter, let alone the other party expressed enough goodwill, This kind of transaction is also acceptable in Qian Tiandun's view.
Qian Tiandun has been in the north much longer than Sha Xi, and he has a better understanding of the environment here. He knows that instead of competing with his colleagues here for two or three hundred people, it is better to spend more time in places outside Liaodong. , and strive to recruit more immigrants from Shandong and Pidao in the near future to supplement the manpower demand gap in Liaodong.
However, given the current situation, the Shandong government has become more and more wary of the existence of Haihan, and has tightened the trend of population flow from other places to Fushan County, Dengzhou.The local people in Fushan County who have a strong desire to immigrate have already left in various ways in the past year or so. The clan that held Haihan's thigh tightly obeyed Haihan's arrangement.
After Haihan arrived in Shandong, almost all the bandits and bandits near Dengzhou were wiped out, and even the officers and soldiers did not dare to act recklessly among the people.Under such circumstances, the number of local migrants in Shandong has shown a downward trend month by month. Now it is considered a lot to have 500 people a month, and this order of magnitude obviously cannot meet the population needs of the current development of the Liaodong colony.
As a result, Phi Dao, which still has a population of tens of thousands, has become Haihan's life-saving straw.In the past year or so, almost all of the Liaodong refugees sheltered on Phi Island have been taken away by Haihan and sent to various places for resettlement.And now the people living on Phi Island are basically the Phi Island Army and their families.
Although Haihan and Shen's uncle and nephew have reached an oral agreement to gradually move the soldiers and civilians of Phi Island back to the Liaodong Peninsula to settle in after the war, there is still a big and no small problem, and that is whether Haihan should be fully incorporated The armed forces of Dongjiang Town.
Shen Zhixiang really wanted to fall into the arms of Haihan, but Dongjiang Town was not monolithic, and not everyone chose to give up Daming like him.If you want to incorporate Dongjiang Town, you will definitely encounter a lot of resistance, and Haihan does not want the undercurrent situation in Liaodong, which has just been won.Moreover, Haihan hopes to use the signboard of Dongjiang Town to act in Liaodong, so as to avoid causing excessive fear in Daming. The inclusion is a superfluous move.
However, if it is not incorporated and the tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Dongjiang Town are autonomous in the southern enclosure of Jinzhou, this is also very likely to become a factor of local instability.Haihan must have handled this matter properly before he dared to let the special forces battalion and other elite troops withdraw from Liaodong.
(End of this chapter)