Chapter 1676
Order Restoration
Order Restoration
The transformation of slave status is almost inevitable in this era. There are also a large number of slave populations from East Africa, West Asia, and South Asia in Manila.According to the records confiscated from the Governor's Mansion, there are currently at least [-] registered slaves living in the area around Manila Bay, and the actual number must be higher than that, because according to the past Spanish colonial government's management of slaves System, these slaves who enter the local market through official channels, the slave owners have paid taxes to the Manila authorities.In order to save this money, many slave owners would also try to secretly enter the country through private ports, and the existence of "black households" is also a common phenomenon here.
During the period of Spanish rule, it can be said that the probability of slaves being freed was very small. Generally speaking, they had to serve their masters as servants or coolies until the day they went to their graves. The lucky ones will be blessed by God.
After Haihan took over here, some slave owners had died in the war, and these slaves were automatically freed from slavery and became the first group of free people after the war.Of course, this kind of freedom is only relative. In the Manila area under the management of Haihan, not everyone can come and go as they want.Even free citizens still need to re-register their identity with the Haihan Civil Affairs Department. In the future, if they want to obtain Haihan nationality, they must have the official basic personal information.
Haihan's official attitude towards population trade has always been rather ambiguous. He does not publicly support it but will not explicitly oppose it. Of course, Haihan accepts all the slave population introduced by the Spaniards to the Manila area.However, these thousands of slaves have to be sorted, checked, and re-registered, which is also a very troublesome job for the civil affairs department in charge of Qiu Yuan.
For locals who did not take the initiative to engage in armed confrontation with the Haihan army, including Spanish immigrants, Haihan still recognized their property ownership in principle.And these slaves, according to the current law, are also part of private property.However, most of the local people have doubts about the management measures of the new ruler, coupled with language and cultural barriers, the demography of the Manila area is carried out very slowly.Qiu Yuan also had to refer to the materials left by the Spanish colonists to revise his own governance measures.
According to Qiu Yuan's idea, after taking over the administrative work in the Manila area, there are two tasks that must be carried out as soon as possible. One is to complete the investigation and registration of the local population status, and the other is to organize manpower to resume social production as soon as possible.One of Qiu Yuan's most important policies is to create more job opportunities so that people don't have to think about the negative impact of the change of dynasty on their lives.
In the past few years, Haihan has seized a lot of land from various countries using hard or soft means, and has also organized the restoration of social order after the war many times, and has a relatively mature operation plan.Qiu Yuan didn't bring many people, so he temporarily selected a group of Han people from the local area to be responsible for specific civil affairs, and took them to practice while training. .
The local industries in Manila are mainly commerce, food, and spices, but the level of agricultural technology of the Spaniards is far behind that of Haihan. The previous colonial government did not have a scientific long-term plan for agricultural development, so local agriculture is still Very extensive business model, the variety of agricultural products is relatively single, and there is also a lack of facilities for deep processing.But even so, agriculture is still one of the important pillar industries in the area. According to the statistics of the Spaniards, the local agricultural population accounts for about [-]% of the total population.
The senior officials of the Haihan Ministry of Agriculture referred to the development experience of this area in later generations, and planned to introduce a large number of cash crops such as coffee trees, tobacco, sugar cane, and oil palm in the plains near Manila, and to establish an agricultural deep-processing industry chain to improve the local economy. The economic value of agricultural products.Most of the people with relatively clean backgrounds, including those who have already had freed slaves, have been cleaned up by the civil affairs agency from the local area through investigation and statistics. Most of them will be put into agricultural development in the next few years as labor force.
However, it will take at least two or three years for this plan to see real results. What can be done at present is to organize the idle people inside and outside the city first and let them resume productive work. This will also help stabilize the local social order. situation.
Qiu Yuan's purpose is very clear. Since the local agricultural population accounts for a relatively large proportion, as long as these people can have a stable livelihood, the local situation will not be prone to chaos.And creating jobs for the agricultural population is one of the ruling skills that Haihan is good at.Based on the natural conditions of the northern plains of Manila Bay, with proper planning, it is no problem to support 80 million people.
Restoring the local business and trade industry is even more familiar to Haihan. Manila itself is a trading port built by the sea. If Haihan was not born a few years ago, Manila is also the main trade center of the South China Sea at this time. One, it should be almost the same as Batavia run by the Dutch.With such unique natural conditions, Haihan, who is good at port management, must of course try to build it into a free trade port similar to Sanya.This means that there will be many infrastructure projects and jobs, and a large amount of labor will also need to be recruited locally.
A few days after Qiu Yuan arrived in Manila, notices began to appear on the streets that the government would recruit a large number of local laborers. The content was written in both Chinese characters and Spanish. Location, after registering personal information, you will be able to get a job assignment opportunity.Even those who have just been released from slavery will be treated equally.
For the locals who were in panic after the war, these recruitment notices are tantamount to the beginning of a new life. As long as the war ends and they can get a job that can support them, it seems that it is not important who will be the ruler of Manila. What's the matter.
On the first day after the notice was posted on the street, more than 500 people went to the registration place designated by the government to register, lest they miss this opportunity.And when the government fulfilled the treatment stated in the notice, the news spread that these people would be assigned jobs immediately after registering their materials, and more people who had originally held a wait-and-see attitude couldn't sit still, and went to fight for a livelihood for themselves.By the third day, the number of people officially registered had exceeded [-], and about half of them were assigned to the Port of Manila to renovate and expand the terminal facilities here.Most of the rest were sent to the newly established state-owned farms in the north of the city, where they cultivated new farmland to plant various economic crops planned by the Ministry of Agriculture.
During the Spanish occupation period, the scale of the port of Manila was actually not small. The Manila fleet was stationed in this port in its heyday, and it occupied less than one-third of the entire port.It’s just that the development and construction of the wharf by the Spaniards was limited by the productivity and shipbuilding level of this era. They never considered that such a large sailing ship that Haihan could build would enter the port and berth, and they still tended to be conservative in the design of berths.In addition, there is no large-scale equipment on the port, unlike the port operated by Haihan, which not only has convenient dry bulk cargo lifting tools, but also port facilities such as the sea-to-land wharf rail transportation system that can improve the efficiency of loading and unloading.
To expand the scale of trade here, Qiu Yuan believes that the cargo throughput capacity of the port should be improved first, and after he inspected the Manila Port on the spot, he thought that the old situation was obviously not suitable for Haihan's operating standards, so it was necessary to first improve the port's cargo handling capacity. The wharf has been upgraded to a certain extent, so that this sea gateway can ensure the unimpeded flow of goods in and out of the port.
Of course, to carry out the renovation envisaged by Qiu Yuan, the amount of work is not small. It is estimated that the construction period will be at least three to six months, and the construction will be divided into stages to ensure that the Manila Port can still maintain normal operation during the construction period.So while this brought a lot of jobs, it also brought a lot of financial pressure to the newly appointed Qiu Yuan.Even if it is calculated according to the cheapest project cost standard, the cost of the renovation project of Manila Port will be in the millions, and the construction funds approved by the Executive Committee are too different. Very thrifty.
Fortunately, Qiu Yuan was also prepared for this situation. When he set off from Sanya this time, in addition to grassroots officials from various departments, there were also businessmen from Daming, Annan, Portugal and other countries in the fleet.The purpose of these foreign businessmen who went to Manila immediately after the war was naturally to seize the territory as soon as possible, and what kind of benefits they could get in the emerging colonies. They had already tasted the sweetness in the past few years.And they were able to get this opportunity because of their close relationship with Haihan officials, so they could get these internal information early.
Of course, this kind of "care" is not unilateral. Since they want to benefit from the newly occupied colonies of Haihan, they have to pay some exchange conditions. For example, paying for the local port facilities is one of them.Qiu Yuan called these merchants together for a meeting, revealing that the funds for the construction of the port are somewhat insufficient. However, after the port is completed, priority will be given to those merchants who have made contributions during this period to allocate docks and warehouses.So each family understood what they knew and decisively donated money and materials to show their support for the government. In just one day, the problem of the project funding gap was basically solved.
The returns that merchants get in exchange for this are not limited to the benefits of ports and docks. The next agricultural development in inland areas, these bloody merchants also have the priority of enclosing land and choosing business projects. .
The Ministry of Agriculture has prepared a number of plantation projects with a unit of [-] mu for them, and they are waiting for these businesses to choose by themselves and go to the northern inland enclosure for implementation.Similar cooperation has been implemented many times in other Haihan ruled areas, and both parties are already familiar with it, and there is nothing to worry about in the process.The current plan of the Ministry of Agriculture is to complete the preliminary enclosure and planting project determination as soon as possible, and then transport the seedlings here from the breeding base in Hainan Island, and strive to put the first batch of plantations into official operation before the National Day this year.
As for the many mineral deposits on Luzon Island, there is currently not enough manpower to develop them. No matter how many ideas Qiu Yuan has, he can only stare at the map first.The executive committee did not ask him to come up with a specific mining timetable, and the situation in Manila will be stabilized within the year, so that various management tasks will gradually get on track, so it will be a good deal.
A week after Roger's troops left, Harukon also left Manila with the cavalry battalion, first returned to Hainan Island for a short-term rest, and then went to the Liaodong area, just in time for the possible confrontation after the beginning of spring.Although the cavalry battalion did not make any great achievements in Manila this time, the harvest was not small. In addition to the military rewards from the Ministry of Defense, Harukone also took away more than 40 Andalusian young horses collected from local pastures. horse.If Yan Chujie hadn't said that he wanted to keep a batch of war horses locally, he would probably even ship all the Spanish war horses captured after the war.
After the cavalry battalion withdrew, the naval fleet that was going to Manila this time also set sail and returned to their stations.Wang Tom personally led the Marine Corps to the north, and now the only place where his troops can continue to train is probably the distant Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea.However, apart from Hou Jin's opponent, Wang Tom himself has other plans, but the time is not yet ripe, so Wang Tom will focus on training first, and slowly prepare for accumulating combat experience.
The last special force to leave the port of Manila was Qian Tiandun's special operations battalion, and Defense Minister Yan Chujie also returned to Sanya with them.As one of the most powerful ministers who conquered Manila this time, the special warfare battalion will be greeted by the people when they return to Sanya, and will participate in the celebration parade specially prepared by the Executive Committee.Of course, the long-awaited upgrade of Qian Tiandun and the Special Operations Battalion will also be officially announced during the event as a reward for this legendary unit.
However, before the special operations battalion withdrew from Manila, there was a small episode, that is, Haihan quietly released the Spaniard Aragones, and dispatched a Spanish merchant ship to him, so that he could go to the South China Sea. Colonies under Spanish rule.After being captured, Aragones chose to cooperate with Haihan in exchange for freedom, and Haihan finally fulfilled this agreement.It's just that Aragones' status as the governor of the Philippines has existed in name only since then, and he may still be punished by Spain in the future. Even if he recovers his freedom from Haihan, he may not be able to live a comfortable life in the future.
(End of this chapter)
The transformation of slave status is almost inevitable in this era. There are also a large number of slave populations from East Africa, West Asia, and South Asia in Manila.According to the records confiscated from the Governor's Mansion, there are currently at least [-] registered slaves living in the area around Manila Bay, and the actual number must be higher than that, because according to the past Spanish colonial government's management of slaves System, these slaves who enter the local market through official channels, the slave owners have paid taxes to the Manila authorities.In order to save this money, many slave owners would also try to secretly enter the country through private ports, and the existence of "black households" is also a common phenomenon here.
During the period of Spanish rule, it can be said that the probability of slaves being freed was very small. Generally speaking, they had to serve their masters as servants or coolies until the day they went to their graves. The lucky ones will be blessed by God.
After Haihan took over here, some slave owners had died in the war, and these slaves were automatically freed from slavery and became the first group of free people after the war.Of course, this kind of freedom is only relative. In the Manila area under the management of Haihan, not everyone can come and go as they want.Even free citizens still need to re-register their identity with the Haihan Civil Affairs Department. In the future, if they want to obtain Haihan nationality, they must have the official basic personal information.
Haihan's official attitude towards population trade has always been rather ambiguous. He does not publicly support it but will not explicitly oppose it. Of course, Haihan accepts all the slave population introduced by the Spaniards to the Manila area.However, these thousands of slaves have to be sorted, checked, and re-registered, which is also a very troublesome job for the civil affairs department in charge of Qiu Yuan.
For locals who did not take the initiative to engage in armed confrontation with the Haihan army, including Spanish immigrants, Haihan still recognized their property ownership in principle.And these slaves, according to the current law, are also part of private property.However, most of the local people have doubts about the management measures of the new ruler, coupled with language and cultural barriers, the demography of the Manila area is carried out very slowly.Qiu Yuan also had to refer to the materials left by the Spanish colonists to revise his own governance measures.
According to Qiu Yuan's idea, after taking over the administrative work in the Manila area, there are two tasks that must be carried out as soon as possible. One is to complete the investigation and registration of the local population status, and the other is to organize manpower to resume social production as soon as possible.One of Qiu Yuan's most important policies is to create more job opportunities so that people don't have to think about the negative impact of the change of dynasty on their lives.
In the past few years, Haihan has seized a lot of land from various countries using hard or soft means, and has also organized the restoration of social order after the war many times, and has a relatively mature operation plan.Qiu Yuan didn't bring many people, so he temporarily selected a group of Han people from the local area to be responsible for specific civil affairs, and took them to practice while training. .
The local industries in Manila are mainly commerce, food, and spices, but the level of agricultural technology of the Spaniards is far behind that of Haihan. The previous colonial government did not have a scientific long-term plan for agricultural development, so local agriculture is still Very extensive business model, the variety of agricultural products is relatively single, and there is also a lack of facilities for deep processing.But even so, agriculture is still one of the important pillar industries in the area. According to the statistics of the Spaniards, the local agricultural population accounts for about [-]% of the total population.
The senior officials of the Haihan Ministry of Agriculture referred to the development experience of this area in later generations, and planned to introduce a large number of cash crops such as coffee trees, tobacco, sugar cane, and oil palm in the plains near Manila, and to establish an agricultural deep-processing industry chain to improve the local economy. The economic value of agricultural products.Most of the people with relatively clean backgrounds, including those who have already had freed slaves, have been cleaned up by the civil affairs agency from the local area through investigation and statistics. Most of them will be put into agricultural development in the next few years as labor force.
However, it will take at least two or three years for this plan to see real results. What can be done at present is to organize the idle people inside and outside the city first and let them resume productive work. This will also help stabilize the local social order. situation.
Qiu Yuan's purpose is very clear. Since the local agricultural population accounts for a relatively large proportion, as long as these people can have a stable livelihood, the local situation will not be prone to chaos.And creating jobs for the agricultural population is one of the ruling skills that Haihan is good at.Based on the natural conditions of the northern plains of Manila Bay, with proper planning, it is no problem to support 80 million people.
Restoring the local business and trade industry is even more familiar to Haihan. Manila itself is a trading port built by the sea. If Haihan was not born a few years ago, Manila is also the main trade center of the South China Sea at this time. One, it should be almost the same as Batavia run by the Dutch.With such unique natural conditions, Haihan, who is good at port management, must of course try to build it into a free trade port similar to Sanya.This means that there will be many infrastructure projects and jobs, and a large amount of labor will also need to be recruited locally.
A few days after Qiu Yuan arrived in Manila, notices began to appear on the streets that the government would recruit a large number of local laborers. The content was written in both Chinese characters and Spanish. Location, after registering personal information, you will be able to get a job assignment opportunity.Even those who have just been released from slavery will be treated equally.
For the locals who were in panic after the war, these recruitment notices are tantamount to the beginning of a new life. As long as the war ends and they can get a job that can support them, it seems that it is not important who will be the ruler of Manila. What's the matter.
On the first day after the notice was posted on the street, more than 500 people went to the registration place designated by the government to register, lest they miss this opportunity.And when the government fulfilled the treatment stated in the notice, the news spread that these people would be assigned jobs immediately after registering their materials, and more people who had originally held a wait-and-see attitude couldn't sit still, and went to fight for a livelihood for themselves.By the third day, the number of people officially registered had exceeded [-], and about half of them were assigned to the Port of Manila to renovate and expand the terminal facilities here.Most of the rest were sent to the newly established state-owned farms in the north of the city, where they cultivated new farmland to plant various economic crops planned by the Ministry of Agriculture.
During the Spanish occupation period, the scale of the port of Manila was actually not small. The Manila fleet was stationed in this port in its heyday, and it occupied less than one-third of the entire port.It’s just that the development and construction of the wharf by the Spaniards was limited by the productivity and shipbuilding level of this era. They never considered that such a large sailing ship that Haihan could build would enter the port and berth, and they still tended to be conservative in the design of berths.In addition, there is no large-scale equipment on the port, unlike the port operated by Haihan, which not only has convenient dry bulk cargo lifting tools, but also port facilities such as the sea-to-land wharf rail transportation system that can improve the efficiency of loading and unloading.
To expand the scale of trade here, Qiu Yuan believes that the cargo throughput capacity of the port should be improved first, and after he inspected the Manila Port on the spot, he thought that the old situation was obviously not suitable for Haihan's operating standards, so it was necessary to first improve the port's cargo handling capacity. The wharf has been upgraded to a certain extent, so that this sea gateway can ensure the unimpeded flow of goods in and out of the port.
Of course, to carry out the renovation envisaged by Qiu Yuan, the amount of work is not small. It is estimated that the construction period will be at least three to six months, and the construction will be divided into stages to ensure that the Manila Port can still maintain normal operation during the construction period.So while this brought a lot of jobs, it also brought a lot of financial pressure to the newly appointed Qiu Yuan.Even if it is calculated according to the cheapest project cost standard, the cost of the renovation project of Manila Port will be in the millions, and the construction funds approved by the Executive Committee are too different. Very thrifty.
Fortunately, Qiu Yuan was also prepared for this situation. When he set off from Sanya this time, in addition to grassroots officials from various departments, there were also businessmen from Daming, Annan, Portugal and other countries in the fleet.The purpose of these foreign businessmen who went to Manila immediately after the war was naturally to seize the territory as soon as possible, and what kind of benefits they could get in the emerging colonies. They had already tasted the sweetness in the past few years.And they were able to get this opportunity because of their close relationship with Haihan officials, so they could get these internal information early.
Of course, this kind of "care" is not unilateral. Since they want to benefit from the newly occupied colonies of Haihan, they have to pay some exchange conditions. For example, paying for the local port facilities is one of them.Qiu Yuan called these merchants together for a meeting, revealing that the funds for the construction of the port are somewhat insufficient. However, after the port is completed, priority will be given to those merchants who have made contributions during this period to allocate docks and warehouses.So each family understood what they knew and decisively donated money and materials to show their support for the government. In just one day, the problem of the project funding gap was basically solved.
The returns that merchants get in exchange for this are not limited to the benefits of ports and docks. The next agricultural development in inland areas, these bloody merchants also have the priority of enclosing land and choosing business projects. .
The Ministry of Agriculture has prepared a number of plantation projects with a unit of [-] mu for them, and they are waiting for these businesses to choose by themselves and go to the northern inland enclosure for implementation.Similar cooperation has been implemented many times in other Haihan ruled areas, and both parties are already familiar with it, and there is nothing to worry about in the process.The current plan of the Ministry of Agriculture is to complete the preliminary enclosure and planting project determination as soon as possible, and then transport the seedlings here from the breeding base in Hainan Island, and strive to put the first batch of plantations into official operation before the National Day this year.
As for the many mineral deposits on Luzon Island, there is currently not enough manpower to develop them. No matter how many ideas Qiu Yuan has, he can only stare at the map first.The executive committee did not ask him to come up with a specific mining timetable, and the situation in Manila will be stabilized within the year, so that various management tasks will gradually get on track, so it will be a good deal.
A week after Roger's troops left, Harukon also left Manila with the cavalry battalion, first returned to Hainan Island for a short-term rest, and then went to the Liaodong area, just in time for the possible confrontation after the beginning of spring.Although the cavalry battalion did not make any great achievements in Manila this time, the harvest was not small. In addition to the military rewards from the Ministry of Defense, Harukone also took away more than 40 Andalusian young horses collected from local pastures. horse.If Yan Chujie hadn't said that he wanted to keep a batch of war horses locally, he would probably even ship all the Spanish war horses captured after the war.
After the cavalry battalion withdrew, the naval fleet that was going to Manila this time also set sail and returned to their stations.Wang Tom personally led the Marine Corps to the north, and now the only place where his troops can continue to train is probably the distant Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea.However, apart from Hou Jin's opponent, Wang Tom himself has other plans, but the time is not yet ripe, so Wang Tom will focus on training first, and slowly prepare for accumulating combat experience.
The last special force to leave the port of Manila was Qian Tiandun's special operations battalion, and Defense Minister Yan Chujie also returned to Sanya with them.As one of the most powerful ministers who conquered Manila this time, the special warfare battalion will be greeted by the people when they return to Sanya, and will participate in the celebration parade specially prepared by the Executive Committee.Of course, the long-awaited upgrade of Qian Tiandun and the Special Operations Battalion will also be officially announced during the event as a reward for this legendary unit.
However, before the special operations battalion withdrew from Manila, there was a small episode, that is, Haihan quietly released the Spaniard Aragones, and dispatched a Spanish merchant ship to him, so that he could go to the South China Sea. Colonies under Spanish rule.After being captured, Aragones chose to cooperate with Haihan in exchange for freedom, and Haihan finally fulfilled this agreement.It's just that Aragones' status as the governor of the Philippines has existed in name only since then, and he may still be punished by Spain in the future. Even if he recovers his freedom from Haihan, he may not be able to live a comfortable life in the future.
(End of this chapter)