Chapter 1816
Digesting Refugees
Chapter 1816 Digesting Refugees
"My lord, the barracks on the island are already full of refugees, and there is really no place for these people who were sent today..."
"Understood. There are still more than 20 large tents in the army's munitions warehouse. Go tell the company commander and ask him to take them out. First, arrange for the elderly, weak, women and children to live in. As for the others... tonight, we will put them in the open air." Just let it go, there should be a place to resettle tomorrow." Liu Shang looked at the many refugees who were disembarking from the boat at the seaside pier, and ordered his subordinates calmly.
Since the coalition forces officially launched a large-scale raid on the coast of Liaodong this month, the number and frequency of refugees sent to Guanglu Island have increased several times compared to before, so that the refugee camp on the island has become overcrowded.If Liu Shang hadn't seized the time to build some simple houses after he came to Guanglu Island, speeding up the registration and transfer of refugees, the current situation would have already exceeded the capacity of the refugee camp.
Now there are more than 800 temporary residents in the refugee camp on the island, and there are at least [-] refugees sent by this fleet today. His subordinates can only come to ask for instructions on how to resettle these new arrivals.As for the tents in the military's stockpile, civilian officials have no right to requisition them, and the refugee camps can use these military supplies only after Liu Shang comes forward to greet the military.
Fortunately, the coalition forces had contacted Jinzhou early on, and transported a large amount of food, quilts, medicinal materials and other materials to Guanglu Island in advance for preparation. Except for the relatively crowded residences on the island, there was no gap in the supply of materials. There are slightly fewer things for Liu Shang to worry about.But he knows that to alleviate the problem of insufficient receiving capacity on the island, it is not enough to rely solely on expanding the capacity of the refugee camp, because the number of troops and civil affairs staff on the island is limited after all, and there is also an upper limit on the refugee population that can be managed.And Jinzhou's manpower is also tight, and there is no way to transfer more professionals for Liu Shang to command, so he can only adapt to local conditions and find a way to solve the immediate difficulties by himself.
Liu Shang was able to be entrusted with the important task of handling the affairs of the Guanglu Island Refugee Camp on his own, naturally he had a set of means in this regard.How to select people who are obedient and not too stupid from the refugees as temporary subordinates? Liu Shang has practical experience in both Zhifu Island and Lushun, and the current situation on Guanglu Island just allows him to use this means to solve the problem.
Of course, he would not use his precious time to interview refugees one by one, because the efficiency of doing so would be too low.At this time, the registration procedures for refugees come into play. Although the recorded personal information is very simple, people with special expertise will make notes in the information. For example, people who can read and write will have a type on the information The word "wen" in the circle indicates that the person is literate, and craftsmen with craftsman will have the word "craftsman", and so on.If his expertise is extraordinary, there will be more detailed notes, and even a direct recommendation to Liu Shang.
Since he came to Guanglu Island, he has successively selected more than 20 available people from the refugees on the island. Most of them were village chiefs, yamen servants, and clerks in the countryside during the reign of the Ming Dynasty. The working personnel have certain practical experience in how to manage the people, and can understand and execute the tasks assigned by Liu Shang.Some people who are more proactive will also put forward some specific suggestions to Liu Shang to improve the efficiency of the existing refugee identity verification and registration procedures.
Although these people are not yet loyal to Haihan, Liu Shang told them that as long as they complete the errands assigned to them on Guanglu Island, and settle down in the Haihan Kingdom ruled area, they can still work in the yamen. , and even become grassroots officials.And Liu Shang himself said that from a commoner to an official with real power, such a case is undoubtedly very convincing.
For these "former civil servants" who once served in the Ming government and were later kicked out by the Manchus, they can have the opportunity to return to work in the government, even if the government is not affiliated to the Ming Dynasty, as long as the Han people are still in power, that is also possible. Let them see the hope of starting a new life.Moreover, they have heard the news that the Haihan people have laid down a ruling area in Liaodong to fight against the Qing Dynasty. In the past two years, it is much better to get the protection of the Haihan people than the Ming court's indifference.As long as you can live well, working for the Haihan people is not a taboo option.
What Liu Shang instilled in these people is this kind of thinking that the east is not bright and the west is bright. As long as their thoughts are released and they start to work for Haihan willingly, then with the increase of work experience, they will naturally Gradually realizing Haihan's powerful strength, they will know that allegiance to Haihan is the most sensible choice in their lives—just like Liu Shang's own mental journey along the way.
For these local Han people in Liaodong, Liu Shang's role as a role model is still quite large.Since everyone is a Han Chinese who came out of Ming Dynasty, and they all have two arms and two legs, if others can become high-ranking officials in Haihan, they will naturally have the idea of "I can do it myself".And such ideas will naturally continue to stimulate them and give them more motivation to work, thereby improving their work efficiency and reliability.
Of course, most of Liu Shang's methods are learned from the professional training he received in Sanya, and only a small part is the result of his own work in the past few years.To deal with these country people who have never seen the world, it is enough to use some small tricks.
Although Liu Shang didn't know much about the battle situation on the front line, judging from the number of refugees and military wounded sent to Guanglu Island these days, it is not difficult to infer Haihan's current dominant position in the Liaodong war.
Especially the refugees sent to the island recently were packaged and transported by the whole village or even the whole town, and most of the people were neat and there were no casualties, which shows that the coalition forces organized by Haihan did not encounter too much force when they took these places on the front line resistance.
Of course, this is also a reasonable phenomenon. After all, I heard that the Qing army concentrated on the Yalu River to fight North Korea, and almost half of the defenders on the Liaodong Peninsula were piled up in Jinzhou to prevent the Haihan army from going north. Attacking, the Qing army's defense line near the long coastline will definitely be like a sieve, allowing the Haihan army to take whatever it wants locally.
According to Liu Shang's own statistics, if the population of Dongjiang Town is excluded, the population obtained from the Liaodong area in the whole year of last year is probably not as large as that obtained in the recent month.Since he came to Guanglu Island, the number of refugees transported to the island by various ships has been about [-], and this is only a part of the population captured from the Qing ruled area. It is said that there are still several thousand people It has been sent to the new colony in North Korea for resettlement. It can be seen that this period of time has really been fruitful.
For Haihan's colony in Liaodong, the population will never be too large.Although the actual area that Haihan occupies in the area south of the Jinzhou Isthmus is less than 3 square kilometers, it is not small compared to other overseas colonies.For example, in the Zhifu Island area of Dengzhou, Shandong, which faces across the sea, even if most of Fushan County is included in the Haihan control area, it is only about [-] square kilometers, and the current population living in this area has exceeded [-] million people.
For horizontal comparison, the total population of Lushun and Jinzhou is about 3 people. However, according to Haihan’s development plan, it is normal to resettle 8 to [-] people in this area. Now it is still nearly half of this goal. .
As for how to arrange the livelihood of these people in a place where the arable land is not abundant, in fact, there is no need for the civil affairs department in Sanya to make plans. Liu Shang can make arrangements based on his gradual familiarity with the local environment over the past year. Eight.
In addition to traditional farming that requires a large amount of labor, it is undoubtedly an extremely wise choice to vigorously develop shipbuilding and fisheries based on the hydrological conditions of the local Lushunkou and Dalian Bay.If a large shipyard and port facilities of the same scale as Shengli Port can be built, at least several thousand people can be employed.The associated large-scale fishery and seawater salt production require considerable labor, no less than the employment opportunities provided by the shipbuilding industry.
In addition, because this area borders the occupied area of the Qing Dynasty, the armies of the two countries have been in a state of military confrontation for a long time. Haihan also has thousands of troops stationed here all the year round, so there are many related industries around the army and logistics.As far as Liu Shang knows, the military figures who have been stationed in Liaodong for the past two years intend to build the Jinzhou area into Haihan's largest military base in the north, and it may gradually become prosperous in the form of a military town in the future.
Although both the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty might be unwilling to lose this land, under the awe of Haihan's absolute force, neither of the two countries dared to take the initiative to raise troops here, so this is a war zone full of gunpowder. But it is also the safest area in Liaodong.Liu Shang looked at the panic-stricken refugees in front of him, and thought to himself that you are lucky to be picked up by the Haihan army from the Qing Dynasty.And it is the Koreans who are now being ravaged by the iron hooves of the Qing army who will replace them and accept the oppression under the rule of the Qing Dynasty.
After the Qing army invaded North Korea, they attacked three cities like a broken bamboo within three days. The speed of its advance forced the Haihan scouts who had stayed in North Korea to observe the movement of the Qing army to retract their activities to the coast, in order to In a critical moment, it can be evacuated from the sea in time.
However, after these three axes were used, the speed of the main force of the Qing army going south began to slow down.It's not that they encountered stubborn resistance from the North Korean army, but that their own logistical supplies could no longer keep up with the advancing speed of the front-line troops, so Huang Taiji had no choice but to temporarily slow down the pace of attack.
In fact, it is not impossible to solve the supply problem after going deep into North Korea. If the same situation is handed over to Haihan, it can be easily solved, but the shortcoming of the Qing army is that they have almost no ability to transport by sea-although the Haihan fleet has withdrawn Yalu River, but there are still several warships left near the mouth of the sea, so that the Qing army dare not let the sailboats on the inland river carry supplies to sea.And these heavy military supplies have to be transported on land to the front line hundreds of miles away by horses and horses, and the speed can be imagined.Moreover, the condition of the official roads in North Korea was really not good. The cavalry of the vanguard of the Qing army had already caused obvious damage to the road surface, making it difficult for the subsequent heavy carriages to pass.
Of course, although there are certain difficulties, they are nothing compared to the gains.The Qing army had already captured more than [-] Koreans on the way south. After the war, these prisoners were all slaves that the soldiers who participated in the war could actually get their hands on, so their morale was also very high.
What reassured Huang Taiji the most was that he was originally worried that the Haihan people would assist North Korea in fighting, but judging from the current situation, Haihan seemed to have really fallen out with North Korea, and had no intention of intervening in this war at all.As long as Haihan didn't send troops to intervene, even if North Korea piled all the soldiers and horses of the whole country to the north to fight the Qing army, Huang Taiji would not feel too much pressure.
But this relaxed feeling only lasted for three days. When the main force of the Qing army marched to Xuanchuan, the next stop, bad news came from the Qing Dynasty. The Haihan army frequently attacked the Liaodong coast. In a few days, several villages and towns have been captured and more than 5000 people have been taken away.According to the report of the local defenders, the Haihan army's attacks were all launched from the sea, and the strength of the landing force was at least 3000 to [-]. The Qing army scattered in various places did not have the strength to fight at all, and it has been lost intermittently. There are one or two thousand soldiers and horses.
These news immediately diluted the joy brought by the series of victories of the Qing army in North Korea. Haihan adopted such a tactic, obviously because he saw the emptiness of the domestic defense after the main force of the Qing army entered the DPRK, so that he could attack unscrupulously. The area controlled by the Qing Dynasty was looted wantonly.
"Sure enough, the Haihan people voluntarily retreated from the Yalu River because they had other plans!" In addition to getting angry when the bad news came, Huang Taiji also found helplessly that he had no good countermeasures to stop the other party's actions immediately.
It is impossible for the army to turn back. The war against North Korea has been prepared for more than a year, and now the war is going well. It is obviously not worthwhile to turn around and go back to the country to prevent Haihan's harassment, and it may hurt the current high morale.And with the temperament of the Haihan people, maybe the main force will be transferred back to the country to deploy defenses. The Haihan people will play the golden cicada escape again, continue to avoid fighting, or quickly transfer from the sea to other places to carry out sneak attacks.For the Qing army, Haihan's offensive was impossible to defend against, and it was very difficult to rely on passive defense to stop their actions.
Huang Taiji dared not even think about mobilizing troops from the direction of Jinzhou. It was hard to seal the Haihan people to the south of the Jinzhou Isthmus a year ago. Breaking through the Qing army's defense line in this area, the army that entered the court will have to return if it does not return, and it will be a situation where the gain outweighs the loss.
(End of this chapter)
"My lord, the barracks on the island are already full of refugees, and there is really no place for these people who were sent today..."
"Understood. There are still more than 20 large tents in the army's munitions warehouse. Go tell the company commander and ask him to take them out. First, arrange for the elderly, weak, women and children to live in. As for the others... tonight, we will put them in the open air." Just let it go, there should be a place to resettle tomorrow." Liu Shang looked at the many refugees who were disembarking from the boat at the seaside pier, and ordered his subordinates calmly.
Since the coalition forces officially launched a large-scale raid on the coast of Liaodong this month, the number and frequency of refugees sent to Guanglu Island have increased several times compared to before, so that the refugee camp on the island has become overcrowded.If Liu Shang hadn't seized the time to build some simple houses after he came to Guanglu Island, speeding up the registration and transfer of refugees, the current situation would have already exceeded the capacity of the refugee camp.
Now there are more than 800 temporary residents in the refugee camp on the island, and there are at least [-] refugees sent by this fleet today. His subordinates can only come to ask for instructions on how to resettle these new arrivals.As for the tents in the military's stockpile, civilian officials have no right to requisition them, and the refugee camps can use these military supplies only after Liu Shang comes forward to greet the military.
Fortunately, the coalition forces had contacted Jinzhou early on, and transported a large amount of food, quilts, medicinal materials and other materials to Guanglu Island in advance for preparation. Except for the relatively crowded residences on the island, there was no gap in the supply of materials. There are slightly fewer things for Liu Shang to worry about.But he knows that to alleviate the problem of insufficient receiving capacity on the island, it is not enough to rely solely on expanding the capacity of the refugee camp, because the number of troops and civil affairs staff on the island is limited after all, and there is also an upper limit on the refugee population that can be managed.And Jinzhou's manpower is also tight, and there is no way to transfer more professionals for Liu Shang to command, so he can only adapt to local conditions and find a way to solve the immediate difficulties by himself.
Liu Shang was able to be entrusted with the important task of handling the affairs of the Guanglu Island Refugee Camp on his own, naturally he had a set of means in this regard.How to select people who are obedient and not too stupid from the refugees as temporary subordinates? Liu Shang has practical experience in both Zhifu Island and Lushun, and the current situation on Guanglu Island just allows him to use this means to solve the problem.
Of course, he would not use his precious time to interview refugees one by one, because the efficiency of doing so would be too low.At this time, the registration procedures for refugees come into play. Although the recorded personal information is very simple, people with special expertise will make notes in the information. For example, people who can read and write will have a type on the information The word "wen" in the circle indicates that the person is literate, and craftsmen with craftsman will have the word "craftsman", and so on.If his expertise is extraordinary, there will be more detailed notes, and even a direct recommendation to Liu Shang.
Since he came to Guanglu Island, he has successively selected more than 20 available people from the refugees on the island. Most of them were village chiefs, yamen servants, and clerks in the countryside during the reign of the Ming Dynasty. The working personnel have certain practical experience in how to manage the people, and can understand and execute the tasks assigned by Liu Shang.Some people who are more proactive will also put forward some specific suggestions to Liu Shang to improve the efficiency of the existing refugee identity verification and registration procedures.
Although these people are not yet loyal to Haihan, Liu Shang told them that as long as they complete the errands assigned to them on Guanglu Island, and settle down in the Haihan Kingdom ruled area, they can still work in the yamen. , and even become grassroots officials.And Liu Shang himself said that from a commoner to an official with real power, such a case is undoubtedly very convincing.
For these "former civil servants" who once served in the Ming government and were later kicked out by the Manchus, they can have the opportunity to return to work in the government, even if the government is not affiliated to the Ming Dynasty, as long as the Han people are still in power, that is also possible. Let them see the hope of starting a new life.Moreover, they have heard the news that the Haihan people have laid down a ruling area in Liaodong to fight against the Qing Dynasty. In the past two years, it is much better to get the protection of the Haihan people than the Ming court's indifference.As long as you can live well, working for the Haihan people is not a taboo option.
What Liu Shang instilled in these people is this kind of thinking that the east is not bright and the west is bright. As long as their thoughts are released and they start to work for Haihan willingly, then with the increase of work experience, they will naturally Gradually realizing Haihan's powerful strength, they will know that allegiance to Haihan is the most sensible choice in their lives—just like Liu Shang's own mental journey along the way.
For these local Han people in Liaodong, Liu Shang's role as a role model is still quite large.Since everyone is a Han Chinese who came out of Ming Dynasty, and they all have two arms and two legs, if others can become high-ranking officials in Haihan, they will naturally have the idea of "I can do it myself".And such ideas will naturally continue to stimulate them and give them more motivation to work, thereby improving their work efficiency and reliability.
Of course, most of Liu Shang's methods are learned from the professional training he received in Sanya, and only a small part is the result of his own work in the past few years.To deal with these country people who have never seen the world, it is enough to use some small tricks.
Although Liu Shang didn't know much about the battle situation on the front line, judging from the number of refugees and military wounded sent to Guanglu Island these days, it is not difficult to infer Haihan's current dominant position in the Liaodong war.
Especially the refugees sent to the island recently were packaged and transported by the whole village or even the whole town, and most of the people were neat and there were no casualties, which shows that the coalition forces organized by Haihan did not encounter too much force when they took these places on the front line resistance.
Of course, this is also a reasonable phenomenon. After all, I heard that the Qing army concentrated on the Yalu River to fight North Korea, and almost half of the defenders on the Liaodong Peninsula were piled up in Jinzhou to prevent the Haihan army from going north. Attacking, the Qing army's defense line near the long coastline will definitely be like a sieve, allowing the Haihan army to take whatever it wants locally.
According to Liu Shang's own statistics, if the population of Dongjiang Town is excluded, the population obtained from the Liaodong area in the whole year of last year is probably not as large as that obtained in the recent month.Since he came to Guanglu Island, the number of refugees transported to the island by various ships has been about [-], and this is only a part of the population captured from the Qing ruled area. It is said that there are still several thousand people It has been sent to the new colony in North Korea for resettlement. It can be seen that this period of time has really been fruitful.
For Haihan's colony in Liaodong, the population will never be too large.Although the actual area that Haihan occupies in the area south of the Jinzhou Isthmus is less than 3 square kilometers, it is not small compared to other overseas colonies.For example, in the Zhifu Island area of Dengzhou, Shandong, which faces across the sea, even if most of Fushan County is included in the Haihan control area, it is only about [-] square kilometers, and the current population living in this area has exceeded [-] million people.
For horizontal comparison, the total population of Lushun and Jinzhou is about 3 people. However, according to Haihan’s development plan, it is normal to resettle 8 to [-] people in this area. Now it is still nearly half of this goal. .
As for how to arrange the livelihood of these people in a place where the arable land is not abundant, in fact, there is no need for the civil affairs department in Sanya to make plans. Liu Shang can make arrangements based on his gradual familiarity with the local environment over the past year. Eight.
In addition to traditional farming that requires a large amount of labor, it is undoubtedly an extremely wise choice to vigorously develop shipbuilding and fisheries based on the hydrological conditions of the local Lushunkou and Dalian Bay.If a large shipyard and port facilities of the same scale as Shengli Port can be built, at least several thousand people can be employed.The associated large-scale fishery and seawater salt production require considerable labor, no less than the employment opportunities provided by the shipbuilding industry.
In addition, because this area borders the occupied area of the Qing Dynasty, the armies of the two countries have been in a state of military confrontation for a long time. Haihan also has thousands of troops stationed here all the year round, so there are many related industries around the army and logistics.As far as Liu Shang knows, the military figures who have been stationed in Liaodong for the past two years intend to build the Jinzhou area into Haihan's largest military base in the north, and it may gradually become prosperous in the form of a military town in the future.
Although both the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty might be unwilling to lose this land, under the awe of Haihan's absolute force, neither of the two countries dared to take the initiative to raise troops here, so this is a war zone full of gunpowder. But it is also the safest area in Liaodong.Liu Shang looked at the panic-stricken refugees in front of him, and thought to himself that you are lucky to be picked up by the Haihan army from the Qing Dynasty.And it is the Koreans who are now being ravaged by the iron hooves of the Qing army who will replace them and accept the oppression under the rule of the Qing Dynasty.
After the Qing army invaded North Korea, they attacked three cities like a broken bamboo within three days. The speed of its advance forced the Haihan scouts who had stayed in North Korea to observe the movement of the Qing army to retract their activities to the coast, in order to In a critical moment, it can be evacuated from the sea in time.
However, after these three axes were used, the speed of the main force of the Qing army going south began to slow down.It's not that they encountered stubborn resistance from the North Korean army, but that their own logistical supplies could no longer keep up with the advancing speed of the front-line troops, so Huang Taiji had no choice but to temporarily slow down the pace of attack.
In fact, it is not impossible to solve the supply problem after going deep into North Korea. If the same situation is handed over to Haihan, it can be easily solved, but the shortcoming of the Qing army is that they have almost no ability to transport by sea-although the Haihan fleet has withdrawn Yalu River, but there are still several warships left near the mouth of the sea, so that the Qing army dare not let the sailboats on the inland river carry supplies to sea.And these heavy military supplies have to be transported on land to the front line hundreds of miles away by horses and horses, and the speed can be imagined.Moreover, the condition of the official roads in North Korea was really not good. The cavalry of the vanguard of the Qing army had already caused obvious damage to the road surface, making it difficult for the subsequent heavy carriages to pass.
Of course, although there are certain difficulties, they are nothing compared to the gains.The Qing army had already captured more than [-] Koreans on the way south. After the war, these prisoners were all slaves that the soldiers who participated in the war could actually get their hands on, so their morale was also very high.
What reassured Huang Taiji the most was that he was originally worried that the Haihan people would assist North Korea in fighting, but judging from the current situation, Haihan seemed to have really fallen out with North Korea, and had no intention of intervening in this war at all.As long as Haihan didn't send troops to intervene, even if North Korea piled all the soldiers and horses of the whole country to the north to fight the Qing army, Huang Taiji would not feel too much pressure.
But this relaxed feeling only lasted for three days. When the main force of the Qing army marched to Xuanchuan, the next stop, bad news came from the Qing Dynasty. The Haihan army frequently attacked the Liaodong coast. In a few days, several villages and towns have been captured and more than 5000 people have been taken away.According to the report of the local defenders, the Haihan army's attacks were all launched from the sea, and the strength of the landing force was at least 3000 to [-]. The Qing army scattered in various places did not have the strength to fight at all, and it has been lost intermittently. There are one or two thousand soldiers and horses.
These news immediately diluted the joy brought by the series of victories of the Qing army in North Korea. Haihan adopted such a tactic, obviously because he saw the emptiness of the domestic defense after the main force of the Qing army entered the DPRK, so that he could attack unscrupulously. The area controlled by the Qing Dynasty was looted wantonly.
"Sure enough, the Haihan people voluntarily retreated from the Yalu River because they had other plans!" In addition to getting angry when the bad news came, Huang Taiji also found helplessly that he had no good countermeasures to stop the other party's actions immediately.
It is impossible for the army to turn back. The war against North Korea has been prepared for more than a year, and now the war is going well. It is obviously not worthwhile to turn around and go back to the country to prevent Haihan's harassment, and it may hurt the current high morale.And with the temperament of the Haihan people, maybe the main force will be transferred back to the country to deploy defenses. The Haihan people will play the golden cicada escape again, continue to avoid fighting, or quickly transfer from the sea to other places to carry out sneak attacks.For the Qing army, Haihan's offensive was impossible to defend against, and it was very difficult to rely on passive defense to stop their actions.
Huang Taiji dared not even think about mobilizing troops from the direction of Jinzhou. It was hard to seal the Haihan people to the south of the Jinzhou Isthmus a year ago. Breaking through the Qing army's defense line in this area, the army that entered the court will have to return if it does not return, and it will be a situation where the gain outweighs the loss.
(End of this chapter)