Under the efforts of everyone in the Qiwei Dart Bureau. () The sugar workers such as the sugar cooks in each sugar liao have been recruited, although it is a little late to recruit people now, the most haode masters have been invited away, and the rest are old and young, and jishu is not very good, so all the sugar liao have caught up with the crushing season. Wen Tong informed the five sugar cane houses under his name that all sugarcane from other villages that are willing to be processed on behalf of the company will only charge 30% of the sugar as a processing fee, so as to attract small sugarcane farmers who do not have sugar liao to process and earn more red sugar. At the same time, he asked all sugar houses to openly purchase various sugar products, including red sugar, sugar bricks, including processed surplus sugar mi, and also welcomed and purchased together.

"Tell them that bagasse too!" Wen Tong excitedly shouted to Wen Xiu and Wen Qing, who acted as messengers, because these two brothers were coarse and fluent in literature and ink, and they knew Mandarin, so they became Wen Tong's secretary and messenger, and they ran around in Leizhou for three days to convey various orders, and their faces were tanned a lot. Wen Tong wrote to the stewards of the Tangliao and Zhuangzi that he had just recruited every day to give various instructions, and at the same time asked these people to report to him regularly. For the convenience of conveying information, for the sake of convenience. Liao Dahua specially bought a few sedan chairs and raised a group of sedan chair drivers to be on call to pick up and drop off at any time.

As for the day laborers in the sugarcane fields, Wen Tong soon found himself unable to recruit enough people from the local area. The price of short-term labor during the sugarcane harvest season has skyrocketed, and because they started late, almost all of the idle labor in the countryside has been recruited by other sugarcane farmers. Wen Tong couldn't, so he had to wait for Guangzhou to send labor.

Guangzhou was ready to send the first batch of 200 people, and he originally wanted more. However, there are not so many people living in the dilapidated houses in the Zhuangzi and Tangliao, and most of the only houses need to be repaired, and supporting rooms and toilets must be built. Food, drinking water, and even pots for cooking for these people had to be bought. In the 17th century, it was difficult to arrange accommodation for so many people, and you had to do everything yourself.

Fortunately, there is a branch of the Wei Dart Bureau here, including the procurement of food, the hiring of craftsmen to repair the house, negotiations with the government and other things are handled by Liao Dahua, which is a great help.

In Guangzhou, Zhang Xin asked Sun Changlai to be in charge of organizing the first batch of immigrants to Xuzhou. Because Xu Wenlai knew from the notes that the conditions in Leizhou were poor, and after people went, they not only had to harvest sugarcane, but also had a lot of chores to do, so the first batch of immigrants selected by Sun Chang were all young and middle-aged, and there was no disease. And he picks those who have a family, and he doesn't choose any singles. Zhang Xin was puzzled and asked him why.

"The villain heard that the environment in Leizhou is very difficult, and if there are no people to worry about, they will all flee if they are not right. Won't all these days of hard work and money be wasted? If you have a family, you should be safer. Sun Chang replied.

"You've thought it through." Zhang Xin admired that this big housekeeper from a house slave could think so thoughtfully.

"The non-villain is thoughtful, the small one used to be in the Gao Old Man's Mansion, although he was a small family, and the villains of the Gao family and recruiting people have also seen a lot, and they are also familiar with all kinds of drawbacks."

Sun Changyou invited Guo Yi to go out and go to the governor's yamen to visit the praise painting Lu Yizhong. I paid a hundred taels of silver to buy one of his famous posts. Although hundreds of young and middle-aged immigrants can take a boat to Leizhou, they will inevitably travel through the city and countryside after landing, and the government offices in all places they pass through will inquire about them. It's much easier to deal with a piece in hand. Here, the first batch of immigrants were organized in a militarized form of squad-platoon-company, and leaders were set up at all levels. Everyone brought their own bedding, cutlery, and five days' worth of extra dry food.

The route is to take a boat from Guangzhou, get off the boat at Hai'an in Leizhou, and then arrive at Xuwen on foot. After arriving at Xu Wen, they were assigned to nine sugar cane farms according to their situation.

Qiwei Dart Bureau has also made sufficient preparations on the branches and counters along the way in Leizhou, sending rolling orders in sections, covering the relay, and as soon as the immigration team enters the country, someone will greet and act as a guide, and set up rest points along the way to supply boiling water steamed buns. In some places, which are too desolate to have a rest stop, the cooking squad will make their own fires and boil water to eat dry food. I don't drink raw water on the road, and there are arrangements for accommodation every night, and I don't stay overnight. In such a pick-up and drop-off, the immigrants eat well, rest well, and will not get lost. The dart masters escorted, they had official posts in their hands, and immigrants had whistle clubs and waist knives to protect themselves. In Leizhou, a land that is not very peaceful, no one dares to provoke on the road. It didn't take two days to arrive at Xu Wen, and his physical condition was very good, and there was not a single sick or injured number on the road. After arriving, you can take a short break and start working immediately.

Wen Tong said that the more than 200 immigrants were scattered and sent to various sugarcane farms in shifts, and although they lived in temporary repaired and built thatched huts, fortunately, the weather in Leizhou was warm and they would not be frozen. As soon as the immigrants arrived, they devoted themselves to the agricultural production of the sugar cane. According to Wen Tong's instructions, enough rice, vegetables and meat were purchased from nearby villages to ensure that the migrants could get enough food during the agricultural work. Harvesting sugarcane is very labor-intensive, and if they are not fed well, some people will soon be unable to hold on and flee.

The first batch of immigrants settled down, and after working for half a month, they saw that people's hearts were relatively stable. Guangzhou began to send a second batch of migrants, including the wives and small families of the first batch of migrants, and the women were sent mainly to meet the logistical needs of these migrants, such as helping with cooking, sewing clothes, and so on

Zuihou, about 400 men, women, and children, were brought from Canton, and Wen Tong, Chang Shide, and Liao Dahua scattered them one after another to various sugar cane farms to be used as long-term laborers, in fact, their status was indentured servitude. Everyone owes fifty taels of silver to the Zi Enterprise in the contract, so they must pay off this debt with their labor. Guo Yi believes that this model can somewhat curb the tendency of some displaced people to flee when they have enough to eat.

The situation of the recruitment of displaced people was quite good at the beginning, especially when the turnover rate of transportation to Lingao was relatively fast. Half-starved homeless people are happy to go to a new place where they have work to work and enough to eat. But when the speed of transit began to slow down, and more and more people were accumulated in the refugee camps in Guangzhou, they ate a few full meals and regained their strength, and heard that they would be emigrated to Qiongzhou. Many people who are attached to their homeland have moved the idea of running away -- they came to Guangzhou so that they would not starve to death, and now that they have eaten enough, they see that spring is coming again. Then some people slipped away one after another. The Canton station was completely helpless at first - there were not enough people to take care of these people, but things could not be delayed, otherwise it would soon become a trend. Guo Yi and others came to a conclusion: it is not enough to just give carrots -- there must be a big stick to cooperate.

In order to minimize the escape of the displaced people in the hospital, in addition to increasing various brainwashing measures and advocating the prospects for a better life after going to Qiongzhou, Guo Yi finally consulted the Executive Committee and began to implement the indentured slavery system.

All displaced people are required to sign a contract to pay for their food, clothing, shelter and medical care in the camps in the form of loans. For this reason, they will serve Zishi Enterprise for at least seven years, and they can only get back their identity deeds after the expiration of the period.

According to the contract, their meals were provided free of charge during this period, and they were also paid wages. There is no additional redemption fee after expiration.

With this contract, Guo Yi was able to legally use the government's shili to control them in Guangzhou. So that the small people who are particularly afraid of the government do not dare to flee at will. In particular, after he used Liang Cunhou's film to report to the Yamen of Nanhai County and arrested more than 10 fleeing homeless, and each person was sentenced to 40 to 80 canes in the Yamen, the phenomenon of fleeing was controlled. It completely cut off the idea that many people would return to their hometowns when they were looking for an opportunity. Others gradually doubted the point of desperately returning to their hometown to live a life of eating chaff and vegetables and paying rent - if they wanted to farm and work, wouldn't it be better to work for an owner like Guo Dongzhu, at least enough to eat and give them new clothes to wear.

After nearly a month of continuous tossing, the sugar industry of the Group in Haikang and Xuwen counties finally embarked on the track of normal operation. Although there were some troubles during the period due to the poor craftsmanship of the sugar cook, the amount of scrapped sugar was increased, the overall operation was still very stable, and the red sugar was continuously manufactured. According to Wen Tong's instructions, all the red sugar, sugar mi, and bagasse produced in the sugar house were transported to Xu Wen's central sugar cane village - Liao Dahua followed his instructions. Efforts were made to buy some land and extend the boundaries of the sugar cane farms to the river, and if they could not get the power of a steam engine or a diesel engine, they were prepared to use a hydroelectric engine for crushing production.

Wen Dong plans to build a model sugar cane plantation here and a sugar mill with new equipment. He named it the South China Demonstration Sugar Factory – the first modern sugar mill in honor of Xu Wen. At the same time, several shareholders of the factory who have made great contributions to the modernization of China's sugar industry are named after the other four sugar houses: Guoxin Factory, Qichong Factory, Zhi'an Factory, and Qiwen Factory. For the time being, these factories can only maintain the old production methods, and then carry out jishu improvements after the operation of the demonstration sugar factory is mature.

As a result, the South China Model Sugarcane Village became the place that received the most immigrants, with nearly 150 men, women and children living here. Because Chang Shide didn't know how to grow sugarcane, he became the manager of civil affairs. Zhuangzi and Zhuangzi registered their household registration in accordance with the "Handbook of Civil Affairs Management and Organization" compiled and distributed by Wu De, established grass-roots organizations, and selected old and virtuous people from among the immigrants to be village heads, and selected witty and eloquent people as deputies. A militia was formed in accordance with the principle that all the people were soldiers, and the local name was the Xiangyong. Equipped with knives, guns, bows and arrows brought from Lingao, even arquebuses. Under the guidance of the dart master, the militia used their free time to gradually practice - Wen Tong did not want them to be musket troops, but only wanted to be able to defend themselves when they were invaded by bandits. Although Chang Shide and Wen Tong were deeply skeptical of the loyalty of these militias. However, the security situation here does not allow them to think about it anymore, and the defense of nine industries in two counties by a few dart divisions is really much beyond the strength of the Qiwei Dart Bureau in Leizhou.

"Even if it's not for us, we can only hope that it's for themselves." Chang Shide said, "At least they now have food and clothing, the whole family is reunited, and they should always contribute to defending their homeland." ”

"Then they'll have to make this their home." Wen Tong is still more pessimistic.

"The two shopkeepers are too worried." Liao Dahua persuaded, "There is food and shelter here, the climate is warm, there is no frost and snow and no good place, and when you meet a good person like the Australian master, what else can this group of homeless people expect?" ”

"I hope so." Wen Tong looked at the newly built African scattered thatched houses, "After this season, all the new houses will be built in each village, and they will be repaired according to the standard residential type B." ”

"It's too much investment-" Chang Shide had seen the B-type building built for Baitu Village in Bopu, which was simply a fortress-type building, and it looked much larger than the Type A building like a tube building.

"The sugar factory will be our cash cow in the future, and if we want to gain a firm foothold in Leizhou, we can't do it without a little self-protection ability." Next, Mr. Wen said, he had to set out to improve the process and the machinery -- so that his South China Sugar Factory could live up to its name.

Wentong now has two improvement directions, one is to make white sugar, Wentong knows several processes for making white sugar, but there is no equipment, so he can only use the soil method in "Tiangong Kaiwu" and use yellow mud as an adsorbent to make white sugar. The so-called yellow mud should be a material with many voids such as clay. From a point of view, it is not necessary to get yellow mud, activated carbon, diatomaceous earth and other things can act as adsorbents.

The second is to increase the output of raw sugar. There are many things that can be improved about this, and the easiest way is to increase the juice yield. Wen Tong has roughly inspected that the juice yield of sugarcane when it is rolled three times with a wooden roller of Tutangliao is not more than 40%, and the so-called bagasse also contains a large amount of cane juice, which is very wasteful. The juice yield of modern sugar factories is at least 70% or more.

After much consideration, I decided to start with sugar production - after all, this thing has a high profit margin.

Wen Tong did not try to try all kinds of messy adsorbents, activated carbon they could not make, as for diatomaceous earth, it had to be transported from Lingao. It's not convenient, although clay such as yellow mud is not everywhere, it is still easy to find locally. If you can't make it, you're trying to find another way.

According to the description of the process in "Heavenly Creation", Wen Tong first asked people to melt the red sugar, then pour it into the tile stuffed with straw underneath, and wait until the red sugar was completely solidified, and then pull out the thatch. Chang Shide asked someone to pick up a few loads of pure yellow mud from outside, pour it into a water tank, and stir it vigorously into yellow mud water. After letting it sit for a while, scoop up the solution on the top layer of yellow mud and pour it into the tile one by one.

"It's weird." Chang Shide didn't believe that white sugar can be produced by pouring brown sugar in yellow mud water? It looks dirty.