If you want to keep the boats, you can continue to lead the fleet. Participating in the newly formed joint venture charter company of the Foreign Trade Commission, the Southeast Asian Company, specializing in overseas trade. The leaders took a stake in the ship. Each 100-ton ship counts as one share, and so on for more than 100 tons. Ships of less than 100 tons are not accepted.

In addition to carrying out overseas trade activities, the ships participating in SEACA are also required to carry out transport, combat and patrol tasks assigned by the Admiralty - SEAC, which is under the dual authority of the Foreign Business Commission and the Admiralty. At the level, however, the company's management can participate in the expanded meetings of the Executive Committee.

After the introduction of this policy, everyone felt that it was acceptable. Although after replenishment of personnel and logistical coordination, their personal control over the fleet has been greatly reduced. But being able to maintain control of the fleet still makes many people feel more comfortable psychologically.

Most of them chose to join Southeast Asian companies. Since it is useless to keep the small boats on the far sea, they can simply pay all of them and exchange them for some silver. Unlike the others, Shi 14 insisted that all his ships be handed over to the organization, and that he would not pay a penny. I only ask myself to be a petty officer like a "thousand presidents" in the Admiralty. Wei Aiwen wondered why this pirate leader suddenly had such a high level of consciousness, did he really think that we could fight Beijing and make him a servant of the dragon?

Lin Dan also handed over his boat without hesitation. He also doesn't want money, but he has a request: the Crossing Group must do everything in its power to help him find out the whereabouts of his family.

"The amount of money should be given, this is credibility." Wei Aiwen said, "As for finding your family, I must do everything I can - aren't we a family?" ”

Hu Fatzi simply paid all the five boats under his subordinates. He asked not to go to sea again - he wanted to build a grange to do it.

"Before I became a pirate, I was a good farmer. If it weren't for the Zhuangzi of Lao Tzu who was burned by the plague Yang Liuyang and Yang Qiyi, he would not have done this to buy. ”

"If you don't do this business, maybe you will be ruined long ago." Lin Dan said, "You are a rich man in the countryside, just a fat meat." ”

After some registration and allocation, five of the eleven leaders who brought the ships were willing to hand over all the ships, among which Hu Wumei, who was also Hu Fatzi, whose parents gave him such a female name because of the difficulties of his heirs, expressed her unwillingness to continue to eat this bowl of rice on the sea, and wanted to take the silver to buy some farmlands and settle down.

"You don't have to buy a farmhouse. The house is ours for you. Well, you can make a mess for us. Wu De, who was on the side, nodded, "There is a school grange outside the county gate, where there are hundreds of acres of land and there is one less person in charge." You can take your wife, children, relatives and live there. You can also take a few of your own soldiers with you. ”

"Cheng, it's the old business to manage a grange." Hu Wumei was quite satisfied with this arrangement, "I still want to buy some land, okay?" ”

Wu De nodded and said, "Of course you can, but we have a policy for buying land." You'll have to wait a little longer - it's always silver anyway, and I can't lose you! ”

"Okay, okay." Hu Wumei is very satisfied with this arrangement.

Shi 14, Lin Dan, Li Guangfa and others are willing to directly join the "navy" of the Australian group.

The other six joined the Southeast Asia Company, and they also handed over some of the smaller ships, keeping only the larger ones. On average, there are three to five large ships per person.

Yan Ming took the people of Delong Grain Company to handle the ransom of the ship on the spot. The unit of measurement of ancient Chinese ships is relatively complex, and there are materials used, some calculated by size, and some calculated according to the carrying capacity. Yan Ming's cost-effective price is based on the shipbuilding price of ships of various sizes along the coast of Guangdong and Fujian collected from Guangzhou Station as the basic reference point, and then the material, status and accessories of the ship are evaluated and priced. In general, the price is preferential. In fact, these ships have been adrift at sea for two or three years and have not been repaired, and they are generally in poor condition.

The price was all in silver. Pay the bosses in full. This is also to win their trust. Yan Ming estimates that according to the current consumption situation of Lingao, these people will soon get bored with the silver that is not very useful.

After the formalities are completed, the heads of each family appoint a few cronies to handle the handover of the vessels. After the personnel of the Planning Commission unsealed it, the artillery, ammunition, food, materials, and personal luggage on each ship were carried down one by one. All personal belongings are disinfected and collected by each person. As for artillery, food, weapons, and other items, all of them are registered with the Public Planning Commission. Regardless of whether the ships are redeemed or not, the shipyard will carry out a complete refurbishment and refit process. In order to carry out the task in the fall.

After the arrangements are made, it is announced that you will be given a two-month leave for everyone to settle their families and deal with personal matters. Subsequently, doctors from the Ministry of Health also conducted medical examinations of the leaders and their families - several of them were admitted to the STD clinic on the spot. The rest of the people went through a "purification" process and were given the keys to their homes.

The residences for the pirate bosses are located in the high-end residential area of Bo Pu Commune. This is the first batch of pilot high-end residential areas to be built. There are twelve townhouses in each row, and a total of three rows were built. In addition to Hu Wumei and Lin Dan, who went to the Grange, the other nine families moved in. Because Lin Dan was alone, he felt that it was boring to live in such a big house alone, so he asked to live in the barracks of the navy. Chen Haiyang allocated him an officer's dormitory in the Bopu naval camp.

The decoration, furniture, and furnishings inside are all available, including daily necessities, and Wu De instructed to reflect the four standards of "neat, clean, comfortable, and decent". Flowers and trees were planted in the front and back yards. It makes the pirate family who is used to living in a narrow environment on the sea feel very comfortable. And the faucet, which automatically dispenses water with the flip of the lever, has caused a sensation.

The crossing group also arranged a janitor for each household, basically an old man, to watch the door, clean up, and receive visitors or something. Wearing a brand new green coat and sitting at the door, he looks very magnificent. In fact, all of them are part-time informers who receive allowances from the General Administration of Political Security.

When the families moved, Ding Ding, the head of Wenxuan, called the blowing team as usual to blow and blow and blow while setting off firecrackers, trying to render a festive atmosphere, and then, in the name of Wei Aiwen, Chen Haiyang, Wu De, and Lin Baiguang, they sent congratulatory gifts to celebrate the housewarming, and Zuihou sent congratulatory gifts in the name of the executive committee.

The leaders still couldn't figure out the system of Australians for a while, some people thought that this "executive committee" was about the name of the Australian emperor, and some knew that this was the name of an institution such as "cabinet". Either way, it's a rare gift. So as soon as the gift arrived, everyone still knelt down and kowtowed to thank him. And he respectfully presented the gift in the middle of the hall. made Wei Aiwen, who came to congratulate, cry and laugh.

The gifts sent were very simple, there were no gold, silver and jewelry, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, all of them were daily things: firewood, rice, oil, salt, cloth, silk and so on. It's not worth much, but it's a thoughtful move for newcomers who don't even know where to go for shopping.

zuihou, a banquet of housewarming from the cafeteria. Wei Aiwen, Chen Haiyang and others personally accompanied them, and the atmosphere was very warm. After landing, everyone was very grateful.

This is followed by "learning" every once in a while. The content of learning is nothing more than watching movies and taking classes. In addition, when the Communist Party was engaged in "ideological transformation", it was repeatedly tried and tested "visiting". The only pity is that there are not so many industrial and mining enterprises in the crossing group to show them, and the scale of most of these enterprises seems to be a bit shabby. However, the semi-modern production capacity of a limited number of factories was enough to shock the people of the Middle Ages.

Wei Aiwen assigned each leader a student from the training class of the Political Department, nominally as an interpreter, so that they could understand the content of the preaching, and in essence carried out one-on-one infiltration propaganda.

They also visited the army and navy drills, artillery target shooting, and infantry formation drills. But these things were not as impressive as the factories except for the power of the artillery, and they were purely for the sake of excitement - most of the leaders knew very little about military affairs. Even if the tactics of naval warfare are gone, it is basically to charge with the banner, to use artillery at a distance, to release rockets at a distance, and to jump to the gang in hand-to-hand combat.

In addition to tours and movies, lectures are also held. Although most of them are illiterate, they are not literate at this stage - they are uninhibited people who do not know enough about the importance of knowledge. If you want them to sit and go to class like a student, you can't do it. Therefore, the lectures are symposia-style and mainly based on ideological indoctrination. In addition to Wei Aiwen himself, Lin Baiguang, Wu De, Chen Haiyang and others came in turn. Symposiums are generally held in the gazebo of the farm, with tea, snacks and fruits, eating, drinking, and chatting. In this kind of chat, the point of view of the group is slowly instilled, and sometimes you have to answer questions. From the fact that the iron boat Weishenme can float on the water in popular science to whether the "Australians" want to rebel and fight the world -- Wei Aiwen always smiled mysteriously and did not answer the question of whether it was a rebellion.

This kind of equal and trusting way of talking has a great impression on the leaders - they are almost all from poor backgrounds, accustomed to the tyranny of the government, and although there is some "democratic" atmosphere in the pirate group, under the family-like management system, as a side family surname, they can only hide all kinds of unfair complaints within the group. Now everyone is talking and talking freely, which is quite a feeling of joy. Many people can't help but vent their dissatisfaction with Zhucai Lao. Wei Aiwen nodded as he listened, thinking that this would be in the quarantine camp, and it was estimated that the sailors were also venting their dissatisfaction with their group.

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