The hundredth verse of the follow-up brought by the captives

It was also proposed that the captives be sent to Sanya to work as miners, but many feared that Sanya had only one battalion of troops, and that if the soldiers rebelled, they might not be able to catch them. Moreover, the aftermath of the previous stage of repression of workers has not yet passed, and the pressure to maintain stability still exists, and there can be no more unstable factors.

Soon a decision was made on the issue of prisoners, and all the prisoners were not to replenish the army, nor were they transported to Sanya, but were all left in Lingao to be used as laborers, and after a few years of reform, a way out was arranged according to the different circumstances of each person.

"If there are locals among the captives, I propose to release them on the spot." Wu Nanhai said, "Since we have families and relatives in the local area, our detention will do great harm to the people's hearts." If you are willing to go, you will be released, and you will have to pay some money or something. Then they will be able to spread our power and righteousness. ”

"It seems that there are indeed local guards and villagers among the captives." Wude said.

Yang Yun coughed lightly, it was the first time he had participated in such a high-level meeting, he had just been appointed as the director of the human resources department of the Civil Affairs Committee, and he took advantage of his advantages as the head of the human resources department of sweatshops and the chairman of the labor union in the old time and space.

Of course, with Lingao's employment situation, according to the signs of the old time and space, it is more bloody than the most sweaty factory, not to mention that he has unlimited violence as a backing, and it is not difficult for the director of this human resources department to be the director. But Yang Yun is not satisfied with this - if it is only like this, how can he reflect his professionalism?

He first studied the existing system of manpower use, believing that there was room for improvement, or rather the potential for further exploitation. He decided to take the opportunity to show his professionalism.

But Yang Yun is not ready to make major changes to the entire system. After all, this system was created by Wu De, and it is unwise for him to casually make drastic changes to the policies of his leadership not long after he took office. Yang Yun does not believe much in parliamentary democracy and individual democratic rights, and belongs to the category of people who follow the central government and leaders as long as they have meat to eat.

"More than 10,000 laborers are coming, and I propose to make certain changes to the disposal of this labor." Eschewing compliments such as "reform" and "improvement", he used neutral terms: "The 60-day quarantine system we are implementing is very good and guarantees health safety, but at the cost of not being efficient enough for the use of labour." ”

The policy at this stage is for workers and migrants to do simple language and literacy learning in the quarantine camps during the quarantine period, along with some lighter manual work.

"There is no need for more than 10,000 people to be fenced for quarantine, their nutritional and physical conditions should be more than the ordinary people we have contained, and they have the strength, and they also have the ability to kill people and set fires.

Yang Yun proposed that after the "purification" of these captives, all of them be arranged for the construction of the Mayuan-Chengmai road. The army has a heavy garrison at Mayuan and a number of troops at Chengmai, which has enough deterrent power to control the prisoners.

"After the construction of this road is completed, the road from Chengmai to Qiongshan will be built. Anyway, according to Shan Daoqian's Jihua, we are going to overhaul roads and railways in Hainan, and some of these captives are working. ”

Ma Jia coughed: "Of course, this is very good, but it will inevitably hinder the principle of fairness of the law." It's okay for a captive to be used for labor, but you can't let your family continue to do it like they were sentenced to life imprisonment. After the news spreads, who else will surrender? ”

"Just engage in a points-based system." Yang Yun has already had a countermeasure, "The captives are not working for free, and we will pay them." ”

The reward is a certain type of points. Captives are paid on a daily basis, according to the intensity and content of their work - not much, of course. From this remuneration he had to pay for his own food, clothing, and hygiene, and if he could, for entertainment, such as prostitution. However, he does not have the right to change jobs or choose not to work, which is tantamount to paid forced labor.

Each person has a value, and when they have accumulated a certain number of points, they can redeem themselves with them. In this way, he is no longer a forced laborer and can choose another job.

In Yang Yun's jihua, the first year of captivity is unpaid, and after a year, good performance can enter the "points" stage, and those who do not perform will continue to be forced to work without pay. It normally takes about four years for a captive to complete the ransom.

“…… Based on performance, we can give additional rewards to captives who perform well and work hard, so that they can complete the redemption of points a year or two earlier. It was only then that he carefully observed the leaders in the room, and felt that they were generally positive about his speech, and he continued, "To correct the bad habits of these captives by harsh labor, and to promote the ideological division of the captives." By giving rewards and transferring positions, a group of activists can be supported to disintegrate, monitor, and transform them internally. In this way, after four or five years, even if the captives cannot become active in construction, they will become citizens who are in peace and useful to the new social order. ”

There was a whisper of discussion. Wu De looked at the twenty-five-year-old young man, "not bad" He thought, we just need such professionals to take our careers to the next level He thought about looking at his watch, there were still many things to do in the office of the Planning Institute, and a large number of trophies registers were being delivered. So he raised his hand to show his support for Yang Yun's Jihua.

Subsequently, this jihua was refined. The captives were organized into labor brigades, squadrons, and squads according to the military establishment. In the future, it can be deployed to different construction sites at any time according to needs.

"Because they are engaged in heavy physical work, their reliability rating is low, so my opinion is that the number of people in each team should not be too small, and one side is too scattered and fragmented to be monitored. As far as possible, the squadron should be dispatched to the size of about 100 people. "Of course, on this scale they can only be used for large-scale infrastructure work." ”

"In addition to building roads, there are many large infrastructure projects to be built," said Mei Wan, the general manager of the construction company, "irrigation canals, reservoirs, ports, ......"

Considering that there was no longer a heavy Ming army group in the entire Hainan region in the next step, and that it would take at least two or three years for the Guangdong side to launch a second large-scale offensive and suppression, the participants unanimously agreed that there was no need to maintain a state of war anymore. The meeting decided to lift the state of emergency and restore normal order from now on. the removal of the senators and indigenous militias from duty; Conscripted militiamen and laborers are discharged from service; The production of each department was converted to normal production.

"There's one thing that's very important." Skead hastened to bring it up, "Our foreign trade ties. Now that the Ming army has been defeated, it should recover quickly, and I think we can talk about Zhao'an at this stage......"

Wen Desi said: "Are you going to go to Guangzhou alone with a white flag to find Wang Zunde and ask him to recruit him?" ”

"If it works, it can't be." Skade said calmly.

"You are a right-leaning capitulationist ideology," Wen Desi said, "I don't understand, weishenme There are always people among us who want to surrender and recruit peace?" It seems that the roots of capitulationism are better to dig up. ”

Skade immediately defended himself: "This is a strategy, and we need the resources and population of the continent for strategy, wouldn't it be a good thing if peace could be restored as soon as possible?" As for what name to use, I don't think it's a big problem. We want to have actual interests."

"If you want to resume trade, you don't necessarily have to recruit peace." Wen Desi warned, "Officials like to make a fortune in a muffled voice, and it is completely unnecessary to have a name."

"Okay, I mean to negotiate with Wang Zunde." Skade stepped in and changed his words.

Jiang Shan said: "After this failure, Wang Zunde must step down, and if he doesn't do it, he will be arrested and taken to the capital to ask for guilt." There is no point in negotiating with him. Or wait for him to step down, and when the court has a new person, we will contact the Guangdong government. ”

Skade muttered a little desperately: "It's been too long...... "The defeat of the crusade is from the time the news is reported to the imperial court to the new official Zuihou takes office, I'm afraid it will take a year."

Jiang Shan said: "I don't think it will be long, in history, Xiong Wencan took over as the governor of Liangguang in 1632. After we defeat He Rubin, it should make Xiong Wencan's governor Liangguang earlier. Old Bear is known for his appeasement, and he is likely to reach out to us when he arrives. ”

At present, some people proposed to formally negotiate with the Cantonese side in the name of the Australian Song Dynasty, and sign a treaty of commerce like the British in those years. Others listed five main provisions: the cession of Hong Kong Island; concession outside the city of Guangzhou; compensate for military spending and all losses of the Lingao regime; Bilateral trade was reopened and all property of the Canton Station was returned.

"These five are simply impossible." Jiang Shan said, "At least not now." Don't say that Wang Zunde doesn't dare to agree even if he is an old bear, he has to be arrested in Beijing in the first book of the imperial history. ”

"Bombarding Guangzhou and blockading the Pearl River Estuary"

"The bombardment of Guangzhou may be useful, but the blockade of the Pearl River estuary will not make much sense to the Ming Dynasty. The Ming and Qing courts had something in common on this point - neither of them saw any significance to them in overseas trade. Yu Eshui said, "According to the normal historical trajectory, in 1631 the imperial court would order the blockade of Guangzhou Bay." So it doesn't make sense for us to block or not block. ”

"So there's nothing we can do?"

"If we want to solve it by force: according to the idea of the Opium War: on the one hand, besiege Canton and force the local government of Canton to reach a trade settlement with us. At the same time, in order to ensure that the Guangdong government could carry out the operation accurately, it sent a fleet to the mouth of the Yangtze River, captured Zhenjiang, and then bombarded Nanjing, making a threat of cutting off the Cao Yun. He shrugged his shoulders, "If the Ming Dynasty still refuses to give in, we have no other choice but to start an all-out war and directly occupy Guangdong." ”

It is clear that a military operation of this magnitude is far beyond the ability to cross the regime at this stage. Wen Desi believed that this matter could only be discussed privately with the heads of the Guangzhou government, and that no specific treaties should be signed.

Wen Desi said slowly: "The official is most afraid of falling into words, according to you, you really have no concept at all, the key is tacit understanding, tacit understanding" He waved his arm, "You go to bribe to do things, do you also ask the other party to make a receipt, saying that I will charge you 50,000 yuan, and such and such a thing must be done?" You guys are so naïve."

The traditional Chinese dynasty did not have the concept of a diplomatic treaty, and it was impossible to sign any reciprocal peace treaty with the local government of Guangdong.

Therefore, the idea of the two sides in the peace talks is tacit understanding. They secretly reached a tacit understanding and bottom line with each other, and they did not cross the line with each other.

"It is impossible to ask the Guangdong government to pay compensation." "First, they don't have the money—even if they do, they won't give it to us; Second, there is no rule in the officialdom that officials compensate the people. If you want someone to make an exception, it's a big deal. ”

"Won't we be able to talk about it?" Skade muttered.

"Xiao Si, you are still the chief of colonial trade......

Skade hurriedly clarified: "Chairman Wen, I am the director of the office of the Ministry of Colonial Trade. ”

"Whatever you are. When the word leader says, have you never heard the word power rent-seeking? Wen Desi smiled and said, "I can't give you real money, but if the power in the hands of the government is leaked to you, won't it be able to compensate for our losses?" ”

Everyone showed expressions of understanding.

"We can't say plainly: Hong Kong Island ceded to me and the other party wrote it down in black and white. In this matter, no official in the whole Ming Dynasty dared to agree to this. Even Emperor Chongzhen didn't dare -- he was not afraid that the civilian clique would spray him to death, and he was also afraid that he would have a reputation of 'cutting land' in the historical books. "But we can quietly occupy the island, and do whatever we like on it—as long as we don't make the local government unable to explain it to the higher-ups, which has always been hidden." ”

Skade frowned and said, "How many years can you endure?" It's going to be exposed. ”

Wu De knocked on the table lightly: "Time" he said solemnly, "three years ago, we did not occupy Lingao County, and staying outside the city to develop also relied on this concealment - we won time." We have another three or five years to win. ”

The first five years of Jihua was completed, the coal-iron complex was formed, and the second five years of Jihua was the time for large-scale violent equipment and violent soldiers, and at this time there was no longer any need for the Ming Dynasty to approve or tolerate it.

The meeting decided to set up a "Guangdong Peace Talks Group" to prepare for returning to Guangzhou and making contacts with the Guangdong government. Roughly prepare to walk three different routes. The first is the exalted route, followed by Li Luoyou, zuihou is a part of Guangzhou and the official gentry who have deep contacts with Guangzhou Station, so there is a multi-pronged approach.

Wu Nanhai asked to speak at this time: "With the increase of 10,000 disposable manpower, our food problem will come out." ”

The grain problem in Lingao is quite prominent, because the grain output in the county itself is limited, and there is a large influx of foreign population. A large number of people are concentrated in non-agricultural production sectors such as schools, administrative departments, military units and industrial enterprises, and the work of increasing the yield per mu and expanding the planting area has not been carried out for a long time, so the overall food supply is on the tight side, although it is still self-sufficient, but it has formed a dependence on the supply of rice from Vietnam.

The additional 10,000 captives, according to the personal ration standard proposed by Chen Sigen, a doctor of nutrition, are required to have 3,600 kilocalories per person per day, or at least not less than 3,000 kilocalories. This figure, if supplied entirely by carbohydrates, would have to supply the captives with 750 grams of brown rice or the equivalent of starchy food per day.

"For 10,000 people, the daily supply is 7.5 tons of brown rice." Wu Nanhai highlighted the enormity of this figure, "The consumption in a 30-day month is 225 tons. ”

As he listened, he began to frown as he counted the number of food stocks. In this way, the food security reserve period of Lingao will be shortened by 11 days at once.

"Moreover, brown rice is not high in protein and fat, and it only consumes carbohydrates for a long time, which is not good for health. We need more protein, more fat, for the laborers and prisoners. Ensure that they can work for us in a long-term and stable manner, and at the same time reduce the direct consumption of food. Wu Nanhai said,

Ma Qianzhu said: "You say what you want to do." ”

Wu Nanhai said: "I want to change our fishing system, and marine fishing should be independent from the navy -- this is an agricultural project after all, and it is not good for the navy to be in charge of the fishing system." ”

It is true that the marine fishing industry is the only industry that can provide a large source of protein and fat quickly and in large quantities at this stage. It was by fishing at sea that the Lingao regime was able to roughly barely guarantee the supply of protein for the lower senators and the ruling laborers and the army.

There was a low buzz in the crowded conference room: Wu Nanhai, who has always been known for his low profile, came as a surprise to everyone by suddenly attacking the system directly and trying to take back the fishing rights.

The current fishing system is that the navy manages the fishery. Fishing boats are also special vessels of the Navy. Some of the special boats specialize in fishing operations. In addition to direct naval fishing, there is also a "fishing tax" imposed by the navy on the fishing grounds near Bopu, where each private fishing vessel must pay one-fifth of the catch.

Both the navy's catch and the fishermen's catch tax are paid to the seafood processing plants under the Ministry of Agriculture. The total amount is considerable.

Ye Yuming also joined in at this time: "Our Heaven and Earth Association took the lead in setting up a fishery association, and wanted to improve the equipment and production of fishermen, but now the navy's direct control of fishing grounds and fishing boats is very detrimental to the promotion and improvement of large-scale fisheries." I fully support Member Wu's view that the Navy should no longer be in charge of fisheries. ”

"There's also a fishing tax on fishermen -- and it doesn't make sense for the navy to collect a tax." Cheng Dong said slowly, "I personally think that tax power must be unified. In addition, the direct imposition of taxes in kind is, in a sense, a retrogression, which is not conducive to the development of the commodity economy. ”