On the question of how to proceed with the specific work, Ren Ke formally proposed to the Dai Ai brothers to establish a base for immigrants from the outer islands.

Ren Ke proposed that there are many uninhabited desert islands outside the Pearl River estuary and in the coastal continental shelf waters, and these desert islands are not inhabited even in the old world, let alone now, and these islands have fresh water resources, according to the geographical data of the old world, these islands must still have harbors suitable for building docks.

Obviously, with these basic conditions, whether these islands can be further developed is still secondary, and what is important is that they can at least serve as our trading base and transit base for immigrants, in a word, these islands are our forward base for doing things on the mainland.

The core of the current work is how to gather the first batch of displaced people to help us build on the island, obviously this requires the four Chinese businessmen to come forward, as long as there is the first batch of immigrants, we will have a firm foothold on the islands in the open sea, and then there will be the arrival of the second and third groups of immigrants.

When the brothers were discussing, the electric bell in the next room rang, which was a notification bell that needed to receive a telegram, so the brothers temporarily adjourned the meeting and ran to the communication room to receive the telegram.

The brothers have received strict training in this regard, and it is not the first time that this kind of thing has been done, and the three of them immediately divided their labor, receiving the code here, and translating the code at the same time, and soon the telegram was received.

It turned out that this was a telegram from Zhu Beiguo to Macao on the Pride during the voyage, and the content was about the situation of the "sea relocation order."

Zhu Beiguo said in the telegram that the Pride is now approaching the Sulu Sea, and the ship will be too far away from Macao if it goes further south, so I want to send you a telegram at a time when it is still within the range of effective communication, and the main content of this telegram is to tell you some basic information about the sea relocation order, as well as the historical role played by Macao in the process of moving the sea from the Qing Dynasty.

The telegram said that five years later, when the Qing court ordered the relocation of the sea, many coastal residents hastily moved their families.

According to the records of some overseas Chinese families in the old world, many villages heard that the residents of neighboring villages were forced to move inward, and some villagers who reacted quickly began to move out of their homes, especially for the coastal residents of Xiangshan near Macao, the first place for these people to go was Macau City, and there were large and small islands off the Pearl River Estuary, note that this is only the first step in the tide of emigration.

Zhu Beiguo said: Obviously, we should be sure to accept all the Han Chinese who fled to Macao, but the fly in the ointment was that Macao's reception capacity was limited at that time, and in fact only about 20,000 people were lucky enough to enter the city.

According to historical records, at this time, Macao temporarily took in tens of thousands of Han Chinese who had fled, but later did not dare to accept them. According to the notes of the Qing people and Macao missionaries at that time, the Qing court once sent an official to Macao, saying that the emperor had ordered that Macao should not continue to accept Han people, and that those who had already received it should be repatriated.

Zhu Beiguo believes that one of the important reasons is that the small city of Macao at that time really could not accommodate these Han people. At that time, there was a sudden influx of people, and there was a food shortage in the city of Macau, so after the Qing court learned about this situation, it also knew that Macao could not accommodate such a large number of Han Chinese, and there were no conditions for immediate repatriation at that time, so the repatriation matter was finally abandoned.

When the telegram was read at this point, Irush became excited, saying that this was a major favorable situation, which means that we will be able to sit on the ground and receive people by that time!

At this time, Ren Ke shook his head and said, this is definitely not enough, just the coastal areas on both sides of the Pearl River involved in the sea relocation order, the population is not only tens of thousands of people in this area? In history, the Pearl River Estuary Coast was moved three times before and after, and other places were moved inward for 50 miles, and the Pearl River Estuary Coast was moved three times in a row because of its developed overseas trade and close foreign ties, so the Qing court moved three times in a row in these places! On average, more than 100 miles have been moved inward!

At this time, Xiaoshan also added that the Tartar heart is really ruthless, so it seems that we must have more than one island base to collect the displaced refugees.

It is said that at that time, the imperial court's order to move to the sea was notified by fast horses, and it was notified today, and it must be moved away tomorrow and the day after tomorrow......

When he heard this, he sighed faintly and said, "Hey...... If you think about it, these villagers are really miserable......

At this time, Ren Ke sneered, miserable is indeed miserable, but it would be good to run away and pick up a life, otherwise, even the house and people can't help but say, put a fire and burn it for you! Those villagers who had boats along the coast were lucky enough to have the opportunity to get on the boats in a hurry, but those who did not have boats could only be scattered in all directions......

Ren Ke went on to say, as for the situation of Macao's reception of Han refugees mentioned in Brother Zhu's telegram, I had inadvertently checked it in the computer data room in the past, and the specific situation is not very clear, but in the early days of the implementation of the order to move to the sea, a large number of refugees did pour into the city of Macao, and at that time the city of Macao not only had the problem of food shortage, but also the problem of public security, and later I heard that some of these refugees were taken in by the church, and the other part was either forced to move back to the mainland, or drifted to the sea in a hurry, and I don't know how many people died in the belly of the fish because of this, and survived. It slowly dispersed to all parts of the South Seas......

Arosh listened and responded, "Well, what then?" It feels like it's more than just this one, right? Isn't there three migrations?

Ren Ke replied that according to the historical records of the old world, Macao did only accept refugees once, and the number was about 20,000 as Zhu Ge said......

Hearing this, Arosh was a little gloomy, sighed and said, If this is the case, the number of people is indeed not very large......

Ren Ke nodded and said, yes, the reason why Macao did not accept refugees later, in addition to the factor of pressure from officials sent by the imperial court, there is actually another deeper reason, that is, Macao has a special interest collusion with the Qing court.

In this era, Xiaoshan also chimed in and said, yes! I also checked the relevant information before going to sea, well, in fact, strictly speaking, from a legal point of view, this Macao is also the territory of the Qing Dynasty, and the Portuguese are the tenants of Macao, so if you want to move to the sea, shouldn't the Portuguese also move?

"That's right! Why don't you relocate the residents of Macau? ”

Irush asked with some confusion, and Ren Ke sneered again after hearing this:

"Because people are foreigners! In fact, during the period when the Qing court moved the sea and forbade it, Macao was actually the beneficiary ......"

"The beneficiary? No, after all, everyone has moved to the mainland, who do business with Macao people? What do you mean by that? ”

Elush looked at Ren Ke with a question mark on his face.

"Humph! Because the Qing court thought that Macao was its own window to deal with overseas, the old world history of the sea relocation order was implemented for more than 20 years, during this period, the Qing Dynasty's foreign trade was mainly completed through Macao, so Macao was designated by the imperial court as a "place to be exempted from relocation", not only that, but also opened up a direct land trade route to Guangzhou during the sea ban! This was the only trade route from the South China Sea to the mainland at that time......"

Before Ren Ke's words fell, Irush became angry:

"Nest! To be a foreigner is to be given preferential treatment! Even the special sea relocation order is specialized! it! It turns out that this Qing Tartar Chongyang is brought out from the womb...... The paralyzed Han people in the Qing Dynasty are really hard! Nima, your whole family! What kind of dog is paralyzed than the imperial court, so ruthless to his own people, but he treats foreigners ......"

The more Xiao Ai spoke, the louder she scolded, the more excited she became.