The ghost place of Qiongzhou has been the "end of the world" by word of mouth since ancient times, and it is the place where the criminal officials of the past dynasties are located, and the miasma is rampant.

In this kind of officialdom in the frontier area, I want to know who are the people who can come to work: except for some unlucky ghosts who have no backstage and are kicked by the officials to fill the pits, most of the rest are "low positions and high matches".

Even so, the official pit in the Qiongzhou area has never been fully staffed, and there is often a situation where the second official "temporarily presides over the work of the county in the second half of this year".

Guy also has a temper when he lifts people into the army, and many people find that they are pitted on the front foot, and they fire the squid of the officials on the back foot...... Isn't it fragrant to go home and play with a maid? Whoever is impatient to go to the miasma land to send him to death, the lord will not serve!

As a result, a vicious circle is formed: the more people take up their posts, the greater the shortage of officials, and the less hope there is of transferring the officials back to the mainland. Seeing this, others are more and more afraid to take office......

This kind of stretching situation that appears in the border area has been like this since ancient times, and it belongs to the daily life of the dynasty. Don't talk about the Ming Dynasty, go back to the Tang and Song dynasties, and the situation is exactly the same.

However, if an official is blinded by the benefits of being transferred to a higher position, and then is fooled into going to the border areas of Liangguang, Qiongzhou, and Guanlong, then this old brother who supports the construction of the frontier is very likely to move around the border areas indefinitely, and he will not be allowed to enter the customs for life.

As for the Hereafter...... Same as ever!

Most of the people in the world have heard these words in the future. In fact, no matter how it is packaged, its core is no different from that of the ancients, and it is the center that tries to send officials to the border areas to stabilize social development and construction.

Its means have not made much difference over the centuries, and the biggest motivation is still very realistic things such as level wages. However, things are not so simple, many people can only take root when they get there, and like the ancient officials, it is not so easy to come back.

Fortunately, the productive forces in later generations were developed, and there were high-speed rail planes that could solve the problems of traveling and visiting relatives, and the level of medical care was also worlds apart, which was much more comfortable than the ancients.

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Sha Zhengming and Shao Qiang's combination, today in the Qiongzhou Mansion, encountered such a group of officials.

There are many depressed and depressed officials, and there are generally no broken houses in the background. Most of the rest are crooked melons and cracked dates with lowly official positions, and there are even small people who have been officials for generations on the table - most of these people are officials who have been assigned from their ancestors, and they can't go back to the inland, and they are intellectuals, and they have been passed down for generations, and they have become indigenous.

However, it is these people who control the actual operation of the entire Qiongzhou Mansion.

The atmosphere of the banquet was very harmonious. Everyone is not restrained, and those respectful and humble people in the mainland officialdom are not very happy here in Qiongzhou, so Senator Shao Qiang and Shao talked very happily with these people.

There is a wise saying that says, "How bold is man, how fruitful is the earth." ”

This sentence is especially appropriate for officials in remote areas.

The proposals from Senator Shao's side, as long as the return is qualified, most of them are quickly accepted by the officials, which saves Shao Qiang a lot of words. You must know that in the past, Shao Qiang saw a lot of posts on BBS complaining that it was difficult for those Taoist officials in the Ming Dynasty to deal with.

In the end, the Qiongzhou bureaucracy, headed by Sun Futai, and Shao Qiang reached a package development agreement: verbal. This kind of thing certainly can't be found.

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After the banquet, they dispersed.

Sha Zhengming, as a military commander, must not stay in the capital of Qiongzhou overnight. So after the banquet, he hurriedly walked around Qiongzhou City, and after taking a general look at the defense system of Qiongzhou City, he rushed out of the city before closing the door at night.

Shao Qiang is not so in a hurry, he has more things to do in Qiongzhou City.

After a night, Shao Qiang first led his entourage to start the house inside and outside the city. In the future, if the crossing forces want to open various grain stores and grocery wholesale companies in Qiongzhou, they will naturally need a lot of houses and warehouses.

According to the experience summed up by the commerce department in the past, Shao Qiang unceremoniously drew a street outside the city and inside the city this time.

The accompanying Qiongzhou government officials and officials immediately appeared and began to "negotiate" with the merchants on these two streets.

The result of the negotiation went well, after all, this is the dark old society. When the wolf-like officials come to the door with the money to "negotiate", the smarter merchants know what to do. After all, in terms of numbers, the compensation is quite a lot. So the merchants have promised to move on the same day...... Just kidding, if the government is unhappy, all kinds of "requisition" and "buying" tricks are used, then it will really be a disaster from heaven.

So in the next few days, Shao Qiang took root in Qiongzhou City and began to lay out in both business and intelligence - his entourage naturally included people from the Intelligence Bureau. Although Qiongzhou Station is a small station of the C class, the Intelligence Bureau also needs to be laid out.

Seven days later.

As the morning sun rises on the sea, the agreed fleet arrives outside the port of Kamio.

Seven days ago, after receiving a telegram from the duo of the southbound fleet, the Guangzhou side immediately began to organize the supply of goods and manpower overnight. Thanks to the well-developed freight, warehousing, and human resources in the new area, it took less than 24 hours for Guangzhou to fill its warehouses with grain and industrial products from Taiwan and send a convoy of 10 500-ton cargo ships to Qiongzhou.

The cargo fleet was accompanied by six Taijiang-class frigates. These six high-speed patrol ships, plus a few that have already arrived, will be the backbone of the Baisha base to crack down on scattered pirates in the surrounding area and arrange the patrol network in the Qiongzhou Strait for a period of time in the future.

The arrival of the 500-ton fleet made Qiongzhou Mansion empty. Like a whole row of men in suits, the public has never seen such a neat, clean and smooth fleet of large-tonnage ships.

Next, a steady stream of grain, as if it could never be emptied, was unloaded from the big ship by the force of the ant line, and never stopped from morning to night.

The grain was soon filled with Shao Qiang's prepared warehouse. As a result, the newly opened Yonghe chain grain store in the capital of Qiongzhou began to sell rice and potatoes at a reasonable price.

After confirming the quality of the rice and grain sold in the granaries and grain stores, the officials of the Qiongzhou Prefecture confirmed that the allies had the ability to fulfill their promises, and their confidence was greatly increased, and they began to roll up their sleeves and go to the countryside to search for migrant workers for Senator Shao.

Along with the fleet came a lot of primary industrial goods.

There are few rich and noble families in Qiongzhou, and the overall consumption power is low, so the number of high-end luxury goods on the cargo ship this time is not large. Ordinary daily necessities such as cotton towels, sewing needles, and enamel washbasins account for most of them.

Of course, in line with the principle of always absorbing people's power and stabilizing the place, there must still be a few sets of semi-manual textile machinery in the warehouses of the fleet. Since the native cloth and even the kapok cloth in this place in Qiongzhou are very famous, and the story of Huang Daopo has also spread in all directions, then there must be a foundation for the textile industry.

Where there is a foundation, the traversal will definitely come over to set up some small manufacturing enterprises, and their claws will not let go of the hard-working and capable Qiongzhou women.

In the end, the ship came with Shao Qiang's most important "management personnel." ”

The so-called management staff, 50 of whom arrived in advance, are managers under the "National Prison System", commonly known as prison guards.

These people will be responsible for the operation of the camps that are already under construction, and with the arrival of high-speed patrol ships, the construction of the camps must be on the agenda, and the people have a lot of experience in this area.

The rest of the dozens of managers are low-level cadres who have accumulated in the past few years. These people, carrying beautiful cowhide briefcases and writing crooked simplified characters in small books, are the backbone of the government. Shao Qiang will use these people to control all the industries arranged in Qiongzhou and carry out long-term infiltration operations.

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When everything was settled, it was already half a month after the southbound fleet entered Baisha New Port.

On this day, Shao Qiang, who had been busy with settlement matters, finally freed his hands from the busy resettlement work and left the capital city of Qiongzhou.

The reason for his departure from Fucheng was that he was going to inspect the construction of the "labor camp".

According to the internal rules of the crossing forces, the labor camp is currently under the responsibility of Shao Qiang in Qiongzhou, so he has to go and see it as soon as he gets out of his hand.

The location of the Baisha Labor Camp is clear, just opposite the Baisha Military Port, and there is only a dirt road between the two sides.

After leaving Qiongzhou City, they didn't go far, and Shao Qiang and his party began to climb the potholed dirt road. Fortunately, Master Shao is sitting on a pole at the moment, but there is no possibility of breaking his feet.

Seeing the labor camp construction site from afar, the captain of the prison guard wearing jeans and short hair soon came to greet him. So Master Shao got off the sliding rod and, accompanied by the captain, went around the labor camp.

The current progress of the labor camp can be said to be within Shao Qiang's expectations. The deserted beach, which was once full of weeds and rocks, has now been cleaned up by a large number of locally recruited migrant workers.

On the land that had undergone initial leveling, several temporary wooden houses were erected. The current focus of the labor camp is on the perimeter of a large circle of fenced areas. Trenches have been dug out by migrant workers, as well as wooden lookouts for gun-wielding sentries.

Now, after the processed wooden piles are transported, combined with the barbed wire from Guangdong, a wire prison that is familiar to the world and often seen in American dramas will begin to take shape.

After almost a round of inspection, Shao Qiang, who was quite satisfied with the progress of the project, patted the captain on the shoulder and said encouragingly: "The navy is ready, and it will go to sea to patrol in the next few days." Therefore, you must hurry up, lest people come and have no place to live. ”

The tall and strong captain of the prison guards smiled all over his face: "These people in Qiongzhou still work hard, who makes us pay well." ”

"Please also rest assured that according to the current progress, within three days, the Chase Shop will be built."

"Well, that's good." Shao Qiang nodded: "Although the climate in Qiongzhou is hot, there will be times when it cools down in recent years, so we still have to prepare housing." ”

After inspecting the completion site, it was still early to see that the time was still early, Master Shao looked around with his waist on his waist, and suddenly Yaxing was furious, so he stretched out his arm and pointed to a mangrove forest at the blue sky and white cloud beach in the distance: "Bring the table and chairs, master, I want to relax and eat some grilled seafood!" ”

"Yes!"

So, a large group of people and horses gathered around the old man sitting on the sliding pole, carrying the seat iron plate barbecue, and began to march towards the mangrove forest by the sea.