After the expedition team set off, the mainland continued its pace in an orderly manner.

After the ban on European immigrants that began in mid-1641 was lifted, a large number of European immigrants poured from Bordeaux, Florence, and Riga (established at the beginning of '41 with the help of the Hanseatic League). In late November, 2,000 French immigrants (including 700 children) landed in Port-Orient; In early December, 1,500 Italians arrived in several groups of ships to the southern port of Rocha; At the beginning of January, 2,000 Livonians disembarked at the town port. The arrival of more than 5,000 European immigrants has greatly changed the population of the country, and if we take into account the more than 6,000 Ming immigrants who will be transported in the two batches before and after the New China area, as well as the natural increase in the domestic population over the years and the number of people smuggling across the border from neighboring areas, the population of the East Coast Republic of China is expected to reach a historic 56,000 next month.

The population has surged by more than 30 percent all at once, which is a huge challenge for the East Coast Republic of China, which has only been established for a few years. First of all, there is a serious shortage of cadres to manage this new population, which is a very fatal thing, and the Dayuhe Youth Cadre Training School has only graduated about a few dozen administrative cadres every year over the years, and these people are inexperienced enough to manage these newcomers. In the end, there was no choice but to transfer old cadres from the core ruling areas of Dongfang County and Ping'an County to settle these new immigrants to take office, and leave those core ruling areas that had been in good order for many years to those stunned young people who had just graduated to practice. Despite this, there is still a large gap in the number of cadres in the well-organized structure of the industrialized societies on the east coast. Later, only a considerable number of veterans and non-commissioned officers of the army could be discharged. Then let them go to the local office. Only then did he barely hold on to the situation.

After this incident, the Executive Committee profoundly realized that cultivating cadres is a more important thing than climbing the science and technology tree, and it must be grasped as a major matter. However, it will be a few years before the policy is changed and the results will be produced, and at present, we can only rely on a large number of veterans and officers to become magistrates, and the impact and side effects of this are really difficult to explain for a while. However, this time the influx of so many people at once is also a special situation, and the Executive Committee is also afraid that a war will suddenly break out with the Netherlands, and the immigration channel will almost be cut off at that time. In this case, it is better to take the initiative to recruit a large number of immigrants first, and then spend some time digesting and digesting them.

According to the plan of the Executive Committee, all these new immigrants will be dismantled and resettled in 20 townships and towns across the country (excluding overseas areas, and two new townships and towns will be planned). The principle of resettlement is still to match the old with the new, that is, to bring the old with the new with the old residents who have a high degree of identification with the East Coast Republic of China, so that they can adapt to the industrialized society on the East Coast as soon as possible, which is completely different from the area where they lived before. At present, among the more than 50,000 residents of the country, there are only more than 30,000 "true Dong'an people" who can proficiently listen and speak Chinese, can write hundreds of commonly used Chinese characters, and take the initiative to safeguard national interests. More than 30,000 people were needed to assimilate almost as many people as they were. It will take a considerable amount of time.

Of course, good living conditions, good adult education, and constant victories in the war can speed up this process. This requires the government's overall planning and package arrangement. After all, with so many people pouring in all at once, all kinds of resources that existed -- such as adult night school education resources, food and consumer goods resources, land resources, housing resources, transportation resources, and so on -- will show a tense trend in a short period of time. In this matter, how the government can increase investment, actively coordinate, and reasonably ease the contradictions between new immigrants and old nationals is indeed a big challenge for the East Coast Republic of China, which has a somewhat thin foundation and has been a little short since its founding.

If we use figurative language to describe it, the East Coast Republic of China today is like a python that has eaten a swollen belly, and it needs time to digest the food that it swallows in one bite. Although we can feed this python some medicine that helps with digestion, it takes a lot of time to digest the food and then convert it into its own strength.

Of the 5,500 Europeans, the 2,000 French were the most valued or wary of the East Coasters. Given the large number of French immigrants in the country, the cross-border crowd and their small number of die-hard followers who control the country's resources have always been reluctant to bring in large numbers of French immigrants. The reason is that they are unwilling to allow a certain ethnic group in their country to be too powerful, which is not conducive to assimilation and is not conducive to their rule. After all, with such a large population base, if there is a careerist or something in it who takes advantage of ethnic or religious contradictions to provoke social unrest, then the cause of crossing the public is in danger of falling apart. Although the current situation of the country is thriving, the standard of living of the people is relatively high, and the rule of the Crossing Masses and their followers is quite recognized, the possibility of large-scale social unrest is not too great, but it can be prevented in case it is not. Fortunately, at present, the composition of the army, especially the army, is still mainly composed of Livonians, Ming, Cossacks, and Tatars, otherwise if even the army is filled with a large number of French, then it will be a lot of fun.

Today, the state pursues a policy of repressive rule and ethnic chauvinism, forcing the assimilation of immigrants; At the same time, it has also firmly grasped some religious gods and severely cracked down on underground lecture societies and other religious institutions that have been designated as "cult organizations" to ensure that religion can be used to better safeguard the government's dominant position. In the past few years, no less than 10 Jesuit priests have been arrested for informing their followers, and they and the fanatical believers who follow them in the country have all been dragged to the mountains and secretly executed. To this end, the Religious Affairs Office has also set up a special "night watchman" organization, whose members include pirates, criminals, exiles, and renegade priests, all of whom are a bunch of scumbags who have played a tremendous role in cracking down on underground "cults" funded by foreign forces.

In mid-January 1642, more than 700 French children were sent to study at the Regimental Fort. At the same time, the remaining 1,300 adult French immigrants were scattered and resettled in Dongfanggang, Luoqiagang, Henan Township, Ranch Township, Miannong Township, Zhenyuan Township, Meilin Port and other townships.

In addition to the capital and its surrounding areas, the focus of this time is on the agricultural areas of the Duck Lake basin in the previous plan. More specifically, there are three forts: West Lake Fort, Hekou Fort and Xiangshan Fort, and among these three places, West Lake Fort, which is based on planting and timber harvesting and processing, is the top priority.

As early as October 1640, with the arrival of 800 inhabitants (400 Ming, 100 Charua, 300 French), the establishment of the West-Lake Fort Agricultural Base was announced. After more than a year of hard work, local residents, with the help of the construction team of the Third Bureau of Communications and Construction, have reclaimed tens of thousands of acres of farmland and water conservancy irrigation facilities that are enough to irrigate tens of thousands of acres of farmland. Although last year there was no large-scale grain cultivation (only some potatoes were harvested) due to a missed agricultural season, the agricultural potential is huge. Therefore, after the arrival of the new batch of immigrants, the Council assigned 1,000 Livonians and 1,000 Italians to this area with a stroke of the pen, and began to cultivate the land. Of course, it was impossible for so many people to crowd all around the fort, and about 1,000 of them were taken to the mouth of the Kamakuang River, about 30 kilometers northeast of the fort, where the construction of a new settlement, Dafeng Fort, symbolized a bumper grain harvest.

After the Ming people in the New China region come over, the Government Council will also relocate 1,000 Ming people and hundreds of Guarani people, and eventually the total population of Xihu Fort and Dafeng Fort will reach more than 4,000 people, becoming another densely populated place in China. These people will reclaim more than 100,000 acres of farmland in the two places, mainly to grow rice and corn, and at the same time raise some goats and beef cattle, and they can also go to the lake to fish in order to increase their income as much as possible. It is conceivable that after the development of this agricultural base is completed, the East Coast Republic of China will no longer have the risk of food shortage. On the contrary, they can also export some grain in large quantities abroad to make a profit to feed the industry.

Of the remaining 1,000 Livonians and 500 Italians, 500 were scattered and assigned to the Ping'an Coal Mine in Coal River Township, where a large number of manpower was needed when the expansion of production was recently planned; Five hundred people were assigned to Ping'an Township and its nearby Orange Tree Township, where the docks, factories and farmland were also in need of a large number of manpower; In addition, the last 500 people were collectively pulled to the Three Fort Township on the opposite side of the Xiangshan Fort Sea.

Three Batteries Township is located on a peninsula south of Zhenhai Port, and in later generations, there was a bridge to connect with Rio Grande, and it was named Three Batteries Township because the No. 3 coastal defense battery around Zhenhai Port was built here. These 500 immigrants, under the guidance of a small number of French immigrants, set up vineyards and planted grapes here. The new arrivals to South France brought with them advanced viticultural techniques, which would be foolish not to put them to good use. In fact, not only Sanbaotai Township, but also nearby Xiangshan Fort is also a good wine-growing area, and it has been put into practice, but the scale is not large enough. These inhabitants will mainly grow grapes, but also graze goats and some vegetables to supply the large industrial workers and naval officers and sailors in the town's harbor.

After these new immigrants are distributed, we can clearly see that China has gradually formed three major economic circles: the heavy industry agglomeration belt with Ping'an Town as the core, the shipbuilding industry zone with Zhenhai Port as the core, and the capital commercial and economic zone with Dongfang Port as the core. With the continuous investment of capital and population in the future, these three economic circles will definitely drive the economic take-off of the entire East Coast Republic of China. (To be continued......)