Chapter 114: The Ryukyu Special Region

Under that hundred-year-old tree, the lurking commando special forces arrest Mihuiko, a little dog who has broken a leg. After she confessed her crime and her brother's buried gold bars and Song Dynasty porcelain, the commando special forces dug up a Longquan kiln collection of Song Yuanfeng's ten years under the big tree she designated, a 28 cm high, 23 cm caliber, 18 cm bottom diameter of the blue glaze halberd and 30 gold bars, the temporary court formed by the special forces commando team sentenced to death for the crime of espionage and organizing a rebellion, and was sentenced to death and immediately executed. Before she died, she was granted a second look at her brother's request, and after her death, she was buried with her brother.

In this battle, 191 members of the Ryukyu Defense Military Friendship Association, chaired by Junichi Inu, were annihilated, and none of them escaped the net, and 21 light and heavy machine guns, 3,152 long and short guns, more than 100,000 rounds of ammunition, more than 2,300 grenades, 3 60 guns, and 153 shells were captured. More than two tons of explosives. 10 tonnes of rice and 2 tonnes of dried fish.

In order to calm the hearts of the people of the Ryukyus and to deter the people on the island, our army dragged the corpses of key elements such as Junichi Koinu and Ichichi Noda to Amami City for public display. And cut off its head, and hung it at the gate of Amami City for three days. Although this method is somewhat primitive and barbaric, it is still extremely effective in this era.

The 3rd Commando of our Special Forces also annihilated 85 members of the Niigata Branch of the Saimoto Defense Ryukyu Military Friendship Association headed by Yuo Abu in Tokunoshima. So far, the Fascist Friendship Association in the Ryukyu Islands has been completely annihilated, and all the bandit nests of the Ryukyu Friendship Association on the islands have been completely destroyed. The work of the Ryukyu Military Friendship Association was successfully completed. The victory of the encirclement and suppression of the [***] forces of this group greatly deterred all the [***] forces in the Ryukyu Islands. It also laid a solid foundation for political power and local economic construction in the Ryukyu Islands.

On August 1, 1951, in accordance with the order of the supreme head of the Central Military Commission, more than 16,000 people from the 180th Division of the 60th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army were collectively transferred to work and more than 500 local cadres who went south to form the Ryukyu Production and Construction Corps, which entered the Ryukyu Islands. We should further implement the central government's policy of reclaiming the frontiers so as to undertake the dual tasks of defending the country's coastal defense and economic construction. Since then, it has created a new situation for the development and construction of the Ryukyu Islands.

The Ryukyu Production and Construction Corps has always maintained a complete set of political institutions and systems of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and at the same time has given new content to production and the construction of local political power. It has implemented the production and construction policy of taking into account the overall planning of industry, agriculture, commerce, education, and soldiers, and the all-round development of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry, and sideline fisheries; it has also adhered to the principle of combining peacetime with wartime, combining military and civilian use, and integrating soldiers with the people; thus embodying the unanimity of economic construction and national defense construction, so that the role of the Chinese People's Liberation Army as a combat team, a production team, and a task force can be brought into fuller play and developed. At the same time, the Ryukyu Production and Construction Corps also vigorously developed industry, establishing grain processing plants, sugar mills, wood processing plants, cement factories, paper mills, machinery processing plants, marine fishing fleets, and seafood processing plants. 5 large and small reservoirs and hydroelectric power plants were built. The industrial achievements of the Ryukyu Production and Construction Corps have played a major role in changing the appearance of the weak industrial base of the Ryukyus. By 1953, in a short period of one and a half years, the total output value of industry and agriculture in the Ryukyu Production and Construction Corps accounted for 39.7 percent of the total output value of industry and agriculture in the Ryukyu Islands. The Shiku D1 Army also established an agricultural experimental base in the Ryukyus to promote new agricultural technologies. and factory chicken farms and pig farms, which greatly improved the lives of officers and soldiers stationed on the island and promoted the agricultural production methods of the Ryukyu Production and Construction Corps.

At the same time, the Ryukyu Production and Construction Corps has also made great contributions to Ryukyu's culture, education, and medical and health undertakings. The Ryukyu Production and Construction Corps and the Garrison jointly run the hospital to change the division health corps into the Ryukyu Central Hospital, and the Chinese People's Liberation Army Armed Police stationed in the Ryukyu General Hospital, and set up branch hospitals or clinics on major islands. A sanatorium for disabled servicemen of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and a sanatorium for Chinese workers were built next to the beach. The medical resources of the Ryukyu Production and Construction Corps and the garrison were shared, and the shortage of medical personnel was solved. It completely changed the situation of lack of medical care and medicine in the Ryukyu Islands. The Ryukyu Production and Construction Corps and the garrison have also jointly run education, setting up three Bayi kindergartens, 10 Bayi elementary schools, and four Bayi middle schools on Okinawa, Amami City, Tokunoshima, and other larger islands. It has also established four technical schools, including Bayi Agricultural School, Bayi Industrial Technical School, Bayi Maritime School, and Bayi Nursing School.

The Ryukyu Production and Construction Corps also became a strategic reserve for the Ryukyu garrison. It effectively supplemented the problem of insufficient troops in the Ryukyu garrison and the shortage of cadres in the local government of the Ryukyus. The Ryukyu Production and Construction Corps also provided logistical support for the garrison in the form of grain, oil, meat, eggs, fish, and other staple foodstuffs. The organic combination of the two makes the Ryukyu Islands a rock-solid Great Wall of China's sea. The East China Sea, like the Taiwan Strait, has become China's inland sea.

The Ryukyu Islands Military Control Commission is also gradually handing over the management of the Ryukyu Islands in an orderly manner to the special administrative region with the Chinese as the principal and the Ryukyuan people as the vice-president. Cities and counties have also established local political axes, Okinawa has been renamed, Shinnaka City, Amami City has been renamed, and Xinhua City has been renamed. Each island is renamed. Some descendants of the 36 surnames from Fujian, China since the Ming Dynasty were included in the political axes at all levels, and their special status and far-reaching influence in the Ryukyus are impressive. In the past, they often held high positions in history, some of them served as ministers of state with power leaning towards the government and the opposition, some of them served as important judicial officials, and a considerable number of people received knighthoods, and people who held official positions such as Zijin Doctor and Zhengyi Doctor abounded, and they also played an important role in the fields of science, education, and culture. The status and influence of this early Chinese immigrant in the Ryukyu Kingdom at that time was extremely special. However, during the period of their own rule, their status and role continued to decline, and they gradually moved away from the center of power. They are the happiest and most excited about the return of the Ryukyus, and the return of the Ryukyus allows them to return to the center of power again and find the feeling of being the masters of their own affairs. They were infinitely excited, and they all did their best to work hard for the new regime in order to repay the great kindness of the motherland to them.

The Ryukyu Special Administrative Region registers those who live in the Ryukyu Islands and those who are of less than three generations (including the third generation) of their own ancestry, and indicate "Wa nationality" on their household registers. All the people who had been in the political axes and departments at all levels were gathered together to hold study classes, so that they could expose each other about the crimes they had committed before, and they were screened one by one, and those who had committed crimes and [***] in the past were suppressed, and those who should be killed were killed and those who should be sentenced were sentenced. For those who have really not done anything bad, they will write a letter of allegiance to the political axe of the Ryukyu Special Administrative Region and arrange some affairs and surname work. Those who have particularly outstanding work performance can apply by themselves, and after the public review, they can change to "ball clan" and apply for a Chinese surname for themselves from the local political axe. The Turks of the Ryukyus, on the other hand, can apply directly to the local government for their Chinese surnames.

The SAR Law clearly stipulates that Chinese characters are the only official language of the Ryukyu Islands, and Chinese is the only official language of the Ryukyu Islands. Do not know Chinese, and cannot work in public affairs. The transition period is three years. After three years, if the Ryukyuan people who are engaged in public service are not able to master the Chinese language, they will be dismissed. In this way, it greatly promoted the enthusiasm of the Ryukyuan people to learn Chinese. All kinds of Chinese language classes were overcrowded, especially night schools, and the Ryukyu SAR had no choice but to invite cadres and soldiers from the production and construction corps and the garrison to serve as temporary Chinese language instructors. The Ryukyu Special Administrative Region has made every effort to eliminate the influence of the Ryukyuan people's language assimilation by using heavy-handed means. The most effective way to do this is to use tougher measures than the Ryukyuan people to eliminate the influence of the Ryukyuan people.

At the end of 1951, the base was written to the Government Council, and the 500 poor counties across the country, especially the old. Few. On the other hand, the poor areas implemented a policy of immigration to the Ryukyu Islands, with about 500 people from each prefecture emigrating to the Ryukyu Islands, strengthening the adjustment of the ethnic population structure of the Ryukyu Islands. By the first half of 1952, 250,000 mainland immigrants had settled in the Ryukyus. It accounts for 40% of the population of the Ryukyu Islands. With the addition of the production and construction corps and garrisons, as well as the families of the accompanying troops, the proportion of the mainland's population has basically reached 50 percent. However, the "ball people" and "Wa people" of the Ryukyus and the Chinese intermarriage can be changed to "Han people", and the absolute rule over the Ryukyu Islands has been fundamentally realized.

The more dispersed the population, the higher the cost of construction and management. Therefore, the settlement of mainland immigrants in the Ryukyus is carried out in the concentration of immigrants, and the settlement points of these mainland immigrants in the Ryukyu Islands have become small towns, which has also accelerated the rapid urbanization of the Liuqiu Islands. Realize the overall development of the mainland's population in the urban and rural areas of the Ryukyus, and promote the construction process of the project of food and clothing for immigrants. In particular, the lives of some impoverished people who came to the arid areas of western China have undergone a qualitative change since they arrived in the Ryukyus, and more than 70,000 people have been resettled out of the desert and the bald mountains and mountains, and the problem of lack of water for their ancestors has been completely solved. In the Ryukyu Special Zone, the political axe helped them grow tropical fruits and rice, and completely bid farewell to their previous history of relying on the weather for food, drinking water, and slash-and-burn farming. Let the Chinese people share the fruits of the motherland's strength to the greatest extent.

At the same time, the Government Council decided to use the central government's special education funds to increase investment in Ryukyu education, and the funds allocated for the Ryukyu Islands accounted for more than 25% of the central government's special education funds during the same period. Small schools have been built in the settlements, and while focusing on the construction of school buildings, the training of teachers has been intensified, and special attention has been paid to the training of teachers of descendants of 36 surnames from China. Textbooks are provided free of charge to elementary and junior high school students in the Ryukyus. By the end of 1952, 72 new elementary and junior high schools had been built in the Ryukyu islands, 1,083 principals and teachers had been trained, and 16,000 sets of tables and chairs had been purchased. The compulsory education of immigrants from the mainland and the Ryukyuan people was greatly improved, resulting in an unprecedented increase in the per capita education level of the Ryukyu Special Zone, and at the same time accelerating the process of assimilation of the Ryukyuan people.

(To be continued)