The government departments represented by Yuan Ye have the biggest headache for immigrants.

Despite concerted efforts, a significant number of women have migrated from Bangladesh and Ceylon, as well as from Myanmar, to supplement the labour shortage. But this was not enough, and the number of people transshipped from the country to Datang Island reached a peak again in November, but it was still less than 50,000.

At this rate, there will be only 500,000 or 600,000 immigrants next year. It is simply not possible to fill the huge gap.

Immigration is the basic national policy of the Haitang Kingdom, and in a sense, it is even more important than the Naval Resistance Army's war against Japan. It's not that the combat of the Naval Resistance Army is not important, although Haitang is small, as a country, it can find at least ten or eight basic national policies. Among them, immigration is the most important national policy.

Far from it, the agriculture and industry of the Haitang Kingdom in front of us need a large population. The quality requirements of the agricultural population are relatively low, but without a huge base, it is difficult to select the workers needed by Haitang.

Within three to five years, Haitang has a great hidden concern, which also needs to be solved by the population.

Since the Haitang Kingdom has not been officially recognized by the United States and Britain, and the Haitang occupation of Datang Island, the Western countries have invaded other countries and enslaved other nationalities with a slightly crooked mouth.

If we exaggerate it a little, the aggression of the Haitang and the Axis powers becomes a nature. If this concept becomes mainstream in the United States and Europe, then it will be difficult for Haitang to move forward, and it may even attract the joint attack of many countries.

However, as long as Haitang Guo does a little, this concept has no foundation. That is, the Tang people will quickly become the main ethnic group of the Tang Island, in short, they will surpass the indigenous people in number.

In this way, it is simply unimaginable for whites, and the population of European countries is already small, and large-scale immigration is impossible. But for China. This is not a problem, China has a population, and this is where China's advantage lies.

The total population of the indigenous people of the Tang Dynasty is about 5 million.

It is precisely for this reason that in the immigration plan, the goal of the Haitang Kingdom was to reach 5 million people by the end of 1945.

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However, immigration is simple, but the Chinese people of this era have very little understanding of the outside world, and the vast majority of people are afraid of overseas. There are even some people who would rather be poor all their lives. I don't want to leave my homeland to find a life. It's not that it's really hard to live, and the Chinese people don't want to emigrate. Moreover, the road to migrants is difficult, and death and injury are inevitable. In just '42, the death toll was a very horrific figure in the process of airlifting from Yunnan and Sichuan to India.

But. China's population base is huge, and there are no longer a small number of people who are really difficult to survive in China. Thanks to the Battle of Midway. An agreement reached privately between Premier Yuan and the Chairman of the National People's Congress. The Nationalist Government gave the green light to the immigrants, did not obstruct them, and even cooperated.

As a matter of fact, Chairman Chiang knew very well that transferring the landless peasants out would be beneficial to the domestic economy. But the leader of a nation. You still want to save face, you can't feed the people, this kind of talk is really good to say. is just secretly acquiescing, and it has already given Haitang Kingdom great convenience. The tide of immigration is already taking shape unconsciously.

The Haitang Kingdom only needed to organize the crowd from Sichuan and Yunnan, and the transportation was handled by the US Air Force. With only a small amount of transportation costs, the Haitang Kingdom was able to transport these people by rail to the Indian port of Kolkata. The merchant ships of the Haitang Kingdom or the merchant ships of the United States and Britain can send all the personnel to Datang Island without charging any fees because they have to escort the maritime resistance army.

The government has done its utmost and made great efforts to reach the current scale of immigration, which is already the most economical means of immigration. Even so, if there are five or six hundred thousand immigrants, Haitang will have to pay millions of dollars.

If you increase the intensity of immigration, the cost will skyrocket, and it will be very uneconomically cost-effective.

After many considerations, the government represented by Yuan Ye finally decided to increase the number of immigrants in four or three years, with the goal of one million people.

Of course, this number is government-led immigration, and in fact the final number will definitely exceed this number. You must know that the number of immigrants led by Haitang folk businessmen will not be too small. The number of people attracted by these merchants through various social connections, such as blood ties or fellow villagers, is also quite large. Businessmen recruit people, which is naturally different from government recruitment, and the people they recruit are targeted, or suitable for being workers, or suitable for being businessmen.

Immigration costs a lot of money, but the importance of Haitang is self-evident.

Manpower is insufficient, and even if the world war ends in the future, the Haitang Kingdom will not be able to reap enough benefits.

Similarly, without enough manpower, it is impossible for the Haitang Kingdom to develop a powerful economic and military science and technology in the future.

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There is a good reason why the government has set the immigration target at 1 million people. Because most of these immigrants are alone, only a small number of them are families.

The Haitang Kingdom was first established, and its reputation had not yet been established. Although the record is good, in the era of underdeveloped information, the influence of the Haitang Kingdom on the country is still not enough. Even if many families have joined the ranks of immigrants, most of them are one or two people from the family, and they have the taste of exploring the way first.

In other words, most of these million people are direct laborers. These people do not have the burden of supporting their families for the time being, and their economic contribution to Haitang is comparable to that of more than five million normal people.

Combined with the existing immigrants, by the end of the fourth or third year, there were almost two million pure laborers in Haitang.

The economic capacity supported by two million pure labor force should not be underestimated. Even if most of them are engaged in agricultural production with an unusually high output value, it is enough to make the economy of the Haitang Kingdom take off.

There is a good reference for such an economy of scale - Australia. In World War II, Australia had a population of just over 7 million. The number of people working in agriculture is by no means two million, but the value of its agricultural output can reach nearly 100 million pounds, equivalent to more than 400 million dollars.

Although the agricultural structure of Haitang Kingdom cannot be as perfect as that of Australia, Haitang Kingdom is also rich in resources, especially farmland under the vigorous expansion of the Ministry of Pioneering, there is no shortage at all. Although the agricultural output value generated by these two million pure labor forces cannot be compared with that of Australia, it is definitely not much worse. In addition, the indigenous people of Datang Island also have a little production capacity, and the government estimates that the agricultural output value of Haitang will reach 2 billion Tang Yuan in four or three years. That's 50 million dollars.

In four or four years, the value of agricultural output will easily triple to 6 billion Tang Yuan, or almost 150 million US dollars.

In the case of no increase in immigration in four or four years, the output value may double again in four or five years, reaching 10 billion Tang Yuan, or about 250 million US dollars.

While this figure is still hard to compare with Australia's, the consumption of just two million people is much less, and the country's usual frugality will consume less. Almost 50 to 60 percent of the value of agricultural output can be spent on government and military expenditures.

In four or three years, agriculture alone can provide about $25 million for government and military expenditures for the Haitang Kingdom.

In four or four years, that number could be almost $80 million.

In four or five years, that figure will be $150 million.

This is a very remarkable speed of development, you must know that the total government tax revenue of the whole China in the year before the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression was only more than 800 million legal currency, which is equivalent to less than 300 million US dollars. Of course, this is the revenue of the central government, and the warlords everywhere will not pay much tax to the central government.

However, Li Guang did not see any problems in the calculations of the Haitang government. To have such a brilliant prospect is due to three points.

First, the cost of land can not be calculated.

Second, the output of pure labor is less consumed.

Third, on average, a laborer has to take care of more than 10 acres of land, which is very hard. Moreover, these laborers also have a considerable amount of work to undertake when they are not working. However, in this era, everyone is very hard. In the British weapons factories, women also worked 12 to 14 hours. For these immigrants, they only need to pay high taxes for three years, and they can have 30 acres of land and a cow, which is not bad. Haitang is a small country, but any country is not a good church, and the operation of the state apparatus depends on the support of the people. However, after the end of the war, it was impossible for agricultural production to create such high returns for the country. At that point, the families of these immigrants will definitely come. Inevitably, there will be a significant proportion of non-labor.

Of course, taxes may be reduced, but the number of immigrants will increase. The family or other relationships brought by these two million people are at least five million or more.

From this point of view, the accounts of government departments are still very shrewd. One million immigrants in four or three years can not only bring a lot of benefits to the Haitang government in four or four or five years, but also attract a large number of immigrants to Haitang after the war, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

Therefore, even during the Anti-Japanese War, the Haitang Kingdom must allocate a large amount of special funds for immigration.

For this purpose, Haitang Guo set up a special immigration department, headed by Li Rulin. This person was born in Anhui and was a professor at a university in Shanghai, and he also has a considerable reputation in China. More importantly, he once served as the county magistrate of a county in Anhui, and he has a good understanding of the unspoken rules of the Republic of China government, coupled with his flexible skills, he is quite competent for this position.

It should be noted that Li Rulin is the eldest brother of Premier Yuan Ye, the elder brother of Mrs. Yuan, the uncle of Yuan Ran, and the clansman of Li Hongzhang and Li Zhongtang, the founder of Beiyang.

The Ministry of Immigration plays an important role in the government of Haitang State, and its staff is second to none in the entire government system, reaching more than 400 people, and branches are in all aspects of immigration.

Almost all immigrants in Haitang have to deal with the Ministry of Immigration, which has a huge influence. In addition, the expenditure of this department accounts for 90% of the government's expenditure, so the weight is naturally heavy. Therefore, Li Rulin's ranking in the government is higher than that of Hu Bofeng in the Ministry of Pioneering. (To be continued......)

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