Chapter 297: Dutch Road Builders

After capturing this Lingkaralong, Wang Guorui was busy again. After all, as a big man, he is bound to be very busy. If you're not busy, it means you're bound to lose your rights. As for the kind of person who has both power and can be leisurely like many novels, Wang Guorui just wants to spray him to death, is there such a good thing? If one day you are idle, it means that you have already started to retire, or you are not in power and have been hollowed out. So Wang Guorui is also in this situation, he is very busy, and his daily routine is arranged by Kang Tongwei, the secretary, very full. Except for the less than two hours at night when I rolled the sheets with a few beauties, I couldn't help but control the rest of the time.

"Husband, you should go and inspect the construction of our Nanyang road next!" Wang Guorui said.

"Alright! I also happened to go to see if those guys were mistreating prisoners of war. Wang Guorui said.

Wang Guorui came to a road construction site, and then the heads of the Lanfang construction department immediately came over, ready to greet Wang Guorui.

"Lord Wang, you're here! We've been building roads for hundreds of kilometers now, after all, we have more than 200,000 Dutch prisoners of war, and then we can build roads very easily. First of all, we prisoners of war are all Western devils, and then they are strong and nutritious, which is much better than the situation where we Chinese are temporarily undernourished. And these foreign devils have invaded us so much, we have to at least recover some interest now. ”

Wang Guorui looked at those Western foreign devil prisoners of war, and then they all smiled, thinking that you foreign devils are more miserable now. Because they have to help Wang Guorui build roads every day, and they have to work ten hours a day, can they not be tired?

And Wang Guorui is now in Nanyang, and the first thing he has to do is to communicate with those cities in Nanyang, as well as residential settlements. Now the large area of Borneo is so big that the Chinese can't let it go at present. Although more than 100,000 people have immigrated to the city, they are still a drop in the ocean. And these Chinese will all gather together to live alone, and will not live alone. After all, there are a lot of mercenaries to clean up the natives. However, tens of millions of indigenous people are still hiding in the rainforest for the time being. If you are not careful, then I am afraid that you will let those natives sneak attack. So you have to get together, and then form a militia patrol team or something like that, and be responsible for arranging patrols around and protecting everyone.

As for those in the middle of the settlements. It is also necessary to build different roads, and it is easy to walk through these roads that have been built. If there are no suitable roads, it will be very difficult for residents to communicate in different gathering places, and they will not be able to gain the advantage of watching and helping each other. There are still a lot of natives, in case the natives specifically target a certain settlement to besiege it. An also had to go through the support of other troops. If other troops have no support, it will be very detrimental to the rule.

At present, Nanyang is still an unstable time, so at present, everyone can only overcome difficulties. The army can only maintain the pressure and prevent large-scale rebellions, and specific small-scale rebellions are still suppressed by their own strength to a large extent. Even in Borneo, the army is only about 90,000 people, so it is too difficult to completely rule a continent with 90,000 people alone. This Borneo is too big for 90,000 people to completely suppress the natives.

Therefore, the people must be soldiers, and the settlements must be watched and helped by each other. Support each other. And in order to support each other, an excellent path must be preserved. If there is no excellent road, then I am afraid that the news of the call for help and the speed of those troop transfers will not be easy. After all, wireless telegraphy has not been effectively popularized in this era, and every qiē has to be transmitted by running or riding a horse. However, the climate in the Nanyang region is hot, and there are no horses, and more people still rely on bicycles to communicate. Therefore, a good road can not only deliver information as much as possible, but also get support as much as possible, and provide enough speed for the mobilization of soldiers. If a bad road delays the deployment of troops and rescue teams, it is likely that all the residents of the entire settlement will die. This result is what everyone is unwilling to bear. Therefore, Wang Guorui obtained more than 200,000 laborers, which is first to build roads, not to do anything else.

"Are those POWs honest?" Wang Guorui asked.

And the official of the construction department immediately said: "To be honest, we have adopted your method, Lord Wang." We select a group of them to be foremen, and then we can give them preferential treatment. And we didn't follow their original structure, we all broke up and re-selected their foremen. None of the former Dutch-level officers were given preferential treatment, and they were all joined in the work. And we choose the foreman, and then let them work with us partially. And those foremen can get less work and can help us manage the work of the Dutch prisoners of war. And they can have the privilege of not having to compete for workload and so on. Then we appointed a group of foremen, who immediately became enemies in the eyes of the Dutch. At that time, when they had already enjoyed the privilege of working with us, we relieved them again of their position as foremen. In this way, they are then ostracized and even suppressed by those who were the original. ”|

"Next, we appointed a group of foremen again, and then the soldiers began to compete. After the competition, we randomly drew lots to appoint a number of foremen, but within a few days, they were immediately removed from their positions again. ”

"Finally, the foremen also knew that in our eyes they were just senior laborers, and that we could appoint and dismiss them as we pleased. And they all began to rely on us to cooperate, and I was able to divide and break their unity. There were some Dutch people who cooperated with us and managed the laborers together, so that if they showed the slightest sign of non-cooperation, we would immediately remove them from their position as foremen. It would have been a tragedy for them to be under pressure from the Dutch. In this way, those foremen also chose to rely on us in every way, and then together they went to oppress those Dutch prisoners of war. ”

Wang Guorui showed a wicked smile, this method is actually the method in Wang Guorui's later life to read a novel. This approach to dealing with those prisoners of war can work wonders. If those prisoners of war want to be treated better, they will inevitably have to cooperate with themselves. Then it is equivalent to artificially dividing two classes among the prisoners of war, one is the Dutch traitor class, and the other is the ordinary Dutch class. Such an artificial division of classes can be beneficial to Taiwan's management. The Dutch traitors were busy at the expense of the ordinary Dutchman in order to get constant preferential treatment. And Wang Guorui has broken up their past management system, and the original officers can no longer lead them, so they have become completely helpless. And those Dutch traitors are also selected from the ordinary soldiers, so that those low-level officers of the principle will also hate them, and those ordinary soldiers will also resent them and force themselves. And they have no choice but to rely on the Taiwan side to gain benefits. And they will desperately squeeze those compatriots, and then do things for themselves.

And those ordinary Dutch people who are oppressed in this way, they will also hate those compatriots who help Wang Guorui to oppress him. You must know that most people hate traitors far more than they hate enemies. So many times it is intolerant of traitors, and it can spare the enemy. So with this Dutch traitor class, it is also the object of anger and hatred that can be dispersed by those Dutch people for Wang Guorui. With these selected Dutch traitors to share the hatred, then those Dutch people will not unite as one to oppose Wang Guorui. After all, they have a new class, so Wang Guorui also took the opportunity to pit them, so that they can all be honest and obedient.

This is equivalent to dividing them internally, so that they can not coalesce into a rope and reject Wang Guorui's oppression together. Although Wang Guorui is not afraid of those of them who have no weapons, he is also worried that they will make trouble. If these guys unite and make a small fuss in three days, a big fuss in five days, and there are no big mistakes and no small mistakes, then Wang Guoruike is really going crazy. And these people are all Westerners, and they can't slaughter a large number of them, if they slaughter a large number of Westerners, then I'm afraid that those foreign devils will inevitably die and hurt them.

So in order to prevent them from uniting, we must solve their problem well, otherwise there is no good way.

"Lord Wang, I have some words, I don't know if I should say them or not!" The official said.

"Lord Wang, it's a matter of the materials we are currently using to build roads. At present, we use cement or ash to build roads, but although the cost of cement roads is relatively low, it is difficult to maintain. If there is any damage, the maintenance interval is very long. If it is a road that has been open to traffic for a long time, the traffic flow is very dense, if you choose cement as the basis for road construction, once it is damaged, it will be very troublesome to maintain. So can we build roads with a material that is easy to maintain? The official said.

"Oh? New materials? Wang Guorui began to mutter. (To be continued.) )