529 Our Times!
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In May, the warm wind blowing from the south dispelled the chill that had been enveloping the land of Qilu, and the weather finally began to really improve. To read the latest chapters, please lock the biquge.info of Aishang Novels
The private and Zheng fleets from Hainan, Xiamen and other places arrived in Weihai, bringing the food and other construction materials they urgently needed, and the construction of the new base in Weihaiwei also entered the first period. On the land that had been leveled in the early stage, new houses gradually sprung up.
Building a house here is not as good as in the south, as long as it can shelter from the wind and rain, considering the cold in winter, the newly built houses in the base are all standard brick houses. For high-grade residential buildings, heating pipes are also embedded in the ground, so that heating can enter the house in winter. Such a large-scale construction requires a huge amount of building materials such as bricks, lime, wood, etc., as well as energy. Fortunately, Shandong also produces coal, and although the resources are not as rich as Shanxi, a small coal mine vein has also been found near Weihaiwei. Originally, it was occupied by a group of bandits, but Hu Kai and others led troops over to say "hello", and the gang of bandits obediently handed over the territory, and even stayed in the coal mine to help dig coal, of course, not voluntarily.
Around this vein, which does not have large reserves, Chen Jun and others built a series of brick and tile yards, cement yards and other facilities nearby, opening up mountains to crush stone to burn cement, digging soil and mud bricks and tiles...... It is in full swing, but it is very similar to the posture when it just landed in Hainan back then.
However, now the small construction they planned is much larger than back then, and the manpower that can be mobilized is much more than back then.
From a distance, I saw that a large group of dejected mountain bandits and thieves were escorted into the guardianship area, ready to accept, and Pang Yu and Chen Jun, who were surveying the terrain near the brick and tile yard and preparing to further expand the scale of building materials production, couldn't help but smile at each other.
"Hu Kai, they are really not doing a good job...... and after a few more trips like this, there is a shortage of manpower for construction. You can plug it. ”
"It's a pity that it still has to go through a month, the transformation period, and then it can be used. After all, the bandits caught are not as useful as the farmers who have taken the initiative to defect. It's a pity that now that the weather is warmer, there are fewer and fewer farmers who come to join the family, and there are still many people who want to return to their hometowns...... Grandma's "There was no food when there were many people, but now there is food and there is no one, and it is difficult to have both worlds." ”
Pang Yu sighed helplessly, he was very sorry for the thousands of laborers that were towed away by the Zheng family's fleet not long ago, and it was unhappy to lose the key funding of the big collective. Well, when I was in Dengzhou Mansion, thousands of captives and refugees kept pouring in, and they could take them all without blinking, knowing that there would be a steady stream of supply ships behind them to deliver things to them.
And when the big collective no longer thought that their regiment was the main support target, even the supply of only three to five thousand people had to be carefully calculated, so that they had to send at least half of them to the Zheng family in exchange for food. Fortunately, the mainland has always had abundant human resources, otherwise it would be quite a headache to think about large-scale infrastructure projects after sending away a large number of laborers.
"So, I still count on those bandits, they are all strong laborers, and I only hope that the old man's "transformation" can be stronger, so that this group of people can be used to the fullest, and there are not too many who are eliminated, eliminated, and dropped. ”
Chen Jun said with emotion that each member of the regiment has its own division of labor, "Pang Yu and Chen Jun are responsible for infrastructure construction, and the work of managing and transforming prisoners is the responsibility of Xie Xi. In fact, it doesn't matter who does it, the members of the Qiong Navy now have a lot of experience in "transforming" prisoners, according to the successful experience left by Zhao Lide, "what to do with a group of prisoners after they are captured, everyone has a number."
After a few gossips, the two continued to discuss how to increase the scale of production of building materials. After all, relying on manpower to increase production is limited, Chen Jun plans to apply to the headquarters to see if he can apply for one or two steam engines to transport it, if he can use mechanical power to undertake work such as crushing stones, grinding cement powder, etc., the efficiency is definitely not comparable to manpower.
It's just that Pang Yu doesn't have much hope for this, "Since the mechanical group made a steam engine that can be put into use, it has immediately become the fragrant bun of the entire group, and all departments are making reports and applications." Even the light industry departments such as food factories and textile factories are making reports. Everyone also applied for it, and the department on Hainan Island must be close to the water, and they are too far apart, even if the report is approved, only God knows when it will be shipped.
However, afterwards, Pang Yu still wrote an application report and sent it back by telegram: "It's useless or not, let's talk about one first, even if you can't catch up with the infrastructure, it's good to use it for other uses......
The two of them are busy with construction, and they are also working hard to increase the labor force of the collective. According to the division of labor, he was responsible for "converting" the new captives.
First of all, it is necessary to deter them, let them know that the strength of the Joan Navy is by no means able to resist themselves, which can basically be done on the battlefield. Then give a little sweetness, as if providing medical care to the injured, or a little better in the food provided, so that the psychological defense of those people can dissolve on their own. After that, I went to investigate and find out how these people were before they became bandits, how much blood debts they had, what their family situation was, and what their expectations and thoughts were for the future...... and so on to find out all kinds of situations, and then make different treatments for them accordingly.
The situation of the vast majority of peasants in this era was similar, and the bandits were similar, most of them were unable to eat or coerced, so they involuntarily joined the ranks of bandits and bandits. Moreover, with the hard-working nature of the people of the Ming Dynasty, just starving often does not make an honest peasant become a bandit, if it is not about to starve to death, most of the peasants' fear of the "royal law" is actually deep in their bones.
Of course, there are also the kind of bad embryos who are inherently evil to the bones, and they are often the backbone and initiators of bandit gangs, and it is very difficult to reform.
Therefore, Qiong Haijun also has no hope for them at all, after being identified in the preliminary work, this kind of character will be eliminated as a target~ Pulled out as the object of criticism at the mass meeting, and the last rope hanged the matter.
Of course, these people who were pulled out by the Qiong Navy as targets were not good birds, so when they were pulled to the stage, the presiding officer of the Qiong Navy told the following "bewitched toiling people, that the crimes they committed were only done under the pinch of these Shou Sang elements, and that they themselves were just good people who were blinded by the truth, and that the people below would naturally vent all their anger on them, and one of them would always have the idea that most of the mistakes they made were instigated by others. If it weren't for those bad guys, I could have been a good person. If this kind of thinking is in a special environment such as a grievance meeting and a criticism meeting, it will often turn into extreme hatred for certain people.
So, in the end, when the "reactionaries" on the stage were roped and hung on the gallows amid the angry denunciations and curses of all the participants. Many former bandits in the audience were also able to "lay down their burdens and move forward lightly", consciously breaking with their previous criminal lives, and going to meet the beautiful new life described to them by the correctional cadres in high spirits......
First, this is the whole process of "transformation" of the prisoners by the Qiong Navy, and its overall method is still to "win over the majority and isolate the murderous tribes", but the specific method is to a large extent borrowed from various brainwashing methods of later generations. Since Xie Xi and Pang Yu first opened this move with a dozen brothers in Wangjiazhuang outside Qiongzhou Mansion that year, they have become more and more proficient in this application over the years.
However, Xie Xi himself also knows that although this method has taken effect very quickly, it will basically take only about a month to completely reverse the thinking of a group of former bandits, but if they rely too much on this kind of mass movement, they will inevitably have the risk of addiction and loss of control. Even after seizing the national power and taking control of the country himself, he still kept inciting the masses to rise up and engage in movements, and it is difficult to say that it is not because he is addicted to this way.
Therefore, he has always been cautious in practical use, and it is almost the same thing if the same group of people has one or two criticism meetings at most. Except for the leaders of bandits and thieves, or those who have too many blood debts on their hands to be disposed of, most of the others are classified as "salvable". As for those who have a thief's heart and still want to run away and continue to do evil, although it is impossible to completely eradicate it, even if one or two escape, it will not cause a great disaster.
As for why they went to such great lengths to carry out ideological reform, instead of being forced to do hard labor after being directly shackled and then handcuffed in many places in this era? To put it bluntly, it is still a matter of efficiency, and all actions must be carried out in a hurry, forcing those prisoners to work, and assigning manpower to monitor and guard them, this inefficient way is really not advisable.
After the ideological transformation, those strong labor force has a clear expectation for the future, whether it is the enthusiasm of work or the safety of abiding by labor discipline, it is obviously much more efficient than working with shackles. The work they undertook such as digging coal, mining and blasting stones, and burning cement was the hardest and most dangerous of all construction work. If the prisoners are forced to wear shackles and shackles, as is traditional, it is not known how long they will be done. Now these captives are working with the idea of atoning for their former sins, and completing their labor reform and being released as soon as possible, and the management does not have to be too constrained in the food and labor tools provided to them, and this work is much faster.
In this way, in an atmosphere of "big work and fast development", the Shandong Weihai base of the Qiong Navy began to grow rapidly. Pang Yu, who knew the importance of the model project, did not distribute the labor equally, but concentrated on building a demonstration street first, and put thousands of construction workers and all the building materials and equipment into the construction of a main street at the same time.
When the basic construction of this main street is completed, the civil engineering team invites everyone to visit, and the modern people who see the vision in front of them all show surprise and nostalgia on their faces, because it is completely designed according to the concept of modernization, and many modern technologies of later generations are also applied as much as possible in the construction techniques, the architectural style of this street is not the same as any city on the mainland of the Ming Dynasty at that time, all the houses are boxy, and there is no decoration such as carving and arching; The windows are all vitrified; The roads are horizontal and vertical, and all are hard-cased with cement or masonry; The roads are lined with neat and tidy drainage ditches, both light and dark: together with the widespread planting of street trees, garbage bins, pedestrian seating, etc., the appearance is similar to that of the small towns of the early twentieth century.
"It's like you've stepped back in the modern era...... Although it is only the seventies and eighties, it is still a little short of the twenty-first century, and it is already good enough. ”
"Eh, I can't help but want to go in and find out if there's an Internet café......"
Everyone was amazed that a modern block could appear so quickly on the land of the Ming Dynasty, and the civil engineering team that designed and led people to create this qiē was full of pride.
It's just that when they heard that the civil engineering team planned to build the entire Weihai base according to this construction standard, they all felt that it was a bit too crazy, and it would obviously take a long time and huge investment to make all the buildings in the base reach the above level.
But is it necessary? Just the modern people in this block are used to house the modern people in Shandong, even if all the companions on the Hainan side are more than enough, and if they make more, it is nothing more than for the local people of the Ming Dynasty who work for them to use, and those people are willing to accept this cross-era way of life?
However, the leader of their group, Xie Xi, was very assertive, and used the strength of the former company boss to fool people and encouraged everyone: "Everyone, we have come to this Ming Dynasty in the seventeenth century, and it is not up to us to choose. But since we are people of the twentieth century, the construction and life of Qiē must of course be carried out according to our own era! Including the people who work for us, it is just this street now, and in the future it will be the entire base, and even Weihai and Shandong...... One day, we will bring the entire continent into our time! ”! ~!
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