Chapter 244: Annihilation. Door (top)
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Luzon was presided over by Li Guangdi, a detachment of a detachment and three battalions of marines cooperated to handle the affairs of Luzon in an orderly manner, and constantly extended its influence to every part of Luzon, and truly incorporated it into the territory of the Mawei group. Since there was no interference from other forces, the new policy implemented by the Mawei clique in Luzon was not hindered in the slightest, and even some people were not convinced and did not dare to express any expression. When Li Guangdi replied to Geng Jingzhong, there was no improvement, and he had already begun to arrange according to Xu Shan's construction.
The 350,000 new immigrants plus the 20,000 Han Chinese who were originally on Luzon Island are counted as a whole, and the local natives of about 600,000 are counted as another whole. The civilization of the Han people is not many levels higher than that of the natives, and if there is no external force to let the natives develop naturally, it is estimated that in another thousand years, they may not be able to develop into the current Han people. Geng Jingzhong began to send people to contact the indigenous leaders, and hired the natives to do the hard work of building roads and rivers.
At this moment, the roads built in Luzon are not all cement roads like Fujian, after all, no one here will fire you, even if you open a cement kiln here, it will not be fired in a while. At this stage, the roads between the villages and towns are leveled, and then stones are pulled in from the outside to pave the way. To make stone roads, of course, due to the supply of materials, the construction of stone roads is very slow. However, after a large number of natives joined, a large number of stone slabs were mined, and the progress of construction was much faster.
The village of the newcomers. Under the organization of the various village officials. Started to set up one handicraft workshop after another. There is a wide variety of things produced. Among the crowd, the largest number of craftsmen are carpenters, stonemasons, plasterers, blacksmiths, dyers, butchers, tailors, shavers, and geldings, which are the most common and indispensable types in the lives of ordinary people. In addition to these, coppersmiths, silversmiths, small furnace makers, leathermen, shoemakers, pen makers, etc., as well as some skilled masters and apprentices who had previously worked in paper mills, vinegar mills, wine mills, etc., began to be called to gather together for large-scale production.
The greatest convenience in the process of organizing production in villages and towns is that these new immigrants are registered before they come to Luzon. Among them, there are skills that each person is good at. Plasterers, carpenters, butchers, tailors, shavers, geldings, etc., basically stay in the village and serve the people of the village, who are needed in their daily lives, such as repairing houses and furniture. Blacksmiths, stonemasons, coppersmiths, silversmiths, furnace makers, leathermen, shoemakers, pensmiths, etc., because of the small number of people in each village, were gathered together in towns to build special factories and organize their production together. The construction of paper mills, vinegar mills, wine mills, and oil mills in each town has also begun, and it will not be long before they can be put into production, and the people of each town will also enjoy the newly produced goods.
Fortunately, the resources on Luzon are still relatively sufficient. Most of the things did not need to be shipped from Fujian, and Luzon was under Spanish rule for a hundred years. A lot of minerals have been found here, including gold, silver, copper, and iron, all of which are now controlled by the Mawei Army, and are still mined by local natives. Therefore, there is no shortage of metal-based materials. Others, grain, leather and other things are also produced here, which are relatively sufficient, and what Yan zhòng lacks is basic things such as cotton, raw silk, and textile machines, but Li Guangdi has already sent someone to reply to Geng Jingzhong, so that the Fujian side can quickly prepare. I think that after the workshops in each town here are built, the necessary things will be transported from Fujian!
Since the Mawei Army took Luzon Island in July, another four months have passed since this busy time, and seeing that it will be another New Year in less than a month, Geng Jingzhong is ready to send a big gift to the people all over Fujian before this New Year.
In recent years, the power of the Ministry of Intelligence has expanded more and more, and it has extended to almost every corner of all prefectures and counties in Fujian. Every town has a headquarters of the Ministry of Intelligence, with a minimum of one person and a maximum of a dozen people per station. Together with the Einsatzgruppen that specialize in covert operations, the total number reaches two thousand. Two thousand people seems like a lot, but compared to the former Ming Dynasty's spy agency Jinyiwei, it is a small thing. In the pre-Ming Dynasty, the Jinyi Wei was a huge collective, with a total number of more than 50,000 people, and the movements of the whole country were under their control, but that kind of situation existed in the first hundred years of the Ming Dynasty, and then it became more and more corrupt!
The special operations team of the Ministry of Intelligence, each team has a quota of 15 people, and each county has a latent one, a total of 40 teams, 600 people. These 600 people usually appear in the eyes of people in various capacities, but they have never put down their training, and their skills are no worse than those of Marine soldiers, and these members of the special task force are far stronger than ordinary soldiers in terms of infiltration, reconnaissance, and sneak attacks. In the words of later generations, people are professionals!
Haicheng Town, the whole town here can be regarded as the Lu family's industry, for a hundred years, as a salt merchant, the Lu family has gathered unimaginable wealth, Haicheng Town and even the entire Zhangzhou Mansion There is a large amount of land belonging to the Lu family. Half of Haicheng Town is tenants of the Lu family, and half is salt workers in the salt works. Here, the Lu family is a veritable emperor of the soil, and all the people here rely on the Lu family to eat, and the Lu family is not too harsh on these people, and they clearly know the truth that rabbits don't eat the grass next to the nest. At the same time, the Lu family also raised a group of family members, although they have not undergone special military training, but they are all majestic and powerful, and they are extremely strong.
These salt merchants, in addition to collecting and selling salt normally, are also engaged in the sale of smuggled salt. For them, the court's belongs to the court, and the private salt is their real own. The profits of private salt are also far from being comparable to normal official salt. These family members are usually regarded as family members, and many times they have become escort guards, and many of them have also seen life and death. After all, the profits of smuggling smuggled salt are too high, and there are conflicts between smuggled salt dealers and the overt and covert forces in various places, and at this time, the family members will come in handy.
As the largest salt merchant in Fujian, the Lu family also lives a luxurious life, except for the eldest son. The others are all flying and domineering, and they can be said to be notorious in Zhangzhou Mansion. The wife of the current head of the Lu family gave birth to this son, that is, the eldest son of the Lu family, and the others are just concubines. Therefore, the head of the Lu family focused on cultivating the eldest son to inherit the family business. Lu Qianlong, the eldest son of the Lu family, is twenty-eight years old, and he has long married the wife of the main house, but none of them gave birth to a boy, and then he took a few concubines, but gave birth to five or six daughters, that is, he did not give birth to a son, his two younger brothers have started a family and have sons, if he has never had a son, he may not inherit the family business later!
Lu Qianlong and his mother worship the Buddha every day, praying to the Bodhisattva to give him a boy, I don't know if they really moved the Bodhisattva, just a month ago, his fourth concubine really gave birth to a big fat boy for him, which made him very happy, no, the baby's full moon wine began to be in Haicheng Town! Due to the different distances and the time at which they received the invitations, some of them had already arrived the day before yesterday. (To be continued......)