Chapter 30 Soaring Forward
After being transferred to their destinations, a large number of refugees have been resettled in a relatively good manner, at least without being left without food, and although the amount of food they receive per person each day is limited to ensure their basic needs, there has been no mass starvation death.
When the refugees arrived at their destinations, everyone had to pour a few days of medicinal soup in succession, some to fight insects, some to prevent typhoid fever, and some to scrub and clean the skin, in short, to reduce the occurrence of epidemics as much as possible.
In addition, each place receiving immigrants has prepared a large bathhouse, and everyone has to soak in the medicinal soup and wash the whole body inside and out before they can be placed in the resettlement center.
And their clothes have to be cleaned, and steamed in a cauldron before they can be worn again, some immigrants are really too tattered, the sea wolf also provides some old clothes, for them to replace, although they are old clothes, but they have also been strictly cleaned and disinfected, compared to their original clothes, it is still much better.
So although there are many immigrants who are reluctant to be dragged to these places, when they see the situation here, they suddenly gradually feel at ease, at least two meals a day here, although most of them are thin, but at least they will not be starved to death, and the appropriate amount of food rations is still increasing the amount of food rations for them every day, so that they gradually feel that their bodies have strength.
When they were on land, many hungry people were hungry and afraid, and for many days they could not eat anything, and they hovered on the line of death all day long, and all they saw were human misery and numbness for being rich.
Although the conditions here are not very good, they are provided with conditions to live, which is beyond many people's expectations.
For these immigrants, although Yu Xiaotian stored a lot of food in advance, after all, this time a guy brought too many people, even if the foundation is thick, it is a bit unbearable, so at the beginning, he also tried to let everyone be full, and when there were more and more people later, he found that this kind of food would definitely not last the autumn harvest and buy food from outside.
So he can only cut the food, and divide the people according to the amount of labor, divided into several levels, and those who have to participate in the stronger labor every day can eat a little more, but the amount of labor per day is relatively small, and the amount of food given is reduced, like some people who basically do not participate in labor, and the food can only ensure the minimum need to maintain life.
But the only exception is those teenagers and children under the age of fifteen, for these children, Yu Xiaotian asked to ensure their nutritional needs as much as possible, after all, these children are his foundation in the future, and now when he is growing up, once he lacks nutrition for a long time, it will have a great impact on his future development.
After the introduction of such a graded food supply system, at first some people were not very happy, after all, they came early, and at first they were open for them to eat, but now all of a sudden, the grading system was introduced, so some people were unhappy, they felt that their food was being deprived, and they wanted to make trouble or simply encourage others to make trouble.
The sea wolves had their own way of dealing with those who made such troubles or instigated trouble, some of them were found and chopped up, and most of them were taken out and kept in solitary confinement, or thrown into hard labor camps, and at least starved for a few days, so that they could revisit the hard days before they came, and the result was of course very good, and this discontent was immediately suppressed.
Of course, such a large-scale immigration operation, it is impossible not to think of some mistakes, after all, this time the incident came relatively suddenly, the sea wolf's preparation was not very sufficient, and there were a lot of troubles during the period, but fortunately, the sea wolf's personnel were more serious and quickly found a solution, but it did not give Yu Xiaotian too much headache for this.
This made Yu Xiaotian feel very gratified, under his vigorous promotion over the years, a good atmosphere of doing things has been formed within the sea wolf, and there are very few people who are superficial, and no one dares to shirk the blame for the things in the division, this kind of person has no place in the sea wolf at all, so the administrative efficiency of the sea wolf is very, very high in this era, at least compared with the government on land, one person can work on top of a large group of them.
And there are few people and few people, there is no place to shirk responsibility, whose business is whose business, there is no chance to play ball, everything pays attention to the responsibility to the person, and if you don't do it well, you can find the responsible person directly, and there is no excuse for wanting to shirk the blame, so although this large-scale immigration wave has made the sea wolf busy up and down, but there is not much chaos on the whole.
On the side of Dagou Port, after more than a year of preliminary preparation, the sea wolf invested a lot of coolie to carry out a large-scale environmental transformation within a radius of dozens of miles around Dagou Port, and the terrain that is usually easy to breed mosquitoes has almost all been transformed, and a large number of bushes and barren grasslands have been set on fire, although it has caused some environmental impacts, but it has played a good role in cultivating people in the future.
At least when the tide of immigrants came, Dagou Port initially had the conditions to accept a large number of immigrants to settle in the cantonment, so that as soon as a large number of immigrants arrived, a malaria epidemic would break out, which also greatly reduced the mortality rate of immigrants, and basically controlled the mortality rate of immigrants within 20%.
Although only eight out of ten people can live, it seems that this number is cruel, 300,000 people will eventually die about 60,000, this situation seems miserable, but in fact, for this era, hundreds of thousands of extremely weak and undernourished immigrants, the mortality rate can be controlled to this extent, which is already a miracle.
In fact, since the beginning of the Han Dynasty, there have been many large-scale immigration to Taiwan Island, but until the end of the Ming Dynasty, it has basically never succeeded, and the mainland has repeatedly immigrated to Taiwan Island in large numbers, and finally basically ended in failure, most of the immigrants have not been able to carry the harsh environment here, often within a short period of time, there has been an outbreak of large-scale malaria infection or other epidemics, resulting in the death of a large number of immigrants, and the mortality rate is even as high as more than 90 percent, and the remaining immigrants, in order to survive, He had no choice but to flee back to land.
Even in the original time and space, Zheng Zhilong immigrated to Taiwan Island in large numbers at the end of the Ming Dynasty in history, and in the initial stage, the epidemic outbreak of immigrants was very serious, and the death rate of immigrants was also quite high, at least more than half of the immigrants did not survive.
After all, there is no modern medicine and modern medicine level at this time, and only some Chinese herbal medicines can be used to treat various diseases, although Chinese medicine has its very good effect and curative effect, but after all, it is relatively slow, and the pertinence is not very strong, especially the ability to control infectious diseases is still very poor, and it is quite good to be able to do this.
With the large-scale migration for several months, the number of hungry people on the land in Fujian has decreased sharply, and a large number of hungry people in the inland have learned that they can get food in the coastal area, so they have moved towards the coastal area in a big way, and the Sea Wolf Group has recruited immigrants in the coastal area in a semi-open manner, and has continuously transported the hungry people who have flocked to the coastal area out of Fujian and transferred them to the island of Taiwan, thus fundamentally solving the problem of Fujian's inability to provide relief to the victims.
Since a large number of hungry people can survive, they are naturally unwilling to easily go to the thieves and go to the bandits, which also cuts off the root cause of the chaos from the source, so that the bandits have lost a large number of fertile soil to absorb new energy, and have become rootless trees, and the chaotic situation has begun to be effectively controlled.
Even some bandit groups that have gathered into gangs, as the sea wolves began to recruit immigrants along the coast, many hungry people who had joined the thieves also sneaked away, making the already unstable bandit groups gradually die out because of blood loss.
Xiong Wencan has always been watching the development of the situation in Fuzhou, and when he saw that Yu Xiao's trick had indeed begun to bear fruit, he couldn't help but breathe a long sigh of relief, and his heart was full of gratitude for Xiaotian.
While Yu Xiaotian recruited a large number of immigrants to cultivate the island of Taiwan, he also began to launch a large-scale military operation, sending a large number of his subordinates to rush to various places separately to suppress those bandit groups that were gradually becoming a climate.
Whether they face the battle head-on, or break into pieces and sneak into the mountains, they can't stop the generals under Yu Xiaotian's command from attacking them, and the army under Yu Xiaotian's command was originally formed in the mountains and forests on the island of Taiwan, fighting against those natives living in the mountains and forests, and has accumulated quite a wealth of experience in mountain warfare.
Fujian is mountainous, although it is very conducive to the activities and hiding of bandits, but it is only for ordinary officers and soldiers, when they are familiar with the infantry of the sea wolves, those sea wolf infantry often show a strong ability to fight in the mountains.
Often, the generals of the sea wolves can use a small force to track down the bandits in the mountains, and gradually weaken the large group of bandits by various methods, and finally completely exterminate them.
The infantry of the sea wolves often dare to go deep into the mountains and forests alone with dozens or more, that is, one or two hundred, and dare to go deep into the mountains and old forests alone, chasing and suppressing the bandits, and often they can achieve big victories, but for ordinary Fujian officers and soldiers, even if they lend them a bunch of courage, they do not dare to rashly chase them into the mountains and forests.
Therefore, in the second half of the first year of Chongzhen, Yu Xiaotian can be said to be making great progress, and the good news was spread frequently, and almost every day, large and small battle reports were presented to the governor yamen in Fuzhou City and the commander of the envoy who presided over military affairs, so that Xiong Wencan and these officials were all dumbfounded.