Chapter 94 Population Import

The sleepy-eyed migrants were quickly driven out of their tents by the security guards and slowly gathered in the open space outside the camp. Then someone brought several large vats and several large baskets of pottery bowls, and began to distribute breakfast to the immigrants. The immigrants consciously lined up in front of the vats, and when dinner was distributed last night, many people who did not know the rules and rushed forward ate sticks, and they were all beaten and screamed by the security guards, such a vivid example obviously helped them quickly understand the rules of eating here.

Today's breakfast was still white porridge, green vegetables and salted fish, but no one expressed dissatisfaction with it. Being able to eat three meals a day and having meat at all times is difficult for them to enjoy even if they didn't lose their possessions in the past. The children who had been dizzy from hunger because of their family's predicament were even more happy about this, and they did not understand why they had rice porridge to eat after coming here, but the voice on the loudspeaker repeatedly reminded them that it was the gift of the Executive Committee to be able to eat, live and read here. The children did not understand what the Executive Committee was, and indeed even their parents did not, but one thing was obvious: the Executive Committee was rich and powerful, and was willing to give them the poor a bite to eat, and anyone could continue to live in this place as long as they obeyed the orders of the Executive Committee.

After breakfast, the manpower department began to distribute the migrants. The vast majority of the people would be assigned to the communes of the farm and the salt works, and after a period of work, the managers would choose some of them to work in the factories with more flexible minds. A small number of craftsmen who have registered their skills at the time of application will be singled out separately and assigned to relevant units, such as carpenters going to carpentry workshops, blacksmiths going to metallurgical workshops, and plasterers going to the Ministry of Construction.

Children under the age of 14 are singled out and will be concentrated for seven to ten days of basic learning, and then, depending on what the teacher observes, some of the brighter children will remain in school to continue their studies. The other group of children who were considered to be a little inferior would be taken away by the military police and sent to the newly established Scout camp, which also had literacy classes, but the path they would have taken was completely different. Most of them will stay in the Scout camp until the age of sixteen, and then most will go straight to the barracks to become a glorious Haihan warrior, and a few of the more prominent will receive a higher level of military training to become future reserve officers. (.)

The immigrants are unclear about their future plans, so there is no conflict between them. After completing the assignment, they were taken to a dock site not far from the makeshift camp. Before they can enter their respective jobs, they also have a training program that they must complete, which is to visit a labor camp. The Executive Committee believes that a look at the hard labor in the camps will make these immigrants appreciate the opportunities they are given.

The schedule of the labor camp has always been very full, and the daily working hours are almost twice that of ordinary laborers. Before Luo Shengdong's subordinates were released, two of them had died in the labor camp, and the rest of the lucky ones were assigned to the commune except for some who followed Luo Shengdong back to Yazhou Water Village, and the others were assigned to the commune, barely getting rid of the life of hard labor. The second batch of pirate captives sent to the labor camp has so far killed seven people, and more than a dozen lucky ones have been asked by the Ministry of Shipping to supplement the crew because they are familiar with the sea conditions and sailing skills, and there are no bad deeds that have been found.

Of course, these two groups of prisoners were not the only prisoners serving in the labor camps, and those who made trouble in the areas under the jurisdiction of the people who crossed the territory would be thrown into the labor camps and sentenced to hard labor for different periods depending on the severity of the circumstances. After the implementation of this measure, it also played a certain role in maintaining local law and order, so that the number of hard laborers in the labor camps was always maintained at about 100. In particular, after the security team of the mixed formation of the Han, Li and Miao tribes was put into use, the ethnic conflict that had caused some headaches to the Executive Committee was finally resolved. Now in this labor camp, there are also people of the Li and Miao ethnic groups who have been arrested and served.

Gao Qiao Nan had already received a notice from Ren Liang yesterday and knew that a group of immigrants would come to the construction site to visit and study this morning. Before going to work today, he specially changed into his cleanest set of clothes, tied his hair in a neat bun, and put on the pair of green liberation shoes that Ren Liang sent to him. As soon as he was ready to stop, he took the small leather whip he used to "supervise" the laborers and set off for the construction site.

So all the immigrants saw how a vicious little man used a leather whip and angry scolding to maintain order on the construction site, especially the unlucky guy who had only been sent to the labor camp last night, and in a short time he had been whipped several times because his hands and feet were too slow, and the screams were even better than when he was beaten by the security guards yesterday. And there would be no good gentleman like Ning Qi here to dissuade Takahashi Minami, and even his immediate boss Ren Liang just looked at this qiē with a smile The significance of the labor camp is not only to punish the prisoners, but more importantly, to warn those who have not yet made mistakes, so that they can realize in advance what terrible consequences will be if they make a mistake.

The ragged hard labor, the fierce overseers, and the endless labor, the qiē they saw in the labor camp made all the immigrants turn pale, and secretly reminded themselves not to make mistakes, giving the Haihan people an excuse to throw themselves into the labor camp.

After the visit, the people sent by each unit led the assigned immigrants to different places. Those who go to the commune of Yanchang have the farthest journey and need to board the ship again in Victory Port. But the amount of labour aside, the people who went to the saltworks were more fortunate, as only a few of the traversers were at the head of the Commune Management Committee, and the laborers were less supervised and freer than the other units. The few units to which skilled craftsmen are assigned have a large number of crossers, so it can be said that they are under supervision anytime and anywhere, but because they are technical jobs, the corresponding labor points will be higher than those of other units.

Of course, the most promising are the children, whether they stay in the school or enter the scout camp, these children will be a resource that the Executive Committee attaches great importance to in the future, and in a few years, a group of native technicians, civil affairs cadres and junior officers will gradually emerge among them.

In the afternoon of the same day, another fleet came to Shengli Harbor, which was the first batch of prisoners sent by Luo Shengdong from the mainland to Yazhou for hard labor. There were more than 270 men, of whom about 80 were men, with only a small number of women and children. The vast majority of these people are innocent people who have been implicated in the verdict of some major cases. Some of them were sentenced to exile because they lived in the same village and street as the main offender, and there were also some people who were convicted because of their kinship with the offender, and they were basically prisoners who were charged with very minor crimes.

The prisoners who are assigned to Yazhou are generally divided into three categories, one is the prisoners sent by Luo Shengdong who have no criminal acts and are purely implicated. The second category is prisoners who are charged with serious crimes and cannot be acquitted, this kind of person is locked up in Yazhou Prison all the year round, and Luo Shengdong has no way to get it out even if he wants to. The third category is officials who have made mistakes and been demoted, many of these people still have the possibility of restarting, even if they go to Yazhou, they still enjoy the treatment of celebrities, Luo Shengdong must not be able to be dispatched.

The first of these three categories has the largest number of people, but the local government of Yazhou is also the most troublesome to deal with. These prisoners have to live with food, but it is not so easy to get these prisoners to work. There is no local output in Yazhou, let alone large-scale manufacturing, and there is no labor-intensive industry that can produce benefits in the short term, so almost the only place for the working population to go is to farm, but the land annexation near Yazhou has begun to appear a large number of tenant farmers are unemployed, and if you want to farm, you can only go farther away to open up wasteland. However, sending prisoners to open up the wasteland had to send troops to guard it, which was also a large expense. How to feed the thousands of local prisoners has become a great headache for successive local governments.

And the proposal of Luo Shengdong, the general manager of Yazhou Water Village, is a new way for the local officials on the side of the state government to see a new way to solve this problem. Luo Shengdong sent these prisoners to the newly built villages and towns of the Haihan people in the east, and let the Haihan people, who were in urgent need of a large amount of labor, be responsible for feeding the prisoners. If something goes wrong in the middle, the place is a hundred miles away from Yazhou, and it will not affect the safety of Yazhou. Of course, these superficial reasons are secondary, and the most important point is that the Haihan people are willing to pay some price for it, such as silver and gold, which everyone loves.

In the past, the state government had to provide financial subsidies to the Yazhou prison every year to feed these prisoners who could not generate enough output value, but now this situation seems to be able to change, not to mention throwing out this huge financial burden, and still have income because of it, so it is obvious how to choose this matter. After the discussion between the governors, the same knowledge, and the general judges, the state government issued a document authorizing Luo Shengdong, the general manager of Shuizhai, to be responsible for the operation of this matter. Of course, if something goes wrong, such as the large-scale escape of prisoners or the failure to recover the fees that should be collected, then the person who needs to stand up to the thunder is also Luo Shengdong.