Will there be xenophobia among the naturalized groups under the rule of the Crossing Group? The answer to this question is undoubtedly yes. Although these people accounted for the vast majority of the naturalized people in the early days, with the passage of time, the influx of immigrants continued, and the resident structure of the Shengli Port area was constantly changing, and the numerical advantage of the local people was gradually fading, and the foreign population slowly began to become the main body of the naturalized people, and this will also be the main theme of the demographic changes in Sanya in the next few years.

It is not yet possible for the Executive Committee to make a hasty conclusion on the extent to which this demographic trend will affect the people, but it is certain that there will be many similar incidents of conflict between the old and new forces in the future, the most serious of which is the case of the farm commune. The large-scale armed fighting, which killed and injured several people, was the most severe civil security case to date, and the cause of it was the conflict between the old and the new naturalized people.

Although the Executive Committee's response and handling of the matter after the incident were very swift, and as a result, it also carried out the construction of grassroots civil affairs institutions and gradually began to train naturalized civilian cadres, everyone knew very well that these institutional measures could not completely eliminate this contradiction among the people. In fact, according to the statistics of the military and police departments, in the existing public security cases, the proportion of naturalized citizens of different batches between the two parties involved in the cases exceeds 80 percent, and this figure is enough to show that the contradiction between the old and new naturalized citizens is still the main internal contradiction among the people at present.

According to the more mature sociological views of later generations, xenophobia is a kind of inferior root of human nature, and the people who hold this concept are often the disadvantaged groups in the region, and ignorance, ignorance and prejudice cause such a social phenomenon. If the Executive Committee wants to alleviate or eradicate the various social contradictions brought about by this, it must first be guided by public opinion and gradually change this social phenomenon by improving the education process of the naturalized people.

But it is easier said than done, and xenophobia is still widespread and difficult to cure in the twenty-first century, let alone in the seventeenth century. At present, the vast majority of the naturalized people recruited by the crossing group are poor people, more than ninety percent of them have not received formal cultural education, and less than one percent of them can really read and write. This situation is of course related to the policy of ignoring the people adopted by the feudal dynasty for thousands of years, but there is another reason that the vast majority of the immigrants who defected to Shengli Port in the early days came for a living, and their families could not afford to support the scholars. The current prestige and reputation of the crossing group are far from reaching the point where they can attract talents from all over the world to rush to join them, and there are even very few down-and-out literati, and a considerable part of the people can even be directly classified into the category of "ignorance", and the people are still at a relatively low level.

On the other hand, when these immigrants come to Victory Port, they often bring a large group of people with their families, and there is even a large family with clans as a whole. After entering the naturalized civil system, these immigrants often still regard the family clan as the social relationship on which they depend, and the most significant consequence of the existence of this dependency relationship is that they are grouped together by the clan and outside the existing civil affairs system, which in many cases becomes the source of civil security incidents.

The next large-scale influx of North Vietnamese immigrants will usher in a new wave of huddles, and it is almost inevitable for these uprooted people to join together to protect their own interests after arriving in a completely unfamiliar new environment. The problems that will arise will not only be xù between old and new immigrants, but also new contradictions, such as regional discrimination.

Regional discrimination is not a new thing for the people, and in later generations, there are such social phenomena caused by regional cultural differences between provinces within a country, between cities within a province, and even within a smaller geographical area. And the problems it will create for the Crossing Syndicate are no less than the xenophobic ideas of early immigrants. The biggest headache for the Executive Committee is that this hurdle will definitely not be overcome, and with the increasing number of sources of immigrants, this situation will become more and more serious.

After Tao Donglai explained the key points, everyone present fell into deep thought. If such a factor of social instability cannot be properly addressed, it will lay a time bomb for future resettlement, and there may be a big mess at any point.

The first to speak was Qiu Yuan: "Since there are also these problems in future generations, it is reasonable to save them, and we will definitely not be able to put an end to these phenomena. ”

"If, as Mr. Tao said, tens of thousands of Vietnamese immigrants move into Sanya in the next year, then the number of Vietnamese naturalized people will be seven or eight times that of other naturalized people, and if the proportion of the population suddenly increases so much, it is almost impossible without problems," said Mariko. ”

Tao Donglai keenly grasped the implicit meaning of Mariko's words: "You mean that the key is to keep the structure of naturalized people in Sanya in balance?"

Zhang Guang was stunned and asked: "It is said that tens of thousands of Vietnamese are going to move in, and immigrants from other places are coming slowly, so how can we maintain the balance of the population structure?"

"Stupid!" Zhao Xiaoruo glared at Zhang Guang with hatred: "To maintain the balance of the population structure in Sanya, just directly limit the number of Vietnamese immigrants entering this area!"

"What about the extra immigrants?" Zhang Guang still didn't understand what these people were talking about.

"The extra migrants can be resettled to other parts of Hainan Island and develop uninhabited areas in the form of colonies. At this time, Tao Donglai had already formed a relatively clear idea in his mind: "Yinggehai and Shilu, the population needed for the development and construction of these two places alone is at least tens of thousands, and now there are large coastal plains on the west coast of Hainan Island that can be used for large-scale agricultural development, not to mention 20,000 or 30,000 people, even 200,000 or 300,000 people can also be resettled." ”

"Vietnamese immigrants assigned to these places to establish colonies can be systematically screened and grouped together as much as possible according to their place of origin, so that there will be no problems such as xenophobia or regional discrimination in the early stages of resettlement. Marico also lost no time in adding.

"As long as the social stability of the core area of Sanya is ensured, the peripheral colonization and development areas can be used as secondary units to slowly solve the problems that arise in practice. Qiu Yuan also hurriedly offered advice.

Everyone, you and I, gradually perfected this idea, and unconsciously seemed to have seen the dawn of solving the problem. However, Zhang Guang was still very uninteresting and poured a basin of cold water on everyone at this time: "The development of the Black Soil Port a few months ago, and now the planning of the Iron Furnace Port, have already made everyone up and down busy, if tens of thousands of people are engaged in colonization on Hainan Island, I am afraid it will not be as simple as talking about it!"

One sentence made everyone immediately return to reality from the state of excitement, indeed, in terms of the current comprehensive strength of the crossing group, it is extremely difficult to achieve large-scale colonization and development on Hainan Island. The material cost of opening a colony is too great, and if you only count the number of North Vietnamese immigrants, the number of 2,000 people moving in every month in the future is enough to support a colony of the same size as the Black Earth Port, but unfortunately, the crossing group does not have enough capacity to plan and build new colonies at the rate of one per month.

The colonization point to be built by the crossing group is not a village-style settlement that is left to fend for itself, but to use the Black Tu Port as a model to establish a comprehensive civil administration organization, bring local social security under the management of the military, and realize the ability of self-hematopoiesis in a short period of time. The material consumption of such colonies is not small, and it is indeed difficult to achieve the goal of continuous colonization under the current population base and production scale.

Tao Donglai was also speechless for a while, he really only saw the benefits of this plan just now, and temporarily ignored the difficulties that might arise in the process. The Executive Committee has been dreaming of developing the western part of Hainan Island at an early date, but it is indeed difficult to realize it, and it cannot be achieved overnight.

After skipping this topic for the time being, Tao Donglai returned his attention to the work of the Yazhou Office and listened to the work reports of everyone in the Yazhou Office one by one.

Since its establishment in May, it has been more than four months, and in the past four months, the Cliff Office has sent nearly 2,000 immigrants to Shengli Port through various channels, purchased dozens of tons of various materials, reached several export trade agreements, and earned a large amount of silver for the foreign trade department.

In addition, the various intelligence collection and civil and military intelligence monitoring work done by the Yazhou Garrison Office in Yazhou is also very effective, and it is precisely because of the existence of the Garrison Office that the Executive Committee can focus on its own development, instead of always guarding against possible military attacks from Yazhou. However, after this period of operation, the role that the Cliff Office can play has actually begun to become weaker and weaker, and this situation has been caused by many reasons.

First of all, the business relationship between the two places has gradually stabilized, as the two agents designated by the Executive Committee, "Fu Ruifeng" and "Anfu Xing" will regularly send their own ships to Shengli Port every month to trade, and through the materials needed by the group, the two firms will also try their best to help procure, anyway, just need to pass a hand, you can also earn the circulation coupons of the Haihan people. As a result, the function of the office in commerce and trade has gradually weakened, and more often it plays the role of a debt collector, regularly settling the unfinished payments with the two commercial banks.

Secondly, the strength of the local Ming army in Yazhou has already been clearly felt, and there is no suspense. The shortage of guards stationed there was so severe that Mu Xiabai and Feng Annan reported that even a militia with only one month's military training at Shengli Harbor would be enough to defeat twice the number of Yazhou garrisons. And the only Yazhou naval army that can really pose a slight threat to Shengli Harbor has already installed Luo Shengdong, an anti-bone boy, if it really wants to move Shengli Port, I am afraid that the news of the naval army has already reached Shengli Port before it sails out of the Ningyuan River.

As for whether there is a possibility of attacking Yazhou by force in the future, the two members of the military police department also have the same opinion: there is no need to fight this place in Yazhou, and within two years, the immigration policy of the crossing group will be able to empty this place. At that time, there will probably only be three types of people left in this city: officials, officials, and felons who cannot be released, and occupying this place will have no practical benefit to the crossing group at all, but it may anger the Ming Dynasty officials, which is really a snake to add to the snake.

Not to mention the immigration, which has now evolved from the initial coaxing of immigrants to the automatic migration of the population. If Yaxing wants to organize immigration now, it must go to Danzhou in the north or Wanzhou or even Wenchang in the northeast. Moreover, Luo Shengdong is not the only person who has come to the door to inquire about the land price of Shengli Port at the Yaya Office, and some rich people in the local area have begun to be interested in Shengli Port. Of course, the purpose of these people to buy land is not necessarily to move to Shengli Harbor, but as long as this trend begins to appear, it will only be a matter of time before Yazhou City gradually declines. Because as long as you have been to Shengli Port, you can realize that the development prospects of that place are far better than Yazhou City, which has been stagnant for hundreds of years, and after the construction of Shengli Port's business and trade zone next year achieves certain results, the commercial and trade center of the entire southern part of Hainan Island will gradually move from Yazhou to this new port town.

At present, the biggest reason preventing the middle and upper class people in Yazhou from moving to Shengli Port is generally believed to be the land policy now being implemented by the Executive Committee. The members of the Executive Committee had extensive knowledge from later generations, and they knew very well that the root cause of social unrest was the great concentration of resources and wealth, which was mainly expressed in land resources in the feudal society when the productive forces were relatively low. If the problem of land tenure is not resolved, large-scale land will continue to be concentrated in the hands of a very small number of people, and social unrest will not be able to subside, and the Executive Committee's solution to this problem is public ownership of land.

The benefits of this policy are obvious, but the disadvantages are also obvious: when the control area of the crossing group is extended from the borderlands to the masterlands, there is bound to be a great conflict of interest. Of course, if you want to peacefully solve this contradiction, there are people who think that you can buy and buy directly with money, but after all, this is only a way to cure the symptoms but not the root cause, China is so big, it is definitely impossible to buy it by buying, and no matter how rich the crossing group is, it cannot be so capricious.

At present, the countermeasure formulated by the Executive Committee for this purpose is to directly skip the owner's land, first occupy and develop a large number of landless land on Hainan Island, and then gradually try to annex all kinds of large and small landlords after accumulating a certain amount of strength. Of course, it is difficult to predict how much bloodshed will occur during this merger process.

One of the reasons why the crossing group was able to implement this land policy in the early days was that in addition to the fact that the place of Shengli Port was already sparsely populated and had no landlords, the early naturalized people were all poor and white. These people do not have or have lost their own land, and although they still have a great desire to own land, their desire for land can be satisfied in another way under the civil structure of the Crossing Group.

After reaching a certain labor level, each naturalized citizen can obtain a certain area of land use right at a lower price, and the term of this use right is as long as several decades, during which time only a small amount of grain needs to be paid to the Ministry of Agriculture under the Executive Committee every year, and obtaining land use rights is much cheaper than buying land, and the grain tax collected by the Ministry of Agriculture is much lighter than the burden of grain paid by the Ming government, which can be said to reduce the cost of land acquisition for the people. Moreover, the naturalized people who are a little older know that the average yield of these grains grown by the crossing group is much higher than the common sense they knew in the past, and the income is much more cost-effective than buying land and farming.

Obviously, the wealthy people in Yazhou will not be satisfied with such a land system, they need more land as a means of production to generate wealth, but the Executive Committee obviously will not allow other landlords to appear in the area under their rule, even if they come to Shengli Port to invest in development, they only get the right to use the land, not the ownership. It is precisely because of this conflict of interest that many middle- and upper-class people in Yazhou who are interested in going to Shengli Port still have a wait-and-see attitude and have not taken practical action for a long time.

After listening to everyone's analysis, Tao Donglai nodded and said: "The land issue is indeed a thorny issue in the process of our future foreign expansion, which involves the foundation of our future country-building, and the policy cannot be changed lightly, but we can find ways to ease and resolve the contradictions, and we do not necessarily have to solve them by force." To a certain extent, we have to rely on you to preach in Yazhou and explain our land policy to these people. The key is to explain the benefits they can get and let them know what kind of return they can expect when they invest in real estate in Victory Harbor. Lao Ma, you used to do investment promotion, and this aspect is your strength!"

Marik said with a smile: "Mr. Tao has a good memory! It is possible to attract investment, but the executive committee has to give me a relatively clear policy before I can publicize it." The land in Shengli Harbor cannot be bought directly, so how should we operate after spending money to get the right to use, what can be done and what cannot be done, the executive committee had better draw the line first, so as not to have problems in the follow-up operation. ”

Tao Donglai nodded and said, "I'll call a meeting to discuss this matter after I go back, and I'll get you a charter." As for the scale of external propaganda, you can control it yourself, as long as you don't stir up contradictions between us and the local government. ”