Chapter 328: Civil Disturbance in Guangzhou
Chen Yixin ordered these nail households to be tied up and thrown on the ship, not because he intended to sink them directly into the river, and the executive committee even accepted the prisoners of war from North Vietnam, so naturally he would not waste local human resources. According to the planning arrangement of the civil affairs department, all objects who refuse to cooperate with the work in the process of demolition and land requisition and affect the overall planning of the new urban area will be arrested and distributed to overseas colonies. Therefore, these unfortunate people who do not know the current affairs have lost their last chance at this moment, and it is very likely that they will go to one of the three existing ports in North Vietnam, and if they serve honestly, they may still have the opportunity to be naturalized in a year or two.
This is not a lawful act, of course, and the abduction of a country's nationals is no different in nature from belligerents. However, under the special environment of Yazhou, no one will come to trouble crossing the group because of this. In the eyes of the Yazhou government, these people originally belonged to the proletarians, and no one cared about their fate at all, even if someone really reported this matter to the officials, the bureaucrats in Yazhou who had benefited would not ask about this kind of thing.
Chen Yixin had already learned about the measures that could be taken in this operation from his superiors when he got the task, so he did not hesitate to deal with it. After these people were brought to the ship, Chen Yixin immediately ordered the whole team to march to the next target. As for the few dilapidated shacks here, it is natural that the migrant workers who followed them will be demolished, and the militia units will only be responsible for completing the violence.
"Let's have a bit of a chengguan war nail household!" Seeing these unlucky ghosts thrown onto the boat like sacks thrown by the militiamen, the anger in Li Dou's heart finally decreased a lot, and he began to be a little worried about the militia's rough behavior.
"What do you want to say, do you want to reason with these people slowly?" Chen Yixin turned his head to look at Li Dou, and he couldn't even see a trace of pity in his eyes: "If you insist, then I can let them go, but you are responsible for the consequences." ”
"No, no, no, I didn't mean that. Li Dou shook his head again and again. The opinions on dealing with nail households were originally taken out by the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and the military just sent people to carry them out.
"This is not the 21st century, and there is no need to apply the moral standards of that era to the present. We chose to travel through this era to be conquerors!" Chen Yixin was not in vain in the barracks this year, and he obviously had the killing spirit of a soldier: "Whether it is a nail household or someone else, a stumbling block is a stumbling block, which is actually no essential difference for us." Your bureaucracy is responsible for identifying which people are stumbling blocks, and our military is responsible for cleaning them up!"
"It's simple and rude! But I like it!" Li Dou couldn't help but stretch out his thumb and praised: "Your thinking has really changed a lot this year! I remember when I first met you, you still told me that you had to be reasonable about everything, and you had to go all over the world with reason, and it was difficult to move an inch without reason......
"I'm still on the same page. Chen Yixin adjusted the rifle strap to make himself more comfortable on his back: "What is the truth? The barrel of the gun is the truth! If it is useful, then why do we soldiers do it? In the future, we will still have to rely on the barrel of the gun to fight the world!"
When he first entered the military police department, Chen Yixin did still have some unrealistic fantasies, but in the expedition to Annan, he really went to the battlefield and experienced the cruelty of the war, Chen Yixin gradually understood that the meaning of the army's existence is not just to protect the family and defend the country, and every expansion of the territory of the external force is essentially completed by the army, and the expansion of territory is the main task of the Haihan armed force in the future. And to carry out a combat military mission, you must first leave all kindness behind, even many of his previous moral standards. After seeing the cheapness of human life on the battlefield, and then returning to the base camp to perform a small task such as cleaning up nail households, Chen Yixin can say that he has no psychological pressure at all.
With the processing process of the first nail household, the subsequent process seems to be much smoother. (Baidu search update is the fastest and most stable) after being led to the place by Li Dou, the militia first shouted, if you honestly admit it, then you can move away immediately with your belongings, or you can choose to report to the immigration reception office in the inland port construction area. But if anyone tries to resist or play tricks, Chen Yixin will immediately order them to be tied up and thrown on board. Li Dou has also changed from a leader in action to a leading party, just need to watch from the sidelines, and no longer have to take the lead in clearing the field at the risk of being smashed in the head with a hoe.
The demolition and relocation operation by the military and civil affairs system lasted for three days, and in fact, from the next day, the team found that some of the nail households who had received the news had fled the station overnight, or had taken the initiative to go to the migrant reception center. Although these people have no cultural knowledge, it does not mean that they are ignorant of current affairs, and the results of just facing death with the Haihan people have come out, and then to follow the unlucky ghosts in front of them is to kill themselves.
Of course, some people chose to flee to Yazhou to report to the officials, but they didn't know that the actions of the Haihan militia had already been tacitly approved by the Yazhou government, and it was basically impossible for the officials to support them. If this matter is a big problem, it will not be of any benefit to the Yazhou officials, so even if someone in the people complains, the government will definitely try its best to calm down the situation.
After the demolition operation was completed, from the inland port area all the way north to another upstream confluence of two rivers, the range of more than ten miles has basically been cleaned up, and the construction team can be stationed. During the demolition process, more than 20 people were arrested for refusing to cooperate, and their fate awaited them would be to be sentenced to one to three years of hard labor for three separate ports in North Vietnam.
Chen Yixin, who commanded well and took effective measures in this operation, was commended by the Central Military Commission's internal circular. Although he still failed to mix with high-grade military merits, it is already a very rare treatment for juniors like Chen Yixin. In order to celebrate this harvest, it is said that Chen Yixin also privately dragged Li Dou and a few of his right-hand men to a newly opened Cantonese restaurant in the business district for a big meal.
On 7 May, Chen Yixin received an order from the Central Military Commission to lead his troops from Shengli Port three days later to take a warship to the Dawanshan Island stronghold at the mouth of the Pearl River. He was accompanied by two boatloads of nearly 300 construction workers and a large amount of building materials.
As far as the crossing group is concerned, this is the first real military base established by the military in the mainland, so the executive committee attaches great importance to Cheng Dù, and specially convened the heads of various departments to hold several working meetings to assign relevant tasks.
Due to the proximity of the area to the mainland and the availability of fresh water resources on the island, there is no problem with the supply of water, and the focus of the Executive Committee remains on security. Due to its own conditions and the constraints of the local objective environment, it is unlikely that the military will deploy too many troops on the island, and there will even be no surface armed ships stationed on the island for the time being, so the existence of this stronghold is risky. The military generously allocated ten 12-pounder shore defense guns to the troops stationed on the island, which were originally allocated to the fortifications of Tielu Port, but the military top brass considered that the defense needs of Dawanshan Island were more urgent, so they were finally given priority. For this reason, the military has also allocated 20 gunners, who are in short supply, to the troops stationed on the island, and as for the difference between artillery and artillery, the full-time artillery can only slowly train other militia in the local area.
In addition to the garrison, nearly half of the construction workers who will be transported to the local area will be resettled on the island as immigrants, mainly to provide logistics and military services for the troops, but also to prepare for the commercial development of Wanshan Port. Perhaps considering the table in the previous demolition operation, the civil affairs officer sent by the civil affairs department to Dawanshan Island this time was actually fierce, so the pair of friends were lucky to become partners again.
On May 11, the flotilla quietly set off from the port of Victory. The Executive Committee did not want the plan to set up a stronghold on Dawanshan Island to spread too early, and only officers of Chen Yixin's level knew the details, and ordinary militiamen only knew that they would go to new bases overseas to garrison them, but they knew nothing about the specific targets.
This time, the fleet did not encounter the weather conditions again, and arrived at Dawanshan Island smoothly. With hundreds of labourers available, the construction of the improvised pier proceeded very quickly, arriving at the harbour that morning, and the first pier had been completed by two o'clock in the afternoon. Migrant workers used logs to assemble brackets and began to lift and unload various supplies loaded on the ship to the shore.
"The environment of this island is quite good, almost all of them are forests, pristine ecology!" After landing, he had already seized the time to go to the vicinity and walked around, and Li Dou, who came back, was full of praise for the environment on the island: "Pure natural and pollution-free, it feels much quieter here than Victory Harbor!"
"Of course, this has always been an uninhabited island before, and Port Victory used to be a small port, but it has just declined. It was the first time for Chen Yixin to independently command this kind of overseas mission, and he was also very excited, pointing to the harbor in front of him and saying: "In the future, it will really be the rhythm of eating seafood until you vomit!"
In the afternoon of the same day, the ship carrying supplies from Guangzhou to the south also arrived at the harbor. Because of its proximity to Guangzhou, some of the daily necessities, especially the poultry and livestock that the Ministry of Agriculture intends to breed here for the islanders, are transported from Guangzhou. In addition, the Ministry of Agriculture also plans to reclaim some fields on the gentle slopes of the southern tip of the island to grow some vegetables and fruits to supplement the island's food needs. For this errand, Mr. Yuan also sent his son Yuan Qiuye over to guide the migrant workers to build livestock breeding sheds.
The fleet was accompanied by Wu Zhuo of the communications department, who was in charge of setting up the radio station on the island. Wu Zhuo is also a practical person, and he didn't rest much after getting off the boat, so he took a few of his subordinates to climb the mountain to test the signal.
That night, when Chen Yixin and Li Dou counted the supplies together, they were really taken aback by the generosity of the executive committee. In addition to the daily necessities of these hundreds of people, there are also small solar power generation equipment, simple water purification devices, two hot water boilers, one large and one small, as well as more than 20 tons of anthracite coal produced in Heitu Port, etc., there are at least dozens of items in total, and Chen Yixin's eyes are straight.
"It's not easy for your Ministry of Civil Affairs!" Seeing so many supplies, Chen Yixin couldn't help but sigh. To organize so many materials, the logistics department needs to deal with not one or two units, and such an efficient organization and coordination ability can only be achieved by crossing the group.
"It's okay, it's not as troublesome as when the Black Earth Port and the Iron Furnace Port were developed. Li Dou responded proudly: "This is the superiority of the system!"
After unloading the cargo the next day, the two cargo ships left Wanshan Port, but instead of returning to Shengli Port, they continued north into the Pearl River estuary to load their cargo in Guangzhou.
According to the plan of the Ministry of Construction, the development process of Dawanshan Island is divided into three phases, the first phase is the construction of temporary settlements and basic fortifications, the second phase is the continuation and strengthening of the first phase of the project, and the third phase is the construction of commercial facilities. The first phase of the project is expected to last between 15 and 25 days, and the reason why the magnitude is so large is also to take into account that the possible weather changes in this season will cause certain delays to the outdoor construction.
In addition to the port wharf and the temporary barracks for the troops and civilians stationed on the island, the first thing to be erected was a duty post located on the top of the mountain. Chen Yixin transferred two platoons of soldiers and spent half a day transporting parts from the harbor to Dawanding, the commanding height of the whole island at an altitude of more than 400 meters, and then assembled this set of prefabricated houses on the open space on the top of the mountain. Even if you don't borrow a telescope from this location, you can easily observe the situation within a radius of more than 10 nautical miles on a fine day. Lantau Island, located 20 nautical miles from Dawanshan Island in the northeast, can also be seen from the top of Dawanding.
After this outpost is put into use, it can be said that basically half of the entire waterway of the Pearl River Estuary will be under the surveillance of this observation post. The surveillance results at the outpost can be instantly reached by the walkie-talkie to the command center at the foot of the mountain, and then the radio of the command center will send the information to Guangzhou or Shengli Port.
At present, the troops stationed on the island are most disturbed by Dangan Island, which is located 30 nautical miles east of Dawanshan Island. According to information obtained by the Guangzhou Office, there is a small group of pirates of two to three hundred people on this island, which is also the closest threat force to Dawanshan Island. And this pirate was able to survive under the noses of the Ming army sailors stationed in Hong Kong and the nearby "Eighteen Zhi", presumably also has its own special survival skills, Chen Yixin did not dare to be careless about this, and immediately instructed the sentry on the top of the mountain to strengthen the monitoring of the eastern seas.
However, the latest news received by the military after this did not come from the pirates on Dangan Island, but a long telegram sent back from Guangzhou by the Guangzhou Office.
It is not the Guangzhou Office that is in trouble, but "Fu Ruifeng". To be precise, it was the ancestor of the Li family who caused the problem. The foundation of the Li family is in Panyu, which is not far from Guangzhou City. More than seventy percent of the population of the local Lijiazhuang is of Li blood, which is also the main source of soldiers for the Li family militia.
In addition to the big business name of "Fu Ruifeng", the Li family also owns 10,000 acres of cultivated land in Panyu, and is one of the few large landowners in the local area. In addition to doing some smuggling business, the Li family actually does not have much bad deeds in the local area, but after all, wealth attracts hatred, and there are still a considerable number of people who are dissatisfied with it.
In the sixth year of the Apocalypse, that is, in 1626, Zhaoqing Prefecture suffered a major drought, while Guangzhou Prefecture was a major drought and flood, Dongguan, Panyu and Xinhui counties were all famine, and the same situation was Yingde County in Shaozhou Prefecture and Changle County in Huizhou Prefecture, and the affected people amounted to tens of thousands. Natural disasters and the local government's disaster relief methods are slow and weak, natural disasters began to become ** in the second year, in August 1627, there were a large number of disaster victims in Zengcheng, Conghua and other places in Guangzhou Prefecture, and each of them was as many as thousands of people. These bandits did not attack the towns, but plundered the countryside in groups, resulting in a large number of displaced people having to join the bandits in order to survive.
In the past two years, the "Eighteen Zhi" frequently invaded the coasts of Huizhou and Chaozhou, plundering local merchants and people, and further aggravating social chaos.
By the beginning of this year, Xinhui County in Guangzhou Prefecture, Guishan County in Huizhou Prefecture, Gaoming County in Zhaoqing Prefecture and other places once again experienced a spring drought, leading a large number of local people to go bankrupt and the ranks of displaced people to further expand. Recently, these rogues who have swept the countryside near Guangzhou have finally begun to focus on the fat of Lijiazhuang.
The Li family's wealthy Cheng dù is almost well known in Guangzhou, although Lijiazhuang is not the Li family's silver warehouse, but it is also a wealthy village. In the past, there was a strong militia group in Lijiazhuang, and ordinary small gangsters did not dare to harass them. However, in March, the Guangzhou Office and the "Fu Ruifeng" jointly set up the "Golden Shield Security" and transferred most of the personnel of the Li Jiamin Regiment to Guangzhou to enrich the "Golden Shield" escort force. Although the Li family has already begun to train new militia soldiers, its combat effectiveness is not the same as that of this militia that has already been formed. After learning of the change in the escort force of Lijiazhuang, several tributaries near Panyu attacked Lijiazhuang several times in a row and caused a lot of losses in the local area.
According to the news that the Li family spent money inquired about, several tributaries near Guangzhou Mansion have recently begun to connect in tandem, preparing to join forces to send troops to eliminate Lijiazhuang in one fell swoop. This is a very big deal for the Li family, although they have the Li Family People's League in their hands, which looks pretty good, but whether they can withstand the siege of thousands of people from many gangsters, no one dares to fight this package, so Li Jifeng weighed it again and again, and still asked for help from the Guangzhou Office