Chapter 1309 Feeling inferior to oneself

These private houses are built according to the standard immigrant village model of Haihan. Although the structure is simple and the area is not large, they are still standard brick houses. They are absolutely no problem in keeping out wind and rain. They are even better than what most immigrants lived before coming to Haihan. The conditions are even better. Although the new immigrants may not understand and accept Haihan's land policy, few will complain about the poor living environment. The houses with mud walls and thatched roofs used to house immigrants in the early days have now been gradually phased out. , most of the newly arrived immigrants in the past two or three years have been assigned to brick and tile resettlement houses. This aspect can also reflect the significant improvement of Haihan's national strength.

Of course, immigrants from relatively well-off families may not necessarily accept such a resettlement environment. After all, the conditions of this kind of free resettlement housing are still relatively simple, and there are no complete supporting facilities. First buy a house somewhere in Hainan Island. There are also many people who have moved here to settle down. Several major cities such as Sanya, Haikou and Danzhou have built commercial housing specifically for sales, and the sales volume in recent years has been quite good.

Rich people at a higher level will even apply directly to the government for a piece of homestead land to build their own houses. This special right to use land is naturally expensive, but in order to live more comfortably in Haihan Kingdom, the richest people do not Will care about this basic expense. For example, wealthy families such as the Li family in Guangdong, the Xu family in Fujian, and the Zheng family in Annan have almost all acquired land in important cities such as Sanya a few years ago and built their own residences.

In order to prevent the gap between the rich and the poor from being too obvious, the relevant departments also have certain restrictions on the area of ​​this kind of homestead, so as to prevent someone from over-expanding and encircling hundreds or even thousands of acres of land in Haihan Kingdom to build a small palace. What to do when playing?

After seeing this method of resettling immigrants, Liu Shang could only sigh again that it is great to have money. Many of these immigrants who came to Haihan were poor people or war refugees who could not survive in the Ming Dynasty. They left their hometowns thousands of miles to come to Haihan. After the Han Dynasty, if they could get such resettlement conditions, how could they not work wholeheartedly for their new owners?

After Liu Shang walked around the farm and village, his biggest feeling was that Haihan was really attentive to introducing and resettling immigrants. He not only provided them with basic living conditions of food, clothing, housing and transportation, but also provided them with jobs. The arrangements are in place. As long as there is a labor force in the entire village, they have their own labor tasks, and there will never be any idlers. The government also arranges basic needs such as medical care and education very carefully. Immigrants do not need to worry about these problems at all, as long as they focus all their energy on work.

Liu Shang also noticed an interesting phenomenon. The immigrants Haihan placed in this kind of farm were not all from the Ming Dynasty. There were also immigrants from Annan, Champa and other countries, and even Japanese people from the far north. and Koreans, as well as some Kunlun slaves with dark skin and strong bodies. This kind of immigrant village is a complete hodgepodge of various ethnic groups. It is really a shame that Haihan can manage such a village in an orderly manner.

According to Lao Zengtou's introduction, only about half of the villagers here are from the Ming Dynasty. The origins of the others are varied. Liu Shang even saw two blond and blue-eyed Xifan people. But these

The first thing people do when they are assigned to a farm is not to familiarize themselves with Haihan farm tools, but to learn to speak Haihan Mandarin. Although these people still don't speak Mandarin so fluently, it is enough for daily communication.

Seeing that these immigrants from various countries and races were all citizens with Haihan nationality, Liu Shang did not feel any emotion about the unity of the world's nations, but realized that Haihan's population needs were indeed astonishingly large.

, I don’t care at all about concepts such as “Those who are not from my race must have different hearts.” As long as they can work hard for Haihan, they will all be included in their pockets.

Whether this situation is a good thing or a bad thing for Haihan, Liu Shang cannot tell with his knowledge, but one thing is that he can be sure of now. These immigrants introduced from various countries will definitely not be as useful as the Ming immigrants. After all,

It will take a long time for the barriers in language, culture and living habits to be slowly eliminated. Ming immigrants, especially the Han people, will definitely integrate into the Han regime of Haihan much faster.

Therefore, Liu Shang came to the conclusion that Haihan continued to push his line of control northward, and had even reached the northern edge of the Ming Dynasty. Such a move could not be summarized by simple trade needs or aggressive ambitions. There was another

The reason is probably that Haihan hoped to bring more Han people back from the north to fill the gap in labor demand.

Before Liu Shang came to Hainan Island, he had heard that the Haihan people had extended their tentacles to the Liaodong area last year. Although the Ming Dynasty lost territory there, there were still a large number of Han people living outside the customs, and most of them became slaves of the Hou Jin Dynasty.

The Han people did not inform the Ming Dynasty and landed directly on the Liaodong Peninsula from the sea. This move was probably to take more Han people from the local area for their own use. Of course, the war risks involved in such an action were very high, and it was probably only

Only a country like Haihan that relies on its superior force would go to such a distant place to fight for its population and resources.

As for whether there are any results, you can actually see it on this farm. At the beginning of the year, immigrants from outside the Liaodong Pass have been resettled here one after another. According to Lao Zengtou, these immigrants are all from overseas in Liaodong.

Liu Shang had heard of the Pidao area. It is said that its location is close to North Korea, and it is considered an overseas enclave after the Ming Dynasty lost the Northeast region. However, the imperial court seems to have stopped supplying local soldiers and civilians long ago. Presumably the Haihan people

After arriving there, they probably started playing tricks like exchanging food for people again.

Although Liu Shang's guess was not entirely correct, it was not far off. Almost all the immigrants from Liaodong brought back from the north before Haihan came from Pi Island. On the one hand, Haihan provided military and material assistance to the local area, and on the other hand, he also sent ships from the local area.

Pick up immigrants who voluntarily settled in the south. The Phi Island authorities did not stop this, but provided extremely cooperative support, because for the local people, the island's population is too large, so much that year after year

It is a state of continuous famine. Let Haihan take away some of the people who voluntarily relocated, and the pressure on the island's material supply can be reduced a lot.

Shen Shikui, the governor of Pi Island, not only allowed the people on the island to accept Haihan's arrangement and move to the south, but also took the initiative to pick up the refugees from the coastal areas outside the Liaodong Pass. Shen Shikui saw clearly that the Ming Dynasty was already concerned about the treatment of the Han people outside the Pass.

There is no way to save them, and now that Haihan is willing to take the initiative to take in these refugees, this can be said to be their best way out at the moment.

Shen Shikui's nephew Shen Zhixiang sailed from the southeast of Shandong with the Haihan fleet last winter and spent the winter in Zhoushan, Zhejiang. He had a relatively objective understanding of Haihan's strength. After returning to Pi Island, he seemed to have become Haihan.

Blowing, Shen Shikui is advised to use Haihan as the standard in everything. Of course, this kind of imitation will also receive the full support of Haihan. Currently, there are Pi Dao officers receiving training in Shandong and Zhejiang, and these Pi Dao officers are

They are also responsible for supervising the transshipment and resettlement of refugees from Liaodong.

Qiu Yuan took over and continued to introduce to the inspection team that from the cooperation agreement reached between Haihan and Dongjiang Town in November last year, as of the first half of this year, Haikou alone had accepted more than a thousand immigrants from Liaodong.

The collective farm they were visiting now houses eight households with a total of more than 30 people. If the immigration plan goes smoothly, Haikou City will receive at least one to two thousand immigrants from Liaodong in the second half of this year.

Qiu Yuan believed that the immigrants from Liaodong had relatively strong bodies. After they had taken good care of their bodies in the south, they were all strong laborers. Therefore, he planned to place the immigrants from Liaodong into production units like farms as much as possible in the future. Of course, he mentioned this matter.

What I mean is that I hope that after Yu Xiaobao returns, he can help to give the Executive Committee some relief and try to win as many Liaodong immigration quotas for Haikou as possible.

However, after Yu Xiaobao heard his plan, he said something else: "Chief, the quota for immigrants from Liaodong is not easy to change. The Ministry of National Defense keeps a close eye on it. The Liaodong soldiers recruited since last year are already serving in the army.

The general response has been good, so the military hopes to recruit more soldiers from Shandong and Liaodong in future expansion. If you want to recruit people to farm the land, you will definitely not be able to get priority over the Ministry of National Defense."

Haihan has always enjoyed very high priority in recruiting soldiers. Whether they are workers, farmers, state agency staff, or new immigrants who have just arrived in Haihan and have not obtained nationality, as long as they sign up to join the army, they will definitely be given priority. Anyone

No one can stop them. There are many benefits to joining the army, especially for new immigrants. This is almost the fastest way to obtain nationality and national treatment. In addition, the Haihan Army has a very high prestige among the people.

People from their original place may have been brainwashed on the way to Haihan, and they may have signed up to join the army before even waiting for Sanya. For example, Sun Zhen, a Shandong soldier who had repeatedly made military exploits in the northern war, joined the army while in transit in Penghu.

Qiu Yuan frowned and said: "I can't control the affairs of the Ministry of National Defense. Anyway, I want to get people here first. If the Ministry of National Defense can attract them to join the army, then I have no choice but to admit it."

Liu Shang felt quite unhappy after hearing this conversation. The sources of troops that these high-ranking Haihan officials were talking about were all people of the Ming Dynasty. However, the situation in the Ming Dynasty was not good now. As for the Liaodong area that had been occupied by the Later Jin Dynasty,

Unable to take care of it, we can only allow the local Han people to be enslaved by wild boar skins. If the imperial court has the spare capacity to provide certain help to the Han people in Liaodong like Haihan, and even recruit soldiers from them and prepare an army to counterattack Liaodong, it may also be able to relieve the nine-border town

defensive pressure.

It's a pity that such thoughts can only exist in Liu Shang's mind. He doesn't know whether the reason why the court did not take such measures is political factors or economic problems, but what the Ming Dynasty cannot do, this Haihan on the border of the South China Sea

But the country is already implementing it. Moreover, people think that the relocation of Han people from Liaodong is too slow, so that the army cannot recruit the required Liaodong soldiers. This is really embarrassing.

It can be said to be a huge irony that the people of the Ming Dynasty still need to rely on the armies of other countries to save them. Liu Shang simply cannot imagine that if the senior officials in the court learn about what Haihan did in the Liaodong region, what will happen to them?

Will his mentality completely explode? Anyway, Liu Shang's own mentality is a bit unbearable. In addition to feeling inferior to Haihan's immigration feat, Liu Shang can't even think of much sabotage now. Because he knows very well

His own energy was limited, and even if he carried out some sabotage work to slow down Haihan for a while, it would be difficult for Daming to seize this opportunity to regain his already huge disadvantage.

What is the most beneficial choice for the Ming Dynasty? This question has appeared repeatedly in Liu Shang's mind recently, but he has never come up with a reliable answer. Along the way, he has seen with his own eyes too many places where Haihan is advanced, and some of the Ming Dynasty's

They can be imitated, but some are completely incomprehensible, but Liu Shang feels that these visible aspects are not actually the root cause of the gap in the development status of the two countries. This confusion makes him very painful, and he has even begun to doubt his mission.

Does it really make sense.

For an intelligence officer who needs to lurk in an enemy country for a long time, once he is psychologically shaken, this situation is very dangerous. Liu Shang also received various special trainings before coming to Haihan, and he considers himself to have quite good psychological quality.

, and his loyalty to the Ming Dynasty was flawless, but after Haihan saw the customs and social conditions of this emerging country, Liu Shang's psychology inevitably underwent subtle changes. From the beginning, he firmly believed in his mission.

Now I have doubts about the correctness of some of Ming's important decisions. Such thoughts actually violate his professional standards.

Liu Shang actually knew that many of the ideas in his mind were rebellious, but he couldn't help but think in these aspects. He had realized that it was no longer possible to solve the Haihan regime by means of under-the-table means, and

The war cannot ensure that Ming Dynasty can win. The real feasible solution is to let Ming Dynasty regain its glory as soon as possible and overwhelm Haihan in terms of national strength. By then, whether it is trade sanctions or military means, Ming Dynasty will at least have some effective methods.

, we won’t be as helpless as now.

The best way is to imitate Haihan, but these social systems of Haihan could not be realized in the Ming Dynasty. This is really disappointing. Liu Shang followed the team to complete the inspection of this collective farm in a depressed mood.

The discussion between Qiu Yuan and Yu Xiaobao about immigration from Liaodong also ended in vain, but Yu Xiaobao still recorded Qiu Yuan's request. As for whether the executive committee will adjust the immigration quota and give Haikou City more

Northern immigration is beyond his control.
Chapter completed!