Chapter 1807 Joint Action

Although it is already early summer, the climate in the Liaodong Peninsula is still very cool, with the temperature staying in the early teens. It is indeed a bit difficult for soldiers who have come all the way from the south to adapt. But for those who have been waiting for this area for a long time,

It can be said that the current temperature is already very warm. Only the four or five months in the middle of the year are slightly warmer, which can temporarily get rid of the long cold season.

In the Liaodong region, which has low temperatures all year round, it is not easy to grow food crops. It is indeed a difficult task for the rulers to maintain the livelihood of tens of thousands of people. But Haihan was able to stand firm in Jinzhou

Heel, integrating the army and civilians of Dongjiang Town, is still receiving Han refugees from all over Liaodong. In addition to the Ministry of Agriculture providing grain suitable for high latitudes, it also relies on the material supplies brought by its strong maritime shipping capabilities. Only

In the past year, hundreds of tons of various grains were transported from the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions to Liaodong, which can be said to have maintained the normal operation of the Jinzhou colony regardless of cost.

However, the Executive Committee has always taken a relaxed attitude towards the funding needs to maintain the Golden State Colony. Even though Golden State will be difficult to generate much economic benefits in the foreseeable period, and funds must continue to be invested in the local area to improve infrastructure, its special location

The strategic role it played was that the Executive Committee was willing to bear the relevant expenses. Now that Haihan is going to intervene militarily in the war on the Korean Peninsula, Jinzhou, as one of Haihan's main military bases in this region, is bound to

play a greater role.

As the official in charge of propaganda affairs in the Jinzhou area, Liu Shang has basically never left this place since he was sent here in 1635. It can be said that he has witnessed with his own eyes the reconstruction of the Jinzhou area from the ruins bit by bit.

After building military camps, castles, villages, towns, and ports, we finally understood how the Haihan people managed to create such a big situation as Victory Port in a remote place like Sanya, and applied this successful development model to many overseas colonies.

In his opinion, it is not impossible for the Jinzhou area to become a new Sanya over time.

After serving as an official in Haihan for more than a year and constantly brainwashing others, Liu Shang's own ideology was also changing subtly. The common sense he had learned in Ming Dynasty was also gradually absorbed by Haihan.

He was replaced by the new knowledge brought to him by the Han Dynasty, and he gradually became a loyal supporter of this emerging regime. Looking back on the days when he served for the Ming Dynasty, it seemed like a world away. However, his career in Haihan is now considered stable.

Liu Shang has nothing to miss about the Ming Dynasty.

Liu Shang also has his own views on the changes in the situation in North Korea and Haihan's intervention. After Haihan formed an alliance with North Korea last year, North Korea also increased the export of materials and personnel to the Jinzhou area upon request. Of course, these are not unprecedented.

For completely free assistance, Haihan paid North Korea real money and silver. However, Liu Shang always believed that North Korea would sooner or later double the money and return it to Haihan in other places. Unexpectedly, his view came to light only one year later.

It came true, North Korea almost emptied its treasury in order to hire Haihan as a reinforcement.

Jinzhou is separated from the Korean Peninsula by the Yellow Sea. Liu Shang originally thought that he would not be involved in Korean affairs, but that day he received an order from Chen Yixin to go to Changshan Islands on a ship to pick up Han refugees from the Qing-occupied areas.

Promote policies to them. This is considered a routine operation in Haihan's immigration acceptance process, but it is said that the troops performing tasks on the front line are not the Haihan army, but a Portuguese fleet.

This news was a little unexpected for Liu Shang. Of course he also knew that Portugal was one of Haihan's allies. However, in the past few years, although the Portuguese had also sent military observers to Liaodong to watch the war, their main scope of activities was

It is still limited to the area south of Zhoushan Port. Although Liu Shang is not an officer, he has stayed in Jinzhou for a long time and has had contact with the Portuguese. Naturally, he has heard them complain about this seemingly unreasonable rule.

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Haihan officials set such rules to safeguard their own interests and avoid allowing other colonial countries to enter the area when their foothold was not stable. Naturally, they did not consider the feelings of the Portuguese too much, and Liu Shang did not take too much into account after hearing the complaints.

He cared. However, he did not expect that this system would be canceled by the Executive Committee this year. The Portuguese fleet not only came to the north, but also participated in the war against the Qing Dynasty.

Based on Haihan's usual operating methods, Liu Shangneng could imagine that the government must have reached certain conditions with Portugal. For example, like the current situation, the Portuguese fleet would carry out some relatively low-intensity and risky combat missions.

The Changshan Islands are very close to the coastline of the Qing-occupied area, but this area has been cleared many times by the Haihan Navy. The enemy's warships and even fishing boats have all been cleared, so there is no need to worry about the clearing.

The army set up an ambush in the Changshan Islands. Guanglu Island, once stationed by Shang Kexi, the rebel general of the Ming Dynasty, is now a temporary transit point for Haihan to receive Han refugees.

The remaining military camps on the island have recently been transformed into collective dormitories to house refugees from the coastal area, and Liu Shang's workplace is here. In addition to publicity work, he is also responsible for screening these refugees.

ingredients and pick out the dangerous molecules.

Originally, the job of screening refugees should be done by the military police or personnel from the Ministry of Security. However, because he had previously committed crimes by discovering spies in the Shandong refugee camp, the superiors believed that he had the talent and ability in this area, so they used him again this time.

He was responsible for such work.

Only Liu Shang himself knows this. He doesn't have any talent, but he has received special espionage training before. He has a professional level far beyond ordinary people in identifying identities and interrogating formulas. It is natural to deal with those non-professional guys.

Next. However, he is not opposed to this kind of job. After all, whether it is civil or military in Haihan officialdom, promotion requires the accumulation of real merits. If some dangerous elements can be caught from the refugees, then

Merits will also be recorded.

Liu Shang took a boat from Lushun and spent a whole day before arriving at Guanglu Island at night. Since the navigation lighthouse and various port facilities on the island were destroyed when Shang Kexi defected, Haihan was out of luck.

Due to various considerations, no reconstruction was organized, and it took Liu Shang's fleet a relatively long time to slowly dock under the guidance of torches on the shore.

There is currently an army company stationed on the island, with about 200 people, and the number of refugees temporarily resettled here is more than 1,300. According to the progress of the Portuguese's actions, they should come to Guanglu Island in the past two days.

, while handing over the refugees, food and fresh water will also be supplied from here to ensure their endurance at sea.

After Liu Shang got off the ship, he met with the army company commander and civil affairs officials to learn about the current situation of the refugees on the island. Although he was in charge of publicity work, he was already a member of the Youth League when he was in Sanya.

, has long been regarded as a key cultivation target, and after arriving in Liaodong, he also assumed more responsibilities in civil affairs. On Guanglu Island, where there are no time travelers, Liu Shang, who represents the Jinzhou Management Committee, is the first-class

He is a high-ranking official, and most of the affairs related to civil affairs on the island are decided by him.

Although this feeling of having power is very good, Liu Shang will not get carried away. He knows very well where his power comes from. This is all achieved through hard work during the past year or so.

In exchange for points. If your work results do not meet the expectations of your boss, the power at hand will soon be taken away. There are at least hundreds of officials like yourself in the Youth League who want to continue to move up.

Don't slack off even a little while walking.

Regarding the origins of these Han refugees, Liu Shang already knew something about it before coming to Guanglu Island. He did not have any objection to the use of force to plunder people, because these areas were originally the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the Manchus also used force to occupy Liaodong.

area, and then enslaved these Han people. Haihan's attempt to snatch them back from the Manchu territory was actually rescuing these Han people and giving them a chance to regain their freedom. This view was not only his opinion;

Instill this into these Han refugees so that they understand where their way out is.

The only thing that seemed unharmonious about the whole thing was that the task was not carried out by the Hai-Han Army, which was mainly composed of Han people, but by the Portuguese fleet that appeared in the area as a coalition force. The Portuguese took control of the Manchus.

To snatch out the Ming Han people who were enslaved by them, and then arrange for these Han people to join the Haihan nationality. This process actually involved four countries. This situation probably only occurred under special circumstances like Liaodong.

"Currently, out of the more than 1,300 people on the island, only about 300 have gone through preliminary identification, and there are no obvious problems with their identities. This progress is too slow." After listening to the report from the civil affairs department staff, Liu Shang shook his head and expressed dissatisfaction.

: "If the remaining one thousand people stay on the island for one more day, they will consume hundreds of kilograms of food in vain... Starting from tomorrow, arrange for them to repair houses, docks, reservoirs, whatever, but it can't be done

Let them rest. In addition, the work of identifying refugees must be speeded up. Please ask the company commander to arrange a dozen smart soldiers for me. I will give them a temporary training tomorrow morning and teach them how to quickly identify refugees. Refugees whose identities are confirmed will

Don’t spend the night in Guanglu Island, arrange a boat to transport people back to Jinzhou as soon as possible.”

Regarding the current situation on Guanglu Island, Liu Shang quickly put forward a solution. He had handled a lot of these matters when he was in Shandong. When he arrived in Liaodong, he dealt with immigrants almost every day, so he was naturally very skilled. The earlier one

In the past two years, the Haihan Army has been pulling people back from the Liaodong coast. Liu Shang is also confident about the process of handling these refugees. However, the infrastructure on Guanglu Island is simple and there are not enough professional manpower. Many of them are originally simple.

Quick processing will take more time to complete.

Including the permanent troops, Haihan's population in Jinzhou's control area is about 30,000. However, this population size is still far from enough for Haihan who wants to build Jinzhou into a bridgehead in the Northeast. It will be limited.

Improving the work efficiency of the labor force has become one of the main ways for the Jinzhou authorities to solve the problem of insufficient supply and demand. Even the population that has just been brought back from enemy-occupied areas must be fully utilized with careful budget.

One of Liu Shang's tasks is to ensure that these labor forces are put into local social production as soon as possible. He hopes that the more than a thousand people on the island can be transported back to Jinzhou in batches within two to three days, so that they can

Free up the limited barracks on the island to accommodate the next batch of refugees brought by the Portuguese.

After Liu Shang finished arranging the work, he went to the camp to inspect the living conditions of the refugees in person. When the refugees heard that this was a high-ranking official from Jinzhou, they all knelt on the ground to show respect. Upon seeing this, Liu Shang

I used the topic to promote the social tradition that Haihan was not allowed to kneel and pray, and by the way, it calmed the emotions of the refugees and asked them to obey the government's arrangements, and their future lives would be guaranteed accordingly.

Although this kind of comfort could not completely dispel the refugees' doubts, seeing the people-friendly attitude shown by this high-ranking official still gave some comfort to many refugees who were worried that they would continue to suffer under Haihan's hands.

Early the next morning, various departments on the island made adjustments according to Liu Shang's arrangements. Hundreds of immigrants whose identities had been screened were organized to board two immigration ships at the port early in the morning, and then immediately set off for the

Jinzhou. The remaining immigrants were divided into two parts. One part was arranged to engage in logging, digging drainage ditches, making mud bricks, etc., while the other part began to register their identity. According to Liu Shang's arrangement, every two hundred people completed

After identity screening and registration, they will be immediately arranged to board the ship and transported back to Jinzhou for resettlement as soon as possible.

However, the Portuguese visited Guanglu Island again sooner than expected. On the afternoon of the second day after Liu Shang arrived here, the silhouette of a fleet appeared on the sea in the distance. Two hours later, Liu Shang arrived at the port.

I met Simão, the Portuguese officer who commanded the fleet.

"Master Liu, this time we have brought 484 Han refugees to Guanglu Island. I believe these poor people will have a new life on your land." Xi Mang said to Liu Shang with a smile.

However, the subordinate behind him reminded him something in a low voice, and Simang immediately added: "On the way to Guanglu Island, several refugees died of illness. The accurate number should be 474.

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Liu Shang didn't care much about this change. He nodded and said: "Mr. Ximang has worked hard all the way. Let's stay on Guanglu Island tonight! However, the conditions on the island are limited and we can't hold a decent reception banquet. I hope

Don’t be offended, Mr. Simang!”

Simang responded: "This is not the first time I have come to this island. As long as our joint operations can continue, these are minor problems!"
Chapter completed!