Chapter 219 Trip to Vietnam (2)

A full two months have passed since the cargo fleet of the Crossing Group loaded immigrants here for the first time. During this period, the Black Earth Port, which has been constantly transferring immigrants, has not been idle. The management committee even

We dispatched more than 20 relatively reliable Vietnamese to set up a rescue station here to organize the scattered refugees and conduct preliminary screening and identification. This way, every time the cargo fleet arrives here, there is no need to waste more money.

It took a lot of time to slowly select the immigrants, and then just load the selected people on the ship and leave.

After the fleet docked, Wang Tom found that the scene he saw was very different from what he saw two months ago. There were actually many simple shacks and even a few wooden houses built on the originally empty wasteland - that was a rescue operation.

A warehouse for storing food at the station. In order to organize more immigrants, Black Earth Port regularly delivers food, salt and other supplies, so that refugees who do not carry much food rations can wait here for the arrival of the next fleet.

Although the appearance of the fleet excited the people on the shore, there was no scene of refugees rushing in this time. Through the propaganda of the rescue station, the refugees waiting for the boat here knew what rules they needed to abide by in order to get the chance to leave by boat.

It's not like no one tried to break this rule before, but those who did so were tied up hand and foot and thrown directly into the Qingyuan River. After about a dozen unlucky people were thrown into the river, there was no more

There was the same chaotic scene as when Tom Wang first arrived here.

This method was thought up by naturalized citizen Corporal Takahashi Minami. Although this method seems simple and crude, it is very effective in dealing with the chaotic situation in the refugee camp, and it once again proves the necessity of "using heavy codes in troubled times".

Of course, as a pacifist, Gu Kai has questioned this method of handling it, believing that it is not consistent with the "rule of law" society that Chuan Chuan Group wants to build in the future. However, not only those who have stood up to support Gao Qiaonan

His immediate boss Qian Tiandun, Zhou Hengxing, Xie Chun, Tian Yeyou and others all believed that there was nothing wrong with doing so - there is no shortage of labor in Heitu Port, so those who disobey orders may become thorns.

It would be better to exclude this guy from Black Earth Port as soon as possible, not to mention doing so can also scare the monkeys and shock those who are restless.

For this reason, Zhou Hengxing even quoted the words of Confucius: "Government is tolerant when it is slow, and when it is slow, it is corrected with force; when it is fierce, it is cruel, and when it is weak, it is treated with leniency. To be leniency is to help the strong, and to be strong is to use leniency."

"Ji Kuan, government is based on harmony." This means that for these Vietnamese immigrants who have no concept of the rule of law, strict measures should be used to correct their behavior and let them know what they can and cannot do. Just like Black Tu Port

It was the same as hanging the four prisoners at the opening of the port. If those few people had not been decisively hanged to teach the new immigrants a lesson, the limited management staff coming from Victory Port might not have been able to do it.

He managed thousands of immigrants in a docile manner.

I have to say that the role of the rescue station here is quite obvious. In addition to maintaining the basic order of the people, they even organized people to build a trestle on the shore for cargo ships coming and going here to dock. After setting up the springboard

, the first to land were the militiamen affiliated with the Military and Police Department. As soon as these soldiers wearing colorful shorts and holding five-foot muskets appeared, the onlookers immediately and automatically pushed back a distance - those who had made trouble in the past.

This guy was thrown into the river by these soldiers in strange clothes.

After the militiamen cleared a passage, a group of time-travelers headed by Tao Donglai appeared. Xie Chun called the person in charge of the rescue station here, a Vietnamese man in his thirties, and asked Tao Donglai and others.

Report on the work. When the Vietnamese heard that this was the leader of the leader, from the legendary "Haihan Executive Committee", he almost knelt down and kowtowed, but fortunately Xie Chun's quick eyesight and quick hands pulled him up.

"Take us around first and talk as we go." Tao Donglai is also full of leadership temperament now. He was originally the boss of the company, and he has been a senior official since time travel. As time goes by, he gradually has the feeling of a superior person.

Power.

The original schedule did not include an inspection in Thanh Hoa, but after Tao Donglai heard that there were personnel stationed here from Black Tu Port, he changed his mind temporarily. Although the personnel stationed here are all Vietnamese, there are no time travelers.

, but speaking of their status, these people can be regarded as naturalized citizens, and it is necessary for them to feel the attention from the Executive Committee.

So the person in charge of the rescue station cautiously led the way and led a group of travelers from the base camp to visit this small refugee camp located at the mouth of the Qinghua River.

After the people at the rescue station were stationed here, they organized a group of voluntary immigrants in the local area. The refugees who went to Black Earth Port began to build shacks. Because the cargo ships passing here often only come once every ten days and a half, simple settlements must be built.

Then the refugees who came here began to build shacks in the surrounding area under various propaganda campaigns, waiting for the legendary fleet to rescue them from the sea of ​​misery.

If you can look down from the air, you can see that the structure of this refugee camp is centered on a simple dock on the river and radiates to the surrounding areas along the river bank in a semicircular shape. The most central position is the dock and the rescue station.

There are circles of shacks on the outside. When a fleet arrives, a group of people will be picked up and a shack near the center will be vacated. Then the people on the outside will gradually move in to the center, waiting for the next ship.

The team arrived. This almost primitive method of batch immigration has been maintained relatively smoothly, and no trouble has been encountered during it. People who are unwilling to obey this method can leave on their own. If they want to forcefully jump in the queue,

That will also disqualify you from immigration.

Of course, when there are too many people stationed abroad and there is no supervision, loopholes will inevitably appear. Among the naturalized people who were initially stationed here, there were also some who had more lively ideas. They found that this seemed to be an opportunity to seek benefits for themselves, so they asked

Refugees asked for property in exchange for priority rights in immigration. However, this was later discovered by the crossing guards who escorted the ship, and three daring naturalized citizens were hanged in public on the pier here, which temporarily stopped this trend.

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If Heitu Port had sent time travelers here, such a thing might not happen, but after Tao Donglai looked at the living conditions here, he had to admit that there was nothing wrong with the arrangement in Heitu Port - compared to the real

colonial settlement, the living conditions here are indeed quite poor.

There is not even a decent bed in the simple shacks where these refugees live. Most of them just use hay, reeds and other things to lay a layer on the ground. Even these naturalized residents with slightly better living conditions can only

It's just an extra wooden single bed shipped from Kurotsuchi Port for each person, and there is no other furniture other than that.

The canteen where the aid station cooks is also built outdoors, with only a few stone stoves. Under the shack next to the canteen are several water jars, which contain the daily drinking water needed by the aid station. Because this place is close to the sea, when the tide is high,

Sea water also pours in from the estuary, so the salt content of the fresh water here is still relatively high, even higher than what the average person's body can tolerate.

For this situation, the only desalination method that can be used is distillation. There are several stoves in the canteen that are used to light fires and boil water for a long time. After the water vapor is condensed, practical fresh water is obtained. Although this process is more troublesome

A little, but fortunately, fuel is free - the cargo ships coming from the direction of Black Earth Port to load immigrants will bring several tons of coal every time, which is enough to ensure the local fuel supply. Of course, the fresh water that can be obtained by distillation is extremely limited

, cannot be supplied to all the refugees stranded here, so only the naturalized people at the rescue station, a few infants, and the sick can enjoy fresh water, and most refugees can still only drink salty water.

As for the food, it is also lackluster. Although Vietnam is a country rich in rice, the Black Tu Port Management Committee does not intend to use rice to feed these people in vain. Therefore, the rescue station here only provides one meal of food to those who lack food every day.

Most people have to wait until they go to Black Earth Port or Victory Port before they can really have a full meal.

What makes Tao Donglai most uneasy is the sanitary condition here. Although several toilets were built at the beginning of the refugee camp, as the refugees here left one after another, the later refugees seemed to have no idea of ​​cleaning the toilets.

In the outlying camps, there has been a flow of feces and urine. Due to the lack of local medical staff, the patients here basically have to rely on their own bodies to fight. Once the weak ones fall, it is almost impossible to leave this place.

The only thing the local rescue station can do is to clear out the sick people from the refugee camp as soon as possible to prevent their diseases from spreading here.

The effect of this treatment method can be said to be extremely limited. Even if a plague breaks out here tomorrow, Tao Donglai will not find it strange at all. In such a poor sanitary situation, if the Black Tu Port Management Committee still insists on sending time travellers,

It would be a dereliction of duty to station here.

According to reports from naturalized people, there are about 1,200 or 300 Vietnamese refugees here. It sounds like there are not many people. If eight cargo ships come empty to load them, they can probably barely load them. But in fact, the cargo ships have never been loaded.

The speed of transferring immigrants here is not much faster than the growth rate of the population here. There are 180 new refugees arriving every day, and the cargo ship responsible for transporting them now only comes at least once every ten days. And the cargo ships coming here are also

It is not always possible to carry people away. For example, among the four ships this time, two of them carried militiamen and arms, and there were other tasks on the way, so there are only two ships that can actually take immigrants to Black Earth Port.

The space on the ship is inherently limited, and even if it is fully packed, it can only take away three to four hundred people.

After briefly inspecting the conditions in the refugee camps and aid stations, Tao Donglai ordered some vegetables and fruits to be unloaded from the ship to express condolences to the naturalized residents stationed here. At the same time, he also encouraged them verbally and promised them that they would

After completing the work here, they will have the opportunity to move the family to Victory Port, where the Executive Committee is located. Before then, they will have to stay in Thanh Hoa at least until next year.

But for these naturalized citizens, this is already great news. Because so far, the coal ships departing from Black Tu Port to Victory Port have taken away some children or single women, and the Black Tu Port Management Committee has

A lot of effort was put into publicizing this matter, claiming that only those lucky ones selected by the management committee would have the opportunity to go to Haihan's base camp and settle in Victory Port on the other side of the sea. And Victory Port was naturally known as

It is described as a paradise on earth, where everyone has food to eat, clothing to wear, and a house to live in. There are no wars, no landlords, and no emperor. Everyone who goes there can live a happy life.

In addition to the selected lucky ones, ordinary people can apply to the management committee to move to Victory Port as long as they upgrade to level three workers. Of course, the quota for this kind of relocation is also very limited, and every three months

There is one application period, and the approval rate for each application period will be only one-fifth of the number of applicants. Therefore, these naturalized citizens were extremely excited when they heard Tao Donglai’s promise, which will greatly increase their chances of success in the future.

Opportunity to move to Port Victory.

After listening to Xie Chun's explanation, Tao Donglai, who was confused, realized that there was still such propaganda in Heitu Port. He was also a little bit dumbfounded: "You deify the status of the Executive Committee and Victory Port in this way. Maybe there will be a comparison in the short term."

It’s a good effect, but it’s not a good thing in the long run!”

"Go out first and then we'll talk about it step by step." Xie Chun was somewhat disapproving: "With the existing conditions in Heitu Port, it is difficult to describe a good prospect and a goal for these people, so we can only use the base camp

Let’s talk about the matter. Let them have a goal in mind, so that they can settle down and do things!”

Black Tu Port has not been open for a long time, and the labor level is generally low, so there are no people who meet the application conditions yet. From this perspective, these people who were selected to establish a refugee relief station in Thanh Hoa may

Became the first batch of naturalized citizens to be moved to Victory Port because of their outstanding work.

After completing the inspection, Tao Donglai ordered the immigrants who had been selected to board the ship. Apart from the necessary supplies, the two ships used to transport the immigrants did not carry any other goods, so they could be taken away.

The number of immigrants was relatively large. Under the watchful eye of the militiamen with live ammunition, the immigrants lined up in two long lines and slowly moved forward to the two ships.

To be on the safe side, these people will also undergo a final physical check before boarding the ship. This time the fleet brought several medical staff from Victory Port, and they also came in handy here. This check is mainly to check

It depends on whether there are any obvious infectious disease patients among the immigrants, or people whose physical condition is not suitable for long voyages. People like this will be removed from the team and lose their qualifications to immigrate.

At one o'clock in the afternoon that day, this group of immigrants finally completed boarding. This time, a total of 382 new immigrants will take the ship to Black Earth Port. These lucky people will be freed from the threat of war and become returnees under the Executive Committee.

However, seven other unlucky people were found to be suffering from various diseases during the inspection and therefore lost their qualifications to immigrate.

Half an hour later, the fleet slowly sailed out from the estuary of Thanh Hoa River, adjusted its direction and continued heading north. In the afternoon of the next day, the fleet arrived at its second destination, Tu, located in the later Hai Phong City.

Mountain peninsula.

The two cargo ships carrying immigrants did not stop here. They continued to sail north towards Cat Ba Island and would go directly to Black Earth Port without stopping. The other two cargo ships carrying militiamen and arms were together with the "Speed"

Stopped at the southeastern tip of Tushan Peninsula.

The first batch of expedition teams to explore the black soil port navigation route had already been here on the Tushan Peninsula, but they did not land here. This long and narrow peninsula, which is S-shaped and extends into the sea in the southeast direction, is actually quite strategically located.

Wang Tom once mentioned this place in his report, believing that when conditions are mature in the future, this place can be occupied and a strategic support point built near the coast of Vietnam.

This concept is actually very close to the concept of the Military and Police Department wanting to establish a stronghold at the Pearl River Estuary. The purpose of this strategic support point is not to establish a large military base, but a small military stronghold, which is mainly used for supply and surveillance in peacetime.

Function. Looking at the coastal area east of Hanoi in northern Vietnam, it is undoubtedly a very good location - directly connected to the mainland, the terrain is narrow, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and there are natural harbors that can accommodate ships.

The Do Son Peninsula is about 100 kilometers away from Hanoi and is directly connected by waterways. It is only about ten kilometers away from the nearest grain production area, which will also facilitate future grain trade. The narrowest point of this peninsula is only 100 meters, so that it can pass through the weapons and firepower equipped by the group.

It is easy to build an insurmountable defense line, and there are commanding heights on the island. Three-dimensional defenses can be built if necessary. The S-shaped island terrain has two huge natural harbors, which can accommodate several thousand-ton ships to dock. In fact,

Later generations of the Soviet Union also occupied it for many years to dock warships, and it was not until the early 1990s that they withdrew from the Tushan Peninsula.

The Military and Police Department believes that if a stronghold is built here, the main threat direction will still come from land, and this threat can be easily controlled. As for the sea, the Military and Police Department does not believe that there will be any threats in the current Beibu Gulf area.

When it comes to threats from the sea, the nearby coastline is already sparsely populated, and there are not even pirates, so there is no threat at all. As for Vietnam’s water power at this stage, it is not much better than the fishermen on the seaside.

We know that the civil war between the North and the South in Vietnam has been going on for so many years and has been fought along the coastline, but it has never been fought at sea, which shows how weak its maritime power is.

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