Chapter 59 New System

It was late April 1627, and the construction sites in Yulin Bay were in full swing. Hundreds of local people were working day and night to build various infrastructures under the organization of the Chuangzhong.

While everyone was taking a lunch break, Ning Qi held up a tin trumpet and stood on a high place next to the construction site to publicize the various benefits of joining Haihan to these people.

"After joining Haihan, your children will be able to attend the schools we set up and become literate. In the future, whether they take the imperial examination or work for us, they will have a good future!"

"If you ever have a headache, brain fever, major illness or minor calamity in the future, we have doctors who will provide you with treatment. You no longer have to travel dozens of miles to the county to see a doctor!"

"When you join Haihan, you can apply for the allocation of twenty acres of farmland! There are no additional conditions! You only need to pay 10% of your income in taxes every year! We will provide grain and agricultural tools and provide guidance throughout the process to ensure that every household can have

A good harvest!”

Ning Qi kept repeating Haihan's various preferential conditions for recruiting people, and his mouth became dry after hearing them. However, using this simple and crude propaganda method had quite a good effect. After he stopped, he immediately

Some people came around to inquire about the detailed procedures for registration.

Of course, the people are most concerned about the issue of cultivated land, especially the Han people who have mastered basic farming techniques. They want to know how Haihan will protect the rights and interests of these cultivated lands after they are allocated to them. You must know that this place is still nominally owned by the Han people.

In areas under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, the Haihan people distributed cultivated land on their behalf. In the future, the Ming government will most likely not recognize the ownership of these lands.

Yu Dashan, who had been recruited by Haihan, responded to this question on his behalf: "The Ming army that came to Yulin a few days ago is still locked up in the camp upstream of Tiandu River! Although the leader, General Luo, was put back.

, but he has sworn to the Haihan people that he will not go against Haihan again in the future, and he will also open up joints for the Haihan people in Yacheng. When the time comes, the Haihan people will come forward to negotiate with the government, so there is no need

We ordinary people are worried."

Yu Dashan's words quickly dispelled most people's worries, because it was indeed true. Everyone in Yulin Bay knew that the Ming army was captured by the Haihan people, and it was not a secret. It would be okay if the government took the Haihan people.

If there is no way, then naturally there is no way to interfere in the affairs of Yulin Bay.

Moreover, the Haihan people set much lower tax standards than the government, and they also provided grain seeds, agricultural tools, and technical guidance. These were conditions that the government could not provide. It was indeed difficult for the people to refuse such a temptation.

Under Yu Dashan's encouragement, people at the scene expressed their willingness to join the team and work for Haihan in the future.

In addition to these Han people, the Li people working on the construction site also received the same invitation. They had more practical ideas about joining the gang. During this time, they worked for the Haihan people and received food and other materials as rewards.

Their cooperation has significantly improved their living standards, and it has also made them realize that Haihan's strength is enough to change the living conditions of the Li people.

For those young Li people who yearn for life outside the mountains, this is of course an excellent opportunity. Fu Li, the young master of Fushandong, is already very familiar with the Haihan people, and the courtesy he receives also makes the Li people

We believe that Haihan is a reliable and trustworthy partner.

In order to facilitate the recruitment of Li people into the group, Haihan even established a special coordination organization to be responsible for Haihan's various liaison affairs in the Li-controlled areas, and Fu Li obtained an important position in it.

With this joint effort, Li people have also enthusiastically signed up to join, hoping to get better treatment from Haihan through new cooperation methods.

After five days of publicity at various construction sites, Ning Qi and others had already recruited the quota that was originally scheduled to take ten days to complete. As for this newly recruited group of personnel, the executive committee plans to organize them and send them to Yulin

They relocated the valley where the abandoned salt farm was located and arranged for them to rebuild the salt farm there to resume salt production as soon as possible.

In the end, more than 60 households and more than 200 people were sent to the salt farm for resettlement. Because of his active performance, Yu Dashan was appointed as the senior manager of the salt farm, responsible for the resettlement of these people and subsequent production organization.

Early one morning in early May 1627, the first group of members of the salt field took two ships across Yulin Bay and arrived at their destination. A trestle-style pier had been built in advance by Chuan Chuanzhong and delineated.

A residential area used for building housing.

After the ship docked, the people unloaded the various building materials, tools and living supplies carried on the ship to the shore, and then began to build residences under the command of the craftsmen. At first, most of them could only live in tents temporarily.

Here, during this period, the first thing they have to complete is to build their own residence, and then start to renovate the production facilities of the salt farm.

According to the plan of the executive committee, this old salt field, which originally used stone troughs to dry salt, will be gradually transformed into a large-scale cement salt pond, and the original seawater irrigation device will be changed to wind power and animal power until more advanced use is made later.

Efficient steam power.

However, everything is difficult at the beginning. In the early stage, it is not easy for these newly organized people to spend great efforts in building various infrastructures in the salt field.

Because the actual working environment here is different from the land reclamation promoted by the public, they will soon discover that what the Haihan people are planning to do here is not to organize them to reclaim farmland, but to transform the tidal flats by the sea.

After forming a salt field, they will become salt households specializing in the production of table salt.

Large-scale private salt production was of course illegal in the Ming Dynasty. However, the mountains in Yulin Bay are high and the emperor is far away, and the government seems to have no control over it. The only thing the people need to worry about is that the salt fields built by the Haihan people can really bring stability.

Profitable?

The Executive Committee certainly has no doubt about this. According to the target set by the Ministry of Industry, the salt output will reach 1,000 tons in the first year after the salt farm is put into operation. This number may not be large, but it is not small.

Too small. According to historical records, before the Travelers came here, the annual salt output of the entire Hainan Island was only about 300 tons.

But even reaching such a production capacity is by no means Haihan's long-term goal. According to the Ministry of Industry's plan, in the future, multiple salt farms with larger production scale will continue to be built in Yinggehai, Danzhou and other places on Hainan Island.

The salt produced by these products is not only a commodity that Haihan will use for export for profit in the future, but is also a raw material to meet the future development of chemical industry.
Chapter completed!