Chapter 743 Immigration Handover

"Everyone takes their personal belongings, lines up, and disembarks one by one. There is no crowding! Men follow the yellow flag, and women follow the white flag..." A staff member from the Ministry of Civil Affairs held a tin horn and stood on the wooden box to speak to those who had just disembarked.

The refugees who arrived at the dock kept repeating the rules of action loudly. Although these refugees had heard about what to do when they arrived and what kind of reception procedures there would be, they had heard it no less than ten times during the voyage, but they still had to follow the rules after arriving at the destination.

There is tireless propaganda to remind them repeatedly.

Haihan has been introducing immigrants from the Ming Dynasty since the time of time travel. It has been operating for several years and has encountered various emergencies. Therefore, it has already had a complete set of responses on how to control the newly arrived immigrants.

Plan. There are not only police teams to maintain order on the pier, but also doctors responsible for checking physical health, healthy women responsible for taking care of women and young children, civil affairs personnel who count personal belongings and register names, etc., each link is responsible for their own duties.

We should try our best to eliminate some hidden dangers that may be hidden by the immigrant groups at the dock.

Although Liu Zhenguo handed over the list to the port staff, he did not relax immediately. He insisted on standing by to supervise the reception process of Haihan. To him, each of these refugees was equivalent to

If the Haihan people single out some of the real money as unqualified, it will be a real loss.

This is not the first time Liu Zhenguo has transported refugees from the north to Fujian. In fact, he had already made a trip in July, but the transaction process was not satisfactory. Nearly one-third of the refugees transported to Fujian

One of them was judged as "unqualified" by the Haihan people because of their illness, and the remuneration they deserved was greatly reduced. But this did not affect Liu Zhenguo's enthusiasm for trading, because the profits he earned from this kind of human trading were comparable to

Other businesses are much higher.

All the food needed to recruit refugees to the north was provided by the Haihan people, and Liu Zhenguo himself did not need to spend much cost. And after these people arrived in Fujian and were handed over to the Haihan people, the reward Liu Zhenguo received was not just money, but

They are all kinds of Haihan specialties of equal value that are very popular in the market. Liu Zhenguo only needs to transport these things by ship to the northern coast and sell them, and the profit will immediately double. Therefore, he sells the Haihan goods obtained from the first trip to the north.

After that, he immediately recruited another batch of refugees from the local area and transported them back. This time, he was more careful and specially selected refugees with better physical conditions to ensure a "pass rate" when they arrived in Fujian and were handed over to the Haihan people.

This trip went smoothly, and the refugees were in good physical condition during the journey. Liu Zhenguo estimated that the pass rate would be at least much higher than last time. He would have to carefully consider which goods would be more cost-effective to trade back to the Haihan people.

Liu Zhenguo was making a small calculation when he heard a subordinate remind him: "Master, the leader of Haihan is here!"

Liu Zhenguo came back to his senses and saw a young Haihan man walking in his direction surrounded by several guards. Liu Zhenguo quickly straightened his clothes, stepped forward and saluted: "Liu Zhenguo, a common man, has met Chief Li.

.”

"Boss Liu, you're welcome!" The director Liu Zhenguo called Director Li was Li Dou, the civil affairs director of the Penghu base who had just taken office.

Both Li Dou and Chen Yixin received transfer orders from the Executive Committee after the Battle of Penghu in May this year, and were transferred from Hong Kong to Fujian to take up new positions. The two men, both civil and military, have been partners in Guangdong for several years, and have gradually

They shed their childishness in the early days of time travel and gradually grew into capable men who could take charge of their own business. The executive committee transferred these two people to work under Qian Tiandun, and their intention to cultivate them was also very obvious.

After Li Dou arrived in Penghu, he was mainly responsible for civil affairs, infrastructure and commerce, and immigration work was undoubtedly one of the key matters within his scope of responsibility. Therefore, although there were only a few hundred immigrants in this group, he still came here specially

Terminal, personally supervising the reception process. Of course, he also came here for another purpose, which was to ask the merchants who transported the immigrants about the situation in the north, so that he could make timely adjustments to the local immigration reception methods.

"I heard that these people were transported from Huai'an Prefecture?" Li Dou had no intention of going around in circles with Liu Zhenguo. After a few words of greeting, he got to the point.

Liu Zhenguo immediately responded: "The grassroots recruited this group of people in Haizhou, Huai'an. Most of them fled south from Anqiu, Zhucheng and other places in Qingzhou Prefecture, Shandong Province and entered the territory of Huai'an Prefecture to avoid the war. These people's homes have been

It was destroyed, and we didn’t know when the Denglai Rebellion would end, so we had no choice but to flee. Due to the influx of a large number of refugees in Haizhou, the government was already overwhelmed. The grassroots went to the local area to recruit refugees to go south, and the government was happy to see this happen.

"

The rebellion of Kong Youde's tribe, which began in August 1631, has lasted for a full year. The rebels not only occupied the cities of Denglai and Denglai states, but also attacked and plundered the place from time to time. It seemed to be more troublesome than in the original history.

Awesome. Almost no place in the entire Jiaodong Peninsula was spared, and most of the cities and counties were involved in the war. As a result, hundreds of thousands of people left their homes and fled west and south for their lives. Shandong is adjacent to

The Jianghuai area was not directly affected by the Denglai Rebellion and was relatively prosperous, so it naturally became the first choice destination for some refugees.

Haizhou in Huai'an Prefecture was later Lianyungang, and its jurisdiction bordered Junan, Shandong. It naturally became the first stop for Shandong refugees heading south to Jianghuai. According to Liu Zhenguo's description, the Shandong refugees currently stranded in Haizhou are at least still alive.

There are as many as 50,000 to 60,000 people, and the scale is almost as large as the local population.

With so many people pouring into the local area, it is obviously difficult to support the long-term support by relying solely on government relief, and social resources are not enough to support the sudden increase in population. Therefore, it is common for refugees to sell their children and girls in order to get a bite to eat.

, not surprising. When Liu Zhenguo went to the local area to recruit immigrants, he did not even need to carry out too much publicity. As long as he was guaranteed to have food on board, many people were willing to choose to go south on the ship and take a gamble when their future was uncertain.

No matter where you go, staying alive is better than starving to death on the streets.

Most of these refugees only found out after they were halfway through the voyage that their destination was a large island near Fujian, where a group of wealthy and charitable people would hire them to work or farm, and they would not need food or clothing in the future.

Worry no more. Although there are some people who want to regret it after knowing the destination, Liu Zhenguo will not let these people who have boarded the ship go again. As long as they are alive, they will all be transported to Penghu and handed over to the Haihan people. He also

We know that the Haihan people have many unique skills in this regard. The thousands of people who obey their orders on Penghu Island are examples.

After listening to Liu Zhenguo's story, Li Dou was not in a relaxed mood. Although there seemed to be many war refugees in the north waiting for Haihan to recruit, this situation was likely to change in a short period of time.

Han didn't have much time to slowly operate this thing.

According to the original history, the Denglai Rebellion was coming to an end at this time. In September, the rebels were surrounded in Dengzhou City. In October, Kong Youde led his troops to break out, abandoned the ship and boarded the ship to escape to the Liaodong Peninsula, and in the third

In the second year, the Tatars surrendered outside the Pass. If the war situation in Shandong is not much different from that in history, then the war will probably end soon. And after the people who fled at that time got the news, they would definitely choose to return home one after another to rebuild.

home, rather than leaving home for a completely unknown environment.

What Haihan has to do is to introduce as many immigrants as possible from the north before the impact of the war ends. But so far, the total number of northern refugees received by the Penghu base has not exceeded 10,000, and they arrive in Hong Kong every day on average.

The number of people is less than a thousand, which is not even comparable to the immigration flow at the Lijiazhuang Immigration Transfer Center in Panyu, Guangdong during its peak period.

Of course, the specific environment in Guangdong is also different. After all, it is only a few hundred miles from the war-torn area to Panyu, so refugees will not have much difficulty traveling there. However, these northern refugees need greater determination to go south.

Coupled with sufficient maritime transport capacity, Haihan's immigration needs can be met.

However, because the voyage is too far and the sea conditions and environment along the way are unfamiliar, Haihan currently does not dare to easily send his own fleet north to transport immigrants so far away. This is incomparable to the original transport of immigrants along the Annan coast. At that time, the Annan people

There is almost no sea power. Even if you know what the Haihan people are doing, you can only turn a blind eye. There are more or less naval forces along the coast of the Ming Dynasty. The large-scale Haihan fleet entering the northern coast of the Ming Dynasty will definitely attract attention.

, and it is not necessarily true that the government in every place will be as willing to cooperate with Haihan as Fu Guang. Even if Haihan is not afraid of the Ming Navy, he does not want to cause unnecessary trouble.

Li Dou frowned and said: "Boss Liu, is it possible to organize a larger fleet to transport more people at one time? As for the price, you can rest assured that we will never start to lower the price just because there are too many people sent."

Liu Zhenguo responded: "Reporting to the chief, Cao Min also has this intention. When he returned to Fujian this time, Cao Min had already contacted a number of well-connected maritime merchants and rented ships from them. When the transaction is completed, Cao Min will go north again.

, not just these three ships, but at least thirty ships! Next time I come to Penghu, I will send you at least three or four thousand people."

"That's pretty much it." Li Dou nodded when he heard this, and encouraged Liu Zhenguo: "If you can transport more than 3,000 immigrants at a time, I can apply to my superiors and give you the Huai'an Prefecture franchise rights for several commodities.

.Boss Liu, do you understand what I mean?"

"I understand, I understand! The civilians thanked the chief first!" Liu Zhenguo immediately nodded and responded like a chicken pecking at rice.

If Liu Zhenguo wanted to do business with the Haihan people, of course he had already worked hard to study the business methods of the Haihan people. Haihan goods were so in demand in the Ming Dynasty. On the one hand, it was because of their exquisite production technology that it was difficult for others to imitate them. On the other hand, it was also

It is related to its unique business strategy. Each kind of Haihan goods is often sold by only one or two shops in a place, and this also ensures to the greatest extent that the operator has no other local competitors, thus operating these products in disguise.

The profits that can be obtained from the goods are guaranteed.

Any merchant who can obtain the franchise rights of Haihan products in a certain place can often make a lot of money in a short period of time. Even for fast-moving consumer goods such as matches, which have a lower unit price and do not seem to be so profitable,

If you carefully calculate its sales volume, it is still not difficult to find the huge benefits brought by this business method.

The Jianghuai area is the most prosperous area in the Ming Dynasty, and its consumption power is still higher than that of Fuzhou and Guangzhou. Most of the local Haihan goods are sold by merchants from Fuguang and southern Zhejiang, and they have not formed the Fuguang area.

A relatively standardized business model. If the regional franchise rights can be obtained early, even for one or two products, the profit that can be earned is a figure that Liu Zhenguo currently dare not expect. When he heard Li Dou offered such conditions,

Naturally, he hurriedly agreed, and he was already thinking about where he could rent more large-scale sea ships, which could bring back thousands of people at a time. Maybe the Haihan people would give him more business in the state if they were happy.

Right.

Of course, in line with the safety principle of not putting all eggs in one basket, Liu Zhenguo was not the only one Li Dou offered similar conditions to. Currently, there are seven or eight businesses in Fujian that are engaged in immigrant transportation for Haihan, including

The largest one is naturally Xu Xinsu’s Maritime Group. Currently, nearly two-thirds of the immigrants arriving in Penghu are handled by the Xu family. In addition to the maritime merchants in Fujian, there are also two or three in Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Maritime merchants realized the business opportunities contained in this kind of trading and began to transport the population needed by Haihan between the two places.

The original plan formulated by the Ministry of Civil Affairs hoped to introduce at least 30,000 to 50,000 immigrants from the north by the end of 1632. Judging from the current transportation speed, the minimum guarantee is basically safe, but if you want to exceed the upper limit, you will have to spend a lot of money.

It takes a lot of effort. And Haihan has also endured relatively large financial pressure for this. Haihan needs to pay a price of fifteen to twenty yuan to complete the task of sending an immigrant from a war-torn area to Penghu and then to Hainan Island.

The entire process. And this is only an estimate of basic freight and food costs, and does not include other additional expenses such as the construction costs of immigrant camps on Penghu Island.

Qian Tiandun, the top commander of the Penghu base, once said with a smile that Haihan could at least build a fully-equipped regional fleet with the expenditure required to complete this immigration goal this year. Considering that the Haihan military deployed a fleet in Fujian

The plan for a complete fleet has been postponed to next year. This can actually be regarded as the immigration plan having an indirect impact on the expansion of the military's strength. Of course, population is the most important thing, and Qian Tiandun will naturally not go against the Executive Committee, so

It was just a few verbal complaints and no resistance to the immigration plan.
Chapter completed!