In fact, what photos record is history. They can present the most authentic side of history to the world.
As a reporter for the South China Daily, Xu Haiyang was one of the first reporters to receive camera training. Unlike others, he was more willing to photograph so-called little people and trivial things.
Just like today, after learning that an immigration ship had entered, he immediately came to the pier. As usual, he set up a camera on the crane at the pier, pointed it at the steamer that had just entered the port, and took a photo.
Soon the steamship came into view, and the deck was crowded with immigrants from China. Looking at the crowd in Wuyangyang, he pressed the shutter and took a photo of the immigrants.
Soon the pier became lively.
Immigrants from the country stood on the crowded deck, looking curiously at the city in front of them.
"My dear, why are the houses here so tall..."
The people on the deck spoke Shandong dialect, and it was obvious that most of them were immigrants from Shandong.
In the past six months, as recruitment teams went deep into northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui, and even Henan, a large number of northern immigrants began to pour into South China, thus changing the population structure of South China. In the past, immigrants here were mainly from Jiangsu and Zhejiang.
, However, this was also done deliberately by Zhu Xianhai.
Historically, after Chinese immigrants immigrated overseas in large numbers in the mid-19th century, although they and their descendants' identification with China has never declined, they have formed intricate gangs and ethnic parties because of the region. Although after military training, these people
They can neither form a group nor create a climate, and they cannot make waves at all.
Introducing immigrants from other provinces will, to a certain extent, be more conducive to stability. Moreover, compared with Jiangsu and Zhejiang, where wars continue, there is more surplus labor in the north. Especially in northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui, there are millions of singles.
The Han Dynasty became the source of social unrest - most of the Nien troops rampaging across the north were Nien troops.
As soon as the immigrants from the north arrived at the port, as usual, after undergoing another physical examination, they lined up and walked along the boardwalk.
"Everyone take off your clothes and throw them into the basket. After you take a shower, you will be given new clothes..."
"You need to take a shower as soon as you land!"
Ren Wu couldn't help but complain.
When I took a shower in the hair salon, I took a shower every now and then. Before boarding the ship, I not only took another shower, I even shaved my hair. According to the officer, it was to prevent lice.
Nowadays, when you get off the boat, you still have to take a shower.
However, he did not know that the seemingly inconspicuous step of bathing had reduced the mortality rate of immigrants during transportation from 10% to 5%.
And in order to prevent the spread of infectious diseases, the first step for every immigrant arriving in Nanhua is to take a good shower, and then be inspected by customs officials before dressing. Only after confirming that there are no infectious diseases can they enter the education camp.
"Everyone, hurry up and go down the corridor. When you take a shower, remember to wash yourself with soap!"
Following the shouts of the customs officers, Ren Wu, like others, came to the shower room. Using a shower can effectively prevent cross-infection diseases.
After all, in this era, syphilis and gonorrhea are everywhere, and even the plague makes trouble from time to time.
Care must be taken, especially when new immigrants arrive, they need to be carefully isolated to avoid the introduction of infectious diseases into Nanhua.
When Ren Wu and the others were taking a bath, someone would drag their clothes away from the bamboo baskets, clean the clothes inside, and then fumigate and disinfect them at high temperatures to completely kill all kinds of parasites. After that, they would be sent to the education camp and returned to them.
In fact, these clothes were all new clothes given to the immigrants when they were waiting at the departure station. The tattered clothes they were wearing had long been burned by fire.
After all, it’s not worth much money, and the clothes many immigrants wore were extremely dirty, just like their hair and braids, and there were so many lice hidden in them!
Burning it will not only make it cleaner, but also reduce the chance of spreading diseases.
Ren Wu and others who were taking a bath in the shower room did not know that their arrival had finally made Nanhua's population exceed 200,000.
Of course, when the Immigration Department sent this number to Zhu Xianhai, facing the number of 200,000, his seemingly calm expression was actually filled with excitement.
Two hundred thousand!
The population of Nanhua finally exceeded 200,000!
Of course, this 200,000 does not include the hundreds of thousands of Mapuche people, nor the nearly 10,000 European employees or immigrants, but the real Chinese!
Of course, there are more than 6,000 mixed-race people among them - they are the mixed-race children of Chinese men and Mapuche women. Now in the Mapuche tribe, the Mapuche people are more willing to marry with the Chinese people, not only because the two
The two are more similar in appearance, but this is because Chinese people also have a certain degree of resistance to diseases such as smallpox.
In the past, the Mapuche people plundered white people and gave birth to mixed-race children with white people, all for survival, because the Mapuche people had no resistance to smallpox and other diseases brought by white people, and faced nine out of ten deaths from smallpox and other infectious diseases.
, this is almost the only way. Now that there are Chinese men, of course they no longer choose white men.
"Two hundred thousand!"
The corners of Zhu Xianhai's lips grinned. He even wondered whether he should set up a memorial day to commemorate Nanhua's population exceeding 200,000!
"With these 200,000 people, Nanhua can be considered to have a strong army!"
Not just because of the strong soldiers and horses, more than 80% of these 200,000 people are young men and women aged 18 to 40. Among these people, there are fully 130,000 men.
One hundred and thirty thousand strong young men!
Even a "big country" with a population of one million does not necessarily have so many young men. This is the advantage of immigration. Basically, those who can come over are young men, and there are basically no old people.
Even long voyages are a kind of elimination, and those who are weak will die on the journey.
With so many young men, Nan Hua can raise an army of tens of thousands at any time if he is willing.
The current war potential of South China is definitely top-notch in South America.
However, having so many men is also a problem because there are too few women!
"Nearly 60,000 to 70,000 people want to be singled out!"
Once again, Zhu Xianhai took out a document from his desk and frowned. The population structure of Nanhua was very abnormal. Although it is common in China to have more men than women, the problem here in Nanhua is even more serious.
!
"These 60,000 to 70,000 people are not singles. As long as they have women, they can breed hundreds of thousands of offspring. Women..."
There are more than hundreds of thousands of people. With women, each family has 5-6 children, which is three to four hundred thousand offspring. After more than ten years, if they get married and have children, there may be millions of people!
With generations of people working hard like this, Nanhua will definitely no longer have to worry about population.
Holding the document in his hand, Zhu Xianhai's brows furrowed.
"The jobs currently being recruited in the north are basically all male labor. Doesn't this mean that in the future, there will be more and more men in Nanhua and fewer women? This is not possible. We have to find a way..."
While talking to himself, Zhu Xianhai moved to the map, stared at a certain location on the map, and then said.
"Fortunately, there is this guy. It is already 1864. If everything goes well, this problem will be solved in about three or four years. Although it is a little late, the problem can be solved after all..."