Chen Haiyang nodded and asked someone to take it, and said some words of encouragement and comfort as usual, and then Shi Shishi presented another gift, which was specially selected from each family's treasure for today's ceremony: a pair of fine Japanese swords, a
A pair of lions made of pure white Hetian jade, a set of wine vessels: a gold-inlaid kettle and four white jade cups inlaid with gold. Finally, there is a box of small gold ingots, one or two each, totaling fifty.
Chen Haiyang took a quick look and thought to himself: These pirates are really well-founded!
However, he had already heard complaints from the sailors who came earlier, saying that they were already owed wages for a month or two. It seemed that there was no money to pay the wages, and the bosses' private pockets were still very full.
Since this was a public gift, it was a symbol of sincerity, so Chen Haiyang naturally wanted to accept it. He took care of it immediately and handed it over to the Planning Commission for recording in the treasury.
After accepting the gift, Chen Haiyang looked at them slowly and waited for a while before speaking:
"The leaders are coming to serve me. You are my Australians. From now on, we are a family. Working together is not just a word, but a real thing. Do you know?!"
"Yes, you guys understand!" Shi Shishi began to sweat on his back.
"Please come to your table, all business leaders." A smile appeared on Chen Haiyang's face, "Let me welcome all the leaders!"
After the ceremony, Lin Baiguang took the leaders to the cafeteria of Bopu, where a banquet had been held. As for the men, women, old and children on the ship, people from the Yanghe Quarantine Camp naturally came to count and register them.
Go to "purify" and eat. As for the inventory of supplies, because there are still everyone's personal belongings on the ship, the Planning Commission will not go on board to check the food and supplies on the ship for the time being. It will only send people to stand guard at the upper and lower trestles of each ship.
There are 80 large and small ships, the smallest is a large sampan that can carry more than 20 people, and the largest is more than 400 tons. They are all Guangzhou and Fuzhou ships that are common in this area.
The navy has added so many ships, which not only greatly increases its maritime force, but also solves the problem of maritime transportation, which has always been lacking. The original situation of having to serve as both a warship and a transport ship has finally been alleviated.
Just after the reception banquet, Chen Haiyang had already started planning the distribution plan of these ships in the Navy Department. There are too many miscellaneous ships under the Navy Department, and some adjustment planning needs to be done carefully.
But things are not that simple. These ships are still the private property of the leaders so far. Their defection is not an unconditional surrender, but a "partnership" in nature. As the chairman, he cannot simply deprive the shareholders of their means of production. In this way
The result is that no one will come to "joint stock" in the future.
In terms of strength, the pirate leaders are now at an absolute disadvantage. Whether it is resistance or escape, it is no longer possible for them. But recruiting people's hearts is a long way to go.
What the time travelers need is "absorption", not "union." This tone is the basic theme of absorbing indigenous people to join the time travel group, so giving them the status of alliance members is not considered.
These pirates who surrendered are not prisoners of war who have been deprived of everything, nor are they hungry people who have no choice but to form an established and organized armed gang.
Naturally, the leaders of this group are not willing to fully absorb them - this kind of gang has a strong private nature, and everyone regards the ships and sailors as their own private property. So how to "transform" this group of organized pirates becomes
It is an urgent issue.
"Xiao Wei, I leave this job to you." Ma Qianzhu said in the office, "You have to use your brain carefully to help us eat this team of more than a thousand people without indigestion. Understand.
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"Yes, Mr. Ma, this matter is up to you." Wei Aiwen was full of confidence.
Wei Aiwen's absorption plan is very traditional. In short, it is "appease the upper class, win over the middle class, and win over the lower class."
The most important thing is to win over the lower class. They are more powerful in numbers and have always been ignored when distributing benefits. They don't have much common interests with the leaders, and they may have a lot of complaints. It is relatively easy to win over them.
Once the lower levels are won over, the middle-level elements will be just helpless people. Even if the upper-level elements have complaints, they will be unable to resist because they have lost the support of the grassroots. At that time, you can treat them preferentially to set an example, or you can directly destroy them in humane ways. It all depends on the time traveler.
Interested.
As for the upper-class elements, Wei Aiwen believes that differentiation can also be carried out - the demands of the leaders are not consistent. Lin Baiguang pointed out in the report submitted immediately after landing that the current ideas of these leaders are not consistent. People like Fatty Hu want to find someone
The comfortable nest is enjoying peace and happiness; Lin Dan is eager to find his wife and children; Shi Shishi wants to climb this big tree and continue to make a fortune...
"We divide and conquer, and we can absorb them quickly." Wei Aiwen explained his idea to Ma Qianxu.
"You are solely responsible for this matter. Ren Fu, He Xin and the others must also work hard. We are short of ships, and even more sailors. We must win over the sailors and technical backbones as soon as possible."
"Also, there is the issue of the treatment of the leaders," Wei Aiwen said hesitantly. "There must be an explanation for this matter. It is easy for the sailors to say that it is enough to follow the supply of naval soldiers. What about these leaders?"
Now the Crossing Group has implemented a worker type and technical hierarchy system among the indigenous people, but the communist-style supply system is still adopted for administrative personnel and army and navy officers and soldiers. Officers and administrative personnel only receive more subsidies, and ordinary soldiers and employees also receive
Not much different.
"Don't be too busy with this. The executive committee has to think about it." Ma Qianzhu recalled the incident when he proposed the administrative hierarchy system at the meeting and was shot. "Okay now, what kind of treatment are you going to give this group of people?
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The first is the issue of wages and remuneration. They do not live on this under Zhu Cai's old men. Robbery and trade are the source of income...
Thinking of this, Ma Qianju's eyes lit up: Yes, if we insist on turning them into navy captains or fleet commanders and living on a salary, they will not be motivated enough and will complain. Why not let them use their strengths to do their jobs?
My own line of work.
"Their position is not in the Navy Department, but in the Foreign Trade Commission!"
He sat down again and began to formulate a plan for dealing with this group of people.
In the evening, a meeting was held at the executive committee. Ma Qianzhu elaborated on his views and assumptions at the meeting.
"This is a good suggestion, otherwise it would be difficult to deal with this group of people. It might not be reliable enough to let them lead the troops."
"Well, just let them do their job!"
So someone proposed to reconsider the establishment of a "Southeast Asia Company". The executive committee of this so-called "Southeast Asia Company" has been thinking about it for many days. Its purpose is to directly conduct maritime trade with Southeast Asia, obtain Southeast Asia's agricultural, forestry and mineral resources, and increase its strength in the future.
Later, it can also take on the work of colonial expansion. It is similar to the nature of the East India Company.
However, this idea ran aground because there were not many ships suitable for long-distance voyages under the Navy, and there were no talents familiar with this field under their command. Now it is appropriate to let Mr. Zhu Cai, the leader of the large merchants, do this.
"In the past, there were not enough ships, and secondly, we were afraid of local conflicts. We had few people and few ships and could not protect ourselves. But now with such a new force joining us, the conditions for direct trade in Southeast Asia are ripe." Ma.
Qian Yi said.
Li Haiyang was very excited: "When necessary, we can also ask them to carry out privateering in the local waters to combat European trade in the local area."
"It's not yet time." Wen Desi objected, "Private looting will arouse hatred. Our presence in Southeast Asia is still blank. Don't do it before we have a stable footing. The Dutch, Spanish and British are not easy to mess with. If we really want to
If a conflict breaks out, we will have no foothold in the local area and will be easily defeated by them. In addition, privateering is a kind of piracy. This group of people themselves are both merchants and thieves. If they get the benefit of robbery, they will simply become pirates in the waters of Southeast Asia.
, we may not be able to control it. When the time comes, it will cause endless harm."
Wen Desi continued: "Whether it is private plundering or colonial development, we should not engage in it until we have the ability to truly intervene in Southeast Asian affairs. As long as we maintain our own trade security."
In Wen Desi's vision, the Southeast Asia Company's ships would conduct trade in formations, forming large convoys for each voyage - similar to the annual maritime trade tours conducted by the Venetians in the Mediterranean and Black Sea. Such large-scale
The fleet has enough personnel and force to protect itself when sailing. Neither the Europeans nor other maritime trading groups have anything to fear.
"Our navy doesn't understand trade matters," Chen Haiyang said. "I just want to know: What is the executive committee's attitude towards their people and ships? Should they be allowed to retain their original organization and command system, or should they be completely disbanded?
Reorganization?”
"Beiping's adapted retention system." Ma Qianxu said.
In other words, the organizational structure is retained in name, but in practice, personnel infiltration and personnel structure adjustments are used to gradually deprive the bosses of their control over the original people.
"According to the numbers on the roster and the test results sent from the quarantine camp." Wu De opened the folder, "There are 1,803 people in total. Among them, 230 are women, children and elderly people over fifty. In fact, there are 230 people on each ship.
The average number of sailors is less than 20."
Obviously, even if women, children, old and young are included, and excluding the small boats that only need a few people inside, they are still seriously short of manpower.
"In this way, to make these ships operational again, it is necessary to recruit more sailors." Wu De looked at the ship inspection list of the Planning Commission, "Remove the small sampans and so on, and at least 1,500 more sailors will be needed to fully operate these ships.