Chen Haiyang nodded and asked someone to take it, and said some words of encouragement and comfort as usual. 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 ewer and four white jade cups inlaid with gold. [Full text reading] 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 indeed very knowledgeable!
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 although there was no money in wages, the leaders' private pockets were still very full.
Since this was a public gift and a symbol of sincerity, Chen Haiyang naturally wanted to accept it. Immediately take care of it and hand it over to the Planning Commission for recording and treasury.
After accepting the gift, Chen Haiyang looked at them slowly and waited for a while before speaking:
"All the leaders are coming to serve me. You are my Australians, and we are a family from now on. Working together is not just a word, it is something we must actually do. Do you know that?!"
"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 take care of you all!"
After the ceremony, Lin Baiguang took the leaders to the cafeteria of Bopu, where a banquet for Jie Feng had already been held. As for the men, women, old and children on board, naturally people from the Yanghe Quarantine Camp came over to count and register them. Then take them to "purify" and eat. As for the inventory of supplies, because there are still people's private property 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 sea-going 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 now, 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. Their defection is not an unconditional surrender, but a "joint stock" nature. As the chairman, he cannot simply deprive shareholders of their means of production. The result of this is that no one will come to "joint shares" in the future.
In terms of strength, the pirate leaders are now at an absolute disadvantage. Whether it is resistance or escape, it is impossible for them. But attracting people's hearts is a long and arduous task.
What the time traveler needs is "absorption", not "union". This tone is the basic theme of absorbing indigenous personnel to join the crossing 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 nowhere to go, but they are established and organized armed gangs.
Naturally, the leaders of this group would not be happy to fully absorb it - this kind of group has a strong private nature, and everyone regards the ships and sailors as their own private property. Therefore, how to "transform" these organized pirates has become a top priority.
"Xiao Wei, I'll 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. Understood. ?"
"Yes, Director Ma, this matter is up to me." 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 have strength in numbers and have always been ignored when distributing benefits. There is not much common interest with the leaders, and there may be many complaints. Winning them over is relatively easy.
Once the lower levels are won over, the middle-level elements will become mere wallflowers, while the upper-level elements will be unable to resist even if they have complaints because they have lost the support of the grassroots. When the time comes, you can treat them preferentially to set an example, or you can directly destroy them. It all depends on the interest of the time traveler.
As for the upper class elements, Wei Aiwen believes that they can also be divided - the leaders' demands are not consistent. Lin Baiguang pointed out in the report submitted immediately after logging into 6 that the current ideas of these leaders are not consistent. People like Fatty Hu want to find a comfortable place to enjoy a peaceful life; Lin Dan is eager to find his wife and children; Shi Shisi wants to climb this big tree to continue making money...
"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. People including Ren Fu and He Xin 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 a government-style supply system is still adopted for administrative staff and naval officers and soldiers. Officers and administrative staff only receive more allowances, and ordinary soldiers and employees do not. Not much different.
"Don't be too busy with this now. The executive committee has to think about it." Ma Qianzhu remembered that the administrative hierarchy he proposed during the meeting was shot down, "Okay now, what kind of treatment do you want to give this group of people? "
The first is the issue of wages. They cannot live like this under Zhu Cai's old men. Robbery and trade are the sources 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. It is better to let them use their strengths and do the work. 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 in 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. I'm afraid it wouldn't be enough to let them lead the troops."
"Well, just let them do their job!"
So someone proposed to reconsider opening a "Southeast Asian company". The executive committee of this so-called "Southeast Asia Company" has been imagining it for many days. Its purpose is to conduct maritime trade directly with Southeast Asia and obtain Southeast Asia's agricultural, forestry and mineral resources. In the future, when its strength increases, it can also take on the work of colonial expansion. Similar in nature to the East India Company.
However, this idea ran aground because there were not many ships suitable for long-distance voyages under the Navy, and they also had no talents familiar with this area. Now it is appropriate to let Mr. Zhu Cai, the leader of Da Da Shang, do this.
"In the past, there were not enough ships, and secondly, we were afraid that there would be conflicts in the local area. We had few people and few ships and could not protect ourselves. But now with such a new force joining, 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 colonization, we should not engage in it until we are unable to truly take action 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 a large fleet has enough personnel and force to protect itself while sailing. Neither the Europeans nor other maritime business 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 by the quarantine camp." Wu De opened the folder, "There are 1803 people in total. Among them, 230 are women, children and elderly people over fifty. In fact, there are 230 people on each ship. On average, there are less than 20 sailors."
Obviously, even if the women, children, old and young were included, and excluding the small boats that only needed a few people inside, they were still seriously short of manpower.
"In this way, in order 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 1500 more sailors will be needed to fully operate these ships. Operation.”(!)! ~!
