Some people also proposed sending the prisoners to Sanya to work as miners, but many people were worried that Sanya only had one battalion of troops, and they might not be able to arrest the soldiers if they started to riot. [Read the latest chapter] Moreover, the aftermath of the previous suppression of workers has not yet passed, and the pressure to maintain stability still exists, and we cannot add any more factors of instability.
A decision was quickly made on the issue of prisoners. All prisoners would not replenish the army or be transported to Sanya. Instead, they would be kept in Lingao and used as laborers. After a few years of transformation, a way out would be arranged according to each person's different circumstances.
"If there are locals among the prisoners, I propose to release them on the spot." Wu Nanhai said, "Since there are families and relatives in the local area, it will be more harmful to the people's hearts if we detain them. If they are willing to leave, we will release them all, and we will pay for travel expenses and so on. . This way they can spread our power and benevolence."
"It seems that there are indeed local guardsmen and local warriors among the prisoners." Wu De said.
Yang Yun coughed lightly. It was his first time to participate in such a high-level meeting. He had just been appointed as the director of the Human Resources Department of the Civil Affairs Commission. He used his experience as the head of the human resources department of the sweatshop and the labor union in the old time and space. The advantages of the chairman are mixed with this position.
Of course, given that Lingao's employment situation was even more bloody than the sweatiest factories according to the old time and space, not to mention that he had unlimited violence as a backing, it was not difficult to be the director of the Human Resources Department. But Yang Yun is not satisfied with this - how can he reflect his professionalism if it is just like this?
He first studied the existing manpower utilization system with great concentration and believed that there was room for improvement, or rather, the potential for further squeeze. He decided to take this opportunity to demonstrate his professionalism.
But Yang Yun is not prepared to make major changes to the entire system. After all, this system was created by Wu De. It would be unwise for him to make drastic changes to his leadership's policies not long after he took office. Yang Yun does not believe much in parliamentary democracy and individual democratic rights. He is a type of person who will follow the central government and leaders as long as there is meat to eat.
"More than 10,000 laborers are about to arrive. I propose to make certain changes in the handling of this labor force." He avoided using complimentary words such as "reform" and "improvement" and used neutral words, "What we are implementing now The 6o-day quarantine system is very good and ensures health safety, but the price is that it is not efficient enough for the use of labor."
The policy at this stage is that laborers and immigrants undergo simple language and literacy learning in quarantine camps during the quarantine period, while performing some lighter manual labor.
"There is no need to quarantine these more than 10,000 people. Their nutritional and physical conditions should be much better than those of the ordinary people we accommodate. Moreover, they have strength and the ability to kill people and set fires. If they are asked to do manual work, they will do it. If you don’t want to do it, you won’t be able to do it well. If you don’t have a place to vent your energy, you will easily get into trouble.”
Yang Yun proposed that these prisoners be "purified" and then all be arranged for the construction of the Ma Niao-Chengmai highway. The Sixth Army has heavy troops stationed in Ma Niao and several troops stationed in Chengmai, which has enough deterrence to control the prisoners.
"After the construction of this highway is completed, we will build the Chengmai-Qiongshan highway. Anyway, according to Shan Daoqian's plan, we will overhaul roads and railways in Hainan, and some of these prisoners will have jobs."
The vest coughed: "Of course it is good to deal with it this way, but it will hinder the principle of fairness of the law. It is okay to use the captives for labor, but we cannot let them continue to work like this as if they were sentenced to life imprisonment. The news spread. Who else is willing to surrender in the future?"
"Just implement a points system." Yang Yun already had a countermeasure, "Prisoners do not work for free, we will pay them."
The reward is some kind of points. Prisoners are paid on a daily basis based on the intensity and content of their work - of course the pay is not much. From this remuneration, he has to pay for his own food, clothing and hygiene. If possible, he can also pay for entertainment-such as the expenses of prostitution. But he has no right to change jobs or choose not to work, which is equivalent to forced labor with wages.
Everyone has a net worth, and after they accumulate a certain amount of points, they can use the accumulated points to redeem themselves. In this way, he is no longer a forced laborer and can choose another job.
In Yang Yun's plan, prisoners are not paid in the first year. Only after one year of good performance can they enter the "accumulation point" stage. Those who perform poorly will continue to be forced to work for free. Normally it would take about four years for a captive to be redeemed.
"...We can give additional rewards to prisoners who perform well and work hard based on their performance, so that they can complete the points redemption one or two years in advance." Only then did he carefully observe the leaders present. Feeling that they basically had a positive attitude towards his words, he continued, "Through harsh labor, we can correct the bad habits of these prisoners and promote the ideological differentiation of the prisoners. By giving rewards and transferring positions, we can support them." A group of activists come to dismantle, monitor and transform it internally. In this way, after four or five years, even if the captives cannot become active members of construction, they will become citizens who are law-abiding and useful to the new society and new order."
There was a small discussion among everyone. Wu De looked at this twenty-five-year-old young man, "Not a bad job," he thought, we just need such professionals to take our career to a higher level. He thought about it and looked at his watch. In the office of the Planning Institute There's still a lot to do, and plenty of loot registers are coming in. So he raised his hand to express his support for Yang Yun's plan.
The plan was subsequently refined. The prisoners were organized into labor brigades, squadrons and squads according to military organization. It can be deployed to different construction sites at any time as needed.
"Because they are engaged in heavy physical work and their reliability rating is low, my opinion is that the number of people in each team should not be too small, and they should be too scattered and scattered to be difficult to monitor. Try to use a squadron of about a hundred people. For dispatch use." Wu De suggested, "Of course they can only be used for large-scale infrastructure projects at this scale."
"In addition to road construction, there are so many large-scale infrastructure projects to be built," said Mei Wan, general manager of the construction company, "irrigation channels, reservoirs, ports..."
Considering that there will no longer be a heavy Ming army group in the entire Hainan area, and it will take at least two or three years for the Guangdong side to launch a second large-scale campaign, the participants agreed that there is no need to maintain a state of war. . The meeting decided to lift the state of emergency in Lingao and restore normal order from now on. The duty system of elders and indigenous militiamen was lifted; the conscripted militiamen and laborers were released from service; production in all departments was converted to normal production.
"There is one very important thing." Skade quickly brought it up, "Our foreign trade relations. Now that the Ming army has been defeated, it should be restored as soon as possible. I think we can talk about the recruitment issue at this stage..."
Wen Desi said: "Are you going to go to Guangzhou alone with a white flag to find Wang Zunde and ask him to recruit him?"
"If this is effective, it might not be a bad idea." Skade said calmly.
"You are a right-leaning capitulationist trend," Wen Desi said. "I just don't understand why some of us always want to surrender in order to be recruited? It seems that the roots of capitulationism need to be dug up."
Skade immediately defended himself: "This is a strategy. As a strategy, we need the resources and population of the continent. Wouldn't it be a good thing if peace could be restored as soon as possible? As for what name to use, I don't think it is a big problem. We have to be practical. interests interests”
"If you want to resume trade, you don't necessarily have to recruit people." Wen Desi warned, "Officials like to talk about their wealth, so it is completely unnecessary to have a name."
"Okay, what I mean is to negotiate with Wang Zunde." Si Kaide gave in and changed his words.
Jiang Shan said: "Wang Zunde has to step down after this failure, and he might even be arrested and taken to the capital for questioning. There is no point in negotiating with him. We should wait until after he steps down and the court replaces someone new, and then we can negotiate with the Guangdong government touch."
Skade muttered in despair: "It took too long..." From the time the news of the failure of the crusade was reported to the court to the time when the new official took office, it probably took a year.
Jiang Shan said: "I don't think it will be long. Historically, Xiong Wencan took over as governor of Guangdong and Guangxi in 1632. After we defeat He Rubin, it should make Xiong Wencan governor of Guangdong and Guangxi earlier. Lao Xiong is known for his appeasement. When he takes office They will most likely contact us later.”
At present, someone proposed to formally negotiate with Guangdong in the name of Australia and Song Dynasty, and sign a trade treaty following the example of the British back then. Others listed five main clauses: ceding Hong Kong as an island; granting a concession outside Guangzhou; compensating military expenditures and all losses of the Lingao regime; re-opening bilateral trade, and returning all Guangzhou Station properties.
"These five items are simply impossible." Jiang Shan said, "At least it's impossible now. Don't say that Wang Zunde wouldn't dare to agree even if Lao Xiong came. According to the imperial censor's report, he must be arrested and sent to Beijing."
"Bombard Guangzhou and blockade the Pearl River Estuary"
"Bombarding Guangzhou may be useful, but blocking the Pearl River Estuary is of little significance to the Ming Dynasty. The Ming and Qing courts have something in common on this point - they do not think overseas trade is of any significance to them." Yu Eshui Said, "According to the normal historical trajectory, the imperial court would order the blockade of Guangzhou Bay in 1631. So it makes no sense whether we block it or not."
"So there's nothing we can do?"
"If you want to solve it by force: follow the ideas of the Opium War: on the one hand, besiege Guangzhou and force the Guangzhou local government to reach a trade settlement with us. At the same time, in order to ensure that the Guangdong government can actually implement it, send a fleet to the Yangtze River Estuary, capture Zhenjiang, and then bombard Nanjing , threatening to cut off water transportation." He shrugged, "If the Ming Dynasty still refuses to surrender, we will have no other choice but to go to full-scale war and directly occupy Guangdong."
To conduct a military operation of this scale is obviously far beyond the ability of the current regime to cross. Wen Desi believed that this matter could only be discussed privately with the leaders of the Guangzhou government, and that no specific treaty should be signed.
Wen Desi said slowly: "Officials are most afraid of writing down documents. You really have no idea at all. The key is tacit understanding. Tacit understanding." He waved his arms, "When you go to pay bribes to do things, why don't you ask the other party to write a receipt?" Saying that if I charge you 50,000 yuan, certain things will be done? You are so naive."
Traditional Chinese dynasties have no concept of diplomatic treaties, and it is simply impossible to sign a reciprocal peace treaty with the local government in Guangdong.
Therefore, the two sides' understanding of the peace talks is a tacit understanding. They secretly reach a tacit understanding and bottom line, and do not cross each other's boundaries.
"It's impossible to ask the Guangdong government to compensate the people." Wen Desi said, "First of all, they don't have the money - even if they have the money, they won't give it to us; secondly, there is no rule in the officialdom that the government should compensate the people. You want It becomes a big deal when people make exceptions.”
"Wouldn't this mean we can't reach an agreement?" Skade muttered.
"Xiao Si, you are still the colonial trade chief..."
Skade quickly clarified: "Chairman Wen, I am the office director of the Ministry of Colonial Trade."
"It doesn't matter who you are. When you are a leader, have you never heard of the term power rent-seeking?" Wen Desi said with a smile, "I can't give you real money, but if the government leaks a little power to you, won't it compensate you?" Our loss?”
Everyone showed understanding expressions.
"We can't say clearly: Hong Kong Island is ceded to me and the other party has to write it down in black and white. No official in the entire Ming Dynasty dared to agree to this. Even Emperor Chongzhen didn't dare - he was not afraid of the civil servant group. He is afraid of being remembered as a 'ceded territory' in the history books." Wen Desi said, "But we can quietly occupy the island and do whatever we want on it - as long as we don't make the local government antagonize us. It’s okay if you can’t explain it, anyway, this kind of thing has always been hidden from the public.”
Skade frowned and said, "How many years can we last? The secret will always be exposed."
Wu De knocked on the table lightly: "Time," he said seriously, "We did not occupy Lingao County three years ago, and we relied on this to keep things secret when we stayed outside the city - we won time. We have another three to five years to gain.”
The first five-year plan is completed and the coal-iron complex takes shape. The second five-year plan is when large-scale violence is carried out to equip soldiers. At this time, Ming Dynasty’s approval or tolerance is no longer needed.
The meeting decided to set up a "Guangdong Peace Talks Group" to prepare to return to Guangzhou and contact the Guangdong government. Roughly plan to take three different routes. First it was the Gaozu route, then Li Luoyou, and finally some officials and gentry in Guangzhou who had close contacts with Guangzhou Station, a multi-pronged approach.
Wu Nanhai demanded at this time: "With the increase of 10,000 manpower at our disposal, our food problem will arise."
Lingao's food problem is quite prominent. The county's food production is limited and there is a large influx of immigrants. A large number of people are concentrated in non-agricultural production sectors such as schools, administrative departments, military units and industrial enterprises. The work of increasing unit output per mu and expanding planting area has not been launched for a long time, so the overall food supply is tight. Although it is still more than self-sufficient, But dependence on Vietnam's rice supply has developed.
According to the individual rationing standards proposed by Chen Sigen, a doctor of nutrition, for the additional 10,000 prisoners, those engaged in heavy physical labor such as road construction must have a caloric intake of 3600 kilocalories per person per day, or at least no less than 3000 kilocalories. If this number were entirely supplied by carbohydrates, it would be equivalent to supplying 750 grams of brown rice or equivalent starch food to the captives every day.
"For 10,000 people, the daily supply is 7.5 tons of brown rice." Wu Nanhai emphasized the huge number, "The consumption in a 30-day month is 225 tons."
Wu De listened and calculated the grain storage figures, and he began to frown. In this way, the food security reserve cycle will be shortened by 11 days when the peak comes.
"Moreover, the protein and fat content of brown rice is not high. It only consumes carbohydrates for a long time, which is not good for health. We need to provide more protein and fat to laborers and captives. To ensure that they can work for us stably for a long time, and at the same time reduce food direct consumption." Wu Nanhai said,
Ma Qianzhu said: "Tell me what you want to do."
Wu Nanhai said: "I hope to change our fishery system. Marine fishing should be independent from the navy - after all, this is an agricultural project. It is not smooth for the navy to take charge of the fishery system."
The marine fishing industry is indeed the only industry at this stage that can quickly provide a large amount of protein and fat sources. It is precisely by relying on sea fishing that the Lingao regime can barely guarantee the protein supply for the elders, laborers under the rule, and the army.
There was a low buzz in the crowded conference room: Wu Nanhai has always been known for being low-key and non-controversial, but now he suddenly directly attacked institutional issues and wanted to regain fishing rights, which surprised everyone.
The current fisheries system is naval managed fisheries. Fishing boats are also Navy spy boats. Some of the spy boats are specialized in fishing operations. In addition to direct fishing by the navy, the navy also imposes a "fishery tax" on the fishing grounds near Bopu. Each private fishing boat must pay one-fifth of the catch.
Whether it is the navy's catch or the fishermen's fishing tax, all is paid to the seafood processing plants under the Ministry of Agriculture. The total amount is considerable.
Ye Yuming also joined in at this time: "We, the Tiandihui, took the lead in establishing a fishery association and wanted to improve fishermen's equipment and production techniques. However, the current practice of the navy directly controlling fishing grounds and fishing boats is very detrimental to the promotion and improvement of large-scale fisheries. . I fully support Commissioner Wu’s view that the navy should no longer be in charge of fisheries.”
"There is also a tax on fishermen - it doesn't make sense for the navy to collect taxes." Cheng Dong slowly expressed his position, "I personally believe that tax power must be unified. Furthermore, directly levying a tax in kind is a retrograde step in a sense. It is not conducive to the development of commodity economy." v! ~!
