As soon as the short Spring Festival holiday in 1633 ended and the winter snow had not yet melted, various agencies under the Executive Committee quickly resumed operations. According to the holiday schedule of the Senate promulgated by the People's Committee for Civil Affairs, there is a total of three days of holiday during the Spring Festival. In fact, many industrial and mining enterprises and institutions only take one day off on the first day of the new year and then get back to work immediately.
Time is now the most precious thing for the veterans who were often in a daze before D-Day. If it weren't for the fact that the pace of work in Lingao was too intense, and the vast majority of naturalized citizens and indentured servants didn't get a few days off throughout the year, so they had to take a breather, the elders would have tended not to take holidays.
As for the elders themselves, most of them work from the first day of the new year to the thirtieth day of the new year, all year round, and work overtime every day. The laziest employees and laziest students in the past are now bursting with great enthusiasm for work: as the saying goes, power is not only the best aphrodisiac, but also an excellent stimulant. In 1633, with the comprehensive efforts of the Executive Committee and the Personnel Department of the General Office, the phenomenon of "soy sauce elders" and "basic labor force elders" was completely eliminated, and all elders were promoted to leadership positions - even people like Salina The "Pure Soy Sauce Patriarch" also became the Director-General of the Spanish-Portuguese Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Director of the Spanish-Portuguese Materials Section of the Grand Library. Moreover, every elder has the authority and arrangements to ensure that they give full play to their expertise. Even if they don't know anything, they can at least serve as a teaching and research team leader in the People's Committee for Education.
In the office building of the Civil Affairs People's Committee in Bairen City, intense work is being carried out at this time - since the engine operation started, it has been operating almost 24 hours a day. The resource collected by Operation Engine is people. The entire population is under the jurisdiction of the People's Committee for Civil Affairs. Therefore, counting and resettling refugees became the main work of the Civil Affairs People's Committee in 1632.
The task is very arduous, although the collection and transportation of refugees has nothing to do with the Civil Affairs People's Committee, but once they arrive in Jeju, Taiwan and Hainan Island. It is up to them to take over, and the specific distribution of purification, collective data registration, and population whereabouts must be carried out by them. Therefore, in 1632, the Civil Affairs People's Committee carried out a large-scale expansion, not only adding a large number of naturalized civil servants, but also building additional office buildings and adding many newly manufactured office and computing equipment.
The confidential personnel of Lingao Telecom will send the latest demographic statistics of each overseas station of Operation Engine every 12 hours. The hand-cranked mechanical computers and key counters in the calculation center crackled, and the latest figures were continuously counted.
In the large office of the Human Resources Division, the Naturalized Civilian Clerk updated the chart on the wall every 12 hours according to the numbers on the telegram. The refugees are expressed on the chart according to four sets of numerical charts: inventory, loss, on-boarding and arrival at each collection point. Ensure that chiefs are informed of the specific results of engine operations at all times.
Yang Yun, Director of the Human Resources Department, is the first among all the veterans to know the specific figures. He is sitting in his office at the moment. Drinking a cup of strong tea, I reread the population acquisition summary report of Operation Engine that I have done so far.
As Kong Youde was killed in Jeju, Dengzhou was recovered and the Taoist priest successfully "defended the Tao" in front of Yunsheng Temple. The foundation of "New Taoism" in Yizhou has been completely stabilized, and the curtain of Operation Engine has begun to slowly fall. Although natural disasters continued to occur in coastal areas where large-scale population gathering was possible after 1633, such nationwide efforts to collect refugees would no longer continue - eating too much at once would lead to indigestion, and the Senate had to Take good care of this new batch of immigrants. Let them bring out the benefits as soon as possible.
Now. The latest statistics have come out. This "number one task" in 1632 has invested countless manpower and material resources. It can be said that the "nation's effort" to win over people has achieved great results. The final result will be seen soon. .
Shandong Qimu Island-Zhaoyuan area: a total population of about 280,000. Among them, more than 180,000 were collected on the spot; 72,000 were traded with the rebels for "potatoes in exchange for people"; 6,000 were the remaining population of Dengzhou who surrendered to Qimu Island when Kong Youde was evacuated; and 21,000 were the remnants of Kong Youde's troops who were captured and taken to Jeju.
Yizhou, Shandong Province, collected 51,000 refugees from southern Shandong and northern Jiangsu.
Hangzhou, Zhejiang, collected 14,000 refugees from Zhejiang.
This is a direct benefit in engine action. Among them, 175,000 have been transported to "resettlement sites", including counties in Jeju Island, Taiwan Island and Hainan Island. Another 180,000 people are temporarily resettled in refugee camps in Qimu Island-Zhaoyuan, Jeju Island, Yizhou and Hangzhou, waiting for transfer.
Outside of engine action. Additional populations were acquired, mainly through several military campaigns.
Capture Jeju Island. The local Korean population was "naturalized" about 40,000, and the Fujianese population abducted after the capture of the Zhongzuo Station was about 20,000.
There are also about 23,000 spontaneous immigrants from Guangdong.
In addition, after Operation Overlord, the Zheng family's influence in Taiwan suffered a devastating blow, and the more than 40,000 Fujian immigrants in Taiwan were also targets of annexation at no cost.
As a result, excluding the population currently stranded in refugee camps waiting for transfer and the population that has not yet been annexed by Taiwan, the Senate directly increased its disposable population by about 250,000 by the beginning of 1633. If all the current people waiting for transshipment are transferred in place, the actual increase will be 430,000. Together with the expected controllable Fujian population in Taiwan, the total increase in population will be about 480,000.
480,000 people, Yang Yun thought, is a large number. Although it can greatly alleviate the current employment problems in various industrial and agricultural production departments, so many people need to eat, clothe, and house...
If Operation Overlord hadn't made a fortune, it would be hard to say whether the Senate's finances would be able to bear the burden. He then looked at the age and gender ratio of the refugees. As a former sweatshop HR, he was very satisfied: nearly 70% of the population were young men and women between the ages of 18 and 45, followed by teenagers and children, and those over fifty. The elderly are the least represented, accounting for less than 5%. Under the harsh environment, the elderly and infirm have almost no chance of survival. The proportion of women exceeds 40% - this is a very high number, and it is obviously a deliberate effort by various collection points, especially Qimu Island. Otherwise, it would be difficult to imagine that so many women could survive.
For ordinary elders, the high proportion of female refugees is nothing more than a substantial increase in the number of "maids" to choose from. However, for Yang Yun and People's Commissar of Civil Affairs Liu Muzhou, the arrival of a large number of women will help balance the current terrible gender balance in Lingao. Disordered condition. According to the current male to female ratio of nearly 8:1, a large number of naturalized people have no possibility of asking for a wife - the price of betrothal gifts is already comparable to the housing prices in another time and space.
Not being able to marry and have children means not having a home. If you want people to live peacefully under the Senate, the marriage problem must be solved. When the Xinjiang Construction Corps was first established, it deliberately recruited "female soldiers" from the mainland to enter Xinjiang. In fact, it was to solve the marriage problems of soldiers entering Xinjiang.
How to solve the marriage problem of immigrants has always been the primary issue of the Civil Affairs People's Committee. To this end, they have indeed made some efforts: sending people to Guangdong, Fujian and Jiangxi to buy the female population; giving priority to collecting and transferring women when collecting refugees; through taxation The General Administration levied "concubinage tax" and "concubine stock tax" in areas under the jurisdiction of the Senate to curb concubinage; however, these measures were only a drop in the bucket for the huge single male population.
Now there will be an influx of more than 100,000 young and middle-aged women, which can be said to be a good rain after a long drought. Moreover, the proportion of unmarried or widowed women among them is quite high, which can just solve the marriage problems of a group of naturalized citizens who have served the Senate for many years - this is much more inspiring than commending them for being model workers and issuing medals and other awards. .
Yang Yun made the report and went to Liu Muzhou's office.
Liu Muzhou, like him, also regards the office as his home. Except for xxoo, his life secretary, he eats and lives in the office on weekdays. Over time, as soon as People's Commissar Liu left the office and went home, everyone knew that he was going to "do something." So much so that one time a certain elder came to talk to him, and Liu Muzhou happened to be away from home to pick up some daily necessities. A naturalized clerk from the "Liu Office" who was in charge of receiving the visiting elder accidentally blurted out: "The chief is going home to have sex." ”
"Papapapa", as a synonym for xxoo, was originally only circulated among the chief ministers. Now, gradually, senior naturalized citizens have learned about this "Australian slang" and started to use it.
Liu Muzhou is working at his desk at the moment - as the People's Commissar of Civil Affairs, he has many and complex tasks. After the engine operation started, the workload increased exponentially, the energy was not enough, and even the number of "papapapa" trips was greatly reduced.
"Old Liu, this is the population collection summary report of Operation Engine that I compiled. Please take a look." Yang Yun handed over the folder.
"No need to read, I roughly know the numbers." Liu Muzhou said, "Now our problem is how to relocate these people."
"How to resettle them? Most of them must be resettled in Lingao - after all, this is our main industrial and agricultural base..."
"There is no doubt about this." Liu Muzhou leaned back on the rattan chair and stared at the ceiling. "But a few days ago, Wu Nanhai told me that he hoped to resettle 10 people in Wenchang, Qiongshan and Chengmai, the three main agricultural counties in Hainan. million agricultural population.”
"so much?"
"It doesn't sound like much." Liu Muzhou frowned, "There are only more than 30,000 people in one county. Compared with so many land reclamation plans, it is still far behind." (To be continued...)
