Its total population has reached 27,000, and it is mainly engaged in coal mining and coal processing. In addition, it has also opened three farms and some breeding farms.
Every time a 10,000-ton oil tanker returns, in addition to its full load of coal powder, it also brings a lot of frozen and fresh venison and some furs.
No way, those elders are very interested in venison recently, so the breeding farm in Hongji raised more sambar deer.
On the dock, a group of soldiers mobilized to maintain order stared fiercely at the country bumpkins who got off the boat.
Refugees have been entering Nanhai Island for some time, but they have also caused a lot of security problems from time to time.
There were hundreds of people of all kinds. Before arriving at Nanhai Island, the refugees had only undergone quarantine work, and it was impossible to carry out identity verification or anything like that.
I say I am so-and-so from such-and-such a place, where do you go to identify it?
At most, you can find a few fellow villagers to verify each other.
But even a few fellow villagers may cheat.
What's more, among these refugees, there are also those who usually do evil things in the countryside, run rampant and bully men and women.
Not to mention the bandits who dominate the mountains.
Although these guys were honest when they got off the ship, when they arrived at the resettlement place, their true colors would be revealed very quickly and they would cause some trouble.
For this reason, the newly established inspection department in Xinghai City is really struggling.
So I came up with various ways to deal with these scum among the refugees.
For example, when they disembarked from the ship, they sent out police officers to deter them and let them know whose territory this was.
Of course, if the guy still seems unruly and unruly at this time, he must be the target of special observation.
These key observation objects will be sent to relatively remote places for resettlement. In this case, even if they cause trouble, they will only affect the same scum and will not affect the peace of society.
Of course, if they still cause trouble after being resettled, they will be sent directly to the mining area for labor reform.
Well, as for whether he can come back, it's hard to say.
After getting off the boat and boarding the land that they had been away from for several days, the refugees' behaviors varied, but most of them had a look of caution, caution and relaxation on their faces.
Humans are land animals after all, and they are definitely closer to life on land than life at sea.
Crossing the pier, at the exit, they saw steamer camel trucks.
These steam boiler camel trucks are the latest masterpiece from the Ministry of Industry.
To be honest, with the existing industrial capabilities of Xinghai Kingdom, it still took a lot of effort to manufacture these steam boiler camel trucks.
After all, you don’t have to have a machine tool to build a car.
The shape of these steam pot camel trucks is like a camel lying on the ground. At least 50% of the entire vehicle is occupied by the cab and the pot camel machine.
However, this is still a transportation artifact beyond the times.
Each steam boiler camel truck can carry 2 tons of cargo and 25 people. It uses low-grade lignite and stone coal as fuel.
After it left the factory, it has become the most popular means of transportation on the South China Sea Island.
The only trouble is the source of the rubber used for car tires.
Different from the high-temperature-resistant rubber used in steam engines, there is actually a lot of this tire rubber raw material in the dock warehouse.
However, these tire rubber raw materials will only be used less and less.
Therefore, the Ministry of National Development has entrusted some Franchi businessmen to spend a lot of money to collect rubber tree seeds.
However, if you want to tap a plant like rubber tree, you have to wait for it to grow to at least 7 or 8 years.
This time is a bit too long for the industrial needs of Xinghai Kingdom.
Therefore, the Ministry of National Development Affairs also requested the Ministry of Industry to launch the artificial rubber plan as soon as possible.
But the Ministry of Industry rejected this request at that time.
The reason is very simple. How can we develop artificial rubber without even petroleum?
Not to mention these technical problems, these immigrants were panicked and rushed into the vehicle after inspection, and headed towards the temporary resettlement site in the steam boiler camel truck.
They need to undergo three days of re-quarantine at the temporary resettlement site and make up for the situation before they can be actually resettled.
The Ministry of Military Affairs is probably the most excited about these refugees who have come all the way here.
Well, to be precise, Navy Commander Wang Haitao should be the most excited.
Why?
The reason is very simple. Many of the refugees who came over there know a lot about water.
Because it is close to the coast, and it is the starting point of many pirates, for example, Zheng Zhilong's lair is there.
In addition, there were sailors there. Throughout the dynasties, the government selected at least one-third of the sailors from Hu Jian.
After the Qing army invaded Hu Jian, many maritime merchants destroyed their families and exterminated their families, causing their sailors to flee one after another.
Therefore, when the Navy went to the temporary settlement site to recruit troops, they discovered that the proportion of sailors among these refugees was higher than they imagined.
What's more, during the long journey of thousands of miles, many elderly people and children with weak physical strength lost their lives, or they could not reach Chaozhou at all, so the age group of these refugees was also quite suitable.
Among only 30,000 refugees, the navy selected 3,000 strong sailors.
If it weren't for the fact that the naval establishment given by the Senate was really limited, Wang Haitao would have no problem recruiting 6,000 recruits.
Of course, after the Army also recruited 5,000 new soldiers, the Senate temporarily suspended the Ministry of Military Affairs' recruitment plan.
No way, after recruiting this batch of new soldiers, the total number of soldiers in Xinghai Kingdom reached 15,000, including 4,000 in the navy and 11,000 in the army.
It can be said that considering the current population of more than 300,000 people on Nanhai Island, supporting 15,000 soldiers is already very scary.
You must know that given the prosperity before the Ming Dynasty, the population of 190 million at its peak supported 1.18 million troops.
That's roughly enough to support one soldier out of 170 civilians.
Moreover, most of the military forces in the Ming Dynasty existed under the military household system. Most military households farmed their own fields and supported themselves. Only officers had food and salary.
And Xinghai Kingdom is now almost equivalent to twenty ordinary people supplying one soldier, and all the soldiers are still out of work!
This is the benefit of industrialization.
With a lower population, extremely abundant materials are produced to support more soldiers.
Of course, this ratio cannot continue to increase.
After all, there is still an urgent shortage of young people in the factory, and the Ministry of Military Affairs' aggressive recruitment has made the Ministry of Industrial Affairs very dissatisfied.
Zhang Feifei even banged the table during a meeting in the Senate and threatened to reduce the production capacity of the arsenal.
What's more, recruiting so many new soldiers at once will take a long time just for training. Otherwise, the army's combat effectiveness will decline rapidly.
After the recruitment was completed, the Ministry of Military Affairs reorganized the army and navy.
The army was organized into four divisions, with eleven regiments under their jurisdiction.
