Male adult refugees receive five Xinghai coins each, female adult refugees receive seven Xinghai coins each, underage boys receive 2 yuan, and underage girls receive 4 yuan. Elderly persons over 50 years old receive free gifts.
Well, to be honest, Xiong Wu is still a little uncomfortable with clearly marking people's prices.
After signing the agreement, the Zhaowu regime's recruitment of refugees was undoubtedly like opening the floodgates of a reservoir.
Driven by interests, not only the Ganzhou government, but also the governments in various places in Guangdong sent out government officials, inspections and even firearms teams to gather the refugees and then package them and send them to the quarantine facilities established by the Xinghai Kingdom in various places. camp.
Well, in fact, during this process, because the naturalized personnel of Xinghai Kingdom promised the handling staff of the local government 0.5 yuan for each refugee, the local government became more and more concerned about this matter.
Their scope of plundering the population is no longer limited to refugees, they have even extended their sinful hands to beggars everywhere.
Well, beggars and homeless people are somewhat similar, but specifically, they are somewhat different.
Refugees basically have to flee their hometowns because they are out of work or cannot afford to eat due to famine. Most beggars, for various reasons, have dilapidated homes and don’t want to work hard, so they just kneel on the street to eat.
However, the Xinghai Kingdom staff who accepted these refugees and beggars soon discovered the difference between the refugees and the beggars.
No way, those beggars are too lazy.
Even though they were cleaned, put on new clothes, and looked like human beings, they were surprisingly lazy when it came to studying and were not willing to learn knowledge or receive training at all.
The most terrible thing is that after they are assigned to farms or factories, they spend three days fishing and two days drying nets. Not only do they not pay attention to the work assigned to them, but they often cheat and cheat.
All these things have caused certain losses to Xinghai Kingdom.
After discovering this, the Ministry of National Development Affairs, which is in charge of resettlement work, immediately made corresponding regulations.
After the refugees land and enter the temporary resettlement site, their behavior is immediately registered. Anyone who is sneaky, sneaky, deceitful, and abducted will be assigned to the mining site as a coolie.
After this regulation came out, most of the cunning beggars who were accustomed to reaching out for food were immediately eliminated, which greatly improved the working atmosphere in the factories and farms of Xinghai Kingdom.
As for those assigned coolies, once they enter the mines and construction sites, they can't help but cheat.
The whips of the overseers are not vegetarian. What's more, these coolies have a points system. How much work they do every day, the more points they work, the more points they will get. They can eat and clothe themselves well. If the extra points are accumulated, it will take a year or two. Maybe just go out.
Those who work less, cheat and cheat, will naturally have fewer points, eat poorly, and wear insufficient warmth. Not to mention staying in the mines all their lives, if they stay for a few more years, they will be as thin as wood and shaky.
But having said that, before the arrival of New Year's Eve in 1648, thanks to the strong cooperation of the immigration working group and the Nanming Zhaowu regime, the population of Nanhai Island surged from 300,000 two years ago to 640,000!
It has doubled!
And among the newly added population of 340,000, most are young men and women, with fewer young and old.
This is not surprising. The elderly and children among the refugees simply cannot bear the torture of traveling thousands of miles. Many of them died on the way to escape.
And among the 340,000, 120,000 were prisoners of war.
Of course, even so, the total number is large, and the number of underage children mixed in and migrated to the South China Sea Island exceeds 20,000.
Of the more than 20,000 minor children, more than 15,000 migrated here with their parents, while the remaining nearly 6,000 children are orphans.
Considering the problems of children's growth, Home Affairs Commissioner Bei Xiaowen originally proposed that everyone adopt orphans.
The elders also responded one after another. The elders with more than 1,000 yuan adopted more than 2,000 children one after another.
This is already the ultimate.
You know, even Fang Xiaoyue adopted a brother and sister.
Well, Fang Xiaoyue's body is called Ma Tianfu, and in order to enhance family ties, the names of the two children were changed.
The boy was named Ma Xiaodong, now 12 years old, and the girl was named Ma Xiaomei, now 7 years old.
However, Fang Xiaoyue is so busy with work, how can she have time to take care of these two children.
That is to say, after letting the two children live in the house, teaching them how to use lights, toilets and other things, they then arranged for the two children to enroll in school, and finally provided the two children with boarding and meal cards.
Every Sunday, during the school holidays, Fang Xiaoyue would pick up the two children and take them to play around Xinghai City to feel the family affection. On Monday, he would send the two children back to school.
The elders who are more busy at work handle it this way, while the elders who have less work to do take care of their children themselves. In their words, they raise them like grandchildren.
As for the remaining more than 3,000 children, most of them are too young, mostly between 1 and 6 years old. These children cannot be adopted by the elders and then left to roam in schools.
Therefore, the Ministry of Civil Affairs immediately established a welfare home, with dedicated personnel responsible for management, to raise these children and orphans displaced from society. When these children reach the age of 5-6, they will be sent to school.
Children who are over 9 years old and are not very good at reading can choose to enter a technical school or a Scout school to learn skills, or learn how to be a professional soldier.
In addition, although the population of Nanhai Island has surged to 640,000, this population is still not enough for the needs of Xinghai Kingdom.
No way, if nothing else, the Ministry of Industry is setting up more and more new factories.
According to Zhang Feifei, even if you want to establish a complete modern industrial system, you will need at least a million people!
A population of one million is barely enough to support it. To expand this industrial system and provide it with the power to conquer the world, the required population must be at least 5 million.
And if you want to go further, ten million or twenty million people are not that many.
In addition, the farm population is also extremely scarce. If you just want to establish a comprehensive basic agricultural system of farming, mulberry, forestry, fishing, etc. on the South China Sea Island, you will need at least one million people.
In other words, the population of 640,000 is just a drop in the bucket in the face of Xinghai Kingdom's grand plans.
Xinghai Kingdom needs more people to fill the gap in industry and agriculture!
In addition, we need to occupy more resource areas and cultivate a broader market!
With such considerations in mind, just after the New Year holiday in 1649, Chief Executive Zheng Xiangdong, the elder, held a liaison meeting between various departments.
The main agenda of the meeting is as follows.
