Chapter 1374 Cadres Going North

"Sail one day further and we will reach the border of Shandong!" The captain pointed to the looming outline of the land on the sea level to the west and said: "When we brought Shandong refugees from the north to the south, it was Haizhou Prefecture over there."

After the Denglai Rebellion broke out, a large number of war refugees soon appeared in Shandong. One of the escape routes for these refugees was from the Shandong Peninsula southward into Jiangsu. At that time, Haihan happened to open up the key channel of the Fujian Strait.

, with the help of Xu Xinsu, the government organized Fujian maritime merchants to go north to Jiangsu and Shandong, recruited a large number of Shandong people who had fled to the local areas, and transported them to the Haihan-controlled area in the south for resettlement.

Although the voyage from Shandong to the south is long, in the past few years, Haihan has received more than 10,000 Shandong refugees, becoming an important part of the immigrants in this emerging country. For many people who have become Haihan citizens,

, Haizhou Prefecture, which borders Shandong, can be said to be a place of extraordinary significance, symbolizing the beginning of their new life. Many members of this passenger ship carrying the team of cadres heading north boarded the ship from here a few years ago.

After visiting the Ming Dynasty, I fell into the arms of Haihan. Returning here after a long time will naturally give rise to many emotions.

Many of them were just refugees with no money or even a livelihood when they left here. Just to have a mouthful of hot food to survive, they defected to the Haihan people they didn't understand. But when they returned to their hometown, they were like

Returning home in glory. Although Haihan is not a big country, they are now genuine Haihan officials. This is a scene that they could never have imagined when they left in despair.

"Can we stay in Haizhou for a day or two? I want to see the place where I lived." Someone made a request to the captain.

The captain shook his head with embarrassment and said: "I can't make the decision on this kind of thing. The superiors have given orders to sail directly to Shandong. If there are no special matters, the fleet will not dock again on the way."

In the sea area between Shandong and Zhejiang, there are no coastal strongholds under the control of Haihan. Therefore, in order to avoid unnecessary complications, passenger ships transporting cadre teams heading north will definitely not dock at Daming ports on the way. This is a direct decision of the Executive Committee

Instructions issued to the Ministry of Transport, the captain is just a small person who takes orders from the Department of Shipping, and naturally he does not dare to disobey orders from above. Even if the passengers on this ship are all officials, large and small, they are still far behind the authority of the Executive Committee.

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Those officials who had had a difficult experience in Haizhou Prefecture could not help but sigh again. Of course, they had no right to command the captain to change the sailing route. They could only look at the outline of the mainland from a distance and miss the days when they were in trouble.

Of course, not all officials on the ship are from the north. People from the south have different feelings about this place. They are more curious and wary of the unfamiliar environment. Especially some people with special backgrounds, for this place

I am particularly interested in a piece of history that is not well understood by the outside world.

Liu Shang is a person with this mentality. His background is different from everyone on the ship. As a member of the Ming Dynasty, he is very interested in how Haihan poached people in the Ming Dynasty to strengthen himself. He also heard that

After seeing the story of the immigration fleet that brought back a large number of immigrants from Shandong, if you are lucky enough to come here, you naturally want to learn more about it.

Because the relevant departments paid special attention to the issue of their origin when selecting cadres to go north, there were quite a few people on this ship who had experienced this period of history. After setting off from Zhoushan, Zhejiang, Liu Shang did not spend too much time to inquire about many things.

The details of Haihan’s original recruitment of immigrants here.

Liu Shang has been involved in Haihan's bureaucracy for some time. During this period, he has had many interactions with Haihan's immigration department as a new immigrant and an official. He can understand Haihan's intentions as soon as he hears many measures.

There is no need for the person involved to explain it slowly.

In the past, Liu Shang only knew that Haihan had been introducing immigrants from the Ming Dynasty on a large scale, as far as the areas around the Yellow and Bohai Seas, but he did not know much about the specific operation methods. Now after listening to the accounts of the parties involved, he realized that the original Haihan

The Han Dynasty was so determined to introduce immigrants that they even spent huge sums of money to organize immigration fleets and traveled thousands of miles away from Hainan Island to recruit homeless war refugees.

To organize a large-scale population migration over such a long distance, the freight and food input will inevitably be astronomical. Even the Ming Dynasty may not be able to afford such expenses, otherwise there would not be tens of thousands of refugees stranded.

The Haizhou Prefecture has been nearby and has not been resettled by the government for a long time. The cost of Haihan crossing such a spatial distance and bringing in refugees fleeing from Shandong will definitely be much greater than the Ming Dynasty's internal resettlement of refugees.

But in the end, these measures were still persisted over the years, and in exchange for a large number of loyal subjects who were rescued by Haihan in the most difficult moments and devoted themselves to the country of Haihan. Some of the best among them were at this time.

On this ship heading north.

If Liu Shang had not personally lived in Haihan for a period of time, it would be difficult to understand why the Haihan people would do such a thing. But now he knows that population means many things to Haihan.

Not only is the improvement of social productivity, but also the vast control area of ​​Haihan requires a large number of immigrants to develop and operate.

Liu Shang had seen the annual territorial changes of Haihan in the library. The speed of this country's external expansion was undoubtedly very alarming, but they had always controlled the scope at the edge of the Ming Dynasty and tried their best to avoid obvious territorial disputes with the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, the world does not know how big the country of Haihan is. Even intelligence personnel like Liu Shang always thought that Haihan only occupied Hainan Island, Taiwan Island, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian before they actually came into contact with relevant information.

Just some islands off the coast of Zhejiang.

But the fact is not that simple. The Leizhou Peninsula, which is only separated from Hainan Island by a strait, the Pearl River Basin, which controls the economic lifeline of Guangdong and Guangxi, the Fujian Strait, which is the main sea transportation between the north and the south, and the Hangzhou Bay area, the richest area in the south of the Yangtze River. These are the richest in the south, and they have

The areas most dependent on shipping have more or less fallen under Haihan's control. Hainan and Taiwan, the two large islands alone, Haihan officials claim are enough to support hundreds of thousands of immigrants.

And this is only the area occupied by Haihan along the coast of Ming Dynasty. In fact, in the Nanhai area south of Hainan Island, the size of the overseas enclaves occupied by Haihan is no smaller than that in the north. There are also a large number of overseas colonies that urgently need to introduce immigrants for development.

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For Haihan, no matter how much money is spent on immigration matters, these expenses can be earned back exponentially through later operations. Various high-priced industrial products are dumped from Haihan to Daming and other surrounding countries.

, almost all of it comes from the labor production of these immigrants. It is not an exaggeration to say that immigrants have formed the economic foundation of Haihan State.

There are immigrants from various countries and races in Haihan Kingdom, but among them, the largest proportion and the fastest to adapt to the social environment are the Han immigrants from the Ming Dynasty. Liu Shang himself has personal experience. After he entered Haihan,

The adaptation period was very short, and I realized that Haihan society had many similarities with the Ming Dynasty. In terms of culture, they are of the same origin, and the languages ​​​​and characters are basically the same. It can be said that introducing Han immigrants from the Ming Dynasty is the most convenient choice for Haihan, and this is probably also the case for Haihan.

One of the main reasons why Han is willing to invest heavily in this area.

"So is the Ministry of Civil Affairs still continuing to recruit immigrants from Shandong?" Liu Shang asked his interlocutor while sorting out his thoughts.

The person who told him about the deeds of organizing immigrants from Shandong and Jiangsu to the south was Su Yu, a naturalized civil affairs cadre. He was also a native of Shandong and one of the refugees recruited by Haihan. Su Yu became a Haihan nationality much later than

Liu Shang is much older and naturally has a much clearer understanding of the immigration situation than Liu Shang. He knows that Liu Shang's official identity is an officer of the Youth League, so he does not deliberately conceal anything about him.

"Of course we are recruiting. Work in this area has never stopped." Su Yu admitted frankly: "It's just that after the war in Shandong ended, refugees were gradually returning to their hometown from other places. We wanted to go south again like before.

It is not that easy to transport two to three thousand or even more immigrants. In the past six months, the focus of immigration has shifted to Liaodong. There are still tens of thousands of Han people on Phi Island waiting for our rescue. We can transport them to the south.

It will take up most of the existing transportation capacity.”

"Pi Island..." This place name is still a bit unfamiliar to Liu Shang, who has been living in the south. He only recently learned that this overseas enclave that originally belonged to the Ming Dynasty has joined forces with Haihan, not only in terms of immigration, but also in

The important thing is that the military also chose to form an alliance with Haihan and join forces to fight against the Later Jin Kingdom in the Liaodong area outside the Pass.

If it were in the past, Liu Shang would have hated this kind of behavior that was tantamount to treason, and he would have wanted to eat his flesh and sleep on his skin. However, since his colleagues and comrades on Hainan Island died unexpectedly, many of his thoughts have also changed.

Changes are gradually taking place. The officials of Pi Dao will make the decision to cooperate with Haihan. They must have many helplessness and cannot rely on the Ming Dynasty to solve the problem. Since Pi Dao agrees to Haihan's recruitment of immigrants, it probably means that the local living conditions have changed.

It's hard to maintain.

It is not difficult for Liu Shang to make some speculations about what kind of follow-up development the local cooperation with Haihan will have. Officials from Fujian and Guangzhou provinces have many cooperations with Haihan, including economic and military affairs, and the scale of cooperation between the two parties has expanded year by year.

The depth and breadth have also been increasing. The interest entanglement between these areas and Haihan is too deep, and it is no longer possible to take the initiative to stand on the hostile side of Haihan. As an overseas enclave of the Ming Dynasty, Pidao in Liaodong will, once it interacts with Haihan,

When cooperation with the Han Dynasty begins, the reliance on Haihan will definitely be similar to that of the Fuguang area, and even more compromises will be made to Haihan due to the scarcity of supplies. In the future, whether the local area will listen to Haihan's command or the Ming court will be dispatched, I am afraid there will be some doubts

Not sure.

Su Yu didn't know what the situation was like on Pi Island, so he couldn't provide Liu Shang with any more relevant information. But even so, Liu Shang's half-guessed guesses were more or less correct. It's just that he

It is not possible to verify it yet.

Liu Shang remembered that when he stopped in Zhoushan, he saw many port projects under construction there, and immediately asked: "Is it likely that many of these Han people brought out from Liaodong will settle down in Zhoushan, Zhejiang?"

Su Wei said with a smile: "It is inevitable that immigrants transported back from the north will be deducted along the way. But it is actually not bad in Zhoushan. Zhejiang is a province with a large population. As long as more money is spent on publicity work, it will actually be the same."

It can also attract many skilled immigrants.”

Liu Shang also understands the meaning of the so-called "skilled immigrants". In fact, his own situation can also be classified into the category of "skilled immigrants." It was thanks to the fact that he was recruited by the Propaganda Department and quickly obtained the qualifications for naturalization.

Although his storytelling skills are just a job of selling words, he is regarded as a professional talent in Haihan. Once he is introduced to Haihan as a "skilled immigrant", his salary will generally be greatly improved compared to before, so

It is true that there have always been many craftsmen in the Ming Dynasty who chose to immigrate to join Haihan under the temptation of large sums of money and generous benefits.

Immigrants transported from Liaodong to the south will definitely be screened first when they arrive in Zhejiang, and some will be retained locally before being sent south. However, the civil affairs department generally has clear requirements for the proportion of immigrants detained by the colonies along the way, so in the end it will still be

A considerable proportion of the immigrants will be transported back to Hainan Island for unified resettlement.

"It seems that in less than two years, there will be a group of officials with northern accents appearing in various government offices." Liu Shang couldn't help but sigh when he thought of this.

Su Yu responded: "This is basically a sure thing. The superiors still have a lot of ideas for the Liaodong region. They will definitely train a group of cadres from the local area. It will be much easier to send them back to carry out work in the future."

Liu Shangxin said, you are playing such a role now. You were born in Shandong. After wandering around Haihan and becoming an official, you have come back all the way, but now you are working for Ming Dynasty instead of Ming Dynasty.

It’s just Haihan. Of course, it is absolutely impossible for ordinary people like Su Yu, who had no honors in the Ming Dynasty, to enter the yamen and work as an official. Only in Haihan, there are such facilities for officials to take up their posts.

In emerging countries with extremely low barriers to entry, people like Su Yu will get the opportunity to become officials.

Liu Shang actually couldn't tell whether introducing these ordinary people to serve as officials would be good or bad for the development of the country. He was not on a high platform and could not see the impact on social development from his perspective. But

The Haihan people are obviously good at this and can train ordinary people to quickly adapt to work in this field. This is probably one of the reasons why the Haihan Kingdom has developed so fast.
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