Chapter 1676 Order restored

The problem of slave status transformation is almost inevitable in this era. There are also a large number of slaves from East Africa, West Asia, South Asia and other places in the Manila area. According to the file records seized from the Governor's Palace, there are currently at least more than 2,800 slaves.

Registered slaves live in the area around Manila Bay, and the actual number is definitely higher than this, because according to the Spanish colonial government's slave management system in the past, the slave owners who entered the local market through official channels had to report to

The Manila authorities paid taxes. In order to save this money, many slave owners would also try to secretly smuggle people into the country. The existence of "black households" was also a common phenomenon here.

During the Spanish rule, the probability of slaves deregistering and becoming free could be said to be very small. Generally speaking, they had to serve their masters as low-class servants or coolies until the day they went to the grave. Only a handful of them had to do so.

Lucky people can be favored by God.

After Haihan took over this place, some of the slave owners had died in the war, and these slaves were able to automatically break away from slavery and become the first batch of free people after the war. Of course, this kind of freedom is only relative, under Haihan management

In the Manila area below, not everyone can come and go as they please. Even free citizens still need to re-register their identity with the Haihan Civil Affairs Department. If they want to obtain Haihan citizenship in the future, they must have official registration.

basic personal information.

Haihan's official attitude towards the human trade has always been ambiguous. He does not openly support but does not explicitly oppose it. Of course, Haihan accepted all the slaves introduced to the Manila area by the Spaniards. But these thousands of slaves

It is also a troublesome task for the civil affairs department headed by Qiu Yuan to classify, check information, and re-register.

For locals, including Spanish immigrants, who did not take the initiative to engage in armed confrontation with Haihan's army, Haihan still recognized their property ownership in principle. And these slaves, according to current laws, are also part of private property. But the local people

Most of them had doubts about the management measures of the new rulers, and coupled with language and cultural barriers, the census work in the Manila area was very slow. Qiu Yuan also had to refer to the information left by the Spanish colonists first.

Revise your own administrative measures.

According to Qiu Yuan's idea, after taking over the administrative work in the Manila area, there are two tasks that must be carried out as soon as possible. One is to complete the survey and registration of the local population situation, and the other is to organize manpower to resume social production as soon as possible. Create more

Employment opportunities, so that people do not need to consider the negative impact of the change of dynasty on their lives, is one of Qiu Yuan's most important policy policies.

Haihan has used hard or soft means to seize a lot of land from various countries in the past few years. He has also organized the post-war social order restoration work many times and has a relatively mature operation plan. The manpower brought by Qiu Yuan

After a short period of time, a group of Han people were temporarily selected from the local area to take charge of specific civil affairs affairs, and they were trained and taken to practice operations. Although there were still some stumblings, they finally managed to outperform the laymen in the military.

Manila's local industries are mainly commerce, food, and spices, but the Spanish's agricultural technology level is far behind that of Haihan. The previous colonial government did not have a scientific long-term plan for agricultural development, so local agriculture is still

A very extensive business model, with a relatively single variety of agricultural products and a lack of facilities for deep processing. But even so, agriculture is still one of the important pillar industries of the local area. According to Spanish statistics, the local agricultural population accounts for approximately 10% of the total.

About 70% of the population.

Senior officials of the Haihan Ministry of Agriculture referred to the development experience of this area in later generations and prepared to introduce a large number of cash crops such as coffee trees, tobacco, sugar cane, and oil palm in the plain areas near Manila, and establish an agricultural deep processing industry chain to enhance the local area.

The economic value of agricultural products. Most of these people with relatively clean backgrounds, including those who are already free slaves, will be put into agricultural development as labor forces in the next few years, as they were sorted out by the civil affairs agencies through local surveys and statistics.

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However, it will take at least two or three years for this plan to see real results. All that can be done now is to organize idle people inside and outside the city and let them resume production and labor. This will also help stabilize local social security.

situation.

Qiu Yuan's purpose is very clear. Since the local agricultural population accounts for a large proportion, as long as these people can have a stable livelihood, the local situation will not be prone to chaos. And to create jobs for the agricultural population,

This is one of the ruling skills that Haihan is good at. Considering the natural conditions of the plain area in the northern part of Manila Bay, with good planning, it is no problem to feed 1.8 million people.

Restoring the local business industry is a familiar task for Haihan. Manila itself is a trading port built by the sea. If Haihan hadn't emerged a few years ago, Manila would have been the main trade center in the South China Sea.

One, it should be almost the same as Batavia run by the Dutch. With such unique natural conditions, Haihan, who is good at operating ports, will of course try to build it into a free trade port similar to Sanya. This means that there will be

There are many infrastructure projects and jobs that also require a large number of local labor forces.

A few days after Qiu Yuan arrived in Manila, notices began to appear on the streets that the government wanted to recruit a large number of local laborers. The content was written in Chinese characters and Spanish. Any local who wanted to find a job could go to the designated place at the designated time.

Location, after registering personal information, you can get job assignment opportunities. Even those who have just escaped from slavery will be treated equally.

For the locals who were in panic after the war, these recruitment notices were tantamount to the beginning of a new life. As long as the war ended and they could get a job that could support themselves, it seemed that there was no question who would be the ruler of Manila.

Something important.

On the first day when the notice was posted on the streets, more than 500 people went to the registration location designated by the government to register, fearing that they would miss this opportunity. When the government fulfilled the benefits on the notice, they immediately assigned jobs to these people after registering their information.

As the news spread, more people who originally had a wait-and-see attitude could no longer sit still and went to fight for a livelihood for themselves. By the third day, the official number of people registered had exceeded 2,000, of which about half

People were assigned to the Port of Manila to renovate and expand the dock facilities here. Most of the remaining people were sent to the newly established state-owned farms in the north of the city to cultivate new farmland there to plant various types of crops planned by the Ministry of Agriculture.

Economic crops.

During the Spanish occupation, the size of the docks in the Port of Manila was actually not small. The Manila fleet was stationed in this port during its heyday, and the piers occupied were less than one-third of the total. It was just that the Spaniards had no control over the piers.

The development and construction of the berth was limited by the productivity and shipbuilding level of this era. It was never considered that such a large sailing ship that Haihan could build would dock in the port. The design of the berths still tended to be conservative. In addition, there was nothing on the port.

Large-scale equipment, unlike the ports operated by Haihan itself, has both convenient dry bulk lifting tools and port facilities such as a sea-to-land dock rail transportation system that can improve the efficiency of loading and unloading.

To expand the scale of trade here, Qiu Yuan believed that the port's cargo handling capacity should first be improved. After an on-site inspection of the Manila Port, he believed that the old situation was obviously not suitable for Haihan's operating standards, so the port must first be improved.

The terminal has been upgraded to a certain extent so that this maritime gateway can ensure the smooth flow of goods in and out of the port.

Of course, to carry out the transformation envisaged by Qiu Yuan, the amount of work is not small. It is estimated that the construction period will be at least three to six months, and the construction will be carried out in stages to ensure that the Manila Port can still maintain normal operation during the construction period.

As a result, this not only brought a large number of jobs, but also put a lot of financial pressure on the newly appointed Qiu Yuan. Even calculated according to the cheapest project cost standard, the cost of the Manila Port reconstruction project is only

He received a huge sum of millions, and the construction funds approved by the executive committee were so different that it would be very frugal to complete the first phase of the project.

Fortunately, Qiu Yuan was also prepared for this situation. When he set out from Sanya this time, in addition to grassroots officials from various departments, there were also businessmen from Ming Dynasty, Annan, Portugal and other countries. These people were in the war.

The purpose of the foreign businessmen who went to Manila as soon as possible after the war was naturally to seize the land as soon as possible. They had already tasted the benefits in the emerging colonies in the past few years. And what they could get

This opportunity is also due to the close relationship with Haihan officials, so that we can get these inside information in advance.

Of course, this kind of "care" is not one-sided. Since you want to get benefits from Haihan's newly occupied colony, you have to pay some exchange conditions. For example, paying to sponsor local port facilities is one of them. Qiu Yuan said

These merchants convened a meeting and revealed that there was insufficient funds to build the port. However, when the port is completed in the future, priority will be given to allocating docks and warehouses to those merchants who have contributed during this period. So each merchant understood the idea and decisively donated money and materials.

Expressing support for the government, the problem of the project funding gap was basically solved in just one day.

The rewards that merchants receive from this are not limited to the benefits of ports and terminals. In the subsequent agricultural development in inland areas, these bleeding merchants also have priority in enclosing land and selecting business projects.

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The Ministry of Agriculture has prepared multiple plantation projects in units of 1,000 acres for them, waiting for these businesses to select and then go to the northern inland enclosure for implementation. Similar cooperation has been implemented in other areas of Haihan

This time, both parties are already familiar with this, and there is nothing to worry about in terms of the process. The current plan of the Ministry of Agriculture is to complete the preliminary land enclosure and planting project determination as soon as possible, and then transport the seedlings from the breeding base in Hainan Island

Here, we strive to put the first batch of plantations into formal operation before the National Day this year.

As for the many mineral deposits on Luzon Island, there are currently not enough manpower available for development. No matter how many ideas Qiu Yuan has, he can only stare at the map at the moment. The executive committee has not requested it.

He came up with a specific mining timetable and stabilized the situation in Manila within the year, so that all management work could gradually get on the right track.

A week after Roger's troops left, Harugong also evacuated Manila with the cavalry battalion. He first returned to Hainan Island for a short rest and then went to the Liaodong area, just in time for the confrontation that might break out after the spring. The cavalry battalion this time

Although he did not make any great achievements in coming to Manila, he gained a lot. In addition to the military reward given by the Ministry of National Defense, Harugong also took away more than 40 Andalusian young horses collected from local pastures. If

Instead of Yan Chujie saying that he wanted to keep a group of war horses locally, he would probably also ship out all the Spanish war horses captured after the war.

After the cavalry battalion evacuated, the naval fleet that went to Manila this time also set sail and returned to their respective bases. Wang Tom personally led the marines northward. Now the only place where his unit can continue to train is probably the distant Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea regions.

.However, in addition to the opponent Houjin, Wang Tom himself has some other plans. However, the time is not yet mature, so Wang Tom prioritizes military training and accumulates combat experience to prepare slowly.

The last special forces unit to leave the Port of Manila was Qian Tiandun's special operations battalion. Defense Minister Yan Chujie also returned to Sanya with them. As one of the most important officials in the capture of Manila, the special operations battalion will return to Sanya.

accept the welcome of the people and participate in the celebration parade specially prepared by the Executive Committee. Of course, the long-awaited organizational upgrade of Qian Tiandun and the special operations battalion will also serve as a tribute to this legendary force during the event.

The rewards are officially announced to the public.

However, there was a small episode before the special operations battalion evacuated Manila, that is, Haihan quietly released the Spaniard Aragones and dispatched a Spanish merchant ship to him so that he could go to other countries still in the South China Sea.

A colony under Spanish rule. After being captured, Aragones chose to cooperate with Haihan in exchange for freedom, and Haihan eventually fulfilled this agreement. However, Aragones' identity as Governor of the Philippines has since ceased in name only, and

He may still be punished in Spain in the future. Even if he regains his freedom from Haihan, he may not be able to live a comfortable life in the future.
Chapter completed!