Chapter 1816 Digested Refugees

"Sir, the barracks on the island are already full of refugees. Today, there is really no place to resettle these people..."

"I understand. There are more than 20 large tents in the army's military warehouse. Go and tell the company commander and ask him to take them out and arrange the elderly, weak, women and children to stay. As for the others... let's just go out tonight, and we should be able to make room for the place tomorrow." Liu Shang looked at the many refugees who were landing on the boat on the beach pier, and ordered his subordinates calmly.

Since the coalition forces officially launched a large-scale harassment operation on the Liaodong coast this month, the number and frequency of refugees sent to Guanglu Island have increased several times compared to before, so that the refugee camps on the island were overcrowded. If Liu Shang had not arrived at Guanglu Island, he would have taken the time to build some simple houses, which accelerated the registration and transfer of refugees, the current situation would have long exceeded the reception capacity of the refugee camps.

Now there are more than 2,000 temporary residents in the island refugee camp, and today the fleet sends at least 700 or 800 refugees. His subordinates can only ask how to resettle these new refugees. As for the tents in the military stock, civil affairs personnel have no right to requisition, and only after Liu Shang came forward to say hello to the military, the refugee camp can use these military supplies.

Fortunately, the coalition forces contacted Jinzhou early and transported a large amount of food, bedding, medicinal materials and other materials to Guanglu Island in advance. In addition to the crowded residences, there was no gap in material supply, which also made Liu Shang worry a little less. But he knew that to alleviate the problem of insufficient reception capacity on the island, it was not enough to rely on the expansion of the refugee camps alone, because the number of garrisons and civil affairs staff on the island was limited, and there was an upper limit to the number of refugee population that could be managed. The staff in Jinzhou was also tight and could not transfer more professional personnel for Liu Shang's command, so he could only adapt to local conditions and find ways to solve the current difficulties by himself.

Liu Shang was able to be entrusted with an important task and handle the affairs of the Guanglu Island refugee camp alone, so naturally he had a set of means in this regard. How to select people who are obedient and not too stupid from refugees to serve as temporary subordinates? Liu Shang had practical experience in Zhifu Island and Lushun, and the current situation on Guanglu Island was just enough to allow him to solve the problem with this method.

Of course, he would not use his precious time to interview refugees one by one, and the efficiency of doing so would be too low. At this time, the registration procedures for refugees played a role. Although the recorded personal information was very simple, people with special expertise would make notes in the information. For example, those who can read and read will have a circled word "wen" on the information, indicating that the person is educated, while craftsmen with craftsmanship will have the word "martial arts" logo, and so on. If his expertise is extraordinary, there will be more detailed annotations, and even directly recommended to Liu Shang.

Since he came to Guanglu Island, he has successively selected more than 20 available people from the island's refugees, most of whom were those who worked in the countryside during the Ming Dynasty, yamen runners, clerks, etc., and have certain practical experience in how to manage the people, and can understand and perform tasks assigned by Liu Shang. Some people with strong initiatives will also make some specific suggestions to Liu Shang to improve the efficiency of the existing refugee identity verification and registration procedures.

Although these people are not loyal to Hai Han, Liu Shang told them that as long as the errands were completed on Guanglu Island, they could still work in the yamen or even become grassroots officials when they settled in the Hai Han ruling region. Liu Shang himself made a statement that from a civilian to an official with real power, such examples are undoubtedly extremely convincing.

For these "former civil servants" who once served in the Ming yamen and were later kicked out by the Manchus, they had the opportunity to return to the yamen to do things. Even if this yamen was not part of the Ming yamen, as long as the Han people were still in power, they could see hope of starting a new life. Moreover, they have heard of the news that the Hai Han people had set up a ruling area in Liaodong to compete with the Qing Dynasty in the past two years. In the future, they would be much better than the Ming court's ignorance. As long as they could survive well, serving the Hai Han people was not a taboo option.

What Liu Shang instilled in these people was this kind of thinking that Dongfang was not bright and Western. As long as they untie their ideological confinement and let them willingly start serving Hai Han, as their work experience increases, they will naturally gradually realize Hai Han's powerful strength, and then they will know that loyalty to Hai Han is the wisest choice in their life - just like Liu Shang's own mental journey along the way.

For these local Han people in Liaodong, Liu Shang's role model is quite effective. Since everyone is from the Ming Dynasty, with two arms and two legs, and others can become high-ranking officials in Haihan, they will naturally have the idea of ​​"I can do it if I go to the house." This idea will naturally continue to stimulate them and give them more motivation to work, thereby improving their work efficiency and reliability.

Of course, most of Liu Shang's methods were learned from the professional training he received during his time in Sanya, and only a small part of them were the results he had figured out in his work in recent years. It was enough to use some small means to deal with these country people who had never seen the world.

Although Liu Shang was not very clear about the situation on the front line, it is not difficult to speculate on Hai Han’s current dominant position in the Liaodong war situation from the number of refugees and wounded soldiers sent to Guanglu Island in recent days.

Especially recently, the refugees sent to the island were shipped from the entire village or even the whole town, and most of them were in a uniform manner without any casualties, which shows that the coalition forces organized by Haihan did not encounter too strong resistance when they took these places on the front line.

Of course this is a reasonable phenomenon. After all, I heard that the Qing army was concentrated on the Yalu River to attack North Korea, and almost most of the defenders on the Liaodong Peninsula were piled in Jinzhou to prevent the Hai Han army from heading north. At this time, attacking from the sea, the Qing army's defense line near the long coastline would definitely be like a sieve, allowing the Hai Han army to take it locally.

According to Liu Shang's own statistics, if the population of Dongjiang Town is excluded, the population obtained from the Liaodong region this year was probably not as good as the recent month. Just after he arrived at Guanglu Island, the refugees transported to the island by various ships were almost 4,000, and this was only part of the population captured from the Qing ruling area. It is said that thousands of people have been sent to the new colony in North Korea to resettle, which shows that this period of time has really gained a lot.

For Hai Han's colonies in Liaodong, the population is absolutely not too large. Although Hai Han's actual area of ​​this area south of Jinzhou Isthmus is less than 200 square kilometers, the actual control area of ​​other overseas colonies is no small. For example, the Zhifu Island area in Dengzhou, Shandong, across the sea, even if most of Fushan County is included in the Hai Han's controlled area, it is only about 70 square kilometers, and the population living in this area has exceeded 30,000.

By comparison, the total population of Lushun and Jinzhou is about 30,000, but according to Haihan's development plan, it is normal to place 70,000 or 80,000 people in this area. Now it is still nearly half a distance from this goal.

As for how these people should arrange their livelihoods in places where the arable land is not abundant, it is actually not necessary for the civil affairs department in Sanya to make plans. Liu Shang can arrange a plan based on his gradual familiarity with the local environment over the past year.

In addition to traditional farming agriculture that requires a large amount of labor, vigorously developing shipbuilding and fishing with the local hydrological conditions of Lushunkou and Dalian Bay is undoubtedly an extremely wise choice. If large-scale shipyards and port facilities of the same size as Shengli Port can be built, it will at least solve the employment problem of thousands of people. The large-scale fishery and seawater salt production required for this related labor is also very considerable, and it will not be less than the employment opportunities provided by the shipbuilding industry.

In addition, because this area borders the Qing Dynasty occupied area, the two countries' armies are in a state of military confrontation for a long time, Hai Han also has thousands of troops stationed here for many years, so there are many related industries surrounding the army and logistics. As far as Liu Shang knows, in the past two years, these military figures stationed in Liaodong have intended to build the Jinzhou area into the largest military base of Hai Han in the north, and may gradually flourish in the form of military towns in the future.

Although both the Ming and Qing dynasties might be unwilling to lose this land, under the shock of the absolute force of Haihan, these two countries did not dare to raise troops here on their own initiative. Therefore, this is a war zone full of gunpowder, but it is also the safest area in the entire Liaodong. Liu Shang looked at the refugees in front of him, thinking that you are lucky and could be taken out by the Haihan army from the Qing Dynasty. The one who will replace them to receive exploitation under the rule of the Qing Dynasty were the Koreans who are now ravaged by the iron hoof of the Qing army.

After the Qing army invaded North Korea, it was like a storm in three days. The rapid advancement allowed the Haihan Reconnaissance Cavalry, who had been staying in North Korea to observe the Qing army's movements, to retract the range of activities to the near coast so that they could evacuate from the sea in a timely manner in critical moments.

However, after these three tricks were used, the speed of the main force of the Qing army's southward movement began to slow down. This was not because they encountered tenacious resistance from the North Korean army, but because their own logistics supplies could no longer keep up with the advancement speed of the front-line troops. Huang Taiji had no choice but to temporarily slow down the offensive rhythm.

In fact, there is no way to solve the supply problem after entering North Korea. If the same situation is left to Haihan, it can be easily solved. However, the shortcomings of the Qing army is that they have almost no ability to transport by sea. Although the Haihan fleet evacuated the Yalu River, several warships were left near the estuary, which made the Qing army dare not let the sailboats in the inland river carry supplies to the front line. And these heavy military supplies were transported to the front line a hundred miles away by carriages and horses on land, and the speed could be imagined. Moreover, the official road conditions in North Korea were not very good. Wherever the cavalry of the vanguard of the Qing army had already caused obvious damage to the road surface, making it difficult for subsequent heavy-loaded carriages to pass.

Of course, although there were certain difficulties, the harvest was nothing compared to the harvest. The Qing army had captured more than 4,000 Koreans on the way south. After the war, these prisoners were all slaves that the soldiers who participated in the war could actually get, so their morale was also very high.

What made Huang Taiji most relieved was that he was originally worried that the Hai Han people would assist North Korea in fighting, but judging from the current situation, Hai Han seemed to have had a real quarrel with North Korea and had no intention of intervening in this war. As long as Hai Han did not send troops to the fore, even if North Korea piled up all the troops from the country to the north to fight the Qing army, Huang Taiji would not feel too much pressure.

But this feeling of relaxation lasted only for three days. Just as the main force of the Qing army marched towards Xuanchuan, the next stop, bad news came from the Qing country. The Haihan army frequently attacked on the coast of Liaodong. In just a few days, it had captured several villages and towns and captured more than 5,000 people. According to reports from the local defenders, all the attacks of the Haihan army were initiated from the sea, and the landing troops had at least two to three thousand people. The Qing army scattered in various places had no power to fight at all, and had lost one or two thousand troops intermittently.

These news immediately diluted the joy brought by the Qing army's successive victory in North Korea. Hai Han adopted such a tactic, which obviously saw that the domestic defense was empty after the main force of the Qing army entered North Korea, so that he could unscrupulously attack the Qing-controlled area and plunder.

"Sure enough, the Hai Han people took the initiative to evacuate the Yalu River because they had other plans!" In addition to the arrival of bad news, Huang Taiji was helpless to find that he had no good response measures to immediately stop the other party's actions.

It is impossible to get the army back. It has been more than a year since the battle against North Korea, and now the war is going well. If you want to turn back to the country to prevent the attack from Hai Han, it is obviously not cost-effective, and it may also hurt the current high morale. Moreover, with the temperament of the Hai Han people, maybe the main force will be transferred back to the domestic defense. The Hai Han people will play again to escape, continue to avoid fighting, or quickly move from the sea to other places to carry out sneak attacks. For the Qing army, Hai Han's offensive was that it was impossible to defend, and it was very difficult to rely on passive defense to stop their actions.

Huang Taiji could not even think about it. He finally sealed the Hai Han people south of the Isthmus of Jinzhou a year ago. If the local troops were mobilized to make Hai Han realize that once the troops were gathered in the area and broke through the Qing army's defense line, the army entering the country would have to return if it did not return, and it would be a situation where the gain would be more than worth the loss.
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