Chapter 2137

Not to mention a population of several thousand, even if this number is expanded ten times on this basis, Haihan, which has a strong demand for labor, will not have a problem with nowhere to receive it. Whether in Haihan itself or in various overseas colonies,

Increasing population and labor force is one of the main policy agendas, and as the governor of Zhoushan Colonial District, Shi Diwen naturally knew the importance of population to local development.

Because Zhoushan is close to the Ming Dynasty, the main way to obtain a population is to recruit immigrants from the Ming Dynasty. However, the Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions where it is located are already prosperous places, and the willingness of ordinary people to migrate and settle overseas is not strong, so the effect of recruitment is relatively limited.

If additional fees such as intermediary channel fees and settlement fees are included, the cost of this method of acquiring people is actually relatively high, and may even occupy a considerable part of Zhoushan's financial expenditure in certain periods.

Nowadays, a large number of people can be obtained from Pinghu at a very low cost. This is actually equivalent to saving Zhoushan a large amount of civil affairs expenses. Of course, Shi Diwen will not miss such an opportunity. If possible, he even wants to

Move all these people to Zhoushan and place them in areas under their own rule.

Of course, whether it is due to security considerations or political reasons, the Executive Committee will probably not agree to let him "monopoly" this special resource. Therefore, although the subsequent population relocation operations will be carried out by Shi Diwen

Command, but not all of the people who were constrained to move out of Hirado will flow to Zhoushan.

In fact, after receiving the notice from the Executive Committee, the colonial areas in Shandong and Liaodong are already formulating their local labor requirements and preparing to get a share of the pie. The Fushan Copper Mine operated by Haihan in Dengzhou, Shandong Province requires

Further expansion of the scale of mining and preparations for resettlement development of the Changshan Islands off Liaodong will require a large amount of labor.

Even with Haihan's operational efficiency, this large-scale population migration plan cannot be completed in a short period of time. The time required to mobilize ships from various places and then transport people and materials from Hirado is

It will most likely only take ten days and a half. Considering the shipping schedule, this time will probably have to be extended. And this means that the coalition fleet will continue to be stationed in Hirado to guard against counterattacks from opponents.

Although the coalition forces defeated their opponents relatively smoothly, the quick victory envisioned by the Ministry of National Defense was ultimately greatly compromised due to the escape of the target individuals. Now that they have to stay for additional operations for a period of time, the commanders

Logistical issues had to be put back on the agenda.

Thousands of coalition troops consume a huge amount of supplies every day for food, drink, and diarrhea. The various supplies they carry during the expedition can last for about half a month. However, it seems that as the stationing time is extended, there will definitely be a gap in the supply of supplies.

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There are only two solutions. One is to transport supplies from the supply port in the rear. For example, if a huge amount of ammunition has been consumed during the battle, it can only be replenished through transportation from the rear. The second is to requisition supplies on the spot, which can solve part of the food and grass supply problem.

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Due to terrain and environmental problems, Hirado's local food production capacity is relatively limited. The cultivated farmland area on Hirado Island is even less than that of Fukue Island, which has a smaller population. Therefore, a considerable part of the daily food consumed on Hirado Island actually comes from

Supply from the Kyushu region. The amount of food stored on the island is generally only enough to sustain the islanders for about two to three months. Now that thousands of troops have suddenly been added, the food consumption rate has immediately increased sharply.

After the Haihan Army took control of Hirado City, they immediately seized all local rice shops and granaries, large and small. Regardless of whether they belonged to the government or private individuals, the grain in stock was all requisitioned as war preparation materials. But as far as it is currently known,

Judging from the inventory, there may still be a certain amount of pressure to last until the end of the operation. Therefore, in addition to the local grain storage, it is also necessary to transport some grain from the rear for emergency response.

Fortunately, before the war, Jeju Island had been asked to raise local reserves of food and grass. Although the amount was not large, it was probably enough to sustain the coalition forces stationed in Hirado for seven or eight days. However, since the plan has changed now, there is no need to use these food and grass specially.

When it came to Hirado, Shi Diwen had already made better arrangements for it.

"We now use troop transport ships to transport people from Hirado to Seogwipo first, and then ships from the north and Zhoushan direction go directly to Seogwipo to pick up people. This way we can save a lot of time and the corresponding consumption of materials.

It will be reduced a lot.”

Shi Diwen's plan is very simple. He plans to use transshipment to complete the relocation of the Hirado population as soon as possible. As long as all the people and high-value materials are transported away, the army can evacuate here earlier, thereby saving military expenses.

purpose.

Qian Tiandun said: "The plan is good, but such an arrangement may make Seogwipo's side busy for a while."

Shi Diwen said: "Whether there will be chaos is a problem for the local officials in Seogwipo, not mine. There will definitely be some chaos in this process, and some people may die, but as long as we can complete the task

Done, those are just minor issues.”

Qian Tiandun knew that what Shi Diwen said was right, so he did not question it again. This was not his first time fighting overseas, and of course he knew what war meant to civilians. Several big figures thousands of miles away

After the meeting, their fate has been decided. Regardless of whether they are innocent or not, the people of Hirado will have to leave their homes and go to a completely unfamiliar environment, and this process will not depend on their will.

In troubled times, those who survive are considered lucky, but some people may also get the opportunity to change their destiny, just like Minami Takahashi who was captured by Haihan as a Japanese pirate.

Takahashi Minami has no resistance to the instructions issued by the Executive Committee. He does not think there is anything wrong with these local people being forcibly relocated from this area. If the Kaihan Army withdraws, Tagawasuke and his men will take charge of the area again.

, then it is very likely that the Haihan Army will return here in a year or two, and innocent people will have to fall into war again.

Relocating these people and completely destroying the social system of Hirado Port will make it much more difficult for Tagawa to rebuild Hirado, thereby eliminating the possibility of revenge on Kaihan. In addition, innocent people will not suffer war again, and more

There is no need to worry about being forcibly recruited by the authorities and sent to the battlefield as cannon fodder.

Compared with these serious consequences, Takahashi Minami believes that the decision of the executive committee is already very humane, and these people will not be treated as slaves. According to the official explanation, as long as they can honestly accept the official resettlement, they will be able to live in the future.

There is still a chance to naturalize Haihan and become a Haihan citizen like himself. As for how many people will be "eliminated" in this process, Takahashi Minami feels that this is also destiny, and this responsibility cannot be attributed to Haihan's actions.

this war.

As one of the few senior officers of Japanese origin in the Haihan Army, Takahashi Minami's understanding of Japanese social conditions is undoubtedly better than that of his superiors. At this time, he had to shoulder the task of identifying and classifying immigrant groups.

Generally speaking, the people who will be moved out of Hirado will be divided into two categories. One is the higher risk group, that is, Hirado Domain officials at all levels, public servants, and captured members of the domain army. These

People will go to the most closed, dangerous and arduous heavy manual labor positions, such as miners who have to go underground to extract ore, salt workers who have been exposed to the sun on the beach for many years, etc. Their meaning to Haihan is pure.

When the labor force is completely squeezed out and when it can be released, its treatment is basically the same as that of prisoners in the hard labor camp of Haihan State.

The remaining people are uniformly classified into the second category, that is, the group "can accept naturalization inspection". These people will be dispersed and resettled in various areas under Haihan's rule, and some may even be assigned to Xingdao.

A place far away from Japan. These new immigrants are usually sent to the relatively remote and desolate areas of the Haihan territory with low population density to cultivate and open up wasteland, and use the fruits of their labor to slowly accumulate the conditions required for naturalization.

In order to prevent these people from secretly forming parties after immigration, the civil affairs department will try to separate them and resettle them. An overseas colonial area may only get a few hundred people, and then disperse them to various villages and towns below. It is basically impossible to form another

Together.

Of course, Shi Diwen, who is responsible for handling this matter, will definitely fight for more people in his jurisdiction. After all, the Zhoushan Islands is not big, but it is certainly not small. There are ways to resettle more people without violating immigration regulations.

some people.

Takahashi Minami's task is to confirm whether there are any objects that need special attention among the "dangerous elements" classified as the first category. For example, leaders or officials who are Han Chinese are most likely to be from Shibazhi.

It needs to be handed over to the Military Intelligence Bureau for further interrogation.

In addition, there are also some people who are craftsmen engaged in manufacturing weapons and equipment. They are also regarded as public employees and are temporarily classified into the first category. However, if these people are good at craftsmanship, they may still have certain use value, Takahashi

Nan needed to confirm whether their situation qualified for amnesty. After all, craftsmen like these who have mastered professional skills such as smelting, casting, and shipbuilding were also scarce resources in Haihan. It would be a waste of resources to directly send them to work as coolies.

After Shi Diwen made the plan, he immediately notified the local people in Seogwipo to prepare to receive the personnel transported by Hirado. At the same time, he accelerated the screening of local personnel and dispatched troop transport ships to transport some of the prisoners of war whose identities had been confirmed to Seogwipo first.

The reason why the prisoners of war were transported first was to eliminate the unstable factors in Hirado as much as possible. After these people were transported away, even if the remaining local people resisted the arrangement of forcible relocation overseas, it would be difficult for organized groups to appear again.

Resisted. In addition, if an extreme situation occurs, such as the Hirado navy launching a counterattack again, there is no need to worry about a riot on the island involving both internal and external forces.

Of course, this fear of the command did not materialize. After the coalition forces occupied Hirado Port and the city, the warships of the Hirado navy never appeared near the Hirado Strait. The warships that went out to patrol even expanded their scope to the north.

On Iki Island, which is eighty miles away, there is still no trace of the activities of the Hirado Navy. It can be seen that they have left Hirado Island far away and will not come back for the time being.

The failure to completely eliminate the Hirado navy is probably what Shi Diwen regrets the most. The navy dispatched dozens of combat ships in this operation, but most of the battle time was spent acting as a sea fort to attract firepower.

, the actual battle with the Hirado navy only took half a day, and the opponent was not the main force yet.

Shi Diwen reflected after the war and felt that the decision he made at that time might have been a little impulsive. Perhaps if he ignored the test of those Japanese warships at that time, it would be possible to draw out the main force of the Hirado clan army later. As a result, two people that day

A majesty-class battleship picked off the opponent's entire fleet. While demonstrating its strength, it probably scared the opponent so much that he decisively gave up his plan to challenge again.

The fighter plane was fleeting, and it was impossible for Shi Diwen to get a chance to make a new choice. However, Shi Diwen believed that as Haihan emptied the Hirado Port, it would be much more difficult for the Hirado Domain to support a fleet in the future.

Even far beyond what its financial resources can support.

According to the information confessed by the prisoners of war, the main force of the Hirado navy still has at least a dozen Chinese-style warships and a sailor size of about a thousand people. Without the income source of Hirado Port, if this navy does not plan to disband,

Then either some of the warships should be mothballed and reduced in size, or they could only find other ways to earn income, such as returning to their old business as pirates.

By then, North Korea's southern coastal areas, which lack surface armed forces, are likely to be affected by this. However, if such a situation occurs, it will definitely not be a bad thing for Haihan. After all, after last year's war, North Korea is increasingly in trouble at home and abroad.

, the more they will rely on Haihan's help. If they suffer losses from the Japanese pirates, they will most likely ask Haihan for help. If they have a suitable reason, they will come to Hirado to harvest again, and they can also harvest money from North Korea.

A protection fee can also be regarded as a means of generating income besides training.

After thinking about it this way, Shi Diwen felt a lot relieved about the escape of the main force of the Hirado navy. Although he failed to achieve the expected combat goal, it might not be a bad thing to leave a little remaining space for his opponent to move.

It was impossible for Haihan to transport hundreds of thousands of prisoners of war out of Hirado without any movement, so the news quickly spread in the city. Many smart people with flexible minds immediately took a whiff of Haihan's move.

Sensing the unusual smell, everyone began to try to find out more information.

Yu Chengli was sitting in Gonzalez's shop. From time to time he got up and walked to the door to look around. Then he sat back on the chair with a sigh. He was waiting for Gonzalez to come back. To be precise, he was waiting for Gonzalez to take him with him.

News back.

They already knew the news that the Haihan people had shipped the prisoners away, and they also realized that the situation might change for the worse. Gonzalez found out that there were Portuguese military attachés accompanying the Haihan army, so he went to visit today with a generous gift.

The other party, Yu Chengli, was also involved, so he was waiting here for news about Gonzalez so that he could make plans for the next step in advance.
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