Chapter 230 Population Structure and Land Policy

Will there be xenophobia among the naturalized people under the rule of the Crossing Group? The answer to this question is undoubtedly yes. The aboriginal people in the Victory Port area are only a small number of fishermen, and at most there are people in the inland areas.

Although these people, the mountain people of the Li and Miao ethnic groups, accounted for the vast majority of the naturalized people in the early days, as time went by, immigrants continued to pour in, and the residential structure of the Shengli Port area was also constantly changing.

The numerical advantage of people is gradually fading, and the foreign population is slowly beginning to become the main body of naturalized residents, and this will also be the main theme of population changes in Sanya in the next few years.

The executive committee cannot yet make a hasty conclusion on how much impact this demographic change trend will have on the people, but what is certain is that there will definitely be many conflicts between old and new forces in the future - similar incidents occurred a few months ago

It has already begun to appear, and the most serious one was the farm commune fighting case. The large-scale fighting that killed and injured several people was the most serious civil security case so far, and the cause was the conflict between old and new naturalized residents.

Although the Executive Committee responded and dealt with the incident very quickly, and therefore launched the construction of grassroots civil affairs institutions and gradually began to train naturalized civilian cadres, everyone knew very well that these institutional measures could not completely eliminate civil affairs.

This kind of contradiction. In fact, according to statistics from the military and police departments, in existing public security cases, more than 80% of the parties involved are naturalized citizens of different batches. This data is enough to show the contradiction between old and new naturalized citizens.

It is still the main internal contradiction among the people at present.

According to the more mature sociological views of later generations, xenophobia is a manifestation of the bad nature of human nature, and people who hold this concept are often disadvantaged groups in the region. It is ignorance, ignorance and prejudice that have caused such a social phenomenon. Obsession.

If the committee wants to alleviate or eradicate the various social conflicts caused by this, it must first guide public opinion and gradually change this social phenomenon by improving the education level of naturalized people.

But it is easier said than done. The phenomenon of xenophobia is still common in the 21st century and difficult to eradicate, let alone the 17th century. Among the naturalized people currently recruited by the Crossing Group, the vast majority

Most of them are poor people. More than 90% of the people have not received formal education, and less than 10% of the people can actually read and read. Although this situation has a certain relationship with the policy of obscuring the people adopted by the feudal dynasty for thousands of years, it is still

One reason is that most of the early immigrants who came to Victory Port came for a living, and their families could not afford to support scholars. The current prestige and reputation of the Crossing Group are far from being able to attract talents from all over the world to join them.

There are even very few down-and-out literati, and a considerable number of people can even be directly classified as "ignorant", and the quality of the people is still at a relatively low level.

On the other hand, when these immigrants came to Victory Port, they often brought their families with them, and there were even large families who moved in as a whole. After entering the naturalized citizen system, these immigrants often still

Regarding family and clan as the social relationship on which one relies, the most significant consequence of this dependence is that clans are grouped together and separated from the existing civil affairs system. In many cases, this becomes the source of civil security incidents.

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The subsequent large-scale immigration of North Vietnamese immigrants will usher in a new wave of grouping. After these people who have left their hometowns arrive in a completely unfamiliar new environment, it is almost inevitable for them to form a group to protect their own interests. There will be

The problem is not only xenophobia between old and new immigrants, but it may also give rise to new conflicts, such as regional discrimination.

Regional discrimination is nothing new to the people of Chu. In later generations, such social discrimination caused by regional cultural differences existed between provinces within a country, between cities within a province, and even within smaller geographical areas.

Phenomenon. And the trouble it will create for the crossing group is no less than the early xenophobia of immigrants. The most troublesome thing for the Executive Committee is that this hurdle is definitely unavoidable, and as the source of immigrants changes

As the number continues to increase, this situation may become more and more serious.

After Tao Donglai explained the key points, everyone present fell into deep thought. If such a social instability factor cannot be properly resolved, it will lay a time bomb for future immigration work. Who knows when

There will be big trouble.

The first one to speak was Qiu Yuan: "Since these problems also exist in later generations, their existence is reasonable. If we want to put an end to these phenomena, we will definitely not be able to do so. It is better to block them than to remove them. It is better to think of ways to alleviate possible conflicts.

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Malico said: "If according to what Mr. Tao said, tens of thousands of Vietnamese immigrants will move to Sanya in the next year, then the number of naturalized Vietnamese will probably be seven or eight times that of other naturalized people.

If the population ratio suddenly increases so much, it will be almost impossible not to cause problems."

Tao Donglai keenly grasped the hidden meaning of Malik's words: "You mean to say that the key is to maintain a balance in the structure of naturalized residents in Sanya?"

Zhang Guang asked blankly: "It has been said that tens of thousands of Vietnamese will move in, and immigrants from other places are slow to come. How can we maintain a balanced population structure?"

"You're so stupid!" Zhao Xiaoruo glared at Zhang Guang angrily: "To maintain a balanced population structure in Sanya, just limit the number of Vietnamese immigrants entering this area!"

"What about the extra immigrants?" Zhang Guang still didn't understand what these people were talking about.

"The extra immigrants can be resettled in other places on Hainan Island to develop uninhabited areas in the form of colonization points." At this time, Tao Donglai had already formed a relatively clear idea in his mind: "Yinggehai, Shilu, just...

The population required to develop and construct these two places is at least tens of thousands, and now there is a large coastal plain on the west coast of Hainan Island that can be used for large-scale agricultural development. Not to mention 20,000 to 30,000 people, even 20,000 to 300,000 people can be resettled.

Go down."

"Vietnamese immigrants assigned to these places to establish colonization sites can be screened in a planned way and concentrated in one place as much as possible according to their place of origin, so that problems such as xenophobia or regional discrimination will not arise in the early stages of resettlement." Malik also lost no time in taking the opportunity.

added.

"As long as the social stability of the core area of ​​Sanya is ensured, the peripheral colonization and development areas can be used as secondary units to slowly solve practical problems." Qiu Yuan also hurriedly offered suggestions.

Everyone talked to each other and gradually improved the idea, and unknowingly they seemed to have seen the dawn of a solution to the problem. However, Zhang Guang still poured cold water on everyone at this time: "Developed in the past few months

Black Earth Port and the current planning of Iron Furnace Port have already made everyone at the top and bottom very busy. If tens of thousands of people colonize Hainan Island, the implementation may not be as simple as just talking about it.

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This sentence brought everyone back to reality immediately from the state of excitement. Indeed, considering the current comprehensive strength of the Cross-Travel Group, it would be extremely difficult to implement large-scale colonization and development on Hainan Island. It would be extremely difficult to open up a colonization point.

The consumption of materials is too great. If we only count the number of North Vietnamese immigrants, the number of immigrants of two thousand people per month in the future will be enough to support a colonization point of the same size as Black Earth Port. However, it is a pity that the Crossing Group does not yet have one.

Enough capacity to plan and build new settlement sites at a rate of one per month.

The colonization point that Chuanchuan Group wants to build is not a self-sustaining village-style immigration point. Instead, it needs to use Black Earth Port as a model to establish a comprehensive civil administration organization, bring local social security under military management, and in the short term

The ability to self-generate hematopoiesis can be realized within a short period of time. The material consumption of building such a colonization point is not a small amount. Under the current population base and production scale, it is indeed difficult to achieve the goal of continuously establishing a colonization point.

Tao Donglai was speechless for a while. He had indeed only seen the benefits of this plan and temporarily ignored the difficulties that might arise in the process. The executive committee was dreaming of developing the western part of Hainan Island as soon as possible.

But it is indeed difficult to realize it, and it cannot be achieved overnight. Now it seems that this pipe dream may take some time to achieve.

After temporarily skipping this topic, Tao Donglai returned his attention to the work of the Yazhou Office and listened to the work reports of everyone stationed in the Yazhou Office one by one.

It has been more than four months since the Cliff Office was established in May. In the past four months, the Cliff Office has transported nearly 2,000 immigrants to Victory Port through various channels and purchased dozens of tons of various materials.

, reached several export trade agreements and earned a large amount of silver for the foreign trade department.

In addition, the various intelligence collection and civil affairs and military intelligence monitoring work done by the Yazhou Office are also very effective. It is precisely because of the existence of the Yazhou Office that the Executive Committee can focus its main energy on its own development.

There is no need to always be prepared for possible military attacks from Yazhou. However, after this period of operation, the role that the Yazhou Office can play has actually begun to become weaker and weaker. This situation occurs due to many aspects.

caused by reasons.

First of all, the business relations between the two places have gradually stabilized. As the two agents designated by the Executive Committee, "Furuifeng" and "Anfuxing" regularly send ships to Victory Port for trade every month, and cross the group

The two trading houses will also try their best to help purchase the materials needed here - anyway, with just one hand, you can earn the circulation coupons of the Haihan people. As a result, the function of the Cliff Office in trade has gradually weakened.

Most of the time, he plays the role of a debt collector, settling outstanding payments with two commercial banks on a regular basis.

Secondly, the strength of the local Ming army in Yazhou has been clearly understood, and there is no suspense. The shortage of soldiers stationed in the local garrison is very serious, and the combat effectiveness is extremely unfavorable. Mu Xiabai and Feng Annan believed in the report that even in the victory

The militiamen in Hong Kong who had only received one month of military training were able to defeat twice the number of Yazhou garrison. The only Yazhou naval force that could really pose some threat to Victory Port had already installed Luo Shengdong, a rebel.

, if the higher-ups really wanted to move Victory Port, the news would have already reached Victory Port before the naval warships sailed out of the Ningyuan River.

As for whether there will be a possibility of attacking Yazhou with force in the future, two members of the military and police department also have the same view: There is no need to conquer Yazhou. In less than two years, the immigration policy of the Crossing Group can destroy it.

Evacuated. By then, there will probably be only three types of people left in the city: officials, official servants, and felons who cannot be released. Occupying this place will have no practical benefit to the Crossing Group. On the contrary, it may make them angry.

The Ming Dynasty officials were really superfluous.

Needless to say, in terms of immigration, it has now evolved from relying on Yaxing to attract immigrants through coaxing and coaxing to automatic migration of the population. If Yaxing wants to organize immigration now, it must go to Danzhou or Danzhou in the north.

It has to be Wanzhou or even Wenchang in the northeast. And Luo Shengdong is not the only one who has recently come to the Cliff Office to ask about the land price in Victory Port. Some wealthy people in the local area have begun to become interested in Victory Port. Of course.

The purpose of these people buying land is not necessarily to move to Shengli Port, but as long as this trend begins to appear, the gradual decline of Yazhou City will only be a matter of time. Because anyone who has been to Shengli Port can realize that

The development prospects of the local area are far better than that of Yazhou City, which has been stagnant for hundreds of years. After the construction of Shengli Port's business zone achieves certain results next year, the business center of the entire southern Hainan Island will gradually be transferred from Yazhou to

This is a new port town.

The biggest reason currently preventing the middle and upper class people from Yazhou from moving to Shengli Port is generally believed by everyone here to be the land policy currently implemented by the Executive Committee. The people in the Executive Committee all have extensive knowledge from later generations and they know the society very well.

The root cause of the unrest is the substantial concentration of resources and wealth. During the feudal society with relatively low productivity, this concentration was mainly reflected in land resources. If the problem of land ownership is not solved, large-scale land ownership will continue

Concentrated in the hands of a very small number of people, social unrest cannot be quelled, and the Executive Committee's solution to this problem is public ownership of land.

The benefits of this policy are obvious, but the disadvantages are also obvious - when the control area of ​​the Crossing Group expands from the unowned land to the owned land, there will inevitably be a huge conflict of interest. Of course, if you want to resolve this conflict peacefully

There are not many ways to do it. At the beginning of time travel, some people thought that you could just use money to buy it, but after all, this is only a temporary solution, not the root cause. China is so big, it will definitely not be able to buy it all by buying it. No matter how rich the time travel group is,

You can't be so willful.

The current countermeasure formulated by the Executive Committee is to directly skip the owned land and first occupy and develop a large number of unowned land on Hainan Island. After accumulating a certain strength, it will gradually try to annex various large and small areas.

Small landowners. Of course, it is difficult to predict how much bloodshed will occur during this merger process.

The reason why Chuanchuan Group was able to implement this land policy in the early days was that, in addition to the fact that Victory Port was sparsely populated and had no landowners, the early naturalized people were all poor and poor people. These people did not have or had already

Although they still have a great desire to own land after losing their own land, under the civil administration structure of the Chuan Chuan Group, their desire for land can be satisfied in another way.

After reaching a certain labor level, every naturalized citizen can obtain a certain area of ​​land use rights at a relatively low price. This use right lasts for decades. During this period, he only needs to report to the executive committee subordinates every year.

The Ministry of Agriculture only needs to pay a small amount of grain tax. Obtaining land use rights is much cheaper than buying land. The grain tax collected by the Ministry of Agriculture is also much lighter than the burden of the Ming Dynasty government. It can be said that it actually reduces the people's ability to obtain land.

Price. Moreover, older naturalized citizens all know that the average yield of the grains grown by the Cross-Training Group is much higher than what they knew in the past. When calculated, the income is much more cost-effective than buying land for farming.

The wealthy people in Yazhou will obviously not be satisfied with such a land system. They need more land as the means of production to generate wealth, but the executive committee will obviously not allow other landowners to appear in the area under their jurisdiction——

Even if foreign companies come to Shengli Port to invest and develop, they only get the right to use the land instead of ownership. It is the existence of this conflict of interest that causes many middle- and upper-class people in Yazhou who are interested in developing in Shengli Port to still

With a wait-and-see attitude, no actual action has been taken.

After listening to everyone's analysis, Tao Donglai nodded and said: "The land issue is indeed a thorny issue in our future expansion. It involves the foundation of our country in the future. Policies cannot be changed easily, but we can find ways to ease the contradiction.

, resolution does not necessarily have to be solved by force. To a certain extent, it depends on you to preach in Yazhou and explain our land policy to these people. The key is to explain the benefits they can obtain and let them

You know what kind of returns you can get after investing in real estate in Victory Port. Lao Ma, you used to work in investment promotion, so this is your strength!"

Maliko smiled and said: "Mr. Tao has a good memory! It is possible to invite investment, but the executive committee must first give me a clearer policy before I can promote it. The land in Victory Port cannot be purchased directly, so everyone will spend

How to operate the money after you get the right to use it, what can be done and what can't be done, the executive committee had better draw the line first to avoid problems in subsequent operations."

Tao Donglai nodded and said: "I will convene a meeting to discuss this matter after I get back, and I will get you a charter as soon as possible. As for the scale of external publicity, you can control it yourself, as long as it does not incite conflict between us and the local government.

Just the contradiction."
Chapter completed!