Chapter 2439

Although the current situation in Fushan County is relatively tense and the supply of materials is also very tight, this will not affect the various special treatments enjoyed by the travelers. Chen Yixin still set up a sumptuous reception banquet for Tao Donglai. It is difficult to

Imagine that there are tens of thousands of refugees who lack food and clothing just a few miles away.

"There have been so many refugees entering Dengzhou recently that almost all the live animals that can be eaten in the wild have been eaten, so there is no game left. Fortunately, there is also a breeding ground for garrison troops on the island. Poultry

There are a lot of livestock and various fruits and vegetables, so I can barely manage this period of time." Chen Yixin poured wine for Tao Donglai while explaining the origin of the ingredients on the table.

Tao Donglai asked: "Are the local grain reserves sufficient?"

Chen Yixin nodded and said: "The reserves are enough. The grain transported from the south during this period should be four to five million kilograms. People will definitely not starve to death in the short term. And now that the weather is getting warmer, it is easier for fishing boats to go to sea.

Products can also be used as supplements.”

Although Fushan County is currently facing huge pressure from refugee resettlement, the main problem is that the scale of institutions such as refugee camps is still not large enough to bring all the refugees who have poured into Fushan County into control, resulting in a relatively large number of refugees in the county.

It is a huge security risk. As for the food reserves, the situation is not bad. Although it is impossible for everyone to have enough food for the refugees, the food supply has been maintained in the past few months without food shortages, allowing the refugees to survive this cold period.

of winter.

At present, more than half of the food consumed locally relies on overseas transportation, so the food provided by Haihan to the refugees is basically based on the minimum survival standards, so as to ensure that the existing food reserves can survive when external transportation is cut off.

Can last for at least twenty days.

Tao Donglai said: "I heard that many wealthy businessmen and powerful people came here to take refuge. How are these people currently arranged?"

Hao Wanqing took over the conversation and said: "Speaking of this, I really have to say that there are quite a lot of rich people in Shandong. The first batch of people who came to Fushan County spent money to buy houses and land as soon as they arrived here, as if they wanted to put down roots.

It looked like it was coming down. As a result, local prices were quickly driven up. By the end of February, house prices in the county had risen more than ten times. All inns, business houses, and private houses could be rented.

The houses we bought were basically sold out in early March. You can ask Chen Yixin, his father-in-law is the largest landowner in Fushan County, and he has made a lot of money taking advantage of this wave!"

Chen Yixin laughed and said: "You are making fun of me again! The money earned by my father-in-law will not go into my pocket, so I have nothing to be happy about."

Hao Wanqing said that Ma Dongqiang is the largest landowner in Fushan County, which is not an empty lie. The Ma family is one of the largest families in Fushan County, owning thousands of acres of fertile land. After moving to Shanghai, the property quickly expanded its business from agriculture to commerce.

, transportation, service and other industries. It can be said that as long as you step into Fushan County, you will inevitably have to deal with the Ma family's industry. Rich businessmen and dignitaries from outside who want to find a place to live here naturally cannot get around it.

Tao Donglai joked: "Your father-in-law has so many industries in the local area, I'm afraid he will also make people jealous, right?"

Chen Yixin responded lightly: "It is true that there are some who are short-sighted, but after I dealt with a few fanatics, no one dared to break the rules anymore."

The Ma family owns so much property in the local area, so it is inevitable that they will get into trouble. Some people think that their status is much higher than that of Ma Dongqiang, a rich country man, and ask him to provide a house for their own use, or plan to use it at a very low price.

However, such people often don’t know Ma Dongqiang’s background, and they don’t know that he has Haihan’s support behind him. Naturally, such rude demands are impossible to achieve. There were several incidents in which Ma Dongqiang was initially tried to intimidate him into submission.

After Chen Yixin heard about it, he sent people to expel the troublemakers and their families from Fushan County, and said harsh words - Fushan County is under the jurisdiction of Haihan, and no matter what status you have in the Ming Dynasty, you will have to go here.

Follow Haihan's rules.

With Chen Yixin as his son-in-law, Ma Dongqiang naturally has less worries. Nowadays, at least half of the wealthy people renting places in the local area live in properties under the Ma family's name. From living facilities covering several acres to

There are various types of houses ranging from fully-equipped luxurious mansions to small single rooms in inns with only one bed, but the prices are of course extremely expensive compared to ordinary times, and most ordinary people cannot afford them.

However, you get what you pay for, and the service advantage here is also obvious, that is, a safe environment that money cannot buy. Let alone the Qing army, even the Ming army cannot enter Fushan County without permission.

Come on, in troubled times, it's hard to find any other safer place than here.

And as long as you can afford the price, you can buy a variety of goods here, including food, even meat, wine, and fresh fruits and vegetables. Rich people can still continue to enjoy the life of a superior person.

However, not many people can afford to live in these places. From February to now, among the tens of thousands of people who have come to Fushan County to seek refuge, less than a thousand of them live in private residences outside refugee camps. Among them,

Most people are just followers serving their masters, and the real financial sponsors are only a few hundred or so.

Strictly speaking, the Ma family's behavior can be regarded as making money for the country. However, at the same time, a considerable part of the organizational work of resettling ordinary refugees is also responsible for the Ma family, and thousands of refugees have been able to survive as a result.

Chance.

Tao Donglai did not ask in detail how the Ma family made money from the wealthy people who had taken refuge. In his opinion, this behavior was actually normal. If there was not enough oil and water, how could local tycoons like Ma Dongqiang be driven to participate in the resettlement of refugees?

Come in action. What he cares about is actually another thing.

"I heard that you took the wealthy businessmen who took refuge here to set up a chamber of commerce?" Tao Donglai asked.

Chen Yixin nodded and said, "This is indeed the case. I have established a Shanhai Club. As long as you join, you can get half of all local fees, so these people are quite active in joining the club. So far, they have collected dozens of members.

"

Taking the lead in organizing chambers of commerce to expand trade channels has been Haihan’s traditional method of operation, and it has been tried and tested in the southern coastal areas. Although Chen Yixin had such a plan for a long time, he has never found a suitable opportunity to enter, because the environment in Shandong is not as good as that in the south, and Haihan

Han's control area was limited to Fushan County. It was not easy to meet with wealthy businessmen and dignitaries from various states. But this time, it was a strange combination of circumstances. Many people worthy of contact came to Fushan County on their own to avoid the war.

, Chen Yixin would not miss such a God-given opportunity.

These people may not have had business dealings with Haihan before, so Chen Yixin gave up using preferential trade measures to attract them, and instead offered more practical conditions. And the actual results were quite good. These people heard that

It is said that all expenses can be reduced by half, but the Haihan people's request is just to join the Chamber of Commerce and become Haihan's trading partner, so why not?

It's just that they don't know. Haihan's chamber of commerce has no threshold for joining. You only need to sign two documents to join the association, but it is impossible to withdraw from it in the future. As long as they care about economic interests, Haihan has many ways to win them over.

Getting into the water is as simple as recruiting them into the club now.

Tao Donglai nodded and said: "The good thing is, if done properly, in two or three years, this place may be the next Zhoushan."

Chen Yixin said: "Mr. Tao, please don't put your hat on me. I know very well what Fushan County is like. It is definitely not comparable to the conditions in Zhoushan. Moreover, there is a serious lack of professionals here, and many things are

I’m just making do, and you’ll see when you can send me more people who know how to run the trade association.”

"Well, when I get back to Sanya, I'll ask Schneider to pick out a few useful people to send over to you." Wherever Tao Donglai goes, he will inevitably be chased for various resources. He is already familiar with handling this situation.

, two sentences put the matter on Schneider's head.

After eating and taking a short rest, Tao Donglai proposed that he would like to visit the local refugee camp and also go to Majiazhuang to visit Chen Yixin's family. Hao Wanqing, however, had other official duties, so he left first.

.

"Mr. Tao, shouldn't your itinerary be kept secret? Is it okay to show up in public like this?" Chen Yixin did not agree immediately, but asked Tao Donglai for confirmation again.

Tao Donglai waved his hand and said: "No one here knows me. We don't need to disclose our identity when we go to the refugee camp. You just need to keep your family secret."

Now that Tao Donglai had made his attitude clear, Chen Yixin would not object and asked his secretary Zeng Xiaowen to arrange the carriage and escorts, and then personally accompany Tao Donglai to Majiazhuang.

When he was still several miles away from Majiazhuang, Tao Donglai had already seen the refugee camps on the roadside from his carriage. The buildings in these camps were either military tents provided by Haihan or simple structures.

A camp is formed by building a shack on the ground and surrounding it with a wooden fence or wire mesh, leaving only one entrance and exit.

However, there are currently dozens of such small refugee camps in Fushan County, and Tao Donglai is not very energetic enough to look at them all one by one. He only needs to look at one or two representative places.

"Chen Yixin, find a newly built refugee camp and let's go take a look." Tao Donglai had already made plans and immediately gave Chen Yixin the order.

After a while, Chen Yixin ordered the driver to stop the carriage on the side of the road, then got out of the car with Tao Donglai and walked to a nearby refugee camp.

"This camp was just built yesterday. It was completed in the morning and started arranging for refugees to move in at noon. It was already full yesterday." Chen Yixin led the way and explained the situation of the refugee camp to Tao Dong: "The construction plan is based on 500 people.

Standard, but the actual number of people staying is definitely much higher than this number."

There is not even a wooden fence around the camp. Instead, barbed wire is tied between wooden piles as a barrier. The situation inside the camp can be seen clearly from the outside. The camp is almost entirely composed of simple shacks, with only two large shacks.

Marching tents, according to Chen Yixin's explanation, these two tents are specially used to accommodate the elderly, weak, women and children.

After entering the camp, you can find that although these shacks are extremely simple, they are relatively neatly laid out and basically the same size. It can be seen that the construction is relatively orderly. Moreover, drainage ditches have been dug around the residences. Normal rainfall should not cause damage to the shacks.

The refugee's residence became Zeguo.

This kind of simple building, which involves digging a shallow pit in the ground and erecting a roof on top, is actually very fast to build. With sufficient tools and labor, four to six people can build a residence for the same number of people in just half a day.

In fact, all the buildings in this newly built refugee camp were basically built by refugees who were admitted earlier. And the people who were recently admitted to this refugee camp only have one day to rest, and then they will also have to

Throw yourself into labor and participate in building the next refugee camp.

Of course, there will be no financial reward for participating in labor, but you can get more food. Ordinary refugees can only get one meal of food a day, but participating in labor can get two larger meals, so the vast majority of those who are capable of working

Refugees will choose to accept official arrangements to ensure that they have more food intake.

Of course, living in such a simple building can at best protect you from the cold wind, but it is definitely not comfortable. A shack was originally designed to accommodate four to six people, but because the current number of refugees has exceeded the number of resettlement

capacity, so eight people are arranged to live in it, making it fully packed.

The reason why each refugee camp is limited to a few hundred people is because Haihan officials have limited manpower and cannot manage large refugee camps. However, even if problems arise in small camps with hundreds of people, officials can quickly solve them.

Especially since he had caught spies who were planning to sneak into Fushan County before, Chen Yixin did not dare to be careless and kept a close eye on the security situation in various refugee camps. Those who caused trouble in the refugee camps would not care about the reason.

Right or wrong, they were all sent to the Fushan Copper Mine to do hard labor.

"We now have tens of thousands of free labor, but we cannot make full use of it. We do not have that many manpower to ensure the safety of the construction process, so we can only select those who are in good physical condition and obey instructions to come out to work. Every day, we actually

The number of people working may not even be one-tenth of the number of refugees. So so far, our rate of building refugee camps cannot keep up with the increase in refugees."

When it comes to the problem of refugee camps, Chen Yixin is also a little helpless. The vast majority of refugees have not yet been systematically disciplined. Haihan dare not arrange labor tasks for all of them that require them to go out. Otherwise, if someone causes trouble, these thousands of

Refugees holding labor tools are not so easy to control. So Fushan County now has tens of thousands of free laborers, but because there are too many concerns, the actual utilization efficiency is pitifully low.
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