Chapter 26 Li people (1)

With the gradual rollout of infrastructure projects, the shortcomings in human resources, especially the labor force, have begun to become prominent. Except for the young and old members who account for a very small proportion of the traveling public, almost everyone has become a cheap labor force.

Whether they are big bosses or engaged in scientific research, now they all have to carry bricks on the construction site. And this is only the infrastructure project in the area of ​​Victory Port and Base No. 1. Next, there will be more development and construction of the inland Tiandu Industrial Zone.

It requires a lot of labor.

The villagers of the fishing village where the Yu family and his son were located have gradually returned to their homes after receiving safety guarantees, and most of them chose to work on the construction site of Base No. 1. The white rice and refined salt that the Yu family and his son brought home made everyone in the village

People's eyes are red. The Yu family and his son can sell their physical strength for food, but others can't?

Because Yu Dashan joined the dragon earlier and behaved more honestly and obediently, he was directly appointed as the foreman by the executive committee, responsible for commanding dozens of laborers in the fishing village. He wears camouflage training uniforms and comes to Shengli Port every day to "work"

Yu Xiaobao has been regarded as the first naturalized citizen by the time travel people. Ning Qi, who is in charge of cultural and educational work, has said that in the first local school to be opened next, Yu Xiaobao and other people will be included.

Several children from the fishing village were recruited together to run a class for indigenous children, gradually instilling in them various concepts that were hundreds of years ahead of this era.

Yu Dashan felt a little flattered to receive such attention from the short-haired men. You must know that there is no place for children to study within dozens of miles. If you want to read and learn, you have to send your children to dozens of schools.

Fenghuang Town, a few miles away, but the high cost is not something that a fisherman family like them can afford. Now that the short-haired man said he would open a school and he would not charge tuition, it was simply good news from heaven. Yu Dashan was grateful.

, they found someone from the executive committee who took the initiative to offer suggestions, saying that there were ways to alleviate the current severe shortage of labor.

Yu Dashan's method is actually not complicated, just go out and recruit workers. The area near Victory Port is sparsely populated because in recent years, a small group of pirates have come here to cause trouble during the monsoon period, and many people who cannot bear the disturbance have gradually moved away.

However, in the coastal plain of more than a hundred miles between Yacheng and here, there are several villages and towns with thousands of residents. Especially in the urban area of ​​Sanya in later generations, because there are two major rivers, the Sanya River and the Linchun River and several tributaries, it has

There are abundant freshwater resources, so there are many villages along both sides of the river. As long as you can afford the wages, recruiting some labor from these places is not a problem at all.

Yu Dashan's suggestion immediately attracted the attention of the Executive Committee. After a short discussion, the Executive Committee entrusted the fishing village to send several village elders to form a recruitment team and set off to recruit workers in places farther away. According to optimistic estimates,

About two to three hundred laborers can be recruited within half a month, which can alleviate the current labor pressure to a considerable extent. However, if so many people are to be hired for a long time, the food problem that was not urgently solved must be put on the agenda immediately.

Fortunately, the development of the two agricultural lands on the east bank of Tiandu has gone relatively smoothly. It is still possible to sow the first batch of crops before Grain Rain. Yuan Qiuye, who is in charge of livestock breeding, has also inspected the areas on the east bank and is preparing to plant them.

The livestock breeding base was moved from the current crude temporary settlement site.

On the morning of April 9, 1627, the pioneer group that went deep into the Tiandu area to open a temporary camp contacted the headquarters of the No. 1 base and said that Li people appeared near the camp. However, they were unable to communicate due to language problems. They hoped that the headquarters would send professional personnel as soon as possible.

Personnel support.

When it comes to dealing with the Li people, Zhou Hengxing is currently the leading expert in the travel industry. Zhou Hengxing himself is a member of the Li ethnic group. Before traveling, his job at the Danzhou Cultural Center was to collect and study information related to the Li people in ancient Hainan, and to understand the folk customs of the Li people.

I know best. Now that the Executive Committee is setting up a special working group for Li District, Zhou Hengxing has become the leader of the group without hesitation.

The Li people originated from ancient Baiyue, and the proper name "Li" began in the late Tang Dynasty. As early as before the Han Dynasty, the ancestors of the Li people crossed the sea and developed Hainan Island as the first batch of residents. After Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty pacified Nanyue,

, sent soldiers and civilians to Hainan several times, and established two counties, Zhuya and Dan'er. In subsequent dynasties, the Li people have been included under the rule of the Central Dynasty, and the pearls, tortoise shells, spices and other items produced by the Li people have always been

They are the "tributes" of Qiongzhou. During the Yuan Dynasty, the central government even directly granted the hereditary official positions of "Thousand Households" and "Ten Thousand Households" to the heads of various caves of the Li people in Hainan. Of course, the consequences of this also created the internal class of the Li people.

As conflicts intensified, the relationship between the Li people and the Han people began to become tense from that time on.

For the traveling people, these semi-civilized Li mountain people are undoubtedly very dangerous partners, but if used properly, the manpower of the Li people's village can also be used for their own purposes. Ning Qi, who is familiar with history, pointed out that Ming

It is recorded in Zhengde's "Qiongtai Chronicles" that during the Yongle period, there were nearly a hundred Li Dongs in the Yazhou area, and the number of Li Dongs in the entire Hainan Island area reached an astonishing more than 1,200. The population of so many Li villages, large and small, increased.

Together, there are at least 200,000, which is definitely a large amount of human resources worth developing. Therefore, the Executive Committee attaches great importance to the work of the Li District. For this working group, almost all departments will be equipped with elite troops.

All were mobilized together in an effort to open up a new source of manpower in the inland areas of Hainan.

In addition to Zhou Hengxing, a Li expert, the special working group includes people from mining, agriculture, construction, communications, commerce, military and police, culture, education, medical and other departments. The executive committee appointed Ning Qi, who is relatively leisurely, as the decision-maker.

There were more than forty people in the team, and there were many talented people like the bearded Johnson who had both military, police and medical roles. The supplies for the transaction had been prepared long before the crossing, mainly salt and a large amount of

Iron farm tools are mainly made of iron, which is also what the Li people who live in the inland mountainous areas need most.

In order to ensure that there is enough medical power at the front, Morgan, another doctor from the North American team who specializes in cardiovascular disease, was also recruited to join the team. In addition, Qiao Zhiya, who specializes in chemical engineering, was born in the United States like Tom Wang.

ABC (American-Born Chinese), an authentic banana man who can’t even speak Chinese fluently. The reason why Qiao Zhiya joined is that the tri-acid and di-alkali production base of the Ministry of Chemical Industry is also planned to be near the Tiandu mining area. The main reason for his trip

The purpose is to represent the Ministry of Chemical Industry to conduct on-site inspections of the feasibility of project planning and implementation locations.

Johnson, Morgan and Georgia all had experience in serving in the U.S. military before crossing over. Georgia in particular had served at the U.S. Army Fort Buchanan Army Base in Puerto Rico and was very familiar with the tropical rainforest environment. These people with military experience

The three people were transferred to the special working group, which also relieved the security pressure of the Military and Police Department to a great extent.

This time, half of the six-member North American Gang were included in the special working group. For this reason, the Military Police Department and the Maritime Department had to re-coordinate their manpower and temporarily reduce the original patrol system of two catamaran sailboats to one on duty and one on duty.

Waiting for duty. There is nothing we can do about it. After all, there are too few people in the Maritime Department now, and there are only a few people who can independently sail a ship to sea. Fortunately, the captured Haicang ship has now been put into normal patrol, and there are ten Ming army sailors.

With assistance, we can barely maintain the scale of two ships taking turns patrolling every day.

In order to save time on the road, the Executive Committee specially lowered several lifeboats on the "New World" to transport the personnel of the special working group. These four lifeboats are equipped with small-displacement diesel propellers and have certain capabilities.

Self-propelled capability. In addition, four small wooden boats were mobilized from the fishing village, which were hung behind the four lifeboats to transport the building materials to be used in the second base. Then everyone filed on board, and the fleet moved along at a speed of less than five knots.

The Tiandu River flows upstream, slowly heading towards the camp far inland.

About two or three miles after leaving Victory Port, the river began to gradually narrow, shrinking from a few hundred meters wide at the mouth to just more than ten meters. Both sides of the river bank are flat and wide land, but it is still covered by lush forests.

, although the logging team has included dozens of local fishermen under its banner, and they are working hard to cut down trees every day to clear the way, but it may still take some time to open up the land channel. With nothing to do on the boat, Ning Qi asked Zhou Hengxing to tell everyone.

Let’s talk about the situation of Li people and do some popular science in advance.

Zhou Hengxing smiled and said, "Then what do you want to know?"

"Teach us a few words of Li dialect first." "Yes, it would be a pity if you don't know how to strike up a conversation with a Li girl!" Everyone responded in a flurry of voices.

"The Li dialect is not that easy to learn." Zhou Hengxing explained patiently: "The Li dialect is divided into five major categories according to different regions: Yi, Qi, Meifu, Run, and Sai. Each major category also has different minor languages.

Dialects, such as the Li people in Sanya, speak the Kan dialect, but the Kan dialect is also divided into Luohuo, Hayan, Baoxian, etc., and the pronunciation is different."

"It's so complicated, it seems there is little hope for girls from the Li ethnic group!" someone lamented.

"The Li girls in this era are not as ethnic as what you see on TV. In fact, Li women have had the traditional habit of tattooing their faces since ancient times. This is to prevent being robbed by outsiders, and the second is to represent loyalty to feelings.

, this custom gradually disappeared after liberation. In addition, Li people like to eat betel nut, so their lips and teeth are all black, which is probably very different from the standard of beauty in your impression." Zhou Hengxing mercilessly splashed

A basin of cold water.

The members who originally had some fantasy of having an affair suddenly thought about a girl with black tattoos on her face and a mouth with two rows of black teeth. Someone immediately questioned Ning Qi: "What is the executive committee doing?"

Before we traveled, we always advertised that we would arrange ethnic customs tours, and there were countless ethnic minority girls waiting for us to marry them home. Where are the beautiful girls we promised?"

Ning Qi responded righteously: "Don't change the words without authorization. When we promote, we always only mention girls, but never add the word 'beautiful'. Don't worry, it's your freedom to marry or not.

The Executive Committee will never arrange an arranged marriage to force you to get married."
Chapter completed!