1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 24 Labor Camp ([-])

At the meeting the night before, the competition for labor had almost reached a fever pitch, and the heads of several departments had their faces blackened at the back, but in the end, the work place arranged by the Executive Committee for these prisoners was neither a mine nor a logging site. It is a farm area planned by the Ministry of Agriculture.This is not because the Executive Committee intends to favor the Ministry of Agriculture. Such an arrangement is really a last resort.

The several construction sites planned by the Ministry of Industry are all close to forested mountainous areas. In this case, more than 30 captives need to be guarded, and the manpower required cannot be too small. The original intention of supplementing the shortage of labor has been violated.The farm planned by the Ministry of Agriculture on the east bank of the Tiandu River is flat and easy to monitor the working conditions of the captives. It only needs to arrange a few people to watch from a distance.Take ten thousand steps back and say that even if some of the captives want to escape, the Tiandu River is the natural moat to the west. If you go east to south, you have to climb over the uninhabited mountains, and then you will face the endless ocean. It is more dangerous to go north and deep into the inland. Because it is the place where the sturdy Li people live, and if it falls into the hands of the Li people who are still in a semi-barbaric state, they will not be treated like a meal of white rice porridge. It is thankful not to be roasted on the fire to eat.Needless to say, the reason for this is that the soldiers in the water village who are familiar with the local conditions naturally understand it.

Under the armed escort of the military and police department, the captives boarded the "Flying Speed" honestly. Although more than 30 people stood on the front deck, it seemed a bit crowded, but the weather near the Tiandu River estuary was calm, and with the catamaran The structure is stable, and there is no danger of throwing people overboard.The sailboat set out from Shengli Harbor, made a small circle on the sea, turned around and sailed straight to the east bank of the Tiandu River, and soon arrived at the Luoyu Village area of ​​later generations.

People from the Ministry of Agriculture have come to inspect this place yesterday, and they are very satisfied with the soil structure and topography of this narrow strip. If it is fully developed, it will be enough to open up more than [-] mu of arable land here, and the distance between it and No. [-] Base It's also close enough to send a boat across the river for anything.After discussion by the executive committee, it was decided to use it as a labor camp under the labor camp.The labor camp is jointly responsible for the Ministry of Agriculture and the Ministry of Military and Police. If the prisoners perform better, then the next step may be to build the barracks of the labor camp.Of course, in order to move from the smelly barge cabin to the barracks on the shore, it must also be redeemed with points.

After the "Speedy" landed, a group of prisoners, driven by bayonets, jumped directly from the deck into knee-deep water. After reaching the shore, Luo Shengdong and the four team leaders temporarily appointed by him shouted for a long time. , so that this group of rabble lined up in groups, which made the members of the military and police department who stood on the sailboat to witness the whole process disdain.

Luo Shengdong noticed that the short-haired leader who led the team today was not the short-haired leader who interrogated him yesterday, but a big black and strong man with green pants and black leather boots, and only a tight-fitting green jacket on the upper body. The muscles that are like a vajra qiuu seem to be breaking through the small jacket.The big black man walked to the bow of the boat and shouted loudly: "All stand up straight for Lao Tzu! All of them raised their heads and looked at me!"

A group of prisoners on the shore were frightened by the thunder-like sound, and they quickly got up and stood up, but their eyes looking at the bow were somewhat daunted.The big black man looked around at everyone, and then said again: "My surname is Gu Mingwei, and I will be your immediate boss in the future! You scumbags, please listen to me clearly, only those who obey the command and work hard can have food, not good If you want to play tricks with Lao Tzu, I will personally teach him how to write the word 'bitter'!"

As the representative of the military police department to manage the labor camp, Gu Wei was not assigned the task by Yan Chujie, but he applied for it himself.Crossing Qianguwei also once worked as a soldier. After he transferred to the local area, he worked in the Ministry of Human and Armed Forces. The specific thing he was in charge of was the training of the militia.The military and police department conducted several large-scale basic military skills training before crossing, and the plans were basically made by him and Yan Chujie.When it comes to training people and soldiers, Gu Wei can be regarded as an expert among the Transmigrators.According to his own plan, even if he can't be a general who leads troops to fight after crossing the road, he will at least get an official like the principal of the new regime army military academy. However, there is obviously no conditions for realizing his dream in the short term after crossing. No, but the prisoner of war labor camp seems to be a place where he can exert his abilities, so Gu Wei took the initiative to ask Ying to manage these dozens of prisoners.

Taking into account the special nature of the labor camp, the Military Police Department also assigned him a young deputy named Ren Liang.Although Ren Liang has no experience in the military, he is a serious graduate of Fujian Police College majoring in prison administration, and then he was assigned to work in Minxi Prison in Longyan City, Fujian Province for three or four years. It's just that he is seven or eight years younger than Gu Wei, so he can only be wronged to be his deputy first.

The representative from the Ministry of Agriculture is Gao Huan, who is mainly responsible for the guidance of agricultural technology.Originally, his wife, Zhu Ping, wanted to come in person, because Zhu Ping's major was food crops, while Gao Huan was the same as his master Yuan Ruoxiu's major in economic crops, but the executive committee did not plan to work in the labor camp. Food crops are grown in the area, so the old lady's kindness was rejected.The reason is actually very simple. You must know that the executive committee dares to put these people in the wild to work, even if they eat food, they will be stuck in their necks, and they will have nowhere to escape, but if food is grown in this place , this group of prisoners waited until the grain harvest season to secretly hide some, wouldn't they have the opportunity to escape from the labor camp?Such a low-level mistake of shooting itself in the foot is naturally not made by the shrewd Executive Committee.

In view of the current shortage of labor force, the management personnel of the labor camp had to be reduced to the minimum level—five people from the military and police department, one person from the Ministry of Agriculture, plus a local leading party member Yu Xiaobao who could already understand 28% to [-]% of Mandarin. as a translator.His wages are two meals through crowdsourcing, and he can get a catty of rice every day. If he works for more than [-] days a month, he can get an extra three taels of refined salt at the end of the month.Gu Wei couldn't take a look at Xiaobao's rags, so he applied for a set of camouflage training uniforms and a pair of rubber shoes from the inventory, so the little guy now only has the bun on his head and still maintains the characteristics of Mingren If this momentum continues, it will undoubtedly become the first naturalized citizen to pass through the area under the rule of the public.

The four labor camps were evenly divided into two groups by Gu Wei. One group was taken by Gao Huan to open up the wasteland, and the other group stayed by the river and was directed by Gu Wei himself. Ships to and from the two sides of the strait are docked.

However, the person who actually commanded the construction work was not Gu Wei. He was good at training soldiers. To talk about how to build a wharf trestle from scratch, it still requires professionals.In the morning, Gu Wei specially found Baix, and specially asked Cai Hongzhan, the leader of his logging team, to come over.Cai Hongzhan has worked in Baixie's furniture factory for many years, and he can be regarded as the number one carpenter among the traversers. With his on-site guidance, he can naturally achieve twice the result with half the effort.

The captives first dragged more than 20 thigh-thick logs tied behind the sailboat to the shore one by one. These were the fruits of the logging team's labor in the previous two days.Then Cai Hongzhan handed out tools such as hand saws and small axes, and asked them to prepare wood according to the dimensions marked by them.

Gu Wei was still a little worried about whether the prisoners would be ill-willed after they got these metal tools, and they kept their hands on the holster at the waist and did not let go.However, Cai Hongzhan noticed this detail later and comforted him with a smile: "I said Laogu, there is no need to be so nervous, these prisoners will not mess around."

"That's hard to say. Who knows what these guys have in mind... Lao Cai, don't get too close to them!" Gu Wei still refused to let his guard down.

Cai Hongzhan smiled and shook his head: "Lao Gu, although you were a soldier before, I'm afraid you can't understand the minds of these people."

"Oh? Then tell me?" Gu Wei was also interested.

"These Ming army prisoners have a bad will to fight, and now they know that they will not die, you say they still have a little bit of desperate intentions left? Besides, it is useless for them to kill me, can they still fly back from here. Yacheng? You must know that they have taken off their military uniforms and are no longer soldiers. Since they can live well, why should they die?"

Cai Hongzhan walked up to Gu Wei, took out a pack of "Yuxi" from his pocket, and handed one to Gu Wei: "Relax, I have calculated the amount of labor beforehand, and I promise to make these guys feel good, it's not at all. I can't stop... Look, the guy in the lead is said to be a hundred bosses, right? Look at how fast he works, he's definitely a master!"

Cai Hongzhan's voice was not small, and Luo Shengdong, who was working hard, actually heard it, but he didn't have the face to raise his head to refute anything, and could only put his anger on the wood.

Although Luo Shengdong felt a little ashamed, he also understood that what the short-haired carpenter said was right. If he ran away now, where would he go without food or drink?Even if the bodhisattva was lucky enough to escape back to Yacheng, what would happen? If he lost his boat and people, he would be charged with "running away from battle" or something, and be beheaded as a scapegoat.Since you can live well now, let's live first.

Luo Shengdong raised his hand and wiped the sweat from his forehead, remembering that when he was still a child of the military village, he was chopping wood at the boss's house in the hot sun. .At that time, I was chopping firewood day after day, and I couldn't see the future. If it wasn't for my father who was lucky enough to be transferred to Yazhou Water Village, he might still be chopping firewood for that damn king.Why did he return to his original life track after going around for so many years?

These life philosophies are too complicated and profound, Luo Shengdong couldn't understand them, and he didn't have time to think about them.Today's labor task is very heavy. If these two groups of people can't build the trestle before the sun goes down, then everyone can only get half of the two points, and he, as the leader of the labor camp, has to bear the punishment for this. The consequences of deducting points, it might be a waste of time today, and you won't even be able to get a single point. In his opinion, this is an unacceptable result.

"It must be done before the sun sets!" Luo Shengdong thought silently, leaving other distracting thoughts behind, shouting loudly for people to quickly bring the next piece of wood to be processed.

(End of this chapter)