1627 Rise of the South China Sea

Chapter 59 The New System

The time came to late April 1627. The construction sites in Yulin Bay were in full swing. Hundreds of local people were working day and night to build various infrastructures under the organization of the Cross-Congregation.

While everyone had lunch and rested, Ning Qi held up a tin horn and stood on a high place beside the construction site to publicize the various benefits of joining Haihan to these people.

"After joining Haihan, your children will be able to enroll in the school we set up to read and read. In the future, whether they go to take the imperial examinations or do things for us, they will all have a good way out!"

"If you have a headache in the future, a serious illness or a small disaster, we will have a doctor to provide you with treatment, and you don't have to travel dozens of miles to the county town to see a doctor!"

"Join Haihan, you can apply for the allocation of arable land, [-] acres of land! There are no additional conditions! You only need to pay [-]% of the income tax every year! We will provide grain seeds and agricultural tools, and guide the whole process to ensure that every household can have it. A good harvest!"

Ning Qi kept repeating the various preferential conditions that Haihan offered to recruit people, and his mouth was dry when he passed it.However, using this simple and rude propaganda method has quite good results. After he stopped, people immediately gathered around to inquire about the detailed procedures for registering and joining.

Of course, the people are most concerned about the issue of cultivated land, especially the Han people who have mastered the basic farming techniques. They want to know how Haihan will protect the rights and interests of the cultivated land after it is allocated to them.It should be known that this area is still under the Ming Dynasty in name, and the Haihan people are allocating arable land on their behalf. In the future, the Ming government may not recognize the ownership of these lands.

Yu Dashan, who had been recruited by Haihan, responded to this question on his behalf: "The Ming army that came to Yulin a few days ago is still locked in the camp in the upper reaches of Tian Duhe! Although the leader Luo Ba has been put back , but he has made an oath to the Haihan people that he will not oppose the Haihan people in the future, and he will also open up the joints for the Haihan people in Yacheng. When the time comes, the Haihan people will come forward to negotiate with the government for the Haihan people. We ordinary people are worried."

Yu Dashan's remarks quickly dispelled most people's worries, because it was true. The fact that the Ming army was captured by Haihan was well known in Yulin Bay, and it was not a secret.If the government has nothing to do with the Haihan people, then naturally they cannot interfere in the affairs of Yulin Bay.

Moreover, the taxation standard set by the Haihan people is much lower than that of the government, and they also provide grain, agricultural tools and technical guidance. These are conditions that the government cannot provide. It is indeed difficult for the public to refuse such a temptation.

Under the instigation of Yu Dashan, people at the scene expressed their willingness to join in and work for Haihan in the future.

In addition to these Han people, Li people working on the construction site also received the same invitation.Their thoughts on joining the group are more practical. During this period of time, they worked for the Haihan people and received food and other materials as remuneration. Such cooperation has significantly improved their living standards, and also made them aware of Haihan people. Han's strength is enough to change the living state of the Li people.

For those young Li people who yearn for life outside the mountains, this is of course a great opportunity.Fu Li, the young master of Fu Shantong, has become very familiar with the Haihan people. The courtesy he received also made the Li people think that Haihan is a reliable and trustworthy partner.

In order to facilitate the recruitment of the Li people, Haihan even set up a special coordination agency to be responsible for various liaison affairs of Haihan in the area controlled by the Li people, and Fu Li obtained an important position in it.

Under such a joint force, people from Li have also actively signed up to join, hoping to get better treatment from Haihan through new cooperation methods.

After five days of publicity at various construction sites, Ning Qi and others have recruited the places that were originally scheduled to take ten days to complete.As for the newly recruited group of personnel, the Executive Committee intends to organize them and send them to the valley where the Yulin Bay Waste Salt Field is located, and arrange for them to rebuild the salt field there and resume salt production as soon as possible.

In the end, more than 60 households and more than [-] people were sent to the saltworks for resettlement.Because of Yu Dashan's active performance, he was also appointed as a senior manager of the saltworks, responsible for the resettlement of these people and the subsequent production organization.

Early one morning in early May 1627, the first members of the Yanchang took two boats across Yulin Bay to their destination.The trestle-style wharf has been built in advance by Chuanzhong, and the residential area for building housing has been demarcated.

After the boat docked, the people unloaded various building materials, tools and living materials on the boat to the shore, and then began to build their residences under the command of craftsmen.For the first time, most of them had to live in tents temporarily, during which the first job they had to complete was to build their own dwellings, and then they began to renovate the production facilities of the saltworks.

According to the plan of the Executive Committee, the old salt field, which originally used stone troughs for drying salt, will be gradually transformed into a large-area cement salt pond, and the original seawater lifting and irrigation device will be changed to wind and animal power until it is more advanced in the later stage. Efficient steam power.

However, the beginning of everything is difficult. In the early stage, it is not an easy task to make these newly organized people spend a lot of effort in building various infrastructures of the salt field.

Because the actual working environment here is different from the cultivated land advertised by Chuanzhong, they will soon find out that what the Haihan people are planning to do here is not to organize them to reclaim farmland, but to rebuild the tidal flats by the sea. Into the salt field, they will be salt households specializing in the production of table salt in the future.

Large-scale production of smuggled salt is, of course, illegal in the Ming Dynasty.However, in Yulin Bay, the mountains are high and the emperor is far away, and the government seems to have no control. The only thing people need to worry about is whether the salt fields built by the Haihan people can really bring stable profits?

Of course, the Executive Committee has no doubts about this. According to the target set by the Ministry of Industry, the salt production will reach [-] tons in the first year after the salt field is put into operation.This number is not big, but it is by no means small.According to historical records, before Chuanzhong came here, the annual output of salt in the entire Hainan Island was only about [-] tons.

But even reaching such a production capacity is by no means Haihan's long-term goal.According to the plan of the Ministry of Industry, in the future, in Yinggehai, Danzhou and other places on Hainan Island, more salt fields with larger production scale will continue to be built.The salt produced by these products is not only a commodity that Haihan will use for export for profit in the future, but also a raw material for future chemical development.

(End of this chapter)