Chapter 710: Chongzhen's Great Drought (11)

Although the refugees received by the Far East this year will be able to solve their basic food and clothing before the autumn harvest next year if there is no major famine in Liaodong, there is still nearly a year to go, and the amount of grain needed will be astronomical.

The Chongzhen drought that lasted for several years, there can only be more and more displaced people in the Ming Dynasty every year, and the Far East receives more than one million displaced people every year, which is already a hard support for smashing pots and selling iron, and there is nothing that can be done about the displaced people in the Ming Dynasty.

Because of the sudden blowout tide of displaced people in various parts of the Ming Dynasty, the displaced people army in various places who were originally vigorously cleared by the Ming Dynasty officials and troops and fell into a downturn are bound to set off an upsurge again. But it can also find a temporary way for the displaced people who follow them to survive.

Before the winter of this year, the Far Eastern Company will set up a number of displaced armed forces in various parts of the Ming Dynasty to win over some of the displaced people by plundering the large landlords, bureaucrats and gentry in various parts of the Ming Dynasty. If it goes well, you can also choose a suitable area to establish some base areas, and try your best to rescue those displaced people who are struggling on the death line.

Even so, there will be a large number of displaced people in the northern provinces of Daming, and they will not survive this winter. But the Far East has done their best, after all, the great drought in Chongzhen in history has caused countless people to die of starvation.

Taking Shandong as an example, starting from 1637, more than 10 prefectures and counties in Shandong appeared in the annals of "summer drought without wheat" and "great drought and rice hunger"; In 1638, "there was a great drought in spring, the wells and springs were exhausted, the yellow wind was made, and the sand flew all over the sky"; In 1639, the "Yidu County Chronicle" recorded: "Since the first month of the first month of the rain, as of June, the locusts in July, the year of great hunger, cannibalism, and the homeless people carry the road"; By 1640. It developed into a severe drought in the province, 48 prefectures and counties recorded the occurrence of "cannibalism", the drought lasted until 1641, "the land is barren, the villages are in ruins", and the people die of hunger.

Other parts of Daming were also badly affected. The severe drought in Shanxi, Shaanxi, Hebei, and Henan was accompanied by locust plagues and serious epidemics, which made the disaster even more serious. Henan "drought throughout the province, grass and grass are withered, Luo water depth is not full of feet, grass, trees, animal skins, insects and flies are eaten, many people are starving to death, starvation carries the road, and the land is wild." Cannibalism in large arid areas of Gansu. Shaanxi "is a rice market, and the wood bark and stone pasta are exhausted." Father and son and husband and wife dissected each other, and eight or nine times out of ten."

During the Xiaoice River period at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the climate of the entire Central Plains deteriorated sharply, and the disaster was very miserable. This is also one of the important reasons for the demise of the Ming Dynasty. Now that the Far Eastern Group has come to this era, it can be regarded as doing its best to rescue the victims, but in the face of natural disasters of such a scale, it can only adhere to the principle of saving one person and try to live as many people as possible.

Although in order to save more people. Far Eastern Company's resettlement work for a large number of displaced people is based on the principle of simplicity. But the purification of the displaced people. However, there is not a trace of ambiguity, and every homeless person will undergo a strict purification work before entering the camp camp.

Although the number of displaced persons is very large, every displaced person has to be registered and recorded, and the enforcement is very strict. The Far East-controlled territories have a strict household registration system, and every person who immigrates to the Far East. Including migrant farmers and migrant employees from the Ming Dynasty, indigenous and Mongolian herdsmen from Northeast China, foreign migrant employees and foreign laborers, each of whom has a household registration book.

This household registration is incredible, without it it is simply impossible to move an inch in the Far East, it records all kinds of information about every Far Eastern immigrant, and even the credit rating is clearly recorded. If the immigrant's family register is lost. It will bring a lot of trouble, and it will be cumbersome to reissue.

Because the number of displaced people this year is too large, this winter's winter training for immigrants is also relatively simplified, after all, there are so many people, they must not be allowed to be idle, once the displaced people have nothing to do, there is no way to point out something after a long time.

Another is the screening of displaced people, and the company also attaches great importance to it. There are two criteria for screening, one is the basic information of the displaced people, such as the expertise of the immigrants and the industries they have been engaged in, which must be selected before the displaced people enter the camp.

Trades such as craftsmen, langzhong, tailors, cooks, craftsmen of all kinds, boatmen, etc., will soon be picked out by various departments of the company, and simple farmers will also be assigned to a camp.

Another criterion for screening is to eliminate as much as possible the miscellaneous ruffians among the homeless people, among which the most difficult to manage are the idle lazy people, the scoundrel ruffians who deceive the good and fear evil, the shrewd small businessmen, the snobbish and treacherous car and boat shops, and the notorious officials and gangsters. There is also a kind of pedantic scholar showman, and there is a scholarly show every day in the purification camp.

Scholar Xiucai has a superhuman status in the Ming Dynasty, but it is not so easy to use in the Far East, and even they are unstable factors in the Far East in the future. Whoever you are, you must undergo strong self-purification. For this reason, there were several bloodshed incidents in the purification camp, some scholars were killed by a head-butt, and some were killed by a single shot. Anyway, at this time, the Far East is racing against time to rescue the victims, and they must not be indulged.

After a large number of displaced people who have already been transported to Liaodong, after going through strict purification, screening, and registration, they will be briefly trained in the camp camps for a few days, and then they will be organized into squadrons, brigades, and detachments, and they will all be sent to various parts of Liaodong to carry out all kinds of labor and participate in various infrastructure projects in Liaodong.

On various construction sites such as roads, railways, and agricultural infrastructure, displaced people from Daming are busy day and night, and the workload is not small. From the displaced people to the Far East, the company has been constantly instilling a concept in the displaced people, that is, they cannot eat if they do not work, and they can eat two meals a day, which they have in exchange for their own labor.

Of course, if there are more people, it will inevitably be good and bad, and this time the drought that affected several northern provinces of the Ming Dynasty made the displaced people fleeing the famine everywhere no longer be simple farmers, but also a large number of people from cities and towns. In the face of the surging crowds of displaced people, it is too difficult to identify all the ruffians.

Through the hard work of this time, the lazy people will instantly show their original form, and after a period of operation in the homeless camp, all kinds of miscellaneous ruffians will gradually emerge. For such people, the company will deal with them. Many were sent to Far Eastern coolie camps to work as coolies for the rest of their lives. Still others were simply sent back to Daming.

The company transferred a large number of overseas brigade ruffians from overseas territories such as Nanyang and Ceylon, and asked them to cooperate with the company's grassroots cadres at all levels to manage the displaced people. The management of the displaced people in the camps of the company is very strict, and as long as they violate the rules and regulations of the camp, they must be punished. (To be continued......)

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