Chapter 808: Construction of the Camp Camp
This year, the Far Eastern Company's standard for accepting displaced people is simply heaven and earth compared with the past. Although the house is also woodcut, there are nearly 50 people squeezed into a three-story bunk in a room, and the room is much smaller than before.
The standard of clothing for each person is only a set of cotton clothes, cotton hats, cotton gloves and cotton shoes, wooden water bottles and rice bowls. There was only a shabby quilt on the bed, not even a mattress, let alone the felt on the previous bed. The temperature inside the house is very low, and you can basically freeze to death.
The daily food standard of the displaced people is also not comparable to before. Every morning, a bowl of cornmeal porridge mixed with sweet potato pieces and dried vegetables, in addition to a bowl of cornmeal porridge at noon, there are a few more sweet potatoes. It's still a bowl of polenta in the evening, but you can divide two tortillas.
As for the non-staple food, there are three kinds of cabbage, potatoes and radish, and there are not many of them. There are also some pickles, kimchi, and occasionally some salted fish. It's time for the New Year's Festival, you can eat a big pot of broth and bone broth, and everyone can get a few pieces of whale meat, beef and mutton.
Nearly 2 million Daming refugees have been an extremely severe test of the management level of the Far Eastern Company. At this time, it was Hu Wei who was ordered to take over this important task and take charge of the reception of displaced people in the Far East. Almost all the grassroots cadres and the backbone of the musket militia in various parts of the Far East were transferred, and all of them were successively transferred to the camps to participate in the management of the displaced people.
Even so, in the early stages of the work in the camps, the management work was still relatively chaotic. The main reason is that there are too many displaced people, and the composition of displaced people is extremely complex. In order to save more displaced people in Daming, various procedures in the past, including registration, purification, and screening, were all simplified, and later they were even directly stuffed into the boat.
A lot of the work was carried out when the displaced people arrived in Liaodong, so it caused a relatively chaotic situation in the early days. Because of the great drought in Chongzhen this time. The composition of the homeless is different. In previous years, most of the Ming migrants were peasants, which were relatively easy to manage.
However, this time, among the nearly 2 million displaced people were not only farmers, but also craftsmen, handicraftsmen, small traders, scholars, and talented people. Of course, many miscellaneous people in the society are even more full of homeless people.
First of all, it is necessary to register all displaced persons and make preliminary statistics on the natural conditions of the displaced persons. It's a lot of work. It requires a lot of tedious work, and the manpower and materials consumed are very large.
Women and children are first quarantined, and from the moment they disembark, they are sent to separate camps. After receiving the purification and medical examination, the woman will be sent to various parts of Liaodong to form a new family with migrant employees from various departments of the company and many farmers in Liaodong.
The process of distribution is incredibly simple, and it basically uses lots, lots, and even lotteries. to determine their future fate. Everyone has no resistance to the new family, after all, in such a troubled world, living well is the first thing people should consider.
As for those children, the Far East attaches more importance to them. At great expense, a large number of schools were built. Because the speed of school construction is too fast, the follow-up work cannot keep up at all. Some of them don't even have the minimum number of teachers, and they all stuff the students into it first.
Even if you don't learn knowledge. It is also necessary to let the children have a good environment for growing up, and these children are the hope of the future of the Far East. If you want to build a new world in this era, you can only start from the basics and work step by step, and the whole process may take several generations.
In addition to women and children, and then there are special talents. For example, carpenters, stonemasons, bricklayers, blacksmiths, and masons and other traditional craftsmen of this era, they will be singled. Assigned to the subordinate enterprises of various departments of the company, they will work as apprentices for a period of time, and later become a new generation of industrial workers in the Far East.
There are also craftsmen such as langzhong, cooks, tailors, drummers, scholars, spinners, bleaching and dyeing, silk reelers, brocade weavers, etc., will also be selected. They will also be assigned to various departments and after a period of training, they will contribute to the Far East Company in various positions in the company.
Finally, the activists who perform well among the displaced people, after a period of observation and assessment, will also be promoted to serve as the deputy of the leaders of each squad for key training. They are all the kind of people who are honest and down-to-earth, and in the chaotic period in the early days of the homeless camp, these people played a certain leading role in stabilizing everyone's emotions.
Therefore, they are also relatively easy to take the lead, after all, in such a chaotic environment, they can still play a certain role model, indicating that they have the conditions to be promoted and trained. In the future, they will be the seedlings of the grassroots cadres of the Far Eastern Company, and after some training and accumulation of a certain amount of practical work experience, they will be able to serve as grassroots leading cadres of squads and squadrons at all levels in the camps of displaced people next year.
All displaced persons are registered, and then further screening is carried out. The main task at this stage is to clear out the cancer among the displaced people. Because the number of people in the camp is too large, although the management is very strict, and various strict camp rules and regulations have been formulated, because there is too much work in the initial stage, the number of managers at all levels is insufficient, and the situation in the camp is not understood.
Some of the homeless people in the camp felt that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, and they began to be unscrupulous in the camp. They belong to the most difficult type to manage and screen, and they are used to messing around in society on weekdays, and they are used to bullying and dominating the market, stealing and playing tricks.
During the chaotic early days of the camp camps, these men dominated the camp and bullied the weak. Some scoundrels occupied the bottom floor of the house and drove everyone else to the second and third shops, some robbed other people's physical goods in the canteen, and some ganged up to dominate the camp. Anyway, these people are doing all the bad things.
The company has a relatively strict management of various homeless private areas, and has formulated a lot of harsh rules and regulations, and has caught and dealt with those who dare to violate the rules. However, there was too much work in the initial stage, and the grassroots cadres at all levels of the Far Eastern Company were not all in place.
Moreover, these miscellaneous ruffians who have been in the society for many years have rich social experience. In front of the Far Eastern staff, they were all well-behaved like grandsons, and as soon as they left, they turned into a scoundrel ruffian.
Especially in the process of purification, various problems are encountered. Many times, some people raised their heads and made a noise, and most of the displaced people who did not know the truth followed blindly, and the situation became chaotic in an instant, and there were even several serious stampedes, resulting in serious casualties.
Just dealing with this kind of work takes a lot of energy from the company. In the face of such a grim situation, the company decided to crack down on these black sheep hidden among the displaced people after research, and strive to eradicate them at one time.
However, if we want to eradicate these cancers, we need to do a lot of investigation and evidence collection. The company transferred a group of activists from farmers from all over the country, and after some training, they were successively placed in various homeless camps to understand the situation among the homeless people. After more than a month of investigation, we basically grasped the situation in the camp. (To be continued......)