Chapter 820: Resettlement of the Displaced People
The displaced people who have undergone several months of winter training will also be transported to Liaodong and other parts of the Outer Northeast before spring ploughing this year. There, villages and towns were established with the organization of squadrons, brigades, and detachments, and a land policy of guaranteeing production to households was implemented. The company has identified the areas where they will be resettled, and according to the formulated plan, they will gradually spread eastward along the main arteries of the Northeast Railway and along the main waterways in Liaodong and Outer Northeast.
It is expected that this autumn, the company will successively resettle more than one million Daming refugees. The resettlement of such a large number of displaced people at once is definitely an extremely severe test for the Far East. The work of resettling displaced people is extremely cumbersome, and the amount of work involved is unimaginable. The materials cost of the entire resettlement work will also be an astronomical amount.
To this end, the company's ethnic affairs committee specially convened an emergency mobilization meeting to make unified arrangements and arrangements for the large-scale resettlement of displaced people, and set up a working group for the resettlement of displaced people. Wang He personally served as the leader of the working group, and Guo Song, Han Shanglin, Hong Shulei and others were the deputy leaders.
A large number of elite soldiers with strong work ability will be dispatched from various departments of the company to enrich the strength of the resettlement working group. A large number of grassroots leading cadres and backbone members of the musket militia battalion were also mobilized to participate in the resettlement of the displaced people. He also submitted a request to the Central Military Commission, hoping that the garrison brigades stationed in various localities of the Central Military Commission would send officers and men of the troops to assist in the resettlement of the displaced people.
After the meeting of the Ethnic Affairs Committee, the whole company instantly rumbled like a huge machine. All departments of the company have taken action and began to make active preparations for this large-scale resettlement of displaced people.
First of all, the camp camps on both sides of the Liao River were the first to take action. Before leaving the camp, all the displaced people will be broken up and regrouped one by one, so that there are as few displaced people as possible from the same area or even the same province. The situation of belonging to the same grassroots squadron or brigade.
The work of reorganizing more than one million displaced people is also a huge and arduous task, which is not only a heavy workload, but also very cumbersome. Fortunately, the situation in each camp is quite stable, after all, after several months of winter training, the displaced people have a certain degree of organization and discipline. And there was no particularly chaotic situation.
Because the number of displaced people who need to be resettled is too large, the resettlement conditions of the displaced people this time are much worse than in the past. The houses of the displaced people are made of low-cost, easy-to-build wooden corrugated walls, but the standard of construction is definitely greatly reduced.
The original standard of one ploughing ox and one ox cart per family has also become about ten per squadron because there are too many displaced people, and then ten ox carts are correspondingly matched. These cattle and ox carts are also not collective goods, and they also need to be purchased by farmers with collective loans. During spring ploughing or autumn harvest. The displaced people use these ploughs and ox carts together in the form of mutual aid.
This is only a temporary response in difficult times. In the future, the company will gradually increase investment, and strive for every farmer in Liaodong to achieve the standard of one ploughing cow and one ox cart per family. Of course, it is still issued in the form of loans.
In addition, the farm tools, seeds, surplus grain, tools, and various daily necessities that were distributed to them in the form of loans were not at all worse than in the past.
The Far Eastern Company also had to do it as a last resort, and there were too many displaced people who needed to be resettled, even so. Many of the company's supplies are still tight, and even many of them have not yet arrived. We are actively procuring or producing. The company's relatively sufficient inventory of materials is only barely enough, but no matter how shabby the materials are, they must also ensure the normal production and life of the displaced people.
Fortunately, the company's seeds for various crops are sufficient, which can ensure that all displaced people can get enough seeds before this year's spring ploughing. In addition, the company's surplus grain reserves are not bad. Distributed to these displaced people, enough for them to survive until the arrival of the autumn harvest.
It's just that the standard of food distributed to the displaced people is relatively low compared to before. It is mainly based on dried sweet potatoes, potato flour and some coarse mixed noodles in the company's strategic reserve warehouse, and then with some corn, which is really miserable. And the food that was distributed to each of the displaced people. The number was barely enough to survive the autumn harvest.
This is also something that cannot be helped, although the company's grain reserves are relatively sufficient, but this year's homeless reception work is about to begin. Although the various materials are still sufficient, there must be some leeway to avoid some force majeure accidents.
Although it is unclear how many displaced people from all over the daimyo will eventually be accepted this year, it is estimated that the number will only be more than last year. The company's materials will begin to face a sharp depletion and insufficient inventory. Especially food and other materials, the company is under great pressure from top to bottom, and there is no food in hand, and I am panicked.
Last year, because the company miscalculated the situation of the displaced people, in a hurry, the company's inventory of grain was very large. In order to raise enough food, the Far East can be said to have resorted to all its resources.
A superfleet of five 10,000-ton ships and hundreds of sailing ships was sent to the coast of Siam, where they frightened and beat the Ayutthaya dynasty of Siam and signed a humiliating treaty with the Far East. Not only deceived hundreds of thousands of tons of low-priced grain, but also obtained a lot of benefits in Siam.
Later, he sent troops viciously, using cannons and bayonets to persecute the soil kings in various parts of the South Seas, and let them scrape the ground to collect grain and other materials for the Far East, causing famine in all the countries of the South Seas.
If it had not been for the two successive campaigns launched by the Central Military Commission, which quickly conquered Korea and Japan, and seized a large amount of grain and other materials, the grain reserves in the Far East might have been tightly packed with surplus grain for the resettlement of displaced people this year.
Although Siam is rich in rice, it cannot withstand the demand of such a scale in the Far East, after all, the population base of Indochina in this era is not comparable to modern society, although the cultivated area of the Mekong Plain is very large, and many arable land can be harvested three times a year, but because there is not enough agricultural population to cultivate, many arable land can only be harvested twice a year or simply barren. Whether we will be able to export that much rice this year is really unpredictable.
Last year, under the persecution of the bayonets of the Far Eastern cannons, the soil kings in various parts of the South Seas racked their brains to collect grain, and basically hollowed out their foundations, and it is estimated that they will definitely not be able to take out so much grain this year, and it is useless to force them hard.
This year, the company still has to count on the Military Commission, and everyone is full of expectations for the upcoming Indian campaign, hoping that the Military Commission can bring some surprises to the company. Even if the seizure in India can be the same as last year, the company's food shortage will be greatly alleviated. (To be continued......)