Chapter 964: Immigrants from the Southeast
Although the climate of the Indochina Peninsula is characterized by high temperature and rainfall, long summers and no winters throughout the year, abundant water and heat resources, and lush plant growth. The characteristics of agriculture are generally long crop growing season, wide variety and variety, and rich in tropics, suitable for agriculture at four times, rice three crops a year, and high economic value of crops.
However, most of the displaced people received by the company are from the northern provinces, and they are not adapted to the hot climate of the Indochina Peninsula. In particular, the tropical jungle miasma, mosquito bites, and plague and malaria epidemics were very serious, which had a great impact on the newly resettled displaced people in the northern Ming Dynasty.
The tropical monsoon climate on the Indochina Peninsula is divided into two seasons: dry and rainy. It belongs to the tropical monsoon climate, the temperature is high throughout the year, there is no change of four seasons, May to October is the rainy season, the highest temperature is generally between 38-40 °C.
The suffocation caused by the continuous high temperature and humidity in the rainy season is definitely a severe test for the displaced people in the northern Ming Dynasty. In many areas, the mountains are undulating, the rainforests are thick, the wild beasts are infested, the people are sparsely populated, the day is tormented by high temperatures, there are mosquito infestations at night, and the rainy season is a frequent disaster and disease.
Taking into account the climate and environmental characteristics of the Indochina Peninsula, the Far Eastern Company decided to send a telegram to Song Shiping, Zheng Zhilong, Liu Xiang and others, asking them to vigorously introduce population to various regions south of the Yangtze River and carry out large-scale migration to the Indochina Peninsula.
Guangdong, Fujian and other regions have had few people since ancient times. Moreover, the climatic conditions in these areas are similar to those of the Indochina Peninsula, and the Ming people in these areas who immigrate to the Indochina Peninsula will quickly adapt to the local conditions.
Song Shiping, Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang received the company's telegram and immediately took action. The three of them have very deep connections in Guangdong, Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang regions, and they have friends who can talk to each other in all aspects.
However, there are still many difficulties in large-scale immigration. Song Shiping said that the great drought in Chongzhen has begun to have a trend of moving south year by year, and it is currently a drought in the south and a flood in the north. Serious disasters occurred in many areas on both sides of the Yangtze River, and Song Shiping seized this opportunity to easily gather a large number of displaced people from the south of the Yangtze River.
But Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang don't have such conditions, but it can't be difficult for these two sea heroes. They appealed to the Admiralty of the Company for help, transferred a large number of guerrilla fleets back to the southeast coast, and then landed on the southeast coast in a big way.
The common people on the southeast coast are considered unlucky. A large number of organized "pirates" landed one after another, and a large number of villages along the coasts of Guangdong and Fujian disappeared without a trace overnight. Even in many bustling towns, similar situations often occur, much to the surprise of the locals.
Moreover, in order to increase the scale of the migratory population, Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang even used a large number of offshore and inland river deck barges to frantically plunder the population on both sides of these rivers along the waterways of the Minjiang, Jiulongjiang, Jinjiang, Zhujiang, Hanjiang, Rongjiang, Tanjiang, Yangjiang, Jianjiang, and Jiuzhou rivers along the southeast coast.
The Admiralty of the Far Eastern Military Council, in order to cooperate with them in their migration, sent a large number of guerrilla fleets. It's only been a few months. More than 100,000 people along the southeast coast were taken away.
In this era, information is blocked, and Liu Xiang and Zheng Zhilong organized people to go ashore to loot the population, and they also did it very secretively. The first few months did not cause much of a sensation, but as more and more people disappeared inexplicably, it finally attracted the attention of the government in Fujian and Guangdong.
Moreover, the people on the southeast coast also heard the rumors, and some gossip came out, saying that the dragon king in the sea had come ashore, and a large number of people were missing on the beach. They were all devoured by the Dragon King.
This is good, and it suddenly caused extreme chaos on the southeast coast of Daming. All the people along the coast fled inland with their families and mouths, and even the people along the rivers fled. The coastal area along the river is like a ghost area, and there are almost no people. Zheng Zhilong and Liu Xiang just stopped, they also knew that there was a big disaster, and hurriedly led the team to evacuate the southeast coast of Daming.
A large number of people on the southeast coast who were plundered. All were sent to the coast of Indochina. These people are not outcasts, they are all brought in by a gang of pirates from the whole village and town.
The Ming people were sent directly to the Siam coast of Indochina, where they were driven off the ships and placed in several newly built migrant camps off the coast of Bangkok.
The rest is still the same old thing, which is registration, screening and purification. Although the working group of the Civil Affairs Committee of the Far Eastern Company. and the grassroots management cadres who have been transferred have a lot of experience in receiving displaced people, but this time they did run into trouble.
Because these people are different from the displaced people in the past, these people from the southeast of the Ming Dynasty who were looted gathered together from every family, and they are all people from the same village and town, they all know each other, and they seem to be very united.
The migrant camps are divided into men's and women's camps, so men and women must enter the camps separately when registering. But when the camp was divided, it instantly became extremely chaotic, as if life and death were parting. The officers and men of the overseas divisions on duty wasted a great deal of effort, shouting and scolding and beating them again and again, and finally brought the situation under control.
It was easy to help them register, and in the next purification process, chaos occurred again. Anyway, these hundreds of thousands of people on the southeast coast, not to mention how troublesome it is. And these people are all from the same village, and they all have complete clans, so they can easily hug together.
In every village and town, there are some scholars or landlords, and there are also merchants and yamen officials in the town, and this kind of people are well-informed, socially experienced, and very good at seducing the people around them and creating all kinds of chaos.
Although these individuals were eventually screened out and placed in a separate camp for management, the whole process of receiving them became extremely difficult. Gao Jianguo and Li Ming were alarmed, and they rushed to the immigration camp in Siam.
The head of the working group in charge of the Siam region is Yao Song, an internal employee of the Democracy Committee. He had worked in the reception office for displaced people for a period of time, and he thought that he was very sure of the reception work, but who knew that the hundreds of thousands of ordinary people on the southeast coast made him anxious.
Yao Song saw Gao Jianguo and Li Ming rushing here in person, and hurriedly came over to greet them in person. When I met the two of them, I first made a review and said that the work was not done well. But he also talked about some of the practical difficulties he faced, which made him misestimate the situation.
Gao Jianguo looked at the camp with a gloomy face, these hundreds of thousands of people in the southeast of the Ming Dynasty had already been registered, screened and purified. But until now, the distribution has not been completed, and the camp is still in chaos.
He turned to Yao Song and said, "They have been here for a few days, and you, as the person in charge of the Siam region, have not found a solution until now, which is a dereliction of duty in your work." ”
After he finished speaking, he said to Li Ming: "Li Ming, you work hard and temporarily arrest the work of the migrant camp, Yao Song, you must fully cooperate with Li Ming's work and stabilize the migrant camp as soon as possible." (To be continued.) )