Chapter 742: Introducing immigrants
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Since the time it took for news to spread was almost as fast as the speed of transportation, the Mataram grain convoy left Champa and returned without knowing that the war in Batavia was over. They also had no idea that after capturing Batavia, they would be successfully overturned by the Dutch, who were in a desperate situation, and finally evacuated the area as a defeated army. At this time, they escorted this batch of grain back to Batavia, and the only result was that the Dutch came to take advantage of the situation.
It is still a trivial matter that these boats and the grain they carried were swallowed by the Dutch, and it is nothing more than that Dacheng Rice Bank lost some money to go in, but if the matter of Dacheng Rice Bank assisting the Mada Blue Army to purchase food is exposed, it will be a bit bad for Cheng Dapeng. Therefore, from an official point of view, the port of Ambuna could not let these ships leave on their own. Although Li Dagui's idea was not technical, it was indeed an effective solution to this problem, and after a little consideration, Roger agreed to this plan.
At midnight that day, two companies of armed men quietly took control of the four Mataran galleons docked at the port of Ambuna and seized all the crew members on board. Although some people realized that something was wrong and tried to resist, the Haihan militia would not give these people a chance to resist. Seven of the Mataran crew members were killed or wounded in the process, but in the end they were able to take the four ships relatively smoothly.
The noise in the middle of the night also attracted the attention of the other ships on the dock, but after hearing that it was Haihan who captured the slaves who had escaped to the ship, everyone was not interested in continuing to care about the subsequent development. The merchant ships who come and go here basically know that the Haihan people have built many plantations on the island and raised a lot of slave workers, among which there will naturally be some guys who are not safe enough to escape from here, and it is natural for the Haihan people to capture fugitive slaves. No one would come forward to find the unhappiness of the Haihan people for the sake of other people's slaves, and when this kind of thing happens, it is good as if nothing happened.
As soon as it was dark the next day, the four Mata Blue sailing boats quietly sailed out of the harbor out of the public eye. However, the direction of their journey is not to continue south, but to turn back and go north. Considering that the ships and the crews on board were more sensitive, Roger decided to leave this small trouble to Annan's colleagues to deal with. The ships will go to Cam Ranh Harbor, where they will be dismantled or refitted, and their crews will be transferred further north to serve in labor - for example, to be sent to work as miners at the Black Earth Port Coal Mine in the Beibu Gulf.
As for the three members of the Ministry of Security who were covering as Dacheng Mixing's fellows, they were obviously not among them, but they would not go south and return to Batavia. Considering that there might be someone else in Batavia who knew about it, Roger thought it better for the three men not to go back, lest someone take the handle.
After receiving the information, the Ministry of Security also agreed with Roger's opinion and let the three people return to Sanya on a military supply ship, and as for the Batavia intelligence station, it will send additional reinforcements south to strengthen the staffing.
More than ten days later, Cheng Dapeng also returned from Champa with the Dutch fleet, and this time without Cheng Dapeng's persuasion, the Dutch captains took the port of Ambuna as the first docking point on the way back. Although the ships were loaded with enough supplies for the fleet to sail at least to the island of Belid, there was an added benefit to a call at the port of Ambuna, and the Dutch were naturally willing to spend an extra night here.
The double commendation order of the Executive Committee and the Ministry of Security had been sent to the port of Ambuna a few days ago, and Roger, as a representative, read out the content of the commendation order to Cheng Dapeng in person. All the staff of the Dacheng Mixing Information Station were awarded a collective second-class merit, and Cheng Dapeng was awarded a personal second-class merit, of course, due to his special status, these merits could not be publicly announced, and even the medals could only be shown to Cheng Dapeng, and this thing could only be received when he was transferred back to Hainan Island.
However, the reward of the Ministry of Security is relatively more practical, and Cheng Dapeng's position has been promoted from the head of the Batavia squad to the deputy director of the Nanyang Affairs Office of the Ministry of Security, which can be said to be a carp leaping dragon gate promotion, because the position of director is concurrently held by Hao Wanqing himself. Before him, there were only a few naturalized civilian cadres who were so reused in the Ministry of Security, such as Gong Qiqi in Guangzhou, Zhang Qianzhi in Danzhou, Lin Nan in Sanya, and Gong Shaoqi in Fujian.
However, the current position of deputy director does not have a very practical role for Cheng Dapeng, and he still has to engage in his previous work and play the role of the boss of the rice store. Except for the increase in his autonomy, there will be no major change in the power he can mobilize and the scope of his responsibilities for the time being. But Cheng Dapeng was more nervous about the matter of the Ma Da Lan fleet, and after hearing that the matter had been satisfactorily resolved, and the people and ships had been sent to the north for processing, Cheng Dapeng was relieved.
The Batavian War began in early July and came to an end in early September, when Cheng Dapeng returned from Champong. Haihan was not directly involved in this war, but because of the efforts of Cheng Dapeng and others, Haihan still obtained a large amount of battlefield intelligence in the first time, which is difficult to evaluate simply with money. The Executive Committee has also sorted out a few things that were not well understood before.
First, the Dutch were not as strong as they thought, but the other forces in the South Seas were not as weak as the traversers thought. The Dutch may have intended to settle their opponents once and for all, but it is undeniable that they did not take the initiative on the battlefield during the war, and most of the time they were in a position of passive defense, and at one point they held out very hard. And the Mataran people are by no means described as low-fighting Nanyang monkeys in the mouths of the traversers, and their mobilization and troop mobilization and deployment capabilities during this operation are even higher than that of the continental country of Annam. The size of the defenders deployed by the Dutch in Batavia was comparable to that of the Haihan militia, but the fact that the fighting process was so passive was indeed an aspect that required the attention of the Haihan military.
Second, logistical supply is still a major problem that must be solved in the future when Haihan goes south. None of Matalan's three defeats were on the frontal battlefield, the first two were due to insufficient supplies, and the last encounter brought enough supplies, but was copied by the Dutch fleet. The story tells Haihan that without a more reliable supply base closer to Batavia, it would be difficult to gain a foothold even if Batavia was captured.
The third point is undoubtedly to highlight the importance of intelligence work, if the Dutch could have known before the battle that the Mata Blues would be using a large number of giant trebuchets on the battlefield, Van Diemen probably would not have adopted such a conservative defensive approach in the early stages of the battle. It took the Maltarans several days to transport the trebuchet parts to the port before the war began, and the Dutch wasted the opportunity to harass the Maltarans. If the Mataran had not been able to deploy as many trebuchets on the battlefield as smoothly as possible, the course of the war might have been completely different.
Thankfully, the combat methods and styles of these two armies have now been collected in detail for Haihan's reference. Although I don't know if they will play other tricks in the future, the Haihan military will definitely make targeted arrangements for their existing combat methods.
Of course, this kind of war readiness does not mean that Haihan will take action against the Nanyang region in the near future, after all, the resources required to fight in the Nanyang are too large, and the focus of Haihan's development direction this year is not in the south.
As we enter September, the affairs in the direction of Fujian are gradually increasing, especially the introduction of mainland immigrants this year, and the Executive Committee has designated Fujian as one of the main channels. The war in the Central Plains and Jiaodong regions of the Ming Dynasty created a large number of war refugees, and the goal of the Executive Committee was to receive as many refugees as possible from the Ming Dynasty and bring them into the areas under their own rule to settle down. For refugees whose survival has become a problem, renunciating their former nationality does not seem to be too much of a problem as long as they have a bite to eat. Haihan stood up as a savior at this time, not only was he able to introduce a large number of people, but also gained more favor from the Ming officials.
Of course, this plan is not so easy to implement, and Haihan's own maritime power is not enough to extend its tentacles to the far north, so it is necessary to transfer and sell the refugees from the north to the south. Moreover, Haihan does not have any foundation in Fujian, and has not even built a large-scale migrant transfer base like Lijiazhuang in Panyu, and does not have the ability to receive a large number of immigrants. It was not until after the capture of Penghu in May that the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Haihan put into practice the long-planned plan for the Fujian Migrant Transfer Base. Although the place of Penghu is still nominally owned by the Ming Dynasty, it is in fact completely controlled and dominated by the Haihan, and it is undoubtedly much more convenient to deal with the import and export of Ming immigrants here than on the coast of Fujian.
After three months of infrastructure work, the Penghu Migrant Transfer Base has finally begun to operate. For security and management reasons, the resettlement base was not built on the main island of Penghu, but on Baisha Island in the north. Baisha Island and Penghu Island are only less than 2 kilometers away, which can not only isolate the island's environment, but also easily transport people and supplies. The 25-square-kilometre island is relatively flat, making it easy to accommodate tens of thousands of people on the island.
At present, five migrant camps have been planned and built on Baisha Island, which can accommodate 12,000 migrants. Although it is only about one-third of the population designed to accept for the time being, it is already the largest immigration base in the Haihan area outside the Sanya base camp.
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If the Mataran had not been able to deploy as many trebuchets on the battlefield as smoothly as possible, the course of the war might have been completely different.
Thankfully, the combat methods and styles of these two armies have now been collected in detail for Haihan's reference. Although I don't know if they will play other tricks in the future, the Haihan military will definitely make targeted arrangements for their existing combat methods.
Of course, this kind of war readiness does not mean that Haihan will take action against the Nanyang region in the near future, after all, the resources required to fight in the Nanyang are too large, and the focus of Haihan's development direction this year is not in the south.
As we enter September, the affairs in the direction of Fujian are gradually increasing, especially the introduction of mainland immigrants this year, and the Executive Committee has designated Fujian as one of the main channels. The war in the Central Plains and Jiaodong regions of the Ming Dynasty created a large number of war refugees, and the goal of the Executive Committee was to receive as many refugees as possible from the Ming Dynasty and bring them into the areas under their own rule to settle down. For refugees whose survival has become a problem, renunciating their former nationality does not seem to be too much of a problem as long as they have a bite to eat. Haihan stood up as a savior at this time, not only was he able to introduce a large number of people, but also gained more favor from the Ming officials.
Of course, this plan is not so easy to implement, and Haihan's own maritime power is not enough to extend its tentacles to the far north, so it is necessary to transfer and sell the refugees from the north to the south. Moreover, Haihan does not have any foundation in Fujian, and has not even built a large-scale migrant transfer base like Lijiazhuang in Panyu, and does not have the ability to receive a large number of immigrants. It was not until after the capture of Penghu in May that the Ministry of Civil Affairs of Haihan put into practice the long-planned plan for the Fujian Migrant Transfer Base. Although the place of Penghu is still nominally owned by the Ming Dynasty, it is in fact completely controlled and dominated by the Haihan, and it is undoubtedly much more convenient to deal with the import and export of Ming immigrants here than on the coast of Fujian.
After three months of infrastructure work, the Penghu Migrant Transfer Base has finally begun to operate. For security and management reasons, the resettlement base was not built on the main island of Penghu, but on Baisha Island in the north. Baisha Island and Penghu Island are only less than 2 kilometers away, which can not only isolate the island's environment, but also easily transport people and supplies. The 25-square-kilometre island is relatively flat, making it easy to accommodate tens of thousands of people on the island.
At present, five migrant camps have been planned and built on Baisha Island, which can accommodate 12,000 migrants. Although it is only about one-third of the population designed to accept for the time being, it is already the largest immigration base in the Haihan area outside the Sanya base camp.
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