431 New Immigrants (Part 2)

Generally speaking, Huang Jiancheng is very satisfied with these people - they are all strong young men with plenty of physical strength and good minds. After a little training, they can master the necessary skills. In his plan, this

A group of people will be sent to the Shilu Iron Mine to perform the most difficult ore mining work - although the Shilu Mine is a relatively rare high-grade open-pit mine, with the technical conditions of this era to achieve large-scale mining, that work

It's still very hard work, and it's still quite dangerous. It's not easy to find people through voluntary recruitment. In other words, these good guys who have committed crimes and have a strong desire to atone for their sins are the most suitable.

Regarding their future, they had already discussed it clearly with Pang Yu when he singled them out - a period of three to five years of atonement, with slight increases or decreases depending on their status in the rebels. The work they have done must be

It will be more difficult, but you can regain your freedom as soon as the time comes, and there will be no criminal charges. In five years at most, you will be an ordinary citizen, and your family and children will not be implicated.

When Huang Jiancheng arrived, he told them about the new preferential measures - while they were working in the mine, their family members could also be allocated fields and houses like ordinary immigrants. The location was near the iron mine. As long as they stayed in the "atonement period"

For those who work honestly, land and houses will be officially allocated to them after the expiration of the term. If they perform well, they can also go home during holidays and enjoy family happiness with their families.

Huang Jiancheng's speech was simple and unpretentious, with nothing in vain. Every detail was a tangible policy. As soon as his speech ended, there was a huge cheer in the crowd - only those who have permanent property can

Have perseverance. Compared to the strict laws and strengthened spy surveillance advocated by Adelaide, everyone in the industrial group prefers to use actual benefit chains and emotionally sincere treatment to gain the sense of belonging of these immigrants - even if

They were rebels.

Of course, necessary precautionary measures must be taken, but they are not mainstream and the scale will not be too large.

This porridge and meal lasted only a short time, but after eating this meal, the ideological status of these new immigrants had changed greatly - while Huang Jiancheng was promoting policies to the former rebel group here, Wu Nanhai was

He was not idle either. The agricultural group also had various preferential conditions for the large number of newcomers who were about to join his agricultural group. While those people were having porridge and resting, he started to preach one by one.

In addition to the promised number of acres of land allocated to each household for free, Wu Nanhai also showed them a housing model of a centralized village - to be precise, it cannot be considered a model, because it is a one-to-one real thing, and everyone has it.

You can go in and look at it. It might be more appropriate to say it's a model house.

This kind of prefabricated wooden elevated house refers to the stilt houses of local ethnic minorities, and focuses on the uniformity of material specifications and the convenience of assembly. It is assembled entirely with wood and boards, and only a few places require bricks and stones.

Laying the foundation with masonry. It is very fast to build - the staff demonstrated on the spot and used hammers and hammers to build the model house, which was originally in parts, in a very short time. Then the interior and exterior decorations were laid, and the roof was waterproof.

...Soon a delicate and beautiful little house appeared in front of everyone.

For reasons of hygiene and fire prevention, the kitchen and toilet are located outside the wooden house and will be centralized in the village. Therefore, this small house only has a residential function. However, the bedroom and living room are still simply divided to meet the needs of privacy.

Different needs from public activities.

The house is not big, and is considered as a small family, but because the space division is extremely compact and reasonable, a couple of parents, several children and the elderly can live in it very comfortably. For most people in this era,

This was the first time they had seen this kind of apartment house that divided the space according to the use function. Moreover, it was so simple and easy to build. Everyone formed a circle and walked around the house curiously to look at the four sides of the model house.

The walls have been removed, so you can see directly inside, or you can walk in and feel the space of the house.

When they heard that the "Agricultural Committee" responsible for managing them would distribute materials for such a small house to all families, and send people to assist in the construction, it was guaranteed that everyone would be able to live in such a small house within a day or two.

When they arrived at the cabins, which were much more comfortable than tents, there was a chorus of praise and gratitude, and the "Agricultural Committee" easily won the hearts and minds of these immigrants. The effect was far better than what Wang Pu had been shouting at the top of his lungs for a long time.

The slogan of loyalty to the emperor and patriotism is much stronger.

Later, the "Industrial Committee" sent additional resettlement gifts to every household, which made all immigrants feel unexpected ecstasy - the gift was a set of seven iron tools: an iron plowshare, which can be used as a

An ax for a hammer, a multipurpose short knife with a serrated single side, an iron pan, a pair of scissors, a kitchen knife, and a pack of ten sewing needles of different sizes.

When this set of things was taken out, the eyes of the immigrants immediately became moist - in this era, most ordinary families were self-sufficient: growing their own food, weaving their own clothes, building their own houses, and making their own furniture.

You can even open wasteland by yourself... But these iron tools cannot be solved by yourself. You can only spend money to buy them. But in troubled times, all iron and blacksmiths must serve the military, even the iron pots at home.

They will all be robbed, and there is no place to buy these things if you have money.

At present, these immigrants have left their hometowns. Those who are in better condition can still bring a few belongings with them, while those who are in worse condition have only one living person left. Although they promised to divide houses and land after arriving here, they really want to rebuild their families. These metals

Tools are essential.

One or two of these iron products may be inconspicuous, but if you have to buy several of them, it is not a small sum. For the refugees who are still alone at the moment, it was originally estimated that they would not have a year or two to solve it. The key is

With these things, whether it is to open up wasteland and farm, go hunting to supplement household income, or make and mend clothes at home, or even make new furniture... As long as you have a pair of hard-working hands, you can do it all.

When the new immigrants queued up as a family to receive these "settlement gifts" from Xiao Lang, Li Jingcheng and others, many people were so excited that their faces were filled with tears - with these few things, plus

With a house that can protect them from the wind and rain, and a piece of land that can grow things, they will be able to build their home again in no time. It is truly a "settlement gift".

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Wang Pu and Wang Jieshan looked at the short-haired men so blatantly buying people's hearts, with a very depressed look on their faces. In his opinion, everything short-haired men did should be done in the name of the Ming Dynasty government. When allocating land to immigrants, because

He was keeping an eye on it, and after all, the whole island of Hainan was still under the rule of the Ming Dynasty, and it was finally in the name of the Ming Dynasty. It was just wooden houses, ironware and other things that he couldn't say anything about. After all, Shorthair had taken them out of his own pocket.

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It's just that there is inevitably some dissatisfaction in my heart - what about the "Agricultural Committee" and "Industrial Committee", why don't you just say "official"? Anyway, shorthairs have been blatantly exercising official functions on the island, and they have to engage in these weird names.

, as long as the word "government" does not include everything? Why must we exclude the government in front of the people?

In addition, he was also very interested in the iron tools that those people got. After looking at them patiently for a long time, he finally couldn't help but walked over and stopped a family and looked at the complete sets they had just obtained. Wang Pu couldn't help but

I secretly praised the short hair's handiwork - the ironware produced in Qionghai Town is known for its high quality, and the steel products exported have always been in short supply. But this time, what they provided to the immigrants was more expensive than ordinary exported products.

Raised a level higher.

Wang Pu has been around the Qionghai Market for a long time, and has developed a good eye. He can even distinguish the manufacturing methods of some steel products - he originally thought that the iron products that Short Hair distributed to immigrants this time must also have the same cutting edge.

They are best at the carburizing process. Wang Pu has always been very envious of this technology - ordinary wrought iron can actually reach the hardness of steel products after being treated in this way, which greatly improves the practicality of the tool. If it can be

If it was taught to the steel craftsmen of the Ming Dynasty, it would be equivalent to hundreds more steel makings.

It's a pity that the short-haired craftsmen, the group of people in the so-called "Industrial Committee", were not as friendly to the Ming Dynasty as Mr. Li and others. Their technology has been kept highly confidential. Even "carburization"

This term was brought up by chance when I was chatting with Mr. Li. The old man told him this term and said that in fact, ancient craftsmen had mastered this craft for a long time. There must have been blacksmiths in the Ming Dynasty who understood it, but it has always been

The secret techniques of each family are not passed on to others. There is no systematic understanding of the real principles and operating techniques. They only act based on experience. Therefore, they cannot apply it as freely as they do in Qionghai Town, and the effect is far less than that.

At that time, Wang Pu quickly wanted to ask for further advice on specific techniques, but the old man laughed that Taoism was a specialty, and he was engaged in literature and history, so for this kind of information, he only wanted to understand its historical evolution. The real detailed technical measures were

I don’t know much about the scope of abilities of people in the industrial group.

Although Wang Pu was slightly disappointed, he also had a great sense of enlightenment and couldn't wait to write it in a secret letter and send it back to the mainland. It is said that the Ministry of Industry of the imperial court has organized many master craftsmen from the iron smelting family to work together to explore, maybe it won't be used.

How long will it take to figure out the secret?

However, Qiongzhou Shorthair's iron products are far ahead of those produced in Daming. This aspect will definitely not change - even if Daming really mastered the carburizing technology, it will definitely be used in military industry, and it is unlikely that Shorthair will have the leisure to make civilian products.

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What made Wang Pu even more shocked this time was that in addition to the carburizing process, the short-haired ironware distributed to immigrants also used another more high-end technology - a plowshare, an axe, and a short knife.

, even the kitchen knife, although it has not been sharpened, can be seen that the material of the blade is obviously different from the surrounding parts, and it is actually made of steel.

——This is steel-clad technology, a top-notch technique used in the Ming Dynasty to make the highest-end weapons. Short hair was used casually on folk kitchen knives and plowshares, and hundreds or thousands of pieces were made at one time.

Robbery. Robbery with a kitchen knife.
Chapter completed!