From being forced to throw away the tattered bedding and tattered clothes they carried, walking into the camp, being divided into male and female teams, having their long hair shaved bald, being rinsed with potions, and having a big-bristled brush on their bodies that made their bodies hurt, all this was not easy for the refugees to accept.
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Therefore, during this process, there are often refugees who want to escape.
However, the sentries patrolling the walls around the quarantine camp will let them know what discipline is.
After this series of quarantine, the bald refugees were led into simple wooden houses.
Every wooden house was filled with the weird smell of hydrogen peroxide, which made the refugees even more uncomfortable.
Fortunately, after moving into the wooden house, they will get two new sets of green cotton-padded clothes and a green bedding.
It has to be said that with the establishment of the chemical industry system, many things that are difficult to produce in this era have been born.
Hydrogen peroxide, green sulfurized fuel, etc. are all derivative products after the three-acid-two-alkali workshop.
The application of hydrogen peroxide has given Xinghai Kingdom a great weapon in quarantine and epidemic prevention.
Whenever there is an infectious disease or in a densely populated area, it is right to spray more hydrogen oxygen to ensure that no viruses or germs remain in the environment.
Of course, if you smell hydrogen peroxide too much, it will definitely be harmful to the human body. After all, this thing is a strong oxidant.
But compared to the terrifying plague, this small damage is nothing at all.
Each cabin can accommodate twenty refugees.
At the same time, the first meal after entering the quarantine camp made these refugees feel as if they had arrived in the legendary paradise world.
Dozens of wooden barrels are lined up. In the barrels, there are large pieces of fish, green kelp soup, and sticky paste!
Many former tenants and long-term workers are thinking about whether those landlords could eat such delicacies in their homes.
All the previous dissatisfaction disappeared by the time we ate.
If you have any dissatisfaction, wouldn’t it be solved by eating one more bowl of sticky food?
Well, the only requirement is that it cannot be wasted. You can eat as much paste as you want, but the fish fillets cooked in salt water are temporarily limited to five pieces per person, and the seaweed soup is unlimited.
It would be said that Feikeshi is even planning to send a steel fishing boat out specifically for fishing.
No way, in this era, the fishery resources in the ocean are too abundant.
Ordinary fishing boats fish near the coast, using ordinary hemp nets, and the fishing effect is very low.
The steel fishing boat is different. A trawl net of more than 100 meters is thrown down, and the fishing boat runs a certain distance on the sea surface. It can pull up at least five or six tons of fish in one net.
The steel fishing boat came back with a full warehouse and at least more than 200 tons of fish.
The two hundred tons of fish caught are enough to feed 100,000 refugees for a whole day.
This is the advantage of living near the sea.
Of course, without modern fishing boats and trawl nets, it would still be difficult to catch so many fish.
After all, making a living on the sea is not just about casting a net anywhere and catching fish. It also depends on where the fish are.
Some old fishermen naturally have some experience, but these experiences are certainly not as convenient and fast as underwater sonar on fishing boats.
The refugees need to stay in the quarantine camp for 20 days. In addition to preventing the emergence of diseases, it is also necessary to nourish their health.
During the long journey to escape, most of the refugees were starved to death.
If refugees like this were shipped directly by ship, they would probably be gone by the time they arrived at Nanhai Island.
Refugees with poor health will definitely die during the several-day sea transport and be thrown into the sea to feed the fish.
There is no doubt that for Xinghai Kingdom, which is extremely short of human resources, this is an intolerable behavior.
Feikeshi plans to transport all the existing 100,000 refugees in the next month, even if he puts a few more people on the ship, or rents a sea-going ship from those merchants.
To say that his decision was full of helplessness.
Mainly because after the Qing army captured Hu Jian, Zheng Chenggong led his army to escape to the sea, and then frequently attacked the major ports occupied by the Qing army, causing the Qing army, which originally planned to use sea transportation to transport materials, to suffer heavy losses.
With the virtue of the Qing army, they would not let it go if they suffered a loss.
In addition, when they captured Hu Jian before, they suffered some losses. At this time, the Qing army would naturally have to make up for it.
All maritime merchants who had anything to do with Zheng Chenggong were arrested and tortured.
If you are willing to pledge a donation, you can still save a small life. If you don't let go of the money, then it goes without saying that the whole family will be executed for colluding with bandits.
And as time went by, those Batulu and those white-armored soldiers became more and more wanton after tasting the sweetness.
The trick of enclosing land was used. As long as they liked the fertile land, two horses would ride over it and it would become theirs as soon as they encircled it.
As for the villages near the fields, they naturally became their slaves.
The common people who did not want to be slaves were hacked to death on the spot with two swords.
Due to the emergence of this tyranny, ordinary people who neither wanted to be slaves nor were hacked to death had no choice but to become refugees and leave their hometowns and flee south.
According to Feikeshi's estimation, the number of refugees fleeing from Hu Jian will increase dramatically in the next three months.
Therefore, the place needs to be vacated in advance, otherwise, when more refugees come in and winter begins again, something big may happen.
Following Feikeshi's report, Xinghai Kingdom had to entrust those maritime merchants to rent a large number of merchant ships. They borrowed the shipping capacity of these merchants to transport large amounts of starch and other food to Chaozhou, and then transported back the refugees who had passed the quarantine.
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At the Xinghai City Pier, a merchant ship filled with refugees was slowly docking.
After the cables were tightened and the ship was fixed, under the shouts of the sailors, the refugees carried their quilts and small bags on their backs and climbed onto the deck.
What is this place?
This is probably a question that will arise in the mind of anyone arriving at the Xinghai City pier.
A huge gantry crane is slowly lifting containers filled with materials to the ship. The steam smoke emitted from time to time in the distance embellishes the dock like a psychedelic wonderland.
The 10,000-ton oil tanker next to it is the latest ship repaired by the Ministry of Industry, and it is also the largest ship used by the Xinghai Kingdom so far.
It was like a giant red and blue beast floating beside the pier, making the refugees tremble with fear.
After the 10,000-ton oil tanker was repaired, it immediately took on the important task of transportation between Cochin Hongji and Xinghai City.
What was transported to Hongji Coal Mine this time was 1,000 tons of vermicelli, 2,000 tons of starch, 2,000 tons of cement, some daily necessities, machinery, etc., as well as two battalions of the 7th Regiment that were going to Hongji Coal Mine for defense changes.
Thanks to the efforts of several veterans, the current Hongji Coal Mine has been expanded into a large dock city nearby.