Male adult refugees receive five Xinghai coins each, female adult refugees receive seven Xinghai coins each, underage boys 2 yuan, underage girls 4 yuan, and seniors over 50 years old receive free gifts.
Well, to be honest, Xiong Wu is still a little uncomfortable with clearly marking people's prices.
After signing the agreement, the recruitment of refugees by the Zhaowu regime was undoubtedly like opening the floodgates of a reservoir.
Driven by interests, not only the Ganzhou government, but also the governments in various places in Guangdong sent out government officials, inspections and even firearms teams to gather the refugees and then package them and send them to the quarantine centers established by the Xinghai Kingdom in various places.
camp.
Well, in fact, during this process, because the naturalized personnel of Xinghai Kingdom promised 0.5 yuan for each refugee to the handling staff of the local government, the local government became more and more concerned about this matter.
The scope of their plundering of the population is no longer limited to refugees, they have even extended their sinful hands to beggars everywhere.
Well, beggars and refugees are somewhat similar, but specifically, they are somewhat different.
Refugees basically have to flee their hometowns because they are out of work or cannot afford to eat due to famine. Most beggars, for various reasons, have a dilapidated home and don’t want to work hard, so they just kneel on the street to eat.
However, the Xinghai Kingdom officials who accepted these refugees and beggars soon discovered the difference between refugees and beggars.
No way, those beggars are too lazy.
Even if they are cleaned, put on new clothes, and still look decent, they are surprisingly lazy when it comes to studying and are not willing to learn knowledge or receive training at all.
The most terrible thing is that after they are assigned to farms or factories, they spend three days fishing and two days drying nets. Not only do they not pay attention to the work assigned to them, but they often cheat and cheat.
These various things have caused certain losses to Xinghai Kingdom.
After discovering this, the Ministry of National Development Affairs, which is in charge of resettlement work, immediately made corresponding regulations.
After the refugees land and enter the temporary resettlement site, their behavior will be registered immediately. Anyone who cheats, cheats, or cheats will be assigned to work as a coolie at the mining site.
After this regulation came out, most of the cunning beggars who were accustomed to reaching out for food were immediately eliminated, which greatly improved the working atmosphere in the factories and farms of Xinghai Kingdom.
As for those assigned coolies, after entering the mines and construction sites, they are no longer allowed to cheat.
The whips of the overseers are not vegetarian. What's more, these coolies have a points system. How much work they do every day, the more points they work, the more they can eat and clothe themselves. If the extra points are accumulated, it will take a year or two.
Maybe just go out.
Those who work less, cheat and cheat, will naturally have fewer points, will not eat well, and will not wear warm clothes. Let alone stay in the mines all their lives, if they stay for a few more years, they will be as skinny and shaky.
But having said that, before New Year's Eve in 1648, thanks to the strong cooperation of the immigration working group and the Zhaowu regime of Nanming, the population of Nanhai Island surged from 300,000 two years ago to 640,000!
It has doubled!
And among the new population of 340,000, most are young men and women, with fewer young and old.
This is not surprising. The elderly and children among the refugees simply cannot bear the torture of traveling thousands of miles. Many of them died on the way to escape.
And of these 340,000, 120,000 were prisoners of war.
Of course, even so, the total number is large, and the number of underage children who migrated to the South China Sea Islands mixed in it exceeds 20,000.
Of the more than 20,000 minor children, more than 15,000 migrated here with their parents, while the remaining nearly 6,000 children are orphans.
Home Affairs Commissioner Bei Xiaowen considered the problem of children's growth and initially proposed that everyone adopt orphans.
The elders also responded one after another. The elders who spent more than 1,000 yuan adopted more than 2,000 children.
This is already the ultimate.
You should know that even Fang Xiaoyue adopted a brother and sister.
Hmm, Fang Xiaoyue’s body is called Ma Tianfu. In addition, in order to enhance the family relationship, the names of the two children were changed.
The boy was named Ma Xiaodong, now 12 years old, and the girl was named Ma Xiaomei, now 7 years old.
However, Fang Xiaoyue is so busy with work, how can she have time to take care of these two children.
That is, after letting the two children live in the house, teaching them how to use lights, toilets, etc., they then arranged for the two children to enroll in school, and finally provided the two children with boarding and meal cards.
Every Sunday, during the school holidays, Fang Xiaoyue would pick up the two children and take them to play around Xinghai City to feel the family affection. On Monday, he would send the two children back to school.
The elders who are more busy at work handle it this way, while the elders who are relatively free at work take care of their children themselves. In their words, they raise them like grandchildren.
Most of the more than 3,000 remaining children are too young, mostly between the ages of 1 and 6. These children cannot be adopted by the senators and are then left to roam in schools.
Therefore, the Ministry of Civil Affairs immediately established a welfare home, with dedicated personnel responsible for managing it, to raise these children and orphans displaced from society. When these children reach the age of 5-6, they will be sent to school.
Children who are over 9 years old and are not very good at reading can choose to enter a technical school or a Scout school to learn skills, or learn how to be a professional soldier.
In addition, although the population of Nanhai Island has soared to 640,000, this population is still not enough for the needs of Xinghai Kingdom.
There is no way, apart from anything else, the Ministry of Industry is setting up more and more new types of factories.
According to Zhang Feifei, even if you want to establish a complete modern industrial system, you will need at least a million people!
And a population of one million is barely enough to support it. To expand this industrial system and provide it with the power to conquer the world, the required population must be at least 5 million.
And if you want to go further, a population of 10 million or 20 million is not that much.
In addition, the farm population is also extremely scarce. Just to establish a comprehensive basic agricultural system of farming, mulberry, forestry, fishing, etc. on the South China Sea Island, at least one million people are needed.
In other words, the population of 640,000 is just a drop in the bucket in the face of the grand ambitions of the Xinghai Kingdom.
Xinghai Kingdom needs more people to fill the gap in industry and agriculture!
In addition, we need to occupy more resource areas and cultivate a broader market!
With such considerations in mind, just after the New Year holiday in 1649, the chief executive Zheng Xiangdong, the elder, convened a liaison meeting between various departments.