A few days later, more than 20,000 Chinese left on transport ships, while the remaining 80,000 immigrants were still stranded in Songkhla.
Han officials in charge of immigration affairs and the Songkhla government set up a total of more than 30 temporary settlement sites in the area near Songkhla Port to ensure the immigrants' daily food and life.
The original group of Chinese were transported away, and a new group of immigrants came from the mainland. After the expansion, the expanded Songkhla Port showed an incompatible atmosphere amidst the hustle and bustle because there were tens of thousands more residents staying for a short time.
A sense of anachronism.
The docks were busy with young Chinese coolies who were getting stronger and stronger. They arrived in Songkhla before the outbreak of the war in Argentina. Because the British blocked sea transportation from the South China Sea to South America, they were recuperating in Songkhla. They rested for a while and recovered a little.
Since he had no strength, he used his free time during the detention to work as a temporary worker on the dock.
When the market is good, when there are new merchant ships of Westerners coming into the port, or large quantities of Chinese merchant ships, they will be busy for most of the day. After five or six months, the young Chinese people will temporarily do odd jobs at the dock and do coolies.
After saving some money in their pockets, every ten days and a half, when there was no work to do at the dock, the young Chinese would go back to the shacks in the resettlement site and buy one or two kilograms of fat pork for their families.
The elderly and children should try something new.
Western businessmen who live in port inns, or appear at the port docks a small amount of time, directing coolies and Chinese men to carry goods, are generally dressed neatly and neatly, wearing black suits and dark sailor hats, and in order to adapt to Chinese customs, wear
Foreign missionaries dressed as Chinese gentlemen and various Westerners appeared at Songkhla Port. The cameramen who moved to Songkhla with the army used their cameras to record the marching battle scenes of the Nanyang Legion troops for publicity purposes. They also took some pictures that reflected the local situation.
Photographs of customs and relationships as part of intelligence gathering efforts.
Foreigners, Chinese coolies on the docks, and unkempt new immigrants in the shacks who have just escaped from the mainland. The same photo records three completely different scenes of life in the same era.
The Nanyang Army garrison camp is more than ten miles away from Songkhla Port. After the troops were deployed here from the Natuna Islands, the soldiers stayed in the military camp most of the time, carrying out final training and pre-war preparations in accordance with the war preparation orders issued by the officers.
During the repairs, and in a small amount of free time, the soldiers would take turns walking out of the military camp, ordering a table of food and drinks in the tavern at the Songkhla port, greeting the brothers in the same company, drinking and chatting with each other, and experiencing the different differences in the Songkhla area.
The customs and customs of the Natuna Islands.
The Natuna Islands cover an area of only 2,300 square kilometers. The archipelago has been built as a large military camp by the Nanyang Army. In addition to the regular troops and militiamen of the Nanyang Army stationed on the island, the rest are more than 3,000 Chinese people who live locally all year round and 8,000
With Chinese immigrants ranging from 10,000 to 10,000 people, the Natuna Islands are the third immigration reception station in Nanyang. When the immigration ships encounter waves or someone on the ship is sick, the ship will dock at the nearby Natuna Islands and drop off the needed goods.
Chinese immigrants receiving medical treatment and recuperating, and stopping ships to avoid storms and waves.
Chinese immigrants on the Natuna Islands generally only stay for three to five days. They will leave the island again when the sea calms down, the immigration fleet replenishes a small amount of supplies, or the Chinese immigrants stranded on the islands become seriously ill.
But Songkhla City is different. There are people and merchants of all kinds of races and beliefs. The increasingly busy Songkhla Port has all kinds of strange things happening every day in this era, such as the automatic time telling brought by foreigners.
The clocks and watches, and the rubber water shoes carried on board the local merchant ships of the Han Dynasty, are comfortable and convenient to wear on the feet, and they are not waterproof at all.
The Nanyang region has hot weather and abundant rainfall. There are many unknown small bugs in the jungle and in the water flowing from nearby rivers. These bugs usually bring dysentery, diarrhea and other diseases. Many early Chinese immigrants ate bugs.
At first, the Chinese people were acclimated to the climate and did not take it to heart, thinking that it would be over if they tolerated it. Later, as the number of immigrants increased, even if calculated based on a small death rate from the disease, tens of thousands of immigrants
Among them, almost dozens to a hundred people died, and the number of abnormal deaths among immigrants increased. The Han Chinese immigration agency also sent several doctors to check the occurrence of the disease. Then ten years later, the immigration agency after ten years of immigration experience
After exploration and summary, a set of detailed and complete immigration regulations was gradually formulated, from the initial extensive immigration to using current medical technology and ship transportation capabilities to protect the lives of immigrants as comprehensively as possible and reduce deaths during immigrant transfers.
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Rubber-soled cloth shoes and waterproof shoes are the most mature aspects used in the rubber chemical industry in Han China. The 1880s and 1990s were the period of the start and development of the chemical industry. Compared with steel, electrical, machinery and other industrial categories,
Li Mingyuan, who majored in chemical engineering in his previous life and served in the military for two years after graduation. He then went abroad to work in foreign countries after being discharged from the army. He knows more about the chemical industry and therefore gives the most advice in the field of rubber chemicals.
The initial stage was slightly behind Western countries, but because of the more detailed and clear technical solutions and guidance provided by Li Mingyuan, after a ten-year development period, Han's local industry relied on rubber, dyes, pigments, textiles, refined salt refining, etc.
The chemical industry has rapidly surpassed its competitors in the same industry in the West, and has reached the forefront of the world in terms of technological reserves and practical transformation.
Chemical industry is one of the basic industrial systems alongside machinery manufacturing, steel, coal, etc. Although the chemical production process will bring many pollution problems, with the current development of science and technology, the pollution generated by the chemical industry is not worth mentioning at all.
In the field of chemical industry, Han was the first country to carry out practical production. In the future, when the country's industrial technology matures and its industrial shortcomings in various aspects are completed, Han will also be able to make advanced research in the field of environmental protection by taking advantage of its first-mover advantage.
On the one hand, it solves the local water pollution problem, and on the other hand, it transfers heavily polluting enterprises that are too polluting and cannot be solved by current technology to overseas colonies, territories, or other countries to ensure high profit margins while avoiding the damage to the local environment.
Irrecoverable contamination.
The arrival of technological products such as waterproof rubber shoes and cameras has aroused the curiosity of the local Chinese in Songkhla and also enriched and facilitated their lives.
After meeting the minimum guarantee of food and drink, and at the same time getting the tickets to sail to South America in order, the Chinese immigrants staying in Songkhla were relieved of their worries. When there was no work to do at the dock, they were in the mood to take care of their young children.
, go to the street and look at all kinds of strange things and be curious and amazed.
The number of merchant ships entering Songkhla Port every day is limited. Only a small number of the tens of thousands of temporary workers who were well fed and regained their strength were lucky enough to get the job of transporting freight. Most of the young immigrants spent half a day wandering around the dock.
, failed to find a suitable job, and then returned to the resettlement site empty-handed, sitting with his family in the large open space outside the shack, waiting for the immigration agency to cook porridge and dinner.
"Everyone, please pay attention. The Nanyang Army is recruiting migrant logistics workers. The daily salary is 200 Wen, and the settlement is once every ten days. Only 6,000 people are recruited. If you want money, sign up with me!"
A group of soldiers in military uniforms came to the open space of the resettlement site. A Han official in charge of immigration resettlement walked to the center of the open space and shouted loudly.
"Sir, can you exchange copper coins for Han silver dollars or silver coins?" A man in the crowd summoned up the courage to ask, "The price of copper coins for silver changes every day. Copper coins are inconvenient and worthless to hold in your hands, but they are still Han silver coins."
It’s easy to use. One Han silver dollar can buy 50 kilograms of rice, which is much more cost-effective than using copper coins and silver.”
At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the financial system of the Manchu and Qing court collapsed. Originally, one tael of silver could be exchanged for a thousand copper coins and buy 80 kilograms of rice. In the 1880s and 1890s, silver and copper coins depreciated significantly, and the purchasing power of silver declined.
It can be exchanged for three to four thousand silver dollars, or it can only buy fifty to sixty kilograms of rice.
The financial system of the Han Dynasty is in the period of replacement between the gold standard and the silver standard. Both gold and silver can currently circulate in the controlled areas. According to the exchange ratio of the currency of the Han Dynasty with other countries, the face value of one Han yuan banknote or silver dollar is equal to 0.537 taels of silver, but in actual purchasing power
On the other hand, 1 Han yuan can buy 40 kilograms of rice, and 1.86 Han yuan, which is equivalent to one tael of silver, can buy 74 kilograms of rice. Therefore, from the perspective of actual purchasing power, we can understand that Chinese immigrants are more willing to accept Han yuan than want
It's because of the copper coins.
"There are both Han Yuan banknotes and silver dollars. Anyone who wants to convert their wages into Han Yuan can register at the logistics office after the construction period is over."
"I want to sign up, count me, I am strong..."
After listening to the other party's explanation, the Chinese immigrants below rushed to sign up.
"Go to the front and line up one by one. Everyone has a chance. Don't be anxious."... Looking at the crowds swarming forward, the official loudly ordered the order in the open space.
"Sir, two thousand Songkhla troops are ready, and the two General Chen's troops have also gathered outside Songkhla City."
At an inconspicuous location outside the open space of the resettlement site, an official reported to Mei Dongxing.
"Let City Lord Wu and the two General Chen wait at the military camp for a while. I will rush to the military camp to meet and talk with them within half an hour."
