The early morning at Xunwei Port was still a little cold. Liao Jiangong, who was getting up early, was discussing the issue of resettlement of new immigrants with his cadres.

"Stand at attention, salute!" The crisp command suddenly attracted his attention. Township Mayor Liaoda raised his head and saw a team of more than 20 reform-reformed prisoners standing respectfully dozens of meters away. So he waved his hand and asked the reform-reformed prisoners who were carrying coal bags on their shoulders to continue working.

Today, a small boat heading south from Heishui County came up from the dock, and sent more than a dozen tons of coal and some livestock to the people in Xunwei Port, which was used as a wintering material reserve for everyone. So the deputy township chief Hou Yongqiang organized some labor reform prisoners to transport them on the dock. The batch I just met on the road was in accordance with regulations. When they met officers or cadres, they must stand attentively and salute, so the scene just now came into being.

Speaking of this, we have to mention that with the increasing population of the East Coast Republic of China, the number of criminals is increasing day by day. With the central government's clear exile and labor reform policy a few years ago, the exile of criminals has become a large-scale action. In the past five years, more than 3,000 criminal prisoners of all kinds have been exiled overseas (of which "cults" account for a considerable proportion). As for where the criminals go, there are the cold island groups in southern Chile (i.e., the area around Qingfeng County), the hot plantations of New China Island, and of course Tahiti, Australia and even Sakhalin Island. In short, there are more or less places everywhere.

At present, these more than 20 people are labor reform prisoners who have been exiled to this place. Some of them are stationed in service, while others are working in a mobile manner, such as paving roads, logging, quarrying, digging coal, growing rye, raising livestock, etc. The work is still very tiring. Of course, these people have no special skills. If you have a skill, then under normal circumstances, you can get a fixed job in various villages. Some people can even get married and have children after their service period (there are also many who illegally get married and have children before their service period).

For example, the executive manager of Xunwei Township Supply and Marketing Cooperative is an Italian exile named Brienza. He was charged with participating in a cult and was later arrested by Mei's agency and sentenced to exile for 11 years. This guy is currently in charge of various businesses of the supply and marketing cooperative. For example, the popular local kelp harvesting industry is monopolized by the state-owned supply and marketing cooperative. In addition, there is also the franchise for seaweed and oyster mining. Brienza also sold it to several merchants from Dengzhou at a very good price. In short, he looks very knowledgeable and has a very good job. He is currently married to a widow and lives a pretty good life.

In addition to commercial talents like Brienza, there are also some agricultural talents in the local exiles. They guided farmers in the village to plant crops such as cabbage, radish, potatoes, cucumbers, alfalfa, onions, soybeans and rye. The temperature here is much warmer than Heishui County in the north. It is roughly 2 degrees in summer and 5 degrees in winter, so it is very suitable for the growth of crops. Rye can grow as many as tens of centimeters in the warmest month in summer, which shows the appropriate climate and the fertility of the land. Therefore, the existence of these agricultural experts (just relative to the local poor and naughty agricultural technology) is still very necessary.

Of course, the exiled reform prisoners are a small number. After the immigrants from the collective farm boarded the ship to the east coast, the local population dropped sharply, often less than 200. At this time, the deserted streets, the bleak autumn and the boring life all make people complain that compared to those immigrants who need their guard, they are prisoners in prisons who live in a large prison called Sakhalin Island.

It is only after the port thawed at the end of spring every year that a large number of laborers from Dengzhou, North Korea, Hokkien and even Japan (often as many as seven or eight hundred people) came to the local area to dig kelp, seaweed, and oysters under the organization of merchants. The loneliness that tortured residents for months will slowly fade away. Businesses often reach their peak in the summer season, with wood in the forest, mushrooms, fungus, ginseng, honey, animal fat, mink, fox fur, salmon in the sea, shrimp.

Crabs, sea cucumbers, deer antlers, deer skins and other specialty products will be transported to the mainland through small terminals on the west coast of Sakhalin Island. Cereals, small handmade products, salt, sugar, tobacco, wine, medicinal materials, handicrafts and even a small number of luxury goods in the mainland will also be transported to Sakhalin Island by ships. The trade volume will undoubtedly hit new highs at this time. Tax officials from all over the world are lenient in the collection of taxes. In short, this is a nostalgic wonderful time.

It has been half a month since Liao Jiangong became the head of Xunwei Township. In the past half month, the most he did was to organize new immigrants to rebuild the houses of collective farms to make them more thermally insulated. The farm was said to have been expanded on the basis of a prison. The houses were not only not very sufficient, but also humid and cold, which obviously was not possible. Therefore, after Liao Jiangong took office, he took advantage of the fact that there were still some construction materials in the village and embezzled a batch of wood stored on the dock and immediately organized people to rebuild the houses to ensure that the immigrants can survive the winter smoothly. You must know that when the coldest winter in Xunwei Township was at its lowest point, the outdoor temperature dropped sharply to more than minus 20 degrees Celsius, and it is obviously not possible to prevent cold prevention measures.

In addition to renovating the house, Liao Jiangong also organized some people to level the fields. The main task was to repair and maintain the original farmland (the reclaimed land left by the previous batch of immigrants). In order to facilitate the spring sowing work after next spring. Although they have 600 tons of Qingjiangpu grain on hand, there are dozens of tons of rye, more than 100 barrels of salted fish in Xunwei Township, and there are hundreds of livestock in the livestock, but it is definitely not possible to sit in the empty house.

, there must be a source of food to supplement. After all, 600 tons of grain is only enough for them to eat for a year. If it is not their turn to board the ship to the east coast in a year (this is a high probability event, because the total number of immigrants is as high as 450,000, and the capacity is less than 70,000), will they not eat and live? Therefore, it becomes a natural thing to farm and support themselves (even if they cannot do it, at least they have to provide a considerable portion of the grain for their own and their families to consume).

However, there was a new situation today. After a sailboat coming from Damo brought a large number of salted fish and vegetables to Xunwei Township, it also brought them new news, that was, a fire occurred a while ago in the collective farm house of the Nankuye Reclamation Bureau, which damaged a lot, so a considerable number of immigrants needed to be relocated and placed elsewhere. Although Xunwei Township was small, it was forced to be stuffed with more than 900 places and was loaded on their ship at this moment.

Liao Jiangong was very angry at the pain of temporarily changing the plan, but he knew that something unexpected happened, so he could only take the lead and bring in the group of immigrants from Shuyang County. At this time, the sailboat had been moored. The immigrants from Shuyang County silently carried their small bags (the only property inside), and slowly walked down the cinder-paved dock road along the springboard. Then he stood aside with a little uneasy, waiting for the police from the police to take it away. There were fifty fully armed Gao Qiao soldiers behind the police. They were brought by Liao Jiangong when he took office, and planned to act as supervisors of the collective farms, so that these immigrants would not have any thoughts they should not have.

In order to speed up the transfer of materials and personnel (the sky outside is getting worse and the wind and waves on the sea are getting stronger), Liao Jiangong ordered the warehouse manager Ba Sanqiang to find someone to row a few sampans. The sampans were rowed by exiled prisoners. At this moment, in the harbor where the flood waves were gradually rising, they carefully approached the large-scale sailboat, and then carefully loaded the salted fish, fruits and vegetables on the boat into the sampan. The back and forth of the transportation of materials and personnel slightly accelerated the transfer of materials and personnel.

The loading and unloading work was finally completed shortly after the night. The sailors on the sailboat quietly transported a box of wine (most of which came from Ming, North Korea and even Japan, with low quality, but the price was cheap, so there was a market) into the port, and they planned to raise their sails and set sail. Lin Sen, the director of the meteorological observatory of Xunwei Township, advised them to shelter from the wind for one night, but the captain of the sailboat was rejected on the grounds that the transportation task was tight. However, the captain of the sailboat was quickly slapped in the face by nature. Not long after leaving the port, the 1,150-ton large-scale sailboat returned in a sudden storm, and then anchored to the back of a sheltered forest at the port. The director of the meteorological observatory, Lin Sen, was so happy that while recording the meteorological data, he scolded the birdmen as idiots.

After all this, Liao Jiangong took everyone back to the township government compound. At this time, his full-time chef was an exiled prisoner from Ming Dynasty. He had a good cooking skills and was charged with manslaughter. It is said that he beat Lao Wang next door who was ambiguous with his wife to death during a dispute. Therefore, he was exiled to this point. The long sentence has prepared a relatively rich dinner for him: cold mountain fungus, stewed salmon, grilled deer jelly and beet soup, and the staple food was a large pot of rye steamed buns. It can be seen that almost all of them were made locally, rich in nutrition and very good in taste.

After dinner with steaming soup and vegetables, Ainu's wife, who was also an exile from Zhenhai County, was charged with smuggling, brought foot washing water to Liao Jiangong. After serving him to wash his feet, she lit cigarettes for him gently. The service was meticulous.

Liao Jiangong took out a silver coin from his pocket and sent it away. He was grateful to his wife and lay down on the warm fire pit. He looked at a book sent from the local area, written by Wang Sen, a famous writer and geographer from the East Coast.

On the lonely cold night of Sakhalin Island, after a day of work, it was a great pleasure to slowly fall asleep by watching the books in my hometown. After falling asleep, Liao Jiangong had a dream, dreaming that he returned to his hometown and hunted with his friends on the grassland. The background of the dream was the famous "Uruguay River". Uruguay was not a river, but a blue sky floating across... (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!