"I'm leaving again, like migratory birds." On September 20, 1704, a ship full of Korean workers had just set sail on the Houan Port pier.

This is a 1,000-ton ship, originally owned by the South China Sea Transportation Company, but later caught up with the wave of renewal of the company and dealt with it at a low price. After Hei Water Transportation Company bought it, it transformed it at a modern special ship factory and installed a re-swelling steam propulsion system, making it a real sailing ship, and then loaded with a whole ship of weapons and ammunition. The chemicals arrived in the Hei Water area and were officially put into service.

This ship is now one of the main merchant ships of the HeiShui Transport Company. It has been operating the offshore route of Man Mongolia-HeiShui-North Korea-Ningshao-Lianwu for a long time, and it has continuously transported materials and population along the way. In particular, commodities such as coal, grain, and timber are generally run by them. After all, a large ship with a thousand-ton cargo is more than a small unit cost. For example, this time, they just ran the HeiShui Port-Dinghai Port route, transporting hundreds of cubic meters of high-quality wood to the local area, and then pulled more than 800 tons of Nanyang rice delivered to Miaojie Port, which was very efficient.

That's not all. They seized the last time before the Whale Sea was frozen and loaded a ship of groceries at Miaojie Port, mainly leather, cured meat, wool, dairy products, whale products, sea goods and gold, intending to ship them to the south. When passing through the Hokkien land, they took a temporary business and sent more than 500 workers from North Korea home.

The destination of the Koreans is Gaochenggang on the east coast, because they all come from the three counties of Gancheng under the Jeon-san rule. The three counties of Gancheng have firmly followed the East Coast government for many years, and various reforms have been carried out very deeply. The people of the East Coast have also consciously given them some industries and opened up the market. Therefore, the economic development of the three counties is very rapid. The improvement of the economic level brings about a rapid population growth. The three counties are mainly hilly terrain and there are not many plains, but even so, their population density is no less than that of traditional fish and rice towns such as Gyeonggi Province and Jeolla Province.

With such a large population, work is a big problem. With the current situation of the three counties of Gancheng, industry and commerce cannot provide such many jobs, and Ning Shao cannot do it, so it is even more impossible for the three counties of Gancheng. Therefore, these newly added populations either stay in the countryside to lower the living standards of everyone, or go abroad to work, and strive for a better life.

It should be said that people have made two choices in Gancheng, but there are still more people going abroad. Especially those who go to Manchuria and Hei Shui, many people live in the worst sheds, eat the cheapest food, and take it hard when they get sick, and refuse to see a doctor. After a year (the freezing period is deducted, it is actually only half a year), and the salary and bonus can be left with fifty yuan. They usually pay the "Yuyang" minted by the Dabo Mint, but if you specify it specifically, they will also prepare you hard gold exchange coupons. Although not many people have the courage to choose this kind of banknote.

The cash income of fifty yuan is a lot of money in North Korea, so they can not farm. The income from working alone can maintain the life of the whole family. In order to enable these North Koreans to work with peace of mind, the relevant parties of the Blackwater Management Committee also specially opened banking services for them, namely the East Coast Agricultural Bank and the Taiwan Bank, two branches in many port cities in North Korea, providing convenience for them to remit money. Stimulated by the huge overseas remittance income (more than three million yuan per year), the North Korean Kingdom has not had any small profits in its economy. Going abroad to work suddenly became a big business, and all parties have made great profits.

Of course, there are also many North Koreans who go abroad to work. After seeing the relatively affordable living standards in Heishui, Manchuria, Mongolia, Denlai and other places, they plan to completely move here and try to bring their families and children and even relatives and friends. They have almost succeeded a few years ago, but with the East Coast strengthening the inspection of illegally stranded North Korean migrant workers, most of them have been repatriated, and the few who can obtain legal identities and stay there are only a few thousand people in the past ten years.

Among these thousands of people, almost half of them are from the three counties of Gancheng! With the help of those who live on the east coast, the popularity of Gancheng's three counties in working abroad is significantly higher than that of other Dao County in North Korea, and the places where they work are becoming more and more widespread, including Miaojie, Heishui, Dabo, Vladivostok, Hokkien Islands, etc., and even the distant Heixiazi Port. Their work is also diverse, such as logging, digging coal, farming, grazing, construction, and fishing. In addition, there are kelp, picking wild goods, helping in factories, working hard at the docks, and cleaning sewers. There are almost nothing they can't do, and they have made great contributions to the economic development of Heishui, Manchuria and Mongolia. This seems to be the main reason why the East Coast people have never been determined to abolish the North Korean migrant worker system, although many people oppose this system.

The hundreds of people who boarded the boat at Hou'an Port today are from the three counties of Kencheng. They work in local state-owned ranches, harvest grass, process feed, nitrogen leather, wool, milk, and cure meat, do almost everything, work diligently and hardworkingly, and satisfy a little salary, as if they are cultivating blessings, which is simply the favorite of business operators. In fact, to a certain extent, the East Coast entrepreneurs in the Far East are similar to those in New China and other places. They use cheap Korean migrant workers (now targeting bankrupt Japanese farmers and samurai), and use island Eight Banners hired workers or even illegal slaves in the Indian Ocean. Is the difference between the two really big? Capital's pursuit of profit is eternal.

"They have to leave. The migrant work system is very strict, and it is difficult for the bosses to apply for a employment permit of more than six months. This migratory bird has to be done," said an elderly young official from the Houyan Port Authority. "But there is no chance. Isn't the Hokkien going to expand the county and townships soon? There may be opportunities in this."

What the Port Authority official said was actually mentioned in the document just issued by Bai Yutang, director of the Blackwater Management Committee. The East Coast people currently have only two counties on the Hokkien Island, namely Kōnai Prefecture and Kushiro Prefecture. The former has a population of about 30,000, while the latter has more than 40,000. The economy of the two counties is quite good, with a large output of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery. The development of Kushiro coal mines, shipyards, seafood processing plants, wood products factories, and building materials factories is also very smooth. Therefore, the conditions for expanding into the inland islands have been ripe and you can start to take action.

In fact, the Blackwater Management Committee has also made some preliminary preparations in recent years. For example, they have set up some small settlements west of Kushiro Prefecture and south of Kōnai Prefecture, namely: Obituo Township (located near Obituo City in Later Times), Hedong Township (located near Oki Town in Later Times), Hexi Township (located near Oki Town in Later Times), Sanshan Township (located near Yuki Town in Later Times), Lube Township (located near Lube Town in Later Times), Kuqian Township (located near Yuki Town in Later Times), Rujin Township (located near Yuki Town in Later Times), Eiyu Township (located near Yuki Town in Later Times), Yuwu Township (located near Yuki Town in Later Times), Fengyong Township (located near Nakagawa Town in Later Times), Keiyo Township (located near Masashiko Town in Later Times), Hepingyong Township (located near Masashiko Town in Later Times), a total of twelve settlements. Currently, less than 5,000 people have been resettled in these places to reclaim wasteland and develop agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery.

Among the above-mentioned towns, five settlements in Daiguang Township are the top priority because they are a whole plain with a large area and have great potential for large-scale mechanized agricultural production. Unlike other places, they are either broken coastal plains or narrow mountain valleys. They are not suitable for large-scale mechanized production models, and their value will naturally be lower.

The Management Committee has basically confirmed that in the future, state-owned farms and pastures will be set up in the Bianguang Plain area. The main source of labor in these farms, except for a few people on the East Coast, has to be mostly found on the North Koreans. Therefore, it is inevitable that the enemy worker system will be appropriately relaxed and some of the North Korean workers who migrate migratory work will be naturalized.

Of course, this relaxation is also conditional. After the North Koreans become naturalized, they should try to disperse and place them separately. They must not be allowed to form a very large community inhabited by them, because they will easily retain their culture. In addition, they should also encourage them to intermarry with the East Coast people and even the Aboriginal Hokkien people, so that the Korean mark on their descendants will be weakened and their sense of identity will be weakened. Otherwise, let them know that the blood flows in their blood vessels is always the Korean blood, which is very unfavorable to the rule of the East Coast government. It must be planned from now on.

Some people may ask, there are many ronin people in Japan at present, so why don’t the East Coast recruit them to settle down and reclaim land on the Hokkien Island? Or the same sentence, this place is too close to Japan, and Japan already has its own culture and a relatively stable regime. The Matsumaki clan has territory on this island. At this time, it was much more harmful than the large-scale introduction of Japanese bankrupt farmers. In short, it doesn’t matter if the Japanese are allowed to work as foreign workers on the Hokkien Island, but if they are naturalized and settled, they must be very cautious. Those who have made contributions shall not approve them.

The best place for Japanese ronin is the colonies of Southeast Asia, Brunei, Timor-Leste, Rabaul, and India? There are still many opportunities to go there, and it is likely that they can come out like a person. After gaining a foothold, they will find a way to send money back to Japan and take their families over. That would be even better. Even the bitter and cold place of Manchuria can be used. What the Mongolian fronts lack at this time is cannon fodder for war. The lost samurai do not know how to farm or work. The only thing they are good at is fighting and killing, and they can also gain a future if they go. Don’t believe it? The advertisements of Manchuria and Mongolian pioneer teams have been to Osaka, Kyoto, and Edo. There are quite a few down-and-out samurai who have signed up, and some have even made contributions to the front line.
Chapter completed!