Chapter 209 Breakthrough (Second update, please subscribe)
In fact, photos record history and can present the most authentic side of history to the world.
As a reporter for Nan Hua Daily, Xu Haiyang was one of the first reporters to receive camera training. Unlike others, he preferred to shoot some so-called small people and small things.
Just like today, after learning that an immigrant ship had entered, he immediately went to the dock. As usual, he set up a camera on the crane at the dock, aimed it at the steamer that had just entered the port, and took a picture.
Soon the steamship came into his sight, and the deck was crowded with immigrants from China. Looking at the crowd, he pressed the shutter and took a photo of the immigrants.
Soon the dock became lively.
Immigrants from the country stood on the crowded deck, looking at the city in front of them with curiosity.
"Oh my god, why are the houses here so tall..."
The people on the deck spoke Shandong dialect, and it was obvious that most of them were immigrants from Shandong.
In the past six months, as recruitment teams went deep into northern Jiangsu, northern Anhui, and even Henan, a large number of northern immigrants began to pour into Nanhua, thus changing the population structure of Nanhua. In the past, immigrants here were mainly from Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but this was also deliberately done by Zhu Xianhai.
Historically, after Chinese immigrants emigrated overseas in large numbers in the mid-19th century, although they and their descendants never lost their identification with the Chinese people, they formed intricate gangs and clans due to geographical differences. Although they had received military training, these people could neither stick together nor become powerful, and could not make any waves at all.
Introducing immigrants from other provinces can, to a certain extent, be more conducive to stability. Moreover, compared with the war-torn Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas, there are more surplus labor in the north. Especially in northern Jiangsu and northern Anhui, millions of bachelors have become the source of social unrest - most of the Nian Army rampant in the north are Nian Army.
As soon as the immigrants from the North arrived at the port, as usual, after another physical examination, they lined up and walked along the wooden walkway.
"Everyone take off all your clothes and throw them into the basket. After you take a shower, you will be given new clothes..."
"Why do you want to take a shower as soon as you get ashore?"
Ren Wu couldn't help but complain.
When I was in the waiting room, I took a bath every few days. Before boarding the ship, I not only took another bath, but even shaved my head. According to the superior, it was to prevent lice.
Nowadays, you still have to take a shower after getting off the boat.
However, he did not know that this seemingly insignificant step of taking a shower reduced the mortality rate of immigrants during transportation from 10% to 5%.
In order to prevent the spread of infectious diseases, the first step for every immigrant arriving in Nanhua is to take a good bath, and then be checked by customs officials before getting dressed. Only after confirming that there are no infectious diseases can they enter the education camp.
"Everyone hurry up and move forward along the corridor. When you take a shower, remember to scrub it clean with soap!"
Following the customs officer's shout, Ren Wu, like everyone else, went to the shower room. Using a shower can effectively prevent cross-infection of diseases.
After all, syphilis and gonorrhea were everywhere in that era, and even the plague would cause trouble from time to time.
We must be careful, especially when new immigrants arrive, they need to be carefully isolated to prevent infectious diseases from being introduced into South China.
When Renwu and his friends were taking a shower, someone would take their clothes out of the bamboo basket, wash the clothes inside, and then sterilize them with high-temperature fumigation to completely kill all kinds of parasites before sending them back to the education camp.
In fact, these clothes were new clothes distributed to the immigrants when they were waiting for dispatch. The tattered clothes they were wearing had long been burned.
After all, it was not worth much money, and the clothes that many immigrants wore in the past were really too dirty, just like their hair and braids, who knows how many lice were hidden in them!
Not only is burning it cleaner, it also reduces the chance of spreading disease.
Ren Wu and others who were taking a shower in the shower room did not know that their arrival finally made the population of Nanhua exceed 200,000.
Of course, when the Immigration Agency sent this number to Zhu Xianhai, facing the number of 200,000, his seemingly calm expression actually revealed an excited heart.
Two hundred thousand!
Nanhua’s population finally exceeded 200,000!
Of course, these 200,000 people do not include the hundreds of thousands of Mapuche people, nor do they include nearly 10,000 European employees or immigrants, but real Chinese people!
Of course, there are more than 6,000 mixed-race children among them - they are the mixed-race children of Chinese men and Mapuche women. Now in the Mapuche tribe, the Mapuche people are more willing to marry the Chinese people, not only because the two look more similar, but also because the Chinese people also have a certain resistance to diseases such as smallpox.
In the past, the Mapuche plundered white people and gave birth to mixed-race children with them, all for the sake of survival, because the Mapuche had no resistance to diseases such as smallpox brought by white people, and this was almost the only way to deal with the harm of infectious diseases such as smallpox, which was a nine-tenths fatal disease. Now that they have Chinese men, they will of course no longer choose white people.
"Two hundred thousand!"
Zhu Xianhai's lips were grinning, and he even wondered whether he should set up a memorial day to commemorate the fact that Nanhua's population exceeded 200,000!
"With these 200,000 men, Nanhua can be considered strong and powerful!"
It is not just a strong army, more than 80% of these 200,000 people are young men and women between the ages of 18 and 40. Among these people, there are 130,000 men.
130,000 young and strong men!
Even a "big country" with a population of one million may not have so many young and strong men. This is the advantage of immigration. Those who can come here are basically young and strong, and there are basically no old people.
Even the long voyages were a kind of elimination, and those who were physically weak would die during the journey.
With so many young and middle-aged people, Nanhua can raise an army of tens of thousands of people at any time if it wants.
South China’s current war potential is definitely top-notch in South America.
However, having so many men is also a problem, because there are too few women!
"Almost 60,000 to 70,000 people are still single!"
Once again, taking out a document from the desk, Zhu Xianhai frowned. The population structure of Nanhua is very abnormal. Although it is a common phenomenon in China that there are more men than women, the problem here in Nanhua is more serious!
"These 60,000 or 70,000 men are not single. As long as they have women, they can produce hundreds of thousands of offspring. Women..."
It's more than just hundreds of thousands of people. If there are women and each family gives birth to 5-6 children, that means 300,000 or 400,000 offspring. After a dozen years, if they get married and have children, there may be millions of people!
With several generations of such efforts, Nanhua will no longer have to worry about population.
Holding the documents in his hand, Zhu Xianhai's brows were furrowed.
"The workers recruited in the north now are basically male laborers. Doesn't this mean that in the future, there will be more and more men in Nanhua, and fewer women? This won't do. We have to think of a compromise..."
While talking to himself, Zhu Xianhai moved to the front of the map, stared at a certain location on the map, and then said.
"Fortunately, we still have this guy. It's already 1864. If everything goes well, in three or four years, this problem will be solved. Even though it's a little late, the problem can be solved after all..."
(End of this chapter)
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