Dominate the Country

After eating a steamed stuffed bun with shrimp filling and a bowl of seafood porridge that tasted really good, Passos seemed to have forgotten his previous anger.

But when Passos returned to the room and fell back to sleep on the bed, could he really forget that nightmare?

When Mrs. Socrates, Pasos's mother, heard the bad news, she fainted. There is no danger of war in Nanming Prefecture, but sailing from mainland China to Nanming Prefecture is the biggest danger. It requires a long and long voyage.

Her son's previous job was in the northeast, which can be regarded as the northernmost point of the empire. Now he was transferred to the southernmost point of the empire. In such a desolate place, Mrs. Socrates had a feeling that her son was going to travel across the north and south of the earth. This is ridiculous and horrific.

At that time, Passos' father immediately pinched his wife awake and advised her: Don't worry, there may be room for maneuver in this matter.

The Socrates family was the first group of people to submit to China. Although Socrates himself had been teaching in foreign language colleges, he also worked as a business consultant for some people in his early years, and he still had some connections in the upper class society of Chen and Han. I know a lot of dignitaries.

But Passos' mother still shed tears, but she was more sober than Passos' father, "The letter of appointment has already been issued, and there is no room for maneuver. Passos has decided to go to Nanmingzhou." "This kind of appointment letter is submitted by the Ministry of Mines to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, and then the Ministry of Civil Affairs approves it and then issues it. It is guaranteed that the cabinet will have backup, and the Socrates family does not have such great ability to make changes.

Passos, who returned to Nanjing from the Northeast in a daze, was of course unwilling to go to Nanmingzhou. He was not afraid of the dangers along the sea route, but for his own future. His mind calmed down, and then in front of the horizon of 'love and future', it was obvious that he thought of 'future'. He would be finished if he went to Nanmingzhou. Passos begged his father, saying that he didn't want to go to Nanmingzhou, so he could help me.

But Mr. Socrates said with a cold face: "You have to go even if you don't want to, unless you don't want to participate in politics anymore." Socrates was also very angry about this matter. His son was sent to such a dangerous place in Nanmingzhou, but he only found out after the matter was settled.

Now, a sea-going ship that will sail to Nanmingzhou in three days is docked at Nanjing Pier.

Passos still did not give up and continued to plead with his father: "Father, is there really nothing we can do? Nanming Prefecture is too far away from Nanjing. It is the most remote corner of the empire. I will be completely forgotten."

Mr. Socrates told his son, do you know who did it? He is the new commander-in-chief of Jiapigou, as well as the Ministry of Mines.

Passos was stunned for a moment. He forgot about the Ministry of Mines and focused all his attention on the new commander-in-chief. "How could it be him?" He didn't reveal his secret. How could he be such a big shot that he couldn't resist? Could it be that he...has exposed his flaws and been caught by the new commander-in-chief?

Passos, whose face suddenly turned pale, aroused his father's suspicion. Socrates asked his son with a cold face: "What did you do? When did you offend the new commander-in-chief?"

After being naturalized in China for many years, Socrates himself also understood some Chinese culture. He knew that the Chinese were very particular about struggle strategies. As long as they did not have deep hatred, they would not stumble so blatantly and without any cover-up. It has been several years since Socrates surrendered to China and he has not seen him before.

The new commander-in-chief and the Ministry of Mines must have not covered up their work, otherwise they would not have been able to find the traces so easily.

Passos suddenly exploded like a frightened cat, his facial muscles were tense and twisted, and he denied it, "Father, I didn't. I have never met the new commander-in-chief, how could I offend him?" "What?" In fact, Passos was very scared at this moment, and he thought he had been exposed.

Fear really arose in Socrates' heart. His son was so frightened that he even insisted that he had never done anything. Did he think he was old and stupid or blind?

Socrates continued to ask Pasos with a cold face: "You still want to lie and say, what on earth did you do?"

The city of Pasos was not that shallow. It was only because he subconsciously felt safe facing his father at home that he lowered his guard and was suddenly frightened, which revealed traces.

But unless Passos was crazy, he would not dare to tell Mr. Socrates the truth. He could only grit his teeth and say: "Father, I really haven't done anything I dare not do."

Then Mr. Socrates slapped his son on the face.

Passos still remembers that slap clearly.

Socrates called his son's personal attendants, and after a severe scolding and threats, Pasos's attendants told the truth. Only then did Socrates realize how big a mistake his son had made. The anonymous reporting letter that caused a lot of uproar was actually written by his son.

"Asshole, stupid. Even a pig is smarter than you. You are a pig. Are you going to send the whole family to hell?"

His father's stern voice echoed in Passos's mind again, and Passos suddenly woke up from his drowsiness. The spring weather is very bright outside! Illuminating Paos, who has a lot of darkness in his heart.

The coal mine not far from Antarctic Town does not have a large output, and there does not seem to be a lot of labor here. But this is the most important core industry in Antarctic Town, because the combustion supply of the entire Antarctic Town, as well as brick kilns, cement kilns, and pottery kilns, all rely on this coal mine. There are also metallurgical plants and wood processing rooms that need to be built in the future. After years of exploration, Chen Han has always mastered some rules for the latter. Even if the quality of steam-baked wood is worse than that of naturally dried wood, the basic line of making ships can be achieved. This thing and the metallurgical plant will be built in the future. If the forecast is correct, military factories will appear in Antarctic Town in the future.

If the supply of fuel for life can still rely on wood, then a series of things afterwards cannot be solved by a single piece of wood.

The labor camp working in the coal mine is a team composed of pure European prisoners of war. The people in it are mainly Dutch, and there are also some Spanish soldiers captured in Luzon.

Those Spaniards were not beheaded one by one by Chen Han. Chen Ming could ignore the Spaniards' face, but he had to give face to the Gallic rooster. Moreover, he believed that even if John Bull was very happy to see China and Spain go to war, he would never want to see tens of thousands of Spanish soldiers, civilians and church personnel beheaded one by one.

But very few of these people were released. Except for a few people with status, many people were still undergoing labor reform. Because there was no armistice agreement between China and the West.

And in the following time, some people died one after another. Some of them were really exhausted, died of illness, and had dangerous accidents, while some were killed, such as several people with a long history in the Manila family, and some were women. The whereabouts of the latter were very shameful to be said.

But there were really not many Spaniards who were sent from Nanyang to Nanmingzhou.

There were more Dutch people in the coal mine labor camp.

For example, the Spaniards at the time, the Dutch were much more obedient. The Dutch in the entire East Indies were more of a "merchant's pursuit", while the Spanish had a certain degree of "noble dignity".

Moreover, the Dutch had already had a precedent, and the lessons of the Spanish after being captured were in front of them. How could they not learn from it?

Not to mention doing coolies, working in plantations, or even digging feces, they would endure the disgust to do it. Even the most humble work can keep them alive, which is God's blessing.

The Spanish used their lives to prove a very true theory - as long as they were captured, as long as they entered the Chinese labor camp, they must have the awareness of being a prisoner. No matter if you were a high-ranking master before, or a lowly rogue beggar, you must follow a supreme rule here: unconditionally obey the orders of the "supervisor".

Expressing your dissatisfaction to the "supervisor" will have a terrible end. At the beginning, many Spaniards lost their lives because they did not understand the situation in the "labor camp". This is not worth it.

These "supervisors" include the Sulus who were the first to join the Chinese in the Southeast Asia, some pro-China Malays and Luzons, Koreans annexed by China, and the vicious dogs of China - the Japanese. Many of them are extremely bad.

The running dogs of the Chinese know very well how to please their masters. It is their nature to bully the inferiors and flatter the superiors. It is their talent to use the power of the tiger to bully the inferiors. Fierceness and brutality are their original faces.

But Qin Youzi, who took over the original person in charge and now presided over the construction of the entire Antarctic Town, knows that in the newly developed settlement of Antarctic Town, he needs these "ruthless people" to manage the increasing number of labor reform prisoners in the future, not only in the coal mines, but also in the port docks, quarries, etc. These vicious "supervisors".

Because the development project of the entire Antarctic Island is obviously a huge plan, and the scale here in the future may not be much worse than that of Mohu. More and more immigrants and labor reform prisoners will come here, and soon the "population" here will exceed the 2,000 mark, then 3,000, and 4,000.

After three to five years, the official residents here will exceed 10,000, and Qin Youzi will not be surprised. The number of labor reform prisoners will be several times more than this, otherwise he, a dignified governor of Hexian Town, will be suddenly transferred to Nanji Town, which is too funny.

Although there is also a "town" in the suffix, can Hexian Town with hundreds of thousands of residents be compared with Nanji Town?

Give Nanji Town a hundred years, and its population may not be comparable to that of Hexian Town now, so there is only one reason - the strategic importance of this place.

Just like the original Singapore.

In those years of obscurity, the level of Singapore City has always been the same as Hongji Port.

The labor reform teams sent here are all serious criminals, and the people in them have no human rights. They can only wait for China, Spain and the Netherlands to sign an armistice agreement. Before that, they are "two-legged sheep" without any basic rights in life. The captains and battalion commanders who manage them have absolute power of life and death over them.

Of course, this "death quota" per month is also limited.

Take the coal mine as an example. There are less than 500 labor reform prisoners, and there are about 60 "supervisors" and security forces, all under the jurisdiction of the battalion commander. In addition, there is a squad of military police, which the battalion commander must also treat with caution. In fact, not only in the coal mine, but also in Antarctic Town, the military police are also something that the public office dare not easily provoke.

In a corner of the coal mining area, in a large vegetable field, five or six white men in shackles were carrying a dung bucket each, holding a long-handled ladle in one hand, and pouring the accumulated dung from the bucket into the field.

This was the source of fresh vegetables for everyone in the coal mining area. There were three pieces, one large and one small. The small one was the closest, and the other two large ones were outside.

The smell in the vegetable field was very bad. After fertilizing once, the smell would not dissipate for several days.

For the white people in the field, this was definitely a nightmare they did not want to face. But under the guns of the Chinese, the selected people surrendered.

After surrendering once, there was a second and third time. When habit became natural, these white people did not know that even they themselves were stained with the disgusting smell.

Although the labor camps thrown into Nanmingzhou were the most "sinful" labor camps, the people inside were either scum villains or soldiers who had fought desperately. When faced with more vicious "supervisors" and security guards, these people obediently put away their personalities.

There is no way. Evil will be dealt with by evil. No matter how vicious a person is, he will be silent when facing a group of "supervisors" who have all had their monthly salary deducted.

In the labor camp, there can only be one reason why the salary of the "supervisor" is completely deducted, that is, too many workers under his command have died or been injured.

If it is a dangerous place, there are death quotas in the labor camp.

For example, a team is allowed to have two deaths/month, or three deaths/month, and if the death toll exceeds 2/3, or if the workers are injured or disabled, then his salary will be deducted by a certain amount.

The salary of the "supervisors" is not low. Everyone has had the experience of having their salary deducted. The supervisors here are all vicious.

Evil people have a smell. They may be gentle and polite for a short time, just like a good person with good character. But they will definitely be exposed over time.

After all, the job of "supervisor" is also a high-risk and high-pressure job. Even the best-tempered people will become irritable and angry over time.

When a group of evil people with their hands and feet tied face evil people with knives and guns, the former can only give in.

In Antarctic Town, and even in the entire Nanmingzhou, it is forbidden to say "god". Anyone who is found saying this word will be punished. Buddhism and Taoism have begun to enter, and use things and better living conditions to tempt Westerners in labor camps to change their beliefs, but the effect is not great, compared with their effect in Luzon and East India, it is far worse.

Just like the gap between the barren Nanmingzhou and the rich Nanyang.