Chapter 446: Lonely Child Immigrants

Streamer old shadow, memory freeze.
The roaring steam roar of the mouth of the Paula Plata River will become a permanent memory engraved in the hearts of immigrants.
The Paula Plata Estuary is the starting point for entering the mainland's inland areas and the largest terminal for overseas immigrants to reach the mainland.
About 40% of the overseas immigrants set foot on South American land here, and then spread across the vast land through the tributaries of the Parana River and the Chang'an-Songjiang Railway.
Sent away a large steamer flying the British flag,
Welcome a batch of trawlers full of marine fishery products on the busy waterway of La Plata estuary.
With its firm and broad mind, the Great Han Empire ushered in a fleet of Far Eastern immigrants composed of more than sixty large and medium-sized ocean-going carriers.
After nearly two months of long sea voyages, living through bumpy and boring cabin life, and seeing that the final destination is about to be reached, the immigrants on the transport ship are excited to run to the deck and look up to the end of the ocean. Strange land.
The reason why they are familiar is because before they arrived in South America, they had learned a lot about the customs and customs of the South American Han country from their neighbors and friends around them. Like the South American Han country, there are fields of wheat, sorghum and rice. There are countless cows and sheep in the mountains, forests and meadows. People there have piles of hill-like food at home. They can eat rice made from rice every day, and they don't have to worry about starvation.
In South Fujian, Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Guangdong, Guangxi and even the northern coastal areas, there are all kinds of magical legends about the Han country.
People who have never traveled far away and never stepped a hundred kilometers away from their surroundings. When they first heard this rumor, they did not believe that they just took this kind of whimsical thing, because according to their inherent experience, I worked hard for a year to cultivate the land for the landlords and masters. Every day I can eat two rude nests and nibbles, which is a rare happy life. Like rumors, I can eat delicate rice and steamed buns every day. The last time I ate meat three or five days was an immortal life. Ordinary people usually listened to them as a joke. It was almost impossible to expect such good things to fall on them.
Being at both ends of the world, coupled with the blockade of the area under the Qing court (there were only more than 100 government-owned private industrial enterprises in the 1890s, and the degree of closure can be imagined.),
Not only do ordinary people do not understand the real economy and living standards of the South American Han country, they are also officials who claim to be proficient in foreign affairs, and they know very little about the real situation of the South American Han country.
People who have heard of or learned about the situation in South America and South Korea, in the Far East mainland, less than one tenth of the total population, but only less than one tenth of the population has brought local people The immigrant population far exceeds the carrying capacity load.
400,000 to 500,000 immigrants are accepted each year, and more overseas immigrants are resettled in Songkhla and Lanfang.
The huge and magnificent wave of immigrants changing the sea has changed the population structure of South America and the Han country, and it has also changed the fate of nearly ten million Far East Chinese.
The transport vessels were moored ashore, and the skinny and skinny immigrants lined up. Under the guidance of government officials in charge of immigration affairs, they were transferred to shore for repair and rest in an orderly manner.
Not far from La Plata estuary, where Songjiang Province's offshore port is located, in order to resettle and transfer a large number of immigrants, the local government has built a total of more than 100,000 independent brick buildings within 20 kilometers of the port. One-time acceptance of 200,000 immigrants for temporary living and repair of necessary living and medical supplies.
The absorption of Chinese immigrants is a basic national policy that is parallel to encouraging fertility, education, and industry.
The Han and Han governments vigorously absorbed and resettled Chinese immigrants, not only for the needs of local development, but also for the morality and responsibility of the nation and the country.
I watched the orphans, four, five, and seven or eight, coming down from the boat, watching the fear and horror of their younger brothers and sisters, but every hot-blooded young man with conscience would not let go.
The Emperor of the Han Dynasty was famous for relieving and raising orphaned children on the mainland. Young naval officers who have just graduated from military academies and entered the ocean shipping fleet as ordinary sailors for a one-year internship are even more important The emperor's teachings and ideas are beliefs. Every time he returns with the immigration fleet, he seems to become a fighter with chicken blood, one by one, and his body is full of endless energy.
According to the young military officers of the Army and Navy, this patriotism called national responsibility and sincerity. In their eyes, every Chinese child who has migrated to South America and lost their parents is the future and hope of the country. Seeing their immigration The poor looks at the beginning, they are sad, self-blame, and more hard-working, hard-working!
If you are strong, you will be strong! Youth is weak, country is weak! The orphaned children are a generation of suffering. Young military officers have the responsibility and obligation to forge the rise of the country. They do not want to see what happened to the orphaned children to repeat in their offspring!
The young officer of Songjiang Port Naval Military Base appeared in his mind every day. Niu Shangzhou, deputy director of Han Guoxing and Shipyard, did not understand too deeply at first, but when he saw the lost orphans one by one, he was afraid, After helpless eyes and their poor physical condition, Niu Shangzhou's mood also changed drastically.
Yak Shangzhou (born in 1861, the first batch of young children studying in the United States) was born in a wealthy family in the South. When he was a teenager, he went to the United States to study in accordance with the instructions of the Qing court.
Niu Shangzhou did not know much about the real life of ordinary people in his hometown because of leaving home for a long time. Later, in 1881, the plan to suspend children in the United States was suspended. Niu Shangzhou and Xu Zhixuan, Tong Rongguang, Tan Yaoxun and others accepted the Han Dynasty solicitation. After returning to South America, after five years of studying in Germany, he returned to China in 1887 and was sent to work in Xinghe Shipyard. As a result, he gradually contacted young military officers at the naval base near Xinghe Shipyard. The root cause of the backward rule of the court and the hardships and hardships of ordinary people in the Far East are also getting deeper.
To this day, because Li Mingyuan and several central officials are coming to Xinghe Shipyard to inspect the completion of the 5,000-ton ship, Niu Shangzhou and the director of the factory Tong Longfu, and ship technical consultant Thomas Villar and others personally went to the port to greet him. The opportunity to come out this time, Niu Shangzhou really realized the true feelings of young naval officers when they saw the lonely young children.
Near Xinghe Shipyard's offshore dock, the unkempt children wore grey cloth clothes that were obviously not well-fitted, although there was a touch of ruddy on their faces. (The immigration fleet has different material allocation standards. Young children are weak. They are weak. More food and medical protection were given.), But the aftermath of long-term hunger still appeared on the face.
After all, the standards of life and medical treatment of the transport fleet are not as good as those on land. Although the young children receive better care than ordinary young immigrants, these cares only meet their basic living and medical needs on board. Not to mention ample.
临时 In the temporary resettlement bases of immigrants, the orphaned children have different ages. They include three or five-year-old children and eleven-year-old teenagers. They both migrate from the Jiangnan region and a few belong to the northern region.
Among the young immigrant team with a total of two or three thousand people, Niu Shangzhou even saw many children pulling each other, whether they are biological sisters, brothers, or close relatives with the same blood relationship, however, regardless of their blood relationship or Near or sparse, when they lost their parents and adult relatives, they were young and threatened with death. They could support each other, but Niu Shangzhou was most moved.
Shuxinghe Shipyard is like a small society. Every year in the shipyard, a group of orphans with primary education are recruited into the factory as apprentices.
牛 In the impression of Niu Shangzhou, although many orphans have just turned 14 years old, their physical strength and technical experience are inferior to those of middle school graduates.
But maybe because of having experienced a harder life before, and knowing more about cherishing the hard-won opportunities, they are very attentive when they learn technology, and the technology progresses very fast.
In September 1888, when Niu Shangzhou was promoted to the position of Deputy Director of Xinghe Shipyard, the German engineer who had heard that the contract had expired and was about to return to Europe said: "The entire process of ship construction is handled by Han workers ~ EbookFREE.me ~ Their skill level is no less than that of any European factory worker. And some of them are orphan apprentice workers who are even more shocking. They are surrounded by Han workers and European technical engineers every day. One step and operation, their learning spirit is very admirable, and a country with such a group of workers is both respectful and terrifying. "
The performance of Han skilled workers and even orphan apprentices may be inconceivable in the eyes of European engineers. However, after experiencing the rendering of public opinion in various aspects of Han domestic and personally experiencing the tough character of Han people from ancient times, in those ignorant, pure After showing up on orphans,
Yak Shangzhou became accustomed to the evaluation of European technical experts hired by the local government at high salaries.
"The Han Chinese shipbuilding workers are very flexible and swift when they work. Obviously they have the natural skills to control and use machine tools. In all respects, except for their physical strength, Han workers are comparable to workers in any country in the world."
类似 After the first self-built 5,000-ton ocean-going ship in China completed the test voyage, similar commendations from foreign technical experts were often heard.
Facing more and more praises, Niu Shangzhou just expressed polite gratitude and was not complacent, because he knew that compared with the European powers, the civil shipbuilding industry in Han was only at the second-class level. Xinghe Shipyard The civilian shipbuilding industry still has a long way to go before it can reach the first-class industry level.
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