Liaodong, just after the first month, the temperature is still very cold, the earth is snow-white, only a long road cuts through this snow-white world, has been extending from Shanhaiguan to Liaodong.

On this long road, a large number of horse-drawn carts and ox carts creaked and creaked on the slightly muddy road, women and children sat in the carriages, and young adults followed the large army towards the unknown world and unknown life.

This year, the imperial court plans to immigrate 300,000 people to Liaodong and develop Liaodong.

These people drawn out of Shanxi, Shaanxi and Henan had to embark on the road of migration just after the Lantern Festival.

In this era, the emperor's holy decree cannot be violated, and it is impossible not to go.

Although these people were the poorest peasants, who did not even have an acre of land in their hometown, even the brand-new woolen coats they wore were issued by the imperial court, and the warm shoes they wore on their feet were also issued by the imperial court.

Although the imperial court has promised that as long as they immigrate to the Liaodong region, they will have a large amount of land of their own, and as long as they work hard, they will definitely be more prosperous than they originally wanted.

But still no one wants to immigrate to Liaodong.

It is difficult to leave the homeland, even if it is death, it will die in its hometown.

The golden nest and silver nest are not as good as the dog kennel at home, no matter how good the other country is, everyone is not envious.

This kind of plot is deeply ingrained.

What's more, what kind of place is this Liaodong?

Since ancient times, everywhere has been a bitter cold place, a place of exile for prisoners, who wants to go?

But there is no way, under the order of the imperial court, even if you don't want to go, you have to go.

The lottery and the draw are all fate, and if you don't go, you have to go.

But fortunately, the current imperial court is better than before.

If you don't have winter clothes and shoes, the court will send them to you, two sets per person, adults and children.

Everywhere along the way, the government also prepared food, and along the way, although it was hard, it was worry-free about food and clothing, and it also made many people feel a lot less resentful.

For those of them who are poor, winter is an extremely difficult time, otherwise there would not have been such a thing as "wintering" or "escaping winter" before.

The poor in the family can't open the pot, what should I do?

Flee to other places, steal, beg, rob, as long as you can live, and then come back after the winter, and continue to farm for the landlord.

This phenomenon is especially common in Henan, a densely populated province with sharp contradictions between people and land, and even in good weather, in winter, people go out to beg for food in droves.

If there is a famine or something, it will really be starvation all over the field, and the bark of the trees will be eaten clean.

Shanxi and Shaanxi are similar.

The long history has made the ecological environment here extremely harsh, and it is no longer enough to carry a larger and larger population, even if the wind and rain are smooth, it is barely able to survive, let alone have enough food and clothing.

Now, even though the Beijing-Tianjin region is developing rapidly, Nanjing and Songhu in the south of the Yangtze River are also developing rapidly, and for these inland provinces, there is still little change.

The people here are still poor, but they don't want to leave.

Although many people went to the Ryukyus and Nanyang to live a good life, there are still relatively few people who believe in it, and even fewer are willing to leave.

It's still the emperor's order that works, and the holy decree is a given, and you have to go if you don't go.

"Dog, I've heard about it, working here in Tianjin, I can earn three taels of silver a month, it turns out that this is all true, the monkeys in my village are not deceiving people~"

As Li Damao walked forward, he was also chatting with a person from the same village around him.

"Who knows if it's true or not?"

"We just passed through the outermost part of Tianjin, and we weren't allowed to go to Tianjin to have a good look, anyway, I don't believe it."

"Three taels of silver a month, I have been doing this for a year, and I can go home to the landlord."

Wang Dagou shrunk his hands together, and said with a look of disbelief: "It's useless to think about this, we are all transferred by the imperial court to Liaodong, and we will all be registered here in Liaodong in the future, so stay in Liaodong honestly." ”

"Alas~too~"

"This weather is really cold, it's already February, and it's still freezing and snowy."

"And this road, it's really difficult to walk, or the section of the road in Tianjin is easy to walk, it's all cement roads, clean and comfortable."

Li Damao also nodded discouragedly after hearing this.

was transferred to Liaodong by the emperor, and it was difficult to come back in the future. Let's read the book

Look at the end of the road ahead, God knows how long it will take.

"Big dog, how long do you think we're going to go?"

"How do I know, I heard not long ago that I just passed the Shanhaiguan, it is said that it is not far from Liaodong, it is estimated that it will take another ten days and half a month to get to Liaodong."

"Anyway, as long as there is food, it should be regarded as a begging for food, three meals a day, a full meal, so that I can go to the New Year."

Wang Dagou thought for a while and said.

The family was poor, and they didn't even have the money to bribe the clan elders, so they were drawn and had to move their family to Liaodong.

But for Wang Dagou, it doesn't matter, anyway, the house can't open the pot anymore, this way, at least eat and drink, starve to death, his two little cubs are still fat, that's enough.

"Also, we are all poor people, let's go slowly."

Li Damao also nodded.

Keep walking, keep walking, day after day, after crossing the Shanhaiguan, the field of vision gradually flattened, and slowly became an endless plain.

On the official road, there are not only immigrants who go to Liaodong, but also a large number of horse-drawn carriages and merchants.

The imperial court cleaned up the Jurchen tribes in Liaodong and obeyed them well, and Liaodong was extremely safe, plus the grassland was included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, and the grassland was also very safe.

Therefore, there are many people who go to Liaodong and the grasslands to do business.

During the Chinese New Year, everyone is accustomed to being at home, and as soon as the Lantern Festival is over, businessmen begin to get busy again.

At the same time, with such a huge population migration, many post stations were set up along the government, and the role of the post stations was to provide food and accommodation for these migrants.

Batch after batch of people moved to Liaodong in strict accordance with the requirements of the government, and there were people every day, and this road was endless.

After walking for more than ten days, Li Damao and Wang Dagou finally arrived in Liaodong.

After the large army that followed the migration arrived in Liaodong, according to the requirements of the imperial court, all the people in Shanxi, Shaanxi, and Henan were to be disrupted, and people from the same place were not allowed to be assigned to the same area.

Therefore, Li Damao and Wang Dagou were also separated, but they were also divided into the same guard, the two newly built villages under the Tieling guard.

"This will be your home from now on~"

"These rooms are all your house, it's very cold here in Liaodong, so we also prepared some wood for you, remember to burn the kang, the wood is not enough, go to the forest to cut it yourself."

"In addition, every household has prepared two hundred catties of rice and two hundred catties of noodles, which is enough for you to eat until the beginning of spring, and if you want to eat meat, you can go hunting by yourself, or scoop fish in the river, these things are more in our Liaodong."

Under the leadership of a few officials, Li Damao came to a village that could be clearly seen to be newly built not long ago.

The village is built on an open flat land, with a dense primeval jungle behind the mountains, and an open endless field in front of it, covered with snow, and the thick meadows can be seen through the thick snow, which is obviously a wasteland.

The village is very large, a village with hundreds of households, the houses are all newly built, all made of wood, and you can clearly see that there is a large area of felled forest behind it, where only bare tree stumps remain.

The roads in the village are paved with concrete roads, but they are only limited to the village, and the cement roads connect the various doors and households, making the whole newly built village look very neat and uniform.

This time, in order to develop Liaodong, the imperial court did invest a lot, and the food, clothing, and housing of these immigrants were properly arranged.

Of course, this is also because the current imperial court has silver, and it can be tossed, otherwise if it were changed to before, the imperial court would not have been able to organize such a large-scale immigration to Liaodong.

It's very cold here in Liaodong, and if you don't arrange the problems of housing, warmth and food, then it's not immigrants coming to Liaodong, it's asking people to come and send them to death.

Regarding this point, the princes above the court are also very clear.

Liaodong is also very important, and it has to be invested on a large scale without investment.

However, fortunately, the transportation in Liaodong is still very convenient, and you can directly pass through the Bohai Sea and the Liaohe River by boat, and a large number of materials can be transported over, and it is also very convenient on land.

Tianjin to Shanhaiguan has been built through the cement road, that is, the cement road to Liaodong has not been built, but this section of the road is also plain, not difficult to walk.

It was also painstaking to get these first immigrants in time for the start of spring.

The plan of this year lies in the spring, before the beginning of the spring to immigrate people, as soon as the spring begins, these people can reclaim wasteland here in Liaodong, grow potatoes and wheat, and in the autumn and winter, this group of immigrants can be regarded as able to be independent in Liaodong.

If you want to wait for the summer and the hot weather to immigrate here, it will be more convenient and not cold, but you will miss this year's agricultural time.

"Nice house~"

"I like it~"

Li Damao's family walked around in their new house, although it was a wooden house, but it was built quite well, and more importantly, compared to the broken earth house in their hometown in Henan, this house was much better, too much.

Looking at the generations of rice and white flour, Li Damao suddenly felt that immigrating to Liaodong seemed to be a good choice.