Because, recently, there has been a disagreement on how to give political power to immigrants---- of course, the difference is not a question of whether to give it, but a question of when to start the process.

Ren Ke believes that if we sincerely want to give, then don't make excuses to delay, just start immediately---- there is no time and conditions for this kind of thing.

Otherwise, then simply do not give, and there is no need to look for reasons not to give---- because people today do not yet have a concept of personal political power.

Li Junming firmly advocates giving ---- immediately, and he believes that in the final analysis, the system is the fundamental point that distinguishes us from the vast majority of the world, and it is also our core competitiveness.

In the end, the federal Senate narrowly approved Ren Ke and Li Junming's proposal, agreeing that they would "do some limited experiments" on Zixia Island......

Several administrative villages in the new settlement were arranged from the upper reaches of the Heishui River all the way to the north, and the nearest administrative village at the southern end was very close to the open-pit coal mine, and the deputy governor Li Dewei immediately received the coal mine, the coal transport fleet and more than 320 miners handed over to him by Li Junming, these people were from the second group of immigrants, all of whom were strong laborers.

The task he is now undertaking is very important: he must replenish the Nicole with as much coal as possible in two to three days - at present, there are about 200 tons of coal piled up on the wharf and in the mine in Zixia Town, which was dug by the immigrants organized by Li Junming a while ago, and now that the new immigrants are coming, Li Dewei plans to go to the new immigrant village to recruit some more laborers and expand the size of the mining team.

For this reason, Li Dewei assured Captain Gu that when the Nicole came again next time, the Nicole could replenish more than 500 tons of coal at one time.

Gu Jin was very happy to hear this, because this means that the burden of coal supply on the Red Mansion has been greatly reduced, and now the chicken nest coal mine on Mornington Island has been fully mined, if those coals can be used or less for Nicole, plus the import of coal and mineral sands from Timor Island, the coal and coke chemical industry of Baisha Group and the port thermal power plant of Kangwang Power will get sufficient coal supply, not only that, Holley and Quan Zhenhai they have raw materials for large-scale coke smelting - what does it mean to have a large-scale supply of coke, It is clear to all traversers.

Undoubtedly, this will have a significant impact on the industrial system throughout Mornington Island.

Li Dewei's confidence is well-founded, now Zixia Island is relatively abundant labor, it is easier to recruit coal digging labor, because the wage is relatively high, in the open-pit coal mine, the Heishui River transport fleet and Zixia Town wharf to do portering work is the migrants' preferred job, because each person can have a net income of more than three taels of silver per month, in this era, for ordinary people, this is a high-paying job.

The only problem is the deployment and replenishment of labor on the island---- it is now the rainy season, basically the agricultural slack season, in some families with relatively rich labor, of course, they are willing to earn a lot of wages in this place temporarily, but these labor forces are temporary, for these Han people, the most haunting thing is still the twenty acres of fertile land allocated to each person by the federal government @ government.

Fortunately, Li Dewei knows that with such a salary level, he will definitely be able to recruit coal digging labor in the third batch of immigrants.

The third group of immigrants soon moved into the shack, which was only a temporary structure, near the shack was the planned administrative village settlement, the homestead had been demarcated, a large amount of timber had been prepared, and the new immigrants would immediately start building houses under the leadership of the village head, and at the same time carry out works such as wells, canals, and road works.

In addition to the wharf, a nine-meter-wide gangue/cobblestone gravel road is being built on the island---- which extends north from the wharf in Zixia Town to the settlement of the new immigrants.

The highway that runs through the north-south inland of Zixia Island connects the Zixia Town Wharf, the open-pit coal mine in the upper reaches of the Heishui River, and all the migrant administrative villages.

At the end of the road is an estuary on the northern coast of Zixia Island, where there is a bay where a deep-water port can be built, and on the opposite side of the bay there is an island about one-tenth the size of Zixia Island.

Because this road is paved with coal gangue as the main material, so the immigrants call it the Black Stone Road, the end of this road is the bay that Gu Jin measured when they first landed on Zixia Island, the bottom of the bay is the mouth of a river, not far away There is a coast that can build a deep-water harbor, because there are several islands outside the port, so this topography is also very suitable for a safe haven.

Li Junming, as the governor of Zixia Island, is very concerned about this future port, he has long had the idea of building here, a while ago when determining the reclamation area of the fourth batch of immigrants, he has discussed the construction plan with Ren Wei Li and several other people, and also asked for a specific construction plan from Hou Xianglin---- once this port is completed, its cargo throughput will be much higher than that of Zixia Town Wharf.

In addition, the fourth batch of immigrants will be arranged to reclaim land near that port, so that the south and the north will develop together, echoing each other from afar, and the development pattern of the entire Zixia Island will be formed.

Another consideration is to keep the land reclaimed by the new immigrants farther away from the land of the old immigrants, so that both sides have room for expansion.

This arrangement is also a last resort, because the current enthusiasm of the immigrants for reclamation is a little frightening, because of the abundant reclamation materials, the immigrants who have arrived on Zixia Island soon devote themselves to ambitious reclamation operations, which forces Li Junming and them to increase the distance between settlements, in order to make room for the immigrants to reclaim, otherwise, the reclamation land of each settlement will be contiguous.

Nowadays, the agricultural reclamation plan laid out by Lao Wang when he came to Zixia Island last time has completely become a thing of the past---- because there was no Changfeng action at that time, and under the labor conditions at that time, Lao Wang planned to open up 15,000 mu of land within this year, and spread it evenly among everyone, and only about 12 or 3 acres of land per capita were needed.

Obviously, under the labor conditions at that time, this indicator was not difficult to complete, but in September, because of the Changfeng operation, Zixia Island suddenly had more than 20,000 men and women Dingkou labor, and it is estimated that by the end of the year, the population may exceed 60,000, which means that if ---- according to the per capita allocation of 20 acres of wasteland, of which the land that reaches the planting conditions after reclamation is at least 10 to 15 acres per capita, from the end of the year to the beginning of spring next year, the whole island should have 500,000 acres of land that can be planted.

However, the actual results of the reclamation surprised Li Junming and his family, who found that they had underestimated the degree of attachment to the land of the Han immigrants, or it was more appropriate to call it fanaticism.

Now, not only did the immigrants quickly open up 20 acres of wasteland per capita for their families, but people still had the spare strength to continue to reclaim the wasteland, because as early as when Ren Ke led the first batch of landings on Zixia Island, it was announced that if you have spare strength, you can reclaim more, of course, the newly cultivated land beyond the scope of your family must remain cultivated, otherwise it will be judged as indiscriminate reclamation and will be recovered by the Governor's Palace.

Well, whether it was Ren Ke who came first or Li Junming later, they underestimated the diligence of the Han immigrants, because the terrain of Zixia Island is flat and the water resources are abundant, and it is indeed much easier to open up wasteland and repair canals than on that continent, plus the preparation of materials and food in the early stage is very sufficient, so Li Junming and they were surprised to find that the immigrants are desperate when they open up the wasteland!

Some families rotate day and night, there is no rest day at all, the couple does not reclaim the land day and night, the elderly and children in the family are also together, many families do not even care about repairing their own houses, rather the family is temporarily crowded in the shack, but also in the field first.

Obviously, the immigrants have a little ninety-nine in their hearts - their own houses are repaired early and late, but this land is opened late and occupied by other people's families, so there is no more!

So although in fact the plots are far away, each family has a lot of room for development, but the human heart is like this, watching other people's land expand day by day, their own must be anxious---- even if you yourself are not anxious about your wife, the comparison between people will produce a strong motivation - this is human nature, so, each family is just like this, all the way to compare, unconsciously engaged in the wilderness competition.

So at the end of October, in less than three months after the implementation of Operation Changfeng, 300,000 acres of wasteland had been reclaimed on Zixia Island.

In other words, the immigrants have completed the target of 20 acres per capita ahead of schedule!