Chapter 573: No Choice!
Winter goes to spring, and a new year begins.
In the bright spring light, boatloads of immigrants continue to go south.
How many immigrants shed tears, but this does not make the government feel the slightest pity.
Taking Lingnan Zhulu as an example, the imperial court issued an order to build a foundation of 300 households in each county, and in some prosperous places, the number of people relocated should be as many as 500 households.
If the counties are gathered together, the total number will be as high as 100,000.
They had to move, they couldn't stay even if they wanted to.
But it is not Borneo and Indochina, or Luzon, that have repeatedly raised the conditions for immigration, so that the people are attracted by the superior conditions and have flocked to it.
Overseas feudal states were established, and the war in the South Seas broke out. The Turks were on the attack, and everyone knew that this was not a good time for the people to go to the army.
If it weren't for the imperial court's order, even if a few vassal kings mentioned the conditions again and again, I am afraid that few people would have gone there.
It is also because of this that Luzon has become the winner of this 'migration war'.
Because the natives here have already been suppressed by the Song army, although there are still stubborn people in the mountains and dense forests, but it is only mustard.
Of the several relocation sites, the law and order environment was the best.
If they could, the people would naturally prefer to defect to Luzon.
And the immigration conditions in Luzon are not bad.
Guangzhou is the most important port of the Great Song Dynasty in Lingnan, and with the development of Nanyang, the importance of the Lingnan region has been continuously improved, and the city of Guangzhou has become more prosperous. This is the place where thousands of immigrants left the Great Song Dynasty, and immigrants from all walks of life in Lingnan either took sea boats or inland river boats, and many people were sent to Guangzhou one after another.
Then they boarded ocean-going ships, and boats by ships were sent further south.
In fact, although the distance between Nanyang and Lingnan is not small, it is far from the point where they are separated by thousands of miles of oceans, and there are many bilateral exchanges, so immigrants may not be able to return to their hometowns in the future.
However, the sea route is bumpy, the danger is fraught, the migration site is not safe, and the future is full of uncertainty.
Therefore, whenever immigrants board a sea ship and go to sea, the sorrow of being uprooted and uncertain about life and death is often intertwined, so that every migrant ship sets sail with tears.
The instructors under the immigration bureau are praising the place of immigration, and it is also a foreign land that they have never thought of and seen for the people who have migrated!
The fear of the unknown gripped their hearts deeply.
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Like other immigrants, Wang Dechang, who was carrying his wife and children, once again remembered the mountains and rivers of his hometown, the houses and fields in his hometown, and God knows how their Wang family ended up in such a situation in just a few years!
He has been from his uncle Shiyong in the Jingkang period to the Ministry of Shangshu and Kaifeng Mansion Yin, and he is only one step away from ascending to the position of Zaizhi.
Gaozhou Wang's family was also once beautiful!
Even if King Wu lost the country and Wang Shiyong followed him to the new dynasty, he would be a high-ranking official.
But who knew that the luck was so bad, after attaching to the new dynasty, Wang Shiyong was convicted of mistakes one after another, and in less than three years, he changed from a court member to a flat-headed grass people, and the Wang family also lost his previous superior position and influence in Gaozhou.
Wang Shiyong, who bears the title of seizing office and dismissing office, is not so good. Because of his soft bones, when Zhao Gou and Shilin Shishi came and went, he stood in line with Zhao Gou for the first time, Shilin's reputation was very bad, and he was dismissed from his post today, and he couldn't even maintain Wang's family. People are also ashamed and ashamed, sad and resentful, and die within two years.
After that, the Wang family was even more unlucky.
Wang Dechang also studied in elementary school, although he couldn't read it in the previous time, but after Zhao Gou's reform, he was admitted to Xiucai for the first time, and he made a mistake in Gaozhou Yamen. The future of life is still very good.
But after Wang Shiyong fell, he was also found by someone to make a mistake and lose his "official" to take office.
In the next few years, it was even more unpleasant, and when the emperor drew the line, most of the Wang family, which had a lot of wealth, fell below the red line.
Wang Dechang is one of them.
There are less than fifty acres of land left in the family!
According to the scale of his wife, one concubine, one daughter and two sons, how can he have an income of one hundred and twenty yuan?
He leased out the 50 acres of land, and he paid taxes every year, and after paying the grain tax, he still had 40 stone rice left, and it was absolutely not a problem to have food and clothing, but it was difficult to live well. Don't even think about earning 120 yuan a year.
The government in Gaozhou was also very unfriendly to the Wang family, so much so that last year, the Wang family had already fallen apart.
"The lonely boat is gone, and the thoughts are long. I am not far away, and I have landed more than a thousand miles. ……”
Holding on to the boat gang, Wang Dechang burst into tears, and everyone wanted to cry and faint.
Wang's face was also full of sorrow, his eyes looked at the shore reluctantly, and people were also sad and couldn't help themselves.
However, the eldest son of the two was a little disapproving.
What is there to be nostalgic for in Gaozhou's hometown?
On the same day, the uncle dismissed the official and returned to his hometown, and there was no place for the Wang family in Gaozhou.
In the past few years, the bumpy future is not only his family, the entire Gao family is unlucky, how can this really be providence? Is it completely man-made?
Thinking of the cold reception and ridicule he had received in the academy before, this fourteen-year-old boy had no nostalgia for Gaozhou in his heart.
Since there is no way for them to live in their hometown, why don't they emigrate?
At least the days will get better, won't they?
After his family sold their assets, they already had a sum of savings. Moreover, 50 acres of land in Gaozhou can be exchanged for 500 acres of compensation in Nanyang, plus 600 acres of land divided by six people, this is 1,100 acres of land.
Ten years of continuous cultivation is their family's inheritance, and they can borrow a sum of money from the bank with the acres of land, which can completely buy slaves to be helpers. In addition, his father also has the name of Xiucai, who is literate and hyphenated, and has been a public servant in the government for a few years before, so he can naturally be hired first after arriving in Nanyang.
Such days are obviously more energetic than those in Gaozhou, aren't they?
Why do you still miss your hometown like this?
Don't you hear Su Dongpo say: This place of peace is my hometown!
The young man felt that the place where he didn't know where he was moved made him feel more at peace than Gaozhou.
In fact, when people realize that they have no choice, they are very good at comforting and comforting themselves.
Except for those who love themselves and sigh for themselves. Many people know that you may be very hard, very hard, and stumble and get injured on the road, but others will never feel the same way. This world is so cruel that everyone can only see the brilliance of the victor and ignore the tears of the loser.
You see, when you're desperate, you have no choice but to be strong!