The construction of Xinxiang City is in full swing, and the construction site is in full swing.

This time, Gao Junshan also brought shipbuilders, who cut down trees in the nearby woods to build ships in order to transfer the goods on board the freighter to shore.

The 17 ships of the fleet are all large ships of more than 5,000 tons, and there is no regular wharf, so heavy cargo cannot be unloaded, and if small goods are to be sent ashore, small ships must also be used to transfer them.

The speedboats on the battleships can only undertake the task of carrying people ashore, while there are small lifeboats on cargo (passenger) ships, which are far from satisfying the task of transferring materials, so it is necessary to let the shipwrights build the ship as soon as possible and let the cargo be unloaded to the shore as soon as possible.

The expeditionary force on the west coast of the Americas has a total of 32,176 people, and although there is no need to worry about the food of so many people in a short period of time, after all, this is a transoceanic migration, and the reclamation of farmland must be given top priority.

The Xizhou Farmland Reclamation Corps is the first municipal organization established by Marven, and as the governor of Xizhou, Marven has to consider the issue of eating.

There are more than 20,000 immigrants brought by Marven this time, including 10,000 workers, 7,000 engaged in agricultural production, and the rest are various managers and scientific and technological personnel.

Marven and his brother Ma Jin often exchanged telegrams, mainly Marven learned from his brother. The 7,000 peasants came from six provinces in the country, and were assigned to Marven by the National Immigration Bureau, and the reclamation corps divided six reclamation brigades into provinces, and then the brigades were divided into squadrons and squads, each of which consisted of a family, referring to Ma Jin's experience.

The first immigrant family to be allowed ashore was the Jia family, the Jia family came from Hebei, with a total of 76 people, the patriarch was Jia Zhengmao, three brothers and five sons. Jia Zhengmao is 72 years old this year, and his family has actively responded to the call of the country and joined the ranks of immigrants.

Their family of 76 people only has 50 acres of thin land in their hometown, because the harvest has not been good in recent years, and they can only live by relying on state subsidies. He was very uneasy to receive state subsidies for a long time, and when he heard that if he immigrated, the state would be able to distribute land according to capitation, and that if his family had a large population, if land was distributed according to population, it would not be a problem for his family to get 100 acres of land, and that immigrants would also share their worries with the state, and that they would no longer have to reach out to the state to receive subsidies every year, which was a very honorable thing.

"Get on board! It's time to get on board! ”

The boatswain of the 10,000-ton passenger liner shouted loudly from the deck.

Jia Zhengmao's eldest son, Jia Chongguang, ran from the crowd to the boatswain: "Our family was the first to go ashore. ”

The boatswain asked, "What's your name?" ”

"Jia Chongguang."

The boatswain held a roster in his hand, checked it, and nodded: "With your name, you call out all the people in your family, a total of seventy-six people." ”

"Great!" Jia Chongguang agreed while waving his hand to let their family come over.

The boatswain checked the number of people and said, "Don't crowd you, each speedboat can only carry twenty people, let the old man and the children go first." ”

Jia Chongguang suggested on the side: "This brother, it's a bit inappropriate to let the old man and the child go first, we are all a family, and the old man and the child need to be taken care of, is this okay?" Anyway, there are twenty people in each boat, so it would be more reasonable for us to arrange who comes first and who comes last. ”

The boatswain agreed to Jia's proposal.

Patriarch Jia Zhengmao was of course the first to get on the boat, and the speedboat stopped on the side of the ship, but to go up to the speedboat, you need to go down the gangway, and the captain modified the hoist crane for unloading for the convenience of the elderly and children, and specially made a cage, which can seat two people, so that the elderly and children do not need to climb the suspension ladder.

"Dad, I'll sit with you!"

Jia Zhengmao's youngest son, Jia Chongwen, took the initiative to support his father.

The cage was placed on the deck, Jia Chongwen helped his father to the cage, and a sailor opened the cage and motioned for the Jia family father and son to enter.

The door of the cage could only be entered and exited by one person, and Jia Chongwen entered the cage first, and then turned around to help his father.

When father and son sat side by side, the sailor in charge of the cage closed the iron door.

"Old man, sit down!" After the sailor reminded Jia Zhengmao, he waved his hand, and the cage slowly rose.

The chassis of the cage is held in by a cable to ensure that the suspended cage does not sway from side to side.

As soon as the cage was raised, it moved outward, and the moving boat began to lower outside the ship, and a small speedboat was parked underneath.

Jia Chongwen sat on the long chair of the cage, holding his father with one hand and holding the railing tightly with the other.

"Dad, close your eyes, and you'll be there in a while."

Jia Zhengmao smiled easily: "Do you think Dad is scared?" Dad wasn't afraid at all. To tell you the truth, Dad is not only not afraid, but also thinks it's fun. ”

The cage moves down slowly, and the person in the cage won't have much discomfort.

The river was calm, and all I could hear when I sat in the cage was the sound of the chains of the "Kalakala" hoist hanging.

Finally, the cage went down to the deck of the speedboat, and there were two marines on the deck to protect the cage, one was pulling the cable on the cage ground, and the other reached out to grab the moving cage, and the cage landed steadily on a carpet on the deck of the speedboat, without any sound.

"Dad, it's here."

"Arrived? Why don't you feel it at all? Jia Zhengmao looked left and right.

The Marines opened the iron door of the cage and said, "Old man, it's time to get there, please come out!" ”

The cage was more than one person high, and Jia Zhengmao stood up and moved his legs and feet before coming out.

"Where is this?"

The Marines replied, "It's a speedboat, and you can get ashore on it." ”

There were two rows of seats on the speedboat, and Jia Chongwen helped his father to the front, and at this time, the family members who came down from the suspension ladder also got up to the speedboat, and when it was full of twenty people, the speedboat headed to the shore.

There were no docks on the riverbank, so the Marines put the cables on the stakes on the shore and set up a gangplank, and the first immigrants from the West Coast of the Americas began to go ashore.

After Jia Zhengmao's family came ashore, someone from the immigration bureau came to pick them up and took them to their temporary residence.

What made Jia Zhengmao happy was that their family was allocated 304 acres of land, and their family of 76 people received an average of 4 acres of land each.

His eldest son, Jia Chongguang, has seen the land, the land is very fertile, but he needs to reclaim it himself, not only the land needs to be reclaimed, but also the house needs to be built by himself, in addition to the 304 acres of cultivated land allocated to their family, the state has also set aside 50 acres of flat land for them to build houses.