It wasn't until the beginning of April that the snow and ice on Ezo Island began to melt, and the four-foot-thick snow disappeared, and a touch of tender green bloomed on the ground, which looked like a green carpet from a distance, which was the breath of spring and full of vitality.

The thick ice of the Ishikari River is gone, and you can hear the murmuring of the water, and the occasional water vapor on the surface of the river is steaming, and the clouds and mist are shrouded, and it is suspected that it is a fairyland on earth, and it is beautiful.

This year, the government implemented Yang Wenli's will and no longer allowed the Ainu and other people to fish in the river in the spring.

In the mountains and forests, in the city garden, the peach and willow green, the ancient unpolluted sky, the blue and blue, the white clouds are as white as cotton, floating in the sky, showing a thousand postures.

The scenery is unique here, and the beauty is beautiful, but the people still need to live, and the hard-working people turn a blind eye to all this, and they have lined up in front of the government's newly built government affairs hall.

Kogoro Murata got up early in the morning and was at the front of the line, and at nine o'clock in the morning, when the government hall opened the door, he was the first to walk in.

"Is there anything I can do to help you?" The government staff in the government affairs hall asked him with a smile on his face.

"I want to lease 100 acres of land, I don't know what procedures are required, how much land rent will be required for the new land cultivated in the first few years?" Kogoro Murata said the problem he had already thought about.

"As long as you have your identity certificate and your family's household registration book, in addition, there is no need for any formalities, the first three years are free of rent, all the income is your own, you can also apply for an interest-free loan of ten taels of silver, to buy seeds, farm tools, cattle and other information, the loan term is five years, and after five years, you only need to repay the principal of five taels."

This is a government-aided loan to your family, but you should be careful that at the end of five years, you must pay off the principal, otherwise it will seriously damage your personal and family credit, so that you will be restricted from doing anything until your credit score is restored.

You come with me, and I'll take you to the formalities. The staff of the government affairs hall explained the current preferential policies to him in detail, and they were very conscientious.

The second one to go in was Juro, he didn't have a surname, because he was a cobbler, he used to be a pariah, you see he was lying around, he looked submissive, and he didn't have the confidence of Murata just now.

"Hello! My name is Ten ...... Lang, I'm just a cobbler, I heard people say that you can rent a factory in the development zone, and you can also apply for housing in Sapporo, I don't know if it's true? ”

Another staff member of the government hall replied to him with a smile: "That's right! As long as you are a citizen of your country, you can apply, however, it is best for you to take a Miao character, after all, there are many people called Shiro Hachiro, and it is easy to have the same name. ”

"I'm just a pariah, can I also take the word Miao?" Juro asked him incredulously.

"Yes, there is no such thing as a pariah in our Far Eastern Kingdom, there is only the difference between a slave and a commoner, if you are a commoner, then you can enjoy all the national treatment, and taking the Miao character is the most basic and necessary."

"I'm a civilian, I'm a civilian, you see! This is my ID card and household register. Juro excitedly took out his identification and gave it to the staff.

The ID card of the Far Eastern Kingdom has basically the same specifications as the later generations, except that there is a civilian mark after the name.

The staff member took the certificate, glanced at it casually, and said to him with a smile: "Please come with me!" I'll take you through all the formalities. ”

The people queuing up here are all Han and He, and there is a special group of people, who are government workers who come to provide door-to-door service, that is, the Ainu people.

Because they don't understand the language, they have to have staff who can speak Ainu come to their homes.

"In the future, hunting and fishing will be banned in the spring......"

"How's that going to work? What does our family eat? We Ainu people have relied on hunting and fishing for generations, and the government has banned us, so will we all starve to death? ”

"Don't be so excited! I haven't finished my sentence, the government will never watch you starve to death.

From now on, you can go to the government-run grain store to get grain on credit with your identity certificate and your family's household registration booklet, and you can also apply for a support loan of 10 taels.

If someone in your family is doing military service, you will have fifty acres of basic food ration fields, and you will not go hungry.

Our government will also try its best to let your family live a good life, this is our responsibility, if we don't do it, you can always go to the government-run grain store to get food on credit, I say this, you should have no opinion! ”

"If that's the case, I don't have an opinion, don't let me go hunting and fishing and have food, how can I have an opinion, it's just that there are so many wild beasts in the mountains, and there are more fish in the river and the sea, why aren't we allowed to hunt?"

"This is the will of His Majesty the King himself, spring is the season of revival of all things, and wild beasts and fish must also multiply, and we must not dry up and fish.

In short, as long as you can hunt, we will definitely inform you, but until then, you are not allowed to hunt privately, otherwise you will be caught by the government and will be punished with heavy fines, do you understand? ”

"Whoa! I get it. ”

The officials of the Far Eastern Kingdom are appointed system, not ten years of hard study, once in high school, they are basically iron rice bowls, and it is difficult to go up and down.

Their promotion is determined by their political performance, which is closely related to people's livelihood, and they are most afraid of being complained by the people, once verified, not only is there no hope of promotion, but also there is a risk of losing their jobs.

Moreover, there are no strict boundaries of officials in the Far Eastern Kingdom, and ordinary workers have the opportunity to be promoted to high-ranking government officials, and there is no ceiling on it.

Therefore, the working attitude of the government functionaries of the Far Eastern Kingdom was completely different from that of the officials of other countries at this time, and they were no longer high-ranking officials, but real servants of the people.

In the Spring of the Far East, there was a lot of joy and laughter everywhere, even for the lowly slaves, whose standard of living had really improved.

There was only one person who was very depressed, he was Wang Danian, one of the immigrants who came here with the fleet, but he also had another secret identity, he was a noble Jinyi Wei Xiaoqi officer.

He originally thought that Yang Lichun's fleet was going to Changsheng Island in Liaodong, so he wanted to find out about the military situation so that he could be promoted for meritorious service.

How do you know that people are not as good as heaven, but he was deceived by others and deceived to this remote island that I don't know how far away from the Central Plains.

When he got here, he inquired about the military situation, is it still useful? He may not be able to return to China for the rest of his life.

His beautiful wife and concubine, his hundred acres of fertile land, have no relationship with him, glory and wealth, become a passing cloud, do you say he can not be depressed?

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