For the next two days, the migratory procession continued to leave the long line and make their way to their destination. The long queue www.biquge.info traveled all the way for five days to settle all the migrating farmers in various places.

And this is just the tens of thousands of peasants in one province in Beizhili, and many areas in the entire Central Plains are such a scene. In less than two months, the number of tenants and slaves "persuaded to leave" by the Far Eastern Army in various parts of the Central Plains even exceeded 10 million.

This is also because of the proximity to the resettlement, and the tenants and slaves of the Far Eastern Army who have migrated from all over the country can walk for only a few days at most to reach the newly resettled areas, and the local working group of the Ethnic Affairs Committee will be responsible for receiving them.

In particular, Shandong, Shanxi, Shaanxi, Henan and other provinces, where thieves are most severe, are now very depressed and barren. It is already "no rooster crow for thousands of miles, and the white bones are exposed in the wild".

Many areas are empty, and the most serious areas are even hundreds of miles away from people. At that time, it was a great drought in Chongzhen, and a large number of people became displaced people to flee the famine in the Jiangnan area after a few years of rain.

Even those who stay don't have a good life. Today, the thieves came to plague again, and tomorrow the officials and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty will come to plague again, so that the people in these areas will not survive at all. Many densely populated and prosperous counties, villages and towns have now become dead cities.

Companies can only enrich these provinces by moving people from densely populated areas to these provinces on a large scale. Many migrants walked for more than a month to travel from neighbouring provinces to these areas.

Fortunately, there is nothing else in these areas, but there are many barren and unclaimed lands. The working group of the company's people's committee can organize the newly relocated people to carry out large-scale land clearing and autumn ploughing before the winter comes, and strive to make all the land in these areas smoothly carry out spring plowing and production next spring.

The main task of the company now is to smoothly settle the tenants of these gentry and landlords, and then to ensure their food and clothing, and to provide them with the necessary training this winter.

The number of peasant households migrating this time is so large that it is obviously unrealistic to want to conduct large-scale winter training like in Liaodong. Only a few young men can be selected from among them, and some time can be found for simple training.

Next year, the company will promote the excellent seeds of modern society and advanced modern planting technology on a large scale in various regions of the Central Plains, so this winter will also conduct some training for all farmers.

If you want to resettle so many people, you can imagine the work involved. Winter is coming soon, and just preparing the houses for them to spend the winter is a huge project.

Fortunately, although the land is barren in various places, the houses in villages and towns in various places are still preserved. It's just that these houses have been uninhabited for several years, and now they have become ruined and dilapidated.

But no matter how dilapidated the house is, there is always no shortage of beams and earthen wall frames, as long as it is repaired before the winter, it can completely survive this winter. After all, although the provinces of the Central Plains are cold, they are really nothing compared to Liaodong and the Outer Northeast.

There is still nearly a year to go before next year's autumn harvest, and although these farmers have more or less surplus grain in their hands, this surplus grain can only make their families feel half full.

Especially in the first few months of the autumn harvest, the surplus grain of these people at the bottom has basically bottomed out, so they can only dig wild vegetables and tree roots everywhere, survive the last two months, wait for the autumn harvest grain to come down, wait for most of the harvested grain to pay the rent, and then guard the only remaining little surplus grain to survive the next year.

These poor peasants at the bottom who have been digging in the soil for generations have been busy getting up early and dark year after year, but they rely on only this little surplus grain to survive all year round, repeating year after year, as long as they catch up with the disaster year when the year is not good, it means that the family is ruined and people are in a dilemma.

Those landlords and gentry don't care if you have a disaster or not, the land rent is collected correctly, and they can't pay a grain less than a grain at all. This is a portrayal of feudal society, and this situation even lasted until the Republic of China.

Although there were also benevolent people among the gentry and landlords, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, land annexation had reached the extreme, and the landlords in most areas brutally exploited tenants and slaves.

Moreover, the gentry landlords colluded with the local government officials and used all kinds of shameless means to transfer all kinds of taxes of the imperial court to the tenants under their rule, so that these landless tenants had to bear all kinds of taxes and servitude for the landlords.

Coupled with the drought in Chongzhen for several years, this also completely cut off the livelihood of the poor peasants at the bottom of the north, which made the chaotic situation of starvation and thieves everywhere.

This is the social portrayal of cannibalism in the late Ming Dynasty, look at the displaced people everywhere, and then look at the countless armed thieves, as long as there is even a trace of survival, the traditional low-level peasants in the Central Plains will not rebel.

History is always strikingly similar, and in the last years of each Central Plains dynasty, land annexation reached the extreme. Often during this period, the methods used by the traditional local feudal forces to exploit the peasants at the bottom were also outrageous.

No matter how powerful the dynasty was, the decline of the last dynasty was almost all because of the incomparably greedy exploitation of the traditional feudal forces, which left the peasants at the bottom without a way to live, which caused vigorous peasant uprisings again and again, and finally affected the foundation of the rule, and then collapsed one after another.

Zhou Tong was carrying a flat burden, and the woman next to him was carrying her son, and she was still holding the second girl in her hand. The family had been walking for three days, and they were all very tired, their legs and feet seemed to be filled with lead, and every step seemed very heavy.

The long flow of people on the official road has become much more sparse. Most of the displaced people have left the official road and are being diverted to the newly resettled areas.

Fortunately, the fried noodles given to them by the Far East have been eaten by the family for a few days, and now there is still most of them left. This also gave them a lot of peace of mind, at least they didn't have to touch the little surplus food left at home.

Although the past few years have ceased to be as dry as before, the year is not very good, the land rent has been completed, and the rest is not enough for the family to eat.

Every two or three months before the autumn harvest, if you want to carry this difficult time, the family has to try their best to find food everywhere, grass roots, wild vegetables, tree bark, in order to fill the stomach can be said to do everything.

Finally, the Far Eastern officers and soldiers next to them led them down the official road and let the team rest on the side of the road for a while, which also made all the exhausted civilians secretly breathe a sigh of relief.

Zhou Tong put down the heavy flat shoulder, then rubbed his shoulder, which was already swollen and painful, and sat on the ground, panting heavily, he finally arrived at the place, if he walked further, even he might not be able to stand it.

(To be continued.) )