Chapter 244: The Great Migration
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In mid-February of the first year of Xinghua, the cabinet of the Chinese Empire issued a notice of large-scale emigration, requiring governments at all levels to mobilize the common people under their rule and move to three regions: the northeast, the northwest, and the north. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½
All the people who move to these three areas, adults (16 years old adults) are allocated 10 acres of land, minors are allocated 5 acres of land, the government provides a set of simple housing (steel plate houses) and high-yield crop seeds, and before the crops are harvested, the government provides enough food to ensure their living needs, when the crops are harvested, the people who move to these three areas, in addition to the need to pay 10% of the agricultural tax and high-yield crop seed fees, do not need to pay other fees.
Governments at all levels were quick to put up leaflets and send public security police and auxiliary police to publicize the plan, but very few people responded to the plan, and even those who relied on government subsidies to feed themselves were reluctant to emigrate to the north.
"If you die, you will die in your hometown!"
It is difficult to leave the homeland, this is an important problem that governments at all levels need to solve, and for the Chinese people, it is a difficult decision to leave this homeland where they were born and raised, go to a far, far away place, and never return for the rest of their lives.
Unless something natural or man-made happens, few people leave their homeland and never return.
Perhaps some poor people will be attracted by the benefits given by the government, and these people basically belong to the existence of a large number of people in the family and little land, and they are about to run out of food.
And those people who can barely eat enough will basically not want to immigrate to the north, the homeland is difficult to leave is the biggest problem, and another problem is the cold climate of the north, the people who are used to living in the warm climate of the south, if they go to the north, it will be absolutely unbearable.
The climate in the north is much colder than in the south, and even the crops take a long time to mature, and they can only be ripened once a year, which is one of the reasons why the government offers generous conditions for the people who go to the north.
In the Imperial Cabinet's Great Migration Plan, the Cabinet planned to emigrate 10 million in three years and 20 million in five years to the northern regions, so as to greatly reduce the pressure on land in other regions.
The provinces of Siqi, Zhusu, Puhui, Zhili, Shandong, Helan, Guangdong, and Zheqi are all provinces with large populations, and the per capita cultivated land in each region is only one mu.
Faced with this situation, the imperial cabinet had only two options, one was to popularize high-yield crop seeds, and the other was to carry out immigration, to migrate the common people from densely populated areas to sparsely populated areas in the north, which would not only reduce the pressure on the land, but also change the proportion of the population, bring the culture of the Chinese nation there, and let the culture of the Chinese nation shine to every corner of the Chinese empire.
In order to complete the tasks assigned by the cabinet, some government officials personally led teams to go to the homes of those people who were living in difficulty, and publicized the plan from door to door, telling these people who were living in difficulty how much benefit they would have to immigrate to the northern region.
Government officials simply said to the people: "You can make a lot of money by immigrating to the northern region!" ā
In the hearts of ordinary people, even if it is a small official, it is also a high-ranking official, and now these high-ranking officials actually take the initiative to talk to them, which is really a strange thing, many ordinary people heard the official master's narration, and some were moved, and even many people agreed to move their families on the spot.
After all, the Chinese Empire was established in such a short time, the whole country has just undergone all-round development, and the common people in many areas can barely eat enough with the help of the government, and it is already a great blessing not to starve to death.
Now the government has given them such a good opportunity, as long as they go to the northern region, the government will give so much land, and there are ready-made houses to live in, and the government will also give them seeds for high-yield crops, so many things are waiting for them, but when they think of staying away from the land where they lived, many people hesitated.
Government officials also somewhat understood the psychology of the common people that they could not leave their homeland, so they said to them: "Immigrating to the north does not mean that you cannot return to your hometown in the future. The speed of the train is very fast, now the whole country is building a railway, soon the whole country can be opened to traffic, if you take a train, a day and a night can travel 2,000 miles, no matter how far away from home, take the train at most three days can come back, and the cost of taking the train can be afforded by everyone. ā
Hearing the government officials say this, the people's hesitation is a little relaxed, if this is really the case, it is not impossible to immigrate to the north, the north is relatively cold, patience will pass, and there are so many benefits given by the government, maybe change their life destiny at this moment.
What poor people don't want to own more land and change their poor life?
No!
More and more people flocked to the immigration office to sign up, and those who did not immigrate alone, all of them went to the north.
If you go to the north early, you will be able to cultivate the land earlier, and if you go later, you will only be able to stare dryly.
There are many ways for ordinary people to immigrate to the north.
Ordinary people in coastal areas can take steamships to the northeast, people in inland areas can also take trains that have already been opened for a distance, and then take oxen and horse-drawn carts to their destinations, and even the air force will send airships to help bring the people to the north.
A large wave of migration is being formed, and the common people of Siqi Province are advancing to the northwest, and the people of Helan, Shandong, and Zhili are advancing to the northeast and due north.
Along the way, there were people everywhere hurrying with large bags and small rolls.
They leave their hometown with anticipation and move towards the place where they will live in the future, which is where their future hope lies, their previous life is so difficult and difficult, they have to work slowly for a little food every day, and when they reach the destination, they will have a large piece of land of their own, as long as they are fortunate for another year and a half, and wait for the crops planted on the land to harvest, a new life will officially come.
From hundreds to thousands, and then to thousands, a large number of ordinary people embark on the journey with their families every day, but this is still a lot different from the original plan of the imperial cabinet for the great migration, and the problem of leaving the homeland is still deep-rooted.