In 1910 in Jiangxi, this year's weather is good, but the taxes are much heavier, the famine that fell last year, until now, there is no way to make up for it all, this is not a good year for Zhao Simao, who relies on the sky to eat, the mother-in-law of the second family, and gave birth again, now, the whole big family, a total of 19 mouths, even if it is renting the land of Master Fang, it is not enough for them to eat, to eat, for them, it is a luxury.

Jiangxi has few people and many people, under normal circumstances, the good year is OK, once the year is not good, the family is ruined and countless people die, and going to the sea to the South Sea is the only way to live.

knocked the cigarette pouch pot on the earthen kang, it was difficult to do it, he really told his old brother to go to the Kanto, but the environment there let him know that where it must not be said to be a good place, the harsh environment, the domineering old Maozi and the Oriental people, so that it may not be a happy land.

"Daddy, daddy, good news, good news?" A strong man ran in in a hurry and said breathlessly.

"Panicked, what kind of system?" For his son, Zhao Simao has the majesty of being a family, knocked on the cigarette bag and pot, and said.

"The county has posted a notice to recruit farming experts, go to Nanyang, and give 20 yuan per person to settle in!"

20 yuan? Zhao Simao's eyes immediately lit up, 20 yuan is equivalent to a year's ration money for their family, with this, the whole family can cooperate with miscellaneous grains and eat a full meal, which is an unimaginable number for an ordinary farmer. He has one, four boys, and five people, and he has to have 100 yuan.

"News from there."

"It's right next to the county office, and Master Zhou in the county read it to us. I heard that it was a foreigner who recruited workers. ”

In the past few years, foreigners have indeed recruited a lot of workers, but those workers have all gone to the United States to build railroads. A few years ago, I heard the news that 10 is not a good choice for farmers who have left their hometowns, Zhao Simao knocked on the cigarette bag and pot. The expression on his face also cooled.

Erniu didn't dare to speak, he waited for his father, and after a long while, his father said, "Are you going to the United States?" ”

"No, it's going to Nanyang!"

Nanyang, not an unfamiliar name, Zhao Simao's mother-in-law, not from Jiangxi. She is a native of Fujian, and back then, she fled to Fujian. It also took root here, and in the usual chat, I also said that the fishermen in Fujian generally choose to go to the South China Sea when they can't get by. Compared with the United States, which is thousands of miles away, the South Seas. As long as you take a boat in Shanghai or Guangdong, it will take up to a week. It's just a bit of a fertile land.

However, the mother-in-law also said that only those who can't go on will go to Nanyang, after all, where is a foreign land, I heard that more than ten years ago, there was a massacre against the Chinese.

"This!" Zhao Simao hesitated, here, I can't go on, but is it really good to go to Nanyang?

"Dad, I heard that it was directly given money, but it was refreshing, in Zhengjia Village next door, I went to more than 30 people, and directly gave 20 Guangyang to each person!"

"Really?" Zhao Simao had a hard time choosing, looking at the moving Erniu, this was a matter related to the life of the family.

Zhao Simao's family, in the difficult choice, the same difficult choice of many families, this is not the first time that Harpy for China recruitment, from 1908, after the layout in Nanyang, there are about 7 batches of similar recruitment, at that time, with the Dutch government said the number of 10,000 people, the first batch was filled, with the strength of the increasingly strong German and American foreign firms, the distance of Nanyang is closer, hire dozens of ocean-going cargo ships, a few days to run a round trip, as long as you are careful, the land is vast and rich in Nanyang, Enough to accommodate a large number of peasants.

Of course, the huge financial support is also an important reason behind it, and even in a sense, Yang Yuanzhao is really costless in this regard.

The rubber plantations in Southeast Asia, in Yang Yuanzhao are just a pen fun pavilion www.biquge.info, a foundation outside China, a layout in the overseas base, so the first batch of laborers is overnumbered, and other young adults are completely different, the hobbit is a lot more humane, the middle-aged labor, is 20 yuan of settling-in allowance, women are halved, children are halved, encourage a family to go together, a family of more than three to go, will get an additional 10 yuan settling-in fee.

In the past few hundred years, China has successively gone to the South Seas, and it can be regarded as a huge group of overseas Chinese, but these people do not have a strong backing as protection, and they must be attached to the powers of the South Seas, what Harpy helped Yang Yuanzhao do, in a sense, is a matter of taking advantage of the fire, before there is enough self-protection ability, For the time being, they will not have contact with the overseas Chinese community, and they will develop their own system, and these peasants are laborers in the name of the big German businessmen, and they are protected by the German and American foreign companies and the German government.

Women have 10 yuan, children also have 5 yuan, which is for any ordinary peasant family, is definitely an unimaginable huge wealth, in the example was made, especially to the present Yang, the peasants who can't go on began to be tempted, at least, the family headed by Zhao Simao, there are too many personnel, Zhao Simao took the lead, a family with 3 sons, 4 prime-age laborers and 4 women, and 7 children, a total of 15 people, divided into 4 families, a total of 195 yuan, In addition to bringing 15 yuan on the body, the rest of the settlement fee was all given to the boss who stayed at home, 140 yuan, in Jiangxi, the first-class paddy field can buy 2 acres, but the old family of two, as well as the 14-year-old grandson, can basically help, in a few years, it is a strong guy, they chose to buy wasteland, paddy field 70 yuan, wasteland is only 15 yuan, 140 yuan finally bought 12 acres of wasteland, as long as you are willing to put in the effort, the boss family, can definitely live a good life, even if it is wasteland, As long as you plant grain, such as corn, sorghum or potatoes, with the four people of the old family, enough to eat, and raise it for a few years, it is a good land.

Similar things happen in many families, and the people who can't get along often leave their eldest son behind, and take the rest of the children to Nanyang to seek a little way to survive with the slightest possibility.

The first batch of about 20,000 people, the young and middle-aged people were crammed with 10,000 people, and the rest were family members, and then, more and more, began in China's coastal areas, Shandong, Jiangsu, and deliberately avoided Fujian and Guangdong, where overseas Chinese were more dense, in order to keep it secret, fortunately, the last days of the Qing court were fully revealed, and people everywhere were affected by natural disasters.

Therefore, Harpy successfully recruited a large number of personnel, more than 20,000 for the first time, more than 40,000 for the second time, and after a total of 7 times, the number of Chinese directly under the Harpy plantation in Lanfangguo has reached an astonishing 500,000, and the area of the plantation has also expanded from the original 100,000 acres to 5 million acres.

The German-American company was powerful, and it was money to open the way, which almost fed the mouths of the Dutch colonial authorities, plus these Chinese basically stayed in the plantation, Harpy's order, they were strict about going out, the huge plantation had everything they needed for life, they just had to do their job well, and then send money home.

Continuous recruitment, so that Shandong and Jiangsu, a large number of people at the bottom of the loss, Shandong is good to say, after all, it is relatively poor, but Jiangsu is different, is the land of fish and rice, plus the 1909 Wuhan Industry Association, Yang Yuanzhao fanned his wings again, so that Jiangsu and Zhejiang, in advance into the textile era, the manpower gap is huge, can find a job locally, why leave the homeland, even far away from the mainland, to the unknown barren land.

This recruitment at the beginning of 1910 is also the largest recruitment in the past two years, the overall gap has reached 120,000, and it is expected that the same as the previous one, under the drag of the family, the total number will reach an astonishing 250,000, or even more, such a huge number of personnel, need to prepare a lot, and the objects of recruitment, not only concentrated in Shandong and Jiangsu, began to enter the hinterland, Hubei, Hunan, Jiangsu, and even Henan, these populous provinces, have become the focus.

With the help of the Jin merchants, there was also the Silver Bullet Offensive, and in the end, the number of personnel reached 270,000, a staggering number, and Harpy also used guò connections to mobilize a large number of ships from the United States, Germany, and even Britain for this unprecedented immigration, of course, it must be reliable, and it has nothing to do with the government, so 270,000 people, will be divided into nearly 10 batches, in the days when the monsoon and ocean currents are better, divided into 10 batches, rushed to the South Seas, among them, There are about 30 boats in use, all of which are new-style clippers, each of which can accommodate about 2,000 passengers.

This in the history of the Far East, the largest migration, from 1908, continued until 1912, after the arrival of the war, slowly weakened, in 4 years, the Harpy immigrated a total of 5 million people to the South Seas, especially in the later period, in the case of strong power in Baotou, there is even a special fleet, 12 months a year to migrate, the personnel is even more amazing, the good environment in Southeast Asia, and Baotou's excellent logistics and medicine, to ensure that the vast majority of people survived, Moreover, it took root in the South Seas, laying a deep foundation for the future pursuit of the South Seas, no wonder later European and American scholars said that China, from more than ten years ago, began to lay out, and in the end, let the great powers lose Southeast Asia, the strait that holds the two oceans. (To be continued) R655