Since the establishment of the Special Administrative Region of Vietnam and Burma, Governor Zhao Liangong has ordered provincial officials to intensify their efforts to immigrate, and the places of this immigration are in the original places of Vietnam, Thailand, and Burma, which are very close to the Southern Xinjiang Special Administrative Region. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In the Southern Xinjiang Special Economic Zone, there is a large number of people living in small land, and the majority of families who have no land or little land account for the majority, which is a prerequisite for their willingness to emigrate.

Zhao Liangong also made it clear that by the summer of 1910, the Southern Xinjiang Special Administrative Region would be abolished, and the troops and government officials of the Xia Empire would be withdrawn to the Yue Kingdom and the Burma Special Administrative Region.

Many people in the Southern Xinjiang Special Administrative Region have just lived a good life under the jurisdiction of the Xia Empire, and if the Xia Empire withdraws, will the officials of the Chinese Empire continue to implement the previous low tax policy after the arrival of the officials? Will there still be such an efficient and clean government? Will there also be free schooling and low-cost health care? Most people are hesitant to immigrate.

They have just adapted to the management of the Southern Xinjiang Special Administrative Region, and they have suddenly returned to the previous government model, and I am afraid that it will be difficult to adapt. It's just that high taxes are not something they can afford, let alone let their children go to school for free, and for the sake of their children's future prospects, they also have to move with the people of the Southern Xinjiang Special Administrative Region.

Due to the relatively close proximity of the areas of this migration, migrants from Yunnan Province and some Sichuan provinces, under the organization of the local government, took the railway or horse-drawn carriage directly to the border, and then entered the Myanmar Special Administrative Region in an organized manner. Immigrants from Guangxi, Guizhou, and parts of Sichuan and Guangdong would take a train to Nanning, Guangxi, and then walk to Jiaozhi Province in the Red River Plain; Immigrants from Hainan Island will arrive in Cochin, Ninan or Annam provinces by boat according to their wishes.

The people-to-people exchanges in these places have a history of thousands of years, especially the horse gangs in Yunnan, often travel back and forth between Yunnan and Myanmar and even Thailand, they are very familiar with these places, after their propaganda, the local people have a general understanding of Myanmar, and now the government organizes immigration, for the Yunnan people who are mountainous and less land, they have long longed for those swarthy fertile soils, and quickly formed a huge army of immigrants based on villages and relatives.

People in Guangdong, Guangxi and other places are no strangers to the Red River Plain, and people-to-people exchanges have been continuous, and for people who are eager for land, immigrating to the Red River Plain is the most ideal place, close to home, and being able to get fertile land, which is more attractive to them than immigrating to unknown places.

Every winter is the season of lack of food, in the summer you can also rely on wild vegetables to satisfy hunger, in the winter it is not easy to find even grassroots, so every winter is the peak season for immigration, so that many people in the Chinese Empire who can't survive drag their families to the Xia Empire's resettlement points along the river and coastal provinces to apply for immigration.

Through the orderly operation and propaganda of the past few years, the people of the entire Chinese Empire know that the poor now have another way to live; As long as they can't live in the Chinese Empire, are willing to live a good life, and can endure uprooting, they can immigrate to the Xia Empire, regardless of gender, age, occupation, etc., as long as they are Chinese.

The Chinese people have lasted for thousands of years, and the concept of local is very important, as long as they can survive, no one wants to go away.

The enlightened landlords also improved the treatment of the tenants accordingly, if it was too harsh, the tenants would also choose to emigrate, if the tenants were gone, there would be no one to farm for them, but the Xia Empire had suppressed the price of grain for so many years, and even the profits of the landlords were not high, so the treatment of the tenants was not much better.

Many of the old and infirm passed away before they reached the settlement points of the Xia Empire.

All localities reported the situation of the immigrants to the Government Council of the Chinese Empire, and Premier Xu Shichang strictly ordered all localities to set up alms porridge sheds to ensure that all immigrants could safely reach the resettlement points of the Xia Empire.

In the south, it is good to say that the temperature is high, but in the north it is the season of cold and freezing, and even if there is a soup shed, many people will not be frozen to death.

Fortunately, there are many resettlement points set up by the Xia Empire, in addition to the major coastal cities, in the inland Nanjing, Anqing, Jiujiang, Wuhan, Changsha, Yueyang, Jinan and other places, as well as along the main wharves of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, Tongzhou, Dezhou, Linqing, Kaifeng, Huai'an and other places have set up immigration points, so that immigrants can reach nearby and reduce the suffering of trekking.

In each settlement, in addition to stockpiling a large amount of food, there were also a lot of cotton clothes that were used on a rotating basis, and when these migrants arrived at the southern ports, these cotton clothes would return with the ship to be worn by the next group of migrants.

After the migrants arrive at the resettlement site, they will first eat a large bowl of porridge made from canned meat diced and boiled with rice and vegetables, and then the management will arrange for them to take a bath, and after bathing, the people will change into underwear, coats and cotton clothes prepared by the staff, and after they have eaten for a few days and recovered, the management of the settlement will contact the merchant ship to transport them to the coastal settlement, and then transport them to their destination by large boat.

During the coldest season of the year, when food is most scarce, the price of food suddenly rises dramatically, so that people who can barely survive are immediately unable to survive and are forced to join the army of immigrants.

These immigrants, mainly from Henan, Shandong and Zhili, have developed a yearning for the fertile land and the spring-like climate, where they will at least not freeze to death.

In 1909, the great drought in the north led to a decrease in grain production in these places, and now the price of food is soaring, besides, these places are all provinces with large populations, and the land is not enough to feed so many people.

The huge army of immigrants caught Wu Wenbin a little off guard, it came too suddenly, there are millions of people in Jiangbei provinces alone, and they are still arriving one after another, and it is estimated that there will be more people on the road.

In the past few years, the Xia Empire has been advocating people from these places to emigrate to Xinzhou, Lelang, Ezo and other provinces, and many people who can't survive have emigrated.

Now the price of food has suddenly increased, and there are so many immigrants, which is beyond his imagination.

The material reserves were seriously insufficient, so Wu Wenbin had no choice but to take out short-term loans from the Bank of Asia to allow the local resettlement sites to purchase relevant goods locally, and at the same time allocate food and other emergency relief from the northern high command.

In the Linqing resettlement point, Zhao Laohan, who was lucky enough to come from Xingtai, held the meat porridge and felt the warm fire in the house of the immigration point, and couldn't help but burst into tears.

The staff thought that he was disgusted with porridge, and the person in charge had to come forward to explain: "Uncle, because everyone can't eat well for many days during the journey, can't eat enough, and has some digestive disorders, so the unified regulations of the immigration point are that you can eat 1 bowl of gruel for the first meal, and you can eat 1 bowl of egg noodles for the second meal, and you can eat some rice, steamed buns and stir-fried vegetables in the future, and there is no limit to the number after 3 days. ”

Zhao Laohan was afraid of a misunderstanding, so he hurriedly stopped his tears, knelt on the ground, and pulled his grandson to kowtow to the person in charge, explaining: "Thank you Shangguan, I'm not too dissatisfied, I'm glad to meet you, a good Shangguan." ”

"Hurry up, old man, please get up, now that kneeling has been abolished, these are the merits of the Xia Empire, I am also working, please eat the old man first." The person in charge hurriedly pulled up the old man and explained clearly.

After a brief hiccup, the person in charge went on to take care of the growing number of immigrants.

After Zhang Wei received the news of Wu Wenbin's sudden increase in the number of immigrants, he was very happy in his heart, with these millions of immigrants, he could almost fill the Indochina Peninsula and the occupied Indian territory, saving himself a lot of trouble.

So he sent a telegram back to Wu Wenbin: No matter how many immigrants there are, all of them must be accepted, the more the merrier, and the safety of the immigrants must be guaranteed no matter what.

The sudden appearance of a huge army of immigrants attracted the attention of officials from various provinces of the Chinese Empire, and the news was summarized to the Government Affairs Yuan, which frightened Xu Shichang a lot, but the number of people in Jiangbei and several provinces along the Yangtze River was millions, and he did not dare to be careless, and immediately entered the palace to report to Yuan Shikai.

Yuan Shikai was also shocked when he saw this data, some time ago he was still complacent, the Chinese Empire developed rapidly under his leadership, and he also asked the Xia Empire to stop immigration, now it seems that it was a bit hasty at that time, no wonder the Xia Empire was angry.

"How can this happen?" Yuan Shikai asked very nervously.

"Your Majesty, the price of food has suddenly risen sharply, these people are all unable to live before they choose to emigrate, I am also surprised, the empire has asked all localities to reduce the land rent, I didn't expect that there are so many people who can't eat." Xu Shichang explained.

Yuan Shikai thought that the Xia Empire had said that if he didn't do well, he would be replaced, and suddenly there were so many immigrants, and the Xia Empire would definitely think that his livelihood work was not done well, so he would explain it to the Xia Empire, so as not to misunderstand, he said to Xu Shichang: "Premier Xu, immediately summon the Xia Empire's ambassador to Shangjing to discuss the matter of immigration." ”

"Yes, Your Majesty!" Xu Shichang knew the seriousness of the matter, and immediately withdrew and went to find Wu Wenbin.

Yuan Shikai met Wu Wenbin in Xinhua Palace, accompanied by Xu Shichang, Yang Du and others.

"Ambassador Wu, the sudden appearance of so many immigrants this time must be that our people's livelihood work has not been done properly, causing trouble to the Xia Empire." As soon as they met, Yuan Shikai put his posture very low, for fear that the Xia Empire would have some misunderstanding.

"Your Majesty, the Chinese Empire has a huge territory and a large population, but the west is arid, the southwest is mountainous, and there is not much land that is really suitable for farming, so no one can solve this problem, the Chinese Empire has just been founded, and it is already much stronger than the previous dynasty, Your Majesty does not have to blame yourself." Since Yuan Shikai lowered his posture, Wu Wenbin couldn't say anything else, and the appearance of so many immigrants was very beneficial to the Xia Empire.

Yuan Shikai saw that Wu Wenbin said this, and he didn't mean to blame the Chinese Empire, so he was relieved.

Wu Wenbin continued: "Your Majesty, so many immigrants suddenly appeared, and our settlement point was also a little caught off guard, and we couldn't go to the migrant gathering area to pick them up; The northern region is now freezing and the weather is cold, and I hope that your government will build more relief porridge shacks along the way so that these people can reach the resettlement points safely. ”

"Yes, that's what the government should do." Yuan Shikai responded to this matter and arranged for Xu Shichang to do a good job in the relief of porridge sheds in various provinces.

After everyone withdrew, Yang Du's heart couldn't calm down for a long time, the Xia Empire spent hundreds of millions of taels of silver just for immigration every year, and it also had to distribute land for free to immigrants for cultivation, distribute farm tools, seeds, rations, clothing, etc., and help build houses, as well as compulsory education and half-price medical care, low taxes, etc., what a huge price, no wonder people are so willing to emigrate. (To be continued.) )