Chapter 101 Australian Immigration

When the government officials arrived, the Royal Food Company's transport ships and the people who had arranged for the establishment of shops in the area were then arrived, and every migrant who arrived had to be fed and food had to be delivered. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. biqUgE怂 infoNow the Royal Food Company is responsible for part of the government's function of allocating grain, and the government no longer directly distributes grain to each immigrant, but issues food stamps, and immigrants can go to the nearest grain store to buy food, or go to a privately run grain store to exchange food, but the price is high.

Subsequently, the second group of food companies also arrived in Xizhou and Nanzhou, where they were preparing to build canning, milk powder factories and wineries, and in Nanzhou, they were also preparing to build flour mills, which could supply the grain needs of Xizhou and Beizhou nearby, and no longer had to be transported from distant Shangjing. Canned fruits, canned beef or mutton, flour, rice, wine, milk powder, etc. will be the main products of Royal Foods in the future, which can also stimulate the development of the local economy and increase the employment rate. For Royal Foods to invest in the two states, the governments of the two states are naturally very welcome.

They were followed by people arranged by the Ministry of Civil Affairs to build a royal hospital in each state and to inspect the water supply of the local waterworks; The power company sent people to check whether the power plants in each city needed to be expanded or added; The railway company also sent exploration personnel to explore the topography from Zhenxi City to Zhenbei City and then to Zhenzhong City, preparing to build a railway around the island; The Port Authority sent personnel to each state government seat to check the conditions for port construction; The metal smelting company sent exploration personnel to re-explore and plan the iron ore area in the Hammersley Ridge area of North State in order to develop the iron ore more rationally, and preliminarily explored and constructed the route of the railway to the port, so as to build a railway from the mine to the port in cooperation with the railway company.

Since the end of April, the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River have been raining continuously, and embankments in various parts of Hunan have burst, causing floodwaters, killing 40,000 people and affecting more than 400,000 people. After consulting Zhang Wei, Wu Wenbin transferred a large amount of grain from Shanghai and Wuhan to Changsha and other places to set up relief porridge sheds, and posted notices to welcome the vast number of disaster victims to settle in the Lanfang Kingdom, and the government will distribute land, 20 acres per person, and the government provides grain until the first harvest in the first season, the government provides jobs for those who work, and the orphans are adopted by the Lanfang Kingdom Government.

The local government is unable to solve the local disaster relief opportunities, and now the Lanfang Kingdom proposes to immigrate, which is exactly what they want, so they actively cooperate with the Lanfang Kingdom to carry out the resettlement work, allocate local ships, and transfer the disaster victims to Wuhan or Shanghai, anyway, as long as they leave their own territory, they have nothing to do with themselves.

Zhang Guihua ordered all the ships transporting grain to the Qing Dynasty to be unloaded in Shanghai or Wuhan, and then transported the migrants to the port of Shangjing, where the ships would be loaded with food, clothing, and other supplies as quickly as possible, and immediately set off for Shanghai or Wuhan.

The Royal Shipping Company also suspended the routes that were not urgently needed, and went all out to transport grain to the Qing Dynasty and bring back the migrants.

Wu Wenbin also hired cargo ships from Tianjin, Xiamen, Guangzhou, Hong Kong and other places to transport migrants.

Disaster victims should be concentrated in Zhejiang, Jiangsu, Hubei, Hunan, and other cities in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and the victims who had been waiting for a long time after the grain was unloaded immediately boarded the ships and rushed to the unknown direction. Large ships in Changsha and other places are inconvenient to enter and exit, so they have to be sent by local governments to migrant reception points in Wuhan, Nanjing or Shanghai. Those who enter the immigration reception point of the Lanfang Kingdom first drink a bowl of gruel, and then, at the request of the staff, get a haircut, take a bath, and change clothes. If you are unwilling to get a haircut, the staff will explain to them that if you still don't want to get a haircut, you will be asked to leave and forced to leave the immigration point; After changing clothes, register, sort, and arrange a place to rest.

The Kingdom of Lanfang currently does not accept immigrants who are unwilling to get a haircut, unless they are high-end talents, and they are allowed to have the freedom not to cut their hair.

In order to speed up the emigration, Wu Wenbin also sent people to various places to do propaganda, Lanfang immigrants' ships are currently only docked in Shanghai, Wuhan, Hangzhou, Nanjing and other big cities, if you want to immigrate as soon as possible, you must spontaneously move to these cities, as long as you arrive at the immigration point, the Lanfang Kingdom government will begin to provide meals.

Although there were also local gentry who built relief porridge sheds, they were all a drop in the bucket, and the number of victims was too large.

Some grain merchants took the opportunity to raise prices, which made the victims indignant, and in Hangzhou and other places, the victims besieged or destroyed grain stores.

The local government helps the immigrants of the Lanfang Kingdom.

The Qing Dynasty turned a blind eye to these victims, which made them even more chilling. The meaning of the Qing court was that these victims were unstable factors, and if they could be moved, the place would be more stable and easier to govern.

Wu Wenbin blamed himself this time, he originally planned to emigrate 100,000 people a month, but now there is a sudden flood, the number of migrants has increased exponentially, and all the preparations are insufficient, resulting in a large number of people who need to emigrate are stranded in Shanghai, Wuhan and other places. Even if you hire cargo ships from Hong Kong and other places, you can't organize such a large capacity for a while. Fortunately, Zhang Guihua delivered grain to this side in a timely manner, so that the victims stranded in Shanghai and other places could have enough to eat, and there would be no popular uprising.

In order to speed up the immigration, these displaced people were classified in places such as Shanghai. For those who are confirmed to be classified, they will be transported by hired boats, and the families engaged in animal husbandry will be sent to Zhenzhong City first, and arranged to engage in animal husbandry in the western plains of Zhongzhou; For miners and smelters, it was sent directly to Zhenbei City, Beizhou; For farmers, they are sent directly to Zhennan City in Nanzhou to grow barley or manage vineyards.

For those who have not had time to classify or orphans, they are directly transported to Shangjing City by cargo ships transporting grain, and then slowly diverted.

For these immigrants, I was also very worried, and I still needed to cut off my braids, but there was no turning back. But if you don't emigrate, you can only starve to death, there is a flood, there are so many people affected, the court doesn't care at all, instead of waiting here to die, it's better to fight, maybe what these people promised is true, they actually share 20 acres of land per person, and when they grow so big, they haven't encountered a good thing of free land distribution, is it possible that these people are all fools? Or are you lying to yourself? What are you so deceiving?

No matter how you guess, when it's your turn to board, it's still obedient to board.

Fortunately, when the original residents moved away, they did not destroy the local houses and other buildings, and these immigrants could still have a place to live and have food, so that these victims would not feel cheated.

Due to the lack of manpower in the local government, they had to hire literate people from the immigrants to help them and organize them to serve themselves.

Now these immigrants are also at ease, at least there is a place to live, can eat enough, although there has not been a lot of arable land, the government has also explained, the main reason is that there are too many immigrants, the government arranges for their own people to stay and eat is already busy, the matter of land division or wait first, anyway, these people have promised, soon will divide the land, the distribution of farm tools.