The deafening whistle resounded in Qingdao Port, and a huge steamer with a displacement of nearly 10,000 tons slowly sailed into the Dagang wharf. Occupying one of the largest berths on the pier, the dock has been expanded many times since its construction in 1882, but the space is still cramped.

In the 20 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, the tonnage and volume of Chinese ships running on the sea have been increasing and increasing.

Ten years ago, three or four thousand tons of sea vessels were already considerable. Now, ships of five or six thousand tons are not considered ocean-going ships, and 10,000-ton ships are synonymous with the latter.

The huge oars slowly stopped, and watching the gangway be lowered, the laborers and vendors on the dock immediately crowded forward. The noise seemed louder than the whistle just now.

The people who came down from the steamer were all well-dressed. Among them are well-dressed immigrants, students from abroad, businessmen with a lot of money, and politicians with high positions, and shipping has become one of the most important modes of transportation in China in the past two decades.

If someone travels from Guangzhou to Shanghai or Beijing, people who are not short of money in their pockets are reluctant to go to the train, even if the conditions of the sleeper are better, they are far less comfortable than the passenger ferry. Unless you're in a hurry, then it's really not as fast as a train by sea. Even if a high-speed passenger ship at sea travels at a speed of more than 30 knots per hour, it is not as good as a train. Because trains go in a straight line, and passenger ships go in a curved line.

As in the past few years, the light poles, walls, and even toilets in the port of Qingdao are plastered with notices recruiting migrants or overseas laborers. In the past two years, too many people from the north have immigrated to North America, but it is still vast and sparsely populated. And the environment is relatively unsafe. Sometimes there is a trustworthy Chinese next door or under his hands. Maybe a family could save a disaster.

As the situation evolved, it became clear that it was already impossible to recruit tenants. Some large landowners began to use compensation land to recruit immigrants, and these people arrived in North America. In addition to getting a piece of land from the government, they can also get a part of the land from the big landlords, but they also have to live in the villages and towns where the big landlords live.

Then there are overseas workers, who go to North America not really as laborers and workers, but more foremen and supervisors. Watching over a large number of North American natives or prisoners of war, working hard.

In a word, a fact, all of this is caused by a lack of people.

The population of Han China is less than 320 million. At least 20 million people are lost every year. A large part of the labor force is still in full age, and the proportion of the country's population cannot be compensated for at all. Even these 320 million numbers are also included in the three eastern provinces. Ten or more years earlier, the three eastern provinces were still a wilderness, what kind of Han land are they?

These notices posted at the port were nothing more than a matter of exhaustion, and they were no longer as they were in the past when the homeless and landless peasants were crowded. At that time, each of these notices was a lifeline for the displaced people who crowded here, a door to a new life.

And now. Completely insensitive!

In last year's economic statistics, Qingdao beat the provincial capital Jinan to enter the top three in Shandong in terms of per capita.

The people here may not really have an acre of land at home, but they definitely have their own stores, houses and businesses. Regardless of the size, the monthly income of each person generally exceeds that of the peasants by much, much.

It was the coolies who unloaded and loaded back and forth, and were looked down upon in the past. These people at the bottom of the status are now absolutely outnumbered by the peasants in terms of per capita income.

Because there is less labor. In particular, when there is less idle labor, they are very valuable. And the port's labor companies are also keeping up with the times. The mode of work has long been very different from the pure coolie labor before. Their current identities are car drivers, small train drivers, forklift drivers, crane operators, ...... are very skilled.

But even so, on both sides of the street from the wharf to the edge of the city, there are more or less a dozen pioneering companies or labor export companies. There are people speaking standard Mandarin at their respective entrances shouting loudly, and in fact, the existence of these facades is more of a receiving station. Think that this kind of company that needs a large number of workers only recruits people at the port, how many can be hired a year? Some of them dispersed to the vast countryside to recruit people, and this was more of a gathering point. Many of those shops had only two or three desks, a few benches, and stacks of forms and a telephone stacked on top of them. Nothing else. One of the people sitting inside would be the leader, a little higher than the guy who was out soliciting customers, and would either sleep or play cards with the guy all day.

"Southern California Pioneer Company is looking for innocent, healthy and powerful men and women! Go to North America! It's going to North America! The North American continent is vast and sparsely populated, and the land is fertile. The swarthy land is a good field that can flow out of oil. If you go, you will have land, and our company will pay you to make up for 30 acres of land. There are also many loans, our company has interest-free loans, and when we get there, we can earn our family business by ourselves, and we don't have to sell it for many years for the bank, so we go to North America! ”

"Seattle! Seattle! Beautiful Seattle, rich Seattle. Those who are not more than forty years old must be given a field, those who want a field will be given a field, and those who have craftsmanship will be given a house, and the loan will be repaid! The maximum loan can be 10,000 yuan! Where else in the world can there be such a good place?

Seattle, the best choice to settle down and buy a home! ”

"Gold, gold! Gold panning, the gold of North America! ”

"The big gold mine, the big gold mine is there. Work hard for three years, and have plenty of food and clothing for a lifetime! ”

"Don't hesitate, don't be afraid, as soon as you think about it, there will be dozens or hundreds of people, and you will be the first to get there......"

"Phoenix, Phoenix. Phoenix City under construction. Wherever you go, you can have land, the first five years are tax-free, and the next five and a half years are tax-free......"

"Don't be deceived by other people's rumors, in North America, we Chinese are the biggest wrists. Do you want to see what a low-eyed foreigner looks like? If you want the foreign devils to press on our heads back then, don't you want to see what kind of grandsons the foreign devils look like now? To North Missouri......"

Very, very ear-catching shouts. If you put it 20 years ago, it was really fascinating. But today, 23 years after the new Qin, these clichés have long been unable to arouse the slightest interest in Chinese.

Twenty years have passed since the founding of the dynasty, and it is rare to find a peasant in the vast rural areas of Chinese mainland who does not have a single acre of land. There are 10 to 20 million immigrants a year, and a large-scale migration of population of this scale has long been like a rake that has taken away all the rootless grass in the vast countryside. God's best gift to Liu Xian is that there is Lanfang first, and then there is the vast northeast and the sparsely populated northwest.

Ever since Liu Xian started his army, there has always been empty land to house countless destitute and landless people.

After the victory of the First World War, the Chinese government promoted overseas immigration measures to accommodate more people in the country, which naturally stabilized the rural and urban areas of northern and southern China, and stabilized the foundation of social rule. In just two years and more than 700 days and months, China's Han land has completed another great weight loss, and Nanyang and North America, as well as more distant Central Asia, Yanzhao and other countries, have also made a leap forward.

With a thriving new land and a stronger demand for immigrants, Liu Xian and his cabinet no longer had to worry about China's huge population. Now they are only worried about the lack of Chinese manpower!

Because in their hearts, Liu Xian and his ministers did not want the large tracts of land that their troops had worked so hard to open to the Japanese and Koreans, as well as the Nguyen Dynasty. It's good that the interests are all China's!

In an open-faced political atmosphere, such words and true thoughts are not allowed to be spoken publicly. But in his heart, Liu Xian and his important ministers tacitly agreed. Fortunately, the Nguyen Dynasty had indigestion, and it was impossible to migrate valuable people outward at this time; North Korea is a big otaku, always nesting in his own one-third of an acre. Southwest Japan has expanded**, but their first threat has always been Tokyo Japan in the north. Southwest Japan, which was already inferior to its opponents in terms of strength and troop resources, successively dumped one or two million people to the Outer Northeast, Siberia, Central Asia, and China's native Han land, and the pressure on survival was not great, and the migration to the outside world was not very high. It is Tokyo Japan that is really eager to move people outward.

But they are not part of China's vassals, and now they have only temporarily eased the bilateral contradictions. The Tokyo government wanted to submit to China, and the 'emperor' hat on Meiji's head was a big obstacle inherently.

Liu Xian was not the Song Taizong who had a deep impression of the little devil, so much so that when Ouyang Xiu of the Northern Song Dynasty revised the "New Tang Book", he officially wrote the term "emperor" into the official history. The 'Greater China System' he wants to establish, whether it is official or unofficial, must always maintain the uniqueness of the Chinese emperor in terms of title!

Anyway, Liu Xian didn't occupy the land in Japan that was crowded with people. Even if there is no market in Japan, it is not harmful to China today. There's no need to treat the little devils in particular.

To a large extent, these pioneering companies and labor export companies have also played a role in smuggling. Many people who have committed crimes in China want to run outside, and because the South Seas are too close, the Outer Northeast and Siberia are too cold, and Central Asia and other places are full of national soldiers, many people have gone to North America!

Xinqin did not have a system of Zhulian, and it also exempted many people from worries, just begging to go overseas to beg for a living, and when they became rich, they would find someone to move their families over on their behalf. If there are only parents and relatives at home, and there is no wife and children, it will be more convenient. Just work hard outside by yourself. Now that you have a foothold, you can send a sum of money to your relatives, friends and parents every year as filial piety.

The state also turned a blind eye. As long as it is not a big crime, it is generally impossible to find out about these export companies. Even these companies themselves are inextricably linked with the government, and if any of them commits the crime of killing officials, embezzlement, or forcing women to do things, or indiscriminately killing innocents, and they go to pioneer companies and labor export companies, they are really throwing themselves into the net and looking for their own death! (To be continued......)