In a village in Qingzhou Prefecture, Shandong, a tall, dark-skinned middle-aged man looked at his dilapidated house, smoking a dry cigarette and remained motionless.

The house is a worthless belongings, and his wife is busy on the stove on the side, but Zhao Dahei knows that the rice cooked by his mother-in-law is only a small handful of rice, and his family has eaten up the grain a month ago, and in the past month, it has all relied on a little rice grain from his mother-in-law's mother-in-law.

This summer's flood flooded the only acre of land his family had and the two acres of land in the concession of a small landowner in the village, and the grain he planted was completely destroyed before it could grow.

When the flood waters receded, they were able to plant other grains, but they still couldn't survive the winter.

Although after the flood, the government also carried out relief, but the government's relief is undoubtedly a drop in the bucket, you must know that the flood is not only his village, it is said that several nearby counties have a lot of floods, the whole Shandong Province and even the central government is allocating funds for disaster relief, but it is divided equally among everyone's heads, but there is not much.

In the past few years, Shandong's side has not been smooth weather, and every year there are either floods or droughts, and grain output has been greatly reduced, so that Shandong, which has a lot of people and little land, has even worsened the situation.

The resistance of the peasants to natural disasters is very low, if they can withstand it for a year or two, but it is like this for several years in a row, then it will lead to the bankruptcy of a large number of peasants, and then a large-scale famine will occur.

Although the nascent Chinese Empire did a lot of work in disaster relief, it could only barely keep the victims alive. But it is an indisputable fact that these days are getting worse and worse every year.

The little belongings that Zhao Dahei had accumulated in the past few years have been spent one by one in the past few years.

Looking at his two children, he stared at the stove. Zhao Dahei felt very uncomfortable, as an authentic farmer. Zhao Dahei has no knowledge, and he has not read books and does not know much, but he knows that if he continues like this, his future will definitely not be better.

A dry cigarette was smoked, and Zhao Dahei couldn't help but remember what he heard a few young people in the village say about breaking into the eastern part of the country a few days ago.

Those young people ran to the mansion some time ago and heard that the government was organizing immigrants to Liaoyang.

I heard that as long as you go to Liaoyang, then each person can share at least ten acres of land, and half-grown children can share five acres of land, if they also go to their own homes. At least thirty acres of land can be allocated, and although these lands also cost money, they can be repaid later with the grain produced by farming, and the price is very cheap.

Although Zhao Dahei had heard of these before, but in the past, he had an acre of thin land in his own house, and rented a few acres of land, and on weekdays, Zhao Dahei would also go to work as a long-term worker for several large families, and he could also eat and save some savings a little this year.

But now. But things have changed.

And Zhao Dahei's two children are not young, the twelve-year-old boss probably has no hope of studying, but Zhao Dahei wants the eight-year-old second child to study, but the cost of reading is not small. Now that I can't eat enough, how can I provide the second child to study?

Perhaps, I will also go to Liaoyang to fight. The others dare not ask for extravagance, as long as the land said by the government can be divided. Then Zhao Dahei is not afraid of hard work, and with this land, he will be able to support his family.

After smoking dry tobacco. Zhao Dahei took a deep breath, then turned around and went out, he was going to find the few young people who had been to the mansion and ask again.

His mother-in-law saw him go out and shouted twice, but Zhao Dahei walked fast and didn't hear it for a while.

Zhao Dahei didn't come back until early afternoon, and when his mother-in-law saw him come back, she stepped forward and asked, "Where did you go?" The steamed bun pot is hot! ”

Zhao Dahei picked up the coarse grain steamed bun that was still steaming, took a bite and said, "Child, let's go to Liaoyang!" ”

"Liaoyang? What to do in that place? ”

At that moment, Zhao Dahei told his wife what he had heard.

His wife is also a peasant woman who has never left the village in her life, and she has never even been to the county seat, and she doesn't even know where Liaoyang is.

Naturally, it is inevitable to worry: "If we go, the government will not give us land?" ”

"Then I'll go to mine and build roads, I heard that there is a great shortage of people over there, as long as you have a lot of strength, you won't have to worry about finding a job to do!" Although Zhao Dahei was discussing with his wife, he had already decided in his heart that he couldn't live in this place in his hometown, and he wanted to take his wife and two children to Liaoyang to fight.

It would be best if you could get the land, but if you couldn't get the land, then you should go to work, in short, so that the family would have enough to eat.

Although Zhao Dahei's wife has a fear of the future in her heart, she still obeys her husband's words!

The next day, Zhao Dahei walked more than ten miles to the county seat, and after asking several people, he found an official called the immigration office.

Although Zhao Dahei is tall and big, he doesn't even dare to say anything in front of this immigration office official who is only twenty-one or twelve years old and has long skin and white face.

Seeing Zhao Dahei cowering, Su Xianguang did not put up any shelf like those officials in the local government, but explained to Zhao Dahei the immigration policy of Liaoyang Province in detail.

The reason why Su Xianguang is polite is naturally not because of his good personality, but because as a clerk assigned to Shandong by the Liaoyang Provincial Immigration Office, his main job and political achievement is to recruit immigrants.

And as a newcomer to officialdom, he naturally maintains certain expectations for the future like many young people, hoping that this business trip can recruit enough new immigrants, so that he can make a good impression in front of Shangguan, and maybe he will be appreciated by Shangguan, and then promoted to a formal clerk.

In the state employee system of the empire, although there was no such thing as a clear rank of officials, there were two groups that were relatively clear, the first was the clerks at all levels, which were widely found at all levels of government and even in the central agencies. Mainly engaged in some of the most basic jobs, these clerks are generally not required to take the State Employee Examination. It's an employment model.

Above the clerk are the state employees above the clerk level. Although they are all state employees, state employees above the section level need to take the state employee examination, and only after passing the examination can they become section members, and of course, many of them are promoted from the clerks.

Only staff members and above can be regarded as entering the official career and entering the officialdom.

This is talking about ordinary state employees, in addition to patrol police, cleaning personnel in the city and the like are also state employees, and patrol police are mostly military professionals. Or those who pass the patrol exam, and the rest of the ordinary personnel are directly employed.

If we paraphrase the saying of later generations, that is, there is an establishment above the level of a clerk, and a clerk is a contract worker without an establishment, and the difference between the two is still very large.

Su Xianguang is a clerk and assigned to work in the Liaoyang Provincial Immigration Office, and the detailed work is to follow two staff members of the Immigration Office to Shandong Province to recruit immigrants.

Although he is only a clerk, Su Xianguang naturally wants to go further, so he is very attentive to his work on weekdays.

He knows it well. The immigrants he recruited were all honest farmers, who were full of suspicion about the distant Liaoyang, and even many people did not believe that they could really obtain land after going to Liaoyang.

And these people themselves want to dispel their doubts!

Zhao Dahei listened to Su Xianguang's introduction. Gritted his teeth, he soon signed up directly, and his family was going to Liaoyang.

After the drawing, he took a document that he couldn't read and went home. After returning home, he directly sold his own acre of thin land to his second uncle. He took the heavy silver dollar, and then brought the only clothes and even the dishes and other household goods. took his wife and children to the county seat.

When he arrived at the county seat, he found that he was not the only one who went to Liaoyang, but he found that there were hundreds of people who wanted to go to Liaoyang.

Under the leadership of Su Xianguang, they dragged their families to Qingzhou Mansion.

After arriving in Qingzhou Mansion, immigrants recruited from other counties were gathered, adding up to more than 2,000 people.

Then they went to Dengzhou Mansion by the sea, and got on a sea boat there, and after crossing the sea, they got off the boat at Yingkou, and then continued to the inland of Liaoyang.

Although it was very difficult to walk and take a boat on this way, and on the way, his wife was seasick because she had never done a boat, but what made him fortunate was that there were people to provide food and drink along the way, although the food was not too good, but it was rare for a group of people who had not eaten for a long time.

Seeing them serve food as they said before they came, this made Zhao Dahei feel a lot more relieved, it seems that the government should not deceive them, maybe after they get to the land, there is really land to distribute to them.

After disembarking at Yingkou, they continued their journey north, walking for several days before stopping at the foot of a mountain.

Subsequently, someone took Zhao Dahei's family to a simple wooden house, and told him that this house was the home that the government had allocated to them for free, and then gave him a document, the details of which he could not understand, but the people from the government told him that this was the 30 acres of land allocated to their family.

Looking at this document, Zhao Dahei still didn't believe it, and then he followed the people from the government to the outside of the foot of the mountain, and then the man pointed to a large piece of wasteland and said to him: "This piece of land will be your family in the future, although it will be hard to open up the wasteland, but don't worry, you can apply for a ration loan every month in the first year, and other seeds and farm tools can also be loaned!" ”

Zhao Dahei had heard those officials say before that it was that the new immigrants who had just arrived could get a free house and land, and the house was really free, but it was a very simple wooden house, basically no different from a thatched house, and although the land was divided by the government, it still had to be priced, but it was very cheap, and it could be repaid separately in several years.

Other seeds and even others can be borrowed first and repaid the following year, and cattle can be rented from the government at a cheaper price.

In the first year, you can also apply for a ration loan.

Although the only thing that is really free is the simple thatched house, and the others are actually issued in the form of loans, and they need to be repaid later, but the overall price is very cheap.

Even Li Ah Da can not need these land loans, he still has the money in his hand to sell the one acre of land in his family, which is enough for him to pay for the thirty acres of land, but Li Ah Da thinks more, he wants to let the second child in the family go to school, and the money in his hand is intended for the children to go to school.

So he still made a series of loans!

After the official who led him left, Zhao Dahei looked at the huge wasteland in front of him, and then squatted down, picked up the wilderness, grabbed two handfuls of mud, and then his face showed joy, although this land is all wasteland, but this land is very fertile, as long as the wasteland is cleared, it can be planted directly without much fertilizer, and it will not take two years to be cooked.

So, Zhao Dahei, who hadn't laughed for a long time, smiled, revealing a mouthful of yellowed teeth.

Then he shouted twice in a hurry, and summoned his wife and two children, who were still in the plank room.

"Look, in the future, such a large piece of land will be ours!" Zhao Dahei was like an explosive fortune who had won a five-million lottery, pointing to a large wasteland in front of him.

Equally excited about Zhao Dahei were dozens of other families who came with him, who, like Zhao Dahei, had just arrived in this newly immigrant village and had also been allocated dozens of acres of land.

Some of them were so excited that they wept bitterly.

This went from having nothing to having dozens of acres of land all of a sudden, which made these people extremely excited.

Even though these lands are still wasteland, they still can't stop their excitement.

In the afternoon of the same day, someone took a hoe and waited to start clearing the wasteland, and Zhao Dahei's family waited until the next day to start, but Zhao Dahei went to a nearby village yesterday afternoon and asked some people who arrived earlier than him.

Although there are people in the government to guide the new immigrants in the reclamation work, there are only a few officials in the government, and it is naturally impossible for all places to be able to take care of them, so it is better to wait for others to teach them, so it is better to take the initiative to ask others.

The next day, Zhao Dahei's family went into battle with the whole family to open up the wasteland.

Although the land is very tired, the family is smiling.

At the same time, Su Xianguang also followed his boss, a clerk of the immigration office back to Shenyang, he has been on a business trip for almost two months, this time to recruit immigrants in Shandong There are a total of ten people, in addition to two clerks are eight clerks.

Naturally, the two clerks were responsible for coordinating the overall situation, such as liaising with local government officials, while the clerks went down to the counties to recruit immigrants.

Of these clerks, Su Xianguang had the best grades, recruiting almost 500 people, most of whom were immigrants whose families were worried.

As soon as he returned to Shenyang, Su Xianguang was received by a section chief of the Immigration Office, saying that he had been recommended as a section member of the Immigration Office, and after a period of time, a formal appointment would be issued from above.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for him to receive a formal organizational appointment, this appointment from the Organization Department of Liaoyang Province, officially appointing him as a staff member under the second section of the Liaoyang Provincial Immigration Office.

This appointment is the biggest difference from the clerk, the ordinary clerk only has a paper employment contract, but the section level and above can be officially appointed by the organization department.

Soon, he received a new task, the chief of the second section asked him to take a few clerks to Shandong to carry out immigration recruitment, and told him that this time to recruit, in addition to agricultural immigrants, but also to properly recruit some workers to immigrate, now several companies in Liaoyang Province are in urgent need of a large number of workers, especially miners, in addition to building railways, so there is also an urgent need for a large number of railway workers.

With the joy of promotion, Su Xianguang once again embarked on a journey to Shandong to recruit immigrants.

By the time Su Xianguang left Shenyang, a large number of workers had already begun the first construction of the Northeast Railway in the western suburbs of Shenyang. (To be continued.) )