It turned out that after World War II, the Soviet Union suffered heavy casualties and was very short of labor, especially in Central Asia, which was adjacent to China, which was originally under the Pamir Mountains, the land was sparsely populated, and many pastures and farms were undeveloped.

Things are man-made, and nothing can be done without people.

In the past few years, we have a trend of thinking that when we talk about population, we tend to think that it is a burden, but on the contrary, population is the greatest resource for social development.

Because whether it is production and consumption, or defending the country, it is absolutely impossible to have a small population.

So in the early sixties, when Sino-Soviet relations were cold, the Soviet Union set its sights on the population of China's far frontiers.

Because the economic conditions of the Soviet Union were relatively good, and our side was living in poverty, we were still engaged in these kinds of movements. So the KGB agents took advantage of the weakness to infiltrate the western Xinjiang and instigated many border people to call themselves Soviet expatriates and demand to "return home."

Radio stations in Central Asia in the Soviet Union also began to broadcast programs in local languages to promote the beautiful "Soviet-style life" and increase their appeal to ordinary people.

Under this long-term agitation, some officials with other intentions also began to pander to the Soviet Union, including some generals of the local troops, who defected to the Soviet Union and incited the people to go to the Soviet Union to "find a better life."

In April 1962, many ordinary people, organized by people with evil intentions, flocked to the Khorgos and Baktu ports on the Sino-Soviet border, demanding to travel to the Soviet Union, and clashed with border guards.

The Soviets also added fuel to the fire, and they also drove a few cars, which were parked on the other side of the border, waiting for these people to be picked up at any time as soon as they crossed the border.

People can be retained, but people's hearts cannot be retained, not to mention that a direct confrontation with the Soviet Union is not the best policy. It's going to rain, and my mother is going to get married. The Chinese government then adopted the "three noes" principle of "no shooting, no use of force, and no conflict with the masses" and left the choice to the masses themselves.

This is a large-scale smuggling campaign organized by the government, and this is a naked act of human looting.

In this way, in just three days and three nights, there were about 60,000 local people on the 3,000-kilometer border of western Xinjiang, who led livestock, took their whole families and children, and carried their domestic property on their backs, and poured across the border and flocked to the Soviet Union.

The Soviets did even better, using radio during the day to guide them, and at night they turned on searchlights to light the way for these people to smuggle out.

This is the less famous Ita incident.

Some people may say that more than 60,000 people have just run, which is nothing.

However, you must know that at that time, Western Xinjiang was also vast and sparsely populated, so after three days and three nights of illegal migration, many county towns were really empty, the population was plummeted, and many towns and even entire villages were empty.

Without a population, not only would the local economy collapse rapidly, but border security would also be in crisis.

In order to ensure the tranquility of the border areas, the government established the Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps and began the "Tuntian" project in the 20th century. Many people from the mainland have also come to Xinjiang in various ways and settled here.

There were originally more than 500 people in the village of Kalayatul, but they all fled to the Soviet Union during the Ita incident, so the village became one of the settlements for the emigrants.

Thirty years in the east of the river, thirty years in the west of the river.

Those ordinary people who secretly crossed the border for temporary gains, in fact, did not live a good life after being used by the Soviet Union. They were originally intended to supplement the labor force, so most of them were settled in Central Asia, working on farms and factories.

In the blink of an eye, in 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed, and many regions fell into chaos, not to mention food, and even personal safety became a problem.

In 1992, the port of Khorgos.

The border guards saw another flow of people on the other side of the border.

These are the original stowaways and their descendants.

There were more than 30,000 of them, holding signs and shouting slogans.

"We are Chinese, we want to return to China!"

They shouted and made noise, but in the end they were refused to enter the country by armed police fighters.

At the beginning, you said that you were leaving, and you left and left, and now you say that you want to be patriotic, and you have to run back.

- Are you the ones who run supermarkets and sell the earth?

This is the afterglow of the Ita affair.

So, since the 60s of the last century, the structure of the villagers in the village of Kalayatul has also changed, and the villagers come from all over the world, and they all work on a farm called "Yatur" in the south.

By the end of the 80s, the desert was encroaching southward due to artificial reclamation, and the operation of the farm was no longer sustainable. Life in the village is very difficult, many villagers began to leave the village one after another, after more than ten years of changes, now there are only a few elderly people living in the village.

When the archaeological team came to Kalaya Tur, it was a time when the villagers were gradually moving out, so there were not many young laborers left in the village.

Therefore, when the archaeological team was preparing to go west into the desert, although the job was more dangerous, because of the high temporary salary, many villagers signed up in the hope of being selected.

Finally, after Wen Mushan's selection, ten villagers were selected to go west with the team, they were-

Wang Tuda, formerly known as Wang Yuanliang, was thirty-five years old at the time, the oldest of the ten migrant workers, but he was strong and never lazy in his work. He is known in the village as a "tendon", and the brain circuit has never had the option of turning.

Wang Yuanqing, Wang Tuda's uncle and brother, was 22 years old at the time, and was a well-known "little old man" in the village.

By Changfeng, then twenty years old. He wanted to enlist in the army, but he was brushed down by the township for three consecutive years, so he was depressed and worked as a militia in the township for two years, and felt bored, so he returned home.

He often practiced in the village, he was very strong, and once slapped the donkey cart board of the family and was beaten by his father.

Wu Wanchun, when he was Chinese New Year's Eve years old, this person has a lot of eyes, and he is a "drug seller", that is, a person who peddles fake drugs everywhere and speculates.

Lu Jiefang, who was twenty-five years old at the time, was the "old man" in the village, the kind of person who couldn't beat a fart with eight poles.

Zhang Suozhu, who was twenty years old at the time, was a classmate of You Changfeng, and he also signed up to join the army, but he was also eliminated. He used to do odd jobs in the county at that time, and Changfeng heard that there was such a good messenger as the archaeological team, so he called him back from the county.

Qin Dabing, twenty-six years old at the time, was a substitute teacher in the village, and there were few students in the village back then, because there was relatively little schoolwork, so he took a leave of absence and wanted to earn some quick money.

Xia Qiang, twenty-seven years old, is a "crafted" person, a mason and carpenter in the village, and usually goes to the city to work.