After removing the trees and having an open flat land, the first immigrants from the Jiashan Oasis arrived. Most of these immigrants were very poor people, they did not have their own land, they usually worked as tenants for the landed families to make a living, and life was very difficult, and they were all happy to hear that they could get ten acres of fertile land for free from the prince to develop in the Shanghai Oasis.

Sanjiang Pavilion's first-class secret agent Yue Liya actually joined this group of immigrants.

He is the old man who helped Yi Yun deal with the Jinshan Wokou, and there is a little sweet potato field at home, this time Yi Yun opened up the Shanghai Oasis, and Sanjiang Pavilion must also install a capable spy in the new oasis, so he sent a rookie scout to Jiashan to reside, and transferred the experienced Yue Liya to let him move to the Shanghai Oasis.

With a large number of immigrants, Yue Liya rushed to the center of the Shanghai oasis in the big sand cart arranged by Yi Yun, and as soon as he got off the big sand car, he was shocked by the fertile and flat land. The soil here is the best kind of black soil, and the soil is very deep, which can grow all kinds of excellent crops, and it is next to the clear Huangpu River, which is absolutely no problem in terms of irrigation, and it can be said that it is an excellent place to farm.

Yue Liya was assigned a set of farm tools from the hands of the Yiwu soldiers, including plowshares, hoes, sickles, and shovels...... And so on, and an iron axe, a saw, a hammer, and a lot of nails, which he used to cut down trees and build a house. In addition, he also received a small bag of grain, if he can save some food, it will not be a problem to support the first half of the year. He looked around, and every immigrant was assigned these things, which shows that the prince of Jiashan gave great preferential treatment to immigrants.

Yi Yun spent a lot of money in order to distribute these benefits to this group of immigrants, but Soft Muxing was unwilling to mobilize the administrative budget of Jiashan Oasis, so Yi Yun paid for all this money. It really cost him a lot of money, which was quite painful.

Yue Liya first lived with the immigrants in a temporary camp set up by Yiwu soldiers in tents, and then lined up with a large group of immigrants to get a new household registration and title deed. His household registration reads: Resident No. 256 of Shanghai Oasis. It seems that before him, there were already 255 immigrants, and these title deeds had the seal of Yi Yun on them, which marked where their ten acres of land were, and also drew graphics.

He took his title deed and followed the map to the side of his field, and saw ten acres of square black soil in front of him, and these fields were drawn with deep lines on all sides. It seems to have been drawn with a knife or spear on the ground, and these lines also distinguish his field from someone else's, making it very easy to identify. On the edge of the ten acres of land, there is also a simple tent. to provide for his dwelling.

A Ukrainian soldier signaled to him that if he needed to dig a canal for irrigation, he should do so along the lines drawn on the edge of the field so that the canal would not penetrate into someone else's field. He was advised to build a log cabin of his own, where the tent was located.

Yue Liya felt quite shocked, this free field, free farm tools, free food, free wood to build a house. Although when he first met Yi Yun, he knew that the prince of Jiashan was a generous master, but he didn't expect to be so generous!

After settling down, Yue Liya decided to build a house first, he took an iron axe into the forest in the distance, and it didn't take much effort to cut down a tree and drag it home. He sawed the trunk of the tree into planks with a saw, and then took out the iron nails and hammers given by the prince, and quickly built a small wooden house. Don't look at others are very old, but they are the spies of Sanjiang Pavilion, their bodies are not much worse than young people, and because of their age, they have accumulated rich experience, and they have built a beautiful house in a few days. ...,

When he finished building the house, he looked around. Several of his neighbors also built houses one after another. The neighbors next to him did not come alone, but moved from one family to another, so there was more labor, unlike Yue Liya, who could only work alone, and the family had already built a house. Began the life of a male farmer and a female weaver.

After Yue Liya's house was built, someone suddenly visited, it turned out to be a resident of No. 1530, who had come from the new immigrants, and he told Yue Liya that the soldiers had told him to come here to get axes, saws, and hammers.

It turned out that the axes and saws that Eyun had prepared were limited, and after the first immigrants settled down, they collected the axes, saws, and hammers and handed them over to the new immigrants to continue the work of building houses.

Yue Liya's house had been built, so he handed over the axe, saw, and hammer, and the resident of No. 1530 left with these tools in his hand, and soon after, the sound of him cutting trees and trees was heard in the distance, and apparently the residents of No. 1530 also began to cut trees and build houses.

A few days later, Yue Liya came across No. 1530 on the street and asked, "New brother, has the house been built?"

"It's ready!" said 1530 happily, "I've given the axe, hammer, and saw to 2643, and now he should be building the house, haha!"

"Oh, are there already more than two thousand immigrants?" Yue Liya hurriedly kept this information in his heart, as a spy of Sanjiang Pavilion, he had to collect information anytime and anywhere.

"More than two thousand!" 1530 said with a smile: "It is said that No. 4693 has already received tools, but the later residents live a little far away from us, and we usually can't see them." ”

Yue Liya secretly memorized this information and continued to spy in the newly built oasis.

He found that in the center of the area where the immigrants lived, a bazaar was slowly forming, and it seemed that the prince had deliberately guided him to do so, and he built a "Yun Gongzi Department Store" in the very center of Shanghai, and then sold all kinds of small goods that the residents had to use, such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea, and ...... There are also various household utensils, such as kitchen knives, iron pots, bowls, embroidery needles, cloths, ...... Wait, anyway, you can think of everything.

Immigrants welcomed the department store and came here to buy things. When immigrants wanted to sell something, they naturally set up stalls next to department stores, and a bustling commercial street began to take shape with the department store as the center.

Yue Liya saw a businessman who obviously came from Suzhou and was selling some of Suzhou's special products, including Dongting loquat, Dongting bayberry, Taihu ulva, Nandang gourd, and so on. He couldn't help but lean over and asked with a smile: "This brother, why did you come all the way from Suzhou to sell things?

"Far away, not far away!" the merchant said with a smile: "There is no tax on buying and selling things here, and there is also a 'Zhencheng Shenguan' team led by Lord Wu Mingliang to protect the interests of merchants, if any thief or robber dares to rob a merchant, or someone buys something and does not give money, the 'Zhencheng Shenguan' will drag the wicked person to beat him half to death." We are happy to sell things here, and we are not afraid of being cheated. ”

Yue Liya knew that I was bright, that was the captain of the "Zhencheng Shenguan" brigade of Jiashan Oasis, but I didn't expect to be transferred to Shanghai Oasis now. He pretended to be a customer, bought two catties of Dongting bayberry from the merchant, and then asked with a smile, "Then you plan to take root here?"

The merchant smiled and nodded: "I plan to build a small shop opposite Yun Gongzi Department Store, specializing in Suzhou specialties, I usually ask the guys to sell goods inside, and I go back and forth between Suzhou and Shanghai by myself, buying and shipping, haha." If you want to buy Suzhou specialties, remember to come to me, the price is absolutely fair. ”...,

Yue Liya felt a little emotional, he looked around, and sure enough, there were many shops under construction: "Brother merchant, how much do you have to pay to the government to build a shop here?"

The merchant smiled: "Don't want money, the prince has spoken: the current policy adopted by the Shanghai Oasis is called 'whatever you want', and whatever the merchants want, they can build shops wherever they want, as long as they don't build them in the farmers' fields." When the house is built here, the land on which the house is located is leased to the merchant for three years free of charge, after which the land fee needs to be paid. However, we businessmen are not stupid, and we will not build our shops in those places where there are no people, so the shops are all built next to Yun Gongzi Department Store. ”

Yue Liya couldn't help but sigh secretly in his heart: The prince of Jiashan is so clever in his means, he deliberately built a department store here, and then asked the merchants to build it casually, but people are buying things in department stores, and the merchants must naturally build shops near here. In this way, a bustling commercial street can be created here, and there is only one department store in the prince's own pocket, and nothing else needs to be spent.

Yue Liya walked forward for a while, only to see a large group of people on the side of the road, is in a group, looking at the recruitment notice posted on the wall, it turned out that the textile workshop from Suzhou is recruiting female workers, most of the people in the country are illiterate, so no one can understand this recruitment revelation. But there was actually a storyteller in the crowd, who was there to help the people in the neighborhood read these job calls.

"Suzhou Qiming Workshop, now Shanghai Oasis Construction Branch, recruits a large number of female workers who know how to weave, with a monthly salary of one or two silver. Female workers who are interested in working in our workshop should come to the shop at No. 43 No. 3 Street in Shanghai before sunset for an interview, the quota is limited, first come, first served, and then no ......," a young storyteller reads with a shake of his head.

As soon as he finished reading, there were a few screams from the crowd of onlookers next to him, and several women ran quickly towards Shanghai's No. 3 Street, apparently to grab a job.

Yue Liya took a closer look at the face of the storyteller, and suddenly sweated profusely: Daddy, isn't this storyteller the prince? He actually ran out to make a cameo appearance as a storyteller, what a good mood.