The scene that happened on Angel Island is the epitome of the rapid development of the Tang Kingdom for more than 10 years.

All understand; They are working for their future happiness.

According to the "Law of Granting Fields";

The inhabitants of the kingdom who moved to the sparsely populated northern and southern inland provinces for reclamation were given a piece of land of 10 acres free of charge, and a plot of land not exceeding 50 acres at a discounted price, which could be cultivated, grazed, and transferred after eight years.

As an overseas territory of the Tang Kingdom, Paradise Island also implements the "Law of Granting Fields", as long as Chinese immigrants arrive on the island, they can obtain the status of residents of the Tang Kingdom, and obtain no more than 60 acres of land per person, that is, 300 acres.

The prerequisite is to work as a contract worker for two years, without salary, only responsible for food and lodging, and work according to the arrangement within your ability.

Finally, according to the performance, it is divided into four categories: excellent, good, medium and inferior, and the higher the evaluation, the higher the evaluation of the immigrants, the better the land, such as the proximity to streams and irrigation canals, the high terrain is not easy to flood, the land is flat and fertile, and so on.

Such an immigration policy has caused a great sensation in the land of China, not to mention refugees, that is, landless peasants and landlords hired peasants, all of whom have signed up to ask for emigration, and the number is in the hundreds of thousands.

Land has an unparalleled allure to the Qing people, and many wealthy small landlord families can't resist the temptation and immigrate to Paradise Island with their families.

Tickets to Paradise Island are much cheaper, starting from 26 taels of silver in Datongcang, and can be reached in the southern provinces of China for 5 days and 5 nights one way.

Some landlord families have a large population, and it is common for more than a dozen or 20 family members to migrate at one time, and the largest number of even hundreds of family members migrate collectively. They can afford to buy a ticket, and when they arrive on Paradise Island, they can get up to thousands of acres of land (most at a discounted price, a few up to tens of thousands of acres).

Such a huge temptation is that even the landlord family cannot stop it.

The Tang Kingdom and the Manchu Qing Dynasty signed the Treaty of Wangxia, also known as the Sino-American Treaty of Commerce, similar to that of the United States, which stipulated that the Tang Kingdom should not deliberately interfere with the normal business, trade, labor, and other exchanges in Shenzhou, and the local government must respect and assist them.

In terms of diplomacy and trade, it enjoyed the same rights as the British, and enjoyed consular jurisdiction, that is, Tang citizens who violated the criminal law must be handed over to the Tang Legation for disposal, and the Manchu government had no right to intervene, and had a series of super-national treatment.

It is precisely because of the diplomatic treaty that most of the government in the coastal provinces did not dare to stay in trouble, and could only watch a large number of people flee.

In fact

The outflow of large numbers has also eased the burden on the local government, which has always been more populated and less land, and the same is true in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Fujian, where there are hundreds of clan fights and more than 10,000 casualties every year.

Huge population pressure is like a raging flood, and proper diversion can also help to reduce the pressure on the local government, the most intuitive manifestation of which is that there are fewer people fleeing, fewer beggars in towns and villages, the vice of drowning infants is no longer as common as in the early days, and even large-scale fights between clans are also reduced.

I really can't get by, let those young people go to North America, it's always a way to live.

April 27th

The first group of immigrants from mainland China arrived at Donggang on Paradise Island (New Guinea Island), and this group of immigrants walked at sea for 10 days and 10 nights, which was twice as long as the Chinese who immigrated to New Xi'an.

This group of immigrants, with a total of 16,300 people, arrived on 17 migrant ships and cargo ships, and their arrival made Donggang instantly lively, and the progress of urban construction accelerated sharply.

Dong Jie, as the director of the Donggang Construction Headquarters, has long planned for this, under his confident command, first 8,000 Chinese immigrants will be classified into the reclamation team, 2,000 people will be assigned to the logging team, 500 people will be assigned to the burning team, more than 2,200 people with carpentry and masonry skills will be selected to join the construction team, more than 3,700 women will be included in the picking team, breeding team, logistics team, and the rest will see a doctor, burn bricks, weave, cook, and sing for everyone in their spare time.

The visible changes are happening all the time, and the burning continues, and due to the arrival of abundant labor, the scorched black forest after the burning is quickly cut down, and countless large tree roots are dug out and dragged away, and then hand-held tractors enter the site to clear the site.

Irrigation canals were built along the lime line, tall waterwheels were built along the riverside, and clear streams flowed down the irrigation canals into the fields, and green shoots emerged from the newly cultivated fields as far as the eye could see.

More than three months later

When these fields harvest the first crops of grain and vegetables, it will mean that Donggang has the ability to develop itself, and in this fertile land, the crops are three crops a year, and there is no need to worry about not having enough to eat.

In the 1,000-square-kilometer gentle hilly area of Donggang, where forests were burned by fire, and then the process of cutting down large trees and cultivating fertile land was repeated, the industrious Chinese immigrants quickly changed the appearance of the area, making it another land of water and rice in the south of the Yangtze River.

In the construction of Donggang Town

The deep-dug drainage canals are made of masonry, covered with mud and compacted, repeatedly rolled with lime and cinders, then covered with a layer of crushed stone and then a layer of soot, and finally paved with stone slabs to form a wide and clean road.

Massive buildings have been erected on both sides of the road, and thousands of workers are building houses every day.

In view of the fact that the area is located in a humid tropical region and faces the sea and mountains, the houses here are paved with red bricks, which are built to a height of one and a half feet, and then built with wooden squares.

The houses built in this way are moisture-resistant and sturdy, and since Paradise Island has almost endless timber reserves, it is very willing to use materials when building wooden houses.

The bark-stripped logs are simply processed and built directly, which is really strong and sturdy, and the construction speed is relatively fast.

In just over three months, there are thousands of houses with strong Chinese characteristics in Donggang, with eaves and pavilions, initially presenting a port city style with unique oriental characteristics and charm.

On the outskirts of the city

Hundreds of bridges have been built one after another, the first large reinforced concrete bridge across the Bishui River has shown its prototype, four tall piers have been built to a height of more than 10 meters, and in more than two months, it can be built to a design height of almost 22 meters.

When the time comes

The large steel components transported from the Tang Kingdom are in place, and the first bridge across the Bishui River will show its majesty and promote the rapid development of Donggang.

In the bay of East Harbor

The town is bustling with new reinforced concrete wharves and stone banks that stretch for 4.2 kilometers, brick and stone warehouses one after another, and wide wharves with steam freighters from the Tang Kingdom and migrant ships from China.

Late July

Outside the Donggang City, the wheat waves are rolling, the first hundred thousand acres of wheat fields ushered in the harvest moment, this is the grandest festival of the people of Donggang, nearly 100,000 people in the city all put down their work, poured into the wheat field to harvest, the joy of the harvest reflects everyone's face.

From the end of July, Donggang will enter the harvest season for more than 10 consecutive days, starting from the harvest of more than 100,000 acres of farmland in nearby cities, and extending inland.

The wheat fields that were sown later also entered the harvest time, so on the main road from Donggang to the interior, every morning at four o'clock in the morning, horse-drawn carriages full of laborers left the city one after another, along the wide and smooth road all the way deep, and the long caravan could not see the end of the end.

As soon as they saw the wheat field, the laborers in the carriage jumped down and rushed into the wheat field with a sickle in their hands to start harvesting.

The harvested grain was brought back by horse-drawn carts, and the wagons loaded with grain traveled day and night between the city and the countryside, bringing lunch to the laborers at noon, and the vegetable soup and flatbread in large wooden barrels were put along the fields.

Tired people wiped the sweat from their foreheads, while eating and drinking soup in large gulps, gathering together to chat excitedly, imagining a better life in the future.

This kind of fiery large-scale production scene takes place in almost every field in East Point City.

After more than 4 months of large-scale construction, Donggang City has undergone earth-shaking changes, and a prosperous urban appearance has emerged, with hundreds of thousands of acres of land developed from Donggang to the depths of the mainland, linked by several spacious roads and countless small roads.

The irrigation canals are criss-crossed, and more than 100 large-scale irrigation water wheels have been set up by the Bishui River, forming a unique pastoral scene.

More than one-third of the area is fully developed, but it still retains a large area of dense forest.

This is because there is one in the land policy of the Tang Kingdom;

In order to maintain the local water, soil and forest resources, and maintain the coordinated development of the environment, no more than 40% of the land shall be reclaimed anywhere, which is a hard and fast rule.

In principle, lowland depressions, land bordering mountains and water, land that is vulnerable to flash floods, mudslides and other geological disasters, periodic flooded land, wetlands, swamps and land adjacent to lakes shall not be developed or reclaimed.

A certain proportion of virgin forests and shrubs must be retained on the developed land to form a natural barrier against storms and rain disasters, which is more conducive to the bumper harvest of cultivated land.

The burning team continued to advance inland, followed by the road construction team, followed by the walk-behind tractor team and the logging team, forming a complete set of efficient pioneer processes.

The reserved forest is mainly controlled by the logging team, which does not have to cut down trees and open roads in the endless blackened and blackened overburned forest.

It doesn't take long for a few wet rains to bring these burn-soaked forests back to life, with blackened trees sprouting and a thick layer of forest ash bringing abundant nutrients and countless green grasses to thrive.

Leave it alone, and a few years later it will be a lush forest, with no trace of the fire that once burned it.

As for the farming area, you're welcome, the logging team is to see the trees and cut the trees, and each logging team consists of 10 people, cutting trees while cutting the roots.

The daily quota of each group is two large trees (which need to reach a certain diameter standard), and those who do not meet the diameter standard also need to cut down and dig out the roots, but these labor quantities are not included in the quota.

Basically, each logging team has a big tree in the morning and a big tree in the afternoon, which not only needs to be cut down, but also needs to cut down the branches, sawn into large sections of wood of a specified length, and dig out the roots, which is not a small workload.

In particular, the work of digging tree roots is really tiring.

Fortunately, there are many people and great strength, and the logging team of nearly 3,000 people can cut down more than 600 large trees in a day (small trees below the standard are not counted), and the excellent team can cut down 5 trees a day at most, and the average logging group is also 3 large trees.

Why is everyone so motivated?

One is because the good logging group can eat meat every day, which is one aspect of the reward, which is about 10%.

Second, the logging group with excellent performance is likely to get excellent + or excellent in the comprehensive evaluation, which means that during the two-year contract period, the overall evaluation is "excellent".

According to the evaluation rules, these outstanding people can give priority to choosing their own land, enlisting in the army, recruiting workers, and being promoted, becoming village and town group leaders, militia squad and platoon leaders, giving priority to recruiting village and town police officers, winning honors such as model workers, and receiving commendations from superiors.

It is precisely because of a series of evaluation and incentive measures that the motivation of nearly 100,000 laborers on Paradise Island has doubled, showing a gratifying situation of catching up with me, which has greatly improved labor efficiency and pioneering results.

And this contains the hard work of Dong Jie and the Donggang Construction Headquarters, and their wisdom has been greatly exerted in this promising field.

The advanced experience of Donggang colonization has also been summarized and promoted for the first time, which has benefited emerging towns including New Xi'an.

Dong Jie has not forgotten that he is the Minister of the Colonial Department, not just the commander-in-chief of the Donggang Construction Headquarters, whether it is Donggang or New Xi'an, the construction achievements of these two emerging port towns have a credit that he cannot erase.

Among the nearly 100,000 immigrants in Donggang, there are more than 13,300 self-funded immigrants, accounting for nearly 15%.

These are some Chinese immigrants with more economic strength, and after coming to Donggang, they can not fulfill the labor responsibilities of contract labor for two years, and obtain a large amount of land with preferential policies.

Correspondingly, these lands are all undeveloped virgin forests, which require them to develop their own land, cut down trees, cut tree roots, level the land, build irrigation canals, and build houses.

Whether it is harvested grain, vegetables, grazing cattle and sheep, 30% of the land income tax is paid every year, which is almost the only tax for farmers, ranchers and plantation owners.

The tax revenue of the Tang Kingdom can not be tricked, and there is no room for bargaining, and those who dare to evade taxes face the severe punishment of bankruptcy, which is an iron law.

Therefore, the entire Donggang from the city to the countryside is full of a hot scene, whether it is a contract worker or for his own clan, there is almost no soil for lazy people to survive.

The dragon gave birth to nine sons, each different.

Among so many Chinese immigrants, there are indeed some who are lazy and lazy, deceiving the good and fearing evil, but after coming to Donggang, they were quickly educated to be human beings and reined in their bad habits.

Among the immigrants who entered Donggang, some of the contract workers were lazy and lazy, oppressed the good, and after receiving the word "inferior" in the evaluation, they were immediately transferred from various work teams and were put into the "bad word team".

Everyone in the "bad word team" has a capital "inferior" on their clothes, indicating that they are the worst part of the people, who are looked down upon by everyone and have no face.

The "bad team" does not see meat all year round, and eats the worst scraps, such as vegetable gangs, potato skins, and expired and moldy wheat grains mixed with gravel, so they can only starve to death.

Besides

The "bad team" has to do the dirtiest and most tiring work, such as digging out dung, composting, digging ditches to clear the mud, opening mountains to get stones, and then smashing the stones with hammers, etc., and the "bad" team has fierce overseers with leather whips in their hands, who can torture them to the point of death.

If you don't want to do it, you will be whipped with a leather whip.

This is in stark contrast to the "excellent" team that suddenly eats rice and white noodles and has meat every day, and fools know how to choose.

And so it goes

The atmosphere in the entire contingent of immigrants quickly improved, and the lazy ones gritted their teeth and worked every day, gradually getting rid of laziness and inertia, and experiencing happiness from labor.

Those who oppress the good don't dare to come forward again, it's really the people in the "bad" team who live too miserably.

In this place, there is no soil for doing evil at all. If you want to live well, you can only obey the rules.

Objectively speaking

The experience of cultivating Paradise Island is not replicable, because the Tang Kingdom has invested a lot of money to enable penniless refugees and poor teenagers to emigrate, and the Royal Charity Federation has borne most of the funds.

Correspondingly, these Chinese immigrants need to fulfill the obligation of two years of contract labor, and use the labor to repay the immigrant tickets and other expenses.

This includes two sets of clothes, pots and pans, daily necessities and bedding for each immigrant, and the expenses for food and accommodation in the past two years, this part of the expenditure is basically more than 4 months in the early stage, and the food and vegetables and other materials produced in the later period are collectively allocated by the Donggang Headquarters, and the same is true for the construction and real estate, which belongs to the kingdom, which is free to use in the early stage, and those who need it in the later stage are purchased at the price.

In order to build these two towns, the Kingdom Charity Fund invested more than 370 yuan, only one immigration, a total of 240,000 immigrants, 213,900 people were able to immigrate to Paradise Island through the help of the Kingdom Charity Fund.

At cost price, this part of the expenditure is more than 2.48 million yuan, coupled with a large amount of material input, in order to form the current bright development prospects.

It's obvious

Such a large investment cannot be sustained for long, and according to the plan of the Kingdom Charity Fund, the large-scale migration will last for half a year until October.

It is estimated that by the end of October, the population of Paradise Island will reach 47~500,000 people, mainly distributed in the two cities of Donggang and New Xi'an and surrounding towns, forming a stable and continuous agricultural and animal husbandry production capacity.

On this basis, we should develop fishery production capacity, establish canned food production and processing enterprises, and develop sugarcane, forest fruits, tobacco, spices, pig raising, sheep raising and other industries, so as to make up for the shortcomings in agricultural and animal husbandry production in the Tang Kingdom.

The two cities will be initially built into agricultural and animal husbandry production bases, supporting the strong transit ports on the golden route of Central Pacific migration, and laying a solid foundation for the next step of expanding migration.

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