April 9, 1857

New appointments to the kingdom are issued; In view of the outstanding achievements of the Minister of the Colonial Department, Baron Dong Jie, in the affairs of the Paradise Island, his outstanding ability, and his high moral character, which can be used for good use, His Majesty has personally appointed him as the head of the Crown Secretariat and Minister of the Crown Court, and hereby resigns as Minister of the Colonial Ministry and is renominated by the Prime Minister.

After the warm celebration ceremony, Baron Dong Jie and his family and a group of henchmen boarded the cruise ship back to the homeland of the kingdom, accompanied by the sound of a long air whistle, the cruise ship gradually left the harbor, looking back at the bustling city standing in the bay, and couldn't help but burst into tears.

More than 700 days and nights of hard work, lighting work, has created a great prospect for Paradise Island today.

Two years were like a dream, Dong Jie looked at the beautiful and prosperous city in front of him, and a strong sense of accomplishment filled his chest, feeling that his life ambition had been accomplished, which was enough to be gratifying.

The cruise ship left the dock with a long whistle and sailed towards the blue open sea, taking away Baron Dong Jie, who was deeply involved in this hot land, and it would not be long before he should be called Viscount Dong Jie......

Watching the cruise ship leave, the high-ranking dignitaries and the women who were dressed up at the pier to see off them exchanged pleasantries for a while, and then scattered in a luxurious carriage.

The ladies in luxurious dresses with umbrellas attracted the hot eyes of many men around them, and they couldn't take it back.

"Don't look at Erbao, those are all young grandmothers from big families, and we, the Zhuang families facing the loess with our backs to the sky, don't be delusional for the rest of our lives."

"Brother Lei, these nobles of the Tang Kingdom were said to have been there just like us before, but they came a few years earlier. We don't lack arms or legs, and we don't lack blood and bravery, so why can't we compare to them? ”

"That's right! But these nobles are all the ones who followed His Majesty to fight the world, and they have blood and sweat, plus they are lucky to get ahead, and now it is not easy. ”

"What's not easy...... Don't you just fight as a soldier? I can do it if I go. ”

"Erbao, you're talking stupid again, don't you laugh to death when others hear it? Now in this peaceful year, there are no conscriptions, and there are no wars, and the entire paradise island is a holy imperial village, and even the local natives have been wiped out cleanly, where can the battle come from? ”

"Hmph, I'm just unwilling anyway." The one who spoke was a tiger-headed young man in his twenties, named Wu Erbao, from Guilin, where the mountains and rivers are the best in the world, and it has been two years since he arrived on Paradise Island and obtained an official household registration.

In the relaxed living environment of the Tang Kingdom, I have heard about the history of refugees one after another, both around me and the kingdom itself, which always makes people's blood run high, and the desire in my heart is ready to move.

Not only Wu Erbao, almost all young immigrants have their own dreams.

Brother Lei was older, about twenty-six or seventeen years old, he patted Wu Erbao's shoulder and said with a smile; "Don't think about those who don't have it, let's go to register and get land today, and we have to go to the bank to apply for a loan, buy some suitable tools for clearing the wasteland on the street, there are so many things to do, we can't stand here stupidly for a long time, right? Do you want your share of the land? ”

"Of course, or wouldn't I have worked for two years in vain?"

"The saint didn't treat you badly, he gave 90 acres of land (Chinese people are used to using acres), tsk...... I'm so hungry when I see it! ”

Hearing Brother Lei say this, Wu Erbao showed a happy smile from the bottom of his heart, opened his mouth, and said with a smile showing his snow-white teeth; "If you want to blame Brother Lei for this, you have to teach us the golden mean all day long, how to do things can't come out of the way, the first to rot first, work out of seven points and leave three points of strength, then the pie in the sky is a good thing, now regret it?"

"It's a pity that there is no regret medicine in the world, who knew that the saint was so kind and merciful, and he would really give more to Tian if he did more? I'm now looking forward to two more years. Lei Ge looked remorseful.

He is older, he has been working long hours in his hometown since he was 13 years old, and he has to work until dark when he gets up, so he can only exchange for two meals of gruel a day, and he does not see any meat all year round.

After more than ten years of long-term work, he couldn't even marry his daughter-in-law, and the poor jingle sounded, and later there were long-haired thieves, and countless farmers fled in panic, and he was also one of them.

The refugees fled to Fuzhou Port, passed the immigration screening by chance, and were able to board the immigration ship to Paradise Island, which opened a different life path.

During the two-year contract work on Paradise Island, one meal a day and two thin meals, no matter how good it is or full, it can also be improved once a week to have meat, basically a bargain such as pork offal soup, beef offal soup, or a piece of salted fish, this is already a dream day, I really couldn't think of it before.

It is not that the contractor does not give a penny, one yuan per person every month, you can buy some daily necessities or snacks, and there are rewards for good performance, such as Wu Erbao, an "advanced worker", who can get 1 yuan and 2 cents every month.

Don't look at the mere two cents too much, but it makes many people blush.

Among the Chinese immigrants, very few people use this money to buy snacks or daily necessities, and basically save them.

In two years, it is estimated that seventy or eighty percent of Chinese immigrants have saved more than 20 yuan, and there are very few losers who have eaten and spent all their money.

Everyone looks forward to having their own piece of land in the future, cultivating wasteland, marrying a woman, farming and weaving, having children, spreading branches and leaves for the family, and living a happy life without shame.

In order to realize their dreams, Chinese immigrants can endure any hardship.

Two days later

Lei Ge and Wu Erbao took a large bag of luggage and took the train to Wuxing Town with their companions, and it took more than 6 hours to reach their destination, which was a small desolate station located outside the valley.

Wuxing Town is about 188 kilometers away from New Xi'an, is one of the resettlement towns in the planning, starting from the suburbs of New Xi'an, the railway goes all the way east along the seaside plain, respectively, one star town, two star town, three star town, four star town, five star town until the sixteen star town, all of which are resettlement new towns.

Today, the railway has just been built to Liuxing Town, and the road construction workers are also Chinese immigrants, who are building roads and bridges deep into the mountains and forests, and are pioneers in pioneering.

Brother Lei and Wu Erbao have done this work, but it is actually simple, it is nothing more than to build a railway roadbed first, and tamp the Sanhe soil over and over again to form a long railway roadbed.

To build a culvert in a place where the water is crossed, it is to dig a hole in the roadbed, build the culvert with bricks or stones, and then smooth it with cement, the stronger the better.

Building a bridge is a little more complicated, which is probably what it means, using masonry and stone to build the piers, and then erecting steel beams, this kind of bridge construction speed is the fastest, basically three or four months can be formed.

Round-arch bridges, which are built entirely of stone, are much slower to build, often taking a year or more to complete.

And then it is to pave the concrete, lay the rails, and connect the long railway line with sleepers, this kind of work is not difficult to do quickly, as long as the materials are sufficient, more than 1,000 people can pave more than ten kilometers long a day, basically no pressure.

Lei Ge and Wu Erbao got off the train with the flow of people, and looked at a large piece of land carved out on the edge of the valley, painted with various lime lines, and a large wooden stake tree more than three meters high, on which were written with a brush The three big characters of "Five Star Town" were written.

Everyone is a veteran, just look at this scene to know that the future five-star town is located here, only about 2 kilometers away from the railway station, there are about dozens of wooden buildings built in the town, almost all of them are semi-finished, obviously not long after the start of construction, none of the buildings have been capped and completed.

Come to town

The place where the regimental dragon flag was planted was the office, which had only a row of simple desks, and the clerk with a blue armband shouted loudly with an iron horn in his hand; "All immigrants go through the formalities here, all queue up one by one, wait in an orderly manner, it is strictly forbidden to cut in line and disturb the order, otherwise they will be disqualified and bear the consequences......

The blue armband clerks repeated over and over again, and the migrants quickly lined up in a long line with large and small packages on their backs, and then moved slowly forward.

They have become accustomed to this way of queuing, queuing for meals every day during collective labor, queuing for receiving a monthly subsidy of one yuan, queuing for clothes (4 sets of clothes per person per year, either white or gray), and queuing for toilets in the morning.

Collective labor does not allow open defecation, polluting the environment, and human and animal manure must be used for composting, which is the best thing to improve the field, and it cannot be wasted.

The speed of the team was quite fast, and after about half an hour, it was the turn of Lei Ge and Wu Erbao, who learned from the people in front of them to take out their household registration books and a land grant certificate, and came to a row of simple tables.

"Give me the land grant certificate, as well as the household registration book." The clerk sitting at the desk said.

Wu Erbao hurriedly handed over the documents in his hand, and after the clerk took it, he checked that the name of the household registration book and the field certificate were consistent, and then deliberately flipped through the field certificate back and forth, raised his head to look at Wu Erbao with a smile, and asked; "Hey, I can't see it, you're still an excellent worker, would you like to join the militia?"

"Yes, of course."

"Do you know how to read?"

"I know some, not much, I can barely understand the meaning of the newspaper."

"Okay, you can fill out this militia application form."

"Great!"

Wu Erbao happily took the pen, bent over and filled it out carefully, Brother Lei, who was standing on the side, was a little envious, so he took the initiative to ask; "That...... Sir, I also want to join the militia, can you fill out a form as well? ”

"You ......," the clerk said, picking up his grant certificate and looking at it, pouting; No, you are not an excellent worker, your performance is not outstanding, and you are not eligible to join the militia, our five-star town militia only needs the best people. ”

Lei Ge; “……”

Within a few minutes, Wu Erbao filled out the militia application form, and after the clerk registered him, he stamped it with a red seal, and then gave a wooden sign after receiving the land granting certificate, and returned the household registration book to Wu Erbao, pointing to a team next to him and saying; "You go to the first line, and you can't walk around once you get in."

"Oh, got it, thank you sir." Wu Erbao was busy thanking.

Brother Lei saw that his formalities had also been completed, and he hurriedly asked; "Sir, am I also in the first line?"

"What's the first line you're in? Isn't there a wooden sign that says 17? You're in 17 lines. ”

"But...... Erbao is my little brother, the two of us want to live next door in the future, and take care of each other. ”

"Huh...... That's impossible. ”

"Why?"

"Why?" The clerk was amused by his question, and simply stood up, took the tin horn and shouted to the crowd;

"Folks! Listen to me, everybody.

After that, everyone just stand still and listen to me, don't move in the queue, just listen, and I'll explain to you the policy of dividing the fields.

After I'm done, if you don't understand something, you can still ask questions.

After completing the formalities, everyone will be given a small wooden sign in their hand, and if your wooden sign says "1", then you will be in the first line.

If you have a wooden sign that says "11", then you are in the 11th team, and the number of the sign in your hand and the team must be the same, and you must not make a mistake.

If you don't understand it, you can ask, if you don't know the words, you can also ask, and each team has a capital number in front of them.

From the first team to the fifth team, they are all "excellent laborers", some of them are given 100 acres of land, some are given 80 acres, and some are given 75 acres, and these outstanding laborers can choose to join the militia, and others do not meet the requirements.

Among these "excellent laborers", according to the rules of land granting, whoever contributes the most will choose his own land first, and those with 100 mu are given priority over 80 mu, and those with 80 mu are given priority over 75 mu, and so on.

If several people are 75 acres of land grants, then draw lots to win or lose, or take what you think is fair, and try to make everyone satisfied.

The plots around Wuxing Town have all been divided up for everyone to choose, but the closest places to Wuxing Town are basically the land of the first team to the fifth team of "excellent laborers".

All personnel who are no longer within the scope of "excellent workers" will be randomly grouped, and the distance between them will be about 3 to 5 kilometers, and the distance will be about 10 kilometers, and the maximum will not exceed 20 kilometers.

When you arrive at the place, there will be staff who will explain how to get the land.

For example, the 11th team of 170 people has specific arrangements for staff after arrival, and the whole process is supervised fairly and impartially.

The basic principle is first-come, first-served.

Each person sends a small flag, 170 people set off at the same time to run, there is also a small flag on the marked land, you just need to pull down the small flag, put your own small flag on it, then the land belongs to you.

Since we have issued 170 small flags, we will inevitably set aside 170 pieces of land, each of which is ten acres, that is, 60 acres of land.

Of course

The land is good and bad, the land from the river and the stream is of course more fertile, and some of the land overgrown with trees is more difficult to develop, and it depends on the individual's ability to get a piece.

Generally speaking

As long as you are a fellow villager or partner who is willing to live together, I can tell our staff that we will try to put you in a team, and you will be a villager in the future.

Even if you don't live together, you won't be far apart, so try to provide convenience for everyone.

But in some cases, it is not possible, for example, if one of the two people is an "excellent laborer", according to the rules, he can get 90 acres of fertile land near Wuxing Town as a reward.

The other is an ordinary immigrant, and the land grant certificate is only 60 acres of land, and the two cannot be resettled together.

Unless this "good worker" is willing to give up his rights and does not need 90 acres of land near Wuxing Town, instead of going to a remote area to compete for 60 acres of land, then we can also fulfill such a wish by writing an application indicating that it is completely voluntary.

Not the other way around, because the land around Wuxing Town is used to house "excellent workers", and ordinary immigrants do not enjoy such preferential treatment.

One pays, one gains, which is fair. ”

After saying this

The surrounding immigrants showed all kinds of expressions, some regretted, some were happy, some were sad, some were secretly angry, and some scolded directly under the distorted mood.

The staff member's face turned grim, and he pointed to a rude and strong man who was scolding not far away, and said sharply; "The bold and fanatic, who dared to speak evil words against the kingdom, took it to me."

As soon as the words fell

Several men with blue armbands rushed forward, knocked the rude man who couldn't help but speak foul language directly to the ground, and tied it up with hemp rope.

This rude and strong man was directly frightened, directly frightened by the wet pants, and cried loudly; "Sir, spare my life, please forgive me for not choosing my words for a while, the little one knows that he is wrong."

"Plug my mouth on, it's disgusting, how is a person like you who doesn't know gratitude different from a brute?" The staff looked at him with disgust, he was a grassroots official from the Taoyuan School of Administration, and in such a long period of social experience, he had already developed a rough and direct work style.

The immigrant group is so large that it is inevitable that there will be dirt and dirt in it, mixed with some green-skinned hooligans and vitriolic gangsters, and some of them will be sorted out during the two-year contract labor, and some will continue to be sorted out when the land is divided.

Those who dare to complain, those who attack the policies of the kingdom with foul language, those who gather crowds to make trouble, those who spill and cheat, and those who disobey the distribution and unreasonably entangle are all within the scope of strict control and crackdown.

The staff's brazen action really had an immediate effect, and Brother Lei didn't say a word and went to the 17th team with his ID and wooden card, like a little sheep.

Other people are no longer forced to chatter, even the head-to-head discussion is less, the administrative efficiency has been greatly improved, so that the queue can go to which line, and I feel that the quality has improved a lot.

Soon, the crowd of people who got off the train was divided into a dozen teams, each with a flag-carrying staff member in front of them, followed by a large group of immigrants, lining up to make their way down the narrow road in the distance.

In some far-flung areas, the procession has to walk through forests, over hills, and across rivers, for at least half a day.

Wu Erbao's team didn't need it, and directly began to divide the fields in Wuxing Town, and after the first seven or eight people were selected, it was Wu Erbao's turn, and his 90 acres of land ranked quite high.

Six square kilometers away from the township's demarcation, next to the river in Wuxing Town, he chose a flat and fertile plot of land with few trees, and he was very satisfied.

People rely on comparison, compared with the vast majority of other immigrants, Wu Erbao is full of happiness at the moment.

This is his land and home from now on.

This is close to Wuxing Town, and he inquired about the wooden houses built in Wuxing Town, a two-story wooden building upstairs and downstairs is 220 yuan, and a bungalow is 145 yuan.

Wu Erbao has already thought about it, and for the time being, he will not buy a house for the time being, and buy a ploughing ox for 185 yuan, plus supporting iron ploughshares and other farm tools, a total of 228 yuan, and the money he saved is just enough.

Because the outstanding worker can borrow 200 yuan from the bank, plus the 28 yuan he saved, this is all right.

Anyway, the climate of Wuxing Town is neither cold nor hot, and during this period of pioneering, I will build a shack to live in the wild, and strive to plow the whole land in 4~5 months, remove the roots of gravel shrubs, and rake it flat after more than ten days of exposure to the sun, ridge it, and plant wheat and vegetable seeds.

The rest of the time can also be used to help the neighbors reclaim the famine, earn an extra income, pay taxes first and then repay the loan when you have money, work hard for two years to repay the loan first, and then think about building a house and marrying a daughter-in-law in the future, which is all right.

Thinking about having 90 acres of fertile land and such a good location, Wu Erbao couldn't help but feel happy in his heart, and his face was full of smiles all day long, and his future life was beautiful!

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