Chapter 243: Watching the Fire from the Other Shore and Farming (Part I)
On the 18th day of the 257th year of the Republic (196 AD), Öndörkhan County, Krulun City, Mongolian Province.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Outer Mongolia and the Tangnu-Ulianghai region were classified as Mongolian provinces (Inner Mongolia was classified as Suiyuan Province). In terms of territory, the jurisdiction area of Mongolia Province is 180,000 square kilometers, which is the largest provincial-level administrative region in China with a land area of 660,000 square kilometers, ranking second). But compared to the vast area, the population is tragic, as of the end of last year, it was less than o million people.
60,000 of the 10,000 people are immigrants from the interior of the Han Chinese and other ethnic groups, while less than 80,000 are the Khalkha, Bayat and Buryat ethnic groups who are indigenous to Mongolia. Well, by the way, the Mongols in this plane are divided into more than 30 different ethnic groups according to their traditional habits, and the natives of Xinjiang, that side and the new territory are also treated in the same way, completely according to their traditional habits, for example, Xinjiang is divided into more than 50 different ethnic groups.
Wen Zong's Science and Technology Socialist Party is the most respectful of national traditions and habits, and will never forcibly mix different nationalities together like the Datu Dynasty, and of course will not "invent" some nationalities in the brain, well, that's it. So there are more than 4oo nationalities in China on this plane, don't laugh, there are really so many. Because there are so many, no one remembers exactly which ethnic groups there are, except for scholars who specialize in this profession.
The local population of Mongolian Province was not so small, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were at least 2o people in this territory, but by the time of the founding of New China in 191o, the population was only 60,000, and most of them were women. Why? This is due to the Qing Dynasty's "policy of reducing the number of Manchurians" against Mongolia, and the so-called "integration of Manchu and Mongolia" in the Qing Dynasty is to fool people, and it is a fool to believe it. They were very wary of the Mongols, on the one hand, they relied on marriage to win over the upper class, and on the other hand, they relied on the trumpet to teach the "Ding reduction policy", according to their regulations, each family in Mongolia can only have one male to inherit the family business, and the rest go to the monks. With such a mess, it is no wonder that Mongolia's population does not have negative growth.
It was only after the founding of the People's Republic of China that all the Mongolian upper class and trumpet religion were completely cleansed, and the rules of this pit man were abolished. It only grew to 740,000 this year.
For a territory to be stable, a sufficient population is a prerequisite, especially a sufficient population of the subject ethnic groups. The 180,000 square kilometres of territory cannot be stabilized without a sufficient population. Therefore, after the founding of the People's Republic of China, the government of the Socialist Party vigorously promoted the "Three-North Immigration Act" (Northeast, Northwest, Mobei) and the "Homestead Law". Later, after acquiring new territories such as Luzon Province, the Southern Immigration Act (Vietnam, Luzon, Laos, Northern Burma, Southern Tibet, Kashmir, etc.) and the Eastern Immigration Act (Lexian, Ryukyu, Sakhalin, Pacific, etc.) were promulgated successively.
According to the provisions of the Immigration Act, all Chinese citizens, regardless of gender and age, who are willing to immigrate to Mongolia Province to engage in primary industry (agriculture, animal husbandry and forestry) production, can be allocated 1o-o mu of land according to the region. In principle, the more difficult the conditions, the more land is allocated to the area further north of the location, and it is also linked to occupation, and forestry is mainly in mountainous areas, so the most land is allocated, followed by animal husbandry, and agriculture is the least. Of course, there is a correction coefficient for this ratio, for example, in some areas with complex terrain, a household can engage in three industries, and all three types of land can be had, and it can be adjusted according to the correction coefficient.
This policy has attracted many landless citizens to migrate to the Sanbei region, you know, Chinese mainland has always been more populated and less land, although China is now industrializing rapidly, absorbing a large number of labor, but the agricultural population still accounts for the majority. Land in most areas is very tight, with only two to three acres of land per capita, and although state ownership of land can ensure that "the cultivator has his own land," the amount of cultivated land per capita cannot be increased.
The Chinese have had a persistent thirst for land since ancient times, and the policy of two to three acres of land per capita was very popular at the beginning, because they were poor and did not have the desire to buy land, and when they had money in their pockets, many peasants thought of increasing the land under their names, and two to three acres of land per person obviously could not meet this requirement. In addition, with the development of agricultural technology, and the gradual popularization of livestock and agricultural machinery, each household only needs one or two laborers to take care of the land, after all, it is only a dozen acres at most.
At this time, the "Immigration Act" met people's needs, and more and more people chose to immigrate to the Three North region and the new territory. In these places, each person can apply for at least five acres of land, and in the most Sakhalin and New Guinea regions, they can even apply for 1oo acres. These lands are divided according to the capitation, if a family of five people immigrates to an area with difficult conditions, they can be divided into at least 6o acres of land according to the correction coefficient, the most can even exceed 1o 6 acres, yes, a family of five can have more than 1,000 acres of land at most, although it cannot be good land, but even if it is a mountainous land for forestry and aquaculture, it is enough.
Of course, these lands do not mean that you are done when you apply for them, according to the law, these lands must go through more than five consecutive years of effective operation before they can be fully considered their own, otherwise the state will take it back. In addition, if the land is acquired at a later time, if it is abandoned for more than two consecutive years without cause, the state will also take it back.
In addition, the ownership of these lands remains the state, privately owned, but this right of use can be hereditary and passed on to the next generation. The right to use it cannot be bought or sold privately, but can only be returned to the state. But even this is enough to ⊥ people's hearts. The most important thing is that these places have preferential policies of three-year tax exemption and five-and-a-half tax exemption, in addition to special support loans for immigrants, agricultural technical support, etc., which are all preferential conditions that were unimaginable before.
According to the immigration law, these lands are on a first-come, first-served basis, and they will not be treated if they are late. Moreover, the land in these places is not only open to natural persons, but also enterprise legal persons can apply, but the conditions are different, natural persons apply for land for free, while legal persons have to pay a deposit to apply. The appetite of those agricultural companies is very large, and they are all applying for thousands of acres, or even hundreds of thousands of millions of acres. For example, Xingke Agricultural Group has applied for millions of acres of land in these areas. With Xingke taking the lead, many domestic agricultural companies have also poured in, and they don't have so much land to toss in the mainland.
If these agricultural companies are taken over, they will have no share. Therefore, under the deliberate propaganda, many peasants who are eager for land cannot sit still and pour into these areas that lack population. Of course, they happily received their land.
The same is true of the province of Mongolia, which began in 191o and has been flooded with 60,000 immigrants in the past six years, of which about 40,000 are engaged in industry, commerce, service and other industries, and the other 20,000 are farmers engaged in agriculture, animal husbandry and forestry.
However, in terms of the territory of Mongolian Province, the population of 10,000 people is still too small, so there are few cities and counties divided, and the entire province is only divided into six cities, namely: Kulen City (formerly Tushetu Khan Department), Krulun City (former Chechen Khan Department), Tangnu City (Tangnu Ulianghai Region), Kobdo City, Zasakak City (former Zasaktu Khan Department), Sanyin City (Sanyin Noyan Department). Its territory was basically transferred according to the division of the alliance flag in the former Qing Dynasty.
With the construction, in recent years, a number of new cities and towns have been established in the Mongolian plateau, Öndörkhan County is a new county in the eastern part of Mongolian Province, it is located in the upper reaches of the Krulun River, about 3o kilometers away from the capital Kulun in the west, the population of the whole county is about 360,000, and it is the animal husbandry center of Krulun City and even Mongolia Province.
Although this county town is not large, it basically has all the facilities that the county should have. The economy of the region is mainly based on agricultural activities based on cultivation and animal husbandry, and there are flour mills and food processing factories in the county. There are also mining companies, which mine fluorite and lead ore here.
He Bin is one of the new immigrants here, he was originally a small landlord and mountain bandit family in Xiangxi, his ancestors have been bandits for more than ten generations, and their village is the so-called "busy farming for the people, farming for bandits" bandit nest, the whole village is a bandit, is a veritable bandit village. In the spring of 196, their stockade attempted to rob the convoy of Xingke Company, but they kicked it on the steel plate, and the bandits who attacked were completely annihilated, and then the entire stockade was pushed by the Workers' and Peasants' Revolutionary Army.
More than 60 people in the village, young and old, were captured, except for more than 70 recalcitrant bandits who were killed in the previous battle. Then according to the policy, all those who have participated in the criminal acts will be sentenced, hanging branches, and reforming through labor. Because this is a bandit village, according to the Zhulian system, all the people in the village, except for children under the age of twelve, men, women, and children have entered, and the lightest ones are concentrated to control labor.
He Bin was no exception, he was seventeen years old at the time, he was still a newcomer to banditry, so he was doing some auxiliary work such as watching the wind and carrying it, and he had no blood debts on his hands, so the punishment was relatively light, and he was sentenced to 12 years in prison. However, he did well during the labor camp, and was released last year after seven years of mining in Daye Iron Mine.
But what happens to life after the end of the sentence? This has become a question. After the merger of the villages, the original bandit village is gone, and some of the villagers in it are still in labor reform, and those who have completed their sentences have also been scattered and transferred to other places. Of course, at this time, China is in a period of rapid development, and people are needed everywhere, if he wants, he can continue to stay in Daye Iron Mine and become a regular employee.
But He Bin didn't want to stay in Daye, he knew here that he was a bandit and a prisoner too much, and he still wanted to save some face. Besides, he has been digging for seven years, and he is tired of digging, and seeing the mine is like spitting. He thought of the immigration bill promoted by the teachers during the labor camp and the immigration propaganda films shown to them, and he was deeply attracted by the scenery of the desert grassland and the life of the herders.
His father died a few years ago in the labor camp, and he is now the parent, so he persuaded the whole family and the family of five to catch the train to Mobei. When making the allocation, he selected Öndörkhan County, selected 2o acres of pasture, and became a rancher as he wished.
This year's Chinese New Year's Eve is February 2, and he went to the county today to prepare for the New Year