People in Dasong: starting from the sign-in

Chapter 273 Encouraging immigrants from the Song Dynasty

Chapter 273 Encouraging immigrants from the Song Dynasty

After a month or so of sailing, there were two severe weather that had to be docked for shelter.

Xiao Qi arrived at the southernmost destination of this big island with [-] Changsheng Battalion soldiers and thousands of craftsmen.

After sending people to investigate a place suitable for building a deep-water wharf, Xiao Qi ordered to dock and quickly find a suitable place to set up a camp.

The soldiers on board already had the experience of going ashore to quickly build camps, and the battalion commanders dispatched their soldiers in an orderly manner to log and build camps.

In just one day, a large military camp was initially built.

Knowing that this place will form a huge industrial city in the future, Xiao Qi summoned his generals and assigned them a new task.

This task is to let them find a large area suitable for building a big city under the guidance of the snake catcher, and clean up all the poisonous insects and wild animals there.

The generals quickly followed Xiao Qi's order and found a plain more than 20 miles away from the coast.

This relatively flat place is very vast, about ten square kilometers in size, and there is also a river flowing from this plain into the sea.

After getting the news, Xiao Qi took people to check it out and was very satisfied with it.

Order people to clean up along both sides of the river, making sure to clear away all the poisonous insects and wild animals. As for the trees growing wherever they are, all the trees growing there will be cut down to build houses.

Of course, after these trees are felled, they need to be dried in the sun before they can be used as timber for building houses, which takes a long time.

It is easier said than done, because these trees are very tall and cannot be transported after felling, Xiao Qi had no choice but to order people to saw these trees into sections, and drag them out bit by bit with a few horses .

Looking at the hundreds of treasure-like war horses that could only be brought due to the long-distance sea transportation, but now they are being used as scumbags, let alone how distressed Xiao Qi is.

Xiao Qi hurriedly wrote several letters and sent them to Emperor Zhao Shen, Lin Zhenglong Yongsheng and others respectively.

The letter said that he needs a large number of cattle and poor horses, and hopes to send them as soon as possible.

Thinking of the need for a lot of craftsmen on the big island in the future, and the climate in the east and south is very suitable for farming and grazing.

In Xiao Qi's letter to Zhao Shen, he asked the emperor to call a large number of craftsmen and people who were willing to come here to send them, and whoever was willing to come would reward each of them with a hundred taels of silver.

He also promised that there would be so much unowned land here that the people of the Song Dynasty who were willing to migrate would give each of them hundreds of acres of land.

In a letter written to Lin Zheng, Qin Tu and others, Xiao Qi told them that there was a large area of ​​land suitable for grazing and farming, and a large number of cattle, sheep and prisoners of war were needed, and asked them to send more without delaying the construction of the canal. Cattle, sheep and prisoners of war were sent here.

Emperor Zhao Shen was taken aback by Xiao Qi's letter!

As long as someone is willing to go, each person will be given a hundred acres of land. Is this the king of Zhenbei kidding?

Da Song now has a population of almost tens of millions. The temptation of a hundred acres of land is so great. Even if it is inferior land with low grain production, there will be one person who is willing to go there.

There are really tens of millions of people willing to go. Do you have so much land for others?

Emperor Zhao Shen just sent the cattle and craftsmen that Xiao Qi urgently needed. As for the relocation of the people of the Song Dynasty, he just posted a notice throughout the Song Dynasty.

It is said that the king of Zhenbei has laid down a large area of ​​land for the Song Dynasty, and now a large number of people are needed to cultivate it. As long as the people are willing to go, the court will reward each person with a hundred taels of silver, and the king of Zhenbei will also give the land there.

Zhao Shen didn't dare to say the words of [-] mu of land per person, he was really worried that those people from the Great Song Dynasty would flock away, making Xiao Qi troublesome if he didn't have land for others.

Compared to Emperor Zhao Shen's cautiousness, Lin Zheng and Qin Tu were more straightforward, receiving letters from Xiao Qi that needed cattle, sheep and prisoners of war.

These two guys were fighting so hard that they both wanted to find someone to start a war and capture prisoners of war.

In the end, the two discussed that Qin Tu would lead one hundred thousand troops to station in the area where the canal was to be dug, and seek out the surrounding unknown countries to fight and capture prisoners of war.

Lin Zheng led one hundred thousand soldiers and sailed along the route to conquer the countries that had harassed the logistics fleet.

Because Long Yongsheng is a naval officer, he can only be responsible for transporting the Changsheng Battalion to fight around, and then transporting prisoners of war, cattle and sheep.

There is no way, even if the countries along the route have naval forces, as long as they see their huge fleets, they will hide early, and there will be no battle at all.

As Xiao Qi's work of cleaning up the poisonous insects and beasts to prepare for the construction of the city gradually deepened, it was inevitable that some soldiers died after being bitten by poisonous insects.

It was learned that most of the soldiers who were bitten were bitten below the knees.

Xiao Qi wrote again to ask for help, hoping to bring some knee-high boots made of thick cowhide. In the letter, Xiao Qi specifically told them that these boots don't need to look good, and the cowhide doesn't need to be processed, the thicker the better.

Of course, Xiao Qi, the most important prospector, has not forgotten.

The land is being cleared in full swing here, and at the same time, he has sent thousands of soldiers to protect nearly a hundred exploration craftsmen to explore minerals in the area he has designated.

Because the location given by Xiao Qi was very accurate, it didn't take long for good news to come from the exploration team.

Both iron ore and coal mines have been found, and they are very easy to mine. Simply shoveling off the upper soil layer will reveal the mineral deposits below.

The next step will be even more busy, not only to clear the plain, but also to build a road from this new city that has not yet started construction to the two mining areas.

Just when Xiao Qi was worried that it would be too slow to start such a huge project with the tens of thousands of soldiers under his command.

The first batch of prisoners of war, cattle and sheep sent by Lin Zheng and Qin Tu arrived.

There are not many cattle and sheep, there are only three hundred cattle and a thousand sheep, but there are as many as [-] prisoners of war.

This made Xiao Qi very pleasantly surprised, and finally had a good job.

Immediately afterwards, Emperor Zhao Shen also sent some cattle and sheep and tens of thousands of craftsmen. Although Xiao Qi didn't want many cowhide boots, he still had nearly a thousand pairs.

Xiao Qi directly distributed nearly a thousand pairs of long leather boots to the snake catchers and soldiers who cleaned up the poisonous insects, and he didn't even keep a pair for himself.

The soldiers who got the boots had better protection, and the speed of cleaning up the poisonous insects was significantly accelerated.

The arrival of [-] prisoners of war has also accelerated the progress of new city construction and road construction.

Seeing that things here are on the right track, Xiao Qi began to turn his attention to the east coast.

There are more arable land and resources over there, and there is enough wood in the virgin forest there to build houses and ships.

Of course, these things can't be done now. What is needed most there is to build settlements and deep-water ports first.

Xiao Qi ordered the [-] troops in the north to be divided into five groups, and each went to the places he had drawn to establish ports and settlements.

As his troops were sent everywhere, Xiao Qi felt that the [-] troops were still too few. He only established a few settlements in the coastal areas and used up all the troops he had.

Fortunately, his title of King of the North is still very appealing in the Song Dynasty. At this time, the people of the Song Dynasty who have already signed up for immigration have begun to be transported.

Moreover, most of these people who dare to take risks are young and strong, even if there are a few old or young, they are all family members who migrated from the followers.

Fortunately, there were a lot of trees felled before, and he ordered people to build houses on a large scale. Now, the north side where the settlement was first established, and the south side where he is located, a large number of houses have been built.

All the people who come, as long as they come with a family, each family can be allocated a wooden house.

Those young and strong who came here alone accounted for the majority, and these people would definitely not be able to give a house to each of them.

However, Xiao Qi asked them to form a group and temporarily live in a house that had already been built, and each of them gave them a piece of land for building a house, and used the wood as they wanted, and asked them to help each other build their own houses.

As for the land that needs to be distributed to the people, it has been measured long ago and signs have been erected for every [-] mu.

However, these lands have just been cleared, and these people still need to clear away the tree roots and other debris before they can cultivate it.

Those people were overjoyed to see their own land. Who cares about cleaning up tree roots and sundries, even though cleaning up those things is quite troublesome.

But the trouble is only a trouble once, and these will be good fertile fields in the future.

Moreover, I had only heard that the King of Zhenbei would allocate land. How could I have imagined that it would be so much as [-] acres per person!

The happiest people are the people who have relocated their families. These people have at least four or five members of their family, and they have been allocated hundreds of acres of land alone. If this is a proper landlord in the Song Dynasty.

Xiao Qi had already arranged everything, and someone would take care of these things. What he needed to do himself was to arrange for those craftsmen who came in large numbers.

Each of these craftsmen was allocated [-] acres of land, and they were assigned jobs in the newly built city according to their skills.

During the construction of the new city, Xiao Qi's first consideration was to establish a group of craftsmen's workshops, but these workshops belonged to the Changsheng Camp, and those craftsmen could only go to work inside, and they were not allowed to build their own workshops.

Because Xiao Qi thought very clearly that a large-scale steelmaking base will be built here in the future. If all the craftsmen set up their own craftsman workshops, the large number of craftsmen they need will become a problem.

So he first established a large number of workshop groups, and gave those craftsmen good treatment and let them work in the workshop first.

With future development, it will become the first industrialized city on this big island, and these artisans will be the first batch of skilled workers in this industrialized city.

Although blacksmiths accounted for the majority of these craftsmen, there were also many other craftsmen such as carpenters.

Xiao Qi simply set up a Dasong wood processing factory, mainly making wooden boats and building materials.

He even designed several kinds of houses that can be assembled. As long as you buy all kinds of ready-made materials, you only need to build the foundation according to the size, and you can smoothly assemble these materials into a beautiful house on the foundation.

What Xiao Qi didn't expect was that these kinds of prefabricated houses that he originally designed to facilitate the new immigrants to build their own houses as soon as possible were very popular.

Although these houses need to be bought with money, and if you build them yourself, although the wood is free, the cost will be small, but it is too much trouble and not as beautiful as these assembled houses.

These immigrants are not afraid of spending money at all. The common people of the Song Dynasty now have a lot of money, not to mention that the imperial court rewarded each of them with a hundred taels of silver.

In addition, the houses designed by Xiao Qi are both beautiful and practical, and they are stronger than the houses they built themselves.

For a while, none of the large and small boats built by this wood processing plant were sold, but those houses were sold out. Many people even paid money and waited in line for the houses to be built, and they were taken directly to assemble their own houses.

These people who needed to build a house came alone, and those who brought their families were allocated a house, and only they, the older brothers, were given the land for building houses and asked them to build their own houses.

Because these guys have a place to live temporarily, they are not in a hurry at all, and they are all waiting for the assembled house they bought to be built to build an assembled house to live in.

After they all paid the money, they helped each other build the foundation at their respective building locations, and then waited for the assembled house to be built together.

Xiao Qi himself didn't expect this thing to be so popular. Thinking that people have just arrived here, it is estimated that no one will want to buy a boat for fishing in a while.

So the shipbuilding craftsmen were asked to stop working first, and all of them went to build assembled houses, so that these people could live in their own houses first.

Following the migration here, the news that each person was allocated [-] mu of land was sent back to the Song Dynasty.

More and more people and craftsmen immigrated here, which also liberated the soldiers of the Changsheng Battalion. They no longer needed to participate in some chores, and only needed to watch over the labor of the prisoners of war and maintain the safety of the station.

This allowed Xiao Qi to send troops again to protect the craftsmen and build new settlements in new places.

Half a year later, the number of people immigrated from the Song Dynasty has reached 50, and the number of prisoners of war captured by Lin Zhengqin and Tu who were transported by Long Yongsheng has also reached 15.

And the settlements have grown from less than ten at the beginning to more than 50, and they are no longer limited to the coastal areas, and began to extend inland from the east and south.

As the settlements spread inland, several great plains were discovered, where the land was almost endless.

After getting the news, although Xiao Qi already knew about the existence of these lands, he was also shocked after he went there to see them in person!

Those lands are simply too big. It's so stingy that one hundred acres of land is given to each person!

Xiao Qi immediately ordered the [-]-win battalion soldiers to lead [-] prisoners of war to station there, and start sorting out the land from places with water sources.

Because when the large area of ​​Maxie was first discovered, no one was willing to leave the place where everyone gathered and go to the inland where there were almost no people.

Xiao Qi directly assigned these areas to Changsheng Camp and asked the prisoners of war to cultivate the land near the water source.

As for the place a little farther from the water source, he ordered a small stream to be dug to lead the water there, and ordered people to start grazing cattle and sheep there.

(End of this chapter)