The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

How many people could withstand such a personal testimony?

Young people, in any case, are all tempted.

After being moved, take action.

More than a thousand long-term immigrants worked together, and even the one with the worst performance (few people in his hometown) managed to recruit more than a hundred able-bodied men.

Behind every able-bodied man is a family.

The Kansai immigration policy is that families are welcome to come and visit!

Wangxiang Village, a wealthy village, is an old immigrant who has won over not only his maternal grandfather's village, but also the villagers of his father-in-law's village and even several brothers-in-law's villages, all of whom are begging him to take them on a journey.

They made a killing from those referral fees!

According to statistics, each of the more than 1,000 long-term immigrants took an average of 400 people with them!

Normally, issuing a travel permit doesn't even require disturbing the county magistrate.

It's quite easy to do if you only spend a little money and have a legitimate reason for visiting relatives.

As a result, when the labor service for repairing the irrigation canals was announced last winter, the number of people actually serving did not match the quota.

A horrifying discovery by the magistrate of a medium-sized county.

Under his jurisdiction, there were five villages, and all the able-bodied men in the families had taken their wives and children to stay with relatives!
The county magistrate was furious!
You rascal from the west, you've dug all the way to the interior of China, three thousand miles away!

Just as Emperor Qianwu had guessed.

Impeachment memorials poured into the capital like snowflakes.

but.

Local officials could only protest and protest again, but they were helpless.

Because the last of these people had been gone for more than two months!

It's impossible to catch up!

You can't stop them!

The newly appointed Minister of War, Xiong Zhen, single-handedly withstood the verbal attacks and written criticisms from the censors.

Minister Xiong: Criticizing him won't hurt you, so why insist on weighing him? This policy was formulated when he was in charge.

At worst, they'll just fine us a pay cut!
Anyway, he doesn't rely on this meager salary to support his family!
Emperor Qianwu, not wanting to mince words, simply released the enrollment plan for the Guanzhong Military Academy.

This is just great.

Which official, whether civil or military, doesn't have a few spoiled brats in their family?
To study in a modern military academy for four years in seclusion?

Someone will help discipline the kids and even teach them how to use firearms? Forget about it being free, they'd be happy to send their spendthrift children to Kansai for a year's tuition of a thousand taels!

Should the Marquis of Loyalty and Bravery and General Gan continue their attack?
That's it, that's it.

Leave yourself a way out, so that someone might come to your door in the future!

The imperial court then launched a new round of heated debate over the one thousand student places allocated to the military academy in Shangdu.
The Kansai region will not stop its development because of anyone's anger.

After the first month of the lunar calendar, a large number of immigrants flocked to Guazhouwei.

With experienced immigrants providing introductions and guidance, the new immigrants weren't completely clueless.

Especially the newly arrived immigrants.

After seeing the realistic miniature sand table model displayed in the main hall of Guazhou Garrison, the vast oasis of the Yili River Valley, compared to the desert areas of other garrisons, suddenly became a highly sought-after prize.

Choosing Wei Lu Mu is a second-best option.

Weilumu is now a small garrison with three thousand guards and troops stationed there.

After the immigration plan was launched last year, hundreds of new immigrant villages were planned for 20,000 new immigrant households, and new homes were built for them.

The courtyards, all constructed of uniform earth and wood, are all the same size, around a hundred square meters.

The courtyard has three main rooms and three side rooms, a heated kang (a traditional heated brick bed), and a surrounding wall.

The courtyards are one after another, neat and orderly.

New immigrants can move in with just their bags, and the first three years are free.

No matter how much the old immigrants boast when they go back to their hometowns, nothing beats seeing it for yourself!

New immigrants have eyes.

Even before reaching the immigrant village, the difference in Kansai was palpable. For example, their perception of Guazhouwei.

Although this garrison was only the size of a county town, its streets were more bustling than any of the cities they had passed through.

Horse-drawn carriages, camel carts, and mule carts were everywhere.

The shops are filled with a dazzling array of goods.

Not only are common items found in the Kansai region available here, but there are also many Kansai-specific foods and local exotic ornaments.

The vendors' cries, uttered in accents from all over the country, sounded particularly charming.

Many new immigrants have lived for over ten or twenty years and have never seen such prosperity and bustle!
There aren't enough eyeballs to go around!

The Kansai region has been quite lively lately.

Before spring planting, the number of newly registered immigrants exceeded 400,000.

Of these, 250,000 are able-bodied men aged 16 to 35.

This shows that most of them are there to make money.

Pure labor force!

Gan Minglan's stance on the new immigrants' work arrangements at the beginning of the year can be summarized in one point:

"We must retain these valuable laborers! The garrison must do everything possible to help them settle down as soon as possible and create a good employment and living environment for them."

The projects in the Verum and Iri Valley prioritized hiring these new immigrants.

This general has three requirements for these two construction sites:

First and foremost, construction safety!

The responsibility is assigned to every foreman, from junior to senior, and in the event of an accident, everyone involved will be held accountable.

Second, the food on the construction site must be of high quality!

They do either manual labor or skilled work. They have to be fed three meals a day, with plenty of staple food and vegetables. They also need to have meat every three days.

There's no need to slaughter sheep and cattle! Pig farms and chicken, duck and goose sheds in Ganluchuan will start branching out near these two construction sites, and meat and eggs will be directly supplied to both sites.

The third requirement is to provide the most convenient method for settling wages.

Immigrants who have no money and are experiencing financial difficulties are allowed to receive three months' wages in advance to settle down! If needed, the payment can be flexibly adjusted to weekly settlement.

This general hopes that, while ensuring quality and quantity, the two border trade cities should be completed before the first snowfall this year!

The brick and tile kilns of each garrison must prioritize these two projects.

Furthermore, we should also pay attention to the families of these newly arrived immigrants.

The town was organized by village, with ten villages forming a town. Each town was allocated a school, a clinic, and several shops, such as a butcher shop.

Our main focus is on convenience! We want to ensure that construction workers have no worries about their work.

All the generals bowed in unison: "We obey!"

In the Kansai region, where military and civilian management are integrated, once an order is issued, it's time to get to work.

If you make a mistake, you can start over.

Anyway, we learn from experience while doing it.

Most importantly, the Kansai of today is not the Kansai of three years ago.

There is enough food to feed these 400,000-plus immigrants, as well as wages to pay the 200,000-plus immigrant laborers.

When the new immigrants arrived at the immigrant village, they found out...

Ah!
Every household can get their own detached house and yard?!

Children aged five to twelve can actually attend school for free!
That was incredibly exciting!
These strong laborers are afraid that if they don't work hard and don't do a good job, they will be sent back to their hometown.

go back home?

That is absolutely not possible!
Where else in my hometown can I find such a good life: six steamed buns and two dishes in one meal, and meat once every three days!
The key point is that the wages were higher than they had ever seen before, and they were even given an advance!

In my excitement, I worked quickly and well!

Compared to the construction of Hami New City, which took less than two years from start to finish.

The construction speed of the two border trade cities, Yili River Valley and Weilumu, can be described as changing rapidly! (End of this chapter)