Dominate the Country

Xiangzhou [Alaska], Golden River, Golden Sea, countless rumors spread rapidly in Nanjing City, and Xiangzhou became famous.

It was no longer a place where white auspicious white fur was produced. Gold quickly replaced fur and became the new synonym and new symbol of Xiangzhou. Soon these true and false rumors spread throughout the south of the Yangtze River. I believe that as the entire New Year's Day passed, this news would spread all over the country.

Because the flow of people in and out of Nanjing City during this period of time was absolutely huge, and the specific number value was completely astronomical. And this rumor was spread with the country as a backer behind it, without any suppression or restraint, so the speed of spread was really beyond imagination.

Of course, the content of the news was also as fast as the speed of spread. ——Gold itself is very attractive, and that place with ice and snow is still a golden river and a golden sea. Discussing gold in terms of "river" and "sea" is too shocking to countless ordinary people.

But is such a rumor credible or not? Moreover, Xiangzhou's name is auspicious and beautiful, but everyone knows that it is a hellish place where even birds don't shit. Most of the year is winter, and the temperature is generally dozens of degrees below zero. How hard life there would be, just thinking about it makes people collapse, it is completely hellish. In addition, the long distance, even if many people's eyes are shining with gold, the fear composed of various reasons makes them choose to wait and retreat.

At worst, go again next year.

If the gold there is really a big river and sea, then one year is far from enough to mine it all. It's not too late to go again next year, and after a year of development, the conditions will definitely be much better than this year.

But there are still many people who would rather believe it than not believe it, and they embark on the road of gold panning without hesitation. Among them, the background of the newly established Xiangzhou Mining Development Company and the preferential conditions it offers have also added a heavy weight to the confidence of these people.

The earlier the gold diggers go to Xiangzhou, the higher the discounts they will enjoy. For example, the gold that should be paid to the company, the logistics treatment that they are eligible to enjoy, etc. The first batch of gold diggers who arrived in Xiangzhou were directly the third-level customers of Xiangzhou Mining Development Company. The second and third batches were the fourth-level customers, and next year they were the fifth-level customers.

Xiangzhou Mining Development Company only plans to send three groups of people to Xiangzhou next year, because the gold-producing area is still very desolate and primitive. If too many people are sent at once, it will cause trouble. As the discoverer of this gold mine, the Overseas Exploration Bureau enjoys a profit share of the output value of this gold mine for ten years. Of course, they want to fully develop the gold resources of Xiangzhou in one day, but they are very clear about the rules above. Not to mention how big the background of Xiangzhou Mining Development Company is, just say that as the first person to eat crabs, they also enjoy preferential treatment.

This year, the gold diggers who rushed to the Xiangzhou mining area can bang freely in the entire mining area, but by next year, some places may have been marked and become the territory of other companies. So, this "first" is of great significance to everyone.

This is the case in China now. Many industries have set levels for practitioners because of the influence of the government and the military. Points rating has been circulated in China for hundreds of years.

Not only in China, but also in some industries in Europe, this system has been quickly adopted. The most obvious one is the crew members traveling on the sea. This system originated from China, of course, and is a policy for all seafarers registered in China.

The Chinese government requires that all ships to which seafarers belong must score their members' work, including technology, discipline, bravery, character, etc., especially when the ship is sailing at sea, within the score framework prescribed by the government, through a score frame, their various sub-scores and total scores are counted, and then various seafarers are rated. And in the future, whether they are still working on this ship or not, they can take their crew certificates to the human resources market to find new jobs.

Then the fifth-level navigator is definitely more trustworthy than the first-level navigator, and the third-level helmsman will also have a lower salary than the fourth-level helmsman. China's shipping industry, especially the ocean-going one, has just started, and it is not comparable to the West at all. After such a policy was introduced by the West, the Europeans who attached more importance to economic interests quickly copied it. Whether it was Britain, the Netherlands, France, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, or even Denmark, they all adopted this set of principles, and then easily caught dozens of captains above level 5 in their own private markets, while the highest level of Chinese private sea captains was only level 3!

China has opened up, and the various exchanges of trade and culture between the East and the West have always had an influence on both sides, rather than China simply absorbing Western nutrients and making no contribution to the evolution of Western cultural civilization.

Although in the current situation, China's contribution to the West in mathematics, physics and chemistry is indeed not much.

Chen Ming lay on the couch, listening to Liu Wu's report on the various conditions in Nanjing City.

In the short period of time before and after the New Year, the stories of the Golden River and the Golden Sea spread like a plague throughout Nanjing, throughout the Jiangnan region, and half of China. Xiangzhou also got the title of Golden State.

At this point, the second step can be taken.

Although judging from the relevant reports from the National Security Bureau and the police, many people are still hesitant about the many versions of Xiangzhou's story.

This is normal.

Since ancient times, the first people to eat crabs are the most outstanding people in a group.

Although rumors can make many people 'believe' them, if the rumors go too far, they will never come true. The eyes of the common people are bright, and their hearts are also stupid, and the proportion of idiots is still quite high. Or many people call it ‘herd mentality’.

But in any case, not many people now question Xiangzhou's gold. Things have developed to this point and the imperial court has not come out to stop them. This is the imperial court endorsing these 'mythical stories' in disguise. Even if some cautious elites still have reservations about all these stories, rather than trusting them without reservation, at least no one will openly question them.

That's enough.

Although the gold in Canada's Yukon cannot be compared to the "rumors", the Yukon River is really a river of gold, and the Yukon is indeed a sea of ​​gold. Once you go there, as long as you work hard, you won't suffer.

But just as Chen Ming expected, even though Xiangzhou gold was widely spread, few Chinese people connected it with the Americas. Chen Ming knew that he, the emperor, was about to make his second move.

The open and fertile North America, the vast plains in the central and eastern parts of the country, is a land given by God. If he wants to truly gain a foothold in this land, now, now, he must make countless people have a strong interest in that fertile land.

So how do you get Chinese people to be interested in a site thousands of miles away? Especially now that China is in the midst of a violent economic recovery. Chen Ming cannot say that everyone's lives are getting better day by day, but the lives of the vast majority of people are getting better and better.

Even if it is progress from being hungry to feeling full! That is also progress, and it is huge progress.

When people have hope, then the current hardships are not real hardships, but the darkness before dawn. It is not easy for the Chinese to get these people who are at the bottom of the income ladder but can see the bright future to voluntarily move thousands of miles away. It’s unbearable that Chen Ming had so many people in his previous life. Will he run away to his ancestral hometown when he gets old?

Take his third grandfather as an example. When he followed the People's Liberation Army to liberate Southwest China, he stayed in Guiyang. When I was working for decades, I kept in touch with my hometown, but I rarely came back because I didn’t have the conditions at that time. After he retired and had time, the man in his sixties or seventies returned to his hometown almost every other year, traveling thousands of miles and staying for two or three months. Until my body really fails.

The Chinese people's feelings for their hometown cannot be explained in one or two sentences. It cannot be summarized by a person who leaves his hometown and returns to his roots.

If Chen Ming's third grandfather can still be explained by family ties, then the elder in Chen Ming's hometown is the same generation as Chen Ming's great-grandfather, his great-grandfather. It is obviously not a simple blood relationship.

The old man was captured by the Guo army in his early years to resist the war. Later he also surrendered to the rabbit. I only went back to my hometown in the 1950s. It had been fifteen or sixteen years since I was kidnapped by La Zhuang Ding, and no one in my family was left alive. But after he retired, he still ran home in his seventies and eighties.

When Chen Ming was a child, he ate a piece of white chocolate from the old man. It was the first time in his life that he saw white chocolate, so he had a very deep memory. For the elderly, their hometown should no longer be a mere concern for blood and family ties, but also a deep sustenance of soul feelings.

Of course, these are all the first generation, and then the second, third, and fourth generations, haha. That's just a symbol.

It is difficult to mobilize Chinese people to immigrate thousands of miles away when there is hope for life. Chen Ming had already prepared to make him angry. But based on this psychological bottom line, he still hopes to stimulate the subjective initiative of the people as much as possible.

So how to do this?

Chen Ming's idea is still to spread rumors.

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During the Lantern Festival, the moon on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is round and bright.

However, Zhao Si'er's family could not see any bright future in the dim light. The small flames the size of peas didn't even seem to illuminate the entire table, as if foretelling the fate of this family. Can't see the light, can't see the hope, can't see the future...

God opened his eyes and let Tian Wanglai not call the police. Otherwise, Zhao Si'er would have been sentenced to one and a half years for what he did at Tian's farm. Then the biggest pillar of the entire Zhao family is gone, and the Zhao family really has no hope.

Zhao Laizi's face was dull. He looked at the pale moonlight on the ground outside the window and didn't know what he was thinking.

Zhao Si'er was lying on the bamboo bed on one side, buttocks upward. He has been working on Tianjia Farm for such a long time, and Xiaodong and Xiaoxi have been touched a lot, and they even secretly sabotaged Tian Wanglai because of their hatred for him. Not all of these things were done perfectly, but no one took the initiative to expose him before. Because what Tian Wanglai did was very unreasonable.

His farm workers were secretly happy to see Tian Wang pay the 'price'. And everyone knows that Zhao Si'er's family is living a difficult life. His mother-in-law and aunt worked in the silk reeling factory in Guanzhuangqiao. Although the latter seemed to be paid a lot of wages, there were also many places to deduct the money. The income is far less wonderful than imagined.

The family worked hard but could only care about the mouths of the old and young, and their life was very difficult.

However, with the introduction of the "Reward System for Reporting" by the state, Tian Wanglai also kept up with the times and set up a reward for reporting. Then Zhao Si'er was exposed and reported. It is estimated that with Tian Wanglai's stinginess, he would at most give the reporter a bag of old rice.

But for Zhao Si'er, it was a disaster from the sky.

Tian Wanglai knew that his reputation in his hometown was very bad, and he did not dare to really force people to death with a household registration book, but he was still angry and personally picked up a stick and beat Zhao Si'er. At the same time, Zhao Si'er was kicked out of the farm, and even the basic salary and New Year's goods that should be given at the end of the year were not given a penny.

The incident happened before the New Year, and it has been more than half a month now. The Zhao family has been living off the mountain. Although his mother and his wife were not fired, the supervisor of the factory deliberately found fault and deducted their money. Tian Wanglai is a small shareholder of Guanzhuangqiao Textile Factory...

The family has not been desperate, but they have reached the end of their rope.

Although Zhao Quezi knew that his son did that for the family, his simple moral concept still made him feel ashamed that he had raised a son who stole things. Stealing fields and skinning the boss is also stealing, he is ashamed, he can't raise his head.

But what can the Zhao family do?

"Dad, can you say something?"

Zhao Si'er, lying on the bed, looked at his father for such a long time without saying anything, and was a little anxious. Before he knew it, a bullet of reeds came out of the reed cover under him. The Zhao family doesn't have so many quilts!

The bamboo bed is covered with rice stalks, and on top of the rice stalks is this reed cover, and only the quilt is stuffed with cotton.

"Too far..."

"It's because it's too far that no one will compete with us." The Zhao family is in such a miserable state now, what choice is there? It's the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and tomorrow is the last day to be finalized. If you miss this opportunity, you will miss this store. Now Zhao Si'er wants to join the army, but he can't catch up, he's too old.

Poor families like the Zhao family can now choose to go to Nanyang, but compared to Nanyang, they prefer to go to Nanmingzhou. Because the court can now provide loans to immigrants in the latter, and can also allocate basic security land. Yes, compared with the "government loan to buy land" in Nanyang and Northeast China, the policy enjoyed by immigrants in Nanmingzhou is to directly distribute land. So under the premise of immigration, the Zhao family is more enthusiastic about Nanmingzhou than Nanyang. Anyway, they have all immigrated.

"Our family is like this now. Either go to Nanmingzhou, or, or my son will sign up to dig gold." Zhao Si'er completely lost the courage to fight and struggle in his hometown. Some things can be done but not publicized. Now everyone knows that he is a thief, and his son is scolded as a "little mouse". Can the Zhao family stay in this place?

Zhao Si'er, who has been in self-destruction these days, sometimes wonders, why didn't God give birth to him in that America? There are so few people in such a big place, and the land is cultivated in pieces.

This year, this piece of land is used to plant spring crops, that piece is used to plant autumn crops, and another piece is left fallow. The crops on the three pieces of land are rotated here, and the cycle is three years. It can give the land another rest time and take good care of the land.

They also use horses to plow. How deep can a horse with such little strength plow? What good crops can it grow? As for the bullshit horse yoke and heavy plow, Zhao Si'er doesn't think that thing is as deep as a cow plow. Except that it is faster than a cow!

This is a very simple farmer's thinking. The only advantage of horse plowing over cow plowing is that it plows faster.

Zhao Si'er doesn't want to be a foreigner himself. He doesn't have this concept in his mind. He just simply envies people there who have so much land. Unlike here, let alone a large piece of land left empty for a year, even if it is left empty for a season, it can make people feel heartbroken.

Zhao Quezi sighed leisurely.