Valley Emperor

The first batch of immigrants to the Red Sea area were officially organized immigrants, and they were exempted from any fees. The government even provided official immigrants with subsidies such as farm tools, seeds, and rations.

As long as this kind of official immigration is registered, then it will not cost a dime from the time of leaving hometown. The official all-inclusive food and lodging on the road, and the ferry ticket will be used even more. After arriving at the destination, in addition to the regular operation of free land allocation In addition, the government will also provide simple temporary housing, agricultural tools, grain, etc., and even provide rations for at least half a year or even more than a year.

And they will also get more land than ordinary immigrants. If free immigrants can get 30 acres of land in Meiren, they can get 50 acres or even 100 acres.

Although it cannot be said that it is completely free, because these expenses will be repaid by the immigrants after they cultivate the land and produce them, but in fact the total number is not much. Even if these expenses need to be repaid in the end, they are still much cheaper than self-funded immigrants.

With so many preferential conditions, there are naturally limitations, that is, the location of immigration can only be selected in a few officially limited places.

At least the Americas, whether it's North America or South America, don't count on it. There are a lot of free immigrants in those places, and the government has long stopped organizing large-scale immigration.

The places where the government organizes resettlement are generally areas to be developed or places with strategic positions.

For example, some territories of the Tang Dynasty such as West Asia, India, and Africa, and some areas of the South China Sea also have this treatment.

In short, they are places that are not very friendly to new immigrants, and places that free immigrants are unwilling to go.

Otherwise, the government would not have spent so much effort to attract immigrants.

The Red Sea area has always been an area of ​​official immigration. Before, the empire had emigrated in several overseas territories such as the Gulf of Aden and the Persian Gulf, but the scale was not large.

After all, the overseas territories occupied by the Tang Dynasty were not very large, and they were usually mainly coastal ports. At that time, the purpose of occupying these places was not to expand the territory, but purely to obtain a supply port.

This is also the reason why Datang has established so many colonial ports around the world. Most of the time, it is not to expand the territory, nor to do business locally, but to provide supplies to ships...

Today, the entire Pacific Ocean, the Indian Ocean, and even the Atlantic coast are full of coastal ports under the control of Datang, many of which are very small in scale and have few people.

Most of the ports of the empire on the coast of the Red Sea before were similar, the more important port of Suez, which used to be Ottomans, and the Tang Dynasty only had an embassy area there.

But now, after taking the entire Northeast Africa and the West Asian Peninsula, especially after the Nile Delta Plain, large-scale immigration has become a reality.

This piece of land is only more than 20,000 square kilometers. Although the area is not very large, it is very rich and very suitable for agricultural development.

Even just casually tossing and tossing can feed millions of people.

Of course, according to Datang's rules for developing overseas territories, it is impossible to immigrate millions of people. On the one hand, immigrating so many people is time-consuming and labor-intensive.

On the other hand, there must be room for the descendants of immigrants to survive.

Of course, what is more important is that there is a lot of fertile arable land like the Nile Delta, which is not lacking in the Tang Dynasty.

Therefore, according to the plan of the Immigration and Reclamation Department, the short-term immigration target is 50,000 people. If 50,000 immigrants are immigrated, they can barely lay a foundation in the local area.

In the future, like other successfully developed overseas territories, there is no need for the government to organize large-scale immigration, but to attract local immigrants on their own.

A rapid population increase is inevitable by then.

The first batch of immigrants was not many, only more than 3,000 people, and this number was not even as large as the local garrison.

However, when these migrants just disembarked and were about to go to the Nile Delta region under the official organization, a small group of people set foot on the Nile Delta plain before them and started staking their horses.

They were the first immigrants to land in Alexandria, and they were free immigrants.

These people actually lived in Ceuta City and other Datang embassies along the Mediterranean coast. There were not only Datang people, but also a considerable number of temporary residents.

These people know how rich the Nile plain on the other side of Egypt is.

When the native immigrants still sneered at the Nile River Plain, the Tang people in Ceuta and other places, especially the Datang people and some temporary residents who did not mix well in the local area, were already eagerly looking forward to going to the Nile River Plain. .

John is one of these new immigrants!

Of course, now his name is not John, but John!

Since he was taken over by his brother George and became a glorious Tang Dynasty native, John has even changed his name completely, because they are brothers, and his brother George directly used Qiao in his transliterated name as his surname.

John followed his brother and took Joe as his surname and named him John.

It's a pity that, unlike his brother's prosperity in Ceuta, John's life in Ceuta was not very good.

In fact, he is not stupid, and his learning ability is okay, but he is not smart enough. He is not good at dealing with people. He was just waiting for a handyman. After a long wait, he finally went to a night school. After obtaining a C-level cultural certificate, he found a job as a store clerk before he got rid of this embarrassment.

But the days are still not good, and it is difficult to eat enough.

On the other hand, his brother George was doing well in the European restaurant in Ceuta. He was upgraded from an ordinary doorman to a consultant manager, and his monthly income reached more than 20 Tang Yuan.

This income is among a large number of temporary residents in Ceuta, so it can be regarded as high income.

Seeing that his brother George is getting better and better, although George has always been good to him, he has also paid his debts by himself, and even often helps him.

But Johnny is also a man with backbone. He wants to live a better life and rely on himself to live a better life.

It's just that even if he is still young, he knows that if he continues like this, he will have no future.

With only 2.5 Tang Yuan's salary a month, if this income is included in the Spaniards, it is naturally very high.

But in Ceuta, this is a veritable low-income group.

In Ceuta, everything is expensive, food is expensive, and accommodation is expensive.

Just for room and board, he would have to spend all his salary. Without the support of his brother George, he would not even have to wear clothes!

He also thought about struggling to find a better job.

However, Ceuta is a paradise for some people, such as his brother George.

But for other people, Ceuta is hell, such as John.