262, Immigration and Shops [2/2]

After removing the trees and having the open plains, the first batch of immigrants from Jiashan Oasis arrived. Shengtang Piaotian Literature Registered Members recommended this work. Most of these immigrants were very poor people. They did not have their own fields and usually made a living for tenants from families with fields. Life was very difficult. I heard that when they developed Shanghai Oasis, they could get ten acres of fertile land given by the prince for free, all of them were happy.

The first-class secret Yue Liya of Sanjiang Pavilion actually joined this group of immigrants.

He was the old man who helped Yi Yun deal with the Japanese pirates in Jinshan. He had a little sweet potato field at home. This time Yi Yun opened up the Shanghai Oasis, and Sanjiang Pavilion also had to install a capable spy in the new oasis, so he sent a rookie spy to Jiashan permanent residence, transferred the experienced Yue Liya away, and moved him to Shanghai Oasis.

Yue Liya, with a large number of immigrants, rode a large sand truck arranged by Yiyun to the center of Shanghai Oasis. As soon as he got off the large sand truck, he was shocked by the fertile and flat land. The soil here is the best black soil, and the soil layer is very deep, and all kinds of excellent crops can be planted. And it is close to the clear Huangpu River. There is absolutely no problem in irrigation. It can be said to be an excellent farming place.

Yue Liya assigned a set of farm tools from the Yiwu soldiers, including plowshares, hoes, sickles, shovels, etc., as well as an iron axe, a saw, a hammer, and a pile of iron nails. This was used for him to cut trees and build a house. In addition, he also distributed a small bag of food. If he could save some food, it would not be a problem to support the first half of the year. He looked around and every immigrant was assigned these things, which showed that Prince Jiashan gave the immigrants great preferential treatment.

Yi Yun spent a lot of money to distribute these benefits to these immigrants, but Ruan Muxing was unwilling to mobilize the administrative budget of Jiashan Oasis, so the money was all Yi Yun paid his own pocket. ("Piaotian Literature Registered Member Recommended This Work") It really cost him a lot of money, which was quite painful.

Yue Liya first moved into a temporary camp built by the soldiers of Yiwu in tents, and then lined up with a large group of immigrants to collect new household registration and land deeds. His household registration reads: Resident No. 256, Shanghai Oasis. It seems that before him, there were 255 immigrants. These land deeds had seals stamped by Yi Yun, marked where their ten acres were, and were also painted with graphics.

He took his land deed and followed the map to his fields. He saw ten acres of square black soil in front of him. Deep lines were drawn on all sides of the fields, as if they were drawn hard on the ground with swords, guns or spears. These lines also separated his fields from other people's fields and were very easy to identify. On the edge of the ten acres of land, there was a simple tent to provide him with living.

A Yiwu soldier signaled to him that if he needed to dig a canal for irrigation, please dig along the lines drawn by the fields so that the canal would not penetrate into other people's fields. He also suggested that he build a small wooden house by himself, which could be built where the tent was located.

Yue Liya felt quite shocked. He gave free land, free farm tools, free food, and free houses for wood. What a generous prince who could only make it? Although when he first met Yi Yun, he knew that Prince Jiashan was a generous master, but he didn't expect that he was so generous!

After settling down, Yue Liya decided to build a house first. He walked into the forest in the distance with an iron axe. He cut down a tree without much effort and dragged the tree home. After using a saw, he sawed the trunk into wooden boards, then took out the iron nails and hammers given by the prince, and quickly built a small wooden house. Although he was very old, he was a spy from Sanjiang Pavilion. His body was no worse than that of young people. Because of his age and his accumulation of rich experience, he built a beautiful house in a few days.

After he built the house, he looked around and several of his neighbors built the house one after another. (Piaotian Literature Registration Member Recommended the Work" Piaotian Literature Registration Member Recommended the Work.) The neighbors next to him did not come alone, but moved one by one, so there were more labor force, unlike Yueliya who could only work alone. They built the house early and started a life of men farming and women weaving.

After Yue Liya's house was built, someone suddenly visited him. It turned out to be a resident No. 1530, a new immigrant. He told Yue Liya: The soldiers asked him to come here to get an axe, saw, and hammer.

It turned out that the axes and saws prepared by Yi Yun were limited. After the first batch of immigrants settled, they recycled the axes, saws and hammers and handed them over to the new immigrants to continue to work on building a house.

Yue Liya's house had been built, so he handed over the axe, saw, and hammer. The resident of No. 1530, Yigao Cailie, held these tools and left. Not long after, the sound of him cutting trees and logging trees came from a distant place. It was obvious that the residents of No. 1530 also began to cut trees and build houses.

A few days later, Yue Liya occasionally met No. 1530 on the street and asked casually: "New brother, has the house been built?"

"Build it!" No. 1530 said happily: "I have handed over the axe, hammer and saw to No. 2643. Now he should be building a house, haha!"

"Oh? Have there been more than two thousand immigrants?" Yue Liya quickly recorded this information in his heart. As a spy from Sanjiang Pavilion, he had to collect information anytime and anywhere.

"It's more than two thousand!" No. 1530 smiled and said, "It is said that No. 4693 has received tools, but the residents later lived a little far away from us, so we can't see them normally."

Yue Liya secretly recorded this information and continued to spy on the newly built oasis.

He found that a market was slowly forming in the center of the area where the immigrants lived. It seemed that the prince was deliberately guiding this. He built a "Yun Gongzi Department Store" in the center of Shanghai, and then sold various small commodities that residents must use, such as firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar, tea... and various household utensils, such as kitchen knives, iron pots, bowls, embroidery needles, cloth... etc. Anyway, there are all kinds of products you can think of in it.

Immigrants were very welcome to this department store, so they came here to buy things. When immigrants wanted to sell things, they naturally went to the next to the department store to set up stalls. So, with the department store as the center, a bustling commercial street began to take shape.

Yue Liya saw a businessman who was obviously from Suzhou and was selling some special products from Suzhou, including Dongting loquats, Dongting bayberry, Taihu water shield, Nandang water chestnuts, etc. He couldn't help but lean over and asked with a smile: "Brother, why are you here to sell things from Suzhou? Don't you mind the road is far away?"

"Far? Not far!" The merchant laughed and said, "There is no tax on buying and selling things here. There is also a team of 'Zhencheng Shenguan' led by Lord Wu Mingliang to protect the interests of merchants. If any thief dares to rob a merchant, or someone buys things and doesn't pay for money, the 'Zhencheng Shenguan' will drag the evil people to death. We feel happy to sell things here, and we are not afraid of being cheated."

Yue Liya knew that Wu Mingliang was the captain of the "Zhencheng Shenguan" brigade of Jiashan Oasis. Unexpectedly, he was transferred to Shanghai Oasis now. He pretended to be a customer and bought two kilograms of Dongting bayberry from a merchant, and then asked with a smile: "Then are you planning to take root here?"

The businessman smiled and nodded: "I plan to build a small shop opposite Yungongzi Department Store, which specializes in Suzhou specialties. I usually ask my guys to sell goods inside. I will travel between Suzhou and Shanghai by myself to purchase and ship goods, haha. If you want to buy Suzhou specialties, remember to come to me, the price is absolutely fair."

Yue Liya felt a little moved. He looked around and said, sure enough, there were many shops under construction: "Brother merchants, how much do you have to pay to the government to build a shop here?"

The businessman smiled and said, "No money, the prince sent a message: The current policy adopted by Shanghai Oasis is called 'You can'. As the merchants are happy, they can build shops wherever they want, as long as they don't build them into the farmers' fields. While building a house here, the piece of land where the house is located will be rented to the merchant for free for three years, and the land rent fee will be paid after three years. However, we merchants are not stupid and will not build their own shops in those places where there is no one, so the shops are concentrated next to Yungongzi Department Store."

Yue Liya couldn't help but sigh in his heart: Prince Jiashan is such a clever way. He deliberately built a department store here, and then asked merchants to build it at will. However, people were buying things in department stores, so merchants naturally had to build the shops nearby. In this way, a bustling commercial street can be built here. The prince's own pocket only has one department store, and nothing else has to spend money.

Yue Liya walked forward for a while and saw a large group of people on the side of the road, looking at the recruitment inspiration posted on the wall. It turned out that the textile workshops from Suzhou were recruiting female workers. Most of the people in the country were illiterate, so no one could understand the recruitment inspiration. But there was a storyteller in the crowd who helped the nearby people read these recruitment inspirations.

"Suzhou Qiming Workshop, now Shanghai Oasis Construction Branch, recruits a large number of female workers who know how to use textiles, with a monthly salary of one or two silver dollars. Female workers who are interested in working in this workshop should be interviewed at the shop No. 43, No. 3 Street, Shanghai before sunset. The quota is limited. First come first served, and no later..." A young storyteller read with a shaking head.

As soon as he finished reading, a few screams came from the crowd next to him. Several women ran towards Shanghai No. 3 Street, as if they were going to grab a job.
Chapter completed!