Qi Shun is a farmer in Zhili who has just arrived in Jiazhou for less than two months. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info He had already cut his braids before he came to Datang, and two months of life in Jiazhou made him a lot stronger, Qi Shun never dared to imagine that he could eat meat as a normal food, but he has now lived such a life.

In fact, he eloped, Qi Shun was a long-term worker in a landlord's family, and he fell in love with a maid in the landlord's house, and accidentally made the girl's belly bigger, Qi Shun was afraid of being immersed in the pig cage by the landlord's family, so he escaped with the pregnant maid overnight. At that time, the Tang people had been entrenched in Zhili for a few months, and Qi Shun knew that the Tang people were recruiting immigrants from abroad, and the family immigrants would give more settling-in fees.

Qi lied to the Tang immigration officials that he and his newlywed wife wanted to go abroad, and the Tang people would not deliberately verify whether they were real husband and wife, gave them money, took them to a full meal, received two bags of gifts, and then got on the boat. The landlord's maid who followed Qi Shun was well taken care of, whether on the boat or in Jiazhou, there was an older mother-in-law to take care of her. Qi Shun's wife already knew a few words, and she learned a lot on the boat, and she was about to give birth, so the immigration officer arranged for her to wait for the baby at home first, and then enter the local kindergarten as an aunt.

Qi Shun is relatively clumsy, and he has not made much progress in cultural study for such a long time, but he is not as good as his wife, which makes him feel a little ashamed. Half a month ago, his wife gave birth, and Qi Shun added a big fat boy. Because they are immigrants with their families and now have children, they naturally get a 60-square-meter house allocated by the Immigration Bureau under the Ministry of Civil Affairs.

The community is full of new immigrants, all over the world. Most of the people who live here have moved with their families. There are old and young. The Tang people really don't pick at all, even the elderly who basically have no ability to work are accepted. But this is also beneficial, at least Qi Shun is not worried about his wife in confinement, there are always enthusiastic women in the community to help him take care of him. This also made Qi Shun finally not have to worry about his family, and officially went out of the house to work.

In the minds of these traditional men, women are not tasked with earning money to support their families. Although each newcomer has his own share of land and a certain income, everyone has a job. I can earn dozens of dollars a month and can afford to buy more meat and other non-staple foods. Qi Shun needs to provide a better life for his wife and children, not to mention that Qi Shun has hands and feet and can work. Very few new immigrants are assigned directly to farms, and in fact, only those who are found to be particularly good at farming in interviews will be accepted into the farm. Most of the new immigrants' occupations are forcibly assigned to industry and commerce, which is the demand of Datang. Of course, if they are assigned to more remote states, such as Luan Prefecture or farther source states, they can basically only be herders and farmers. For the time being, most of the immigrants are mainly used to enrich Jiazhou. So the industrial population is in greater demand.

The land in your name is exempt from any taxes for five years. This makes it enough to feed a family of three, but it can't be too good. After five years, the land under the name will be taxed normally, which will obviously have an impact on income. Qi Shun was assigned to Datang Railway Corporation, signed a ten-year contract, Datang state-owned enterprises are basically labor contract employment system, very few lifelong contracts, but under normal circumstances, after a labor contract expires, it will be automatically renewed to the next period. Especially for companies like Tang Tie, their future business is almost endless, and they will only continue to expand their scale without laying off employees.

The implementation of the labor contract system in Datang's state-owned enterprises is not because the higher-level units hope that these state-owned enterprises will have greater autonomy to lay off employees and enjoy the advantages over workers, but more importantly, to balance the labor market, because in the current social state, Datang's labor force needs to be fully mobile, workers need to compete, and employers also need to compete to get better and more employees.

The company received a one-time investment of 10 million Tang Yuan from the state treasury for the construction of the Pacific Railway, which has now become an important topic in the "First Five-Year Plan". Tang Tie Company was originally not the strongest among all the state-owned enterprises in Datang, its employees were not the most, and its profitability was not as good as that of a big coffee like the International Trade Company, and the achievement was the construction of the Luoying Railway and the Coastline Railway. However, everyone knows that the future of Tang Iron Company is absolutely optimistic, and the Luoying Railway is mainly built to provide iron ore to the iron and steel company, and the economic value of the coastline railway is high. Now the three states on the west coast of the Tang Dynasty have been completely connected by this railway, and the various resources of Jiazhou have been able to radiate to the relatively backward Gangzhou and British Columbia, driving the economic development of the two states. Coupled with the increasing population of Datang, it is clear that the railway will become busier, which will bring greater profits to the Tang Railway Company.

Needless to say, the construction of the Pacific Railway has naturally made Tang Railway Company the hottest enterprise in Datang.

In another history, in order to build two Pacific railroads, the federal government did not hesitate to give a large amount of benefits to the two railroad companies, and the U.S. government promulgated a cash subsidy law in the bill, and also stipulated that no matter which company, the land on both sides of the track will be developed and utilized. The total amount of land that companies involved in the construction of the Pacific Railroad can acquire from the government is more than 52. At 6.1 billion acres, that's more than the entire state of Texas. Participating companies were also allowed to issue up to 1 million shares with a par value of $100.

In the 19th century, the U.S. government was a standard small government, all kinds of economic activities were carried out by private enterprises, there were no state-owned enterprises, the government had no money, and if anything needed to be done, even if it knew that it was beneficial to the country, it could only be done in a way that was more beneficial to big capital, and eventually made a large number of people rich because of the railroads.

And Datang is obviously 100 times stronger than the United States in terms of execution. Bai Nan went around the Qing Kingdom and brought back hundreds of millions of Tang Yuan in funds, and the profits of the major Tang enterprises were normally handed over to the state treasury. This makes the Datang government itself have a huge amount of funds, which can support itself to do anything that is beneficial to the country. Since a series of companies such as Tang Tie are all state-owned, when the Ministry of Communications issued a document, a large group of enterprises were quickly gathered, and they each assigned tasks and formulated plans. And the state can open the door to this project in a variety of ways. For example, the Immigration Bureau assisted Tang Tie Company in recruiting thousands of workers in the first phase and preparing to devote themselves to the project.

In addition, Tang Tie's demonstration work has been basically saved, and they have detailed geological data, which is originally available to Tang Tie on another railway line, which makes them only need to demonstrate at key nodes, and the speed of the project is particularly amazing.

So, Qi Shun and thousands of workers took the train to Palm County to prepare to start work.

Palm County, east of Los Angeles and north of Salton Lake, was originally a floodplain of the moody Colorado River, sometimes dry and sometimes a huge lake. After the Tang Dynasty launched the Jiazhou Water Diversion Project, it was suggested that it be incorporated into the Colorado River system and that a number of canals should be built so that the Colorado River could be discharged normally during the flood season instead of overflowing, and that the Salton Depression could form a good irrigated agricultural area in the north and south.

In particular, the Pacific Railroad will pass through Palm County, and Datang is even more reluctant to see Salteron Lake grow and become a source of sandstorms, with the danger of flooding, or if the lake completely dries up and becomes a source of sandstorms.

Palm County now has just over 1,000 residents and is mainly engaged in agriculture and salt, as well as providing some livelihood services to the miners of Eagle Mountain Iron and Steel Company. Because the railway entered the desert area eastward, and then entered the important Yingshan iron mine in Datang. With the passage of time, the disadvantages of its limited reserves have finally gradually emerged, and Datang is now making more use of iron ore from the vicinity of San Francisco, even from external imports, although the Eagle Mountain Iron Mine is still providing iron ore steadily, but it is estimated that it will not be long before the mining value will be exhausted.

The Tang Railway Company plans to divide the new line of the Pacific Railway from the Luoying Railway to Eagle Mountain. The railroad passes through the Colorado River Valley and into Arizona. In the Jiazhou part, the Datang State Council planned to develop the three counties east of Los Angeles, plus the gradually growing Central Valley, along the strait bay, the entire economic composition of Jiazhou is almost stable, and it has also become the core of the entire Datang economy.

Qi Shun, an ordinary small railway worker, doesn't know what the above people have planned, what he knows is that although his job is not light and tiring, he can get a relatively high salary, in addition to the basic salary, there are a series of things such as expatriate subsidies, meal subsidies, and medical subsidies. He couldn't understand why Tangren's employer would send them so much money in a different way, Qi Shun felt that although the work was very heavy, the money he made now in a month was probably the money he could only earn in the past few years, and if the workload was measured by money, it would definitely not be much.

Packed up and prepared to continue to the desert area, the next step was the real hard labor, but before leaving, a section leader came over and said to Qi Shun: "Comrade Qi Shun, are you a wife who has just given birth and is still in confinement." ”

Qi Shun hurriedly said, "Yes." ”

The section chief said: "You said earlier, the company can not arrange you to come over to repair the road, you can accompany your wife and children at home." ”

Qi Shun hurriedly shook his head and said, "No, our family is a new immigrant, and we have just come here for less than three months, if I don't come out to work, what will my wife and children eat." ”

The section chief smiled: "Isn't there a milk gold for the child or something?" And you can report to the company, let you work in the rear first, and then send out when the child is a little older. ”

Qi Shun said: "I just thought, expatriates earn nearly twice as much as guarding their families, save a little more money, and make their families live a little better." ”

The section leader patted him on the shoulder and said, "Good young man, then you can stay." Go back and help you see, you can save up every month to go back with the train to see your home, our railway system also takes care of your own people, and you don't have to spend money to buy tickets back and forth. (To be continued.) )