The roar of the truck's engine made the villagers who gathered around the truck with their families a little afraid. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 info Maybe in many parts of the Qing Dynasty, people are not so unfamiliar with these vehicles that can drive quickly without animal power, and even become accustomed to them, but in this rural area, many people have never seen such things at all.

This road has only been built in recent years, from Qingdao by the sea all the way to Jinan Province. The flat asphalt road has made it easier for the locals to get around, but it was the Tang people who actually led the construction of the road. After the Tang Dynasty's forces fully entered the Qing Kingdom, the Tang people hated the checkpoints set up along the roads in various parts of the Qing Kingdom, and they were also very dissatisfied with the road conditions. Even if it is a good official road, in the eyes of the Tang people, it is so bad that it is not good.

Datang was very concerned about the internal traffic situation of the Qing Kingdom, because it was impossible to sell Datang commercial goods by sea, and it was impossible to sell them only in coastal areas, and slowly Datang also began to sell commercial goods to more inland areas. There are also some Chinese-owned companies that specialize in transportation, or transportation operated by local merchants. Automobile transportation has gradually become fashionable, compared with ordinary animal powered vehicles, the transportation tonnage of trucks is large, the speed is fast, coupled with the Tang Dynasty in Sakhalin and Borneo oil fields have been exploited, oil transportation to the Qing Dynasty, refueling has become less difficult, so more people choose to use cars to transport various goods.

It is also important to note that Datang has to absorb migrants from inland areas, transport them to ports, and then board ships to the mainland of North America, which also requires better transportation to improve transportation efficiency.

The scene is the scene of the migrants preparing to leave their hometowns. This is the Qingzhou Mansion of Shandong Province, from which immigrants will take a bus to the port of Qingdao. In recent years, it has been invested and developed by the Tang people in a new port in Shandong. It is also a Datang without complete jurisdiction. But it is a port city with full influence.

After the Jiaqing New Deal, the local government of the Qing Dynasty also ushered in large-scale modernization, and after more than ten years, it now basically has some modern administrative characteristics, but it also retains a large number of feudal remnants.

The petty official Liang Chunxing was wearing an unclear official uniform, with a big shiny braid dragging behind his head. Seeing Wang Yun, an official of the Datang Immigration Bureau, greeted him with a smile on his face.

"Lord Wang, I haven't seen you for a long time. It's good, it's good. ”

Wang Yun also arched his hand more familiarly, and said, "Blessing to Lord Jooliang, everything goes well." ”

The two exchanged pleasantries a little, Liang Chunxing got down to business, and said: "Lord Wang is on an errand in the Tang Immigration Bureau, and it should be clear that more and more attention has been paid to the outflow of our Qing Dynasty population. I couldn't make up my mind for a long time, so it's business as usual. But. Although the imperial court did not have a clear will, there was a message from the provincial government, asking us to be careful in our local areas and try to put away the immigrants. Our Shandong has been ranked second in immigration export for many years, second only to Guangdong Province. Last year, more than 200,000 Lu people went abroad, and the impact of this long-term period of time is not indisputable. This is the first batch to go out, there are a lot of successes, most of them are also extremely rich, and the pomp and circumstance of returning to their hometowns to worship their ancestors in the past two years are terrifying. This has stimulated a lot of Lu people, what kind of immigrants who went abroad in the past, the villagers all know, they have developed all of a sudden after a few years, and everyone is red-eyed. In the early years, they were all landless and debt evaders, but in the past two years, even if the family has a ten-acre field, those who have a good life are red-eyed, sell their land, and take their family to go abroad. The price of land in Shandong has risen in the Qianlong period, but it is not young and old, and it has been getting lower and lower year by year in the past two years, and the price of buying one acre of land in the past can now buy more than three acres of land. Over the years, the tenants have almost died out in Shandong, if the conditions of the main family are not good, they will pack their luggage and get on the boat and leave, and the main family will not even have a place to cry. Now it is not the uncle who has the land, but the one who farms the land is the uncle, and the rent has not only been lowered, but some of the owners have also brought meat to the door to please the tenants. Hey, that's no use. How to say, Datang, the rich world, is well known. ”

Liang Chunxing said to Wang Yun with half emotion and half pull (the meaning of Shandong dialect chat) that the world has changed the fastest in the past ten years, and many people are a little uncomfortable. Originally, many ordinary people in Anfen were determined to emigrate, which could not be curbed locally.

Wang Yun's face was slightly pale, but he was still very polite, and said: "They are all sons and daughters of China, flesh and blood compatriots, the land of our ancestors, we have also planed for thousands of years, saying that feeding people also feeds, but there is always a certain number, this overseas land is more than several times more than our Central Plains, and there are many places of ointment. ”

Liang Chunxing has also read some books from the Tang Dynasty, he patted his thigh, and sighed: "If you don't read, it's not enough to know the vastness of the world, not to mention that Datang, the overseas leader, is the Tang Dynasty, and it is also a vast territory, which is even larger than my Qing Dynasty, even if I draw half of the people of the Qing Dynasty, I'm afraid it won't be complete." What's more, it is impossible for the imperial court to do this, and now it is already ill and troublesome, and millions of immigrants go abroad every year, which is equivalent to a knife from my Qing Dynasty, and it is slowly bleeding. ”

Wang Yun said with a smile: "You can't say that, Lord Liang is a member of the government, and he also knows that since the New Deal, the entry of the Qing Dynasty has increased year after year, and the grain of Shandong has more than doubled compared with ten years ago." In terms of population, although millions of people go overseas every year, the population of the Qing Dynasty is still rising year after year, isn't it? ”

Datang has always had detailed national data of the Qing Dynasty, and even a lot of Qing statistical work was carried out with the assistance of Datang experts. Liang Chunxing naturally knew that what Wang Yun said was not a lie. After the Jiaqing New Deal, although the economic development speed of the Qing Dynasty was not as fast as that of the Tang Dynasty, it was still much faster than before, especially the development of industry and commerce. The introduction of new agricultural technologies in agriculture, such as the introduction of chemical fertilizers, also led to an increase in agricultural income. Over the years, there has been no popular upheaval, and the society is relatively stable, so that the fertility rate of the people has also increased significantly, so even if one million people go overseas every year, the population of the Qing Dynasty still rises steadily, and it reaches the 300 million mark.

(To be continued.) )