The stone family walked on the flat and wide cement road, looking around at Tainan City, beside them, were immigrants who came with them, and their expressions were similar to theirs, and at the front of the team, there was a young official, according to his introduction just now, his surname was Wang, which made the stone They were immediately called 'Lord Wang', although the little official surnamed Wang knew that he was not worthy of the word 'adult' at all, but he still enjoyed acquiescing to this title.

After they stayed in Tainan City for one night, before breakfast this morning, everyone immediately gathered and then divided into a team of 100 people, each team had a responsible officer, and this small official would take them to visit Tainan City.

This Lord Wang first took the stones and they came to the central street of Tainan City, the morning is the time when there are the most pedestrians, because everyone has to be busy with work, and they have to have breakfast before going to work, but because the pace of life in Tainan City is obviously much faster than the traditional cities in the mainland, so few people will be willing to get up so early to cook, and it is precisely because of this that every morning on the street, there are not only all kinds of breakfast shops open, but also many small stalls that make breakfast.

Lord Wang brought the stones to their meal in a breakfast shop, and as for the meal, it was paid in advance by Lord Wang, but he asked the owner of the shop to open a note, which could be reimbursed in the future. Then Shi and their team followed Lord Wang around the streets of Tainan City, first went to the Tainan County Ya in the center of the city to take a look, and then moved along the central street, although the surrounding pedestrians were very curious about these immigrants, but when they saw Lord Wang, no one stepped forward to ask.

Tainan is a port city. At the same time, it is also the second largest commercial city in Taiwan, and the city is full of merchants. On the streets, trucks are continuous, and merchants from the south to the north shuttle through the city. Even the wide central street is sometimes blocked.

Shi Shi where have these people who have come out of the mountains to escape from the mountains have seen such a scene, even if it is Shi himself, he has only stayed in a small town, and he did not expect Tainan City to be so prosperous.

After walking around the city, Lord Wang took the stones to the area around the wharf, where there were not only many ships, but also many factories were built on both sides of the wharf, such as sugar factories, shipyards, food processing factories, and so on. These factories are large and small, large with thousands of people, small with hundreds of people, and no matter how big or small the factory is, the factory is extremely busy.

These factories were an eye-opener for them, especially the stone who had entered the factory, he used to think that the tea factory he stayed in was already a good factory, but compared to these factories in Tainan City, it was like a clay workshop. Look at the factory, not only the management is strict, but also orderly, and some factories even have uniformly distributed work clothes. Looks times spirited.

They spent the whole morning visiting various factories, and at noon they also had dinner in one of the factories, and the food in these factories was not bad. Although it was not as good as the meal they ate when they got on the boat, they also had meat and vegetables. Much stronger than what they ate at home.

In the afternoon, Lord Wang took them to the outskirts of the city by car. This is the world of the plantation, and the plantation has been arranged beforehand, and the stone and they followed into the plantation, and visited the various crops in the plantation, as well as the scene of the Nanyang slaves working on the plantation.

In the evening, Lord Wang took them to dinner on the street before returning to the temporary residence of the immigrants. But when they returned, many of the other groups of immigrants had returned, and were now congregating in the open space outside, with a few officials standing in front of them, apparently for a meeting.

When all the immigrants came back, the real man wearing official robes on the stage spoke: "Fellow immigrants to Taiwan, you must have seen the prosperity and stability of the city today, and you have seen the factories and plantations outside the city, so now you have two choices, the first is to enter the factory as a worker and live in the city in the future, and the second is to give you land according to the conditions that the immigration officer said at the beginning, so that you can have a plantation of your own. Of course, whether it is working or farming, there will be special people to train you, but now you need to report your choice, and we will arrange it uniformly! ”

They were not surprised by the official's words, because yesterday they were already told by the officials that they had to make a choice between working and farming, and they were already thinking about it even when they visited the factories and plantations today.

Speaking of stones, although they have not seen the world, but they are not stupid, most people choose to set up a plantation, because this can be divided into a hundred acres of land, and after having land, you can still go to the city to work, although there is no time to farm, but when the time comes, you can earn money, buy a few slaves to help plant.

It is precisely this intention that makes all the immigrants choose land, after all, it is a hundred acres of land, although Taiwan's land is not very valuable, but at least for the poor immigrants of Shishi, a hundred acres of land is also a lot of wealth.

Seeing that these immigrants all chose land, the officials on the stage also showed a smug smile, how could he not know the small abacus of these immigrants, but this choice was originally deliberate, first, Taiwan is vast and sparsely populated, even if there are many plantations, but there are still a lot of large areas of wasteland, so it is idle to be idle, it is better to distribute it to the people. Moreover, after these immigrants have land, they will have a kind of attachment to Taiwan, and they will definitely not leave easily, which is also one of Taiwan's strategies to retain immigrants.

Since the land is all chosen, then the next thing is simple, Shi They received agricultural education in Tainan City for a period of time, mainly to teach them how to grow various crops in Taiwan, as well as various problems in managing plantations, these are not too big problems for Shi Dad and Tie Shan, these experienced old farmers, so soon they learned almost.

The land chosen by the Shi family and the Tieshan family is next to each other, and the two of them are each a family of nine, which happens to be 900 acres per family. Originally, they thought that like the Tang Dynasty, only adult men had land, but when they arrived in Taiwan, they learned that women and children also have land, in other words, every time he and Toon have a child, the family will have an extra 100 acres of land. In addition, there is another thing that makes him very excited, that is, Taiwan encourages childbearing, and if there are more children, then they will get a lot of compensation, and even the children do not have to spend their own money to raise them from childhood to adulthood. This also made Tie Shan very happy, because he was worried about having children to increase the burden, and his son Tie Da had never dared to have children, and now he finally has no scruples in this regard.

The land they were given to them was also in Tainan County, but it was in the northeast, close to Taitung County. It's a small plain, and there are two small rivers running through it, and the conditions are very good, but there are a few forests growing on this plain, and if you want to grow crops, you need to cut down these trees, and then level the land, which takes a lot of effort.

When they came, there were already several Han plantations on this small plain, and a few simple wooden houses had been built on the land allocated to them, so that they could have a place to live, and if they were not satisfied, they could build new ones, and the government also provided them with enough food for two seasons, as well as some farm tools and seeds, to help them get through the initial stage.

On the first day of their own land, Tie Shan and Shi Daddy walked along their land a few times, and their faces were full of happiness, although these lands were still wasteland, but they all belonged to them, as long as they were well organized, they must also be good fields, which can be seen from the nearby plantations, where they have become fertile fields, and the sugar cane and rice in the fields are growing well.

After turning their own land, the two families got together again for a meeting, originally the stone wanted to work in the city, after all, the wages there are settled every month, and the money comes relatively quickly, but now there is such a large land, if he leaves, it will definitely not work by relying on the stone father and toon alone, so in the end, everyone is combined, the prime men of the two families are not allowed to go out, at least they have to make their own land look like it, after all, they can't afford to buy slaves now, and they have to do a lot of heavy physical work by themselves, and they can't do it without men.

Stone and Iron were well aware of this decision, so from the next day onwards, they drove stakes at the boundary of the land, and then pulled straw ropes to show ownership of the land, and then they took axes and saws, and began to clear the trees on the land, and the more valuable or straight and thick trees were hoarded by them, and later sold together to the lumber mills, and the income from the timber alone would allow them to harvest the first pot of gold.

However, while clearing the trees, they did not forget to reclaim the land, but there were not many men in the prime of life in their two families, so in the end the two families had to work together to reclaim, and when the felled timber was sold, they immediately bought two ploughing cattle, these cattle are raised locally in Taiwan, and they have been trained in advance, and they can work under the ground, which saves a lot of effort.

After having ploughing cattle, the cultivation of the two families is on the right track, and the speed of land reclamation has been greatly accelerated, but even so, the two families have not been able to reclaim much land that can be planted, the most two families only reclaimed a hundred acres of land, and then planted half of the sugarcane and rice respectively, in addition they also sold a few piglets and lambs, so that the children of the family can be raised, anyway, there is still a lot of wasteland, idle is idle. (To be continued.) )