The third year of the empire, April.

North Korean immigrant Park Tae, carrying a pottery jar, walked towards the direction where the sound of ding dangdang came. When he arrived at the horse shed, he saw a strong man with his upper body playing horseshoes by the iron stove with three and a half-year-old boys. Everyone was busy and sweating profusely. Park Tae shouted to the man in a less skillful Chinese: "In-law, put down the work in his hands and have a meal first."

The strong man was also a North Korean immigrant named Quanye. When he heard Park Tae's voice, he ran over happily, took the things from Park Tae's hand, and said in Chinese with a Northeast accent: "Oh, you can send it to me where you can use it. I'll let the eldest son go back and get it later."

Although they were all immigrants from North Korea, the valence industry is different from Park Tai, because the valence industry has been immigrating to the empire for seven years. Seven years ago, in order to avoid military disasters, the valence industry took a family on a smuggling ship and went to Vladivostok and became an ordinary villager in the Yongning Chief Executive District at that time. Later, Yongning was reorganized. Vladivostok belonged to the Haixi Province. However, because of the Zhuangtun where he was located, he became a member of the direct-government banner. Park Tai and his party immigrated to Qiqihar Appeasement Area, mastered the Han Dynasty bilingual, had naturalization experience and had a skill (forging and nailing horseshoe). The valence industry jumped from an ordinary citizen to why the leader, but he wanted to be this small official and went to Zalantun in the appeasement area of ​​Qiqihar. For his own career and for his children's future, the valence industry chose to "go to the future".

Quanye is very clear. In the Immigration Village, as long as you can endure hardships and work hard, you will not lack food or drink. The ox and fertile fields you want in your dreams can also be obtained as you wish, but one thing is missing, that is, women. There are few women in the immigration community, and families with daughters also want to seek better treatment through marriage, so it is even more difficult to get married. Quanye has his own wife, but he has two sons, each of whom is about to become an adult, and he has to consider the matter of his son marrying a wife. Therefore, in the immigration team, he planned for the future and used his own identity to pay attention to it. Finally, he chose Park Tae’s family. Park Tae’s honest and willing to work, and had two daughters and one son. Therefore, he first recognized Park Tae’s smart youngest son as an apprentice in blacksmiths, and then got close to him. Before he could even arrive in Zhalantun, he had already made a marriage for his eldest son and Park Tae’s eldest daughter. The two families also helped each other to go to Zhalantun.

The immigration team has more than 70 households, more than 360 people, both men, women, young and old. There are also a team of fifty soldiers who went to Zalan to change defense. The leader of the army became the leader of the team. The more than 400 people have not encountered a town since leaving Qiqihar City. After finally reaching this inn, he naturally had to rest and settle down, and then take the remaining three days of road in one breath and arrive in Zalantun.

The two of them chatted enthusiastically. Park Tae’s youngest son had already opened the box next to the clay pot. He saw a small wine pot and sniffed it, saying, “Master, there is still wine.”

"If you let go, it is what Lord Zuo Ling rewarded your master, not what you drink. If you see, follow the master to learn craftsmanship well. With the craftsmanship, you will be popular everywhere you go, and Zuo Ling rewards you will be rewarded." Park Tae took the opportunity to educate.

Quanye asked his son and apprentice to put down his work, and set a wooden board as the dining table. The hot porridge in the clay pot was poured into four large bowls, and the pickled salted fish and more than a dozen grain steamed buns were taken out from the box as side dishes and meals. When Park Tai's youngest son saw it, he was immediately unhappy: "Why are you still pickled salted fish? You have eaten it all the way, eat it on the sea and on the road."

"Shut up and have a meal! I didn't see you dislike mediocrity when I was in my hometown." Park Tae-slapped her son's head and said angrily.

"When I was in my hometown, I didn't have any fish to eat." Quanye's eldest son quipped.

Park Tae took out a bowl from the bottom of the box, and after uncovering it, it showed a large bowl of green leeks, which made people shine. Park Tae put it in front of Quanye and said as if offering treasures: "It's very refreshing to try this in-laws."

Quanye picked up a chopstick and praised it after eating it: "It's really delicious, it's appetizing and relieves greasiness. Where did you get it?"

"The salt was asked by the chef, and the chef asked him to take it casually, but he didn't care. The leeks were wild leeks pulled by the husband and his daughters on the side of the road. They were pickled when they were in Qiqihar. They were now able to eat them. I gave some of them to you for the rest of the food." Park Tae said.

"My mother-in-law is such a diligent person..." Quanye praised.

The four masters and apprentices of Quanye were eating and chatting with Park Tae. Park Tae was naturally concerned about where his family went. He knew that Quanye was valued in Zuoling and knew a lot, so he also focused on inquiring.

Zalantun is the easternmost settlement area of ​​Qiqihar Appeasement Zone. Its geographical location is extremely important. It is blocking the mountain pass of Hulunbuir, a remnant occupied area of ​​the Qing Dynasty, and it is the most convenient passage for crossing the Greater Xing'an Mountains from the Northeast Plain to the north of the desert. Zalantun is also the area where the empire was only liberated in the spring of the second year. After a year of preparation and sweeping, it has entered the stage of large-scale settlement immigration, and North Koreans such as Park Tae were also taken over.

"Qiqihar is actually similar to Ningguta. The land is very fertile, but the climate is cold, so you can't plant rice. It's okay to plant some wheat, millet, barley, etc. Of course, the newly reclaimed land is generally not allowed to plant these..." Quanye took advantage of the rest to explain to Park Tai the experience summarized when he first immigrated to Ningguta. Park Tai also urged his youngest son to take the opportunity to learn more Chinese, and he also learned it himself.

As originally planned, a group of North Korean immigrants rested at the inn for a few days and then headed towards their destination Zhalantun. In three days, they arrived at Zhalantun. Park Tae looked at the village by the river and the flat and chunks of land by the village, and asked incredible: "In-law, is this Zhalantun? Why is there a village already and there are so many cultivated land?"

Park Tae originally thought he would be assigned to a wilderness, living in a nest, reclaiming land with shovels and hoe, and slowly building houses. He never thought that it had a foundation and looked quite large. However, the valet obviously knew something, so he told Park Tae about Zhalantun.

In fact, since the empire expanded Yongning in the community stage, tribes sandwiched between the empire and the Qing Dynasty have suffered completely. Because the white mountains and black waters are so vast, the two sides have highly consistent attitudes towards these tribes, that is, to migrate to the heartlands so as not to be won by the other party. However, over the years, the empire has advanced and the Qing Dynasty retreated. When the empire was established, the Qing Dynasty retreated to the north of the desert, and there were only some strongholds left in the area east of the Daxinganling Mountains. Zalantun is one, and it also has the Zalantun Zhangjing Yamen. There are many Daur, Oroqen, and Ewenki people who were moved from the Heilongjiang area by the Qing Dynasty. These tribes also have the tradition of agricultural planting, so they constantly reclaimed fertile black soil and planted barley, oats and other crops. The Qing Dynasty also supported such agricultural activities. After all, Zalantun wanted to provide logistics services to the horse team that plagued the empire.

In the spring of the second year of the empire, General Bart, Heilongjiang, and his vassal soldiers, eliminated all the strongholds east of the Qing Dynasty in the Greater Khingan Mountains and selected the so-called frontier settlement site in Zalantun. Not only did he organize a labor camp to reclaim the prisoners on a large scale, but he also transferred thousands of households from Yongning and Haixi provinces as village households. The year of reclaiming doubled the land here, and Pu Tai and others came to enrich themselves as the second batch of immigrants.

Zhalantun is called Zhalantun Banner in the administrative sequence of the empire. Zhasak Caosong, who was in charge of the banner, was the eldest son of Lieutenant General Cao Yu of the Guards, and Park Tai and others were assigned to the third gang leader. Zhang Jing was Wu Liji, who made contributions in the Battle of Balin Bridge and the Battle of Guihua City. He had graduated from the crash course of Guihua Hall in Jingcheng, and changed from an alternate Zhang Jing to an agent gang leader. There were five gang leaders in the third gang leader. Because there was always a shortage of people, more than 70 households in Park Tai and his party were divided into three gang leaders. Park Tai was divided into one with the power industry as he wished. Why did the power industry grow? According to the principle of old and new, each had three old immigrants like Pu Tai, and seven new immigrants like Pu Tai. In this regard, Wu Liji's third gang leader had a total of five gang leaders, and 750 households were placed in the Zhalantun Banner.

"I thought we had to sleep in tents like those Mongolian Tartars. I didn't expect that there would be a house to live in when I came to the place. Oh, this house is so big." Park Tae looked at the immigration resettlement house in Zhalantun and couldn't help but sigh.

Ten households have one yard with a large and small room facing north and south, with a row of houses, and to the south is the yard. There is a well in the yard. The house is made of log nails into wooden rows, and mud is formed in the middle. The top is wooden boards and thatch. The rows of houses are divided equally into ten large rooms with mud bricks. Each large room is divided into one large, two small and three rooms. On the back is a kitchen. The pig and sheep pen house is on the south and the east and west courtyard walls, and one toilet in the east and west. Similar immigration resettlement houses are not less than thirty places in Zalantun. Obviously, immigration is the long-term plan here.

"I don't know this. Our third genus leader is different from the other two genus leaders. We are producing genus leaders. Oh, it's farming genus leaders. Since we farm, we have to be in the village. The people in our genus leaders don't have to join the army, but they have to pay some things to the flag every year." Quanye said with a smile. As a leader, he naturally chose the best one, and also used his power for personal gain, so that the Park family lived next to him.

"Didn't you say that you are exempt from taxes and give cattle to land?" Although the situation was different from what you said in Seoul at that time, Park's wife was still thinking about this.

"My mother-in-law, we have to settle down first, so that they can only distribute land. I have already ordered my eldest son and the second son to go to the warehouse to get food from our two families. I will settle down today, eat and drink enough, and talk about other things tomorrow." Quanye was very relieved.

Park Tae was walking around the house, looking at the built stove, wood stove, kang, stools made of wooden piers, and thick wooden tables. Although there weren't any cabinets or anything else, it was already quite like a family. The two daughters and son were also moving the rags they brought along the way. Park Tae was really satisfied and asked, "In-law, is this house for us?"

Quanye said: "It shouldn't be, but you can live for two years for free. If you want it, you have to buy it. Of course, if all ten families want it, they will build a new one together within two years. The one we live in is ours."

"That's good, at least you don't have to worry about getting wet and cold." Park Tae was very satisfied.

Quanye also said: "You should enjoy the happiness. When we went to Yongning, we built the house and cultivated the land by ourselves. Even the cattle had to be bought with a loan. We really lived a hard life for four or five years."

Park's wife frowned and said, "Although I have given a lot of things, I see soldiers always around me. Is there a war here? What if it is a war? "

Quanye waved his hand: "War is definitely a war, but it's not our business. Let me tell you that the other two assistants in our banner are the assistants who fight. The Mongolian soldiers and Jurchen soldiers inside are very powerful. Just in front of us, there are 1,500 elite soldiers. Our Zalantun is also stationed in Heilongjiang. There are hundreds of day soldiers sent by Qiqihar. There is also a Mongolian vassal banner on the meadow by the mountainside, and there are more than a thousand cavalry. It is very stable and there is no need to worry."

"In-law, you just came here too, how could you know so much?"

Quanye laughed: "I am an honest blacksmith. Although I am given a small official with some kind of rank, I dare not come if it is not safe. I must ask you carefully. Lord Zasakcao of our banner is the son of the general of the Guards, and he is also a person who has registered the title in the emperor. If this place is very dangerous, people will not come. The general's son can be with him. Why can't we ordinary people?"

Soon, Quanye's two sons carried the food on a shoulder pole, and no one carrots were concerned about the two large pieces of cured meat. Everyone stared at the sight of the green cabbage and radish. Unfortunately, Zalantun's supplies were still in short supply, and the most scarce was iron pot. Although Zalantun had an obligation to give each household an iron pot, Quanye's yard currently only had two pots, Quanye simply let other households use it. He and Park Tae hung up the large clay pot, lit the fire, and the men and women separated and ate the clay pot hot pot around. It was a meal. This meal was not only fresher than the food on the way, but also felt at ease because they settled down. On this night in early summer, Park Tae's family finally arrived at their destination.

The next morning, Quanye got up one morning and began to arrange that he gathered the parents of the ten households to attend the meetings at the yamen. The adult man assigned tasks, first to repair the broken roof, then build a crooked mud courtyard wall, and also cleaned up all kinds of houses. Women and children washed and cleaned themselves, their own homes and yards.
Chapter completed!