On the river channel, a paddle steamer roared forward. There were endless farmland on both sides, and water trucks were slowly turning on the shore, lifting the river water to the shore canals and irrigating these paddy fields.

Most of the passengers on the boat were young and strong, and there were women and children mixed in. Many people leaned against the railings and looked at the two sides, and were surprised:

"How come Liaodong plant paddy fields? Can crops survive in water?"

"How strange it is! This is rice. Have you seen rice before?"

"No! When the ice and snow melt in spring, the water in the river is the coldest, so where can rice bear it? The harvest of rice planting in Jizhou is not good. How can you plant it in Liaodong, which is colder than Jizhou?"

"Yes, isn't Liaodong very cold? How can you grow rice even if you grow it?"

People who were full of longing for "entering Liaodong" looked at the endless paddy fields and felt unbelievable. Zheng Lin, the "Zheng Dean" who organized his fellow villagers to come to Liaodong to open up the land, answered questions with a smile:

"Everyone is right. The climate in Liaodong is cold. The ice and snow melt in spring and the river water is cold. If ordinary rice seeds are irrigated with this kind of river, it will be difficult to survive, but"

"Cold rice is different. The cold rice seeds promoted by the government can also be planted well in Liaodong, so everyone has seen that the farmlands in Linhe are all grown rice."

"However, there are also some specialties in the cultivation of cold rice. Although rice seeds are cold-resistant, the transplanting method is used in farming. The rice seeds sprout into seedlings in warmer water, and then the seedlings are planted into paddy fields."

"This cold rice is ripe every year in Liaodong. Although it is not as good as the Jiaozhou rice in Jiangnan, the yield per mu is also good!"

Someone asked: "Zheng Dangjia, are the crops planted in Liaodong all rice? But we have never planted them before! We can only grow millet and wheat."

"Don't worry, I said that the farmland in Linhe is easy to irrigate, so rice is planted, and millet and wheat are planted in other places. Of course, because there is a water pump, there is no shortage of water in the dry land. Don't worry!"

"Zheng Dangjia! Can horses be used to cultivate dry fields here in Liaodong?"

"Of course, there are many flat lands in Liaodong, and horse plows can be used to dry land. With wheel plows, you can cultivate many acres in a day. Everyone has used wheel plows, which is similar to in Jizhou!"

With laughter and joy, many people looked at the scenery on both sides of the strait again, looked at the endless green paddy fields, and imagined a bright future.

Liaodong is a good place, which is a rhetoric that the government repeatedly promoted to the people of Hebei, but at the beginning, not many people believed it.

First of all, the people don’t want to leave their hometown easily. As long as they have a bite of food, they want to stay in a place where their ancestors live for generations. Not to mention Liaodong across the sea, but also near prefectures and counties, many people have never been to them in their lifetime.

The chance of traveling alone and never returning is high, let alone going across the sea to the bitter and cold Liaodong. For ordinary people, it is to die.

Secondly, the credit of the government has not been very good since ancient times. For the people, whoever believes in the government deserves to be unlucky.

If you believe in the government, leave your hometown without help from relatives and friends, and do not have clan protection, you will definitely be bullied and exploited by corrupt officials, and you may die halfway and not even be reported to your hometown.

So, who went to Liaodong?

Of course, it is the big people who go to Liaodong.

The wealthy families organized pioneering groups and went to Liaodong to explore. After a few years, the situation in Liaodong gradually became known to everyone. The government said that Liaodong was good, and the newspaper said that Liaodong was good. Many people didn't believe it, but when the local people who went to Liaodong came back, they said that Liaodong was good, so everyone slowly believed it.

What the villagers in the countryside always say is more reliable than what outsiders say, right?

As more and more people go to Liaodong and tell their relatives and friends in their hometowns what they saw in Liaodong with their own eyes, more and more people feel that "entering in Liaodong" is not about dying. Under the encouragement of the "head of the people" of various pioneering groups, many people's minds become active.

The court said that all parts of Liaodong will be free of rent for at least 30 years. If you go to open up the land early, you can live a good life as soon as possible!

In addition, it is very convenient to go from Hebei to Liaodong. It takes a boat to Yanjin at Yongji Canal and then cross the sea to Liaodong. It takes not much time on the road, so as soon as spring begins, many people embark on the journey of "entering Liaodong".

Now, the group of "pioneers" who are about to arrive in Chenyang, Shenzhou Prefecture, are just one of the countless "entering Liaodong" teams. Everyone is full of longing to embark on this strange and familiar land and prepare to start a new life.

In front of the river, a city with thick smoke rose up on the ground.

This is not a fire in the city, but a large number of chimneys. The passengers on the boat looked at the Liaodong New City with interesting interest, and it was no wonder: the smoke was nothing more than chimneys, either chimneys of various steam machinery or chimneys of steamships.

Nowadays, a city has no thick smoke, which means it is a small place.

Chenyang is said to be the Houcheng in Liaodong County during the Han Dynasty. It was later occupied by Goguryeo. After the imperial court recaptured Liaodong, it rebuilt the already dilapidated Houcheng. Because the new city is located on the north bank of the Xiaoliao River, and the Xiaoliao River is also known as Chenshui, it was named "Chenyang".

Chenyang is the prefecture of Chenzhou, with several counties under its jurisdiction. Except for Fushun City in Xuantu County, all other counties and counties are new cities. Most of the residents come from Hebei or Qingqi and other places. It is an important transit place for pioneers to travel to various places in Liaodong.

The steamer slowly sailed into Shenyang Port, and the crew walked back and forth in the aisle with a cardboard horn, shouting loudly: "Chenyang is here, Shenyang is here! Please pack your luggage and line up to get off the boat!"

Zheng Lin, who served as an explanation along the way, called on the villagers to pack their luggage and carefully guarded against his three hands.

He also took out a crotch with a unified pattern and asked everyone to put it on, preventing that after getting off the boat for a while, there was a rush of people, some people were separated and the team could not be found.

The steamship slowly berthed at the pier, and the people waiting to get off the pier were dazzled when they saw the busy scene on the pier: tall cranes kept lifting all kinds of goods, and a large number of young and strong loading and unloading all kinds of bulk cargo, which was very lively everywhere.

Not far away, there are small hills, which are piled up with mountains of coal, accounting for almost half of the port area.

"Everyone follows me, follow me, pay attention to the little flag!"

Zheng Lin held the small flag and kept shaking it, walked in front, took his fellow villagers off the boat, walked on the pier, pointed to the coal mountains, and said, "This is the coal transported from Fushun upstream, which is continuous, so there is no shortage of coal in Chenyang City, and there is no shortage of surrounding areas."

"If there is no shortage of coal, the steamship can be moved. In the future, these paddle ships will be modified and removed, and the speed will be faster. At that time, the transportation between Liaokou and Shenyang will be more convenient. There will also be steamships across the Bohai Sea and from Liaokou to Yanjin, you can get there in two or three days!"

"Zheng Dangjia, how can this steamer ship move without a paddle wheel?"

"You ask me? I don't know."

"When will the steamship across the sea be opened to navigation?"

"Oh, this new type of steamship was only available at the end of last year. This year, the government ships need to be modified first. As for the modification of civilian ships, we will get so many paddle steamers waiting for modification in the second half of the year. I don't know how long it will take to lie in the yard."

As we were talking, everyone was approaching the exit, but we saw many people on the left and right sides of the passage fence, carrying large and small bags, lined up with people shouting with small flags in front, waiting to go out from the exit ahead.

Different teams looked at each other through the railings, looking at the styles of each other's uniform wear, and instantly understood in my heart: they all went to Liaodong.

People who met by chance began to say hello: "Brother, can you ask where are you going?"

"We'll go to Chenzhou, where are you?"

"We go to Changchun, and we will go to Chenyang and others first."

"Changchun, is it just tea? It's so cold that you want to spend the winter there?"

"I don't know, let's talk about it when it's autumn."

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