The first batch of immigrants who followed Aragones to Jinshan Port were only about a hundred families, but it was obviously impossible for Wang Tom to allow these Spanish immigrants to continue to live together locally, so they had to be dispersed to multiple settlements for resettlement.

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The Hispanic people who had just arrived did not know the quality of various local settlements, so they had no resistance to the lottery arrangement.

There is a wooden box on the table in front of the civil affairs officer, with several small balls corresponding to the settlements inside. There is a hole in the wooden box, and the immigrants put their hands in to draw lots. Where they end up depends on their luck.

People were sent from each settlement, and after each immigrant household drew lots, they counted the heads on the spot and took the people away.

If the gold mining areas located in the inland mountainous areas are the worst settlements, then Jinshan City, with complete facilities and convenient life, is undoubtedly the best destination for immigrants.

However, in view of the special origin status of the immigrants, the upper limit for accepting immigrants in urban areas is only ten households. However, in the mining areas with the most difficult conditions, there is no upper limit for accepting immigrants at all.

These settlements are scattered throughout the vicinity of Jinshan Bay. The closest ones are dozens of miles apart, and the farthest places are three to four hundred miles away from Jinshan Port, requiring several days of walking.

All settlements are under military management, and new foreign immigrants like them will not be allowed to leave the settlements until about a year or two.

After listening to the civil affairs officials' explanation of the rules for immigrant distribution, Aragones couldn't help but admire Haihan's methods. However, as a result, the various settlements were inconvenient to communicate with each other. He wanted to use his family's prestige and reputation to slowly

It may be difficult to realize the plan of absorbing these Hispanic immigrants under his command.

Aragones suddenly realized that if these immigrants would be dispersed to various places for resettlement, then who would be responsible for taking care of the farm that Haihan promised to allocate to him?

Now there are only a few servants left in the house who cook and wash clothes. These people may not be able to take care of farm work. You can't even have to farm and graze by yourself, right?

He immediately raised this question with civil affairs officials, and the answer he received was that at least ten families of Hispanic immigrants would be assigned to the place where he settled, and he could hire these people to take care of the farm.

But the government will also allocate farmland to these Hispanic immigrants and support them in running their own industries. Whether they will accept Aragones' employment depends on his offer.

This is incomparable to the time in San Diego Bay. At that time, the settlement was Aragones' private territory. All people and land were the property of his family, and every household in the local area needed to pay taxes to him.

, there is no such thing as spending money to hire long-term workers.

Even for his servants, they are only provided with food and accommodation, and never receive wages. Occasionally on special holidays, Aragones will give them some money as a reward depending on his mood.

Of course, not everyone works for him for free. For example, the armed men under him, who work for him, must be paid on time. But this group of people has been disbanded after the war, and they have gone back to their respective families. Even if

If he is willing to pay, Haihan will probably not agree to let him organize a private army again.

In the past, more than 2,000 people worked for Aragones in San Diego Bay to support his family. But now, ten families of immigrants are the quota of hired workers that Aragones can currently get, and after these immigrants have their own land,

, may not accept his employment.

Aragones instantly felt like he had been deceived.

Morgan had promised him excellent conditions before, allocating farms and granting tax holidays, but he never mentioned this damn resettlement plan.

If there is no one to use it, then even if he has land, even if he never has to pay taxes, he is just guarding a large piece of wasteland, which is of no significance to his family.

Aragones was no longer in the mood to continue watching the immigration lottery. He immediately made a request to the civil affairs official to meet with the highest official here.

But Tom Wang, a small character like him, could meet whenever he wanted. After the civil affairs officials asked for instructions, the reply they received was to let him stay at Jinshan Port to wait for the next step.

So the Aragones family was arranged to stay in a hotel at the port, waiting for official notification. The big family moved in and immediately occupied half of the hotel rooms.

Although the accommodation conditions of this hotel were far inferior to Aragones's mansion in San Diego Bay, he could only make do with it because there was only such a hotel in the entire port area.

Jinshan Port looks prosperous, but in fact there is not much floating population. Most of them are just people traveling between the city and various settlements, and the demand for temporary accommodation is extremely low.

Although it is just a hotel, rooms are available most of the year. When their family checked in, most of the rooms were even vacant.

After getting permission to go out alone, Aragones chose to walk around the city, intending to see how the Haihan people ran the colony.

Civil affairs officials originally planned to send a Spanish translator to accompany them, but Aragones thought it was a surveillance measure by the other party and declined the offer.

As an expert in the doorway, Aragones, who was also a colonial ruler, quickly saw some clues about this small coastal town.

First of all, the city's population density is very low, as can be seen from the sparsely laid out houses and relatively empty streets. The population is certainly not much more than the Spanish colony in San Diego Bay.

Secondly, the level of infrastructure here is more than one level higher than that of the settlements in San Diego Bay. The urban area is neatly planned, the houses have a uniform appearance, the streets are spacious, flat, and clean, and water supply and drainage facilities cover almost the entire urban area.

In addition, although Jinshan City is said to be under military control, there is actually no tense atmosphere in the city, and we don't even see any soldiers on duty on the streets.

What you can see on the streets is that most of the local people are indeed Han Chinese, but passers-by don't seem to have much curiosity about Europeans like Aragones, and almost no one pays much attention to him.

After wandering around for a while, Aragones discovered that there were actually many European faces here. This reminded him of Morgan. He was obviously a European, but he was playing for Haihan. It seemed that there should be many people from Europe in the Haihan camp.

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This is good news for him, at least it shows that Haihan is not particularly repulsive to Europeans, and he should not be discriminated against when he settles here in the future.

But language and culture are undoubtedly a big obstacle to integrating here. Aragones can't understand Chinese or read Chinese characters, but he previously refused to travel with a translator, so he can't communicate with others at all and can only stay in the city by himself.
Chapter completed!