Capital Datang

It’s snowing in Taiwan, to be exact, almost all of Taipei County is snowing, and the temperature has dropped rapidly, down to a few degrees below zero. Many places that have never been frozen have also started to freeze.

If it is placed in the north, this coldness is nothing at all, and even snow can make it possible to have a good yield before coming.But this is undoubtedly a disaster for Taiwan, which rarely snows.

The weather suddenly turned cold in just a few days, and it snowed. Many people did not prepare winter clothes. As a result, many people in Taipei County suffered from frostbite, and even some frail old people were frozen to death. The serious thing is that many of the crops in the plantations could not stand the severe cold, and most of them froze to death in just a few days, and even many slaves froze to death, causing countless people to suffer heavy losses.

"Your Highness, the steamer in Shanghai has already packed cotton clothes, and it will arrive in Taiwan within two days!" Cui Wei said with a serious face.Taipei County was the hardest hit, but Taichung and Taitung counties were also affected. In addition, Taipei County is the political center of Taiwan with a very dense population, so the number of people affected by the disaster has reached almost half of the total population of Taiwan. Cui Wei, the Taiwanese Naturally, the governor was personally responsible, and even Li Yin came to Keelung to sit in charge.

Li Yin nodded after hearing this. He did not expect that just after the new year, Taiwan would encounter such a once-in-a-century cold current. Originally, Taiwan is an island, and the temperature is relatively warm. Even in Taipei, which is the coldest winter, you only need to wear Two unlined garments are enough for winter.It is precisely because of this that Taiwan does not have any winter clothes in stock at all. Now that the cold current is coming, winter clothes cannot be bought on the market, and nearby Fuzhou and other places do not have much stock.After all, it was also affected by the cold current there, and I didn't even have enough.In desperation, Li Yin had no choice but to send someone to Shanghai to transport a batch back.Capital Datang 464

"By the way. Have Taiwan's losses been counted, and will it affect this year's harvest?" Li Yin suddenly thought of the loss statistics work, so he asked immediately.

Cui Wei's expression darkened immediately when he heard that, and he said at the same time: "His Royal Highness, the loss of Taipei County is huge, and the various crops in the plantation are generally not resistant to cold, so most of them froze to death, and not Few people have lost a large number of slaves, so even if the cold snap has passed, there are not enough people to replant, so this year's harvest will definitely be affected."

Li Yin also sighed when he heard this. Plantation is one of Taiwan's pillar industries. Taipei has suffered heavy losses, and the entire economy of Taiwan will also be affected. However, there is no way to do this.

Cui Wei reported to Li Yin the specific situation of the disaster in Taiwan, and then thought of another thing, and said immediately: "Your Highness, the immigration from the mainland has officially started. Originally, it was planned to send them to Taiwan. Keelung, and then visit the plantation, let them see the prosperity of our Taiwan. This will strengthen their confidence in living in Taiwan, but now that Taiwan is hit by a disaster, the officials in Keelung City are also busy with disaster relief. So it is really not suitable for those Immigration, this matter needs to be decided by His Highness!"

After hearing this, Li Yin thought for a while and said: "This is easy to handle. Send those immigrants to Tainan City first. The prosperity there is not worse than Keelung. In addition, the plantation industry in Tainan is also more developed, and it has not suffered from the cold snap." Influence, you send someone to inform Tainan City of this matter and let them arrange it!"

"I obey!" Cui Wei said immediately.In fact, he also planned this way, but he knew that sometimes in front of his boss, he couldn't think everything through, but he had to leave room for the boss to play, which is also the way of being an official.

The cold snap after the Chinese New Year not only brought a lot of trouble to Taiwan, but also affected the southern regions of the Tang Dynasty. It was blocked, resulting in poor traffic, and the traffic was not resumed until more than ten days after the snow.

Although this natural disaster came suddenly, fortunately, with the development of commerce in the past few years, the people in the Jiangnan area have also benefited. There was a lack of fuel for the fire, so not many people died, only some property losses.

However, this natural disaster did not disrupt Li Min's immigration pace. The first group of fugitives who were willing to immigrate had already started to gather at their respective gathering places with the cooperation of the immigration officers and the local government, and then sat on the Taiwan official board for them. The prepared carriage started to set off to the nearest port, where there will be a special immigration ship waiting for them.

On the cement road that has just been covered with snow, a convoy is advancing rapidly. The carriages in the convoy are all specially made four-wheeled carriages. At the same time, the windows of the carriages were opened from time to time, and one or several heads were poked out to look out.

In one of the compartments, there were more than a dozen people sitting very crowded, including men and women, young and old. Among them, a young "woman" leaned against a black and thin young man, and asked with some anxiety: "Brother Shitou, Is this the way to Taiwan?"

"Don't worry, Xiangchun, this road leads to Fuzhou. Only when we reach Fuzhou Port can we take a sea ship and then reach Taiwan. As long as we arrive in Taiwan, I will definitely let you, your parents, and younger brothers and sisters live a good life." The black and thin young man spoke very calmly.

"Well, Shitou is still well-informed. I just hope that after arriving in Taiwan, he can really be as good as those adults said." The father Shitou next to him praised his son, but in the end he still exposed his lack of confidence. Condition.

Sitting in this compartment are Shitou's family and his father-in-law Tieshan's family. When Shitou heard the news of emigration from his father-in-law's family, he immediately decided to move to Taiwan with his father-in-law. At first, Shitou's father was a little against it, but he couldn't hold back. Shitou finally had to agree to relocate the whole family.It is also worth mentioning that under the instigation of stones in Luoshizhai, most people also agreed to move to Taiwan. After all, they had had enough of the hard life in the mountains.

Hearing the old man's words, although Shitou's face was calm, but in fact he didn't know what to do. After all, he was only working in a small town on the outskirts of Jianzhou last time. Although he usually deliberately inquired about the situation outside , and also learned a lot about the situation there from a businessman from Taiwan, but this is hearsay after all. When he first came out, he relied on a rush of enthusiasm, but now when he really started on the road, he also had sex with his newly married wife, Xiang Toon, I was very disturbed, but he was a man and also the pillar of the family, so naturally he couldn't show it, otherwise the family would be even more disturbed.

"Shitou, tell us more about Taiwan!" At this moment, Tie Da, the eldest son of Tieshan and Tieshan's eldest brother, said.Tie Da and his father, yiyàng, are both good hunters, and they are also very strong. They usually make friends with Shi Shi. When Shi Shi went out last time, he wanted Tie Da to go with him, but his family has a lot of people, and they all rely on them. My brother hunted for a living, so he really couldn't leave, so he didn't go.

Shitou also felt that the atmosphere in the carriage was too stuffy, and instead of letting everyone sit here and think about it, it would be better to talk about it to relax, so when he heard Tie Da's words, he immediately smiled and said: "Okay, I will talk about it today." A major feature of Taiwan is that there are many slaves. Speaking of slaves, I think you have all heard of Toon, and Taiwan and our Datang yiyàng use foreign slaves. So if we have money in the future, we can also buy some slaves to help us work..."

Sure enough, when Shitou was talking about the anecdotes he had heard, everyone in the carriage became interested, and all listened with wide-eyed interest.In fact, what Shishi knows is what others have said, and some of them only know the general idea and don’t know what’s going on. Anyway, no one knows. As for being debunked after arriving in Taiwan, he can also reason that he heard it that way.

There are more than 200 large vehicles in the entire convoy, and there are more than a dozen people sitting in each vehicle. Excluding the officials in charge of escorting, the number of this group of immigrants is 2000. They are all fugitives from the vicinity of Jianzhou. Gather in the city of Zhouzhou, and then send them to Fuzhou, and then take a boat from Fuzhou Port to Taiwan.Capital Datang 464

At night, the convoy came to a resting point for immigrants. It was said to be a rest point, but it was actually a village next to the road. The villagers in the village were hired by immigration officials to provide food and accommodation for the immigrants.

The food for the immigrants was prepared by the Taiwan government. It was very rich at first, but because of the snow, the traffic was not smooth, and the original stored food was not enough, so the immigrants in Shitou could only eat rice porridge, and they could also eat two meals a day. A steamed bun, as for the pickles, you can eat whatever you want.Although these meals do not look very good, for these fugitives, being able to drink rice porridge and eat white flour steamed buns is already a food that can only be eaten during the Chinese New Year.

After driving for a day, it is natural to rest after eating, but this village is not too big, and the villagers themselves have to live in houses, so there are not many rooms that can be vacated, so in the end, only women, children and the elderly can live there. Go live, as for the young and strong men, they can only live in the car. Fortunately, there are a lot of stoves and bedding in the village, so they don't worry about freezing.

Stone and Toon were married years ago, and they started preparing to immigrate just after the Chinese New Year. It has not been a month yet, and it is the time when glue is like glue, so he does not want to be separated from his wife from the bottom of his heart, but now the conditions do not allow him. He couldn't let Xiang Toon sleep in the carriage with him, so he had no choice but to leave reluctantly.

However, Shi Shi is relieved that he has already learned from the immigration officer that they will arrive in Fuzhou tomorrow, and they will board the ship immediately, and after spending another night on the ship, they will be able to reach Taiwan. In Taiwan, they will have their own residence and fields, and he will no longer have to be separated from his wife. (To be continued.)