With this policy in place, it will be much smoother for Fuxing members to go to the countryside to do their work.
The young but not immature members of the revival found interested people and started persuading them. The contents of the persuasion were similar.
"To be honest, I think the court has done its job well and has done everything it needs to do. I regretted it three times before I went. There is still a three-year adaptation period after I go. I can't stand it. I can't return unconditionally after three years. The government can't stop.
The journey back and forth is very long, but the food, clothing, housing and transportation are all provided by the court at the expense of the court. We don’t have to pay a penny. When we go there, we will have houses and land, and everything is ready. All we have to do is go and live the life we have now, and there is almost no expenditure. What.
What does the court want to put it bluntly? It is because we can produce food locally, settle down there, and thrive there that we can truly turn the Western Regions into our Anxi Province and Beiting Province.
After all, we have been separated from the Central Plains for three to four hundred years. Without us to deeply cultivate the local area, it would be really difficult to come back to the Western Regions. What a pity the Tang people had. They controlled the Western Regions for so long, but still lost them. What was the reason?
Aren’t there not enough people? If there were millions of Chinese people in the Western Region at that time, and everyone was working hard in one place, who could take the Western Region away from us? Are you right? "
This kind of persuasion process can always have some effect, allowing some people with a pioneering spirit to offset their fear of leaving their homeland and worries about the future, and decide to embark on a new life journey.
When revival members went to the countryside on a large scale to persuade, it was already late October in the eleventh year of Hongwu, and almost three months had passed since the theater troupe launched a nationwide tour in August.
The theater troupe toured the country, and the first play it performed was "Thirteen Soldiers Returning to Jade Gate", which performed the story of the Western Regions and the Central Plains across the country, making the Western Regions craze gradually spread throughout the country as the troupe progressed.
Fuxing members have made statistics and found that in areas where the theater troupe has performed "Thirteen Soldiers Return to Jade Gate", persuasion will be easier. The number of people who actively sign up and are willing to settle in the Western Regions is obviously higher than in places where the theater troupe has not arrived. Take a piece of it.
This shows the importance of excellent publicity methods and publicity work.
When Su Yonglin got the specific data in early December of the 11th year of Hongwu, he regarded this matter as a typical example and convened a state affairs meeting.
At the meeting, he emphatically praised the work of the Revival Women’s Drama Troupe and the Revival Propaganda Department, made the importance of publicity work clear, and encouraged the Women’s Department and the Propaganda Department to continue to work together to do a good job in publicity work.
With the propaganda work and preliminary preparations, by mid-December of the 11th year of Hongwu, the number of households across the country willing to move their families to Anxi Province and Beiting Province had reached more than 110,000, and the population The number is around half a million.
Being able to attract another 500,000 people in addition to the mobilization of official personnel was an unexpected success for the entire Western Region immigration policy.
At the beginning, the Ministry of Civil Affairs estimated that the minimum immigrant population was only 300,000. It is estimated that it will take a long time for the number of immigrants to the Western Regions to exceed one million.
But now there are more than 500,000, which greatly reduces the time required to achieve this goal.
Su Yonglin is very willing to believe that with the passage of time and the optimization of the living environment in the Western Regions, the population of the Western Regions will continue to increase rather than decrease. At least, the Ming government really wants to build and govern the Western Regions as the mainland rather than as a restricted area.
The Ming Dynasty's determination to manage Central Asia and revive the Overland Silk Road is real. The war in Central Asia has come to an end, and construction and development will become the mainstream of the western region of the Ming Dynasty for a long time to come.
The Ming Dynasty would invest a large amount of resources and attention in this direction to revitalize this overland trade route belonging to the Ming Dynasty, maintain this route, and revitalize the Western Regions.
At the same time, the border areas in the northeast and south of Ming Dynasty were also changing and restless.
In the northeast, Ming Dynasty's control of Goryeo and the land reform launched in Goryeo entered a critical period. The resistance of Goryeo landlords became more intense, and Goryeo officials at the central level became increasingly uneasy.
However, their resistance actions failed one after another. Goryeo could not escape the control of the Goryeo administrative team under the control of Hu Wei. With the assistance of the Liaodong army, it was only a matter of time before Goryeo was completely deconstructed and rebuilt by the Ming Dynasty.
After all, Goryeo is a small country, and a small country cannot affect the actions of a behemoth like Ming Dynasty.
In the southern region, the members of the Champa State branch of the Renaissance Association are stepping up their training of the new Champa Army. Basically, they will update their situation and Zou Yana's actions to the Ming Dynasty every month. At the same time, they will also tell the Ming Dynasty what they know about Wu. The news about Ge Dynasty was simultaneously told to Ming Dynasty.
Their reports told how they prevaricated their superiors and trained the new army. They also informed the Ming Dynasty of how they held grievance meetings in the new army and educated the new recruits on what exploitation and oppression were.
The Ming Dynasty estimates that at this rate, the new army in Champa will have the strength to overthrow Zou Yana's regime in one year at the latest. As for how to plan this process, it still needs to be properly discussed.
Changes in these two areas take time and some driving force to carry out. However, Dali is as peaceful as a mountain and has not taken any action since assisting the Ming army in defeating the anti-Ming tribes.
They were still very respectful to the Ming Dynasty and had not changed at all. The country was also very stable and there was no turmoil. This surprised Su Yonglin a little bit.
But this is not important, because the Dali branch of the Renaissance has already begun its operations. They have begun to take root in the rural areas of Dali, looking for the possibility of a breakthrough locally, and successfully found a breakthrough point.
What Zhao Yucheng once did in Jiangxi will soon be repeated in Dali, and this is also an experiment for the Ming Dynasty to export its ideals to the outside world. Su Yonglin attaches great importance to this.
Day by day, it seems like nothing has changed, but changes are happening every day.
It's just that when science and technology are not developed, changes are relatively small and slow. Once science and technology achieve a certain breakthrough, such changes will appear in front of people relatively quickly, bringing people either relief or horror. mood.
On December 14, the 11th year of Hongwu's reign, the world's first working steam engine for pumping water was sent to Datong and installed in Datong Coal Mine.
There was serious water accumulation in an underground mine about nine meters deep. When the groundwater overflowed, there was little time left for everyone to retreat. If not for luck, seven or eight miners would have drowned in it and could not be rescued.
Workers in the Datong Coal Mine tried their best to use animal power and pulleys to drain water, but the effect was very limited and the cost was high, so they basically gave up on the mine.
And now, this drainage appliance that is said to be very efficient appears in front of everyone.
Some technicians climbed up and down the installation, connected the water pipes, and prepared to drain the water into a small stream not far from here.
According to technicians, this big thing is called a steam drainage machine. It is a machine that does not require human or animal power. It only needs to burn coal to pump water.
The workers were very curious. When the steam drainage machine was put into operation for the first time, more than two hundred workers gathered in several circles and stared at the big guy.
They watched the technicians burn the coal, watched them operate the machine, watched the machine twitch and make strange noises.
Finally, they saw the water pumping pipe at the back of the machine twisting and turning, and a large amount of accumulated water was pumped out, and then discharged directly into the small stream.
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