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Chapter 360 Elimination of Slums

Dutata City is a large city, which lives near the port, and is located in the central part of the Rhine Kingdom, which is far away from bandits and bandits. It has been in peace for more than 200 years.

More than a hundred years ago, when the ancestors of the Butlers family had just expelled the bandits and horse bandits in Innatrix, tightened their belts and painstakingly rebuilt the city of Innatrix, the city of Dutata was already One of the largest cities in the Rhine Kingdom.

In such a large city that has been peaceful for a long time, it is not a big problem to live in the city walls with hundreds of thousands of people.

Then why are there hundreds of thousands of poor people who have no place to stand in the city and can only build self-built houses outside the city to live in groups?

The reason is very simple, 1% gets too much, and 99% can get less.

In the three outer districts of Nancheng District, Dongcheng District, and Xicheng District, less than [-]% of the real estate buildings belong to the poor or middle class in the city, and the rest are all properties owned by nobles or people related to nobles.

In Midtown, the middle class with independent property rights is almost all concentrated on South Street, and other areas are either the "collar property" of the Ezekiel family or the private property of local aristocratic families.

In other words...even among the city residents within the city walls, nearly half of the population does not own real estate and lives on renting a house for a lifetime.

The original Colson O'Neill mother and son were one of the landlord collectives.

The reason why they are living in poverty even though they own real estate is because people’s livelihood is too difficult. Even if it is only two or three silver coins a month, not many people can afford it—until China Darcy found Before coming to the door, the old small building of Coulson's house hadn't received a tenant for half a year.

In the past, the Ezekiel family could turn a blind eye to the terrible situation of hundreds of thousands of civilians crowded in slums outside the city. Now that the national team is here, it is of course impossible to sit back and watch so many living people being left outside the city to fend for themselves.

Even if there is no mention of the proliferation of cults leading to frequent vicious incidents, the fire hazard alone is enough to make Zhao Zhenzhen's scalp go numb after seeing the slums with her own eyes!

Of course, it would obviously be an extremely heavy burden to resettle so many people at once. After careful consideration, the expert group behind Zhao Zhenzhen came up with a plan to divide the crowd before resettlement.

During the period of organizing the residents in the slums to participate in social work, the contract workers and volunteers who are responsible for arranging these residents have to undertake the responsibility of publicizing the resettlement plan of the new city hall to these residents.

The contractors who rebuilt the vacancy of the red brick house to organize and arrange the residents of Old York dutifully preached to them the new policy of the city hall: "Ms. Zhao said that the local industry in Dutata City can't provide much There are too many jobs, and there is no way to guarantee that people from outside the city can get a job to support themselves after moving in. Therefore, before starting the lottery to choose a house, an intention survey will be conducted. If anyone is willing to farm and become a farmer, they will arrange to go to the new southern part of the city. town--"

Old York's heart skipped a beat. When he was young, like his eldest son, he also went to do odd jobs every autumn in autumn. He still knew the distribution of Adler's villages, so he quickly said, "Sir, isn't there a big wilderness in the south? A new town?"

The contractor had done his homework, and said with a smile: "It used to be a big wilderness, but it's not anymore. Mr. Wagner Peet and Mr. Ben Ham Walton went there to open up wasteland in the summer—yes By the way, the pioneers of the new town were all recruited from the slums of Du Tata City, maybe you guys still know each other!"

The people present let out an "ah", remembering that in the summer, a group of Inadrians indeed came to recruit wastelanders from the slums.

At that time, Wagner and Walton took away more than 4000 people. Many of these people knew the residents who came to do odd jobs. Even Old York remembered the names of the households who left with the Innatrix. people.

The contract worker triumphantly introduced the situation in Xiaxin Town - this is the first-hand information provided by the operator who came to help from New Town, and it couldn't be more accurate; Some of the people even heard familiar names and typed them excitedly on the spot.

"Next month when the new town sends food tax, some people who went to open up wasteland will also come with them. Then you can ask them more about the situation in the new town."

After dealing with the excited crowd, the contractor continued to preach the policy: "Our new town's land policy, adults are entitled to five acres of land, and minors have three acres of land. After reaching the age, they can reclaim two acres by themselves to make up for it. , as you know, there is a lot of wasteland in the south, and some of it is land."

"For those who have just passed, the first year's grain and food, clothing and housing for the year will be arranged by the new town. If it exceeds the consumption provided by the town hall of the new town, they will have to make up for it by themselves in the coming year, or deduct it from the autumn tax..."

"You don't need to make a decision now. The statistical intention of the city hall will continue until the winter celebration. You can think about it more. Although the city can't get land, you can participate in the lottery to draw low-rent housing. Anyway, you don't need to live. Too worried..."

Engaging in welfare is not raising lazy people, and the national team does not have the ability to suck blood from other places to provide welfare to slum residents.

If you want to be a farmer, you have to open up wasteland by yourself.

If you want to stay in the city, the housing arranged by the city hall is not free. Each family still has to pay a rent of three silver coins a year-this rent is only one-twelfth of the normal rent. You can earn milk, but after all, you have to work hard to earn it, not to enjoy the benefits for nothing. (The annual rent of low-rent housing on the earth plane is almost the same as the monthly rent of ordinary rental housing)

Old York finished his day's work in a turbulent mood. When it got dark, he received a "heavy physical labor meal supplement" - two packs of fake instant noodles - and hurried to pick up his daughter and took the dumb daughter home.

That night, Old York filled the pot with the imitation instant noodles he had received, the potato vermicelli his son had received, and a few potatoes. After a full meal, the father and son sat around the hearth to discuss the distribution of the city hall. placement policy.

The so-called ground stove refers to a hollow hole in the ground in the center of the house, surrounded by picked up bricks and stones, with iron pots and clay pots on it, and some embers for heating in winter.

The embers in the hearth are often used to stew potatoes, roast corn, or roast a small handful of soybeans, which can be pulled out when you are hungry to fill your stomach.

All three of the father and son were well fed, and no potatoes were stuffed into the hearth tonight. In the light of the fading firewood, the old York and the youngest son became more and more agitated as they argued, and rarely quarreled.

"What are you doing staying in the city? Didn't you hear what the gentlemen of the city hall said? There are not so many job opportunities in the city, not for people like us!" This was the first time that Old York was told back by his youngest son. , was so angry that he slapped his thigh, "Before your sister is married, our family can open a [-]-acre land. Do you know what [-]-acre land means? If you don't know, just ask your elder brother when he comes back! "

"I know it's good to have land, but father, I think it's also good to stay in the city." The youngest son argued vigorously, "I heard from the big brother in charge of the prison camp that the city hall will start repairing the Dutta tower after the autumn harvest is over. The road from the city to Inadli will not only build roads, but also railways. At that time, those locked up in prison camps will have to serve their sentences, and road workers will also be recruited from the outside world. There are prisoners in the dangerous work of digging mountains and rocks. Do it, let’s do the hard work, my brother and I can go, my sister can also go to the logistics department..."

"Why don't you know how to be obedient, you brat. The road builders can work for a few years. After the road is built, what else can you do?" Old York angrily shouted at his youngest son, "It's not the same to open up wasteland. The land you open up is yours. Your own, when you are old, it will still be yours, and you can leave it to your son!"

The mute daughter was in a hurry, pulling her father's arm and pulling her second brother's shoulder. Unfortunately, the two were only focused on arguing and couldn't care about her at all.

The same quarrel happened in the homes of countless residents in the slums.

Some were more quarrelsome, alarming the neighbors like old York and his youngest son suddenly rebellious;

On the fourth day of Dutata City’s change of ownership, more slum residents took the initiative to gather at the south gate of the city, waiting for people from the city hall to take them away to arrange work; more people took the initiative to manage them during their work The people accosted and repeatedly inquired about the city hall's diversion and resettlement policy.

Mrs. Hank, a volunteer, and her cold dish chef, Kelly Berkley, repeated the same words to their workers dozens of times in two days. Their mouths were almost blistered, but they didn’t feel tired at all. Women gathered around in groups to ask, and they would still repeat what they had said.

"We stopped by New Town when we came here. Mr. Wagner and Mr. Walton were very responsible. They bought a lot of farm tools from Mr. Yang on credit and lent them to people who opened up wasteland. There are also very large ones that can turn hundreds of dollars a day What is the machine called a tractor for an acre of land, but if you want to apply for mechanical help, you have to queue up, and you have to clean up the allocated wasteland before applying..."

"Of course women can do it, but they are a little tired and have to endure hardships more than men."

"The land you opened must be your own. The household registration book here is different from other places. Everyone has a separate page. Under your name, it will state which piece of land you opened. Son, which year was it issued? After you get married, your file will follow you, and no one can take it by force..."

The loss of rural women in China is serious. The biggest reason is that women do not own the means of production in the countryside.

The homestead cannot be allocated, there is no land under the name, and when you are not married, it is a large property of your mother’s family, and it is a large property of your husband’s family when you are married; in such a situation, it is illogical for rural women not to sharpen their heads and run outside .

This foreign world also has similar "national conditions". There are generally more men than women in the countryside. Innadali has been deeply cultivated by the country for more than a year. Every village has so many old widowers who will never marry a wife.

The reason for this phenomenon is that in addition to the fact that the agricultural society always pays attention to the male labor factor, there is also the high female suicide rate. When Tuttle Qiao was carrying Ji Tang to the countryside for research, he experienced it himself. Such a bad situation.

After all... rural women in Huaxia Country can still go to the city if they can't live on. It is better to be a housekeeper than to stay in the countryside and become a big property; but this woman from another world has nowhere to go.

This kind of rural status quo is of course unhealthy. With the level of productivity in this other world, it is impossible to vigorously merge villages and towns and promote urbanization in an all-round way like China. It is unrealistic for the Rhine Kingdom (the expert group has already regarded the Rhine Kingdom as Lord Yang’s private land) to enter the modern society. Income-based agricultural country.

Since it is determined that the development plan of the Rhineland Kingdom within 20 years is mainly to support the development of agriculture, the national team will naturally make great efforts in the rural ecology; the first and most important point is to ensure the stability of the rural population structure.

If the native women of the Rhine Kingdom are willing to stay in the countryside to produce labor, marry and have children, and raise the next generation of agricultural population, it is natural to ensure that they can have equal personal and property rights in the countryside.

The rural village of Inadler has already started to implement the policy of single person, single file, and land transfer under the name of women with the file. Naturally, Adler's side cannot be left behind.

This kind of policy that women can also own land through land reclamation, purchase, and transfer, and the land ownership follows their personal files, and cannot be lost due to marriage or household registration transfer (separated from the original household registration files), only implements a policy in Inadoli In [-], the suicide rate of rural women had been greatly reduced, and if it was put on Adler's side, the effect would be immediate.

When the old York family was still arguing over whether to choose to go to the south to open up wasteland or stay in the city to become urban residents, women from the slums had come to the city hall one after another, stumbling and asking if they could fill in the resettlement intention in advance...

In mid-October, when the people at the bottom were busy with the autumn harvest, and when the reputation of Tarantan's undead gradually fermented, the first batch of slum residents who took the initiative to choose to open up wasteland in the south bid farewell to the simple wooden shacks they had lived in for many years, and followed the arrangement of the city hall to lead the way The operator left Dutata City without looking back.

On the day these residents left, the people who entered the slums to demolish the vacant dilapidated houses found an abandoned puppet statue in the garbage dump.

That night, the statue of the evil god was sent to Zhao Zhenzhen, who was in charge of the diversion and resettlement work in Dutata City.

Zhao Zhenzhen glanced at the statue that gave her a vaguely uncomfortable feeling, as if it was stuffy and disgusting when it was close to the trash can, and asked someone to take it and burn it.

"Burn it? Ms. Zhao, don't you want to track down the origin?" The operator who nervously brought the statue of the evil god said in a daze, "Among the group of people who left today, maybe there are followers of the evil god!"

"They even lost the god statue, so what's the point of checking." Zhao Zhenzhen laughed, "In the past, the Ezekiel family didn't care about the lives of the people and forced people to believe in evil gods. Could this be the fault of the people? Let us do our job well and let the people know that our government is more reliable than evil gods, and that believing in evil gods is worse than trusting the government, it is better than anything else."

The operator scratched his scalp, smiled sheepishly, wrapped the puppet statue in his gloves, took it downstairs to the kitchen and threw it into the stove.

Burning the god statues does not mean that this issue is over. At the internal mobilization meeting of the city hall the next day, Zhao Zhenzhen publicly praised a group of operators and volunteers who had performed outstandingly in the diversion and resettlement work, and mentioned the burnt statues yesterday. The statue of the evil god, as the slum residents' recognition of the resettlement work of all the staff of the city hall, encourages everyone to do the work of the masses more attentively, patiently and meticulously.

The Secretary of Public Security is not directly involved in the resettlement work, but after all, it is also a part of the city hall, and this kind of general meeting must also be attended.

Hearing the words of the undead lady on the stage, Agent Pearson Stanford and his colleagues had distorted expressions on their faces.

In the past, if it was discovered that civilians were hiding statues of evil gods, it would be a major case requiring all the police officers to work overtime to investigate; He hurriedly ran to the Department of Public Security, urging the detectives to come up with a result quickly.

But now, Ms. Undead, the Consul, not to mention urging the agents to crack down on it, even thinks that this is a good sign that the city hall has regained the trust of the people from the hands of the evil gods, and encourages everyone to make persistent efforts...

"I'm not afraid of evil gods at all. Is this the confidence of being a dark creature?" Detective Stanford thought complicatedly in his heart.

Thinking about it this way, he still vaguely felt that being in the same camp as the undead seemed quite reassuring.

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