Tide (II)

North of Qingzhou City.

A family relocated from Yuhang had been settled in Qinghe Township.

Under the revised administrative divisions, townships and towns were at the same administrative level. They usually governed five to ten natural villages and had populations of no fewer than fifty thousand.

Although relay stations along the way had provided lodging and food, these migrants were still exhausted.

An old man stepped down from the carriage with his son's support. "Third Son, where have we arrived?"

His third son, Yang Jiong, hurriedly replied, "Father, this is Qinghe Township in Qingzhou Prefecture. This is where our family has been settled."

Looking at the only sons remaining by his side—the newly married third son Yang Jiong, fourth son Yang Shi, and fifth son Yang Zao—Yang Shi could not help sighing.

"Alas! These are hard times!"

"father, we should hurry to the township office and confirm our land. Otherwise, we might delay spring plowing," Yang Jiong immediately suggested.

Yang Shi understood their current predicament and instructed, "You and Fourth Son should go together. Look after each other."

"Understood, Father!"

Chen Dahe's family, who had also been relocated, did not wear the same gloomy expressions as the Yang Family. Their starting points were different. Chen Dahe had merely been a tenant farmer in Nanyang, but now his family could receive one hundred and forty mu of arable land. Naturally, they were deeply grateful to the Human Reform League.

More than a dozen newly relocated households were soon settled in Gao Laozhuang of Qinghe Township.

The Agricultural Clan and Civil Affairs Department officials brought them to Gao Laozhuang and handed them over to the Gao Laozhuang Farmers' Association.

Zhang Shu, the Farmers' Association's propaganda officer, had graduated from the Ryukyu Government Accelerated Training Class. He was an exceptionally tall man and