Chapter 872: New Year's Day Benefits from the Leader

More than 1,800 households registered, and after visits and audits by officials from all over the country, there were still more than 1,400 households that met the standards. The list of these people was sent to Luo Chong's desk, but Luo Chong still felt that it was a bit too much.

Qiongzhou Island has a population of about 100,000. According to Xue Qingyao's statistics, there are 142 villages in total, most of which are small villages with a few hundred people, and there are only a dozen large villages with a population of more than a thousand. Therefore, according to Luo Chong's standard of five households in small villages and ten households in large villages, it is enough to place seven households in each village on average, so 1,000 households are enough.

Of the more than 1,400 households that meet the standards, more than 400 have to be eliminated.

Luo Chong thought about it and realized that these people's skills must be no problem, so their skills are not within the scope of elimination. He mainly considers age and family size.

First of all, immigration is immigration, but the population of the Han tribe itself cannot be lost too much, so family members with more than five people will be eliminated first.

Young people who have just got married and have only two people in their families will be hired first. Even if there are 1,000 such families, only 2,000 people will need to immigrate. Of course, it is impossible for all the more than 1,000

families to be of this type. Then, the heads of households aged 27 or 28 will be hired first. The heads of households at this age are in their prime, have rich life experience, mature skills, and know how to deal with people. More importantly, most of their children are around 12 or 13 years old and can already help with various tasks. Moreover, they will be adults in two years at most. In this way, after two years of immigration, they will have a good relationship with the locals and can also marry with the locals to integrate the relationship between the two places more quickly.

For example, those young people with only two people, aged 14 or 15, can actually marry with the locals after they go there.

In this way, after another round of screening, the list of immigrants was finally finalized. There were a total of 1,000 households with a total population of 3,402 people. All of these people received immigration orders issued by the local government.

However, now that the New Year is approaching, it is too late to prepare anything. All immigrants began to cherish the last time in their hometown. Visiting relatives and having a good New Year with their families is the most important thing.

The immigrants began to make the final reunion, but the official preparations of the Han tribe could not stop. First, under Luo Chong's order, four photo studios began to operate for immigrants in advance, and each immigrant household was given 60 photos. The Han tribe would satisfy them wherever they wanted to take these 60 photos and with whom they wanted to take them. In addition, 40 official unified photos were given, mainly the characteristic scenery of various places, which was mainly used for publicity to the people of Qiongzhou.

After the immigrants went there, they had to share these photos with the local people, which happened to allow the Qiongzhou people who had never been to the Han tribe to see what the Han tribe looked like through photos.

In the end, these 60 private photos and 40 official photos will be made into an album, one for each immigrant household, as a spiritual sustenance to their hometown.

The photographers running around are mainly composed of photo studios and Luo Chong's personal guards. Many of Luo Chong's personal guards have learned the technology of taking photos, which is now in handy.

Of course, even though they were still running around during the festival, Luo Chong would not let them work for nothing. Overtime pay was definitely necessary, and the New Year's red envelopes were naturally not less.

At the same time, many officials of the Han tribe also received red envelopes, which were considered year-end bonuses for a year of hard work. For example, the county governor level was distributed with 2,000 kilograms of rice, 500 kilograms of white flour, and 200 kilograms of glutinous rice. The glutinous rice production in the Han tribe was not high, and the planting ratio was also small. The glutinous rice distributed during the New Year's Day was mainly for them to make rice cakes.

In terms of meat, there was a fat pig, two big-horned deer, a pair of sheep, goats, and antelopes, a total of six.

In terms of clothing, there were six pieces of brocade, ten pieces of cotton cloth of various colors, ten pieces of sheepskin leather, ten pieces of sheep fur, two pieces of red fox skin, and two pieces of camel hair.

In terms of non-staple food, there were 20 kilograms of dried dates, 100 kilograms of dried persimmon cakes, 10 kilograms of tea, 20 kilograms of brown cotton sugar/yellow granulated sugar, 100 kilograms of white salt, and six pieces of one-kilogram glass bottles of white wine, one of which contained twelve bottles.

Finally, there was a red envelope of 1,000 silver dollars for the festival.

Officials below the county governor still follow this gift list, but the quantity will be lowered in turn.

This is the case for all officials in the eight counties of Hanyang. Luo Chong directly sent a greeting letter to Dashu in Takuhai County, and also a similar gift list. He did not buy the things because it was too far away. Anyway, you have everything there. You can buy them according to the gift list, and I, the leader, will reimburse you. The

same is true for the three counties of Honghu in the grassland area. As for the newly expanded six counties of Qiongzhou, the local supplies are now in short supply. Even if they want to buy, they can't buy the things Luo Chong rewarded. Therefore, Luo Chong directly gave money and issued corresponding big red envelopes according to the gift list standard, allowing them to buy whatever they want in the local area. If they really can't buy it, they can contact Dashu in Takuhai County, or save the money and buy it when they have the chance in the future.

Three days before the New Year's Day, the gift distribution team began to move, pulling carts and driving livestock to distribute welfare to the officials' homes one by one. This is the first time since the establishment of the Han tribe that Luo Chong, the leader, has rewarded New Year goods so seriously.

In the past, although Luo Chong would give out many gifts during festivals, it was never so comprehensive that the entire public service system would give out the gifts together.

At the beginning, the Han tribe did not even have currency, and the various materials were not so abundant. Of course, it could not be compared with the present. In the past, even if Luo Chong wanted to give these things, he could not take them out

. But now it is different. The currency system has been operating well for two or three years, and various materials have become more and more abundant, such as tea and sugar. Luo Chong can also generously give officials New Year's gifts. In the past, he could not even give out thousands of kilograms of sugar.

Officials from all over the country were also very happy after receiving Luo Chong's rewards. To be honest, the things Luo Chong gave were not much compared to their salaries. First of all, they had no shortage of food at home, and giving food was just for good intentions. Then, their salaries were much higher than the average income. These officials did not lack money to spend.

Take the county governors for example. Their monthly salary plus various benefits is more than one thousand yuan, but they are busy. The Han tribe has relatively few holidays now, and the Han tribe, which is in a stage of rapid development, does have a lot of work that needs to be handled by these officials. So even if they have money, they can't buy so many new year goods, because they don't have time to buy them.

Now Luo Chong directly buys things for them and sends them to their homes. Although the value is not high, it is a token of the leader's heart, and the meaning is naturally different.

The officials who received the Spring Festival benefits also wrote back to Luo Chong to wish him a happy new year. Some even collected some good things that they thought were good and presented them to Luo Chong as gifts, which was considered a return gift.

However, this still seems too hasty. According to the ancient serious New Year festival, the emperor would not only hold a banquet in the palace to entertain the ministers, but also the civil and military officials would pay New Year's greetings to the emperor at the grand court meeting on the day of the New Year's Day. That would be a huge scale.

But the Han tribe doesn't even have a palace now. Even if Luo Chong wants to entertain the officials, he can only entertain them in the open-air square. Otherwise, there is not even such a big building. In the middle of winter, he can't really invite all the officials to dinner in the open-air square, right?

Isn't this nonsense?

Looking at the thick stack of New Year's greetings in his hand, Luo Chong sighed secretly. Never mind. Who made the Han tribe still in its early stages? It doesn't even have a palace. It's better to develop well first. After two years, there will be a palace and all the bureaucratic systems will be improved. Then we can talk about the celebration. Now it's better to be pragmatic and seek development.

However, what Luo Chong didn't know was that he, the leader, prepared New Year's benefits for all the officials and gave them big red envelopes. Officials from all over the country had actually prepared gifts for Luo Chong, the leader, a long time ago, but Luo Chong himself didn't know it yet.

Well... There are probably three or four chapters today, with a minimum of 10,000 words. I will try to make up for yesterday's chapter. If there are no accidents...

(End of this chapter)