A fleet of Mercedes-Benz cars can travel 300 miles a day.

The immigration offices in various counties along the way also provided food and accommodation, and the convoy moved forward at an astonishing speed. After ten days, it had almost completed the Yellow River's bend.

We arrived in Jiazhou that day to rest.

As usual, the staff of the Immigration Office boiled hot water, prepared hot soup, hot meals and heated beds for these prospective immigrants who came from afar.

But Gaoda was a little abnormal that day. He had no appetite and lay down on the big bunk early. After lying down, he tossed and turned and couldn't sleep all night.

In the middle of the night, Gaoda quietly got up, put on his cotton boots, picked up his cotton coat and cotton hat, and pushed the door open to go out.

"What are you doing?" the night patrol security guard asked in a deep voice.

"Shit."

"Over there, don't pull him outside." The security guard ignored him. Because common sense says that it is impossible for a would-be immigrant who has been thousands of miles away from home to escape.

But he didn't know that Gaoda was from Mizhi County, and his home was less than 160 miles away.

Gaoda went into the toilet, looked at the high rear window, grabbed the window sill with both hands and tried to climb up.

But someone pulled him down from behind and he almost fell into the toilet.

Gaoda was so frightened that he lost his soul. He thought that he was done for. Officer Liu said that running away was a serious crime and he would be exiled to Aozhou...

"What are you doing?!" his brother-in-law's voice rang in his ears.

"Haha..." Gundam finally gasped for breath, then struggled and said, "Let go, I want to go home!"

"Are you crazy?" Li Shouzhong held his mouth tightly and roared in Gaoda's ear: "There are wolfhounds and security guards outside, and there are barbed wire on the wall. What can you do!"

"I have to go home. I haven't fucked your sister yet, and I can't let others do it!" Gundam whimpered.

"The people from the Eastern Depot are watching us. Are you going to go home and kill them?!" Li Shouzhong wanted to strangle him to death.

Gaoda immediately collapsed, tears streaming down his face as he said, "It's all your fault. My sister said she wouldn't hold a wedding banquet, but you insisted on doing it? Now, I can't even go home, and your sister has to be fucked by others..."

"Shut up! I really despise you! You can't accomplish anything great if you only think about what's going on in your crotch!" Li Shouzhong let him go, unzipped his pants, squatted down and said, "Hurry up and poop too."

"I don't have any."

"You have to poop, otherwise you're unprofessional!" Li Shouzhong said with a grim face. Constipation is very common because people sit in the car every day and don't exercise.

"Then don't you want to fuck my sister?" Gundam had no choice but to take off his pants and squat aside to try hard.

"I don't think so." Li Shouzhong licked his lower lip and said, "I want to be a father."

"Hey...how come there is a baby in your wooden bridal chamber?" Gundam didn't believe it.

"Who said that you can only do that in the bridal chamber? There are people buried in the earth everywhere." Li Shouzhong became more and more proud. He coughed and taught his brother-in-law in a fatherly way, "Brother, accept it. This is your fate now. Don't do anything. Once I send you to Aozhou, you will never go home again in this life. You'd better work hard and do it well. Let's build achievements together, and then this life will be counted as a waste!"

"..." Gundam held his breath for a long while, then nodded heavily and said, "I want to make a contribution. If I make a contribution, I can go home early!"

"Oh, my grandson is teachable." With a puff, Li Shouzhong finally breathed a sigh of relief.

~~

The team continued on for two more days and arrived at Hukou Town, Jizhou, Pingyang Prefecture, Shanxi Province. This ice sled journey had to come to an end.

First, the famous Hukou Waterfall is in front of us, and the huge drop makes it impossible for the ice sled to pass. Second, according to the group's regulations, ice sleds can no longer be used after the first month of the year. Even in the cold Little Ice Age, safety comes first.

The next section can only be traveled by land, and you can only board the boat after the ice flood is over.

Fortunately, after a month of recuperation, the prospective immigrants are in better physical condition than ever before.

And it was gradually getting less cold, so it was no longer too painful to travel.

So they joined the Weiyuan County immigrant team that arrived at Hukou the day before to form a team of more than 2,000 people. The elderly and children took the car, and the adult men and women walked, and under the escort of a security team of the group, they went south along the Qinjin Gorge.

In the canyon that was beginning to turn green, Li Shouzhong, who was chatting and laughing with his brother-in-law, didn't know that if history had not changed, he would never have walked into this long canyon in his life.

And a few decades later, his second son will lead the rebel army from Shaanxi to Shanxi, cook the son of the current Emperor Wanli, force Wanli's grandson to hang himself, and destroy the Ming Dynasty he was loyal to...

But now that he has left Shaanxi, I'm afraid he won't be able to accomplish anything.

~~

One hundred miles south of Hukou, you will exit the Qin-Jin Gorge and enter the land of Sanjin with its mountains and rivers.

When we arrived at Lao Xier's territory, conditions suddenly improved.

At the Longmen Ferry, thousands of mule carts, horse carts, ox carts, and donkey carts were parked. The Shanxi drivers, wearing fur coats inside out and open with red belts tied around their waists, had been waiting for a long time.

This huge fleet was originally used by the Shanxi Company to transport coal on the Jingxing Road. Jiangnan Group was revising the Tai Line for Lao Xier, so the transportation capacity of Jingxing Road was naturally greatly affected. Lao Xier could not use so many vehicles for the time being, so he provided the idle transportation capacity to the group at a friendly price to transport immigrants.

On the one hand, it can consolidate the relationship with the young cabinet minister, and on the other hand, it can get rid of the burden of eating and drinking from this man. The old men are calculating this.

After resting for a night at Longmen Ancient Ferry, the immigration team set off by bus the next day.

Of course, energetic young men like Li Shouzhong Gaoda could not get a ride. The immigration officer led them to walk in front empty-handed, which was much faster than taking a ride.

Looking at the magnificent scenery along the Yellow River, Li Shouzhong felt indescribably happy and thought that the trip was worth it.

I also wonder why I never had the mood to appreciate the scenery before?

While he was thinking, he was suddenly kicked hard on the buttocks and almost fell down.

Amid the laughter of his companions, Li Shouzhong turned back angrily and saw that the person who kicked him was none other than his brother-in-law Gaoda.

"What are you crazy about again?!"

"Fuck you!" The rage on Gaoda's face was even greater than his. He grabbed his collar and growled, "You slept with Yuanyuan!"

In front of so many people, he didn't dare to say my sister directly...

"My goodness, you just realized it after we got to Shanxi?" Li Shouzhong laughed: "I was already two months pregnant when I left!"

"No wonder you came out so confidently!" Gundam was furious. In addition to feeling sorry for his sister, he felt that he had suffered a great loss...

At this time, Secretary Liu came over, picked up Gaoda, slapped him on the head and face, and then punished him to carry a water bottle for the whole team.

It was Li Shouzhong who took the initiative to share half of the burden for him.

"You're a piece of shit!" Gundam snorted angrily and forgave this guy who still had some conscience.

Lao Xier's caravan transported the immigrants all the way to Sanmenxia, ​​400 miles away, and then turned back to transport the next wave.

By this time the ice flood had passed, and after passing the haunted Sanmenxia, ​​we could get on the boat again.

However, large ships cannot sail from Sanmenxia to Mengjin. One must first use a small boat to ferry downstream for a day before arriving in Mengjin, and then transfer to the group's 400-ton inland river fleet.

This was how the most difficult part of this great migration was passed.

From Lanzhou to Luoyang, across three provinces, a distance of 4,000 miles, the Jiangnan Group only allowed the elderly, the weak, women and children to walk 100 miles...

The group paid a huge price for this, but Zhao Hao firmly believed that it was worth it, because in the next sixty years, the people in the interior of the country would suffer ten times more disasters and sufferings than those in the south of the Yangtze River and several times more than those in other provinces.

Since the Jiangnan Group has taken the world as its own responsibility, it must not turn a blind eye to the suffering of its compatriots like the Jiangnan gentry in another time and space. That is the way to self-destruction!

Fortunately, there is the fundamental mission of the Century-old Immigration Group, and fortunately Zhao Hao has absolute authority in the empire he created, so he has not heard any noise for the time being.

But what is the extent of this effort? And this is to collect precious manpower for their own territory! If someone says something weird about this, then Zhao Hao really has to be rude...

~~

After Pan Jixun successfully controlled the water, the navigation capacity of the lower reaches of the Yellow River was restored, and sand ships of 400 tons could sail directly from Luoyang to Huai'an and into the Yellow Sea.

This section of the water journey is 1,400 miles, and it only takes three days to go downstream. Therefore, the fleet did not stop at Haizhou, but went directly south along the coastline to Hangzhou Bay, 1,200 miles away.

Before landing, they had to stay on the ship for ten days. For the crew members who were used to life at sea, this short coastal voyage was as easy as playing house.

But for the common people in northern Shaanxi who had never been on a boat in their lives, it was simply a death sentence.

The few days on the Yellow River were OK, except that I had a poor appetite and felt weak under my feet. Once we went out to sea, the sea conditions were only level 3 or 4, and we all got seasick to the point where we felt dizzy and couldn't even lie still.

They vomited and vomited until their gallbladders came out. They felt like vomiting when they saw food, and finally nothing tasted good anymore...

There are seasickness medicine made from pinellia and ginger on the ship, but to be honest, the effect is average, so you have to get used to it as soon as possible.

Otherwise, future ocean voyages would surely cost them their lives.

Of course, sitting and waiting is not the habit of immigration officials. They lead the prospective immigrants to do vestibular function training such as standing on tiptoe, shrugging shoulders, and turning shoulders when the weather is calm to improve the body's static balance ability.

In short, after three days at sea, the immigrants gradually adapted to the constant turbulence. First, the children, who had the strongest adaptability, began to run on the deck, followed by the young people and middle-aged people. After five or six days, even the elderly came to the deck to bask in the sun.

Of course, there were a few who couldn't adapt at all, like Li Shouzhong. He just lay there, vomiting everything he ate. In just seven days of sailing, all the weight he had gained was lost...

As Gundam waited on him, he chuckled with glee. He seemed to think that his brothers might be sent back home...

"I taught you to secretly sleep with my sister, now this is your retribution, right?"

"Get out..." Li Shouzhong was about to curse when a wave pushed the boat and he started spitting out the water in the basin again.

He has not eaten a single grain of rice in the past few days and has been relying on intravenous drips to survive...

Fortunately, on the tenth day of March, the ship docked.

This great journey, which lasted two months and covered a total of 8,000 miles, finally came to an end.

ps. It’s gone tonight.