tondenhei immigrated with their families and were given a heioku (soldier ' s house ), which had been built and prepared before their immigration , and undeveloped land . 屯田兵は家族を連れて入地し、入地前に建てられ用意された「兵屋」なる家と、未開拓の土地とを割り当てられた。
furthermore , while the population of the whole area of hokkaido was only two hundred sixty-five thousand in 1886 and more than half of the population (one hundred fifty-one thousand ) concentrated in hakodate prefecture where people had lived in groups since the age of the matsumae domain , and nemeuro prefecture which consisted mostly of extremely cold undeveloped land had a population of only seventeen thousand , and this posed a problem of an imbalance . また、当時（1886年）の北海道全域の人口は26万5千人に過ぎず、うち半数以上にあたる15万1千人が松前藩時代以来の集住地域である函館県に集中し、逆に極寒の未開拓地が大半を占める根室県はわずか1万7千人という不均衡の問題が生じていた。
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