Xi Zhong said helplessly: "Even if we add up the savages within a hundred miles, there are only ten thousand people. There are more people in any county in Jizhou than here!"
Although coming to Liaodong gave Xi Zhong a bigger stage to display his talents, it must be said that the remoteness of Liaodong was beyond his imagination.
At that time, one of his counties in Jizhou had more people than Liaodong County, but the number of Han people was sparse, which was beyond his imagination. No wonder the ruler wanted to immigrate. If he didn't immigrate, the Han people would lose the land of Liaodong.
In the opinion of Xi Zhong, there is too little space for civilization in Liaodong, too much space for barbarism, too few Han people, and too many savages. He must find ways to expand the space for civilization little by little.
And all of this requires people to transform this wild world. Xi Zhong soon discovered that even the savages who he thought were stupider were a precious resource and could not be killed at will like the rest of the Han Dynasty.
Deng Fang said: "If you want to recruit savages, you should rely on your own abilities. Now there is a shortage of manpower everywhere in Liaodong. You are not the only one who wants to grab more people. Others are also trying their best to recruit savages. Even businessmen have begun to rob people.
The savages who used to be like wild beasts have now become hot commodities. If we had not banned the capture of people as slaves, I am afraid that these savages would have become our slaves."
Almost every cadre who came to Liaodong to support them had their own political ambitions and wanted to advance further in the Dagan system, and Dagan emphasized tangible political achievements. If the political achievements were insufficient, they should not be promoted.
So in order to improve their political performance, cadres from all over the country tried their best. Xi Zhong first thought of using salt and cloth to recruit savages around to help build infrastructure. The effect was very significant. He only used a small amount of salt and cloth to easily build the infrastructure.
Thousands of savages have been recruited to help. These savages do the hardest labor, but these jobs do not require any skills and only require strong strength, which is more suitable for these savages.
Relying on the extra thousands of laborers, Xi Zhong only spent 100 stones of salt and several hundred bolts of woolen cloth. He used these savages to build a simple wooden fort, internal houses, various functional buildings, and water channels.
There are also roads, and it can be said that Xi Zhong's wooden castle has complete facilities, far exceeding other villages.
When the cadres of other villages saw what Xi Zhong was doing, they immediately imitated him, so the entire Liaodong County was surrounded by officials who were bewitching the savage labor force. They went to the savage tribes and lured the savages to do work for them with salt and cloth.
As a result, the progress of Liaodong development far exceeded Xu Wei's imagination.
Deng Fang smiled and said: "You are already lucky. Even the governor knows your name. Now he specially asked me to hand over these thousands of Han immigrants to you. With so many people, I think you will be able to grow in all the villages."
Stand out among them. I heard from the governor that as the population of Liaodong County increases, more counties will be divided to facilitate management. Maybe you will become the county magistrate in a year!"
Xi Zhong was a little excited when he heard this. In the Han Dynasty, for a family like his from a poor family, it would take a lifetime of hard work to become a county magistrate, and it might not even be possible.
But in this new Daqian, he knew that the county magistrate was not his limit. He was very sure that he could do it as a county governor or even a state pastor. Even becoming the prime minister of a country and ruling a country was not without hope.
It was because he knew that in the Han Dynasty, there was no hope for him with his background. Only a new country like Daqian had such a possibility, so he had no regrets about the Han Dynasty.
In the early morning of the next day, just after dawn, there was a clanging sound coming from the Wubao!"
The actor shouted loudly with an iron trumpet: "It's dawn, everyone takes the time to wash up and have breakfast. After burning incense, the old tribe continues to build the road, and the new immigrants send someone to draw lots to determine the location of their own fields!"
Xi Zhong said this three times before stopping!
The old tribe had nothing to do yet, but when the newly arrived immigrants heard that the land was going to be divided, they were all excited and took the time to wash up and have breakfast.
After burning incense, the old immigrants took shovels, dustpans and other items and left the wooden fort to continue building roads.
The new immigrants, on the other hand, followed Xi Zhong to the village chief’s office!
Then when Xi Zhong saw them, he said, "Each of your families elects a representative, and then they come in in batches of 20 people!"
The place where he works is relatively small and cannot accommodate so many people.
A group of new immigrant representatives entered the office, and then they saw a huge sand table with wooden castles, roads, canals, mountains, and forests on it. It was a completely vivid little world!
The villagers who saw the sand table for the first time were all surprised and realized that the wooden castle in the sand table was the place where they lived now.
Xi Zhong held a wooden stick and said: "This is the wooden castle where we live, and this piece of land is our newly reclaimed land, about 100,000 acres, but these lands belong to the old immigrants and have nothing to do with you. The land is here!”
In the play, a wooden stick was pointed at another area to tell them that the area where the old immigrants lived was already like a field, but their area was completely like a pasture.
Xi Zhong said: "You have to cultivate your own land. It's already July. If you can't cultivate 100 acres of land before Ludong, you won't be able to catch up with the time to plant winter wheat. By then, everyone else will have food to eat, and you are the only one." You have to find a way to survive by working, because your time is very tight. You have to find a way to open more than an acre of land a day so that you can plant winter wheat before the autumn harvest before October. After October, there will be heavy snow in Liaodong. Then you will lose the opportunity to cultivate the fields."
Although it seems that this acre of land is reclaimed every day, it does not seem like much, but what Xi Zhong is referring to is a complete wasteland, with giant stones, solid weeds, and even some scattered trees. This way, an area of land is reclaimed. The amount of labor is very large, and a family of five people can barely do it. However, this is not a day or two days, but lasts for more than three months. Such a huge amount of labor is enough to tire most people.
But the immigrants still nodded. They had new steel farm tools in their hands, and there were no landlords to steal the fruits of their labor. As long as they worked hard, they could reap the rewards. This is great news for these immigrants, after all this hard work. It's nothing at all. If they can get the fruits of their labor by putting in a lot of labor, it's already a huge good thing for them.
Xi Zhong continued: "Although the government has said that each household should reclaim 100 acres of land, you can see the situation here. It can be said that there are wastelands everywhere. If we have the ability to reclaim 200 acres, no one will manage 300 acres of land!