Xi Zhong's words made the immigrants' eyes light up. According to this statement, if they reclaim 1,000 acres of land, these 1,000 acres of land will belong to themselves. They are also big landowners in the Han Dynasty. These immigrants are pure farmers. They They are full of love for fields, and now they heard that they can get 1,000 acres of land, which instantly ignited the spark in their hearts.
They dare not imagine that they can become big landowners in this life. Such a thing is impossible to happen in the Han Dynasty. Firstly, there is not so much wasteland in the Han Dynasty. Secondly, even if there is wasteland, as long as ordinary people reclaim it, it will be reclaimed by the clans. The gentry and the powerful gentry robbed and carried away the local order in the late Han Dynasty. The local order had long been chaotic. Ordinary people had to join the group to keep warm. They dared not do such things as opening up wasteland!
And now, according to Xi Zhong, it seems that this hope is within reach. They have seen too much wasteland along the way. As long as they are willing to work hard, they dare not think of creating thousands of acres of land, but they can create hundreds of acres of land. acres of land is still possible!
But some immigrants are still worried: "The government will not confiscate our land? Let us not just rejoice in vain!"
Although Daqian treated them very well, not only did they prepare houses for them when they immigrated here, but they also provided them with precious resources such as food, cloth, and salt. Compared with the big men who cruelly exploited them, Daqian could be considered a paradise.
But they still don't trust the imperial court in their bones. This is a lesson learned from their miserable experiences over the years. It is engraved in their bones. People who easily believe in the imperial court are basically tricked to death by the imperial court.
And these people who are still alive survived because they were full of distrust of the imperial court, so they instinctively doubted the imperial court and worried that the land they had cultivated would be confiscated by the imperial court under various excuses. They did this in the Han Dynasty Encountered too many.
Xi Zhong laughed and said: "The ruling party said one family has 100 acres. If you divide it into four or five households, this does not violate the laws of Daqian. There are not many people in Liaodong now, but the ruling party is still recruiting refugees. You have to seize this opportunity, and there may not be such good land in the future! As for worrying about your land being confiscated? Our government has invested tens of thousands of dollars in each of you. Is it just to seize your land like this? If you want to seize the fields in the wilderness, you will also seize the land of the Central Plains!"
Everyone was right. They had nothing. The houses and food they now owned were all controlled by Da Gan. Da Gan seemed to be really different from the Han Dynasty!
Then Xi Zhong used a small fishing net to cover the wasteland allocated to them and said: "Each fishing net here is 100 acres. The land along the river is No. 1, followed by No. 2 and No. 3. Everyone is sent there like this. Go and draw lots, and if you win the piece of land, that piece of land will be yours!"
Then he took out a box and said: "There are 200 numbers here, it depends on your luck!"
The immigrants looked at each other. Of course, everyone wanted to get fields close to water sources. These fields were not only fertile, but also very convenient for irrigation!
Soon the immigrants went to the wooden box to draw lots one by one. Those who won the front were naturally elated, while those who won the back were a little dejected. However, the draw was also very successful and everyone was convinced.
Although there were 200 households, the drawing ended in less than half an hour.
Then Xi Zhong led his men and also these new immigrants to the land they had just drawn lots!
After arriving at the place, his men took out four long straw ropes and circled a piece of land. His men nailed four wooden stakes, determined the land within the wooden stakes, and then opened the door to the immigrants who had won the No. 1 lottery.
: "This is your land, and your whole family can start weeding and reclaiming wasteland here!"
This is the way that Xi Zhong came up with to measure land. Measuring land also requires mathematical talents, and there are only a few people here who can count. It would be tiring to measure the land one acre, so he personally measured 100 acres of land.
, and then made these measuring ropes. Anyway, his fort is surrounded by plains. As long as the length and width of 100 acres of land are measured in advance, there is no need to bother calculating the area later.
The whole family of the immigrants who won the No. 1 lottery were very excited. Hundreds of acres of land really belonged to them! This is something that the Han people would never dare to imagine!
"Go home quickly and take out the hoes and plows. We will start clearing land now!" the old immigrant said excitedly. The old man's family immediately ran to the wooden castle to prepare tools for clearing land!
The people who stayed here also began to enter the wasteland, constantly picking up stones around them and throwing them aside.
But at this time Xi Zhong said: "Don't throw away the stones, they can be used to pave roads or build piers in the future!"
Xi Zhong knew that if his wooden castle wanted to develop, convenient transportation was indispensable, so he led his troops to build roads when he had free time, and he even built a simple dock.
Then Xi Zhong's men cleared a distance and measured another 100 acres of land!
"Lot No. 2! This is your land!" Following the example of the old man just now, many people returned home and took out the farm tools they just received. After confirming their land, they immediately started to open up wasteland!
Xi Zhong and the others measured very quickly. In less than half a day, he had completed the measurement of all the land of more than 200 households. He also reserved the locations of roads and canals in advance.
Thousands of new immigrants are all busy on the land they have just acquired! Xi Zhong laughed at this scene. Such lively scenes cannot be seen in the Han Dynasty. The people at the bottom of the Han Dynasty are always full of sorrow and rarely can be seen in the Han Dynasty.
See the expressions of joy on their faces!
In this way, everyone worked until dark. Kuai's family had reclaimed an acre of wasteland. Although everyone worked hard, everyone was full of hope!
Before returning to Mubao, Xi Zhong gathered these new immigrants and said: "According to our Daqian system, every ten households must have a small team leader, and every hundred households must have a large team leader. You all immigrated together."
Yes, just make your own choice, because in addition to helping you prepare these farm tools, the government also allocated an ox and horse to every ten households to help you open up wasteland, and prepared a water tanker for every hundred households, but the water tanker has to wait for us to build it.
Only the canals will transport the accessories, but I can apply for the cattle and horses right away!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After hearing such a good thing, everyone immediately started to elect squad leaders and squadron leaders, and the process was also very simple. Big men respect the elderly, so the oldest among the 10 households
He became the team leader, and then selected the two oldest and most respected people among these old people to become the team leader. Because everyone was familiar with them along the way, the selection process was very fast!
In this way, the new immigrants opened up wasteland and the old immigrants built roads. Xi Zhong led his men to Xiangping County in Liaodong County. He first found the Governor's Office and issued a certificate for his own wooden castle to accept 200 immigrants. Then the money shop in Pyongyang County will issue 20 cattle tickets. Finally, the opera faithful can use the ticket to go to the cattle and horse market in Pyongyang and get 20 cattle!
This is the system formulated by Xu Wei. He knew that even the modern Celestial Empire could not stop corruption, let alone the feudal era where information is not smooth. Corruption is difficult to stop, but it can be restricted, and Xu Wei thought of a way That is to say, try not to let cadres take over the money. The entire circulation of money within the cadres must attack the money shops. It is difficult for any cadre to have direct contact with money, which naturally reduces the occurrence of corruption, and the cadres can also concentrate on supervising the money shops. This reduces trouble.
Of course, there will be loopholes in any system. For example, if the opera loyalist sells these 20 cows, the new immigrants will not dare to ask. In this way, the opera loyalist can make tens of thousands of money at a time. It is difficult for Xu Wei to even know about this matter. Sooner or later, the officials of the Daqian may find loopholes in the shop, but at least it rarely happens in the new Daqian.
For the sake of his own future, Xi Zhong will not sell these 20 cattle. He can only say that any system needs people to maintain it. If everyone wants to poach, no matter how good the system is, it will be useless. Mao Xiong is an example. And the freshmen There are very few people who want to poach people, but there are many people who maintain the system.
After getting the cattle, Xi Zhong returned to the wooden castle and divided the cattle into immigrants, so that each of their teams had one cattle to use! The immigrants were able to reclaim wasteland more efficiently!
However, Xi Zhong still disliked the inefficiency of this land reclamation! He went to the two new captains of the immigration team and said: "Old man, you guys are too efficient in reclaiming land by yourself. Even in winter, you may not be able to reclaim 100 acres of land!"
Zhang Xuan is only fifty years old this year, but because of his poor life, he is already very old.
He smiled and said to Xi Zhong: "Even if there are not 100 acres, seventy or eighty acres can still be cultivated. The remaining land will probably be cultivated next year!"
Another captain, Ge Kuang, also laughed and said: "Yes, the land cannot escape here anyway!"
Obviously they are very satisfied with the current progress!
Xi Zhong could only point to the old immigrants’ fields and said: “How many acres do you estimate this land has?”
Ge Kuang is an old farmer. Although he has never studied mathematics, he can roughly estimate the size of the fields here based on his own experience. He envied: "This field is only about 100,000 acres!"
Zhang Xuan also said with envy: "The food produced by these lands alone is enough for us to eat for three years!"
Xi Zhong said: "This is the land of old immigrants. Almost each of them has 100 acres of land. Next year they will cultivate more. If you don't work hard, the gap will be even greater in the future."
At this time, the two of them remembered that the land system established by Daqian was 100 acres per household. According to the population of the old immigrants, logically they could only have 20,000 acres of land at most, but why was it five times more now?
Xi Zhong said: "This is the result of their hard work. Almost every family has 500 acres of farmland. Now you still think it's not bad to cultivate dozens of acres by yourself?"
Ge Kuang said helplessly: "We also want so much land, but we can't get 100,000 acres of land in three months!"
Xi Zhong laughed and said: "We are all the same people. Old immigrants can do it, why can't you do it!"
Zhang Xuan asked: "Captain, do you have any idea?"
"Ten miles north of our village, there are several tribes of Fuyu people. Each tribe has hundreds of people. If you can spare a pound of salt or three pounds of grain, recruit a savage to help them open up wasteland!"
"Grain and salt!" To the two old men, both grain and salt were extremely precious resources, which could even determine the life or death of a family! Obviously they were unwilling to provide this grain and salt!
Xi Zhong said sadly: "One stone of grain in our country only costs more than 100 yuan. Even in Liaodong, salt only costs 4 yuan per catty. It is not the price of the Han Dynasty. Why are you distressed? Even in the Han Dynasty, it is difficult to hire a person with this small amount of food." Work long term!"
Zhang Xuan said: "I'm used to being poor, so I can't bear to part with this food, especially a pound of salt. It used to be enough for our whole family to eat for a month."
However, Xi Zhong said: "Don't you think of the benefits? An extra acre of land is equivalent to more than a stone of food. What's the price? Besides helping you to open up wasteland, these savages are also There are other benefits, I see there are quite a few bachelors among you!"
Zhang Xuan nodded and said: "I am too poor. I can no longer help the young man in the family to find a wife. I am still a bachelor now in my thirties. Fortunately, there is no end to the road. Waiting for our Zhang family to establish a family business here, I will try my best to find a wife for my little boy!"
Xi Zhong smiled and said: "Now you can help your boy find a wife! You go to the savage tribe, and whichever girl you like, you can marry a yellow-flowered girl with grain or salt as a betrothal gift! There are some in our wooden castle. There are hundreds of such wives!”
This is also the method that Xi Zhong thought of to increase the labor force. The tribesmen who can immigrate to Liaodong are basically the poorest group of people, who have been unable to marry for a long time. These people are basically the third generation of poor, and Xi Zong When Zhong was trying his best to increase the population, he remembered Xu Wei's story of marrying men and letting his subordinates take the wives of Xianbei and Huns.
So he thought of transplanting this method to Liaodong. At first, Xi Zhong's village only had a few hundred people, so he tried to find a way to help these bachelors find wives. As a result, the population increased by 50%, becoming the large village it is now with a population of thousands.
If these new immigrants also marry hundreds of wives, the population of Wubao will soon exceed 3,000, which can be regarded as the population of a lower county in front of the Han Dynasty!
"Savage girl!" The two old men were surprised that the opera hero could do such an operation!
But when I think about it, if I can really get a wife for my son, even a savage girl will admit it. She can only be poor for three generations. Their family is about to be extinct, and they still have so much to take care of. Moreover, the savage girl has a small betrothal gift, so just marry her home. A strong labor force only needs three stones, no matter how you calculate it, you won’t suffer any loss!
Zhang Xuan is very aware of the conditions of his family. He has no wealth and no money. When he was in the Han Dynasty, they were as poor as beggars. No one would marry his daughter to their family, and he did not give birth to a daughter to give to others.
Change of marriage, so none of the boys in the family got married!
Now there is barely one house in Liaodong, and it is impossible to get a wife without spending tens of thousands of money. But with their family property, even if these fields are reclaimed, it will be difficult to accumulate tens of thousands of property.
It's not something that can be done in a short while.
And it would take 10 years to marry all three boys, and Zhang Xuan couldn't afford to wait. Now it's not bad to have a wife with three stones of food. At least he no longer has to worry about the Zhang family's incense being cut off!