Chapter 1272, Lianzhous past and present situation
Ningyuan Town.
It is bustling with people coming and going. Not only can you not see the desolation of the mountains, but it is also hard to imagine that this place was an empty dead town for nearly two years.
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There are no "serious illness" patients like the villagers between Banshan Town and Focheng, and the people in Niyuan Town look normal.
Niyuan Town is not a big one. There are only three streets with relatively uniform buildings in the whole town. There are also many private houses built in the corners not far away from these three streets. Overall, the total number of houses is not much.
To three hundred seats.
But just the number of people coming and going on the street numbered in the thousands, and some stalls on both sides of the street were even crowded with people.
The three of them first looked for an inn. It was said to be an inn, but in fact it was just a bed and breakfast. There were 'inns' in any yard on both sides of the streets in Niyuan Town.
The courtyard they chose now is a two-entry house that is relatively new compared to the neighborhood. The owner is a middle-aged woman who is slightly fat and looks very rich and kind.
He had a smile on his face the whole time, he was very hospitable, and his personality seemed to be very cheerful. He didn't stop talking all the way as he led the three of them to the backyard.
"You are absolutely right to choose me to live there. My whole yard was completely renovated a month ago. My price is not expensive. I pay whatever is available in the surrounding area. My cooking skills are pretty good. I guarantee that every one of you will
You can have an extra bowl of rice every meal.”
The yard is not big. There are two wings in the east and west, each with three rooms. The right wing is already full of people.
Qi Baoer and others did not choose any more, and settled in all three rooms in the left wing.
After settling in, Eunuch Lin went to arrange lunch. The fat woman was the only owner of this courtyard, and she prepared the lunch by herself. Eunuch Lin went to help her in order to 'rush for time'.
Let's cook together. The fat woman is a good talker, and Eunuch Lin is interested in using clichés, so the two of them have a good conversation.
Eunuch Lin learned:
The fat woman didn't say her last name, only that everyone called her Fat Aunt.
The fat aunt's family originally consisted of more than twenty people, including two parents-in-law and five brothers in her husband's family, all of whom were married and had children.
Their hometown is not in Niyuan Town, but in another town called Pingnan, which is at least half a year's walk away from Niyuan Town.
There are two large mines next to Bangnan Town, one is an iron mine and the other is a coal mine.
These two large mines were both affiliated with the imperial court and were mined by troops stationed there. However, the people doing the mining were not soldiers, but local people.
The terrain around Bangnan Town is very bad, including the two mines. They are all stone mountains with stones on the surface. There is almost no green within a radius of dozens of miles. It can be said that the residents of Bangnan Town have no place to plant crops at all.
You can't make a living by hunting.
Their only way out is to become miners in those two mines.
The fat aunt's family also had the same only one way to go. The whole family, whether they were men or women, worked in the mines.
Men mine, and women mine if they have the strength, or push the mine cart if they have less strength.
The fat aunt was the luckiest. She was good at cooking and was chosen to cook in the mine.
There is no such thing as safety in mining in this era. There will always be a landslide, and a landslide will easily overwhelm a large number of miners. In addition to the danger of landslides, there are no other safety protections.
Therefore, almost all people who have been miners for a long time will have more or less physical problems. For example, coal diggers get lung disease, iron ore diggers develop deformities in some parts of their body, etc.
The fat aunt's father-in-law had deformities with curled hands and feet. Three of her husband's five brothers died in a landslide, and both of them had the same physical problems as his father-in-law.
Anyone who has lived in Bangnan Town for a long time knows how dangerous it is to be a miner.
Not only will you die at any time, it will be painful to live, but it will also seriously affect future generations.
But there's nothing you can do about it. As long as you're in Bangnan Town, you have no other way to survive except being a miner.
In the Suzaku Kingdom, almost all of the princes' children are stationed at the border, and the places where they are stationed are the fiefdoms of the princes' children. Each prince's daughter is very concerned about the number of people in his fiefdom, and this number is also a strength.
One kind; therefore, many places do not allow people to move at will in order to ensure the number of their own populations.
Bangnan Town belongs to the eldest prince's fiefdom. The eldest prince doesn't know whether to say he is lucky or a bit unlucky. Most of his fiefdoms are places like Bangnan Town.
In other words, his fiefdom is very rich in minerals, but there are not many places where people can survive.
All fools know that mining is dangerous, so if there is any chance, no one will become a miner.
No, in the past, a large number of people in the eldest prince's fiefdom moved to other fiefdoms of the prince's children to settle down.
The population of the eldest prince's fief was once reduced to the smallest among all the prince's children's fiefs.
The fiefdom area is the largest, but the total population is less than one million people.
It can be said that it is quite embarrassing and cannot hold one's head high among brothers and sisters.
Therefore, after that, the eldest prince issued a strict order that all the people in his fiefdom were not allowed to move away at will.
Eunuch Lin was washing vegetables and asked curiously: "Then how did you come to settle down here?"
The fat aunt showed sadness and regret on her face. She sighed and said, "Someone quietly came to our house and said that people without household registration can settle down in Lianzhou and settle down. They also said that they can farm here."
"My husband was crushed to death, my uncle and uncle are no longer at the mine, my fourth uncle and my brother-in-law can neither walk nor hold heavy objects, and my father-in-law passed away suddenly."
The fat aunt choked and wiped her eyes filled with tears, "The eldest prince has decided that men must work in the mines as soon as they reach the age of fifteen.
My son happened to be fifteen years old at the time, and since the family was already like that, my son couldn't go either."
But as a mother, how could she be willing to watch her child die?!
So does everyone else in the family.
So after the man said that Lianzhou was not only a good place, but he could settle down without a user registration and could get land allotted for free, they knew that his words sounded like very deceiving words, but they still followed the man quietly and ran away with the whole family.
Not only their family, but almost half of the whole town left.
I impulsively ran away from Bangnan Town, but I didn't think much about how difficult it would be on the road, and I didn't dare to think about the consequences if I found out that it was all a lie when I arrived in Lianzhou.
Everyone walked along the way for nearly eight months, from spring to winter, from nearly 10,000 people when they came out, to less than 2,000 people when they reached Lianzhou.
Fat Aunt is the only one left in her family of more than ten.
The fat aunt never forgot that Eunuch Lin in front of her was just a guest and not a close friend. She only became fragile and then returned to normal after a while. She stepped on the vegetables and said with a smile:
"I have finally come to the end of my hardships. I can settle down in Lianzhou without a user registration, and I can also choose a place to settle down by myself.
At that time, I saw that there was no one here and the house was cheap, so I immediately chose to buy this courtyard here.
I didn’t expect that in less than three years, the town that was so depressed back then could be so lively now.”
This allows them, those who own houses in the town, to have income almost every day.
As for why there is not one resident in such a good town who does not have this, this is not a question that ordinary people like them should think about.