In Shangyun Town, Heitu Province, Li Da got up early. His wife's belly was getting bigger and bigger, and housework became more and more tiring. Li Da loved his wife very much, so he got up early to prepare breakfast.
Although he had just immigrated here not long ago, Li Da did not have to worry about his future life because the house here was newly built. Even though it was a wooden house, it was quite good.
All kinds of daily necessities are also very abundant. Even 100 kilograms of salt are prepared for each household of the immigrants. As for food, thousands of kilograms of rice are prepared, and there are also a lot of bacon, salty
Even if you don't do anything with fish, the food in your home will be enough to last until next year.
The court's settlement allowance was also distributed, which was thirty taels of silver per person. The two of Li's family received a settlement allowance of sixty taels. In addition, there were two horses and several sheep at home, all of which were in the horse pen in the backyard.
, the sheepfold is closed inside.
There is a lot of land here and it is very wide, so the design of the immigrant town was also very extensive. Every household has a large area. They not only built houses for living in, but also used it to store sundries.
, firewood room, utility room, and sheep pen behind the yard, and horse pen can be used to keep sheep and horses.
The area of each household is quite large. Unlike when the Li family lived in the mountains, it was extremely difficult to find a piece of flat land. It took one generation after another to cultivate and level the land.
Outside the town, there is a vast wilderness of waste. It is still a wasteland with lush vegetation, which is naturally the best for grazing. It was originally part of the Crimean Khanate and was a nomadic area with rich water and grass.
In fact, this place is very suitable for the development of agriculture. The land is black and extremely fertile. It is also very flat, open and has abundant water resources. Apart from being a bit cold, there are no other problems at all.
Li Da simply cooked a pot of porridge, steamed a piece of bacon, and cut it into slices to replenish his wife's health.
If you are in the mountains, it is not easy to get some meat to eat. You need to be able to hunt. If you don't know how to hunt, it will be difficult to get meat.
It is not easy to raise chickens at home, because there are many Wong Tai Sin, eagles, foxes and the like in the mountains, and they will always visit your chicken coop.
So if you want to eat meat and live a good life in the mountains, in addition to being able to do farm work, you can also have a craft, be able to be a carpenter, be able to hunt, etc., it's all possible.
When Li Da cooked breakfast, his wife had also gotten up. The two of them finished breakfast happily. Li Da also took out his horse, put on the lasso of the carriage, loaded up his wife and drove out slowly.
I went to the small town and went to see and walk around on my own land.
The land in the immigrant town is neatly planned and square. A large field belongs to one family. The Li family's land is not far from Shangyun Town. It is only a few miles away.
Arrived soon.
Let go of the lasso and let the horse eat grass by itself. Li Da also took out the sickle and started cutting the grass. These grasses were brought back to feed. The sheep at home are very thin now and need to be fed well. Feed them. Wait.
After a few months, he has gained some weight, and he will feed his wife to replenish her health. It is estimated that the child will be born by then.
The water and grass here are abundant. Li Da quickly cut a load of grass. Then he looked at the hundreds of acres in front of him. They all belong to his family. But now he is worried about how he will reclaim this land.
Already.
If you just rely on yourself and a hoe, you can finish the cultivation in the years of monkey and horse and month.
"Daughter-in-law, no matter how big the land is, it's a pity to keep worrying about it. Why don't we plant something, even some vegetables?"
Li Da and his daughter-in-law discussed doing something. People who are used to being busy are always restless.
In the past few days since the immigrants came here, they just took their horses out to eat grass, walk around, and then cut the grass and go back to feed them. This life was really too leisurely.
This makes them very uncomfortable. After all, people in the mountains are busy with their lives. Only by being diligent can they survive in the mountains. So they have to find something to do for themselves even if they have nothing to do.
"I think so too. I'll go back to the Immigration Department to see if there are any seeds, even if I want to plant some vegetables first."
"The people at the Immigration Department said that the planting season has passed this year. If it had been two months earlier, wheat could still be planted."
"But it's June now, the busiest season of the year. It would be really hard to get through it if we don't plant something."
Li Da's wife also followed suit.
"Yes, I'll ask you later."
Li Da nodded in agreement.
When the horses were full, they hitched up the carriage again and walked back slowly and leisurely.
I happened to pass by Tian Sanwa's field on the road and saw Tian Sanwa and his wife plowing the land diligently.
"Three babies"
Li Da waved his hand and shouted. When Tian Sanwa heard this, she also stopped and walked over with a smile.
"Sanwa, what are you trying to cultivate on this land?"
"I'm going to plant some potatoes, sweet potatoes, and some vegetables. I just eat porridge and salted fish every day, and people are tired of it."
"Potatoes and sweet potatoes?"
"Yes, this thing is said to have been introduced from the Golden Continent. The yield is very high. Although it is already past the planting season, the Immigration Department has said that if you plant it now, you will still get a little harvest, so I
I just thought, since I have nothing to do, I will plant some and take a look.”
"Even if there is no harvest this year, we can accumulate some experience for next year's planting and find something to do for ourselves. How can we mountain people live so leisurely?"
Tian Sanwa said with a smile.
"Yes, yes, I think so too. I am going to the Immigration Department to get some seeds and see if I can plant something."
When Li Day heard this, he immediately nodded in agreement.
"The Immigration Department said that the climate in Black Earth Province is similar to that in Liaodong Province. It is colder in winter, which is very different from our hometown. You can't grow rice here, you can only grow wheat, barley, corn, and potatoes.
, onions, beets, soybeans, rapeseed, sunflowers and the like.”
"Now that the main season has passed, we will be busy next year. Several hundred acres of land, plus the unowned land outside, can be reclaimed and planted with various farmers.
Then you won’t have to worry about food and drink.”
"The land here is extremely fertile, and you can grow whatever you plant. Unlike the land in our mountains, which is very barren, nothing can grow well."
"Isn't that right? I heard that this used to be a Tatar pasture, specially used for grazing cattle and sheep. Wow, what a good land. It's completely black. They actually used it for grazing cattle and sheep. It's a waste of natural resources.
ah."
"That's why we Ming people occupied this land."
"I heard from people at the Immigration Department that next year, the court will allocate a batch of cultivators. Then you can just use that cultivator to cultivate the land. They said that the machine is very powerful and can be used to cultivate the land in just one day.
It can cultivate hundreds of acres of land, and I don’t know what kind of machine can be so powerful.”
"I have also heard people say that in Ha Trung and Nam Van provinces, cultivators and harvesters are very common. When they harvest wheat, rice, etc., the harvester just passes through it once, and the wheat and rice are harvested.
It’s over, it’s very fast.”
“Here in Hezhong Province, one person often has to plant hundreds of acres of fields a year. They have so many fields that they can’t finish them all, and then they divide the fields into areas. If you plant one area this year, you won’t plant it next year.
Let it grow grass and other things, and then put cow and sheep dung and the like into it to increase the fat. It is only in the third and fourth years that this land is planted, so the farmers grow well and have a high harvest.
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"Really or not? If this good land is not cultivated, why has it been left idle for a year or two?"
"The reason is to maintain the fertility of the land. If you cultivate it every year, the fertility of the land will be seriously lost, so it will be deserted for a day or two, and then the fertility of the land will be replenished by adding cattle and sheep manure."
"That's right, but if the cultivated fields are left uncultivated for a year or two, weeds will grow in them, and they will have to be cultivated again."
"That's not true, but they said it would be easy to cultivate fields if you have a cultivator."
"We have many people from Nanyun Province and Ha Trung Province here in Shangyun Town. When the time comes, we will learn more from them. The outside is different from the inside of our mountains. Farming is all knowledge."
"That's true. We grow rice in the mountains, but we can't grow rice here. We don't know how to grow wheat or something like that. We need to learn more when the time comes."
"We need to learn more. The people in Nanyun Province are the closest to here. Those people are considered locals and know this place best. When the time comes, we should learn more from them."
“I don’t know what this cultivator or harvester looks like, but it’s so powerful.”
"It is said that there is even a machine for pounding rice. It is fast and good..."
