In Shangyun Town, Black Earth Province, with the howling cold wind, snowflakes flying, the land was vast.
Li Da got up early as usual. The winter here is really too cold. It is much colder than his hometown of Feng County. The government said that the temperature has reached minus ten degrees. It is freezing cold and extremely cold.
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It has been about half a year since I immigrated here. Seeing that the twenty-seventh year of Hongzhi is about to pass, it will soon be the twenty-eighth year of Hongzhi. Time flies so fast.
When he got up early in the morning, Li Da also quickly swept away the snow in his house, cleaned it, and removed the thick snow on the roof to prevent the snow from being too thick and crushing the house.
After doing this, I quickly went to the sheep pen and horse pen to look at my sheep and horses and add some warm hay and fodder to them.
These hay and fodder are also cut and stored on the grassland by machines in autumn. During the winter, if the livestock does not have enough fodder, they will definitely freeze to death.
After doing all this, it was good to hear the cry of his son. Three months after arriving here, his wife gave birth to a big fat boy for him, and he also became the first child born here in Shangyun Town.
After hearing about it, Mr. Deng Shandeng from the Immigration Department also came to visit in person and helped give him the name Li Shangyun.
This name sounds good at first sight. If Li Dalai was asked to choose a name, it might be someone like Li Damao or Li Dalang.
"Brother Li, I have your letter~"
At this time, Li Da's neighbor Wang Kaiwen raised a letter in his hand and said.
"A letter from home?"
When Li Day heard this, he immediately put down the things in his hands happily and hurried over. After taking the letter, no one knew the letter, so he handed it to Wang Kaiwen for help to read it.
"The letter said that your family was very happy to hear that you had given birth to a son, and told you to take good care of it. It said that the weather here is very cold, so try not to take the child out in the winter."
"I also said that my family has arranged a marriage for your brother Li Er, and they are planning to immigrate to Black Earth Province next year. See if you can help take care of Li Er then."
Wang Kaiwen opened the letter and read it. It was not long and contained very little content. He mentioned that his younger brother Li was getting married at the end of the second year and was planning to immigrate here next year.
"The second child is getting married too?"
"Calculating my age, I will be seventeen soon after the Chinese New Year. It's time to get married."
"It doesn't matter if you immigrate, it doesn't matter if you immigrate."
After hearing this, Li Da smiled and nodded.
In the past, I always felt that it was better to live in the mountains. I heard from the elders what the outside world was like, how poverty and famine there were. We couldn't even eat food. In years of famine, we couldn't even eat the bark of trees.
It's better to be in the mountains, where you can't be bullied by bully officials, and you don't have to pay taxes and do corvee labor, and you don't have to worry about famine. Although it's a bit harsher in the mountains, it's still better than suffering and being tired outside.
However, after he actually came out, Li Da realized that the outside world was very different from what his elders said. People outside were not only well-fed and warm, but also well-fed and beautifully dressed.
Outside there are high-rise buildings, bustling cities, and prosperous lives.
These are much better than living in the mountains. You can live a good life casually.
It's as if I'm here in Shangyun Town, with food and clothing that the imperial court has come down from, and Anjia's money. Even though I haven't grown any food this year, I still have enough to eat and wear.
Moreover, the Immigration Department has been organizing people to build roads, harden streets, etc. The Immigration Department also pays wages for these jobs. You can get five taels of silver for a month. The wages are very average. If you work in the Beijing-Tianjin area,
In the city, there must be no one doing it.
But for immigrants who have nothing to do, this is also a good income. After working for a few months, the streets in Shangyun Town have all been hardened, and at the same time, the entire Shangyun Town has been built.
There are more than 200 miles of roads in the town, and Dayang Town is not idle either.
This period of time was used to build a cement road to Xiaoyang Town. Xiaoyang Town really built a road to Kaffa Port. In this way, a cement road was built that connected many immigrant towns.
There are many benefits to building cement roads.
In the past, it was difficult to travel together during the heavy snowfall in winter, and traveling was extremely inconvenient. However, with the construction of cement roads, traveling has become much more convenient.
The Immigration Department has a special snowplow truck that travels between the immigrant towns every morning to remove snow from the roads to facilitate the transportation of materials such as horse carriages and cars to ensure the safety of each immigrant town.
Immigrants not only have food to eat in winter, but also vegetables and meat.
It can be said that after immigrating, Li Da's life became much better.
In the past, in the mountains, in the winter, the whole family might lie in bed, eating very little every day, and just sleeping constantly to relieve hunger.
Although there is no need to pay grain or rent in the mountains, the fields are sparse and barren, and the food produced is very limited. There are many people in the Li family, and there is simply not enough food to eat. They can only survive by drinking porridge and sleeping.
And every winter was the time when Mr. Li's father, Carpenter Li, was at his most grumpy. It would have been nice to have someone to help with the furniture and other things. If not, if they had to eat and store food at home, Mr. Li and his brothers would have been scolded and beaten a lot.
As for earning money by working, don't even think about it. Even if you go to help people build furniture or something, you rarely get money. If you have enough to eat and can bring some food back before leaving, that's already great.
Already.
I worked outside for a month and got five taels of silver. According to the grain prices outside, these five taels of silver can buy thousands of kilograms of fine Hezhong rice, which is enough to last for a long time.
Li Da also explained all this in detail in his letter home. He also sent some money back and asked Carpenter Li to buy some food in the town to eat and buy some new clothes and quilts for everyone.
Obviously, Li Da's money was put to great use.
Carpenter Li used the money to marry his younger brother Li Er, and Li Da's life outside also made his younger brother yearn for the outside world. Li Er also thought about immigrating next year.
Li Da fully agrees and supports his younger brother's immigration. Only by living outside can you understand the wealth outside.
Now is the time when the Ming Dynasty was at its most prosperous and prosperous. The country was rich and the people were strong, the country was at its peak, and it was peaceful and prosperous. The people's lives were very easy. There was endless food to eat and endless land to plant. There was no need to live in a mountain nook without enough food or clothing.
Warm.
"I'm asking you to help me write a reply again."
Li laughed and said to Wang Kaiwen.
"It's okay, it's okay. I just happened to have received a letter from home, and we have to write it together anyway."
Wang Kaiwen said with a smile.
He is from Hezhong, and his home is much closer to here. He can receive a letter from home almost once every ten days and a half. The correspondence is very frequent. Unlike me, it takes two or three months to receive a letter from home.
letter.
I came to Wang Kaiwen's home and started writing a reply.
"Just reply to your letter and say that it is good for me to immigrate, but try to immigrate as early as possible after the Chinese New Year. If you do this quickly, you can still catch up with next year's farming season. I just immigrated too late this year, so this year's land
Basically, I was panicking and had no idea.”
"If possible, it is actually best for the whole family to immigrate. It is not that bad outside. The main thing is to be willing to endure hardship. There is land for cultivation and there is endless food."
"Besides, the Chinese New Year is coming soon, so don't save money. Buy what you need to eat, drink, clothes, quilts, etc. Only when people are full can their health be good and they will be less likely to get sick."
"Furthermore, everything is very good here. I have food and drink, and I can't finish the many vegetables grown on the ground. My wife and children are also very good. My son is now a fat boy.
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Li Da thought about it and said.
"Okay~"
Wang Kaiwen nodded after hearing this, and then he sorted it out and started writing. He finished it in a few seconds.
"It's better for you to be well-educated. Those who can read and digit, and know astronomy and geography will understand more."
Looking at the beautiful calligraphy written by Wang Kaiwen, Li Da also said with envy.
Think about yourself, you are illiterate and you need help reading letters, but Wang Kaiwen is a little younger, but you can read and write, and you know a lot of things.
He can also operate and repair machines. He was the first person in the town to buy a cultivator. He had already plowed his family's fields early, and he had also reclaimed thousands of acres of land. He just waited.
Sowing can be done after the new year and the beginning of spring.
And because he is well-educated, knowledgeable and educated, he is also very good at planning. Taking advantage of the current time, he actually invested a lot of money to build a pig farm on his own land outside the town, waiting for the spring.
After the weather warmed up, they started raising pigs, and they said that this is what everyone does here in the river.
"Brother Li, thank you very much. I was a little more playful in school, otherwise I would be studying in a higher education institution by now."
Wang Kaiwen smiled and shook his head. His city was actually very average, because all the students with good grades went to colleges and universities. Those with average grades like him either went to study technology or started working early.
"Brother Li, do you want to buy a cultivator?"
"If you buy a cultivator now, you can start to cultivate land on a large scale after spring. Otherwise, you won't be able to cultivate much land just by yourself and horses."
"This cultivator is very good, but I heard it costs more than 100 taels of silver. It's very expensive, and I don't know how to drive it."
"The court has policy support for buying a cultivator. Bank loans don't even require interest. You can't open a bank loan. I'll teach you. It's very simple. You can also try my cultivator first..."
