Liujia Village, Ye County, Henan Province, following the emperor's imperial edict of immigration, Liujia Village needs to immigrate seven families and 35 people to the Western Regions to enrich the Ming Dynasty's frontier.
When it comes to immigration, in the past, it would have made people stern and fearful. No one was willing to immigrate, and no one was willing to leave their hometown and go to an uncertain place to survive.
In this era of extremely inconvenient transportation, just the process of traveling long distances is enough to be daunting, not to mention leaving one's hometown, wandering with no stability, no food, no place to live, and an uncertain future.
No one is willing to immigrate or leave his homeland. This is the saying that it is difficult to leave the homeland, and the moon is the brightness of the hometown.
Therefore, immigration since ancient times has been a compulsory order from the imperial court. Only if you don't go there can you immigrate. Otherwise, if it is a spontaneous immigration, there will be no immigration at all.
But now the situation has changed dramatically.
With the successive immigrations of the imperial court, everyone gradually discovered the benefits of immigration.
Henan, Shaanxi, and Shanxi have always been one of the main places for immigrants from the imperial court. These three provinces are the main destinations for immigrants to Liaodong and Nanyang, and millions of people have immigrated there.
Millions of people immigrated to Liaodong, Nanyang and overseas areas. Naturally, the news continued to spread back. Some people even came back to visit relatives and introduce the immigration situation in detail to everyone.
The imperial court attaches great importance to immigrants. It is not only responsible for the food and accommodation along the way, but also provides a large amount of land as a reward after immigrants arrive. It will also solve the food problem before harvest. In many places, even accommodation houses are built for you.
Whether it is people who immigrated to the Liaodong area or people who immigrated to overseas Nanyang areas, their lives have undergone earth-shaking changes.
In the past, everyone in their hometown was extremely poor. They needed land but no land, and they needed money but no money. They even had to go hungry and have a full meal. They could only farm land for the landlord, and they were tired all year round.
To work hard means to live barely.
But after they immigrated, all of them became spirits.
Not only do they have a large amount of fertile farmland of their own, and they not only serve white flour steamed buns for every meal, but they can also eat meat. The key is that some people have become rich just by immigrating in the past year or so.
After some people return to their hometowns, they walk with a swagger and a swagger, just like rowing a boat. Even if they see the former landlords, they have a look of indifference on their faces.
Liu Lezi in Liujia Village is such a person.
Liujia Village is a large village, with hundreds of households and hundreds of people. Liu Laizi used to be famously poor in Liujia Village.
Like most families, Liu Laizi's family also has many brothers and sisters. This Liu Laizi's family is poor, but they are very hard-working. All eight brothers and sisters survived, which cost Liu Laizi's parents their lives.
Especially since the eldest son, Liu Lezi, is gradually coming of age, and with the half-young men behind him who are trying to eat me to death, Liu Lezi’s family can be said to be the poorest among the poor. They are so poor that they can’t even afford a meal of white noodles throughout the year.
He was so poor that when Liu Lezi got sick before, because he had no money to treat the disease, his family believed in Tu Fangzi and burned his head with incense sticks, which left ugly scars, so he got the nickname Lezi.
This Liu Lezi was poor in the past and because of the ugly scars on his head, Liu Lezi could not get a wife even when he was twenty-two years old. The villagers thought that he would definitely be a bachelor for the rest of his life.
But since the winter of the year before last, when Liu Lezi's family couldn't open the pot again in winter, the imperial decree came down to immigrate to Liaodong.
Liu Lezi did not go there because of the land, houses, etc. in the Liaodong area, but because he heard that as long as he was willing to immigrate to the Liaodong area, the court would provide food and accommodation along the way, and he would have plenty to eat.
So he went. At that time, no one wanted to immigrate, so Liu Laizi took the initiative to go there, which was naturally what he wanted.
It had been more than a year since he left. When everyone had almost forgotten about Liu Lezi, Liu Lezi came back.
Not only did he come back, but he also brought his family with him.
Last winter, Liu Lezi drove his four-wheeled carriage, which was filled with flour ground from wheat grown in his own fields in Liaodong. He also picked mushrooms from the mountains, dried them, and learned from others.
Hunting, dried meat obtained from hunting in the mountains.
Of course, this is not the point. The point is that there is a beautiful woman in the car. The woman is also holding a fat boy, who is red, white and tender, and very cute.
When Liu Lezi returned to Liujia Village dressed like this, the whole Liujia Village was in a state of excitement.
Everyone couldn't believe that the man in front of them, who was strong and rosy, and who came back with a lovely wife and new year's goods, could be the same Liu Lezi.
Although it was unbelievable, everyone soon became more curious about what exactly Liu Lezi had experienced in Liaodong, so that he could undergo such a huge change in just one year.
All of a sudden, Liu Lezi became a famous person in the village. People gathered around him every day and listened to his stories about Liaodong.
There is a lot of land in Liaodong, it is very fertile, and it is all ownerless land. As long as you take wooden stakes, drive stakes on the ground and enclose it, the land will be yours.
There are so many fish in the Liaodong area. Just find a place with water and scoop them out with a ladle. There are too many to eat. No one likes to eat fish. There are also silly roe deer in the Liaodong area. When you see people
If you don't want to leave, just walk over with a stick and knock on it.
While saying forget it, he kept showing off the local specialties he brought back from Liaodong. It is said that Liaodong's white noodles are now the favorite of wealthy people in Beijing and Tianjin because the land in Liaodong is fertile and it snows in winter.
There's a lot of it. The wheat grows very well, so this side is naturally the best.
There is also a lot of dried roe deer meat. Liu Lezi said that people in Liaodong don’t like eating roe deer meat anymore, and there are also a lot of pheasants like this in Liaodong.
Several times, Liu Laizi just forgot to close the door, and the pheasants flew into the house, so he just closed the door and caught them.
What else is there? Liaodong is very close to North Korea, a vassal state of the Ming Dynasty. Many people go to North Korea to find wives. Liu Lezi’s beautiful wife was obtained from North Korea.
No money is required, because Liu Lezi is from the Ming Dynasty. There are a lot of fields, houses and endless flour in Liaodong, so people in Korea are willing to marry people from the Ming Dynasty.
Because as long as you marry a Ming Dynasty person, you will have endless white flour to eat, endless fields to plant, and a lot of land for growing vegetables.
