Time passed day by day, and when the chickens raised by He Xihua were half-grown, they also received a reply from home.
This letter was answered by his father, but it was definitely not written by his father, but someone else wrote it for him because his father was illiterate.
When he saw the letter saying that his father had decided to let his third brother immigrate here, he was relieved.
It is a good thing that the third brother can come over. It is a good thing for himself, the third brother, and the eldest brother.
As for the eldest brother, he knew it was impossible to come over.
His father had already decided several years ago that all the family property, especially the most important land, would be left to the eldest son. Their two younger sons could only fend for themselves, and even gave away the land and houses in advance.
Household, completely destroyed the minds of their two younger sons.
It would be impossible to say that the two younger sons had no complaints about this.
But there was nothing I could do, even though my father had already decided.
Besides, they actually knew that the little land at home was just enough for the eldest brother and his family, but if the three brothers got a share, they would all starve to death.
You have to make a living by yourself, either by working to make money or by immigrating.
He first chose to work and then immigrate. After going through this cycle, he found that it was better to immigrate.
As long as you are willing to endure hardships and have a little courage to go to distant frontiers, good times will come after a few years.
However, in such a huge empire, there are still not many people who are willing to do this. Regardless of the millions of people who have immigrated overseas, there are also millions who have immigrated to border provinces, but these have been accumulated over decades.
Then take into account the huge population base of the Tang Empire.
Then you will find that if people have other choices, they are not willing to leave their hometowns, let alone go to distant overseas countries or borders.
After this trip, many people will never have the chance to return to their hometown.
But it is also because Datang has a large population base, so even if the proportion of people willing to go is small, the total number is still a huge number.
In some areas with more people and less land, in fact, a considerable number of people leave their hometowns every year to seek life. Some go to work in the city, and some simply choose to immigrate.
Especially in families with little land and many sons, many sons will go out to make a living when they grow up. There is no way, the little land at home cannot support so many people.
Coupled with the current convenient transportation, various inland river ferries and trains allow people to leave easily, and it is not difficult to even cross the ocean to go to overseas territories.
As long as you choose to register for immigration, everything will be easy.
When He Xihua was working hard alone in the library, most of his neighbors were busy working to open up wasteland.
Wu Laosan's family is He Xihua's neighbor. At this moment, Wu Laosan is working in the fields with his wife, old mother and three children.
He and He Xihua came here alone, but Wu Laosan brought his family with him.
It's just that a family of six seems to have a large number of people, and when they immigrated, they were given more land according to their population, but in fact their family is seriously short of labor.
The old mother cannot do much work, the wife is also relatively weak, the son is still the third child and is only eight years old now, and the two daughters, one thirteen and one fifteen, cannot do any heavy work.
So it seemed like the whole family went into battle and the scene was a bit big, but in fact they didn't do much work.
Wu Laosan stood on the sky and the earth, looked up at He Xihua, who was hundreds of meters away, and sighed.
The young man who lives next door to their house is alone, but he has cultivated an area equivalent to one-third of their family's farmland, and he also raises chickens and pigs.
Calculating it this way, He Xihua, a strong young man, can do half as much work as the whole family.
Watching Wu Laosan looking at He Xihua who was waving a hoe and working hard opposite him, his wife next to him came up and wiped Wu Laosan's sweat with a handkerchief!
"Master, please take a rest!" When Wu Laosan's wife was talking, she herself was breathing heavily.
Wu Laosan looked back and nodded: "Everyone, take a break and drink some water!"
To be honest, he is a little worried about his wife's health now. Although a farm woman is used to farm work, it is difficult for her to support such heavy physical work now that she is in poor health.
But there is nothing we can do if there is no one at home to work. There are six mouths in this family. If we don’t cultivate enough fields and sow seeds this year, what will we eat next year?
The government will not continue to give them rations for the second year on credit.
Immigration also has costs. Transportation costs and farm tools may seem small. At the same time, the low-priced food provided to immigrants actually also requires costs.
Therefore, it is impossible for the Immigration and Reclamation Department to continue to provide subsidies. Generally, they will take care of them in the first year, and they will have to rely on themselves from the second year on.
Wu Laosan is naturally worried about his livelihood next year.
After being envious for a while, the wife next to me suddenly said: "What do you think of this Xiao He?"
"How about what?" Wu Laosan didn't react at first, but soon he did: "You mean?"
His wife nodded and said: "The eldest girl is not young anymore. I think this little He is honest and willing to work. There are no other people around him who can work like him!"
Wu Laosan also began to think deeply. It has been a few months since they moved here. They have known He Xihua for a long time. When chatting in their spare time, they also found out that He Xihua’s hometown is in Shandong. There are many brothers in the family, so he came out early.
Seeking life.
But this is not important. It has all come to Curry. Hometown and family are no longer important. We are all new immigrants.
It mainly depends on the person.
In his opinion, this He Xihua is still a very suitable candidate.
There are actually quite a lot of people in the area around Kuli now, probably 60,000 to 70,000 people in total, but the immigrants are far less numerous, only 10,000 people at most.
The rest are the army.
And these are actually not inside Curry City, but in places such as the west and north of the periphery.
To the west and north of Kuri City, the military also successively built multiple bastions and fortresses in some dangerous places to garrison troops to prevent Tatar attacks.
These are still infantry. In fact, more cavalry troops are still staying on the vast grassland.
On the one hand, it is to reduce the ration problem of horses through nomadic methods, and on the other hand, it is to patrol and eliminate the invading Tatar troops.
The actual number of troops stationed in Kuli City is only ten thousand, and these troops are also engaged in reclamation. They have encircled a large area of land for reclamation to solve the food problem.
In addition to the garrison in Kuli City, there are also a small number of family members of military and political officials, as well as merchants who came to take risks. The number of immigrants who have actually come to settle the land so far is estimated to be only about 10,000 people.
So despite the fact that there are many people in the area of Kuri now, in fact, after the military launches the Western Expedition and crosses the Ural River, the city of Kuri will be the same as other forward strategic cities in Tumi Province and Haidong Province.
, it suddenly became deserted, and only a few officials, garrison troops, and immigrants from the settlement would be left.
By then it would be great to have 20,000 to 30,000 people.
What's even worse is that these people are still scattered!
There is a lot of land in Central Asia, and not much of it is suitable for farming. Most of it is dry land or simply grassland, Gobi Desert or even desert. In order to attract the first batch of immigrants in the early stage, the conditions provided by the Immigration and Reclamation Department are also very superior.
Those who are willing to come to Kuli for farming will be allocated a large amount of land. The cultivated land suitable for farming is more than one hectare per person, and it will also provide more than 100 hectares of dry land per person.
For example, Wu Laosan and his family of six are divided into ten hectares of cultivated land, and another three hundred hectares of dry land.
If calculated, this is nearly 5,000 acres of land!
Just looking at the area, he can be considered a big landowner.
Unfortunately, most of these lands are not suitable for farming, and part of them that are suitable for farming are middle- and lower-grade fields. Without good water conservancy facilities and fertile soil, the yield will naturally not be high.
However, the area is large enough. As long as you work hard, you can still grow food, and the total amount will not be small.
This is not a special case in Kuli City. In fact, wherever the Tang Empire recruits immigrants, it will allocate a large amount of land for free. However, some places are more fertile, so the per capita allocation is less. Some places are not fertile enough, so
It's more per capita.
The situation here in Curry City is just more special, so more land is allocated to immigrants.
This created a very interesting situation for the land where the number of immigrants was too large, that is, the distance between immigrants was very large.
In such a vast land and sparsely populated area, communication among new immigrants is actually limited to a few nearby neighbors. Others are too far away and take too much time to visit.
Wu Laosan probably knew some of the dozens of neighbors in the surrounding area, and there were a few young men of the right age among them, but there were no young men who could endure hardships and work hard like He Xihua.
Thinking of this, Wu Laosan was actually a little moved.
While waiting for a while, Wu Laosan also found a few people to go to He Xihua and invited him to his home for dinner several times.
He Xihua, who was focused on farming and raising chickens, had not yet considered getting married, so naturally he did not see through Wu Laosan's sinister intentions.
As time passed day by day, when the chickens in the chicken coop grew almost the same, the smile on He Xihua's face became more and more numerous day by day.
One early morning, he drove an ox cart and brought two large cages of chickens into the city!
In order to raise these chickens, ducks and several pigs, his debts are increasing day by day.
Raising chickens also requires chickens and feed. Otherwise, if they are raised directly in the wild, these chickens will all starve to death...
If chickens, ducks, and pigs die of illness on a large scale along the way, he may be burdened with debts, and he will have to work hard to pay off the debts for several years to come.
But God has mercy on me, and nothing happened in the past few months.
The chickens, ducks and pigs are all growing up day by day!
Now, it's finally time to harvest.
A few days ago, he had learned from Aunt Wu that the prices of chickens, ducks, and pork in the city were quite gratifying. As long as he sold these chickens, ducks, and pigs, he would be able to pay off all his debts in one fell swoop and earn at least
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Twenty yuan seems to be just the salary of three or four months of working in a big city, but it is incomparable.
Because for He Xihua, this is pure income!
His main business is farming. Raising chickens, ducks, and pigs is just a side job. If you make more or less, it's all net profit.
And after making such a fortune, he will no longer need to take out loans to raise chickens and ducks in the future, and he will be able to support himself.
After entering the city, it didn't take long for He Xihua to sell all the chickens and ducks in the two cages. After getting the money, he suppressed his excitement and went directly to the bank to pay off part of the debt.
Then he ran to buy a batch of feed. His chicken raising business will continue.
But the chickens are no longer needed. He still has several hens and roosters left to lay eggs. After hatching, he can continue to raise them, and the subsequent investment will only be feed.
After buying the feed, he thought about it and went to the cloth store to buy another piece of cloth, a circle of coarse cloth, and a roll of calico.
This coarse cloth was intended to be used to make clothes for himself, but since he did not know how to sew, he would have to trouble the Wu family girl to make clothes, so naturally he could not let her work go in vain.
That calico is the reward he prepared!
Of course, when he was thinking about these things, he had completely ignored that the cloth store also provided tailoring services, which could directly help him make the purchased cloth into clothes.
Even if he feels that the tailor's charges are too expensive, he can still go directly to the tailor shop on the street, where there are cheap tailoring services specially provided for ordinary people like them, and the prices are very cheap.