New Shun 1730

In Dashun, the history of private land ownership is relatively long. Therefore, the foundation of a series of morals, culture, and consciousness is actually private land ownership.

The early settlers here were worried about two things.

First, are these lands their own after they are reclaimed?

Don't waste so much effort on yourself, and after reclaiming, it turns out to be official land.

Second, how much tax per mu will be paid after these lands are reclaimed?

Don't be excited to reclaim dozens of acres of land, and the result is that the tax per mu is half and half, 2:1 tax, 3:1 tax, and the tax system of official land in the early Ming Dynasty, which is a mess.

As long as these two things are solved, the enthusiasm for reclamation is still very high.

Moreover, with more land, it is not so busy.

For example, in the North China Plain, three crops in two years, it is really busy.

Here, the time for planting spring wheat and spring corn is staggered.

The season for harvesting spring wheat is not the season for harvesting corn. Once the time is staggered, there is enough land, and the climate of Fenglin Bay is rainy from autumn to April of the following year, so the weather is quite good during the wheat harvest season.

Therefore, the grain of more than 5,000 households that Dashun wants to move has been saved.

Anyway, the grain they grow is a bit embarrassing. In Dashun, there is basically no worry about selling grain. Although it is said that low grain prices hurt farmers, at most low grain prices are not to the point where grain cannot be sold at all.

Here, there is indeed the embarrassment of not being able to sell grain. Grain needs to be exchanged for the goods they want, and the goods they want are controlled by the immigration organizers.

In the winter of this year, the early immigrants were organized, saying that a new batch of immigrants will arrive soon and they need their help.

The days in the past two years have been really good, and mainly because Dashun does not prohibit private land hoarding at all, so the mountains, rivers, swamps, and even grasslands and forests are all official lands of the Dashun court.

Therefore, there is no so-called native-guest conflict here.

On the east coast, there are conflicts between the natives and the immigrants, and they are very serious, because the early arrivals are like dogs peeing, and they have enclosed all the land. Naturally, there will be strange things like the Thirteen States, where there are conflicts between the natives and the immigrants in a plain area with a population of about two million.

On the west coast, Dashun has put an end to such things from the beginning.

Since there are no conflicts between the natives and the immigrants, when it comes to specific people, there is no need to worry about the later people snatching their land. Therefore, the enthusiasm for compatriots surged up all of a sudden.

Dashun took a route similar to the classic Manila galleon, relying on ocean currents, so in Shandong, it is necessary to organize immigrants before the Dragon Boat Festival wheat harvest, and the season here is generally winter.

Dashun's officials here also issued a notice in advance, and now they have to repeat it again.

"The newcomers will stay at your home for a few days. Don't worry, like you, they have been vaccinated against smallpox before boarding the ship."

"Although there are many inconveniences, since we are all pioneers, we can help each other. We will stay for a while and we will organize them to build another village."

"Since we build a village with 120 households, each village must accept a certain number of people."

"Although it is not very cold here, the weather is humid, and we need a house to keep warm in winter. Each family has its own forest land, and each village has its own forest land, so there is no shortage of firewood. It is not like in my hometown, where I have to use a rake to dig out the roots of beans after harvesting them, so I can correct my habit of not wanting to make a fire..."

Some things are indeed Dashun characteristics, especially North China characteristics.

For example, they are reluctant to make a fire and go out to bask in the sun in winter.

There is really no way, they are forced to do this.

The North China Plain has been cultivated for more than 2,000 years. In some densely populated areas, the only forest is definitely cypress, and it can be basically confirmed that it is a grave circle.

The same is true for the popularization of sorghum in North China.

On the one hand, it was promoted in the Ming Dynasty because it was needed for flood control, and sorghum stalks could be used as materials when repairing dams.

On the other hand, it was also forced out by the problem of firewood.

The countryside is not the capital, and the capital can also cause many troubles because of the problem of coal. The problem of burning firewood in rural North China is indeed a long-standing problem.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to say that in some families, in autumn, women take small rakes to dig bean roots in the fields and go back to burn firewood for cooking. It is a fact.

Especially in Shandong, a key area for immigration, there has been no "public land" for a long time, and it has been completely privately owned. Public land and forest land do not exist, and even if there are some trees, they are private.

Raking bean roots is not for heating, but simply for cooking.

Heating... Heating is naturally squatting on the sunny side in front of the house in winter to bask in the sun. It is said that it is much warmer outside than at home, and that is true.

When you come here, many habits need to be changed.

Hardship and simplicity depend on why. There is plenty of firewood, but it is meaningless to live a simple and frugal life just for the sake of living a simple and frugal life.

Since they have set up villages and communities, they are somewhat similar to the idea of ​​the ancient well-field system - limited to the layout model of nine villages and one city - so officials such as the Minister of Agriculture have also been sent here.

They are all trained by the Whale Sea immigrants. At least, they have the skills to build a kang and a fireplace.

The houses in these villages and communities are basically carved out of the same mold. As for how to do it in the future, that is a personal wish, but for now, it is still built according to the same mold, which can be regarded as teaching these immigrants not to go out to bask in the sun in winter, but to stay at home and burn firewood - there is no sun in winter here, so they can't bask in the sun.

Dashun has the foundation laid by the Whale Sea immigrants, mainly the "cadre" foundation. Here, organizational ability, agricultural technology, housing technology, heating details and other issues are all familiar, just do it.

The immigrants who came earlier did not object to the request to stay at home temporarily. On the one hand, there are no land conflicts such as native-guest conflicts, and on the other hand, they are full of hope for the future after coming here.

The people of each village community are now in the slack season, and there is not much to do, so they come to Fenglin Bay to help according to the organization of the village community.

With the arrival of the immigrant fleet, Fenglin Bay soon became busy.

The women were organized to cook and provide meals for the immigrants.

The men were also organized to help pull the boat, transport people and goods with small boats, lead cattle and horses and other tasks.

Wang Cheng's family, who had just got off the boat, looked at the enthusiastic atmosphere here and was a little uncomfortable.

Another reason was that they were seasick for too long. Although the wind and waves along the way were not fatal, the immigrants had to toss enough.

Now that we have finally stepped onto the shore, we still can’t get used to seeing so many people and feeling the cold weather.

We had some food in Fenglin Bay, and in the evening, we were sent to a village on the north side of the river according to the assigned list.

A village of 120 households, with so many strangers pouring in all of a sudden, would definitely not be able to adapt if it was a few years ago.

But the first batch of people who came were also strangers who started to form a village community. In such a strange place, they need to help each other to survive.

Therefore, now that another batch of strangers has come, they will not feel uncomfortable.

The host was very enthusiastic and provided them with dinner, but it was a bit simple.

Cornmeal steamed bread, with pickled mustard cabbage cut into shreds and steamed, and finally a few drops of soybean oil.

A huge wooden basin, filled with a large basin of mustard cabbage.

Considering that Wang Cheng is quite old, there is still a custom of respecting the elderly and loving the young, so two white flour steamed buns were specially made for Wang Cheng, which can be regarded as the hospitality of the host.

The firewood crackled in the house, making it very warm.

After dinner, we chatted a little, just about where we were from and how many people there were.

At night, the men stayed in one room and the children and women stayed in another room, and they slept together.

We rested for two days.

On the morning of the third day, the newly arrived men were organized to build shacks in the village that had been surveyed.

The so-called shacks were simple.

Dig a half pit in the ground, or choose a place that is sheltered from the wind.

Put the wood into a tripod and cover it with grass, which is just enough to live in during the winter.

The living quarters are naturally simple, but the cowshed and horse shed cannot be so simple and need to be well built.

To use the words here, a horse is much more valuable than a person.

It seems that there are 120 households, and each household has 120 acres of land, but in fact it is not that big. It is just a circle of three or four kilometers square, and the new village community resettlement site is not far away.

Women also need to be organized to cook, fetch water, cut grass, etc.

Only old people like Wang Cheng don't have to do it; private school teachers, because they have the status of scholars, come to teach, so they don't have to do it.

For Wang Cheng, he is an old man, not old enough to be a member of the family, and of course he is not granted land.

For the private school teacher, he is a teacher, the village has nothing to do with him, and he does not live in the village, and he will live in the town in the future.

Now that he has just arrived, there are many inconveniences, the land has not been cultivated, and the most important thing is that the first spring planting and autumn harvest process has not been completed. The old man is still uneasy in his heart.

But if you want to say shocking, the life here has shocked Wang Cheng, at least it has diluted his anger when he was tied up by his son and stuffed on a dirt cart to overthrow Jinan Prefecture.

What is shocking is not the steamed bread or white flour buns eaten here, which are normal meals.

What is shocking is looking at the yard of the family where he is temporarily staying, which is full of firewood as high as a wall.

There was also a scene he saw these two days that shocked him so much that he almost wanted to call him a "prodigal son" again - cooking was not burning sorghum stalks or wheat stalks, but firewood. These firewoods were as thick as thighs and were split by axes.

Just like the elm trees in his house, when he decided to leave, he sold them for a price.

This is very normal. Some families will plant a few trees at the door, not only so that they can eat their own elm leaves in famine years - in famine years, elm leaves are not picked casually, they all have owners, and picking a bunch of elm leaves to give to others is a great favor.

It is also so that when they are in urgent need of money, they can cut down the trees and sell them for a few dollars.

Whether it is used as firewood or made into wood boards, it can generally be sold for a few dollars.

But here, the firewood as thick as thighs is actually burned directly?

What shocked him even more was asking the owner of the temporary residence: Why is the straw stack in your house gone?

The answer of the owner of this house made Wang Cheng drop his jaw directly: It was burned. After harvesting the wheat, they burned it directly on the field.

This was the first thing that shocked the old man who had lived in Luxi all his life after immigrating to Fusang.

It seemed that all the logic of his previous life was overturned here.

Burning firewood, and burning firewood split from straight thick trees instead of "small things" such as branches and straw, can really overturn the three views of many immigrants.

I dare not imagine it.

Even... hard to understand.