Chapter 434: The secret of Heping Village
"Brother, this Heping Village is so big!"
"Yes! It doesn't look like they have many houses, but the village is so big!"
"Indeed, this is probably the second largest village in our tea city."
Wang Qiang and his entourage rode the mutated horses directly over the ridges, and flew along a straight line. In less than ten minutes, they climbed over the layers of ridges and arrived at the edge of Heping Village.
The four little girls looked at the almost endless Heping Village here and exclaimed.
"Yes, your observation skills are very good."
Wang Qiang nodded and said to his sisters, "This Heping Village ranks third in the tea city in terms of village size and population."
"But the size of a village is not equal to the area of fields, mountains and forests. This Heping Village has the most fields and forests per capita in Chacheng County. I heard that when they divided the fields among households, each person was assigned sixteen acres of fields!"
"This is more land than the per capita land in Jiangbei Village! It's a vast land and sparsely populated area."
"There are only about 3,000 people in their village, but they have 50,000 acres of cultivated fields and dozens of nearby mountains!"
"There are about 30,000 to 40,000 acres of uncultivated wasteland, which is truly a unique blessing."
In this Heping Village, even Wang Qiang was a little emotional, "This village is indeed the hometown of the famous old bandit Zhong Chupei, which makes people a little speechless."
In fact, a few decades ago, there were several villages near here, and it was not just a peaceful village.
After Zhong Chu, a very cruel old bandit, became the queen of Zhanshan, he just wiped out the nearby villages. Some of the fish that slipped through the trap also fled the Yuecheng area and have been missing since then.
The reason why the old bandit was so cruel was that Heping Village had always had deep grievances with several nearby villages. He simply bulldozed those villages without stopping, thus occupying all their territory.
It was precisely because of Zhong Chupei's reputation that there was only one peaceful village left in this huge area.
Even the no-man's land that Wang Qiang and the others walked along was formed precisely because of this extremely cruel old bandit.
There were originally several villages in that area, but after Zhong Chupei destroyed several nearby villages, everyone was so frightened that they abandoned the village and fled overnight, and were never heard from again.
I don’t know whether they were caught up and destroyed by Zhong Chupei and his men, or whether they escaped from the Moon City area.
Anyway, those villages, after some useful things were looted, were burned down by the old bandit Zhong Chupei. Since then, there has been no trace of them, and they have become no man's land.
Since then, only Heping Village has remained in this vast area.
After Zhong Chupei, a vicious bandit group, was wiped out by the army, the county took back this uninhabited land and turned it into a directly-governed area.
Even so, Heping Village is still the village with the most fields per capita in the entire tea city when it comes to allocating fields to households.
At that time, more than a thousand bandits were wiped out, and most of them were from Heping Village.
Otherwise, the village with the second largest population in Tea City would not be Ping An Village, but this Ping An Village.
"Sixteen acres of cultivated land per capita?"
"Wow! So many?"
“I originally thought that our Jiangbei Village had the most fields per capita in the Tea City, but I didn’t expect that it was actually this Heping Village!”…
As soon as Wang Qiang finished speaking, the four little girls kept shouting.
"You guys wait here, I'm going to continue drawing the route map."
"Don't wander around, just stay where you are and watch me draw. You can also learn something."
This Heping Village is not a kind place. Although it has been kept quiet in recent decades, all the guns and ammunition have been taken away, and the county even sent a militia team to station in it.
Even the village committee is composed of people sent from the county to carry out strict management.
However, Wang Qiang must also be careful to avoid getting into trouble.
After all, when you go out, this is not Jiangbei Village, so there is nothing wrong with being careful.
It took him another ten minutes to basically complete the route map he drew.
The remaining section is along the wasteland beside Heping Village, heading straight to Yinquan Mountain in the distance.
You can clearly see here that Silver Spring Mountain is a lonely super mountain.
It covers an area of seven or eight miles, and the surrounding area is surrounded by wasteland, covering several thousand acres.
From now on, the entire circle of several thousand acres of wasteland around it will already belong to Wang Qiang Company.
The road from here to Yinquan Mountain is smooth and smooth, and the road construction is also very convenient. There is no need to pass through the village of Heping Village.
After the construction of the main road is completed, the distance to the nearest villager will be about one mile, which is very suitable for land acquisition by the county.
Yes, the large piece of wasteland leading to Yinquan Mountain belongs to Heping Village, covering an area of nearly 10,000 acres.
Wang Qiang estimated that the county would deliberately expropriate more, and perhaps all of this wasteland would be expropriated.
Supervisor Xiao from the county and his colleagues are not stupid.
No one would have guessed that if Wang Qiang's two large-scale factories are located here in the future, it will definitely become very lively and the development will be very thorough.
From now on, this wasteland, which was once empty of birds, will become a cornucopia.
If the county develops it casually, it will generate continuous large amounts of income.
What's more, there are too many fields, mountains and forests in Heping Village. They have always wanted to take some back, but unfortunately they have no excuse.
Now, with the help of the east wind brought by Wang Qiang, some big moves may be made to expropriate as much of the wasteland and barren mountains and ridges here as possible.
Otherwise, it would be too unfair to other villages.
The reason is that most of the fields, mountains and forests in Heping Village were stolen by our ancestors, and they were snatched decades ago.
Based on Wang Qiang's guess, the county will definitely do this and take this opportunity to take back large tracts of fields and forests.
"Let's go! Go check around Silver Spring Mountain."
Wang Qiang put away the drawing tools, stood up, and said to his sisters, "This time, there is no need to go up the mountain. The most important thing is to check clearly the direction of the silver spring water on Yinquan Mountain and the direction of the river flowing down from the mountain."
"Only by clarifying this point can we plan and lay out our two large factories and draw up the planning and construction drawings."
"The small river running down the mountain has a large volume of water, but it does not flow to Heping Village here, but to the mountains in the distance."
In the memory of later generations, Wang Qiang visited Silver Spring Mountain twice and climbed to the top of the mountain both times. He clearly knew where the source of the huge Silver Spring was.
Therefore, Wang Qiang was able to form a rudimentary plan in his mind without going up the mountain.
All you need to do is draw the topographic map around Silver Spring Mountain and your trip will be done.
Chapter completed!