Wang Jun and his family members, old and young, finally successfully entered the territory of Liangzhou from Lingwu.
At this moment, Wang Jun finally breathed a sigh of relief. For some reason, it seemed that as long as he stepped on the border of Liangzhou, he would be safe.
After registering household registration and disinfecting, dozens of members of the Wang family stayed at the checkpoint for two days before finally embarking on the road to Wuwei City.
Liangzhou treated those who came to escape the famine very favorably. During the quarantine period, they were given free food for every meal.
There is also a strange meat dish at noon, which the soldiers call lunch meat. Although the taste is not as good as real meat, it is still quite delicious.
After wandering all the way from Taiyuan to here, the Wang family is very satisfied.
In the end, the Wang family was arranged in five villages, including Cangshui and Cangnan, not far from Wuwei City.
According to Hexi regulations, large families are not allowed to live together.
The Wang family was divided into seventeen branches according to blood relatives, and the fields were allocated to small families.
Each household was assigned corresponding fields according to the number of people.
The whole Wang family was also very surprised that they were actually allocated a field.
Wang Jun's family has father Wang Mao and mother Wu. Wang Jun himself has not married yet, so his family has not been separated.
Wang Jun's eldest brother died early, leaving behind a sister-in-law and a nephew. Wang Jun also has a younger sister.
Father, mother, sister-in-law, sister and nephew were all allocated corresponding fields.
This surprised Wang Jun very much. You must know that the equal land system was born in the Sui Dynasty. During the Kaihuang period, women could divide the land.
But after Emperor Yang of the Sui Dynasty came to the throne, women had no land to divide.
In the Tang Dynasty, women could not divide the land, and underage men could not divide the land.
Unexpectedly, women and children in Longyou can still divide the fields, although the fields assigned to women and children are only half of those of adult men.
But the land allocated to the Wang family, as long as it is cultivated properly, will definitely be enough for Wang Jun's family to eat and drink.
As long as you cultivate well, you can still save surplus grain.
The men in the village farm, and during the slack time they can also work in the village's workshops.
Calculated in this way, as long as a farmer is willing to work hard, it will definitely not be a problem to support his family.
This is also the reason why so many people fled Longyou.
In such troubled times, being able to stably farm and support your family is already a paradise on earth.
Wang Jun thought about Lingwu again. Although there was no military disaster, the land annexation in Lingwu was very serious.
Long-term corvee work has made the people bankrupt, but the fields of these bankrupt people have either been divided up by local powerful people, or they have been directly confiscated by the government and sold at high prices.
Wang Jun sold off all his properties in Taiyuan and originally planned to buy land in Lingwu.
Wang Jun found many connections in Lingwu, but he could not find enough land to support a large family.
Unexpectedly, the land in Liangzhou was divided directly according to Dingkou, which surprised Wang Jun and his family.
With the fields, there would be no need to starve to death, and the Wang family would feel completely at ease.
After settling down, Wang Jun's father, Wang Mao, called a meeting with all the Wang clan members.
The connection between the big families in ancient times was very strong. Although Liangzhou had laws to separate these big families from living together, it could not prevent them from staying together.
This is also the strong inertia of ancient clan society, and even in modern society there are still remnants of clan power.
Players naturally know this, but the division of property and households will indeed weaken the influence of the big family.
And it is impossible for small families who are allocated scattered pieces of land to not engage in agricultural production at all as before.
This is Xue Hu's purpose to break up big families as much as possible and turn them into small landowners.
Completely dismembering a clan cannot be accomplished with just one decree.
As long as the desire of these big families to annex land is restrained, Xue Hu will achieve his goal.
During the Qin Dynasty when Shang Yang carried out the Reform, the Qin State required that men must separate their families when they reach adulthood.
The power of clans in the Qin State was greatly weakened, which also created an economic foundation for Qin Shihuang to conquer Liuhe.
However, after the fall of the Qin Dynasty, many powerful families quickly emerged in the Guanzhong area originally occupied by the Qin Dynasty.
This shows the strong vitality of clan power.
Although the households were divided in name, when Wang Mao convened a meeting of clan members, not a single one of them came.
What we want to discuss today is the Wang family’s establishment of industries.
In the past few days, Wang Mao, accompanied by Wang Jun, traveled to several surrounding villages.
It can be said that the workshops in Liangzhou are thriving.
Papermaking and clothing manufacturing became the two industries finally chosen by the family.
Wang Mao called everyone to a meeting today just to decide what to invest in.
The house of Wang Mao's family was a little small, but the clan members still sat quietly on the ground, waiting for Wang Mao to speak.
Wang Mao cleared his throat and said:
"Everyone has seen the stability and prosperity of Liangzhou."
"To be honest, when Jun'er told me that Liangzhou is so prosperous, I didn't believe it."
"But now I have seen it with my own eyes. Liangzhou is ten times more prosperous than what Jun'er described!"
"I don't know how long it will take for the war in the Central Plains to be settled. From now on, our branch will take root in Liangzhou."
Everyone was happy with a trace of reluctance.
If the current situation were not turbulent, who would be willing to leave their hometown?
But now I can no longer stay in Taiyuan. Along the way, only Liangzhou is the most livable.
Nowadays, every household has been granted land, and being able to settle down in Liangzhou is already the greatest luck in these troubled times.
Wang Mao continued: "In the past few days, Jun'er and I have inspected the workshops in Liangzhou."
"I know that many tribesmen think that acres of land should be purchased, but I also inquired and found that the Liangzhou government is very determined to curb land annexation."
A tribesman said: "Chief, if the government continues to suppress us, will the government still be able to control us if we buy land for farming?"
Wang Mao said: "The government has no control over your land purchase, but Liangzhou implements a progressive tax system."
"The more land per capita, the higher the tax rate. If a family has a thousand acres of fertile land, they will have to pay 70% of the rent. So what's the point of buying land?"
Everyone took a breath. The normal rent was only one-tenth of the normal rent, but Liangzhou actually used this method to suppress land annexation.
Wang Mao continued: "I have also communicated with many workshop owners. The money earned by the workshop is no less than the rent collected from farming. Moreover, there are free subsidies for setting up workshops. If others can do it, our Wang family can do it too!"
At this time, among the aristocratic families, there were no scholars of later generations who would despise business and production.
Families like the Wang family in Taiyuan will also arrange for their children to engage in business.
It is impossible for such a large family to rely entirely on farming, and there is not much resistance to opening a workshop.
After unifying their understanding, Wang Mao continued:
"But when opening a workshop, you still need to think carefully about it."
Wang Mao said one by one: "First of all, there is the wine shop. Everyone knows that the spirits bar in Longyou and the spirits sold at high prices in Lingwu Restaurant are produced in Longyou."
"But the first thing Jun'er and I ruled out was the brewing business."
Seeing the puzzled tribesmen below, Wang Mao explained:
"To brew wine in Liangzhou, you need to apply for a license from the government. Otherwise, you are brewing privately. If you are caught by the Salt and Iron Tax Department, you will be suspended and fined."
"In addition to applying for a license, the share of grain used for brewing every month is also approved by the government."
Now the knowledgeable tribesmen understood why Wang Mao ruled out the wine-making business in the first place.
You can still get the license plate if you exercise a little.
But quotas are troublesome.
Wine is made from grain, and in today's troubled times there are still many people who don't have enough to eat.
Nowadays, the Central Plains has promulgated a prohibition on alcohol long ago, prohibiting people from brewing wine privately.
This is to ensure food rations first.
Now that Longyou is prosperous, there is still enough grain to make wine.
But if the situation changes, the government will definitely tighten the food rationing quota. By then, without raw materials, wine will not be brewed.
In other words, the brewing industry is an industry that is greatly affected by policy and economics, with high profits but too high risks.
The Wang family has a lot of money, so it would be better to invest in a stable industry.
"The wool textile industry that is very prosperous in Liangzhou is not suitable for our Wang family."
Wang Mao said: "Nowadays, there are many cattle and sheep in Hexi, but there are wool spinning workshops in every village in Liangzhou. Some wealthy people will also buy a textile machine and spin wool at home during the off-season. The competition is too fierce."
It’s intense.”
"Furthermore, Jun'er heard that the most prosperous wool textile industry today is in Shazhou, where there are huge workshops with hundreds of machines spinning wool day and night. There is no advantage for us to invest in this."
Everyone nodded. Wang Mao had done thorough research. Although the Wang family had some money, they would definitely not be able to compete with these local industry tycoons.
Wang Mao continued: "The same is true for weaving. Now that cotton prices are high, we invest in the weaving industry and can't even buy raw materials."
Wang Mao looked at the tribesmen around him and said: "After Jun'er and I's inspection, papermaking and clothing making are the two industries that are most suitable for us."
"Everyone knows about Longyou paper. The flawless white Longyou paper is already famous."
At this time, a tribesman said: "Chief, no one bought books when we were in Lingwu. Can we still make money by making paper?"
Wang Mao smiled slightly and said: "The war in the Central Plains will always calm down, and good paper will definitely be sold."
"And Longyou alone can consume a lot of paper in a year. Have you seen the bookstores in Wuwei City?"
Several young tribesmen who had not yet gotten married were blushing. They bought several high-quality illustrated books from the bookstore in Wuwei City and read them with candles in their hands every day.
I heard that now in Shazhou City and Gaochang City, there are books published every month called magazines.
There are also newspapers that publish daily news, and their business is quite prosperous.
The bookstores in Liangzhou are indeed booming. I heard that the literary style in Gaochang, Shazhou is even more prosperous, and there is a bookstore in every neighborhood.
Wang Mao coughed and said: "We can open a paper making workshop, but I think a garment making workshop has more future."