1788, the new life of the refugees in northern Shaanxi
Yang Fan returned to his original form the next day. These gentry and bastards made him very angry.
If not, there was a shortage of manpower to develop back jackets and coats in the Alxa area. He really wanted to turn around and leave, letting these rogues have a good talk with them. As long as he put sticks on them, he would make sure that they were all docile.
Yang Fan mobilized all the remaining six to seven thousand steam trucks, except for the three thousand steam trucks of the Hami Automobile Division, which was responsible for supplying the army.
Even 300,000 camels were transferred from Monan to transport all the families of landless, jobless and foodless people in northern Shaanxi to Hetao.
Now except for Xitao, which is the Ningxia Plain, Neitao (Ordos, also called Henan), Houtao (Fengzhou, Hohhot Plain,), and Yuatao (Linhe, Baotou and other areas south of the Yinshan Mountains and north of the Yellow River) are all
It's Yang Fan's territory.
Among these places, inner set is suitable for grazing and settled animal husbandry. Back set and outer set are suitable for developing water conservancy irrigation systems and developing agriculture. Some central cities, such as Linhe, Jiuyuan (today's Baotou), and Guisui, are suitable for light and heavy industry.
These require a lot of manpower.
Jackets, back jackets, and inner jackets, after a large number of immigrants were enriched, a large number of craftsmen were also needed to provide various handicraft products. Yang Fan simply hunted rabbits and captured all the craftsmen in northern Shaanxi. Used
Gone to serve his territory.
Han Dezhu's family has more than fifty people, which is a relatively large family. In this era, it is easy to separate families, and they all live together. His family is truly a family of four generations.
The old man went to the west entrance to pull camels and made his first pot of gold. After returning home, he bought fifty acres of land. Although it was all hilly land, he could still get ten loads of millet and seven or eight loads of rice bran. At that time, the whole family
With just the couple and three sons, life is going pretty well.
As the three sons married and had children, the second generation was born, and soon the third generation was born. The population suddenly expanded. There were eight grandchildren. Now the grandchildren have married and had children, and the family has exceeded five.
ten mouthfuls.
Early marriage is common in this era, and it is not uncommon to get married at the age of thirteen or fourteen. Basically, everyone gets married at the age of fifteen or sixteen. Because human life span is too short. The average age is only thirty-five or sixteen. Girls should not marry early and have children as soon as possible.
, if you die after more than thirty years, you really won’t be able to stay with your husband for a few years.
However, as the population grows, a vicious cycle emerges.
Although there is more labor force, intensive farming can be done and the yield per mu can be greatly increased. However, children of several years old are all driven out to pick manure early, and with a large amount of farmyard manure being used, there is not much food.
Over the years, the family's life has been deteriorating.
Now, because the average land per person is less than one acre.
Life was already difficult, but this disaster affected them and their whole family was also arrested.
It is said that his family owns land and is not within the scope of Yang Fan's migration. However, seeing that these gentry could not stop Dingyuan Hou, they began to think about how to get some benefits from it.
Soon they figured out that they wanted to take the opportunity to annex land.
They sent out their own servants and domestic slaves, tied up many yeoman farmers, and sent them to the army. They falsely claimed that these people were refugees.
They are colluding with the government. How can Yang Fan's people really go to investigate? They are not the officials under Hong Chengchou and the others, right? And the soldiers are too lazy to pay attention to you. They just want to take away the labor force for the master. Who else?
Have the patience to identify them.
In this way, gentry and landlords from all over the country took action one after another, captured these common people, and took the opportunity to annex their lands. Since they couldn't afford to offend Yang Fan, they had to bully these common people. If you can't beat them, then join in. You have to
Doing something good for yourself is not.
The Marquis of Dingyuan was angered, but there was no good fruit to eat.
Didn't you see that those old squires who scolded him were all thrown into prison? They were said to be investigated for hiding the actual amount of land and evading taxes. There was also the issue of forced buying and selling of people in the family.
Is there a place for these pampered people to stay?
It wasn't until he left that Hong Chengchou dared to let him go. These old people, who originally wanted to rely on their old age, ended up being kicked to the iron plate.
I suffered some inhumane treatment there, and I felt angry and resentful. After returning home, I burped several times.
After five days of bumpy driving, Han Dezhu's family was kicked out of the truck in a daze.
They had never seen this kind of iron car that could run on its own. They were all trembling with fear. They, more than two hundred families in the same village, and thousands of families who came one after another, all stood there stupidly.
On the wasteland.
In front of you is a military camp. There are tents inside. To the east is a river. It looks so big, it must be the Yellow River. It was said before that their new home is on the edge of the Yellow River.
These people were taken into the camp, and then divided into different tents for men and women. They began to take forced baths. Their clothes were also thrown into a cauldron of boiling water and boiled. After bathing and removing insects, they were given new clothes.
Inside and outside clothing, shoes and socks.
Then he came out again and the family gathered together.
For a moment, everyone was in a daze. Due to lack of water, they would not take a few baths in their lives. This was the first time they saw the normal color of their skin and flesh. The women in the family seemed to be much more supple.
Thousands of people stood together, listening to the speech of an official on the stage.
"Okay, now we will allocate land to you according to the household registration book. All large families must be separated. A couple is a new small family. Each small family will be allocated fifty acres of irrigated land."
Suddenly, there was a huge explosion below. There were exclamations of disbelief.
Han Dezhu's family, the old man and his wife are still alive, and there is also a youngest daughter who was abandoned. Together with three sons and eight grandchildren, they can be divided into twelve small families in total. According to what the officer said,
Wouldn't it be necessary to allocate 600 acres of land?
This is simply unimaginable. Even in their wildest dreams, they would not dare to think so. This is irrigated land, not hillside land or dam land.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! But soon, the land was finalized, and every family got the title deed. They were told that it was only a permanent use right, without ownership, and could be passed on to others.
Descendants, however, are not allowed to buy, sell or rent.
Han Dezhu's family arrived at the field and saw the land that had not yet been reclaimed. Although it was overgrown with weeds, it looked very fertile.
The outside of each square kilometer of land is surrounded by water channels with wooden bridges on them.
This is really a land irrigated by water. As long as the Yellow River opens the gate and releases water, the water can be brought here.
The only disadvantage is that the channel must be dredged frequently. After all, the Yellow River has a high cement and sand content, which can easily block the main channel. However, this is the upper reaches of the Yellow River and does not flow through the Loess Plateau, so the sand content is much less than that of the lower reaches.
Then, Xinghe Bank's merchants came, farm implement merchants and wooden house merchants came, and all kinds of merchants came. As a subsidiary contract, they had to borrow two hundred taels and buy a big gift package.
It contains a prefabricated wooden house, a complete set of farm tools, three oxen, two plow sticks, a carriage and two horses. Several sets of clothes and shoes for the whole family, plus solid wood furniture, bedding, pots and pans, etc.
There are also seeds and fertilizers, which will only be available in spring.
Yang Fan would rather advance the funds himself and provide loans to them, but also take advantage of the opportunity of western development to increase various orders and employment opportunities. Since Yang Fan is determined to support an industrial and commercial class, he will naturally use every opportunity to provide strong support.
The biggest support for them is military orders and civilian orders.
As long as there are orders, these companies will survive sooner or later and achieve great development.
Han Dezhu himself is the grandson of a large family. He has five sons and two daughters. On top are his father, fourth uncle, and at the top are his grandparents and a single old aunt.
He and his wife had everything in an instant. They stood there for a moment wondering if it was a dream. The people from the bank told him that as long as their family worked hard, the fifty acres of irrigated land could be harvested in just ten years.
Pay off the loan in full with principal and interest.
Now the Linhe Textile Factory is expanding its scale and can grow 20 acres of grain and 30 acres of cotton. Now cotton is much more valuable than grain. If all cotton is planted, the loan can be paid off in only five years.
If it were not for the government's mandatory requirement that grain land should not be less than 40%, many people would want to plant all cotton.