More than 30 stages have been set up in the new city, and the street lights are all open. Although the smell of carbide lamps is wafting in the air, it also highlights the festive atmosphere of the approaching Spring Festival.
On the streets of Xincheng, the developed blocks are lined with shops, and every house has hung up red lanterns and decorated with colorful lights. The Spring Festival has just entered, and the flavor of the New Year is already very strong.
From now on, the curfew in Yang Fan's territory has been lifted until the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. The new city is open and anyone can enter. Tenants and domestic slaves from the surrounding countryside have brought their families to the new city to visit, shop and see things.
Play and visit relatives and friends.
Shops in the city are also open all night. Although the weather is very cold, it cannot stop the enthusiasm of the wealthy farmers for shopping. In the past two years, they have had enough to eat. I just want to make clothes for the whole family.
Buy clothes, buy some farm tools and daily necessities for your home. Buy some cotton to make some new quilts.
Because under Yang Fan's system, large families were split up into families of five or six. Many of them were small families composed of young couples. Those single tenants and domestic slaves also found wives from refugees.
Basically they all have families.
These people divided the land and built mud houses. With houses and enough food to eat, women would naturally be willing to marry. Now, Yang Fan's territory is surrounded by trenches and barbed wire, with only a few entrances and exits.
, there are countless people blocking the way, hoping to enter this area.
Many refugees from other places were guarding the entrance and exit with their daughters.
As long as a bag of grain is used as a betrothal gift, he is willing to marry his daughter in. The stewards of the Yang Mansion have a dedicated person responsible for handling people's marriage registration, and the buying and selling of people is strictly prohibited. In the Ming Dynasty, concubines must have status. The law has strict regulations, and ordinary people only
Able to be monogamous.
The disaster in the north has become more serious this year. Although these people are pitiful, there is nothing Yang Fan can do.
The territory basically does not need farmers anymore. If it continues to absorb refugees, the income of farmers under its rule will drop. Now, what the territory needs is to consolidate existing achievements.
A drop in income is not what Yang Fan wants to see. Yang Fan just hopes to cultivate a wealthy grassroots group of farmers so that they can have enough spending power to support the production of industrial products. At the same time, they are physically strong and regularly participate in military training to contribute to the Yang Mansion.
Vassal military obligations.
There is no free lunch in the world, and the free ones are actually the most expensive.
These people also understood that the master gave such good treatment in order to prepare for the war. They need to be ready to accept the call and go to the battlefield at any time. However, they do not care, as long as the family can survive and the happiness of their descendants is guaranteed, they
Don't care about going to the battlefield.
Only when the reservoir is repaired and Yang Fan takes advantage of the situation to annex and purchase land along the irrigation line to the east and southeast, and gradually develop more wilderness, can he continue to recruit refugees. Now he can only stop it.
Guoguo's family also took the intercity public carriage to the new city for fun and shopping. Guoguo was already eleven years old. When Brother Zhuzhu rescued her, she had been thinking about him. Unfortunately, her family later moved to a racecourse.
, and never saw him again.
My father was a soldier in Baihu Station. After moving to the racecourse, he was responsible for herding horses. My grandfather worked as a horse doctor. Both uncles were Yu Ding, that is, strong men from reserve military households who had not been drafted into military service. They all found jobs at the racecourse.
Responsible for cleaning the horse pen, feeding and brushing the horses.
When farming is busy, the horse farm will have a busy farming holiday. The family will go home to plant the land, topdress, or harvest.
Although their family left the 100-household settlement on the rocky beach, they were allotted land east of the river, which was still paddy fields.
What makes these military households the happiest is that the master has exempted all grain farming and all corvee labor. In this way, the military households will become farmers without taxes. They will have no burden because no government servants dare to come.
Come to Uncle Dingyuan's land to collect the money.
Although corvee is no longer required, the construction of water conservancy projects and public works are still essential. Nowadays, bidding is done by specially established construction companies.
Builders recruit construction teams to build according to the contract issued by the Yang government. This is a kind of business, just like a bricklayer who builds a house and receives money from the owner's family.
The biggest burden on the people of the Ming Dynasty was not the two taxes a year. It was the numerous and varied exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes arbitrarily assessed by the local government. The most painful thing for the people was the heavy corvee. The father and son were not allowed to rest throughout the year.
Now, the Yang Mansion has directly abolished the corvee service of military households. Instead, it publishes engineering projects and private engineering and construction companies submit bids.
Guoguo held her brother's little hand and followed her grandparents on the streets of Xincheng.
Guoguo thought to herself, the roads here are really nice. Since entering the city, she has never stepped on dirt. They are all gray-white hardened roads.
Both sides of the street are beautiful three-story arcades, which are houses with colonnades. Even if it rains, the two-meter-wide corridors can provide shelter from the rain.
There are street lights on both sides of the road. Every other section, there is a pair of huge trash cans and iron fences on the ground. Dad told Guoguo and his brother that this is the sewer in the city, and the rainwater in summer flows from here.
Go down honestly.
Guoguo and her brother looked at the scene in the city curiously.
There are so many people here, and everyone has a happy smile on their face.
Guoguo thought to herself that in the past, everyone in her family and neighbors had sad faces. Now everyone's face is full of confidence and vitality, and they walk with their heads held high.
Because everyone knows that next year will be better. Only when people have hope and hope can they open their hearts and relax their brows.
"Fellow fellows, everyone, please pay attention." An old man used a loudspeaker made of rolled iron sheets and shouted loudly: "Everyone, please do not litter. The garbage should be thrown into the trash can. Don't spit everywhere and wrap it in tissue paper."
Throw the phlegm into the trash can. Someone will hand out toilet paper near the trash can for free."
"Don't urinate in public, and be sure to go to public toilets. Public toilets provide toilet paper for free. Wash your hands after using the toilet." The old man took a sip of water, put down the water hyacinth, and continued to promote. "If you don't comply with the regulations, you will be fined.
If you're caught, you'll be fined. It's a copper coin, enough to buy a steamed bun. Guys, please be careful and watch your children."
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