my steam dam

Chapter 163 Penke: Someone Needed
The first batch of immigrants from the inland has already gone to Liaodong one after another and received their land.

In Jianzhou next door to Liaodong, Peng Ke and his subordinates were also busy working on the land.

"The land in Jianzhou is even more fertile than that in Liaodong!"

"No one has farmed here for thousands of years, and the land is very fertile. I don't think it is necessary to fatten, and you can grow food directly!"

Peng Ke was riding a horse, leading a dozen personal guards, and two subordinates, Wu Xuanshu and Lu Ming, and was inspecting the small plain two miles east of Ula City.

According to the request of the old boss Jiang Rengang, Peng Ke, the commander of the capital, is in charge of the farming affairs of the Liaodong capital.

This is also normal.

Generally, a capital division, in addition to the palm seals of the commanders, the commanders, colleagues, and officials are in charge of military training, farming, patrolling, military weapons, water transportation, Beijing operations, and imperial preparations.

Generally speaking, it is a technique of checks and balances carried out by the center in order to prevent all commanders from dominating the power.

The main senior officials of the capital are all in charge of part of the work, and the power of the capital commander is dispersed.

As for the two most important matters of military training and farm farming, Li Wenchang and Peng Ke were naturally divided.

It's just that for the time being, the construction of the state capital is more important than military training, and the city building is more important, so Li Wenchang was asked to concurrently issue the city building order first.

And Peng Ke was driven out to measure the land.

In the spring of next year, Jianzhou will also welcome military dependents and hundreds of thousands of immigrants.

Compared with Liaodong, Jianzhou is not the main development target.

The current Jianzhou is more to undertake the work of the former Liaodong Capital Division, as an important part of border defense.

In addition to the military, there will not be many civilians.

Emperor Hongwu was willing to allocate [-] immigrants because of what Peng Ke said in the memorial, and the extra [-] immigrants were not allowed to let the land in Jianzhou be abandoned.

After these military relatives and immigrants arrived, they must farm the land to provide food for the army of the capital of Jianzhou!

Therefore, Peng Ke, the acquaintance in charge of farming, had to prepare the fields for military subordinates before the beginning of spring.

Make sure they're ready for production when they arrive.

Of course, the preparations belonged to the preparations, and it didn't mean that Peng Ke should clean up the fields first.

There has never been any farming culture in Jianzhou. It is all primitive jungles and primitive plains, and there are almost no water conservancy facilities.

Pure original ecology.

No matter how powerful Peng Ke was, it was impossible for him to lead a dozen people to create fields for hundreds of thousands of military dependents.

He only needs to mark which lands are more fertile and suitable for reclamation, and divide them into a rough range.

Step on the spot in advance, and when the immigrants come, you don't have to look dark, and you don't even know where to farm.

In half a month, Peng Ke roughly ran around the [-]-mile radius around Ula City, and basically determined a few farming sites, all of which are natural plains. Not to mention the fertile land, reclamation will be relatively simple.

As long as you do some hydraulic power to divert water, and then plow the fields, you can basically put them into production.

At that time, these things will be left to the immigrants themselves.

Holding a newly drawn map around Ula City, Penke made a mark and drew a circle on the place under his feet.

"This plain covers an area of ​​[-] hectares, and [-] mu of fertile land can be cultivated!"

"Including this piece of land, within a radius of 24 miles of Ula City, four farming sites have been cleared, with a total of [-] mu of arable land."

"However, according to the arrangement of [-] mu of land for one family, it is only enough for [-] resettled families!"

Penke shook his head in distress.

In fact, he can understand Emperor Hongwu's thoughts. The immigrants to Liaodong and Jianzhou are all expensive and not expensive!

Try to squeeze out the productivity of every immigrant, so as to provide enough military rations for the garrisons in Liaodong, Jianzhou, and even Daning.

But, from Penke's own point of view.

He hoped that the more immigrants who came to the state, the better.

After all, no matter what you want to do, you need population as the foundation.

Seeing that he has now become the deputy of the capital of Jianzhou, on the three-acre land in Jianzhou, he can be regarded as a status under one person and above ten thousand.

This identity already allows him to display some of his ambitions.

But no matter what Penke wants to do, it takes time and people to make it happen.

News from the Jiangnan inland was continuously sent to him through the intelligence informants he arranged in Jiangnan.

Peng Ke knew very well that after Emperor Hongwu issued the Liaodong Immigrant Reclamation Order, it can be said that it ignited the enthusiasm of the people in the Jiangnan area and Huguang.

Compared with Hongwu's 20-year Yanyun Reclamation Order, this time Emperor Hongwu gave more bargaining chips.

The situation faced by the common people is also more severe than Hongwu 20 years ago.

The successive popularization of various farming machines has made the originally peaceful tenant class anxious and shaken.

In the entire Ming Dynasty, if you want to talk about which class has the largest population, it is definitely not the poor farm laborers, nor the landless people who can't live on, but the vast number of tenants!

Although there are quite a lot of self-cultivating farmers in Ming Dynasty, after all, Daming has just established a country and it is a thriving scene.

But there are still a lot of tenants.

Land will always be in the hands of big landlords, which cannot be avoided in any feudal dynasty.

And the landlords want to lease the land to the tenants for farming.

It’s just that in the year of Hongwu, the life of the tenants was pretty good. After all, it has not yet reached the period when land annexation is very intense. Instead, the current landlords want to improve the treatment in turn to attract tenants to take the initiative to rent their own land.

It was quite stable at first, but when various steam farming machines appeared this year, the class of tenants became unstable, and might even be on the verge of extinction.

Although the popularity of steam tillage machines is not something that can be achieved in a year or two.

If it is not sent by the imperial court, it may take three to five years, or even more than ten years, for the landlords to replace the tenants with machines.

Not to mention Daming, even Peng Ke's previous life has entered the 21st century, and he has not yet fully popularized mechanized agricultural labor throughout the country!

In the mountains of Yunguichuan, there are still a lot of purely human farming operations!
What's more, it's Daming in this world!

But the tenants don't understand this. They just feel that the wind is wrong, and they immediately worry about the future. The more courageous tenants will naturally choose to sign up for immigration and fight for it!
This has led to a very high enthusiasm for registration of immigrants from Liaodong this year, especially in the Jiangnan area.

But the imperial court only planned to immigrate 20 households to Liaodong and [-] households to Jianzhou!

This is far below Penke's psychological expectations.

In his opinion, at least [-] households must be immigrated to the land of Jianzhou, so that he can face some future turmoil with confidence!
Looking at the map in his hand, Peng Ke's eyes stayed on a red dot he had marked for a long time.

After a long time, he softly asked Lu Ming who was accompanying him, "I asked you to find a craftsman who knows how to mine, have you found it?"

"Returning to my lord, I have already found five or six of them. The subordinates specially sent people to Liaodong to recruit them. They are all experienced mine owners before."

"Give me some more time, and I can dig a manager from Yingkou Iron Mine in Liaodong!"

Peng Ke nodded in satisfaction: "Hurry up and arrange, we must recruit enough people before winter begins!"

"Otherwise, we will have to wait for the next year, and it will be too late!"

"As ordered!"

Penke's eyes were dark and uncertain.

If you want Emperor Hongwu to immigrate to Jianzhou more, you must come up with enough reasons to persuade him to immigrate more!
It is obviously a good choice to discover a gold mine with astonishing reserves, even the largest in Ming Dynasty!

Even if Emperor Hongwu didn't immigrate, he was sure that in the thirteen provinces of Ming Dynasty, he would create a story of Jianzhou's gold panning and get rich, and set off a wave of gold panning that permeated the whole Ming Dynasty!
With Jinshan, are you afraid that you won't be able to attract people?
(End of this chapter)