I am not an ant thief in the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 373, National Integration

Xi Zhong’s words caught the eyes of the immigrants. According to this statement, they reclaimed 1000 acres of land, and the 1000 acres of land belonged to them. This is also a big landlord in the Han territory. These immigrants are pure farmers. They are full of love for the fields, and now they hear that they can get 1000 mu of land, which instantly ignites the spark in their hearts.

They dare not imagine that they can become big landlords in this life. Such a thing is impossible to happen in Dahan. Firstly, there is not so much wasteland in the territory of Dahan. Secondly, even if there is wasteland, as long as ordinary people cultivate it, they will be killed The gentry, the powerful gentry plundered away, the order in the area at the end of the Han Dynasty has long been chaotic, and ordinary people have to report to the regiment to keep warm, and they dare not do things like open up wasteland!
But now, according to Xi Zhong, it seems that this hope is within reach.They have seen too much wasteland along the way. As long as they are willing to work hard, they dare not think of producing thousands of acres of land, but it is still possible to produce hundreds of acres of land!
But some immigrants still worried: "The ruling will not confiscate our land, will it? Let us have fun for nothing!"

Although Dagan was very kind to them, immigrating here not only prepared houses for them, but also provided them with precious resources such as food, cloth, and salt. Compared with the big men who brutally exploited them, Dagan can be regarded as a paradise.

But they still don't trust the imperial court in their bones. This is the lesson they have learned from years of tragic experience, and it is engraved in their bones. People who easily believe in the imperial court are basically killed by the imperial court.

And these people who are still alive survived because they were full of distrust of the imperial court, so they also instinctively doubted the imperial court, worrying that the land they reclaimed would be confiscated by the imperial court with various excuses. Encountered too much.

Xi Zhong said with a smile: "The ruling said that one family has 100 mu, and you divide it into four or five families. This is not a violation of Dagan's decree. There are not many people in Liaodong now, but the ruling is still constantly recruiting refugees. You have to seize this opportunity, and there may not be such a good land in the future! As for worrying about your land being confiscated? We have invested tens of thousands of dollars in each of you when we are in power. Is it just to seize your land here? If you want to seize the land of the wild land, you will also seize the land of the Central Plains!"

Everyone was right when they thought about it, they already had nothing, and the houses and food they now owned were all governed by Dagan, who seemed to be really different from the Han court!
Then Xizhong covered the wasteland allocated to them with a small fishing net and said, "Each fishing net here is 100 mu. The land along the river is No. 1, followed by No. 2 and No. 3. Everyone Go draw lots, draw that piece of land, and that piece of land will be yours!"

Then he took out a box and said: "There are 200 numbers here, it depends on your own luck!"

The immigrants glanced at each other. Of course, everyone wanted to draw fields close to water sources. These fields are not only fertile, but also very convenient for irrigation!
Soon the immigrants went to the wooden box to draw lots. Naturally, those who were drawn in the front were elated, while those who were drawn in the back were a little downcast, but this way of drawing lots was also very successful, and everyone was convinced.

Although there were 200 households, the draw ended in less than half an hour.

Then Xi Zhong brought his men and these new immigrants to the land they had just drawn lots for!

After arriving at the place, his subordinates took out four long grass ropes and surrounded a piece of land. His subordinates nailed 4 wooden stakes to determine the land within the range of the wooden stakes. : "This is your land, and your whole family can start weeding and reclaiming wasteland here!"

This is the method that Xi Zhong thought of to measure the land. Measuring the land also requires a mathematical talent, and there are very few figures here. It would be exhausting to measure the land by an acre, so he personally measured 100 mu of land. , and then made these few measuring ropes. Anyway, his Wubao is surrounded by plains. As long as the length and width are measured on 100 acres of land in advance, there is no need to bother to calculate the area later.

The family of the immigrant who won the No. [-] lottery was very excited, and the land of hundreds of acres really belonged to them!This is completely unimaginable in Dahan!
"Go home quickly and take out your hoe and iron plow, we will start to open up wasteland now!" the immigrant old man excitedly said.The old man's family immediately ran to the wooden castle to prepare tools for land reclamation!

And the people who stayed here also began to enter the wasteland, constantly picking up the surrounding stones!Set aside.

But at this time, Xi Zhong said: "Don't throw away the stones, they can be used to pave the road or build a pier in the future!"

Xi Zhong knew that convenient transportation is indispensable for the development of his wooden castle, so he led his men to build roads when he had free time, and he even built a simple wharf
Then Xi Zhong's subordinates cleared a distance of rice paddies, and measured another 100 acres of land!
"Lot No. 2! This is your land!" With the example of the old man just now, many people returned home and took out the farm tools they just got. After confirming their land, they immediately started to open up wasteland!
Xi Zhong and the others measured the land very quickly. In less than half a day, he completed the measurement of the land of more than 200 households. He also reserved the location of roads and canals in advance.

And thousands of new immigrants are all busy on the land they just acquired!Xi Zhong laughs at this scene, such a lively scene cannot be seen in Dahan, the people at the bottom of Dahan are always full of sorrow, and it is rare to see joyful expressions on their faces!
In this way, everyone has been working until dark, Kuai's family has reclaimed an acre of wasteland. Although everyone has worked hard, everyone is full of hope!
Before returning to Mubao, Xi Zhong gathered these new immigrants together and said: "According to our Daqian system, every ten households must have a small captain, and every hundred households must have a large captain. You have all immigrated together. If you choose, you can choose by yourself, because besides helping you prepare these farm tools, the ruling party will also allocate an ox and horse for every ten households to help you open up wasteland, and prepare a waterwheel for every hundred households, but the waterwheel is waiting for us to build it. Only the water canals will deliver accessories, but I can apply for cattle and horses right away!"

Hearing such a good thing, everyone immediately began to elect the squad leader and squadron leader, and the process was very simple, the big man respected the elders, so the older people among the 10 households became the squad leader, and then elected from among these old people The two oldest and most respected people became the team captains. Because everyone is familiar with them along the way, they were selected very quickly!
In this way, the new immigrants opened up wasteland and the old immigrants built roads. Xi Zhong brought his men to Xiangping County, Liaodong County. Then the money shops in Pyongyang counties and counties issued 200 farming cattle tickets, and finally Xi Zhong could use the tickets to go to the cattle and horse market in Pyongyang and get 20 farming cattle!

This is the system established by Xu Wei. He knows that even the modern Celestial Dynasty is difficult to stop corruption, let alone the current feudal era where information is not smooth.Corruption is difficult to stop, but there are ways to limit it, and Xu Wei's idea is to try not to let the cadres take over the money, and the circulation of money within the entire cadre must attack the money shop.It is difficult for any cadre to have direct access to money, which naturally reduces the occurrence of corruption, and the big cadres can also concentrate on supervising the money shop, which reduces trouble.

Of course, there will be loopholes in any system, just like when Xizhong sold the 20 cows again, the new immigrants did not dare to intervene. In this way, Xizhong can earn tens of thousands of dollars at a time, and it is difficult for Xu Wei to even know about this matter. Sooner or later, officials of Dagan may find loopholes, but at least it rarely happens in freshmen Dagan.

For the sake of his own future, Xi Zhong would not sell these 20 cattle. He can only say that any system needs people to maintain it. If everyone wants to undercut the wall, no matter how good the system is, no matter how good the system is, Mao Xiong is an example.As for the freshmen, there are very few people who want to poach the wall, but there are many people who maintain the system.

After the ox was in hand, Xi Zhong returned to the wooden castle, and divided the oxen into immigrants so that each team could have a ox to use!Immigrants are more efficient in reclaiming wasteland!

However, Xi Zhong still disliked the inefficiency of opening up wasteland!He found two new emigration brigades and said, "Old man, you are too efficient to reclaim wasteland by yourself. Even in winter, you may not be able to reclaim 100 acres of land!"

Zhang Xuan is only fifty years old this year, but because of his poor life, he is already very old.

He smiled and said to Xi Zhong: "Even if there is not 100 acres, seventy or eighty acres can still be reclaimed, and the rest of the land will be reclaimed next year at worst!"

Another team leader, Ge Kuang, also laughed and said, "That's right, the land can't escape here anyway!"

Obviously, they are very satisfied with the current progress!

Xi Zhong could only point to the old immigrant's field and said, "How many acres of this land do you estimate?"

Ge Kuang is an old man farming. Although he has never studied mathematics, he can roughly guess the size of the fields here based on his own experience. He envied: "This field is probably about 10 mu!"

Zhang Xuan also said enviously: "The food produced by these lands alone is probably enough for us to eat for three years!"

Xi Zhong said: "This is the land of old immigrants. Almost each of them has 100 acres of land. They will reclaim more land next year. If you don't work hard, the gap will be even bigger in the future."

At this time, the two of them remembered that the land system established by Dagan was 100 mu per household. According to the population of the old immigrants, they could only have a maximum of 2 mu of land, but why is it five times more now?
Xi Zhong said: "This is the result of their hard work. Almost every family has 500 mu of land. Now you still think that it is not bad to reclaim dozens of mu by yourself?"

Ge Kuang said helplessly: "We also want so much land, but we are so tired that we can't get 10 mu of land within three months!"

Xi Zhong said with a smile: "Everyone is the same person, old immigrants can do it, why can't you do it!"

Zhang Xuan asked: "Tun chief, do you have a solution?"

"Ten miles to the north of our village, there are several tribes of Fuyu people. Each tribe has hundreds of people. If you can afford a catty of salt or three catties of grain, you can recruit a savage to help them open up wasteland!"

"Food and salt!" For the two old men, both food and salt are extremely precious resources, and they can even determine the life and death of a family!Obviously they are not willing to give out this grain and salt!

Xi Zhong said heartbrokenly: "A stone of grain is only more than 100 yuan in our big work, and even in Liaodong, the price of salt is only 4 yuan a catty, and it is not the price of a big man. What do you feel distressed about? Even in a big man, it is difficult to hire a man. Let's work long!"

Zhang Xuandao: "I'm used to being poor, and I'm reluctant to part with this food, especially a catty of salt, which used to be enough for our whole family to eat for a month."

But Xi Zhong said: "You don't know how to calculate the benefits. Not reclaiming an extra mu of land is equivalent to more than one stone of grain. What's the price to pay! Besides helping you open up wasteland, these savages, There are other benefits, I see that many of you are bachelors!"

Zhang Xuan nodded and said: "Too poor, I can no longer help the boy in the family to marry a wife, and now I am still a bachelor in my [-]s. Fortunately, there is no unparalleled road. When our Zhang family builds a family business here, The old man will find a way to find a wife for the boy in the family!"

Xi Zhong smiled and said: "Now you can help your boy find a wife! Go to the tribe of the savages, and if you fancy a girl, you can marry a big yellow girl with grain or salt as a dowry! There are some girls in our wooden castle. There are hundreds of such wives!"

This is also the method that Xi Zhong thought of to increase the labor force. The tribes who can immigrate here in Liaodong are basically the poorest group of people, and they have long been unable to marry a wife. These people are basically three generations poor, and Xi When Zhong tried his best to increase the population, he remembered Xu Wei's story of recruiting a husband and letting his subordinates take the wives of Xianbei people and Huns.

So he thought of transplanting this method to Liaodong. At the beginning, there were only a few hundred people in Xizhong's village, so he tried to help these bachelors marry their wives. As a result, the population soared by [-]%, becoming the current Datun with a population of over a thousand.

If these new immigrants also marry hundreds of wives, the population of his Wubao will soon exceed 3000, which can be regarded as the population of a lower county in front of a big man!
"Savage girl!" The two old men were surprised that Xi Zhong still had such an operation!
But when I think about it, if I can really marry my son a daughter-in-law, even a savage girl will recognize it. They are only three generations poor, and their family is about to die. A strong labor force, as long as three stones, no matter what counts, it will not suffer!
Zhang Xuan is very clear about the conditions of his family.No property, no money left in the family, when they were in Dahan, they were as poor as beggars, no one would marry their daughters to their family, and he did not give birth to a daughter for others, so the few boys in the family None are married!
And now there is barely one house in Liaodong, and it is impossible to get a wife without spending tens of thousands of dollars. It's not something that can be done in a short while.

And it would take 10 years to marry all three boys, Zhang Xuan couldn't afford to wait.It's not bad to have a wife with such three stones of grain now.At least he doesn't have to worry about the Zhang family's incense being cut off!
(End of this chapter)