Cultivation of chastity

Chapter 213 The Refugees of Tianjin City

The idea of ​​sending students from universities in the disaster-stricken areas and making them agricultural officials was actually the result of Cheng Zhijie's crusade against Qianzhong Road, and the students from agricultural universities easily gained a firm foothold in Guangzhou, Li Taicai slowly summed it up .

At the same time, Li Tai also understood that if he wanted the Agricultural Society to become the foundation for him to touch the society of Tang Dynasty, then he could only use this method to let the local people accept the students from the school.

As long as someone establishes a firm foothold at the grassroots level and opens a gap, then they can slowly penetrate to the grassroots through this gap.

If the development of the Agricultural Academy in Guangzhou was just an accidental discovery, then this time Henan was hit by floods, and I asked Lu Cai to guide the students of the Agricultural Academy to develop in Henan. To a certain extent, it was my own experience. Conscious attempt.

It's just that the specific result, I'm afraid it can only be left to time to slowly settle.

Li Tai didn't put too much thought on this, because what is more important to him now is the sowing of wheat in autumn.

At the same time, Li Tai tried to concentrate a large amount of land, science and technology, and human resources to cultivate on a large scale.

Compared with the Chang'an area, the large and small lands of almost aristocratic families are criss-crossed, which is not suitable for large-scale cultivation, but the cultivated land in Tianjin is all reclaimed by himself, so Li Tai can carry out large-scale cultivation according to his own wishes. try.

Although China has been a farming nation since ancient times, they looked down on science and technology in ancient times and regarded them as strange skills.

This leads to the fact that the development of agricultural equipment is the crystallization of the bottom working people's labor combined with their own wisdom.

Not to say that such utensils are bad, but such agricultural utensils must be developed towards labor-saving direction.

Because the people at the bottom have limited fields, they naturally hope to do more things with less power, and pursue cost-effectiveness.

But for Li Tai, he wanted to go to the scale of agriculture, and the labor-saving creative thinking was not suitable for him.

What I need is to pay attention to efficiency, even if I need to pay more for this efficiency, as long as I can bear the price, it is worth it in Li Tai's view.

For example, the eight-ox plow is definitely not used by ordinary people. After all, ordinary people may not have a farm ox in their homes. Often a village shares several farm oxen. But for Li Tai, if he wants to get together eight oxen It's really not difficult.

But now they have further researched the crawler planter. Of course, this kind of thing is not designed out of thin air, but let Mo Ling improve on the basis of the columbine cart. However, it took 2000 years until the Industrial Revolution to gradually eliminate it from the countryside.

And Li Tai didn't make any big changes, that is, according to the existing columbine cart model, a wooden box similar to a carriage was added behind the columbine cart to specially place the pre-placed planting, and at the same time, the seeds passed through the track and were directly thrown into the columbine cart opening. .

As for the movement of the track, it can be either hand-cranked or pulled by adding cattle.

Li Tai also discovered that perhaps because of the strange so-called internal energy in this world, the power of animals in this world is much stronger than that in the original world. Some things that could not be achieved in the original world with the power of animals can be tried in this world. give it a try.

It just needs the craftsmen to work hard to develop a machine that is more suitable for livestock.

In any case, the newly built city of Tianjin City, as well as the successively reclaimed land around it, can provide itself with a good testing ground to test whether this high-power and large-scale method is suitable for this era.

Of course, because of the use of animal power instead of manpower, this part of the people who were driven out of the countryside became the labor force entering Tianjin City.

At the same time, Li Tai looked at the farmland that kept sowing seeds, thinking in his heart,

"When the autumn plowing is over, we will start to organize people to go to Cangzhou, but we still have to wait for Chunfeng to come back!"

There is no way, the only people in my hands who can really work alone are Wang Zhenru and Li Chunfeng.

Wang Zhenru needs to be responsible for the road construction in Youzhou, which cannot be let go.

Because the city of Tianjin has opened, the foreign races around the Bohai Sea have gradually come to Tianjin City by boat to trade.

At the same time, some commercial routes to the grassland will also come to Tianjin City for supplies. After all, after leaving Youzhou, there are basically no such stable supply points.

With the city of Tianjin becoming a treaty port, last year, it was not obvious, but this year Li Tai can clearly feel that there are more and more business travelers traveling to and from Tianjin.

It's just that the entire Tianjin city is under construction with each passing day, so the increase of these business routes can't reveal anything, but Li Tai understands that the take-off of Tianjin city has already begun.

In order to better receive this wave of dividends, Li Tai understands that the local infrastructure in Tianjin City must be built well.

After all, Tianjin City is his foundation, so Wang Zhenru can't move easily, he can only wait for Li Chunfeng to come back.

As a matter of fact, as the students of the agricultural college taught the local people to grow wheat in the villages of various prefectures and counties in Henan, and established the local agricultural society to take root in the local area, Li Chunfeng decisively led those who were homeless due to the flood in Henan The refugees have returned to Tianjin.

One of the most important points is that as the local aristocratic families replanted winter wheat, signs of lack of labor began to rise a little bit.

After all, these aristocratic families were originally unwilling to take in those refugee tenants. It was because corn and wheat were not commonly planted in this area, let alone sown in autumn.

But now that the agricultural students have come to promote winter wheat, it is not uncommon for the aristocratic and powerful families to recruit some people who have become refugees as tenants because of the lack of manpower for planting.

Especially when Li Chunfeng found that these gathered refugees seemed a little moved, Li Chunfeng knew that he couldn't stay in this place in Hedong.

After all, as long as there is a chance to stay in their hometown and live, who would leave their hometown and go to other places for a living?
Therefore, Li Chunfeng immediately transferred the remaining supplies that could not be taken away to Du Ruhui, and immediately took the rest of the people to Dezhou without any hesitation.

"This Li Chunfeng is a bit interesting!" Du Ruhui couldn't help smiling when he saw the material list that Li Chunfeng handed over to him.

"Please don't blame Du Xiang, Chunfeng is afraid that King Yan will spend so much money and food, and it will all be for nothing!"

After all, Ma Zhou also saw why Li Chunfeng walked so simply, and resolutely comforted Du Ruhui.

"If you find something is wrong, you will make a decisive decision. Along the way, you will be prepared to evacuate Henan. You must know that he dispatched tens of thousands of refugees, not tens of thousands of troops!"

When Du Ruhui said this, he glanced at Ma Zhou and asked, "If it were you, do you think you can do it so quickly?"

"..." Ma Zhou couldn't help frowning when he heard this, but finally shook his head.

Although he has been directing the corvee to work, it is really impossible to evacuate these refugees in such an orderly and quick manner.

In fact, Ma Zhou couldn't do it because he regarded these refugees as human beings.

But Li Chunfeng is not. Li Chunfeng purely regards all people as data. In the past few months, he has given various conscious training and hints to the refugees, so that these refugees must abide by their own system.

Then I disassembled and modularized the entire process of evacuating Henan. I calculated every step as much as possible, and let the refugees do the same on the day of evacuation.

Of course, even if Li Chunfeng had made relatively long preparations, there were still some opponents among the refugees.

So Li Chunfeng didn't show any mercy. It would be fine if the refugees obeyed the rules, but as long as they wanted to cause riots, Wei Xu would directly let Wei Xu beat them to death.

In fact, it is only the road from Henan to Dezhou, which requires such high pressure and high efficiency only for results.

Once you get to Texas, especially where the medical camps are stationed, you can relax and feed these refugees!

Yes, this time it is to directly feed these refugees, not just a bowl of gruel every day.

For these refugees, nothing can appease them more than a bowl of rice. If there is one, then have another bowl.

And after eating this meal, let them sleep well, and when these refugees boarded the boat the next day, although they still felt confused, the fear in their hearts had dissipated a lot.

Because these refugees know that the food they eat is real, and they know whether they are worth the price.

But Li Chunfeng gave them grain to eat, so they had to sell it for more than grain.

To be honest, because Li Tai has dealt with too many such refugees, Li Chunfeng knows what the bottom line of these refugees is. Basically, as long as there is enough food, most of these refugees have no bottom line.

Therefore, on the journey from Xuzhou to Dezhou, whether by land or by water, as long as you ensure a daily fixed-point food supply and tell them where they will find food, these refugees will grit their teeth and crawl over.

And as long as they reach Dezhou after crossing the section from Xuzhou to Dezhou, after no one robs them, they can take a break, and then take these people to Tianjin City by water.

Tianjin is already very familiar with the treatment of these refugees. From top to bottom, every refugee takes a shower, hair clothes, and a full meal, which makes them feel refreshed.

Then, according to the number ranging from [-] to [-], they will be sent to nearby planned villages, where they will build houses and reclaim land.

Although the sowing period of winter wheat has passed, the land should be reclaimed first, and some beans should be planted next spring to improve the land. The same is true for planting in autumn.

Before these people came here, infrastructure and supporting facilities such as agricultural societies, medical buildings, toilets, and bathhouses had been built in each of these planned villages, and these supporting facilities could only continue with a population of the same size.

At the same time, Li Tai didn't let these people be idle, because human beings will come up with things when they are idle.

These people can't directly join the corvee right now, because they don't know the rules, and they still have to grind to a certain extent.

Li Tai sent people from the Agricultural Society to teach them to dig a cellar behind their yard, and at the same time arranged for Tianjin corvee to dig a large space under the center of their village.

Cellars are still very important in the frontier area of ​​Youzhou. If you are unlucky, if Youzhou City cannot defend the northern people in order to avoid being affected by the war, this cellar may be used to save lives.

As for the usual, you can store some supplies, which can be regarded as expanding the space to a certain extent.

Of course, there are also some people in Youzhou who are inland, and they will store winter snow in this cellar and use it as water in summer.

Moreover, since Li Tai asked the agricultural students to teach the common people to build greenhouses in winter, some common people have tried to build greenhouses, of course, more of them are from wealthy families. After all, who can resist eating vegetables in winter!
And to build a greenhouse for ice and snow boards, it is necessary to build supporting facilities and snow cellars by the way.

This snow cellar is connected to the smoke outlet of the fire, which is to use the ordinary fire to burn these snowflakes, and the water is used to irrigate the crops in the ice and snow greenhouse.

After all, transparent sunlight can shine on vegetables, but water with a suitable temperature is not easy to get in winter, so working people will always come up with the most convenient methods under the current situation.

As for Li Tai, Li Tai never felt that there was a lack of water at a suitable temperature.

Because Li Tai shoveled the snow directly, then boiled it with coals, and waited until the boiling water cooled and the temperature was right before watering.

There is no way, Li Tai has a mine under his command, so he is a local tyrant.

In fact, Li Tai is quite supportive of this method of using coal to boil water and then using the boiled water to cool down before watering winter crops. In other words, any production method that can directly use coal as a resource, Li Tai Both are supported.

Because Li Tai knows that if he wants to develop the coal industry, he must give full play to the importance of energy.

Only the more functions it plays and the more inseparable the whole society is from it, the more urgent the society's thirst for coal resources will be.

When the underground space in the center of the village is dug, the cellars of every household can also be connected to it.

If you want to visit in winter, don't go from the village, it's the same if you go directly from the underground.

After all, it needs to be considered that these people are just refugees, and they can only stay in their own homes in winter, with almost nothing except the thin clothes presented by Li Tai.

This kind of people's congress can't work in winter, but just give them cotton coats or something. Sorry, Li Tai doesn't have so many cold-proof materials in hand.

Therefore, it is better to directly dig a large space underground and give them some hand-work than to let them hide in their own homes in winter, unable to do anything and earn no money.

After all, these refugees are eating the money earned by their own hard work and sweat, and the food these people eat is really solid.

But when they actually received the food in Yanwang Mansion through their own work, the hearts of the people were settled.

Although this new living place is very weird, but King Yan kept his word, and these people gradually adapted to life.

Just when these refugees were developing steadily here, Li Chunfeng also set off with some corvees from Tianjin to Cangzhou.

(End of this chapter)