Water Margin farming to become powerful

Huang Tang was stunned for a while, and he didn't react until someone called him, and quickly followed the big team into the village under the jurisdiction of the supervisory committee.

While walking, Fang Liang introduced the situation here: "There used to be seven villages here, which are called natural villages according to the method of our supervisory committee. Positive class..."

Today, those who can be sent by the landlords of the various families are the nephews of the various families. Although they are not the patriarchs of the older generation, they are born from rich families who are pampered.

Listening to Fang Liang's introduction, everyone felt a little contempt in their hearts.

What about natural villages? In fact, why don't they understand the situation of these seven villages?
Those are poor peasants without household registration. Most of the reasons why they threw themselves into the reed marshes were that they were sealed off by various imperial courts and couldn’t pay high taxes, so they fled to the mountains. Going out, or owed usury to others in order to buy seeds and grains, I really had no choice but to abandon my family and business to escape famine.There are even many escaped slaves who escaped from the homes of local landlords and wealthy owners.

In short, if it weren't for people who couldn't get along in the whole Sizhou, who would run to make a living in these undeveloped reed marshes that are ravaged by mosquitoes and flies?
Everyone thought in their minds that when the guards first arrived here, they must have no strength to attack the local rich families, so they could not mobilize these poor people to find a way out here.

Just when most people were thinking so contemptuously, they had already arrived at the village where the general meeting was located.

What appeared in front of us was different from the hut houses that escaped households as everyone imagined, but a row of neatly arranged houses.

The Supervisory Committee was established by the Hongze Lake, where there were not many farmhouses in the past.

But since this is the headquarters of the Sizhou Supervisory Committee in the future, the Supervisory Committee will be working here for at least the next two years, so in addition to the construction of cultivated land, the house also needs to be repaired.

In the eyes of the soldiers of the protection army, this is just the most basic construction, but in the eyes of these landlord children, they are very surprised.

Some people have been to this place in the past, and in their memory, there are endless reeds here.

Occasionally there are some families, but most of those families make a living on fishing boats. Most of them have no houses at all, just a few families living on some broken sampans. The triangular huts are covered with reed mats and grass roofs.

It's no different than living in the wilderness.

But the rammed-earth houses in front of us are all neatly and firmly built, and even the outer walls of each house are whitewashed with lime, and the thatched roofs above are also bright yellow, obviously after careful drying and repairing.Even if such a house is placed in their manor, it can be regarded as a house that only decent people can live in.

How can everyone not be surprised that such a house suddenly appeared in the reeds in a memory?
Huang Tang himself was stunned for a long while before he realized it. He thought that this was probably the house that only the leader of the bandit army could live in. Thinking of this place, he felt a little contemptuous in his heart. Building such a large house is indeed a bandit practice.

At this moment, the door of a house by the road opened, and a thin, dark-skinned child poked his head in front of the house.

Everyone looked at him, and saw that the child was quickly called back by the woman in the room, and everyone could still hear the woman in the room scolding the child, saying in local dialect: "There are distinguished guests in the supervisory committee today, don't go out and disturb the leader." their business."

Everyone was a little surprised to hear the local dialect. The people living in this house could not be bandits from other places, they were obviously local village women.

"The people living in this house are not the guards?"

Several wealthy children started talking in low voices. Some people speculated that this was probably the deliberate attitude of the guards to deceive them, and some said that maybe the woman was taken into the house by the leader of the guards as a concubine.

But the further they went, the more untenable their guesses were, because everyone found that the houses in front of them were lined up in rows. How could the leaders of the protection army live in so many houses?
And after careful observation, everyone quickly found that these houses had obvious traces of use, which could not be done in a hurry. Some people still had pots and stoves in front of the houses, and the food in the pots had not been eaten yet.

This makes everyone even more surprised, at least these people can afford a pot?

The people in this place are really poor. How could there be so many people who could afford a pot in the past? Cooking some fish and shrimp in a few broken pottery bowls was considered cooking utensils.

Huang Tang couldn't help asking Fang Liang, "Who are the people living in these houses?"

Fang Liang said with a smile: "These houses are the assets of the local people, and they live in the villagers of the seven villages under the jurisdiction of our Surabaya Supervisory Committee."

Hearing this answer, everyone was stunned. Is this really a housing for those fishermen who couldn't even get to the shore before?how did you do that?
Organizing the people to repair houses was one of the first tasks that the Supervisory Committee set up after they came to these villages.

Although the local people are fishermen, the catch in the reed marsh is not rich. If you want to get more fish, you have to go to Hongze Lake, and it is very dangerous for the villagers to travel long distances. Once you enter Hongze Lake, you will be easily interrogated by the government and you will never be able to go there. All you can hunt are small fish and shrimps.

And because the entire coast of Hongze Lake is surrounded by water, the local small fish cannot be sold for a price at all, and these so-called local fishermen are fleeing households. Even if they go to the city, they will be afraid of being caught. The fish can only be sold to local fishmongers, and the income is very meager, which is an important reason why they live in such poverty.

If the Supervisory Committee wants to take root in the local area, it must rely on the strength of the local farmers. After investigating the situation in the local area, the Supervisory Committee finally came to the conclusion that the only way for these people to live comfortably is to farm. .

Moreover, the conditions for farming here are actually not bad. Although the edge of Hongze Lake is often flooded, because the population is not large, it is still feasible for the common people to feed their stomachs through farming.

Now that he has decided to farm, the first thing to do is to allow the people to go ashore and settle down.

So soon the Supervisory Council and the Protectorate Army and the common people began to repair houses in the villages where the Supervisory Council was established.

In fact, Huang Tang and the others had a good question. It was possible to do some hard work with the labor provided by the local people, but it was completely impossible to build these houses.

To be able to build such a beautiful house, in fact, it mainly depends on the money of the protection army to clear the way.

(End of this chapter)