A Millennium Aristocratic Family Starting from the Shang Dynasty

Chapter 510 Refugee Part

Daqian sent the refugees to the south, Lelang County and other places. In addition to being allocated thirty acres of land, they were also given various farm tools. Due to the hot and humid climate and abundant rainfall, many places in the south are suitable for farming.

The two-year, three-year system is more suitable here than in the north. As long as the land has sufficient nutrients, it can be planted continuously. The superior climate is actually more suitable for farming than in the north.

However, the red soil in the south is poorer than the loess in the north. The climate in the south is warm and farming can be done all year round, but there is no way around poor soil.

The Ryukyu Islands can be cultivated continuously because the land there is fertile and there are composts such as cow dung and sugarcane bagasse. At the same time, soybeans, black beans, mung beans, red beans and other plants are planted to increase the fertility of the land.

However, many places in the south are covered with red soil, which is not as fertile as loess. If you continue planting, the soil will become increasingly barren. Now there is only one kind a year. At the same time, in order to increase fertility, the court has been encouraging people to raise cattle and promote the use of manure.

In fact, in real history, rice with three crops a year was not fully promoted after its emergence. One of the important reasons for this was fertilizer.

Without fertilizer, even rice that can be harvested three times a year will not yield much food. The explosive growth of human agriculture in the future will be the emergence of modern chemical fertilizers.

There are not many ways to use fertilizers in the royal family's collection room. Among them, manure is the most commonly used fertilizer and the easiest to promote. In addition to manure, the other fertilizers that can be made are struvite and bone fertilizer.

Struvite exists on some overseas islands, and Wang Che has asked Wang Yun to search for it, while bone fertilizer is fertilizer made from ground sea fish bones. The bone fat here mainly refers to whales.

Whales are huge, weighing more than ten or even dozens of tons. In real history, a large number of whaling activities occurred in the seventeenth century. One of the important reasons was for whale oil. Before the discovery of oil, whales had always been an important industrial raw material.

Ever since the imperial court was able to go on long sea voyages, struvite and whaling had been put on the schedule. But because the navigation technology was not mature enough, it was not implemented.

Large-scale population migration was a major test for the Daqian court. The imperial court planned several routes, and then asked the officials to prepare porridge sheds and resting places along the way, and migrated in batches.

Hundreds of thousands of people set off from Hebei in batches of 3,000 or 5,000 and headed south or northeast to Liaodong. There are officials among these common people, and there are an army of one hundred people in each group responsible for security and order.

All the people are grouped into family units. There are about ten families per ten, and it is estimated that there are about fifty people. Choose who is the leader of one of these ten families. Every five ten thousand is a armor, and one person is elected as the armor leader.

These chiefs and commanders are responsible for maintaining their order, helping each other, and reporting problems in a timely manner. At the same time, they should be wary of anyone taking the opportunity to cause chaos and make lies to confuse the public. This is also to prevent someone from escaping.

After the reorganization was completed, the imperial court would ask soldiers to escort these people south or north. All people's traveling routes are along canals or galloping roads. At the same time, every thirty miles or so, the local government will set up a rest point. Food, water, medicine and a place to rest will be prepared here.

People would walk about thirty miles a day to rest. In order to prevent officials from being perfunctory, Wang Che specially arranged for embroidery envoys and patrol censors to inspect every stop.

At the same time, in order to prevent local officials from rushing to complete their tasks regardless of the lives of the people, the court would check the number of people at every stop. This kind of long-distance migration will definitely cause casualties due to various problems or accidents, but as long as the casualties are within a reasonable range, the court will not punish them. If it exceeds this number, everyone will not only have no merit, but will also be punished.

The migration project of hundreds of thousands of people was huge, and the imperial court mobilized tens of thousands of troops to guard along the way. A large number of people set out from Hebei and then went all the way south. The people dragged their families and families and did not move very fast. Soon the court discovered that the first batch of people traveled at different speeds, and many elderly people and children could not bear to travel thirty miles a day. Fortunately, the court reacted quickly and directly ordered that the station of thirty miles should be changed to twenty miles.

There were large cadres and soldiers to guard them, and there were officials to receive them along the way. Although the journey was very hard, the people's spirits were also very good.

After the imperial court reorganized the land in the south and unified the people into households, the area under its actual control expanded a lot. At the same time, there are also many more fields that can be cultivated.

In order to frighten those who were born in Yishanyue, Wang Che ordered the deployment of meritorious officials in the army to establish peasant soldiers in these places. However, there were not many farmers and soldiers this time, only 500 households.

And because these people did not have enough credit, the peasants and soldiers who were enfeoffed this time only had 150 acres of farmland. Of course, rewards will continue to be given after meritorious service in the future, limited to four hundred acres.

When the imperial court relocates people, although most of them will be incorporated into peasant households, some people will also become peasant soldiers. Originally, most of the peasant soldiers were their relatives. After all, it was a tradition for father and son to go into battle.

However, many of the feudal peasants and soldiers have already separated, or are unwilling to become its tribes, so the court allows these people to recruit on their own.

Buqu and slaves are completely different. Many people take refuge in wealthy families and are basically slaves with no personal freedom. This is not the case for Buqu. Buqu is between ordinary free people and slaves. They can marry a good wife and have their own property. Apart from the relationship of personal dependence, there is no difference between Buqu and free people.

Of course, the taxes of tribes are also lower than those of free people.

Liu Meng stood on the ridge of the field. Standing in front of him was his tribe. One of the three households was a naturalized citizen of Shanyue, and the other two households were victims of the disaster who migrated from Hebei.

Liu Meng mentally calculated that there were eighteen men and women in front of him, including five men, five women, and eight children.

Among the five men, two were not young, and three were in their prime. The imperial court moved to protect them, but even the old men suffered casualties. However, if they go into battle, only the three prime men can go.

There is nothing much to say about women. They are exposed to wind and sun, work all year round, and have rough skin. They are far inferior to those young ladies in Luoyang, but they are all good at farm work.

Liu Meng just got married not long ago. You must know that after he became a peasant soldier, many people came to marry him. The wealthy families in the city were also willing to marry their daughters to him, so he specially selected a long and beautiful girl. . As for saying he couldn't do farm work, Liu Meng never considered it.

The eight children are generally young. The oldest one is already twelve years old and will be a strong young man in a few years. It would only take ten years and a few more children for the Liu clan to have a firm foothold.

(End of this chapter)