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Chapter 233 Food Pressure, Gold Mine Women
Liu Sheng stayed in Queshan County for two days and then came to Tianmu Mountain.

Twenty thousand refugees from Nanyang (mostly women) arrived at Tianmu Mountain yesterday and were waiting for him to be transported.

At the same time, various places in Runing Prefecture, as well as Yingzhou, Taihe and other places in Fengyang Prefecture, Shenqiu and Xiangcheng in Kaifeng Prefecture, Lushan in Ruzhou and Ye County in Nanyang, etc., have also received previous government orders to relocate their places. The refugees who could not survive were sent to Tianmu Mountain.

There are more than 5 refugees in total!

This is the result of digestion by various places.

Because compared to the surrounding areas controlled by the Ming Dynasty and the areas controlled by the Chuang Army, the saying that people can survive under the rule of the Weibei has spread.

Although there are not many people who believe, and even fewer are willing to take the risk, Henan's population base is there (there should be a few million people in Henan in Chongzhen's 14th year, right?). Even if only a small part comes, there are still many people. .

According to local statistics from Weibu, from May to July, Weibu housed more than 10,000 refugees!

Fortunately, the summer grain harvest in some areas of Runing this year was acceptable under the governance of the Ebu tribe, and the money previously confiscated from Chongfan, Xiangfan, and evil gentry and bullies in various places was used as a foundation, otherwise it would definitely not be able to survive.

Although they are holding on now, the food pressure is still very high, so some refugees who cannot be resettled can only be sent to Tianmu Mountain to prepare for migration to North America.

Most of the refugees repatriated from various places are still on the way, and Liu Sheng has some time now, so he is not in a hurry.

After returning to North America, he still first understood all aspects of work, as well as the development status of each town and camp, and most importantly, the progress of the development of new camps.

"After receiving the commander's telegram, we selected 2000 people from the three camps of Hedong, Hejiao and Xilin, and recruited [-] people from Huachu, Hebian and other towns who voluntarily participated in reclamation in the new camp.

Five new camps have been opened further upstream from Hejiao Camp. Although the camps are not yet fully constructed, it is the dry season and there is no problem in being used to house new immigrants. "

Liu Dachuan, the magistrate of Huachu County, accompanied Liu Sheng on the inspection tour and reported on various aspects of work on the way.

He knew that preparations for resettling new immigrants were the most important, so he was the first to talk about it.

Liu Sheng nodded slightly after hearing this, and then said: "Nearly 8 people immigrated this time. Is the food supply guaranteed?"

Liu Dachuan looked troubled and said: "The wheat harvest here this summer is considered a bumper harvest, and including other miscellaneous grains, it is enough to supply 10,000+ people until the autumn harvest.

But if these 8 people are added to the total, the total population of the towns and camps in Huachu County will be close to 20, and food supply may be difficult to guarantee. "

Liu Sheng reined in his horse, slowed down and turned around: "Dachuan, when did your work report become so vague? If you can, you can, if you can't, you can't. What does it mean to guarantee the difficulty?"

Liu Dachuan made Liu Shengxun's heart skip a beat, and he hurriedly explained: "If we plan properly and increase the harvest of fish and animal meat, we can indeed feed 20 people.

But if this happens, the food supply will become very tight, and the standard of three meals a day for the people will also drop significantly, and I am afraid that there will be resentment.

The subordinates asked people to calculate that as long as [-] shi of grain are transported from outside, this problem can be alleviated and the old immigrants will not be resentful. "

"Fifty thousand shi? I tell you clearly, not even [-] shi!" Liu Sheng frowned, "Right now, the food pressure outside is much greater than here!

Unlike outside, North America lacks staple food, so we can find ways to supplement more meat.

This time, the new immigrants will allocate more to the salt factories and fishing grounds on the other side of the bay, continuing to expand fishing and sea salt production.

In addition, didn’t the previous telegram say that the expedition discovered grasslands in the upper reaches of the Joaquin River?He also said that there were bison herds there, as well as many antelopes and elk.

Then form a hunting group and let them hunt there with salt and make cured meat and dried meat on the spot - the prey on the grassland can produce much more meat than in the forest. "

Liu Dachuan nodded, "I understand."

Fish more, hunt more, and use meat to make up for the lack of staple food. Liu Dachuan also knows this solution.

He proposed to transport [-] shi of food from outside, but he just didn't want North America to be too stressed about staple food.

This year's summer harvest of wheat and other miscellaneous grains has been bumper, and the lives of people in various towns in Huachu County have improved.It would be even better if compared with Ming Dynasty.Let’s not talk about eating pasta, but we are no longer as tight as last year.

If the supply of staple food becomes tight again due to the arrival of new immigrants, people will definitely complain.

But this is not a big problem after all.

Since there is greater pressure on food from outside, and we can no longer transport food to North America, we will just have to endure the hardships of new and old immigrants.

Liu Sheng added: "Didn't the Longshouwan Salt Factory produce a lot of salt during the dry season? Later, I will ask people to sell our salt elsewhere to see if we can get some food in exchange."

In addition, specialties such as salted fish and animal skins from North America would also be sold elsewhere in the Ming Dynasty in exchange for food.

As long as the food pressure outside has eased, I will dispatch some food to North America as appropriate. "

In fact, during the Chongzhen period, there was a food shortage in various parts of the Ming Dynasty. At most, the two granaries in Sichuan and Huguang were better. Other provinces basically needed to buy food from elsewhere.

There are even some maritime merchants who specialize in trafficking grain from Southeast Asia to sell in Daming, but they are basically transported on the return trip and are not large-scale.

Even so, various parts of the Ming Dynasty were still plagued by famine, and many people starved to death every year.

Liu Sheng uses North American salt, fur, salted fish, gold, etc. to sell and buy food elsewhere, which will definitely exacerbate food shortages in other places.

But in the current world, he really couldn't care about much. He could only try his best to ensure that the people of the Yi tribe did not starve to death.

After thinking about it, Liu Sheng simply gave Liu Dachuan a trick. "Old immigrants will be unhappy because of the lack of staple food in their three meals, but will new immigrants be unhappy? New immigrants will be satisfied as long as they have something to eat, let alone if their rations are mostly meat.

Therefore, the new immigrants can have more salted fish, cured meat, etc. in their rations, so that the consumption of staple food will not be so large.dont you agree? "

Liu Dachuan's eyes lit up after hearing this, and he said: "The commander-in-chief pointed out that it is indeed the case!"

Liu Sheng smiled and stopped talking about this topic.

He felt that even if he didn't mention this method, when the new immigrants arrived, the officials below would bring it up - there is no shortage of smart people in this world.

With the support of the knight guards, Liu Sheng took Liu Dachuan to a river bend.

A river to the east meets the Xinluo River here, forming a small tidal flat island in the river.

And because it is the dry season, the river water level has dropped significantly compared to the rainy season, large swaths of river beaches are exposed, and the river water has become shallower.

At this time, many people are hunched over on the river beach, but they are panning for gold!
This was discovered when the Kuei tribe opened a new camp, and the nameless river was named Jinsha River for this reason.

Initially, you can pick up small pieces of gold or even gold nuggets directly on the river beach.Now more than a month has passed since this place was discovered. All the larger gold has been picked up, so we can only pan for gold from the water.

After Liu Sheng inspected the area, he called the manager of the gold mine over and asked, "How much gold can be mined here in a day?"

"Commander, I can now find at least dozens of taels of gold every day. If someone is lucky and can pick up gold nuggets washed down from the upper reaches of the Jinsha River, or even large pieces of nugget gold, then the gold earned that day will be even more .”

Liu Sheng nodded with satisfaction and asked, "Is there any place suitable for gold mining in the upper reaches of the Jinsha River?"

"There should be, but right now the best one is here."

"Are there any natives coming to harass you?"

"It's too late for the natives to curry favor with us now, and they don't know the value of gold, so why would they come here."

Liu Sheng is not short of money, so he is quite satisfied with the output of this gold mine.

Moreover, the current amount of gold withdrawal is not small, it can reach thousands of taels a month.Putting it on Daming's side would definitely make many people red-eyed.

It's a pity that it's not easy to buy food these days if you have money...
In a blink of an eye, it’s the sixth day of August.

Nearly [-] immigrants have been transferred to North America by Liu Sheng for several days, and they have been arranged in various camps.

Each of the five new camps was allocated 4 new immigrants and [-] old immigrants, which resettled [-] people.

The three old camps of Hedong, Hejiao and Xilin will accommodate more than 2000 new immigrants, which will solve the problem of thousands more people.

A total of more than [-] people were resettled in the Salt Factory Camp in Longshou Bay and the Fishing Ground Camp in Huilong Bay!
There were also more than 9000 virgin women from Nanyang and more than [-] of their children, who were directly placed in Huachu Town and other towns.

This can also be regarded as a benefit to the old immigrants who have been divided into fields - the old immigrants who have been divided into fields are more looking forward to starting a family, and their wives and children are on the bed.

Although the Ministry of Finance did not force these women to get married, they arranged them into various towns. The single men in the towns who were near the water and had a good marriage naturally became easier...
Huaxi Town, Dongpo Village.

Li San led Ge Sanniang and Xiao Huan to a wooden house.

"You two go ahead and take a look at the house. If you need anything, you can tell me. As long as our village can arrange it, I will call someone to arrange it immediately."

Li San was smiling all over his face when he spoke.

He is happy.

After the land was divided, Li San became the village chief of Dongpo Village - Dongpo Village had nothing to do with Su Dongpo. It only got its name because it was located on a soil slope in Dongsanli of Huaxi Town.

There used to be [-] households in the village, but more than [-] households lacked mistresses.Even as the village chief, he still lives with his nominal nephews.

After the land was divided, the village had gone to the town court several times because of single men spying on other people's wives bathing and molesting women.

Therefore, the lack of women has become a headache for the village chief Li San.

He had heard before that there was a sale of native women in Hexi Town, so he made a special trip there.The thing is true, but the problem is that no one in the village can afford it now, unless they raise funds.

But there are also many problems to be solved in raising funds to buy a native woman - he is currently considering this matter.

Before he could think about it, the superiors assigned Huaxi Town the task of resettling hundreds of women.

Their Dongpo Village was also divided into dozens of people, and the big problem of lack of women was solved at once. Li San was very happy.

Knowing that Ge Sanniang and Xiao Huan were in charge of a battalion of women, Li San took the initiative to let the three brothers' houses go to these two. He only hoped to satisfy these two so that they could be used by his brothers in the future. Pulling red strings to marry a wife.

　First more.

　　Correct the typo later.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)