At the end of Qin, I became a son of the plane

Chapter 247, Difficult Reclamation
Yingbu couldn't wait for the people who were sent to him, but Dong Min, Zhu Wu and others who were sent to him were not in a good mood. Xu Fan didn't kill them at the beginning, but just sent them to the frontier. Dong Min and others felt lucky. Xu Fan is indeed a kindhearted woman.

But when they crossed the Yangtze River, the expressions of Dong Mu and others began to change. The south of the Huaihe River was already a barren land, and the south of the Yangtze River was a barren land for Dong Mu, who lived in Sishui County.

And when these people walked through Hengshan County, they saw jungles on both sides of the road, roaring tigers and monkeys, and only a few cities and villages dotting this wild land. Dong Miao all looked pale. This is no longer civilized. land.

When they reached Lujiang County, they could hardly see the city or the villages. They could only see the endless trees and wild beasts that suddenly appeared. Dong Miao's face was ashen. Jiang finally had a profound understanding. From the time he arrived in Lujiang County, people died almost every day because they were not acclimatized to the climate or were killed by various wild beasts.

The Emperor of the Han Dynasty was so benevolent as a woman, it was simply the most vicious punishment for them.

By the time they reached the capital of Yingbu, Dong Miao and others were already no different from barbaric savages.

But Dong Min, Zhu Wu and others even felt tears in their eyes when they saw Yingbu's simple capital, and there were finally traces of civilization.

The last time they saw a city was Luling a month ago. If they hadn't seen Chi Dao, Dong Min, Zhu Wu and others would have suspected that Xu Fan wanted to kill them, but for the sake of his own reputation, he took them to a wilderness to trap them.

Although they also knew that it was almost impossible for Xu Fan to do such a thing, the wild scenes along the way were so terrifying that they did not even believe that there would be a city ahead of them.

Yingbu took his prime minister with him, and the general Wang Zai came to greet these people.

"Come here if you have blacksmith skills!"

After saying this, Wang Zai led the soldiers and left here.

"Your Majesty, please give me your instructions."

Dong Min, Zhu Wu and others were relieved when they heard Yingbu's words. Yingbu said that life would be easier in the future.

"promise!"

Then, under the leadership of Sui He, Wang Jin and 500 Han soldiers went to rest.

Wang Zai led these people to a newly established residential area, which was full of thatched houses made of branches and straw, which were worse than the cowsheds in the Central Plains.

Yingbu pointed to the plains and hills in the distance and said: "Here you can cultivate as much land as you want. There will be no equalization of land. In the first five years, our country will not charge you a stone of grain tax. You can cultivate as much land as you want." If you can build a city and fort, I can even make you a county magistrate. Today, your status as a prisoner is nothing. My former status was also a prisoner, but now I have become a prince. In this vast land of southern Xinjiang, as long as you dare to work hard, you will definitely achieve great things. "

"General, take them down to wash and rest, arrange a room for them to rest, ask about their skills, and find all the blacksmiths, stonemasons, carpenters and other craftsmen individually."

Wang Zai cupped his hands and saluted: "No!"

And Yingbu looked at these exiles and said loudly: "My father-in-law does not care about the things you committed in the Central Plains. All your grudges and grudges have been left in the Central Plains. Here, you and your father-in-law are of the same clan, and we all work together to achieve the same goal." ”

"Come here if you know how to read."

Dong Min continued: "Let's settle down here first. In the Central Plains, we are sinners, but in this barbaric land, we are Han people. Yingbu is right about one thing. The world here is vast and we can do a lot. I'll wait. After decades of hard work, it may not be impossible to revive the family business.”

"Prime Minister," Yingbu shouted.

Dong Min smiled bitterly and said: "Where are we going to escape? It will take us three months just to walk this way. We are afraid that we will become a delicacy for wild beasts as soon as we leave the wilderness."

Wang Zai said: "Each household can receive a house. If you want to live comfortably, build your own house. No one will be watching you when you get here. Even if you want to escape, you can, as long as you can escape back to the Central Plains."

Yingbu grabbed Wang Jun's hand and said, "Thank you for your hard work, General."

The next day, Prime Minister He of the British Empire came over with several civil servants and said, "They are descendants from hundreds of families."

Zhu Wu came to Dong Mu and asked, "Aren't Yingbu and the others really worried about us escaping?"

"Take our Han army brothers to eat, and then prepare a place for them to rest."

Wang Jin said tiredly: "Mr. British, there are 5340 people in this group of exiles. The 102 people who died on the road due to disease and wild beast attacks are actually 5238 people."

"You can survive if you know how to be a carpenter!"

Dong Min came to Sui He and said, "Someone can read and write."

Suihe threw away a copy of "The Analects of Confucius" and said, "Read the content above."

"The Master said: Isn't it right to learn and practice it over time? Isn't it a joy to have friends from far away? Isn't it a gentleman if a person doesn't get confused if he doesn't know?"

Sui He nodded and said: "Since you are literate, you have two choices. One is to stay in the capital and become a civil servant, with a salary of 100 stones. Staying in the capital will be safe, but there will be no development prospects.

The second is to become the leader of the Baiyue people's village in our country. The British government will give you hundreds of acres of land as your salary, and you will manage hundreds of people in the Baiyue people's villages and towns. Although this is dangerous, as long as you recruit The more barbarians there are, the higher the official position will be. If there are thousands of barbarians, you will be a village farmer, and if you have five thousand people, you will be the county magistrate."

Dong Min said: "I am willing to become Li Zheng."

Although Dong Min was demoted here, he still wanted to revive his family business. Compared with Baishi Xiaoli, he obviously had a better future in England, at least it was tangible.

Then He Gai took out a wooden seal and said: "This is Meiling Village, the seal of Li Zheng. From now on, you are the Li Zheng of Meiling Village."

Then he threw out three more books, the third one, "The Book of Getting Rich".

"These three books, one is to teach you how to farm, one is to let the people of Baiyue know writing, and the other is a military book to organize the people of Baiyue. From now on, you will lead these villagers to reclaim land and plant tea trees. "How successful you are depends on your own abilities."

Dong Min asked: "Where is Meiling Village?"

Suihe pointed to a small mountain pass surrounded by mountains and said: "This direction is Meiling Village, which is more than 20 miles away from the capital."

Originally, many people saw Dong Mou easily becoming Li Zheng, and wanted to learn from his choices, but when they saw the lush hills, where did they look like a populated place?
Suddenly many people gave up the idea.

There are only a dozen or so people who dare to become Li Zheng, and they are all the kind of people who are bold and want to take a chance.

The remaining dozens of people want to stay in the capital and become minor officials, and they will not force themselves to do anything. The capital also needs a lot of manpower.

The number of people under Yingbu's rule has exceeded 5. If he wants to feed so many people, the 10 shi of food given by Xu Fan is simply not enough. The big man behind Yingbu is his greatest confidence.

He can buy cloth, ironware, salt and other goods from the Han at very low prices, and then trade them to the Baiyue tribes hundreds of miles away at several times the price, and the furs, herbs, tea and other goods of these Baiyue tribes All are sold in Yingbu's capital. Yingbu's caravans can go north along the Ganjiang River to resist Nanjun and Hengshan counties.

The dozens of transport ship-sized caravans in Yingbo's hands were Britain's largest economic source, and they were also the confidence for Yingbo to educate Baiyue.

After sorting out these talents, blacksmiths will go to ironworks, carpenters will go to carpenters, and stonemasons will go to kilns and mines.

In addition to trade, the second pillar industry of Britain is handicraft industry. Although Yingbu looks down on those ironware, ceramic bowls, and wooden furniture, for the Baiyue tribe with a radius of several hundred miles, the British products These practical handicraft supplies are high-quality goods, and they have always been in short supply. Even tribes hundreds of miles away have to come here to trade. Then He took the registered data and handed it to Yingbu.

Yingbu looked at the data in Suihe's hand and said happily: "I didn't expect that the number of blacksmiths here would be hundreds. I have always wanted a blast furnace and finally there is hope. When I return from my apprenticeship at Chenjun Iron and Steel Factory, I can build my own steel factory." Woke up."

Yingbu has always been dissatisfied with the blacksmith in his hands. He only knows how to use an iron-making furnace and can only make dozens of kilograms of iron at a time. He cannot even make a hundred-refined sword. He can only make farm tools. He has seen the blast furnace. For Yingbu, who makes iron, this efficiency is too low.

But he couldn't change this situation, because he didn't know how to make iron, and he didn't have many blacksmiths under him. He only knew that there was such a thing as a blast furnace, but he didn't know how to use a blast furnace to make iron.

Suihe said: "The technical difficulty of the blast furnace is too great. The principality should pay more attention to the sugar cane fields. Once the sugar cane matures and is turned into white sugar, our life in the UK will be much easier."

The steel plant is naturally a country's military weapon, but the British can buy agricultural tools and weapons at low prices from the Han Dynasty, so they naturally do not need to spend huge efforts to build steel plants.

On the contrary, expanding the sugarcane planting area and making white sugar can earn dozens of times the profit. This is very important for Britain, which needs a lot of money and materials for construction at this time.

Wang Zai said: "With more steel, our country can cut down more trees, reclaim more land, and build more cities. It all depends on the Han Dynasty, which is too passive."

Suihe said helplessly: "There is no place in the UK that doesn't need money and food. There isn't enough sugar. Where can we get the money and food to build an ironworks?"

Yingbu stopped the two of them with a headache and said: "Okay, don't talk about this matter. After the autumn harvest, the King of Han will hold a meeting of princes to check the progress of our development. I will talk to the King of Han about our country, and try to find a way to let the King of Han Support me and wait a little longer.”

The argument between his two confidants. After Yingbu became the Lord of Britain, he finally understood what it means to be a penny to defeat the heroic Han. Even though he had become a vassal king, he was even more lacking than when he was a subordinate of the King of Han. Money.

After being the king of princes for more than half a year, he finally understood why His Majesty valued the talents of hundreds of families so much. In this wild continent, blacksmiths, carpenters, stonemasons, and doctors were all more useful than soldiers. Without the addition of talents from all walks of life, he It is too difficult for a country to develop.

Meiling Village is said to be a village, but it is actually a gathering place of the Baiyue tribe consisting of dozens of thatched houses. There are thousands of acres of fields outside the village, and the sparse rice seedlings on them indicate that it is a rice field.

Dong Miao entered Meiling Village under the leadership of two soldiers. The soldiers then summoned all the villagers and announced to them that Dong Miao was their new village chief. All the villagers were satisfied with this appointment.

Dong Min was also shocked when he saw the people under his rule. They couldn't even afford linen clothes. They either wore animal skins or clothes made of straw. This was simply a savage village. Then he thought about it, the Baiyue tribe was not just a savage tribe.

After the soldiers left, he quickly discovered a new problem. He and the Baiyue villagers spoke different languages ​​and could not communicate at all. This made him how to govern the people.

Fortunately, there is no unstoppable path. There is a young man in this village who often visits the capital and learned Chinese. He became Dong Mi's translator, allowing Dong Mi to barely communicate with the villagers here.

At night, Dong Min slept in a straw hut and sighed in his heart: "There is a long way to go to revive the family business."

The fifth day of August in the third year of Han Dynasty.

In the warm south, the harvest season has arrived.

For Yingbu and others, the most important thing is the harvest of thousands of acres of sugarcane fields. Only with a good harvest in the sugarcane fields can they, England, have funding sources for continued development.

When Yingbu first came here, he immediately planted sugarcane seedlings, which shows that the British people attached great importance to them.

Yingbu personally led the young men of the capital to harvest the sugar cane in the fields. Thousands of people worked hard for three days and finally harvested all the sugar cane. Next, it was sent to the sugar mill to press and refine the sugar.

Yingbu looked at the mountains of sugar cane and asked with a smile: "Prime Minister, how much sugar cane have we harvested?"

Sui He said: "There are 1200 kilograms of sugar cane in one acre of sugar cane field. If you remove the branches, leaves, heads and tails, it is about one thousand kilograms."

Yingbu said in astonishment: "How come there are so few? I remember that the yield of sugarcane fields in Chen County exceeds 3000 kilograms per mu. Why do we only have % of Chen County's?"

Sui He said: "The sugar cane fields in Chen County are fertile land and are supervised by farmers and students, but ours is newly reclaimed land for planting. Even if the principality has arranged for Han farmers to take care of it, the production capacity is still not the same as that of Chen County. Compare."

Under the tutelage of Xu Fan, Yingbu learned mathematics pretty well. One acre of sugar cane can produce fifty jins of sucrose. One thousand acres here is 5 jins of sucrose. The price of white sugar is about one thousand qian per jin, that is, Said it was 5000 million dollars.

To be honest, this number disappoints Yingbu. I especially remember that Chen Jun made tens of thousands of gold back then.

Wang Zai said: "My lord, wait until next year when we plant 1 acres, so that we can earn gold."

Sui He shook his head and said: "That's not how the account is calculated. The more sugar there is, the faster the price will depreciate. When sugar first came out three years ago, one pound was 5000 yuan, but now it is only 1000 yuan per pound." This year, there are more sugarcane fields in Dahan, and the price will only drop faster. But fortunately, the profit from growing sugarcane is still dozens of times higher than growing food.”

Moreover, the UK has an advantage that other regions do not have, that is, it is located in the warm south. After planting this season, we can change to fertile land to continue planting sugar cane. Our sugar cane can be harvested in February at most. However, the sugar cane in the Han Dynasty had not yet been sown. At that time, in the whole world, we were the only ones in Britain who had sugar. The selling price at this time should be the highest. "

"My Lord, on the basis of being self-sufficient in food, striving to expand sugarcane fields is the first national policy of our country."

Ying preached: "The Prime Minister said well, find another piece of the most fertile land to plant sugar cane. This time I will plant 1 acres."

"promise!"

After the harvest of the sugar cane fields is completed, the autumn harvest in England has also begun.

Whether they were Han farmers in the capital or Baiyue farmers in the fields, they harvested their own crops.

Because they are all newly cultivated land, the income from food is generally around one stone. When farmers in the Han Dynasty saw such a harvest, they shook their heads repeatedly, but they also understood that the benefits of newly cultivated land were just like this. It would take two or three years to cultivate the land, so after the autumn harvest was completed, they quickly planted soybeans, hoping to fertilize the land with soybeans. Under Xu Fan's vigorous promotion, it is common knowledge among Chinese farmers that soybeans can fertilize their fields.

But the people in the surrounding Baiyue villages were smiling. They used to practice slash-and-burn farming, basically planting one gourd of grain and harvesting two scoops of grain. This year, the grain production capacity is close to 1 stone, which is an unprecedented bumper harvest for them.

For the wild southern Xinjiang, hunting and picking are still their main sources of food. Because rice is durable in storage, it has become the reserve grain of these tribes. With so much reserve grain, many people in the Baiyue tribe can avoid starving to death this year. .

August 25, the third year of the Han Dynasty.

Yingbu took 5 kilograms of sugar, 2000 kilograms of tea, herbal medicines and a large number of leather coats, boarded the transport ship, sailed down the Gan River, and first went to Fanyang to meet Wu Rui of Fanyang.

Yingbu's country is as crude as a savage country, but Wu Rui's Fanyang country can be called a paradise.

In the vast land of Fanyang Country, rice fields stretch as far as the eye can see. The number of fields here is more than ten times that of England. This land is irrigated to make it moist and fertile, and the water conservancy facilities are well-proportioned. Yingbu can even see many tall water plants. Cars, gurgling water passed through the waterwheels, nourishing every inch of land, allowing crops to grow and thrive, and the production capacity was several times that under Yingbu's rule.

The wall of Fanyang City is not very high, only about three feet. This can only be regarded as an ordinary city in the Central Plains. But at this time, Fanyang City looks so tall and majestic in Yingbu's eyes. The masonry city wall has always been what Yingbo wanted. It was built, but it was a pity that Yingbu did not have the strength. From the ships coming and going in and out of the dock, you can see the prosperity of this city. The prosperous Fanyang City even made Yingbu feel a little inferior.

At Fanyang City Pier, Wu Rui led officials to greet Yingbu.

When Yingbu saw Wu Rui greeting him, he immediately disembarked and said, "Marquis Fanyang personally greeted him. It's so polite."

Wu Rui said with a smile: "It really makes me happy that the British Lord can come to my little place. I have prepared a banquet to entertain the British Lord. I will not return until I get drunk today."

Yingbu smiled and said, "Then I won't bother Marquis Fanyang."

(End of this chapter)