Go back to the Ming Dynasty to be a thousand households

Chapter 239

June 22rd, [-]nd year of Wanli.

The changes in the court have nothing to do with Huang Laifu for the time being, and he is busy now.

After the spring plowing, no matter in Wuzhai Fort, Bajiao Fort, Laoying Fort, etc., various farming and animal husbandry work began again.And Ningwu's mining and coal mining is also in full swing, it seems that the whole town is busy.

Fortunately, Gu Shibao, the deputy director of the Wuzhaibao Grain Bureau, Wang Qinian, the director of the Wuzhaibao Animal Husbandry Bureau, and others were busy with these matters, which saved Huang Laifu a lot of trouble.Now Huang Laifu has set up some institutional framework in Ningwuguan, imitating Wuzhai Fort, handling various things, everyone has his own business, but Huang Laifu is a little idle, wandering around all day, not Know what to fuss about.

In addition, the matter of immigration outside the Great Wall is also proceeding steadily.Due to immigration outside the Great Wall, various settlements need a large number of weapons and equipment. In the past few months, not to mention how many weapons Huang Laifu has sold. Just to make weapons, the military workshop in Wuzhaibao is also producing at full capacity every day. Waist knife long gun and so on.Due to the increasing demand for ironware, the Shenchibao Iron Works is also producing at full capacity every day.

However, the threat outside the Great Wall is the nomadic people, who need a lot of bows and arrows, but Huang Laifu has nothing to do.He decided to sell firearms to immigrants in the future.After all, it is not easy to make bows and arrows, and it is even more difficult to train an archer. It is much easier to use firecrackers. Therefore, the military workshop in Wuzhaibao is making a lot of firecrackers every day.

These things have been busy until June, when Huang Laifu's military rewards for the Korean War have come down.He is still the commander-in-chief of Shanxi Town, with the rank of governor and magistrate, Yin's son Shi Jinyi is in command of his affairs, and the rest of the officers and men also have their own rewards.The Ministry of War also agreed to Huang Laifu's request to take Jiang Dazhong as the general of Wuzhai Fort to guard the land of Wuzhai Fort.This made everyone happy for a while.

In order to speed up immigration outside the Great Wall, on this day, Huang Laifu took hundreds of pacesetters to inspect Shuiquanying Fort not far from the old camp fort.

From Ningwuguan to Shenchi Fort, to Laoying Fort, and then to Shuiquanying Fort, here is the side wall, the continuous Great Wall.Exiting the customs from here is beyond the Great Wall.

Usually, Shuiquan Yingbao was only a small fort, but since last year, a large number of inland immigrants came here, either changed their passports in the old Yingbao, or changed their passports here, so it quickly became lively, crowding a small fort. It was crowded, like a busy market, bustling with accents from all over the place.

Guanzhao is an entry-exit document issued by the Ming frontier guard to the people who leave the customs. It is a wooden rectangle with words engraved on it: "Guanzhao, a certain guard will give you permission. According to a certain name, it will be released at sunrise this month. Change the passport at the customs, go to the customs to check and accept, if there is an impostor, find out that the fixed line will be strictly punished, this is the photo. A certain month and a certain day in Wanli."

After a large number of inland people moved out to the Erbao, they exchanged their licenses and left the customs. The written documents they left behind were finally handed over to Huang Laifu, and his subordinates counted the population and so on.As for the refugees who worked in the merchant farms, the merchants counted the number of people in the mainland, but they also had to change their licenses and go out of the customs, and finally reported to Huang Laifu.

Among the many immigrants who stayed here waiting to leave the customs, there were men and women, old and young, rich and poor.The same thing is that everyone looks excited, and their eyes are full of longing for the future. Many people drag their children, ride horses, or walk, carrying their simple luggage in ragged clothes, chattering endlessly.

Yang Daan was wearing a single suit and carrying a burden on his back. He also stood in a group of people watching all this cautiously. He is from Jingle, the eldest son of his family. The old and the young didn't know how to survive. Fortunately, this year when Huang Junmen came to Ningwu Pass, he followed his father and took his family to Ningwu City to make a living.

He also heard a scholar talking about Huang Junmen's reclamation documents, and he couldn't help being tempted. He worked in a farm outside the Great Wall, with food and lodging, and the salary was good. In the future, if he earned money, he could buy land outside the Great Wall and listen to the propaganda. The land is cheap up.

There was such a good thing, so with the idea of ​​trying it out, he joined a farm team recruited by merchants. His idea was to go outside the Great Wall to have a look, and if it was good, he would immigrate the rest of his family together. In the past, after all, the attraction of a few hundred acres of land was huge.
However, he is an honest man. After being led all the way to Shuiquan Camp Fort, he has been listening more and talking less, and just paying close attention to the expressions of others.Also looking at the army on the city wall walking around, is also full of fear.

As he was observing, he suddenly heard a person behind him laughing and saying: "Brother, look at your reserved appearance, this is your first time traveling far away?"

Yang Da'an turned his head to look, but saw the middle-aged boy, looking at him with a smile on his face.

A smile appeared on Yang Da'an's face, and he said, "This young master is calling me? What's the matter?"

The young man smiled and said, "Don't be nervous, everyone is going out of the mouth. It seems that we are all working under Mr. Liu. From now on, we will all be fellow farmers on a farm. My name is Li Daniu, what do you call my brother?"

Seeing that he was not malicious, Yang Da'an felt a little relieved, and heard that his name had a large character, and he felt a sense of intimacy in his heart, and immediately said: "My name is Yang Da'an, I'm from Jingle, who is my brother? "

Li Daniu let out a hey, and said: "It seems that we are still half fellows, I belong to Ninghua Institute."

The two became more cordial and chatted about each other's daily routines. It turned out that Li Daniu was an old man, despite his young age, he often wandered outside and traveled to many places. This time he planned to try his luck outside the Great Wall. Let's live for a few years, save some money, and then see what opportunities there are outside the Great Wall.Hearing his eloquence, Yang Daan felt admiration, and he asked hesitantly: "I heard that the place outside the mouth is much colder than our hometown, and you have to carry a stick to urinate, and knock while urinating, is it true?" of?"

Li Daniu couldn't help laughing, and said: "It's not that powerful, it's just a bit colder than our hometown. Besides, there must be a kang where we live, so don't worry."

The more they talked, the more they hit it off, and before they knew it, they became good friends.Li Daniu said with emotion: "In fact, Beyond the Great Wall is a good place. There are many wastelands, grasslands, cattle and sheep everywhere, and there are roe deer and wild mouse holes everywhere. It is very easy to make a fortune. It is a pity that it used to be the territory of the Tartars, and now the army of Huang Junmen guarantees that Our chance has come. If I, Li Daniu, don't get rich this time, I won't go back to my hometown."

After listening to Li Daniu's words, Yang Da'an is also full of longing for the future life.

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Immediately, there are two places for immigrants from inside the pass to outside the Great Wall, one is in the area of ​​Qingshui River, and the other is in the area of ​​Zhungeer Banner.If the Qingshuihe area still has some loess plateau landforms, the Zhungeer Banner is mostly grassland desert landforms.

In June, the Zhungeer Grassland has a clear blue sky, white clouds like snow, patches of green grass extending to the end of the horizon like a sea, and there are various wild flowers on the green grass, full of vibrant scenes.Along the Huangpuchuan River, besides the green grass, there are patches of forests, and the hillsides are full of all kinds of big trees, all of which have straight trunks, piercing straight to the sky.

The valley of the Huangpuchuan River is blessed by nature. It is close to the territory of Daming. There are only grasslands and no deserts. There are grasslands and forests everywhere, and the water volume is relatively sufficient.In the past, only some nomads were grazing cattle and sheep here, but now there are a lot of newly cultivated fields in many places in the valley, and in some mature fields, patches of wheat waves are rippling under the breeze.

Not far from the wheat fields, there are many strong men who are building houses with walls, stones and trees. On the hillside not far from them, some women and children are driving large herds of cattle and sheep, which is a leisurely scene.

When Yang Daan and Li Daniu arrived here, they couldn't help being attracted by the scenery in front of them.Yang Da'an looked at all this greedily, and this will be his shelter from now on.

For the arrival of these people, the farmer and the local villagers showed great enthusiasm and kindness. At present, there are few people outside the Great Wall, and everyone is struggling to cultivate. It would be great to have these people come.

Soon, Yang Da'an, Li Daniu and others were engaged in intense work, building brick and stone houses with double-layer sandwich walls, building livestock farms, and reclaiming new land. They were busy every day.

However, sufficient meals every day and sufficient wages every month make everyone very motivated.Gradually, Yang Daan also got to know some of the surrounding conditions. He knew that along the river, there were all kinds of reclamation farms. In addition to the Han people, there were also some poor Mongolian herdsmen who came here. work.

After all, the living environment on the grassland is still very harsh, and there are often snow disasters. After each disaster, the big tribes are fine, but the small tribes often starve to death.For these poor herdsmen, although they graze cattle and sheep every day, they actually have very few opportunities to eat meat every year. Many people cannot afford food. Many people on the grassland usually eat rats, grass roots, horse milk, etc. Live, and often dig some wild mouse holes to store supplies for the winter.

When I came to the farms of the Han people, although I worked hard every day, I still had enough to eat every day and got wages. This kind of stable life attracted many herdsmen from small Mongolian tribes to join their families.

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Of course, with regard to Huang Laifu's move to colonize outside the Great Wall, it's not that the Mongolian tribes outside the Great Wall saw the harm this kind of behavior would do to the grassland in the future. However, many small tribes were afraid of Huang Laifu's prestige and did not dare to act rashly. As for some large tribes...

In the grasslands in front of Shanxi Town, Datong Town, and Xuanfu Town, it is the territory of the Mongolian Alta tribe, with a population of hundreds of thousands.At least by the Wanli year, the Alta tribe had changed from a simple nomadic lifestyle to a mixed farming and animal husbandry lifestyle, grazing and farming.

They imitated the people of Ming Dynasty and brought cattle seeds, and planted fields on a large scale along the Yellow River and in the Heihe area of ​​Guihua City. Of course, their farming skills cannot compare with that of the people of Ming Dynasty, and the annual harvest is not much. .But even so, their dependence on Daming for food has decreased a lot compared to decades ago.

The Alta tribe was named after the chief Altan Khan. After the Longqing Peace Conference, Alta Khan was named the King of Shunyi.In the ninth year of Wanli, Alda Khan died of illness, and the Ming court specially granted seven altars, twelve pairs of lottery coins, and one hundred pieces of cloth. After that, his wife San Niangzi took charge of the Alta Ministry.

The third woman's name is Zhongjin, and it is known in history as "Zhongjin Hatun" is a powerful figure. After the death of Alda Khan, her ministry was in charge of government affairs and military power. In the 15th year of Wanli, Ming Dynasty named her a first-class "Mrs. Zhongshun" ".

The third lady admired Huafeng, and would often go to Datong Mansion to meet Governor Wu Dui, and Wu Dui also treated her as his daughter. Later, the Governor changed to Zheng Luo, and continued to treat her as his daughter.The third lady married Al Da Khan first, then married his eldest son Huang Taiji, and then married Huang Taiji's son Lalik. She is also a legend.In the 22nd year of Wanli, she was 44 years old.

Of course, San Niangzi got the news about Huang Laifu's reclamation outside the Great Wall, but she thought that the land outside the Great Wall was sparsely populated, and Huang Laifu's actions would not conflict with her own tribe.However, many tribes didn't see it that way. In order to solve this problem, she summoned the chiefs of all tribes to discuss matters in Guihua City.

(End of this chapter)