Go back to the Ming Dynasty to be a thousand households

Chapter 320
Over the years, Pianguan Fort near the Great Wall has become much more prosperous. Due to the governor’s grazing in the area of ​​Pianguan and Laoying Fort, as well as the reclamation and development outside the Great Wall, and the trade with the San Niangzi in Guihua City, Pianguan Fort has the advantage of being close to the water. profit.

This year's autumn harvest, among the 30 mu of farmland in Pianguan and Laoyingbao, the grain yield reached 35 shi, which far met the needs of the local garrison, and there was still room to send it out.In addition, Pianguan can be regarded as a must-pass between the outside of the Great Wall and the interior of Shanxi Town. A large number of caravans and grain teams have to pass through here, which makes Pianguan Fort even more lively after autumn.

At present, more and more immigrants are coming to settle outside the Great Wall, and more and more farms and villages are seen outside the Great Wall. The caravan villagers from the farthest distance have already gone to the Baotou area of ​​later generations to cultivate and open up wasteland.

To the surprise of the people in the border town of Daming, it took only a few years for these immigrants from beyond the Great Wall to reclaim the land and grow food in the border area. Not only did they meet their own needs, but they also had enough energy to send food to the interior of Daming. This is very strange.

People have always been in the impression that outside the Great Wall are some bitter cold places where birds don't shit, and it has always been difficult to support themselves. Otherwise, why have the barbarians on the grasslands for thousands of years been unable to support themselves, and often have to go to the Central Plains? What about looting?

Even the countries of the Central Plains have always regarded these places as cumbersome places, because it is difficult to do farming in these places, and the logistical supplies of the troops stationed in these places are always a huge pressure on the imperial court.Even if some Central Plains dynasties insisted on stationing troops there, they only cared about its military significance.

It has been like this for thousands of years, but now it is suddenly reversed, and the land beyond the Great Wall begins to transport food to the interior of the Central Plains, making people who hear it for the first time feel that the world is turned upside down.

Perhaps everyone would not be surprised if cattle, sheep and horses were transported from outside the Great Wall to the Central Plains. , has formed many special roads such as cattle road, sheep road, and horse road.Every year, a large number of cattle, sheep and horses are provided to Shanxi Town.

Now that the outside of the Great Wall has begun to transport grain to the interior, it is inevitable that everyone will make a fuss, and it has also aroused a lot of discussion from all walks of life. At that time, "Wuzhaibao News" also opened a special column to introduce this matter. It caused a lot of fuss and became a hot topic for a long time in teahouses and restaurants at that time.

But after a long time of fussing, everyone gradually got used to it, but many people also changed their previous impressions, and they were more eager to go beyond the Great Wall.

After all, the land in the interior of Daming is precious, and the population is increasing, and land annexation is becoming more and more serious. On the other side of the Great Wall, any male can get a lot of land.In the past, people thought that the allocated land in those bitter cold places was insignificant, and they just held the idea that they should not do so in vain.

Now they find that these lands are enough to support themselves and their families, and there is still room to send food to the interior of the Ming Dynasty. Farming outside the Great Wall has a bright future, so everyone can't help but change their minds.

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This year, after the autumn harvest in the farms outside the Great Wall, a large amount of grain came to the interior of the Ming Dynasty via the caravan grain team.Or to Yansui Town, or to Datong Town, or to Shanxi Town.

Right now, there are two ways to get from outside the Great Wall to Shanxi Town, one is by land and the other is by water.

Obviously, traveling by land would cost a lot of money on the road, so taking the Yellow River waterway has become the first choice for many businessmen and grain teams.

As the times require, Guanhekou Village, near Pianguan and near the Yellow River, suddenly became lively. The usually desolate small village was under construction, and now it has the taste of a new commercial town.

Originally, there were not many places along the line of the Yellow River that could be used as good ferry crossings. However, the Guanhekou is the confluence of the Guanhe River into the Yellow River in Pianguan, forming an alluvial Xiaopingchuan. The terrain is open and the channel is deep, so it can be docked naturally. , close to the village, and close to Pianguan City.When you get to Pianguan, there are good cement roads leading to Wuzhai Fort and other places, so it is naturally perfect as a ferry terminal.

Whether it is a merchant ship from the north of the inland to the outside of the Great Wall, Ningxia and other places, or a merchant ship from the outside of the Great Wall to the interior of Shanxi Town, it must pass here.Coupled with the excellent geographical location of Guanhe Koudu, it became a well-known water transport commercial port all of a sudden.

There are many merchant ships every day. When they set off from the pier, the boatmen lined up with oars and sailed on the water of the Yellow River. The number of ships is countless, and the scenery is very spectacular!The prosperous and lively scene made the people in Pianguan City and even the people along the Yellow River very envious. Women from all over the place were also proud to be able to marry into Guanhekou Village.

After several years of operation, Guanhe Koudu has formed several major water transportation routes, reaching as far as Ningxia and Gansu. Products, etc., were sold in the farms and villages along the banks of the Yellow River.

Then from these places, the grain was shipped back down the river, or stopped at Guanhekoudu, and after mooring and unloading at the wharf, the grain was piled up in the granary on the river bank, and then merchants from other places hired labor to drive donkeys, mules, etc. The grain is transported to Pianguan, and then sold to other places.

Or starting from outside the Great Wall to Guanhekou and not unloading, but going down the river to Hequ, Baode, etc. to unload, sometimes going south to Yumenkou, Hejin, and even as far as Qikou in Linxian County , unload the goods here, and sell them to the whole province to make up for the shortage of food in Shanxi, and at the same time, they also make a lot of money themselves.

In the past two years, due to the discovery of salt ponds outside the Great Wall, the shipment of salt has been added to the cargo transported by the fleet returning from beyond the Great Wall.This salt pond is the Jilantai salt of the later generations. The salt is of a good variety, large granules, and red in color, so it is also called red salt. At present, the salt pond is secretly controlled by Huang Laifu, and the benefits are constantly obtained every year, but Emperor Wanli has heard about it. Hearing the news, he was ready to ask Huang Laifu for a dividend.

In the past few years, due to the rise of the Guanhekou Ferry, there were only a few big boats in the whole village for hundreds of mouths, but now it has developed to nearly a hundred, and the villagers have become rich rapidly.

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Guanhekou Village is just a microcosm of profit from the development outside the Great Wall, and there are countless similar places.

Moreover, due to the rise of Wuzhai Fort and the implementation of the large farm system, after ten years of dissemination and influence, it inevitably caused changes in some places in Ming Dynasty.Regardless of whether Huang Laifu is happy or not, a wave of butterfly effect has quietly started in some places in Daming.

"Your daughter-in-law's family, if you don't let me live, I will go outside the Great Wall. The governor has said that there will be land distribution outside the Great Wall. The place is good. The first three years are tax-free Food. I don’t believe it, we can’t live without you, Mr. Zhang? Who said that, there is no place to stay here, but a place to stay!”

Tian Dayang, a tenant farmer in Yangqu County, Taiyuan Prefecture, was furious. He led his worried family members to pack their luggage and embarked on the road to beyond the Great Wall without hesitation.

Not to mention Tian Dayang's anger, he has worked for Zhang Yuanwai in the city for several generations. Every day, the family works hard and lightly, and honestly works for Zhang Yuanwai.Working under the scorching sun on a hot day, and biting cold wind in winter, the feet were cracked a few big cracks. The hardships of survival are indescribable, just to dig the soil to support the family.

Unexpectedly, Zhang Yuanwai didn’t even give himself this little way of life. After autumn, he took back the land that he leased to himself, and set up a “big farm plan”. In this way, at least half of the tenant farmers lost their livelihood just like himself. Hope had no choice but to leave his hometown and escape from the place where he had survived for hundreds of years.

Zhang Yuanwai is a big family in Yangqu County, the land outside the city is flat and fertile, reaching as much as [-] mu, and there are many tenants under him.In previous years, these tenant farmers, like Tian Dayang and others, lived by renting and planting the land outside Zhang Yuan.

But this year Zhang Yuanwai didn’t know what he was thinking. After autumn, he suddenly dismissed most of the tenant farmers, started large-scale construction of water conservancy, bought various waterwheels and agricultural tools, etc., and planned to follow the example of Wuzhaibao and set up a large-scale farm plan. .

Speaking of it, it is not just Zhang Yuanwai, but many large households in Yangqu County are like this. Even in the whole Taiyuan Prefecture, there is a tendency of this kind of large farm.

In the past few years, the folks of the Ming Dynasty started from Tianzhilong in Dongyang Town, Yuci County, Taiyuan Prefecture. This large-scale farming method has become more and more popular in Taifu and other places.The Northern Land of Daming is increasingly short of grain, and the market is vast, so growing grain is extremely rewarding.Obviously, the large farm system is far more efficient than small-scale farming, and the output is greater.

The benefits obtained by Tian Zhilong are spreading rapidly, and there is an obvious example of Governor Huang.The huge profits have attracted more and more big investors to invest in it.

These big households don’t have the kindness of Tian Zhilong to replenish the tenants who lost their land into their new factories. They also don’t have the interest and skills to run factories. They just take back the tenants’ fields and drive them away. They are alive or dead.This has created a large number of tragic characters like Tian Dayang.

As a tragic figure, Tian Dayang doesn't understand the thoughts of Zhang Yuanwai and others, but feels that Zhang Yuanwai doesn't care about the master-servant relationship of several generations, and no longer gives himself a way out.He had begged and begged before, but it was still the case. Zhang Yuanwai seemed indifferent. Seeing his attitude, no matter how cowardly a person, even a clay figurine would have a temper.

At the same time that Tian Dayang left bitterly, he no longer had respectful thoughts towards Zhang Yuanwai, and his mind was full of the image of being rich and unkind as the storyteller said. Don't say it, Tian Dayang thinks that Zhang Yuanwai is that kind of person up.The common people in China are like this. When they have a hope of survival, they can swallow their anger against some people. When they have no last bite of food, they will become extremely tough and despise everything. This is the so-called barefoot who is not afraid to wear shoes.

Tian Dayang led his family and left bitterly. Fortunately, there was still a place to go beyond the Great Wall.There are many people who decide Rutian Dayang. The large-scale farms in various places in Taiyuan Prefecture have caused more and more tenant farmers who have lost their food. After silently kowtowing to their hometown, they took their families and children and went outside the Great Wall with hope. And go, they all inquired, after arriving outside the Great Wall, the governor will give them the land, so that they can live well.
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Since the birth of the Wuzhaibao Farm System in the 17th year of Wanli, it has attracted the attention of the world consciously or unconsciously.

In the 24th year of Wanli, Taiyuan Prefecture and some places in Shanxi began to have a large-scale farming system. After the 25th year of Wanli and the 26th year of Wanli, after this autumn, this large-scale farming system suddenly became popular. The wave of the rise in Shanxi.

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