Chapter 305: A New Community
Xu Zixian hopes for a higher level of community in modern society, where there are service personnel in the community, but residents can form small organizations under the guidance of each other, so that they can watch and help each other without interfering and influencing the lives of others.
This requires certain rules to be set and everyone to follow.
For example, the garbage disposal that Huang Laigui saw, no one can throw it at will, as long as it is discovered, he will be fined, and the punishment is quite large, so that the illiterate old grandmother will also know to abide by the law.
Good morality is never self-disciplined, but an extension of laws and regulations.
Now there are bow and arrow clubs in 100 households, and there are sword clubs, which are martial arts, and there are also some hobby enthusiasts who form their own associations, and the government not only does not prohibit them, but also strongly supports them.
For example, Li Guozhu joined a hunting club, as long as he didn't run to the side of the alpine natives, the Jing'an garrison here would not be troublesome...... The real cordon is drawn more than ten miles away, and when you get there, ordinary people don't let it go.
Li Guozhu exchanged a few words with Huang Laigui, went home and took his hard bow and borrowed it from Huang Laigui.
The two men chatted while setting up a string to test the bow, Huang Laigui felt that the bow was hard, but he could still use it normally.
The drums outside became more and more urgent, and several men placed their pockets on their waists on the left and right, and put thirty arrows in each of the double quivers, all heavy arrows, and no light arrows.
"The little prey here is not worth fighting." Li Guozhu explained to Huang Laigui: "Walking east along the village, there are many hills, the grass is more than one person deep, there are many shrubs, there are many woodlands, between the mountains and the hills, there are many deer herds, so our hunting club or bow and arrow club are mainly to hunt deer." Let's keep the venison for ourselves, these days the children's faces are fat, the deer skin Nan'an Hou Mansion is bought for four dollars, and then they have to clean and dispose of it, even if we sell it to the leather merchants, we have to spend a lot of effort, and we may not wait for a ship for half a year, or sell it to Nan'an Hou Mansion is cost-effective. ”
A deerskin can be sold for ten yuan on Fujian Road, but that is the price in the hands of the people, and it will be even higher, but it will not exceed twelve yuan.
This leather goods are not bought by ordinary people, and the people may not be able to save five or six yuan of cash a year, and they are generally middle-class families, such as small and medium-sized businessmen and low-level officials, who can only take out ten yuan at a time to buy a fur coat made of deerskin for themselves or their families to resist the not too cold winter in Fujian.
The leather goods collected by the Nan'an Hou Mansion were collected four times before processing, and the price was about the same as that of the leather merchants, and it was also a very generous price.
Of course, these leather goods are not sold to Fujian, but to the wealthy places in the south of the Yangtze River, where the winter is more humid and cold, and there are many more rich people in the local area than in Fujian Road, and there are as many leather goods as there are.
In addition, it is the Wa country, as for the north, there is a fixed leather goods channel, and it is not as convenient to ship a large number of goods as to the Wa country or Jiangnan.
Recently, in addition to opening up wasteland and building roads, many strong men under the rule of the Hou Mansion are idle, these men are the same as Li Guozhu, organized large and small bow and arrow societies or hunting clubs, and often go out to hunt, Li Guozhu has hunted two big deer, sold for eight dollars, not to mention, deer bone venison was peeled nearly 200 catties, and the deer blood can also be coagulated and eaten, all of which are first-class good things.
Less than three months after arriving in the Eastern Domain, Li Guozhu himself gained weight, but fortunately, after entering the Bow and Arrow Club and the Hunting Club, he had more outdoor activities, and he practiced the fat that grew back.
As for the originally thin wife and a pair of children, they were already quite rich at this time, and they were all raised fat, which made Li Guozhu smile every day.
To put it simply, everything on this island is thriving, living well, eating well, and not being oppressed, it is simply a paradise in the mouth of a storyteller.
For an ordinary person, under the situation of frequent civil strife in the Great Wei, chaos gradually emerged, demons dancing wildly, and pirates raging, the people who were able to live in the Eastern Domain felt lucky, and this feeling would become stronger and stronger with the change of events.
After a year or two, being removed from the official or hidden household qualifications and expelled from the Eastern Domain was already the highest punishment for these immigrants.
"It's so much more convenient to have this drum." Huang Laigui heard the drumming gradually stop, and at the same time, he walked out of the seventh alley with his father and Li Guozhu, and then found that several men with bows and arrows came out of each alley.
At the east end of the village, more than a dozen guards in black arrow robes have been assembled and are waiting at the entrance of the village.
Someone was driving a mule cart, and there were a lot of oil-soaked ignitions on it, and several large carts were piled up, exuding a strong smell of oil.
"Today we will burn eleven miles of land, longitudinal from north to south, from the mouth of the stream to the south for three miles, starting from the lotus peak, until it reaches four miles south of the village, which is near the big camphor tree."
He Baihu also rushed out, this was a large-scale operation, of course he couldn't sit idle in the village Baihu public hall, but had to directly lead the team to act.
He was also accompanied by an official in a robe, an agricultural officer, who had to inspect a large area of scorched earth after the burning, determine the fertility of the land, dredge streams, make plans for water diversion, and possibly build some waterwheels or dig wells in preparation for further land reclamation.
He was accompanied by a medical officer and a veterinarian, who determined whether the mosquito infection would be reduced after the burning, and the risk of large-scale plague infection based on the hydrological conditions in the field.
The veterinarian follows the herd and looks after the mules and donkeys to see if they are healthy and able to withstand heavy physical labor.
When he saw Huang Laigui, He Baihu also nodded his head deliberately.
The rest of the officials were busy, while the common people were busy dressing up, fastening leather belts and pockets, carrying bows and arrows, and some with swords or long swords.
Li Guozhu said to Huang Laigui at this time: "In addition to summoning us out, drumming also has the role of alarming and transmitting news. ”
"Understood." Huang Laigui said: "This place is closer to the mountains, and it is necessary to prevent the aborigines from attacking. ”
"Yes." Li Guozhu said with a smile: "Whether there is an enemy attack or a fire alarm, as long as there is a drum, each family must rise up with troops, it is not allowed to say that it has not been heard, as long as the drum is sounded, after thirty breaths, a hundred households and guards will arrive, a pillar of incense, everyone must arrive with soldiers or fire extinguishing things, as long as there is no arrival, any reason can not get rid of the crime, must be fined, if this situation is more than three times, then out of the hundred households, out of the Eastern Domain." ”
Huang Laigui couldn't understand this kind of regulation for a while, but he subconsciously felt that such a regulation was quite reasonable.
On this newly opened desert island, everyone must watch and help each other, without selfishness and cowardice. Even if the reason is just to be withdrawn and unkind.
If one party has something, all parties will help, at least in the Eastern Domain.
Whether it's natives, pirates, or fires, all have to fight in groups so that the island's greatest defense can be used.
"That's a good rule." After thinking about it for a while, Huang Laigui was amazed by this regulation.
"It's good." Li Guozhu said: "In this way, even if I am sick and have any accidents, I am not worried that my wife and children will not have food, because there is a hospice and a Salesian Bureau in the Hou Mansion, and I don't have to worry about what grievances they suffer here in the Eastern Domain, or they are bullied and no one cares, they are oppressed by scoundrels and ruffians, and they are attacked by the natives, these things no longer make me worry and fear." ”
As he spoke, everyone was ready, this time it was to organize a trip of 100 strong men, not only the archery club or hunting people, there were seven carts and more than 20 donkeys to accompany them, and there were 300 strong men, 10 guards and 11 officials, after preparing for a quarter of an hour, everyone went east, and more than 300 people were ordered by He Baihu to line up in a row of four people, forming a team of more than 300 people.
Those with long swords and knives walked in the front, and the officials and guards spread out and walked on both sides of the front, as guerrilla guards.
Those carrying bows and arrows on their backs walked in the middle, and finally there was a transport procession of mule carts and donkeys.
Soon after exiting the village, there is a canal, which runs from north to south and then westward, and finally joins another main canal, through which the water irrigates large areas of newly opened land.
In fact, the water conservancy project is still far behind, but fortunately, there are too many streams on the side of the Eastern Domain, and the fresh water resources are unusually abundant, which makes the water conservancy project relatively much easier, and even so, it is very early to be completed.
After all, the determination of Nan'anhou Mansion is quite great, and the land that has been opened up now is far from enough to meet Nan'anhou's expectations and hopes.
This is also one of the most important reasons why everyone in the eleven hundred families rushed to the wilderness, since everyone thinks that the current life is quite good and looks forward to a better future, then they have to work hard to do something, instead of sitting at home and waiting for the Nan'an Hou Mansion to continue to distribute food and various daily necessities.
There is a warning line for debts, and if the Hou government finds that some families have been messing around and have no motivation to repay their debts and no effort to try to repay their debts, then the family is very likely to be driven away.
Just as Xu Zixian did in various hundred villages, put an end to gangsters, scoundrels, ruffians, and all those who are idle and do not produce.
Xu Zixian's concept is somewhat close to that of the Qin and Han dynasties, when rangers, scoundrels, and indifferent producers were all treated harshly.
In the Han Dynasty, a magistrate of the county could arrest all the scoundrels in the county, or lock them up, or beat them up, or sentence them to hard labor, or even cut off their noses and lower legs, all of which were possible.
The final decision should be made depending on the crime of the arrested scoundrel and the wind evaluation, but everyone who is arrested will not end up very well.
Even those who are idle and violate the law will be directly sentenced to abandon the city and beheaded, which is very likely.
In Dawei, where the civic economy is more developed, there are actually more idle people who are loafers, and the overall situation tends to be more relaxed and tolerant.
Here in the Eastern Domain, Xu Zixian is trying to prevent the existence of similar people.
The Eastern Domain was still too weak, and everyone had to work hard to make progress, so that it was possible to gain a complete foothold in a few years and have the strength to open up to the outside world.
Of course, everything must be done in a more moderate way, and with positive incentives to achieve the desired goal.
In fact, everyone gives more and does more, but they are more optimistic.
This is the role of positive incentives, not necessarily all the time, but it must be in all aspects.