After sending Zheng Hui away, Li Zhi began to recruit tenant farmers in Tianjin. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Nowadays, the people of more than a dozen prefectures and counties near Fanjiazhuang know that they have a good life with Li Zhigan, and the first two groups of tenant farmers who followed Li Zhi's cultivation of the wasteland in Fanjiazhuang and Jinghai County have now lived the same life as the gentlemen -- they are well fed and clothed, live in brick houses, have meat to eat, smoke cigarettes, and drink tea.

Even the tenant farmers newly recruited by the general in Wuqing and Baodi counties this year are about to have a good day. The general's dry fields and water conservancy facilities are perfect, and every fifth family also borrows a cow, and the wheat in the newly opened fields grows very fat and green, and it seems that there will be a bumper harvest.

The people nearby were all waiting for Li Zhi to recruit new tenant farmers with red eyes, and they were only worried that they had no relatives in Fanjiazhuang and no one to guarantee them. This time, they heard that the general was going to hire people to open up the wasteland in Xiaoliuqiu, and they could apply for recruitment without the need for relatives to be guarantors, so they rushed to sign up one by one, lest they fall behind.

In just 10 days, the officials sent by Li Zhi to various places to recruit tenant farmers received 50,000 registrations. If it weren't for the fact that the officials would no longer accept new registrations, there would be even more people who signed up, and 100,000 people would not have been able to stop.

The peasants only recognized what they could see, and they saw that there was meat to eat with Li Zhi over the years, so they recognized the truth of following Li Zhi.

As for the fact that the tenant farmers recruited this time went to Xiaoliuqiu to reclaim, the farmers did not think much about it. Anyway, it won't be wrong to follow the general, even if you go elsewhere to open up a wasteland and live.

Knowing that the recruitment of tenant farmers was so smooth, Li Zhi was quite emotional. Now in the vicinity of Tianjin, his reputation has been spread, and as soon as the people in the vicinity heard that Li Zhi had summoned people to do something, they did everything possible to join in, and there was no doubt that there would be bad results. Now that Li Zhi is in Tianjin, it can be said that he has responded to all calls.

Tianjin has become Li Zhi's home base. No matter how rich the overseas colonies are, Li Zhi will never leave this base camp. Li Zhi's factory is here, the army is here, and his relatives are here. Overseas construction is just a means of icing on the cake.

After receiving 50,000 tenant farmers, Li Zhi asked the officials to select 5,000 healthy tenant farmers who were married but were no more than 30 years old as the first batch of immigrants. These tenant farmers are in their prime of life, which is conducive to the entire reclamation site to survive the high incidence of malaria at the time of the initial land reclamation. At the same time, they are already married, and there will be no difficulty in finding a daughter-in-law for them in the future.

This year, getting married pays attention to matchmaking, and the eldest girl will not go to Taiwan by herself. If the men who were transported to Xiaoliuqiu did not have a daughter-in-law, let them go back to Tianjin to say that the matchmaker is a long way away. Married farmers do not have such a problem. Moreover, the married couple soon had children, which also contributed to the population growth of the whole colony.

However, after employing these tenant farmers, Li Zhi suddenly remembered a problem -- these tenant farmers in Tianjin could only grow wheat, not rice. When I arrived in Taiwan, where the climate was warm and humid, and the yield of rice was much higher than that of wheat, should these tenant farmers still be allowed to grow wheat? That's a shame too.

But there is a difference between planting rice and growing wheat, so where can I find so many masters to teach these tenant farmers to grow rice?

Li Zhi pondered for a few hours in the General Military Mansion, but couldn't think of any way, so he found Gao Ligong again.

"Gao Ligong, you asked me to recruit Tianjin farmers to go to Xiaoliuqiu to grow rice, but my tenant farmers can only grow wheat, what should I do?"

Gao Ligong arched his hand and said: "General, this matter is not difficult, planting rice and wheat is much the same. If there is a master, ten families of apprentices can be taught back then. ”

"Where can I find this master?"

Gao Ligong arched his hand and said: "The student's uncle served as a county magistrate in Taiping County, Taizhou Prefecture, and he had some good money. If the adult is willing to pay 2,000 taels of silver, the student can persuade him to recruit 2,000 old rice farmers for the general. With the guidance of these 2,000 veteran farmers, the wheat farmers who were transported to Xiaoliuqiu this year can learn to grow rice. ”

Li Zhi of Taiping County knows that it is a county in Linhai, Zhejiang. This county is very close to Taiwan, and if rice farmers can be recruited from there, Li Zhi's fleet can transport all 2,000 households to Taiwan in a few round-trips.

Li Zhi was very happy when he heard this, and said, "Okay, I'll give you two thousand taels of silver." Go and tell your uncle to recruit 2,000 rice farmers. You have organized all the rice farmers, and when my ship arrives in Taiping County, you will bring people on board. ”

Gao Ligong arched his hand and said: "General, it's too slow to take the land route, I'll wait for the ship to come back, and go to Taiping County with the ship." ”

Li Zhi nodded and said, "Okay, you go with the boat then." ”

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Boss Wei entered the trapping regiment in the eleventh year of Chongzhen.

When he first joined the regiment, Boss Wei still had illusions, thinking that he could become an officer in the Tiger Division, and recruit all the hair children in his village into the Tiger Division in a few years. But I didn't expect the reality to be very cruel, and it took three months for Boss Wei to distinguish between left and right after enlisting in the army, and figure out whether to turn left or right. The so-called idea of becoming a private and promoted to squad leader turned out to be a fantasy.

For more than a year, Boss Wei has never done it once as a senior soldier, and he is still a grassroots soldier. Boss Wei slowly accepted the fact that he had no talent to be an officer, and returned to Wei's house to no longer brag to the boys.

Boss Wei slowly felt that there was nothing wrong with being an ordinary soldier. There are three or two months of money a month. Last month, his parents helped Boss Wei talk about a family matter, and the woman was the most beautiful girl in the neighboring village. In April next year, Boss Wei will go back to get married.

But before getting married, Boss Wei went on an expedition. This time, Boss Wei's company was transferred to the ship and came to Xiaoliuqiu with the ship. There were also 800 craftsmen who came with Wei Laoda's troops, saying that they wanted to open up the "colony".

The so-called "colony" is a new word invented by the Grand Duke. As the name suggests, it is a place to breed children. I heard that the Metropolitan Governor was going to gradually bring more peasants to the city, and to plant all the places that could be farmed in Xiaoliuqiu, and turn them into overseas land for the Han people.

The Metropolitan Governor also called Xiaoliuqiu Taiwan, saying that the name Xiaoliuqiu would cause misunderstanding, and this island would be called Taiwan Island in the future.

The colony is a good thing to say, but it is very troublesome to practice.

Boss Wei followed three large boats to the north of Xiaoliuqiu and landed in a bay. After going ashore, Boss Wei followed the squad leader to explore the terrain everywhere, draw a map, and finally veto the landing site, and then drove fifty miles south with the ship. When I arrived at the new place, I found that it was still not good, and I drove fifty miles south.

After tossing and turning for several days and vetoing five or six places, Commander Zheng finally chose a place for the craftsmen and soldiers to go ashore to work.

The first is the burning of wasteland. The commander chose a small hill by the river that was higher than the surrounding land, and asked the soldiers and craftsmen to cut down trees at the bottom of the hill to cut out the barrier, and then set fire to all the dry trees on the hill. The fire burned for two whole days, and it burned a blackened open field on the top of the mountain.

In this empty, scorched land, a thousand people disembarked and set up camp. (To be continued.) )