Li Zhi looked at the lush grass seedlings in the paddy fields and asked Zheng Hui, "How many people are there in Hsinchu now?" ”

Zheng Hui replied: "Metropolitan Governor, there are more than 15,000 people of all kinds in Hsinchu today. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 Info Of these, 12,000 peasants and 3,700 divided their fields and began to plough. The remaining more than 8,000 peasants have no land, and these peasants are paying two taels of silver a month to build irrigation canals. In addition, 1,000 soldiers from the Trap Regiment were also helping the peasants to repair irrigation canals. There were 2,000 masons who were building houses for the peasants. Finally, there are craftsmen who burn lime and bricks. ”

Li Zhi nodded and asked, "How many rooms have you built now?" ”

"Today, more than 6,000 brick houses have been built. Except for the 2,000 newly arrived peasants who are still living in tents, all the others have already moved into brick houses. ”

Li Zhi nodded and continued to ride forward.

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Zhao Laosan was the first batch of people who signed up for the reclamation of Xiaoliuqiu.

When he signed up, he didn't know what kind of place Xiaoliuqiu was, but he heard that it was a big island in the south with wild people on it. The official of Fanjiazhuang who signed up said that the people who opened up the wasteland were tenant farmers who were the governors of the capital, and each person was divided into 20 acres of tenant land.

Zhao Laosan knew how rich the tenant farmers of the Metropolitan Governor were. One of his cousins planted the private land of the Metropolitan Governor in Jinghai County, and now he is very rich. My cousin is in his thirties, and he already has a son and a daughter under his knees, but he still wants to have another son, saying that he can afford it.

Zhao Laosan used to want to be a tenant farmer of the governor, but that required the old tenant farmer to be a guarantor. Zhao Laosan's cousin has a lot of relatives to protect, and he doesn't know that it will be his turn to help Zhao Laosan in the Year of the Monkey.

Zhao Laosan had a hard time, he rented thirteen acres of dry land in the landlord's house of the Guo family, lived in two earthen houses with his daughter-in-law, lived a tight life, and could not earn a new piece of clothing all year round, and had to eat bran for one or two months every year. After three years of marriage, Zhao Laosan didn't dare to share a room with his daughter-in-law, for fear of starving to death after giving birth to a child.

He looked at the wealth of his cousin's family and was very envious.

But this year's opportunity came, Zhao Laosan heard from people in the village who had read books that day that the general recruited people to open up Xiaoliuqiu, and he didn't need anyone to be a guarantor. He didn't think about it, and was the first to rush to the registration point and press his handprint. Zhao Laosan and the Fanjiazhuang clerk who was in charge of signing up had a good talk, saying that if it started, he would definitely bring himself first.

I don't know if Zhao Laosan's enthusiasm moved the official who signed up, or if Zhao Laosan and his daughter-in-law were young and strong and met the standards of the Dadu Governor, and the Dadu Governor really brought Zhao Laosan to Xiaoliuqiu in the first batch - now called the big island of Taiwan by the Dadu Governor.

The ship to Taiwan was very bumpy, Zhao Laosan vomited three or four times, and Zhao Laosan's daughter-in-law also vomited several times. However, neither of them complained, and finally had the opportunity to follow the metropolitan governor, and Zhao Laosan would not retreat because of this bump.

When he arrived in Taiwan and got off the boat, Zhao Laosan found that the island of Taiwan was a very rich place.

Patches of woods, herds of wild deer, a small river running through them. Standing on the hill where the camp was encamped, there was an endless plain on both sides of the river. This is obviously a good place to plow the fields, and when you burn those woods, it is the best farmland, and the crops grown in this place will definitely have a good harvest. On the night of arriving in Taiwan, Zhao Laosan and his daughter-in-law jumped and jumped in the tent.

The farmers who came together were infected by Zhao Laosan, and they all jumped up and down that night. Everyone gathered around the fire, looking forward to a better life in the future, and they were all elated.

Later, things went very smoothly, and the commander Zheng Hui commanded everyone to burn the wasteland to reclaim new fields and build irrigation canals. After all, the island of Taiwan is so rich, and there are still many people who covet it.

When the commander was fighting Shengfan and Hongmao, Zhao Laosan told the commander several times that he would give himself a knife and fight with those soldiers. The commander ignored Zhao Laosan at that time and asked Zhao Laosan to go aside, but then he glanced at Zhao Laosangao. When the house was divided, the commander gave the first one to Zhao Laosan.

Zhao Laosan arrived in Taiwan for two months and was assigned a brick house. This is a house that does not leak in the wind and rain, Zhao Laosan has only entered such a house in the house of the gentleman Guo when he pays rent every year, and slept in this kind of brick house for one night when he visited his uncle's house in Jinghai County. Zhao Laosan didn't expect that he would live in such a good house so soon.

There is also a toilet outside the house, which is very convenient.

On the night of the house division, Zhao Laosan and his daughter-in-law hugged each other and cried profusely. The daughter-in-law has lived a hard life with her for more than three years, and now she is finally looking forward to a better life.

Zhao Laosan's daughter-in-law wiped her tears at the time, saying that the good days were all given by the Metropolitan Governor, and she wanted to provide an immortal tablet to the Metropolitan Governor. Zhao Laosan went to find those masons who could do carpentry, and helped him make the immortal tablet of the Grand Governor.

Those masons heard that Zhao Laosan was going to provide the immortal tablet to the Metropolitan Governor, and confiscated Zhao Laosan's money and helped Zhao Laosan do it.

Not long after, in May, Zheng Hui listed Zhao Laosan as the first batch of farmers to divide the land. Zhao Laosan had paddy fields that could be cultivated.

Forty acres of fertile fields with irrigation canals are not far from Zhao Laosan's village.

Zhao Laosan saw the forty acres of paddy fields at that time, and he was speechless for a long time. He pressed his handprint to the clerk, and ran back to his house crying, kowtowing thirty times to the Governor's tablet of immortality.

Zhao Laosan knew that it wouldn't be long before his family would become rich. Richer than my cousin's family.

On 13 May, something even more surprising happened -- Zhao Laosan was weeding in his field and actually saw the Grand Dudu.

The Metropolitan Governor was very young and looked about the same age as himself. But the Metropolitan Governor is the Metropolitan Governor, and he has a majestic and honorable appearance, which is completely different from a small person like himself. Zhao Laosan was kneeling on the ground at that time, and he didn't dare to make a sound.

At that time, the Metropolitan Governor actually walked up to him and questioned him.

"What's your name?"

Zhao Laosan stammered at that time and replied: "Small, small, small is called Zhao Laosan." ”

"Zhao Laosan, have you learned to grow rice?"

Zhao Laosan raised his head proudly and said, "Go back to the Metropolitan Governor, the little one has learned." The rice farmers in Taiping County taught me how to sow seeds, how to plant seedlings, and when to irrigate. When I planted rice this year, I will, according to Commander Zheng's instructions, give a stone of grain to the master in Taiping County to pay for tuition. ”

The Metropolitan Governor nodded, as if he felt that Zhao Laosan spoke quite clearly, so he asked Zhao Laosan a few more words: "How much millet can you produce this season of late rice?" ”

Zhao Laosan replied: "I heard the master of Taiping County say that one acre of land can produce five buckets of rice with one stone. ”

The Metropolitan Governor listened to Zhao Laosan's words and pondered for a while, as if he was calculating something.

In the middle of the night, the governor said, "Okay, you will only receive 50% of the rent for this season's late rice." Next year, two crops of rice will be planted, and another 60% of the land rent will be harvested. ”

Zhao Laosan was stunned, but he didn't expect that in a few words, the governor would reduce the land rent by 10% for himself.

Commander Zheng next to the Metropolitan Governor did the math, and said loudly to the peasants kneeling on the ground: "The Metropolitan Governor collects fifty percent of the land rent, and in the first year, each male of the peasants can collect fifteen stone of grain into his own house, which is equivalent to thirty taels of silver. ”

"This is only the income of more than half a year's hard work, which is equivalent to every man or strong woman can earn three taels and seven dollars and five cents of silver every month! The couple earned seven taels of silver a month. ”

Zhao Laosan didn't know how to count, and when he heard Commander Zheng's calculations, he was so excited that his blood surged to his face. Help the governor to be a tenant farmer, and the couple can earn seven taels and five dollars a month?

I used to work as a tenant farmer in the Guo family, and I couldn't earn seven taels of silver when I worked to eat and drink all year round.

Zhao Laosan knelt on the ground, raised his head and looked at the Metropolitan Governor and smirked.

The good days have finally come.

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