Chapter 459: Dewang Manor
The owners of the manors did not take the state for nothing, what they got was registered with the municipal administration, and when the harvest of the manor was received, they had to pay back to the state, because the state subsidized the immigrants, so they did not need to pay 100% and could repay it in installments.
The country will not lose money, as long as it has a firm foothold in the Americas, the golden ticket will be rolling in.
Sun Dewang was one of the first hundreds of manor owners to land in the Americas, and he led the entire family to respond to the call of Gao Junshan and resolutely came to the Americas.
His clan is a small clan in the army of immigrants to the Americas, and the entire family headed by him has a total of fifty-four people, and some large families have as many as one or two hundred people.
He has become a grandfather, and at the age of fifty-eight, he belongs to the youngest patriarch. He has three brothers, the second brother is called Sun Dequan, who is 55 years old, has four sons, and 12 grandchildren (daughters), and the third brother is Sun Deming, who is 40 years old, and has a son and a daughter.
He himself had four sons, eighteen grandsons (daughters), and a total of fifty-four men and women.
His eldest grandson is called Sun Caixi, a disciple of Chongwen, graduated from Chongwen Agricultural College, and now immigrated to the Americas with his family, is the deputy captain of the farmland reclamation team, and the commander of the first division, three regiments and one battalion of the militia headquarters of the farmland reclamation corps, and is also the technical instructor of the farmland reclamation corps.
Because of his eldest grandson, their family was divided into a manor left by the British, with 50 acres of cotton land and 50 acres of tobacco land, and more than 100 acres of uncultivated virgin land, more than 50 houses in the manor, and a large homestead, cattle, sheep and dogs and other domestic animals left by the British, as well as a few carriages and some farm tools, and 50 African black slaves left by the British.
In order to administer the estate, the family was given one hundred and fifty black slaves and twenty Indians, so that there were two hundred and twenty laborers for their family.
Sun Dewang thought that neither the cotton field nor the tobacco field could be eaten for a long time, so he decided to convert the cotton field and tobacco field into a rice field, because there was a river next to the manor, and there was no problem with the water source.
As an intellectual in the family, Sun Caixi stopped his grandfather's action, he first reported the situation at home to the farmland reclamation team, whether the cotton field and tobacco field could be eradicated, the team did not dare to make a decision, so he reported to Gao Junshan step by step, Gao Junshan gave clear instructions to protect the original crops, and Sun Dewang gave up the idea of planting rice.
The Indians had the habit of smoking, and everyone had a bamboo pipe in their hands, and they made the tobacco leaves of the Americas first. Sun Caixi once heard Gao Junshan introduce the use of tobacco, and now that his estate has a tobacco field, he decided to open a flue-cured tobacco factory here to add a tobacco business to the estate.
Sun Dewang named his manor house Dewang Manor, which was an English building, and Sun Dewang was a little unaccustomed to it, and he planned to build a traditional Chinese courtyard on the residential land. Now the family can only temporarily live in the straw huts built by the British, which were given to black slaves by the British.
Sun Cai was so happy that he lived in a two-story villa of the British, he was twenty-two years old this year, and his daughter-in-law was named Fang Caihong, who had married before coming to the Americas.
There were ten such villas in the manor, and his two younger brothers saw that the eldest brother had lived in a western-style house, and they also occupied one each.
Sun Dewang's family has more than 200 people to eat at once, and he must make an overall arrangement, otherwise the management of their family will fall into chaos.
He convened a family meeting, divided the work of the family members, and handed over the cotton land to his second brother Sun Dequan's family to take care of, because Sun Caixi volunteered to undertake the management of the tobacco field, he handed over all the fifty acres of tobacco land to his eldest son Sun Sihao's family to manage, Sun Sihao is Sun Caixi's father, Sun Caixi has three younger brothers and a younger sister.
Growing tobacco was not at all interesting to the farmers at that time, so Sun Sihao's family obtained the right to manage 50 acres of tobacco land, and did not get the opposition of other brothers, but Sun Caixi's younger brothers were unhappy, because tobacco could not be eaten.
Sun Dewang handed over the task of taking care of the home to his youngest son Sun Sihan, Sun Sihan is Chinese New Year's Eve six years old today, and his wife gave birth to five sons for him, the youngest is ten years old, the oldest is eighteen years old, one by one, no wonder Sun Dewang handed over this task to this family.
The management of the property was handed over to his third brother, Sun Deming, who was forty years old and had a son and a daughter, who was shrewd and capable, and who had studied arithmetic, and who managed the accounts of the manor.
The more than 200 domestic slaves in the manor were divided into two, and Sun Dewang let his second son and third son manage the family, the second son was called Sun Siyu and had three boys and one girl, and the third son was called Sun Sirun, who had two boys and two girls.
Sun Dewang himself is the owner of the manor and is in charge of the affairs of the manor.
The next day, Sun Dewang put on five carriages in the manor and took his eldest grandson, Sun Caixi, into the city to receive grain.
The Indians and black slaves couldn't do the chariot, so the five carriages were driven by the Sun family themselves, the first one was the manor owner Sun Dewang, his eldest grandson Sun Caixi sat beside him, the second one was Sun Dequan, the third was Sun Deming, and the last two were Sun Siyu and Sun Sirun.
Sun Dewang raised his horsewhip and only listened to "Bang!" With a sound, even if the carriage was started, it was two snow-white Western horses that pulled the cart, and Sun Dewang trained these two white horses for a few days, but he couldn't make them understand the "fightββ! and "Callββ! Anyway, with a flick of the whip, the horse can move forward, and as soon as the reins are raised, the horse knows to stand, with these two skills, Sun Dewang can safely drive the carriage out of the manor.
Turn left and turn right can be adjusted slowly, anyway, there is no fork in the city, and a road leads directly to Chang'an.
On one side of the road is the Hudson River, there are Chinese boats coming and going on the river, there are already many people on the road, and you can still meet horse-drawn carriages from time to time on the road.
It was eighty miles from Dewang Manor to Chang'an, and Sun Dewang drove the carriage on the road before dawn, hoping to return to the manor when it was dark.
The road was built by the Huaxia road construction team, that is, flat and wide, Sun Dewang shook the whip, and the carriage rushed on the road.
Halfway through, I met a fellow I knew and joked with him: "Old grandson, your Yanmar is not fast enough, if you go to Chang'an at such a speed, the grain will have already been divided." Hahaha! β
Sun Dewang was not annoyed, but he quickened the whip to urge the horse to run quickly.
Sun Caixi, who was sitting next to him, said: "Grandpa, it's still early, don't worry!" β
Sun Dewang said: "Now the car is empty, let the horses run faster and not get tired, so that we can squeeze out the time to come back." β
After he finished speaking, he said, "Smack!" The ground flicked over.
Sun Caixi felt sorry for his grandfather, he wanted to share the burden for his grandfather, and said, "Grandpa, let me catch up for a while, you can rest for a while." β
Sun Dewang listened to it and said sweetly: "Xi'er, you are a scholar, how can a scholar do the business of driving a car?" Grandpa doesn't need you to catch the car, as long as you sit next to grandpa, grandpa has strength all over his body. How many of them in our hometown can be admitted to Jingjing University? You are the first college student in our village, you sit next to your grandfather, your grandfather has a lot of face, you look at the fellows along the way, how envious you are when you see your grandfather! β