Chapter 757: Cultivating Wasteland
New world.
Patches of forests have been cut down, and houses are being built.
It used to be a vast forest, but now it has been cut down, and houses, small villages, and small towns have been built.
The place occupied by Datang is changing rapidly.
The biggest change is that the forest has become a farm.
It is home to corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, tomatoes, peanuts and other crops.
In the past, these things were all wild, and the local people collected them in the wild, and no one cultivated them at all.
What a waste!
If these crops can be managed in a centralized manner, fertilized and weededed, and intensively cultivated, they will definitely be able to achieve high yields and bumper harvests.
Therefore, in the places controlled by the Tang Dynasty, farms are being built rapidly.
Patches of corn were planted, and patches of sweet potatoes sprouted, as well as potatoes, tomatoes, peanuts and other crops.
The houses were surrounded by fields, and the village was built in the middle of the fields, and the town was built in the middle of the fields.
It was hot, and the sun hung high in the sky.
A young man was wielding a hoe to dig up the fertile land, and the people next to him were also busy.
After a while, he stopped.
Looking at the patches of land, his face was full of pride.
"General, when are we going to open this field?" A soldier next to him asked involuntarily.
"The people who came to support us are coming." Li Siwen smiled slightly and said, "Next year, we will welcome 100,000 Tang people here, and the year after tomorrow we will welcome 200,000 Tang people." ”
"We have to plant grain on the land here before they come, and when they come, we will not be afraid of running out of food to eat, and then it will really be ten thousand people who have developed millions of acres of fields, and it only takes a hundred years for us Tang people to be able to firmly grasp this place."
"And we, as pioneers, will be recorded in history far away." Li Siwen said with a smile.
Once, he wanted to be a military advisor.
Now, however, he found himself better suited to be an official who managed one side.
"General, will this farm be given to those who come after you?" The soldier next to him couldn't help asking.
"No, it's impossible, this farm, which we dug diligently, naturally belongs to us, no matter how the times change, this farm is also ours." Li Siwen smiled slightly, and said: "However, if they come, we still have to help them, no matter what, they are also our brothers and sisters, our compatriots." ”
"When they arrived, they naturally lacked food and clothing, and it is estimated that they did not even have a place to live, and we, as compatriots, naturally had to help them."
"This world is so big, and there is fertile land everywhere, I believe that if they come, they will soon be able to dig up their own fields, and then the whole new world will be patches of corn, patches of peanuts, patches of wheat fields, and I am extremely happy to think about it." Li Siwen laughed: "Datang will be spread in this world forever!" ~”
After Wei Chigong left, Li Siwen became the person with the highest official position here, so he took people to dig every day, and now he has excavated millions of acres of fields.
The Chinese people have a special skill that can be called a special ability, that is, diligence.
A kind of diligence from the bones, a kind of natural diligence.
It can be said that the industrious gene has long penetrated into every cell of the Chinese people.
No matter where the Chinese people go, they can find a way to survive, and they can open up patches of fields and raise chickens and ducks.
No matter how barren the land is, it can be turned into a field for producing food.
Even if future generations live in reinforced concrete, they can find open space and turn it into a vegetable garden and a nest for poultry.
In later generations, why did people outside China reject Chinese people?
Is it because the Chinese people are not friendly enough?
Or is it because the Chinese people do a lot of evil?
Or are the Chinese people indifferent and ruthless?
Neither!
The main reason is that the Chinese people are too hardworking, and other races are too lazy.
People from other countries only need eight hours to work, but Chinese people, in order to live, ten hours, more than ten hours are no problem, and there will be no strikes or anything like that.
In order to live, Chinese people have no complaints no matter how hard and tired they are.
As a boss, I naturally prefer to hire hard-working Chinese people.
Therefore, people from other countries think that it is the Chinese who have robbed them of their jobs, their wages, and their employment opportunities.
They don't want to think that if they can work hard and be diligent like the hard-working Chinese people, even God can't take away their job opportunities!
Lao Wang is also busy.
He was very happy that his son had come.
After knowing that he still has a chance to return to Datang, life is full of hope.
These days, he also took the people in his territory to cut trees and plant fields in the forest, and the fields are also developing rapidly.
When there are more fields, there is more food.
When there is more food, the population wants to be able to increase.
When the population is large, this place can flourish.
At this time, in this world, not only the New World, but also the Western Zhou Dynasty, was being developed everywhere.
In recent years, the peaceful society has doubled the population of the Western Zhou Dynasty rapidly, and suddenly felt that the domestic food was not enough to eat.
Chai Lingyu hurriedly asked people to reclaim patches of fields along the river.
He is the most experienced in this Great Zhou State, as long as there are fields and food, the number of citizens will naturally increase.
At the same time, in Datang, the matter of opening up wasteland is also busy.
In this era, the population of Datang is still very sparse, and it is not an exaggeration to say that Datang is sparsely populated.
And the emperor has just given an order, whoever clears the wasteland, the land belongs to whomever belongs.
This made many people very happy in their hearts, and they hurriedly led the family to dig up the wasteland.
After several years of peaceful development, the people have less war, and the population of Datang is also increasing rapidly.
Although the population is not as large as that of the Sui Dynasty, Cheng Chubi believes that as long as everyone works hard, it will definitely be able to become the richest and happiest country in the world.
And this time, in the West.
The battle is still going on.
The Great Eclipse is suppressing the rebellion of the Persian descendants, the Black and White Eaters are fighting in the country, the war is also going on in Egypt, and the Roman Empire is constantly fighting with the surrounding Caucasians, Germanic peoples and other barbarians.
(End of chapter)