In the vast wilderness, there is still the smell of gunsmoke everywhere, and the figure of the winter snow has not melted clean.

But at the same time, there are also busy figures here, waving sickles and hoes in their hands on the wasteland that still vaguely retains a bit of the appearance of fields, diligently cultivating it.

If the land south of the Yangtze River is better than the water conservancy developed and the climate is humid and hot, so it has become a well-known land of fish and rice, then the northern Central Plains, the place where Chinese civilization originated, is better than the land in which most of the land is flat, although it is a little less fertile, but it also saves people a lot of trouble when farming.

In these years, the night of the Central Plains of China can be regarded as a lot of disasters, first a year of cold winter, continuous natural disasters for many years, and then the military disasters brought about by the uprising of the peasant rebels, finally walked a thief, and ushered in a Jurchen barbarian, and the Central Plains changed hands between several forces several times in succession, so that the land reclaimed in the past hundreds of years has become a wasteland overgrown with weeds because of the loss of their original owners.

If the people have no choice, who wants to watch the great land become barren, but in the past few years, even if they have worked hard to grow food, in the end, before the grain is ripe, they will be taken away by others, leaving only themselves and others full of devastation, and whoever it is, I am afraid that they will never do such a stupid thing again.

But fortunately, with the new establishment of the Hong Dynasty and the new establishment of the land, they finally put their lives back on track, and the common people regained the good tools of labor they had hidden, and went out of the villages and towns to start the crafts they were best at.

Of course, natural disasters have brought many problems and powerful destructive power, but in the same way, they have also brought new life to this land that has long been full of problems and contradictions.

The original distribution of the family in this land, the landlords and the like, with the cleaning again and again, but now there are not a few left, even if there are still Gaomen families living in this land, but with the arrival of the Hong Dynasty, their days have actually changed greatly.

In the Hong Dynasty, almost every village belonged to a family, but in the Hong Dynasty, many families began to divide their families in order to keep their land, so as to ensure that their land was in the hands of their own people.

According to the Hong Dynasty's standard allocation of five to six acres of land per person, the excess land in the family was recovered by the Hong Dynasty at the market price, placed in the hands of the imperial court, and then distributed to the common people who needed them, or simply collected as a military cantonment for later use.

This can be said to be a joy for the people who suffered from land annexation, and in addition to the fixed taxes in the Hong Dynasty system, the promise to the people will never impose any harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, at least at the moment of self-love, the Hong Dynasty has captured the hearts of the vast majority of the people.

This can be seen from the fact that even newborn children, even babies who are still in the womb of women, have been named by the people early and registered under their own household registers, so that when the children are fifteen years old, they can obtain the acres of fertile land that belong to them and are distributed by the government.

"After crossing a Yellow River, the one who didn't drink the water of the Yellow River~"

The northern Shaanxi Plateau, at this time, the natural environment, in fact, has not become as bare and yellow as in later generations, and countless jungle shrubs are still retained between the mountains and ravines.

Occasionally, in an open and stable place, there were a few people working in the fields, singing the high-pitched folk songs, while not forgetting to raise the tools in their hands high, and then hoeing into the ground, turning some of the stiff ground.

"I said, Da Niu Dad, when will your family go to the county to borrow spring grain, and what kind of loan is there?"

One of the men, with a sweat towel around his neck, suddenly interrupted the singing man in another land and asked about a matter that he cared about.

"Go and borrow that thing, our family is not without food, and this hoe and sickle are also very useful!"

The person who is called Da Niu Ta Daddy, surnamed Yang Dewang, is now an ordinary person in Shanyang County, Shaanxi Province, who has been lucky these years, and the successive wars have allowed them to hide in the mountains and take the past, and after the establishment of the new imperial court, they came out of the mountains and lived on their homeland again.

"This is not the same, I heard the gentlemen from the village say that the new grain varieties they have in their hands are not only drought tolerant, but also have high yields, far more than our current grain varieties The people who consult about grain varieties are a little dissatisfied with Yang Laohan's stubborn and conservative attitude, and began to use the news he heard to persuade the other party.

"Besides, even if your family can still use these sickles and hoes now, the big cow and the second cow in your family will soon start a family."

"Even if you don't have a family, when the land increases, you have to buy a few more farm tools, otherwise when the farm is busy, where will you get so many tools to work!"

"I'll tell you the news quietly, don't tell anyone else!"

Speaking of this, the man who spoke in advance seemed to have some secret, put down the work in his hand and mysteriously walked to Yang Laohan's side, and lowered his voice to talk to him, looking like he was afraid that others would hear it.

"Didn't my daughter just marry Xiao Li of the village committee in the village? My son-in-law whispered to me two days ago that this time the government has purchased these farm tools, all of which are made of stainless steel, which is much better than these guys in our hands, and the price is not expensive, and it is definitely cost-effective to buy it back! ”

"Really?"

Yang Laohan was skeptical.

"I can't lie to you, if it weren't for the fact that my family couldn't eat back then, you lent my family half a liter of multigrain noodles, I really wouldn't have to tell you!"

kindly revealed this gossip to this long-time neighbor, but in the end, the other party questioned it, which really made this enthusiastic old farmer particularly sad.

"I'm afraid of what kind of loan thing this is, and it's like a loan shark, once you borrow it, you can't pay it back, and in the end you lose these good fields, it's not worth it!"

Yang Laohan looked at the newly renovated land under his feet, and expressed his worries with relief and satisfaction.

"It's not that I said you, you old man don't know how to go out for a walk every day except for serving your family's few pieces of land, and listen to the reasoning of those gentlemen in the village!"

"The gentlemen have said that if they borrow these loans from us, there will not be the slightest interest for two years, and even if they can't pay it back after two years, the interest they charge is very low."

"Moreover, if our families are rich in food, they can also use grain to pay off their debts or participate in the work organized by the village during the slack time, which can also be used as a means of repaying debts."