663 Daily Life Before the War (I)

Xiao Ruxun's three years in Myanmar were also three years of frequent disasters in the north, and three years of large-scale migration of people from the Central Plains to Myanmar.

At first, the policy was widely questioned about the viability of Burmese immigrants, and the focus of discussion at the court was not the rationality of the policy itself, but whether the affected displaced people were willing to believe that they could go to Burma to survive.

According to the conditions put forward by Xiao Ruxun, what soil is fertile, thousands of miles of fertile soil, is a wild and undeveloped land, if there is a population to develop, it may become a new paradise in a few decades.

To tell the truth, people in the officialdom don't believe in this kind of rhetoric at all, and they don't believe in any thousands of miles of fertile land, and they don't believe in it and don't want to pay attention to all the fat meat that can't be put in front of them, but the transfer of the disaster victims to Myanmar is indeed what they dream of.

After these people are transferred to Burma, they will not cause hidden dangers to the Central Plains, there will be no rebellion after starvation, and there will be no smashing, looting, and burning, which will be extremely beneficial to the grassroots government and landlords, and if this policy is effective, then they will have to think less about the consequences if they want to annex land in the future.

Anyway, if something happens, just go to Burma to Cypriots, anyway, how can that wild land be compared with the anointed land in the south of the Central Plains? Throw away all these surplus homeless people as a burden, and the only ones left are effective taxpayers, right?

According to the calculations of Yuan Huang and Xiao Ruxun, if the large area of land in Myanmar is to be fully developed, it will cost 8 million to 10 million people, let alone 8 million to 10 million people, and it will be possible to continue to accept refugees from the Central Plains to fill the population for a considerable period of time, and this policy was widely accepted a year later, and since then, thousands to tens of thousands of refugees have been transferred from the Central Plains to Burma every month.

In recent years, the north has been repeatedly hit by drought and cold, a large number of people have lost their land and been displaced, in order to prevent them from becoming a hidden danger to the imperial court, the imperial court has also made great efforts, and now there is a good place in Myanmar, of course, it is all stuffed in the past.

But even so, for Xiao Ruxun, the population of Myanmar is still not enough, there are more than 1 million people concentrated around the four major treaty port cities, the further south the construction, the more population, the more north, the more primeval forests account for the majority, the development has not been completed, and it is impossible to live in it.

Rao is like this, under the development of the Donghu Dynasty for decades, it still opened up a place to live, and the population of less than four million people who have been transferred to Myanmar is really unable to meet Xiao Ruxun's needs to develop the north.

Therefore, the people-to-people exchange between Myanmar and the inland areas of the Central Plains will inevitably continue.

It was against this background that Lao Zhou came to Myanmar from Xianyang.

Speaking of which, Lao Zhou and Xiao Ruxun are also a bit fateful.

He used to work as a cook in a big restaurant in Xianyang, but in the 23rd year of Wanli, the area suffered a disaster, resulting in population loss and large-scale disasters.

Lao Zhou's hometown is in Ningxia in the northwest, the battle of Ningxia swept through most of Ningxia, and the old Zhou family was also affected, and he was left alone in a family of seven, and he was rescued when Xiao Ruxun led the troops to counterattack and regain the lost castle, and he has always been grateful to Xiao Ruxun.

The restaurant fell, Lao Zhou had nowhere to go, no land, no job, no way to live, in desperation, I heard that the imperial court was organizing refugees to go to Myanmar under Xiao Zhennan to develop Myanmar, Lao Zhou listened, Xiao Zhennan is not Xiao Ruxun? So I made up my mind to go to Myanmar by boat.

After arriving in Myanmar, he happened to bump into Xiao Ruxun recruiting cooks among the Central Plains refugees who came to Myanmar to cook for himself and the officials of Zhennan Hou Mansion, Lao Zhou immediately signed up, and finally ten people were selected to cook in Zhennan Hou Mansion.

Lao Zhou did the best cooking, and was praised by Xiao Ruxun and Yuan Huang, summoned him, and gave him some reward, so he told this past, and Xiao Ruxun was very emotional about it.

After cooking for a year, Xiao Ruxun released Lao Zhou from the Zhennan Hou Mansion and entered the army to be the head of the army, saying that his skills were the best, and he only cooked for himself to eat Qu Cai, and the soldiers worked harder, so let him cook better meals for the soldiers.

At that time, the Zhennan Army was being reorganized, and Lao Zhou became the captain of the Huotou Army with his good cooking skills after entering the Huotou Army, with more than 20 Huotou soldiers under his command, and his cooking was deeply liked by the soldiers.

When Lao Zhou happened to cook with the army when he went north, he took him north together, and followed Xiao Ruxun all the way to fight, never missed a meal, and he was indeed a good talent.

Xiao Ruxun has a lot of things to do, and he hasn't met and chatted with Lao Zhou alone for a long time, and today he rarely has time to visit the Huotou Barracks, and he happened to bump into Lao Zhou cooking.

With Xiao Ruxun smiling, he stepped forward.

"Old Zhou! What about cooking? ”

Lao Zhou was busy working, and when he looked up, he saw that Xiao Ruxun was coming, and a smile suddenly bloomed on his weather-beaten face.

"Shiro!"

Lao Zhou shouted happily.

Xiao Ruxun came to Lao Zhou's side, looked at the work in Lao Zhou's hands, and saw that Lao Zhou was cutting meat.

"What kind of meat is this? So fragrant? ”

Lao Zhou happily replied: "This is wild boar, firm and delicious, that is the best meat, when I was a cook in Xianyang, this wild boar meat is willing to be eaten by many people, it is more popular than ordinary beef and mutton, and the price is also high, and many dignitaries are also willing to eat." ”

Xiao Ruxun nodded.

"I remember those bastards went out hunting and caught a lot of game, well, yes, and got wild boars, what, is there enough meat?"

Lao Zhou patted his chest: "I promise that the soldiers will eat satisfactorily, so many things, can't you make a few delicious meals?" Haha, don't worry! By the way, Shiro, I have a good wild boar meat here, do you want to have some? ”

"Got it done?"

Xiao Ruxun felt that some kind of liquid was quickly secreted in his mouth: "Okay, give me some!" ”

"Hey, hey!"

Lao Zhou happily lifted the cloth on a large basin, and then Xiao Ruxun saw a large piece of black meat, Lao Zhou took out the large piece of meat, cut off a large piece of meat with a knife and handed it to Xiao Ruxun.

"It's just baked, it's still hot, I'm going to prepare it for Shiro, if Shiro is too late to deal with military affairs at night, I'll make some hot meat for Shiro to eat, it's cold now, it's absolutely comfortable to eat this meat, if you don't think the taste is enough, there's sauce here."

Xiao Ruxun nodded again and again, took the piece of meat, and took a big bite when it was brought to his mouth.

"Yes! Fragrant! ”

This meat is chewy and not old, it is very delicious, I want to eat another bite after taking a bite, I can't stop at all, after taking a few bites, Xiao Ruxun couldn't help laughing when he saw several guards who came with him salivating.

"Hahaha! Old Zhou, get some for them too! ”

"Okay!"