After the Mid-Autumn Festival, the Songnen Plain is crisp in autumn, and the potatoes and rice planted in the black soil reclaimed by the new immigrants are beginning to be harvested, and the corn and soybeans are about to be opened.

The black earth is busy, and everywhere is filled with the joy of harvest.

Weishan they Tunbao up and down is also everyone laughing and laughing, this land is really too fertile, pinching a handful of black soil is out of oil flowers, plugging chopsticks can sprout.

This part of the Songnen Plain was originally Liaobei Province, but now it has been reclassified into Heilongjiang Province. The entire large area east of the Great Xing'an Mountains, north of the Songhua River, and south of the Heilongjiang River has been changed to Heilongjiang.

The vast majority of the new Heilongjiang province are new immigrants, and most of them have moved from Shandong.

Wei Shan was originally a native of the Yimeng Mountains of Shandong, and the immigrants from several counties of the Yimeng Mountains settled together after arriving in the Songnen Plain, and the immigrants from the same county built a township here, and the immigrants from the same township were built here as a tunbao.

Because these people are all from the Yimeng Mountains, the county name of the county is Xinyi County, which is composed of six new immigrant towns they built here.

They named the river that flows through six townships in Xinyi County Xinyi River.

The people of the same county, now in this new hometown, have become the people of the same township, and the people of the same township have become the same fort here. This makes immigrants such as Wei Shan adapt quickly here.

There are 1,000 households in Weishan's Tunbao.

This year, the immigrants are collectively cultivating the land, so that they can make more effective use of cattle and horses, farm tools, and can also pool labor to reclaim more arable land.

This year, they have cultivated a lot of land, most of which are potatoes, some are corn, and some are soybeans. Rice was planted in the irrigated land along the river.

Whether it is potatoes or corn, soybeans or rice, the growth is very gratifying.

In May, Wei Shan was already eager to write to his hometown, describing all the beautiful scenes here to his family, and asking his father to come. The old father heard that Weishan was full of fertile black soil. In the endless Great Plains, when they easily reclaimed tens of thousands of acres of land, it was hard to believe.

But since the son had said this, and strongly urged him to come, he finally decided to leave the poor mountain village. Although many people in the village have emigrated, the people who remain are still less than two acres of land per capita.

Xinyi County officials also welcomed the immigrants to pick up their families and friends. It's full of good land that can be cultivated, but what is lacking is people.

Wei Shan's father looked at the harvested potatoes, but he always said with pity. "It's a pity that you can only plant one season a year in fertile land, and if you waste one season, you have to harvest less grain."

Xinyi County is located in the Nenjiang Plain, which is a tributary of the Hulanye River, a large tailless river on the left bank of the Nenjiang River. The Kulanye River is a very strange tailless river, and it is said that he has no tail because the river has a head and no tail. The river originates in the Xiaoxing'an Mountains and is more than 1,000 miles long. But after passing Xinyi County and going a short distance to the southwest, it completely disappeared into a continuous swamp. The Xinyi River is a tributary of the Hulanye River. The river is more than 100 miles long, flowing through the territory of six immigrant towns in Xinyi County, and the river surface is five or six zhang wide.

The land reclaimed in the six townships of Xinyi County is on both sides of the river, but although the land here is fertile, the water is also abundant, and the land is still flat. But here is a longer and colder winter than Weishan's Yimeng hometown.

In the Yimeng Mountains, they can grow two crops of potatoes a year, sowing spring potatoes in February and harvesting them in June. Wait until July to plant autumn potatoes and harvest them in October. But here. They plant until the end of March and the beginning of April, and then wait until the autumn harvest to plant only one crop a year.

The same is true for corn, soybeans and rice.

With such a fat black soil, if it weren't for the time, it would be no problem to plant two seasons in such a soil.

It's a shame.

Weishan is very satisfied, although he can only plant one season, but the land here is fertile, and there is a lot of land.

In their hometown, a small mountain village is only two or three hundred acres of land, and most of it is mountainous. But here, there are large tracts of open land, and there is even water by the river, and here, you can even grow rice. They have never planted rice in their hometown, and there are no such conditions in the mountains.

This year's newly reclaimed new land, after the potatoes were planted, there was not so much effort to take care of them, and the tunpu asked for more land, and everyone spent most of their time reclaiming wasteland, and managing the potatoes planted was a woman's business.

This year alone, more than 5,000 acres of potatoes have been planted, as well as more than 2,000 acres of corn, more than 2,000 acres of soybeans, and hundreds of acres of rice.

At that time, everyone thought that planting widely and harvesting thinly, anyway, it was newly cultivated land, so we would plant it first, and it didn't matter if the harvest was more or less. When the ground is ripe, the natural yield will come up.

But no one could have imagined that these newly cultivated lands, with such extensive management, turned out to be very gratifying when they matured.

The potatoes that have already been harvested, according to the standard calculation of 240 steps per mu, the yield per mu has reached more than 500 catties. When the round potatoes were dug up and quickly filled with baskets, everyone was stunned.

More than 500 pounds per acre.

They used to grow wheat in the mountains of their hometown, and the yield of one mu was only more than 100 catties, even if they planted potatoes, the yield was higher, but three or five hundred catties was considered powerful, and I heard that in the plains of Shandong, the production capacity of potatoes per mu reached 1,000 catties. But it is a good field, and it can produce three or four hundred catties of rice.

They thought that they could harvest a hundred catties of potatoes per acre, and they were very satisfied. After all, they planted more than 5,000 acres, but the result surprised everyone. The average yield per mu reached more than 500 catties, and this year they had a bumper harvest of potatoes, and now everyone began to worry that they did not expect such a bumper yield in advance, and did not prepare enough warehouses in advance, so many potatoes, how to store them.

Moreover, potatoes are not as easy to store as rice and soybeans, etc., and they have a high water content.

Wei Shan's father was not too much, he looked at the potatoes and was happy, but he always remembered that he could not grow two crops here.

Fortunately, the trouble of the potato harvest was quickly resolved, and the county seems to have expected such an outcome. When the potatoes began to be harvested, people from the county came and told everyone that the county would be open to buying potatoes. The county grain station has built a new potato processing plant, and they can buy potatoes and process them into starch, vermicelli, and even potato chips and dried potatoes.

The purchase price given by the county is not bad. Everyone's worries quickly disappeared and the excitement returned. After this batch of potatoes is harvested, they can get a lot of money by selling them to the county grain station, and this income can pay off the seed money and livestock money that the county has lent them this year.

In the first year of immigration, there was such a bumper harvest. and the good income after the harvest, everyone is very satisfied. In addition, the other corn, soybeans, and rice can also have a bumper harvest.

At the meeting in Tunli, everyone had even agreed that after this batch of grain was sold, they would go and buy another batch of ploughing oxen and horses, as well as some more farm tools, and intensify reclamation.

According to the policy, new immigrants have a three-year period of cooperation and mutual assistance, and after three years, they will officially divide their land. Now cultivate more fields. Then everyone will be able to share more land.

It is much easier to open up the wasteland here than in the Yimeng Mountains in my hometown, the land here is all plains, there are no mountains, and there are no stones and trees everywhere, and the most grass here is grass.

Far from the river are tall grasses, and near the river are meadows and swamps.

When everyone reclaimed the wasteland, they set fire to it first and set a large area first. Cut a fire strip around the perimeter and set fire to the grass. After the grass is burned. They used oxen and horses to pull iron plows to plough the ground, because there were oxen and horses available, and the plows provided by the county were much more advanced than they had used before, and the plows were deep and not laborious.

After ploughing, another plough is used to break up the turned soil rake. Women, the elderly, and children followed behind with baskets, shaking off the roots of the grass and carrying them away in baskets.

After a few times, the ground is leveled, dry it, and do it again. It's already ready to be planted. Their previous reclamation was like this, the county pulled out loans, and then they asked the county to buy cattle, rent horses, buy farm tools, and the new land was reclaimed in this way.

In more than half a year, more than 30 acres of land have been cultivated per household on average, which is equivalent to 5 acres of new land per household every month.

This was unimaginable in my hometown, when they opened up the wasteland, which was at the foot of a mountain full of stones and trees, cutting down trees with a knife, then digging up the roots with a hoe, and turning stones, and finally leveling the ground with a hoe.

It's such a mountainous area, there is not much to cultivate, and many people may not be able to reclaim three parts of wasteland in their lifetime.

But here they have sturdy oxen and horses, advanced iron plows and iron rakes, good shovels and shovels and hoes, and those black soil that is well cultivated.

Everyone plans to buy some more cattle and horses and iron farming tools, and there is still some time before the snow, and after the autumn harvest, they can rush to reclaim some land. With cows, horses and new farming tools, they will be able to cultivate more land and plant more potatoes and corn next spring.

Everyone expects that after three years, every household in Tunli will be able to share two or three hundred acres of land, and now they will be able to cultivate more land and save some money, and when the time comes, they will have their own houses on their own land.

Now everyone still lives in Tunpu, is a concentrated residence, every day when going to a distant place to open up the wasteland, you have to take a carriage over. In the future, when everyone divides the land, they will definitely not live together like this, but will be divided into smaller villages. At that time, everyone had to build their own houses, and now they have to cultivate more crops and crops, and while the price of grain is still good, they have to hurry up.

In Tunpu, everyone has even decided to raise more pigs, chickens and ducks, and it is better to raise them yourself than to buy them. In the past, everyone was always reluctant to buy meat, but now everyone thinks that by eating better, everyone can have more strength to reclaim the famine.

Of course, everyone is also because of the bumper harvest now, and the price is good, and there is money in the purse, so naturally it is no longer as good as before.

Early in the morning, Wei Shan, as usual, got up at a slight dawn. After washing, he took his hoe and went down to the field.

Now Tunpu is still concentrated in the residence, reclamation together, everyone works collectively, calculates the labor according to the labor, and then divides the rations at the end of the year, and after the rest is sold, add cattle, horses, farm tools and other reclamation tools.

Tunpu is a relatively simple and large village, but there is a wooden wall surrounded by wood, and the village militia is on duty every day, and the fort gate is closed after dark.

Only after dawn will the fort gate be opened, basically the immigrants here are all in the tunbao, which is also the requirement of the imperial court, in order to ensure the safety of the immigrants. In case of an attack by bandits or the Jurchens, there is a simple village and militia, which can also support one or two, and can give the local garrison time to come to rescue.

There are wells in the fort, and in addition to breeding cattle, horses, chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep, there are also many vegetable fields.

When the wall was built, some more land was deliberately circled in, and in these places near the wall, they were assigned to each family to make vegetable plots, so that each family could grow their own vegetables.

Although Tunpu is a collective reclamation, each family still has its own gang, and the fort divides the field and grain according to the work, and then divides a vegetable field.

Every day after breakfast, it is time to go to work, so every day when the sky is slightly bright, the first thing Wei Shan does after getting up is always to go to his own vegetable field to work for a while.

His family has two vegetable plots, one under the walls of the fort and one outside the fort.

In addition to planting these two vegetable plots for their own families, some of them are for the pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks raised by the family. Cattle and horses are now publicly owned in the fort, but each family has almost raised some pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks, the Han people are always like this, no matter where they go, they will always find a way to grow some vegetables in front of the house and behind the house, and then raise some chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep or something as a household subsidy.

The chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep raised by Wei Shan's family were reluctant to eat by themselves, and they raised them to sell them to the officers and soldiers of the military department on the road not far away.

Around the military headquarters on the side of the road, there are also some inns and warehouses, restaurants, tea shops, etc., and immigrants from the vicinity regularly come here to trade. As a result, it has actually become another bazaar outside of their township market. The pigs, sheep, chickens and ducks they raised could be sold to the military station or sold in the market.

Some time ago, Wei Shan and his father planted a lot of radishes in their vegetable field, radishes are not afraid of cold, they can raise pigs and sheep, they can also feed chickens and ducks, and even pickled into salted radishes and radishes.

He had just walked to his vegetable patch when he heard a bell from the other side of the fort gate.

Wei Shan felt like a bell, and the bell meant a warning sign.

What's going on, how can the bell be ringed?

Wei Shan dropped his hoe and ran towards the fort gate, the young and strong among the new immigrants were also in the militia. Every month, when it rains, I have a good training camp.

They didn't know how to musket, but they all practiced white-armed guns.

By the time we reached the fort gate, many of the same immigrants had already arrived. Everyone was nervous, the fields were harvesting, why did they ring the alarm bell, since they arrived in Xinyi, they still heard this alarm bell ring for the first time.

The captain had already come running with an arquebus, one of the few firearms in the fort.

"What's going on?"

"Army, there's an army passing by outside!" The militia on duty shouted as he pointed outside the fort.

The fort commander climbed the wall with a musket and looked out, and sure enough, a large army was passing by in the morning mist, and he saw that the front and back of the team were not visible, and I don't know how much.

The chief of the fort is the governor of the entire Tunpu, and he is also from Shandong, but he is not an ordinary person. was originally a clerk in Yizhou, and later he was responsible for sending them over, but he didn't come back after he came, and he directly became the head of their fort, and he commanded everyone to reclaim the land on weekdays, and contacted the county and township, all through him.

The castle chief half-shrank his head and looked at the team carefully, and for a moment he couldn't understand which way the immortals were passing by! (To be continued.) )

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