Chapter 562: Pioneer

Zhao Xuan immigrated from Jianghuai, where it is now called Huainan Province, it is a rich place, the rivers are intertwined, the plains that cannot be seen at a glance, there is not a mountain in ten miles and eight townships, the land of fishing and rice.

However, growing up in that rich place, Zhao Xuan's family has always been extremely poor, his father and brothers originally grew up in Jiangnan, and later after the fall of Chen Guo, they crossed the river to Huainan, and the official family granted land, but Huainan people have more land and less land, originally according to the system is 100 acres per Ding, but the brothers only got 20 acres of land, which is barely enough for the family to maintain their lives. In case of natural disasters and insect pests or something, it will not work at all, so the brothers usually give people tenant land to cultivate, and when the family is free, they have to go to the wharf to pick up workers and carry work, and Zhao Xuan was herding cattle for the landlord's family at that time.

The family suffered for ten years, sprinkled blood and sweat on the land, and as the years passed, they slowly accumulated some money and bought some land. However, my father, uncle, and brother had many children, and the sixteen men and dozens of people in the two families lived together, men, women, and children, all of whom had to rely on those dozens of acres of land, and their lives were still embarrassing. So he could only share more fields, and when the farm was slack, he went to pick up labor and carry work, and even the children went to herd cattle and sheep for the landlord's family like Zhao Xuan did back then, and mixed up to eat.

Zhao Xuan is the third son of his father, the seventh in the family, the father and brothers came to live in Huainan, married and had children, they have a total of fourteen cousins, and six sisters, the poorer they are, the poorer they are, the poorer they are. When my father and uncle arrived in Huainan, they barely got 20 acres of land, but after their brothers became Ding, there was not a single acre of land to share.

A few years ago, the Zhao family listened to the people of the government to publicize the fact that the imperial court wanted to immigrate to northern Xinjiang, and after hearing that immigrants could have land division, and each ding had 100 acres. Even after the woman was able to divide the land, Zhao Xuan's father and uncle were tempted. The two brothers have worked hard all their lives. Now the family has indeed multiplied, and the next generation has sixteen males. But there is no land to live in, and only a few of the fourteen sons and nephews have married wives and married, and most of them have reached the age of marriage and marriage but cannot find a suitable family because they can't get money and gifts and can't afford to build a new house, and even the girls haven't found any very good homes. The brothers gathered their sons and nephews to discuss, and finally decided to sign up to go to Liaodong.

Originally, it was planned to go to Liaodong, but the imperial court recovered Liaodong last year, and more immigrants were needed to go to Liaodong. In order to encourage the people to immigrate to Liaodong, the imperial court even offered special preferential conditions that each man in Liaodong could be divided into 200 acres of land, and women who were married could also be divided into 100 acres of land. In addition, the government provided travel expenses, sent them to Liaodong, and there would be benefits such as settling-in expenses in the early stage, and finally the Zhao family decided that since it was to stuff Liaodong outside the Guanguan, it was better to go straight to Liaodong, and Liaoxi would grant 100 acres of land, but Liaodong would be doubled.

After the discussion. The Zhao family reported to the government, and many families couldn't show the courage of the Zhao family, although their families were also poor, but in the end, they only let the concubine or the second son of the family sign up for Liaodong. It is very rare to be like the Zhao family, who sold all the little land, houses and property of the family to the government for recycling, and then took the ancestral tablet and the whole family to Liaodong. But according to Uncle Zhao Xuan's words. When the brothers were in Jiangdong, they were just tenant farmers. Later, when he came to Huainan, he was given 20 acres of his own land. Tong Guò worked hard, and the next generation of the family had fourteen men, but they could continue to stay in Huainan, and the family would only live the poor life when they were in Jiangdong, and in the future, the children and nephews could only work for the landlords to carry the work and rent tenant land to cultivate, and there was no future at all. In this case, it is better to go to Liaodong. Although they are old, the two brothers are still reluctant to stay, and would rather go north together as a family.

The homeland is difficult to leave, compared to the temptation of the new land, survival is always difficult, but there is a glimmer of good opportunities, and no one wants to miss it.

The process of migration was much easier than the Zhao family imagined. A qiē has been organized by the government, and the immigrants from Shouchun County have formed a team of more than 1,000 people, most of whom are young men who have not married, and some of them are like the Zhao family. More than 1,000 people were organized by the government, and several scribes and more than 10 officials were sent to accompany them, and more than 100 carriages were organized by the government, bringing tents and other things, and some families also had their own carriages and ox carts to join. On the road, the men walked, and were also organized into several teams, issued some spears and horizontal knives, escort teams, women and children and old people sat in the car pulling luggage, along the way without hurry, every day according to the predetermined route, they did not need to bring too much food and the like, along the avenue, every other distance, there will be a supply station on the side of the road, mostly in the post station, which stored a lot of materials, which was specially prepared by the imperial court for these immigrants, and the doctor and doctor, will help them check their health, so everyone walks very easilyIt is said that this is also an order of the imperial court, saying that after arriving in Liaodong, some martial arts can better protect themselves and protect immigrants, and at the same time, every night, the officials of the team will also organize them to read and read together, teach them pinyin, teach them some abbreviated words and calculation methods, and even teach them some simple Hu languages such as Goguryeo, Khitan, and Turkic.

Zhao Xuan is very talented in literacy, he has been in school from the end of the past, and has never read a book, but along the way, he has learned many words, and can even write the name of a family on the dirt ground with a branch, although it is a little crooked, but it is all right. The name Zhao Xuan is the name given to him by the Liu scribe who was surprised by his talent along the way, originally he was called Goudan, and he has been this name since he was a child. My father and uncle couldn't think of it, but if I wanted to ask someone to choose a name, I had to ask for money. They have fourteen brothers, most of them are such pigs, dogs, cats, stones, tree roots, and other names, he is called Dogdan, and there are brothers called small dogs, puppies, and two dogs, and there is a cousin who is even called Dog Sister, I didn't think anything before, but now that I have a tuba, he immediately feels that those names are too unacceptable. For this reason, he specially begged Mr. to give them a large size for their brothers, Mr. is a very kind person, it is said that he has never studied before, he was born in poverty, but he served as a soldier for the emperor. Later, because he was injured, he retired and returned to his hometown, because he was honored. Therefore, he was able to enter the county government and became a scribe, and he also learned to read and count in the army. Scribe Liu took a tuba for the Zhao brothers. It's all around the fire.

The father and uncle were very happy with the new names of the sons and nephews, which were chosen with the help of the scribe Liu, and it did not cost a penny. And the two brothers were even happier that Lao Qigou was able to get the love of Scribe Liu and taught him to read, read and write, and arithmetic. Being able to read and write, this is amazing, I used to be at home, how could there be such an opportunity, it was only an opportunity for the children of the landlord's family. Now this Liu scribe is so generous. Teach people to read and write without money. Although in fact, they also read and write together, but they can't remember to learn at all, and they barely learn to recognize their own names, and they always write wrong. However, everyone was still very grateful to Liu Shuzhi, although it was said that this was the will of His Majesty the Emperor of the Holy Son of Heaven, but everyone still scraped together a sum of money on the way, and then when they passed a supply station, they spent money to buy a few tables of banquets and buy some gifts. made a thank-you banquet, invited Liu Shuzhi and them to drink together, and specially asked Zhao Xuan and a few other young people who were considered to have learned a little to give Liu Shuzhi a formal apprenticeship ceremony. Scribe Liu excused himself several times, but he couldn't see everyone's enthusiasm. In the end, he had to accept a few young disciples, and he was also happy.

Along the way, there was an organizational arrangement of the imperial court, and it took them a few months to finally go all the way from Huainan to Liaodong. Not a single person in the team has fallen, and not a single one has died of illness. Thanks to the supply depots arranged by the government along the road, and the doctors and medicinal herbs there. In addition, the Liu scribes in the accompanying team will also have some simple treatments, and everyone arrived in Liaodong smoothly.

More than 1,000 people from Shouchun County, Shouzhou, Huainan Province, were finally resettled in Fuyu River, Liaobei Province, and set up Shouchun Tunbao on the west fifty miles of the original Buyeo Wangcheng Road, the capital of Buyeo State. According to the plan of the imperial court, these immigrants basically set up a tunpu according to the immigrants from their hometown, a county or a state, so that everyone comes from the same place, speaks the same words, and has a more or less response, and can be more united and take care of each other. Moreover, according to the plan of the imperial court, the immigrants had to stock up on land together for the first three years, and after three years, they could grant land and cultivate it themselves according to the plan. In the beginning, they wanted to build a tunpu together, live together, and reclaim the land together.

During the first three years of reclamation, the imperial court would lend them seeds, furniture, cattle, etc., and provide them with a settling-in allowance and interest-free loans to help them survive the first three years.

Of course, the imperial court also prepared a big benefit for them, that is, to provide blind date opportunities for those young men who have reached the age of marriage without wives, and arrange for them to marry unmarried school-age girls of Liaodong natives, and then they do not need to pay a bride price, and the government will help them solve it. Of course, if you are willing to give it again, the government will not object.

All in all, this is good news that excites all immigrants.

Shouchuntun, for the time being, is still a temporary camp, with no houses, no walls, nothing. Once you get here, you have to do it yourself. Fortunately, however, officials came to help and instructed them on how to dig wells, build houses, and build walls. According to the government's plan, although Shouchuntun is only a small immigrant settlement, but it also has its own wall, its own militia team, after the establishment of the fort, there must be someone to stand guard at night, according to the words of the official, although there is a large army of the imperial court stationed in Liaobei, but there can be no slack, to prevent some thieves or some undead Goguryeo noble landlords and so on.

Tong Guò explained that Zhao Xuan knew that when Goguryeo ruled here, most of the land here actually belonged to a very small number of nobles and landlords, and most of the Goguryeo people were actually just their tenant farmers or even slaves. After the imperial court recovered the land of Liaodong, it adopted a different policy treatment for these remnants of the former Goguryeo. All the aristocratic and powerful landlords, after examination, if they are the kind of people who do power and fortune and do evil, then they will be directly sentenced according to the severity of the sentence, sent to serve hard labor, mining, road construction and city construction, and their family property will be confiscated. For those who did not have any bad deeds, they were all moved to the Central Plains, and their fields, mountains and forests and other industries were purchased by the imperial court at a discount, and finally they were given some land and property in the resettlement area.

For the ordinary tenant farmers and slaves, it was much better, the slaves were separated from their original masters, and they were placed in various fields or mines, and as long as they served for the imperial court for five years, they were granted free status. After serving the imperial court for five years, he will be able to transform from a hired laborer to a formal citizen of the Great Sui Empire, and he will be able to obtain the qualification of Juntian grant and be allocated his own land. These slaves served in the imperial court for the first five years, and the imperial court only provided them with food and drink, as well as a small allowance. In the second five years, they can get the salary of employment, and then they will be their own masters and have their own land.

For those tenant farmers, or yeoman farmers with a small amount of land, they basically maintain their situation unchanged and their property is protected, but they have to support the policies and decrees of the imperial court, they have to pay taxes to the imperial court, they have to serve in the military service of the imperial court, and they must have their unmarried daughters of marriageable age register with the government, participate in blind dates, marry Han immigrants, and their minor children must enter the schools established by the government to learn Han culture, and adults must also learn Chinese language, and at the same time have to change the clothing and crown system of the Han people.

These policies are all aimed at allowing the imperial court to rule Liaodong and Liaobei for a long time, and the different treatment of the natives is also to win over the vast majority of the people and crack down on the minority. To be more precise, it was to suppress those aristocratic leaders and landlords, not only to eliminate Goguryeo's rule in the government, but also to seize Goguryeo's land, mountains, forests, minerals and other resources. Otherwise, when the immigrants came, they would give the Goguryeo landlords land to the landlords.

This kind of policy is clearly directed, some of these upper classes of Goguryeo surrendered under the strong force of the Sui army, and they chose to move to the Central Plains, although this will definitely not be so easy in the future, but at least they can save the family. And there are some who are unwilling to resist, and most of them are suppressed by the garrisons stationed in various parts of Liaodong. Then a small number of Haoqiang, took out their own money, brought their own slaves and tenants to recruit a lot of outlaws, and began to rebel, although most of them were quickly exterminated, but there were also some people who were familiar with the terrain and began to be mountain bandits and bandits in the mountains, and they were determined to fight the Sui Dynasty to the end. (To be continued......)