Chapter 213 Ownership

Everything seems to be the same as last year, the only difference is that this year is bigger and more people than last year.

One by one, the sea ships docked at the port of the new city, and the displaced people got off the sea ships one by one, and walked to the reception points one by one according to the guidance of special personnel. Then, from these reception points, people are taken to one settlement after another. There, they will be simply screened by the officials of the civil yamen of the new city, and then assigned to the corresponding farms according to their territory and skills.

At least twenty or thirty seagoing ships are moored here every day, and each ship is either three or two hundred, or more than a hundred people, and the number of people who come off the ships every day has been secretly calculated by officials, at least about four or five thousand, this number has actually far exceeded the reception force of the new city, so that even the new recruits of the Velasco training camp who have been training in the new city have been pulled out to maintain order.

This situation lasted for half a month, and after this half month, the tide of displaced people slowly eased down, and the daily boats became a little sporadic and sporadic every day. In fact, on the third or fourth day, the farms near the new city were already overcrowded, and there were not so many people in these places. Fortunately, after Wu Yanran got Yu Feng's instructions, she made some preparations, opened a gathering point near the copper mine, and built some simple houses every three or five miles from the new city to the copper mine, that is, these houses, which formed villages one after another after the tide of displaced people.

In just half a month, the entire new city swelled outward for one or two miles, and the whole time, the new city really had the appearance of a city, in addition to the towns, there were a lot of rural areas outside the towns, and it was foreseeable that the reclaimed and uncultivated land in these new rural areas would be full of vitality when they came this spring.

It is still the management mode of the grange, it is still the credit of the seed farming tools, and it is still the power to establish the protection of the village in each grange, so Xincheng quickly and effectively incorporated these new blood into its own system, and after a short run-in, these new people quickly merged into one.

For the displaced people who have just set foot on this land, the current situation is basically not much different from what they imagined, the dwellers have their houses, the cultivators have their fields, although many of these houses have to be built by their own hands, and the fields have to be cultivated by them, but they are already very satisfied. Although those who persuaded them to come here said very little about the situation of the government here, some people even had an instinctive attitude of resistance at first. However, they soon found that this kind of resistance was completely unnecessary, compared with those officials of the Ming Dynasty, the officials here seemed to be so honest and capable, all the things they thought of and did not expect, these officials thought of for them, and the situation of oppressing them that they had always hated has not appeared.

It's truly a paradise!

Lying in a simple wooden hut, drinking hot porridge, and eating white-flour buns bigger than a fist, these homeless people were very satisfied. Just waiting for spring to come, they will carry their hoes and go out to cultivate their hope in the land outside the door, and start their new life on this land.

In each settlement, there are always three or two new faces, these are the people sent by the new city to guide the people and to preach the various policies and measures of the new city to the people, and when these villages are a little larger, these people may be the new village heads, the new village captains. The new city they represent will also represent the people of their settlement, the relationship between the mediator's own village and the neighboring villages, and the new town.

Tao Zhen is one of these people.

He is a native of Hejian Province, and this time last year, he came here with a group of people who had nowhere else to go, and got on a big boat by the sea. In a short time, he liked it here, for his hometown Hejian Mansion, he did not have any nostalgia, his relatives were no longer there, and the house also became a blank land in the war, and now in the new city, he not only re-asked for his daughter-in-law, but also had five acres of good paddy fields under his name, and he, because he has been performing well, has also become the captain of the village protection team, and the small life can be said to be prosperous.

He has completely made Xincheng his home, and it can be said that if anyone dares to destroy his life now, he will definitely be one of the first to defend his home with a knife. He thought that he would continue to work in this village protection team, and then, maybe he could enter the Fengzi camp, although I heard that the adult's Fengzi camp practiced very well, but, no matter how powerful, it would not be better than cultivating the wasteland day and night, and he was not a delicate and tender young master, this bit of suffering could not be eaten, and when the time came, he returned to the Zhuangzi in the uniform of the Fengzi battalion, and he did not envy his partners to death.

It's a pity that the adults finally took the Fengzi Battalion out to fight, the new city was empty, and the Fengzi Battalion began to replenish manpower, but he had no chance to enter, which made him very frustrated. There is no other way to choose the source of soldiers of the Fengzi Battalion, only to be selected from the guards of each grange, these Zhuang Ding, who have been trained by the basic training methods of the Fengzi Battalion, are the most outstanding among the people in terms of quality or innocence and even loyalty, and this way of recruiting has completely guaranteed the quality and purity of the officers and soldiers of the Fengzi Battalion, which has been studied and issued by the military affairs yamen, and no one can be an exception.

Similarly, in the various village protection teams, it is also the long-cherished wish of those energetic young men to eat food as an errand boy in the Fengzi camp. High treatment and good welfare is one aspect, more importantly, wearing the military uniform of the Fengzi battalion, it represents a kind of honor, a kind of identity, as long as you wear this military uniform, whether you are really in the new city, or in each grange, as long as it is within the scope of the new city, what you gain is absolutely sincere respect and warm hospitality, every new city people know that the reason why they have such a day now is this group of lovely young men, defending them, fighting for them.

The first time to expand the recruitment, Tao Zhen failed, for this matter, his daughter-in-law did not give him a good look for several days, nearly 100 people to protect the village, the wind word camp picks and chooses, as long as there are about a dozen people, he really feels very aggrieved, in the next two months, he is even more sulky, crazy drill, he believes that as long as the second wind word camp to recruit people, he will be the first to choose.

It's a pity that he didn't wait for the officials of the Fengzi Battalion to recruit troops, but he waited for the recruitment documents of the civil yamen. He will be the captain of a new estate, that is, he will now be an official.

Next, the big ships docked in the port one after another, and countless people got off the ships, he knew that among them, there were some people who would become his own people, and as long as he did his job well, the long-cherished wish of entering the Fengzi camp would no longer be a dream! He clearly knew that the captain of the village in his original Zhuangzi was from the real Fengzi camp, and he felt that he had basically learned everything that this captain had taught him, and what he had to do now was to teach the things that the captain had taught him, and then teach the young men who were about to form the village protection team.

"Brother Tao, what do you want?" A middle-aged man in his forties walked over happily and handed him chopsticks with two steamed buns.

This is Tao Zhen's village in this settlement, everyone elected the head of the village, the prestige is very high, Tao Zhen doesn't know what he did, let him get everyone's approval, but in Tao Zhen's feelings, this Zhuang head called Jiang Ren is a simple farmer with calluses on his hands.

"I'm wondering, if you go to the city tomorrow to ask for two ploughing cows for everyone, there are no big cows, and the calves are also made, raise them a little, you can't use them this year, you can use them next year!" Tao Zhen took the chopsticks and said what he was thinking.

"Hehe, I'm afraid it's not easy!" Jiang Ren still smiled: "This time, there are a lot of people, it is impossible for every Zhuangzi in the city to prepare to plough cattle, it's okay, Brother Tao, we don't have anything else, this strength is still there, and when the time comes, everyone will be more tired, and it will be done!" ”

"You've got to try!" Tao Zhen is actually not sure, but he really wants to go to the city, in addition to the grain that should be received, those farm tools or something, he also has to bring it back, it will not be this spring, everyone will work barehanded.

"By the way, Brother Tao, on the way here, I heard that there are still wild people here, everyone has been thinking about this matter, but they have never seen it, I don't know if there is such a thing?" Jiang Ren asked.

"Savages?" Tao Zhen was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile: "There are no savages, but there are a lot of barbarians, but if you see a barbarian with a guy, don't make a fuss, it's a barbarian recruited by adults to fight for us!" ”

"Then they won't harm our people?" Jiang Ren asked cautiously.

"How dare they?" Tao Zhenle was happy: "Is there military law?" They don't want their heads, the lightest thing they steal is twenty military sticks, such a big stick, twenty military sticks down, you don't want to get out of bed this month, as for those who grab things, the lighter one is the fifty military sticks that pierce the cheeks with sharp arrows, and if they don't die, they have to be pulled out to parade through the streets, and the heavier ones will be cut off and their shoulders will be cut off. No matter how serious the matter is, it seems that no one has committed it, it is estimated that there is no need to report to the civil yamen, and they will be directly beheaded by their officials, they can't afford to lose that person! ”

"So harsh?" Jiang Ren was taken aback: "Aren't you afraid that the military law is too harsh, are they making trouble?" ”

"Then you have to borrow a few of their guts, our Fengzi camp is not paper-made!" Tao Zhen pouted disdainfully: "You are still in Nanzhili, those useless soldiers are used to it, the barbarians want to make trouble, they don't need the Fengzi battalion to make a move, just the people in our various Zhuangzi, you can just pull out a few hundred to suppress them, not to mention the soldiers of the Fengzi battalion who are more than ten times more powerful than us!" ”

"If that's the one you say... The soldiers of the Fengzi battalion are bullying our people, do we have any place to be reasonable? ”

Tao Zhen put down the bun in his hand, and stared at Jiang Ren with two eyes: "Brother Jiang, I know your concerns, I am the same as you, when I came, I was also a single, and now, I have married a daughter-in-law, have a field, and entering the Fengzi camp is the greatest wish of my life, do you think that people like me will harm our fellow villagers?" ”

"Perhaps... Or there are always rats that have broken a barn of grain! Jiang Ren said with a sigh. It's a bit of a surprise.

"If there is really such a black sheep who commits a crime, no matter which yamen you go to in the city, I think, no one dares to ignore it, Xincheng is everyone's Xincheng, no matter who wants to do evil, everyone will not let him go!" Tao Zhen said categorically.

"Smack!" I don't know where, there was a sound of banging, Tao Zhen raised his head, only to see that beside him, I don't know when, the villagers who had already surrounded him, with thoughtful expressions on their faces.

"In this way, Jiang will rest assured, come, Jiang will replace wine with water, toast a glass to Brother Tao, and I hope that everyone's days will be better from today onwards!"