Chapter 458: Refugees Part
Daqian sent the refugees to Nanfang, Lelang County and other places, and in addition to allocating 30 acres of land, they also had all kinds of farm tools. Because of the hot and humid climate and abundant rainfall in the south, many places are suitable for farming.
It is more suitable for the two-year system than in the north, and as long as the land is sufficiently nutrient, it can be cultivated continuously. The superior climate is actually more suitable for farming than in the north.
However, the red soil in the south is poorer than the loess in the north, and the climate in the south is warm, so it can be cultivated all year round, but the land is barren and cannot be bypassed.
The Great Ryukyu Islands are able to be cultivated continuously because of the fertile land and the compost of cow dung and bagasse. At the same time, soybeans, black beans, mung beans, red beans and other plants are planted in order to increase the fertility of the land.
However, many places in the south are red soil, and the fertility is not as good as that of loess, and if you continue to plant it, the result will be that the soil will become more and more impoverished. Now it can only be one type a year, and in order to increase fertility, the imperial court has been encouraging the people to raise cattle and promote the use of manure.
In fact, in real history, rice with three crops a year has not been fully popularized after it appeared, and one of the important reasons for this is fertilizer.
Without fertilizer, even if it is rice that crops three times a year, it will not be able to produce much food if it is planted, and the explosive growth of human agriculture in the future is the emergence of modern chemical fertilizers.
In the royal family's storage room, there are not many ways to use fertilizer, among which manure is the most commonly used fertilizer and the easiest fertilizer to promote. In addition to manure, other fertilizers that can be made are struvite and bone fertilizer.
Strounce stone exists on some overseas islands, and Wang Che has asked Wang Yun to search for it, and bone fat is a fertilizer made from grinding the bones of sea fish. The bone fat here mainly refers to whales.
Whales are huge, weighing more than a dozen tons or even dozens of tons, and in real history, a large number of whaling activities appeared in the seventeenth century, one of the important reasons is for whale fat. Before the discovery of oil, whales have always been an important industrial raw material.
Ever since the imperial court was able to sail to sea, struvite and whaling had been on the agenda. It's just that because the navigation technology is not mature enough, it has not been implemented.
The migration of a large number of people was a major test for the imperial court of the Great Qian. The imperial court planned several routes, and then asked the government to prepare porridge sheds and resting places along the way, and migrated in batches.
Hundreds of thousands of people set out from Hebei in batches of 3,000 or 5,000 and headed south or northeast Liaodong. Among these people were officials and officials, and in each of them there was an army of one hundred men who were responsible for security and order.
All the people were grouped into family units, about 10 households, and it was expected that there would be about 50 people. One of the 10 families is chosen as the chief. Every fifth tithe is a first, and one person is elected as the first chief.
These chiefs and chiefs are responsible for maintaining their order, helping each other, reporting problems in a timely manner, and at the same time beware of people taking advantage of the opportunity to cause chaos and misleading the people, but also to prevent people from escaping.
After the reorganization was completed, the imperial court would have soldiers escort the people to the south or north. All the people's routes were along canals or gallops. At the same time, every thirty miles or so, the local government will set up a rest point. Food, water, medicine, and a place to rest will be prepared here.
The people would walk about 30 miles a day to rest, in order to prevent the officials from being perfunctory, Wang Che specially arranged for embroidered envoys and inspectors to inspect each station.
At the same time, in order to prevent local officials from rushing desperately to complete the task, regardless of the lives of the people, the imperial court would check the number of people at every stop. This kind of long-distance migration will definitely cause casualties due to various problems or accidents, but as long as the casualties are within a reasonable range, the imperial court will not punish them, and if this number is exceeded, everyone will not only be useless, but also punished.
The migration of hundreds of thousands of people was huge, and the imperial court mobilized tens of thousands of troops to guard along the way. A large number of people set out from Hebei, and then went all the way to the south, and the speed of the people dragging their families and mouths was not fast.
Soon the imperial court discovered that the first batch of people were traveling at different speeds, and many old people and children could not bear the journey of thirty miles a day. Fortunately, the imperial court reacted quickly and directly ordered that one station of thirty miles be changed to twenty miles.
There are big cadres and soldiers to guard, and there are also officials responsible for receiving them along the way, although the journey is very hard, but the spirit of the people is also very good.
After the imperial court changed the land in the south and returned to the people, the actual area under its control expanded a lot. At the same time, there are many more fields that can be cultivated.
In order to deter those who were born in Shanyue, Wang Che ordered the transfer of meritorious men in the army to establish peasant troops in these places. However, this time there were not many peasant soldiers, only 500 households.
And because of the lack of merit of these people, this time the peasants and soldiers were only 150 acres of farmland. Of course, after meritorious service in the future, the reward will continue to be given, and the limit is 400 acres.
Although most of the people relocated by the imperial court will be incorporated into the peasant households, some of the common people will become the peasants and soldiers. Originally, most of the peasant soldiers were their relatives, after all, it was already a tradition to go into battle as father and son soldiers.
However, many of the peasants and soldiers who were now divided had already been separated, or did not want to become their subordinates, so the imperial court let these people recruit themselves.
The trilogy and slaves are completely different, many people take refuge in big families, basically slaves and maids, and have no personal freedom. This is not the case with the trilogy, which is between an ordinary freeman and a slave or a maidservant, who can marry a lover and have his own property, and is no different from a freeman except for personal dependence.
Of course, the taxes of the tribes were also lower than those of the freedmen.
Liu Meng stood on the ridge, and in front of him stood his troops, one of the three families was naturalized from Shanyue, and the other two were victims from Hebei.
Liu Meng calculated in his heart that there were eighteen men and women in front of him, five men, five women, and eight children.
Among the five men, two are not young, and three are in the prime of life, and the court is moving to protect them, and even the old people are more or less killed and injured. However, if you go into battle to fight, you can only go to those three prime of life.
Women have nothing to say, they are exposed to the wind and sun, work all year round, and have rough skin, which is far worse than those little ladies in Luoyang, but they are all good at farm work.
Liu Meng just got married not long ago, you must know that after he became a peasant soldier, many people came to marry him, and those wealthy families in the city were also willing to marry their daughters to him, so he deliberately chose a beautiful one. As for not being able to do farm work, Liu Meng never considered it.
The eight children are generally not very old, the eldest one is already twelve, and in a few years he will be a strong guy. It only takes ten years and a few more children, and his Liu family will have a complete foothold.
(End of chapter)