Valley Emperor

Day by day, when He Xihua's chickens were half-grown, he also received a letter from his family.

This letter was returned by my father, but it must not have been written by his father, but by someone else, because his father was illiterate.

When he saw the letter saying that his father had decided to let his third brother immigrate too, he was relieved.

It is a good thing for the third brother to come over, whether it is for himself, for the third brother, or for the eldest brother, it is a good thing.

As for the eldest brother, he knew it was impossible to come.

His father had already decided a few years ago that all the family property, especially the most important land, would be left to the eldest. The two second sons could only make a living by themselves, and even gave the land and house in advance. Household, completely destroyed the minds of their two second sons.

It is impossible to say that the two second sons have no complaints about this.

But there is no way, although the father has already decided.

Besides, they actually knew that it was just right to leave the eldest brother's family with the little land at home, but if the three brothers had one share, they would all have to starve to death.

This self-sustaining way, either go to work to earn money, or immigrate.

He first chose to work, and then immigrated. After going through such a circle, he found that it was better to immigrate.

As long as you are willing to endure hardships and have a little courage to go to the far frontier, you will have a good day after a few years.

It's just that in such a huge empire, there are not many people who are willing to do this. Don't look at the millions who emigrated overseas, and there are millions who emigrated to the frontier provinces, but these are accumulated over decades. Then consider the huge population base of the Datang Empire.

Then you will find that if people have other choices, they are not willing to leave their homes, let alone go to distant overseas or frontiers.

After this, many people actually never have the opportunity to return to their hometowns in their entire lives.

But it is also because Datang has a large population base, so even if the proportion of people willing to go is small, it is still a huge number in total.

In some areas with more people and less land, a considerable number of people leave their hometowns every year to seek a living, some go to work in cities, and some simply choose to immigrate.

Especially in families with few fields and many sons, many sons will go out to seek a living when they become adults.

Coupled with the convenient transportation now, various inland passenger ships and trains can make it easy for people to leave, and it is not too difficult even to travel across the ocean to overseas territories.

As long as you choose to apply for immigration, everything is easy.

When He Xihua worked hard in Curry alone, most of his neighbors were also working hard to open up wasteland.

Wu Laosan's family is He Xihua's neighbors. At this moment, Wu Laosan is working in the fields with his family, his wife, old mother and three children.

He and He Xihua came alone, but Wu Laosan brought his family with him.

It's just that the family of six seems to have a large number of people, and when they immigrated, there was also more land divided by population, but in fact their family was seriously short of labor.

The old mother can't do much work, the wife is also relatively weak, the son is still the third child, now only eight years old, and the two daughters, one thirteen and fifteen, can't do any heavy work.

So it seems that their whole family is going to battle, and the scene is a bit big, but in fact, there is not much work.

Wu Laosan stood in the sky, looked up at He Xihua hundreds of meters away, and sighed.

The young man who lives next door to their house is alone, but he has reclaimed an area equivalent to one-third of their family's arable land, and he also raises chickens and pigs.

In this way, He Xihua, a strong young man, can do more than half of their family by himself.

Looking at Mr. Wu and looking at He Xihua, who was waving his **** and working in a hurry, his wife next to him came up and wiped his sweat with a handkerchief!

"Master, take a break!" When Wu Laosan's wife was talking, she herself was panting.

Wu Laosan looked back, then nodded: "Take a break and drink some water!"

To be honest, now he is a little worried about his wife's health. Although she is a peasant woman who is used to doing farm work, it is difficult for her to support such heavy physical work now that she is not in good health.

But there is no way to do it if there is no one at home to work. This family has six mouths. If they don't cultivate enough fields this year and then sow seeds, what will they eat next year?

The government will not continue to owe them the rations for the second year on credit.

Immigrants also have costs. Transportation costs and agricultural tools seem to be few. At the same time, the low-priced food provided to immigrants also requires costs.

Therefore, it is impossible for the immigration and reclamation department to continue to subsidize them all the time. Generally, they will take care of them in the first year, and they will have to rely on them to support themselves in the second year.

Wu Laosan is naturally worried about his livelihood next year.

After a while of envy, the wife next to him suddenly said, "How do you think this little He?"

"How about what?" Wu Laosan didn't react at first, but he quickly reacted: "You mean?"

His wife nodded and said, "The big girl is not too young. I think this little He is honest and willing to work. There is no other family around who can work like him!"

Wu Laosan also pondered. It has been a few months since they moved here. It's not a short time to know this He Xihua. When chatting in leisure time, he also knows that this He Xihua's hometown is in Shandong, and there are many brothers in the family, so he came out early. Ask for life.

But it doesn't matter. It's all coming to Curry. Hometown and family are no longer important. Everyone is a new immigrant.

Mainly it depends on the person.

And this He Xihua, in his opinion, is still a very suitable candidate.

There are actually a lot of people in the area around Curry. There are probably 60,000 to 70,000 people in total, but there are far fewer immigrants, and at most there are only 10,000 people.

The rest are the military.

And these are not actually in Curry City, but in the west and north of the outer periphery.

To the west and north of Curry City, the military has successively built a number of bastions in some dangerous places, and garrisoned troops to prevent the Tatars from attacking.

These are still infantry, in fact, more cavalry units are still staying on the vast grasslands.

On the one hand, it is to reduce the ration of horses through nomadic methods, and on the other hand, it is also to patrol and clear the invading troops of the Tatars.

The actual army stationed in the city of Curry is actually only 10,000 people, and these garrisoned troops are also playing reclamation. They have encircled a large area of ​​land for reclamation to solve the food problem.

In addition to the garrison in the city of Curry, there are also a few family members of military and political officials, and businessmen who came to take risks.

So don’t look at the fact that there are a lot of people in the area of ​​Curry, but in fact, after the military launched the Western Expedition and fought the Ural River, the city of Curry will be the same as other frontier strategic cities in Tumi Province and Haidong Province. , it was deserted in an instant, and only a few officials, garrisoned troops, and settlers would be left behind.

It would be nice to have 20,000 to 30,000 people by then.

Even worse, these people are still scattered!

There is a lot of land in Central Asia, and there are not many suitable for farming. Many of them are dry land or simply grasslands, Gobi deserts and even deserts. In the early stage, in order to attract the first batch of immigrants, the conditions given by the Immigration and Reclamation Division were also very favorable.

Those who are willing to settle in Kuli will be allocated a large amount of land. The cultivated land suitable for cultivation is more than one hectare per capita, and more than 100 hectares of dry land per capita will also be attached.

For example, Wu Laosan and his family of six have divided 10 hectares of arable land and another 300 hectares of dry land.

If this is calculated, it is nearly 5,000 acres of land!

Just looking at the area, it can be regarded as a big landlord.

It is a pity that most of these lands are not suitable for cultivation, and some of them are suitable for cultivation.

But the area is large enough, as long as you are willing to work hard, food can still be grown, and the total number will not be small.

This is not a special case of Curry City. In fact, when the Tang Empire recruits immigrants in any place, it will allocate a large amount of land for free, but some places are fertile, so the per capita allocation is less, and some places are not fertile enough, so the More per capita.

The situation here in Curry City is just more special, so there is a lot more land allocated to immigrants.

This has created a very interesting situation for the land with too many immigrants, that is, the distance between immigrants is very large.

In a situation of vast land and sparsely populated, in fact, the communication between new immigrants is limited to a few nearby neighbors. Others are too far away, and it takes too much time to visit.

Among the dozens of neighbors around, Mr. Wu probably knew something, and among them there were a few young men of the right age, but there were no young men who could endure hardship and work like He Xihua.

Thinking of this, Wu Laosan was actually a little moved.

After a while, Wu Laosan also found a few to find He Xihua, and invited him to his house for dinner several times.

He Xihua, who has not thought about getting married yet, has no idea of ​​Wu Laosan's sinister intentions.

Time passed day by day, and when the chickens in the chicken coop were about the same length, the smiles on He Xihua's face also increased day by day.

One morning, he drove an ox cart and brought two whole cages of chickens into the city!

In order to raise these chickens, ducks and a few pigs, his debts are increasing day by day.

These chickens also need chickens and feed, otherwise they will be directly stocked in the wild, and these chickens can all starve to death...

If there are chickens, ducks and pigs dying on a large scale in the middle of the journey, he is afraid that he will be burdened with debts, and he can only work hard to repay the debts for the next few years.

But for God's mercy, nothing has happened in the past few months.

Chickens, ducks and pigs are growing up every day!

Now, it's finally time to harvest.

A few days ago, he had already learned from Aunt Wu that the prices of chickens, ducks, pork, etc. in the city were quite gratifying. As long as UUkanshu www.uukanshu.com sold these chickens, ducks, and pigs, he would be able to pay off everything in one fell swoop. The debt, incidentally, also earned at least 20 yuan or more.

Twenty yuan seems to be just three or four months' wages for working in a big city, but it is incomparable.

Because for He Xihua, this is pure income!

His main business is farming, and raising chickens, ducks and pigs is just a side business, and the more he earns, the less he earns.

And after earning such a sum, he will no longer have to take out loans to raise chickens and ducks in the future, and he will be able to support himself.

After entering the city, He Xihua sold all the chickens and ducks in the two cages before long. After getting the money, he restrained his excitement and ran to the bank to repay part of the debt.

Then he ran to buy a batch of feed, and his chicken farming business would continue.

It's just that the chickens are no longer needed. He also left several hens and roosters to lay eggs. After hatching, they can continue to be raised, and the subsequent investment is only feed.

After buying the feed, he thought about it, and went to the cloth store to buy cloth, a circle of coarse cloth, and a roll of printed cloth.

This coarse cloth is going to make clothes for himself, but he can't sew himself, so he will have to trouble the Wu family girl and make clothes for others.

That calico was the reward he prepared!

Of course, when he thought about it, he had simply ignored that the cloth shop also provided tailoring services, and he could directly help him make clothes from the cloth he bought.

Even if he thinks that the tailor's fee is too expensive, he can still go directly to the tailor shop in the street. There are cheap tailoring services specially provided for ordinary people like them, and the price is very cheap.

It's just that he has ignored these!

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