Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1774, life in the black land

In Shangyun Town, Heitu Province, Li Da got up early. His wife's belly was getting bigger and bigger, and she became more and more tired from doing housework. Li Da loved his wife very much, so he got up early to prepare breakfast.

Although it hasn't been long since he immigrated here, Li Da doesn't need to worry about his future life, because the house here is newly built, and although it is a wooden house, it is quite good.

All kinds of living materials are also very rich. Even salt is prepared for each household of 100 catties of immigrants. As for food, thousands of catties of rice are prepared. Fish, even if you don't do anything, the food in the house is enough to last until next year.

The court’s settling allowance was also distributed, one person was [-] taels of silver, and Li and his family received [-] taels of silver. In addition, there were two horses and a few sheep in the house, all of which were in the stables in the backyard. , Closed inside the sheepfold.

There is a lot of land here, and it is very wide, so the design of the immigrant town is also very extensive. The area of ​​each household is quite large. Not only are houses built for living, but also for storing sundries. , firewood firewood room, utility room, and sheep pens and horse pens behind the yard can be used to keep sheep and horses.

The area of ​​each household is quite large, unlike when Mr. Li was in the mountains, it was extremely difficult to find a piece of flat land, which required generations to continue to cultivate and level it out.

Outside the town, there is a vast wilderness of waste. It is still a wasteland with lush vegetation. It is naturally the best for grazing. It used to belong to the territory of the Crimean Khanate. It is a nomadic area with rich water and grass.

In fact, this place is very suitable for the development of agriculture. The black land is extremely fertile, flat, open, and rich in water resources. Apart from being a bit colder, there are no other problems at all.

Li Da simply cooked a pot of porridge, steamed a piece of bacon, and cut it into slices for his wife to nourish her body.

If it is in the mountains, it is not easy to get some meat to eat. You need to be able to hunt. If you can't hunt, it is very difficult to get meat.

It is not easy to raise some chickens at home, because there are so many yellow sages, eagles, foxes and the like in the mountains, they will always patronize your chicken coop.

So if you want to eat meat and live a good life in the mountains, in addition to farm work, you can also have a craft, such as carpentry, hunting and so on.

When General Li finished cooking breakfast, his wife was already up, and the two happily finished their breakfast. Li Da also pulled out his own horse, put on the noose of the carriage, and took his daughter-in-law out slowly. After leaving the small town, I went to see and walk around my own land.

The land in the immigrant town is neatly planned and square. A large area of ​​land belongs to one family. The land of Mr. Li is not far from Shangyun Town, only a few miles away. It will be here soon.

Let go of the lasso and let the horse graze on its own. Li Da also took out the sickle and started mowing the grass. The grass was brought back to be fed. The sheep in the house are very thin now and need to be fed well. I have gained some weight in a few months, and I will kill my daughter-in-law to make up for my body. It is estimated that the child will be born by then.

The water and grass here are rich and beautiful, Li Da quickly mowed a cart of grass slowly, and then looked at the hundreds of acres in front of him, all of which belonged to his own family, but now when he was worried, how should he cultivate this land up.

If you rely on yourself and a hoe, you will be able to complete the reclamation in the Year of the Monkey.

"Daughter-in-law, it's a pity to be in a panic all the time on such a big land. Shall we come to plant something, even if it's an a la carte."

Li Da and his daughter-in-law were discussing what to do, this busy person can never be idle.

These days when the immigrant came here, he took the horse out to graze, strolled, and then mowed the grass and went back to feed it every day. It was really too idle.

This made them very uncomfortable. After all, people in the mountains are busy with their lives. Only by working hard can they survive in the mountains, so they have to find things for themselves if there is nothing to do.

"I think so too. Go back to the Immigration Department to see if there are any seeds, even if you plant some vegetables first."

"People from the Immigration Department said that the planting season has passed this year, and if it had been two months earlier, wheat could still be planted."

"But it's June now, the busiest season of the year. If we don't plant something, it's really difficult."

Li Da's daughter-in-law also followed suit.

"Yes, yes~ Go back and ask."

Li Da nodded in agreement.

When the horses were full, they put on the carriage again and walked back slowly.

On the way, I happened to pass Tian Sanwa's field, and I saw Tian Sanwa and his daughter-in-law working hard to plow the field.

"Three babies~"

Li Da waved his hand and shouted, Tian Sanwa stopped when he heard it, and walked over with a smile.

"Sanwa, what do you want to grow by reclaiming the land?"

"I'm going to grow some potatoes and sweet potatoes, and some vegetables. I'm going to eat porridge and salted fish every day. People are getting tired of eating."

"Potatoes and sweet potatoes?"

"Yes, it is said that this thing came from the Golden Continent, and the yield is very high. Although the planting season is already over, but the Immigration Department said that if you plant it now, you can still get a little harvest, so I will give it a try. Thinking about it, I’m still idle anyway, so I’ll plant something to see.”

"Even if there is no harvest this year, we can accumulate some experience for next year's planting and find something for ourselves. How can we mountain people be free?"

Tian Sanwa said with a smile.

"Yes, yes, that's what I thought too. I was going to the Immigration Department to ask for some seeds to see if I could plant something."

When Li Da heard this, he immediately nodded in agreement.

"The Immigration Department said that the climate in this black soil province is similar to that in Liaodong Province. It is cold in winter, which is very different from our hometown. You can only grow wheat, barley, corn, and potatoes here without rice. , onions, beets, soybeans, canola, sunflowers, and the like."

"Now that the main season is over, next year we will be busy. If we can reclaim hundreds of acres of land, plus the unowned land outside, and plant all kinds of farms, Then you won’t have to worry about eating and drinking.”

"The land here is extremely fertile, and you can get what you plant, unlike the land in our mountains, which is very barren, and nothing can grow well."

"Isn't that right? I heard that there used to be some kind of Tatar ranch here, which was specially used for grazing cattle and sheep. Tsk tsk, what a wonderful land. The whole body of black land, they actually used it to graze cattle and sheep. It's simply a waste of money. what."

"That's why we Daming people took over this piece of land."

"I heard from the people at the immigration office that next year, the imperial court will send a batch of cultivating machines over. At that time, it will be enough to use the cultivating machines directly for plowing the land. They say that the machines are very powerful. It can cultivate hundreds of acres of land, and I don’t know what kind of machine can be so powerful.”

"I also heard people say that in Hezhong Province and Namyun Province, cultivators and harvesters are very common. When they harvest wheat, rice, etc., the harvester just passes through it once, and the wheat and rice are harvested. It's over, very fast."

"In Hezhong Province, one person often has to plant hundreds of acres of fields a year. They have so many fields that they can't finish them, and then divide the fields into sections. One piece of land will be planted this year, and the field will not be planted next year. Let it grow grass or something, and then put cow and sheep manure into it to increase fat. It is not until the third or fourth year that the land is planted, so the farmer's parents are very good and the harvest is very high. "

"Is it true? This good land is not planted, why is it left unused for a year or two?"

"It's for maintaining the fertility of the land. If it is cultivated every year, the fertility of the land will be seriously lost, so it will be deserted for a day or two, and then the fertility of the field will be replenished by increasing the manure of cattle and sheep."

"That's right, but if the reclaimed land is left unused for a year or two, a lot of weeds will grow, and it will have to be recultivated again."

"That's right, but they said that it is easy to reclaim the land with a cultivator."

"We have many people from Nanyun Province and Hezhong Province in Shangyun Town. When the time comes, we will learn more from them. The outside is different from the inside of our mountains. Farming is all about knowledge."

"That's true. We grow rice in the mountains, but we can't grow rice here. We don't know what kind of wheat to grow. We have to learn more by then."

"It is necessary to learn more. The people in Nanyun Province are the closest to here. Those people are considered locals. They know this place best. Learn more from them when the time comes."

"I don't know what kind of cultivator and harvester this is, it's so powerful."

"It is said that even rice is pounded by a machine, which is fast and good."

(End of this chapter)