Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 1882, the current world is better

Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin were discussing the affairs of Liaodong in the field, and the fourth son Ren, who was plowing the land with a tiller, was also curious.

"Who are these people? What are they discussing in my field?"

Fourth Ren looked at Emperor Hongzhi, Liu Jin and others. They were surrounded by dozens of people, and there were dozens of people regularly distributed in a large area around them. There were dozens of cars parked on the road. big shot.

It's just that what is such a big man doing in his own field?

Thinking of this, Fourth Ren also stopped the tractor and walked towards Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin, but was stopped before they arrived.

"It's okay, let him come over."

Emperor Hongzhi looked at the fourth son Ren who was stopped, and said with a smile that he just wanted to have a good chat with the farmers in Liaodong.

With Emperor Hongzhi's speech, Fourth Ren was able to come to Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin. He carefully looked at Emperor Hongzhi and Liu Jin in front of him. They were undoubtedly noble people in their attire.

"Fourth Ren has seen two nobles~"

Ren Laosi is already in his forties, and he has immigrated to Liaodong for more than ten years.

"Fellow man, don't be afraid, we just happened to pass by and saw you plowing the land. We were very curious, so we stopped to have a look."

"Come, come, sit down and have a cup of tea."

Emperor Hongzhi smiled and was also very kind. He brought Lao Si Ren to the side of the road, sat down first, and then asked someone to bring a chair to Lao Si Ren, and also asked him to pour tea for Lao Si Ren.

"Okay, okay~"

The fourth son Ren was also a little flattered. He sat down cautiously and drank some tea. He immediately felt that the tea was unusual and much better than the tea he drank at home.

"Does this large piece of land belong to your family?"

Emperor Hongzhi was very easy-going, pointing to the land in front of him and asking.

"Yes, it belongs to my family."

"Because I immigrated earlier, and I was also the first to buy a cultivator, so I also reclaimed a lot of land. The land in front of me, the land, and the land here are all mine, about a few thousand acres. land."

When Old Four Ren heard this, he proudly introduced it to Emperor Hongzhi.

The thing he is most proud of in his life is to own the thousands of acres of land in front of him. He has planted the land all his life, and owning his own thousands of acres of land is definitely something to be proud of.

In the past, it was something that I would never have dared to think about. Before I immigrated, let alone an ordinary farmer like him, not every landlord had thousands of acres of fertile land.

"Well, it is a good thing that there is land to the tiller."

"Everyone in the village has their own fields, right?"

After hearing this, Emperor Hongzhi nodded in relief and said.

"Yes, yes~"

"The families who immigrated to Liaodong have thousands of acres of land, some have a lot of land, even tens of thousands of acres of land, but the land is too big, too much, and it is very tiring. Planting thousands of acres of land Mu is about the same."

Elder Ren nodded and said.

"Fellow townsman, seeing how relaxed your plowing is, won't it be very tiring for this kind of land of several thousand mu?"

After listening to Emperor Hongzhi, he knew it in his heart, and after thinking about it, he continued to ask.

"How can farming be called tiring now?"

"Let's talk about the plowing land. With this plowing machine, thousands of acres of land can be plowed easily. It is fast and good. The worms and eggs in the soil are turned out and eaten by birds, or It just froze to death."

"There is also a planter when planting, just sit on the machine, and there is a harvester when harvesting, and the harvest is completed after driving the machine around."

"Even now there is a special machine for grinding flour. There is no need to use a stone mill for grinding. The flour produced by this machine is white and fine. The key is that it is very fast and saves labor."

The fourth son Ren smiled and shook his head, then he immediately opened up the chatterbox and started talking non-stop.

"In the past, farming was really tiring."

"I planted it all my life. When I was [-] years old, it was really hard."

"At that time, when farming, they didn't have their own land. What they planted was the land of the landlord's family. Half of the grain produced had to be handed over to the landlord. The key point is that the land was incomparable with the land in Liaodong, and the yield was very low."

"My hometown is in the Loess Plateau of Shaanxi, where there are thousands of ravines, barren land, and very short of water."

"When farming, there are no cattle. We all rely on hoes and people to act as cattle to cultivate the land, one hoe after another to plow the ground, or rely on people to pull the plow just like cattle."

"Only a little bit of thick land can be dug out. When planting crops, the growth is particularly poor. The key is where there is a lack of water. Once the dry season comes, we have to walk a few miles every day from morning to night to carry water. Watering the ground, working day after day."

"It was hard to wait for the harvest, and the grain harvested from one mu of land was not even half of that in Liaodong, only less than 300 catties, and half of it had to be handed over to the landlord."

"That day was really hard."

"I've worked so hard all year round that I can't even get a full meal."

"I am the fourth eldest in my family. There are two older brothers, one older sister, and one younger brother and one younger sister."

"The whole family eats, it is true that almost every day is spent hungry."

"Don't be afraid of the jokes of the two nobles. Others are already married in their teens. I will be a bachelor until I am thirty. There is no one who wants to marry into my family."

"My two older brothers got their wives by exchanging marriages, and they also exchanged my elder sister and younger sister."

When he said this, Fourth Ren couldn't help shaking his head.

The kind of poor life in the past is really not a human life. Not to mention what to pursue, just eating enough is already a luxury.

"Swap a kiss!"

After hearing this, Emperor Hongzhi fell silent. After reading this in the newspaper, he realized that the people at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty had such a difficult time. Marrying a daughter-in-law is all about changing relatives. If there are no sisters or sisters in the family, it will be a lifetime Bachelor thing.

This is difficult for Emperor Hongzhi, who was born in the royal family, to understand.

He, Emperor Hongzhi, did not want women himself, otherwise it would be normal to have seventy-two concubines in the Three Palaces, Six Courts, and so on. Then look at the ministers, princes and nobles in the court, isn't that three wives and four concubines?
But when it comes to the common people at the bottom, it is so hard.

"Yes, change relatives."

"There will be no girls in my family, so at the age of [-], you will be a bachelor."

"At first, I also thought that my whole life would be like this, that I would be a bachelor all my life."

"Until later, the imperial court encouraged emigration to Liaodong, so I immigrated to Liaodong thinking that I would not have enough food and clothing in my hometown anyway."

"I didn't expect that it would be completely different when I arrived in Liaodong. There is a lot of land here. If you go to cultivate it casually, it will be your own."

"The land here is extremely fertile, you can grow whatever you plant, and the yield is very high."

"There is also no shortage of water here, and there is no need to work hard to carry water. In addition, there are machines such as cultivators and harvesters later. This kind of land is even easier. It is easy to plant a few A thousand acres of land, in just one or two years, quickly became rich."

"Later, I also married a North Korean and bought a European slave girl as my concubine. I had more than a dozen children."

When he said this, the fourth son Ren also showed a proud expression on his face.

The [-]-year-old bachelor has taken root here in Liaodong. He not only married a wife, but also took concubines. He has thousands of acres of land and more than a dozen children. I dare not, but now it is over.

"Haha, that's really good."

Liu Jin also said with a smile after listening.

"Isn't that right, the current world is better!"

"There is a lot of land, farming is easy, and there is so much food that you can't eat it all. These days are days. Those in the past are not called days, they are called suffering. They are here to suffer and suffer, not to live."

The fourth son Ren nodded straight with a smile, thinking about the days before, it was really not a life for human beings, they didn't have enough food and clothing, and the house they lived in was also very dilapidated, dirty to death.

The point is that I have to work hard all year long, working tirelessly in the fields, but the sad thing is that I can't even eat enough, and I can't get a wife.

Is that how people live?

That is not the life of human beings at all, but hell. When people come to this world, they come to suffer and suffer.

Only the present day is considered a day, live comfortably and have a bright future.

Even farming can be so easy, one person can easily cultivate thousands of acres of land, harvesting millions of catties of grain, which can be eaten up, and it can be sold for hundreds of taels of silver.

Hundreds of taels of silver, this is definitely a high income.

The fourth son Ren built a beautiful house, bought a lot of machines, and built his own farm. He raised cattle, sheep and pigs, and it was very easy to raise a dozen children. Compared with when he was a child, It is much, much better, not only to eat well and dress warmly, but also to eat well, eat meat, eat delicious food, and wear beautiful clothes.

(End of this chapter)