Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2004, this day is comfortable

In Dafeng Town, Heitu Province, at Li Da's home, Carpenter Li got up early.

This is a habit I have developed over the years, no matter where I go, going to bed early and getting up early, as a mountain person, the most important natural history is hard work, and getting up early to work has become a habit for decades.

"People outside here just enjoy it, even going to the toilet is so comfortable."

Carpenter Li habitually went to the hut in the morning. He was not used to it when he first came here, but soon he felt that it was indeed very convenient.

After finishing, the water flushes, clean and not ugly, much better than in the mountains.

Living here, you don’t even need to pick the water. There is tap water directly. When the tap is turned on, the water comes rushing. That is to say, when you hear that you have to pay for the water, Carpenter Li thinks it is too expensive.

It is too expensive to pay more than 100 Wen for water every month. Convenience is convenience, but money is different.

When he came outside, Carpenter Li also wandered around the town leisurely.

Unlike my hometown, Shangping Village, although the town is called a small town, its population exceeds [-] people. After several years of development, a large number of children have been born, and the total population has actually reached tens of thousands.

With the beginning of a new day, the town also began to be lively, selling newspapers, selling breakfast, morning tea was already busy early, and the business was also very good.

"Isn't it okay to eat at home?"

"If you have to spend that unjust money, a steamed stuffed bun costs three pennies, which is too expensive, and what kind of morning tea do you drink, a pot of tea costs tens of pennies, and if you have something early, one or two hundred pennies will be gone. If the whole family goes out to eat, it will cost more.”

Carpenter Li looked at the breakfast shop. The business of the breakfast shop was very good, so he couldn't help shaking his head.

People outside really don't know how to live. How can they live like this? It's not that there is no food at home. If you have to eat outside, it's too expensive.

If it were him, Carpenter Li would be reluctant to spend such money, but here, it is indeed a common thing. In the morning, there are only a few people who cook their own breakfast, and most people like to go to teahouses and breakfast shops. Go fix breakfast.

The food cooked in the store tastes better and has more styles. The key is that you don’t need to do it yourself, you can sleep a little longer, and you can pat your ass and leave after you finish eating, which is simple and trouble-free.

If you do it yourself at home, it will be much more troublesome, and most of the time, you don't know how to do so many tricks yourself, so it's better to spend some money.

"There are quite a few blond and blue-eyed people, all of them are ugly."

Walking in the street, I also saw a lot of blond women getting up early and getting busy, and I also saw a lot of mixed-race children. Carpenter Li couldn't help but commented.

In the eyes of the Ming people, these Europeans are really ugly, especially the eyes are too deep and not black, which does not conform to the aesthetics of the Ming people, and the color of the hair is also a reason.

Dafeng Town is located in Heitu Province, which itself is located in Europe. The powerful Ming Empire is like a black hole, continuously absorbing wealth, goods and people from all over the world.

A large number of European women are busy here as slaves, and become concubines, maids, servants and the like of thousands of households. This phenomenon is relatively common here in Dafeng Town. Many people will basically buy a few European women. When I came to my concubine, I helped the house with me.

For the immigrants here, buying a few women is actually a very cost-effective thing.

First of all, it is possible to pass on the family line and spread its branches and leaves. Although it was born as a slave, it is still a Daming person, and it is the same to raise and educate it. When it grows up, it is also proud of the Ming Dynasty.

The second is to increase the labor force in the family. Every household here has at least several thousand acres of land. Although there are mechanized farming and harvesting, the labor intensity can be greatly reduced.

However, more labor is still needed to live an easier life, especially for families like Mr. Li who have farms and pastures, they need more labor.

Buying a few women can help with a lot of things and greatly reduce labor pressure.

Besides, for the immigrants here, the price of these female slaves is not too expensive. You can buy one with a few dozen taels of silver, and a slave can do many things, and you can earn these silver back in a year. The rest is earned.

As for the consumption of food, it is simply a trivial matter. The most indispensable thing here is food. The cheap ones are dead, and you can eat whatever you want, or make whatever you want.

Naturally, buying slaves became a trend, and almost every household had to buy several female slaves, that is, a few families did not buy slaves.

Many women also support their husbands to buy some female slaves to take home. On the one hand, it is to show that their family is powerful and can afford many female slaves.

On the other hand, after buying female slaves, I can also relax a lot. I can live a life as a landlady, ordering and arranging these female slaves to work at home, and I can relax more easily.

As for the matter of competing with myself for a man, this is not a big deal. For a man, it is normal to have three wives and four concubines. If the family is full, they will not go outside to steal.

This is also the trend that makes the number of slaves and mixed-races in the immigrant towns in the Black Earth Province very large, and they can be seen almost everywhere.

You can see the people of Ming Dynasty who are like uncles slowly going out to the morning tea shop to enjoy morning tea comfortably, read the newspaper, and listen to the big events and anecdotes of the world told by the newspaper reader.

Or chatting with three or five friends all over the world, bragging or something; as for the family, the mother-in-law in the family started a new busy day with slaves and concubines.

"It's such a comfortable day to be comfortable!"

Carpenter Li also couldn't help sighing, he is so good at living, this is comfortable, it seems that he doesn't need to do anything, just like the uncle.

After shopping around, Carpenter Li also returned home. The mother-in-law and daughter-in-law have already gotten up and prepared breakfast for everyone. Li Da has never bought a female slave as a concubine, and the affairs at home have always been the husband and wife. is doing.

Now that Carpenter Li and his wife are here, the work of cooking falls to Carpenter Li's mother-in-law, but her daughter-in-law, Mrs. Lu, is very filial and never leaves her mother-in-law alone.

"I want to eat buns, I want to eat dumplings, I want to eat chaos~"

However, the breakfast at home obviously couldn't satisfy Li Carpenter's grandson and granddaughter, and the little ones clamored to go outside.

Since grandparents came, the breakfast at home has only pickles and porridge, and the more they eat, the more unpalatable they are.

"Okay, okay, let's go, grandpa will take you to eat."

For his grandson and granddaughter's request, Li Carpenter naturally agreed to everything. Although he thought it was expensive, as long as they wanted to leave, he would naturally take them with him.

After breakfast, Carpenter Li got on Li Dakai's three-wheeled motorcycle and went to his own field and the farm.

Although he is a grandpa, Carpenter Li doesn't want to just sit and eat, he can still shine and continue to work.

"What a wonderful dish, it's a pity to feed it to pigs like this!"

"Also, what a wonderful land, it was used to grow grass. If it were in the mountains, such a land would be a waste of money!"

When he came to his own field, looking at the large area of ​​cabbage field, Li Da chopped off the cabbages one by one, and then threw them directly into the pigsty to feed the pigs.

Not far away, there is a large number of excellent pastures, all of which are planted and used to feed cattle and sheep.

Carpenter Li looked at the fertile black land in front of him, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart.

When I was in the mountains before, I always felt that the whole world should be similar to the inside of the mountains. I always lacked imagination for the outside world depicted in Li Da and the others.

When I really came outside, I really felt a different world.

The land is open, flat and very fertile. The key is that the land is sparsely populated, and the land can be planted casually. A large area of ​​land is used to grow vegetables and grass. Even for food, it is also very extensive planting, sowing seeds, Sprinkle some cattle, sheep and pig manure in the middle.

Then just ignore it and wait for the autumn to harvest directly with the harvester. It is very simple and easy. This kind of land does not need to face the loess and back to the sky. It is easy, and one person can plant a large area. Vast land.

Carpenter Li felt that it was a pity to use such fertile land to grow vegetables and grass, but Li Da was thinking that next year he would plant less grain and grow more vegetables and grass.

Food is worthless, there is too much, and it is impossible to eat it all. Even if there are a large number of raised cattle, sheep, pigs, chickens, ducks and geese, there is still a lot of food left, and the price is very cheap.

If you want to earn more, you still have to rely on farming. Pigs, cattle, sheep, chickens, ducks, and geese are easy to sell, and the price is also good. If you just sell food, you really can’t make much money.

Although he was complaining about wasting the land, Carpenter Li had to admit that the life outside was really comfortable, and he had everything he wanted to eat and drink.

The transportation is very convenient and convenient. You can take a long-distance bus to other small towns, and there are fixed long-distance buses between small towns.

The terrain is flat and open, and it is simply not comparable to the rugged mountain roads in the mountains.

Life is also very convenient. Remember the small town where everything is very convenient. Children can still go to school and study. Even if they are sick, there is a medical center in the town. It is extremely convenient to see a doctor. In case of emergency , You can also take a car to a hospital in a big city for medical treatment.

"It's no wonder that the immigrant doesn't want to go back to the mountains after they come out. Who wants to go back to the mountains with such a life!"

Carpenter Li sighed. After a while, Carpenter Li didn't have any nostalgia for life in the mountains.

(End of this chapter)