Daming Town Haiwang

Chapter 2243, The Greatly Changed Loess Plateau

On the top of a mountain in the Loess Plateau area of ​​Shaanxi, Liu Jin is walking to the top of the mountain, and while walking, he is carefully looking at the Loess Plateau in front of him.

The Loess Plateau in Liu Jin’s memory before his travels was thousands of ravines, a piece of loess, synonymous with backwardness, poverty, and hardship, and also synonymous with cave dwellings, sorghum, millet, and corn.

The cause of the Loess High in later generations is that the destruction of vegetation is too serious, resulting in extremely serious soil erosion. At the same time, people in the Loess Plateau area are also facing many problems.

One of the biggest problems is the water problem.

Yellow land cannot retain water. No matter how much rain falls during the rainy season, it will be washed away along with the sand in a blink of an eye, and nothing will be left in the end.

Therefore, if people on the loess land want to use water, they often need to go to far away places to fetch water, because the loess plateau is full of ravines, sometimes even if it seems to be a short distance, it has to go for a long way. way.

In addition, in winter, people will store the snow in the water cellar, and the water in it often becomes the water for a year.

Just from here, we can see the situation on the Loess Plateau, even basic water use is a problem. Under such an environment, no matter how diligent and smart people on the Loess Plateau are, it is often useless.

This situation has continued until after the 21st century. With the continuous improvement of living standards and technology, it has changed and gradually become better and better.

After all, the people on the yellow land are the most industrious, intelligent, simple, and hard-working people on the land of China. They can always use their hardworking hands to create a better life.

Liu Jin came to the top of the mountain a little out of breath, picked up the binoculars and looked around.

The mountain at the foot is the highest mountain in a radius of more than ten miles, enough to overlook a large area around it.

What catches the eye is a bleak autumn, the earth is in the color of autumn yellow, and at the same time, there are still patches of forest areas that are still blooming with greenery.

"Not bad!"

Liu Jin nodded while looking at it. The environment of the Loess Plateau in front of him is quite good.

It is very different from the yellow land in memory. It is difficult to see the bare yellow land on the surface, and it is covered by vegetation everywhere.

In places with good conditions, large-scale forests have formed, in patches, in patches, a mountain, a mountain, a region, a region of forests.

These forest trees seem to be quite old, at least more than ten years old, and they are already towering trees, not that kind of small saplings.

Some drier back areas are also covered by a lot of weeds. It can be seen that the vegetation here is very lush.

Liu Jin can see many groups of yellow sheep with a telescope. These yellow sheep are unique wild animals in the Loess Plateau area and the Mongolian Plateau area. The number of wild yellow sheep in later generations has been very rare.

Long-term hunting and poor living environment have made gazelle less and less, and there are only a few places where gazelle can still be seen.

However, Liu Jin found these gazelles easily with a telescope, group after group, the population is quite good, and carefully observing these gazelles, you can also find that these gazelles are fat and fat. Strong, apparently the surrounding environment is quite good for their survival.

The environment here on the Loess Plateau has been greatly improved, gradually recovering, and getting better and better, which also allows these gazelles to have enough living space and resources.

Of course, the most important point is that the people on the Loess Plateau have basically migrated out, and the remaining population here is very, very small.

Talent is the biggest natural enemy of Gazelle!

In the past, there were always hunters hunting these gazelles. Various traps, traps, etc. greatly reduced the number of gazelles.

But more importantly, human beings exist in every corner of the Loess Plateau, occupying the living resources and land here, greatly reducing the soil and space for the gazelle to live, and preventing the number of gazelle from expanding.

Without humans, gazelles have more living space, and the number of this group quickly recovered and expanded, and they became active on the Loess Plateau again.

"It's just that there are not many people living there. If you want to find a place to ask for a drink, you can't find it."

Liu Jin searched the surroundings carefully, but couldn't find any inhabited villages after searching for a long time.

You can see a large number of deserted villages. Many cave dwellings and houses have been deserted and dilapidated. The roads in these villages are often full of weeds, and weeds grow in the dilapidated houses. It is an extremely depressed scene.

Those who don't know think that it is the chaotic times at the end of which dynasty. Under the chaos of war, people's houses are empty, villages are deserted, and people have disappeared.

"There are still almost no people over there!"

At this time, Liu Jin's eyes lit up slightly, because he found a village next to a concrete road. There was still smoke rising from the village, and some figures could be seen, which made Liu Jin refreshed.

"go!"

Soon, Liu Jin went down the mountain, got in a car and walked towards the village.

At the entrance of Guojia Village, seven or eight villagers gathered under the old locust tree, basking in the sun and chatting. These seven or eight villagers are all elderly villagers, and they are all in their 70s or [-]s.

It has been difficult to find young people here, and those who can move out have already moved out, and the rest of the old people are unwilling to move out, and plan to stay on the Loess Plateau to grow old.

It is hard to leave their homeland, and the descendants of Yan and Huang have always held deep affection for their homeland.

No matter how good the immigration policy of the imperial court is, and no matter how comfortable the lives of the immigrants are, there are still some people who are unwilling to leave the hometown where they lived in the era, even if they are poor, they will die poor in their hometown.

The old people are basking in the sun, chatting, and look at the concrete road at the entrance of the village from time to time. This is the only road outside the village. Sometimes young people come back to visit them, so everyone sits down habitually every day. Waiting under the old locust tree at the entrance of the village, hoping that my children and grandchildren can come back to see me.

"Old Wang, has your youngest son really migrated to Nanyang?"

"Yeah, I told him that it's fine to go to Hezhong or Heitu Province, where there are people from our town and county everywhere, he insisted on not listening, and must move to Nanyang, saying that he likes the climate in Nanyang. , and said that he would take me to Nanyang."

"I'm not going, I'm already old, and I'm going to die in my hometown, so why go to Nanyang?"

"Isn't it? What a wonderful place. Now the Yellow Land is many times better than before, but there are no young people who are willing to stay here. Only our Guojia Village is left in a radius of more than ten miles. These old guys are gone, when we are all gone, there will really be no people living here."

Uncle Guo said with some sighs that this Guojia village was originally surnamed Guo, and there were no surnames such as Wang, Li, etc., but since young people continued to migrate out, villages have been deserted.

These old people have to take care of themselves, so fortunately, everyone keeps gathering and moving together, and the old people take care of each other.

If that day is gone, other people can also help to bury it in the soil. Everyone has already bought the coffin. As for the children and so on, they are all thousands or even thousands of miles away, so there is no hope at all.

It's not that their children are unfilial, it's just that the old people are unwilling to move out and live outside with their children.

In the beginning, some young people stayed, but there was no way to make money here. These young people went to the city to work again, and they only came back during the holidays.

But these young people are slowly buying houses in the city, further exacerbating the loss of population here, and finally only the old people are left.

Only when an old man passes away will the young people in the lower city be notified and let them come back to take care of the funeral.

"It seems that a car is coming!"

At this time, Uncle Wang heard the sound of the car, and immediately regained his energy. He quickly stood up and looked at the road outside the village.

"It's really a car, isn't it time for the holiday yet?"

Uncle Li also heard the voice, and his whole body became energetic.

They are the only old people left in the village. What they look forward to the most is the return of young people and their children and grandchildren. When they hear the sound of cars and motorcycles, they will get excited.

This is the case for old people, who don't care about anything anymore, except for their children and grandchildren.

All the old people stood up and tiptoed to look at the road at the entrance of the village.

Soon, several Mercedes-Benz cars were coming towards Guojia Village.

"Hey, these cars don't seem to be lazy. Whose kid gets rich and buys such a good car, and there are several cars at once."

"Old Wang, this is definitely not someone from our village. In the past, even if someone drove back, there was basically only one car. How could several cars come all at once?"

"That's right. When I went to the city with my son last time, I heard people say that this car is called a Mercedes-Benz. It is the most expensive car. A car costs several thousand taels of silver, which is enough to buy several cars in the city. suite."

Amidst the old people's discussion, several cars came to Guojia Village. As the cars stopped and the doors opened, Liu Jin's entourage and servants got out of the car first, and then Liu Jin got out of the car.

After getting out of the car, Liu Jin carefully looked at the Guojia Village in front of him. It can be seen that the old houses have basically closed down, and no one is taking care of them. The houses that are inhabited are basically new houses. They all look pretty, and they all look pretty good.

(End of this chapter)