I have Futian in my heart

Chapter 869 Settlement of Refugees 2
Too many people see things like land reclamation as too simple!

The most important thing in land reclamation is not to open up a piece of land, the most important thing is to have a water source, which requires supporting farmland water conservancy construction.

These things require the government to organize a large amount of labor for construction.

However, Zheng Xiaoming did not directly open up wasteland at the beginning, but instead snatched the land from those local tyrants, and came to grab food from the mouth of a tiger, which originally meant to suppress mergers and suppress and weaken the tyrants.

And land reclamation is too bitter and too slow.Without a period of two or three years, it is difficult to see results.

Therefore, Zheng Xiaoming must first seize the land from the local tyrants to resettle the refugees.

Now with the secret cooperation of the Donghai scholars, the plan to snatch the land from the local tyrants is still going smoothly.

Tyrants, big and small, pinched their noses and donated land ranging from thousands of acres to hundreds of acres.And take out the corresponding food.

Zheng Xiaoming sent his men to measure the powerful lands in various places, and according to the amount of their land, they distributed the land and grain shares they needed...

This is actually very difficult to do in ancient times.Measuring land is a highly professional task that requires a large number of low-level officials who have professional skills and understand simple mathematics and geometry.

However, when Zheng Xiaoming was in his hometown in Yuxian County, he trained more than a dozen personal soldiers, all of whom were capable of both civil and military skills, able to fight in martial arts, able to do accounts with literature, and able to measure the land.

In addition, those who were brought over from the old surnames of various Nanyang families, the shopkeepers sent by the Mi family, and the gentry from various families in the East China Sea supported them.

Therefore, he has enough manpower under his command to count the powerful lands of various families.Then formulate the share for them to donate in proportion.

Things in the world are like this, don't worry about scarcity but inequality.Since Zheng Xiaoming acted quite fairly, it was done according to the proportion, there is no such thing as your family having more and my family having less.

Therefore, those powerful families can only pinch their noses to recognize it.

Of course, Zheng Xiaoming wouldn't just let others bleed and not give benefits.

So let all the tyrants send outstanding children to their side to arrange official positions.

As for the official positions of the county court, they were arranged in the army.

The five hundred private soldiers under him have now turned into county soldiers, and they will expand again to expand the county soldiers to more than two thousand.and rigorous training.

In addition to the two thousand standing soldiers, Zheng Xiaoming even completed the construction of the army reserve. All the refugees who were allocated land and resettled were managed by militarization and received military training during the slack season.

Once there is a battle, a large number of young and strong can be drawn from these resettled refugees to join the army immediately.

Of course, Zheng Xiaoming's army is not idle either.Fighting is the best training.

As a result, the large and small groups of thieves in the East China Sea were miserable, and they were all targeted by Zheng Xiaoming, and they were cleaned up carefully.

All those who resisted in the corner were naturally beheaded, and those who surrendered were scattered and resettled as refugees, and it took only half a year.

The entire Donghai County, which was originally chaotic, became extremely quiet. Dozens of thieves, large and small, were either resettled, or escaped from Donghai County, and ran to Langye, Pengcheng, and Xiapi next door!

As a result, Langya was so angry that he wrote a letter and scolded Zheng Xiaoming.

Zheng Xiaoming still didn't dare to resist, so he could only bow his head obediently and admit his mistake, and sent troops to help Langya Kingdom eliminate the thieves.

There is no other, because Langye is called Yinde!He is also a member of the Nanyang Yin clan, and can be regarded as Zheng Xiaoming's elder.

Of course, even if Yinde is not an elder, as long as he is asked to send troops to Langye to suppress the rebellion, he is still a good person, isn't he?

Nalangya is a kingdom whose ruler is Langya King Liu Rong.

However, in the era of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the princes and kings no longer had the power to govern the country.The power is in the hands of the Prime Minister of the Kingdom, but the Prime Minister of the Kingdom cannot be called the Prime Minister, but only the Prime Minister.

And Langye Xiang is almost equivalent to the county prefect!

Originally, according to the Three Mutual Laws, marriage was also one of the cores of the Three Mutual Laws.Relatives like Zheng Xiaoming and Yinde cannot be officials in neighboring places...

However, according to this strict method of operation, there is no way for the big clans who are married to each other to find a place to be an official.Therefore, in many cases, the implementation of the three mutual laws is not so strict.

For example, Jiang Pei, the former governor of the East China Sea, seemed to be from Langya.

If someone else was Lang Xiexiang, it would be impossible to ask Zheng Xiaoming to send troops across the border to quell the chaos!
In Zheng Xiaoming's eyes, these thieves are all wealth!

In this troubled world, the population itself is the greatest wealth.

Others treat them as a burden, but Zheng Xiaoming doesn't think so.

What's more, these thieves themselves also robbed a lot of food wealth.After suppressing the bandits, these things naturally became Zheng Xiaoming's trophies.

In just over half a year, Zheng Xiaoming actually got hundreds of thousands of acres of land from the powerful people in Donghai County, and resettled more than [-] refugees there.

At this time, what made Zheng Xiaoming feel more intolerable was that the yield per mu was too low at this time.The annual output of one mu of land is only one or two stones, that is, one or two hundred catties.

As a result, today's big man needs at least [-] to [-] acres of land if a family of five wants to support themselves.

If taxes, labor, etc. are added, the number of fields will double.

At the same time, on such an average, a family has to serve nearly [-] acres of land. It is conceivable that the cultivation of this field must be quite extensive!
In fact, the agricultural technology at this time was completely backward, full of all kinds of things that Zheng Xiaoming could not understand.

You know, at this time, the fields here actually grow extremely low-yield corn, and they only grow one season a year.At most, it's just a little more beans or something!

Therefore, the daily meal eaten by ordinary people in this era is the so-called millet, rice and bean soup.

What's terrible is that many fields still have the habit of fallow due to insufficient fertilizer.That is to say, these lands are often planted for one year, left idle for one year, and weeds are allowed to grow, and then burned at the end of the year, the plant ash is used as fertilizer, and the next year is planted again!
How can Zheng Xiaoming, who is a time traveler, bear this?
Although Zheng Xiaoming was born in a small townsman, it can be said that his limbs are not working and he can't distinguish grains. If he is placed in the field, he can't even distinguish rice from wheat.

However, if you have never eaten pork, you will always see a pig walking.Zheng Xiaoming knows very well that every flower in a crop depends on fertilizer.

The fertilizer issue is the most important, and the fertilizer technology at this time is still not perfect.

At the same time, he organized manpower to build farmland and water conservancy, and at the same time instructed the people to fertilize and irrigate the land.

Although Zheng Xiaoming himself doesn't know how to fertilize, but he has a vague idea, so just ask someone to study it.

Even have people grow wheat!

(End of this chapter)