The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 376 Household Division
More than 30,000 immigrants finally arrived at Peace Pass that day.

Because they missed the opportunity to treat the young emperor, the entire family of Physician Huang, a renowned pediatrician who had fled from Shangdu, were among these immigrants.

They traveled all the way to the northwest.

We've encountered toad plague patients far too frequently.

They came from a family of imperial physicians and were experts in pediatrics.

What can you do if you encounter this situation?

Let's get treatment.

We will treat as many as we can.

The entire trip involved traveling for a few days and then stopping for a few days.

It took more than two months of dragging our feet to reach Jinzhou.

Initially, they planned to go to the border town to seek refuge with the Northwest King.

But when they crossed the ferry and arrived at Jinzhou Pass, they heard that the fire state in Guanxi had discovered a miraculous medicine called cactus, which was effective against the toad plague.

It is said that after using this miraculous medicine, not a single one of the thousands of toad plague patients in the Kansai region died.

What kind of miracle drug is this?

Even with the intervention of Imperial Physician Huang, the cure rate for toad plague was less than 80%.

I'm very curious.

So, at the suggestion of Physician Huang, the entire family of over thirty people changed course and followed a group of immigrants to Kansai.

During this time, at least ten villages along the river corridor invited the family to stay.

But no one could stop the Huang family, the imperial physicians, from their thirst for miraculous medicines and effective remedies.

People become better with age.

Upon arriving at Heping Pass, the imperial physician Lao Huang had his son use the family's secret medicine and inquired with the garrison commander about the discovery and treatment of the toad plague in Guanzhong.

Peacekeeper couldn't refuse the pills made by the imperial physician himself.

It wasn't any military secret they were asking about.

Naturally, I will share everything I know and say without reservation.
"The story begins with the first immigrants."
If General Gan hadn't suggested that the doctors take the pulses, who knows how many more people would have been infected by those patients with the toad plague!

The prescription came from General Gan, and she was the one who led people to find the cactus at the Flaming Mountain.
General Gan wasn't a doctor, but I heard she enlisted as the captain of a medical team. The all-female medical team she led was incredibly skilled; they went to the battlefield every time, and each of them was an excellent suturer.

General Gan's prowess cannot be fully described in just a few words.

Anyway, the garrison commander rattled off everything he knew.

The central idea is that General Gan is the most powerful figure among the Nine Guards of Guanzhong, and the Guanzhong army owes its good life to General Gan.

The entire Huang family was ecstatic upon hearing this.

The old imperial physician Huang was whispering to his children and grandchildren:
We're not going to Hami City where General Xiong is stationed! We'll see that Flaming Mountain with its cacti sooner or later. Just for the female general's attitude towards doctors and her concern for patients, it's worth our whole family going there to seek refuge!

Ever since.

They also stopped following the immigrants' lead.

Upon arriving at Guazhouwei, they told Guan Jun, who was registering immigrants, that their family was acquainted with General Gan and that they had come to Guanzhong because of General Gan.

"Oh, so you're a relative of General Gan? Then you'll have to travel another thousand miles northwest. General Gan is currently stationed in Ganluchuan with the Vanguard Town."

Guan Jun was very enthusiastic.

General Gan's status as a relative clearly worked well here; not only were they provided with hot meals, but they were also given a camel cart to lead them to Ganluchuan.

As for the 30,000 immigrants who parted ways with Physician Huang's family, Guan Jun and his men welcomed them very much.

Spring plowing, you know.

We can accommodate as many people as come.

The commander of Guazhou Garrison arrived uninvited. He smiled broadly at the new immigrants and said, "Anyone who is willing to stay in Guazhou Garrison will be allocated land after registering their household registration."

The immigrants' hearts, which had been hanging in suspense, immediately settled down.

The question that everyone is most concerned about is: "How much land will be allocated in Kansai, and how will the land tax be calculated?"

How was it calculated?

General Xiong had already held a meeting with the generals of various garrisons before the Lunar New Year to discuss the matter.

Whether they are military households or immigrants, they should all be given preferential policies in terms of land reclamation and settlement.

The centurion then proclaimed it to the crowd:

“Each household can be allocated twenty mu of land, and the garrison will provide them with plow horses, seeds, and farm tools. After three years, taxes will be levied, with two dou (one dou is eighteen jin in the Bei State) per mu.”

The immigrants' focus was on the twenty acres.

An elderly man, fidgeting with the hem of his clothes, asked nervously:
"Is it only twenty mu per household? My family has five sons and one daughter. Three of them are married and have eight grandchildren. The grain grown on twenty mu of land is really not enough for the whole family to eat."

The centurion treated him with the utmost courtesy and even offered encouragement:

"Old man, there's an old saying that a tree branches out as it grows up, and sons separate from the family when they grow up. Your family has five sons, so you should divide them into five households, each with twenty mu of land. That's a hundred mu of land for five households. Isn't a hundred mu of land enough to support your whole family?"

The old man hesitated for a long time, looking troubled.

The centurion suddenly realized:
"Old man, don't be afraid of separating households. In Guanzhong, military households and farmers are clearly separated. Military households will not be conscripted unless they are all dead. Besides, if we need to build irrigation canals or pave roads, we will only hire laborers and pay them wages!"

"Is that true?"

"How could it be fake? You can ask the immigrants who came earlier. They also came empty-handed last year, and as soon as they arrived, they found out that Hami was going to build a new city, and hundreds of thousands of people found jobs."

These past two months have been spent busy repairing irrigation canals and reclaiming land. In another two months, construction on the new city of Hami will begin. At that time, those of you with skills will be able to go to the construction site and earn some money to support your families.”

and so.

The Kansai region is really different from the interior. Besides encouraging you to reclaim wasteland and farm, you can earn wages for any extra work you are willing to do.

Whether or not wages are paid is another matter.

We are farmers, and besides caring about how many acres of land we have, the tax rate is also crucial.

They've spent most of their lives toiling in the fields.

You ask if the tax on one mu and two dou is high?

Some people said:

"All I've seen along the way is sandy land. This kind of land has little fertility. Even if it's cultivated for three years, the yield from one acre is at most six or seven bushels."

You have to pay two bushels of tax per mu. If there's a natural disaster or something, the wheat you get might not even be enough to pay the tax.

The good-natured commander of Guazhou Guard said:

"The seeds distributed by our garrison are best suited for sandy soil. If these seeds are planted in cultivated land, they can yield at least four shi (a unit of dry measure)!"

Then you guys do the math.

Twenty acres of land, no taxes for three years!

Provide seeds, farm tools, and draft horses, and even if the wasteland yields only 30% of the produce of cultivated land, everyone can have enough to eat.

Even if taxes are due in three years, they said that the yield of cultivated land can be increased to four shi per mu.

With the numbers calculated like this, what's there to hesitate about?
Immediately, someone patted their chest and declared:

“Guazhou Guard has provided us refugees with such good conditions, so we must contribute to the Guard. Our family has many men, so we will give our married sons separate households.”

"Yes, yes! Our five households can reclaim a hundred acres of wasteland. If we can't finish the grain we grow, we can sell it to the garrison."

"Support the reclamation and land reclamation of military garrisons"

The 1,000-man commander of Guazhou Guard couldn't suppress the smirk on his face.

(End of this chapter)