The pork butcher is smoother than a pig butcher!

Chapter 377 Cut off the beard
Guan Jun, who was in charge of registering the documents, received a signal from his own centurion and immediately began to urge them on:
"Those who want to divide their households, hurry up and register. After the households are divided, someone will take you to see the land. Those who divide their households first can choose their locations first."

Ouch.

The land is the lifeblood of farmers.

In a race for the first choice, 30,000 people nearly fought tooth and nail to be the first to arrive.

Separate households.

All families whose sons got married were divided up.

Those who aren't married yet, go find a matchmaker tonight!

There are even old men over fifty who wish they could have their own separate account with their wives.

In the end, Guan Jun, who was registering, persuaded him to stay.

"You can't leave the land allocated to you uncultivated. If you leave it uncultivated for a year, the land tax will double! I advise you all to act according to your ability! It's really not easy for a family of four or five to cultivate twenty acres of land."

The immigrants waved their hands in unison:
“We all have farming experience! Growing wheat in dryland areas is only labor-intensive during the land reclamation and harvesting seasons; otherwise, it’s not that tiring. With the help of plow horses, twenty acres of land is really not much.”

Ok.

If you think twenty acres of land is easy to cultivate, you can also help out with the farmland of our military households.

I don't know how spring plowing is progressing in other garrisons.

In any case, the area allocated to Guazhou Guard was larger than that of all other guard posts.

The commander of the Guazhou Guard was secretly pleased: In any case, General Xiong had not given any clear instructions to distribute the new immigrants equally among the various guard posts.

These immigrants all voluntarily stayed in Guazhouwei!
He also had first-generation immigrants brought in to share their experiences.

The novice immigrants have really fallen into the hands of these people.

The person replied:

"You ask which of the nine garrisons in Guanzhong is the best? It's naturally our Guazhou Garrison! We arrived early and have a clear understanding of the situation of these garrisons."

Do you want me to tell you in detail what's good about it?

Just look how close Guazhou Guard is to Heping Pass! If the Hu people make any move, we can evacuate faster than people from other guard posts.

Moreover, Hamiwei and Huozhouwei have a large local population, and those Uyghurs and Han Chinese are not of the same mind; we can't understand what they are saying.

Take another look around you.

Our Guazhouwei is full of shops selling all sorts of things! At the end of last year, many large merchants came; they kept bringing back goods from inside the Great Wall, and some even planned to do business with foreign merchants.”

Yes.

Guazhouwei was the first garrison after leaving Hepingguan to the west, and geographically it was the safest of the nine garrisons in Guanzhong.

In terms of size, it is about the same as a medium-sized prefecture within the Great Wall.

then.

Apart from the entire Huang family, all 30,000 immigrants voluntarily stayed in Guazhou.

By the time the commanders of the other garrisons heard that all the new immigrants had been intercepted by the Guazhou Garrison, the spring planting season was already in its second half.

Thirty thousand people have all changed their household registration to Guazhouwei. What else can be done?!

All he could do was curse the cunning and treacherous commander of Guazhou Guard.

Some people even had ulterior motives, sending their own garrison's soldiers to Guazhou Garrison every two or three days to make purchases.

Buying things is a pretense.

It's true that they're staying there and waiting for new immigrants.

They're trying to poach people.

No means are too much.

The tens of thousands of immigrants who were forcibly assigned to garrisons last year complained that there were too many people and the burden was too heavy.

Now.

With the grain and alfalfa that General Gan bought, even if another 100,000 to 200,000 people came, they could survive until summer.

After the height of summer, there's a lot more to eat in the Kansai region.

Various melons and fruits can replace half a meal.

And then.

The garrison commanders then came to General Xiong to file a complaint.

The purpose is not to file a complaint.

The goal was to ask the General for more immigrants.

Is there no work left after planting wheat?

The immigrants and military families are still living in dugouts.

We need more people, the more the better.

General Xiong was overwhelmed by receiving a letter every day.

Problems don't disappear. Problems can be moved.

They also sought help from his superior, the King of the Northwest.

The letter asked:

Are there any refugees fleeing northwest from within the Great Wall? Could we send someone to help spread the word within the Great Wall?

What are they promoting?
"Promote the Kansai region as a wonderful place that you won't want to leave once you've been there."

What's the good way?
"The Hu women are beautiful, the wine is delicious, and there's an endless supply of beef, mutton, and flatbread!"

After reading General Xiong's letter, Zhao Muyun kept scratching his teeth.

That old bear is truly insatiable.

With over 500,000 people under his jurisdiction in the Kansai region, isn't that enough for him to cause trouble?

Zhao Muyun didn't want to spend his whole life stuck in the northwest frontier.

It will take at most three to five years to accumulate strength.

If all the refugees from within the Great Wall were brought to the Northwest now, he could not possibly declare himself emperor in the border city in the future, could he?
The area of ​​Guanxi Jiuwei was sparsely populated, with each household often receiving dozens of acres of land, and the land tax was extremely low.

No need for military service, no complicated taxes, and no oppression from the powerful landlords in the refugees' hometowns.

Once they adapt to life in Kansai, who would want to go back to their hometown?

If this continues, won't the fields inside the pass also become abandoned?
Passively accepting refugees and actively poaching them are two different things.

Zhao Muyun and the officials of the Prince's Palace discussed this issue for a long time, and finally agreed that it was not convenient to interfere.

They didn't interfere, but the imperial court was happy to provide them with extra questions.

Last year, the Qing army in Shangdu plundered various temples and filled all the warehouses in the palace.

This year.

Excuse me.

Hundreds of thousands of monks in thousands of temples have all returned to secular life.

They became monks to seek refuge, and if the imperial court could crack down on temples, then they truly had nowhere to hide.

The monks all ran away.

Only the elderly monks who were too old and weak remained.

Who will cultivate that temple field?
Let whoever wants to plant it plant it!

There are always some Buddhists who will donate some money for incense.

The old monk pointed to these and said they would all pass.

Let's see how you eunuchs plunder this year!

The Empress Dowager had no time to concern herself with how the imperial court planned to manage the temple lands and donations.

Last year, during the toad plague, the dosage of the herbal medicine was increased to save the young emperor's life.

That is to say, he survived.

The little emperor's spleen and stomach are completely ruined.

Even when breastfeeding, she would get diarrhea every few days.

She's over a year old.

The imperial physicians all said that I could eat some rice porridge or egg custard.

No.

Can't eat a little.

Even a few bites can worsen diarrhea.

We thought that once winter was over and the weather warmed up, the little emperor's health would improve.

It's not getting any better.

The little emperor's fragile body was only slightly damaged after being taken out by his wet nurse to bask in the sun and be exposed to a cold breeze.

That very night, he developed diarrhea and a high fever, with severe vomiting.

The little body started to tremble.

Enraged, the Empress Dowager ordered the execution of the young emperor's wet nurse and her entire family.

The results of it.

The imperial physicians said that the herbal medicine could no longer be administered.

Let the wet nurse drink it.

The medicated lotion works a bit slower, but it's better for the little emperor's stomach and spleen.

The memory of the wet nurse, whose entire family was executed, remains vivid.

The little emperor's backup wet nurses trembled with fear.
(End of this chapter)