Chapter 671 Population Is the Driving Force of Development
The land of each family in Xiao'an Village was drawn by lot.
Wherever you catch it.
At that time, they were called a village, but in fact, except for dozens of families in Xiao'an Village, Qishan Prefecture, the rest of the people joined midway.
The village elders are thoughtful and considerate that while they need to stay together for warmth, fairness and justice are the most important thing.
Therefore, each family's land is scattered here and there, not neatly arranged.
Some families in the village also changed their land privately for the convenience of farming.
It can be like Yan Yuzhuo's family-based unit, where three households and five households work together as a small collective to cooperate in farming, animal husbandry, and gather the human and animal power of each household to jointly cultivate fields, livestock breeding, fishing, hunting, and picking, etc. Combined with the form of comprehensive development, it took a long time for both Yan Laoer and Li Xuemei to digest it, let alone whether the villagers could understand it.
"She should have been enrolled in the University of Agricultural Sciences from the beginning." Li Xuemei suddenly said.
Yan Laoer: "That's not because we don't have enough space for her back home. Besides, you said that being a translator is better, speaking smaller languages is better, and there is less competition..."
Li Xuemei glared at him: "You don't know why there is no land in my hometown?"
Yan Laoer shrank his neck and did not dare to say anything.
He originally had land. After his parents passed away, no one took care of the land in his hometown. His cousin offered to lend him the land to grow and give his family some food every year.
He thought, isn't this a good thing? Others are farming the land, and he has food to eat.
But later, I don’t know how it was settled, and the land fell into the name of his cousin. He went to Murakami to ask, and found that the procedures at his cousin’s house were complete and all were newly completed. On the contrary, it was not easy to check the old background of his family. If he wanted to clarify the property rights , and still have to file a lawsuit.
His wife had just given birth to a child at that time, so he lied and said that his cousin gave some money and the land was transferred to his family.
He spent a long time hiding the money for the land transfer. He and a few dealers moved around, getting up early to stock the wholesale market, sneaking out to the night market at night, squatting beside the construction site to sell lunch boxes, going to the market, practicing stalls, and collecting rags. , selling vegetables, selling fruits...
In the end... I still didn't hide it.
This "transfer money" that was about to be collected, was decided by his wife to cash in the store opposite her school.
Opened a stationery store.
He understood what his wife meant, so she let him stay under her nose to avoid being deceived again.
It can only be said that today's Yan Lao'er is very humane and sophisticated, but the young and ignorant Yan Lao'er is very stupid.
Yan Laoer quickly pretended to think seriously and said to his daughter:
"It's not enough to just plant the current land. You have to open up wasteland to expand planting. Then you have to raise cattle, sheep, chickens and rabbits, go into the mountains to hunt and collect herbs, and go down to the rivers to fish... My dear, there are only so many people in our village, Xizhou is not An’an, a fight may break out at any time, we still have to be on guard, even if we have three heads and six arms, we can’t do so much work.”
What he actually wants to say is, my daughter, why don’t you go to heaven?
He didn't dare to say it in front of his wife.
"There are definitely not enough people, so we have to recruit people!" Yan Yu said: "My uncle has long said that we need to recruit disaster victims from our hometown. There are many families in the disaster-stricken big mansions who are having a hard time. The main reason is that Guanzhou is a long way away. It's not safe either, so they mostly go south. But as long as we open up the official road between Qishan and Guanzhou, escort them all the way, feed them for a fee, and vigorously promote Guanzhou's registration policy, I believe some people will want to come. of."
"Although the north can collect it once a year, the taxes are less. Our place is not as prosperous as the south, but our people are simple and the prices are low. You can tell by looking at the behavior of the Crown Princess. Everything is more expensive in the south. Here, we are a living example, and I think you all don’t mind being used as a model for publicity, which is good for both Huju and Xiao’an Village.”
"In an environment where manpower is the main labor force, population is crucial."
Yan Yu put on a sullen face and said seriously: "The long-term plan is to replenish the population from outside the country, mainly from our hometown in Qishan. In the short term, we can only rely on the quarry."
"Are you still thinking about the quarry?" Yan Laoer asked in surprise.
"Why don't you care about it?" Yan Yu said plausibly: "The imperial court exiled him to Guanzhou and didn't specify that he was going to be exiled to the quarry, so why not exile him to Xiao'an Village?!" As long as the prince acquiesced, the master nodded.
"The weather is getting warmer, and work will start at the quarry." Yan Laoer reminded.
Yan Yu quickly said: "The Xizhou soldiers captured before can be used. All of them are strong laborers, no better than the old, weak, sick and children who were exiled."
"If you make this plan, you must consider safety issues. If someone escapes, we will be responsible." Li Xuemei suddenly spoke up.
Yan Laoer hurriedly said: "What your mother said was that the people who came to our village in the past were all old and weak, and it was winter, so we were not afraid of people running away. But now I hear what you mean, you have a lot of people in our village. The fence hasn’t been raised yet, and we’re busy with farming right now, and we can’t spare any manpower, so we can’t tie them up one by one with ropes.”
What's going on? It's so weird to watch.
The exiled people were very few extremely evil, and most of them were the family members of officials who had committed crimes.
Yan Yu came over with a smile, put her little arms around Yan Laoer's waist, and skillfully found a comfortable position with her little head, arching it.
"Then it's up to you, Dad! Isn't that camp at the edge of our village for you to use? You want to train new recruits. Hehe, that's great. You can arrange for people to patrol the camp and expand the scope. Dad, by the way, give it to us. Take a tour of the village and you’ll find everything!”
Yan Laoer was stunned. He straightened his daughter's head with his hands and looked at it carefully, "So that's what you had in mind!"
How can this little brain work so well?
He looked at his mother, his eyes full of complexity.
At home, the daughter-in-law and daughter-in-law are all smart, but he is... a little worried.
After becoming the seventh-level general flag, he had the excitement of organizing. In just one day, he was beaten by left and right uppercuts, consecutive leg sweeps, and was defeated by a powerful man. At this moment, he was completely KO.
"It's actually easy to manage a prisoner who has a family." The previous batches of people hired from the quarry had allowed them to accumulate a lot of experience.
"There are really stubborn people who won't change their ways. Dad, just take them to the military camp. They can't run away. When there's a war, take them directly to the battlefield. Isn't that bad? Isn't it fierce? If you have the strength to attack the enemy."
Yan Yu talked a lot about how the Boy Scout rabbits are so good. At her request, the children have summarized a practical and effective method of raising rabbits. She thinks it should be promoted to let more rabbits be raised. people benefit.
There are too many cattle and sheep in the village!
In order for them to eat grass, the village elders mobilized the whole village and even used a charcoal sales team to go to the outer city to find grass and buy bran. They really thought of all kinds of tricks.
"... At present, the number of cattle and sheep must be controlled within a certain range. Xiao'an Village must continuously store grass in spring, summer and autumn in order to keep as many cattle and sheep as possible."
Yan Yu: "So I think we can sell some cattle and sheep first to relieve the pressure of pasture, half work and half money. When we separated yesterday, I asked Brother Santie to take a message back to Grandpa Luo and the others. Let's go back to the village in the evening. You can probably count how many cows, sheep, chickens and rabbits there are in the village..."
Yan Laoer: I grew up after suffering losses o(*￣︶￣*)o
Li Xuemei: Stare to death for my wronged husband! (#￣～￣#)
Waiter: Isn’t it easy for me to go to heaven? Jiuxiao pulls me! o(*￣▽￣*)o