An old house where a treasure! This statement is true!
Although grandpa is paralyzed in bed, he is still an old man in his nineties. He has experienced too many things in his life. What he said is the most precious life experience!
"My child, this year is a good year, because this is the Year of the Pig, and people in the Year of the Pig have a good life!"
"But what year is next year? The year of Bingzi! My grandson, it is the year of the rat!"
"The rule passed down from my grandfather's generation is that when encountering the Year of the Rat, you must prepare to survive the famine, because the Year of the Rat has been plagued with disasters since ancient times, jumping up and down like a rat!"
"There is a cycle of twelve years. The Year of the Pig ends and the Year of the Rat begins. When the old and the new change, Feng Shui is the most chaotic!"
"I don't care about other things at home. You have to listen to me next year... All the money will be used to buy food, corn, sweet potatoes, millet, sorghum... buy whatever is cheap!"
"Hey... it's a pity that you showed off your wealth today. This is a dangerous thing! Your cousin's family is a hunter... go buy two muskets!"
"My life is not long, I have a hunch, I just don't feel right!"
The whole family was dumbfounded. Grandpa’s words are an imperial edict in this family and everyone must obey them. The grandson thought for a while, “Grandpa said there is a big disaster, so there must be a big disaster…”
"Our vacation is very short. We have to go back to the capital on the tenth day of the lunar month... Then I will go and beg my master. Maybe I can buy a good musket from him. This is much easier to use than a fire blunderbuss!"
"These are not peaceful times. My master has said many times during his lectures that there are foreign devils outside and there are some reforms in the country, so my master and the others have a mutual aid association!"
"I believe in my master, so I joined this mutual aid association! If anyone has any trouble, the mutual aid association will take care of it!"
The old man lying on the bed thought for a while, "We have to stick together! If you don't join the group, you won't be able to survive this difficult world... Go ahead, you can leave two days early. Don't worry about things at home. If there are really difficult times that you can't get through, Now, let’s go to the capital to find you!”
"Don't be anxious about marrying a wife... Our family's life has improved. You can find one when you find one! If we really follow the old man's old saying, there will really be a famine!"
"Haha... By then I estimate that one liter of millet can buy me the best grandson-in-law!"
Bang... bang...
Firecrackers sounded outside the window, children in the mountain village were shouting excitedly, and many adults laughed. This Spring Festival in the Year of the Pig is really lively. They don't know the coming danger, but the wise have already started to take the lead!
On New Year's Eve, everyone has to stay up until late at night before taking a short rest. The migrant workers were woken up by the sound of New Year greetings before they had even slept for an hour!
This year, these two families of migrant workers have become the focus of the whole mountain village. Last night's 'show off wealth' shocked the hearts of the whole village. At this time, the families who opposed the migrant workers couldn't help but reflect.
Young people come together to inquire about working life. It can be seen that they are ready to make a move!
Only money, and only a strong gap between the rich and the poor, can win over the stubborn and conservative people. Those old people who used to shout that their parents would not let their children go out when they were not far away have all fallen silent!
What happened in front of us was extremely shocking. Everyone knew that these two poorest families had changed their destiny by working!
Moreover, the marriage that had been discussed before suddenly changed. Last night, they saw with their own eyes the light in the eyes of the most beautiful girls in the village.
There are also those elders from the girl's family who are getting close to them both in words and in words, and even a fool can see their clinging mentality!
She was originally my daughter-in-law, but her heart changed overnight. Such a psychological gap is really uncomfortable!
By this time, when the children at home started to make trouble and went out to have troubles, I could no longer stop them. As a result, early in the morning on the first day of the new year, almost all the young people in the village gathered there and asked one by one about the details of their working life!
It is conceivable that after the tenth day of the Lunar New Year holiday is over, the number of strong laborers coming out of this mountain village will no longer be two people but ten or twenty, or even more!
"How good is this... There are no people on the land anymore... How good is this..." The helpless wailing of the small landowners in the village cannot change the mighty historical trend!
The Year of the Pig has just passed, and the Year of the Rat has arrived in the restless mood of countless farmers!
Such a scene is not just one or two mountain villages, but is constantly expanding with the advancement of the industrial systems in the north and south of the Qing Empire!
Zhili, Shanxi, Henan, Shandong...the situation in these four northern provinces is particularly outstanding!
Almost every village where workers have come out has played out the same scene. More and more conservative farmers are becoming more active. There are so many opportunities to make money outside, and the white silver coins are so greedy!
This is also the case in the Jiangnan region. The Yangtze River Economic Belt is the main distribution belt of the Chinese Industrial Zone. The industrial zones under construction along the river are like water pumps, gathering together the manpower and resources of the surrounding rural areas!
However, the economy in the Jiangnan region is relatively complex, and the competition in industry and agriculture is somewhat gentler than in the north!
The reason is very simple. The small farmer economy in the north is mainly based on low value-added food crops, while the small farmer economy in the south of the Yangtze River can raise mulberry silkworms and grow tea... In general, the added value of products is higher than that in the north!
Therefore, the rural areas are still richer than those in the north, and they still have some resistance to industrial competition!
The small-scale peasant economy in the north is in dire straits. The gap between industry and agriculture is so great that the people have almost no choice!
In the first month of the Year of the Rat, a spectacular spectacle appeared in almost all parts of the four northern provinces. Originally, people would not go out during the winter, but this year, a large number of "refugees" appeared.
On almost all official roads, you can see groups of strong laborers, led by pioneer workers, walking step by step towards prosperous and wealthy areas!
They were so poor that they didn't even dare to go to restaurants if they brought their own dry food along the way. Even if they paid two or three pennies for a pot of hot tea, they were reluctant to drink it. Many people just dug a mouthful of snow to quench their thirst!
The local officials did not dare to stop such refugees at all. The court had already made it clear that if local people went to work in factories, the local officials were not allowed to ask for passage, let alone use various excuses to stop them!
Without the ban, local police officers and soldiers could not stop it. Moreover, these were poor ordinary people who could not squeeze out any money.
Who in the ice and snow is willing to brave the wind and snow to stop them!
There are small groups of people on the small roads, but when they reach the official road, there are hundreds of people! They walked vigorously towards their destination.
The Qinghe Industrial Zone in the capital, the construction sites along the Beijing-Hankow Railway... and some with connections went directly to the more prosperous Chinese northern industrial zone!
Everyone dreams of getting rich and earning silver dollars, and everyone’s eyes are shining!
The squires and landlords in the prefectures and counties along the road looked at these people with hatred, and muttered, "How many days has it been? There must be tens of thousands of people passing by your door alone, right?"
"What a sin! What a sin... Why don't you farm hard and think about making a fortune every day? You must have this fate too!"
"You're the one who got in the way! A few years ago, the price of 100 meters per meter was 80 cents per meter, but now it's already 95 cents... Damn it, if you guys don't farm the land for your stupidity, the price of grain won't even exceed 100 cents. ?”
"Oh my god, why does it keep snowing?"
