Lei Dagang and his grandfather belong to this group of people. The two of them had long thought about being resettled. It's just that it's never been their turn. Lei Dagang is fourteen years old this year. Logically speaking, he should participate in guard training. There are also monthly cases available.
But his grandfather was an old man. He heard that boys under the age of fourteen could go to school for free and receive a monthly salary ranging from 100 to 300 yuan depending on their academic level. Three days to study literature, one day to practice martial arts, and also teach Jeet Kune Do.
As a result, Lei Dagang shrank by one year. Thirteen-year-old Lei Da just started his student career. None of their ancestors were literate, so Lei Dagang became the first literate person among their ancestors.
Jeet Kune Do is taught in school martial arts classes. He also eats well, eating fat meat almost every day. Lei Dagang began to grow rapidly. This made his grandfather very anxious. Originally, Lei Dagang was small. No one would believe it if he said he was thirteen years old.
Nowadays, the food provided to students in the Grand Farm is not comparable to that of ordinary refugees. Not only is Lei Da just starting to grow, the rules of the Grand Farm are very strict. The old man almost surrendered, but the Grand Grange had stipulations that those who confessed would be lenient.
The old man later heard that there were many situations like Lei Dagang's in the school. Then I slowly felt relieved. Everything is good here, except that there are many rules. The two security guards they had took turns sleeping at night.
As the time came to the end of January, there were still nearly 60,000 refugees left in the Grand Manor, and no refugees had been sent away for nearly half a month. It seemed that the stewards were not lying, and the remaining refugees would be resettled nearby.
Refugees who refused to leave when they had the chance began to regret it. After all, if you stay in the north, it's not as safe as going to Shandong. What will they do if the steppe Tatars come again next year? What's more worrying is how much money does the big boss still have?
Are there still 60,000 refugees to be resettled in this large farm? Today's refugees have an idea that the more money this big boss has, the better. But don't be short of money,
The 60,000 stranded refugees have land to farm. But it will take more than half a year to get through the autumn harvest. How much money will this cost? Many refugees even began to complain that the stewards did not know how to do things.
These stewards are simply squandering the big boss's money. How will we live in the future? Look at the 60,000 of us, we don't even look like refugees. We all gained weight when we came to the farm.
The refugees were really anxious. They were reluctant to eat like this during the busy farming season. Keep the water flowing slowly, and it can last until the autumn harvest. The stewards also rushed out to comfort the refugees, saying that they would never let them go hungry and that life would only get better and better.
Now the refugees are starting to feel a sense of ownership. There are refugees who know how to settle accounts. They have already calculated the accounts and said that the big boss spent at least two million taels of silver this winter. The vast majority of refugees cannot speak.
So much money has been spent. Just kill us, will selling our meat be enough? At first, the refugees were wondering what the big boss’s intentions were. I simply don’t think about it now. There is eating and drinking.
Although the refugees have some fluctuations in their thoughts, this is normal. Still in good order. Lei Dagang has gained more than half a head in the past two months. He also knows a lot of words and can do some simple accounting.
Although Lei Dagang failed to calculate the two million taels of silver, he felt that he had spent a lot of money. Too many to count. He doesn't like studying literature, especially settling accounts.
He prefers to practice martial arts. The instructor said the same thing, saying that he was born to practice martial arts. So Lei Dagang told his grandfather that he wanted to grow back in age so that he could join the guard and practice martial arts every day.
The instructors all said that he was good at martial arts training. Grandpa almost knelt down for him and asked him to become an educated warrior. Lei Dagang was forced to do nothing by his grandfather, and he had to wait for more than a year before he could become a guard.
Although he currently earns 300 Wen per month, he is mainly outstanding in martial arts and can be said to be average in cultural classes. The key is that he is only interested in practicing martial arts. Now Lei Dagang can only bite the bullet and study literature hard.
If Lei Dagang could not get the three hundred Wen monthly salary, his grandfather would say that he was sorry for his father and brother.
In fact, Li Miao spent far more than two million taels of silver. It took more than half a year to prepare last year, which required personal and material resources. Most of them are shipped from Qingzhou. Although they are all transported by their own large and small ships.
Just the expenses of the guards, sailors, and monthly expenses are a huge sum. The sailors and guards on ships of all sizes are well paid. I have been working with these refugees for the past year. But the harvest is also full.
This time, more than 25,000 refugees were transported to the Liaodong Bureau, so that the Liaodong Bureau had a population of nearly 30,000. And it is a stable population based on family units. The strength of the Liaodong Bureau has increased again, and Li Miao is happy to think about it.
Qingzhou has resettled a total of more than 50,000 people, Lingshan Island has resettled 10,000 refugees, and the rest have been arranged in a large estate of 70,000 acres. It can be foreseen that Qingzhou will continuously provide various talents for Li Miao in the future.
The great Zheng Dynasty regarded these refugees as a burden, but Li Miao regarded them as wealth. If it weren't for keeping a low profile, Li Miao could accept more refugees, but Li Miao is also very satisfied with the current results. Within a year, his strength will be more than doubled.
The top management of the Northern Bureau has been very busy in the past year. It's even busier now. There are nearly 60,000 refugees in Guangtong Prefecture's farmland that need to be resettled. Together with several other farms, there are a total of nearly 80,000 refugees that need to be resettled.
This year the government sold land for cabbage prices. In previous years, it was not easy to buy an acre of land for ten taels of silver. This year, no one wants three taels of silver per acre. The government keeps the land in its hands and has no use for it, and it also loses tax revenue. Finally, land prices fell again and again.
To be honest, those who dare to buy land at this time are not ordinary people. It is clear that the north will not be peaceful in the future. He even dared to buy land. Either he has extraordinary strength, or he is a gambler.
The Northern Bureau also sent several groups of people, mainly to purchase land along the northern coast. The buyers all purchased in the name of Li Miao's wife, concubines, and maids, and were mainly concentrated in coastal areas such as Cangzhou, Tongzhou, and Qinhuangdao.
This time a total of more than 200,000 acres of land was purchased. Less than three hundred thousand taels of silver were spent, and the land in the coastal area itself was barren. The price is low. The prices purchased this year were much lower, with farmsteads ranging from several thousand acres to several hundred acres.
Entering February, the refugees reluctantly left their original farm. This was the farm where they had lived for several months, and it was also their life-saving farm. To be honest, the food was really good. It would be great if they could stay here forever.
Slowly the refugees were resettled into their respective farms. When you see that there is no shortage of seeds and grain. There are almost no refugees who do not shed tears. This is their future home. I see that there is more than enough food to last until the autumn harvest this year.
It seemed like the stewards didn't lie to them. Life in the future will not be worse than at Grand Farm. The new farm will still have stewards sent from the big farm to take charge of it. In addition, some refugees with good abilities were accepted as slaves.
The rules of the new farm are the same as the original ones. The children should go to school, the guards should continue practicing martial arts, and the food is almost the same as before. There are refugees asking for a steady flow of water. Can they survive until the autumn harvest if the weather is so bad?
The manager will only be happy. "Supplies will continue to be delivered in the future. Until we have production in our own village, the piglets will no longer be sent pork when they grow up, and the grain will not be sent when the grain is harvested. When the grain is gone, I will go and ask for it. ”
The refugees were really stunned. If you continue to eat like before, the boss is out of his mind. If these people in charge don't remind them, how can Zhuangzi make money? Even if we sell the land, we won’t be able to live like this for a year.
As the refugees learned more, the refugees began to rejoice. It turns out that we are with a good owner. It turns out that these are not good days yet, our good days are yet to come! Soon the refugees felt at ease.
