.After the arrival of the Shi family, several wealthy families in Chenyang moved there one after another. The wealthy families were not inferior to the Shi family. Each family had less than 200 people, and the Wang family had more than 500 people. The arrival of these people undoubtedly had a lot of benefits, got the best houses and fertile fields, and bought a large amount of easy-to-reclaim wasteland at extremely favorable prices. If the court had not temporarily banned the sale of mature land, these wealthy families alone would have bought all the fertile land around Chenyang.

In early April, the first batch of immigrants organized by the government arrived in Liaodong, and the first batch of immigrants reached 12,000. With the arrival of the first batch of immigrants, the familiar land in the suburbs of Chenyang was basically divided, which made the wealthy families who came first secretly rejoice, and the original dissatisfaction with the head of the Shi family gradually dissipated.

Before the rise of the Qing Dynasty, Liaodong lived in millions of Han people. They had reclaimed nearly 10 million acres of arable land. However, due to the several massacres of Nurhaci, there were no ten Han people in Liaodong. Most of the arable land was deserted. Now the population of Liaodong is less than one million. New immigrants can be said to have no worries about resettlement. However, Chenyang is the center of Liaodong after all, and it is of course better to be resettled in Shenyang than other places.

On July 12, 2018, the seventh year of Hongguang, it was three months since Kang Laonong's family came to Liaodong. At this time, Kang Laonong was standing in his own field. He was only wearing his lower skirt, and his upper body was covered with black skin, allowing the sun to shine directly on his skin. For Kang Laonong, the current sun was incomparable to the scorching sunlight when the rice harvest in Jiangnan was harvested. Even in the hottest June, Kang Laonong still walked in the fields with his skin exposed.

Old Gang Kang was the first batch of immigrants from Jiangnan. Since Sun Heizi, the former boss who had been bullied, was suddenly imprisoned by the government, the Kang family's originally poor days suddenly became better. He divided the ten acres of paddy fields he had originally rented, which could produce more than 70 stones of rice in two seasons. In addition to the taxes of the court, the Kang family retained nearly 60 stones of grain last year. After the autumn grain was harvested, they looked at the first full of grain in the warehouse. The Kang family cried with joy. The whole family celebrated for more than ten days, and had enough rice every meal.

In addition to Kang Daniu and Kang Erniu, Kang Laomeng also had an eleven-year-old daughter. With his wife, Kang's family has a total of five people. Even if they eat rice every meal, it would be enough to leave thirty stones a year. Besides, how could the farmer's family have a meal of white rice? It would be enough to have two-thirds of the time to eat white rice. The Kang family could buy at least forty stones of grain. However, because they were afraid of being poor before, Kang Laomeng did not dare to sell all the extra grain. In the early stage, he only sold twenty stones and used the money to sell grain to tell his eldest son that the next wife was married. The Kang family also had five people who became six people. For another year, Kang Laomeng believed that Erniu's wife would definitely not have to worry. If the eldest daughter-in-law could give birth to one boy and half a girl, the Kang family would become eight people.

Seeing that the days were getting better and better, the idea of ​​Kang Laomeng and his wife would never leave the fields in the south and run to the north. However, since the scholar in the village took the mansion newspaper and read it several times in front of everyone, his two boys seemed to be possessed and repeatedly said, "One person has 15 acres, and one person has 15 acres."

Good, one person can be divided into fifteen acres of land. His family now has six people, and as long as they go to Liaodong, they can be divided into ninety acres. (The old farmer Kang ignored the fact that the woman had only seven acres) What a big land it was. Not to mention two boys, even the old farmer Kang was also moved by himself. He just had to leave ten acres of paddy fields that had only been one year in his hands. The old farmer Kang was extremely reluctant to give up.

Compared to him, his wife was even more unhappy and muttered: "I don't know if what the government said is true or false?"

This sentence was immediately refuted by three men in the family: "The announcement issued by the government is false, but if it were not for the government, how could his family get ten acres of paddy fields?"

The three of them made the woman speechless, but another notice from the government was really making Lao Gang decide to immigrate. In addition to the land distributed by the government for free, each person can apply to the government for a low price to purchase up to fifteen acres of wasteland. The purchase and sale of wasteland will be exempted for five years and tax for ten and a half years. If the funds are insufficient, they can borrow from the Ministry of Revenue Bank and return it in installments within ten years.

Old Farm Kang carefully inquired about the price of the wasteland. It was so cheap that he could not imagine. He only needed to sell one acre of paddy fields, which was enough to buy a hundred acres of wasteland in Liaodong. Old Farm Kang, who decided to settle down, did not hesitate anymore. He quickly bought all the paddy fields and the extra grain at home, and brought the first batch of huge property of a family of six and more than 200 silver dollars to Liaodong.

After arriving in Liaodong, what disappointed Lao Gang Kang was that the government gave him the 90 acres that he thought was not the ninety acres, because his family had three men and three women, and only 66 acres of mature land were distributed. Lao Gang Kang took out twenty-one silver dollars without hesitation and bought the adjacent ninety acres of wasteland. In this way, the Kang family's land was expanded to more than one hundred and fifty acres.

In addition to the land purchase expenses, Kang Laofeng also bought four farm horses, a batch of farm tools, seeds, livestock, etc. He also gritted his teeth and bought a house in the city. Three coated slaves spent a total of nearly 100 silver dollars, which made him feel very distressed.

After more than a month of hard work, Lao Bong Kang led his two sons and three coated slaves to cultivate more than 100 acres of land. Except for a small part of them who kept planting vegetables, they planted all wheat. Now the wheat has been eared. Looking at the wind blowing through the rolling wheat waves, Lao Bong Kang couldn't stop smiling. After harvesting this crop of wheat, it could be at least five or six hundred stones, leaving 100 stones for their own use. The rest of the grain can be sold to the government. Even if it is cheaper than the grain price in Jiangnan, it can be sold for more than 300 silver dollars.

Now the Kang family has houses and fields, there are a lot of farm horses and livestock, and there is also a fortune of more than 100 silver dollars. In more than a month, a larger amount of money will flow in. If it weren't for this immigration, he would have relied on the ten acres of paddy fields in his hometown. He believed that he would not be able to live his life in his life. Thinking of those neighbors who had not immigrated, Kang Laofeng couldn't help but secretly rejoice.

Well, after August, after selling the food, Lao 2's wife should be settled. Lao 2 and the four girls from the Shi family next door seemed to meet each other. Should we propose marriage to the Shi family according to Lao 2's wishes, or find another daughter-in-law for Lao 2? This has to be carefully considered.

The old farmer Kang looked down on the Shi family. The Shi family is also a tenant from Jiangnan. The two families are only separated by a village. Although they are both tenants, just a year ago, the Shi family's family's background was far better than the Kang family. After all, not all the owners are as harsh as Sun Heizi. The Shi family only needs to pay 60% of the rent instead of 80%. Although the gap is only 20%, it just means that if the same grain is obtained, the Shi family can get twice the grain from the Kang family. In addition, the Shi family itself also has one acre of irrigated land and two acres of dry land. Although the Shi family is in trouble, it is much better than the Kang family.

If it were in the past, only the Shi family looked down on the Kang family, and there was no reason why the Kang family looked down on the Shi family. However, last year, the Kang family suddenly turned over and got ten acres of good paddy fields. The Kang family's family's family's background suddenly surpassed the Shi family. However, this is not the main reason why the old farmer Kang looked down on the Shi family. After all, from a thousand miles south of the Yangtze River to Liaodong, everyone is a fellow villager and should take care of each other.

The real reason why the old farmer Kang looked down on the Shi family was that the Shi family was too stingy and had no courage. The Shi family had eight people, five men and three women. According to the government regulations, they could be divided into 96 acres of mature land. In addition, they could buy another 120 acres of wasteland for less than 30 silver dollars. However, the Shi family only satisfies the government's distribution of land. Not only were they unwilling to spend money to buy land, but they were even reluctant to buy horses. Apart from some necessary farm tools, the Shi family bought nothing. The family of eight only lived in a short nest built by themselves, and lived a harder life than before.

Five strong laborers, without ploughing horses, could not finish more than 90 acres of land. Seeing that the farming time was about to pass, the Shi family was so anxious that they could only come to beg. Old farmer Kang was soft-hearted and lent two ploughed horses to the Shi family and sent two coats to the Shi family. After nearly two months of busy work, the Shi family planted all the land. Now, looking at the wheat, their fields were neatly grown, but the Shi family was of different heights. Some wheat had just been planted less than a month, and they didn't know what the harvest would be like in the future. Looking at his own wheat field and looking at the Shi family's wheat field, Old farmer Kang was proud and couldn't help but sigh: "People mislead the land for a while, and the land for a year is really a sin."

If the Shi family's qualification for buying and selling wasteland could be transferred, they would have to pay for it. One hundred and twenty acres were only twenty-seven silver dollars. Even if one acre of land only collected two stones of wheat, it would be 240 stones a year. If all costs were removed, you could earn more than one hundred silver dollars. Unfortunately, the old farmer Kang could only think about it. The government strictly prohibited the land obtained by immigrants, whether it was cooked land or wasteland. Once discovered, both the buyer and the seller would be severely punished. Because of this, the old farmer Kang would strongly look down on the Shi family's behavior of not buying land.

In fact, apart from the big outdoors in front, there are not many new immigrants who can sell ten acres of paddy fields like Kang's old farmers. Most of them are poor people like the Shi family. It is good to have more than ten silver dollars on hand after selling their property, and some people can't even get a silver dollar.
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