Chapter 865 Visiting Shanghe Village

The high definition of paper-based photos, coupled with the appropriate price and the various photo-shooting plans offered by the photo studio, immediately aroused the enthusiasm of the masses, and many people placed orders on the spot.

The most popular one was naturally the family portrait that the shopkeeper strongly recommended. It happened to be the New Year's Day, so many people ordered family portraits, followed by couples' photos.

The Han tribe has a strict hierarchical system of titles. Ordinary people without titles are not allowed to wear silk, but the only exception is weddings and funerals. In other words, women from ordinary families can also wear phoenix crowns and bridal robes that only the royal family can wear when they get married.

In the past, this matter was only worn for one day, but now, not only can they wear it, but they can also take pictures of themselves when they look their best in their lives! You can imagine how attractive couples' photos are.

The proportion of taking single photos is the smallest, because the cost-effectiveness is low, and you can only take pictures of one person for the same money, but there are still many young people who choose to take single photos.

The customer group of single-person photos is mainly concentrated in the age group of 13 or 14 years old. If adulthood is a standard, then they are very willing to take a photo when they are adults and imprint their youth on the photo paper.

Moreover, this matter has been supported by most parents. Why?

Because they can take the photo to propose marriage to their sons and daughters! What an important function!

In the past, when they proposed marriage to each other, they didn’t know what the other party’s children looked like.

The girl didn’t know whether the boy was energetic, and the boy didn’t know whether the girl was beautiful. This time, they exchanged photos before meeting, and they met formally after seeing each other, eliminating unnecessary trouble. More importantly, the photos of this era are real photos, not modern photo scams.

The same scene as Hanyang City also appeared in Ruyang, Liuyang, and Weishan counties at the same time. Once photography came out, it quickly spread among the people. A large number of shooting orders flew into the photo studio like snowflakes, and then turned into cash flowing into the pockets of the government and the families of the patients.

This thing is too profitable!

However, it is foreseeable that this enthusiasm will gradually fade away. Now the market is in an absolute vacuum, and it just happened to be the New Year's Day, so there will be such a situation that every family comes to take photos. After the New Year's Day, it will be a problem whether there will be people who continue to take photos.

So there is no need to be happy too early.

The next day, the ID card shooting work progressed very slowly, mainly because the notice said that it can be processed before the New Year's Day at the latest, so some people are still busy with their own affairs and keep putting off the ID card.

Officials from all over the country saw that they expected the people to go to the government office to handle it themselves, but they were not very enthusiastic, so they simply sent people from the government to handle it directly in the streets.

In the days following the New Year, local government offices brought the organization of the Han tribe to its fullest. From the smallest Wuchang and Shichang to the Lizheng of each village, they lined up door to door according to the household registration. After the team was organized, they applied for ID cards in batches. According to this method, and the density of a camera group in each county town in the eight counties of Hanyang, it took less than four days for the eight counties to get all the ID cards. The speed was not slow.

The value of registering all the people was once again reflected. Although such a system made the people lose a certain degree of freedom, it was a qualitative improvement in the control and organization of the tribe.

Originally, the six counties of Qiongzhou should also register their households in this way, but Xue Qingyao did not copy it directly considering the actual situation in the local area.

He ordered the local government officials that all the people in the six counties of Qiongzhou who were not in their hometowns should move back to their hometowns according to their own wishes. If they wanted to go elsewhere, they should not be stopped, and they should also arrange housing and land.

Later, when taking the population census, as well as the house and land census, administrative units were set up directly according to the local people's settlements. One hundred households formed a village, and local elders were selected to serve as the head of the village. Five villages were set up in a township, and counties were set up above the townships, and finally they were uniformly managed by the county.

As for how many counties and towns this county should be divided into, it depends on the local population.

After the initial relocation of the people back to their hometown, the census of the Han tribe began. It was not until this time that the local people in Qiongzhou discovered that the ruling power of the Han tribe was completely different from that of the Xin tribe. If the Xin tribe was completely free-range, then the Han tribe was in charge of everything.

The government has arranged everything you can think of, and the government has also arranged everything you can't think of, which makes them very uncomfortable. But even this level of control is actually much more relaxed than the eight counties of Hanyang.

On this day, Tiezhen, who had served as the governor of Xinhua County, was visiting a large village, accompanied by a clerk who handled household registration information.

A group of people rode on horses, and on the way to the village, the clerk introduced the situation here to Tiezhen.

"Mr. County Magistrate, this village is called Shanghe Village, named after a tributary of the Qingshui River next to the village. There are about 110 households in the village, with a total population of nearly 1,000 people, who have been farming for generations. I heard from Elder Mi that the village may have been built four or five generations ago."

"Four or five generations? That means hundreds of years?!" Tiezhen raised his eyebrows. Sure enough, in terms of heritage, Takeshima has a longer heritage. Although the Han tribe is strong and has its own unique culture, it does not have as long a heritage as Takeshima.

But it doesn't matter, because Luo Chong brought not only technology, but also civilization. Not to mention anything else, a complete, self-contained language and writing system, even if Takeshima is given another two hundred years, they can't come up with it themselves, and the Han tribe has a mature and powerful civilization heritage since its establishment, but it has not yet fully demonstrated it.

Not long after, the group arrived at the entrance of the village. Tiezhen rode his horse in front and took a look, then said to the people around him, "Let's go, let's go see this village that has been around for more than a hundred years."

The group dismounted and walked into the village with their horses. They did not ride horses directly into the village in order to leave a good impression on the locals, rather than a negative image of being arrogant and riding horses at will in the village.

Tiezhen led a few petty officials and walked towards the village, looking at the traces left by the long years in this village.

Shanghe Village is not far from the river, so there is no well here. The way people use water in their daily lives is to carry water from the river. The tools used to carry water are bamboo poles, bamboo tubes or pottery jars. They don't even have a wooden barrel here.

Most of the houses in the village are bamboo-style buildings, with two floors, people living on the upper floors and cattle and sheep on the lower floors. However, what surprised Tiezhen was that there were people in this village who raised ducks. They were gray-feathered ducks that were very large and looked a bit like wild geese. Tiezhen couldn't tell what kind of bird they were.

The houses in the village were not built in rows, but rather in a circular layout, surrounding a large open space in the center of the village. However, Tiezhen saw something new here.

The open space was very flat. Although it was a mud floor, it had obviously been compacted by humans. Tiezhen guessed that this was probably where they dried their grain.

Although there was no stone mill in the center of the open space, there was a stone mill that looked relatively old. It should have been something they made themselves, which meant that they already had this kind of stone mill before the Han tribe came into contact with Zhudao.

In addition, there are some bamboo and wood houses built on the ground around the open space. Judging from the color of the bamboo, they should have been built within the past six months. If you listen carefully, you can hear the sound of looms from the bungalows.

I think the people here bought looms from the Han tribe delegation, but after buying them, they found that the looms could not be moved to the bamboo buildings, so they built a few new bungalows.

(End of this chapter)