Chapter 903 Immigrants Settle
Down Qiongzhou Island has just been taken over by the Han tribe, and there are still many things that are not well prepared. Now the local governments are mainly focusing on the transportation of strategic materials. Other things that are not very important have to wait for the time being.
For example, paper, calcium carbide lamps, or cloth, there are not many now, and they mainly rely on the local people to produce them themselves. Fortunately, during the period of the beast tooth mission, some basic textile industries were established on Qiongzhou Island. Although the looms are not the best and most advanced, they can also be used to weave cloth, but they are not as good as those in the Han tribe.
After Lu Jianan finished asking, Ren Zong also asked, "Brother Tian, is there any salt and iron for sale here?"
"Of course there is. Salt and iron are sold by the government. Xianfeng County, not far from you, is a place where salt is produced. Naturally, there will be no shortage of salt. As for iron, it is mainly transported from our side for the time being, so there will not be much, but if you use it daily, you can still buy it from the county." Tian Qiao explained immediately after hearing it.
They also asked some trivial questions about daily life, such as whether there was a place to sell wood, if not, could they cut it down privately, whether there were any restrictions on cutting down trees, whether they could build kilns to make pottery and porcelain, whether they could make charcoal themselves, etc.
After all, there was no coal for sale here for the time being, so if Ren Zong wanted to make some ironware, he could only make some charcoal himself.
Tian Qiao also gave unified answers to these questions.
"I might as well talk about all your questions at once. As for felling trees, there is no problem with your daily firewood cutting, which is of course just some branches. If you want to cut whole logs, that's fine, but there are certain areas. You can't cut down some trees privately.
I can't tell you the specific area right now. I need to go back and ask the county governor, and then I'll give you a reply. If you insist on making some wooden products yourself, you can send someone to the county to buy wood. After all
, even if you cut the wood yourself, you have to dry it in the shade for two or three years before you can use it. But our county has a special wood processing plant, which not only has sawmills, but also drying rooms. You can buy wood there directly and dry it and process it. Good wood.
For example, if you want to make a table or a bed, you don't have to saw the boards yourself. You can buy sawn boards directly.
In addition, as for building kilns, small ceramic kilns are no problem. You can burn some ceramics for your own use, or sell them in the village, or sell them outside, but it is absolutely not allowed to build brick kilns in the village.
Because brick kilns require a lot of clay, you can't dig them randomly from rice fields. If you get the crime of destroying farmland, you will be punished.
Another issue is charcoal burning. At present, we don't have coal to sell to you. If you want to use charcoal yourself, it is of course no problem to burn some, as long as the wood used is cut in the specified area, there will be no problem. "Tian Qiao explained to them one by one.
"Okay, then we have no other questions." Several household owners who got the answer said they understood.
This conversation about future life and tasks was officially over.
After everyone finished their meal, they rested early.
At the Yashan County dock in the evening, many small boats were already carrying the immigrants to their respective resettlement sites, while the dozens of people in Shanghe Village waited until the next morning after breakfast before they hurriedly set off.
The single-masted boats formed a fleet and headed for their destination, Shanghe Village.
The scenery along the way was completely different from the one and a half month voyage and the one-week voyage by sea. The previous journey from Liuyang County to Takuhai County was basically uninhabited forests on both sides of the river. Later, when they saw the sea, they were surprised at its vastness, but it was also bare and nothing.
Now they finally arrived at a place where people live. On the boat, they have seen large tracts of farmland on both sides of the river, and even some villages scattered between the fields. Signs of human activities and more fireworks are getting heavier.
This is what it feels like to live!
The crowd has been going upstream along the river. At noon, they simply dealt with a mouthful of dry food on the boat, and finally arrived next to Shanghe Village in the middle of the afternoon.
Tian Qiao went out first to look for familiar figures, and then he saw Guan Tao and Jing Chun in front of the crowd. The two were waiting here with a group of villagers. He immediately jumped ashore to greet the two.
"Brother Guan, Brother Jing, I'm sorry to have kept you two brothers waiting for a long time. There are a lot of people and things to transport today, and they have only been transported now." Tian Qiao said to the two immediately after landing.
"Not long, not long, we know that it will take until the afternoon to get from Yashan County, so we came in the afternoon. Don't forget that our brother Jing also came from there, and he knows how long it will take." Guan Tao immediately greeted them warmly, and his eyes were still watching the Han tribe immigrants from the north who were getting off the boat one by one.
"Brother Tian, how many people did our village get?" Guan Tao saw that several boats in front and behind were getting off passengers at the same time, and he couldn't help but ask curiously.
"There are ten families in total, with more than thirty people in total. I know what you want to ask. Don't worry, these people really know everything. You can organize the villagers to help them move things. Then we have some livestock, which will be distributed to everyone later, so that everyone can collect them according to their household registration and ID cards.
Let's settle these ten families first. Later, I will tell you about the situation. And you, Jingchun, you have to participate too."
Tianqiao knew what Guan Tao meant. Their Shanghe Village had seen the benefits from Jingchun. The cornfield on the shore was the evidence. If nothing unexpected happened, this season's corn would definitely have a bumper harvest, so they were looking forward to more immigrants and wanted to learn more skills from them.
Jingchun pretended to complain with a smile, "Oh, you won't let me go. I thought they could go back immediately after they arrived. It's been two months. I'm afraid even my children don't recognize me as their father." "
Don't worry, at most two days. The main thing is to let you take these ten immigrants to get familiar with the situation in the village. When they are fine, we will send you home.
And listening to what you just said, it seems that the government office has not provided you with any benefits." Tian Qiao directly and ruthlessly exposed Jing Chun's complaints.
"Hehe, I was joking, please don't take it seriously, senior officials." Jing Chun said that he was the first to admit his mistake.
While the three of them were talking, they came to the immigration office that had just gathered on the shore.
Tian Qiao introduced everyone first, "This is the head of Shanghe Village, Guan Tao. If you have any problems in the future, you can ask him to solve them. And our brother Jing Chun who came from Takumi County, but he can't stay for long, he will go back in two days. "
"You all came from afar and took the trouble. In the future, you will be fellow villagers from the same village. Don't worry, as long as I, Guan Tao, am still alive, I will never let you down. I also hope that in the days to come, you great men in the north can take care of the people in our village. "
After listening to Tianqiao's introduction, Guan Tao immediately expressed his welcome in Chinese, and then bowed solemnly to everyone.
The immigrants also hurriedly returned the greetings, saying some friendly greetings.
Then it was time to resettle the immigrants. Tianqiao was responsible for directing the boatmen to unload the goods, and Guan Tao and Jing Chun led the villagers to help transport things to the immigrants' homes.
They carried a lot of luggage on their shoulders and in their hands to the immigrants' bungalow area, and then distributed them according to the different functions of each courtyard.
For example, the two courtyards built next to the school were for Yuanhua and his wife, and there were single friends. The young couple left it. They were mainly responsible for teaching, so it would be more convenient to be closer to the school.
The house with a small stone mill in the side room was reserved for the tofu-grinding family. The others were close to the mill and were directly distributed to the carpenters. Ren Zong's family was more powerful and was placed in the house closest to the local villagers.
Ren Zong had a sword on his waist and was a blacksmith. He had a tough wife who was a shepherd and two half-grown sons. No matter how you looked at it, they were a family with explosive strength. Putting them in this position to protect everyone's safety, Ren Zong himself had nothing to do. Everyone else was very happy.
Everyone chose their own house according to the convenience. In fact, they just chose a location that would be convenient for their future life. There was really nothing else to choose because they were all built according to the same specifications. It didn't matter how they chose.
After moving all the things they brought from the eight counties of Hanyang into the house, and then moving the livestock allocated to them to the pig pens and barns of each family, the settlement of the immigrants came to an end.
Of course, now it was just a place to stay. For example, their new house still had a kang according to the custom of the Han tribe in the north, and on it was laid a bamboo mat made by the local people. Apart from that, there was basically no other furniture in the house. All the tables and chairs needed to be rebuilt, but there were still windows and doors, and they were all covered with brand new window paper. As for how to buy the indoor furniture, it depended on their own ideas.
After initially arranging these things, the Hu Shan family immediately found Guan Tao and Jing Chun, asking them where the alfalfa in the village was. There was green grass and the like over there, which could be used to feed the livestock temporarily, and there were also bamboo mats that could be used. We can’t buy some straw, corn, beans and other things from them to feed pigs, sheep and donkeys. It’s easy to feed people, but we can’t let so many livestock get sick from starvation. We still hope that they can give birth to piglets in the future and promote them in the village.
Guan Tao and Jing Chun immediately arranged this matter and mobilized the villagers to help. In fact, they had already received the notice that the immigrants would come today, and a large number of distributed livestock would come with the immigrants, so Jing Chun had already discussed this matter with Guan Tao and made preparations.
After all, the villagers of their own village also need to be allocated livestock, not If we prepare the feed, will the livestock starve to death when they arrive?
The livestock of the immigrants has been solved, and the livestock of other people in the village have also been distributed. A large number of livestock have been driven directly to the threshing ground in the center of the village, and then Tianqiao and Guan Tao are responsible for the distribution to each family.
There are mostly cages piled up like a hill, most of which are rabbits. Rabbits are ruthless breeding machines. If they are not controlled and consumed, they will be allowed to breed and even become a disaster. Therefore, there are a lot of them. Even if each family is given a large pile, the Han tribe can still take it out.
And this one In addition to the pigs distributed to the immigrants, the pigs distributed to the villagers were only more than 20 two-month-old piglets. These pigs were all black and white spotted pigs introduced from the Lu tribe. They are native pigs with high heads and high buttocks, upturned ends, low backs, and drooping bellies.
The faces of these pigs are relatively short, not as long as the faces of modern improved large white pigs. Regardless of their size, docility, or meat yield, they are the most suitable domestic pigs for promotion in the Han tribe.
In the early years, the Han tribe did not get many of these pigs from the Lu tribe, less than a thousand in total. Later, when the Han tribe came to the Lu tribe, the Han tribe After the tribe started raising pigs, the Han tribe didn't eat them for several years, and only focused on expanding the population. A sow can give birth to at least one litter every year, and one litter can produce about ten piglets, so the number of pigs is relatively fast.
However, the Han tribe is also expanding very fast, so even if the Han tribe tries to promote it everywhere, the number of domestic pigs per capita in the Han tribe is still pitifully low, not even one-fifth of a pig per person, so when promoting domestic pigs in Qiongzhou this time, naturally it is impossible to give out many.
Tian Qiao pointed to the more than 20 piglets in front of him and said.
"Brother Guan, this kind of livestock is called pigs. There is no special use. It is just raised to eat meat. It is the main meat livestock promoted by our Han tribe. However, the number of domestic pigs in the tribe is also limited. For the time being, we can only give you so many. Ask the villagers who is willing to raise this thing, and let them take one home to raise.
Let me make it clear first. This thing eats vines, grains and vegetables. It is very precious. If you are not willing to invest, just don't raise it. You explain it to everyone and determine the adoptive family. Then I will ask the immigrants to teach you how to raise this thing. In addition, I would like to trouble you to translate for them. None of the ten immigrants can speak your dialect. "
"Okay, that's no problem. It's just more than 20 pigs. This is easy to arrange. But I see that there are a lot of white rabbits. Could it be that every household in the village has one?
We actually have rabbits in our area, but they are all smaller gray rabbits. Hunters occasionally catch some, but I have never heard of anyone raising this thing, let alone a rabbit that is so big, cloud-white, and has red eyes. " Guan Tao first agreed to distribute the piglets, and then looked at the huge white rabbits in front of him and sighed.
"Yes, every family has this snow rabbit. With this thing, you can live a life with meat every day. "Tanahashi nodded and said with certainty.
(End of this chapter)
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