Although grain was precious in the Ming Dynasty, the problem was that there were three places except for them. The first was Jiangnan, which was limited by the weather in the small glacier, and the population was smaller than that in the north and had sufficient food.

The second is Daning and southern Liaoning. The income from growing grain here is the lowest in southern Liaoning. Due to the large demand for vegetables, the income from growing vegetables is several times that of grain. What's more, there are canned vegetables. The Ming Dynasty was not like later generations. Even the nobles of Beijing, northern Zhili, Shanxi and Shaanxi were not easy to eat vegetables.

However, after you have canned food, these vegetables can be preserved for a long time. Don’t look at cheap vegetables, making them into canned food is no less expensive than canned meat.

Although Huang Fuchun didn't know this, he looked at his wife and said, "When we have land, we will grow vegetables."

For refugees like Huang Fuchun, everything in Liaodong is fresh.

Towns, in southern Liaoning, there are almost no villages, most of which are either factories, towns and forts, or cities.

"What a pity, what a good land, it's actually deserted."

"It's really, it's so spoiled!"

The coachman couldn't help but interrupt and said, "You are so rare and strange. These grasses are all planted."

"I didn't grow food well and actually plant grass?"

Huang Fuchun felt that his head was not enough.

The coachman smiled proudly: "Have you seen it all the way? There are not many things in Liaodong, but there are many big animals and many animals, so they naturally eat more grass. Planting grass is higher than growing grain, which is easier to get."

Only then did Huang Fuchun realize that Liaodong is so rich.

The migrating convoy continued to move forward, and they would see a huge inn every fifty miles of quarantine.

Each inn occupied a different land according to the flow of people. The small ones are ten or eight acres, the medium ones are twenty or thirty acres, and the large ones are hundreds of acres, and there are also thousands of acres of towns and inns formed into five bodies.

After walking on the official road for six days, the road conditions were much worse. Although it was not bumpy, the gap was very obvious compared to southern Liaoning.

Huang Fuchun just started to feel novel, but gradually felt a little boring, because Liaodong was too big, and they still didn't arrive at their destination after ten days of walking in the carriage. However, he was full of expectations for his new life.

In addition to its width, the construction quality of roads in southern Liaoning is not even comparable to that of rural-level roads in later generations, that is, the cement production increased at any time in the eight years of Chongzhen.

However, people do not need cement to build houses. This is mainly because the cost of cement cannot be reduced. The production of cement requires a lot of human resources. In order to develop Liaodong, Liu Mingyu naturally cannot kill chickens and retrieve eggs. All labor costs restrict the cost of cement.

Until this time in Guangning, more than 60,000 prisoners of war were captured. Except for about four or five thousand people who were sent to the capital for investigation, more than 50,000 prisoners of war were left to be killed, and the remaining more than 50,000 prisoners of war became free slaves. In this way, free slaves could be managed by food, and the cost of cement was reduced at once.

The first cement in southern Liaoning is planned to be built at the Port of Lushun. Of course, it also requires spring plowing next year. It is really impossible to construct in winter. However, cement that has exceeded 300 years of more than 300 years will begin to appear in southern Liaoning in the future.

Because the benefits of cement roads are too obvious, the road surface is flat and hard, and because the road surface is hard, the biggest advantage is that it can be overloaded.

Just like a four-wheeled carriage, it can load more than 4,000 kilograms on the hardened road surface of three-combined soil, and six or seven thousand kilograms on this cement road surface. No matter how heavy it rains, it will not be muddy. Not to mention a carriage, even a heavy carriage can run fast on it. The best thing is that the load capacity of the vehicles today is too low, unlike the heavy trucks weighing dozens or hundreds of tons in later generations, it has almost never been broken for decades. Once it is repaired, there is almost no need to worry about road construction.

The most intuitive convenience of cement roads is that the transportation cost is directly reduced. And a convention is directly broken, just like in the "Biography of the Grand Historian's Records and Births" records: "If you don't sell woodcutters for a hundred miles, you don't sell woodcutters for a thousand miles." This sentence means that if you go out for a hundred miles, you don't have to sell wood, and the transportation cost of goods is greater than your actual value.

However, with the emergence of cement roads, the transportation cost was completely overturned. The original quality official road, a large cart required two people, a cow or a horse, to transport ten stones of grain for free. The current situation is that a large cart could transport more than forty stones of grain. It originally required seven or eight people, but now it needed one person.

Although a horse is added, there is no need to add labor, and the speed is increased by 30 or 4 times. Originally, a big car could travel fifty miles a day, but when the road conditions are good, it could barely travel sixty miles. When the road conditions are bad, it is normal to walk thirty or forty miles a day, or twenty or thirty miles a day.

In this way, the current transportation cost has been reduced to almost ten times, which means that the original transportation volume can be completed by using one-third of the original cost.

Under such circumstances, the Liaonan Parliament had a very high voice for increasing road construction. Especially after Liu Mingyu was appointed by the court as the Liaoning Strategic Pacification Envoy, the Liaonan Parliament and the Daning Parliament immediately promoted the rapid passage of the cement road proposal connecting Liaoning.

As for the difficulties in the project, it was also solved very simply. Merchants from other places, factory shareholders, and Liu Ji, who had money and strong efforts.

Therefore, in the Liaoning Development Outline, the plan was clarified and an estimated investment of 3.5 million taels of silver was invested to build the cement road project in Liaodong. The cement roads were divided into three scales: Class A, Class B and Road C, and were constructed in sections, and were prepared to form a highway network covering Liaoning.

In the plan, Class A highways are strategic highways, with a total width of twenty feet, about sixty-three meters. Of course, this is definitely not the overall width of the road surface, including one zhang in the middle green belt, eight feet on the left and right sides, and one zhang and three feet on the grass beds on both sides. In this way, the entire road surface is ten feet, which is equivalent to later generations in both directions, and two zhang and four feet on the sidewalks on both sides.

Class B highways have two-way and four-lane road widths. Of course, in this era, horse-drawn carriages were generally narrower than motor vehicles in later generations, and could basically meet daily traffic.

As for Class C highways, they are two-way and two-lane lanes, and there is no intermediate isolation zone, so such road surfaces are narrower. The main construction is Class A highways.

When the convoy of the immigrant army arrived in the north of Guangning City, the official road of Sanhetu disappeared, and replaced by a huge construction site.

Hundreds of laborers were working on a construction section, holding hoes to level the roadbed and tamping the road surface, and working very hard.

Huang Fuchun looked at the coachman curiously and asked, "Is the corvee service in Liaodong so heavy?"

Huang Fuchun saw that there were not only 16 or 17-year-old boys on this construction site, but also 40 or 50-year-old men. Yes, in this era, 40 or 50 years old were considered an old man.

The coachman was drinking water with the gourd, and laughed, "There is no corvee in Liaodong. Like them working, they all make money!"

"Give money?"

"yes!"

The coachman said seriously: "Who will work if you don't give money? If you have the strength to work, you can earn fifty elders (moneys) in a day. If you don't want money, you can ask for food. You are all late and you have four or five talents to farm. If you come to work, even if you have money, wouldn't you be alone in vain?"

"Give so much money?"

Huang Fuchun was shocked. Although he was a small landlord, he would hire a short-term worker when he was busy farming, if the weather was not good, he would hire a short-term worker. He basically gave three or five copper coins at random. When he encountered a bumper harvest, he would be extremely rewarding for seven or eight yuan. Even so, those who wanted to be short-term worker were still lined up.

Huang Fuchun now has no money. Even if they go to the local area, they can't live by borrowing money.

Finally, Huang Fuchun arrived at the town where they were. He heard from the coachman that this place was called Guo Qiao Town. In fact, the coachman did not know that this place was actually Fuxing Fort in Yizhouwei.

This place was lost in the first year of the Tianqi period and was later abandoned. Guo Qiao was built on the basis of the original Fuxing Fort. Fuxing Fort is actually like a small city, but it is mainly military, with wells, granaries, stables, arsenals, schoolyards, garages, etc. set up in it.

But now, it has basically stopped its original appearance, replaced by two small city gates and a huge beacon tower.

Huang Fuchun and hundreds of people came to Guoqiao Town. Guoqiao Town was actually the first one, that is, the people who arrived here more than ten days ago, mainly Guo and Qiao.

In order to avoid excessive clan power, Liaodong deliberately divided it when resettling immigrants. There will be no more than fifty people in a village and a tribe. Once this number exceeds, it will be divided into other towns.

Huang Fuchun held his identity card with the 53 households in the six guarantees of Guoqiao Town.

Under the leadership of the security chief, Huang Fuchun, his wife and son came to their new home.

The yard is not big, with three main rooms, two matching rooms, two matching rooms, one with a kitchen, and the other with a wood-room. The doors and windows are painted with tung oil, and a new floor of tiles is also added to the roof. However, looking at the color of the walls, it is a renovated in an old house.

The door is made of wooden boards and has the smell of tung oil. The courtyard wall is a fence wall that is as tall as a chest, which is typical for guarding against gentlemen and villains.

Huang Fuchun stretched his head and saw that the next yard was almost exactly the same as here. A woman was holding a dustpan to pick up soybeans. She watched the chief custodian come over and walked to the bamboo fence to say hello to the chief custodian. Two three or four-year-old boys were wearing open-crotch cotton pants, not afraid of the cold, and ran around the yard.

The surveillance chief said with a smile: "Huang Fuchun, Huang Tian, ​​this is your new home. These three rows are all from our surveillance officers. If you have any questions, just say a word!"

Huang Fuchun bowed and said, "Thank you, Mr. Bao!"

"Hey, don't harm me. I am just like you. I am a commoner. I don't have any official position and no one is a master."

The chief security officer waved his hand: "Cleaning the house first, I'm still busy!"

After saying that, the chief security officer handed Huang Fuchun a pair of locks and two keys, and took the others to the other houses.

Huang Fuchun took the weird lock and pushed open his door.

When you enter the door, you will see a thick case, leaning against the north wall, there is a candlestick, a coffee table, and four chairs. There is nothing else.

There is a house on the left side of the main hall. From the west end of the wall to the east end of the wall, several large boxes are all in the color of wood, with rough workmanship, and burrs and flying thorns. There are not many other houses, including basin racks, buckets, basins, and two large solid wood cabinets, which are also solid wood, but a layer of tung oil is painted, and the tung water tastes very strong.

Because of the bedding, they had already been distributed on the way they came. The bedding was based on human hair, and a couple had a quilt and a mattress. If they had children, they would give one more quilt and a sheet.

Huang Fuchun hugged Tian’s shoulder excitedly: “We have a home!”

"I'm home!"

For ordinary people, home is a very special place, and only with a house is considered a home.

Huang Hongyuan walked to other rooms with tactful tactility. He came to the kitchen immediately. The stove in the kitchen was different from what he was commonly known. When cooking here, you can use fire to directly lead to the fire pit, and it is not firewood, but coal.

Of course, in summer, the chimney connecting the fire pit will be blocked, and smoking from another chimney will not affect cooking and boiling water.
Chapter completed!