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Chapter 134 [Everything is difficult at the beginning, let's grab it tonight](1/2)

People with a personality like Guo Ziyi may be the most suitable person to be a hand-off manager.

For the next period of time, it seemed that the entire Langya County was very busy, and Guo Ziyi's base camp Lanling County seemed particularly busy this time.

The first thing that makes people worried is that the entire Lanling suddenly has more household registrations. Once the population is too high, eating is a big problem.

Especially those refugees, all their belongings are left with one mouth. If they don’t give them food for three days, the ending will inevitably be full of hunger.

But this is very knowledgeable about giving food.

Disaster relief is always the last step to be available.

Before the last resort, no one is willing to provide disaster relief, because this opening will not be known when it will be closed. If the disaster relief is not well grasped, it is easy to eat up the property.

Guo Ziyi’s current family property is not very generous.

...

The so-called spring March in ancient times was a beautiful appreciation for scholars, but in the eyes of ordinary people, spring March was called "The Yellow Emperor's Day".

What is the connection between the green and yellow?

The seedlings in the field have not yet been eared, and the harvest last fall has been eaten. However, as long as people are alive, they have to eat every day. Those who can survive without eating are called gods.

Therefore, the most common situation at this time is that every family has a hungry mouth and a hungry belly.

If it was a little better in previous years, the Chinese people had been suffering for a long time and had a good experience in dealing with famine, such as digging wild vegetables, gnawing on tree bark, catching birds up the mountain, and fishing down the river...

Everything you can eat is taken home and made into food. You must not care about nutrition or other things. Filling your stomach is God’s greatest kindness.

However, this year it is not possible, and the population suddenly flooded Lanling County.

The wild vegetables and bark on this land could barely support the famine of tens of thousands of people. Whenever the green and yellow are gone, God will try his best not to let the people starve to death. But this is a fragile ecological balance, a balance obtained by countless starving people with their lives.

Once this balance is broken, all the seekers will starve to death.

Everyone wants to find something to eat, but everyone doesn’t want to starve to death. The wild vegetables and tree bark that could support 50,000 people have now become 70,000 or 80,000 people.

In the past, I was not full and I could only barely survive the famine. Now I suddenly had more people who shared food, and the result was not to mention.

Such a result must be that everyone will die together.

The only thing that can make the hungry people happy is that their county magistrate did not give up on them. It is said that officials in the world are very tough, and even if the people starve to death, they will ignore it. Fortunately, their county magistrate is not like this, and fortunately, the officials under the county magistrate are not like this.

So, Lanling County is the right place.

As long as we survive this time, all hungry people will feel that there is a future for them.

...

Niu Laoqi was very hungry and moved forward with difficulty with his legs.

He is not a refugee, but from Niujia Village, Anyang County, Henan Province. Since the attack by bandits, the whole village has been migrating with the general and arrived in Lanling County for half a month.

The old saying goes well, goods are expensive, people are cheap, and people are cheap, and settle from one place to another. The so-called migration is actually no different from refugees.

There were more than 300 young and old people in the village, and 120 adults and strong men. Because they practice martial arts all year round, they have a larger appetite than ordinary people, so the little food they brought at the beginning of the migration had been completely eaten up on the road.

And because the whole village migrates together, it is more difficult to settle down than to refugees. If people want to live a better life in this world, they must first have a piece of land to plant. Only with land can they have food, and only with food can they fill their hungry mouths.

But in this world, the fields in the world are already mastered, and it is almost the most difficult thing for ordinary people to own a piece of land.

Niujia Village had no land before its migration. The whole village was a employed farmer of a wealthy family. Now, after coming to Lanling County, they also had no land for a short period of time.

Originally, when he was on the road, the general once gave a guarantee that the general said that he had 5,000 acres of land in Lanling County, and that his brothers also had private property, and each person had 5,000 acres of land.

Even the county government has a shared land, with a total of 40,000 mu. A little part of this land is enough for everyone in Niujia Village to cultivate.

The most surprising thing is that the land contract responsibility system mentioned by the general, and everyone doesn’t understand what land contract is, but the old mansion soldier said that this is the equal-land system at the beginning of the founding of the country.

Equal land system?

Isn’t that similar to private land?

As long as the family keeps incense, the land will be cultivated for you. Unless there is no one in your family, the land that is distributed to you will be taken back.

Whether it is equal land system or land contracting, the principle is the same, that is, part of the land cultivated belongs to one's own output.

Unlike before, the whole village is employed by farmers. Even if the work is exhausted, the land output has nothing to do with me.

"After you arrive in Lanling, you will have your own land!"

When the general gave this guarantee, the whole village, young and old, could wake up laughing in their dreams. Land, land that has been longing for for half of their lives.

However, after actually reaching Lanling, a basin of cold water poured directly on his head.

The general did not lie. He did have 5,000 acres of land under his name. Not only did he have land under his name, but his fifteen subordinates also had land. Even the 40,000 acres of shared land in the county government office were personally verified by the people of the whole village.

Yes, there is indeed a field.

However, it's not their turn to plant it.

The reason is that the county magistrate of Lanling County, the weak scholar who chats with the people all day long, was too desperate to deal with government pragmatism, and he had already completed the task assigned to him by the general.

It is a full 120,000 acres of land, and land contracting to every household. What a arduous task. Who would have thought that the weak scholar would complete it in two months?

"Why don't you feel tired of him!"

This is the anger among the people of Niujia Village.

But no one really scolded this sentence.

Because everyone knows that this Confucian scholar is a good official and a person who can work hard to do politics for the sake of the people is not a good official?

If the general at that time had not received the imperial edict, he would have to go to Chang'an to participate in the Tang Dynasty Wuke, and the county magistrate quarreled and went with him, forgot to report the end of the land contract...

Then the general would definitely not agree randomly and promised to plant land for them in Niujia Village.

Unfortunately, things have come to this point, and the general has not made any trouble.

The land has been distributed to the people of Lanling, and the crops have been cultivated in the beginning of spring. We can't ask the general to divide it again and take back the land of other people and share it with Niujia Village, right?

The people of Niujia Village are arrogant and cannot open their mouths.

For the general, all the people are his people, and the palms and backs of hands are flesh, so he is even more unlikely to do such a thing.

...

"well!"

Niu Laoqi sighed and shook his head to suppress these memories.

It was evening, and the spring mist was a bit mist. He dragged his heavy legs and felt even hungry.

The broken sack in his hand was so soft that it was annoying. Such a big sack only contained half a pound of wild vegetables. Can he not upset him? Even if it was filled with tree bark, it would be fine.

The houses in front of them have already appeared in the temporary settlement of their village. It was a house built on the river. It is said to be a workshop where the winery industry is about to be expanded. However, because their village moved and there was no place to settle for a while, the general temporarily decided to expand the winery and let them live here first.

There are more than 2,000 refugees living here at the same time. No matter how many of them are, they really can't live there, because now they are crowded when they sleep.

It is said that two or three thousand refugees were also stuffed in the houses on the county government, and more than two thousand refugees were also stuffed in the inspection center established by the general.

However, this is not enough. There are still many refugees who cannot be resettled, so they can only build many sheds temporarily and barely use them as places to live temporarily.

Compared with those refugees who live in the shed, Niujia Village is treated very well.

But it’s just that you live well, but you’re not as good as the refugees…

...

The closer he got to the residence site, the worse Niu Laoqi was. When he walked to the door of the residence site, he finally felt extremely depressed.

But his little hairy head came up happily, holding his thighs, looking at the sack with his eyes swallowed, and asked, "Dad, have you dug a lot of wild vegetables? I'm hungry, I'm very hungry all day."

"Your mother is hungry B..." Niu Laoqi couldn't hold back his emotions and scolded him as if he was roaring.

Xiao Maotou was so scared that he shivered, but he didn't dare to cry out loud.

The children of poor families are sensible and know that their father must not find food. So even though the little guy was very wronged, he still held his father's thighs and changed his words and lied: "Dad, I lied to you. I'm not hungry, I'm not hungry all day."

Niu Laoqi felt his eyes sore, and quickly turned his head to look elsewhere. He was afraid that tears would fall and his son would see his weakness.

At this time, when he heard the sound of footsteps, his wife hurriedly came up with a sallow complexion and said weakly: "He is the head of the family, I'm back."

He went to pick up the shrunken sack. He was disappointed but smiled gently, and said happily: "I dug so many wild vegetables today. I can have a big meal with Maotou and Niu Niu at night. I am a father, and I will never be hungry for the children."

My wife said this to comfort him, but Niu Laoqi felt heartbroken.

His eyes could no longer hold back the soreness, and big tears finally fell down. Almost subconsciously, he blurted out: "If you didn't follow the general, you might have a little better life. Although there is no land in your hometown, we can at least be hired farmers. We can help the rich families plow the fields every day and earn some food for you to eat..."

This is the regret that comes from the bottom of my heart by being oppressed by life to the extreme.

However, just after he said this, he suddenly heard a loud shout from the settlement. The old man soldier's face turned pale and walked over angrily. Without saying a word, he raised his hand and slapped him.

A snap!

The sound is very loud!

The slap was very strong and left five finger marks on the face. However, Niu Laoqi did not dare to be angry. Instead, he lowered his head in a regular manner and said, "The Fourth Grandpa is good at slapping, I said the wrong thing just now."

"You know you said the wrong thing too!"

The old soldier looked furious, as if he wanted to slap him again, but after lifting the slap for a long time, he finally chose to give up.

The old soldier just sighed and said earnestly: "Qiwa, you have to be conscientious in life. If it weren't for the general's rescue, the whole village of young and old would have been slaughtered by bandits. How could he have come to Lanling County, a promising place like now?"
To be continued...
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