New World Farm is a new refugee camp built by Zhao Fuxiang on the east bank of the Nandu River with the help of Hainan Wei after gathering refugees from outside the city. Originally, Zhao Fuxiang wanted to bring these refugees into a new world, so he named it New World Farm.

, but because Zhao Fuxiang has too many things to do, he has time to focus on New World Farm. Therefore, this superficial New World Farm is no different from other refugee camps outside the city. It is full of garbage and shanties.

There is no trace of the new world.

Ma Guilan had experienced those hard times and had seen a lot of rural areas, but seeing this big garbage dump in front of her was still full of disbelief.

It has now entered the summer in Hainan Island. Although the temperature is five or six degrees lower than usual, the daytime temperature is still between 25 and 25 degrees. The garbage produced by tens of thousands of people every day, plus human and animal excrement,

It decomposes and ferments quickly under the sun's rays, and the air is filled with an unpleasant odor.

Unlike the other Zhao family members, Ma Guilan has never left Haidian Island since time travel. The most dilapidated village he has ever seen is Baisha Village, but the current scene of garbage everywhere and sewage flowing across it really surprised her.

Seeing Ma Guilan's expression, Kong Shouzhen knew that the old lady was dissatisfied with what she saw. In fact, Kong Shouzhen didn't feel there was any violation, because the refugees in the Ming Dynasty were all like this. Just imagine how good they could be if they became refugees? But

Now that the old lady was unhappy, Kong Shouzhen naturally wanted to deal with the refugees.

Kong Shouzhen winked at his subordinates. Those Tiandihui gang members understood the leader's intention and stepped forward to kick the refugees lying on the ground basking in the sun at the door. At this time, Kong Shouzhen smiled and said: "Auntie, these refugees refuse to go out.

I work hard and lie here in the sun every day, making my aunt laugh!"

Ma Guilan didn't say anything, but followed Kong Shouzhen into this huge refugee camp. Not to mention the Ming Dynasty, 20,000 people were the size of a small county town in later generations. In the Ming Dynasty, when there were no high-rise buildings, it is conceivable that this

The scale of the refugee camp. This refugee camp is oval-shaped and covers an area of ​​nearly 4,000 acres. It has caught up with the size of Qiongzhou Fucheng. However, because there is no planning, the floor area ratio is far less than that of Fucheng.

Walking into the homeless camp, the scene inside reminded Ma Guilan of the Indian slums in later TV shows. There were sheds built on all the open spaces. Fortunately, Hainan Island is not very cold. If such sheds were placed in the north, they would be frozen in winter.

A large number of people will not die.

In the center of the refugee camp is the only brick building in the camp. This is the entrance of the Qingmu Hall of the Tiandi Hui, and is naturally the residence of the hall's leader, Meng Decai.

After receiving the notice from the gang, Meng Decai quickly came to the door with a dozen of his men to welcome the arrival of the old lady Ma Guilan.

After seeing the old lady, Meng Decai quickly knelt down and kowtowed with his men, and at the same time said compliments. In the past few months, Meng Decai had not learned other skills, but he had learned a lot about flattering. When he opened his mouth, he said words such as gratitude to Zhao Yuanwai.

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Ma Guilan looked around and then at the brick building where Meng Decai lived. She frowned and asked, "Are you the manager here? These people live in such shabby conditions, do you still have the nerve to live in a brick house?"

Ma Guilan's words choked Meng Decai for a long time and he couldn't answer, but he didn't blame him. After Zhao Fuxiang handed over these tens of thousands of people to him, he ignored them and only asked him to provide varying amounts of labor force every once in a while. Meng Decai

Being a landowner with no management skills, they naturally left these refugees to their own devices. Some hard-working refugees went out to work to make money, but more

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The refugees are staying at home waiting for relief food to be distributed by the Heaven and Earth Society.

Seeing that Meng Decai couldn't answer, Kong Shouzhen quickly answered for him: "Auntie, this is a bit difficult for Hall Master Meng. After all, these refugees have nothing when they come here. Now they have to burn incense to have a temporary shelter. Naturally, they can't.

Will demand a house made of bricks and tiles!”

Meng Decai listened to Kong Shouzhen's defense, and glanced at Kong Shouzhen gratefully, thinking that his filial piety to Kong Shouzhen was indeed not in vain, and it really worked at the critical moment.

Ma Guilan still likes Kong Shouzhen, her newly recognized nephew. In addition, Ma Guilan doesn't know the specific situation of the homeless camp, and doesn't know if her son has any future plans, so it's hard to say too much.

Ma Guilan asked: "This Hall Master Meng, I heard that the government has allocated land to you. Where is it? How much land is it?"

Meng Decai knew this, and quickly replied: "From the Xipai River in the east to the west, to the Nandu River, and in the north all the way to the seaside, there is land given by the government. However, most of this land is sandy land and is not suitable.

Crops are grown, so now less than one-tenth of the land is planted with sweet potatoes, and the rest is idle!”

The land Meng Decai mentioned covers an area of ​​150 square kilometers, which already accounts for one-sixth of the Meilan District in later generations. However, it is all wasteland, tidal flats, and sandy land, so the farmers who come to open up wasteland and cultivate the land are not

There are only a few villages east of the Xipai River, and the rest are uninhabited. Otherwise, it would have been impossible for Mao Jiao to give this large piece of land to Zhao Fuxiang.

If Zhao Fuxiang were here, he would immediately know that this guy was corrupt when he saw Meng Decai's change of expression, but Ma Guilan's official experience is much worse than his son.

Ma Guilan has some life experience, but he started working at the Agricultural Science Station. There are not many people in the unit, so there are naturally fewer intrigues.

But Zhao Fuxiang was different. Although Zhao Fuxiang worked in a township, there were at least more than 200 people in a township in later generations. In addition, he came from the district and city and from the village. Zhao Fuxiang had no contact with more than 3,000 or 4,000 people.

There are all kinds of things here, so Zhao Fuxiang's official experience is not a little bit better than his mother's.

After listening to what Meng Decai said, Ma Guilan said: "Please, Master Meng, prepare a car for me. I want to look around!"

Meng Decai was relieved to hear that Ma Guilan no longer asked about the refugees. He had embezzled a lot of money in the past few months. In addition to the money for shipping across the south, he also stole and sold a lot of food provided by the government to provide relief to the refugees, so he was afraid.

His bad deeds were found out.

Meng Decai quickly sent people to prepare vehicles. Of course, there were no horse-drawn carriages in the refugee camps, but there were still ox-carts. Meng Decai quickly prepared an ox-cart for Ma Guilan, and at the same time sent more than a dozen guards to protect the safety of the old lady Ma Guilan.

After getting in the car, Ma Guilan was very satisfied with Meng Decai's arrangement. Although the car was relatively old, Meng Decai thoughtfully arranged cushions for Ma Guilan and put a thick quilt inside the car to prevent the old lady from getting hurt. At the same time, Meng Decai also offered himself

A concubine got into the car to serve Ma Guilan.

After Ma Guilan got in the car, Meng Decai asked: "Old madam, where are we going?"

Ma Guilan thought for a moment and said, "Walk along the river!"

Meng Decai didn't know what the old lady wanted to do, but he didn't dare to ask, so he had to accompany Ma Guilan out of the refugee camp and walked more than ten miles to the riverside.

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The Nandu River in the ancient times had a large amount of water, and the widest point was three miles away. However, the abundant water volume brought a large amount of sediment from the upper reaches to the lower reaches. The sediment deposited in the gentle areas, forming a large number of tidal flats at the mouth of the Nandu River.

The place chosen by Ma Guilan is near Dongping Village in later generations. It was uninhabited in the Ming Dynasty because it is located at the mouth of the Nandu River. The land here is crisscrossed by water networks and the land is flat, making it very suitable for experimental fields.

Ma Guilan got off the car and went to the Nandu River. She reached out and picked up a piece of soil from the ground. She found that the sand content of the soil here was very high, about two-thirds. This kind of sandy soil was not suitable because it could not store water.

Traditional food crops such as rice and wheat are grown, but it is indeed an excellent producing area for corn and potatoes.

Although the land composition was suitable, Ma Guilan looked at the tidal flats not far away. Because it is located at the mouth of the sea, most of the tidal flats are saline-alkali land. Otherwise, how could Hainan Wei hand over these large tracts of land to Zhao Fuxiang for free?

Ma Guilan said to herself: "Saline-alkali land is a bit troublesome, but it is located in the Nandu River. It should be feasible to divert fresh water from the river to wash it, and then use slag to change the pH of the soil!"

Although Meng Decai was a landowner, he was not a big landowner who did not participate in production. He still knew some agricultural knowledge. When he heard that the old lady wanted to farm here, he quickly persuaded him: "Old lady, this is alkaline soil, and anything you plant can survive."

No, if the old lady wants to farm, we can go inland to find hundreds of acres of land, but this place is really not suitable!"

Although Hainan Wei allocates wasteland that is not suitable for farming, there are still hundreds of acres of middle fields a little away from the sea. In the past few months, Meng Decai has sent people to organize it, and some food can be grown. But Meng Decai does not

I know that Ma Guilan is not going to farm here, but to cultivate a group of agricultural talents. If you can only farm, you will be a group of farmers. Only by using various scientific methods to change the nature of the land to achieve your goals, this is the new world.

Agricultural talents.

Ma Guilan did not pay attention to Meng Decai's dissuasion, but said directly: "Master Meng, you have to prepare a hundred peasant families for me, as well as basic tools and cattle!"

Seeing that he could not dissuade him, Meng Decai stopped talking, but Ma Guilan's request was really difficult to meet. It was not that there were not enough tools and cattle, but that there were too few women, and the one hundred households just couldn't get it together.

The refugees who can drift across the sea are mainly men. There are not no women, but the number is pitifully small. There are less than a hundred women among the entire refugee population. These women are basically people with owners, and the power of the Heaven and Earth Society is in the world.

You can't have a good match, right? So to prepare a hundred peasant families, it's really hard to do but not enough.

"Old madam, everything else is fine, except that this hundred families really don't have any problems!"

Ma Guilan was stunned. There were more than 20,000 refugees. How come there were not a hundred families? When Ma Guilan asked the reason, she felt that she had really lost sight of it. Since one hundred families could not reach it, they could only replace them with men.

Yes, but the security will be much worse.

Ma Guilan thought for a while and asked: "Since there is a shortage of women, why not buy some to marry the men?"

This made Meng Decai speechless. Madam, don't you know how much a woman of the right age is worth? However, Meng Decai did not dare to go against the will of the old lady. He quickly nodded and agreed, saying that he would buy the woman immediately. However, Meng Decai wanted to do this in his heart.

Leave the trouble to Kong Shouzhen. After all, you are the master of Tiandihui. It is your responsibility to solve the problems that I, Meng Decai, cannot solve!

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