The beggar emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty - Chapter 551

Spring comes, the earth warms up and everything recovers. The whole Hubei is a hot scene.

People who were newly assigned to the land began to be busy farming, while those who were not assigned to the land began to bid farewell to their former neighbors and relatives in tears, and then went to Xiangyang to gather with the old and help the young.

There were 300000 more people in Hubei. Most of them were from the western mountains. Qin Huan planned to move them all to the north. Each family paid an extra twelve Liang silver, and they were also covered during the migration.

Even if the compensation is 10 liang of silver, these 300000 people are extremely reluctant to move, but Hubei has no spare land, so they have to move obediently even if they don’t want to.

This was the first time Qin Huan had taken coercive measures, because if not, the 300000 people would become tenants of the landlords and gentry.

Because there are at least millions of mu of private land in Hubei, and all of them are good paddy fields.

It doesn’t seem that the people are busy farming, but the landlords and gentry are in a hurry, because there is no one to help them cultivate the land at all.

Even the servants and servant girls in the family are almost running away. The only few people who stay still promise rich wages, so they stay.

At first, these landlords promised the people half of the annual harvest. Later, it was changed to four or six Kai. Only then did the people reluctantly agree to help with farming.

Looking at the feedback from various places, Qin Huan could only lament that the Chinese people were really honest. Even if the situation was two or eight, the landlord had to agree at last, but who thought it was only four or six, the people agreed and drove the cattle to plough.

Although he secretly scolded the people for being disheartened, he did not intend to impose intervention. After all, this is what you love and I wish. The people already have enough official land to cultivate. Those who choose to plant private land think they are capable and diligent.

This is indeed the case. Almost every landlord’s hundreds of acres of private land are divided up by dozens of hundreds of people. A family can only plant one or two acres at most. No more can be planted. Those who are a little lazy are lazy to plant one mu.

All the landlords were relieved when they rented out their private land. Qin Huan was also relieved.

One of the important reasons why landlords are allowed to retain 100 mu of private land is that they can reasonably distribute land. After all, people’s ability is large and small. This one size fits all will certainly lead to some ethnic groups not coming over, and some people think they can plant more. At this time, the 100 mu private land of the landowner’s family can make up for this.

Qin Huan wouldn’t care about giving some of the grain to the landlords, because it didn’t have much impact, but he could give full play to the people’s ability to cultivate.

This is his real purpose. To develop agriculture, we must first reasonably distribute the labor force. Only in this way can we plant the most land with the same number of people and the same tools.

Although the big pot is fair, it has the lowest efficiency. The previous tenant farming system, not to mention that the people are half tired and can’t eat enough all year round. Is there still strength to plant more land?

His system of combining official land and private land is the most perfect. It can not only maximize the enthusiasm of the people, but also enable the people to have sufficient physical fitness to plant more land. After all, there are few really lazy people.

After the spring ploughing was over, Qin Huan’s mouth couldn’t close after the data were reported.

Because nearly 20 million mu of land in Hubei Province was planted by only 600000 households.

Although in ancient times, one person could plant hundreds of mu of land, it was almost just planting. In the north, it was even just sowing seeds and digging a pit, and the yield could be imagined.

More than half of Hubei’s nearly 20 million mu are paddy fields. Although only a small amount of natural fertilizer is used, it almost needs to be ploughed twice, first cultivate seedlings and then plant them. Even dry land needs to be ploughed once and then plant coarse grains, which can be regarded as intensive farming in ancient times.

Of course, it is mainly the popularization of mules, horses and cattle. Basically, five families can own a mule, horse or cattle. These cattle and horses are bought from commercial banks with loans from people and banks.

In this era, there were many lakes and swamps in Hubei, so the paddy fields were far from reaching the level of previous generations. There was not as much drainage area as Dongting Lake, which was the same as Kaifeng. The lake was wide and ripe, and the world was sufficient. That was to count Hunan as well.

Although he knew that the people had just planted the land and were very tired, who would call it ancient, so Qin Huan ordered the Yamen to recruit young people to build the city in Wuhan.

As for the fields at home, women and the elderly are responsible for taking care of them, and children go to school.

Not only in Hubei, but also in Hunan, Jiangxi, Huaixi and Sichuan.

When these young people come, they will eat and live, pay twenty-two silver a month, work for a few months, harvest in autumn and then go back. After the grain is dried, they will come back to work for two months. They will go back to celebrate the new year in December, and the same will be true next year.

It can be said that he was really busy from the beginning to the end of the year. He worked hard year after year for the grand blueprint in Qin Huan’s heart. The key was to be willing to break his head.

People in the southern provinces wanted to build Shanghai, while people in Huguang and Sichuan wanted to build Wuhan. It can be said that the entire population of the South has been used to the extreme by Qin Huan, but everyone has a different division of labor.

In order to save money, the landlords and gentry had to run their own business at home, and their wives and concubines had to act as accountants. They had no time to recite poetry and Fu and talk about world events.

People in the northern provinces can’t run away. After planting soil, they have to repair official roads and wooden tracks for money. Although they sign up voluntarily, they are afraid of comparison.

Those who have worked for several months will certainly buy some goods and improve their living conditions. Those lazy people will be forced to go out to work by their mother the next year.

After spring ploughing, the education of Hubei Province was fully carried out. A school rose from the ground, a female gentleman from a lady’s college was transferred to various places, and the wives of various towns and townships also completed their final mission, began to cry goodbye to the parents and villagers in their townships and set off for Wuchang.

Now there are wives in towns and townships in Hubei Province, with a number of about 2000. Other wives are either in the central interior government of Nanjing, or they are assigned to banks and commercial banks in various counties as shopkeepers, or they are teachers in ladies college.

According to statistics, there are thirty or forty thousand widows under the name of the interior government, the youngest is more than twenty, and the oldest is more than forty, and each person still carries one or two servant girls.

A total of 100000 people have been married in the past few years. Qin Huan’s heart disease is not completely solved. It’s hard to sleep and eat.