The timids starve to death, and the bold ones to death.

In order to stabilize the borders of the Western Regions, especially to take over the Caucasus region, the imperial court issued an edict to recruit Han people to immigrate. As long as they are willing to come, the imperial court would give land and even slaves.

"Return it to the slaves?"

A young man stood at the gate of Shuofang and asked at the yamen runner standing beside the notice.

"Can this be fake? See, the imperial edicts of the court, the imperial edicts of Your Majesty, the cabinet and the Hanlin Academy have been stamped. This is not the official documents of our county yamen and prefecture yamen, which are even more open than the provincial yamen and the Taoist yamen. It is clearly written on it. If you immigrate to a few people, you will send you a few slaves. If you have a family of five, you will not talk about 200 acres of land each, you will also give you 200 acres of forests and five more slaves. If you have ten people, you will give you ten slaves at that time. Also, you will be exempted from taxes for the first three years, and then you will have another five and a half years of taxes in three years. This is a rare opportunity for the emperor's grace. I tell you that such good things are only available to us Han people. Those Turks, Dangxiang people, Xianbei people, and the barbarians, they want to go, but they are not qualified."

"If you want to go, please sign up quickly. The opportunity is rare, and the opportunity cannot be missed. Time will never come again!"

Listening to the yamen runners' shouts, many people were really moved.

Shuofang Road is located in the north of Guanzhong, which has much worse conditions than the wealthy Guanzhong Plain. Especially in Yanshuo and other states, it is not as good as Hetao places such as Lingwu. In addition to producing good salt, there are more deserts and Gobi.

In recent years, a large number of people have moved out, and there are indeed not many people left behind, and each person has received very little land. It is said that everyone's life is very good than twenty years earlier, and at least they don't have to worry about food and clothing. Especially after promoting drought-tolerant crops such as corn, potato, and sweet potato, everyone can have enough food.

If it were the past, such a life would be very happy.

But you have to throw away goods by comparing goods, and you will be pissed to death by comparing goods by comparing goods.

They are also the people of Dahua. Look at the people on the Guanzhong Plain and the people in Hetao. Their lives are tens of millions of times better than theirs. Not to mention food and clothing, they are now building new houses in large courtyards. No one is wearing new clothes every year. They are still putting patches on patches and are reluctant to buy clothes every year.

More and more young people go out to work, broadening their horizons outside.

Nowadays, many young girls also go to workshops to work, but their horizons are also high. They are generally unwilling to marry back to their hometown to live a hard life. Many girls have married to Guanzhong or Hetao. As a result, it is difficult for local young men to get married, and the dowry is high.

Although there were brides in the past, they were not high, and girls would have dowry, and generally speaking, dowry would even be higher than dowry.

But now, the dowry here is getting higher and higher, and many girls only give a little dowry at home. In this way, the girls are still snatched and the threshold is broken.

The poorer the place, the harder it is to get married, and the higher the bride price.

More and more young men are no longer willing to stay at home to farm, and they can only make a living if they can't make money, and they can't afford to save up high amounts of bride money. They leave their hometowns to work.

However, some people are unwilling to go to work, and they never have a good idea to work for others. They always feel that they are worried that there is no way out when they can't work in the future.

Some people immigrated to other places, some were border areas, and some were vassal territories, all of which were more abundant.

Now, after the more attractive recruitment plan, many people who were hesitant were also moved.

More and more people are asking.

Some people ask about arrangements on the way, some ask about settlement fees, and some ask about the climate and land conditions there.

Wang Dafu asked repeatedly for a long time, asked all the doubts in his heart, and then excitedly picked up the empty willow basket and ran home. Today he was carrying piglets to the market to sell. He sold it early and was about to go home, but he encountered the notice and listened for a long time.

I didn't even care about some other things I promised to buy for my family, so I ran home.

As soon as he arrived home, he threw down the willow basket and rushed directly to his father.

"Dad, I've decided to immigrate."

My father was weaving a willow basket, holding a pipe in his mouth. He weaving the basket with a focused expression, and did not look up, took a sip of the cigarette and asked, "Where to move?"

“Move to the Caucasus.”

“Where is the Caucasus?”

"In the west, it is said to be between the Caspian Sea and the Black Sea."

"I haven't heard of it." Lao Wang was not interested. Lao Wang was a relatively traditional old farmer. When he was young, his parents died early. He grew up with his brother and sister-in-law. When he was young, he worked for the landlord's house and worked as a farmer. When he was almost thirty, he married a widow who lost his husband. Fortunately, after marriage, Liu gave birth to three children and four daughters for him, and the family was intact.

If you get used to hard life, you will become timid.

Today, the Wang family has four males who have planted more than 100 acres of land and are all self-sufficient. They usually raise some chickens, ducks, pigs and sheep, and there are two cows at home and such a yard. Lao Wang feels very satisfied and thanks to the emperor for letting their family live a good life.

Thinking back then, the landlord family where he herded cattle did not live better than his family now. They are not in debt, and they are surplus every year and are self-sufficient. After selling grain or cows, sheep and pigs every year, they can pull up some new cloth to make some clothes. A few grandchildren can even study for free in the village primary school.

This is enough.

Nowadays, many young people in the village are always unsatisfied and always want to make money. They don’t plant well, don’t stay at home, and have to go out to work to make money. Some people take their wives and children to the city, while others simply leave their wives and children at home.

What's the point, how can you feel like home?

Lao Wang did not allow his children to go out for any work. Before, some merchants came to the village to recruit workers several times. Some recruited men to explore mines, and some recruited women to do work, but Lao Wang did not agree at once.

He does not allow it.

As long as he is not dead, he will be the leader of this family.

It’s great to be reunited in the family, why bother to think about being rich and noble?

"Dad, the conditions for immigration this time are really good. As long as you sign up, the court will pay the resettlement family expenses and travel expenses. In addition, now the whole family has moved away. The court will pay for the houses and fields here, etc. The court will pay for purchases. In addition, when you go there, you will be divided by the land. Each person, no matter the size of the male or female, will be given 200 acres of land. If you take the slaves there, each slave can also get 100 acres. In addition to the distribution of land, each person will also get 200 acres of mountain and forest land." Wang Dafu became more and more excited. "Dad, think about it, our family has not yet separated, and the three sisters have not yet gotten married. Together, there are 21 people in total. Although the children are still young, they can also share land. Twenty-one people can share 4,200 acres of land and more than 4,000 acres of forest. Our family suddenly became a big landlord."

If there are more than 4,000 acres of land and more than 4,000 acres of forests, wouldn’t it become a big landlord? The land in their village is less than 4,000 acres.

Lao Wang continued to weave his basket.

"How can such a good thing be like this? A family can divide the land into more than 4,000 acres? Where can so many land be divided into? If you say that one is divided into two hundred acres of land, I still believe that the frontier may not be fertile and may have to be cultivated. But you say that no matter whether it is a man, woman, old or young, one person is 200 acres, I don't believe it."

"Dad, this is the will of the court, the emperor's imperial edict. Over the years, the emperor's grace has been so great that our lives are getting better and better. When did the court deceive us ordinary people? And when did we get there, we would exempt the land tax for the first three years and the next five and a half years. Now the land tax is already low, only fifteen cents per acre. If we do this, there will be less."

Lao Wang knocked the tobacco pole on the soles of his shoes a few times, "More than 4,000 acres of land, even if the imperial court really gives it, can our family grow it? Now our family has five people, plus your mother, your wife and your three sisters, there are only thirteen people who can work in the family, but women are not more powerful than men. No matter how roughly they plough, or even rotate, they can't plant so many."

Lao Wang made another conclusion.

The current land tax is collected based on the land acres, not the Dingkou. Four thousand, two hundred acres of land, one acre of fifteen cents, and the land tax in that year was also 63,000 yuan, which was fixed. The first three years were exempted, and the next five years were exempted, and the next five years would be 31,000 yuan, and every year would be 31,000 yuan. After eight years, at least 63,000 yuan would be released every year.

Just relying on farming, the more than 60 chunks of money is a lot of money.

Besides, even if the imperial court gives land, how could it be possible to reclaim so much land? It is more difficult to reclaim land than farming.

Moreover, Lao Wang still doesn't want to go to the Caucasus for those who are away from home. The ancestral cemeteries are all here. Who will pay homage to the temple during the Qingming Festival and the Winter Solstice in the future?

"Dad, why are you still so old-fashioned? There are not many people in our family who can work. Isn't there any policy? If you send a slave to one person, you will send a slave. If you send a twenty-one person, you will send a twenty-one slave. This is the biggest benefit. You don't know how expensive the slaves are now. If you can get twenty-one slaves, even if only half of them are adults who can work, then our family will have twenty people who can work in the future. Buying cattle and horses to cultivate, more than 4,000 acres of land, rotating, and even hiring some people during the busy farming period, you will definitely be able to plant them. The tax is not small, but I heard that there is still war there, and the food is very expensive, higher than the Central Plains. If you grow grain, you don't have to be afraid of not selling it."

"War? Then you can't go. It's said that you would rather be a peaceful dog than a chaotic person. You must never go to this place where you fight. No matter how much property you have, thousands of acres of fertile land, it's not stable. Once you encounter a war, your soldiers will be like bandits, and nothing is reliable."

Anyway, no matter what Wang Dafu said, Lao Wang made up his mind not to go to the Caucasus.

He didn't believe in anyone with one person and two hundred acres of land, nor did he believe that the court sent slaves to immigrants. What he was most worried about was that there was still war there.

Lao Wang, who has experienced war, has an instinctive fear of war.

"No, absolutely not."

"Dad, if you don't agree, then I will take my wife and children to go by myself." Wang Dafu became anxious and said harsh words.
Chapter completed!