I remember that when Yang Zhen asked them to discuss the land allocation order for reclamation with Fang Guangchen, Zhang Degui and others, Liu Wanzhong, an old cannon who came from a border army household in Ji Town, advocated referring to the old system of nine-border reclamation and allocating land in dings, and giving 5 cents to each ding.

Ten acres.

However, Yang Zhen rejected this approach and finally accepted Fang Guangchen's suggestion and decided to implement the practice of granting 30 acres of land to each household.

The reason why Yang Zhen did this was not entirely to abandon the old system of the Ming Dynasty and start a new one, but he had some reasons of his own.

In his opinion, dividing land according to households is better than assigning land according to the number of men, which favors sons over women.

On the one hand, this will help reverse the old custom of favoring sons over daughters. If only men are given land, it will be difficult to change the situation of men being superior to women.

On the other hand, this will also help to encourage the adult men of each household to separate into households and start families, and then actively join the army, and encourage them to obtain their own land through military merit.

At the same time, Yang Zhen also took into account the amount of land on the Liaodong Peninsula and allocated fifty acres of land to each ding, which he simply could not do.

Once this is done, the number of people that Jinhai Town can accept and absorb will be greatly limited.

However, by dividing the land according to households and giving each household 30 acres of land to cultivate as permanent farmland, at least in the short term, there will be no problems caused by land allocation based on land allocation, and it will also be more convenient and easier to implement.

If it weren't for such a simple and easy-to-implement method, it would be impossible to complete such a large-scale household registration and settlement task in just a few months.

Moreover, in the past few months, it has been obvious to all that Yang Zhen's original decision was correct, and no one is bothered anymore about whether it is better to grant land to each individual or to each household.

As for why Yang Zhen set an upper limit of thirty acres of land for each household, the real reason is that in addition to the limited land suitable for farming in the southern section of the Liaodong Peninsula occupied by Yang Zhen, there is also a proverb that Yang Zhen was familiar with in later generations, which also contributed to this decision.

important factors.

——Thirty acres of land, one cow, wife and children.

This is a very simple ideal of life buried deep in the hearts of the Chinese people during the farming era.

This proverb, known to many people in later generations, was directly used by Yang Zhen as the most understandable and touching slogan for Jinhai Town’s land reclamation in Dengzhou Prefecture.

For the vast number of people who were displaced in the Guan during the Thirteenth Year of Chongzhen, no promise is more practical, effective and attractive than such a promise.

Facts have also proved that dividing land by households is more conducive to establishing households and establishing settlements, and can avoid the occurrence of large households with large populations living together.

Yang Zhen didn't want his immigration and land reclamation to end up with a group of wealthy and powerful landlords who would cause trouble for him.

The upper limit of thirty acres of land per household was more in line with the farming level of this era. The situation reported to him by Liu Wanzhong just verified this.

With the level of land reclamation in this era, a family of five, including men, women, old and young, could cultivate thirty acres of land a year, which was already the upper limit of what they could accomplish.

Moreover, most families cannot even complete this task, and are even far from the upper limit. Being able to complete fifteen or twenty acres is already a very good situation.

In this case, the more land or wasteland you allocate to each household, the more land will be abandoned.

If this is the case, wouldn't such immigration and reclamation be completely different and the effectiveness of it would be greatly reduced?

Thinking of these questions, Yang Zhen looked at Liu Wanzhong who was scratching his head and laughing, and finally smiled and said: "Haha, you just understand the difficulties of the governor's decision to allocate 30 acres of land to each household!"

When Yang Zhen said this, Liu Wanzhong knew that Yang Zhen had already known that they would not be able to complete the task of reclamation, and had no intention of holding them responsible at all. He quickly smiled and nodded in agreement.

"If your Nanguanling Five Tunnel Camp has not completed the task of reclaiming 30 acres of wasteland per household until now, then all the camps in Jinhai Town will probably have enough difficulty to complete it this year!"

Thinking of this, Yang Zhen looked at Yan Shengsan who was accompanying him and said, "What about you? How have you completed the reclamation mission of the four villages along the coast of Dalian Bay that have been entrusted to you?"

Yan Shengsan saw that Yang Zhen turned to ask about the reclamation situation of the four villages he led, and immediately answered truthfully: "When I return to the governor, the situation is similar to that of Liu Shen's fifth camp. The wasteland has been divided, but each household has only one task to reclaim the wasteland.

Most of the areas that are easy to cultivate and cultivate have been completed.

"Fortunately, the area around Dalian Bay is mostly sandy land along the coast and rivers. It is relatively easy to cultivate it. Moreover, the season has not passed yet. I will continue to supervise and supervise from my humble position. I think there will still be room to expand farming!"

"Well, you are right when you say that. Establishing settlements to reclaim wasteland and introduce sweet potatoes are the basis of our survival in Jinhai Town. We can delay other things, but we cannot delay this matter.

"Before the season passes, if you have time to clear the wasteland and introduce seeds, you should clear the wasteland and introduce seeds; if you don't have time, you should directly introduce seeds to the wasteland. In short, you cannot waste the opportunity now.

“If we, No. 64, No. 5, Jinhai Town, complete half of the land reclamation and introduction tasks on the land we have been allocated before the season passes, then by October of the golden autumn, our harvest will be enough for our five No. 1 people and ten people.

Thousands of people are here to spend the winter this year!”

"A hundred thousand people?!"

"There are already over 100,000 people in Jinhai Town?!"

Faced with what Yang Zhen said inadvertently, Liu Wanzhong and Yan Shengsan were taken aback, and asked each other in surprise, joy and confusion.

"Yes, there is a major epidemic in Dengzhou Prefecture, and the immigration from Dengzhou has come to an end for the time being. But since March, our Jinhai Town has been accepting immigrants forty-six villages.

"Counting the five villages you have in Nanguanling, Lao Pao Tou, and counting the last batch, including the several villages I took to resettle on the east road this time, cumulatively, the immigrants from all walks of life have been added together.

The people of the sixty-four villages!"

There are 300 households in one village, and 19,200 households in 64 villages.

If the average number of people per household is five, then the population of Sixty-four Tuns is 96,000.

Including the troops and horses that Yang Zhen brought to Jinhai Town for defense, there are indeed over 100,000 soldiers and civilians on the five roads in Jinhai Town.

Yang Zhen did not say these simple calculations, but according to the regulations set by Yang Zhen, as long as others know how many immigrants there are in Jinhai Town, they can quickly figure out the approximate number of people.

For Yang Zhen, these 100,000 people are just 100,000 mouths to eat. As a superior, the first thing he must consider is the feeding problem of these people.

But to the various generals in Jinhai Town, these 100,000 people were a sign of strength.

According to the military system established by Yang Zhen for Jinhai Town, the immigration of sixty-four villages means sixty-four sentry horses.

The farming season is busy right now, and conscription has not yet been put on the agenda, but once the busy farming season is over, the 19,200 immigrants who have been allocated wasteland will become 19,200 soldiers who do not have to pay for food or money.

The expansion of 19,200 troops may not seem like much at first glance, but judging from the strength of Yang Zhen's troops, once this move is implemented, it means that they will move to Jinhai in just a short time.

Four months have passed, and the total strength of Yang Zhen's troops has doubled.

If this momentum continues, then how can the future of Jinhae Town be limited?

Of course, after what Yang Zhen said, they all realized the importance of continuing to expand the acres of land for reclamation and planting. With so many people, they had to have enough food to feed them.

And as long as they have enough food, they can recruit more immigrant teams in the future.

At noon on the seventh day of June in the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, Yang Zhen inspected several sweet potato fields introduced from wasteland in front of Qingniao, and met with General Liu Wanzhong of the Nanguanling Fifth Tuncamp who came to see him after hearing the news.

He boarded the fleet of Qiu Zhenhai and Yu Haichao, and then commanded the fleet to sail out of Dalian Bay, sailing north along the coast, and continued towards Shicheng Island.

On the way, they passed Guanglu Island, Dachangshan Island and other places, as well as Hongzui Fort and Jiifu Fort, but Yang Zhen did not make a special trip to let the fleet dock.

After conducting on-site inspections in Qingniao and Houtun, Yang Zhen was generally relieved about the introduction of sweet potatoes in Jinhai Town.

Although he hopes to cultivate more acres and introduce sweet potatoes on a larger scale, he also knows that time is tight and it is rare to achieve the current situation.

Even if each household completes the 30 acres of land reclamation and planting tasks, that is to say, even if each household only completes 15 acres, there will be a total of 19,200 households in the 5th and 64th villages under the jurisdiction of Jinhai General Town.

It is already a quite large amount.

If all of the 288,000 acres of sweet potatoes are successfully planted, how much winter food will Jinhai Town be able to harvest in October?

Yang Zhen just made a rough calculation, and an almost astronomical number appeared in his mind.

Even if the yield per mu of sweet potatoes fails to reach what Yang Zhen knew in later generations and does not meet his own expectations, that is to say, the yield is discounted or even discounted in half, it will definitely far exceed

The output of growing sorghum and other crops is up.

Regarding this, Yang Zhen was not worried at all.

So after starting his journey north again from Dalian Bay, Yang Zhen no longer worried about the sweet potato problem, and there was no need to look at each settlement all the way.

Without the temporary stops along the way, the speed of the entire fleet is naturally much faster.
Chapter completed!