Chapter 169: A Harvest Year

Liu Dabao held a ceramic bottle in his hand, put it in his hand and looked through it a few times, there were a few words written on the ceramic bottle, he didn't know the words, he didn't know what it was. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

A female soldier who distributed supplies to Liu Dabao said: "Big brother, this is condensed milk, in fact, it is condensed milk, after you open it, add eight times the amount of boiling water, and you can soak it up for the child to drink." There is also a feeding bottle, which you can fill with milk and then pick up the bottle and give it to your child. ”

The baby bottle is also made of ceramic, although now Nanyang Company can produce glass in large quantities, but Nanyang Company deliberately does not increase the production of glass, glass is still sold as a luxury product, so the baby bottle is also ceramic, and the front nipple is made of eucommia gum. Although rubber trees have begun to be planted in Nanyang, rubber that has not been vulcanized cannot be used, and can only be replaced with eucommia gum.

Three days later, Liu Dabao and the refugees embarked on a journey to the south. Because the canal to the east was still under the control of the Qing army, the refugees had to travel overland to Wuchang, where they could take a boat to Jiangnan.

After all, it is difficult to walk by land, and there are many women, children, and old and weak in the ranks of the refugees, so it is naturally impossible to walk much faster, and they can only walk 30 to 40 miles a day. On the way, there were soldiers from the Qiongzhou Army from the south to protect them, and there were also Minzhuang recruited by the Wuchang prefect to accompany them, and some of the young people among the refugees were also recruited as Minzhuang. The soldiers are responsible for protecting the refugees, after all, Henan has just been recovered, and there are still the remnants of the Qing army, as well as the endless bandits and bandits from all over the country, protected by 3,000 soldiers, these young people dare not approach.

During the day, the people drove carts, and in the evening, they set up camp, dug trenches, and built camps, which were built according to the standards of the barracks to protect the refugees from attack.

From Kaifeng to Wuchang, the refugees walked for more than a month. After arriving in Wuchang, the refugees sailed down the river by boat. Once on board, the speed was much faster, and five days later, the first fleet of refugees arrived in Shanghai.

Liu Dabao became a worker in a steam locomotive factory, and his son was sent to the newly opened nursery during the day, and he took the child home after work at night. And the little girl who had been following him was also recognized by him as a daughter, and the little girl was sent to a school.

In the yamen of the Shanghai prefect, Yao Tingxuan, the prefect of Shanghai, reported to Wang Yuyu, who had come to inspect: "Lord Wang, all the refugees who have arrived in Shanghai in recent days have been properly arranged, and some of those who have dragged their families have been arranged to work in the newly opened factories. Most of the women also went to the textile mills. And we have also set up nurseries, and children who have no one to take care of them are sent to them, and some refugee women have been hired by us to work in nurseries. As for some refugees who had enough to feed their families and not go hungry, as well as some women who volunteered to cross the ocean to go overseas, they were all sent on the ship and sent overseas. ”

"Well arranged!" Wang Yu nodded, "The Tartars have created refugees, which is actually equivalent to doing us a favor!" If we want to industrialize, we need a large number of industrial workers. If the peasants are bound to the land, who will be the workers? It was the Tartars who drove the peasants away, which also allowed us to solve the problem of the shortage of industrial workers. ”

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Thousands of miles away, the Daimyo Province Gwangpyeongfu is already in the fifth lunar month, and it has entered the hot summer, which is the season for the winter wheat harvest in the north. The terrain around Quang Binh Province is flat, because of the introduction of high-yield crops such as sweet potatoes and corn, not only can the people fill their stomachs, but also the leaves of these crops can be used to feed pigs and sheep, which promotes the development of the breeding industry, and the manure of pigs and sheep can be provided to the farmland as fertilizer.

It can be said that in the original history, Kangxi's luck was so good that it burst out, after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the Xiaoice River period just passed, the climate warmed, and crop yields increased. In the Kangxi period, those high-yield crops from the Americas were planted all over the country, so that the famine phenomenon at the end of the Ming Dynasty no longer appeared, so the Manchu Qing Dynasty had more than 200 years of luck.

Due to the large number of pigs and sheep raised, the manure of livestock has made these lands fertile, and last year it was a good weather and heavy snow in winter, and this year's winter wheat is growing vigorously, and it is another good harvest year.

According to the law of nature, after several years of good weather and good weather, there will be a disaster year. In real history, when it comes to next year, there will be heavy rainfall, the Yellow River will burst its banks, and the Yellow River will be diverted to the sea. However, the seizure of the Huai into the sea will most likely not happen, because the Qing army dug the Yellow River embankment, causing the Yellow River to flood the north bank area, and the once dry 800 li Liangshan Bo reappeared on the land of North China.

In addition, Wang Yu's offensive opportunity was to capture the Hongze Lake embankment, and then build a water conservancy project to control the river. The historical phenomenon of Gaojiayan bursting will not happen again.

It was another bumper harvest year, and farmers were happily harvesting winter wheat. Although their grain could only be sold to the Qing court, in exchange for the thin Qing dragon banknotes, this year's winter wheat will not be sold to the Qing court.

"It's been another bumper year! Although last year was a bumper harvest, it was miserable by the dragon money of the imperial court! A middle-aged farmer said to the other farmers around him.

"Big brother, do you think the imperial court won't need dragon money this year? As long as we still use dragon money, we don't want to be happy! I heard that there are a lot of fake dragon banknotes! Now the dragon banknotes can't be exchanged for cash! Some people trade on the black market, and they need ten taels of silver to exchange for one or two white silver dollars! Another farmer on the side said.

An old gray-haired peasant smiled and said, "The army from the south will come soon!" Are we going to sell the wheat? Let's wait for the army from the south to come, and then we can sell grain! It is estimated that this year's tax will be handed over to the south! ”

A young farmer on the side said: "The court in the south buys and sells fairly, I heard that the common people are living a good life, and we don't sell the grain we harvest to the court, just wait for the court in the south!" ”

"Yes!" The old farmer nodded, "The county lord in the county government is ready to run away!" Most of those petty officials are ready to surrender, and who cares about collecting our taxes? ”

"If you sell it to the imperial court in the south, you can definitely sell it at a good price, and you don't have to suffer from the bird's anger of the grain merchants of the Eight Banners!" Someone said.

But these good peasants simply did not know that soon a great catastrophe awaited them.

The peasants collected the grain, and considering that Wu Sangui's Northern Expeditionary army was about to arrive, and the officials in the county government did not come out again to urge the collection of taxes, the peasants temporarily stored the grain in their own homes, and only waited for the Northern Expeditionary army from the south to come, and then considered selling the grain, and using the banknotes or silver dollars issued by the south to pay taxes and rent.

It was also when the peasants were hoarding grain and waiting for the Northern Expedition that the Qing army in Bahai was dispatched.