Li Erlang was leading the people in the village to build a wall.

Like all immigrant villages before the Daxia Kingdom, three thousand immigrants were placed within a radius of 50 miles close to Chita County (Baltimore), with one hundred households as a village and three villages as a town, and named the first town, the first village, etc. according to the distance from the county town.

In fact, near Pisachek Bay, including later Virginia and Maryland are all fertile lands. The fields reclaimed according to the unified approach of the Great Xia Dynasty are not good or bad, they are nothing more than distance from the county town.

However, as the "membersman" of His Majesty, Li Erlang, a native of Daizhou, Shanxi, set an example and voluntarily divided the farthest villages.

This time, the land was opened and divided into land, but it was not enough to reach 50 acres per household, but only 30 acres. Naturally, there were factors such as the initial establishment of Pisacchek Province, which was complicated and insufficient staff, and there were also factors such as fear of delaying the farming season.

However, since there are dense forests nearby, mainly including pine, oak and oak trees, the Provincial Department of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries simply allocated 70 acres of forest land for each household, and the remaining 20 acres of land were reclaimed by themselves during the slack farming period.

This is Daxia. It is not like the time when the Ming Dynasty was first established, nor is it like the immigrants in Europe. As long as you have the ability, you can calculate as much as you can, but everything is in a unified plan.

This may seem a bit troublesome at first glance, but in fact it will lay the foundation for stability in the next few decades or even hundreds of years.

For example, European immigrants, among them were poor farmers who lost their land and could not survive and ran to the New World, as well as big landlords and nobles who had more land. Because big landlords and nobles had a lot of people, they could still buy and capture natives. As slaves, blacks had cultivated them. At first, they had more land than poor farmers. They not only had land, but also had other industries, and poor farmers also had to buy things from them. Over time, the fields that these farmers had worked hard to reclaim would eventually fall into the hands of big landlords, and they eventually became tenants like their locals.

At this time, in Europe, such as the UK, most farmers rented land from the landlords to cultivate.

They can't afford wheat, and oats and rye are their staple foods.

The Daxia Kingdom avoided this from the beginning. Although it is not guaranteed that land annexation may begin in hundreds of years, they are all on the same starting line at the beginning. Moreover, the industry and commerce in Daxia are so developed, and the profits are obviously higher than those of grain. Anyone with discerning eyes see it. What is the reason for getting so much land?

Li Erlang became the head of the tenth township and the head of the first village under the jurisdiction of the first village. At the beginning, their villages were naturally wooden houses, because a large number of trees were cut down during the land reclamation. As for bricks and tiles, they could only be left to be discussed in the future. Although they were wooden houses, the walls still had to be built. This time, they did not continue to build the walls with wood, but instead forced to buy cement and built a circle of walls about one meter high with stones.

The wall is about to be completed today. Li Erlang threw the task he supervised to You Luo, who was also a veteran, and came to his own field.

In order to set an example, Li Erling deliberately divided his fields into the farthest place, close to the woods. At this time, they had not had time to build a canal, but according to his experience, there was plenty of rain here, and a handful of black soil that was emitting oil on the ground, which has been harvested by heaven in recent years.

But he naturally would not do this. As an experienced farmer, he knew that "there are unexpected situations". When winter is in the winter, if it snows after the winter wheat is sown, he will lead the villagers to complete the construction of canals and ponds.

It was already early July, and the weather was a little hot, but because it was close to the sea, the water vapor in the air was still sufficient. This was what Li Erling, who came from the arid side of the Hutuo River in Shanxi, was not very adaptable. At this moment, he simply untied his short shirt, revealing the strong muscles inside.

He squatted on a huge tree stump with a bust of at least two meters and took out a cigarette box.

"Daxia Card"

The appearance of the cigarette box is almost the same as that of later generations, but it is much larger, and it can hold thirty cigarettes inside. This cigarette is made in Oregon, and a pack requires half a silver coin. Of course, as an old man in the Great Xia Kingdom, he no longer has heavy real silver coins on his body, and he has long used the Great Xia banknotes.

The maximum denomination of Daxia paper money is one hundred yuan, and the next is fifty yuan, twenty yuan, ten yuan, five yuan, one yuan, five cents, and one cent. All are banknotes and are issued by Daxia Bank.

At the beginning, conservative farmers like Li Erlang naturally would not believe this piece of paper, but after so many years, he became completely used to using paper money.

"Bang"

The same "Daxia brand" lighter lit the "Daxia brand" cigarette. Li Erlang narrowed his eyes and looked at his field with satisfaction.

Thirty acres, closely connected. As an "official family", he followed the advice of the technician of the Department of Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Fisheries, planted ten acres of corn, five acres of soybeans, five acres of cotton, and the remaining ten acres. He planted three acres of potatoes and three acres of peanuts - these are crops suitable for planting in summer.

For the remaining four acres of land, he planted two acres of tobacco and two acres of vegetables.

“This place is very suitable for tobacco growth”

This is the case for technicians. As an ordinary farmer, he must grow a large amount of staple food, and then hemp food can be made into tofu and oil, and fed to livestock that have been eaten in the future. Then there are cotton fields or hemp fields, and finally vegetable fields. For ordinary people from China, it is unstable without staple food base.

At present, wherever you look, the seedlings of all kinds of crops sown almost at the same time are exposed on the ground. Although the species are different, they are all green.

A kind of lovely green.

“It’s indeed fertile”

Li Er was stunned and couldn't help but sigh. Since he distributed these thirty acres of land to himself, he had not had too much worry about it except for deep cultivation, raking the land, and burning the fire manure slightly. Even so, all crops grew very well.

Behind him, the lush woods were mixed with wild dahlias and anemones, where he owned a total of seventy acres!

He himself had investigated his seventy acres of forest land, at least five large trees that could be sold at a price per mu, and five large trees that were growing vigorously. The remaining low shrubs can also be cut for firewood. Seventy acres are 700.

The county technician once told him, "There are at least one hundred good oak trees in your woodland and one hundred good oak trees, which can be used on boats, carriages and high-end furniture. The shipyard under the Department of Engineering has not yet been in place. If it is in place, it will definitely be purchased in large quantities. You only have the right to use these woodlands, so naturally they cannot be sold at market prices."

"But if an oak that is more than twenty meters tall can be sold for twenty silver coins. If it is more than thirty meters tall, it is more than thirty silver coins. If it is more than fifty meters tall, it is more than one hundred silver coins. The price of oak is even higher."

Li Erlang carefully recalled the technician's words, "The Department of Engineering can go to the forest to cut down by itself. This price will definitely not be sold. Since these forest lands are all from the state, it is a bit too much to sell for such a high price. Seventy acres, throwing away the twenty acres that are to be reclaimed, and the remaining fifty acres, if one hundred are sold, one ten silver coins will be almost the same."

"This is one thousand silver coins! But if you want to sell it, you must send it to the wood processing factory. You have to rent the carriage from Hanhai Transportation Company. With the labor cost, you will eventually have at least five hundred silver coins that fall into your hands!"

"Five hundred!"

Li Erling was a little excited and couldn't help but suck a cigarette, naturally accompanied by a violent cough.

Li Erlang is 31 years old this year, but when he was sixteen, he was in the Chen family. There are two boys around him, one is fourteen and the other is thirteen. According to the Daizhou people, it is a strong labor force. Chita City has not yet been built, and they have temporarily dropped out of school. With his wife, the family has four strong labor force, and they can completely cut down these big trees and transport them to Chita.

When he thought that this place was more than fifty miles away from Chita, he felt a little regretful of his previous behavior of "imminent public opinion and righteousness".

But in the end he figured it out.

"Without Daxia, there is Li Erlang. The boat shop needs ship materials. I heard that there are people on both sides of each river. The boat shop shop chopped them on the shore and threw them into the river, and then dragged them to the boat shop with a boat shop. Why do you need to buy them?"

"What's more," he said harshly, "Even if I want to buy it, I'll just want one hundred silver coins."

...

Just as armed immigrants like Li Erling were investing their energy in fields, cottages, woodlands, and ditches, a large shipyard had already taken shape on the pier of Chita Port.

This time, Nikan brought about a hundred boatmen from the local area, and planned to start with small boats and slowly turn this place into a place where large ships can be made.

In the Great Xia Kingdom, the largest shipyard in Asia (using oak from Mount Sihout), the largest shipyard in the Americas, the new Jinzhou Port in the United States (using California redwood) has begun to build another intercontinental fleet.

The Marine Corps, which had no more affairs, was dispatched again.

Han Zilong has officially become the commander of the Marine Corps of the Chita Squadron. When he finished cleaning up the entire Susquehanna River, he received an order from his superior.

"Take your tools and cut down oaks and oaks and oaks along the banks of the Susquehanna River, wherever there are tributaries that flow into the Susquehanna River, at least one mile from the estuary."

Han Zilong naturally knew why the above requested "one mile away from the estuary of the river" was because in order to protect the river embankment, if all the trees near the river embankment were cut down, once the heavy rainy season was encountered, the river embankment was at a very risk of collapse.

Such a job is simple for the strong Marine Corps. They were in groups of two, carrying saw blades and axes into the jungle.

Li Erlang, who was far away in the third village of the tenth village, was not only not disappointed when he learned about it, but instead breathed a sigh of relief. When the wall was built, he took his two sons into the dense forest and prepared to reclaim the remaining twenty acres of forest into fertile land.

When he was in the countryside of Daizhou, he was not only a farmer, but also a very good carpenter. He was preparing to buy some furniture for his wooden house.

"There are not many carpenters like me, so in this way, the work of creating furniture should be indispensable."

He felt relieved at first, but finally he became happy again.
Chapter completed!