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Chapter 276 Land Grab?
The period from November to the first month of the year is the most intensive period of the year for weddings.

Choose to get married in winter so that you can relax and not be busy.

Secondly, you can rely on low temperature to ensure that the wedding banquet ingredients will not spoil quickly.

More importantly, if you get married at this time, most brides will give birth to children in late autumn and early winter of the coming year. Low temperature will also reduce the chance of infection after giving birth.

These established habits are all the experiences summed up by the blood and tears of our ancestors.

With the marriage of Chen Chu at the end of October, it seemed like a beginning. After entering November, the Caizhou Left-behind Bureau welcomed a wave of marriages.

On the eighth day of November, the eldest son married Cui Yuan.

The eldest son is always the arm beside Lu Anhou. Cuiyuan has a close relationship with Zhao Renren and Chen Ruren of the Hou Mansion. In front of outsiders, Renren is even more like her sisters.

Lu Anhou and his wife were naturally interested in their marriage.

I heard that Marquis Lu An not only built a village in Shouzhou for his eldest son, but also prepared a generous dowry for Cuiyuan.

On the day of the wedding, not only did Lu Anhou and his wife spend the whole day at the eldest son's home, but Aunt Chen also came to see Cui Yuan off with a big belly.

Cui Yuan was moved to tears, and even felt like she was in another world.
Back then, in order to repay the family debt due to the famine, she had no choice but to sell herself for three years and work as a maid in Caiwei Pavilion. Who would have thought that such an inconspicuous little maid would one day become famous and become the wife of a general.
Things are impermanent.

When the news came back to Tongshan, the sisters in Caiwei Pavilion who were old to Yunong and Cuiyuan couldn't help sighing. They couldn't help but make assumptions when they were narcissistic and self-inflicted. If they had been more proactive back then, would they have had the chance to climb the mountain? Go up to the high branches of Anhou.

After the eldest son, Liu Erhu got married.

After arranging the marriages of the brothers one after another, the time has come to November [-]th, and it is the turn of military commander Li Ke to marry his wife.

Chen Chu had already promised Li Ke that he would take Mao'er back to Tongshan.

Li Ke was one of the "storytellers" organized by Cai Hua in his early days, and felt a sense of gratitude toward the latter that was almost like a gift of knowledge.

Therefore, before going to Tongshan, Chen Chu went to Academy Street to invite Cai Hua to accompany him.

Cai Hua probably felt left out because Chen Chu was busy with other things after getting married, so she refused directly, saying that she was busy with other things and had no time.
This long-legged lady has a little knot in her heart and needs to spend some time to calm her down.

Chen Chu planned to clear things up with Cai Hua after returning from Tongshan. There would be no overnight grudges between lovers. If the loopholes were plugged a few times, all grudges would be gone.

On November 21, Chen Chu and his wife set off for Tongshan.

This is also the first time Chen Chu has gone back after leaving Tongshan.

After more than a year, I don’t know what Luliuwei is like now. Chen Chu is vaguely looking forward to it.

same day.

Six hundred miles away, in the southeast of Lu'an County, Shouzhou, is Minhe New Village.

Just by hearing the name of the village, you can tell that this village is newly built.

During the Huaibei Rebellion, thieves caused great harm to Lu'an County. People in several villages near Minhe Xincun were either killed or fled eastward to Huaiyuan County in neighboring Suzhou.

Nowadays, in Jingping, Huaibei, people who fled have returned to their hometowns, but not even one of them has a registered residence.

After the great chaos, if you want to recover, the first priority is population.

After discussing with Lu Anhou, the newly appointed magistrate Tang Jing'an called on some stranded disaster victims in Caizhou and farmers with little land and no land in Tongshan to come and develop Shouzhou.

After Lu Anhou approved it, he privately called this policy the Eastward Movement.
Old man Ding and his daughter were the first farmers to move eastward to respond to the call.

A gust of wind blew by, rolling up layers of waves that looked like sea waves on the vast field covered with yellow weeds.

Old man Ding, who was plowing the ground with a hoe, rubbed his sore waist and looked around with the hoe, and couldn't help but reveal a simple smile.

In the summer of the eighth year of Fuchang, old man Ding fled from Langshan to Tongshan after being persuaded by his son and daughter.

Due to some unexpected encounters on the way, he settled in Luliuwei in Tongshan Mountain.

Although Luliuwei is a good place and the father and daughter have jobs in the village, old man Ding, who has been a tenant of the Zheng family in the former Yinma Village for half his life, never forgets the land.

When he learned that each household would be allocated fifty acres of land during this eastward move, no one could stop Old Man Ding from signing up.

Because it was the first batch, there were not many people recruited. Old man Ding's son Ding Peng served in the Huai Army. With this condition, he grabbed a spot.

"Mountains of gold and silver are not as good as a piece of land that can be passed down to children and grandchildren!" Old Man Ding felt inspired and said to himself.

Because of his military status, old man Ding's land tax was set at an extremely low level. The only thing that people didn't understand was that the allocated land could not be resold or mortgaged.

However, Old Man Ding has no intention of selling it. Three generations of the Ding family have been sharecroppers for generations. Now that they finally have their own land, they cannot sell it at all. It is only right to pass it on to their children and grandchildren!
Thinking of his children and grandchildren, Old Man Ding couldn't help but sigh. In the past, because of poverty, his son Ding Peng, who was in his twenties, still didn't have a mother-in-law.

Now that I have finally saved some money, my son has set his sights higher. He said that he wanted to marry a female worker from the Caizhou Textile Factory. He also said that the girls in the textile factory all went to night school and could earn money, be literate, and have high quality. Where did you learn so many new words?

In addition to worrying about his son, old man Ding also has a headache about his daughter Ding Jiao.Last year, something went wrong. My family and the Yao family almost arranged a marriage. Even after the process of accepting and asking for names was completed, I found out that Yao Yuhou had already had a sweetheart.

Neither Mr. Ding nor his daughter were messy people. Afterwards, Ding Jiao not only returned the bracelets and fabrics that Aunt Yao gave her, but also comforted Aunt Yao and his wife who felt that they couldn't help her.

But Old Man Ding knew that his daughter might not be able to let go, otherwise she wouldn't have agreed to come to Lu'an County with him so easily.

Come to think of it, I also had the intention of leaving the sad place.

"Son, let's take a rest." Old man Ding called to his daughter who was digging on the ground a few feet away.

"Dad, I'm not tired." Ding Jiao raised her head and forced a smile. Her dark face was covered with beads of sweat. She wiped it with her sleeve casually and said: "My brother is working for the Marquis and can't help the family. My daughter We need to hurry up and take advantage of the winter leisure to help dad tidy up the fields so as not to delay the next spring's plowing."

Seeing that his daughter is so sensible, Old Man Ding feels both distressed and relieved.

At this moment, I saw two young men in civilian clothes walking quickly along the field ridge from a distance.

"Old Master Ding~"

From a distance, the visitor greeted.

Old man Ding knew who the visitor was as soon as he heard it. He couldn't help but bowed first, and then replied: "Tang Zhixian and Xu County Lieutenant came down to check the soil moisture again."

The visitors were none other than County Magistrate Tang Jing'an and County Lieutenant Xu Zhiyuan.

"Haha~" Tang Jing'an smiled heartily at first, and then said: "To restore a place, the first priority is grain production. What can you do if you sit in the county office all day long? I think when the Marquis was in Tongshan, he just took over Luliuwei Then he found out the hydrology, moisture content, and climate patterns around Zhuangzi in previous years, and wrote a [-]-word "Luliuwei Survey" report. The Marquis is my role model in the way of being an official, so I naturally have to learn a few things from it. "

Old man Ding had never spoken a few words to an official in his life, and he couldn't quite understand the words of the county magistrate, so he only laughed awkwardly with him.

But it didn't affect his feeling that the officers under the Marquis were different from the officers next to him.

Tang Jing'an knelt down, grabbed a handful of soil, raised his head and said, "Old man Ding, please teach me how to look at soil moisture."

"Good talk, good talk!"

Old man Ding hurriedly followed and squatted down.

After Tang Jing'an patiently asked for advice, he caught a glimpse of Ding Jiao who had been silently digging on the ground. He couldn't help but stand up and advised: "Miss Ding family, you should do less of this heavy work. When the twelfth lunar month comes, Mr. Hou will send The rebel prisoners who participated in the labor reform in Shouzhou have arrived. I have won over 800 people and dozens of cattle. When the time comes, they will be handed over to them the heavy work of opening canals and plowing the land."

Ding Jiao was shy in front of strangers. After hearing this, she bowed to Tang Jing'an to express her gratitude, but stubbornly continued to stir up the ground.

Tang Jing'an smiled and shook his head.

On the plot next door, Erlang of the Fan family, who also came from Tongshan, heard what the magistrate said and came over happily, "My parents, is what you said just now true? The Marquis really wants to send prisoners and cattle to help us plow the fields. Open the canal?"

Tang Jing'an clasped his hands behind his back and smiled majestically and kindly, "How can I come here to joke with you? The Marquis knew that your sons and daughters were serving in the army and lacked labor, so he came up with this policy. By the way, Fan Erlang, what is your brother’s name?”

"My eldest brother's name is Fan Guanghan! In the ninth year of Fuchang, the Shenrui Army invaded Tongshan, and he joined Minzhuang to help defend the city. In October of that year, he joined the Huai Suppression Army along with his brother Zhou Zongfa. Now he is under the command of Yao Yuhou and is a marquis. I am a personal soldier!"

Fan Erlang looked proud when he mentioned his brother.

When Old Man Ding heard the words 'Yao Yuhou', his expression dimmed and he quietly glanced at his daughter's back.

They were all from the countryside, and Fan Erlang had also heard about the Ding family's daughter. Only then did he realize that he had accidentally mentioned someone's sore point. Just when he was about to say something to change the topic, he saw a dozen people doing bunts coming from the east. The man in costume is coming this way.

The man in black robes at the head also saw Ding, Fan, Tang Jing'an and others, but he only glanced at them, as if he didn't see them, and continued to walk forward until he crossed the land that had just been leveled and taken care of by the eastward relocation households. Then he stopped.

Then he ordered the other men behind him, "This is it."

As soon as the man in black robe finished speaking, several men immediately dug a hole with hoes, and two more men carried a long stone tablet and put it into the hole.

Then fill with soil and compact it.
A process is simple and smooth.

Tang Jing'an and Xu Zhiyuan were both confused. Out of curiosity, they quickly stepped forward to check.

With just one glance, the two of them were furious at the same time.

However, I saw that the four characters engraved on the stone tablet were exactly 'Huaiyuan County Boundary'!
"Who are you! How can you move the boundary markers indiscriminately! This place has penetrated five or six miles into our Lu'an County. Are you trying to rob our fertile land in Lu'an County!"

Tang Jing'an still didn't know whether the other party was an official or a civilian, so he was relatively restrained in his words.

But the man in black robe looked at his clothes and then turned away, not even bothering to say a word to Tang Jing'an.

"The waistband of those trousers was not fastened and you were exposed?" someone from the accompanying men said.

Xu Zhiyuan, who had a hot temper, immediately stepped forward and slapped the sarcastic man on the face.

Grandma, the land grab is all my fault, and I don’t even know how our principal made his fortune!

(End of this chapter)