Chapter 1630: Relocation

Because their family had too many children to support, and while many children were born, they could not be counted as labor; feeding them only required providing food and drink, but they could not manage to make their family prosperous.

To become prosperous, they had to cultivate more land, but their land was already large enough, yet they lacked sufficient labor to farm it; the parents' generation naturally had to shift the pressure onto those children who had just reached adulthood.

However, capable children who wanted to live a better life were unwilling to be squeezed into a cramped home, so the only thing they could do was to split the family.

In Huaxia, splitting the family is allowed once one reaches the age, but generally, one can only receive a very small portion of the family's land, and one must build one's own house and so on; this makes many people shrink back, because once the family is split, it means there is no stable source of food, and in most cases, splitting the family also creates conflict with parents.

Only the eldest child, because they have worked for the family for long enough and have accumulated some say in matters, will have the parents not mind and even support them when splitting the family; however, for the children who have just reached adulthood later, the parents are unwilling to let them split the family too early.

The policy promoted by Yulong is to give this group of people an opportunity; it is not just in the village and town areas where families rely entirely on farming for a living and have low incomes, but even some families in the city are willing to accept this policy, leave home, and go to other places to strive and build their own small homes.

In their view, the hardship is only temporary; as long as they develop that piece of land, Huaxia will certainly pay attention to it, all supporting facilities will be provided, and since Huaxia City has not been built for many years, they can also build a city.

For the work of relocation, they choose to relocate nearby and concentrate the relocation, counting those who have signed up, and then allocating them according to the location of their original residence; of course, they can also exchange with each other.

The first batch of relocation established ten villages, totaling over five thousand people, with an average of more than five hundred people per village; however, most of them are young men, as almost no women choose to split the family, because after they reach the set age, they choose to marry and live with their husband's family.

These villages are almost entirely composed of young adults; they may have never met before, or some may have been neighbors in the past, but now, because of this policy, they have been united together.

All villages are named according to the characteristics of their location, and they can be changed at any time in the future, because the village itself is not important.

When signing up for relocation, the houses were already being built; there were several fixed concentrated residential points, and a half-acre homestead was circled out, but only a circle was drawn on the outside, and there was only one room inside the circle for temporary living; as mentioned before, if one wants to build it all at once, then take out a loan and use one's future to repay it.

Some people chose to do this, but others, after seeing it on the spot, did not choose to take out a loan, because they discovered that the residences were relatively concentrated; although several points were scattered in various directions of the village, the land would not move, and after it was allocated, some people's land was near and some was far; for those far from the land, it was naturally inconvenient, so if they were to build, it would be better to build the house closer to their own land.

Therefore, they chose temporary dwellings and would wait until their land was determined before building.

The management in the village is the responsibility of a village official sent down from the town; now, the management of the village is handed over directly to the town, and the administrative planning of the original separate town has already delineated many villages underneath it, because while the town's residence is concentrated, people still need to farm the land, thus creating some Nature villages.

Now, these Nature villages have been incorporated into management, and within the management scope of those towns, village jurisdictions have been divided in advance; even if there is no one there, the village still exists, and surely someone will move in in the future.

Those villages that moved will first draw lots to allocate residential land and houses, then receive tools and begin collective labor to reclaim wasteland together; in this process, the public's plow oxen are also given to them to use, because the plow oxen have no work during this season.

Some men who have taken wives have their wives be responsible for preparing communal meals for everyone, but the final allocation of farmland area is also based on the amount of effort put in; the amount of effort is still measured using primitive work points.

However, this is only for temporary use, just for the sake of fairness; the area of wasteland these young people can reclaim in a year is quite large, as one person alone can dig out more than one acre of land in a day; if someone takes sick leave or slacks off, wouldn't they be taking advantage in the end?

The reason why collective labor is mandatory is that the place is relatively remote; they need more than an hour to walk to the town, let alone Huaxia City; there are no roads and no army, and although there are no wild people, there is no shortage of wild beasts.

Concentrated labor can deter wild beasts, and some tools also require multiple people to operate, so everyone is first made to work together to reclaim wasteland; after all the wasteland becomes farmland, it will be measured with a ruler, numbered, and then they will draw lots to select their own land.

Although there are many people in the village, resources like education and medical care are temporarily not needed because most people are not married, but there are corresponding policies; some eligible girls who are willing to strive from scratch have already been signed up, and later a matchmaking event will be arranged so that those who find a match can get married directly and go strive together.

From marriage to having children takes a year, and Huaxia's smallest enlightenment class requires one to be three years old, but this is not mandatory, so the village can postpone the mandatory school age to six; then, adding the one year of pregnancy, these villages have seven years to develop.

In seven years, Huaxia will certainly be able to arrange village primary schools and village clinics; it is just a village, so it does not need too many people; in the future, all Nature villages in Huaxia, or villages formed by mechanical relocation, will follow this development model; however, villages formed by self-migration and gathering have factors of clan gathering, where a whole large family or a group of people with intermarriage relations discuss and migrate together; the problems of this kind of village will appear later, but for now, the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

Huaxia's administrative planning is becoming more and more perfect, and likewise, the scope actually controlled by Huaxia is becoming larger and larger, and the population is increasing, which is always a good thing.