Hongwu's Land Reclamation: from Refugees to the Hope of a County

In the fourteenth year of Hongwu's reign, the world was initially settled, with wasteland everywhere, and the Yellow Book System was about to be implemented. Chen Henghun traveled through Huaixi and was a dying refugee, dragging his two younger siblings with him to guard the muddy wasteland that others avoided. He had no household registration and no backing, and the road ahead was dark. He knew very well that during the Hongwu period, land was the foundation for survival. They opened up wasteland and dredged canals, built ponds to accumulate fertilizers, reclaimed wastelands, took in homeless people, organized land acres, sorted out household registers, and turned mudflats into prosperous villages. Starting from a thatched shack, it gathered refugees, improved water conservancy, and standardized land registration, and gradually developed the barren land into a prosperous township with unique management methods. He firmly took root in the countryside, made amazing political achievements with good land, inventory, and people's support, and made the people live and work in peace and contentment under his rule. This matter was reported to the emperor at all levels, attracting the attention of Lao Zhu himself. He established his territory as a model for rural governance in the world. He was summoned for questioning many times. A small man won the appreciation of the emperor with a piece of land, and a legend of grassroots establishment in Hongwu was born.