In Shanghe Village, Guan Tao learned why they had built the houses so far away. He smiled sheepishly, and the knot in his heart finally loosened. He then led the minor officials and Jing Chun to choose building sites for the newly arrived immigrants.
The Han Tribe had few requirements for choosing a building site. First, it could not be too far from the village. After that, good ventilation and drainage, sufficient space, and convenient access to water were all that mattered. As for farmland, the fields for these ten new immigrant households would come from the village's surplus land.
After the village's comprehensive land reform and redistribution, there would certainly be quite a bit of farmland left over. It could be divided among the new immigrants, saving them the trouble of clearing new land.
The three of them walked around the village, and in the end selected a vacant plot north of the village. The Bamboo Building at the edge of this vacant land belonged to Guan Tao's nephew. Most of the surrounding residents were also relatives of Guan Tao, which would make it convenient for them to look after the newcomers in the future.
Moreover, although the vacant land was very close to the Bamboo Building, a stretch of bamboo forest roughly thirty meters wide stood between them. Building the houses on the other side of the bamboo forest would effectively protect their privacy. Even if the local people stood atop their buildings, they would never be able to see the newcomers' courtyards through the bamboo forest.
And thirty meters was close enough that they could hear one another even when shouting across the gap, so the immigrants would not be cut off from the village.
Once the site had been chosen, they began measuring the land, cutting