The part-time workers who worked for Mr. Fang's house were also quietly discussing this matter, especially those whose property had been confiscated.
Even some maidservants who were released heard about it.
Last year, many people had their properties confiscated, and many servants were released.
But when the county magistrate distributed the land, he only allocated the land to the male servants, not the female servants.
They can only go home.
but home...
Some people were sold as maids since they were young, let alone their affection for the family, even the family did not have much affection for them.
When they were sent back home, they were either hurriedly matched and married off, or they were left at home to do farm work exhaustingly, not to mention wearing warm clothes and not even being able to eat enough.
Seriously speaking, it's not as good as when I was a girl.
There are also other families who took back their daughters, turned around and found someone else to sell them.
But they are all old, and many big families don't like to use them, so they can only be allocated to small families. They are both maids and housekeepers, and their lives are poor. Dirty place to go.
So I heard that Beihai County, regardless of gender, used to farm and raise chickens, but food and housing were included, and wages were paid. They quietly inquired, and it turned out to be better than staying at home.
The older girls took advantage of the time when they went to Master Fang's house to help harvest rice and whispered together, "I asked Er Zhu, who was a long-term worker at Master Fang's house, and they said that because there is a medical department in Beihai County, the department order is a female official. So there are girls working there."
"Are you going?"
"I don't know the way."
"I know it. Our young master took me to Beihai County for a study tour before. I know how to get there. Beihai County is not far from the city of Zhou. We only need to go to the city of Zhou, and we will be in Beihai County within a day. It's so close. very."
"Is it just us? There will be no danger on the road, right?"
"No matter how dangerous it is, I can't go anywhere," a sixteen or seventeen-year-old lady gritted her teeth: "The old woman came to my house every now and then, and I eavesdropped on it. When the autumn harvest is over, I will be sold." .If I sold it to that kind of place, I might as well just run into it and kill it.”
"You are too angry."
"Hey, what's this called being hot-tempered? They gave birth to me once, and I paid them back ten years ago. Now this life is mine. Why would they sell me?"
"Stop arguing, if you want to go, go together, call a few more people, I call the sisters I knew before, who are still unmarried at home, except for those who really love their daughters, no one wants to keep them Get a good price in winter? Let’s go on the road together, and we won’t be afraid if there are too many people.”
"I know the way to Zhoucheng. Erzhu is a good man. He often delivers things to the county town for Mr. Fang. He knows a lot of car dealers. When we arrive in the county town, we can ask him to help hire a car to go to Zhoucheng."
"This matter can't go unnoticed, we'll contact a good person and leave."
"What about household registration?"
"What household registration do we need? We are all women, and we have no land, so we went directly as refugees."
"Yes, become a refugee!"
At this time, Cui Yuan was in a county not far away from them. He grabbed two strings of money and gave them to a few helpers, and said to them, "Don't worry, it's not a bad thing. I just think that your county doesn't have so many places to support people." , and there is a lot of land in our county, so if they stay in the county either as beggars or as part-time workers, you are the ones who commit crimes and flee, and finally take the blame?"
The helpers had limited knowledge, and felt that what Cui Yuan said made sense.
And it's just spreading some news, and it's true. Whether people go or not depends entirely on their own will, so there's nothing that can't be said.
So the helpers took the money and patted their chests to say no problem.
Cui Yuan invited them to drink, and let out a sigh of relief after they left.
The bookboy following him couldn't help but said, "Master, don't we run away?"
Cui Yuan: "... What are you running for?"
"If the county magistrate here knows that you are poaching people, why not arrest you?"
Cui Yuan waved his hand indifferently and said: "Don't worry, the county magistrate won't know our plan, so what's the matter, I plan to set up a platform to recruit workers."
Book boy: ...
Cui Yuan said to set up a platform to recruit workers, and sure enough, he set up a platform to recruit workers the next day, right at the gate of the city, in front of the city guards.
The city guards and yamen servants came to ask curiously, "There are so many coolies on West Street, why don't you recruit them, but come here?"
Cui Yuan said bluntly: "They are all short-term workers over there. It's fine to do it for a day or two. What I want to recruit here are long-term workers. Starting now, it may not be finished until the beginning of next spring."
The yamen servant looked at him and asked with a smile: "You don't look like a manager of a company, why, you want to form a caravan to go to the business?"
"That's not it," Cui Yuan said with a smile, "The owner of the house is the county magistrate of Beihai County. He needs to build roads and bridges, and cultivate the manor, so he needs a lot of manpower. Beihai County has few people, so he needs to recruit some short-term workers."
He sighed, "There are not enough yamen servants."
Beihai County recruited people here, and the yamen servant immediately reported to the county magistrate.
The county magistrate didn't think much about it, and waved his hand: "Don't worry, Beihai County is rich and powerful now, and the county government and the county town are dilapidated, and they must be repaired. They don't have enough people, so it's normal to recruit from outside."
The county magistrate was very open-minded, "It just so happens that they went to make money, and when they come back, they have to spend it on our county and our family, which actually makes us rich."
The yamen servant felt that the county magistrate was right, so he did not restrict Cui Yuan any more. He would check the people he recruited every day when he passed by. Unfortunately, most people were not happy when they heard that they were going to Beihai County, and they had to go for several months. After going there, after two or three days, he only recruited three or four people.
Cui Yuan himself did not expect that the first batch of long-term workers he recruited turned out to be a group of young ladies.
Between the ages of twelve and eighteen, there were eighteen in total. They found him as soon as they entered the city gate and asked him if he was recruiting from Beihai County.
A little lady at the head asked, "Is there anything we can do?"
Cui Yuan stared at them in a daze. In fact, he didn't understand what they could do when they went there. Could they open up wasteland or build a pier
But the former county magistrate repeatedly told her that women are also welcome, regardless of gender.
So he still nodded at them affirmatively, "Yes, you are all going to Beihai County, are you sure you can stay for a long time?"
The girls nodded fiercely, "Sure."
Cui Yuan studied ink and picked up a pen, "Come on, tell me your name."
An older lady clutched the bundle in her arms and asked, "Can we leave today?"
Cui Yuan raised his eyebrows slightly, and said with a smile: "Of course, I just recruited a group of people in the past two days, and I will send you there together."
As for him, he was going to the next county with the rest of the money, and in the past two days he finally found a reliable person to help continue to set up a platform to recruit workers here.
The father of the yamen servant who always came to join in the fun could read a few words, and Cui Yuan agreed with him, "If you recruit one person, as long as you arrive in Beihai County, if you can recruit a hundred people for ten cents, that's it. One thousand Wen."