When Shutong and Cui Yuan left, they couldn't help but look at those yamen servants and city gate officials with sympathy. When they found out that their young master took money in private to ask for help to promote the recruitment of workers and settlement of land, I don't know if they would regret what happened today. .
Cui Yuan closed his fan and patted his head, "Drive your car carefully, keep your eyes closed."
He said frankly: "Master Bai came up with this idea, and he also said it. What does it have to do with me if the sky falls and he is holding it up? Don't talk about me in your heart."
The book boy covered his head and said, "I didn't say young master..."
Cui Yuan planned to visit every county and stay for a few days, but when he went to the next county, someone had already arrived in Beihai County.
They stood at the gate of the city and looked up at the gate of Beihai County. They always felt that it looked dilapidated than the counties they had been to before.
But already here, it is impossible for them to leave, so they entered the city in a group.
Their clothes were ragged, and the straw sandals on many of their feet were shortened, and some were simply barefoot.
These people were skinny and some of them carried their children on their backs. They stood in a daze on the street for a moment, not knowing where they were going.
But they looked around and found that the streets of Beihai County were quite clean, and there was not a single beggar at a glance.
Everyone was overjoyed, and couldn't help but look at the young man in charge.
The young man was also very thin, and his clothes were tattered, but his face and neck looked cleaner than others. After thinking about it, he said: "Since it is said that Beihai County is recruiting land, it should go to the county government."
"Go to the county government..." Many people hesitated and refused to leave, "What if they don't divide the land and arrest us as tenants?"
They have been refugees for some years, and some counties will recruit them for their political achievements, but they will not allocate land to them, but directly record their household registration, and then take them to find some landlords, and recruit them as tenants if they can be spotted. .
But there is a lot of rent to pay, and they still can't eat enough, not to mention that they don't even have a house, so their life would be worse than being refugees.
And some people are so thin that even the landlords look down on them, and they still have to go to the street to beg for food, but they are already registered on the household registration, and they are taxed every year, so they often have to run away and become refugees.
So they were bachelors, and said: "It's a big deal, let's run again."
"It's not that lucky every time. Didn't the people in Daqiao Village escape last time? They were dragged off to serve in the army. I don't know if they are still alive."
The young man gritted his teeth and said, "The third child and I will go first. You are waiting on the street. If you are a liar, you can run away. We are strong and fast, so it is easier to run away. When the time comes, we will meet outside the city." .”
Everyone agrees.
So the young man took two people to the county government office while inquiring, and the others sat on the ground at random places on the corner of the street. There were three with children, so they simply put the dirty children in front of them and let them stretch out their hands to beg thing.
I haven't settled down for dinner yet...
When the three of them arrived at the county government office, they stood at the announcement wall, poking their heads, and didn't dare to go forward.
The three of them didn't dare to go forward, so they could only hide behind the announcement wall. When they looked up, they saw the densely packed words posted on it, but the three of them didn't know a single word.
The young man sighed, "If only I could read, maybe I don't even need to go up."
The two yamen guards standing in front of the county yamen's gate had seen the three of them a long time ago. Seeing them poking their heads, and seeing the rotten cloth strips on their bodies that could hardly cover their bodies, they stepped forward with their big knives and shouted: " What are you three doing?"
The three of them were startled, and wanted to turn around and run away, but the yamen servant had already asked, "Are you a beggar from our county or from another county?"
The young man stopped backing, swallowed and asked, "Can't there be beggars in the county?"
"What kind of beggars do you have hands and feet? County Magistrate Bai is in urgent need of manpower. Where did you beg before?"
The young man immediately said: "We are from other counties. We heard that Beihai County is recruiting workers and allocating land to refugees. That's why we came here."
"Dividing the land? It's not easy for you to divide the land, but it's not difficult to recruit workers. Come in with me."
The three of them looked at each other, raised their feet and followed the yamen servant into the room. They carefully looked left and right and asked, "Then, don't you divide the land?"
"Our county magistrate said that even if you settle down, you have to select excellent people. The land in our Beihai County is reserved for hardworking and capable people, so it is not so easy to divide the land, but it is not difficult to apply for jobs. Now our county There is a shortage of people."
"I don't know what kind of job it is?"
"What kind of work can you do?" The yamen servant looked at them with distaste, and said, "You can also farm the land, let's go."
After entering the county government office and walking to the left, I happened to meet Master Song, "Master Song, are you going out?"
Master Song stopped in his tracks, saw the three young men, and narrowed his eyes slightly, "Are you here for a job?"
"Ah, I'll take him to Zhao Li now."
The corners of Master Song's lips were slightly pressed down, and Bai Shan handed over the statistics and recruitment to Zhao Ming. Because he was reused, everyone in the county government respected him as a Zhao official. At least, Master Song feels that if things go on like this, he will be handed over to Zhao Ming as the master.
Seeing that Master Song didn't speak, the yamen servant hurriedly waved at the young man three times, "Hurry up, hurry up, it's getting late, and if you don't count, you won't even be able to catch up with dinner at night."
As soon as the three young people heard it, they immediately followed.
Zhao Ming was in a small room with only a table and a chair, and behind him was a hanging curtain, but this was useless for the time being.
Seeing three people, Zhao Ming opened the brochure and asked them, "What's their name, what year were they born, and where are they from?"
Knowing that they were refugees, they asked again: "When and why did you become refugees, where did you wander before you came to our county, and what did you do for a living?"
Then I asked, "What talent?"
The previous question was fine, but for the last one, the three youths were all taken aback, "What is talent?"
"Will you know how to do carpentry, build houses, repair bridges, and throw bricks?" Zhao Mingdao: "If you don't know any of these, you can know how to grow rice, grow wheat, grow vegetables, raise pigs, ducks, chickens, cattle, and sheep?"
The three of them nodded repeatedly, "We know how to farm, and we can also raise chickens and sheep."
Zhao Ming nodded, "There's more, no one would order something special? Even if it's bamboo weaving."
The three shook their heads.
Zhao Ming wrote them truthfully, but the young man in the lead hesitated for a moment and asked, "My lord, is there any difference between being a carpenter and being a farmer?"
"The wages are different," Zhao Mingdao: "For those with special talents, the county government will pay higher wages."
"How much is the wage for that kind of land?"
Zhao Mingdao: "Twenty Wen."
The young man's eyes lit up, and he asked, "Do I make food by myself, or should I get it from the county government?"