The County Magistrate Lu, who had faintly sensed that the situation was not right, secretly scolded Bai Shan as "treacherous" after he knew that someone even left the autumn harvest rice and went to work in Beihai County, but he couldn't stop him.
After thinking about it, I still turn a blind eye and let it go.
But in order to prevent Bai Shan from snatching too many people from him, he also asked the government officials to check more refugees passing by, "Guide them to Beihai County."
He doesn't have the ability to resettle these refugees at the moment, so why not give them to Bai Shan, since he has enough people, shouldn't he snatch ready-made people from him
The county magistrate Lu did not expect that the small Beihai County absorbed these foreign populations like a whale.
They will be settled first in the official land outside the city, which was the official land of the county magistrates of the past dynasties, and it is also Bai Shan's current job field.
Perhaps it was to reduce disputes, or to give preferential treatment to the parents and officials of a county. Apart from the job field of the county magistrate, that piece of land was a large area of wasteland and open land.
The former Lu county magistrate couldn't bear the waste of these lands, so he asked people to plant some wasteland. Even if he later left Gao Sheng, this piece of official land was still cultivated.
After Bai Shan came, he took advantage of him.
It's a pity that the tenants don't seem to be paying much attention, and the output is not very high.
Bai Shan could also understand that being a tenant for the government is really not a very happy thing, so after harvesting the wheat harvested in summer and the rice harvested in autumn, he left enough food for the three of them, and sold the rest to the county government. .
The price is fair, neither taking advantage of the county government, nor letting the county government take advantage of itself.
Just wanting to take this opportunity to bribe Bai Shan's Chief Bookkeeper Song:...
This is the money delivered to the door.
Now that field is full of people, Bai Shan asked people to build a lot of thatched huts on the open land for people to live in, and then asked them to reclaim the wasteland near his work field as official land.
As for his working field, it is now divided into pieces, or to plant winter wheat, or to dig ponds to raise fish, or to plant mulberry and hemp, and some better fields have been opened up and sprinkled with vegetables. grow vegetables.
There is no objection in the county government for the private use of public equipment.
However, after a period of time, the recruited long-term workers will be screened out and assigned to work on the official fields of various villages in groups.
Zhu Sanlang and the others received their wages on the evening of the third day, a total of forty wen.
The three of them are still very thin, but their spirits are quite different from before. Because they were refugees before they came in, and they had a note from the medical office, so although they were classified into the ranks of farming, they were assigned relatively light work. .
In the words of the person who brought them, "Take care of your body first, then it will be useful later, otherwise you will damage your body as soon as you come up, and who will work for the county government in the future?"
He said: "I didn't say this, it was spread from the county government, saying that it was said by the magistrate."
Because Bai Shan came to check and inquire from time to time, the workers did not dare to fight each other, and even the yamen servants did not dare to be too aggressive with them, for fear of leaving a bad impression on Bai County Magistrate.
Although this county magistrate Bai is also powerful, judging from everything he has done, everyone knows that he loves the people, especially those under his rule, so he has a hostile heart The yamen servants did not dare to do anything.
Not to mention Dong Xianwei's repeated orders, no one dared to disobey.
Zhu Sanlang took the 40 Wen salary, put it in his arms immediately, and ran to ask the clerk who was in charge of them to ask for leave.
"Going into the city?" The clerk looked up at him, then looked at the two young men behind him, squeezed out a smile and said, "Are you going into the city to buy something? What do you want to buy? We have it here. We have everything you need for clothes, shoes and socks. Don't dislike them." Their stitches are not precise, but they are cheap. Go to the county town and ask, which shop sells ready-made clothes for only 20 yuan? The fabrics are all good fabrics. If the thread breaks in the future, you can buy the thread and sew it on. gone."
Zhu Sanlang: ... Who buys clothes that can be worn for three to five years? Who would buy clothes for the sake of collapse
He finally knew why the county government's clothes were so cheap.
He hurriedly said: "I'm not shopping, I'm going out to see my relatives. They came to Beihai County with me. I don't know what happened now, so I want to go and see."
He hesitated for a while and then asked: "I want them to work in the county government, but some of them have children. I don't know if adults want it."
The clerk immediately said: "The child has no wages."
Zhu Sanlang: "...that's not the meaning of the young ones. Children naturally don't need wages. Then the adults work, can the children follow? Don't worry, they don't eat the food from the county government. We save the rations to give them."
Clerk: "Isn't your food still provided by the county government? You are all refugees, right? The county government has ready-made regulations. You can take your people with you, and you can take your children."
He turned his head to look at the hourglass, and said: "It's getting late, the county government should be in the office now, but Zhao officials usually leave the office later than others, if you go early, maybe you can live in today .”
As soon as Zhu Sanlang heard this, he took the note and rushed into the city with his two friends, and found two people in an alley not far from the gate of the city, "What about the others, call them back quickly, let's go to the county government office together Sign up."
Those two people looked at the changed Zhu Sanlang and the other three, and they were astonished, "Is this new clothes? And new shoes, Sanlang, have you developed?"
Zhu Sanlang patted off their dirty hands, "Don't touch them randomly, you will have some too, call everyone back quickly."
Only then did the two of them come to their senses, and quickly asked, "Is it reliable to go to the county government office?"
"Reliable," Zhu Sanlang took out the copper coins that were not yet warm in his arms, flashed them in front of their eyes, and then put them away, saying: "The wages are settled once every three days. We went for two days and happened to meet Pay wages, we have all three of us."
The two were envious when they heard it, and immediately went out to find someone. They didn't search alleys one by one, but went straight down the street, shouting all the way in their native dialect, "Come back, Sanlang is back, come back quickly—"
The few people who were squatting in the back alley picking up the slop of the restaurant heard it, and immediately stuffed the half of the steamed bun that had just been dug out into their mouths, turned around and ran outside...
The children who were stretching out their hands and saying auspicious words to passers-by on the street also heard it, turned their heads to look at their relatives, and they immediately stepped forward, picked up the children and ran towards the gate of the city.
Two quarters of an hour later, a group of dirty and panting people blocked Zhao Ming who was going home from the county government office at the entrance of the county government office.
Zhao Ming: ...
He looked at the sun that had already set to the west in the sky, then at the group of people who were staring at him eagerly, and finally turned around and led them into the county government office.
Including the children, there are a total of eighteen people, which is quite a lot.
Because there were so many people and they were all refugees, after registering them, Zhao Ming personally took them out, but instead of going to the medical office, he went to the side door in the backyard of the county government office and knocked on the door.
After a while, Bai Shan, who was wearing homely clothes, came out to watch with Zhou Man.