On the earth platform, Ma Xiaoliu held a mallet in one hand and a simple trumpet rolled up in the other.
Looking at the dark crowd below, he felt a little apprehensive.
This is his first appearance on stage.
Deng Cunli needed someone, and someone who could write, count, and trustworthy.
The lack of talents not only caused Gu Jiu a headache, but also caused headaches for the people below.
Er Zhuang's speed of cultivating talents cannot keep up with the needs.
There was no other way, Gu Jiu had no choice but to send out the little yellow sects around him.
Tell them to study hard by Deng Cunli's side, and hope that one day they can be alone.
Ma Xiaoliu looked back at Deng Cunli and Eunuch Deng standing behind him.
Deng Cunli stared, Ma Xiaoliu trembled, as if he was in a palace, he quickly suppressed his nervousness and cheered up.
Boom boom boom!
Ma Xiaoliu beat the gongs and drums heavily with a stick.
"Everyone is here, right? There are three main things to call everyone over today."
The refugees all pricked up their ears and listened carefully, for fear of missing a word.
Several children were hungry and a little restless. Wang Lianshi raised his hand and hit, "Don't make a sound, listen to what the master has to say."
Li Sheng stood in the crowd, his face was yellow and thin, and he had no flesh. But he was tall and stood out from the crowd.
He rubbed the yellow mud on his body and crushed another flea to death.
He was originally from Caizhou, and his family had a little income.
There has been a severe drought in my hometown for three years, and I have sold everything that can be sold at home. The family has no food left, so they can only eat wild vegetables and bark.
When the bark of the wild vegetables was gone, he had no choice but to follow the whole village to flee famine.
As a result, a rare torrential rain was encountered halfway, and the river rose, which broke the embankment and dispersed the family.
When the flood receded, he survived, but his family members disappeared.
He didn't believe that all ten members of the family were dead.
He remembered that the family had made an appointment to go to the capital.
Maybe his family is waiting for him in the capital.
He tightened his belt, went on the road alone, and became a refugee in the capital.
Relying on the government's daily gruel to survive.
Since arriving in the capital last year, until this year, he has been wandering around, trying to find his family.
Time and time again hope is ignited, and time and time again disappointment.
Two months ago, the lifeless refugee shack area ushered in the first recruitment.
That time, he missed it because his heart was ashamed.
For two months, he saw with his own eyes that the people around him gradually became stronger because they got a job on the construction site. Not only did they support their families, but they also had spare money in their hands to tear a foot of cloth for the mother-in-law. At least they had clothes to cover their bodies.
He also saw a half-child working on the construction site, getting back a few copper coins every day, and white flour steamed buns that he couldn't bear to eat.
It's real white flour steamed buns.
The white steamed buns made Li Sheng drool every day in his dreams.
He also wants to eat white flour, steamed buns, go to work, and save money.
When he finds his family one day, he will also have the money to tear two feet of cloth for the wife to make new clothes, and buy two taels of brown sugar for the child.
He stretched his neck and looked at the beardless young man on the platform.
He had heard people say that his master was a member of the royal family. So the stewards here are all the father-in-law in the palace.
The word father-in-law is very deterrent.
Anyway, no one dared to be presumptuous in front of these father-in-laws.
Ma Xiaoliu coughed twice, cleared his throat, and said loudly with a tin trumpet, "Listen up, everyone. The first thing is to recruit 500 women and children to pick up excrement and clean up every day. Garbage in the roadway, and the trees and weeds on the nearby hills will be cleaned up later.
As for the treatment, four buns a day, plus three copper coins. People who want this job line up here to sign up. Anyone who dares to fight and make trouble will not be allowed. "
There was a commotion among the crowd.
Women and children swarmed to the left of the big locust tree.
Wang Lianshi is also running to the left with his three children.
While running, she dropped a straw sandal, and she had to go back to pick it up.
By the time she got on the line, there were already hundreds of people lined up in front of her.
Wang Lianshi felt lost for a while, his face turned pale.
If it weren't for the straw sandals, she should be ranked within the three hundred.
She took a few children and said to the children: "Cheer up, our mother three, someone has to be chosen."
Wang Ergen nodded heavily.
He was twelve years old, and because of lack of food and clothing, he was short.
He was not wanted on the construction site because he was too young.
He is very envious that his elder brother Wang Jiangen can go to the construction site to work every day, and can eat white rice and bone soup every day.
And on the construction site, meat is eaten every two days. Although there are only three slices of pork, Wang Ergen sucks, really envious.
I heard people say that those craftsmen can eat meat for two meals a day.
He looked forward desperately, he must be chosen.
In this way, there are four corn buns per day, plus three copper coins.
When he has saved up to one hundred copper coins, he will buy a pair of straw sandals and eat meat.
The team progressed quickly, some were selected and some were eliminated.
The chosen one wept with joy.
Even if the eliminated people are dissatisfied, they don't dare to bully them. Because standing next to him was a guard with a big knife and a stick.
These guards are not vegetarian.
In the past, someone jumped in line, and the sticks rained down, and they were beaten half to death.
There were also refugees who made troubles, and ended up disappearing from the shack two days later.
Some say they were thrown into a pond and drowned.
Someone was buried alive on the mountain.
Some people said that they were caught by the government and directly beaten to death.
No matter what you say, it's all a death.
These guards, with sticks in their hands, taught the refugees what it means to be obedient and have food, and what it means to queue up.
On the platform, Ma Xiaoliu was announcing the second matter.
"The second thing requires 1,000 laborers to dig ditches. The salary is two meals a day of brown rice, four steamed buns, plus broth, and eight copper coins a day. Those who want to work have to queue up on the right hand side to sign up. Anyone who dares to fight and cause trouble will be driven out."
boom!
The refugee team exploded as if firecrackers had been lit.
The men desperately ran to the right side, for fear that they would not be registered if they were late.
Li Sheng took advantage of his height and long legs to run ahead.
Since eating a watery porridge at noon yesterday, he has not eaten a single grain of rice for a whole day and night.
He is very hungry.
He took out the fastest speed in his life and came to the front of the line, but he was a little dizzy and flustered.
He tightened his belt; he must be very hungry.
He is capable, and he will definitely be selected.
Boom boom boom!
There were three more gongs and drums.
Holding the tin horn, Ma Xiaoliu said loudly, "There is one last thing. Over there at the construction site, the first batch of courtyards are about to be completed. People who need to buy a house can come here for consultation. There are people here from morning till night. By the way , it doesn’t matter if you don’t have money, you can work to pay for the rent. In addition to the courtyard, there are also two-story small buildings with a single family.”
Nothing happened.
If you can't get enough to eat, how can you buy a house
The so-called third thing, few people listened to it.
But Li Sheng listened.
Dazayuan
Two-story building
Can work pay for the rent
He felt a little itchy.
If you can be selected, you should be able to expect eight copper coins a day.
After finding a family member, they don't need to live in a shack, but can directly move into a new house.
But, won't you go back to your hometown
Li Sheng was very confused.
But he didn't struggle for long, because it was his turn soon.
Ma Xiaoliu is a little embarrassed, the house, people struggle all their lives, so they just want to have a tile to cover themselves. Why didn't these people respond.
He looked back at Deng Cunli.
Deng Cunli didn't care.
The main target of the first phase of the project is not these refugees who can't get enough to eat.
The people who really have the purchasing power and are willing to buy a house are the craftsmen who are working on the construction site and the refugees who have income.
This is also the first batch of relocated people in the plan.
The second group of relocated people in the plan will inevitably use violence when necessary.
But not yet.
If you want to carry out the second batch of large-scale relocation, you must first ensure that most of the families have people who work to earn money.
Since last year, we have been doing the registration work of these refugees.
Tens of thousands of refugees, their places of origin, where they came from, whether they have committed crimes, their family demographics, and the number of laborers in their families, all these information have been registered long ago.
Recruitment, not only depends on whether there is a labor force or not, whether it can endure hardship.
We also need to see how many laborers there are, and how many people have already started work.
If there are three laborers in a family, two laborers have already obtained jobs. Then there is one labor force left, sorry, I must give up the opportunity to others.
If you want to resettle these refugees, you must distribute them equally to a certain extent.
If the food cannot be distributed equally, a part of the work must be distributed equally.
Finally it was the turn of the Wang Lian family.
"Where are you from?" The man glanced at the family and asked seriously.
Wang Lianshi was very nervous, rubbing a corner of his clothes, and whispered, "Caizhou native."
Guys get it.
Caizhou suffered severe drought for several years, and many people fled famine.
Some went to the south, and some came to the capital.
Many others died on the way.
The clerk picked up the Caizhou Population Register, "What's your husband's family name?"
"My surname is Wang."
Zhao Qian Sun Li...
Population registration, sorted by family names.
"King what?"
"Wang Lianshi."
"What's your son's name?"
Wang Ergen took the initiative to take a step forward, "My name is Wang Ergen, and my brother's name is Wang Jiangen. He works underground as a coolie."
The man nodded, and soon found Wang Ergen's family.
"Only Wang Jiangen is working in your family now?"
Wang Lianshi nodded again and again, and said cautiously: "Only my Dalang is working. There are too many people in the family, and the food earned from working is not enough."
The man said nothing.
He glanced at the steward next to him. The steward nodded slightly.
The guy said blankly: "Wang Ergen, you have been hired. Take this note and go to the next door to complete the formalities. Next!"
Wang Ergen was overjoyed, holding the sticky note tightly for fear of dropping it.
Wang Lianshi was anxious, "Then, what about me?"
The guy said bluntly: "If you recruit your son, you won't have a chance. Don't stand in the way, the next one."
Wang Lianshi was flustered and wanted to ask again, but was pushed away by the people behind.
The people behind were very dissatisfied, and murmured: "My son has been hired, what else do you want? Is it possible that you still want your whole family to be hired?"
Wang Lianshi blushed and hurried away with a few children.
Wang Ergen took the note and went to the next door.
The clerk took the note, looked at it, took out the wooden strip, dipped a brush in red paint, and wrote Wang Ergen's name, age, place of origin, and date.
Dry the paint and give it to him, "Take it. Use this to go to work and receive wages and food. If it is lost, it must be replaced in time."
Wang Ergen held the wooden bar tightly, as if what he was holding was not an identity plate, but a peerless treasure.
He had seen similar wooden strips on his elder brother Wang Jiangen.
The eldest brother regards the wooden stick as a treasure, and no one is allowed to touch it.
He heard from his elder brother that without wooden sticks, he would not be paid for his work.
Someone dropped a wooden stick on the construction site. Before it was replaced, they didn't have a bite of food and received a penny of wages.
Wang Ergen looked all over his body, and it was not convenient to place the wooden stick anywhere.
Fortunately, there was a hole in the wooden bar. He found a thread to string it up and hung it around his neck, so he wouldn't be afraid of it falling off.
On the big locust tree, in the crowd, many people already had a piece of wood on their necks.
Anyone who has a wooden stick has got the envious eyes of others.
They puffed out their chests subconsciously, distinguishing them from those who did not work.
Even though they were still hungry, they didn't receive a penny. But people with wooden sticks feel that they are superior to others.
Wang Lianshi was very happy and envious.
She didn't expect Ergen to be selected.
"Mother, the steward just said that I'm going to work today. Tonight I can go home with my buns and my wages."
Wang Lianshi wept with joy, "Okay, okay. You and your eldest brother have jobs, and our family's good days are coming soon."
Wang Ergen grinned.
Li Sheng also hung wooden bars around his neck, and gathered with a group of young and middle-aged men.
Recruitment was fast, and by the time the sun came out, 500 women and children had already been recruited.
From among them the fellow selected ten captains, each captain having fifty men under his command.
"Remember, each team has its own task area. For teams that have not completed the task, everyone's salary will be halved."
According to the rules established by Gu Jiu, only wages are deducted, not food rations.
The women and children were buzzing, all talking about it. The ten people who were selected as captains suddenly felt a lot of pressure.
The buddy continued: "No fighting, no stealing, rape and cheating. Anyone who is disobedient will be confiscated and driven out. Choose someone else."
Everyone's hearts froze, and they were a little nervous.
I heard that at the construction site, dozens of people have been dismissed because of laziness.
"Tools are shared by each person. Who dares to hide the tools and take them home secretly, the wages of all employees in the team will be halved."
Those who originally had the idea of making tools panicked and quickly dismissed the idea.
The buddies assigned the tasks, and the five hundred people started to work under the leadership of their respective captains.
The day's task cannot be completed, but wages will be deducted.
No one wants to be deducted wages.
The captain of Wang Ergen's team is a woman in her thirties, who looks very thick. I heard that I used to work in a landlord's house and manage affairs.
Under the leadership of the captain, everyone received the tools and came to the place where the scribing was done.
Wang Ergen distributes the dung balls.
He was high-spirited, and even picking up dung balls picked up a sense of superiority.
…
A thousand strong laborers were gathered together, also in a team of fifty.
Because Li Sheng can read and write, he was assigned as the captain.
He led the team, took hoes, shovels, shoulder poles, and baskets, and set off for the mission area.
They were asked to dig a ditch out of it.
On the design drawings, the ditch dug by Li Sheng and the others is an underground sewage channel.
After the channel is dug, a stone road will be built on it.
After several days of hot sun, the ground was scorched hard.
As soon as the hoe went down, my hands trembled.
Li Sheng spat on his hands and rubbed them together.
I haven't worked in the field for a year, and I can hardly swing my hoe.
Today's task is relatively heavy, and he is the captain, so he can't be lazy, and he has to take the lead.
Even if you are hungry, you must use all your strength.
If the task is not completed, the salary will be halved. He will be killed by his teammates.
The sun is rising.
The aunt in the logistics team sent several barrels of tartary buckwheat tea.
Everyone drank tea in batches to replenish water.
More importantly, tartary buckwheat tea can shake the tired and hungry body, cheer up and work out in one breath until noon, when there is brown rice to eat and broth to drink.
After drinking tea, continue to work.
At noon, under the shade of a tree near the construction site.
Li Sheng was holding a ceramic bowl, and with the pickles, he quickly picked up the brown rice.
Eat at the construction site and keep yourself full.
He ate three bowls in one go and drank two bowls of broth.
Touching his round belly, he was very satisfied.
How long has he been without a full stomach
a year
two years
Or three years, five years
Anyway, since the disaster, he hasn't had a serious meal. Not to mention the broth.
The satisfaction after eating washed away the tiredness and fatigue on the body.
I really want to eat brown rice and drink broth every day for the rest of my life.
Like Li Sheng, the others felt unreal when they were full for the first time in many years.
"My boss is kind!"
"I'm so full I can't move."
"Lie down quickly and sleep for a while. I have to go to work in the afternoon."
"Ugh... I want to take the broth home for my family to eat."
Snapped!
The crying lad got a slap on the head.
"Why are you crying? There is Wowotou at night, take Wowotou home."
When working on the construction site, you can only take the corn back home.
This is the rule.
The reason why this rule is set is that people who go to work are reluctant to eat in order to bring food for their families, and go to work hungry every day. Not to mention the delay in the construction period, maybe it will cost your life.
The second is to worry about someone filling their own pockets, eating and taking.
Meals also cost money, not pie in the sky.
If the construction site wants to control costs, it must put an end to any behavior that harms public welfare and private interests.
Someone once secretly hid rice balls. After being discovered, he was beaten up and fined ten days' wages. As a typical publicity in the refugee shack area.
For the second time, just drive out.
Since then, many hands that were about to move have all retracted.
Ten days' wages, how many rice balls can I buy.
Too bad.
Of course, some people don't believe in evil and insist on challenging the rules of the construction site.
The result is being kicked out with no way out.
Li Sheng alone was full, and the whole family was not hungry.
He didn't have to bring rice balls to anyone, and he didn't have to worry about whether to bring rice balls or not.
Eat and drink enough, go to the ground, and sleep.
I have to go to work in the afternoon, so take the time to take a good rest.
After Wang Jiangen finished his meal, he touched his mouth with oil.
There is meat to eat today.
The aunt in charge of logistics gave him three slices of the fattest meat, which made him very happy.
It feels so good to eat meat.
After eating meat, it seems that the whole body is full of strength.
After dinner, the captain called them to talk.
"The house on the construction site was built by us, brick by brick, by ourselves. I don't need to tell you how the house is. You all know it."
Everyone nodded, wondering what kind of medicine was sold in the captain's gourd.
The captain asked, "Do you want to live in a new house?"
A man grinned, "The captain is really good at joking, we are not qualified to live in such a nice house."
"Who said I was joking?" The captain was very serious with a straight face.
The man was stunned, "Can you really live?"
The captain laughed in a blink of an eye, "The host was considerate of us and gave us a chance to live in a new house. It is a courtyard house with a well and costs eight taels of silver per room.
It doesn't matter if you don't have money to pay, you can pay in three years. However, paying off in three years will cost you one tael, nine taels of silver. It can also be paid in installments over five years, and one house costs ten taels of silver. This is the main house price.
Smaller rooms on the left and right sides, six taels of silver for each room, seven taels paid in three years, and eight taels paid in five years. There is also a small two-story building, which can be purchased upstairs and downstairs. But that is too expensive, the specific price will not say. "
There was no sound.
Everyone is dumbfounded.
If you can eat enough, support your family, and buy decent clothes for both of you, everyone is very satisfied.
I never thought I could buy a house.
This shock is a bit big.
The point is, the house is really solid, and it's still in the capital. A house of six or seven taels is quite expensive in my hometown, but it is really not expensive in the capital.
Although everyone fled famine and lived in shacks and ate relief, they also knew that prices in the capital were high.
"This, this, is this true?"
"Of course it's true, how can I lie to you. Did you see the craftsmen over there? Some of those craftsmen are already planning to buy a courtyard house independently, and some want to buy a two-story house."
"How much will that cost?"
"Craftsmen have high wages, so they are not afraid of running out of money."
"If I bought a house, can I still go back to my hometown?"
"If you buy a house, you can settle in the capital."
"Isn't it impossible to go back to my hometown?"
"If you want to go back to your hometown, don't buy a house. If you want to buy a house, you don't need to go back to your hometown."
"House is too expensive to afford."
"Captain, do you want to buy a house?"
"I plan to buy two houses. One for my own use and one for renting out for rent"
"Captain is amazing."