The fighting was in full swing outside, and the people in the rear were generally not affected much.
In order to increase employment opportunities and reduce the damage to public security caused by homeless homeless people, Jiang Pengji spent money to repair more than a dozen official roads after careful research. The workers are provided with two meals a day for free, and a certain amount of copper money is given according to the amount of labor. If the workers can complete the entire project ahead of schedule, the participating workers can also receive an additional ten days of rewards.
These official roads can not only facilitate the dispatch of troops in wartime, but also benefit the common people in peacetime. For example, the common people can transport surplus local fruits and vegetables to other places for sale, which can increase extra income. If it was left in the past, it would take ten days and a half to walk the mountain road alone. When the farmers pulled the fruits and vegetables to the destination, the goods would have been rotten long ago. Now they can arrive in just one day, and the fruits and vegetables are all fresh.
Jiang Pengji also encourages women to go out to work and support their families. In addition to physical work such as road building, other jobs more suitable for women will be provided. Improving the social status of women is not something that can be done in an instant. It takes a long time to reverse the stereotype.
For example, she knew that some women were paid more for embroidery and weaving at home than their husbands who went out to work, but the income of these women can only be called "subsidizing the family" rather than "supporting the family". They all feel that they are not the one who supports the family, but the husband who supports the whole family. Taking the initiative to put yourself in a vulnerable position has become the norm.
However, with the strong rise of Jiang Pengji, this natural trend is being reversed, which is a good phenomenon after all.
There were occasional waves in the middle, but everything went in the direction she expected.
When the convoy escorting Huang Song and others crossed the Maruzhou border, everyone felt that the chilling atmosphere in the air gradually faded, replaced by a calm and peaceful atmosphere, Huang Song's anxious heart gradually calmed down and began to observe carefully. Views along the road.
Huang Song was sitting in the carriage with his head bowed and reading a book, when there was a mooing sound of an old cow in his ears, and a strange smell also drifted in.
He frowned lightly, opened the curtain of the car and looked out, only to see a couple following an old cow on the left and right. The old cow sat a girl in blue and white clothes on his back, with a bag slung across his shoulders. . Huang Song thought it was the parents and daughter, but after listening carefully, he realized that he was wrong.
This man was a hunter from a certain village in Maruzhou. He was recruited to serve as a soldier when he was young. He died in battle two years ago.
The young wife became a widow, and a widow had a difficult life in the village with her little daughter under the age of four. The man also regards Faxiao's daughter as his own flesh and blood. A while ago, he received news that Faxiao's orphan was selected to study at the Golden Scale Academy. The man was so happy that he couldn't sleep for several days.
No, the couple are preparing to send their daughter to the academy for school.
Although she is a girl, the people who have the opportunity to study in this era are talents, and no matter how bad it is, it is better than selling physical labor.
Others say that he is lucky, raising this adopted daughter with all his heart, and worrying about her not giving him old age in the future
He thinks that too, when he has his own child in the future, his own child can also use his sister's book to learn a few words.
Outsiders don't have this benefit.
Huang Song had also heard about Jinlin Academy, but he hadn't paid much attention to it in recent years, he only knew that it was a private school of enlightenment.
Looking at it now, he felt that he was wrong.
Huang Song lifted the curtain and asked the man with a smile, "Big brother, are you going to the market?"
Hearing someone calling him, the man turned his head to look for a long time, and saw that Huang Song's convoy was heavily guarded, his face turned white with fright.
He tremblingly said, "No, send the baby to study."
Huang Song asked them to get closer and say, this couple are ordinary people, how dare they not obey
"Send the child to read?" Huang Song glanced at the girl riding on the back of the cow. She was nervously clasping the bag of the messenger bag. Vigorous, "Going to school is not easy these days, and it costs a lot."
The man tried to relax himself, and the guard guarding the carriage also automatically gave up a little space for the man to approach.
"We are shepherds in our state, and it won't cost you a few big children—" The man shook his head and said, "Send it to school and eat well."
The official in charge of selecting the children said that the children are free to eat, drink, and live in the academy, and they also make clothes for free throughout the year.
Huang Song pretended to be surprised, "Is there really such a good thing in the world?"
The man said, "Of course there is. The girl from the family at the head of our village has been studying for three years."
Huang Song asked a few more questions in detail, and the man answered enthusiastically, some answered clearly, some answered vaguely.
After all, he was a rural hunter who didn't know one big character. It would be nice if he could simply express what he knew.
Huang Song changed his words and asked a question that caught people off guard.
"... Listening to what the big brother said, wouldn't someone be black-hearted and deliberately let their children take the place of school?"
It is not impossible for this kind of thing to happen. Some parents are very likely to rob the orphans of relatives for their children.
The man was stunned for a moment, and said angrily, "Which black-hearted dare to do this?"
Huang Song smiled and said, "Anything is always possible, and there are no preventive measures on the prefecture's side for this problem?"
Since it is a pension and benevolence, these benefits should really be implemented to the martyrs' orphans, otherwise it will be ugly to see.
The man quickly waved his hand and said, "This won't happen, who dares to do this, not afraid of being entangled by ghosts?"
Huang Song had doubts in his heart, but unfortunately the man in front of him didn't know much, so he couldn't solve his doubts.
He didn't know that Jiang Pengji had never seen how beautiful people's hearts were. When she formulated these pensions and benefits, she took into account everything that could be considered. Special personnel from the military camp will visit each household regularly. If a family that adopts an orphan shows signs of child abuse, not only will the family be severely punished, but the abused child will be sent to a special place to be raised.
Every child has a record, which is convenient for Jinlin Academy to select school-age children, and there is no way for outsiders to cheat.
Despite the huge amount of work, Jiang Pengji felt that these things were necessary.
As the sun rose at noon, the group finally arrived in Xiangyang County.
As soon as they entered the city, the couple led the old cow to ask for directions. The people immediately showed the way enthusiastically when they saw the clothes the child on the cow was wearing.
The uncle who was in charge of escorting the farewell said, "Do you want to go straight home?"
There were only three escorts this time, one was Huang Song, one was Cheng Jing, and the other was Feng Jue, who happened to be packed and shipped to Wanzhou.
The identities of the three are somewhat embarrassing. They cannot be regarded as prisoners, but they cannot be regarded as good citizens, and they cannot be given freedom. How to deal with them is a little troublesome.