After that, some of the other stewards said that they wanted to expand their business and had already looked at the place, so they waited for the decision of the owner and the owner's wife. Of course, Erya seeks stability and development, they have been in the capital for several years, and they can start to steadily expand their respective fields.

"As long as you plan well and don't make big mistakes, you can do what you want. If you need manpower, you will send a letter to the personnel department, and they have trained more than 100 people, and selected more than 20 people who are more suitable for management, and they should all graduate this year. Yesterday, Shopkeeper Liao was still asking me how to arrange it! It's just for you to choose first, and I'll arrange if there's anything left. ”

Li Jinxue, the director of a fur shop specializing in fur coats, shoes, bags, etc., was promoted from the original fur workshop. Everyone else is thinking about how many people need to come over to suit their own use, but he is busy saying witty words: "Or the owner lady wants to be in front, we really didn't think of the future management, just want to open the sub-store first, and then fill in the personnel one by one." It's good to have personnel on duty now, and we don't have to do everything ourselves, but we can be lazy. ”

Erya skimmed him out of the corner of his eye, and said very unceremoniously: "They are all newcomers, but I am afraid that you have to teach them by hand, and you want to be lazy?" It's still early! ”

Xiaohu saw that Li Jinxue was annoyed that he had said the wrong thing, so he smiled and helped to solve the siege: "Xiao Li is laughing!" It is to tell them to do nothing, but they are afraid that they themselves will not be at ease. ”

A few stewards laughed and watched Li Jinxue dare not talk cheaply, and at the same time promised the owner that he would never be lazy.

After the New Year. Before the third year of junior high school, everyone was busy going back, but fortunately, although the snow was heavy here, there were very few of them. After the New Year, snow is rarely seen again. So everybody has to go. You don't have to worry about being blocked by heavy snow on the road.

As soon as Xiaolong sent people away, he didn't celebrate the New Year anymore. Anyway, he didn't have any relatives and friends here to pay New Year's greetings, so he mobilized manpower to start busy with road construction and water conservancy projects. Although it is still in the freezing period and cannot be operated, it can mark lines, do on-site inspections, do measurements, data calculations, plan route diagrams, etc., and many things that need to be done in the early stage of the project.

It's really good to recruit workers elsewhere, wait until Xiaolong does a good job of preliminary planning and design. When they were ready to start construction, the boys recruited outside brought back more than 3,000 people. There are also some veterans who come with them when they return home. Some of the people brought by the hired workers of the Wang family when they returned home added up to more than 5,000 people. Not to mention the subordinates of the prefect of Tongzhi and Master, they were shocked, and they guessed more because the prefect could have such ability. Even the emperor, who has been paying attention to the west, has a complicated mind. Think of his ancestors. Several generations of emperors thought of so many preferential treatments, but they were unable to relocate many people to the west, and as a result, the prefect of the king recruited more than 5,000 strong laborers in just two months. If you want to talk about power, who can compare to the royal family?! If you want to talk about money, who can compare to the treasury?!

In fact, they were wrong in their focus on this matter, and the reason why the prefect was able to recruit so many people to come over and work was mainly because these people could go back after earning money here, which could improve their living conditions and not need to live in another country for a long time.

People in any place have a kind of plot where they can't leave their homeland, and they can travel thousands of miles back and forth for a little harvest. But few people would want to settle down in an unfamiliar place. There are those who are willing to move with their families, but they are already accustomed to or familiar with a certain place. Instead of rejecting that place, they have developed feelings for it, which makes them accept it from their hearts and are willing to stay with their families.

At the beginning, when a large number of people were needed, the imperial court adopted various methods of coercion and inducement to force people to move their families, but the results were very low. Fortunately, the Damin Dynasty has always been relatively gentle in the administration of the people in the face of the people, and when the policy of retiring the population failed, it was not enforced, otherwise there would never be fewer riots and rebellions. This time, the prefect of the king was able to recruit so many people at once, and the emperor saw the hope of migrating the population to the west.

Just like the north, in seven or eight years, the population has increased by more than 30,000 unconsciously, and it is still rising every year. This was something that the local prefect did not expect, and it was also something that the emperor who had placed people in the north did not expect.

These people are the main force in the development of the western region, and it is not a waste of pen and ink to talk more, but it is enough to talk about it! Let's get down to business!

The prefect's farmland and dry land are everywhere, and he naturally knows the importance of water conservancy, and only when water conservancy is done well, can he get twice the result with half the effort in reclaiming wasteland and planting. Therefore, the prefect arranged most of these recruited labors to build water conservancy, and only a small half of them were arranged to build roads.

This year, Liu Wenzhu took people to the mountains to intercept the people from the western Xinjiang, but they did not wait until the beginning of March for the people from the western Xinjiang to come, and they returned in vain. After they came back, there was no time for them to be idle, so they were all arranged to work as small stewards on the construction site, and each person managed at least ten groups (ten people in one group).

The road extends from the east gate of the castle to the boundary between the Anzai Prefecture and the Anzai Prefecture, and is centered on the original official roadbed, and the width of the road is to be carried out by three horse-drawn carriages. The roadbed is rubble, the pavement is made of sand, gravel and cement concrete, the road is also designed with a lot of underwater waterways, and more than two feet wide on both sides of the road are reserved for planting trees. This road gathered the opinions of many people, took into account all aspects, and after it was completed, it could be regarded as the leader of the field road at that time in the Damin Dynasty. When the Damin Dynasty was finally able to take out some cement to build roads when the official cement production was enough, the future roads were basically built based on this road.

After the cement road was repaired, when it was delivered, even the servants of the Ministry of Engineering in the capital were ordered by the emperor to participate in the cutting, which was actually a field inspection of the quality of the cement road. Tobe Shirou was also appointed, but he did not come here for the road, but for the potatoes that had been produced for three consecutive years, and cotton, tomatoes, and sweet potatoes had been produced for two consecutive years, and the emperor asked him to come and check whether this was true.

The prefect of Anxi also came, and he came to see the cement road was only one aspect, his main purpose was to inspect the silkworms here. The year before last, there were few silkworms, and only 3,000 catties of silkworm cocoons were collected. Last year, a large number of silkworms were raised, and some small squeezed trees in the forest were transplanted to expand the forest. At the end of the year, nearly 10,000 catties of silkworm cocoons were harvested, and nearly doubled the pressing forest. Qujiaao's has; There are also hired by the royal family; Several brothers from the Peng family also have it; Even those who came with their relatives to work transplanted a lot of trees during their breaks.

Because the silkworms are all free-range, Er Ya asked the master to just put all the trees on the stock, and then whoever picks up the cocoons in the woods by himself, and then divides them according to the amount of silkworm cocoons, and the rest belongs to them. It's almost for nothing! The workers, who came with their relatives, also planted trees during the break. Later, because of this, the wives and children of the family were also brought over, so that when they harvested the cocoons, they specially collected the cocoons, and they could have an income of twenty or thirty taels just by selling silk every year. Later, because of the maturity of water conservancy projects, it was much more convenient to cultivate and cultivate, so they basically did not plan to return to their hometown, but settled here.

The prefect of Anxi heard that the silkworm stocking here was very successful, and he thought that their state capital also had so many barren mountains and waste, so it was better to plant and squeeze trees to raise silkworms, so that both the people and the government could generate income. As for the construction of the road, he could only watch from the sidelines, for he could not afford so much money.

Although the water conservancy project has not been repaired so quickly, it is almost the same, and there is no need to increase the number of people.

There are two kinds of arrangements for these people to reclaim wasteland, one is that the government gives wages, food, and shelter, and the grain grown in the fields is owned by the government. On the other hand, these workers cultivate the land themselves, and the government does not pay them wages or food, but they can provide shelter and rent farm tools and cattle for them free of charge, and borrow seeds for them to plant, and the cultivated fields belong to the workers themselves.

Most people regret it because others have transplanted the pressed trees, and they will be able to profit in the second year, so they will not miss the opportunity this time, and immediately choose the second option. There was no money left in his hand, but he wanted to reclaim some land for his own family, so he chose the first option. And when the work of the four hours a day was finished, he went to the wasteland that had been cultivated by the private people. Far from embarrassing these people, the prefect of the king opened the door to these people, leaving a lot of farm tools and livestock on the private land for them to use.

It's time to go home for the Chinese New Year, and many people are still reluctant to leave, wanting to take advantage of the time when the government gives them a holiday to reclaim more land. Or some people who knew that they were going to freeze immediately after this season and could not open up the wasteland persuaded them, so they happily followed a large number of troops home for the New Year.

The happiest person to go back this time is Bao Zhengrong, who lives the farthest home, and he is said to be a descendant of Bao Zheng. In fact, it's hard to verify. He wasn't recruited, and there were government officials in their village who brought people to recruit him. It's just that at that time, many people were afraid that it was the government to levy laborers, and they couldn't believe that the people brought by the government said it was so good, and they didn't dare to sign up. Later, there were two families in the village next door who had no land and couldn't get by, so they had no way to go out with the recruits. Unexpectedly, when the Chinese New Year was celebrated, he came back with silver money and a new cotton jacket and new cotton pants. Not only are people not tired and thin, but they have also gained weight, and they have opened their mouths to speak differently.

Seeing that they said very well, they worked for ten months to give a year's wages, they had enough to eat at every meal, and there was a meat dish for lunch and dinner. Take two days off a month and give one drink again. When it's cold, free cotton jackets, cotton pants, and quilts are issued.

Everyone was moved by what they said, even the family was very good, and they wanted to go out and see, see the cave that they had never seen, the silkworms that they had never heard of in the wild, and the rabbits that could be beaten by throwing a stick (this is a miscommunication, in fact, the children of the Wang family are amazing.) Seeing that the rabbit was running, he didn't have time to take out his bow and arrows, so he had to pick up a stick on the ground and throw it over, and hit the rabbit. Then it was rumored that a rabbit could be hit by throwing a stick), and potatoes with an income of thousands per acre, as well as sweet and sour persimmons, sweet and sour melons, grapes, and many delicious fruits. (To be continued.) )