Chen Wenhui sat in the bright hall, looked at these right-hand men under him, and asked, "Ten thousand deputy city lords?" How many poor people in the city still don't live in temporary housing? ”

Wan Shuhui said: "We have distributed more than 10,000 captives and more than 40,000 ordinary people. Now there are two groups of people living in the house, a total of more than 27,000 people. There are now more than 10,000 people left unscheduled. It is estimated that when the houses in the fourth phase come out, these are temporary houses, and more than 10,000 people will be able to have houses to live in. ”

Chen Wenhui asked Wu Cheng: "Deputy Director Wu, when will the house in the fourth phase be built?" ”

Wu Cheng said: "The recent progress of the project has been much faster. Because the slaves quarried much faster, and burned bricks much faster. In addition, the speed on the construction site is also faster, plus our sewer project, half of which is stopped, only half of the city is built for the people we live in now, so a lot of manpower and material resources are saved and invested in the construction of temporary houses. In this way, I calculated that the last batch of temporary houses would be built by the end of this month. ”

Chen Wenhui nodded and asked, "After the temporary house is built, are we going to build a row house for slaves to live in?" That should be simpler, as there is no kitchen and utility room to match. The more than 10,000 slaves did not need to live in one room per person, but basically lived in one room for several people. That's just a room that requires two or three thousand. ”

At this time, Green Shoots hurriedly said: "According to the budget of our financial secretary, we are going to build 2,000 terraced houses. This would require an average of five to six people to occupy a room. It's more crowded, but considering their status as slaves, they don't have to give too good conditions. Second, many of them will be able to attain the status of freedmen in a few months. When the time comes, you will have to move out of the terraced house. So, just squeeze in for a few months, and later, it will be more and more spacious. Maybe all of them will be empty by then. In order to save waste in the future, we don't plan to build so many row houses. ”

Chen Wenhui asked: "Deputy Director Wu, when will such a row house be built?" ”

Wu Cheng said: "Although such a townhouse does not have a supporting kitchen and utility room. But there must be rooms where the overseers live. There were rooms where the guards lived, so it took a lot of time to build. It is estimated that it will take more than a month to two months to complete. ”

Chen Wenhui nodded.

Wan Shuhui said: "I don't think the fifth phase of the project can just build terraced houses. Because after a while. These captives will be ransomed one after another, and then the number of freedmen will increase, and we will still have to add more houses to these newly added freedmen. Let's build some temporary rooms together. ”

Chen Wenhui said: "What Deputy City Lord Wan said is very right, we can't just build a row house in the fifth phase. Also cover some temporary rooms. On top of that, we're going to start building some shops. Because our production is increasing day by day. When the time comes. I'm afraid the first crop is already ready to be harvested. Some of our crops have to be sold, and some of them have to be processed ourselves, so that there are many workshops, and we have more products to sell. There is more trade. There are many merchants attracted, as well as those produced in our own cities. We're going to build the shops. Can't you let these people trade at the docks? ”

Wu Cheng hurriedly said: "In this way, I estimate that two months is not enough time to complete it all." ”

Chen Wenhui asked: "How is the progress of the sewer project?" ”

Wu Cheng said: "It's the end of the month. I've been able to complete a quarter of the way through. The main thing is to complete this quarter of the city where we are now. ”

Chen Wenhui said: "Tell the master of the black family to leave him one-fifth of the current workers to continue the sewer project." The rest is all invested in the construction of the house, so can we complete the five phases of the project on schedule? ”

Wu Cheng lowered his head and counted for a while, then raised his head for a long time and said, "This should be fine." But what about our sewer project? Qingchun City has always been rainy, and it is about to enter the long rainy season, and it is not possible to do without a good drainage system. ”

Chen Wenhui asked: "Can the quarter of the project we are building now ensure that the quarter of the city where we live now can be drained?" ”

Wu Cheng said: "Our sewer project was designed by the master of the black family, and it is segmented, and there is no problem with the independent use of this quarter. It doesn't affect the drainage at all. ”

Chen Wenhui said: "Okay, that's fine." Since it does not affect the drainage, we will first invest in the construction of the house. When the houses in the fifth phase are completed, we will return all the manpower to the sewer project, which is very important, and I still understand this truth. ”

Wu Cheng thought that this made sense, so he stopped talking.

Chen Wenhui continued: "You all know that the slaves will be freed after a while, but what you didn't expect is that we are exterminating the natives of Luzon, who are our new source of slaves. They need a house too, right? ”

Everyone has never thought about this, because although the aborigines have begun to be exterminated, because of the unfamiliarity with the terrain, the number of slaves sold to Qingchun City is still very small, and it has not attracted their attention.

Jian Da said: "Actually, the sergeants of our escort army who have participated in the extermination of the natives have tasted the sweetness, and more and more generals and sergeants are asking to exterminate the natives, so there may be two kinds of increase in the future, one is the increase of the aboriginal slaves, and the other is that the sergeants who have become rich may have to buy houses and buy family businesses." ”

Everyone laughed. Chen Wenhui said: "This is very likely, and I think that as our first batch of crops matures, there will inevitably be a group of people who can afford to pay off the loans, and some of them will have a sum of money left in their hands." According to the ideas of our people in Dachu, with surplus money in their hands, it is estimated that they will have two ways to spend, one is to continue to buy land with loans and open up wasteland, which is what we like, the more people open up wasteland, the better, so that our city can expand the scope and build better, and in the future we will not be short of food, so that we can really stand on our feet. The second is that the number of people in the family is large, and it is possible to replace the house. Those who don't have a house will buy a small house, and those who have a house want to change to a big house. So we have to deal with it in advance. ”

As soon as everyone thought about it, they began to talk about it. In the end, Wan Shuhui said: "If the number of indigenous slaves increases in the future, should we increase the supply of some row houses?" ”

Chen Wenhui smiled and said, "No." ”

Wan Shuhui was surprised and asked, "What if there are more slaves in the future?" ”

Chen Wenhui said: "First, the process is very long, it is estimated that it will take half a year or a year, maybe we will be able to free up our hands to build a house by then." Second, I'm not going to ask for these slaves. The current price of these indigenous slaves is still very small. Let's buy it first, use it, and when there are more of them in the future, I won't use it. ”

Wan Shuhui was surprised and asked, "No need?" So what is the city lord going to do with these slaves? ”

Jian Da's eyes shrank and asked, "Killed all?" ”

Chen Wenhui smiled bitterly and said, "Is General Jian also murderous?" What a pity to kill, what a good laborer. I'm going to swap these slaves for my big brother's slaves. The eldest brother is ready to use troops in the country of Wa at the beginning of spring, and this war has not produced a large number of prisoners of war and slaves? These Japanese people are very useful. Our Japanese slaves in Qingchun City say that they are slaves, but in fact they are all hired laborers, all hired laborers who have signed a ten-year agreement, and after ten years, they will restore the freedom of their families. Where are there real slaves, rest assured. ”

Everyone was surprised and asked, "They are all slaves, why do you exchange slaves from Luzon for slaves from the Japanese kingdom?" How much does it cost to spend on the road? ”

Chen Wenhui smiled silently and looked at everyone.

At this time, Wan Shuhui's mind flashed, and she suddenly said: "I guess that the local slaves are very dangerous, and there is a crisis of rebellion at any time, but it is much easier to manage them by sending them to a foreign country." Just like us barbarian slaves. On the grassland, they were captured, and they were unruly, and there was no way to migrate them all to the capital. When they arrived in the capital, they still refused to accept the management, but it was better to arrive in Luzon. ”

Chen Wenhui glanced at Wan Shuhui approvingly, this woman's potential is endless, she is really a natural masterpiece. Chen Wenhui said: "Deputy City Lord Wan guessed very right. It was in these prisoners of war that I saw inspiration. Like you said. When these people were on the steppe, they were unruly, even if they were captured, they were also dangerous people, and they could rebel at any time. So, in the past, these prisoners of war were killed. It's a shame. In the capital, they were all huddled together, very disobedient to discipline. Because the capital is actually very close to their grassland, it can be reached in less than ten days on fast horses, and if they can successfully rebel and grab a fast horse, they can return to the grassland at any time. That's like a dragon entering the sea. However, we got them here, and they sailed in the vast sea again and again, tens of thousands of miles away from their grasslands, and now we let them go, and they can't go back. I can only accept my fate and honestly take root in Qingchun City. ”

Everyone nodded thoughtfully.

Chen Wenhui said: "We are outsiders in this Luzon Island, we are not familiar with the terrain, customs, and climate, and we are more advanced with weapons, and we can fight those backward natives for the time being, but if they learn advanced knowledge in our Qingchun City, if they turn against the water in the future, we will be in big trouble." ”

This remark, everyone is in their hearts, how can they forget that they are actually on other people's territory? (To be continued)