The Red Star Camp was no longer a separate camp now, but consisted of eleven camps and a Red Star Valley, with the largest Red Star Camp in the middle, surrounded by ten newly established outcasts.

Lin Hu is a young man in the new homeless camp, he is actually not from Jizhou, but from Jingzhou, more than ten years ago and his parents fled to Jizhou, a family of three originally thought that they could survive as tenants in such a safe and stable way, but they did not expect that in recent years, Jizhou has also been famine for many years, finally, this year's drought and locust plagues have made their main family run away, and they have become displaced people again.

Lin Hu looked at his mother who was drinking millet porridge, and couldn't help but think of his father who was wrapped in a straw mat and buried on the side of the road, and he didn't know if his father had been dug up and eaten.

In the year of famine, eating the dead was already a great restraint, and it was not uncommon for ancient China to eat the dead.

and his sister, in order to let the family survive, Lin Hu sold his sister, and I don't know if my sister is dead or alive now, she should be alive, after all, she changed more than ten catties of food.

"Hu'er, we have been here for a few days, when can we go to the field to do things, stay here every day and don't do anything, dry and eat, no matter how big the main family is, I can't stand it!" Mother Lin nagged worriedly, in Mother Lin's opinion, such a master family really can't live, how can she just give food and not let herself do things.

"Mother, haven't we been building a house these days?" Lin Hu said comfortingly.

"You stinky baby, this is a house built for ourselves, and if you don't pay more rent to the master's family, the master's family will be gracious!"

Lin Hu scratched his head, he also understood this truth.

"Lin Hu, where is Lin Hu?" There was a shouting from outside.

"It seems to be the captain's voice, captain, I'm here!" Lin Hu opened the tent and came out and shouted, "Are you going to work?" ”

The man who is called the captain is a dark-skinned man in his thirties, and he doesn't have a surname, because of black, he says that his surname is black, and it is simple to call himself Heida.

"Let's have a meeting first, call everyone together, I just came back from the main camp, it's a good thing that you will be active later."

Seeing Hei Da smiling, Lin Hu's heart also relaxed, he said something to his mother, and then went out to the meeting place of their tun.

At that time, in order to facilitate management, Lin Huan asked them to set up a captain for every 100 people, and a captain for each tun, in fact, because each household basically has a young strong and an old and weak, so a tun is actually 50 young and strong.

And a camp is nearly a thousand people, only ten tuns, and there are battalion commanders in the camp, of course, these battalion commanders are not homeless, but red bands selected from the original Red Star Battalion.

When he came to the meeting place, Lin Hu could see that there were other tuns in the distance, and Hei Da saw that there were almost no people, so he said, "Okay, everyone be quiet, we all went to the main camp for a meeting today, and said a few things, I will briefly tell you."

One is that after our house is built, we have two choices, one is to participate in the Xiangyong, the other is to build the road, everyone also has eyes, can see the wealth of our Red Star Battalion, this is rich and afraid of thieves, so we want to form this Xiangyong, everyone who wants to be a Xiangyong, will come to me to sign up.

Let me talk about the benefits of Xiangyong, first, your land rent is free! Second, the camp will give you extra money...."

Hei Dayang said everything he heard at the meeting in the main camp, and when he said that someone would give them a lesson in the evening and let them read and write, the pot finally exploded below.

"What? Let's recognize words, what do we know words for? ”

"That's right, I've lived for decades without reading, and I heard that only smart people can read, and I'm not smart."

"If you want me to say, talk to the master's house, don't waste lamp oil, this big night, go to bed early, and continue to work tomorrow."

Hei Da looked at the people below with a disgusted face, it was really a group of guys who didn't grow up, he took off his shoes and knocked on the blackboard on the side, "Give me silence, what are you talking about?" The Lord's family asked you to read, not for your own good, and I don't want to think about it, did the previous Lord's family let you learn to read? If you recognize words, you can't be Maocai, be filial piety, what about your children? Besides, you, Liu Laoer, you said all the way that you were fooled and gave Tian to others in a daze, if you knew how to read at that time, would you sign that contract?

And you, Wang Mao, didn't you say that you yourself are also from a big clan? I don't even know a word, and I'm embarrassed to say that I'm a big family! ”

After being reprimanded by the black man, everyone stopped talking and began to secretly think about whether to be a farmer or a righteous brave.

As for the workers, as Heifu said just now, workers are not so easy to be, first of all, they have to read and write, and then they have to take exams, but the income of workers is high, and it is said that an ordinary worker can get more than ten times a year, which is really drooling when you think about it.

As for the pension mentioned in the hospitality, the sickness and disability pension, everyone didn't take it seriously, just pay more rent, they originally came from the strips, as long as they had something to eat.

Lin Hu returned home and told his mother what he had just said, and Lin's mother asked, "Wu'er, what do you think?" ”

Lin Hu thought about it on the road, and said directly, "Mother, being a farmer has nothing to do all your life, it is better to be a righteous and brave, although it is dangerous, but maybe you can make meritorious service to become a worker." ”

Hei Da said before that if he became a volunteer and made a contribution in the battle against thieves, then he could become a worker, and if he was disabled, the camp would support him for a lifetime.

Although Mother Lin was a little reluctant, this was not a soldier, so Mother Lin was not too worried about Lin Hu's safety, and nodded and said, "Okay, my son will go to be a volunteer!" ”

In the Red Star Camp, Ma Qiang looked at the data that was constantly reported, and he breathed a sigh of relief, there were still many people who were willing to be righteous and brave.

First of all, thanks to the world that is still peaceful, everyone doesn't think there is any danger in being righteous and brave, even if this is a border state, there may be Xianbei people invading, but really Xianbei people are coming, do you think it is not dangerous to be a farmer?

The second is the so-called two golds, the new farmers generally have no opinion, but many of the original workers can't figure it out, feel that they have less money in hand, and some people say that they have sons in the future and do not need any pension.

In the final analysis, people in this era still feel that the money they get is the most cost-effective.

In addition, Ma Qiang ignored the special situation of this era, he felt that it was already very good for everyone to retire and rest at the age of fifty, but as a result, some people felt that they could not live to fifty at all, and some people felt that they had lived past fifty, but they did not want to retire, but wanted to work until they died.

In fact, there is really no retirement in this era, those who can retire are officials, where are ordinary people eligible to retire, if you don't work for a day, you won't have food for a day.

All in all, the implementation of the two golds has encountered a lot of resistance, in fact, even in later generations, there are still many people who choose not to insure and ask for wages, but no matter how much resistance, Ma Qiang still implemented it strongly.

Ma Qiang, Lin Huan and others all understand that the so-called two golds say that the benefits are fake, and the mortgage is true, and the longer the time, the greater the constraints on these people.