Chapter 137: Cheap Life
Yang Xu sighed, and was about to speak, when an official from the Ministry of Officials came over and said angrily: "Lord Yang, let's just do our own thing, why bother to make more trouble?" ”
Yang Xu frowned, pointed at the girl and said, "If I don't save it, this little life may be gone!" ”
The official said with a disdainful face: "Every year, there will be homeless people outside the city, and many homeless people will get sick and die!" This kind of thing, don't worry about it, just get used to it! ”
"If you're used to it?"
Yang Xu took a deep breath, held back the anger in his chest, and said in a deep voice: "What if it's your daughter who is sick?" ”
The official snorted lightly and said unhappily: "If it were my daughter, I would ask the doctor to heal me with my heart!" This girl...... It's just a cheap life! ”
Yang Xu didn't get angry and said with a smile: "In your eyes, these homeless people may be cheap lives!" But in my eyes, they are the same as yours, and there is no distinction between high and low! They are the people of my Zhao country, and they are also the people of His Majesty. You regard your Majesty's people as a lowly life, where do you put Your Majesty? ”
"You...... You...... The official kindly advised you, but instead of listening, you slandered the official in turn! You have what it takes to heal! With so many homeless people, see how many you can save! ”
The official sneered, shook the sleeve of his robe vigorously, and turned to leave.
Several other officials, seeing that Yang Xu didn't understand the rules, also drew a line with him.
Yang Xu greeted the expectant eyes of the families of the sick and displaced people looking at him, clasped his fists and made a four-way move, and then pointed at Yang Fugui and said loudly: "Anyone who is sick will follow me and go to the Yang family manor together." It's my place, and I'll have a doctor to treat you. ”
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a burst of cheers among the homeless, and the families of the patients showed gratitude and knelt on the ground and kowtowed.
Yang Xu glanced around, and found that there were many young men among the homeless people, his heart moved, and then said: "In my manor, I need some young people who can bear hardships and stand hard work to work, and if you are willing to go, you can also follow along!" There is a place to live, three meals a day, and a salary! ”
Outside the city, these displaced people live in makeshift huts made of weeds or wood, and it is difficult to even shelter them from the wind and rain, and they eat gruel twice a day to ensure that they do not die of hunger.
As soon as they heard that Yang Xu's manor was recruiting, not only did they have three meals a day, but they also had wages to pay, and the homeless people at the scene suddenly became agitated.
Some powerful young men saw Yang Fugui walking slowly, so they took their children and daughters to follow one after another, and walked in the direction of the Yang family's manor.
"This adult, although we are women's families, we also have a lot of strength, and we can also work and cook, I wonder if the adults are willing to take us in?"
A bold woman stood up and said.
When Yang Xu heard this, he couldn't help but smile, he forgot that women are careful, and some things may be more suitable than men, so he smiled and said, "Okay." If you are able to do the work, you can go with you. But I'm going to say something ugly, don't be inappropriate. ”
As soon as he said this, many women were eager to follow the team.
In this way, a small half of the thousands of homeless people outside the city actually left, and some of the remaining homeless people also secretly remembered the Yang family manor, and were ready to wait and see for a while before deciding whether to go there to seek a place to live.
Several other officials looked at Yang Xu like a fool.
They knew that Yang Xu had a business in the imperial capital, and it was very profitable, but no matter how profitable the business was, he couldn't afford to mess around like this.
Those homeless people, except for being able to sell some strength, don't understand anything else, Yang Xu recruited them to the manor, is it only for farming?
But his manor, at best, is only a few hundred acres of land, and if he only farms, he won't need so many people at all.
There are also those women, they really can't figure out what Yang Xu is going to do.
But for them, the more displaced people go, the better, so as not to make a mess and hold them accountable.
At dusk, after appeasing the displaced people, Yang Xu returned to the Ministry of Engineering to resume his life, and together with Yang Dazhi, he hurriedly returned to the Yang family manor.
Although the sky is about to be dark, outside the gate of the Yang family manor, there is still a lively scene, and the displaced people are lined up in several lines, waiting to receive the "physical examination" of Yang Hongyu, Yang Jing and other Yangjiazhai villagers.
The so-called "physical examination" was set by Yang Xu, mainly to ask about age, measure height, see if there is a disability, and so on.
Usually, the Yang family manor recruits people according to this standard.
This time, in order to accept as many displaced people as possible, Yang Xu asked Yang Fugui to tell Yang Hongyu that this standard could be lowered appropriately.
It's just that what Yang Xu didn't expect was that Yang Hongyu was full of compassion and kindness to those homeless people, and she left one in almost every household.
In Yang Hongyu's view, leaving a homeless person is equivalent to saving the homeless person's family.
Because Yang Hongyu knows that although Yang Xu loves money, he is by no means a stingy person, he recruits homeless people, since he will give wages, then he will not give too little, and the homeless people rely on the wages they earn, maybe they can support their families.
After Yang Xu knew Yang Hongyu's idea, he only smiled bitterly in his heart, but he didn't say anything.
Yang Xu's original intention of making money was so that he and the people around him could live a better life, but now he thinks that if he saves more people on this basis, wouldn't his life be more meaningful?
Now the dividends of Yang's Restaurant and Yang's Perfume Shop belong to Yangjiazhai, which are all here in Yang Xu, at the disposal of Yang Xu, plus Yang Xu's own dividends, the amount is already very considerable.
With this silver, even if thousands of homeless people are recruited, and these homeless people do nothing, it is enough to feed them for a year and a half.
What's more, Yang Xu's purpose in recruiting the homeless people was not to let them eat idle food, but to prepare them to work all over the manor.
In addition, Yang Xu is still planning another new industry, if this industry is built, it can absorb more displaced people and earn more silver.
After a "physical examination", the qualified displaced people and their families were temporarily resettled in the newly built large factories in the Yang family's manor.
Although there are no beds in those factories, there are wooden planks and thatched things on the ground, and each homeless family is also allocated two beddings, and the family snuggles up and sleeps together in this winter, although it is still a little cold, but it is many times stronger than sleeping in those grass huts built outside the imperial capital.
Yang Hongyu asked the villagers to move out a few cauldrons to make porridge and stew soup for the displaced people.
Porridge is thick porridge and soup is bone broth.
Those homeless people each drank a bowl of porridge and a bowl of bone broth with oil, and their whole bodies were warm.
For them at this moment, the Yang Family Manor is simply heaven.
If these former displaced people are full of despair about the future, they feel that one day they may either starve to death or freeze to death.
Now, they are looking forward to tomorrow.
Because Lord Yang personally promised them that when they had the opportunity to work, they would eat better, live better, and get paid every month.