Now Liu Ximing is really glad about the decision he made when he repaired the house, if it wasn't for the sake of secrecy, he wanted to repair the training ground of the Longxiang team in the house, where would he place so many people now.

Now this yard is almost two acres of land, so it should be no problem for these people to live temporarily, plus the surrounding walls have been repaired, so everyone doesn't have to worry about safety.

When he entered the courtyard, Liu Ximing immediately commanded everyone: "Li Biao, you take a few people to the house to move six tables out." Yongkai, you go and prepare some paper and pencils, so that you can register these later. Respectfully, you take people and line them up in six lines. ”

In the past six months, Liu Ximing has been teaching the teenagers in his family to read and write, and with the assistance of space spiritual water and pinyin, most of these people can write hundreds of common words.

"Name, when was he born, place of origin, can he have a wife and children, what are his specialties?"

After a while, several tables were set up in the courtyard, and the people in the courtyard were forcibly lined up in six lines by Mu Jingnan and others, and they stepped forward one by one to register.

"My name is Zhou Jiang, born in the twentieth year of Wanli, my ancestral home is Pengzhou, and I have a daughter-in-law, a son and a daughter. What is the specialty, I can strike iron. ”

Xu Wei sat at the table to help register, looking at the figure called Zhou Jiang in front of him, who was quite strong, with a beard on his face and burned hands, and confirmed that he was a blacksmith, so he asked according to Liu Ximing's instructions: "Since you are a craftsman, are you willing to work, or are you here to be a housekeeper?" ”

Zhou Jiang was overjoyed when he heard this: "Can you still be a housekeeper?" I'm willing to be a housekeeper. ”

In these years, the life of a householder is much better than that of a tenant or a hired person, and the tenant is busy all year round, and after deducting the rent to the landlord, he can barely eat half full. As for the craftsman, he is also a lowly member, and his skills are average, so it would be good to be able to mix food and clothing, and he has to serve as a servant himself.

The family is different, usually the food and clothing are managed by the main family, not to mention, there is some money every month, because most of the families are the families of the gentry who raise more than one person, so they naturally do not have to serve.

Although Liu Ximing has not yet made a name for himself, the prefect exempted his family from servitude and taxes for three years, and the effect is similar. As for the future, there are people who have nothing who will consider such a distant thing.

Liu Ximing is not white-haired and kind-hearted, he knows that the next period of time is a critical period, and he must be engaged in industry, otherwise where will he make a lot of money, but how to keep this technology secret is indeed a problem. Harvesting these craftsmen doesn't mean that no one will betray them, but it would be nice to reduce the chance of betrayal.

Xu Wei specially reminded: "Sell your body for five taels, can you wake up?" No problem, sign and draw here, and the money will be sent after the paperwork is signed. ”

Seeing that Zhou Jiang nodded hurriedly to confirm, Xu Wei drew a circle on his hand and asked him to find a bowl by himself and go to the back to get porridge to drink.

Liu Ximing inspected the courtyard and found that Xu Wei and others had done the registration work in an orderly manner, and he was satisfied.

But as soon as he turned his head, he saw Cao Er and the daughter-in-law of the Chen family who were mixed in the crowd, and Liu Ximing was suddenly as disgusted as eating flies, and immediately asked Li Biao and others to drag them out of the crowd.

"Hehe, Erlang, is there something wrong with calling us out?"

Cao Er asked with a flattering smile.

Liu Ximing didn't speak, just stared at them coldly, and only said when he looked at them uncomfortable:

"In the past, a few people had a lot of 'care' for my family, but my temple is small, I'm afraid I can't keep a few, you can eat a bowl of porridge and leave."

The daughter-in-law of the Chen family listened to Liu Ximing speaking worriedly, and when she heard him say this, she immediately knelt down and begged for mercy: "Erlang, in the past, my aunt was lost, I'm sorry for your family, it's all my fault, my son is innocent, and now my men have also been killed, only a few of our orphans and widows are left, if you don't help us, how can we live." Come over and kowtow to the second brother and beg him for mercy. ”

After saying that, she threw herself on the ground and wailed, and beckoned her two sons to come and kneel.

Liu Xi's life pestle was speechless there, I knew today, why bother at the beginning, I saw you very powerful in the past.

Liu Chen heard her crying there and rushed over from the pot, saw the daughter-in-law of the Chen family kneeling on the ground and wept bitterly, and saw her two sons also kowtowing on the side, so they wiped their hands with their aprons and wanted to help their mother and son.

When the daughter-in-law of the Chen family saw Liu Chen coming, as if she had encountered a life-saving straw, she grabbed Liu Chen's hands and began to beg for mercy again: "Sister Chen, in the past, I didn't know what to do, I knew my mistakes, I knew my mistakes, please for the sake of the villagers, take pity on our mother and son, I will definitely change it in the future." ”

After all, Liu Chen's heart was soft-hearted, and when he saw that he couldn't get up, and heard her crying more and more miserable, he had to look at Liu Ximing in embarrassment and said, "My son, everyone is a villager, or not?" ”

"No, black sheep like them, if they are not expelled, my family will not be in a mess in the future. Mother, you must not be kind to women, their family is bitter, others will not be bitter, if my family will be in civil strife in the future, everyone in the courtyard will suffer. ”

Liu Ximing was afraid that Liu Chen's ears would not be able to withstand the entanglement, so he hurriedly smashed the delusions of these people, he saw that everyone in the courtyard looked over, afraid that everyone would think that they were treating the villagers harshly, so he quickly told Cao Er, the daughter-in-law of the Chen family and others what they did on weekdays, and finally said: "The big guys have taken a closer look, it's not that my family is not close to people, it's really that the family background can't stand the toss." In this way, Chen family, for the sake of you and your two sons, I will give you five taels of silver to settle down in the family, and you will find a place to settle down. ”

Everyone in the courtyard listened to him explain the cause and effect, and saw that he gave five taels of silver regardless of his previous suspicions, and their hearts were settled.

The daughter-in-law of the Chen family finally had some brilliance in her eyes, if she had five taels of silver by her side, she could find a place to settle down first, and then quickly pulled her two sons to kowtow and thank you.

Cao Er's eyes were hot on the side, and he leaned over to Liu Ximing's side and said, "Er, Erlang, that, see if you can also send me a little money." ”

Liu Ximing also gained knowledge, and sure enough, he was invincible if he was the lowest, he smiled coldly and said: "Hehe, you still want money, do you want a pair of socialist iron fists?" Get lost! ”

Although Cao Er didn't understand what the second child of the Liu family said about socialism, it did not prevent him from reading the angry expression on Liu Ximing's face, and seeing that several young people from the Liu family surrounded him, he ran out in a gray manner, and scolded: "The little thief who is damned by God dares to look down on Lao Tzu, and when Lao Tzu is developed, he will be developed...... Ouch. ”

Li Biao heard that his mouth was not clean, so he grabbed a stone and threw it at him, hitting him squarely, and the people around him burst into laughter.

After being busy for a while, everyone in the Longxiang team finally finished the personnel registration work, Yu Yongkai has a reading background after all, and he usually learns the fastest, and he basically knows what Liu Ximing teaches, so he is also in charge of the population statistics at this time, and after this time he came over to report to Liu Ximing:

"Second brother, the people have been counted, there are a total of one hundred and twenty-four households, a total of four hundred and ninety-two people. Among them, there were 158 men between the ages of 18 and 50, 115 women over the age of 14, 118 teenagers between the ages of 18 and 14, 55 men and women under the age of 14, and 46 elderly people over the age of 50. Among them, there are 34 craftsmen of all kinds, such as blacksmiths, carpenters, and leather workers, and these people are willing to sell into our family to become domestic workers. ”

"Hey, there are so many people?" Liu Ximing took a breath, he knew that there were many people, but he didn't expect that there were so many people, I was a mother, so many mouths had to be supported by myself, and the pressure was really not ordinary.

Yu Yongkai was happy when he saw Liu Ximing like this, and said with a smile: "How many people are there, there are almost 100 people in Zhangjiawan Village, and there are more than 1,000 people in Zhengyuan Township, and we are only about 30% here." ”

Liu Ximing calculated in his heart, it is indeed such a reason, but it is easier said than done.

Although most of them are tenants, but now they are penniless, they always have to feed them first, and it is estimated that they will need more than 1,000 stone of grain in a year, which is a small 2,000 taels of silver according to the current price of grain, not to mention other expenses.

Forget it, the more I think about it, the more frightened I become, settling down so many people after eating quickly is the most important thing now, anyway, I have space, plus the silver that I grabbed while taking advantage of the chaos, it should be able to support it for a while.

Originally, Liu Ximing also planned to take advantage of the opportunity of registration to classify personnel and appoint stewards to do things together, but the people who had just joined the Liu family were really a little unbearable, from last night to now, everyone in the township fled in a hurry because of the attack of the thieves, and the next day they were busy in the ruins for half a day, even the middle-aged men among them couldn't bear it.

Liu Ximing had to arrange for them to live hastily in the yard, fortunately, it is summer, as long as it doesn't rain, there will be no problem living in the yard, plus everyone has found some bad clothes and quilts and other belongings in the ruins before, so they can spend the night.