Of course, the military households didn't believe that Lu Yuan would not serve them at first, but after seeing that Caiyi really helped the old woman to sit down on the steps, everyone laughed and began to believe Lu Yuan a little.

Lu Yuan also asked the family members to let go of those military households, and allowed these military households who wanted to leave Qingquan Village to leave here.

At first, the military households didn't dare, but when the first bold one really left and saw that Lu Yuan didn't leave, four or five military households followed, and two of them kowtowed to Lu Yuan before leaving.

Lu Yuan smiled, he knew that this was the previous Qingquan Village that could not retain people, but it did not mean that the Qingquan Village would not be able to retain people in the future.

Halfway through the walk, in the end only about two-thirds of the military households remained.

These people may have resettled in peace, or they may have believed that Lu Yuan would not serve their promises.

Moreover, the old woman's son did not leave again, so Lu Yuan called him over and asked, "What's your name, why don't you leave?" ”

"If you go back to the official master, my name is Zhou Gou'er, my mother is here, as long as the official master does not serve us, who wants to leave his home."

This week, the dog replied.

Lu Yuan smiled: "You're right, if you can't live, who wants to leave their homeland, but I'm going to serve you now." ”

Zhou Gou'er's eyes widened in astonishment, his eyes were filled with the anger of being deceived, and his feet were about to make a gesture of running, and his mother also looked up in surprise from the calm.

Other military households also looked at Lu Yuan, and they had the urge to scold Lu Yuan for being a liar.

Lu Yuan took out a piece of two taels of broken silver: "It's just paid, and today is a special day, it's the first day of the official's tenure, you are responsible for fetching water for the official today, and the official gives you two taels of silver, how about it, are you willing to do it?" ”

Zhou Gou'er's eyes changed from angry to sluggish, and he looked at the two taels of silver in Lu Yuan's hand: "Really? ”

"The silver will be given to you first, you can go and fetch a bucket of well water now, and give it to the big guys to drink, and then everyone will discuss the cool well water."

Lu Yuan stuffed the silver into Zhou Gou'er's palm, and then turned around and returned to the same place.

Zhou Gou'er was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly hurriedly ran down the slope.

Fan Siyuan was a little stunned when he saw this: "My obedient, I fetch water for a day, two taels of silver, which is more than my monthly silver in a month." ”

"What do you know, my aunt is erecting a wood at the city gate, so that these military families can believe in him, and this trust is more important than two taels of silver."

Caiyi, who was standing behind Lu Yuan, heard Fan Siyuan next to him say this, so he replied, and then looked at Lu Yuan with some excitement.

As Caiyi said, Lu Yuan's move made the soldiers present look at Zhou Gou'er with envy, and then they had to look at Lu Yuan seriously, swallowing their saliva one by one, wishing that they could also have this opportunity, and they all believed Lu Yuan's every word in the future.

After all, he can really take two taels of silver, and just let a military man fetch water for a day, how could such a generous official deceive himself into these military households.

Even the two military households who were ready to leave Qingquan Village came back because of this.

"Caiyi is very smart!"

Lu Yuan looked at the colorful clothes behind him, and the colorful clothes smiled sweetly: "It's not as good as my uncle, hehe." ”

Lu Yuan smiled: "Caiyi, you can count the number of people who are still in Qingquan Village, and divide them according to the old and young men and women." ”

Caiyi nodded and began to count.

At the same time, Lu Yuan called Uncle Fei over again and asked him to take his family to start counting the number of fields and the degree of abandonment.

"Uncle, Caiyi is counted here, there are 24 households, 128 people, 54 middle-aged men, 13 elderly men, 27 young boys, 15 elderly women, 15 adult women, and 4 young girls."

It didn't take long for Caiyi to come to Lu Yuan and handed Lu Yuan the new yellow book.

"It seems that there are a lot of singles! There aren't many girls, folks, what's going on? Lu Yuan asked.

An old military household said lonely: "It's not because no one wants to marry into our Qingquan Village, we all know that military households are poor, and they have sold their daughters if they have daughters, and they can't support them anyway, if it weren't for their sons who could pass on the incense, no one would want to keep it." ”

As soon as the old military household said this, the other military households also became sad, and there were even faint ones.

Lu Yuan nodded, didn't say much, and only divided the remaining twenty-four military households into five production groups according to the difference in the number of households and the composition of the labor force.

Except for two production groups with less than two people, each production group has 26 people, and basically two single households and two households with husband and wife.

Each household chooses its own head of household, but the leader of each production group is appointed by Lu Yuan himself.

This also means that Lu Yuan directly controls the distribution of power at the grassroots level in Qingquan Village.

In addition, Lu Yuan also asked these military households to concentrate in production groups to live in a flat area on the other side of the river, and use it as a residential area in Qingquanzhai.

And his own general flag official yamen happened to be in the center of the residential area.

Lu Yuan demolished the original thatched houses of military households with five coins of silver as compensation, and at the same time ordered two production teams to be responsible for rebuilding 24 thatched houses.

In addition, Lu Yuan also used two production teams to dig a large manure tank in a residential area, and used thatched huts to build a public toilet on it, and the septic tank led to the culvert of each toilet, and every military household was forbidden to defecate in the residential area.

For this reason, Lu Yuan formulated the "Qingquan Village Sanitation Regulations", in which anyone who defecates in the open must be fined one penny.

Lu Yuan originally wanted to use corporal punishment, but in the end it was changed to a fine according to Uncle Fei's suggestion, because Uncle Fei said that military households are not afraid of being beaten and fined, after all, it is common to be beaten by the government.

Because Lu Yuan paid these military households, these military households did not refuse, and they were very active in their work.

The military households are very in awe of the government, and they dare not be perfunctory when they take the wages of the government, and they are very hardworking.

The military households of the entire Qingquan Village began to get busy, and within five days, the residential area of Qingquan Village took on a new look.

And Lu Yuan also opened a department store in the residential area, and let Caiyi, who was responsible for managing the household registration of Qingquanzhai, take care of it first.

The so-called department stores now sell only one thing, and that is food.

Lu Yuan gave these military families the wages to work, and it was impossible to give them food for free, after all, Lu Yuan didn't come to engage in charity, he wanted to establish a complete industrial system.

Although Lu Yuan didn't bring much food, he also had more than ten stones, which was enough for these military households to consume for a few days.

The land of Qingquanzhai is barren, coupled with the influence of the climate of the Xiaoice River, there is a drought year after year, and there is already a shortage of food, and many military households rely on digging wild vegetables to feed their stomachs, and the best ones are at most half wild vegetables and half coarse grain.

Now that Lu Yuan's department store has opened, there are many military households who come to buy food, after all, they now have wages in their hands, what can they do if they don't change it to food.