Chapter 183: Observing the People's Feelings
With the publicity in place, farmers who are next lining up to register their pledge to grow sweet potatoes and potatoes abound.
As long as it is verified, the family owns or rents the land and indeed misses the agricultural time due to the escape of the war, they will receive a deposit.
With the silver, these ordinary people can more or less buy some much-needed food to tide over the current crisis, and as long as they survive until the sweet potato and potato harvest are harvested, they will survive this year.
Xu Guangqi saw all this, and his satisfaction with the closed disciples was greatly improved.
Based on a farmer's planting of 10 acres of sweet potatoes and potatoes, an average peasant family will get a deposit of 2 taels of silver given by Huang Han, and it is estimated that 50,000 or 60,000 taels of silver will be released.
This means that there are 20,000 or 30,000 households that have been able to survive the summer and autumn harvest, with an average of eight people per household, which undoubtedly provides timely help to about 200,000 Shengdou small people.
These ordinary people may not be exhausted, and their families will have some food in stock. But they will not dare to move all day long in order to save rations, because they will directly consume more food when they exercise a lot.
With unexpected help, I was able to get food to get through the most difficult moment, and there was hope for a bumper harvest this year.
Hermes-Epitek, who were accustomed to enduring hardships and standing hard work, finally gave up a few more mouthfuls of food to recover their physical strength to work in the fields, and a virtuous circle could be formed immediately.
In order to observe the people's situation and grasp the situation at any time, Xu Guangqi pulled Huang Han to put on the clothes of an ordinary scholar and came to the peasants who were listening to the lecture.
Seeing that the closed disciple put on his green shirt and immediately changed into a person, the literary quality and politeness were basically indistinguishable from the scholars, and the scientist was wondering why he didn't want to make a name for Huang Han? Wouldn't this be able to pull this mighty general into the ranks of the scholars?
Although scientists are open-minded, the concept of "everything is inferior only to high reading" is still deeply rooted in their minds, which is actually nothing bad.
The two of them wandered around the large group of peasants for a short time, and it was noon, and thousands of peasants were happily waiting for the meal to begin.
Xu Guangqi deliberately squeezed into one of the dozens of rice sheds to take a closer look, and found that the gruel in the bucket barely had a few grains of rice, and his brows immediately furrowed.
He asked the young soldiers of the "Red Banner Army" who came to work voluntarily: "Does your head of the family give the people to drink this gruel that can see the human figure?" ”
That young student is called Zeng Tongxiang, because of his meritorious service in the ambush in Yongping South, he is now a junior flag officer of the cadet, leading an old cadet who was promoted to the rank of captain and nine new recruits who have just been taken in to participate in social practice.
He saw that Xu Guangqi was not young and dressed as a scholar, and politely replied: "Old man, you misunderstood. Originally, we only provided cold boiled water, but later our old master asked us to put some rice to boil porridge, so that the people would not choke on dry cooking cakes. ”
At this time, Pi Xiaohu, the captain of the student soldier next to him, lifted the cage cloth with a proud expression, and a three-to-two white-faced steamed bun came into view.
Xu Guangqi has participated in many disaster relief efforts before, and the government has always given porridge to the victims, and good porridge is the existence of chopsticks that do not fall.
Today, I saw the gruel boiled by the Huang family and was able to see the figure, although he also knew that it was completely free, and he couldn't help but come forward and ask, who knew that people were eating cooking cakes for the people, which was too generous.
This is actually a misunderstanding by scientists, because the food Huang Han got involuntarily, which is about the same as robbery, the wheat in the hands of the robbed object accounted for ninety percent, and the rice was not even one percent, so Huang Han could not give porridge, so he could only eat white flour steamed buns for everyone.
Xu Guangqi silently watched the smiling people lining up to make a bowl of gruel and get two cooking cakes, and he was deeply touched by their satisfied looks.
At this time, I only heard a voice say: "Uncle, be kind, you have been here for three days in a row, and you have received porridge and taken the cooking cakes and left, remember that if you come again tomorrow, you will not be allowed to get your wish." ”
The peasants who were pointed out by Zeng Tongxiang were all red, and the people next to them also said: "Those who are not satisfied have no face, don't think that the 'Red Flag Army' is a fool, people just deliberately do not break it." ”
Xu Guangqi looked at Huang Han, who had been following but only looked and didn't speak, and asked, "Someone who successfully mixes rice will inevitably lead to more people following suit, aren't you going to take any measures?" ”
Huang Han said with a grin: "It's just to provide a bowl of gruel and two cooking cakes at noon, and you can't waste food because of choking, after all, the vast majority of people come to listen carefully." Besides, who has a good life at home, and comes all the way to come just for two cooking cakes? ”
Xu Guangqi was stunned! It turns out that this apprentice is a talent who is used to doing big things, and he doesn't care about Shengdou Xiaomin at all, but he is angry.
At this time, Xu Guangqi saw a strong man finish eating a cooking cake, drank up the gruel and added the bowl clean, looking unsatisfied, but he refused to eat the remaining cooking cake and wrapped it in a cloth and hid it in his arms.
Xu Guangqi asked: "I'm afraid that Er's block can't fill his stomach with two cooking cakes, why do you want to keep one now?" ”
Seeing that it was a scholar who asked, the man said respectfully: "Don't work hard today, it's enough to have a half-full, and the leftover cooking cakes are brought to the children's mother and children to taste, they haven't eaten white flour cooking cakes for too long." ”
It turned out that this man chose to carry his hunger and was ready to bring rations to his wife and children. Xu Guangqi couldn't help but feel sympathy, he also came to the shed where he was cooking, received two cooking cakes, took one big bite himself, and handed the other one to the man.
Who knew that the man didn't want it, and said: "Two cookcakes can barely satisfy hunger, and Mr. Don't be polite to the little one." ”
Xu Guangqi said: "You are younger and taller than the old man, you can starve, why can't the old man?" Take it, count it as what the old man brought to your wife and children. ”
Huang Han looked at Xu Guangqi with a smile, he actually didn't think that it was advisable to save a bite to save others by himself, this was Xiao Shaner.
He always believed that it was good to provide jobs for millions of hungry people, so that their labor could be exchanged for enough to feed and clothe.
But he fell in love with this strong man, it is obvious that this is a caring person, or a person who knows how to advance and retreat, today he met himself by chance, which shows that this person is still a lucky person.
The Huang family's factories and farmlands will need a large number of managers, and they can give this man a job opportunity.
Huang Han said: "What's your name?" How old is it? Where do you live? How many people are in the family? ”
The man saw that Huang Han was extraordinary, and he was dressed as a scholar, so he hurriedly replied: "The little one's name is Gu Mancang, and he is Chinese New Year's Eve today, his home is in Gujiagou Village, twenty miles away from here, and he has a wife and four children, the eldest is twelve years old this year, and the youngest girl is only five years old. ”