Yang He finally arranged the affairs of the public works hall, and Zhang Chugong's public works hall also had a heavy task, to build brick kilns, lime kilns, to repair water conservancy and ditches, especially to build roads, I am afraid that this year will be busy. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The public works hall needs a large number of manpower materials, and at present, it is easy to recruit young people from various villages, but it is not easy to do materials.

The special construction of bluestone slab road and gravel road requires a large amount of stone, and if you rely on the people of Xin'an to smash it slowly, you don't know that it will be smashed until the year of the monkey, so Yang He is ready to purchase materials from abroad, and his project does not want to be calculated in years.

He would open a number of quarries and lime kilns himself, but most of the lime crushed stone would be purchased from outside.

This kind of low-tech work, low-end raw materials, it doesn't matter if you make some money nearby, silver is only silver when it flows, it exists in the treasury, and it is cast into silver winter melon, which is just a rich man in the countryside, a guy who has no economic brains.

As a later generation, Yang He naturally has his ideas for economic operation.

If the purchase volume is large, long-term, and fixed, it can also form interest groups that depend on him.

However, he will set the material standard, just like a large part of the military uniforms are now outsourced to nearby villages, unified raw materials, unified standards, and the quality of ready-to-wear is basically satisfactory to Yang He.

Yang He discussed with the head of the second hall for a day, and from tomorrow onwards, a large number of people should be recruited, and the population structure of each village should be counted.

Once the manpower is ready, they start to buy materials, survey roads, and so on.

There are also the garrison personnel of Jiaoshanzhuang, who are currently the deputy general of the second general and lead 100 people to guard the captured grain and rice, one firearms team and one killer team.

Mi Dagu is an honest middle-aged man, who has followed him all the way from Du Wei, and is now the deputy general, but to be honest, Yang He feels that his potential has come to an end, after all, he is middle-aged, and his plasticity is not strong.

Therefore, Yang He also decided to appoint him as the chief of Jiaoshan Villa, known as the owner of the village to the outside world, and Jiaoshan Villa is also called Xin'an Erzhuang in the internal system.

In the future, it is like this, the population is in place, the outside is called Jiaoshanzhuang, Bailuzhuang what, and the inside is called Xin'an Erzhuang, Xin'an Sanzhuang, Xin'an Sizhuang.

The expansion of one village and one village, with the name of Xin'an Zhuang is expected to target 100 villages, and it is estimated that the place that can be occupied by a state and county will be full.

Then it is named after another village, such as Xinyi No. 1 Village, Xinyi No. 2 Village, Xinyi No. 3 Village, etc., and the name is changed after one hundred.

In this way, the encroachment of whales swallows and the continuous expansion of territory.

In the future, Yanghe will continue to improve the villages, such as a village with five people, one chief of security, two deputy chiefs, the chief of internal security in charge of public security, military and cultural education, one deputy chief of security in charge of economy and commerce, one person in charge of civil affairs and tuntian, and welfare distribution.

With two more books and two old people, one Zhuangzi can operate.

Yang He is going to recruit 1,000 people, including the ploughing team and the road engineering team, these people are temporarily living in Jiaoshanzhuang, if they are honest and willing to work, they can become Xin'an villagers with their wives and children in the future, and share a house in Jiaoshanzhuang and other nearby villages.

So Mi Dagu is also lucky, as long as he doesn't make mistakes and is diligent, he can retire in this position.

I'm afraid that there will be no more Zhuangzi as big as Jiaoshan Villa, and it will basically be a hundred households in the future.

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On the fifth day of the first lunar month, the news that Xin'anzhuang was going to recruit people and build a bluestone avenue came out quickly, and the surrounding area shook for a while.

The people in this village are very excited, who doesn't know the good days of Xin'anzhuang now?

Who wouldn't want to be a part of Xinanzhuang?

Eat well, dress and live well, who doesn't yearn for this kind of life?

As early as when recruiting Xiangyong, the people of each village came to recruit enthusiastically, but Yang Xianggong's requirements were too high, most of them failed, and only more than 400 young people were recruited into the village as soldiers, and then they went home for the New Year with a basket full of New Year's goods, and carried the military salary of white flowers, which made people look envious.

Now the opportunity has finally come again, and all the young and strong Zhuang are gearing up, and they all want to become a member of the ploughing team or the road work team.

The requirements for being a soldier are high, but if you farm a field and build a road, you should be qualified enough, right?

The enthusiasm of the crowd was beyond everyone's expectations, in fact, these young and strong people all have fields, a few acres of land, dozens of acres, the north bank is three regardless of the boundary, and there are no people in the government to harass and ask for grain stalls.

It stands to reason that Yang He recruited a farming team, and these yeoman farmers should be indifferent and silently cultivate their own fields, but everyone cheered and ignored their own fields.

It's a strange situation, but it's a reality at this time.

Yes, no one in the three borders wants grain stalls, but it is not easy to survive in the troubled times, there are no people in the government, there are no wolf-like servants who lock people and take people, but there are small thieves like hairy poles, and all kinds of local thieves are extremely vicious.

Even each village has a rush to loot each other, just for that bite to eat.

The villages are often in danger, especially the small villages, are often burned and robbed, kidnapped and extorted, and sometimes the chicken and sheep offal left at home will be robbed.

Although they do not pay grain to the government, they still have to pay grain from nearby bandits and even large villages, and pay all kinds of protection fees.

Also because there are too many thieves, each village only dares to cultivate some fields near the village, and everyone does not dare to expand production, and the pedestrians on the road are extinct, and there is almost no communication between each other, and it is not easy to buy commercial goods from the world.

This is still lucky, if you are unfortunate enough to encounter a large number of bandits and outcasts, such as Jiaoshan bandits, then even the rations for life will be robbed, and even their lives will be threatened.

Earlier, before Yang He and others entered Xin'anzhuang, Zhuangzi was slaughtered, thousands of people, regardless of men, women and children, died, this village was also tragically looted by Jiaoshan bandits, and many households almost did not even have rations for the New Year.

If it weren't for the rise of Xin'anzhuang, the extermination of the Jiaoshan bandits, and the suppression of bandits with the army, as well as various odd job subsidies, the villagers in various villages received relief of grain, rice and silver, I am afraid that this year, many people would starve to death.

This is the harshness caused by the environment, and it is not easy to cultivate a field in Huaibei itself, there are too many floods.

After a little rain, the river will swell, and the water will be flooded with light rain and small waterlogging, and heavy rain will be flooded, because it is very difficult to drain the water in the plains, and therefore the fields here are not too close to the river.

But if it doesn't rain, it's a drought, and the crops often don't get a harvest.

And the construction of water conservancy, at every turn, it costs thousands of taels of silver, how many years does it take, how can the villages have this financial and material resources?

Moreover, in the event of a major flood, the small water conservancy built in various villages will not help.

Therefore, the residents here basically rely on the sky for food, and when the year is good, and the extortion of the bandits is not serious, they may barely have enough to eat after a year of hard work.

The year is not good, and it is too common for there to be no harvest in the face of floods and droughts.

Therefore, the nostalgia of the people of Huaibei for the land is not high, even if Xin'anzhuang is rising now, the law and order are peaceful, and the people can come out boldly to operate with peace of mind, there are countless wilderness and wasteland around the villages, and no one is willing to reclaim.

The capital required to reclaim wasteland is too great.

It is not something that can be planted after clearing the wasteland, and if it is raw land, it often takes two or three years of operation to become mature land, otherwise the yield will ......

After a series of deeds, not to mention the people of Xin'an Village, the villagers of the nearby villages are full of confidence in Yang Xianggong.

They didn't know how the Yang Xiang Guild would operate, but they knew that after they were recruited, they would definitely be able to eat enough, and then have wages to buy rice and grain for their wives at home to drink.

In addition, the old and young in the family also work, and after a year, it may be better than the original hard farming.

It is still an iron rice bowl for drought and flood protection -- this is a term from Xin'anzhuang.

Also, Xin'anzhuang is rumored to build a road, this is a major event that has not been seen in a century, the villagers are happy to discuss, there are rumors about when to start construction, everyone praises Yang Xianggong's benevolence, and is more excited than whether the high-speed rail will pass through his own town in the future.

And it's a simple feeling, not for the demolition money.

On the eighth day of the first lunar month, this kind of excited discussion was even more boiling.

On the same day, Luo Shan Zhuang.

This is a small village north of Jiaoshan.

Most of the people gathered here are people surnamed Luo, and there are a small number of people surnamed Liu and Cao.

Zhuangzi is not big, less than 100 households, a low polder wall, most of the thatched adobe houses with civil engineering structures, streets and alleys of sandy roads, a few brick houses in the south of Zhuangzi, and then to the north of Zhuangzi, there are some fields sparsely spread, planted with wheat, sorghum, etc.

In a thatched hut to the west of Zhuangzi, Xu Zhenniang is carefully sewing military clothes on the kang, she is very careful, the stitches are fine, and sometimes she uses a ruler to measure the size, so as not to be substandard.

The sewing workshop in Xin'anzhuang outsources a large number of military uniforms, mandarin duck jackets, gloves, tarpaulin satchels, belt straps, and provides material fabrics, and then allows the women of each village to sew them.

Of course, in order to prevent people from absconding with money, it is generally the women of the big families in each village as the foremen, such as the wives of the respective heads, so that they can regularly go to Sun Zhaodi in Xin'an Zhuang to collect materials, deliver goods regularly, and then receive the remuneration for the last batch of goods.

In this way, it can greatly prevent them from thinking about wealth and running away with money.

After all, these people are also considered to have a big family, and they all have property in the village, and the monks can't run the temple, and their house property will be confiscated if there is a big deal.

It is also a kind of property security.

The small family couldn't tell clearly, and suddenly received a batch of materials and fabrics, and their minds were so hot that they didn't even want a house, so they ran away with the fabrics.

This kind of crime of passion is really hard to say, and the poorer you are, the more you will take risks.

In this world, even for a piece of steamed bread, there is a matter of taking people's lives, and it is very common to abscond with money.

It is difficult to say that the villagers who are self-protecting are good, and there are often people in the whole village who work part-time as bandits, and when they encounter a small group of homeless people, they can eat in the village, and maybe they will go out to do a vote when they can.

It's past the New Year, and it's still cold in spring, and the wind is howling outside, and it's cold to the bone, but it's still warm on the kang, although the wind comes in from time to time in the adobe house.

Xu Zhenniang sewed carefully, the needle and thread shuttled quickly, she was a quite delicate woman, wearing a coarse cloth long skirt, and there were a few obvious patches on the clothes, but it was the New Year, and she was reluctant to wear the new clothes on her body, so she carefully put them away and hid them at the bottom of the box.

Although she is only in her thirties, her temples have a little gray, which is caused by all these years of hard work, but at this time she has a satisfied smile on her face, and another winter coat is almost sewn, and the ready-to-wear is handed over to Sister Luo, and she can receive her salary soon.

Then calculate the income for a month, which greatly subsidizes the family.

This is also the reason why she has outstanding sewing skills and strong comprehension.

The military uniform of Xin'anzhuang is slightly different from that of the tailor at this time, but after Yang He designed it, the concepts of "provincial road" and "dividing line" were added to make the clothes more fitting.

Traditional Chinese tailors have amazing skills in edging, piping, embroidery and other crafts, but there is not much concept of "cutting", when making clothes, it is also directly on a piece of fabric, cutting a hole in the head, and cutting two mouths in the cuffs, which can be regarded as a piece of clothing.

Yang He added provincial roads and dividing lines to solve the difference between hips and waists, and the military uniform had a feeling of fit.

And cutting is a new technology, looking at Luo Villa, only Xu Zhenniang and "Sister Luo" understand.

Therefore, Xu Zhenniang's sewing income is also one of the best among the women in the village.

She sewed for a while, couldn't help but caress the thick winter coat in her hand, and sighed in her heart, this material is really strong and gentle, and only Yang Xianggong is willing to wear it for his subordinates, if only his family can enter Xin'anzhuang.

In this way, his father-in-law can also have such a winter coat to wear.

But now life is much better than before.

With satisfaction, looking at the time, Xu Zhenniang put down her military uniform and was busy making lunch again.

At this time, she was the only one in the house, and the man and his son went out to see the excitement, and I heard that there was a big man in the village, but it was the director of the Xin'an Zhuang statistical office, called Zhang Songtao, who said that he was here to count the population of the village.

If you ask if there are any readers, you will be recruited to work as a bookseller in Xin'anzhuang.

For a while, the entire Luoshan Villa was in a sensation, and everyone ran out to see what Zhang Songtao was.

Xu Zhenniang thinks that she is a woman, and it is inconvenient to show her face.

Running out to see a man, there is a suspicion of not abiding by women's morals, three from four virtues, Xu Zhenniang remembers it very clearly.

When she was a child, her mother told her about the biography of the martyr, but she remembered it by heart.

Moreover, she has work to do, and she doesn't have time to watch the excitement.

Xu Zhenniang was busy in the kitchen, and after burning the stove, she became more skillful and gentle.

Looking at the dough in her hand, Xu Zhenniang had a smile on her face, it's so good, the whole family can eat hot white noodles this New Year's Festival.

How many years have passed, and this year is the best.

The white face changed shape in her hand, and Xu Zhenniang hummed a little song with satisfaction.

is steady and reserved in front of people, but behind people, Xu Zhenniang also has her playful side.

Don't look at her at the age of thirty-two, but her son is seventeen.

In fact, since her son Cao Jingxing, she gave birth to four more children, but all of them died.