With the 500 troops of Fulong Villa stationed in Yangzhai County, Xu Shu's work began to be carried out in an intense and orderly manner.

Xu Shu is worthy of being Xu Shu, in fact, how can anyone who can leave a great reputation in future generations have a coward?

He had already roughly figured out the origins of the displaced people, so he ordered the small officials in the county government to boil ten cauldrons in the open space in the south of the city, which contained steaming porridge and rice, and there were three small officials next to each cauldron who were responsible for distributing the porridge and rice, and ten soldiers were responsible for maintaining order, so that the homeless people went to the corresponding porridge shed to receive rice according to their origins from west to east.

Under the sticks of the soldiers who maintained order, the homeless people quickly learned to line up.

And Xu Shu himself took the thirteen students who came out of Fulong Villa to register the homeless people who received food and make household registrations.

Fortunately, these soldiers in Fulong Villa were the first to follow Guo Bin, and they also learned to read and write while practicing marksmanship at night. Although I don't know much about words, I can still know two or three hundred commonly used words.

Xu Shu asked the students to take two classes of soldiers to register, and whenever they encountered words that could not be written, the soldiers always asked the students for advice very seriously.

Because the earliest group of five people in Fulong Villa went into the mountains to hunt, now each class is also five people, there is a squad leader, a deputy squad leader, and two classes are ten people.

In this way, the work of registering the household registration went surprisingly smoothly, except for a few people who were beaten by the soldiers who maintained order, there were no accidents, perhaps because there was no chance to take advantage of it, and Taiping Dao was very honest.

The displaced people who had been counted were taken to the open space west of the city to eat, so those who received the food were separated from those who were queuing, and soldiers monitored the whole time. Therefore, there is no phenomenon that the food has just been received here, and it has not been robbed before it has even started to eat.

Even so, the work of counting household registration was busy for a whole day, and by the time the sun set in the west, all the displaced people were concentrated in the open space in the west of the city. Moreover, the people of the same country all gathered in one place, and after eating, they all sat honestly on the ground to rest, and there was no longer the same chaotic appearance as before.

That night, Xu Shu ordered the homeless people to give priority to their fellow villagers, freely combine, and take ten households as one tun. After the combination, the tun chief of Bentun was elected, and the smallest administrative unit in the new urban area of Yangzhai County was built.

Based on the calculation of about five people in each household, there are about 50 people in a tun, which is exactly the number that the tun chiefs can control smoothly.

The speed of the work below is faster, and Xu Shu gathered all the tun chiefs, and there were about 600 people in total. Then, according to the rule that Shitun is a village and ten villages are a township, the village chief was randomly selected by drawing lots.

According to statistics, each household has an average of five people, and a total of six townships are divided into 29,872 people. Of course, with Guo Bin's current ability, the township chief is still just a fictitious one. Think about it, these more than 30,000 displaced people, that is, 60 village heads, if six more township chiefs are elected and the tasks are ordered by the township, it will save trouble, but it will only increase the cost of administrative implementation, and it is really unnecessary. Therefore, Xu Shu directly contacted the sixty village chiefs, and it was cheap to convey news and assign tasks.

Among them, there are about 15,000 young and middle-aged men, few elderly people, about 5,000 children under the age of 13, and more than 9,000 women.

After a busy day, the census was completed with astonishing efficiency.

On this day, the 30,000 homeless people only ate one meal of porridge, but no one complained, because it was much better than not eating even a meal of gruel and feeding on the bark and grass roots.

On the second day, the village chiefs, who had already been instructed, took their people to wait at the county warehouse early in the morning, and the today's grain was to be distributed to the villages, and then under the supervision of the soldiers, porridge and rice were boiled in the village and distributed to the displaced people.

Looking at the happy and excited smiling faces of the displaced people who received the food, Xu Shu and a group of students and soldiers felt boundless pride in their hearts, and they were extremely admired and respected by Guo Bin, who single-handedly created all this.

In the afternoon, the soldiers who had completed the surveillance mission were given a new task, and they were asked to carry a long rope to demarcate the boundaries of the townships, villages, and tuns, and to divide the new "cities" in the new urban area as required.

In order to facilitate management and save materials, the house is full of row houses, just like the single-storey bungalows in the military camp in later generations, but with a small courtyard in front. There are five households in each row, two rows are a tun, and twenty rows of houses are a village.

The shape of the village is simple, there is a wide road in the middle, ten rows of houses on each side, and the outermost courtyard wall is connected, which just encloses the whole village with a high wall, and only one gate is set at the entrance of the village. This is in line with the construction and management habits of the "inside" in the city, which is easy to manage and can also prevent outsiders from stealing.

The villages are separated by a large road, which connects the north and south, and runs through the east and west, which is very convenient.

As for the displaced people, although they do not have a place to live, they are fortunate to be able to receive food to eat every day.

Now the rumors spread as a group of soldiers dressed in novelty clothes made of felt, led by a group of student cubs, took ropes and lime powder and drew lines in the open space west of the city.

Some people say that this is the newly appointed Guo County Commander who is afraid that the homeless people will cause chaos, and wants to use the lime powder that has cast the law to lock the souls of the homeless people in this circle!

For a while, people were panicked.

However, in the afternoon, when the newly appointed village chiefs returned to the villages with a group of young students and carts of burlap clothes pulled by carts, the gathering place of the displaced people in the west of the city was boiling!

These are all new clothes, or cotton clothes that can keep out the cold! Some people have lived for decades and have never mixed a new dress to wear in their entire lives. I picked up the old clothes thrown away by the rich and went home to sew and mend them, and I could wear them out decently. As for the newly made linen cotton clothes, they are a luxury that they are reluctant to do even for the New Year!

These people are all from poor backgrounds, who made a new dress and didn't put it away in a precious place, and only took it out to fill the façade when there was a New Year or a major event? What a decent thing it must be to be able to go out in a new dress!

But before the enthusiasm for distributing new clothes had passed, a rumor spread in the west of the city: the newly appointed Guo County Commander actually wanted to build them a house!

Many people scoff at this, and the homeless people also listen to this nonsense as a joke.

What is a homeless person? They were a bunch of people who had nothing, not even the clothes they could barely cover their shame. If someone gives them food, they believe it, and the homeless people come out to ask for food! The reason why they gathered outside the city was to hope that the county government would be able to release grain, and that the big families in the city would be kind enough to give porridge and rice for a few days.

They knew that the newly appointed county magistrate was surnamed Guo, and they also knew that he was a good official. No, food and new clothes have been distributed.

But when it was said that Guo County's order wanted to build them a house, they all laughed and said, "Guo County's order not only wants to build you a house, but also finds you a job to do, and also takes you as a house slave." ”

The next day, except for the various tun chiefs and village chiefs who still needed to go to the yamen to receive grain, as well as the young descendants who drove ox carts to receive grain, they wore new clothes that were not far from the clothes of later generations, and the homeless people were still dressed as --- their nephews with lanterns.

Guo Bin saw this strange phenomenon and asked the village chiefs who came to receive the grain to know that this was a hard life, and he was reluctant to wear new clothes. I only heard Guo Bin crying and laughing, and he also had a new understanding of the poverty level of the poor people at the bottom.

As for the rumors that they were going to build a house, the displaced people went from not believing at the beginning to being skeptical about it later.

Until those soldiers in novel military uniforms drew lines on the ground under their feet under the leadership of a group of dolls, and accompanied by the village chiefs and tun chiefs, they logged in one by one to confirm and issued a brand new title deed to each head of the family, they were still in the clouds.

The next day, when the tun chiefs began to direct the young men in the tun to dig the trenches, the displaced people were convinced that this was their new home! They are no longer homeless, they have a piece of land called a "homestead" that they can use to build their own homes!

Most of them grew up working as domestic workers, and they lived in the Lord's house and planted the Lord's land. None of them, including their ancestors, ever owned their own land. It has been the dream of several generations to own their own land and to be able to build a house on their own land.

Until this year's great drought and the crops in the fields were gone, they had no way to live, so they embarked on the road of begging. They don't know how long they will live, maybe they will fall to the ground while walking, and they will die like this. Maybe it becomes a food for wild dogs, or it may become a dinner for those who are equally hungry. The dream of owning their own land and building their own house has become so far away that it makes people feel as if it was a lifetime ago.

Only now do they believe that those so-called "rumors" are true!

They burst into tears of emotion.

They sleep at night on the homestead where the trough has not even been dug up, guarding their treasures like newborn babies.

It's as if they've been given a new lease of life!

Many of them would bow down and thank the young soldiers in that uniform when they saw them, because they knew that they were "that man's" soldiers.

The next day, they were told that a group of people were going to mine with the soldiers ordered by Guo County, so the tun chiefs took a young man from each household, made peace with the rest of the village, and then followed the young soldiers. The rest of the people continued to dig the trench.

In this way, the miners go to work in the morning, come back at night to spend the night, and some have to dig trenches overnight. Although the days were hard, the entire homeless settlement in the west of the city was filled with excitement and enthusiasm because they had a home. This makes the already cooler late autumn like a steamer, shrouded in an indescribable eagerness, and the entire west of the city seems to be reborn, full of hope and vigorous.

Standing on the city wall, looking at the west of the city that seemed to have come to life overnight, and looking at the group of homeless people who were still naked and struggling to dig the trough in the late autumn night, Guo Bin said to Xi Zhicai and Xu Shu: "Look at these hot people, this is the foundation of our foothold in Yangzhai and the world." Who would have thought that just three days ago, these people who were called homeless would still look half-dead? ”

Xi Zhicai and Xu Shu were shocked by this warm scene and were speechless.

Zhao Yun on the side said: "The lord said that he wanted to change the world and take a new path. I have become more and more convinced that the Lord can do it, and only the Lord can do it. ”