Zhongwei Bridge.

The sun has sunk in the west, and night has fallen.

Fortunately, the days are long in the summer, and although the sun goes down, there is still a long time before it is completely dark. On the construction site of the printing office on the bank of the river, the recruited displaced temporary workers are still busy rushing to work, doing it at sunrise and resting at sunset, and everyone doesn't think there is anything wrong with it.

Holding other people's bowls, you naturally have to listen to other people's management.

In these years, let alone these hungry people who have left their homes to flee and ask for food. Although I heard that there is also a government disaster relief under Chang'an City, it is actually the same as here, all of which are relief through work. In comparison, the conditions are better here.

At least they are doing things here, and their old mothers, wives and children can watch and take care of them on the side, and even they can do what they can and change food.

On the riverside, there is a large makeshift canteen.

It is said that it is a canteen, but in fact it is just a very long thatched hut, with only a roof and no walls, supported by some wooden pillars, and some makeshift stoves in it.

Now there are many workers here in the printing office, and nearly 3,000 hungry people have been recruited to work, plus their families, nearly 10,000 disaster victims have gathered here. With so many displaced people, there are already some hidden dangers of uneasiness. However, Li Xiao is the kind of bold person, he set up a recruitment flag, and he wants to come.

Anyway, now the printing office is busy building a workshop and printing. Not afraid of more people, just afraid of fewer people, not to mention that the labor at this time is still so cheap, now there is no need to use it, leaving the victims is still a mutually beneficial thing to relieve the victims.

However, Li Xiao is very strict with the management of this place.

On the riverbank of the construction site, only temporary workers who had been recruited and registered were allowed to come and stay with their families, but everyone had to be registered, and a temporary identification tag was issued indicating their name, place of origin, age, gender, and simple identity characteristics, and even a few members of the family.

The places where they live are also temporary sheds built by the victims together, but these sheds are also planned and are not allowed to be built casually.

Rows of sheds are built horizontally and vertically, and even all of them are numbered, and Li Xiao stipulates that each shed lives in one household, ten sheds are one Jia, and ten are one Bao, and the system of joint sitting. If a family member commits illegal acts such as theft and robbery, then if the person in this family fails to report it in time, he will be guilty of joint sitting.

The punishment for those who disobey is simple, ranging from whipping the latrine to driving the family out of the construction site, depending on the severity of the offense.

This punishment is still very effective for the victims, and now there is not enough food to eat, and the family can temporarily settle down in this construction site, and there is still food, how dare everyone commit a crime and be driven away.

Li Xiao also specially assigned people from these victims to be responsible for management, for example, the head of each shed is responsible for the parents, the parents of each shed are responsible for each shed, and each guarantee is responsible for a head of the first shed, and at the same time, it is stipulated that every ten days there is a round, and the next person will take over, and the rotation system will be implemented, and basically everyone must take turns to be the head of the first guarantee.

In addition, Li Xiao also stipulated that a garbage can should be made in front of each shed, and a thatched pit should be dug for each shed, and open defecation was prohibited.

Li Xiao did not let the victims cook for themselves, but stipulated that they should eat in the canteen.

The canteen is very large, and the area is also demarcated to point out the dining area of each baojia. Naturally, those who work can eat in the canteen for free, and those who can help with work on the construction site can also have food, the difference is only how much they eat. The canteen is fed on food stamps, and adult temporary workers naturally get three litres of stamps, but ordinary women get two litres and children and the elderly can only get one litre.

All the food was in Li Xiao's hands, and the victims who were recruited worked to give tickets, went to the canteen to eat, and everything had rules.

It will be dark for a while, but the smell is already wafting from the cafeteria.

The women in the canteen were also recruited from the hungry, and were usually the mothers or wives of temporary migrant workers, who were in poor health, so they cooked in the canteen.

Li Xiao gave them the same work points as other workers, and a standard work point was one liter of grain and ten cents. Usually children get one point, women get two points, men get three points, and the skillful, or very hard-working kind also get four or even five points.

On one side of the large canteen, there was a small canteen, which was used as a place for the officials of the printing office, and this small canteen had not only tables but also chairs.

Li Yuanfang walked to the front and looked, today's dishes are quite rich, there are eight dishes, four meat and four vegetarian dishes and two soups to choose from, because it is at the construction site, Li Xiao specially stipulates that although the meals of the officials are free, but each standard meal is four dishes and one soup, two meat and two vegetarian dishes, and the rice is full.

In fact, it is the same as the fast food of later generations, the cooks make the big pot dishes, and then put them into large buckets, each official can choose two meat and two vegetables, and the soup and rice are made by themselves, and they are full.

Li Yuanfang chose roasted fish and cucumber scrambled eggs, then made a bowl of green vegetable soup, and walked to Li Xiao's table and sat down.

"This dish looks okay, especially this fish, after putting the chili peppers, it makes me have an appetite." Li Yuanfang has a good appetite, although this meal is obviously a little simple, but compared to the big canteen on the other side, this is an excellent meal.

The workers over there went to eat with food stamps, and one liter of food stamps was a standard fast food, a bowl of dry rice, a dish, and then the soup and porridge were also full. If you are willing to order two liters of food stamps, then there are two bowls of rice and two dishes, and there will even be some meat, such as fish head or pig's head meat, pig intestine.

But it's good to be able to eat a full meal, who wants to be so extravagant, if the rice is not enough, then drink more porridge, anyway, the porridge is unlimited, the soup is also good, if you come early, there will be some floating pigskin in the soup bucket.

Some temporary workers have children who are too young or too old to earn their jobs and get food stamps, so they have to earn their own food stamps to feed their families.

"Tomorrow, we will find more people who can fish to come out, we rely on the Wei River, and the south is the Guangtong Canal, relying on the mountains to eat the mountains, and relying on the water to eat the water. If you don't get some fish by the river, which pair of fish to eat will start with us? ”

Fishing is actually not too difficult, the key is that there must be some investment, some boats, and some nets, but Li Xiao is still willing to invest this point.

Now there are nearly 10,000 people in the camp, and there are so many mouths to feed men, women, and children, in fact, the pressure is not small, and it would be good if they could be self-reliant and catch more fish.

The temporary workers also work hard, and they don't have the strength to eat some dry food and drink some soup.

"Our food here is good enough, how can the victims in other places have such food, it would be good to have a bowl of porridge to drink. Even if they were recruited by the imperial court to repair the Daming Palace, their wives and children had no one to take care of. ”

Cash-for-work is also very good, but in fact, it is far less benevolent than Li Xiao's side. They were recruited to repair the palace, but their families would not be recruited, so they could only follow the construction site, relying on the little food relief saved by their husbands and sons, and they had no meals.

How can he be as kind as Li Xiao, the whole family is recruited, regardless of his old and weak, he is a little capable, and he also specially arranged a shed and canteen, where he has a place to eat and a place to live.

"It is also good for us to recruit workers as a family unit, and it is actually more convenient to manage." Li Xiao said lightly, he made fried meat with chili pepper and stewed loach with taro, and two other vegetarian dishes. The big pot of dishes can only be regarded as average, but after a busy day on the construction site, and so many people eat and have an atmosphere, it is still a little appetizing.

Tens of thousands of victims gathered together are actually very difficult to manage.

If it's all young and strong men, it's even more difficult to manage, like an oil drum, it's easy to get a little bit. But if they are all placed on the construction site, then although the cost may increase, it will save a lot of trouble in management.

In fact, in the past few years, in the event of a famine, everyone is already very satisfied if the family has a place to live and something to eat, and no one is really willing to make trouble.

"The work and food stamps are very useful, and the temporary workers who have been recruited work very hard." Li Yuanfang admired Li Xiao's inventions very much, coupled with his armor protection joint sitting, on such a large construction site of tens of thousands of people, everything was in order.

Now around Chang'an, there are already many disaster camps, and the state and county governments were originally stuck in preventing the people from leaving the border, but with the permission of the imperial court, they dared to let those people come to Gyeonggi.

Although the imperial court has set up a disaster camp in Gyeonggi, and has carried out work-for-relief, recruited the strong victims to repair the palace, and then put porridge for the old and weak women and children in various camps every day, but it is just to maintain the immortality of those people.

Don't think about being full, it's even more impossible to eat well, and the places where you live are all just set up a shed or something, not to mention any good management planning, and there will be no shortage of thefts and robberies in the camp, let alone cleanliness and hygiene.

Li Xiao manages a construction site like a military camp, especially rare This construction site is still composed of so many refugees.

"The work is to stimulate everyone's enthusiasm, and as for the food stamps, it is a promise to the workers, and if you want the horses to run, you have to let the horses graze. You have to give the fast horses good grass to eat. "If you don't count the work points, if you don't divide the food stamps, then everyone will eat a big pot of rice and work will definitely be inefficient, which is human nature.

Eat whatever you want, why should I work so hard?

Only when the value of their labor can be reflected, will they truly work hard.

This is the printing bureau, and it is actually very simple for Li Xiao to print some food stamps, but because these food stamps can be cashed in the canteen for food, then there is credit and value, and even among those disaster victims, food stamps have begun to become hard currency, and sometimes they can be exchanged for their own needs.

Every evening, after finishing work, Li Xiao would distribute food stamps to the workers according to the work table registered by the foremen. Originally, wages would be paid every day, but it didn't take long for everyone to find that it was useless to get the copper coins, after all, the food was a canteen, and they lived in the shed, and they couldn't leave at will. After Li Xiao promised to settle the bill together when they returned home in the future, everyone happily only received food stamps and recorded their wages in their accounts.

In this way, Li Xiao now employs more than 3,000 temporary workers, as well as thousands of their wives, children, and parents, but except for distributing some food stamps printed by himself every day, in fact, he doesn't have to pay a single salary. And this food stamp, in fact, only needs to feed more than 10,000 mouths every day, and not all the food stamps are cashed.

There is nothing particular about eating in the canteen of the construction site, everyone eats their own food, and it is more lively when there are more people to eat, Li Xiao will sweep away his own meals after a while, he did not add vegetables and rice, put down the chopsticks, picked up the soup bowl and drank the soup.

"Lou Guan Dao's batch of Tao Te Ching should be printed as soon as possible, this is the time to reflect our ability, the better and faster our batch of books are printed, then Lou Guan Dao will trust us more, and there will be more lists later." Li Xiao tapped his fingers on the tabletop.

"Also, now that there are enough manpower, you organize manpower to start preparing for the writing and engraving of the Nine Classics and the Five Classics, and the paper mill and ink mill must also be completed as soon as possible, and I am waiting to use paper and ink!"

Li Yuanfang also finished eating, wiped his mouth and said, "Please rest assured, we are all ready now, everything is going well, although the paper mill and ink mill are not good, but the preliminary preparations for paper and ink making have begun." ”