Chapter Twenty-Seven: There Is a Shortage of People

Hu Lin naturally won't tell them why they want to enclose the garden to the back mountain, this is for safety, it doesn't matter if there are more circles, anyway, they are not in a hurry, just build it slowly, build a place to live first, and then make it into a hunting ground.

"What about you, don't be afraid, take your time, the fence is not cement, just circle it slowly, but try to keep the mountain shape, if you need to dig a lake, you can dig it again when you have time, this has no time limit, first build the main house near here."

Hu Lin's words later made Chen Rui and the others breathe a sigh of relief, they were originally holding back their strength to perform, but now it seems that this is a difficult task at all, isn't it to build a house and a yard, how can you suddenly change your attention to building a super garden, this is still making people live, it seems that there will be no less things in the future.

And at this time, the people present knew how much money Hu Lin had in his hand, and the Summer Palace used nearly 6 million taels of silver, according to Hu Lin, a garden that was three or four times larger, it had to cost more than 10 million taels of silver, so they used up more than 10 million taels of silver in just a casual sentence, Hu Lin's world, they really didn't understand.

"Since Brother Hu said that he wanted to build a garden, then build it, anyway, Brother Hu will give the silver." Zhao Kui didn't see the place Hu Lin drew on the map, and only thought that Hu Lin wanted to build a bigger yard.

"Okay, let's do our best, Boss Hu, this money is not a small amount, you have to be ready, it will be delayed until the progress of other projects, several roads out of Mashan County have not yet been paved with cement, bridges, factories, etc." Chen Rui looked at Hu Lin worriedly, if a part of the people came to make this garden for a long time, then other places would inevitably drag on a lot of time.

"Chen Rui, I told you not to worry, just build the vicinity of Uncle Zhao first, and then fence off the enclosed place, as for the rest, take your time, wait for the spare manpower, or deal with the garden when you recruit people again."

Hu Lin also thought about things simply, this circle of places is bigger, but since he said it, it will naturally be built, and it will be done without limiting the time, as for the wasted silver, it doesn't matter, there are still billions in the modern account, and if you do some reselling business in the future, it seems that the silver will not be spent.

After Chen Rui didn't drink tea with a group of people and left in a huff, Zhao Kui found out what kind of "yard" Hu Lin was going to build. After glaring at Hu Lin for a long time, he came to his senses, and he didn't know what to say to Hu Lin.

"Brother Hu Lin, are we going to build a big house, it seems that they are all a little scared, is the house to be built too big?" Zhao Xiaoya was on the side, and she didn't seem to understand what Hu Lin was going to do, looking at Chen Rui with a strange expression, she then asked.

"Haha, it's a little bigger, but it's not a big house, it's a little big place, do you know where I saved you last time, from there it extends outward to the distance of the village, brother, I just drew a circle directly." Hu Lin was able to explain.

"Ah, it's so wide, can they build it, I heard that they don't have enough people to build roads, but it's okay, it seems that Brother Hu, you didn't give them a time limit." Zhao Xiaoya finally understood how big Hu Lin was going to build, and immediately worried about Chen Rui and them.

"Little girl, don't worry, they will be busy, Uncle Zhao and your Uncle Li are in trouble, I'm afraid that they are robbing talents everywhere in Guangxi Province."

Hu Lin pushed the difficult matter to find more people, although it is no problem to bear the expenses of these people, but now there are too many places to use people, and the people who flocked to the last time were basically consumed in the construction of roads, factories and other positions, and now Hu Lin wants to fence off the vicinity of the cave and use the garden as a cover, and there are not a few people who need it.

Hu Lin calculates these expenses, it is terrible, silver is used here, and materials are purchased in modern times, this Hu Lin can now be regarded as directly bearing the subsidies of tens of thousands of people, if he directly supports so many people, I am afraid that the speed of silver will be used faster.

"Brother Hu, these people are not easy to find, almost all the people near Mashan County have gathered before, and the road to Fangchenggang has recruited some from nearby counties in order to speed up."

Zhao Kui also seems to feel the difficulty, this labor force is used in many places, after the nearby scraping is completed, it is almost difficult to recruit labor in the vicinity, and can only go to farther places to recruit people, and recruiting these people involves transportation problems, which is not a matter of dozens of people.

Now bandits, the Boxers, and the various associations are making a lot of noise, and it is good to say that in the areas controlled by the Pingshan Army, there are too many places that are not directly controlled, and the chaotic passage is safe, and there are headaches.

"Uncle Zhao, then you see that the Pingshan Army is divided into a part of the people, recruiting people, guarding at the same time, as long as they can recruit people, it's okay to be troublesome, anyway, they are also training in the camp, let them go out separately to practice, the effect may be better."

Hu Lin's first reaction was naturally the Pingshan Army, these people can't do anything else except training every day, as far as the surrounding environment is concerned, those who can pose a threat to Hu Lin are all in Nanning and Guilin, and it is not good if there are fewer people, and the equipment of the Qing army, the training level is only better than that of the peasants, and it depends on more people to fight bandits.

Let's go out to practice, save the need to recruit people according to the platoon, and escort by the way, if you want to come to the bandits in the mountains, you won't come to touch the nails.

The Pingshan Army occupies a lot of strong labor around it, and it is used for training, why not let them engage in construction, it is too simple, Hu Lin relies on the confidence of the Pingshan Army, there are more people in the army, and they are naturally bolder, and if someone has a gun in their hands, they will not panic, who knows when they will be relieved by the people of the imperial court, pay attention to themselves, and there will be thousands of people in their hands, and how to play with them.

Although the imperial court was twisted to Xi'an at this time, and the governors of various places also shrank their troops to protect themselves, the warlords had already taken shape, and these people naturally would not come to Hu Lin to be unhappy.

There are only a few people in the whole Guangxi Dao, and there are only more than 30,000 people in the Baojia Bureau, which is still the so-called regular establishment, and the other auxiliary editors are only 50,000 or 60,000 people.

For this person, as long as Hu Lin pays a little attention and doesn't provoke them, he will naturally not post it and say that Hu Lin has too many armed people, even if he knows about it, he can only treat it as if he didn't see it, and if he wants to suppress it, how much money will it cost, and he has nothing to do with Shangguan, which is a taboo in officialdom.

In addition, Hu Lin usually didn't let Li Guangchou be stingy, and from time to time he pulled some silver to gag his mouth, and ate red faces one by one, this person took out money to form a militia group, although the personnel were seriously exceeded, and he might deal with some bandits, if this is a merit.

In addition, the most important thing is that there is silver, as long as there is silver in the account, then what do you like, the court is not in the capital, who will take care of these little things, and have the ability to prevent accidents here, that is a credit.

"Nacheng, Brother Hu, I'll go to Li Tie and them for this matter, but Li Tie has also arranged a lot of people in other counties, I don't know how many there are, it seems that Li Tie and they are also grabbing labor!"

Zhao Kui complained a little, indeed, just the people who gathered in Mashan County were poached by the Pingshan Army to dig out the best group of young men, and they were still picking people everywhere in the surrounding counties.

How much is this, I haven't counted it for the time being, I only know that they didn't save money, and if they see it suitable, they will recruit them for basic training, as long as they draw one or two people from the previous village guards, they can bring a large group of people to train, and the remaining labor force is not so easy to use.

And the life of this era is poorly eaten, two or three times a year is very good, where will it be like Mashan County these days, there will be meat to eat almost from time to time. Of course, outside Pingshan Village and more than a dozen nearby villages, they were almost given high wages and food by Hu Lin, and the work they did was not much different from others.

If Hu Lin didn't have these special ways to get money quickly, it would be impossible to support such a "tasteless" consumption, Hu Lin gave such a treatment, and everyone sighed that this life got better too quickly, and they didn't react, so they were naturally very grateful to Hu Lin who didn't treat silver as silver.

"You recruit Li Tie and them to discuss, I don't care, I'll get some silver in a few days, if I can speed it up, it's naturally good, Uncle Zhao, don't be tired, those squires have learned about the same in the academy, just leave it to them, you can watch it."

Hu Lin rarely sees Zhao Kui in ordinary times, he is always busy, and he has to learn to read and write, and Zhao Kui also takes up a lot of Zhao Kui's time in textbooks, but Zhao Kui wants to do more things by himself.

"Don't worry, Brother Hu, I still know, I used to be busy with fewer things, but now that the place is wide, it is impossible for Master Wang to be busy, and I have already found some Xiucai in the school to help me do it. Since Brother Hu's silver has increased again, then I will find more people to come, and people are still easy to find in farther places. ”

"I didn't expect that Old Man Wang would be able to dig up so many literate people when he is old, it's very good, but Uncle Zhao also wants to remind him not to get tired."

Hu Lin remembered the recent show of talent, especially the old gentleman from the private school, who came over a lot, and admired it very much.

In this era, don't look at the small number of readers, but the population base is large, and the people Hu Lin wants for the time being are not even one percent of these readers, so there is no need to worry about poaching all the readers and leaving others with no place to learn.

And there are not many people who are willing to come to Guangxi Road, often find a dozen or so people before one or two people are willing to go to this place of tobacco barriers, in the eyes of these readers, these remote places, how can they show their talents, only those who have difficulties, under the temptation of silver.

If it weren't for the bandits all over the country and the chaos of the various associations, it would be really difficult for Mr. Wang to find many people to come, even if he added more money, it would not be easy to find so many people.

Hu Lin and Zhao Kui talked about the school hall again, as well as the construction of the school building, and they had a more intuitive understanding, these are more priority than the road, Chen Rui naturally wants to use more materials and manpower on this, although there are still many places in Mashan County that have not been built, but at this speed, it will not take long.