The team to recruit workers in Shandong has been set off for 5 days, and the two Zhuangzi in these 5 days are mainly to do two things, one is to plant the screened seeds into the field, after all, the time is not early, and it will be late to miss the agricultural time. The people in the village are all good at farm work, and it can be proudly said that in this era, no one is an opponent of the Han people compared to farming. The other is to build a house at the foot of the mountain to accommodate the upcoming Shandong people. In the past few days, the number of brick kilns has increased a lot, and new brick kilns have been opened, and many people have devoted themselves to building houses.

Originally, there were still some small bumps in the hearts of the people in the village, after all, there were still many families living in thatched houses in these two villages, and basically every family's house was very full, which was because there was no money to build a new house. However, the recruited people can live in brick houses, and there is a bit of imbalance in everyone's hearts.

Soon, one of the houses at the foot of the hill was completed first, and this time the houses to be built were all of the same style. First of all, it is a wall made of bricks, coated with a layer of yellow mud outside, the middle of the wall is the gate, the gate is a small courtyard of 50 square meters as soon as it enters, there is a pressurized water well in the yard, this is Zhu Houwei's "invention", all the iron is not seen in the Ministry of Engineering where it is fired, and then it is taken over, the bottom is a base block, the well head is the water outlet, the back is thick and the front is thin, the tail is the pressure handle connected with the well center, about twenty or thirty centimeters long, often used, so that it becomes brighter, the center of the well is a piece of water diversion skin, It is the force of this diversion skin and the core of the well that leads the groundwater pressure up. There is a piston and valve in the pressurized water well, the piston and the valve are one-way, and the handle can be pumped out of the air in the well pipe by lifting the handle upward, and the groundwater can be pumped out from the well many times.

The east side of the courtyard is the kitchen and firewood room, which is about 50 square meters, and the west side of the courtyard is the wing room and the small living room, which add up to 50 square meters, and the lobby is facing the gate, and there are rooms on both sides of the east and west, which is almost 100 square meters. With such a courtyard, it is possible to live in a family of eight. The completion of this first set of yards attracted many villagers to visit, and the villagers smacked their lips after they came out, saying that this kind of house should be owned by the landlord's old wealth.

The next day, the first-term student who arranged for them to work said that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince promised to build 500 courtyards at the foot of the mountain first, and then all the houses in the village would be demolished and rebuilt, and the style was the same, and each family only needed to pay 10 taels of silver, which would be paid in two years. As soon as the villagers heard it, they immediately exploded, and the built yard, the people of the two villages basically went to see it, not counting the well, the yard alone cost at least 50 taels, and a well was at least more than 20 taels. The well was a good thing for the villagers, as long as they pressed it back and forth with their hands, it was the first time that the villagers had seen this kind of well, and many naughty children were still pumping water there until they were beaten by adults.

The people in the village also have their own accounts, and now they are all regarded as the long-term workers of Zhuangzi, helping the prince to work and get monthly money, although they are now helping the people of Shandong to build houses, but they will also help themselves build in the future, and they still get monthly money. The people in the village who were working were enthusiastic all of a sudden, and they spontaneously went from dawn to night when they couldn't see anything, and Gu Da, who was in charge of the village, couldn't stop them.

At that time, after dinner, when the father and son were chatting about setting the price, Zhu Houzhao asked Zhu Houwei, "Since this yard is going to lose money, why give it to them all at once?" "Although many raw materials are not to be purchased from outside, manpower is relatively cheap, and there is no need to dig deep to dig a well at the foot of the mountain to produce water, but Lin Lin finally calculates that the cost of a house is 40 taels. Zhu Houwei replied lightly: "People often don't know how to cherish things that are too easy to get. Zhu Houzhao only nodded when he listened, and Hongzhi thought in his heart, "You are only 9 years old, don't be so vicissitudes!" Hongzhi asked Zhu Houwei with interest, "There are so many things in your Zhuangzi, why do you want to build a house first?" Zhu Houwei smiled and dragged the text and said, "Meng Ziyun's people are the way, those who have permanent production have perseverance, and those who have no permanent production have perseverance'" Hongzhi listened a little and stopped talking, and Zhu Houzhao also nodded on the side.

The villagers have entered the frenzied stage, except for those who can't do heavy work, everyone in the village has started to work, and now in the daytime, there is basically no one in the village, except for the basic people who want to plough the fields, they all go to the foot of the mountain to help build houses, the elderly, children, men, and women are doing what they can, and everyone expects the houses here to be completed as soon as possible, and then start to build their own houses.

Let's talk about the recruitment team, they have been off for almost 10 days now, and now they have crossed the Yellow River to Zichuan County in Jinan Prefecture, Shandong. This is the first gathering point, there is a Jinyi guard to notify the security chief of the nearby village, and then the security chief informs the poor families in the village to gather at the gate of Laiwu County. Early in the morning, a meeting place was set up at the city gate of Zichuan County, and large and small steamers were placed on the left and right sides of the city gate, which were full of steamed buns. On both sides of the city gate are standing the city officials, catching fast and others, and 500 brocade guards are surrounding the venue. After a while, there were ragged people who came to the city gate in groups, and when they saw so many freshly dressed and angry horses, with embroidered spring knives, and Jinyi guards with a Jingshi accent, they were so frightened that they were about to flee. Although the brocade guards of the Hongzhi Dynasty are managed by Mu Bin, they are much gentler than the previous dynasties, but after all, the murderous reputation is outside, and the people are still very afraid of it.

Fortunately, Bai Xiaode appeared, he is from Qingzhou Mansion, not far from Zichuan, for this very talented but not a career of alternative readers, Zichuan is also known, under Bai Xiaode's appeasement, he slowly walked to the venue. At about 9 o'clock in the morning, there were about 800 people standing in the venue, and there were people from basically 20 villages around.

Mu Bin, who was standing on the tower of the city gate, saw that the people were almost there, and nodded to the small school next to him, and the small school struck three gongs, and the crowd quieted down. Mu Bin took two steps forward, held on to the battlements on the city wall, and shouted loudly, "I am Mu Bin, the commander of the Jinyi Guard." All the people downstairs knelt down, Mu Bin nodded imperceptibly and continued, "This time I came to Shandong, it is to take you to the imperial village in the capital, and do long-term work for His Royal Highness the Crown Prince today, 2 taels of silver a month for men, 1 taels of silver a month for women, and food for women when they work, you can take your family to go, and if you want to go, you will go to the city gate, where someone will register you, and each person will be given 2 steamed buns after registration." The people were silent for a while, and then they began to talk to each other.

Suddenly, a voice said, "This is the court deceiving us, where did the good thing come from, it must be to arrest us to mine and do forced labor, and before the money is in hand, we will lose our lives first." As soon as the words fell, someone in the crowd said, "That's it", "Where did such a good thing come from", "It's been so many years since the founding of the country, and I haven't heard that Huangzhuang wants to recruit people from other provinces, so it must be a lie to us mud legs." ”

The crowd gradually began to become unstable, and some of the Shandong men among them glared angrily at the Jinyi Wei who had already pulled out half of the knife. At this time, someone in the crowd shouted, "The left and right are dead, it's better to fight." "yes, now that the gates are open, let's rush in and rob the fuck." People from all over the crowd stood up and eagerly challenged the brocade guards around them.

Mu Bin didn't panic when he looked at what was happening below, just frowned, and calmly said to the little colonel next to him, "Tell me to go down, everyone kneels for me, and those who stand are all spies sent by the little prince, and they will all be killed." The little colonel immediately repeated loudly, and the reactions in the crowd were mixed, some of them knelt down again, and some of them knelt up and ran towards the city gate with those standing in front.

There were about 4,50 of these men running towards the gate, and most of them had brought out their relatively short weapons, some daggers, some daggers, and some with axes. The surrounding brocade guards did not chase after them, but simply pulled out their knives and continued to monitor the kneeling people. There are still about 30 meters to the inner city gate of the city gate, and those who have a total of about 50 officials and catchers have run halfway, and the rest are basically holding weapons, standing in place, their bodies still trembling slightly. Suddenly, dozens of brocade guards walked out of the city gate, and no one was holding a Zhuge crossbow in their hands. At this time, the person who killed the city gate was only 20 meters away from the Jinyi guard with the crossbow, and only heard a storm-like "click" and "bang" sound, and these men who were still menacing just now fell in a pool of blood.

Mu Bin had already gotten down the city tower, walked outside the city gate, and when he arrived at the door, he looked at all this, first frowned, then smiled, and sighed softly, "This crossbow is really good"

The next thing is to have people clean the city gates and interrogate the people next to the group of people who rushed to kill just now. In the end, there were more than 800 people, basically 600 families, and the people who came were basically adult men, and only 30 households were willing to register to go to Huangzhuang. It can be said that this time the convening failed, but it can be regarded as a small gain to catch some spies and stubborn opponents of the court.

Bai Xiaode couldn't help but think next to him, "I usually look at the military servants who show off their might, catch them quickly, but when I see the thieves with rudimentary weapons, they are so unbearable, is the security in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty already so bad?" "These arresters and servants naturally have their superiors to send them down, and Mu Bin and Bai Xiaode can't control it. However, this situation also gave them some experience, and they should not use this method when gathering the people in the future.

These 30 households are about 100 people, their household registration and road guide are issued quite quickly this time, and the administrative organization of the Ming Dynasty reflects unprecedented efficiency, of course, the main reason is Mu Bin, the commander of the Jinyi Guard. After all, Jinyiwei has the responsibility of supervising hundreds of officials, and of course the civil officials who are upright do not need to be afraid of Jinyiwei, but unfortunately Zichuan Zhixian does not belong to this kind of civil officials, in order to send Jinyiwei away as soon as possible, this order was issued, and the relevant departments must work hard to cooperate, so that the affairs of these 30 households can be handled in less than a day.

These more than 100 people can't take them around in Shandong, and finally Mu Bin decided to send a few people to take them to the canal to take a boat, go directly to the capital, and then go to Huangzhuang. All the expenses along the way were allocated from the 30,000 taels of silver brought by the first students.

At this time, Zhu Houwei asked that although others could not go out of Beijing, they could understand Shandong in this era through Bai Xiaode's pen and ink.