Chapter 35: Amazing enthusiasm
The soldiers all looked at the Jinyi guards who surrounded the open space with some curiosity and fear, and they felt that these men in fresh clothes and angry horses were people from two worlds with them.
Mu Bin roughly swept the crowd, and then instructed the junior colonel next to him to repeat his words, "This official is the commander of today's Jinyi Guard, this time I came to Fushan to recruit long-term workers for His Royal Highness the Prince, 2 taels of silver per month for men, 1 tael per month for women, you can take your family members to go, household registration, and Lu Yin will also help you do it, from a military household to a civilian household." ”
The crowd was shocked, and one by one showed incredible expressions, and after a few seconds, a middle-aged man asked in a trembling voice, "What the adults said is true?" Can it really become a household? Xiao Xiaoxiao's face changed, and he said loudly, "Don't look at yourself, who are the adults of my family, and can come to this remote poor place to deceive you poor people?" The middle-aged man was scolded, but instead of showing anger, he muttered in a daze, "It's true, I can be a household, I can be a household." "There was a cry from the crowd, from low crying to howling, from women crying to men and women crying together, and the number of people became louder and louder.
Suddenly, the middle-aged man fell to his knees, and shouted while kowtowing, "Thank you Prince Ende, Lord Xie Ende" His head knocked very loudly, and the door of his head was broken, and not only blood but also tears flowed out. The crowd all knelt down, doing the same thing as the middle-aged man.
Mu Bin looked at these crowds, the corners of his mouth twitched, and then calmly said to Xiao Xiaoxiao, "Later, you will bring someone to help them register." After saying that, he walked towards the official office without looking back, and not far from the gate, the little colonel saw from behind that the commander raised his hand to his face, and then quickly put it down.
The school turned his head and asked Jinyiwei to maintain order, and the first-term students began to help register. In the evening, the final count showed that a total of 1,200 households were willing to work for the prince for a long time. The first batch of students to take the lead is the first batch of Huang Juan to enter Zhufu, this year 16, because when she was in Zhufu, she had excellent grades and took care of others in life, so she was very trusted by other first-term students. In Zhu Fuzhong, although men and women take classes separately, what men and women learn is the same, and there is no saying that women are inferior to men, so she is the leader, and the other students are also convinced. I saw her step forward and bow to Mu Bin, who was sitting on the main seat of the main hall, (the etiquette of Zhufu is the same for both men and women) and said, "Lord Qiyu, up to now, there are a total of 1,227 households registered, and there are 5,439 people in total. ”
Before Mu Bin could say anything after listening, Jin Laibao next to him said anxiously, "My lord, there are only more than 2,000 households in Fushan, and there are 1,200 households as soon as they leave, so the lower officials can't explain to the higher officials." ”
The main source of livelihood is the ancestral land, and with the passage of generations, the family has more and more land, and more and more people need to use it to cultivate the land. He usually treats the military households who help him plow the fields, and he knows it in his own heart. He was sure that the most active people were the ones who walked this time. Now it is the busy season of farming, all of a sudden gone, where can he find someone to help him farm, if the field is not completed, then there will be no income.
Mu Bin glanced at him indifferently, he also knew about the dirty things in the guard, after all, there were also people in the guard. Jin Laibao saw Mu Bin's eyes, and couldn't help but shudder, the person in front of him was the biggest spy leader in the country, and his little caution probably couldn't hide from this adult.
After a while, Mu Bin spoke, "If you don't have enough people in front of you, then go to the other two to recruit people, if people are willing to come, it's okay." Jin Laibao also had a way at this time, so he had to respond, "What the adult said is true, what the adult said." ”
The matter is settled, these 1,200 households plus the 400 households recruited earlier, even if this operation is completed, there is no need to go to Dengzhou. The next thing is how to send people to the capital. One is to take the land route, go north, until the capital, the other is to go west, to the canal, and then take a boat to the capital, and the other is to call the Dengzhou sailor to pick up people, send people directly to Tianjin, and then along the Haihe River to the canal, and then to the capital.
Mu Bin chose the third method, because there is no need to walk too much, these more than 5,000 people, old and young, will be very time-consuming to take the land route, and the people along the way are not old and young. It is good to take a boat, the speed is fast, and it only takes 5 days to get from Fushan to the capital. So Mu Bin sent people to Dengzhou with the holy decree to find the Dengzhou sailors, and asked them to send a boat over, while sending people to find Bai Xiaode along the road, and let them come to Fushan to meet.
In the past few days, Mu Bin's team has rested in the Fushan Institute. Huang Juan took out silver taels to buy food and distributed it to more than 5,000 people, and also bought some cheap cloth to send to each family, so that they could weave clothes for their relatives themselves. There are a lot of poor clothes in this group, so they can't go to the capital naked. With a first-term student, Jinyiwei only needs to be responsible for maintaining order, and other things related to pen and ink are handed over to these students. After so many days of getting along, Jin Yiwei has changed a lot from top to bottom for the first phase of life. At first, I didn't know what these 14 to 16-year-old dolls were doing and what they were capable of, but after more than 1 month of getting along, all the pen work was completed in an orderly manner by the first term, and I couldn't help but feel admired. Jinyiwei also has a lot of illiterate, for what they can't accomplish, others can do it well, people are always more likely to have admiration, not to mention that they are still so young. A few days ago, Jin Yiwei still had some old fritters to the girls in the first phase of the life, but now this situation is completely gone. It is common knowledge for most people in this era that people are superior to others.
After 3 days, Bai Xiaode's team has come to converge, and the Dengzhou Sailor is estimated to be able to arrive in this day or two, Mu Bin and Bai Xiaode talked about the situation they encountered after they broke up, and both of them were embarrassed.
In the Crown Prince's Farm, this time has changed dramatically. First of all, the houses at the foot of the mountain, more than 400 sets have been completed in more than a month, and I have to say that the villagers of the two Zhuangzi are really capable and willing to work.
Since the first batch of people from Zichuan arrived, the newly built courtyard has also had residents. The clean and tidy yard is in stark contrast to the "refugees" who are ragged and have few belongings. Everyone from Shandong was placed in the courtyard, and families with three or even four generations were separated. This newly built village will no longer have a village elder and clan system. Zhu Houwei began the experiment of the new system, these people's household registration was attached to the Huangzhuang, and two first-term students were sent from Zhufu, one male and one female, the village chief was a 16-year-old boy, and the village party secretary was a 16-year-old girl. The village chief informs the villagers of the imperial court policy, urges the villagers to produce, and assists the government that is, the Huangzhuang in collecting taxes. The village party secretary is responsible for the village's finances, documents, and materials. In the event of a dispute, the villagers can go to the village chief and the village party secretary for mediation. Once a criminal case occurs, it will be resolved in the Guanzhuang Mansion, and the Guanzhuang Mansion will be punished according to the Daming Law, of course, there is no special person to preside over it now, and Gu Dayong will take care of it, but it will be specially assigned to someone in the future.
The village chief and the village party secretary both attended classes in Zhufu in the morning and came to the village in the afternoon to manage, but now there is no way, after all, these students still have a lot to learn. In one month, almost 400 families have settled here one after another, alleviating the shortage of labor in the village. Everyone who works also gets the first month's monthly money, so that these people who have just arrived here let go of their worries and fears.
These people came from all over Shandong, and the previous village elders and patriarchs were not there, and now they had to obey the orders of the village chief and village party secretary sent by the prince. Originally, these two dishes, the 16-year-old doll didn't look like an official, and they were a little busy at first. However, these people have just come from Shandong, and they will not deliberately look for trouble, and the village chief will do whatever he orders, and they are also very cooperative. After a while, both of them slowly transformed and adapted to their current positions. In particular, the village party secretary is basically familiar with the women in the village. As a woman who is an official, she has the support of all women in the village. If the man in the village dares to disrespect the village party secretary, go home and wait to quarrel with his wife.
There were about 2,000 people who came first, and most of them, except for the elderly and children, came out to work. Now the main thing is to build houses, and after the foot of the mountain is built, the houses in the two Zhuangzi will also be demolished and rebuilt. With the addition of these people, the rate of building houses has been greatly accelerated. The villagers who had already lived in the new yard were told that the house would be sold to them for 30 taels and paid off in five years, and these people were more motivated to work.
After 10 days, the military households of Fushan also arrived at Huangzhuang. This time, the Dengzhou Naval Division was basically dispatched by the whole army. There are not so many houses in the village now, so we can only fill the yard that has been built first, and the rest will build sheds near the construction site for a while. In order to manage these people, the first students of the Zhu Mansion basically came out to do things, after all, there are more than 7,000 people, and there may be spies sent by the grassland or diehards who oppose the imperial court.
Those diehards can say that as long as they are given a hopeful future, they will slowly let go of their prejudices in their hearts, but those spies will not be like this, and they may come out to make trouble when they are old. Mu Bin also sent 500 Jinyi guards to maintain order, and for this, Zhu Houwei gave them 2 taels of silver each, which was regarded as a reward. Although it is not much, Jinyiwei is still very happy, because it is equivalent to taking 2 salaries, and his life can be more comfortable.
After the last wave of the team returned, the Zhu Houzhao brothers brought Mu Bin and Bai Xiaode to Guanzhuang Mansion to listen to what they had seen and heard about their trip to Shandong. The two of them were very dedicated to this operation, and through the narration of Jin Yiwei, who came back earlier, the two brothers also knew about the merits of Mu Bin and Bai Xiaode. After going out for one and a half months, both of them have lost weight.