Hearing the figures reported by Gu Anjia's mouth, Xin Feiyu already believed the information about the team's industry that Xiao Ya said to him at this time.

At this time, Qian Yuanshan took over the conversation again and said, "What Steward Gu said is right, our first stop is near the left side of Nanshilipu, ten miles south of Liangxiang City. However, since most of the land around it was bought by our house, the common people now generally call it Anminzhuang, that is, the Zhuangzi that houses the displaced people. There are several places like this in the Youdu Mansion, all of which are the properties of our house. According to the naming method in our house, these Zhuangzi are called the centralized resettlement sites of the displaced people, and the numbers have been arranged from one to six. And I'm afraid it will continue to be in the future. What we are going to now is the No. 1 centralized resettlement site, which is also the earliest resettlement site established in our house. The people of this resettlement site are basically Northern Han refugees, and they are divided into a dozen or so communities, each of which forms a small settlement, that is, a small village. The longest, the longest, have been living in the settlement for nearly a year and a half, and they have made it their permanent home. ”

"Brother Eleventh is right," Zhao Min'an interjected beside him, "The reason why our mansion established this resettlement site is to give those Northern Han refugees a way to live. In the beginning, we only bought 5,000 acres of land in the south of the city, and except for recruiting dozens of local tenants to plant corn for the Ministry of Agriculture, the rest was used to resettle about 700 or 800 displaced people. Later, as more and more Northern Han refugees were accommodated in the prefecture, the scale of this resettlement site also grew. The land area has expanded from 5,000 mu to 20,000 mu, and the number of displaced people resettled has also increased from 7 to 800 to 1,320 households, or about 4,000 people. In terms of its actual size, it's already a town."

As he spoke, Zhao Min'an pointed to Gu Anjia and the others next to him, and continued: "Except for a few of these Northern Han refugees who came to the door by themselves, they were basically recruited by the three stewards who traveled all over the Youdu Mansion. In this matter, the three stewards not only made great contributions, but also accumulated great virtues. ”

Hearing that Zhao Min'an praised himself so much, Gu Anjia and the other three didn't dare to take it seriously, and said: "Zhao Ye is too good for the villain. If you want to say that you accumulate virtue and do good, it is also because the lords in the house are kind-hearted, and they can't bear to watch those homeless people freeze and starve to death, so they are kind enough to give them a way to live. The villain is just following the instructions of the fifth master, the seventh master, Zhao Ye and other masters, running errands and moving his mouth, how can there be any credit at all. ”

Zhao Min'an praised Gu Anjia and the others for a few more sentences, and then continued to say to Xin Feiyu: "The No. 1 resettlement site is the largest property in our house, and it is also the one that houses the most displaced people. Although the other five places also cover an area of more than 10,000 mu, they are all smaller than this one, and the number of displaced people they contain is also slightly smaller. In total, our land yield is nearly 100,000 mu, and about 20,000 displaced people cultivate our land. ”

"Brother Zhao has put a lot of thought into these fields and displaced people," Qian Yuanshan praised, "Since the beginning of this year alone, he has purchased nearly 50,000 acres of land for our mansion and resettled nearly 10,000 displaced people from the Northern Han Dynasty and local landless people." ”

"Brother Eleventh has overdone it," Zhao Min'an said humbly, "Brother Fool has just done something within the scope of resettlement tenants, distribution of production and living materials, etc. And I also have the help of my brothers from the Ministry of Security and the Ministry of Intelligence, so there are only a few things that I can worry about. Things like the acquisition of land are all done by the brothers of the Ministry of Commerce and Trade. And the matter of recruiting displaced people and landless peasants is all Gu Guan and Zhou Steward, and they are doing it according to the instructions of Seventh Brother. It's just because I'm in charge of agriculture that my brothers give me all the credit. ”

"Brother Zhao is too humble to say this, without your arrangement, even if these displaced people and landless peasants are recruited, they will not be able to keep them," Qian Yuanshan said, "Besides, my brother also made a great effort in acquiring land later." You have obtained first-hand information about the land price through exchanges with local farmers, and the price of our land acquisition has been reduced a lot, otherwise according to the previous price, the money in your hand would not be enough to buy these tens of thousands of acres of land. ”

Zhao Min'an hurriedly waved his hand after hearing this, and said: "The resettlement policy for the displaced people is set by the committee, and I am just following it, brother." As for the purchase of land at a low price, that is also the responsibility of me, the head of the Ministry of Agriculture, and it is not a great thing. ”,

Faced with Zhao Min'an's humility, Qian Yuanshan had no choice but to wave his hand and said, "No wonder the fifth brother and the seventh brother keep saying, Brother Zhao, you are the 'model worker' in our house." In retrospect, that's not wrong at all. ”

Zhao Minan seemed to be quite satisfied with the title of "model worker", although he smiled and waved his hand, he was not as humble as he was just now.

The words of Zhao and Qian made Xin Feiyu not only completely believe what the maid Xiaoya said, but also realized that the information about the strength of the team that Xiaoya said was heard from others, so some of the data was still relatively conservative, and there was still a certain gap with the actual strength of the team.

However, when you think about it, it doesn't seem strange. If the team did not have such a strong strength, it would not be possible to provide such a standard of living for the traversers, let alone raise an armed liliang of hundreds of people-especially since this armed liliang is about to be greatly expanded.

Between the words, the preparations for the trip are ready, everyone got on the car, got on the horse, and went out of the gate of "Qingyuan" and went to the south gate of Liangxiang City.

After walking out of the south gate of Liangxiang City, it took only half an hour to arrive at the No. 1 resettlement site of the team. As Zhao Min'an said, there are still many villages of similar size that can still be seen within a radius of several miles of farmland. Under the leadership of Zhao Min'an, everyone entered a small village closest to the official road.

It's not a big village, with about 100 households. From the neat rows of houses in the village, it can be seen that the construction of the small village has been planned in a unified manner. A large wooden plaque with 1-03 written on it at the entrance of the village indicates that this is the third small village to which the No. 1 resettlement site belongs - it is also one of the earliest displaced villages.

The arrival of the large group of people naturally alarmed the residents of the small village. However, because they had been notified in advance from above, the joint defense team that had been specially organized to take charge of the security of the village did not have any overreaction because a large group of strangers came, but under the leadership of the village chief, several members of the village committee, and the head of the joint defense team, they lined up in a neat formation at the entrance of the village to greet these masters who had the grace of rebuilding for them.

-- The villagers' committees and the joint defense team are grassroots management organizations of resettlement sites established by the masses in accordance with the actual needs of effective management of resettlement sites and in light of the characteristics of previous generations and this era. The organization implements a collective management system, and the village head is only the convener of the village committee, and his rights are greatly restricted by other members of the village committee. Major matters in the village should be arranged by the steward of the resettlement site, while small matters should be decided collectively by the village committee, so as to effectively prevent the situation in which the village chief's family dominates. The managers of the resettlement sites are directly under the orders of the committee, and the Ministry of Agriculture is responsible for supervising their day-to-day work to prevent them from being deceived and concealed.

At the suggestion of Deng An, when they were still dozens of steps away from the village, Gu An's family, who was walking in the forefront, had already trotted all the way to the village chief, the head of the joint defense team, and others, and explained to them the specific identities of the masters who came this time, so that they would not make a mistake when they came up to meet them -- in addition to a few stewards of the "Qingyuan," the people here only knew Zhao Min'an, who often inspected the fields, and Liang Ziyue, Qingchen, and other people from the Internal Affairs Section of the Intelligence Department, who went to the resettlement sites from time to time to conduct investigations due to the needs of their work. A master like Qian Yuanshan, who had never been to the resettlement site, could not have recognized who was who.

After learning from Gu An's family that there were four masters and a dust-clearing Taoist who was not much worse than the master today, especially when he heard that these masters were not followed by the guards in the mansion that Zhao Min'an and Zhao Ye usually brought when they came to inspect, but the real elite soldiers of the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion", the joint defense captain's legs and stomach couldn't help but tremble a little - the joint defense captain was one of the first batch of Northern Han refugees, and he also participated in the night attack on the "Jingyuan" at the beginning, but later failed to enter the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Battalion" because of insufficient conditions. He followed his companions to the settlement site and became the captain of the joint defense team. Therefore, it is not surprising that he, who has experienced the power of the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Camp", is stunned when he hears these words.

However, no matter how serious his psychological disorder is in the "Flying Dragon Pioneer Camp", he must greet his masters in a proper manner. Therefore, after trying to stabilize his mind, the captain of the joint defense team led four or five members of the joint defense team under him, followed behind the village chief and members of the village committee, and quickly greeted him, and respectfully kowtowed to Zhao Min'an, Qian Yuanshan and others, and said auspicious words to welcome all the masters, and bowed Zhao Min'an, Qian Yuanshan and others one by one, and even Xin Feiyu, who only became his new master yesterday, did not fall behind, it seems that Gu Anjia spoke very carefully when he explained. ,

Zhao Min'an, who has been coming and going often, basically has no stand in front of these villagers, and when he saw everyone kneeling on the ground and saluting, he waved his hand very casually and said, "Village Chief Guo, Captain Jiang, and the members of the village committee don't need to be polite, get up and speak." ”

Village Chief Guo, Captain Jiang and the members of the village committee stood up at this time. Village Chief Guo asked cautiously: "Yesterday, the villain got the news from the steward of the resettlement site, saying that Zhao Ye and all of you were going to come over early this morning to check on the young people of the three villages in District 1. Therefore, the villain asked Captain Jiang to go door-to-door to deliver the message yesterday evening, and all eligible men who are not allowed to work in the field today are waiting at home. I don't know, Zhao Ye and all the masters will see these young men now, or go to the village committee to rest for a while, and then zaijian them. ”

Hearing this, Zhao Minan looked back at Qian Yuanshan and asked for his opinion. Qian Yuanshan waved his hand and said, "We still have a lot of places to run, so let's hurry up and do things." I guess that by the time we finish inspecting the young people in the village, it will be almost noon, and it would be better for us to have lunch and rest at that time. ”

Zhao Minan nodded when he heard this, and said, "That's fine." ”

After speaking, he turned back to the village chief Guo and ordered, "Village Chief Guo, you should now gather all the young people in the village to the threshing floor and let the eleventh brother and them check." ”

"Yes, the villain will go." Village Chief Guo agreed. Then, he took Captain Jiang and several members of the joint defense team to the village to gather the young man. Several other members of the village committee still accompanied Zhao Min'an, Qian Yuanshan and others, leading everyone to the threshing floor.

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