It is also to chop wood, burn grass and wood ashes, turn the ground, and then burn charcoal, sell wood, etc., and the amount of tasks is really not enough.

Obviously, the work of recruiting mercy will continue for a long time.

To recruit so many workers, you have to spend a lot of money!

It's really sad for the Xue family and happy for the villagers.

In the past, Zhaojia Village was relatively poor, and the villagers did not have much land in their hands, and many of the fields they originally held in their hands have been sold to wealthy families in several neighboring villages in recent decades.

Compared with the surrounding villages, there are more villagers in Zhaojia Village who are idle at home every day.

It's not that they are lazy, it's just that there are few fields at home, and there is not so much work in the fields, so there is naturally less time to do farm work in the fields.

Except for a few who have the skills or strength to go to work in the town, the rest can only stay in the village

If you want to go to the mountain to cut wood, the trees on the mountain are not endless, and many trees cannot be cut, and everything that can be cut has been robbed by the villagers.

Isn't the extra time just idle at home?

Just like Zhang Xingyuan and his people, in order to chop more firewood, they had to walk a very long way to the remote mountains far away from the village, and only those places were easy to cut coarse firewood.

And the mountains and forests close to the people, where to get them, have long been looted by other villagers.

After all, what can and cannot be cut in this firewood can be cut, and what is only allowed to be cut at one time at most, the imperial court has regulations.

For example, those stout trees that are serious cannot be cut down unless they are dead.

If someone sees it and reports it, it will be fined money at the light of the case, and sent to hard labor and prison.

There are so many unemployed laborers idle.

I finally met the Xue family recruiting people, so naturally I won't miss it, and I can have extra income, who doesn't want it.

Almost all of them have sent people to work on it.

The number of people who came this time was several times higher than the last time when they took off the pecans, and almost all of them came.

In the eyes of the villagers, these manual jobs should naturally be done by women, just like the embroidered flowers, how can they do this.

But farming is different, except for the babbling child who can't walk steadily, and the old man who can't walk, everyone can do it.

Naturally, there is one in the family, and I can't wait for the whole family to go into battle and earn more money.

So naturally there are a lot of people here.

Seeing so many villagers applying, the Xue family was of course very happy.

The more people come, the faster the work in the mountains will be done, and the sooner the mountains can be reclaimed so that they can plant as soon as possible.

The number of people was too much, so the Xue family simply didn't count it according to the capitation, but counted the labor that each family could provide, and after some calculations, directly divided the land one by one, and contracted them according to the ability of each family.

As long as they complete the reclamation of the allocated land according to the requirements of the Xue family, they will be able to get the salary after the Xue family accepts it.

In order to prevent some families from falsely reporting their labor and allocating a large amount of land, but in the end they could not complete it in time, but delayed the completion of their own fruit forest, the Xue family also specially signed a contract with each family who came to apply for the job.

The contract stipulates the deadline for each family to complete the land at the latest, as well as the Xue family's requirements for land reclamation, etc.

As for how to divide it, it's easy to calculate.

It is only necessary to calculate the amount of labor provided by each household, the amount of tasks that each laborer can accomplish on a daily basis, and the amount of tasks that may be required for each piece of land.

After all, this mountain cannot be the same as the field below, only need to be calculated according to the number of square land, the mountain is uneven, and the number of weeds and trees growing on it is not the same, you need to estimate it piece by piece.

For the Xue family, the task is large.

Xue Langjing is encouraging the whole family to get involved.

Anyway, everyone has almost studied for a year, and he also taught everyone the set of number symbols he learned from the Zheng family.

Even Tang, who is the slowest learner because of his age, has no problem doing some simple calculations, and statistics are naturally not a problem.

It also really involves everyone in the construction of the home.

In fact, what needs to be done to reclaim the mountain land is also very simple, just cut down those trees, cut the mountain grass, and then remove the grass roots and weeds, and then burn the grass and wood ashes, scatter the grass and wood ashes on the land, and finally turn the ground, and it is generally good.

Of course, the step of ploughing the ground is not the same for different terrains.

Growing fruit trees is not the same as growing food.

On the mountain, the terrain can't always be so flat, often with slopes, steep in some places, gentle in others.

If you want to grow food, it is difficult to grow land with slopes, so when you reclaim the mountains, you have to fill them up before you can plant them.

But Guolin doesn't have to be so troublesome.

In some steep places, it takes a lot of labor to open up the flat land, and the high side of the ground needs to be dug up, and the excavated soil is filled to the low side.

The fruit forest is mainly planted with fruit trees, and some fruit trees are planted on slopes It does not matter, as long as a gentle area is set up at intervals, such as chestnut trees, hickory trees, etc.

These steep slopes can be left behind, and it is good to clean them up a little, which can save a lot of labor.

Some of the terrain is relatively gentle, and it takes some labor to turn it over and reclaim it into flat land.

After all, some seedlings are not suitable for planting on steep slopes, and can only be planted on flat land, so you can take advantage of these gentler terrain.

The steepest ones are simply built up and down the stairs.

Therefore, when it comes to reclamation, the amount of tasks varies depending on the terrain.

Regarding how to divide this mountainous land and how to use it, after the mountainous land was in hand, the Xue family also wasted a lot of time to investigate.

It took several days to map the terrain of the entire mountainous area, and finally analyzed and planned each piece of land according to the different topography.

When it came to drawing topographic maps, Xue Zhujing, the fourth eldest of the Xue sisters, also showed off her painting fu fiercely, and all the drawings were drawn by her.

As for the investigation and analysis, it was naturally a few men from the Xue family who came.

As for the structure and quality of the land, they are naturally more familiar with the labor force that has been dealing with the land and the mountains and forests for a long time than the women.

After they have analyzed the pieces of land, the rest of the tidying task is naturally for the whole family to go into battle.

Therefore, when the land was contracted to the villagers, the Xue family had to explain to each family their own requirements, how they would reclaim the land, what level they must achieve, etc., not only verbally with them, but also in the contract.

Give everyone a share of the rain, and you can start work.

This recruitment does not mean that the Xue family can take care of nothing, they have to send someone to the scene to be a supervisor.

The first thing is to check whether they follow their own requirements and try not to cut corners, so that it is convenient to save effort during acceptance.

The second is to keep abreast of the progress of mountain reclamation so that you can keep up with the follow-up tasks in time.

As for the candidates for this overseer, they are the four men of the Xue family, plus Xue Shanjing.

And for Xue Shanjing, Xue Langjing didn't just let her participate in this mission, but planned to wait for the fruit forest to be completed, and then hand over the fruit forest to her.

When she made this decision, the Xue family's reactions were also mixed.