Chapter 43: Enclosure
A month later, it was already deep winter, and after a few heavy snowfalls, the snow on the ground was already very thick, and the weather was now colder and more difficult than before!
I don't know when the news that there is a homeless house in Longzhong County that specializes in accommodating homeless people has spread far and wide, and it has quickly spread to several surrounding towns.
So far, the number of homeless dwellings has increased from a few hundred at the beginning to thousands today.
Longzhong County made Gu Xianzhi's good reputation of loving the people rise and spread.
Gu Xianzhi also received a letter of commendation from the Taishou of Longfeng County.
After getting the commendation letter, Gu Xianzhi came to look for Rongruo as soon as possible.
If Rong Ruo hadn't woken him up, where would he have gotten the attention of Shangfeng!
"Congratulations, my lord, it must not be long before my lord will have the opportunity to be promoted and transferred!"
Rong Ruo congratulated Gu Xianzhi.
If the local officials don't know about you, how can you have a chance to be promoted?
"This is thanks to Gongzi Rong's reminder, not to mention anything else, when he is promoted one day, he will naturally not forget Gongzi!"
Gu Xianzhi returned to glory and made an empty promise.
Regarding Gu Xianzhi's promise, Rong Ruo just listened to it.
has the spare time to repay herself after he is promoted, she might as well rely on herself.
And she is a woman, in this world, as long as she can make money, she doesn't want to go out to take command like Mulan.
What's more, Gu Xianzhi's implication is that if she is not promoted, she will have no credit!
"When the adults say this, they don't treat Rong as their own!"
Rong Ruo pretended to be displeased and looked at Gu Xianzhi.
"Haha, what the virtuous nephew said is right, we are all our own people!"
As soon as he heard Rong Ruo's words, Gu Xianzhi immediately laughed, and the virtuous nephew instantly pulled into the intimate relationship with Rong Ruo.
Rong Ruo pouted secretly, she didn't think that Gu Xianzhi's title was really her own. She didn't give him many gifts before, why didn't she see him call himself a good nephew?
It's not because she was just a businessman before, and all she could bring to Gu Xianzhi was some extraneous property, but now it's different.
Gu Xianzhi can use her belongings to feed the homeless people and pave the way for his career, which is not something anyone can do!
Others may be able to do it, but who can guarantee that they will also give him this credit for nothing.
Rong Ruo naturally knew that Gu Xianzhi still needed her to help take in the displaced people and improve his reputation for loving the people!
It's just that how could she give him credit for nothing!
So, they just take what they need from each other.
"My lord, my little nephew really has some difficulties right now and needs the help of adults!"
Rong Ruo opened his mouth with some embarrassment.
"What?"
Obviously, as soon as he heard Rong Ruo's words, Gu Xianzhi's face suddenly stiffened a little.
It's just that as soon as the family's words are spoken, he can't beat himself up so quickly!
However, Gu Xianzhi had already secretly thought in his heart that if Rong Ruo opened his mouth to mention the money, he would politely refuse her.
"Adults also know that it is now the cold winter wax moon, and the number of homeless dwellings is still increasing, so the little nephew's ability is limited, and he needs to rely on the adults to carry one or two more in the future!"
Sure enough, Rong Ruo asked for money when he opened his mouth.
Just kidding, that's more than a thousand people, where did he get so much silver to smash into it?
If he had so much money, why could he only make a small county magistrate here for many years?
"This ......."
Gu Xianzhi was embarrassed, as if he wanted to agree, but he was very embarrassed.
"I know that adults are powerless, so I don't want to embarrass adults, I just hope that adults will come forward and raise some money from these wealthy local businessmen to come back!"
Rong Ruo understood Gu Xian's difficulties and said his plan.
"That's ......"
"Well, it's easy to say, those rich businessmen have also earned a lot of people's silver under the protection of the government, so they should be allowed to contribute!"
As soon as Gu Xianzhi heard that he didn't have to pay out of his own pocket, he just groaned, so he immediately promised Rong Ruo and was willing to come forward.
"There's another thing I hope your adult will do conveniently!"
Since he mentioned it, Rong Ruo was not polite, and spoke directly again.
"What's the matter?"
Gu Xianzhi's heart was raised high by Rong Ruo's words again.
"That large piece of wasteland in the east of the city is also barren, if you give it to me, when you plough in the spring next year, let these displaced people reclaim it, and more or less you can collect some rice and grain, and reduce the burden of some adults."
Having seen the situation of every inch of land and every inch of land, compared to the scene of wasteland everywhere he goes now, Rong Ruo can't help but want to enclose more land.
"This is easy to do, you can take it!"
Gu Xianzhi thought that Rong Ruo would raise any more problems, but it turned out to be such a trivial matter, just a wasteland, what was so strange, so he naturally responded with his mouth.
"What about the title deed, adults also know that those displaced people are all outsiders, if there is no title deed, I am afraid that there will be accidents!"
If Rong wants to do something, he naturally has to do it in one step.
"Title deed, you go back to Yu Xiancheng, I asked him to prepare it for you, you just need to go to the county government to sign a pledge!"
There is a lot of wasteland behind Longzhong County, and Gu Xianzhi doesn't care about Rong Yao's part.
Gu Xianzhi doesn't care, Rong Ruo cares!
This piece of land, she roughly calculated, is about 200 tilts, such a large area, if it is all reclaimed, it is a lot of income!
Not to mention feeding more than 1,000 people, even another 1,000 people will be able to feed them.
In this way, Rong Ruo got such a large piece of land in just a few words, plus the white silver that the merchants were reluctant to hand over.
In such an era of money everywhere, Rongruo is like a fish in the sea, like a fish in water.
Winter turned to spring, and the Xiongnu at the border were finally beaten back to the Xiongnu.
After the population of homeless dwellings in Longzhong County reached more than 3,000, there was no further growth.
Before spring ploughing, Rong Ruo burned the weeds on the wasteland directly with a fire, saving everyone a lot of effort.
More than 3,000 homeless people, although there are only about 300 adult strong laborers, when Rongruo organized the ploughing of the ground, as long as they could hold the hoe, they joined the ploughing team one after another.
With a shovel and a hoe, I will turn over a thousand acres of land in two days.
In order to prevent accidental injuries from many people, Rong Ruo divided everyone into groups according to their age.
After dividing into groups, Rong Ruo suddenly found that there were quite a few boys in their teens, about 500 people.
These are all teenagers!
If you can train them, this is not a team!
Because there is still a lot of distance from the border pass, Longzhong County is not a border town, and it only has thousands of troops.
And she Rongruo, casually has 500 teenagers under her command, and she feels excited to think about it!