These trivial matters were handed over to Zhuangtou Zhao Tong, and they were just asked every day.

Zhao Tong has to pay his salary every ten days, and his heart hurts once, he actually doesn't want to recruit people, but Mr. Ji specially told him that as long as someone comes, those who come will not refuse, and they will all be accepted.

After doing the work, leave the diligent and capable, and expel the tricky and slippery.

So when he saw Zhang Dayan, although he was counting the extra food and copper coins he had to go out every day, he still accepted the people.

Zhang Dayan and the others stayed and worked for two days, ate two days of full food, and slept on the warm kang, so they determined that this job was capable, and the Zhao family did not cheat.

So they discussed it and decided to leave Zhang Dayan and the village chief's son to go back and call people, and call all the people who could work in the village, and the rest stayed here.

Then Zhao Tong saw the two of them again five days later, and the two of them led nearly a hundred people over behind them.

Zhao Tong: ......

This incident also alarmed Ji Yuan.

Ji Yuan came over in person, and saw that their faces were yellow and thin, and some of them were almost unable to stand, so he asked people to carry two buckets of porridge up.

As soon as the porridge was delivered, it was quickly distributed, but everyone ate a bowl, and their faces barely improved.

Ji Yuan stood beside Zhang Dayan and asked, "Is your village's life already so sad?" ”

Zhang Dayan said while drinking porridge: "It's not good, it's too cold this year, and there is little food left, five people died in our village after the winter, a few days ago, we froze to death three times a night within two days after the winter solstice, and I don't know whether we froze to death or starved to death." ”

Ji Yuan frowned.

Zhang Dayan sighed: "I don't think next year's situation will be very good, the old people in the village say that there is little snow this year, but the weather is cold and cold, and next year, I am afraid that there will be a drought." ”

Ji Yuan was thoughtful.

At this time, Zhao Hanzhang was also squatting in the wilderness to ponder, and there were many helpers squatting around her, all of whom were holding bowls in their hands.

The vegetable soup in the bowl was still steaming, and they took a mouthful of soup and steamed buns, occasionally looking up at Zhao Hanzhang cautiously.

This is the first time they have seen the county gentleman, and sure enough, as everyone rumored, he is a friendly and kind girl.

But I don't know why, no one dares to be presumptuous in front of her.

Zhao Hanzhang came back to his senses and asked the anxious strong man next to him, "So you want to bring your cousin's family to our Xiping?" ”

The strong man Jiao Dalang's head was almost buried under his knees, and he said very uneasily: "If it doesn't work, then ......"

"Okay," Zhao Hanzhang narrowed his eyes and said, "You can bring it over, aren't there still empty houses in your village?" Bring them over and temporarily settle them in an empty house, they can do it first in Xiping County, and if they decide to stay after the beginning of spring, they will report to the yamen. ”

She said: "It's too late this year, but they can get some land when they come to the yamen to report, and if they are worried about paying taxes and don't want to divide the land, they can also work long hours for the county government, and the monthly treatment is the same as that of the refugees who have defected." ”

Jiao Dalang's eyes lit up, and he was entangled, after seeing the treatment given to the refugees by Zhao Hanzhang, they all wanted to do long-term work.

But as a farmer, land is their lifelong obsession, and he doesn't really want to give up the land to do long-term labor.

But now it's really hard to be a good citizen, the taxes are too heavy, they have land and land, but the whole family has worked hard, and there is not much food left after the taxes.

Zhao Hanzhang saw Jiao Dalang's entanglement, and said with a slight smile: "This year, your autumn tax is exempted, and I will collect next year's tax according to the year, and reduce some as appropriate, don't worry." ”

Zhao Hanzhang still prefers them to be good citizens, although she is more comfortable with long-term work, but she hopes that they can recuperate in Xiping and improve their lives through their own efforts.

Jiao Dalang got Zhao Hanzhang's letter, so he went to ask their little steward for leave on the same day, and ran home to find his father, "Father, the county gentleman said, cousin can come over, and they will live in our village temporarily, and they have really decided to settle in our Xiping, and they can still get the land next year." ”

When Father Jiao heard this, he immediately got up, "Then why are you still stunned, go find your aunt and uncle." ”

Shangcai has had a very difficult time this year, since the winter solstice, the family's food storage has become less and less, and the villagers can't help but be a little anxious.

At this time, they heard that the reservoir and canal were being built in Xiping County next door, and at first they sympathized with the people there, thinking that they were too bitter to serve on such a cold day.

But then I heard that instead of serving, the county government was providing relief through work, and those who went to work could not only have enough to eat, but also receive their wages every day.

Everyone waited quietly for a while, and some people went to visit relatives next door, and saw that those relatives actually cooked very thick wheat porridge, and some people ate steamed buns for every meal.

I heard that the steamed bun is made of a mixture of wheat bran, wheat flour and soybean flour, and it looks brown and yellow, but it tastes good.

It's so much better than eating that little bit of wheat porridge for a single meal.

I heard that the steamed bun was issued by the county government, because everyone's ration was fixed, and some people had some leftover to take home to the old and weak at home.

As a result, the people of Shangcai County are very jealous and envious of the people of Xiping County.

At that time, the rebel army was raging in Xiping County, and many people died, and they still sympathized with them, thinking that they had been robbed of so many things, and they didn't know if they could survive this winter, but they didn't expect that they would live better than them in winter.

"What are you running?"

"I heard that money has come in."

"Relatives come to borrow food?"

"Then you have to have money to come into the house and have food to borrow, it's his cousin in Xiping, I heard that he came to take him over to work."

"Really, our people from Shangcai can also go over to work?"

"It may not be possible for others, but the money should work, after all, there are relatives with them."

"If you say so, then I'll do it too, I and Qian Jin are the same family, aren't Qian Jin's relatives my relatives?" As soon as the man finished speaking, he pushed open the door and went out, bending his neck and trotting towards Qian Jin's house.

In this way, the whole village is related to Jiao Dalang, won't the whole village be able to go?

Jiao Dalang, who was sitting in the Qian family, was stunned, he was surrounded by people, and it took a lot of effort to get out, he said distressedly: "When I came, I only said to bring my cousin and cousin, but I didn't say that I wanted to bring so many people, you all have to go, I don't dare to guarantee that our county monarch will accept it." ”

But the focus of some villagers is not here, but on, "Can you really eat enough to work over there, and you can still get paid?" ”

"Yes, I dig a canal, ten cents a day."

"Is your county still accepting refugees?"

"Yes, all the homeless people who pass by, as long as they are willing to stay, our county monarch will stay, but they have to be diligent, if anyone is cheating and cheating, our county monarch will directly fine and confiscate wages, or directly arrest and grind."

Why is Zhao Hanzhang distributing food and wages again, and everyone is still a little afraid of her?

is because the laws she promulgated are also very strict, if anyone is deliberately lazy, or picking quarrels and making trouble, once caught, the wages will be deducted, and the worst will be directly arrested to push the mill or rice, the latter because he is fined, he has no wages.

Few people dared to provoke Zhao Hanzhang easily, and if there were, most of them were already in the mill, or they didn't know where they were taken.

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