When the people from Shangjiao Village heard this, their spirits perked up and they asked, "Do you still have grain to sell in the market?" Is it expensive? ”

"It's not expensive, it's a stall set up by the county gentleman, selling grain from outside, which is slightly cheaper than the grain store, but it is only sold to people who work for relief, and each person can only buy up to five buckets at a time."

Chen Fangdao: "If you want to buy grain, you have to get a wooden stick with me when you go back, and you can only buy food with a wooden stick, and you have to return the wooden stick to me when you go back." ”

The villagers of Shangjiao Village happily agreed, and also asked the place of the market by the way, and learned that it was in another large village, which was not particularly far from here, so they were relieved.

This is a benefit that Zhao Hanzhang specially left for the workers.

Since the winter solstice, grain prices have begun to rise, and the increase is not small, after Zhao Hanzhang released the cash-for-work, grain prices have dropped slightly, but they are still slowly increasing.

The closer to spring, the higher the price of food rises.

Zhao Hanzhang knows that the situation in Xiping County is not bad, because since she occupied Xiping County, she has been working for relief, and although every household does not have much food, she will not be hungry in the short term.

The situation in other counties is much more serious than in Xiping County.

She didn't want to conflict with the gentry of Xiping County over the price of grain, especially since a considerable part of the grain shops in Xiping County were opened by the Zhao clan.

Therefore, Zhao Hanzhang did not release a large amount of grain to stabilize prices, but she also took some measures to show her attitude.

For example, she had people set up grain points in the village and town markets below to sell food to all the people who were working for money.

In such a cold day, the basic family background of those who came out to work for relief was not very good, and the content of the work for relief released by the yamen, except for some of the work that women could do, such as making quilts, clothes, and rubbing thatch, was mostly the work of building roads, digging canals and reservoirs that could only be done by strong laborers.

They are well fed, but there are still old people, wives and children at home.

Therefore, Zhao Hanzhang deliberately set up grain points, just so that they could buy grain at a slightly lower price.

In order not to let people take advantage of the loopholes, she gave each manager the power to send wooden sticks, and workers who wanted to go to the grain point to buy food could go with wooden sticks to buy food.

As soon as this move came out, the price of grain in Xiping County dropped slightly, and everyone was very knowledgeable and did not make trouble for her in this matter.

In addition, a considerable part of the grain shops in Xiping County are still from the Zhao clan, and with Zhao Ming here, they will not trouble Zhao Hanzhang on this matter.

Eight days later, Chen Fang took the account book to the county government to withdraw the copper coins and came back, and then sent them to everyone.

As is customary, they are given a day off for each paycheck.

When the people of Shangjiao Village got the money, they ran to the market and used the copper coins they had just been given to buy food.

Ten days for 100 wen, now the price of grain is 20 wen a bucket of wheat, beans are cheaper, 12 wen a bucket, rice is more expensive, 22 wen a bucket.

This is still Zhao Hanzhang's grain point to have such a price, in the county grain shop, the price of all kinds of grain is about two to five wen expensive.

This is also one of the reasons why Zhao Hanzhang was able to recruit so many workers in winter, because of this benefit, the value of copper coins in cash for work has risen by 20% to 50%.

Therefore, those who can endure hardships and are willing to endure hardships, even if they are wealthy, will come out to participate in the cash-for-work work.

Some of the people in Shangjiao Village bought all the money for food, while others left part of the money and only bought some food.

Then they carried the food home together.

The rest of the people in Shangjiao Village are all staying at home, and there are fewer strong laborers at home who can eat, and they can eat a little more food every day, but they still dare not let go of eating, so they eat an extra meal of wheat porridge that can see the bottom every day.

When Qian Jin entered the village, the village was very quiet, but the young men were very excited, with an irrepressible smile on their faces, and when they arrived at the entrance of the village, they shouted loudly, "Child, child, we are back, I have brought back some food-"

There was some noise in the quiet village, and someone came out with his support for the wall, and saw the young men or carrying the grain bags, and they were overjoyed, and they seemed to have strength under their feet, and walked a few steps forward steadily, and asked urgently: "Is it grain?" ”

"It's grain, I bought five buckets."

A young man had already crossed them and walked towards his house, and as soon as he entered the door, he was surrounded by his mother and younger siblings, and he proudly said, "I also bought five buckets." ”

Not all of them bought wheat, but some bought some beans, so that they could buy five buckets of grain and have some money left.

The family gathered around to look at the copper coins they brought back, and were amazed, "It's really rich." ”

"Send it once every ten days, we asked, at least we have to do it for about 20 days, then the river can be dredged, so that we can bring back two grains, I estimate that I can save some food at home, and I can eat spring wheat down."

"Then if you dig a little slower, won't you be able to do it for a long time?"

"Don't you dare to be lazy, there is a bastard in Xiajiao Village, he was lazy when he was digging a canal, he was said twice and still didn't change, and then he was arrested, and no one knew where to send it."

"The people in Xiajiao Village are like this, not to mention those of us who went out of town, I heard that if we are disobedient, the official will be directly caught and thrown into the mountains to mine, and I will not be able to come out for the rest of my life."

The family was taken aback and hurriedly advised, "Then don't be lazy, be diligent." ”

"We are diligent, hmph, unlike the people in Xiajiao Village, who don't know how to be blessed in the midst of blessings, they just dig canals, but we dig rivers."

At this time, Chen Fang was giving a lecture to the villagers of Xiajiao Village, "The people of Shangjiao Village were here a few days ago, in front of them, I gave you face, so I didn't say anything, and now that they are not here, we will talk about it." ”

Chen Fang scolded: "You usually serve and work so procrastinating? I'm tired of you, that ditch was completed a day slower than planned! ”

"It's cold, the ground is frozen, and it's hard to dig through the layer above."

"Fart, no matter how hard it is to dig, can it be more difficult than river dredging?" Chen Fang sighed and said, "Look at the people in Shangjiao Village, they occasionally have to step into the ice water, don't they still do well?" ”

"Don't be lazy because of my leniency, you have also seen the results of the pillar, and if you don't complete it on time next time, he will be the only one who will be arrested."

When the pillar's family heard about the pillar, they immediately cried and asked, "Lizheng, where did they catch the pillar?" Didn't you want to kill him? ”

"Who wants his life?" Chen Fangdao: "What is the use of his life?" Don't worry, he can't die, isn't he lazy, he took his salary but didn't do personnel, and the county magistrate punished him for grinding. ”

He said: "In order to prevent people from being lazy and running away, all the people who were punished have to change their land, and now our prisoners who are pushing and grinding are all brought from other places, it's okay if the pillar doesn't run, and he can come back after a while, if he runs away, don't want to enter Xiping County in this life." ”

The pillar's family was shocked, and originally wanted to let him run after finding the pillar, but he didn't expect the county monarch to even take this into account.

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