Chapter Seventy-Seven: Female Workers
Although there were a lot of new believers outside the city, they didn't help Liu Qing's divine power much.
The reason is simple - there is not so much incense to burn.
Even if they are willing to spend some money to burn incense and make offerings, there are not so many incense sticks to buy.
This problem was not solved until a team organized by the Liu family came to Gumu County.
The Liu family organized forty or fifty people to come over this time, including people who opened shops and masters who made incense sticks.
They also brought more than 20 truckloads of incense sticks.
Out of the small Jinzhou Prefecture, he was personally escorted by Liu Qing along the way, and arrived at Gumu County without any danger.
Liu Qing's human identity is the ancestor of the Liu family, Xu Qingfeng was able to be a jinshi and relied on Liu Qing's help, and now that the people of the Liu family are here, Xu Qingfeng personally greeted them at the gate of the city.
This is also to let the local snakes in the city understand that the Liu family is covered by him, and no one can move.
The people of the Liu family lived in the county government that day, and this identity also made those people in the city suspicious.
There is not much land in the county, but Xu Qingfeng still approved a piece of land for the Liu family and allowed them to open shops there.
As for the workshop for making incense sticks, it is not located in the city, and Liu Qing has already found them a village with sufficient raw materials, which is more than ten miles away from the county seat.
Although it is outside the city, it is protected by Liu Qing, so there is no need to worry about safety.
Moreover, there are more than 200 villagers in that village itself, and building a workshop in that village can itself be adequately protected.
Their arrival brought more than 20 cars of homemade incense sticks, which brought down the price of incense sticks in Gumu County, and also made Liu Qing's incense in Gumu County more vigorous.
Some of them were sold in the shops in the county seat, and more were put on horse-drawn carriages and sold in villages outside the city.
The places I went to were all villages with many followers in Liuqing.
The people there themselves have a relatively strong willingness to buy, and the price is only one-third of what was sold in Gumu County before, more than a dozen carts of incense sticks were pulled out, and they were sold in a few days, and they also brought more than a dozen carts of grain back to the city.
Although there were not many people who went out, they didn't encounter bandits along the way, and they went out and came back completely.
This also proves one thing to the outside world - the security in Gumu County is much better now.
As long as it is not an era of war and chaos, any county executes more than 300 bandits in a short period of time, and the law and order situation will improve.
The current situation is that bandits in other places have heard the news that Gumu County has killed more than 300 bandits during this time, and they do not dare to come to this area to cause trouble.
This is also what Liu Qing is happy to see.
A world where no one dares to walk alone outside, there is no way to develop.
The incense stick workshop opened by the Liu family invited dozens of female workers, and those female workers were all women who were robbed by bandits, and after they were sent to the county seat, they were not very easy to arrange for a while.
According to the wishes of some people in the county, they could sell those women, and they could collect some money to confiscate the public treasury.
It is not possible to sell lovers, but these women have lived with the bandits for a period of time, and some are pregnant with children, so they can be charged with "being a thief", and then they can be sold.
However, this proposal was vetoed by Xu Qingfeng.
Anyway, he is also a scholar, or a second-class jinshi, although he also likes money, but he doesn't like it to the point of being so undignified.
He said that those women were also poor people who were robbed, and they did not take the initiative to live with those bandits, but they were forced to do so, and they could not be dealt with as thieves.
It was also proposed that the women be rewarded to the good citizens of the city who had made a certain contribution.
This name is called "choosing the good and matching", which does not violate the ethics and morality of this world, and when it is mentioned in the future, it is also a good story and a good governance.
But Xu Qingfeng has only been in Gumu County for two or three months, and he doesn't know the situation here, who are the good people who have made contributions, he doesn't know, if he really wants to do this, the person who appoints the marriage will not fall on him, it will only be the local snakes here such as Chen Zhushu and Luo County Lieutenant, and if they have favors, they are also their favors, and there is nothing good for him.
So he also vetoed this proposal, saying that those women were already living a miserable life, and now they were finally rescued, and they should be given a chance to choose, and let them choose whether to marry or not, and which one to marry.
In this way, the favor fell on him.
Those men who were chosen, who had an extra wife out of thin air, would definitely be grateful to him Xu Zhixian.
In order to accommodate these women, Xu Qingfeng set up a son-in-law selection platform in the open space in the city, and all men who did not have it in and out of the city could come to participate in this event.
The event lasted for four days and successfully lifted more than 400 singles, most of whom were good citizens of the city.
Some took not only a big one, but also a child.
They are all women who have lived with the robbers for a period of time, and according to the traditional concept, they are women who have lost their virginity, and such women are not welcome in the marriage market.
Not to mention that some have given birth to children and want to marry them with them.
But those things can only be paid attention to by people with certain conditions.
The sinners who come here are basically low-level people, and they are content to have a woman by their side, and they can't afford to talk about those who don't.
Without these women who have lost their virginity, they are likely to be singles for the rest of their lives.
There is a saying that poor is not more than three generations, which means that the family will not necessarily be rich after three generations, but that they are too poor to even marry a wife, so they can only be singles, and there is no second or third generation at all.
For them now, to have a woman to pass on their ancestry is the favor of God.
Who cares if he is chaste or not?
And who is to care?
There are still hundreds of people who did not choose to marry, not because no one wanted them, but because they were frightened by men and did not dare to fall into that pit again.
Those women were temporarily placed in the county government, but they were not idle to eat there, and were arranged by Xu Qingfeng on errands, and a few of them became his maids, and the rest did some manual work every day, weaving and sewing clothes.
It is also a chance for them to support themselves.
The Liu family wanted to open an incense workshop, but they happened to lack manpower, so they recruited dozens of people from here, saying that they would pay them for food and lodging, and they would be paid every month.
The salary is not high, and it is 300 wen a month.
If you do well and exceed the production task, you will be rewarded with an additional one to two hundred Wen.
After driving under such conditions, dozens of women took the initiative to ask to go over.
In such a world, it would be good for them to have food and shelter, and they could also pay them to work, which was a good thing that they had never thought of.
I also heard that the Liu family was the family of the god of Gumu County, and I didn't think that I would be with these poor people, so I was even more relieved.
In this way, the Great Qianguo can be regarded as having the first batch of real female workers.