Yu Ren looked at Li Ying and suddenly laughed, "My wife still understands me!" I didn't buy this land for the sake of buying property. It's about having a big plan to be implemented there. ”

After speaking, Yu Ren met Liang Ruji in Beijing, and then discussed with Liang Ruji and the people of Juhemen how to rebuild Juhe Village in detail with Li Ying. Then, they also talked about the incident they encountered in Shandong by the way.

Hearing this, Li Ying shook her head. "If that's the case, we won't be able to come forward and buy this land. Don't forget, if you do this, in the end, it's still against the court! If you buy land in your name, in case this matter gets big one day, aren't you afraid that the government will come to raid our house? ”

When Yu Ren heard this, he was taken aback, he really didn't expect this layer. At this time, I was reminded by Li Yingyi, and I couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat.

Ying'er was right. It's true that I didn't think it through. So, with Ying'er's opinion, what should we do? ”

"We can't come forward in this matter, and no one in our family can come forward. We can only find someone who has nothing to do with our family to come forward and buy this land from the Wang family. And you have to be extra careful, in the future, you can't let people see what our family has to do with this place. ”

Yu Ren nodded repeatedly. "It's still Ying'er's thoughtfulness! However, this matter must be done by someone who is very reliable. Why don't I go to the Lord of the Liang Sect and discuss with them? ”

Li Ying shook her head, "I'm afraid it's not good." They are people who have been in the rivers and lakes for a long time, and people with a discerning eye don't feel like businessmen at a glance, but they are afraid that when they change their names at the county office, they will cause trouble. ”

"Why don't you let me go! In the past, in order to make it easier for me to go out, I made a fake official slip. Our surname Zhao is a big surname in Hebei, so it shouldn't arouse anyone's suspicion. ”

Li Ying glanced at Zhao Rui up and down, remembering that in Hangzhou in the past, when she saw him dressed as a man, it was really not easy to be seen, but he was too handsome. However, this is more in line with her family's identity.

"I'm afraid!" Yu Ren hesitated. "You're not in good shape!"

"I'm fine. You can rest assured. Besides, when I was a money bank, I inquired very clearly about the land prices here in Songjiang Mansion, and there was no one more suitable than me. ”

Li Ying nodded, "I can think it's okay." Just let Zhao Meizi go out, and you will pretend to be his long-term follower and follow closely. In this way, you can rest assured. ”

When Li Ying said this, she deliberately glanced at him meaningfully, as if to say, "Aren't you just afraid that she will be taken advantage of?" Let you follow you, now you can rest assured! ”

Yu Ren saw that the two wives were so insistent, so he didn't say anything anymore. "Okay, that's it. Early tomorrow morning, let's get up and go to Wang's house to buy land. ”

The Wang family is not a big surname in Susong, and it is also an outsider. However, due to the efforts of their fathers, his family still bought a lot of property in Susong and Song. The Wang family originally started by selling smuggled salt, and after having money, Mr. Wang also wanted to learn from other people's families, buy a few pieces of land, and buy a big property for future generations.

However, although there are a lot of good fields in the Susong area, they have long been divided up by big families like the Xu family. There was no hard backstage in Mr. Wang's official mansion, so he had no choice but to buy a piece of wasteland by the sea. He originally thought that it was very good, after buying the land, he would collect some displaced people who had fled from the north and open up this land, wouldn't it become a fertile land!

But what he didn't expect was that these homeless people saw that there was no river here, and Master Wang was unwilling to invest any more capital, so no one wanted to farm here. So much so that the land has been deserted until now. This famine is more than 20 years.

Later, when Mr. Wang died, his son wanted to sell the land, but no one was willing to buy it. At the beginning, their family spent 7,000 taels to buy this piece of land, but now no one wants 3,000 taels.

In the end, Zhao Rui and Yu Ren bought the wasteland at a very low price of 1,800 taels, which had no value in the eyes of the Wang family.

Yu Ren bought the land and immediately led people to Chongming Island. Fifty brothers from the island were sent there first, and some temporary straw huts were set up there.

Yu Ren's grass hut had just been erected, and the people from Juhemen came here one after another from all directions. Yu Ren took Liang Ruji to follow them, conducted a thorough survey of this place, and then drew a few more planning maps. Then, everyone started digging the canal according to the location on the plan.

However, although most of the people in Juhemen responded to Liang Ruji's call to come here to build a new world, because there were few people in the first place, and many of them were dragging their families, there were only one or two hundred people who could really work. It looks like spring will start in three or four months. If they don't dig the canal before the beginning of spring, they will have to delay their livelihood for a year, so Yu Ren decided to hire some people to help them dig the canal.

However, because most of the local farmers grow winter crops such as wheat, it is not easy to accommodate people, and the price is still very high. Yu Ren thought of the victims in Shandong. So he sent people to some disaster-stricken villages in Shandong to ask for help.

When those victims saw that Yu Ren had offered a condition that they would not only be able to eat enough every day, but also earn another fifty yuan, a large number of them soon came.

Most of these victims also came with their families. However, they didn't need anyone else to prepare anything for them, so they built a temporary straw hut on the wasteland next to the construction site, and the family lived there. Although the conditions seem to be difficult, they can earn food for their families every day, and these victims already feel very happy, and they work extremely hard.

Soon, a ten-mile-long canal was opened. When the victims saw the completion of the project, they thought that they were going home again to live that precarious life, and on the day of completion, everyone's mood was extremely low. As the victims lined up to receive their wages, Yu Ren suddenly announced a message:

All those who participated in the project were given five acres of wasteland each, as long as they were willing to stay. And they still take care of their rations until the next year's summer grain harvest. It's just that these rations are lent to them, and when the family receives more grain in the future, they will have to pay it back slowly, but there is no interest.

In the future, if you farm here, you only need to pay them 30% of the rent every year. The 30 percent rent includes 10 percent of the tax paid to the state.

When the five or six hundred Shandong victims who came to dig the river heard the news, they didn't sleep all night in excitement. As a result, none of them left, and all of them stayed.

In the days when the victims were busy digging canals, Yu Ren was not idle, he was busy with Liang Ruji and them to organize another person to build a school. They built a school on the side of a hill that could accommodate 200 children. Yu Ren also built a playground and some simple sports facilities for this school. In his spare time, he compiled a timetable for the school.

The school he built was not primarily designed to teach children Confucian classics. The liberal arts focus only on literacy, while the emphasis is on miscellaneous. Medicine, arithmetic, acrobatics, including carpentry, iron-making, smelting, weaving, etc., as well as teaching the art of war. In addition, Yu Ren also set up a special science experiment class. The textbooks were written by himself. He hopes to teach these children some of the science he knows.

Of course, these are just Yu Ren's assumptions. Because there are so many subjects to be taught, it is necessary to invite professionals from all walks of life to teach. Right now, what is most lacking is people.

Among all the tasks, Yu Ren felt that the textbook for the science experiment class was the most difficult and the most important. But since he couldn't find a helper in this area, progress has been slow. Fortunately, these are not needed for the time being, even if it is compiled for three or five years, it will not affect anything.

However, the school was built very quickly. After a few brick houses were erected, Yu Ren decided to let the children come here for a trial first. So he sent someone down to inform him that whether it was the children of Juhemen or the children of the later victims, as long as the adults wanted to, they could send them over. Children are limited in age from 6 to 15 years old.

There is no charge for any children who are sent to the school, and the school is responsible for three meals a day.

When the victims heard that there was such a good thing, they were naturally willing to send their children over one after another. As for Mr., Yu Ren and Liang Ruji will serve as them for the time being. These children were almost illiterate, and Yu Ren, although he had high hopes for them, had to teach them from scratch to the basics.

[Today is Christmas, here I wish all my friends and children's shoes a Merry Christmas, all wishes come true. 】