Where does the county order know, it is the sugar workshop, which was built by Ye Hao in order to improve the lives of the people who grow sugarcane in the barbarian county.

If it weren't for those people, Fu Ruan would not have this rock candy business that could lead to a frenzy in Jiangnan and Beijing!

Therefore, Fu Ru'an, who knew that Ye Hao cared about the people of the world, only supported her and was not dissatisfied with her move.

In exchange for small losses for big profits, how could he, a child born in a merchant family, not accept it?

Hearing Ye Hao say that he wanted to sign the deed in advance, I have to say that this point made the other village chiefs inevitably moved.

Although these people are all born with mud legs, they are also the head of a village in the end, and they still know some words, unlike other villagers who don't know a few of them.

"What if I don't need your seeds?"

Someone asked out loud, not all of them present have no family background, they are also officials in these village heads, and their family background is still thicker than that of ordinary villagers, even if they are plagued by insects, the family still has some money to spare.

Although the price of the seeds given by Ye Hao is indeed not high, there is always a fear of falling into the trap, and it is rare for those big masters not to squeeze them, let alone give benefits in this way.

"You can grow it yourself, you can still make a deed first, and sell it directly to me after the harvest is set. Rest assured, if you have relatives and friends in Manyi County, just go and inquire, the price of sugarcane over there has reached seven cents per catty, and I will not deceive you."

Explain to the people present as well as possible, and Ye Hao even took the example of a barbarian county.

Compared with Qingcheng, there are many villages where sugarcane is grown in Manyi County, and now with the help of Fu Ru'an, all sugarcane has stabilized at a price of seven cents per catty.

That is, there are few farmers who grow sugarcane in Qingcheng, and they have always produced and sold their own sugarcane, so they will not notice this.

Listening to Ye Hao's repeated assurances, and accompanied by the county magistrate throughout the process, most of the village chiefs and lieutenant chiefs agreed, and after reading the content of the deed one by one, they obediently signed and drew the pledge.

There are also a small number of people who did not sign the contract immediately, and in the face of the dissatisfied eyes of the county magistrate, these people also have bitterness in their hearts.

The village chiefs in this part are undoubtedly very small villages, and as soon as the insect plague came out, the villagers in the village ran away, and there were not many people in the whole village, and it was useless for them to sign the deed.

It's really all old, weak, sick and disabled, and no one farms!

After learning this, Ye Hao had other thoughts in her heart, asking the county order to keep these village chiefs.

When these village chiefs heard that they were going to stay alone, they were extremely worried, and they thought that they were not cooperating, which caused the anger of these old ladies and ladies.

Seventy percent of the other village chiefs chose to take seeds from Ye Hao's hands, after all, the villagers now have no surplus food in their families, so how can they have money to buy seeds.

The one hundred catties of sugarcane varieties that Ye Hao exchanged from the system space were almost clean, and there were only two or three catties left, which was a lot of people.

As for those who don't want good seeds, they are basically some of them with a slightly lower severity of the disaster, and the villagers still have some spare energy.

After these people dispersed, Ye Hao took the county order and his party to the small room left by the village chiefs alone.

"Don't be nervous, I'm not trying to hold you accountable, but to give you another idea."

Smiling slightly, Ye Hao first calmed down everyone's emotions, and then expressed his intention to keep them.

She had learned that there were only orphans, widows, or elderly people left in the village of these village chiefs.

In fact, in such ancient times, it was said that the old man would not be more than sixty years old.

After all, as the people at the bottom, these peasants are in a life of insufficient food and clothing all year round, and they are more likely to appear old and die early.

But whether it is the elderly, or those widows and children, they all have the ability to live on their own, and they should not just wait for death.

Facing everyone's puzzled eyes, the smile on Ye Hao's lips expanded.

"I just introduced you, I run a sugar factory, and I am now

There is a shortage of manpower, but if you don't dislike it, you can gather in one village, and I will be responsible for building a new sugar factory, and all the villagers in the village can work."

Since she wants to help these villagers have a way to live again, these helpless people are her top priority.

Speaking of which, this is also mutually beneficial.

Previously, Ye Hao bought the courtyard next to her current residence, but after she actually opened the workshop, she found that the space was a little insufficient.

When I was in the county seat of Manyi, my family lived in a very remote place, and the surrounding area was wasteland. At that time, a large block of chassis near the main house was enclosed as a site for the sugar factory, which was barely enough.

Just covering an area, it will use more than ten acres.

And the courtyard in Qingcheng, even if it was formerly a weaving workshop, is actually equivalent to a courtyard with two entrances and two exits.

Nowadays, there are few people, limited by sugarcane raw materials, and the daily workload is not large, which is barely enough.

If production is to be expanded in the later stage, this yard alone will definitely not be enough.

As soon as she heard that there were no people in these villages, they were all old, weak, sick and disabled, Ye Hao was moved.

Wouldn't it be the best of both worlds to open a sugar factory in these sparsely populated villages?

In addition to the effort required to make rock candy with a juicer, other procedures such as boiling sugar can be done by women or the elderly.

In my own village, didn't all the processes be done by women? Nothing went wrong, did it?

Wouldn't it be the best of both worlds to accommodate the women and children, the elderly and the weak, and to solve the problem of the expansion of the sugar factory?

After yesterday's conversation, Ye Hao also saw the situation clearly, and now the Qingcheng County Commander is already Fu Ru'an's person, and with him to escort him, he can save a lot of trouble.

Hearing that Ye Hao actually wanted to give the helpless people in his village a chance to work, the eyes of several village chiefs instantly lit up.

To say that there are still many good people in this era, these village chiefs are extremely kind in their hearts, of course, they have already made a decision in Fang Cai's self-examination, no matter what Ye Hao says, they can no longer directly refuse, so as not to offend the nobles.

"As soon as you nod your head, my side can start preparing immediately. Rest assured, I will bear all the costs of setting up the workshop, you just need to decide which village you want to live in."

After guaranteeing it again, Ye Hao also introduced the approximate salary to the other party by the way.

Before the matter was over, the wage price she gave was the first batch of prices in her own village, which was not high in her opinion, but this was already extremely high in the limited cognition of villagers who had struggled with food and clothing all their lives!

"it! We're all up to you!"

Not only do you not have to worry about the future of the village, but you can also solve the food and clothing of the elderly, weak, women and children.

Even if the dust has settled on this matter, the Qingcheng County Commander on the side was amazed.

This Mrs. Xie is not the reincarnation of a Bodhisattva, right? It's staggering to be so generous and kind to these mud-legged pariahs!

However, he didn't dare to really say what he thought in his heart, so as not to be displeased by the other party.

Ye Hao brought back the deeds signed by all the village chiefs, and by the way, she told Xie Yunshu about another decision she made in the county office.

In this regard, Xie Yunshu didn't react much, after all, the rock candy business was a joint cooperation between Ye Hao and Fu Ru'an, and he was not good at business, so he didn't interfere much in these things.

And the piece of parchment in front of him attracted Ye Hao's attention.

"What is this?"

After putting the deed in his small vault, Ye Hao returned to Xie Yunshu's side, and a pair of eyes were glued to the parchment.

In ancient times, when paper was as expensive as oil, it was very inconvenient to preserve, and generally the more important information was recorded and preserved by parchment.

The yellowed parchment was lined with lines and a few small circles, with some written next to them

Word.

"This is the map of Lingnan sent by Fu Ru'an today."

Perhaps it was the heart-to-heart conversation last night that brought Fu Ru'an and Xie Yunshu, two people who have never had much in contact, closer to each other, and today Fu Ru'an sent a lot of useful things to show his sincerity.

The map of Lingnan is one of them.

In the past, when he was still the son of the prime minister, Xie Yunshu also cared a little about the territory of the Yu Dynasty in order to gain fame, and now it has undergone a relatively big change.

Looking at this parchment, which was completely different from the modern map, Ye Hao only felt that his eyes were black, and he couldn't understand anything.

Xie Yunshu saw her dazedness and explained aloud.

"Lingnan is roughly divided into two parts, north and south, with King Cheng'an sitting in the north, and the county towns near Chengpingzhou County under the jurisdiction of King Cheng'an. The county towns in the south are almost all in their own way, and they only obey the orders of the capital."

In fact, whether it is north or south, it should be the fief of King Cheng'an and be under his management.

But I don't know if he really wanted to show favor to the old emperor, or if King Cheng'an really had no intention of managing so many county seats, and these county towns in the south were almost never ordered by him.

Nominally, these counties were still located in the fiefdom of King Cheng'an.

As a modern female doctor, Ye Hao's learning ability is not covered, and she quickly understood the sheepskin map under Xie Yunshu's teaching.

She was surprised to find an important point.

"Among these counties in the south, it seems that Qingcheng has the largest range!"

"Yes!"

Xie Yunshu nodded and gave an affirmative reply.

"Not only that, Qingcheng is also the most prosperous county in southern Lingnan, otherwise why would Fu Ru'an always live here?"

The back is the place of King Cheng'an's power, although Fu Ru'an was "driven out" by his father, but nominally he is still the eldest son of the Fu family, and his identity is not insignificant.

If he really stayed in King Cheng'an's sphere of influence, it would be easy to arouse the vigilance of other well-intentioned people, thinking that the Fu family was not in contact with King Cheng'an?

It is with this in mind that he will take people to live in Qingcheng all the time.

Recalling the capital in the memory of the original owner, Ye Hao was silent, and she once again felt the desolation of Lingnan.

Even the most prosperous county in the south is only like this, and even one-tenth of the capital is probably less than one-tenth.

Not to mention that the people here live in dire straits, and even have very little food.

"If you really want to go to war, you must need a lot of food and grass, right?"

Ye Hao said this sentence coldly, which made Xie Yunshu couldn't help but look at her a little strangely, and immediately bowed his head.

In a war, not only the strength of troops is extremely important, but also the replenishment of grain and grass in the rear is also very important.

If you can't eat enough, who has the strength to fight on the battlefield?

After all, this is ancient times, there are no thermal weapons, and it relies on physical combat, which is really a victory in exchange for the lives of soldiers.

"If I double the grain crop production in the Lingnan region, will you have a better chance of victory?"

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