There are weeds as far as the eye can see, and only a few trees are erected in them.

The wasteland was larger than the one next door, with a barren grass from east to west and a lush hill farther away.

Ye Hao stood in the middle of two wastelands, looking at the wasteland next door, where a piece of land had already been reclaimed, and a group of people were building new houses on it.

There was no one else around, she and Xie Yunshu came first, and the refugees could only slowly follow behind because of the large number of people.

"What is Madame thinking?"

Xie Yunshu saw Ye Hao looking at the next door without saying a word, and asked out loud.

Ye Hao slowly withdrew her gaze.

"The house next door seems to be almost finished."

It was a drawing of the house she had drawn in the shape of a modern student dormitory, so you could see what was going on over there with a few glances.

Xie Yunshu couldn't see it, but he believed Ye Hao's judgment:

"That's a good thing, it's going to be built here."

Ye Hao let out a low "um", as if she was thinking about something.

Not far away, the group of refugees was dragging their families over. At the forefront was the head of the Ministry of Agriculture, who was sweating profusely after walking a few steps, and was wiping a handkerchief with a handkerchief, when a group of officers and soldiers followed him, and at the same time surrounded all the refugees.

"Here we are."

Xie Yunshu said.

Ye Hao looked back, frowned, and muttered in a low voice:

"Too many."

Xie Yunshu sensitively captured her words:

"What's too much?"

"There are too many of these refugees, and if I take charge of the construction of the house as before, I am afraid it will be too late."

Ye Hao explained.

The houses of the girls were taken care of by Ye Hao, because they were not many in number, and they were obedient and honest, Ye Hao was convenient for her to use her fists and kicks, but these refugees were different.

If she interferes too much, maybe these people think she wants to enslave them.

Ye Hao let out a deep breath.

"Don't worry."

Xie Yunshu saw her worry, and reached out to gently hold Ye Hao's hand.

"If you don't want to do it all by yourself, leave it to someone else."

This coincided with Ye Hao's thoughts, and she smiled at Xie Yunshu.

"Coincidentally, that's what I thought, too."

When she counted the number of refugees before she came, she found that most of the refugees were young men, and women and children made up only a very small part, and these people were not thin and weak, but they all seemed to be able to work.

Rather than let her do everything so hard and end up with no good results, it is better to let them do it themselves.

Build your own house and live in it, you can't say that you are her slave.

Ye Hao told Xie Yunshu about her thoughts, emphasizing the idea of making them self-sufficient.

After hearing this, Xie Yunshu pondered for a moment and gave affirmation:

"It's really a good idea, firstly, you can make it easier, and secondly, it can also dispel their suspicions, that is, the person in charge of the relevant matters should be carefully picky."

"Well, I'll see when the time comes."

Ye Hao nodded.

While the two were talking, the chief secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture had already led people to the front.

"Two nobles."

As soon as he looked at him, the master had already greeted him warmly.

"You two have been waiting for a long time, this person will walk a little slower as soon as he is more, but fortunately it's not too late to come over now."

"We've just arrived, too."

Ye Hao politely thanked the master bookkeeper.

"Trouble your Excellency has made this trip, it should be our thank you."

"Ouch, no trouble, no trouble."

The master bookkeeper smiled with a wrinkled face.

"By the way, there's something I'd like to ask for the help of the master bookkeeper later, you see?"

Ye Hao asked tentatively.

The master book is not known though

What she said, but he wanted to climb up to the two, so naturally he wouldn't refuse to help:

"Your busyness is naturally incumbent. I don't know what you mean by busy?"

Ye Hao smiled slightly, blinked and said:

"I'll talk to you later, okay?"

"This ......"

The main book was a little confused, but he still said enthusiastically:

"Look at what you say, of course you can, you can say whatever you want."

Ye Hao's eyelids jumped, and she couldn't stand his enthusiasm, so she hurriedly changed the topic:

"Since you've all arrived, why don't I introduce you to it first?"

"Introduce what?"

The master didn't react at once.

Xie Yunshu looked at him, with a thoughtful look in his eyes, and Ye Hao on the side reminded loudly:

"House."

"Oh...... Of course, of course, you please."

The master book didn't understand it at all, but instinctively went along with it.

Xie Yunshu let go of Ye Hao's hand and took a step back.

Ye Hao took a deep breath and said loudly:

"Folks, this is the land I said, as I said, you can live here, I will provide you with some building materials, you can build houses here."

Ye Hao roughly gestured the range with her hand and motioned for everyone to see.

The refugees looked around, their eyes full of confusion:

"This ...... How are we going to build it?"

It's no wonder that they are strange, there is nothing on this wasteland now, and even if they want to build it, it is difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice.

"Ahem!"

Ye Hao covered up in embarrassment.

"The building materials have not yet arrived, and the main thing in the past few days is to reclaim and level out the land first."

The matter of clearing the land was much more familiar to the refugees than building houses, and they all fell silent, except for one or two people who were still complaining:

"How can I reclaim so much land?"

Ye Hao heard this complaint, and said again:

"Don't worry if you can't finish it, when the time comes, Lord Reptor will send some officers and soldiers to help you build a house together."

"You say yes, Lord Bookkeeper?"

Ye Hao turned her head and looked at the master book with a smile.

The master book looked dazed.

How can you put it well, and you want me to send troops to help?

"Didn't Lord Bookkeeper say before that he would do me a small favor?"

Seeing that he didn't react for a long time, Ye Hao lowered her voice to remind him.

The main book's face distorted, he recalled the quick promise he had just made, and just wanted to go back and slap him awake.

At this moment, Ye Hao had already put him here, and he had to bite the bullet and say:

"Of course."

How refreshing it was before, how reluctant it is now, but the water that was spilled out of the words cannot be recovered.

Ye Hao looked at everyone with a smile:

"Do you have any questions?"

There were officers and soldiers standing around, and the chief bookkeeper himself was also pressing in front, and everyone didn't dare to say no, so they had to nod their heads and show a willing look.

Xie Yunshu touched his chin behind Ye Hao, and glanced meaningfully at the main book of the Ministry of Agriculture.

The master didn't see this, and the handkerchief used to wipe the sweat in his hand never stopped for a moment.

After Ye Hao finished explaining the matter, seeing that the twilight was gradually rising, she thought about it and discussed it with the main bookkeeper:

"Why don't you get here today, I see that everyone is tired too, so it's better to go back and rest early, and come back tomorrow morning."

"Okay, I'll let them go."

The master bookkeeper immediately agreed.

Ye Hao watched him communicate with the refugees in the past, and called for officers and soldiers to escort him all the way, so he relieved himself and went back with Xie Yunshu.

After dinner, Ye Hao borrowed a study from Xie Yunshu and spread out the paper to draw the design drawings.

At the time when she lived, many new villages would build uniform houses, which looked neat and beautiful, and the advantage of sharing a set of drawings was to reduce design costs and labor costs.

For this house, Ye Hao also plans to try such a method.

However, the problem in front of us has come out again, many poor families here can only live in grass houses, and some live in wooden houses a little better, and only rich families can afford to live in brick houses.

Ye Hao oscillated between the brick and wood houses, not knowing which one to choose.

When Xie Yunshu pushed the door in, what he saw was Ye Hao's pensive look.

"What's wrong? What's the problem?"

Xie Yunshu took the teacup, sat on the stool next to the desk, and looked at Ye Hao.

Ye Hao hesitated for a moment and replied:

"There's something wrong with it, I'm wondering whether to build a brick house or a wood house."

"Do you need to talk about that?"

Xie Yunshu raised his eyebrows.

"Naturally, it's a wooden house."

Ye Hao's eyes widened slightly, and she asked curiously:

"Why?"

Xie Yunshu understood at a glance why she was so entangled:

"Madame, have you ever accounted for it?"

Ye Hao was stunned for a moment, and then suddenly realized.

"Brick houses are expensive."

"Yes."

Xie Yunshu nodded with satisfaction.

"For the same amount of money, the price of building a brick house can build three or four wooden houses, and if you want to pay all the materials for the brick house, it is a large expense, and the cost is naturally extremely high."

Although Ye Hao has some savings now, it is far from enough for her to build a brick house, not to mention that she has to manage the business of the weaving mill, so she naturally needs some working capital.

After thinking about it, I could only retreat to the next best thing and choose to build a wooden house.

After the materials were finalized, the follow-up things were much simpler, Ye Hao recalled the structure of the wooden house, and drew several different houses on paper.

Early the next morning, Ye Hao rushed to the wasteland with Steward Yue.

The chief secretary of the Ministry of Agriculture told Ye Hao and them yesterday that they would bring the refugees over early this morning.

The construction of the dormitory on the wasteland next door is mainly in charge of Steward Yue, and Ye Hao brought him over today, naturally hoping that he can help manage the procurement of materials.

Ye Hao first arranged some simple tasks for the refugees, and asked the officers and soldiers to take them to start pulling weeds and preparing the land in blocks, and then took Steward Yue to find the master of the Ministry of Agriculture.

"Lord Bookkeeper."

Ye Hao smiled and said:

"I'm sorry you came early this morning to help."

The head of the Ministry of Agriculture waved his hand.

"Don't get in the way, this little favor is naturally to help."

"Hmm."

Ye Hao turned sideways, revealing Steward Yue on the side, and said to the main book:

"Let me introduce to the main bookkeeper, this is the steward of the palace, the steward of Yue. Steward Yue, this is the chief bookkeeper of the Ministry of Agriculture."

The steward of the Cheng'an Palace, this is not a small matter, the master bookkeeper hurriedly stepped forward and said with a smile:

"It turned out to be Steward Yue, who was disrespectful."

Steward Yue bowed and saluted:

"Don't dare, I've seen Lord Bookkeeper."

The two got to know each other, and Ye Hao told them about their future plans and arrangements for the refugees.

"By the way, we still need to purchase another batch of construction materials here in the future, and we may need to trouble Steward Yue to help you a little more."

Ye Hao's implication was that he wanted to hand over this matter to Steward Yue.

The master bookkeeper heard it on the side, rolled his eyes, and realized that this was also a good opportunity to pat on the back, and immediately said:

"Ouch, why do you need to trouble Manager Yue for this matter, just have this official to do it."

Ye Hao didn't expect the master book to take the initiative to ask for help, and glanced at Steward Yue, who smiled and took a step back.

That's what it means not to care.

Ye Hao lowered her head and thought about it, Steward Yue was reliable, and he had done a good job in the previous few times.

But the main bookkeeper is not easy to refuse, after all, she also knows that in the matter of this refugee, the main bookkeeper must have a certain amount of merit, otherwise those refugees would not change their minds so quickly, and now the master bookkeeper wants to take this procurement work, so there is no reason to refuse.

"Okay, then I'll leave it to the Lord Bookkeeper."

Ye Hao thought about it and decided to give it to the master bookkeeper to try, so she nodded, turned around and took out a check for one thousand taels and handed it to the master book:

"This is the money for procurement, and I'll give it to you."