"Bell, bell, bell—"

Early in the morning, the homeless people were woken up by the rapid sound of a gong.

The official who struck the gong did not have the slightest consciousness of disturbing people's dreams, but shouted loudly at the top of his voice: "Don't sleep, don't sleep!" The government's resettlement regulations are out! You can stay or return to your hometown if you want, and keep it to everyone's satisfaction—"

"What? Is the placement charter out? Then I'll have to take a look! ”

Hearing this, the homeless people in the barracks suddenly became excited, immediately turned over and got up, put on a coat at will, poked their heads out, and walked towards the place where the officials were.

The officials carefully pasted the notice on one wall, and then turned to the displaced people who gathered around and said, "This is a notice from the government, and the specific resettlement regulations are written on it, so you can take a good look at it." ”

"Let me see! Let me see! A teenager was so anxious that he jumped up and down like a monkey, and squeezed through the crowd for a long time before he managed to get out.

He stared back and forth at the notice with his eyes puffed out, his eyes not blinking, and he looked very seriously. A homeless man was about to ask, when he turned his head to look at the official next to him, with a blank expression: "What is this written?" I can't read! ”

Everyone suddenly felt speechless for a while, and they all laughed and scolded: "You can't read, have you been reading for so long? I thought you understood! ”

Seeing this, an official shook his head and smiled, then stepped forward and cleared his throat, and said to everyone, "Okay, okay, I'll read it to everyone!" ”

"The first is the distribution of land, and there are two approaches, mainly for families with two or more people. The first is to distribute land according to the capitation, with two acres of land for each person and one and a half acres for women, and the land tax is exempted for one year. ”

Before he could finish speaking, someone couldn't wait to ask, "Is that a dry field or a paddy field?" Can you pick it yourself? ”

The official replied: "There are all dry fields and paddy fields, and through the distribution of lots, what you catch is what you catch, and you can't replace it." ”

As soon as the words fell, everyone was in an uproar:

"It's all luck? I don't know how to grow rice, and if I'm unlucky enough to catch all the paddy fields, wouldn't I want my family to drink the northwest wind? ”

"It's so unfair, every field is not the same fertile, how can you draw lots together without distinguishing between them? You know, sometimes three acres of inferior land are not as good as one acre of superior field! ”

"What's the difference between being exempt from land tax for only one year and not being exempt? Originally, the first year was to open up the wasteland and cultivate, and the harvest was not high, even if you wanted to collect taxes, the government would not be able to collect it! ”

"Silence! Listen to me! Listening to the higher and higher voices, the officials frowned and clapped their palms, "The fields in Hangzhou Mansion are of different sizes, and the geographical location is also different, so it is impossible for everyone to be exactly the same, rather than when the government distributes it to you and you feel unfair, it is better to catch lots at the beginning, everyone depends on luck, and no one should blame anyone!" ”

"What's more, this is all uncultivated wasteland, and there is not much fertility, and even if there is a difference between good and bad, there is not much difference."

Seeing that everyone was quiet, the official breathed a sigh of relief, and then introduced: "The second method, the distribution method is the same as the first one, two acres of Chengding, one and a half acres for women, and the same is carried out by drawing lots. The difference is that this can be exempted from land tax for three years, and the land belongs to everyone, and the government will not take it back! ”

"But the government has requirements!" Seeing that the crowd was about to be restless again, the officials suddenly raised their voices and pulled everyone's attention back in time, "That is, these fields can only be used to plant mulberry trees, and they cannot be bought and sold at will, let alone other crops!" ”

A homeless person's eyes widened: "Planting mulberry trees? This thing can't be eaten or sold, so what's the point of planting it? ”

The official said unhurriedly: "Naturally, it is for silkworm raising, mulberry leaves cannot be sold, but silk can be sold." Mulberry and silkworm cultivation is very popular in the south of the Yangtze River, and the income of mulberry farmers is higher than that of rice farmers throughout the year. ”

The homeless man looked embarrassed: "This, I have never heard of growing mulberries, nor have I raised silkworms, what if I die?" ”

The official replied: "Don't worry, about planting mulberry and raising silkworms, the government will teach unified skills, and will also provide mulberry seedlings and silkworm eggs, and will not let everyone explore it by themselves." ”

"But mulberry seedlings don't grow into mulberry trees overnight, and it takes time for silkworms to grow from larvae to silkworms. You can't hold the mulberry tree and nibble on the leaves! ”

Without waiting for the official to answer, a man beside the homeless man answered, "What is there to worry about? Let your mother-in-law go to the weaving and dyeing workshop to work and make money! You must know that the one in my house has only been a weaver for three days, and he has earned more than 80 yuan! It's a lot more than I have to work on the construction site, isn't that enough for the family to eat? ”

The homeless man's eyes lit up: "Really? More than 80 dollars in three days? ”

It has only been a few days since the government recruited homeless women to work as weavers, and most of them are in the stage of learning weaving, and have not yet begun to work in real life. Many people don't have a personal experience of this, and they don't know how much profit there is.

The man raised his chin triumphantly: "Of course it's true!" If you want me to say, I still prefer to raise silkworms than to grow crops. After all, you don't have to worry about the mulberry seedlings once they are planted in the soil, as long as you look at the silkworms at home, and you don't have to be exposed to the sun and rain like planting crops, how leisurely! ”

"Besides, mulberry planting is exempt from field tax for three years, and the land belongs to us. So when I'm old, I can pass on the land to my son, and I can leave a family inheritance for my children and grandchildren, right? ”

When everyone listened, they were all a little moved: "In this way, it is indeed more cost-effective to grow mulberry and raise silkworms." I don't know how to grow rice, and if I catch a paddy field, I still have to learn from scratch, so it's better to grow mulberry than to follow the government and learn it by myself. ”

"I knew that being a weaver was so profitable, I should have sent my daughter to learn to weave silk with her mother, and I would just grow mulberry and silkworms at home alone!"

"This relationship is good, I was worried that the child's mother went to the workshop, and I was busy farming, so I might not be able to take good care of the child. If I can stay at home and raise silkworms, I can always take my baby with me, which is a double win! ”

The advantages and disadvantages of the two are clear at a glance, and after a little pondering, you will know which is more cost-effective, so for a while, everyone is more inclined to the second method of land distribution.

But there are also people who don't buy either method: "My father and I are the only two people in my family, and no one can go to work to make money, whether it is to plant crops or mulberry trees, it will take at least several months to harvest, and before that we have neither money nor food, will we not starve to death?" ”

"And me!" A man stood on tiptoe and poked his head out of the crowd with difficulty, "I heard just now, the fields are only distributed to families of two or more, so what about the bachelors who feed the whole family and are not hungry?" The government doesn't care about us? ”

The official smiled slightly, and deliberately dragged out his voice to arouse everyone's curiosity: "So, for a situation like yours, there is a better choice-

(End of chapter)