In the afternoon, one hundred and forty students returned to the library in a daze, and many of them went to their places to sit down and giggle.

The students who didn't go out yesterday looked puzzled and went over to ask.

"Brother Zhang, what are you...... Tired? One person asked a classmate surnamed Zhang.

The two people next to him also looked concerned, but they had heard that millions of sacks were used to strengthen and raise the river embankment yesterday.

The workers were so tired that they couldn't come back at night, and they didn't see their classmates this morning or noon, they ......

"Tired?" Zhang Tong, who had been looking at a cat lying on his stomach in the sun outside, slowly turned his head and looked at the person who was asking: "Hehe! Hey, hey, hey! ”

"Brother Zhang, you wait, I'll go and call you the imperial doctor." The person next to him was in a hurry.

"What are you shouting Imperial Doctor, let's be fine! Hey, hey, hey! Do you know where we ate for lunch today and with whom? ”

Zhang Tongjiao's smile at this moment was similar to when Zhu Wentian saw people.

"Where to eat? Where else can you eat? It won't be His Royal Highness the Crown Prince who invites you to dinner! The first person to ask the question looked disdainful.

"Brother Song, you quickly say that 10,000 taels of silver fell from the sky, say it quickly." Zhang looked at each other in surprise.

"Come on! You are worried about ten thousand taels of silver, and you let me say it before. ”

The student who said he wanted to go to Xiaqiu Village and then see the prince spoke up.

He said to his classmates who gathered around him: "Let's go to Xiaqiu Village first, take a bath, change into clothes, wear them now, and then spray perfume."

After that, I entered from Chaoyang Gate and came to Donghua Gate, where His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was waiting and said that we had worked hard, so we would give a banquet.

Eat barbecue, there are fresh scallops, clams, oysters, prawns, and a bowl of chilled rice wine for one person.

That's the Prince! Finally met, who are we working for? Ah! ”

The people who gathered around showed a look of surprise and yearning for a while, and they wished that it was themselves who went out last night and were tired.

Just run out to do some work, how can you still see the prince and eat with the prince?

"How far is His Royal Highness the Crown Prince from you? Can you see clearly? Someone asked.

"More than ten steps, you can see it! His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is good! The one who went replied.

"I don't believe it, His Royal Highness the Crown Prince is so noble, more than ten steps away, and there are all guards in the middle, what do you think?"

"Where are the guards? There are only children from Xiaqiu Village. Be polite when you see people in Xiaqiu Village in the future! People can see the prince every day. ”

"I've always been polite, and our food and housing are all given by others."

"I have to go back, the kids are waking up."

"I want to read a book."

"I slept, my whole body ached, and I was exhausted yesterday."

"Yes, yes, sleep, and tomorrow I have to take the child again."

The students who were encouraged immediately ran back to do their own thing, fearing that they would be left behind and eliminated.

……

The students have resumed their original rhythm of life, but the reinforcement of the embankment of the Qinhuai River has not ended.

The construction of the Rouge River has made it easier to travel around, but it has also made the Qinhuai River have to bear more water.

More people are loading sand and gravel along the Qinhuai River, ready to deal with possible dangers at any time.

The large number of people placed there caused a shortage of manpower in the labor market in Yingtianfu, and the price of labor increased.

On the morning of May 18, Zhu Yuanzhang held a court meeting, and a group of Shangshu entered the hall under the leadership of the left and right Cheng.

After a simple etiquette, Zhu Yuanzhang began to ask: "Now that the water of the Qinhuai River is rising in the rain, Tianfu is busy with commerce and the labor is insufficient, what should I do?" ”

The ministers looked at each other, and Yang Xunwen, the secretary of the household department, came out: "Your Majesty, when the people who have not served their labor this year come to build the river embankment, this matter is easy." ”

The others nodded slightly, yes, calling for labor, they don't seem to be used much this year.

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Yang Xunwen: "At present, the labor price is high and the labor deduction is cheap. ”

When you hear it, it makes sense, it's true!

In the past, the people could not come up with money, and according to the number of acres of land owned by a person, if they did not want to come out of the land for 30 days, they would take two liters of grain and five heels.

Ten acres of land is two buckets and five liters, and how much is two buckets and five liters of grain? How much does it cost to go out and work for 30 days?

The result is that everyone gives out all the grain, and then works to make money, and the price of grain cannot rise so fast, otherwise the court will not agree to it.

For example, Taiping Mansion and Ningguo Mansion are farming twice a year at the moment, so people don't run out to toss it!

Isn't it just food? To give! It's no problem to double it.

For 30 days, he raised chickens, planted vegetables, and looked for herbs to sell at home, and he had already earned back the money for his service.

Then it can only be a tenant, and if the tenant has not ended, he must work for the master's family, and the landlord will get a stone of grain.

This year, however, many tenants have quit and they have come out to look for work.

The landlord had no choice but to pay extra money to hire someone to farm the land, like Xiaqiu Village, he couldn't grow it himself.

Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry took a step forward safely: "Your Majesty, in this way, you can only pay for the court to hire people, and then ......"

He couldn't go on, and then it became what it is now, and the merchants couldn't find manpower, so they had to add money.

And the people who were hired by the imperial court, they found that others had a lot of money, and they didn't want to do it themselves.

Other people are outside, earning 50 wen a day, and listening to the words of the court themselves, 30 wen a day, why?

"Wang Qing?" Zhu Yuanzhang named.

Wang Guangyang looked helpless: "Your Majesty, didn't Xiaqiu Village have an idea, but you can send labor roads outside, and build a migrant settlement area on the south bank of the Qinhuai River!"

Seeing that the repair there is almost done, it is better to ask the local government to organize people to come here to make money.

As long as there are more people, the price of workers will naturally decrease, and Shandong soybeans have been planted, and they can recruit a lot of people. ”

He was helpless because Xiaqiu Village had already given a way, but he had been waiting for the houses where the migrant workers lived to be repaired.

This is something that the civil officials of the Manchu Dynasty are reluctant to mention, and they seem to be incompetent.

The masters of Xiaqiu Village always arrange things one step in advance, or even a few steps ahead.

When that time comes, you'll find that they're too accurate.

"In this case, Zhuqing should arrange it quickly, from near to far, those who can come will come first, don't mess up."

Zhu Yuanzhang is waiting for this! He always kept an eye on the construction of the house there, and spent a lot of money in the palace.

He had to find a way to recoup the cost, first let someone else owe rent, and then pay it back when someone else got a job.

Then increase the number of servants and go there to maintain law and order.

Then they rent out the shops to the merchants, so that they can provide daily necessities for others, and there will be department stores inside, and everyone will compete together.

People who come from other places have more ways to live, and they will not go to other places because of the problem of road guidance, the key is that the salary of Tianfu is high.

For poor places, even ten cents a day is a lot, and others envy it.

And Nanjing has 30 wen a day, which belongs to the normal income, and is reluctant to eat meat.

The world is so unfair, it's hard to change, I don't know if the masters can come up with a way.

Thank you brothers and sisters for monthly passes, rewards, and recommendation tickets, and the farmhouse bowed!

(End of chapter)